Blog reply to How I made 3k gold by level 30
I farmed all those same armor set greens on my 85 with 310% flying in about 1/100th of the time. Then mailed them to my level 1 who sells them.
Yes, xmog is in full swing on most servers and those lowbie greens you wouldn't even bother to mail to your enchanter to DE are now worth a lot of gold to the right buyers. Your server hasn't caught the fashion bug yet? Then help create it. Get to know which pieces are HOT and when you see them on the AH for pennies, snatch em up and repost. Trust me, on every single server there will be a rogue or 10 or 100 that are going to want that Scouting or Bandit set. Posting the full set at the same time helps too for the unfamiliar buyers who are just randomly looking through the AH for a new xmog set. There are many more desirable sets out there across all armor classes that are raking it in.
This is the time of the xpac where players are getting "Luxury Capped". They've got all the gear they're going to get, no more chants/gems to worry about, etc... They're buying Mammoths and Hogs and Sand Drakes and many players will pay a premium fee for not having to wait or farm for the set they want.
Dungeons are a great place to gather up random greens, but Rare mobs are really where it's at. They guarantee to drop at least 1 and there's a half a dozen or more per zone. Go to Wowhead, look up a specific zone, click the NPC tab, then FILTER these results and click the rare and elite rare classification. Once you've mapped out the zone and know where they are you can do a full sweep in minutes on a flying mount.
Blasted Lands is a double bonus for this kind of farming. Every rare mob in the zone will drop either a Flawless Draenethyst Sphere or Imperfect Draenethyst Sphere which is a drop quest item that can be turned in for a goodie bag that contains a rare boe for the Perfect (often a green too) or a green for the Imperfect one. So you're getting at least 1 green off the mob then as least 1 more green off the turn in, sometimes you can get 2 from each. This is also the zone to find the highly sought after Swashbuckler's Eyepatch leather helm.
Start doing your research into armor sets, try to gauge your local market, see what competitors are selling what for and somewhere in there you'll see how much you can expect to make in this racket and whether it's worth it or not for you.
Enjoy farming that sexy old gear for fun and profit!
