The Results of a Night’s Grinding

BRK » 27 February 2007 » In Guide »

As my quest log is now filled with nothing but group and instance quests, I spent the evening grinding my Kurenai reputation. A stack of ten warbeads gives 500 reputation points, so making exalted isn’t going to be that hard. I don’t need another mount, but the Talbuk is different and rare, so what the heck.

But as for grinding, I flew among the three major ogre encampments in Nagrand, mining along the way, killing ogres for 10 rep each and collecting warbead, Netherweave cloth, and anything else that dropped. Since this post-series is specifically about farming, I’m not going to talk about the BoE greenies that dropped and how much I sold them for. But let’s do talk about the mats I collected and how much cash BRK raked in.

Netherweave Cloth. I collected 80 pieces of it, which is four stacks. The best price at the auction house was 6 gold per stack. I advertised in the Trade channel:

“WTS [Netherweave Cloth]x80 for 20 gold, 5 gold per stack, all or none”

Sold in 15 seconds to a person who had never purchased from the Trade channel before, but couldn’t pass up a great deal for so much cloth. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Impulse-buying, rarity of item, good price… all add up to a quick sale.

Adamantite Ore. This stuff was in good supply, and I mined 60 ores, or three stacks. Low price on the auction house was 25 gold per stack. I advertised in the Trade channel:

“WTS [Adamantite Ore]x60 for 60g, all or none”

Sold in 15 seconds to someone who has purchased from me before and, I assume, knew that this price was excellent.

Eternium Ore. Only found five pieces, but the auction house was completely empty. Whether this was due to low supply or high demand, neither know nor care. But this stuff was not going for a discount.

“WTS [Eternium Ore]x5 for 15g”

Sold in 15 seconds. The standard price for Eternium is 3 gold per ore, so I commanded full price.

Netherweb Spider Silk. Feeling really good about my take so far, and seeing how I had some time to kill, I decided to go get some spider silks. Flying to my favorite harvesting spot, I began farming at 10:53pm. At precisely 11:25, I looted my tenth silk. As I killed spiders exiting the forest, I happened upon an eleventh silk. WooT!

There were a number of silks on the auction house already, but none less than 7 gold each. I started with the Trade channel:

“WTS [Netherweb Spider Silk]x11 50g - nice price in bulk, tailors “

But apparently, no tailors were interested. So, off to Ironforge and the auction house, where I listed them individually for 5 gold a piece. This morning, all had sold and by mailbox was stuffed with cash. Made an extra 5 gold by not selling in bulk. Some days you’re good, some days you’re lucky.

So what was the total haul for the farming: 150 Gold. And that doesn’t count the trash I vendored, or the BoE greenies I put up in the auction house.

How is the Quest for Epic Flight doing?

Beautifully.

Guide | February 27, 2007

Comments

2 Responses to “The Results of a Night’s Grinding”

Lassirra on February 27th, 2007 6:46 pm

Man, you’re just making cash hand-over-fist, rofl!

I need to start paying more attention to my drops, lol.
mars506 on February 28th, 2007 5:55 am

Your bit about using the trade channel and how to steer people is a great piece of insight. I’ll be sure to try it out on my server as well. Too bad the prices are nowhere as high as they are on yours. =(