Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 155 | Gold Making for Raid Release, M+ Plus, and PVP Season 1

Live Posted 2020/12/13 at 1:08 PM by perculia

SamadanTSMYouTubeTwitchlive on my Twitch streamWelcome to Week 3 of ShadowlandsCastle Nathria Raid and Mythic Plus as well as Season 1 of PVPTenebrous RibsThe Undermine JournalEternal CrystalsEnchant Weapon - Sinful RevelationThe Undermine JournalThe Cost of Crafting LegendariesSoul AshPeople are rushing ahead to craft these high ranks, because they've been told that they'll make huge gold off them, thats what many are banking on, that's why they're selling low ranks for below mat cost right now.

Here's how that ends though, people see these rank 3s/4s on the AH for hundreds of thousands, and they go "I CAN MAKE TONS OF MONEY ON THAT", and they add to the pile of people racing to rank 4. By the time the market even exists for rank 4, it will be flooded with people desperate to recover the millions they sunk into reaching it.I think ranks 1 through 3 are all going to be unprofitable, or at best break even. The reason is people are willing to sell their items for less because they feel like they are working towards something that will make up for the losses. It’s kind of similar to the mentality of leveling a profession: people understand that leveling is unprofitable, but do so with the hopes that once they fully level their profession it will be worth it.

These numbers are crazy though. I have everything leveled to rank 3 and the amount of gold I’ve had to invest is daunting. Right now I have 15 of every rank 2 item in my guild bank...something like 10 million gold liquid tied up in these assets.

Whoever designed #Shadowlands professions is trollin'! 🙃 10.3 million gold spent on Callous and I still don't have all of the LW rank 4s. 🗑️ @Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft #GoldMaking pic.twitter.com/3vpWO8OfYF

— hikons (@hikons) December 8, 2020

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— hikons (@hikons) December 8, 2020ManthieusThe Complete Group Farming Guide for Shadowlandsu/ElGoblinoGuides

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All about groups

2x4 means 2 groups of 4 people. You want exactly that number, or looting will be a mess or strictly non-working. Cannot be a raid, cannot be a greater number than that. This is the highest number of people you can get farming something.
Balance druids are the overlords of group farming. Brewmaster monks are the second most sought after. That's what you will go for, if you want the utmost efficient for group farming. That doesn't mean other classes are useless. Just know that you can never beat the best Balance druid in terms of efficiency, no matter how hard you try. The passive damage you deal with Starfall and the pulling ability you have is unmatched by any class or spec.

For monk, the ratio of DAMAGE to BEEF is unmatched. Both these specs have extraordinary utility, as well. Healing, damage prevention, etc.

Should you make a balance druid or brewmaster monk for group farming?

It depends. How much will you be farming? Are you looking for short-term or long-term value? For me, it's absolutely worth it. But I cannot answer those questions for you.
Finding groups for farming is incredibly easy and simple.

Group finder -> Premade groups -> Custom -> Input "2x4" or "BoE"

You don't really need to know about spots or where to go - people will show you. The barrier of entry is virtually inexistent.

Covenant Choice

For group farming as a Balance Druid - there's no question - Night Fae is the best. You get a free Starfall almost every single time and you also get a lot of Astral Power, with the the Night Fae ability. Don't worry too much about this. No one will reject you from a group for not being Night Fae or anything like that. If you want to be the most efficient at group farming, though, go for Night Fae. For other classes and specs, you will have to look for the information elsewhere.

Talents for Balance Druid

We want anything that maximizes Starfall and healing:

Nature's Balance represents the most Astral Power over time - more Starfalls
Renewal is great healing - we don't want to be pressing mobility buttons, most of the time
Restoration Affinity and Heart of the Wild make you into an actual healer and is incredible group utility. If others in your group take this, you won't need a dedicated healer (read: you can take another Balance Druid, instead)
We are not going to be casting anything other than Sunfire and Starfall, so we don't want any bonuses to Eclipse. We take Starlord and Fury of Elune.
Stellar Drift makes Starfall better.

For warmode:

Protector of the Grove makes your Regrowth much better on allies.
Other talents aren't a big deal, but you can take Thorns and Celestial Guardian. I think those are the best.

Professions

Tailoring and Shadowlands Cloth Scavenging will make it so you loot more cloth. You want to be taking that, for sure. I rotate between 3 professions on my farming character: Tailoring, Enchanting and Skinning*.*

I always keep Skinning, because you need to be at maximum skill to have the most yields. I do not craft anything on this character, so I switch between Enchanting and Tailoring as needed. When I need to disenchant items, I get Enchanting. When I need to farm something, I get Tailoring and Shadowlands Cloth Scavenging.

Why did I choose to do this?

It makes it so I only have to gear one character to enjoy PvE, PvP and also group farm.

Speed Food

Fried Bonefish makes you go brrrrrrrr when you kill an enemy. Not a big deal, but makes you a little bit more efficient. Buy from the Auction House or craft it with Cooking.

Shadowlands Herbalism Routesu/Unicattroutes for Herbalism in Shadowlands for each region

Hello everyone!

It has been a tedious week trying to gather herbs for me, but I finally decided to make regional herbs routes for the new expansion. They may not be the best looking routes, but they are quite lucrative indeed. I hope you enjoy them !

You will need the Routes and Routes Import/Export add-ons.

These routes are optimised for less amount of mobs for max amount of herbs. I like them I have tested them myself a few times now and they are pretty good and chill to use. Care for a few cliff drops, but appart from that you're good !

Happy farming !

hereTwo Button Fishingu/Mithmarr

Hi guys, I found finally found a nice setup for some semi-afk fishing. No addons, and you dont't even have to move the mouse so it can be done with a controller.

Go into your key bindings and then targeting. Bind “Interact on Mouseover” to a Key. I this example we are going to use the “I” key since I wasn’t using that.
Now put your Fishing ability on a hotbar and bind that to another key. I used “O” since it’s right next to the “I”
Buy and Oversized Bobber at a Fishing Vendor in either Orgrimmar or Stormwind or wherever, the one in Oribos does not have it.
Now go to the Fishing Vendor in Oribos and buy some bait for the fish you are fishing. (optional as you will also get some of these while fishing)
Head over to your fishing spot.
Use the Oversized Bobber and the bait.
Now you can click “I” to cast out your line and “O” to catch the fish.
Either zoom out and position the camera behind the Bobber towards your character, or zoom in to first-person view and hover the mouse over the bobber.
The bobber should be big enough so that you don’t need to move your mouse and get continue pressing “I” and “O” to catch fish while watching a movie or doing anything you want.

I made a video as well if anything is unclear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVedYyAJDhQ&t=76s

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Comment by LakaiyaThe Ardenweald route map is still a map of Maldraxxus.Comment by KaziitI'm a Nightfae and didn't knew we had a Theater of pain... I know we have a theater tho xDComment by Wombaton83The route in Ardenweald is kind of a bunny/squirrel and matches with the theme of the zoneComment by SielinthThe route in Ardenweald is kind of a bunny/squirrel and matches with the theme of the zoneComment by HandofgoddThe route in Ardenweald is kind of a bunny/squirrel and matches with the theme of the zoneComment by NiccoloMLevelling every slot of the lego base items to rank 4 is stupid. If you do a little bit of research, you should know which slots are most in demand. Just focus on those and you won't have huge stockpile of inventory.

For example, the optimal slot for hunters is the shoulder slot for soulforge embers. Shamans want helmets. It will be some time until we can wear a second lego. You can afford to wait for the prices of mats to go down before mastering other slots.

My outlook is that:
1. Originally many people want to level up legendary base items and be self-sufficient and possibly make profits.
2. Since everyone can make Rank 1, there is a huge flood of Rank 1 base items, causing the selling prices to be lower than the prices of the mats. Many crafters lost gold.
3. A lot of people still made it to Rank 2 because they already made 15 pieces of Rank 1. They made a Rank 2 for themselves, but then stopped crafting and selling. The Rank 2 market is bigger.
4. Fewer people made it to Rank 3. The prices for Rank 3 are double that of Rank 2, but the mats didn't double. The profit is there (at least on my server that I'm not going to disclose), as the prices are still affordable.
5. Rank 4 is what we are still speculating. For most non-hardcore gamers, they probably won't see a 10-ilvl upgrade to be worth the money. For hardcore gamers, they probably are the ones who levelled their skills to Rank 4. I see a much smaller market for Rank 4 at least until much later in the expansion.Comment by ScarlottThe route in Maldraxxus looks like a Wolf!