Primal Water and Primal Air for Alchemists

In response to a request, here's some info about primal waters and primal air.

Now, alchemists can transmute water to air, which is nice to have, as air can be somewhat difficult to farm sometimes. On my server, primal air is the most expensive primal of all, and the least available, likely owing to that it has no particularly awesome farming spot (use my search bar if you're interested, I think I covered good farming spots in another post). Also, the recipe to transmute primal water to primal air is indeed a revered reward from the Cenarion Expedition, so a huge amount of people aren't going to be doing it.

What it comes down to is patience. The cooldown on transmuting Primals is a long one, so it isn't as though you'll be making a ton of gold a day by doing it. But, you WILL make gold. Primals are one of the most easily sold items, in my opinion. I always sell mine through the trade channel, and they always sell well, if you undercut the AH by a gold or two. Again, the problem is simply time taken to transmute. If anyone wants to try this, my advice is to grab up multiple Primal Waters at the lowest price you can, and keep them in your bag to transmute whenever you can. When you market them in /trade, be sure to give the option of buying them individually, in case someone doesn't want "10x primal air!".

On a related note, you can also transmute Primal Earth to Primal Water, via a Sporeggar revered recipe. Primal Earth is just dirt cheap, because it's so easy to get. You can make a much bigger profit with this recipe, transmuting Primal Earth to Primal Water (in the neighborhood of 20g profit, on my server).

Guide Me!

Wow, my posting schedule has sucked lately: about once per 3 days.

I'm drying up on material! There are only so many great tips, and tons of just so-so tips out there. So, guide me, folks. Post a comment on the type of tips you want to see: grinding, tricks, auction house stuff, other addons, blah blah etc etc!

Thanks a bunch.

The Orb of Deception

I think one of the best things about the expansion for World of Warcraft is that at level 70, you can do a lot of things alone that you couldn't do at 60. Thankfully, no one bothers to do some of these things, so if you pull it off, you can make some serious cash.

Enter, the Orb of Deception. It's a trinket that transforms a member of one faction to look like a member of the other faction. I know, it's totally useless! But the "cool" factor, or the "I just have everything else" counts a lot here. These things go for 500 gold, easily. It's a rare find on the Auction House these days.

So how do you get it? Head to the Dire Maul Arena. Keep an eye on you chat window and wait for Skarr the Ubreakable or Razza to yell something: that means they are at the arena (takes a few hours to respawn, so go kill time mining or something while you wait, or farm the instance). Soon as one pops, go and kill it! They have about 10% chance to drop the Orb, but will always drop SOMETHING decent. Azeroth blues sell for TONS more than Outland blues, so you are guaranteed some gold!

If you aren't a caster who can kite, or a hunter, you may want to take a friend. Of course, if you have decent enough gear, burn your cooldowns and take some potions, you'll probably be alright.

Quick Linen at the Defias Windmill

Here's one for the lower level folk out there amid my scant readership.

Westfall is the best place in the game to farm linen. Linen, you say? Who cares about linen? Well, a lot of people care about it, particularly people leveling up tailoring and first aid skills. Linen goes for about a gold a stack, which is good money at lower levels.

The Defias Windmill is on the Northwestern shore of Westfall. It isn't noted on the map, but I have supplied a handy reference here. That isolated block of white dots is the windmill. Now, here's the kicker - the mobs here respawn more or less instantly (Defias Trappers and Defias Looters. They go down fast, they come back up faster. If Blizzard hasn't fixed this yet (and I don't think they have), they probably never will, so it's a good tip to know. You can farm tons of linen here, and small change in copper because they are humans, and they carry money. And of course the random green drop.

So, there you have it. For the low level trying to get some cash, or the any-level trying to SAVE some by not buying their way through the lower levels of Tailoring and First Aid. Happy farming!

Vanity Sells - Blood Elf Bandit Mask

For those of you who have never seen it, this is the Blood Elf Bandit Mask. Bask in its glory. Yes, it takes up your head slot, and has no stats. But it looks as cool as hell, and that has some definite weight when it comes to pricing! And yes, this is somewhat difficult to get, but not too hard if you know how. This, one of the coolest "vanity items" in the game, sells for maybe 50g or more, depending on the server. I have almost never seen them on the auction house, and I know plenty of players, even high level ones, don't even know they exist! So, yeah, this can sell for lots of gold.

You need to head to Azuremyst Isle and kill the Blood Elf Bandit. Now, here is where it gets tricky. Scope out the map (click the link to go to Thottbot), and you'll see that the bandit pops up in a number of places. They will stay in the general zone they spawn in, but they are STEALTHED. Not that a high-level player will have trouble seeing a stealthed level 7 mob, but still, it makes it harder. And if you kill it, there's only a 10% drop chance on the mask! Rough, I know, but that just drives the price up. Also, the mob respawns a short 2 minutes after being killed, which is nice.

So what do you do? Simply run a route that takes you through all the spawn points (pretty much just a big oval, folks, not too hard). Really, unless there is competition, you should be able to find and kill him every 7 or 8 minutes, so you can probably get 1 mask per hour, more if you're rather lucky.

Now, this is an ALLIANCE zone, so it's more likely to be farmed by Alliance toons. So if you get one, it's worth a shot putting it in the neutral Auction House, because however rare it is for an Alliance to have it, a Horde having it is even rarer! Adjust the price accordingly, and let your Horde friends know it's available. Or, if you're on a non-PVP server, put it up for sale with your Alliance toon, buy it with your Horde, and then relist it on the Horde auction house at a higher price. Ooo, sneaky!

So, next time you have nothing to do, give this a shot. It's a bit unconventional, but hey, some players LIVE for having cool looking characters (especially on RP realms). Happy farming!

Sick

Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone. I'm sick right now, haven't felt up devoting that kind of brain power to anything. I work tonight, and that is going to suck. >.<

May the Grind Be With You - More Aldor Rep

Boy, am I sick of grinding Aldor rep. I've been LIVING at Legion Hold in Shadowmoon Valley for a week, grinding whenever I play. It's contributing well to my flying mount fund, but still, it gets old.

So, today I tried a new spot - the Arklon Ruins, southeast of Area 52 in Netherstorm. Wow! It's actually a great place to grind. The mobs are Artifact Seekers and Felblade Doomguards. Unlike the Legion Hold mobs, who have high-damage spells you need to watch out for, these mobs only auto attack, and weakly. They are quite squishy, and I only had to stop to eat about once per 10 or so kills. Also, they drop Marks of Sargeras at about 30%, which is 5% higher than the mobs at Legion Hold! It doesn't seem like much, but it really is. They also drop Fel Armaments more. In 1 hour of grinding I got 2 greens, 42 Marks, and 4 Fel Armaments! The only downside is that I didn't come out with 100+ Netherweave to sell. :(

So, there you have it. For a speed grind, hit Arklon Ruins. For lots of gold as well as rep items, Legion Hold.