A Little Tip for Making Some Gold in WoW

I don't have much time today so I'll post this quickly. The way I make gold in WoW is not by mindless, boring grinding but by taking advantage of unique situations where people will pay crazy high prices for things. The situation I will talk about here is the release of epic gems in the Cataclysm expansion.

Currently on my server the blue gem market is flooded, so there is no reason for me to spend my JC daily tokens on blue gem cuts; the 6 or so cuts I have are enough to generate a steady flow of money with very little work involved. So I am saving all of my daily tokens up so that when epic gems release in 4.2 (my guess) I can buy a ton of epic cuts and sell them at stupidly high prices; each cut will cost four tokens. Also, pay attention to the market before you start buying cuts. Know what the most popular gems are and if any other JCs on your server are doing the same thing as you. You want to be the only person on the server with a specific cut as long as possible.

The second part to this is making sure you have plenty of gems to cut the day the patch releases. Currently the price of pyrite ore is slowly dropping but it will skyrocket once epic gems are released. So now start buying it when you see it low and as the patch nears start buying as much of it as you can. This works for non JCs too as they can just buy low and sell high once the prices go up, JCs will want to prospect all of it though.

That's my tip for the day; I wasn't a JC in Wrath but a guy on my server did the same thing here. He literally had two bank alts with their banks full of titanium ore when epic gems were released and he made a fortune! Here's me on my shiny drake that I paid 50k for a while ago, completely worth the money ;).