Guys genuine question i’m making gold to buy the brutosaur. I know tmog doesn’t sell for much like it used to. But why does everyone only want to buy Vanilla/classic tmog ? What’s so offensive about later expansion , green /blue/purple boes ?! Same with crafted gear , why is any of it apart from mounts after classic so offensive to you ? I mean I tried tbc mog and woltk mog and I just can’t seem to sell any of it. So after 6 weeks , I’ve vendored it. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but what makes all the expansion(s) gear so ugly in your eyes?!
What is it about it that makes it not worth your gold ? Classic tmog sells incredibly slowly but it sells but why Classic tmog only ?
i’m not relying on tmog alone to make gold. Mostly herbing but every guide says to have tmog as a side business. But they all just talk about farming the same old classic dungeons over and over again. With a warning sign “DO NOT SELL TBC , WOLTK , CATA , MOP, WOD tramsog , nobody buys it , nobody wants it” Which doesn’t make sense since the those expansion were more popular than classic. If you go on any forum polls tbc and woltk and mop always rank higher than vanilla/classic everytime. So you would think people would be more nostalgic or have more preference towards that gear … but they simply don’t they just want vanilla gear and i’m finding it hard to make sense why ?!
Tmog requires a lot of Auction house posts Puny. If you only put 100 items don’t expect to make anything over night. Tmog sells because you have 1000+ items. Then you see sales. It’s like being a grocery store vs a supermarket. People tend to do their main shop in the supermarket , due to more variety and hence they make more sales.
Same sort of rule applies for tmog. When players say tmog doesn’t sell . they are almost right. Tmog doesn’t sell… fast would be far more accurate. Especially the big ticket items 100k and more can take months before there’s a buyer.
I spoke to a gold maker who had a pendulum axe , worth 6 million gold. Took him a year to find a buyer.
Iirc vanilla items have a huge value because of their variety, unique skins (skimpy mog?) and because when Tmog was released everyone had wotlk / cata mogs.
Only sold a few mogs but epic BoE drops from cata sold nicely, managed to sell a few cata/wod greens for unbelievably high prices and some BC items are pretty cool. Not an expert by any means but it sells and at a decent price.
As for what makes vanilla items better, you can blame the vendor price. You can pretty much relist for months a vanilla item and still make a profit, while relisting wod items is risky since you’ll pay 20 or 30 times more per auction.
And you most likely never got the vanilla items in quest gear since they don’t share the same appearances unlike the expansion green sets. (Quest a bit in any expansion past wotlk and you should have 2 or 3 of the 4 sets)
If you want to buy a long boy in 8.3 I wouldn’t recommend the transmog market. You will take months to earn any significant amount and it’s mostly not worth your time compared to the other markets.
8.3 will make 8.2 mats relevant once again and the alt catch-up gear should sell somewhat decently (the boa token gear is harder to get than benthic this time around), and as usual bc/wotlk/cata ore and/or herbs sells decently, legion glyph have huge profit margin and BFA mats and items will sell fast.
Check this for more details, this guy did a great job at explaining how to earn gold with the AH
Indeed, when it comes to transmog selling you need to find a buyer and it’d take you a long time to sell a piece.
It took me quite a long time to find Steelgrip Gauntlets for one of my transmogs.
As a occasional buyer the thing with non Vanilla or rare TBC pieces is that they’re not as rare nor appealing as the ones mention above.
I don’t think tmog is a reliable method to make gold fast.
Alchemy, Herbalism, BoE mounts are better methods in my opinion.
Though if I remeber it correctly WTBGold has stated that with the new auction house in 8.3 they are lowering the price on postings. As such it might become viable and profitable to sell newer transmog as well.
if boe doesnt have unique skin you can safely vendor it, it wont cost much, wont sell fast because most collectors already have it. If it does have unique skin put it for relatively cheap, like half of current market price, and keep lowering price afterwards.
There are some very unique apperances from vanilla
Classic mogs are harder to come by, as many have been lost or much harder to obtain after Cataclysm
Completion of collection
Seemingly less variety in mogs from TBC and onwards - Aka less items, which means people complete this part of the collection quicker. Can’t confirm this, but as a mog collector who farm my own stuff, this is how it feels.
The low graphical quality is a big shame though, but I still want the items.
In vanilla are items with bad droprates and larger map, where they can drop from which is reason why people buy them.
Now as for making money for saurus - mix things. Unless you high end player with a team (and not selling boosts) - you are quicker to make money combining various fields. Both in AH as well in gameplay and not just trust in one thing i.e. 'mogs.
Don’t ever try it there. I’m sitting literally on 30-150k tmogs items and nothing ever sells but mats. If you want to get money, sell mats and make tmog runs.
I found stuff sold much better and for a higher price on the weekend. I also found that transmogs from exalted patterns sell better, my favourite used to be the phantom blade, low cost mats and a decent sell price. Most were sold in 2 or 3 listings.
And since the AH is faction wide you only need a high population realm, most people on an RP realm already have the transmog they want so won’t really buy them. Go for a normal realm.
Didn’t watch his channel for a while now so i dunno what he exactly said but overall i’m pretty sure he was talking about the 20% tax on auction price applied in early BFA. This never affected transmog and the vendor price issue should still be the same (sometimes less than a gold to post a vanilla item versus 20 or 30g for a wod or later green weapon. It adds up)
That said if they really lowered transmog listing fees then that’s awesome
Classic gear is more rare, lots of the TBC and up gear have multiple sources which makes it far easier to get while some classic gear is a 2% drop from 1 mob in AQ40 or whatever.
