How would you invest 200k in gold?

[Deleted]

I currently worry that if you try to get commodities such as items to resell later you may end up with a lot of unsold stock.

[Atrea]

You're probably right.
I'd probably just save it for things that I want when patches/expansions come out, stuff like that. 'Investing' it, just to make more, won't improve my quality of life like it would in say, real life.

[Deleted]

Pyrid Ore... epic gems inc !

[Yunru]

Well i would sell it for real money and with real money i would buy real gold (against eula--bla bla stuff i know-joking)

[Atrea]

Pyrid Ore... epic gems inc !

I wouldn't bank on it.

Currently, gems are balanced with other profession benefits.
If I am a Blacksmith, my profession benefit is 2 extra gem slots. If I'm putting 2 STR gems in those slots, I gain 80 STR, which is exactly what any other profession will yield (except Jewelcrafting, which yields 81), or the equivalent.

If they introduced 'better' gems, they'd have to re-tune the profession benefits to match. Otherwise if they made epic gems with say, 60 STR, Blacksmithing would become the best profession in the game, by a huge margin.

Since there's no real need to adjust profession benefits at this point, I'm making the prediction that there will not be epic gems in Cataclysm.

[Kisho]

Depends, are you looking to make more money now or do you just want to combat inflation?

Mounts and pets generally keep their value, and if anything increase in value in later expansions (less people grinding for them/creating them since they're going for the Next Big Thing, but collectors will spend tons on getting everything). So if you were to buy a mount now (f.ex. the Vial of the Sands) for 50k, in a year or two it may be worth 75-100k or so.

But if you want to just make money now, a good way to go about it is to buy a base material (such as elementium ore, whiptail, etc.) and 'process' it. So if you buy ores, you may prospect it and cut the gems to sell on the AH. Or if you get herbs, make them into potions, or mill them and sell the resulting glyphs.

Buying epics to re-sell isn't a good idea, as they will always lose value over time. There'll be other epics that are easier to get, or people get that drop that is as good or better from a raid, or simply a patch is released that renders all previous epics near-worthless.

So in short, if you want to buy something to re-sell at a much later date when the item has gained in value due to scarcity, then mounts and pets are generally the way to go. If you want to make money now, then buy base materials to process and make money from. Depends what you want.

[Kisho]

Oh, and I agree with Atrea: I highly doubt epic gems are going to be introduced in this expansion. Maybe never again, but that's too difficult to predict.

[Spl4sh3r]

Do you need to invest the gold at all?

[Salech]

I would not, i would save it, and use it for stuff i need only. Like enchants/gems if you're a raider or PvP'er.

[Deleted]

Since there's no real need to adjust profession benefits at this point, I'm making the prediction that there will not be epic gems in Cataclysm.

Oh yeah?
And what to do with all the Tokens i get from the Daily?
Ive bought the last possible recipe few days ago...and we are just halfway thru the expansion.

[Frolk]

I think Truegold is pretty safe to stock up on, together with Volatile Air.

[Deleted]

I would invest it in proffesions so i would have an easier time making gold, if something suddenly goes boom and you can make a ton with a proffesion, you didn't have before

[Chirri]

I might consider purchasing uncommon vanity items that have held their value (or had their value go up - Hi there, Argent Tournament faction pets!) for later resale, but it's a bit of a pain in the butt and it can take up a bit of inventory space while you sit on it. I did make several K from s l o w l y selling off the Gordok Ogre Suits I farmed up while working on goblin rep....but it wound up taking over a year to get rid of all of them, and involved months of shifting them back and forth in alts' mailboxes. Not really worth it <_<

I'd sit on the gold til you find stuff you want, or come up with ways to scatter it back into the game economy. Making more of something you find currently useless sounds rather boring, especially if you won't be around later to put it to use.

[Warcrafter]

Give it to me..... I will errrr "invest" it for you

[Deleted]

there is stuff that never drops in value, think about which is it and buy that. Not going to lay open my bussiness here

[Mera]

360k here, I almost stopped resells since raid loots are almost all soloable (thks 4.2)
I save otherwise and I laugh at those without money crying in the /2

;D

[FattyXP]

Oh yeah?
And what to do with all the Tokens i get from the Daily?
Ive bought the last possible recipe few days ago...and we are just halfway thru the expansion.

Believe it or not but these dailies aren't ment to be run endlessly. They actually designed them where once you get what you want you should stop doing them to quit boring yourself with dailies.

[Deleted]

sell it to a gold seller is the most profitable way to invest 200k gold

[Kavoo]

buying any rare mounts I dont have.

[Flight]

The smartest thing is to sell it for at market or above market for RL cash, and then buy the in game gold back from someone like yourself "not a gold farmer" which is the perfect hedge against ingame inflation. RL currency will never (at least we hope) inflate as quickly as ingame currency. Essentially you'll still be on par next xpack when 200k = 400k next time around when you might need it. With the popularity of wow on the decline, you might come out ahead.

In game...

I've watched a few items jump. Rare pets, like crimson welpling and sprite darter come to mind. used to be 4k now are 20k lucky if you can find them.
But... you are at the mercy of blizz on that one. They could flip the drop rate at anytime.

Another option is to keep your cash and day trade it. Flip cheap ores that week into gems, buy cheap feast mat fish for 80g and resell for 200-300.
Or decide to do what I did and wreck things like the frostweave market for weeks on end, turning 20g a stack cloth into 120g a stack cloth. (plan on persistence on this one)

Really with 200k you would be fine to start out next xpack without doing a thing, but your money won't be working for you.