Profitting From Profession Leveling Guides
Everyone who has maxed out their profession has most likely followed profession leveling guides they have googled. And what’s the # site listed when you google something in the line of “[insert profession here] leveling guide”? wow-professions.com
Profession power-levelers have no time to experiment which recipes are the most efficient, and therefore blindly follows googled guides they find. As long as the guide uses the least amount of materials (as the guides say), they’d go for it!
Profession power-levelers are so common since harvesting all the materials manually will take a long time of pain, agony, and unbearable boredom. Especially when WOTLK came out, death knights already start at level 55 ; there is no time to go back to the old world to farm the materials needed for leveling a new profession. Unlike a fresh level 1 character, there is time to mine/herb/get cloth/disenchant greens to help level your profession at the same time you level. Death knights then, have the tendency to power level professions. And we all know, everyone wants a piece of the death knight.
Now that we know a lot still prefer to power level their professions, it’s time to take advantage of these popular guides. This trick I’ve learned from experience myself. Spending 3000 gold for a 1-300 skill on my DK for Jewelcrafting is such a pain in the ass, I realized this one guy is ALSO following the same guides, but he’s just on the selling department.
Google yourself some profession leveling guides such as “Jewelcrafting leveling”. Of course you’ll end up with wow-professions.com. In the jewelcrafting page (just for this example), the materials are listed.You can do this with other professions as well. For example:
- 100 Copper Bar
- 20 Tigerseye or 20 Malachite
- 120 Bronze Bar = 60 Copper Bar, 60 Tin Bar
- 60 Shadowgem OR 20 Shadowgem and 20 Small Lustrous Pearl
- 80 Heavy Stone
- 30 Moss Agate
- 140 Mithril Bar
- 80 Solid Stone
- 25 Citrine
- 15 Truesilver Bar
- 5 Aquamarine
- 50 Thorium Bar
- 10 Star Ruby
- 20 Large Opal
- 10 Powerful Mojo or 10 Blue Sapphire
- 10 Essence of Earth or 10 Essence of Undeath
- 20 Huge Emerald
If you want to take advantage of the power-leveling market, you have to choices: first one is to farm the materials yourself or two, resell the cheap materials listed. If there are too much cheap items listed, then reselling that item may not be a good idea since it can be refilled right away by other competitors. Try as much as possible to find your niche market where there are not a lot of competitors. Since this technique is server dependent, it takes trial and error to finally find the market you’ll get most of your profit from.
While you’re learning to take advantage of power leveling guides, you should also realize that these guides may not necessarily be cost-efficient even though they use the least amount of materials. When power leveling yourself and you encounter ridiculous prices of the materials needed, try to find a work-around such as another item to craft instead of following the guide. Chances are, even though it requires more items, it may cost you a lot less.
The online guides are decent starting points to use when powerleveling, but I don’t stick to them when the mats get really expensive or I hit a bottleneck. Leveling enchanting is probably the most profound difference since most of the rare shards from vanilla are worthless yet guides avoid them completely.
After you watch a material for a while, you can get a pretty decent sense of what value the market will tolerate. Even if someone dumps hundreds of and essential material (e.g. huge emeralds) on the market and tanks the price, if you buy them all up and wait a few weeks, chances are you will have been able to bleed them all back into the market 5-10 at a time at a substantial profit. Making a killing off of the leveling guides and profession bottlenecks generally requires a lot of patience.
another website to watch for is wowpopular.com, especially the glyphs section. it seems that certain glyphs are used by most people of a certain class, while others are just considered junk. and not everyone (on my server at least) is selling the assortiment of the “popular” glyphs, leaving me with setting my own prices for some of them. it keeps suprising me each time when i scrub the mailbox, and get 30g glyph sales one after the other …
this guides are good only if u dont want to move from the “regent vendor” and to bring all the materials with u there to make from 1 to 350/450
I tried to use 1 of this guide but i made from 1 to 100 and stoped using them cause this guides are a total bull-shit ( i dont want to be to mean ).
Idea is : u make what is listed on guide , u reach a level of proffesion where u lack some materials and the next thing is to go buy auction to buy it.And there u cant find or if u find they cost kind of more than they deserve. So u try avoiding a bit with other recipe.Guide goes useless forward.
This guides are for those who can buy all the materials from skill 1 to end . And if u can do so , u dont need any more guide cause u are full of money and buy what ever u need.( u need the guide only not to move from trainer to auction or bank)
If u raise proffesion since low lvl , u will have more materials than u need and u dont any guide at all, u just fill bags with gathered materials and go to trainer.
Idea of making the guide is a good one , but the guide was made wrong , it is good only on paper but in practice is a mess.
Best guide is yourself ( you will get experience fast regarding the proffesion when u raise it ) and usefull guides are the ones that shows u where to raise : herbalism / mining / skining
players may try to get around the recipes listed in leveling guides when costs increases (buy expensive materials in ah).
for you as seller, that’s no problem. stock a small amount of alternative materials which could be used for leveling the profession you’re supporting with mats and keep the prices up as well. often there are less or aren’t any competitors with these mats (because most players will follow the guides – therefore just a small amount is needed). and the levelers will return to the guides.