Back to Basics : What to sell
Determining what to sell for someone new to the Auction
House can be quite daunting. Crafting something that never gets sold can be
demoralizing. I tried my hand in the Mogging market for a while with mixed
results, and can vouch for the fact that it’s a feast one week, and a famine
the next, not really my preference.
The Consortium Project focuses on items that sell fast and
regularly, this blog will primarily be from that perspective. There is nothing
better than going to the mail box and finding 50-100 sales. When I had a
holiday recently, Humph (one of the partners whose focus is glyphs) took over my
part of the business temporarily. He couldn’t believe the amount of money we
took from non glyph items. The secret is that we’re diversified, and sell the
most profitable items from a range of professions. By combining our professions
we get economies of scale which
reduce our crafting costs, thus maximising profit.
I’m going to assume
that you have Jewelcrafting (JC) at max level but this process works for most
other professions too.
What Gem cuts are popular? There are so
many different cuts, what sells, what are lemons?
Even though I play a variety of Toons, I still don’t know the
secondary stat preference, for most classes. i.e. Enhanced Shammy they want Agi
as their prime stat, but what’s the best secondary stat?, Haste, Mastery or
Crit? In MoP hunters now need Expertise,
do Enhanced Shammys need that too?
I gave up trying to memorize all the different combinations
and requirements of each class/spec.
There are 2 Methods to determining what to sell.
Method 1
I turn to WoW Popular
which is updated after each Patch.
What we want here is to make a list of what’s in vogue
for each Class/Spec. Pick Gems from the top menu then select the Class/Spec you
want to review. In the below case I’ve selected DK -> Blood
Anything with less than a Popularity of 2 stars I would
ignore, but make sure you note the Meta Gem just in case it’s got less than 2
stars. Now you can cut n paste this into Excel/Open Office or use a pencil n paper
to make a list. We do the same for each Class/Spec. When you have finished this
click PVP under Playstyle on the left panel and for each Class/Spec repeat the
above process and add their PVP preference to our list.
What you’ll find is that a lot of Gem cuts appear twice or
more, sometimes with Popularity of 5 stars other times with 4,3 or 2.
In Excel sort the list by Name then Popularity so you have
all the cuts in Alphabetical Order with most popular cuts at the top, then descending
in order. Now all you need do is delete the duplicates with less popularity.
If you’re not familiar with Excel then you can look forward
to a long process of coming up with a single list via pencil n paper.
One thing to remember is that WoW Popular is a data mining
site which means it will take a bit of time to update come MoP, as players
level at different speeds. One could surmise that the most hardcode players
will be the first to level to 90, and gear their toons, ready for raiding, therefore
the data will be accurate from the start, but that is purely speculation.
Method 2
This method focuses on Wowuction
The Gold Queen did a great video guide to this site and I see no reason to reproduce her work.
Suffice to say goto Professions -> Jewelcrafting then
sort by Sold per Day and you have a list of popular cuts. Nowhere near as
exhaustive as method 1, but an accurate list none the less.
In the next thrilling instalment of Back to basics we’ll go
through how to setup TSM.
