Trading Enchanting Materials

I covered how to use disenchanting to make Warcraft gold in an earlier post. Taking this one step further it’s possible, and easy, to make plenty of gold without ever leaving the AH. You can do this by trading the enchanting materials you would normally place straight in the AH.

I’ll illustrate this with an example using Greater Astral Essence. These normally sell for about a gold a piece on my server. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes there are twenty for sale, sometimes only two. When the supply goes down, the prices go up. If you study the market for a week you will easily see big price swings as supply fluctuates. I’ve seen them go from 50 silver to 3 gold over the course of a week then back down to 50 silver.

If you are willing to think ahead and hold the stock for a couple of days you can easily double your WoW gold each week.

Sometimes people will put them on the AH at a bid only without a buyout. Nobody want to wait to buy the mats to enchant their twink rogue, so the stuff with no buyout gets ignored. I’ve seen these go for as little as 10 silver for those willing to bid and wait.

The great thing about trading enchanting materials is that there is no AH deposit. Not a single copper. Since vendors won’t take them the AH won’t ask for a deposit. It’s a risk free trade, buy at 50 silver (or whatever the low end of the range is on your server) and put them straight back in at one gold. So what if it doesn’t sell. Nothing lost.

Remember that Greater Astral Essence is only an example, there are many others such as Greater Magic Essence, Lesser Astral Essence, Lesser Eternal Essence, Small Radiant Shard and many more. As you get more gold, trade the higher priced materials. Turn 5 gold into 10 with a few clicks of the mouse.