Leveling Kits: A Beginner's Guide

I'm just getting into this market myself, and have seen a couple blogs write about it over the years. Time to put my own spin on it!

Profession Leveling Kits. You know they exist and you've seen them barked in Trade chat a few times. A leveling kit is a collection of items that will get one profession from level 1-525. My server hasn't seen much of these over the years, but I was recently asked if I could put one together. There are a few things you should know about this market before you get into it.

It is definitely a niche market. Most people will farm for the mats, buy them out of the AH, or ask friends and guildies for help. The people who mainly use these don't want to spend the time looking for a good guide and getting all the stuff together. I've come up with a few ways of getting the mats together, finding your buyers, and efficient methods for making the sale.

Buying and Selling Guilds

If you read My Gold Downfall then you know my backstory and experience with buying guilds. From the research I've done it seems that people always want to buy extremely low and sell high. The tabs affect the pricing, as does the level. It seems like the Guild level weighs in more than the amount of tabs a Guild has, making it very hard to flip level 1 guilds for a profit. Most of the time people will laugh and sneer at you for trying to make a profit when selling a level 1,  1-6 tab guild. You will most often see people selling these kinds of guilds for a price cheaper than the actual cost to make it.

When you offer to sell a 7 or 8 tab guild, that's when the fun begins. You will be flooded with whispers and probably have a minor panic attack from all the attention! Probably not but you catch my drift.

I learned a way to make a lvl 1, 7 tab Guild. There are only a few areas online that have this information since it is a niche market. Read on to learn how.

Theorycraft: Are Blizzard Store Pets Stronger Than All Others?

With the release of Mists of Pandaria just around the corner, almost everyone's in a tizzy about what many people are calling "Pandokemon". As most of you have read on other blog sites, stockpiling pets is definitely going to be a good gold making strategy with this new companion combat system coming out.

Assuming Blizzard hasn't changed the way they do things, I've come up with a theory.

My Gold Downfall

(November 2011-Today)

About a month ago, I started looking for a level 25 guild with 7 or 8 tabs...