Why hello Professions!
March 18th, 2011 | 
Author: I thought I understood how the auction house worked. I thought I knew how to make gold in WoW, but before the only maxed out professions that I had was engineering and mining. Gathering professions can make money, but it takes a log of time. Engineering is another matter. The only thing that’s good about engineering when it comes to making money is the fact that you can farm elementals while you are mining. But I don’t even know if that’s still an option in cataclysm. I should probably look into that.
Well, I got my deathknight to 85 and got her jewelcrafting and mining leveled up. Then I got alchemy and enchanting leveled on my Priest (well, I never quite finished leveling my enchanting, but I’m above 500 at least).
Now I’m attempting to make money using alchemy and jewelcrafting.
It’s actually working. I can actually buy a stack of obsidium ore, prospect take those gems and sell them for a profit. Some I cut and then sell to the vendor, others I send to my alchemist to have to have uncommon gems be transmuted into rare gems (only certain colors), then cut them and make a nice profit.
I’m not as good as some, but it’s an aspect of the game I had really given much time to before. The whole process is truly a minigame on it’s own, almost an elaborate version of lemonade stand. I’m kind of getting wrapped up in it.
Now I’m leveling a Druid with alchemy so I can have another daily transmute available. That and I wanted a toon in the 70s to play with my friend, it was either the Druid or the warlock. The thought of bringing a healer to go with his tank was appealing for dungeons.
I’m falling back into my alt problem. I guess “problem” is the wrong word for it.
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The electrostatic generator is your friend. That is the single best way to farm air, with minimal mining I have ton of it that I have mostly only sold to guildies but it is still gold in my pocket.
@awesomemom I dropped mining on my huntering this morning. It probably would have been a good combo to go mining while looking for elementals, but I’m trying to get away from gathering if I can help it. Yet, I wonder if it would have been better to keep it on him and drop mining on my DK who is a JC. Oh well, what’s done is done. It has been fun transmuting volatile life into air, making about 200 gold just like that, of course it doesn’t always come out as air, but what do you do.