I was tipped off by Twitter user @OriShmori that there's a strong chance that Savage Blood is being duplicated ("duped") on several servers.

@PowerWordGold @CM_Lore Hopefully something will be done about the rampant Savage blood dupes. http://t.co/wbaEzSI298
— Ori (@OriShmori) December 26, 2014

If this is true this could be very bad for anyone hoping to make gold selling Savage Blood or selling items made with Savage Blood.

This isn't the first time I've written on the topic of item duplication and its effects on the economy (see Strong Evidence of Rampant Item Duplication in WoW and Proof Of Jeweled Onyx Panther Duping And Its Effects On Pricing). My guess is that (sadly) this won't be the last. Read on for our evidence and the ability to check the data for yourself.

Episode 094 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses leveling in Warlords, what are all our cooldowns really good for?, TSM .csv spreadsheets, Trading Post flipping and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Episode 091 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses what he's been doing now that he has a little time to play, garrisons, garrisons (and more garrisons), leveling, material prices, hotfixes, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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We're happy to say that Grouper has been updated to work with links from the newly relaunched Undermine Journal!

Grouper is the fastest way to build TSM-importable shopping lists from places like the Undermine Journal Deals, Unusuals, and Wowuction Bargain Hunter pages.

In addition it's layout had been made responsive so it will look and work better at various screen sizes.

As always you can find Grouper by using the "Grouper" link in the top menu here at Power Word: Gold.

If you've never use Grouper before check out our Guide To Grouper and our post Using TradeSkillMaster and WoWuction To Quickly Find Bargains.

Now get our there and snag those deals before someone else does!

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A new expansion is upon us and that means finding the green items that can be flipped. In the past these were the 77-80 Cataclysm items usable in Wrath of the Lich King (and PVP) and the 83-84 Mists of Pandaria items usable by those still in Cataclysm (and PVP).

With Warlords of Draenor Blizzard hasn't abandoned us old-time green flippers completely. The left us one possible source of flipping income: green Bind-on-Equip level 90 WoD items. These can be used by level 90s still in Mists of Pandaria.

You asked (and asked and asked) for TradeSkillMaster-importable lists for 77-80 Cataclysm armor and we are happy to finally deliver.

Read on past the jump for the full lists as well as information on how they were created.

Brevisvox writing in The Hatchery:

"As you can see in the chart, my total purchases were 1101g with AH fees totaling 436g for a total cost of 1537g.  My AH sales were 8001g with 46g from vendor sales for a total income of 8047g.  This experiment netted my 6510g profit for very little effort."

Read the full post "WoW Auction Hunter by Brevisvox" on The Hatchery.

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I decided to have some fun with the exported data you can get from the Resources > Data Export page on WoWuction (example page).

In the chart above (and the data below) I used the .csv file and did some analysis to sort out the 50 most expensive transmog items based on 14-day Median Market Price.

I got the transmog items from our Giant Transmog List For TradeSkillMaster Import post. Read on past the jump for the list of items and prices.

Episode 082 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin tries something a bit different (recording the podcast while doing his normal gold making routine) to surprising results. And now… on with the show!

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We've created a tool for creating importable TradeSkillMaster (TSM) groups from almost any webpage that includes links to World of Warcraft items. The tool has been fully updated to work with TradeSkillMaster 2.0's new group import format. It's called Grouper.

Grouper is based off of SLAGIT which was created by our longtime livestream viewer Rootfix and has been hosted at Power Word: Gold for a good while. Grouper can always be found by using the "Grouper" link at the top of Power Word: Gold. Read on for our guide on how to use Grouper to speed up your importable TSM group creation.

About a month ago it occurred to me that if I had a list of every desirable 83-84 Mists of Pandaria armor and suffix in the game and was able to import that list into TradeSkillMaster that I would be able to greatly simplify not only the selling of items in my 83-84 market items but also make buying them easier.

My goal was to build such a set of master lists I could import into TradeSkillMaster groups. Once I had created a groups using this lists I could then build TSM shopping operations to search for the items and TSM Auctioning Operations to sell these items. All this with out ever having to spend time adding newly purchased items one by one into TSM groups by hand.

Read on past the jump for more info on how I create the lists and, more importantly, the lists themselves for you import into TradeSkillMaster and use yourself.

Today we are going to be doing a deep-dive analysis on the phenomenon on what we are calling "item level jumps" in World of Warcaft. We will be looking at what they are, why they make some items more valuable than others.

Understanding the underlying principles behind item level jumps will help you better understand why certain flipping items are desired by players and why we can charge more for them. Head past the jump for more.

As I discussed on Episode 067 of the podcast I've been thinking about optimizing my flipping item auctions in order to help cut down my posting fees.

Today I'm going to be analyzing my own sales based on the item suffixes (...of the Invoker, ...of the Eagle, etc.) in order to see if I can eliminate any suffixes that are particular bad sellers. Read on past the jump for our research and analysis.

We're proud to announce that Power Word: Gold is the new home of the SLAGIT: The TSM Shopping List & Auction Group Import Tool.

SLAGIT was created by our longtime livestream viewer Rootfix and can be found at the "SLAGIT" link at the top of Power Word: Gold. Read on for our guide on how to use SLAGIT to speed up your TSM group and shopping list creation.

Once I've been working a new market for a while I like to stop and take stock of what's selling and what's not so I can adjust accordingly.

I did this for the "85-89" Mists of Pandaria market that I started preparing for before 5.3 and have since been selling in since Patch 5.3 dropped.

In analyzing this market I came to some conclusions and interesting discoveries that allowed me to adjust my tactics. Head past the jump for more.

Episode 064 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Erogroth discuss 87-88 markets, how gold-making is like music, just-in-time vs. stockpiling and much more. And now on with the show!

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I received the following email from Blizzard for a few of my expired accounts. Last time they sent out an email like this I am fairly sure I saw a decent spike in my 77-80 and 83-84 item sales. If you sell 77-80 Cataclysm, 83-84, 87-88 MoP and Crafted Dreadful PVP items be sure to have yours up on the auction house. (See also The Big List Of 77-79 & 83-84 Item Flipping Information)

Players who take Blizzard up on its offer and play the game free for 7 days will likely want to take as much advantage of the "reduced XP needed from level 85 to 90" as they can. That often means buying some items from the auction house.

Full email text after the jump.

Episode 063 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Erogroth discuss Markets in Patch 5.3, dealing with competition, knowing when to leave markets and much more. And now on with the show!

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Just a quick post to say that, at least initially, the 85-89 Mists of Pandaria item market I decided to take a gamble on right before Patch 5.3 seems to be paying off.

The reason I got into this market was because the XP required to level from 85-90 was reduced buy 33%. This means more people leveling and thus more people buying weapons and armor from the auction house.

Head past the jump for more information on my new 85-89 MoP Item market.

Every once and a while it is a good idea to take a step back from your gold-making and evaluate which markets are working and which might need to be put out to pasture.

After the jump I go over a few markets I've decided aren't worth my time anymore.