6.7 Trade skill loot
The following list is a most-wanted list for trade skills (taking into account quality and
quantity of the items you can sell). Save these items and make sure you sell them on
weekends on the AH. They will fetch a nice price. One thing to note: Alliance players will
find that Leather doesn’t sell very well while horde players can make a decent coin of
selling skinning products.
Engineers/Smiths
1. Copper Bolt
2. Copper Tube
3. Flask of Mojo
4. Gems
5. Pearls
Leatherworkers
1. Dragonscale
2. Leather
3. Leather Hide
4. Thick Murloc Scale
5. Deeprock Salt
6. Scorpid Scale
7. Turtle Scale
8. Ironfeather
Alchemists
1. Wildvine
2. Herbs
3. Sharp Claw
4. Delicate Feather
5. Small Flame Sack
6. Large Fang
7. Essences (Essence of Air, Water, ect)
Tailors
1. Spider Silk
2. Cloth (Silk, Mageweave, Wool)
3. Elemental (Water, Air, Fire, Earth)
4. Shadowsilk
5. Ironweb Silk
6. Globes (Heart of Fire, Globe of Water, ect)
7. Demonic Rune
6.8 The Level 40 Mount
These hints will help to ensure that you got enough gold to buy your mount once you
reach level 40:
● Sell Everything. Pick up everything from bear bile to monkey fetus, you’re going
to sell it. If it’s white, it’s probably used in something by someone. If it is the gray
color, it’s meant to be sold vendors.
● Chose skinning and mining or skinning and herbalism as crafts. Alliance players
will find that on older servers few people are buying leather. Still I recommend
skinning as you hardly loose any time and it doesn’t require an early on
investment. Other trade skills will cost you a lot of money early on and won’t be
profitable until the later levels. After buying your mount you should switch from
skinning to alchemy / smithing / enchanting or engineering if you are on a PvP
server
● Only buy equipment every 10 levels and only what you need to be effective
enough to kill enemies 2 levels below you. Always stay 2 levels above your
quests and only kill enemies two levels below you (beyond your starting zone). If
you get an item that provides only a minor upgrade over your current equipment
sell it via the AH. This yields a better return than equipping everything and having
to sell old equip to vendors because it’s solebound.
● Focus on hunting humanoids as it pays off much better than beasts. Especially
for Alliance players since the market on their side is quite small for leather
products. Use skinning as an additional income when you are forced to hunt
animals.