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Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.
The Darkmoon Faire is in full swing, and in between checking on the live breaking news being posted from our folks at BlizzCon, leveling craftsmen are being given an opportunity to make some wow gold.
The Faire has much to offer the citizens of Azeroth, from fancy foods and frog pets to tickets that can be handed in for nifty prizes. It is this ticket system that offers you the opportunity to make some money.
You see, tickets are awarded in exchange for certain items. Many of these items are crafted, while others are looted, such as [Vibrant Plume]. Because players hand these items in to the Faire both for reputation and for tickets, they are highly marketable a few days before the Faire begins, as well as the first few days after it arrives.
The items do not include Outland craftables, so this income opportunity is primarily geared towards the population that is still leveling their characters. While skilling up your trade, you can hoard certain items to be auctioned off at higher prices around the time of the month that the Faire turns up.
Unfortunately, there are currently only opportunities for engineers, blacksmiths and leatherworkers, although the rest of the population can still make a nice profit from the various "trash" items dropped from certain mobs.
If you are planning to hand over some of your creations to the Faire yourself, it is important to note that the ticket system works in tiers. The cheapest and lowest level items are on the bottom tier, scaling up to the highest level items on tier 5. Because reputation climbs quickly, you might only be able to complete a handful of hand-ins for each tier before being ushered on to the next.
In this manner, do not hand in the most expensive items first, or you will never be able to hand in the cheapest ones.
It is important to note that depending on the price of the items from the same tier in the other professions, your item might not sell for as much as you would like. For example, once on tier 5, a player might purchase [Rugged Armor Kits] from a leatherworker because they are cheaper on that server than [Dense Grinding Stones].
Still, your items should sell for their highest amount just before and during the presence of the Faire, and when skilling up your trade, choosing these items is a great way to earn back some of the money you have spent.
