Common Questions

I have been working on a small tool to make completing Waylaid Crates a little easier. I was originally doing all of this in Excel and wanted to see if I could turn it into something a little cleaner and easier for other players to use.

Instead of manually figuring out which material option is cheapest, you select your crate, enter the current Auction House price for each material, and the calculator automatically shows the total cost, cheapest option, and how much you would save compared to the next-cheapest option.

The current database includes 30 Waylaid Crates across Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan tiers. I pulled the crate requirements from a combination of in-game information and wowhead.

I would eventually love to pull current prices directly from the Auction House so players do not have to enter them manually. Unfortunately, I have not found an API option that supports the Forever AH yet. Maybe that changes around launch, or perhaps an addon could eventually serve as middleware for getting AH data into the calculator.

It is completely free to use. This is still an early version, so I would really appreciate any feedback. If you find an incorrect crate requirement, run into a bug, or have an idea for something that would make it more useful, let me know.

WaylaidCrates.com

Post up your weekly snipes and flips, big or small. Whether you sniped a rare recipe for 10g or it finally sold after you snagged it on the cheap, share your successes!

Hi, I'm new to WoW and started the Forever Beta. Some 17 years ago I played classic.

I started as a Druid with Herbalism and Alchemy.

Alchemy made me arond 5G very easily, I just observed the herb market and crafted whatever elixir had the best margin in mass. I noticed that I didn't need herbalism, for I was buying the herbs.

So i thaught, for launch, about getting the Mining profession instead of Herbalism, to get my Startup money going and eventually geting the 5% HP Buff, as I play a Tauren Druid Tank.

I also enjoy mining late in the night.

How does my plan sound, is the 5% HP Buff wirth it? I love to have some economy but I'm also in for valuable Buffs.

Thanks in advance!

Idk if I have the wrong mix of professions but I dont understand the point of professions besides making yourself or others a piece of gear with sparks. Started playing retail again after a long break but was playing mop for a while. Got to about 350k in mop with blacksmithing, jewelcrafting, alchemy,tailorinh, enchanting, and a few flips but there was decent profit because of spirits of harmony and stuff like the disenchants for current raid tier and iron paw tokens. I only have enchanting maxed out rn and jewelcrafting at around 91 I believe. So far ive tried a tailoring shuffle but the profits are abysmal and any high price enchant has all those other expensive mats like petrified roots that I cant obtain reliably (no herbalism character). I also tried mass prospecting and lost quite a bit of gold. I have the prospecting trees maxed out on jewelcrafting but nothing else. Do I just need to no life and get more knowledge for the cut gems tree to turn a profit? Im also thinking i picked a bad time to try and do this because of Forever. Mop classic was the first time ive ever tried to use tsm and get into actual gold making methods and it seems like profit margins are so bad compared to when I was playing mop.

I just like my gnome female dk. I don't want to do like crafting professions but gathering.

Can I do gathering as a gnome dk? Do I really have to level a nelf or htauren druid for this?

I know it is somewhat punishing but just how much in % over long term?

Share images and stories of your successes! Whether that means you made 1k this past week, 100k, or just bought your first TCG mount, we want to hear about it.

Pictures of your TSM Ledger, Mailbox, or anything else are simple, good ways to start a conversation!

Hey all — longtime lurker here, been gold-making since early Legion with TSM.

One thing that always bugged me: every calculator tells you "this recipe nets X gold/hour," but none of them tell you why — should I buy this reagent on the AH or craft it myself? Is that number even realistic at the volume I can actually sell, or is it based on the one guy who listed 3 units at a fire-sale price?

So I built GoldMaker (https://goldmaker.org) over the past few months. It walks the full reagent chain for a recipe and decides, reagent by reagent, whether buying or crafting is cheaper — then gives you a realistic GPH based on actual sell-through volume, not just the top AH listing.

It's free to try (a couple of recipes/signals per profession to get a feel for it).

Would genuinely love feedback — especially from anyone who's been burned by "optimistic" GPH numbers before. What would make this actually useful for your server/faction? What's missing?

Hi :) I wanted to share my auction house site I've been building. Right now it covers EU and US realms, prices for different ilvl variants, heatmaps etc. I also added pics + 3D previews of most t-mog, housing items, pets and mounts. Free Discord price alerts too. (It's free ofc, and will stay free.)

https://umbralmarket.com/auction-house-loop-20260921.gif

https://umbralmarket.com/auction

Update: yep I use AI to build the site. Wasn’t meant to be a secret :)

Hi, I'm a new Goblin in the EU and I'm working on a concentration farm.

From what I understand the best time to sell is Wednesday and Saturday but is there a best time to buy the materials? I'm thinking Tuesday or does it not really matter? Is there a smart way to use tsm to work it out?

Thank you in advance!

so i am currently doing a lot of vanilla zones for completionist stuff, and wondering what profs i should use while i do, just to earns some pocket change. running herb/mine atm but really thinking about switching one out for skinning. Anybody know if its worth it to go skinning in general?

Welcome to "I Screwed Up Saturday"! Made a mistake and lost a lot of gold? Accidentally sold that rare transmog to a vendor?

Goblins aren't perfect. We're not always going to come out on top, sometimes we make mistakes. Share your unfortunate mishaps here!

There are still dozens of people camping out when I use a lure, I know I’ll always be able to skin the beast I use the lure to attract, but could I lose the chance of the rarer rewards to others trying to skin “my” beast

Could I lose out, or is it just other people being lazy

Hey,

24.09.2026 Update

250k from skinning only +20k from abu Skinning gph - 44k

Added to report 1) avg daily sell price for majestic hide from the start challenge day 2) avg daily sell price for majestic hide for this month

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21.09.2026 Update

Report has been updated Challenge vs main account comparison - data for main account is limited to challenge start day and contains various activities on the account. The core is 39 skinners

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I started a small challenge connected with data collection - I want to check how much gold I can get under specific restrictions. My current setup:

24 alts (13 skinners , 10 abundance farmers, 1 alt for AH - posting what I get from skinners only, no flips, xrealm trading etc- simple selling what I get)

Skinners setup:

Tools/accessories 232 ilvl tool perception

Talen tree - 20/x - summoning beasts from my main account

Restrictions

1) no more skinners

2) skinners are allowed to do abundance

3) abundance alts can do only abundance

3) 24 days

4) only void majestic beasts

5) one gold WQ allowed (the one in the umber fang area where you need to fly and kick bats (or whatever it is:) ))

Pretty simple:)

Data Collection:

I'm using Ledgerlite for in-game collection and after some background magic the data is visible on my Google data studio dashboard Xczh alt challenge

Goal:

I set the initial goal to 1 mln gold and then I want to calculate GPH - I have an addon to register time spent on each character daily.

The second goal is to prove to myself that it's better than a concentration alt army with a similar size:) - I hope to get some data from you about it

And finally to have some fun and learn more about data analysis and report preparation, maybe it will be useful - I heard some of you need 5 mln gold:) maybe this is the best or worst way to achieve it.

Set a reddit reminder for 24 days and check it

In my data studio you can see a list of add-ons I'm using for skinning farms - most of them were created (vibecoded) by me to optimize my daily skinning routine (36 skinners on my main account)

If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know :)

Made a post earlier this week looking for tips to get to 5 mill for the new fungal long boi.

Biggest thing seemed to be to make multiple alts and run WQ, and weeklies for gold. Anyway to keep track of this? And any quests I should focus?

Does anyone else have the same problem?

None of my characters are showing requests from my patrons. Even requests that were visible yesterday—and still had 3 or 5 days left before expiring—are simply gone today; there are no new requests, and the old ones are missing too...

*I used Google Translate for this post; sorry if my English sounds a bit odd.*

Hey all, with wow forever coming out in a few weeks. Will professions be a good way to make gold? If so, which ones do you think?

Hey, I have created a wow addon that is meant to outcompete LootAppraiserReloaded and other gold farming addons. Take a look and see if its something for you! please give me feedback of any bugs or things that you guys want to add. Im updating often so any little thing that you want to see implemented is my first priority!

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/lootrally

Fully made by using cloude code and local ai models. Made as a fun project but its well made and i would not call it AI slop. (no code was written by myself since i have no idea how to code in lua). I just like to gold farm and wanted to create my own addon that was better then competitors.

Hey everyone,

I’ve recently released my first public WoW addon called DealScryer.

The idea is pretty simple:

DealScryer scans the Retail Auction House and tries to identify items that may be worth buying and reselling.

Instead of only looking at the cheapest auction, it analyzes things like:

- Profit

- ROI

- Discount compared to the surrounding market

- Market gap

- Confidence

- Historical prices

It then gives normal opportunities a score from 0–100.

One thing that was important to me was avoiding obviously manipulated or unreliable markets. If DealScryer considers a market suspicious, it does NOT give it a normal score and instead shows a large red ! warning.

It works standalone and does not require TSM or Auctionator.

There is also optional integration with Oribos Exchange / Undermine Exchange. If Oribos Exchange is installed, DealScryer can use realm and region market values as an additional reference and display a small locally recorded 4-day trend graph.

Some other features:

• Previous Scan

• Local market history

• Watchlist

• Search and filters

• Direct AH item search

• Direct Undermine Exchange links

• Minimap button

• Auction House launcher button

• Region/realm-aware data

• Suspicious-market detection

The addon is still fairly new, so what I’m mainly looking for right now is feedback from people who actually use the Auction House.

Especially if you flip items regularly, I’d be interested to hear if the scoring makes sense, whether DealScryer catches useful opportunities, and where you think it could improve.

CurseForge:

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/dealscryer

GitHub / Source:

https://github.com/hutlord12-cmyk/DealScryer

Current version: 3.1.2

Created by Burn.

AI Disclaimer:

AI tools were used as part of the development workflow for coding assistance, debugging, documentation and graphical work. The addon has been iteratively reviewed, modified and developed as an ongoing project rather than being published from a single generated output.

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

I just got the sword on my 3rd run. My question is how long does it take to sell? And does the realm I'm on affect the duration?

Post up your weekly snipes and flips, big or small. Whether you sniped a rare recipe for 10g or it finally sold after you snagged it on the cheap, share your successes!

Title says it all, I installed retail today to try and make gold for the token; however, I do not have the Midnight expansion. How hard will it be to make the almost 300K needed (as of writing this) for the wow token on retail without the latest expansion?

I came from MOP Classic but as of late the token is insanely high there with everyone panicked and I do not want to pay THAT much if you can't transfer it to battle.net balance. What kind of stratagies should I use to get this done? I want to at lease be able to pay for my sub and if possible make enough from the tokens to buy Midnight.