11907 HKs - Still not much progress there. I'm okay with that, I'll hit a huge pvp streak again later. I go in cycles like that.
Not to say I haven't been pvping in some sense though. My friend started a WoW blog about making money and it inspired me. I read most of it but really just the posting of it got me going. I've spend huge amounts of time at the Auction House making tons of money. I tend to only deal with gems and enchants, both of which are high maintenance industries. The undercutting is ridiculous, within 2 minutes sometimes! So it takes a lot of camping and counter-undercuts. I would try and drive off the competition with deep undercuts but some of the people here are just too entrenched for that. They would just take the hit and go under material price to keep me out of the picture so we end up playing this undercut by 1c game.
Realm population plays a lot into this. My friend is on a much less populated server and he is entirely in control of multiple markets. I'm pretty sure a feat like that is impossible on the larger ones, too many like minded people. But on the other hand our economy is almost perfectly predictable and that lets me do stuff like sell everything I own on Tuesdays. Tuesday is like Christmas for the gem and enchant markets! And the weekend has lots of casual people play who tend to farm which drives the price of ore down right before. Very convenient.
How do you make money, do you have a favourite market? There are lots of options, I've seen people that just sell rare spawn vendor recipes and faction pets. Still makes a large % profit and takes little work.
Armok
