Hey guys and gals, Vthug here with the first installment of “Making Money”. In this post we will hit on an extreamly viable skinning location with the potential to make excellent money now, while collecting items to sell with huge markup come MoP. Quick disclaimer: Not all of my guides will apply to everyone directly. While they will all contain ways for everyone to make profit, some of the methods are profession specific. 

Skinning is a fantastic way to make money for those who either have skinning already, or are looking to make money through using a gathering skill in general. My favorite place is by far the stone drakes in Deepholm. These drakes consistently drop an average of 1g, dragon flank, and since they are technically elites, greens are clear to be a plenty. Since these drakes only have about 40-60k life when they drop from the sky, AoE is a huge benefit and time saver. Skinning these puppies is where you start to see the profit shoot up. Blackened Dragon scales, Savage Leather and the occasional Strange bloated stomach are all solid items to collect up and toss up on the AH. Simple, straightforward method. Skin a mob that has good drops and gives good skinning loot. Make sure you have a potion of treasure finding on and are in a lvl 23+ guild for the guild perk bountiful bags as this is crucial to making money quickly with any gathering profession. Let’s take MoP into consideration now.

5 minutes into a run.

25 minutes into a run.

With MoP not too far off in the distance you MUST be aware of the money to be had. Things like savage leather, volatile from the bloated stomaches and dragon flanks may not be worth that much on your server currently. The goal here is to have some cashflow while maintaining a track for bigger profit upon the expansions release. We still are not 100% certain professions will remain how they are in today’s game but from previous expansions we can make the risk comfortably. Dragon flanks will be used by people to level cooking. With the addition of cooking specializations people will feel the need to level it up.Farming up savage leather could be made into a large profit for you right now. Many servers have it marked up to over 100g a stack in which case Stone drakes could yield you up to 2.5k-3.5k an hour. However the decision comes on those servers in which this is not the case. It may not be worth selling right now and you should consider holding onto it. With a whole new class being introduced, the demands for profession leveling mats are going to skyrocket. On average you use about 850-1150(43-58 stacks) savage leather to max out leatherworking. That is just for 1person. The supply will be nowhere near enough to keep up with the demand. People are impatient and if they have the money, they will blow it to get maxed out in order to craft an item, get a pet, whatever perk comes with that profession. This could be said about many other leathers too, but in my opinion Savage leather and Borean leather are the only two worth farming up.

 I hope you guys found this useful and can make some money with it. Spread this around if so. Next guide we will be looking at items to stockpile for the approach and realease of MoP. Take care.