Welcome, traveller.
Reading the auction house…
- Listings
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- Different items
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- Spent a day
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Your goals
Market
Prices
How the numbers are worked out
Where they come from
Blizzard publishes a snapshot of every listing on the auction house about once an hour. Forever Goldcraft keeps each one and compares it with the last.
How sales are counted
Stackable goods sell cheapest first, so a stack that shrank or a cheap listing that vanished was bought. Gear sales are estimates: a cancelled and relisted piece doesn't count.
What's worth farming
Look for high gold per day and short supply. Supply is how many days today's listings would last at the current pace: green means buyers are waiting.
Merchant's Favor
Waylaid Crates
Buy a crate, fill it with one of its bundles, hand it in for Favor.
- Buy a crateA Waylaid Crate from the auction house, or one you looted.
- Fill itWith any one of its bundles of materials. Use the crate to fill it.
- Hand it inTo Dokimi near the Crossroads, or Marcy Baker in Redridge, for Favor.
What to buy
Then use each crate to fill it, and hand the sealed crates to Dokimi near the Crossroads (Horde) or Marcy Baker in Redridge (Alliance).
All crates compared
| Crate | Cheapest fill | Cost | Favor | Per Favor |
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Favor per crate
How this is worked out
Where the prices come from
Every listing on the auction house in the last hourly snapshot. A list for many crates counts the dearer listings it would have to buy.
Where the Favor numbers come from
Wowhead's database records 5, 10 and 15 Favor for white Apprentice, Journeyman and Expert crates, and double for green ones. Nobody has recorded Artisan yet. Handing in a crate also pays half a silver for every Favor (2s 50c for 5), as players' guides report; that comes off the cost.
What this can't see
Listings sold since the snapshot, so check prices before you buy. Materials you gather or craft yourself cost you less than it shows.
Reputation
Cloth donations
Hand cloth to a capital city until it is Exalted with you, and its mounts are yours to buy.
- Buy clothWool, silk, mageweave and runecloth from the auction house.
- Hand it inTo the cloth quartermaster of the city whose mounts you want.
- Buy the mountAt Exalted, that city's mount vendor and riding trainer deal with you.
What to buy
The donations compared
| Donation | Reputation | Cost | Per point |
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How this is worked out
Where the prices come from
Every listing on the auction house in the last hourly snapshot. Buying thousands of Runecloth uses up the cheap listings, so the list counts the dearer ones too. Listings at more than twice the cheapest price are left out.
Where the reputation numbers come from
Blizzard's own quest data for WoW Forever: 150 for each first donation and 50 for every 20 Runecloth after that, the same in every city.
What this can't see
Reputation you earn from quests, which costs nothing. Listings sold since the snapshot. And cloth you farm yourself.
Craftsman's Writs
Craftsman's Writs
Craftsman's Writs
Reputation for writs, at today's prices
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Your reputation
Every writ
How this is worked out
How a writ works
A writ is a crafting order: one crafted item, except Crafted Solid Shot, which wants 200. Use the writ to take its quest, then bring the item and the writ to the customer it names, anywhere in the world; the map marks them once the item is in your bags. No profession is needed. It pays 75 reputation (Journeyman), 125 (Expert) or 200 (Artisan), from Blizzard's quest data, and a Coin Pouch. Players saw 22 to 45 silver in a pouch at level 20; the plan counts what you put in, 33 silver to start with.
Receipts
From Friendly, the camp's scribe sells a Forged Delivery Receipt for 15 Merchant's Favor; on an empty crate it pays 50 reputation, as often as you like. Its price here is the cheapest empty crates and the cheapest crates to fill for the Favor, less the 50 copper a Favor those crates pay back. Buying many uses up the cheap listings, so a big batch costs more a point.
The plan
Every writ is a daily quest, so each is handed in once a day at most. The plan takes the writs cheaper a point than a receipt every day, as many as the pace needs, and receipts for the rest. Below Friendly only writs count, so the first day reaches it with writs. A slower pace means more days of cheap writs and fewer receipts. Later days are priced at today's prices.
Other reputation
Your first filled Waylaid Crate gives a Shipping Label, whose quest pays 2,000 reputation once. Below 2,000 at Neutral the plan does that first, with the crate that is cheapest to fill; say so if you've done it. From Honored, a Forger's Quill (15 Favor) swaps a writ for another of its tier. Players report about 9 hours to deliver a writ once you take its quest.
What it's for
The game's item data asks for this reputation on two things only: the toy license at Honored and the tabard at Exalted. Recipes, the pet and the Pack Kodo don't need it there, though some guides say the Kodo wants Exalted.
Prices
The cheapest listing of each writ and item in the last hourly snapshot. With a profession pressed under "I craft", making the item counts when that is cheaper, as on the Crafting profit page. A sealed writ's point assumes every writ of its tier is as likely. It can't see listings sold since the snapshot, items you have, or your skill.
Profession leveling
The cheapest way, at today's prices
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Your progress
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Tick a step when you've done it.
- every craft a point
- most do
- some do
The route
How this is worked out
Prices
Every listing in the last hourly snapshot, cheapest first, so buying a lot counts the dearer listings. Thread, dye, vials and the like are priced at the vendor.
Skill points
An orange recipe always gives a point. From yellow the chance falls in a straight line to nothing at grey. Players worked that rule out for Classic; Blizzard has never published one. Forever may be kinder: one player’s Cooking from 225 to 255 took 59 crafts where this rule expects 157, so buy long green stretches a batch at a time.
Recipes
What a recipe takes and makes is from the game's files. The skill it is learned at, trainer fees and vendors are from Wowhead. Recipes with a cooldown or that need a specialisation are never used, and those that need a reputation aren't here.
The plan
The cheapest total, not the cheapest step by step: a dearer recipe can win by feeding a later step or selling for more. A craft that gives no point counts as a silver of your time, and changing recipe as ten silver of bother, so a plan doesn’t switch recipes for a point or two and back.
Crafting profit
Most gold a day
Crafting profit
What to craft and sell, at today's prices
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Cooldowns
What to craft
How this is worked out
What it sells for
The cheapest listing in the last hourly snapshot, or what the item has usually gone for if that is less, after the auction house's 5% cut. When a vendor pays more, it goes to the vendor.
What the materials cost
A day's worth is bought at once, so a big batch pays the dearer listings too. A material is made instead of bought when that is cheaper. Thread, vials and the like are priced at the vendor.
Gold a day
The profit on each, times how many the auction house sells a day, up to a day's work of 100 crafts. It is what you'd make if those sales were yours. A cooldown craft counts once per cooldown.
What it can't see
Other sellers undercutting you, listings sold since the snapshot, and materials you farm yourself. Sales of gear are estimates. Patterns and trainer fees are paid once, so they aren't in the profit.