Over the past few days, I’ve been working intensely on maximizing my toons’ farms and utilizing them on a daily basis. At the moment, I have 8 maxed out farms with two more having 12 plots of land opened (as a result of having revered reputation). It’s a pain but in the long term well worth the effort as the yield of materials and potential for gold are where the real gains are.
Part of my master plan is focusing on my three tailors. Since I spent so much gold investing into each of my toons in trying to get them reasonably geared up and quickly doing LFR, I wanted to start making that money back. So quite often I’ve been using my farms to plant Windwool as the yield on Windwool is quite good and it gives me a usage for both Spirits of Harmony and the accumulation of Imperial Silk from the daily tailoring ability. In turn, since two of my toons have at least honored reputation with the Golden Lotus, I am able to craft the epic robes, which sell for a good 2k a piece. In short, every 6 days potentially I’m able to get 6k of gold almost guaranteed at the moment.
Also, on my Jewelrycrafter, I’m started to put effort into farming Motes of Harmony. Since I have four miners, I can grab ore pretty quickly and have off most of it to my Jewelrycrafter. In turn, my green gems can be converted into Primal Diamonds. These sell pretty nicely still at around 300 gold per. I’m certain I could take it a step further and just craft the more popular PVE helmet versions but the raw versions sell quite nicely.
For my blacksmith and leatherworker, again I’m working on Motes of Harmony. The one constant that I’ve noticed is that epics sell. So once your toons reach a reasonable level of gear where you can just focus on LFR, you probably are better off crafting epics for gold. A friend of mine is in the process of making the 502 epic weapon, which will sell for 30k. I’m going to try something similar on my blacksmith and that will certainly make up for all the gold I’ve dunked into the Auction House in the past few months. Likewise, my leatherworker has managed to accumulate a ton of hide but lacks the Spirits of Harmony to craft epics. So similarly, I’m going to put the farm to use just for Motes of Harmony.
Overall, the main goal at this stage is making back the gold I’ve spent as well as generate materials for things that I cannot grab easily through gathering professions. Some professions like enchanting are the best targets for farms simply because the high end enchants require way too many materials. As a result, only by pulling together the resources of your farms can you scrap up enough materials to do things like bracer and weapon enchants. I’ve found those enchants to be far more expensive and rare on the Auction House. So if you manage to get enough materials for your own toons and provide them with enchants, then the next target should be making money back on the Auction House in this manner. It’s a long term process but I think it’s worth it.