WoW: How to Make Money When Wrath of the Lich King Launches
Jul 19th, 2008 by tyson
When Wrath of the Lich King launches, your level 70 bind on equip items will become less expensive, immediately. You’ll be finding new (and expensive) greens that match the epic or rare you were using. So how do you combat this?
Well, immediately, as it happened also in Burning Crusade, you can buy greens with good stats. It’s a decent racket while everyone is scrambling to learn what the new items and stats are. It cools down fairly quickly but you should be able to get a few good weeks up to a month or two out of it, with dwindling prices as the new rares start showing up on the auction house.
Also, start looking for *anything* at all that is new. Be warned that the prices will be in high flux. They’ll be wild, and spectacular. But… the great absolutely wonderful thing is that some will be spectacularly low. This is where you make your killing. Search often the same way I’ve been teaching on this site, by category and in order of highest profit to lowest potential profit. That means recipes, rares, epics, etc. There are lots of categories out there to tap into.
Remember what sells though when everyone is trying to scramble to level 80? It’s not armor so much (though deals will be had in that business). It’s weapons. Everyone wants the newest, greatest killing machine… since the game, afterall, is based on combat.
So, watch out for scams and steals when you go searching the AH right when Lich King opens. If you’re really shrewd, do some upfront research to find out what’s new in Lich King before it opens. Check Blizzard’s site, and the sites where they’re going NDA-lift crazy.
Thanks and see you soon.
Nice post, but…
4 months without a single update, and now out of the blue a random WotLK post? Maybe you can throw us readers a word about where you’ve been hiding and whether your next post is expected in another 4 months?
I apologize about the lack of updates. We had a baby boy in February so it’s been difficult to do anything extracurricular but help raise him and work my day job, which has left me very tired.
That being said, there are several posts that I have waiting that aren’t quite finished. One is a guide to finding your niche, another is actually about a different game, and yet another is about how to make money in a barter system such as D2.
> We had a baby boy
Congratulations!
> which has left me very tired.
I know the feeling