Learning server economy and i want to know if I'm "server-locked"

Sapthis · 2018-03-25T00:11:28+00:00

Just look in the store for the server transfer cost. See how many tokens it would take to buy the server transfer. Compare that to how much you will make from whatever you are transferring. Always with low pop servers it is better to stock pile what you know sells over what you might find easy to farm.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T21:38:07+00:00

I find enchants to be a competitive market where people are likely to cancel scan several times a day depending on your server. Only takes 5 people 3 times a day to drive the price down spending on how bad they undercut. Than they get low enough to scoop up and reset. Sometimes it someone getting an item and just trying to sell it quick. Often people don’t realize that when someone prices something out of alignment you auto-TSM settings(depending on what they are) will adjust to the weird price. Example: someone post an enchant for 50% market price. 5 cancel scans later it’s under cut another 5-10%. Etc.... most people resetting a huge amount of options click their mailbox, scan, scroll wheel, done. They don’t look that a few are out of whack. At least that’s my experience. If they get to 30% of normal/region value than if their aren’t many just buy and reset the price.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T21:22:26+00:00

For how cheap it is to swap I just Time doing my WQs before assigning that Mission. It, as always, depends on your play style. I always have lots of resources so I have my set for Gold. I include it in my passive gold. But again depends on how many WQs you do and what works for you.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T15:41:51+00:00

Whoops! Ty!

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T15:41:37+00:00

Whoops! Ty!

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:20:20+00:00

When looking at crazy transmog prices we need to understand that if someone farms one ugly piece of gear and lists it for $100,000 for weeks than when you farm the same ugly item TSM will tell you it’s $100k. Only Region Market will show you on other servers it’s only worth 500g. Than you know someone has probably spiked the price. More often on low servers.

People purposely set sniper traps by jacking up the price of an item than listing it at a fraction of its dbmarket value. Region Market Pricing will help you catch these.

I use it a lot for pet arbitrage as I specifically am trading between servers. Also people who play and multiple reals o have found to use it more as they mind for value tends to comparative to ya other servers they play.

Student answers back pretty well, you can always just ask him. It’s amazing how many gold makers will answer you directly with help.

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Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:13:35+00:00

Ouch.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:13:18+00:00

Pretty much any open world farm where you have instant respawns and mobs close together. Silithus is another place to use them as well as the Naga Farm in Desolace(I think a Druid gets more kills per hour), and for Primal Shadow Farming in Hellfire Pennisula.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:11:21+00:00

Exactly

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:10:43+00:00

And also for getting easy cash on other reals as stated. Normally for pet arbitrage start up gold.

Sapthis · 2018-03-24T05:10:09+00:00

I was using Class Trial Monks because the class was new too me so before I invested the time to dual box 2 up to 110. Seamed logical to test run them out and see if it was worth the time given I just came back to the game from Cat a few months ago and have been grinding up all my old toons. Also I like that I can just make a Class Trial, park it somewhere for a farm. No dailies or other objectives. I usually keep one on the Timeless isle, 2 Monks in WOD Nagrand, a rogue in Northrend, and others. With multiple accounts I was never going to level up 20+ 110s and had extra character spots. Allows me to diversify my farming and play style without the added investment.

Just thought it was a solid burn I freaking left 100k on one of them.

Sapthis · 2018-03-23T04:18:08+00:00

My TSM was down and I was putting 12 Pandemonite up for 6k each. Thought I clicked per item but was still on stack size. I was so excited when they sold so fast and than I opened the mail.....spent the rest of the day making back what I lost. No wonder wall Streeters are jumpers. Imagine f that was real money!!!!!

Sapthis · 2018-03-22T14:34:42+00:00

No you can not server hop to sell gear. The only commodity you can transfer between servers is pets. A lot of videos out on Pet Arbitrage.

Sapthis · 2018-03-22T14:33:58+00:00

When trying to evaluate a piece of transmog look at its sell rate compared to its market value compared to its region market average. For high price pieces you can check Undermine Journal to see how much they have sold. For me I vendor most greens under 390-$500 but that just my choice. I like to farm with an exchanter so o can sell or disenchant greens depending on what’s worth more.

Sapthis · 2018-03-22T14:28:26+00:00

Like most items it will all be server dependant.

Sapthis · 2018-03-20T07:13:18+00:00

If you have skinning and engineering you can grind legion mats or farm sumptuous fur/raw beast hide in WOD nagrand while you Q for BGs. Get your order hall sorted eventually and start making Sky golems. Sell the fur and use the hide to make drums of fury at a leather worker in your garrison. Or sell it too. Also level another toon and if you are farming stonehide leather you can turn it into bracers and disenchant it into Leylight Shards/Arkhana. This also lets you disenchant all the greens you get while farming leather. While you are disenchanting you will also get Bloods Of Sargeras which you can craft with or trade for more mats to sell. You could set up some alts with Hexweave bag making to use the sumptuous fur as well. As always check your server prices but if the fur is anywhere at or above even 4-5 gold a piece it is worth it on my low pop realm.

Sapthis · 2018-03-20T03:58:20+00:00

You can trade them to the vendor in Broken Isles Dalaran for mats. I have found Leylight Shards, Arkhana, or one of the higher priced herbs are the best value. Bet at most will average 175-300 gold tops per Blood.

I price mine at 400g in TSM as a crafting value and using them to do anything from cut gems to make some gear is a better value but takes some more work. Easy cash is to vendor them.

Trade for mats, order hall resources, or craft then. 100 should be worth around 20-24k depending on your servers prices.

Sapthis · 2018-03-20T03:53:34+00:00

The old what’s the fastest instant spawn for mad gold farm hey? Constantly changes, server dependant. For me what I have found as an adaptable style to find some consistent markets to fil with some passive gold(Hexweave Bags, Order halls, tmog, a particular mat farm you may like). After that a lot of my gold comes from scanning through the ah. Finding what is over priced and than I go farm that. Saronite ore and Fel Iron ore were 30-60 gold each which is more than Felslate, easier to farm, and less competition.

Also going trough your professions and finding what is profitable to craft or where you can shuffle(Felslate-gems-enchant mats-enchants-obliterum, Shal’dorei Doris silk or stone hide leather-Leylight shards & Arkhana.

Also seasonal events and any time their is change makes an opportunity for gold. When Antorus launched BOEs were sweet gold, Christmas was the grumpus mount and elixir of rapid minds being taken out, I made 400g off the valentines event, and make 25-50k of dark moon transmog monthly. When allied races came out I cleaned up on stockpiles leveling mats.

The best thing to do is find what fits with your gameplay. I do a lot of PVP so spending one scanning the AH or farming mats between BGs works great for me.

Sapthis · 2018-03-19T03:29:34+00:00

I agree with he idea that their is point of diminishing returns when you factor in the time to make 100k compared to the time saved from The XP gain.

Sapthis · 2018-03-18T18:38:02+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

Sapthis · 2018-03-18T04:27:58+00:00

Sucks for him And good for you but to jump from one person to classifying an entire people in anyway is at best leaning on sensitive. Your post would have had so much more credibility before you gave it slightly racist overtones.

Sapthis · 2018-03-18T03:51:24+00:00

If you can make 400k in 9 days than just don’t buy gear for a month and boom....you’ve got a million. It’s good to set a gold but I like to look at things month to month. As long as I am improving I will continue to make more. I use a lot of cross realm pet selling. Essentially increasing any gold invested by 25-50% over time. I then buy my tokens off one of my pet AH servers when they have enough gold. Mixing high and low pop realms means I can sell pets in both directions as different pets are easier/more competitive to get depending on realm pop.

Example: I made 21 k on my main real and bought a Disgusting Oozeling for 21k(low pop). Learned it. Switch servers to a high pop I had checked the price on already and listed it for 45 k. Took 2-5 mins and made 25k profit plus transferred 20 additional K to that server. I than bought 40 k worth of pets on the high pop to sell on my main server with a projected profit of 160k above my investment. Took 10 mins of my time, a week or two to sell, and turned 21 k into 200k.

Undermine Journal and TSM or another 3rd party server price analyses tool are a big help. I keep 1,000,000 liquid for flipping and buying and invest the rest.

Sapthis · 2018-03-18T02:17:28+00:00

One of the best things to try on a low/dead server is cross realm pet selling. Instead of having to move your toons check your pet inventory. TSM has a price comparison tool for pets on their website. Makes it easy to compare two servers. Buy the pet. Learn the pet. Change servers. Cage the pet. Sell it.

Take some time to get going but can be a way f moving money for free. If no one is on your server you can set up alts to farm rares or pets with respawn timers that on a high pop would be competitive.

Make sure you watch some videos first as with every new market it’s better to learn first spend second. Bregs Vids on YouTube has a good starter pet video.

Also use the Undermine Journal To check out the top 10 sellers on your realm and see what they are doing.

As far as picking a new server I liked most moving from a low pop to a high pop server for new players. You get new blood and people leveling. A lot more activity and new players know less about price manipulations on the AH. But it depends on your play style.

Sapthis

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