Season 4- A unique Opportunity

[Volund]

It has recently been announced by Blizzard that season 4 of arenas will begin on the 24^th and 25^th of this month on the US and European servers respectively and this presents a unique opportunity to all players to make a good sum of gold.

When season 4 goes live not only does the brutal gladiators’ set become available for the top arena players; but also season 2 equipment becomes purchasable for honor. Currently each servers’ PvP players are working diligently at stashing away masses of arena points and honor for season 4.

What this inevitably leads to is an astronomical one-off influx of new equipment into each and every server much larger than normal kit replacement. All this new kit will be needing gems and enchants, those prepared to provide the materials needed for these gear buffs stand to make a good deal of gold indeed as demand will far outstrip supply leading to inflated prices.

In an effort to aid you in exploiting this massive demand for enchants, let us explore exactly what will be in demand on a profession by profession basis.

Tailoring
Spellthread of all types will be in demand for leg enchants by all casters, and in order to create those threads large amounts of primals are needed.

The common ingredient to all spellthread is a primal nether, unfortunately these cannot really be farmed and are not worth spending badges on to resell the primal; if you have any spare nethers stashed away however, then this is the best opportunity to sell them you will likely ever have.
The next ingredient needed is either primal life or primal mana in very large quantities, both will see massive price escalation and so are ideally suited to being farmed for profit.

Leatherworking
Leatherworking creates leg enchants used by melee classes. These also use a large quantity of primals which can be farmed by anyone.

Once again primal nethers are required, creating an even larger demand for them. However this time it is primal earth and air that is required; unfortunately primal earth is almost always in surplus due to a high amount of miners in game so these are generally not worth farming. This is not the case with primal air - it always sells well.

Secondly, if you are a skinner, all leg armors require a large amount of knothide leather so it may be worth farming some to sell.

Jewelcrafting
Gems of all colours will be in high demand, however PvP kit comes with a mix of yellow and red sockets leading to a much higher demand for yellow and red gems over blue.

Since you have little control as to what gems specifically you get, just hold back any gems you have for sale once season 4 is released and you should see a price rise for all types.

Alchemy
Alchemists create the base meta gems before a jewelcrafter can cut them, and creating meta gems requires primals. Earth, water, fire and air will all be in demand.

Note that primal air is also required by tailors so having two professions requiring primal air only serves to further increase the demand for primals and motes of air - and as such raise its price even further.

Enchanting
All base enchanting materials will see a price hike as the demand for them will be overwhelming; when out farming other materials keep any greens you find for disenchanting either by yourself, if possible, or a friend.

Besides the basic materials though, enchanting requires an astronomical number of primals. Primal fire, water, life and mana are in demand for caster based enchants while a small amount of primal air is in demand for agility enchants.

Misc
On top of all these profesion based requirements, new shoulder enchants will be in demand which will lead to a rise in the price of arcane tomes and fel armaments; arcane tomes are more common due to the sunwell runs now available so if you plan to farm either then I suggest you farm fel armamaents.
Once you have farmed a good amount it will be time to dominate the auction house on the 24^th/25^th for some good old fashioned profiteering.

Season 4 - An Unique Opportunity*|*Dominate Your Server

[1up]

No offense volund but could you add where you got this from?
Season 4 - An Unique Opportunity*|*Dominate Your Server

[Volund]

thanks, been having issues with the internet.

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[Nexusg7]

Wow! i didnt even stop to think about the economy change in s4. i was all worried about getting my toon all saved up arena points. Woot time to start saving my gems!

[Poosc]

i heard that almost all of the new season 4 will require a high personal rating :S also all the arena teams will be reset so for the first couple of days its going to be heavy arena against some tough people! however you could be lucky and get against some real noobs at the start and get a pretty high rating! i just hope my internet can cope with the large flux of people!!

[Diesel]

Thanks for posting Volund, +rep

[Recreation]

Dude, thanks so much for this, got my enchanting up and alchemy!!! Gonna make me some gold =D