

Here is a great example of a component heavy recipe: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti. This is why many Engineers look for the intermediate crafted components on the auction house to save time crafting their finished product. This leads to extra crafting time, more chances for errors, and a wide variety of crafting material requirements.

Why? The majority of the most profitable recipes all have multiple components. Engineering, while my favorite profession overall, is the most annoying as a crafter. Any craftable item that is used for another crafting recipe is a crafting component. This technique works on players that can't craft the crafting components themselves and also works on players that use WoW add-ons to tell them what items are profitable and which ones are not.Ĭrafting components are required in many of the WoW profession crafting recipes. This is done by falsely making a craftable item appear to be unprofitable. The whole point of manipulating the price of crafting components is to scare off competition from entering your market. Today let's go over an advanced technique for making gold in WoW, the manipulation of component pricing.
