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Blacksmithing makes me happy

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:34 am
by Donnel
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=4622

Cost to make for me = 7silver

Sold two in the auction house last night and received 1g95s68c in the mail this morning.

Level 17 and Life is good.

Anyone else?

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:39 am
by Tacks
Get out while you can! You'll pull your hair out trying to get high level recipes=P Combine that with the insane costs to put some stuff together....bleh.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:42 am
by Donnel
I was looking at Thottbot just a bit ago...I can see what you mean, but hey, if I can get a steady supply of tigerseye, this might fund my leveling for a good long time !

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:05 am
by Jennay
So I should hold onto all the Tigerseye I have? I think I sold like 5 to a vendor already and I'm only level 15.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:10 am
by Donnel
Only if you are doing blacksmithing I'd imagine or some other tradeskill. Check thottbot or another site to see what Tigerseye's are used in. Then you can either make it yourself or find someone who can make it for you.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=818

as an example...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:10 am
by Insanityfair
I'm a packrat....I have metals and gems and cloth etc. on one toon (mining/engineering) and my ah mule serves as holding my over flow of the same stuff. :eyecrazy:

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:15 am
by Jennay
I do Alchemy with Herbalism.. but I bet I could sell all my blacksmithing and engineering raw materials in AH or in trade channels.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:16 am
by Donnel
That'd prolly be a safe bet.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:22 am
by Tacks
Insanityfair wrote:I'm a packrat....I have metals and gems and cloth etc. on one toon (mining/engineering) and my ah mule serves as holding my over flow of the same stuff. :eyecrazy:

yeah, she does lol thanks again for the stone

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:23 am
by Insanityfair
lol np, I'm almost back up to two stacks on that character. :wink:

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:24 am
by Donnel
Taxx what race is your avatar, I was thinking undead, but he looks too short. Is that your toon?

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:24 am
by Tacks
Feel free to COD them to me...as well as any elemental earth you might scrounge up.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:29 am
by Tacks
Thats a dwarf rogue in my avatar although I play a Troll Rogue.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:37 am
by Mop
From what I can tell really you should hold on to most gems - half my inventory is pieces of cloth and gems most of the time heh ><

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:39 am
by Insanityfair
lol did I COD the first time? Nope. As soon as I hit two stacks of it I can send another one out though.

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:41 am
by Insanityfair
Mop wrote:From what I can tell really you should hold on to most gems - half my inventory is pieces of cloth and gems most of the time heh ><


Aye...Came across two arcane crystals, and one azerothian(or something like that diamond) was told it's rare but dunno what it's for...also have a golden pearl and some black ones...I have two bags that are entirely gems that I've stockpiled. >< I'm always thinking I'm going to use them for some engineering thing. (Which I often have.)

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:41 am
by Tacks
that doesn't mean you won't get random cash in the mail

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:03 am
by Insanityfair
:teehee:

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:57 am
by 10sun
It is easier to simply mine than to deal with blacksmithing... although I get the random people asking for someone with 245+ weaponsmithing in Ogrimmar and make 10-20g based upon material costs and what they have to supply.

-Adam

Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:59 pm
by Arlos
Azerothian Diamonds are fairly rare, and are used in a lot of smithing stuff. Black pearl is for mid-range smithing stuff. Gold pearl, not sure, though I know there's at least one 300ish skill tailoring pattern that uses 2 of them. Forget which one tho.

Arcane Crystals are used to make Arcanite, (1 crystal + 1 thorium bar), but the conversion requires high level alchemy, and is on a 2 day recycle timer. On Stormrage, alliance-side, the crystals run 30g each, and an arcanite bar runs 35-40. Used to be cheaper, but since they put in the paladin epic horse quest, prices have been nuts. Glad I mined all mine. heh. The real $$$ maker for gems tho are Pristine Black Diamonds. Those go for 200-300g easy, again due to the pally epic horse quest.

Edit: Speaking as a 300 skill Armorsmith, if you want to continue to make money with Smithing, do *NOT* go Armorsmith. Axesmith is probably the biggest single money maker, with Annihilator for 1h, and Arcanite Reaper for 2h. Swordsmith is probably 2nd best, and Hammersmith 3rd. There's very little you can make with Armorsmithing that people actually want, what with the prevalence of lightforge/valor availability.

-Arlos

Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:35 pm
by Insanityfair
Arlos wrote: Gold pearl, not sure, though I know there's at least one 300ish skill tailoring pattern that uses 2 of them. Forget which one tho.


Mooncloth robe lol that's what I originally had it for. That is a lot of farmin hours though. :ugh:

Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:32 pm
by 10sun
It is also used in the Arcanite Rod for Enchanters.

-Adam

Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:40 am
by Donnel
Arlos wrote:Azerothian Diamonds are fairly rare, and are used in a lot of smithing stuff. Black pearl is for mid-range smithing stuff. Gold pearl, not sure, though I know there's at least one 300ish skill tailoring pattern that uses 2 of them. Forget which one tho.

Arcane Crystals are used to make Arcanite, (1 crystal + 1 thorium bar), but the conversion requires high level alchemy, and is on a 2 day recycle timer. On Stormrage, alliance-side, the crystals run 30g each, and an arcanite bar runs 35-40. Used to be cheaper, but since they put in the paladin epic horse quest, prices have been nuts. Glad I mined all mine. heh. The real $$$ maker for gems tho are Pristine Black Diamonds. Those go for 200-300g easy, again due to the pally epic horse quest.

Edit: Speaking as a 300 skill Armorsmith, if you want to continue to make money with Smithing, do *NOT* go Armorsmith. Axesmith is probably the biggest single money maker, with Annihilator for 1h, and Arcanite Reaper for 2h. Swordsmith is probably 2nd best, and Hammersmith 3rd. There's very little you can make with Armorsmithing that people actually want, what with the prevalence of lightforge/valor availability.

-Arlos


I was actually thinking about going Axesmith for the simple fact I'm going to play an axe focused Warrior.

Glad to know it won't be a wasted choice.

On a sadder note, had 5 daggers and one Heavy Copper Broadsword up all night and none sold :(

Hopefully will get some sales this weekend, id on't like being below 3 gold...