Prospecting 5.0

The blogosphere is quite.. relatively...

Most tips, though all of them are great, I have seen and heard before... rehash the same old same... IMO, since there is no new info, recycle the old, because a) it still works b) you may have left a market and so did everyone else c) it may be more lucrative than other activities d) it is likely something different to do than your normal gold grind... Okay, will stop there...

There is little of the valuable nature, and imediate use  like the BS Stormforged to HSs... or tips on the Ore shuffle that are new and fresh.. well nothing in the game is really new and fresh really.. its been out in its current form for a while now... IMO the only real markets are consumables for raiding and PVP... Like enchants, JC gems, leg armor/thread...   Some niche markets... but ehhh...

On that note: something I have not closely looked at, but may be worth while, is as more alts get going and geared up, there will be time for leveling toons

One of my speculations for 5.0 is surrounding the new vanity pet systems... they say pets will be BOA??? How that will work? unknown... will it be newly aquired pets or will they be like pets and mounts that are waiting for your fresh new toon the first time you log in?  across servers? and such... I think this has some oportunity to make some bank... Since they will be collectible on a larger scale, and the new pet battles... I can see some oportunities for a lot more sales of some pets... the rare and hard to get ones... Mostly...  Also will it share pets across servers... or only new aquisitions...

Any farmed pets from drops... are the most likely to see some long term investment flips... since you may be able to buy it once and get it on all your toons... the is very likely to be a spike in prices from those that have piles of gold save up from 4.x... However the window will be narrow I believe... as that group that will does spend the gold, and players see the "quick flip" profits of just farming for the pets... I can see a lot of pets that are in the 100-500 gold jumping in price jumping briefly into the thousands.. unless everyone trys to do this...

On that note a better time to sell them will be in the closing weeks of the Cata expansion and people are refreshed on the process of the new pets and systems to be released.. many will collect prior to 5.0, in expectations that when 5.0 releases there will be new things to do...