WoWconomics

You don’t need to be a herbalist to make some nice profits from alchemy. You just need to do a little work to compare mats vs sell price. I tend to do this with only Northrend and Outland herbs (yes Outland flasks/pots still sell). Northrend is a little more costly to make but sell a little bit quicker. Outland flasks and pots still sell, especially since most people don’t want to spend 5g for 1 mana pot as opposed to 5g for a stack of 5 Outland ones.

I usually spend one day a week looking through what I can craft for a profit based on ah herb prices. And let them sell off during the week. If I have a constant seller I may make it more than once a week. If you’re new to crafting pots for profit, try making only 5-20 of a pot or elixir (3-5 of a flask) and see how quickly they sell and hold value.

There are some Pre-BC items that still sell. One is crafting Blackmouth Oil. Snag up some Oil Blackmouth and craft the oil. I can usually sell the oil for 1-2 times if not more than the mats cost.

Elixir of Water Breathing and Elixir of Greater Water Breathing are very useful now. A lot of Northrend quests require underwater questing of some sort. These sell for about 2-3 times what the y cost to craft and usually sell in full stacks or stacks of 5.

Transmutes

There are many ways to make money with transmutes and you don’t need to be a transmute master. Earth to Life or air is the cheapest start up cost (on my server Eternal earths would go for 5g each) and the Life/Air are 30g+ each. Eternal mights/and the diamonds have the biggest potential if they proc (if you’re a x-mute master of course) but need more upfront costs.

Pot Master

It’s a good idea to make mana/health/haste pots for raid times. Best time to list these are on your servers main raid days. On a hard core server that has many guilds that raid 5 nights a week, this wouldn’t be so much of an issue. On my server guilds normally raid Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday. Because of this I tend to list the items about 2 hours before the normal raid times (so around 5ish). I do this so I am the lowest person, ensuring more sales and less relisting costs.

Flask Master

Flask master have a high profitable possibility if procs happen. Same as pots, I list these flasks before raid time to ensure I have the lowest prices, and to have the available on the days they are needed.

Patch 3.0.3