Hello, I wold like to know how to make a lot of money with Engineering(375) and Mining(375). Where do find a lot of ore, what to create with engineering and so on...
Thank you in advance!!!
Making money with Engineering and Mining !
Posted on: Mon, 06/02/2008 - 01:29
Making money with Engineering and Mining !
You can farm primals from clouds in Nagrand, Netherstorm and one more wich I have forgotten.
As mentioned above, farming motes using the Zappthrottle Mote Extractor will score you some money. Most Outland zones have mote clouds, including Nagrand, Shadowmoon Valley, Netherstorm, and Zangarmarsh. Mining is mainly easier once you have a flying mount.
You can try making scopes and guns for money, people will also pay money for repair bots since they come in handy in raids (only need an engineer in the raid to use).
http://thottbot.com/i34113 - Field Repair Bot 110g
http://thottbot.com/i23766 - Stabilized Eternium Scope
http://thottbot.com/i23748 - Ornate Khorium Rifle (rated one of the best pre-raid items for hunters)
http://thottbot.com/i32756 - Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer
http://thottbot.com/i23765 - Khorium Scope
The Field Repair Bot and Khorium Scope schematics are dropped off specific mobs in Outland Zones (make sure you sell for more than your mats are worth).
The Ornate Khorium Rifle is a rare BoE drop you should hunt the AH for.
The Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer is learned from a trainer.
The Stabilized Eternium Scope is dropped off Attumen the Huntsman in Karazhan.
Zangamarsh is the other zone you get motes of water
wrong, you get motes of life in zanga from the giants.
wtf are you talking about. He's talking about the clouds not giants.
Here I hope this is a bit more clear.
So far there are 3 types of clouds you can extract motes (usually 4-5) from:
Zangarmarsh: motes of life (blue clouds)
Netherstorm: Motes of mana (purple black)
Shadowmoon valley: Motes of shadow (greenish dark)
You don't see these clouds appear on your minimap (like flowers/vein do), you have to be on the lookout for them.Clouds are usually rare on a map.
Netherstorm clouds are indeed hidden from view. The special goggles mentioned above works, however detect invisibility from a warlock does work too. When I'm in area52 and I'm about to start my route for flowers, I often ask a warlock to give me the buff. There is an alchemy potion that does the same spell, but so far, I had no luck finding clouds with them, so I don't know about that.
Overall, if you create this item thinking you gonna be rich... well you won't be :) 4 primal life on my server goes for 60g total, so its an expensive item to make. However, if you are a miner or herbalism and you see a cloud while running around farming, it is useful as a secondary item. I advise you to create it while it's orange, so at least you gain one precious engineering point making a somewhat useful item. On the long run, you are sure to make more money with it that by creating it.
Also... you never know, Blizz may up the respawn timers of these clouds one day and make it very worthwhile...
Actually there's 4 types of clouds. There's also the white clouds in Nagrand. (Primal Airs)
There's a set of goggles available to engineers at 350 engineering that will allow you to track gas nodes on your minimap. This DOES stack with other forms of tracking (for example, your mining). The goggles are no longer required to SEE the gas nodes in Netherstorm, though you may need to increase some of your detail settings, due to the overall "mood lighting" of the zone.
If your server has a lot of leatherworkers, you may find the Air gas nodes in Nagrand to be most beneficial. The higher end (blue) armor kits (I forget which ones) require something like 8 primal mana. Short of being level 70 with a flier and reaching some of the more popular farming areas... the gas clouds around Nagrand are the best, most reliable source for motes of air.
You'll be using a lot of your mined ore for your engineering, but once your engineering is up there, the mining is gravy.
Well, part of it depends on your server's economy. The server I play alliance on, I make an easy 3-4g for a stack of copper; the server I play horde on, I might make 1.5g. Another server a friend of mine is on, he's making 15g for a stack. Best bet is to keep an eye on the auction house and track prices...or get an addon like auctioneer and scan at least once a day.
I would also suggest that, if you place ores and not bars on the AH, sell the ores in stacks of 5 for the jewelcrafter's prospecting ability, and full stacks of smelted bars.
First of all, most of these people do not know what they are talking about. These two professions can make an amazing amount of money, especially with an epic flyer. First of all, you will need the epic goggles at level 350 engineering to make finding clouds easier. You will also need the zapthrottle mote extractor, learned from a quest from the engineering trainer in Zangarmarsh. After you have these two things, the gold flows. Just run around on your flyer or epic mount in Nagrand, not anywhere else. It easily has the most clouds and is abundant with adamantite ore. You basicly run around the perimeter, focusing on getting adamantite and the occasional fel iron or khorium. The clouds are basicly a bonus but since they give you 3-5 motes per gather, it becomes extremely easy to get a primal. By the time I had about 1 1/2 stacks of adamantite, i had roughly 2 primal airs. This only took about 20 minutes or so and on my server, gave me about 80g. Now, you can see where the money really comes in. This method is the best way, but takes some patience.