Comments on: [WoW] Blacksmithing for fun and profit

By: [WoW] Ghost Iron is the new black | Welcome to Spinksville!

[WoW] Ghost Iron is the new black | Welcome to Spinksville! — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:54:22 +0000

[...] wrote a post about my adventures with blacksmithing in Pandaria a few months [...]

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:30:40 +0000

I’ll have to keep more of an eye on the price of Living Steel, but my experience with crafting and selling PvP gear is the same as yours. That was kind of my motivation for writing this, because I think a lot of people are hung up on turning their ore into gems or using it for alchemy transmute, and it’s throwing gold away!

By: Zellviren

Zellviren — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:37:23 +0000

You’d be surprised how fruitful the “buckle shuffle” can be – namely buy yourself a bar of Living Steel, turn it into a buckle, and relist at a higher price. Obviously this is only as lucrative as the base cost of the Living Steel, but it’s quick, easy and has netted me in the region of about 22k to this point.

The best method on the Sha’tar at the moment, however, is crafting PvP gear and listing that. After half an hour to an hour’s worth of work, it’s practically all profit.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:44:54 +0000

Yeah my bad, should be 6 stacks of Ghost Iron ore. Will change that, thanks.

But just for example, the reason I think it’s largely a waste to turn it into Living Steel is that at the moment I can turn 5 ghost iron bars into PvP bracers that will sell for 650g (or so) and that doesn’t rely on random procs.

By: Tobold

Tobold — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:57:35 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend turning Ghost Iron ore into gems, unless you need those jewels yourself to level up jewelcrafting. Prices for gems, both cut and uncut, are rather low, probably due to most people not having many items with gem slots yet, and many jewelcrafters producing cut gems to level up.

Your Alchemy numbers are wrong. Even in the worst of cases it only takes 6 stacks of Ghost Iron ore (or rather 3 stacks of bars) to make 6 Trillium bars to make 1 Living Steel bar. Transmutation mastery gives you more than one Living Steel bar if you are very lucky. But as you do 6 times as many Trillium bars, chances are pretty good to proc transmutation mastery and thus get more Trillium out of your Ghost Iron.

By: rimecat

rimecat — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:03:56 +0000

I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on enchanting mats. Unless my memory has slipped can’t they go from dust to shards now? It may be a better use of materials to make items that DE into a lot of dust instead of trying to get shards directly. I’ll have to ask the guild enchanter tonight.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:42:29 +0000

The black and white trillium is a bit weird and although I don’t find much, I have some days when it’s all black and others when its all white, so not sure. I think that as transmuting is an alternative, it’s manageable. With SoH, I wouldn’t hold onto them too tightly, you’ll get them just from playing and killing mobs, so using one or two to buy recipes won’t delay you with your epic gear for too long.

I hate JCs btw, in case you couldn’t tell, they are wasting MY ore to gamble on blue gems! And they make way more profit than I do ;/ So unfair.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:48:41 +0000

How do you like the ore system? I really hate that they went with black and white trillium. I don’t think that’s a resource that needed splitting up. I have very little luck mining it, as there seems to be very little black trillium. I had to resort to having a friend transmute for me.

I am not really making any profit with it because I am saving living steel for the epic tanking chest. I should probably pick up the PvP plans, but I am holding on to the spirits for the tanking chest as well. It’s alright though, I am making most of my profit with JC and enchanting at the moment.