Cobra Scales Sell

Sometimes, I think when Blizzard adds a new item to World of Warcraft, I don't think they check to see what's already available. Case in point, these leatherworking patterns:

• Nethercobra Leg Armor
• Cobrahide Leg Armor

Nethercobra Leg Armor requires some pretty hefty resources, not to mention being EXALTED with Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Who's exalted with Honor Hold or Thrallmar? Hardly anyone, that's right. But wait, do you even NEED to make Nethercobra Leg Armor?

Cobrahide Leg Armor has only 2 points less crit rating, and 10 less attack power. So, it's a fraction of a percent of crit lost, and maybe 2 points of damage lost. You only have to be HONORED with Honor Hold or Thrallmar to get the pattern, and the materials are much, much less expensive to the leatherworker.(doesn't need primal nethers, and only half as many primal airs!).

Whichever one you make, it sells well. Twinks love it, and well-geared players love it because it ads some more "oomph" to their already uber items. You can make it yourself, or just farm and sell the most difficult to come by component in the recipe, Cobra Scales.

Yes, everyone, that IS a 1.7% drop rate. What does that mean? They're darn hard to come by! And they're DARN expensive to buy (so they're DARN profitable to sell! 20-30 gold PER SCALE). Head over to Shadowmoon Valley's Coilskar Cistern and kill Coilskar Cobras. If you only see 3 or 4, go into the cave to find more. If you get lucky on the drops, you stand to make maybe 80 to 100 gold per hour, here.

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Recycle Raw Materials

It's amazing to me how many gold earning guides don't cover some of the less obtuse, more subtle ways to earn gold in World of Warcraft. Here's one of my favorites!

If you've got a crafting skill, you need to go to the Auction House and check out the prices on some things: Raw materials. The goal is to find unworked materials, buy them, turn them into something else, and sell that for more than you spent for the materials. This works, everyone, it just takes some careful planning or market information.

For example, a leatherworker might check out the price for Knothide Leather. If the price of buying 100 knothide leather is 60 gold, and the price for a stack of 20 Heavy Knothide Leather is 100 gold, you can buy the raw materials, rework it, and sell it at a profit. This gives you more skill ups, and free profit. You can do this for as long as you can find the raw materials in the auction house. It's especially useful for crafting skills, because stuff like this example don't have cool downs.

Open up your craft window and find an item you think people need. Search it in the Auction House and get an idea of average price. Then search out the components, and see what they cost. Even if the average prices come out to be the same, if the market is undervalue on the components (if people keep undercutting each other) or over value on the final product, you can still make a profit before the prices even out. You just have to make a point to look for deals like this.

So go to your Auction House and sniff around a bit! There are plenty of people waiting to be taken advantage of!

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Heavy Knothide Leather

The best thing about World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade is that they added so many high-level patterns to the craft skills. This is great for YOU, because it means materials are perpetually in demand! Heavy Knothide Leather is very popular right now for higher-level recipes, as people grind their way to 375 in leatherworking.

Before you begin farming this, head for Shattrath to get Pattern: Heavy Knothide Leather from
Cro Threadstrong. It's also sold in Silvermoon City by Tyn and Zaralda. Now you can turn 5 Knothide Leathers into Heavy Knothide Leather.

The best place to get this, in my opinion, is in Terokkar, in a cave where you can find Blackwind Sabrecats (map). Now, you can skin them and make the leather yourself, which is good money, and 100% profit. OR, you can take advantage of other people's hard work. Less profit, but it's easier to do, and more convenient. Read on!

Go to the Auction House (with the pattern learned), and buy stacks of Knothide Leather. Buy up, oh, 100 knothide leathers. Then turn that into a stack of 20 Heavy Knothide Leather. In most economies, you'll be able to sell that stack of 20 at a profit of 30 gold or so over what you paid for the raw materials. MAKE SURE YOU VERIFY THIS FIRST. If Heavy Knothide Leather is down in price, this will obviously not work, and cost you gold.

As an added bonus, you'll be getting skill ups as you do this, whichever method you choose.

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Skinning For Big Gold

If you're a skinner, Nagrand is probably the closest to heaven you'll find, even though it probably smells pretty awful. Nagrand is FULL of skinnable mobs, and many aren't even hostile until you attack them!

You'll want to get the quests At Nessingwary's Expidition at the entrance to the zone, because you'll kill enough mobs while skinning to complete them easily.

Once you get the quests, go do them, and skin every mob you kill. Because there are simply so MANY mobs, there's very little downtime spent trying to find them. Kill, skin, repeat. You can make anywhere from 70 to 85 gold an hour here, with the grays they drop, leather to sell, and occasional green items.

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Aldor/Scryers Rep Items For Gold

People take rep very seriously in World of Warcraft. Higher rep with factions means more quests, nifty vendor rewards, etc.

Thankfully, people also take being lazy very seriously! Because of this, there is a good market for getting rep items yourself, and selling them to other people. A lazy, rich player would much rather BUY the rep items than farm it themselves. They have more important things to do!

Aldor
Go to Osh'Gun in Nagrand, and kill Terrorguards and Ritualists. Not only do they have even odds of dropping Marks of Kil'jaeden (needed to raise Aldor to Honored), but as humanoids they reglularly drop netherweave cloth. On my server, Kil'jaeden, Netherweave is going for between 3.5 and 4 gold a stack! It's like bathing 2 orcs with 1 bar of soap! Or killing 2 birds with one stone.

You can also farm in the Northwestern Bone Wastes in Terokkar. Cabal-anythings drop these marks often, also Netherweave and Runecloth.

To get to Revered and Exalted, you need Marks of Sargeras and Fel Armaments. Legion Hold in Shadowmoon Valley is a good place to farm for the former, because they drop other sellable loot on top of the marks. Also in Shadowmoon Valley, hit up The Deathforge. Lots of marks, lots of other good loot! And while you're farming at either of these spots, be on the lookout for Fel Armanents. They have maybe a 5% chance of being dropped by these mobs too, so really you're farming for 2 things at the same time, AND making money/getting loot.

In Netherstorm, check out Forge Camps Oblivion and Gehenna. All these mobs drop Aldor rep items and other loot, and they aren't even particularly tough to kill!

Scryers
To get to Honored with the Scryers, you need to turn in Firewing Signets, to head over to Terokkar's Firewing Point. These mobs, especially the casters, are very squishy. And again, they drop tons of cloth, so you're working double here.

For getting to Revered and Exalted, you need Sunfury Signets and Arcane Tomes. The various manaforges in Netherstorm have mobs for the signets (Blood Knights, Bloodwarders, and Researchers). There are lots of forges to choose from, so finding one for yourself shouldn't be too hard.

As with the Fel Armaments for the Aldor, these same mobs you're farming will also drop Arcane Tomes! Insert clever 2-birds-with-one-stone phrase here!

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The Rogue's Magic Chest

Edit: I have heard that there may actually be THREE mobs here, not 2. Can anyone confirm this? If there is, you'll need a friend; maybe another Rogue, a Druid, whatever.

Who doesn't love a treasure chest? That's right, everyone in World of Warcraft does! A treasure chest has a higher percentage of holding good items than a mob's corpse does. Here's a trick for a high-level rogue or priest, to continually loot one in the Auchenai Crypts for good gold and items!

Get into the instance, and make your way to the end of the second room (stealth, or mind sooth and luck!) Chances are good there's a chest in that area, but it's guarded by 2 elites. One of them is able to be improve sapped. The other is only 65-66 elite, but he spawns 2 additional mobs, so have a potion, or your cooldowns up.

Depending on your health when the other mob recovers, snuff him too, or vanish and recover, THEN tear him down. Loot the chest. If you can get here as a priest, simple mind control one mob, and wait for one to kill the other. Then kill the survivor! It's a tough world, sorry monsters.

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