As was updated in our recent post on material prices since launch:

@CM_Lore: "@dopplegager @TheCrafticus The Garrison was giving too much ore. That was hotfixed yesterday. Will take some time to see the effects." 2:31 PM - 26 Nov 2014

With "yesterday" in that tweet being November 25th, as of this writing the garrison mining nodes have been nerfed for about 4 days. To determine whether it would be worth buying up some of the "cheap" ore now in preparation for an eventual theoretical price increase due to a lowering supply I thought I'd check the numbers.

Kaliope recently wrote about the mechanics of Leatherworking cooldowns on the Patch 5.4 Public Test Realm. Based on their observations it seems the act of daily cooldowns teaching new PVP and PVE recipied will continue in 5.4.

I just wanted to give a few tips to people looking to make gold from these recipes. Head past the jump for my advice.

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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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.

Episode 062 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 their early gold-making experiences, Reborn weapon economics, how to adjust to slowing sales and much more. And now on with the show!

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If you've been following Power Word: Gold for any length of time you'll know that I make the majority of my gold these day's by flipping (buying low and re-selling high) 77-79 Cataclysm (77-80 before 5.3) and 83-84 Mists of Pandaria items.

In order to help flippers (both new and old) get up and running I've compiled links to all the helpful posts that we've posted about the flipping markets into one post. Head past the jump for all of the links.

One of the most common questions people as me in my livestreams is "What do you spend all that gold on?".

While it seems they envision someone buying Spectral Tigers or spending gold-cap on Mimiron's Head from the Black Market Auction house the reality is much less glamorous.

Has past the jump for what I actually spend my gold on.

Farli wrote:

"I recently watched a livestream where Jim was vendoring 83-84 greens which he sells for like 300-400g each. His reasoning behind this was he did’nt [sic] want them filling up his guild bank so only kept one extra item.    

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I myself have 7, 8, 9, 10 copies of the exact same 83-84 green,I know I can post 1 - 2 and drop the others in the guild bank or mail them off." 

-April Gold Making 2013 on The Overcut

Juggling that much unnecessary back stock would drive me nuts.

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So this screenshot showing polearms and staves being able to be used (and likely transmogged for each other) with Titan's Grip showed up on /r/wow.

After a bit more digging it seems WoW Insider was able to get Ghostcrawler to cough up that polearms were "on the list for patch 5.4".

Looks like warriors are in for a whole new world of transmog options. I might have to start looking for beastly looking staves and polearms to stock up and sell if/when this goes live.

Can you say dual Telaari Polearms? Or maybe a nice pair of Frostscythes of Lord Ahune!!

Episode 058 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 host Jim Younkin and guest Erogroth discuss what they've been doing in gold-making, daily cooldowns to do in Patch 5.2, the Crafted Dreadful Blacksmithing market, the importance of proper thresholds and fallbacks and much more. And now on with the show!

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In this livestream we cover the details of flipping, go into detail on how we use TradeSkillMaster to successfully help us clean out our guild bank and much more.

You can watch the video on YouTube here or head past the jump for the embedded version.

This the second post of our participation in 20 Days of Gold-Making. Be sure to also check out everyone else who is participating.

The prompt for today's post is "If you set yourself a goal what was your goal and at what point did you set it?" Read on past the jump for our thoughts on goals.

If you've been watching our recent livestreams you'll know that we've finally started selling the level 83-84 Mists of Pandaria items that we stocked up on the first month or so of Mists. (See "Level 83-84 Mists Items: Time To Stock Up".)

As this will likely one of our main markets for Mists of Pandaria we thought it was time we did an 83-84 update to our previous tutorial on buying 77-80 items using Auctioneer saves searches.

Read on past the jump to learn how to quickly and efficiently find and purchase 83-84 Mists of Pandaria armor, weapons.

Today's question comes from Ed who wants to know about what's involved in using a guild for storage purposes.

Hi Jim, 

Recently I've been buying up some cheap (<20g) 83-84 greens for when that market becomes viable (for certain plate items it's happening already).  All of these items were dumped onto my bank alt - and inevitably he no longer has room for anything in his bags or bank.  I am thinking about starting a guild just for the bank space, but am not sure what is involved and what the pitfalls are.  I guess it's worth it, seeing as every gold blogger seems to take it for granted that everyone has a guild bank.  Here are a few issues I'm hazy on and would like your input in.

I made this Living Steel price calculator for myself but at the request of the livestream viewers I've made a version available for downloading/copying for everyone to use. Yay!

I use this daily to calculate which method is the cheapest for making Living Steel (Ghost Iron Ore v. Tillium smelting, etc). Read on past the jump for instructions on how to download/copy it for your own use.

I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that with all the illicit BOE mount duping that's likely been going on on the servers lately (you've all heard the level 1's in trade chat trying to sell Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger for 15k) that it would only be a matter of time before the dupers moved onto other high-value items as targets for their market-ruining duping (duplicating items by illicit means such as hacks, bugs. etc.).

I'm afraid I may have been right. Read on past the jump for more.

As noted by Blizzard, the 5.0.4 ink traders appear to require Ink of Dreams as payment in the purchase window when in actuality you can still purchase inks with Blackfallow Ink.

While not totally unexpected this change took a few of us by surprise. In all of our own advice/reporting about the potential change we noted the ink trade lockout was only a possibility.

While this change may make any ink we may have stockpiled a bit less valuable, from all the reports I'm hearing most glyph sellers are making a lot of gold right now so that should help ease the pain.

That said, the UI still visually shows ink trades requiring Ink of Dreams so unless someone tries it themselves or reads Blizzard posts there may be some people who don't know Blackfallow Ink can still be traded in.

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Episode 041 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your host Jim Younkin brings you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode Jim discusses what he's been doing in gold-making, preparing for the 5.04 Mists of Pandaria pre-patch, the addon BuyEmAll and much more. And now on with the show!

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Today's tip is one that might come in handy if you're buying a lot of ink to stockpile before the 5.0.4 patch on August 28, 2012.

To buy multiple vendor items at one time hold the Shift key while right or left clicking an item in a vendor window. A small dialog will come up and allow you to enter how many items (up to the max stack size) you would like to purchase.

If you're buying large quantities of vendor items you might also try the addon BuyEmAll which allows you to enter a purchase amount over the max stack size. Below is a screenshot of BuyEmAll in action.

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Episode 040 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your host Jim Younkin brings you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode Jim discusses what he's been doing in gold-making, the Postal addon, the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion and much more. And now on with the show!

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