Items and markets to keep an eye on in Shadowlands (Patreon)

With Shadowlands finally out many of you will be scrambling for interesting markets. As I am writing this the calendar shows November 19th, which means we are not live, so I'm in speculation mode. So in that spirit I will be focusing on various markets you should keep an eye on as they may turn out good, and materials that can turn out to be bottlenecks.

Trends happen quickly at expansion launches

There are always surprises. Blizzard has been announcing a ton of changes the last week before launch with large profession and economic ramifiactions. In addition to this there will be aspects players discover after launch that have significant goldmaking implications and create markets that have significant short term effects.

Eternal Crystal will bottleneck enchanting

With Eternal Crystals being required to leveling and enchanting and likely only being sourced from disenchanting epics they will be a significant bottleneck. You need maxed enchanting to learn the intermediate materials used in base legendary items. Any method that shows up that can consistently generate these will be very important, and if you get in on it right away you can likely generate a lot of gold.

Profession journals

On beta they had profession journals as random world drops. These are consumables that can be traded and give you five skill points in a given profession per journal. This is a great candidate for flipping, and it can generate a lot of gold early on petentially.

BoEs

BoE flipping has been huge in former expansions. In SL we get some new random world rop BoEs. Flipping these can potentially be very profitable, but it will vary wildly from realm to realm. I would focus on ones with a socket as that is the main way they will have increased value this time around.

New cosmetic items

Any new cosmetic items that can be farmed that we do not currently know about will also obviously represent good goldmaking potential. I'm sure they will have kept some secrets from us, so looking for mounts, secrets, pets etc. will always be a good option.