Thread: What is worth selling in the Auction House, as a casual player?

As a casual player, currently with a couple characters around lvl 32, is there anything worth selling the AH? I attempted to sell some bulk gems (opals and the like) but they were returned to my mailbox. Is the AH only useful once you get to end-game content/items?

As a crafter is there anything worth crafting to sell there? (Currently artisan farmer, cook, and expert tailer, woodsman, jeweler)

info: I'm on Windfola server

I just returned to the game after a 6 month or so absence so this information might be outdated - but...

Crafting mats - stacks of hides, wood and ore all unworked of course
Crit mats - best to break these up into smaller stacks of 10 or less
Class items - especially the hard to get stuff like in angmar
Crit weapons and armour used to bring in a nice price - especially under level 25 stuff
Any unbound named items - if there is such a thing anymore...
rep items

Im sure there is more...

grind the pit north of bree for boar hides and make a quick buck

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edit just noticed your crafts - all crit items ought to fetch a tidy sum - food - jewels - light and meduim armor - if its crit

Also i recall there is a place in North downs that leads to Angmar - filled with worms or lizard like creatures that drop scales - stacks and stacks of scales - spend an hour or two up there and collect all the scales you can and cash them in at the trash vendor and you used to be able to make a quick gold piece.

Depends on what you want from it. If you want gold, gather raws and sell them. Hides, jewels, metal, scholar goop all go well. If you want to help people with your tailoring, use whatever spare bits you have around to make noob armour and sell it cheap - I normally go 5 silver to start, 10 or 15 buyout for the crit low stuff, and 3 or 5 silver for the non-crit. Some people use "10 x usage-level" for crit buyouts, but that's all totally up to you. If you want to maximize your cash, try some auctions and see how the stuff you can make goes, and keep it on a spreadsheet. Make sure you mark what days you tried it: I find weekends are best for the good stuff.

Higher-level medium (artisan and above) crit armour goes well - lots of hunters and wardens around on my current server.

Note that I said 'sell raws". Raw material has crafting XP locked inside it, and if you process it yourself the XP drains out, making it less valuable. I know it's a bit counter-intuitive, but you'll notice that raw tin and tin ingots will often be selling for about the same cost. That's why.

Food doesn't sell well on Ridder until you get up to about level 50 cooked and trail food, but after that it's a nice steady source of income.

Unusual festival stuff goes well after it's over. Gather some, stick it in your vault and haul it out a month later. "Ooh, shiny new stuff!" As Belloq says to Indiana Jones as he entombs him, "Who knows, in a thousand years even you may be worth something." I still have an extra "toast" emote from the envelopes that somehow didn't get auto-absorbed when I opened it. I may auction it in a few months.

You didn't mentioned if the gems that you tried to sell were in the raw, unpolished state, or if they were polished. In my experience unpolished stones sell pretty quickly because people who are leveling a jeweler alt need them to complete their crafting tiers. But once the gems have been polished, there's relatively little value to them, especially in bulk. The overwhelming majority of crafting recipes that call for polished gems are jeweler recipes, and most jewelers will already have huge stacks left over from when they leveled their jeweler.

Things that sell well are raw materials (ore/logs/hides/unpolished gems), crit ingredients, and consumables (food/tokens/scrolls/potions/hunter and warden oils).

Generally what sells the best:

- ore
- hides
- wood (untreated)
- shards (Ruby, Sapphire, etc.)
- Scholar mats (if you don't have Scholar, look for these as drops from humanoids)
- some crops (esp. the two barley varieties, and a few others - check the AH on your server)
- dye materials: yarrow root, woad, indigo, copper salts, sienna, etc. The first three are ground spawns collectible by anyone. ALSO, if in the course of Farming you get Juicy Strawberries, Juicy Blackberries, or Onion Skins, keep them and check the AH. These are sought-after dye materials and the only way to get them is via Farming. Check the prices for Bundles of Straw, too.
- food (especially cooked food; it's best to check which trail food sells in your server)
- rep items (Mathoms, Cardolan-trinkets, etc.). The Haudh Iarchith dungeons in the Barrow-Downs have undead mobs that drop a ton of Bree/Mathom Society rep items. VERY easily farmable for level 30-ish players, and you can pick up lots of Scholar mats as well as hundreds of silver worth of vendor trash per run. There are even a couple of easily-soloed shard droppers in there, but be mindful of people needing to kill them for quests/deeds.

Beyond that...selling equipment can be a crapshoot unless it's critted gear. I generally vendor dropped gear unless it's purple. Some recipes are in demand, others aren't; check to see which ones sell the best. I usually don't sell crit crafting items (for example, rock salt used by Jewellers) on the AH due to them having a high vendor price and thus higher posting fees. Keep the ones you need and vendor/give away the rest unless you can really make a lot off of them. In general, it's always best to check what stuff is going for on your server. If you see a demand for a particular item but not much supply, you might even be able to carve out a niche market for yourself.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Susuwatari

If you see a demand for a particular item but not much supply, you might even be able to carve out a niche market for yourself.

This. But stay flexible, because niches sometimes close up. I noticed that somebody'd posted a "get rich quick" article saying that selling Second Breakfast crit coffee was hugely successful for the Moors players, so I pulled out all my spare recipes from random questing in Dunland (OK, I liked the name of the recipe), watched the market sell out of them, and then started marketing them at 1g each and up. That lasted for a few weeks as long as I didn't flood the market. Now they go for 50 silver or less. I never did make much off the coffee itself!

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll give some of them a shot.

(any specific food items popular or just a mix of everything, as long as its crit?)

Originally Posted by Susuwatari

Generally what sells the best:

- ore
- hides
- wood (untreated)
- shards (Ruby, Sapphire, etc.)
- Scholar mats (if you don't have Scholar, look for these as drops from humanoids)
- some crops (esp. the two barley varieties, and a few others - check the AH on your server)
- dye materials: yarrow root, woad, indigo, copper salts, sienna, etc. The first three are ground spawns collectible by anyone. ALSO, if in the course of Farming you get Juicy Strawberries, Juicy Blackberries, or Onion Skins, keep them and check the AH. These are sought-after dye materials and the only way to get them is via Farming. Check the prices for Bundles of Straw, too.
- food (especially cooked food; it's best to check which trail food sells in your server)
- rep items (Mathoms, Cardolan-trinkets, etc.). The Haudh Iarchith dungeons in the Barrow-Downs have undead mobs that drop a ton of Bree/Mathom Society rep items. VERY easily farmable for level 30-ish players, and you can pick up lots of Scholar mats as well as hundreds of silver worth of vendor trash per run. There are even a couple of easily-soloed shard droppers in there, but be mindful of people needing to kill them for quests/deeds.

Beyond that...selling equipment can be a crapshoot unless it's critted gear. I generally vendor dropped gear unless it's purple. Some recipes are in demand, others aren't; check to see which ones sell the best. I usually don't sell crit crafting items (for example, rock salt used by Jewellers) on the AH due to them having a high vendor price and thus higher posting fees. Keep the ones you need and vendor/give away the rest unless you can really make a lot off of them. In general, it's always best to check what stuff is going for on your server. If you see a demand for a particular item but not much supply, you might even be able to carve out a niche market for yourself.

Good luck!

^ This is a good post. Good, clear advice. +rep

Originally Posted by TexMurphy4

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll give some of them a shot.

(any specific food items popular or just a mix of everything, as long as its crit?)

I generally go for whichever has the highest ICPR (cooked) or make Vit food (trail). Even non-crit Vit food sells pretty well if it's top tier.

Originally Posted by Tuco

I still have an extra "toast" emote from the envelopes that somehow didn't get auto-absorbed when I opened it. I may auction it in a few months.

You won't sell it. This is a bind-on-acquire now. Only way to transfer it was have one sitting in your shared storage prior to the bind-change and that's only good for a future alt on your server.

I've made quite a bit of money, even on my lower level characters, by just selling stacks of farmed crops. Again, check prices on your server, but barley always goes well. Also, the various types of taters, and white and green onions tend to sell for a decent amount of money, at least on my server. Berries tend to be a bit less successful (largely, I think, because the market tends to be flooded with extra berries from people farming them for the dye materials). Stay away from flowers; they never sell, in my experience.

Good luck

Originally Posted by TexMurphy4

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll give some of them a shot.

(any specific food items popular or just a mix of everything, as long as its crit?)

Well, EVERYONE uses the cooked foods, because everyone can benefit from morale/power regen as well as curing of status ailments (poison, fear, disease, etc.). The top tier cooked foods will always sell reliably, and I've even been able to sell lower-tier food on occasion. I can usually sell both crit and non-crit foods (interestingly, I have very good luck with selling Strawberry Tarts, which you actually can't make superior versions of).

The thing about trail foods...there are several popular types: +agility, +will, and +vitality seem to be the moat widely used. But you have you have to have a campfire to make them, which usually means going out of your way to make them unless you're a Hunter (who can make their own campfires). I generally just make these for myself unless there's a really good market for a particular kind on my server. I haven't had much luck selling the special foods for certain classes (i.e. Loremaster pet foods), or the soups (although one of the soups is used to gain rep with the Eglain faction, so you may end up making it for yourself anyway).

You might try to incorporate money-making into your Cook leveling. For example, before you begin leveling a certain tier, check and see which foods in that tier sell the best. That way, you can probably sell whatever you have left over from leveling.
Also, don't forget to farm LOTS of barley of all kinds; this is used in many recipes in all tiers.

No quick answer

Look at auction house and see what is actually selling - ie ignore the prices people put on things and see what actually goes

It really depends on server but on a mature server like laurelin then food is a good bet - oils pots and tokens people just tend to make themselves on mass .
Low level resources are a good idea too as eventually people realise that they have to westfold master a trade skill and the last thing they want to do is farm low level materials .
For higher end then check what items peopel are trying to sell and make something different - again it seems couterintuitive but its logical and works. There are certain items that "ubers" decide are obligatory but you will find that there are more people who make their own decisions and have prefferences - aim for the people rather than the ubers

quite often price is proportionate to the grind that one has to put in. so hides of all sorts are usually a huge seller.

the teal guild-crafted jewelry/armour etc just occasionally pulls in a really silly price.

I would list, in order of best selling/most cash earned:

1. Craftnig materials. Raw gems, Ore or Ingots, Wood or Treated, Hides or Leather, Crit ingredients.
2. Premium crafting items like shards or special items like loot boxes/keys, stat tomes
3. Crit-crafted gear
4. Rep items
5. Class items (trophies for legendary traits)
6. Consumables (Potions, FOOD, Hunter Oils, Traps, Burg devices etc.)
7. Farmed cooking ingredients

Other tips:
Do not bother trying to sell looted (yellow) gear.
Always check prices before posting. Sometimes for some items, it is not worth wasting an auction slot, just vendor it.

Recipes. Don't over price them. I sell mine, depending on Tier, for 2-3 times vendor rates. Single use recipes for armor and jewelry sell very well. Don't bother selling two handed weapon recipes for levels 48 and above, with legendaries there is no market for them. Every thing else sells fairly well if reasonably priced.