Inspired by Cowboy's cash strats, i bring to you one of my own.
This strat requires the ability to disenchant items and some cash to buy a few
things on the AH initially.
Fiery Weapon (http://www.thottbot.com/?sp=13898)
is a very popular enchant at the moment for twink characters (and in general?).
It causes a weapon to frequently hit for an additional 40 fire damage. The mats
are 1x essence of fire and 4c small radiant shard (see above thottbot link for
links to those). For my own twink i grinded on fire elementals at Un'Goro crater
right in the middle of the map. The drop rate is pretty low and i got 3 in
perhaps 2 hours. They go for about 15g on Darkspear. If you are planning on
grinding anyway this isn't a bad way to go about it. Thottbot says the drop rate
is 2.5% on essence of fire from those mobs, so every 40 you kill you should get
one. It seems to be farmed a fair bit lately, but the respawns aren't slow so
you shouldn't have too much problem finding something to kill. There are plenty
of other mobs around to switch to in any case. Just watch out for gankers.
The main strat here is in fact for small radiant shards, and is doable at any
level. Small radiant shards can be obtained with some frequency by disenchanting
armour items from level 40 to 50 (or thereabouts). On Darkspear these sell on
the AH for 4g each, and i seem to have about a 20-25% chance of getting one when
i DE a level 40 armour item. There often are armour items within this level
range on the auction house for about a 50s buyout. Supposing the DE rate of
getting a small radiant shard is 20%, 2g50s of disenchanted armour will get me a
shard i can sell for 4g, plus whatever other stuff i got from the times i did
not get a shard. Hardly earth shattering profit, but it requires minimal effort
above what i would do when i normally check the AH for bargains.
I hope someone finds this useful.
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