The Saronite ShuffleFollow

Prospecting and using the mats produced to craft items for sale? I can't say I've done that, but it looks fun. Give it a try and see which items sell the best. It's nice to find ways to utilize your professions for good profit.

How do cut blue gems sell on your server. They're kinda meh on mine.

I can see that. They've actually gone up since I last checked, on mine, so this could be decent money. But 1.5K from 75 stacks seems high, unless you get the ore really cheap (it's 14-18G on my server). And, if you end up with the less valuable gems, that could be an issue (off-color gems, icy prism gems).

But, as long as you are highly unlikely to lose money, it may be worth trying.

Doesn't seem like too bad a plan, especially if you get involved enough to start selling enchants on vellums as well. I might sink 1500G into this tonight and try it out. :P

This is probably not feasible any more. With 3.3 here, i expect the price of saronite to rise to the point where it isnt profitable to do this.

I've been doing this for quite a while now as part of my effort to reach the gold cap. It was a great money-maker, took a bit of a hit with patch 3.2 and is likely going to take a larger hit now. I have around 600 stacks of saronite waiting for the dust to settle from 3.3

I've been doing something similar, but instead of items, I prospect all of my saronite and send the blue gems to my alchemist. She takes those and any eternals she needs and transmutes the gems to epic quality versions. These either get sent to my bank alt (if they sell for about the same uncut as they would cut) or sent back to the JC to cut into profitable cuts and then sold.

Well, like I said I would, I tried it. Started with 1k gold and am finally back up to that amount, except that I have 10-30 blue quality uncut gems of each type in my bags right now(after selling a bunch of cut ones already), and 12+ stacks of dust and 2 stacks of essences. Made friends with a few peeps who farm some 20-50 stacks a day and buying all their saronite and eternals at low prices.

One Titanium = 8 Saronite bars

8 Saronite bars = 16 Saronite ore


You must have been thinking about Titansteel

Update: Still doing this, still making gold.

After a really good round of selling cut blue quality gems(there is another person doing the same thing as I am obviously, because they are selling gems of every kind on the AH and we are constantly competing for the sale. At least we both know to undercut by a few silver only every time.), I'm up to about 2k gold, 10 stacks of dust, 2 stacks of essences, and anywhere from 10-30 blue quality gems of each kind.(been doing the JC daily, although I haven't for months. I need more cuts!!). I also have over 100 of the crafted greens to DE when I get back home. Really gotta start researching which scrolls sell for good coin, I could stand to make a lot of gold from the enchanting mats.

Overall it has been a very profitable experience. I think I'll keep going until I have a good stockpile. Since these toons aren't on my main server anymore, I'm mostly doing this just to stockpile the gold. I've been thinking about transferring one of them(my pally) to my main realms, but I haven't gotten around the idea of spending another 50$ just to move a toon. It'll be a lot easier to do once he's sitting on a mountain of gold.

All right. I tried a small batch of this. this is what I ended up with.

17 Stacks Saronite Ore x 17g/stack = 289g

Prospected

Dark Jadex12        17g 
Bloodstonex15       27g 
Sun Crystalx8       15g 
Huge Citrinex10     15g 
Shadow Crystalx12   11g 
Chalcedonyx16       92g 
Autumn's Glowx6     91g 
Scarlet Rubyx3     144g 
Forest Emeralx3     24g 
Twighlight Opalx1   12g 
Monarch Topazx3     37g 
Sky Sapphirex1      11g 
 
Pure Gem Value =   494g  
Net gain           205g

Looking good so far! :)

From here I determined which of the items/transmutes were profitable based on cost of mats vs. server price. I found the Crystal Chalcedony Amulet, Skyflare Diamond and Jade Dagger pendant not to be profitable. I also excluded Icy Prism from this data due to its 20h CD, taking away ones ability to actually farm this.


Items created
Earthsiege Diamondx10 400g
Bloodstone Bandx15
Sun Rock Ringx8

Items Used

Elemental Firex10        (300)g 
Crystallized Earthx46     (46)g 

Disenchant Results
Infinite Dustx32 86g
Small Dream Shardx1 5g(value derived from price of Dream Shard)
Lesser Cosmic Essencex10 52g(derived from price of GCE)

Grand Totals

Gold Spent:

17 Stacks of Saronite Ore  (289)g 
10 Elemental Fire          (300)g 
46 Crystallized Earth       (46)g 
 
Total Spent                (635)g

Gold Attained:

10 Earthsiege Diamond      400g 
 2 Dark Jade                 3g 
12 Shadow Crystal           11g 
16 Chalcedony               92g 
 6 Autumn's Glow            91g 
 3 Scarlet Ruby            144g 
 3 Forest Emerald           24g 
 1 Twighlight Opal          12g 
 3 Monarch Topaz            37g 
 1 Sky Sapphire             11g 
32 Infinite Dust            86g 
 1 Small Dream Shard         5g 
10 Lesser Cosmic Essence    52g 
 
Total Attained             968g 
 
Net Total                  333g 
 
Net Prospecting            205g 
Net Saronite Shuffle       118g

Really, for the time it took to make the items, disenchant the items, and all the time it'll take to post and sell the various mats, I can't see the Saronite Shuffle being worthwhile. Will it make you money? Yes. Will it make you more money than other professions or farming? Probably not.

Some things to take into account are server prices. On another server, this process could yield greater or less net gains. Another note is that I obtained 17 Blue gems. That's a rate of 1 per stack of ore(4 prospects), which is a 25% rate. The tooltip shows these to be only a 4% drop. I think recently they changed the rate on them and may not have updated the tooltip. Even so, I can't imagine it actually being a 25% drop rate on blue gems, so this data may be skewed in favor of the Saronite Shuffle being viable. Some more data would be nice if somebody else can contribute.

Really, though, that is where the majority of the difference between prospecting and shuffling comes from. Without the metas, the profit would only be 18g. You'd get a couple extra gems for each xmute not done, so let's be generous and call it 50g. It really isn't worth the time it takes to craft items and disenchant them. Plus, my figures for dust are a bit high. Most servers wont get nearly that much out of them.

Kinda forgot about this thread, but just posting to say that the Saronite Shuffle is now, for the most part, defunct. 3.3 has drastically reduced the demand fro Infinite Dust and made the Saronite Shuffle, while still profitable, not nearly the cash cow it once was.