Okay fair enough.
I have over 350 Guo-Lai cache keys at this point from running this for about 2 days. I average about 500 kills an hour.
1. I didn't factor in those keys at all. I haven't sold them. Okay so the keys can actually be sold on the AH? I wasn't aware of this, as I don't think anyone on my realm is buying or selling those and the keys don't show a price in vendor or AH in the tooltip, so I think it's probably not going to make me remotely any profile what-so-ever. Is there even a profile to farm opening those caches?
2. I haven't bashed this profile at all, except to say that I think it's kinda stupid that it absolutely requires having the potions. It's just a personal preference. Though I think you are bashing me for not knowing exactly wtf to do with a huge bunch of assorted mats and other bs. Also I think it is important to mention that many other profiles (like Gundrak which I mentioned) base their GPH on EXACTLY what the profile does every hour (i.e. farming and vendoring) which is what I thought the other guy was basing his GPH on. How was I supposed to know he was refining those mats into other stuff? I'm not a mind-reader mate.
3. You're basing basically the entirety of your profits on those keys which you think you'll get 80g for each. If you look at my above post you'll see that it's all pretty accurate. I list just about everything you can get with those profile.
Leathers, spirits of harmony, ores, greens, windwool and raw gold. When you factor in everything EXCEPT the windwool and keys/caches. You get basically what I calculated
(I'm not wrong there). Now you're basing a huge amount of profit on the fact that these Guo-Lai caches have a ton of stuff in them that is worth hundreds of thousands of gold if you open about 400 or so of them. Looking at what actually drops out of them here, and the average drops from opening 30 or 40 of them (read in the comments):
http://www.wowhead.com/object=214388/ancient-guo-lai-cache#comments
Sampling of contents:
1. ~38g, Relic of the Thunder King, Relic of Guo-Lai, Spirit of Harmony, Lesser Charm of Good Fortune x 6, and Design: Ember Primal Diamond (I'm a Jewelcrafter)
2. ~38g, Relic of Guo-Lai, Lesser Charm of Good Fortune x 6
3. 21g, Great Pandaren Banquet, Spirit of Harmony, and Lesser Charm of Good Fortune x 4
Umm... that's basically f all. An average of 40g x 400 keys, is about 16k raw gold. Fair enough. But the charms aren't worth anything, they're a separate currency. Plus the plans/recipes are profession specific (you have to have the current prof for it to drop) and those are only worth so much if you want to sell them. Banquets are okay I suppose. But the rest... 1 spirit of harmony? It's jack s- all.
Okay, if you can make that amount of money, then that's pretty cool, but I still feel like you're leaving something out, or you're super exaggerating. If you can make 14k every 4 hours doing basically nothing but transmuting, or recycling these mats into other things with maxed professions. Then answer me this..
Why the F*CK are thousands of people spamming Gundrak/The Botanica when they can make FOUR-TO-FIVE times as much gold doing this???
Thanks for the explanation. I haven't sold any cloths yet. There's probably close to 90 stacks sitting on an alt for when I bother to level up another alt's tailoring. That in itself is going to cost me a ton of gold just to max that profession. I suppose I could spend everything I have made doing that though.
Tbh though I don't think I am so greedy. That's what gets a person banned. Making hundreds of thousands of gold in just a few days of farming is what gets anyone banned. I make 10k or so and I'm happy. It pays for my enchants, leveling profs on alts and basically anything else I want. I already have my Jeweled Onyx Panther, Sky Golem, Depleted Kyparium Rocket. etc. etc. etc. I don't need 100k gold for really anything anymore except vanity bs that will not be worth anything in the future. As long as I can pay to have the best enchants, gems and profs for my alts and stuff that's all I care about. But thanks a lot for explaining not just to me, but to everyone how to make a good amount of gold on this profile.
Now I know why there are tons of people even on my super super supposedly dead realm farming these things and why the potions are worth twice as much as they should be.