If you want to buy all the supplier ingredients at the personal house discount and make multiple recipes at once without running back and forth to the vault or auction house for ingredients, use this program to easily figure out your calculations.

This is not a game hack, nor will it get you banned, as it is a 3rd party program which does NOT interface with the game.

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There are many rumors around like:

• Having your full dp will increase your chances.

This has been proven untrue.  Check these stats…

1500 attempts at Manastones WITH 4000 DP - 200 ended up as a crit.
1500 attempts at Manastones WITHOUT 4000 DP – 279 ended up as a crit.
1500 attempts at Manastones WITH 4000 DP - 224 ended up as a crit.
1500 attempts at Manastones WITHOUT 4000 DP – 283 ended up as a crit.

In fact the stats somewhat suggest that having full DP, might actually hurt the master crafting attempts.

• Failing an item before crafting the wanted HQ.

This one is absolutely not true.  The above stats, should prove that one too.

• Preparing all the materials waiting for 2 days then crafting.

This one is actually unconfirmed.  We need you to help us test this and report back on it.

Is there anything that has helped you to Master Craft statistically more often? Please share.

The LoTRO Auction House is a great way to make money and clear out some bag and vault space. Also the Auction House will help you to figure out what to farm to make  money the faster and more efficient way.  I have some guide lines I follow just to make it fair.  These are not mandatory, but I believe this is a fair way of doing business, and then I will tell you the greedy way. You make your own choice about which one you would like to use.

Fair Way

I have been told the fairest price to post items is 4-5 times what the vendor would buy for. There for a item selling to vendor at 5 silver would sell at Auction for 20-25 sp not a bad profit. But my opinion is 7 times the vendor price.  This is not too bad either, especially with the auction house prices these days.  Most people sell at 10-20 times the vendor price. Also selling at these lower prices means your items will sell almost immediately.

Not too Bad

This way is my common advice, before selling your item’s search the inventory of the Auction to see what other people have posted the same item for.  Now find the lowest price for the current number you have and subtract 5-10 silver from it and that’s what you post your item’s for. You’re just a little cheaper then the other guy so your item is almost always going to sell first, assuming a person hunting is not click happy and doesn’t check for lowest price.
Also if there is one item that is at least 40% lower then the rest of them, and the market is good (hides, gems, crafting items, etc.) go ahead and buy them out if the math comes out so you can drop the price 5sp below the other guys and end up making more in the end.  These are great investments.

Greedy (I do not recommend)

Don’t be that guy out there that posts items for outrageous amounts (you’ll know whats outrageous). You won’t sell much, and someone will likely come along and undercut you. I know you hate it when you need something and check Auction house and everything is high priced. Think of how you feel when searching for items and find them all high priced, and then post your items.

Farming Tips and Tricks

I would recomend before going on a farming trip, to run by and check the Auction House. Search for common items like hides, gems, crafting items, etc., and see what they are going for. If you know for sure you can kill X mobs fast by yourself and prices are up, then go right ahead. It sure beats running off to farm stuff and make it to the Auction House only to realize the market is low today. Check each one and see what has the best price to time ratio. This will also save you that 30 minutes wondering what to farm.

Once you feel comfortable and get to know the Auction House,  you can start buying and selling to make a profit. But don’t do it right away, as you might buy high and sell low, or worse, buy something which you think is low, and end up not being able to resell it.

The trick is to find some common items you find there everyday, such as hides, ore, shards, and flakes which all sell on a regular basis. Now watch these for a week or so and see the common prices. Once you see approximately what they go for and you see somone post one for a lot less, you can buy it out and resell it for a nice little profit. Even 100sp extra adds up quickly. Example below I run into the most.

Example:

Dwarf-Iron ore sells commonly for 800-900 silver pieces for a stack of 50.
Now every other day you see someone post it 700-800 for a stack of 100. This actually happens a lot. Buy it out and turn around and split stack into 2 stacks of 50 then repost for  600-650 silver pieces. Your price is way lower then competitors and usual prices. Now you’ve made about 400 silver profit without having to farm a thing.
Hides, ore, flakes, and shards all sell on a regular basis, stick with those items and you shouldn’t lose money.

One last tip.  When you start to get a feel for the average prices, make sure to write them down.  If you can check every day, GREAT! if not, try to check at least 2x a week.  I have noticed that on weekends, prices are lower, and on weekdays, they are higher.  Sometimes, you can buy on a weekend, wait a couple days to the weekdays, and then sell for a better profit.

Good luck!

Description

This will do crafting with buying mats

Instructions

This is great for pixel bots that require clear line of sight to click on NPCs or to use to clear the room and make it easier to see your goals.

1. Uncheck ‘Friendly PC Names’ in Game Options.
2. Hide players by pressing Shift+F12.
3. Do the opposite to restore to normal.

Press: U
Click: New Macro[/Are_PayPal_LoginPlease]

Make Three Macros called: Master, Mats, & Table

Master Macro

/select x
/attack

Mats Macro

/select y
/attack

Table Macro

/selectBrand z
/attack

x= Name of your Crafting Master in which you will obtain work orders from
y= Name of your Materials Master for your craft in which is set for “Master Macro”
z= Use Brand 1 so put in 1 instead of z

Everything is case sensitive

Example using Alchemy:
Join a group where you are the leader.
Brand Alchemy table with “Brand 1″

Master Macro

/select Diana
/attack

Mats Macro

/select Darius
/attack

Table

/selectBrand 1
/attack

make sure the macro 1 is set for hotkey 1
macro 2 is set for hotkey 2
macro 3 is set for hotkey 3

1= Select Master Crafter
2= Select Material Seller
3= Select Table and use it

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Note: You could probably turn this into your own bot, too.

If you like to sell items on the cross faction AH (why don’t they have one in Shat and Dal???), then here’s a list of Horde only recipes, which will come in handy, to sell to your alliance cooking counterparts.

• Scorpid Surprise, sold by Grimtak in Durotar.
• Crispy Lizard Tail, sold by Tari’qa in The Barrens.
• Roasted Kodo Meat, sold by Wunna Darkmane in Mulgore.
• Heavy Crocolisk Stew, sold by Ogg’marr in Dustwallow Marsh.
• Crispy Bat Wing, sold by Abigail Shiel in Tirisfal Glades.
• Lynx Steak, sold by Landraelanis in Eversong Woods.
• Bat Bites, sold by Master Chef Mouldier in Ghostlands.

Does anyone have a list of alliance only recipes which are not quest driven?

As some of you may already know, Cataclysm, the next expansion for WoW, is bringing in Archaeology (allows the player to unlock new abilities and rewards by discovering ancient treasures throughout the world) and Reforging (lets you reduce one stat for another).  While all this sounds interesting, it’s still missing what I have wanted in the game, since the game was released… and all the other cool things which could be added as a result of some of them.

I want to see the following things in World of Warcraft, hopefully in the next expansion… or even sooner?

1. Alignment system: If you attack someone 5 or more levels below you, you get rated as evil… to some extent. More low level kills = more evil. Good players, only kill evil players.  How evil or good you are, will swing merchants or guards in or out of your favor.  Alignment slowly goes back to neutral over the course of a month, if the character abstains from killing lower level peeps or doesn’t play the character.   Imagine getting so evil, your own faction guards start hunting you, or the merchants make you pay full price, even tho you have reputation lowering rates, of course the opposite happens to Good players, but then there are good and evil merchants as well.  Maybe a special reward for being really good or really evil, or even bonuses to stats, healing, etc.
2. Bounty system: Used for killing very evil or good peeps.  Killing a peep with a bounty on their head, raises your standing with the opposite alignment of the bounty player, and lowers theirs with their own alignment.  So  very evil player who gets defeated, become less evil, or vice-versa.  Rewards for the bounty could be something like badges or gold, along with alignment rep rewards.
3. Player housing: I would like to use trophies or even old gear, to decorate my own house or even an apartment.  I know there isn’t really room in WoW to actually have player houses, however each innkeeper could port us to our own “house” where we can also have passwords on them to allow others in or not inside them.  Could also have the ability to expand them for guild halls.  Houses and Halls, to be expanded all have a higher monthly rent.  If not paid, it reduces in size to non-expanded and then all items in the expansion, get put in the mail sent to you.
4. Crafting – Dyes: Allow us to color our armor.  I am sure now that most Scribers (inscription) have found their skill to be a fairly useless skill, after they have all their characters’ inscriptions done. I would love to be able to make dyes, and then be able to dye people’s armor.  Allow them to select the main and off color’s of the armors. How many people would love to get rid of their mismatched armor colors.  Add in a bonus, allow the scribes to mix colors to get different shades.  It means we would only need 5 colors total (red, yellow, blue, black, white) to create more exotic colors.
5. Crafting – Woodworking: Why is it blacksmiths make bullets and engineers make arrows.  Shouldn’t we have woodworking make arrows – and bows, crossbows, staves, shields, fishing poles, wood stock, and other things which could be used by engineers, blacksmiths, and scribes (wood pulp makes paper)?  I am sure they could make other things as well for other skills too.  Heck, with player housing, they could make chairs, benches, tables, etc.
6. Dual Class: Be able to play a priest/warrior.  No, not a paladin.  I am talking about allowing my character to have an off class as well.  Have the main character say the priest, be able to use all the priest spells and only wear cloth, but be able to have some (but not all) of the warrior abilities as well.  This would add a new definition to PvP, and not make people feel so constrained.  Of course the down side of the dual class, would be not being able to have master class abilities.

Come on Blizz, get off your arse and add some things players want for a change! I know for a fact that I am not the only one interested in these things.  If I were then these things wouldn’t be available in other games – yes, you heard me folks, many of these ideas come from other games, they aren’t new, but they are loved by the players of those games.

I think the first player housing came from Ultima Online.  I first saw it back in 2002 in Asheron’s Call.  It was taken to a new art form in StarWars Galaxies.  Dual-Class, I first saw in Runes of Magic, but it’s probably been in other games.  Woodworking is also one I saw in Runes of Magic, but I remember gathering wood in Vanguard.  Dyes… all over the place.  We had it in Asheron’s Call, saw the mixing ability in GuildWars.  Player Bounty, show yourself to be a Jedi in front of any npc, and have a bounty on your head.  Alignment system… that one goes back to the days of Dungeons and Dragons, but I first saw it in an MMO… I think back in 1990… in an AOL MMO.  None of this stuff is new, but these are some great features of MMO’s that are missing from WoW.

By the way, why the heck can engineers make motorcycles, but can’t make gun-turrets, like in Warhammer?  Heck, in a fantasy game, why do we even have motorcycles?  And while I am on the annoyances, Age of Conan as a game I didn’t really like.  But one feature I loved, was being able to see what was in front of my character, without having to zoom in to first person, when running through some bushes.  AoC actually cleared that crap away in a bubble when looking at the toon.  Great feature!

Folks, if you don’t have cooking on any of your characters, but really wished that you had taken it, for any reason, then the Pilgrim’s Bounty (H)(A), is the time to learn them.  I was able to level my cooking all the way to 355. Though the final recipe will turn green, and make it difficult to get past 350.

Start at the Undercity or Stormwind

• Purchase Bountiful Cookbook from the Pilgrim vendor for 1 silver
• Learn the Spice Bread recipe from the trainer if you don’t have it already
• Make 60x Spice Bread to reach 40 Cooking and set up the next step
• Make 60x Spice Bread Stuffing to reach 100 Cooking (train @ 75)
• Make 60x Pumpkin Pie to reach 160 Cooking (train @ 150)
• Travel to Orgrimmar or Ironforge for Tangy Cranberries
• Make 60x Cranberry Chutney to reach 220 Cooking
• Travel to Mulgore or Darnassus for Sweet Potatoes
• Make 60x Candied Sweet Potato to reach 280 Cooking (train @ 225)
• Return to Undercity or Stormwind
• Kill 20 Wild Turkeys in Tirisfal/Elwynn Forest
• Make 20x Slow Roasted Turkey to reach 300 Cooking

There are Cooking trainers located right at the Pilgrim camps who will teach you each level of Cooking skill you need to reach 300. The only reason you’ll have to travel is to collect the different “local” produce items for the recipes. You may also need to overstock a bit on each step. Once a recipe is yellow it isn’t quite as reliable for skill points. I averaged about 62 items per recipe, so bear that in mind when you’re purchasing ingredients from the vendor. Most of the city camps have barrels behind the vendor that act as a secondary vendor. If your having trouble with objects being “busy”, try the barrels!

To continue beyond 300 you’ll have to go to Outland or Northrend to visit expansion trainers. Expect to put in another 30 minutes or so to get from 300 to 350 in Cooking. Most of that will be traveling and killing more turkeys. You’ll probably want to collect about 60 additional wild turkey corpses. Don’t forget to stop by the Bounty camp in Stormwind/Undercity and stock up on herbs and honey before you hearth back to Shattrath/Dalaran.

• Kill 60x MORE wild turkeys in Tirisfall/Elywynn Forest
• Purchase 120 Honey pots and 60 Autumnal Herbs from the Bounty vendor.
• Travel to Outland/Northrend to train Master Cooking
• Make 60x Slow-Roasted Turkeys to reach 350 Cooking

This takes about 90 minutes to complete, including all the travel and turkey slaughter.  The quests for this event will grant experience, so take advantage if you’re still leveling alts. All of these quests are quite easy, most of the work is traveling between major cities.  At level 80, the quest rewards will pay for your skill learning.

Tip: These new recipes DO count for our Cooking achievements. You get five new recipes to add to your recipe tally. Make sure you pick those up if you’re still working on Chef de Cuisine or one of the lesser versions.

Tip: Don’t worry, if you make enough that a skill goes gray.  You will be able to use the excess foods for the quests.  Alternatively you can sell them on the Trade Channel.  The AH will not accept these items however.

Tip: If you are doing the quests pickup at least 100 of each item, to do the quests easier.  You will want to get the pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and cranberries for this.

If you play Age of Conan, and you wish you knew what recipes were what, what they needed, or pretty much had any questions at all about crafting, then this spreadsheet is for you.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=pu1duIq_Xvh-RtCowv6i8MQ&f=true&gid=1

All credit goes to Iron Will guild for making this awesome tool.

Whenever I pick up a crafting profession in an mmorpg, I try to find a way to make a few extra gold to fund its progression.  I found a cheap way to make gold with Leatherworking, Jewelycrafting in WoW,   There’s always a way, and I’ve found mine in Aion Online.  Please note that this method takes quite a bit of time so I only recommend this to be used when you have quite a bit of time off (ie before you go to bed/school/work etc).  Anyways here’s my first ever Aion Guide on making Aion Kinah/Gold with Tailoring.

Its really the same concept as the Leatherworking tip I posted a few years back for World of Warcraft.  Its a common sense know how much you can sell your product for, and know how much it costs to create the product.  Also include how much time it takes for you to create it to see if its worthwhile.

I will use Tailoring’s  Strong Durable Leather Jerkin as an example.  Please note that this is a generic vendor recipe.  The materials for this recipe is relatively cheap since no one wants white quality gear at level 38, so take advantage of that fact to net you some quick money.  Even the Critical version of this recipe is outdone  by its level 33 equivalent making it relatively worthless for players.  Or is it?  Let’s take a deeper look into it.
To make one you’ll need:

• 11 Strong Leather Pads
• 16 Strong Leather Cords
• 4 Fine Armor Flux
• 28 Aether Gem

Now go check the Auction house for these items, and see what the prices are.  I’ll use my server’s prices to demonstrate my point, also I’ll include the reagent price(vendor) for Greater Leather Hardeners.

• Strong Leather Pads – 1k-2k
• Strong Leather Cords – N/A
• Fine Armor Flux – 1k-2k
• Aether Gem – 500-1k
• Strong Leather – N/A
• Strong Rawhide – 100-500
• Greater Leather Hardener – 478

Also note that it takes exactly 38 Strong Leathers(76 Strong Rawhide) to make the pads/cords.  If you’re familiar with Aion’s crafting system for Tailors you’ll know that the Strong Leather Pads have a chance to ‘Crit’ into Strong Luxury Leather Pads, and Strong Finest Leather Pads, so you’ll need to make a few extra.
So lets total up the cost of these materials here:

• 11x Strong Leather Pads – 10156 Kinah (22 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 16x Strong Leather Cords – 7648 Kinah (16 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 4x Fine Armor Flux – 8,000 Kinah ( 4 Fine Armor Flux x 2000 Kinah)
• 28x Aether Gem – 28000 (28 Aether Gem x 1000 Kinah)
• 76x Strong Rawhide – 38000 (76 Strong Rawhide x 500 Kinah)

This totals up to 91804 Kinah in materials OUCH!.  Easy enough right?  Now you are probably wondering why you’ve gone a created a rather crappy looking piece of leather that noone on the Trade Broker is even going to buy.  Well since you’re at the tradeskill vendor why don’t you just dump the newly made jerkin off there, and find out that that nice npc who sold you all the reagents, is willing to buy this crappy item from you for a whopping 114,000 Kinah.  Netting you an extra 22k Kinah profit guaranteed.

Now don’t forget about critical craft chances.  One in five of these Jerkins will Crit into a Strong Noble Durable Jerkin and these vendor for a whopping 142k Kinah.  That’s a nice 50k profit.
Now the only thing stopping me from mass-producing this is the fact that other people have already caught on to it, and I often find the trade broker on my server devoid of leather/fluxes.  It still doesn’t stop me from tailoring 5-10 of these a day.  The most time consuming part is making the Strong Rawhide into Strong Leather, which I usually do in bulk before I go to bed as it takes a few hours when you do a large quantity.
That about wraps up this tip for making some easy Kinah, but to be honest, the best way to make alot of Kinah is to just level up.  At level 41 as a ranger class I can make roughly 150-250k an hour soloing the elites in Lepharist Citadel in Eltenen, but that’s another story for a later time.

Originally posted at http://aionmania.blogspot.com

Clever Crafter stand-alone crafting bot

What it does ?
It will take your latest work order and craft the needed amount of items it requires u to.
If it fails it will delete the quest and get it again.
It will turn in the quest and get it again.

What does not work yet ?
Stop crafting at – because i do not have current points OFFSET
increase by 1 if fails – because it is not needed anymore will remove later.
IT does not buy materials you must have the materials ( i will be implementing this feature soon as everything works as i want on this version)

To do list ?
Buy materials
Check for current materials amount
Stop after X points
Auto upgrade from 99 to 100 and so forth
Normal Craft without taking work order

Instruction:
Create a macro and make sure it is the first macro on your macro list (Make sure your “Enter Macro Command” has only one line).
Put the macro on the Quickbar 1 Key 0.
Run the Bot setup and follow it is instructions.
Now you can minimize your game and let it auto-craft for you.
*instructions in file*

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NOTE: Use Bots at your own risk, suspension or bans can occur.

If you are into crafting, and you want to hit 450, as quick and as cheap as possible, then there are 3 resources I recommend.  2 of them are websites, and the 3rd is an addon, that works well, in game.

WoW-Professions and WoWGuideOnline are pretty much the same thing, with little difference, except for the layout of the actual guides.  I have used Penn’s Ultimate Profession Guide as well, but it’s pretty much a regurgitation of the free guides – or maybe they are regurgitation’s of his guide, I am not 100% sure either way.

The other way I recommend, is with an addon, and it’s pretty much just a guide on what to craft, and how many items you will need, but there are no wowhead links, so if you want further information, you will need to look it up in your browser. WoW Professional, is really my choice to use, since it’s all in game.

A couple other addons I have found to be very helpful, especially when trying to get all the recipes are Ackis Recipe List, and Recipe Radar.  Ackis Recipe List, is great when you are doing research and trying to figure out whether or not you have any more recipes you need to learn, or where to go to get all the recipes.  Recipe Radar works similar in that it will tell you when a recipe is nearby, that can be bought, from whatever zone you are hunting in.  If you use it in conjunction with an auction program, you can see how much money you could make, if u resell the recipe.

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