My Daily Gold Making Routine in WoW 3.3.2

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4 Mar

I thought it’d be interesting to share my daily routine and how I go about my gold making activities in WoW.

I’m always looking for ways to increase the efficiency of my time so that I am making the highest gold an hour. I prioritize my time usually so that the highest gold/hr items are at the beginning and the least are near the end (incase I don’t have time for them and they get missed)

It’s good to record how much time you spend doing certain activities. You can see where your time sinks are and compare how much time you spend on those activities to how much gold you get in return. This will give you your gold/hour rate, be that from auction house flipping, crafting with professions, farming gold or putting on a light show for tips.

Gold Making Routine

Here’s what I did last evening after getting home from work (6pm – 12:ooam)

6pm – 6:10pm - Log on my 3 posting alts, collect mail, open AH (lets altoholic update my inventory amounts so I know what I am low on inventory on)

6:12pm – 6:18pm - Log on main crafter and buy up low priced herbs with Auctionator (Nothing to buy, Wednesdays are usually high priced days because so much sales happened on Tuesday that people are making more glyphs to restock their inventory.)

6:18pm – 6:21pm - Scan with Market Watcher to see any big changes in the items I regularly buy/sell

- Artic Furs surged to 75g each, Sold my last 5 yesterday for 65g each.
Looks like prices of almost every item have gone up (due to spike in playing on Tuesday night) so I can sell off a lot of items I’ve been stocking up on to resell.

6:21pm – 6:24pm - Run Getall auctioneer scan, make a coffee

6:24 – 6:40 - Do a “resale” scan to buy up any low priced items

- Made about 200g buying up 20 iridecent pearls, mote of mana, mote of earth. Today there wasn’t much stuff underpriced as Wednesdays prices are usually high.

6:40pm – 6:45pm - Removed Shadow Crystal, Dark Jade and Chalcedony from my snatch list as the new changes in the PTR will have the icy prism only require 1/3 of these items than before. I’ll add them again after patch 3.3.3 hits and I see what the new market price is.

- Bought up some primal earth, light leather, essence of earth at 50% value

6:45pm – 6:50pm – List items on AH with appraiser. When you do a refresh of items in your inventory appraiser shows you a quick snapshot under the item name in a color code of what the market price is. (example 1/3/10/393) Red means there’s 1 item priced more than 150% of the items worth, yellow means the item is within 75%-150% of its value, Green means it’s going for under 75% and Blue indicates the item is going lower than 50% (rough estimates).

When I do this quick refresh with appraiser I scroll the list and post anything that I see has only yellow or red auctions up or none.

6:54pm – 6:56pm - Scan with Glypher to find out what glyphs to make. This scans only glyphs on the AH and it will give me a current snapshot of all glyph prices. Lil’Sparkies Workshop uses these updated numbers with KTQ (Kevtool Queue) so that you can do /ktq queue 5 glyphs (and it’ll only make glyphs above your set threshold… mine is 5g 85s)

6:57pm – 7:30pm - done crafting 150 glyphs and 150 runescrolls of fortitude. My vellums were already at an acceptable inventory level.

7:37pm – 8:29pm – cancel/repost all glyphs across my 3 posting alts and post glyphs/vellums/runescroll that I just finished making.

- Made dinner, made some phone calls, posted on forums I frequent etc. while this was going on in the background.

8:30pm – 9:40pm - Crafted 96 darkmoon cards

I wanted to leave this till a later time because I’m eager to get my DK to level 65 and get JC/Ench powerleveled but the Darkmoon Faire will be over soon and it will be tough to sell any off-cards I don’t need and to buy up ones to complete decks.

- Went on the AH, bought cards I needed to complete decks
- Listed cards that I had excess of and was within 15% of the median price or greater

Death Knight 10k Project

9:40pm – 10:20pm - Set up Jewelcrafting snatch and bought out more stuff to prepare to powerlevel Jewelcrafting once my DK hits 65.

10:20pm – 11:50pm - Level DK, Went from 3% into 64 to dinging level 65! (had a full level of rested) I can now start powerleveling Jewelcrafting and Enchanting for the DK 10K project and also to incorporate into my daily gold making activities to hit the gold cap.

11:50pm – 12:50am – Start writing this post, while doing another cancel/reposting cycle across my 3 alts. I always cancel/repost when I know that I will be doing something outside of WoW since it takes very little effort and the AH Campers have been a little more ruthless lately. I always want my glyphs to be the cheapest to get the most sales.

That is a typical day, it is busier than normal since I spent an extra hour and 10 minutes making darkmoon cards which I only do once a month plus I spent another 45 minutes setting up my snatch to buy up all underpriced materials used in powerleveling Jewelcrafting from 1-450. This will combine with my current snatch list so I’ll always have control over the Jewelcrafting powerleveling market to buy items at low prices and flip them to other leveling JC’ers for a profit.

I am constantly tweeking my daily routine, before it used to be about 4 hours worth of inscription/auction house stuff but now that I’m trying to leveling Jewelcrafting/Enchanting on the side I’ve reduced the amount of time I put into inscription to 1 hour (in which time I can craft about 250 glyphs) and only focus on crafting the highest priced glyphs. This has meant my income from Inscription has gone down to 2k/day from 3,500g/day but my gold an hour has gone way higher.

Once I have JC/Ench leveled to max I’ll see how much gold/hr I make from those activities and either do them before or after my daily inscription activities depending on the profitability.

Another thing I am keeping in mind; I try to tailor all of my information on this site to be as practical as possible and something you can do to make gold in WoW. Not many players want to spend their whole playing session or 4 hours on gold making a day.

That is why very shortly after I reach the gold cap I will be getting back into PvP/Raiding while refining my gold making strategy to only take up 30 min – 1 hour of my daily playing time while still earning a large amount of gold weekly.

But I’m sure that will only be a temporary project I do for a while… since my obsession to make even more gold will drive me to try for a million

Anyways, I’m interested to hear your daily gold making activities and what goals you are working towards to make more gold in the game!