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Herbalism bags is a barely touched market. I was searching for one since I needed it for my alt w/ herbalism. After several days of searching, finally I get to see someone post Mycah’s Botanical Bag, which is a herbalism bag from the BC. It’s a 28 slot herbalism bag so it’s not so bad but the price is – 250 gold!

Two herbalism bags are worth crafting for profit:

1. Mycah’s Botanical Bag (28 Slot Herbalism Bag)

Total Mats (If created by a Mooncloth Specialist):

• 36 Netherweave Cloth
• 4 Arcane Dust
• 20 Mote of Life (2 Primal Life)
• 20 Mote of Water (2 Primal Water)
• 2 Fel Lotus

Selling Price: 250 gold

The only problem with this bag is the required revered reputation from the Sporeggar. The recipe, Pattern: Mycah’s Botanical Bag, can be purchased from the Sporeggar Quartermaster. FYI, I heard it’s a pain to grind for Sporeggar rep, that’s why this bag can sell for 250 gold.

2.  Emerald Bag (32 Slot Herbalism Bag)

Emerald Bag is the WOTLK version of herbalism bag.

Total Mats (If made by a Mooncloth Specialist):

• 20 Frostweave
• 4 Infinite Dust
• 4 Eternal Life
• 6 Frost Lotus

Pattern: Emerald Bag requires a revered reputation from the Kalu’ak, which isn’t very hard because you can do Kalu’ak dailies for reputation.

Selling price: 650 GOLD!

You can save a lot if you ask a Mooncloth specialist to craft the moonshroud for you and just give him a tip. If you are a Mooncloth specialist, then even better!

A new loot system is on the rise. It’s called GDKP or Gold-DKP. Instead of using DKP to purchase items, gold is used. For instance, in a 10 man raid, the boss dies and the loot is bid upon by players in their raid spec by whispering the loot master their bid. Whoever has the highest bid gets the item. If no one bids on main spec, then bids are for off spec before it gets disenchanted. By the end of the raid, the loot master divides the pot by 10 (some say by 11 for the guild bank, if you’re running with guildies), and distributes them among all the players. Sounds cool? Let’s look at the pros and cons.

Pros

• Those who have been looking for this 1 item can finally get it! Just spend gold rather than raid for that item every week and fail on your roll.
• Already uber geared but lazy to farm and play the AH? Gold DKP raids are for you. Have fun raiding with your friends while you earn some moolah.
• For those alts with low gear but have a ton of gold, gearing up can’t be easier than this!

Cons

• Gold DKP leaders should have a good reputation. I wouldn’t join a gold DKP group with a shady leader. Sounds like trouble, QQ, and gold ninjas to me if the leaders don’t have good rep.
• Leaders have to balance how many undergeared people can join in. You can’t have many fresh 80s even though their pockets are deep.
• Some say this encourages buying gold. But then again, don’t tell me the mechano-hog and the tundra mammoth doesn’t.

Skill is still a must in a GDKP raid. Even if you have tons of gold but you’re lying dead 5 seconds after the encounter, you’re as useless as a bent paper clip. Kick these people out!

An addon that helps manage the gold in a GDKP raid is GoldRaidManager. Quoting its description:

Helps raid leaders running gold pugs (gdkp). Sets minimum bid/raise for loots, do countdown, tracks and announces gold pot for each boss and the whole gold pot, and calculates and announces the gold split.

This 100% player devised concept looks really awesome. This gives a chance for those who love raiding to earn gold or get that piece of equipment you’ve always wanted for. And for those who have gold to spare, this is a chance to finally use it!

One line you will always see in the trade channel is this: “WTB port to DAL 10g”

Even though the hearth cd was already reduced to 30 minutes, people still prefer to pay for portals instead of riding the zeppelin and flying to Dalaran. It is a very long route after all. Add to that the low level characters who wants to see where the big boys hang out. The market on mage portals never runs out.

A reader sent me the picture above of one of his unusual days in WoW. A player whispered him and asked if he could be ported to Dalaran. He made a portal and the player suddenly ported without paying a tip. My reader let the situation go as whispering curses and flames won’t do any good. Besides, the reagent for a portal costs just a few silver anyway. The next day, he receives this letter from the guy he ported, with an Obsidian Hatchling attached to the mail! The pet is purchasable at 50 gold and sometimes sold at the AH for 100g. I guess the player got so happy he got to see Dalaran he sent 50 gold worth of tip.

A helpful addon for mages who want to sell portal services would be Broker Portals. Instead of putting portal spells on your action bar, it will attach itself to the minimap.

So mages, at your idle time, do not ignore people willing to buy portal. Who knows how much tip they will give you?

Tanks, rejoice! Because your breed is so rare, selling your service is starting to become a profession! Some dpsers are getting tired of waiting a long time for the dungeon to pop up. They would rather PAY for a tank to group with them, because when a tank joins your group, it’s almost an instant queue.

On the picture to the left, it says “LF TANK PAYING FOR RANDOMS (paying per badge)”. I do not know how much the group is paying per badge, but I have a friend who lent his tanking skills because a group was willing to pay 60 gold per dungeon. Flat rate for tanking skills pays better, he said. In around a week, he earned an extra 5k gold. Not Bad!

In addition to your badges and 13 gold per dungeon earned, you have a group of people paying for your services. If you no longer need badges for anything, you could use that to buy epic gems and sell those instead.

Tanks skills are now becoming a commodity. It’s not so far until I see someone advertising their tanking skill, their gear score, and their price in the trade channel. Selling yourself in the trade channel may make you look like a prostitute, but the dpsers who can’t get a dungeon running are the desperate ones. For those tank readers out there, how bout try advertising your tank skills? I’m thinking somewhere in the lines of:

“Selling tanking services for 60g a run, 5k GS, 43khp”

As my regular readers would know, I sometimes farm when there is a lack of supply in the AH and prices of raw materials are just ridiculous. One thing I noticed whenever I farm since patch 3.3 are the number of fellow farmers with the title “the Patient” in them. For those not familiar with how to obtain “the Patient” title, you obtain it by running random dungeons and grouping with 100 different people.

I have a little hypothesis on why farmers all display their “the Patient” title. For one thing, it does take a lot of patience to farm. Maybe displaying their “the Patient” title is a way of saying to other farmers they aren’t gonna stop farming anytime soon. Kidding aside, the farmers I see are always dps class. As I bet everyone has experienced, queuing for random dungeon as a dps class takes a long time. Therefore, instead of jumping around in Dalaran, some people decide to get extra gold while waiting.

Using the idle time to get extra gold isn’t so bad. You aren’t doing anything anyway. Might as well do something to increase your gold supply!  Those with gathering profession, herb/mine until your dungeon pops up. For those without gathering professions, you can do a little buy and sell or even do dailies. Waiting for dungeons wouldn’t piss you off with boredom anymore. Plus, you are earning gold WHILE YOU WAIT!

However, this isn’t really an option for tanks and healers who instantly gets a group when queued into dungeons. You can try it when gearing up for your dps set. This is really a little compensation for queuing dpsers who wait a long while before getting a dungeon group.

In the trade channel I saw someone selling Battered Hilt for 10k. The lowest price in the AH was at 12k but it goes high around 14-17k. I wanted to test if it is possible to buy and sell Battered Hilt for a huge profit so I talked to the seller and bought the battered hilt for 10k.

A few days after, Battered Hilt prices hasn’t gone up yet. The cheapest was still at 12k but I wanted to try if I could sell it at 14k for a massive 4k profit. A week has gone by and to my dismay, instead of increasing in price, Battered Hilt went for as low as 9.5k. I waited a few days and there was still around 3 listed, with 10k as the highest. Two weeks later since I planned to buy and sell Battered Hilt, finally most of the cheap Battered Hilt has been bought out. There was only 1 listed in the AH which goes for 10k. Thus, I listed my Battered Hilt at 14k, hoping that someone will buy that 10k hilt and mine will be next on the list.

So far I’m still not successful in selling Battered Hilt at a huge profit of 4k. I was wondering why there was a sudden surge of Battered Hilt listed on the AH. I thought it was a very rare drop? Then, one time my friend and I were running at H POS, when the Battered Hilt dropped, TWICE! The person who won the first hilt left the group right away. The second hilt was won by another person. I DIDN’T WIN ANY! Did the drop rate go up? Is this the reason why there are at least 4 Battered Hilts listed for 2 weeks?

In any case, I’m still hoping to sell my Battered Hilt for a 3-4k profit. Selling really expensive items such as this requires a lot of patience if you want to profit from it. Engineers, I now feel your pain when selling mechano-hogs.

I will update this as soon as I successfully sold the Battered Hilt for profit.