How to farm Abyss Crystals in Wintergrasp

Hi it's Metaron. As you mentioned, I don't post the topic with my name this time cause I want to try this version for posting and it looks a lot better than my last topics.

Boaah is offline for quite some time and I don't know when he returns. So I am posting on my own the next time.


Back to topic. After my last post (and Seths podcast @One Copper) about making money with fast honor grinding in Wintergrasp, I would like to mention that the buyable items on vendor are DE able. So yes you heard right. For every 5 won Wintergrasp, you will get one free Abyss Crystal (if you are an Enchanter). So if you are interessted in making some gold while PvPing, Wintergrasp would be your first choice.

Boaahs Day

I pushed the price from 35g back to 70g but 2 guys are undercutting me with 5-10g so that the price went down to 30g again and i bought every Eternal Belt buckle and looked what my competitor does.. he instantly used his Hearthstone and farmed 2 hours but the an other competitor just bought him up. So that the price went to 70g again

After some whispers with my hardest Competitioner i caclulated wich Crafted Epic makes the most Profit. Its the Titansteel Bonecrusher with 430g profit but i dont think that some one buys it.
Number 2 is Titansteel Shanker with 335g profit and i want to craft 2-3 of them to see how fast i sell them.

The next thing that cost so much Gold are the damn enchants and gems.. i got 2 new Epics and had to pay 750g for just 2 enchants and 4 gems.. the stupid thing is that I got the same items from the non hc version this week and that makes 1200g just for 4 epics..

But theres another thing that fuck me up.. the damn waiting times for Battlegrounds.. 4-6 Achievements left for battlemaster but it is impossible with a 15 minute wait time because i lose patience with so long wait times.. i hope blizz will change it with 3.3 or i wont get the title..

Uhm btw, i will stream our ToC25 nhc alt run today at 19.30 if someone is interessted just visit the stream. http://www.livestream.com/boaah

Summary of the last days

I made 13,5k Gold in the last Days but only 5,5k are in my Inventory cause I got many new Epics and the Enchants and Gems are so expensive that the whole PvE thing(enchants, gems, repair, flask and food) costs me 2k gold in the last days.

I gained 5400g from Eternal Belt Buckle and 1400g from the Weapon Chains. 70% of the Mats were bought and the costs of the mats are about 60% of the average Sell price. So I made about 3k Gold with it. 100% of the mats were farmed on my own so I made 100% profit with it. But I sold 2 crafted iLvL 200 Epics for about 1400g and made ~800g profit with it. I sold some Crusader Orbs for the Emblems from raiding ToC 10, 10hc, 25 and 25hc and some Dailys. That are about 4 orbs and I sold them all for 2800g.

There are still many Mats left but no Eternal shadow and the Price for them raised to 16g each from 6g. It would be a big deficit if i buy the mats at the AH. Because the Price for the Belt Buckle dropped really low. My competitor and i tried to push the price back to about 65 gold but some one dropped the price down to 45g again.. Its just to high to buy it up like we did with the other Belt Buckles for 30g.

I want to push the price down to about 30g to buy everything from the guys how farm the mats on her own. So i can bring the Price back to 65g with 35g profit. But i still want to Craft new epics to sell them for 400g Profit.

Weekend summary

So weekend have come to an end and it was a great one. Overall I made a profit of 7,5k on my shaman and 2,5k on my glyph posting alt and in total 10k+.

Now it is time to craft my empty stacks of glyphs.

I craft 2 times a week, on Friday and on Monday. Friday for preperation for the weekend and Monday to craft my sold stocks after weekend. In the meantime I craft a stack of 10 of every glyph I can craft. Glyphs with a high demand to a stack of 14. But how do I know what are good glyphs and what are "not that good" glyphs?

Weekends can be used to find out what are hot and what are cold sales. So I sold completly out of DK minor glyphs (14 glyphs of Pestilence/Horn of Winter/Raise Dead). Cause of I know already that this glyphs are in high demand, so I got a good amount of them to relist them 4-5 times a day.

Then there are glyphs like Ice Block. You know there is always the possibility that someone who have no clue of his class will buy something cheap and maybe useful in his way of thinking. So it is necessary to keep every glyph in your stock. If you run out of glyphs you maybe miss sales and every sale is profit (most of the time).

So how can you use weekends to check the possibility of sales? A good way to do this is with Market Watcher

. This is a great Addon to check your market and how it is working (ups and downs over a week/month) and you can check your competition if they are undercutting you everytime you post your glyphs or they run out of stuck and are not crafting anymore. Test it out. It makes it a lot easyier to check your markets.

Boaah's Day 1

Day one is over and I made lots of loss. I bought 5 Stacks Titanium ore and made titanium steel with it. I paid 15G for their Cool down and my friend crafted a Titansteel Shield Wall. I hope that it sells fast but If not, I know that I won’t build it again. That’s the reason why I wait before I craft another Epic.

Today I made 1282G but I bought the Mats for about 30g. The Price increased to 60g over the night but dropped to 40g till now. The overall cost for the mats was ~650g. So I made ~630g profit just for crafting about 20 Belt Buckle.

The titanium weapon chains doesn’t sell fast but I have no costs for crafting cause I farmed the Mats in 2-3 farm sessions and still got 47 Chains left. So I made 507g with it.

After 2 Raids I got some new iLvL 245 Epics but the costs for enchants and Gems was about 1500g so I lost many gold but I should make enough Gold with so many mats and goods left without high costs for many Profit.

I know that it isnt much Gold but im just a noob in this buisness ;>

Btw: Sry for some mistakes, my english isnt the best ;p

Day 1

Okay lets start this weekend with some setup of my characters.

First of all, my Warlock is a non Trader. That means that I am not playing him at the moment cause of lazyness. So I am only on my shaman, my Glyph crafting machine.

On my shaman I got 150k gold, 4 Inscription Bags in my Bag and 5 Inscription Bags in my Bank. I start the morning with canceling all undercuts on my shaman, log onto my alt for checking the second glyph wave, so it takes some time to get rid of these penetrant competitors ^^





After that I scan the AH with MarketWatcher (Carbon at A Gnome's Conquest wrote an create articel about it yesterday) to check some of my major gold making glyphs, herbs and enchanting mats (this is the next market I want to dominate). Than a fast scan with auctioneer, checking for some cheap herbs or something else, crafting missing glyphs and the day could start with playing other wow stuff.

Since mmo-c released their guide, I got 2 more competitioner. They are undercutting for 1c and canceling/repost every hour (or 2 hours) so I have to make them go crazy. But at the moment there is no way for me to drive them out cause of my late investement in inscription. I am only at 83% recipes, so if I want to drive the market down to 5g for every glyph I can make, there is too much room for them to make money and they can undercut me. I will delay my crash for some weeks (maybe until I get my first goal) and researching the last glyphs over the next weeks.

Another point to crash the market, is that you have enough stock of every glyph, enough ink and your herb supplyer. After I saw that some competitors are raising, I told every herb seller at the AH to supply only for me. Not everyone was amused, but I got 3 supplyer. One is sending me herbs every 3 days everything he has for only 10g per stack (Icethorn, Lichbloom, Adders too), the other 2 guys are sending unregular and get 14g per stack. So if you want to dominate your server, watch out for everyone (supplyer and competitor).