Kun-Lai Cave Farming
Bored of farming those turtles in Valley of Four Winds yet? Come with me to Kun-Lai Summit and check the Yeti caves.
We have Ore
- Ghost Iron Ore
- Trillium Ore
We have herbs
- Snow Lily nodes
- Golden Lotus spawn points
We have leather
- Yeti giving Exotic Leather
- and Sha Touched Leather scraps
We have XP
- Picking Herbs
- Mining Nodes
- Killing Yeti – 52,700 XP a kill
New Gold Farming Movie – Kunlai Yetis <—- Click to tweet this
West of Kota Base Camp
- Three different caves
- Don’t need flying ability to get there, can farm from level 86+
- Still relatively undiscovered*
- Watch the movie to check exactly where to find the caves
*Update: Alto has found it, too!
Should you Farm in WoW?
The Gold Queen recommends a balanced approached, balancing big-money AH selling, farming, dailies, and crafting.
Anyone can manage to do anything for 15 minutes a day, even farming.
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About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Invisibility Potions
[quote]Hi, I love your blog and thought I could share a tip.
I haven’t seen any posts anywhere about people doing this and I am the only one in the market atm on my server, here goes.
I have been having a lot of success with Invisibility potion, the pattern is a drop, easily found on Auction House.
The mats are 1x ghost mushroom + 1x sungrass. Both can be easily farmed next to each other, thousand needles for sungrass and in ungoro crater at fungal rock for the ghost mushroom. In around 10 minutes had a stack of each
I have been able to sell alot of pots @ 100g+ ea.. due to people using them in dungeons to better their challenge mode times. I can only see these becoming more popular as more people find out about them. 🙂
Carl aka Danava [/quote]
Thanks Carl. Invisibility Potion is one of the few expensive potions that I sell. The others that sell for consistently good prices are Elixir of Giant Growth, Pygmy Oil, Ethereal Oil, Potion of Illusion, Deepstone Oil, and Darkwater Potion. These are all alchemist recipes which have a constant demand due to their unusual effects.
The Elixir of Giant Growth and Deepstone Oil potions especially sell well together, if you can put together a good sales pitch for trade chat. Innuendos abound. I shan’t repeat them here in case readers have delicate dispositions!
Darkwater Potion is the newest potion to be added to the list. The materials are 3 Desecrated Oil per potion. 2 Desecrated Oil are made by alchemists with 3 Spinefish. Spinefish can be caught by anglers, with the highest drop rate in Kun-lai Summit Spinefish Schools at Firebough Nook and Inkgill Mere (also Dread Waste’s Lake of Stars and Rikkitun Village).
Invisibility Potion Effects
Invisibility Potion makes the drinker invisible for 18 seconds. Opening chests, attacking, shifting forms, or taking damage will break invisibility. It is made by Alchemists with a skill level of 235.
I wonder if you can be an invisible Jinyu Assassin with Giant Growth? Anyone tried it?
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Secret Gold Makers Farming Spot Discovered by Public
Damn it and double damn it.
My secret farming spot was discovered by the public on my server today.
It’s not exactly a hidden location, but the drops, respawn, and weakness of the mobs was my special pride.
As I was passing today on one of my alts, a skinner/miner gatherer, I discovered my secret was out!
Hundreds of dead turtles lying in my favourite farming spot.
Wyrmhorn Turtle
Why farm them?
- XP for level 85/86s
- Spirit of Harmony for level 90s
- Raw Turtle Meat in enough quantities to create baskets and baskets of groceries for the Tillers
- Grey vendor items
- Chance of greens
and for skinners
- Sha-touched leather
- Exotic Leather
- Tiny chance of Magnificent Hide (1-2 per hour)
- Plump Intenstines, with vendor trash or 1g+ inside
[quote]As another skinning friend said to me “it’s like christmas!“[/quote]
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This is what a farmer’s screen looks like! lol
How to Farm Wyrmhorn Turtle
- Unless you are level 90, you may be happier in a group.
- Grab one tank/dps, one aoe and one dps/healer.
- Have your aoe’r pull everything in to your tank.
- Splat
- Repeat until your bags are bursting
Turtle Leather Farming Spot
You can find this spot at a small pond/lake in Valley of the Four Winds. The turtle lake is between Pools of Purity and the Grassy Cline. It’s semi-hidden behind a big rock.
Turtles spawn all over the lake. There are three pulling points. At the far west, the far east, and north east.
If you get bored of turtles, expand into the Mushan slightly south and east of the area. Fly or run to Halfhill Market to dump your loot and leather in the mailbox.
Tips for farming
Bring your Argent Squire (pony up!) with you, or a portable mailbox so you can mail things to your alt/s.
Bring a traveller’s tundra mammoth or guild page or some other vendor with you.
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Wyrmhorn Turtle Drops
In 3 hours I amassed 2,000 exotic leather, 7,000 sha-touched, 3 magnificent hides, 100g+ in vendor crap. I spent 2 hours skinning, and 1 hour killing. I got 24 mote of harmony in that hour, and about 1/4 of a level from 85 to 86.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Blackfallow Ink
Buy Ink of Dreams now
Tip for Scribes from Dale of Shattered Hand (EU)
[quote]Just a little tip from my own server. Many people obviously haven’t read that the Ink vendor will be switching back to Ink of Dreams for ink buying again soon (next week?).
Currently, Ink of dreams sell for under 2g each on my server. I have bought over 4000 of them at this price, and will be able to either exchange them for Starlight inks to make darkmoon cards, or use them for making glyphs really cheaply.
Buy them now, and stock up for when the vendor goes back to “MoP” mode next week. Even if you buy them to flip, you should more than treble your money! :-)[/quote]
Thanks Dale. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed that you can swap Blackfallow Ink for all the other inks and wondered when the Ink of Dreams would become useful. I even wondered if it might become Fools Gold, like the Pyrite Ore of Cataclysm!
Buy Ink of Dreams now
Buy the cheap Ink of Dreams now in preparation for the ink trader changes. If you still have Blackfallow Ink in your bags or bank (double check your guild bank/s on your alts) then trade it in for Ink of the Sea today.
Blackfallow Trade In
You have a few hours left to buy cheap Cataclysm herbs and mill them as farmers frantically undercut each other to get rid of their stock. Good luck.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Jewelcrafting Mount Guide
The Jeweled Onyx Panther Mount is hailed as the gold sink of Mists of Pandaria.
Jewelcrafters can craft 4 rare panthers: Sunstone, Jade, Ruby and Sapphire, and an epic panther mount, the Jeweled Onyx.
All are Bind on Equip.
All require expensive mats and reputation with Order of the Cloud Serpent to buy the pattern.
These are both ground riding, and flying mounts.
Jewelcrafting Panther Mounts explained <—- Click to Tweet This
Mats for Panther Mounts
Rare Jewelcrafting Mounts
Pattern costs 200g to buy.
Jade Panther Mount, Sunstone Panther Mount.
Requires Honored, Order of the Cloud Serpent, to buy pattern (200g). Jewelcrafting 600 to make mount.
Orb of Mystery + 4 Living Steel + 2 Serpent’s Eye + EITHER 20 Wild Jade (Jade Mount) OR 20 Sun’s Radiance (Sunstone Mount).
Sapphire Panther Mount, Ruby Panther Mount
Requires Revered, Order of the Cloud Serpent, to buy pattern (200g). Jewelcrafting 600 to make mount.
Orb of Mystery + 4 Living Steel + 2 Serpent’s Eye + EITHER 20 Primordial Ruby (Ruby Mount) OR 20 River’s Heart (Sapphire Mount).
Epic Jewelcrafting Mount
Requires Exalted, Order of the Cloud Serpent, to buy pattern (200g). Jewelcrafting 600 to make mount.
For the Jeweled Onyx Panther Mount, you will need another one of each four mounts. Reagents: 1 Sunstone Panther, 1 Jade Panther, 1 Ruby Panther, 1 Sapphire Panther.
This means that in order to learn all five jewelcrafting mounts, you will need 2 each of the red, yellow, blue and green panthers.
Jewelcrafting Mount Mats Costs
Orb of Mystery 20,000g
Only sold by one NPC, Big Keech. Big Keech is a goblin, not affiliated with any faction (sorry, no discounts!) and he patrols the road north of the Golden Pagoda in Vale of Eternal Blossoms (ie near the new capital city).
Living Steel is created by alchemists with Transmute: Living Steel. Mats are either 6 Trillium Bars (daily cooldown) or 3 Trillium Bars & 3 Spirit of Harmony (no cooldown). You need 4 of these per panther mount.
Serpents Eyes are made by combining ten pieces of Sparkling Shard. Jewelcrafters get these when prospecting Mists of Pandaria ore. Kyparite, Black Trillium Ore, White Trillium Ore, Ghost Iron Ore.
The final part for the mounts is 20 rare gems in the right color.
I love the new Panther Mounts and have already bought my first. Too eager to wait for my reputation to unlock, I paid for another jewelcrafter to make it. I have better things to do all day than hunt Onyx Eggs for Cloud Serpent reputation. However, now my ego has been satisfied, I will wait to create the Jeweled Onyx Panther mount for myself. Only another 2-3 weeks of faction grinding left *sigh*
Which colour will you get first? May I recommend the yellow because “yellow is the new red” and the yellow mounts are currently underpriced in the AH.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
New for Mists of Pandaria
Step by Step instructions for profiting
Background to the Mysterious Essence Shuffle
In Wrath of the Lich King we had the saronite shuffle.
In Cataclysm we had the elementium shuffle.
In Mists of Pandaria I see three shuffles so far:
- The Spirit of Harmony Shuffle
- The Ironpaw Shuffle
- and the Enchanters Shuffle.
[box type=”info”] A shuffle is when you do something to an item to make it more valuable. For example, if you exchange Spirit of Harmony for 3 Golden Lotus. (There’s a tip right there!) The traditional shuffle involved changing ore into gems, those gems into jewellery, then disenchanting the jewellery.[/box]
Mysterious Essence and the Enchanters Shuffle sounds a lot like a new Harry Potter book heh.
Shut up and tell us how to do it
Step by Step instructions for profiting from the Mysterious Essence Shuffle
Step 1.
The Shuffle is based on the enchanting profession abilities, “Ethereal Shard”, “Mysterious Essence”, and “Mysterious Diffusion”. You need an enchanting skill of 500 and it costs 2g 28s to train.
The addons you can see in this screenshot, which change the professions window, are: Trade Skill Master, Auctionator, Ackis Recipe List and Lil Sparky’s Workshop.
Step 2.
An Ethereal Shard can be made from 5 Mysterious Essence with the ability “Ethereal Shard“. Requires Enchanting (550)
A Mysterious Essence can be made from 5 Spirit Dust with the ability “Mysterious Essence“. Requires Enchanting (500)
Additionally, 1 Ethereal Shard can be downgraded to 3 Mysterious Essence with the ability “Ethereal Shatter“. Requires Enchanting (585) (As you can see, I don’t have this spell yet)
And, 1 Mysterious Essence can be downgrated to 3 Spirit Dust with the ability “Mysterious Diffusion“. Requires Enchanting (535)
Step 3.
Look at the prices for Spirit Dust, Mysterious Essence, and Ethereal Shard.
If 5 Spirit Dust purchase cost is less than one Mysterious Essence selling price, you can profit.
Go to the Auction House, Open your Auctionator AH BUY tab, and open your enchanting. Click this button here.
Step 4.
Your AH window should begin to search then look a bit like this.
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Step 5.
Here we can see that the price for 5 Spirit Dust is less than one Mysterious Essence
Step 6.
Buy Spirit Dust
Step 6b.
You can also get Spirit Dust by disenchanting all those cheap Mists of Pandaria crafted greens and green drops that are filling your AH this week.
This is from disenchanting Misthide Bracers (buy for 7-10g)
Step 7.
Turn the Spirit Dust into Mysterious Essence
Step 8.
Sell your Mysterious Essence
Step 9.
You can save the Mysterious Essence search as a shopping list in Auctionator. As you can see, I already have a ton of shopping lists, so I’m skipping this step.
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Step 10.
Don’t forget to check to see if you can do the Mysterious Essence to Ethereal Shard Shuffle. Here, you can do a Shard to Essence shuffle.
Buy the Shard and break it down with Ethereal Shatter for a 20g profit. (3 x 23.99) – 51.99
Unfortunately the AH does take a cut of your profits.
Step 11.
Send all your profits over to your main or you’ll spend it.
In Mists of Pandaria, Enchanters can change Sha Crystals, Ethereal Shards, Mysterious Essence and Spirit Dust into each other. The shuffle will mature during the expansion to enable you to make profits at each level.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.