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Disclaimer: The following article recommends a strategy which is similar to those used by professional gamblers. There is an element of risk in the short-term using this method. If you have an addictive personality or are very risk-averse this method is NOT recommended


Summary

1. Buy Cards Of Omens From The Auction House At UNDER 4.5 Gold.  It MUST be UNDER 4.5 GOLD. 

2. Go To End Of The Deadmines Instance, Engage Captain Cookie and stack his haste buff up to 3000%.

3. Flip The Cards. Vendor them.

4. To Withstand Losing Streaks I Would Recommend Having At Least 100k In Gold To Start With. 


Detailed Explanation

There is an item called "Card Of Omens"

https://www.wowhead.com/item=113355/card-of-omens

Which can be mass-produced in the Draenor garrison*. For all practical purposes these are wow's scratch cards, yielding any amount between 1 copper an 6000 gold when flipped.

There is a huge amount of data on the average return from flipping fortune cards, for example, here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4kcwu9/flipping_250k_cards_of_omens/

This is the largest recorded sample size I could find by one individual, stating a return of 4.63 gold per card over a 250k sample size. All other statistically significant sample sizes I have seen recorded suggest over 4.5 gold per card.

To make money from fortune cards in theory is simple: purchase any card from the auction house below 4.5 gold. 

Your expected profit should be 4.5 gold - what you paid. So you would make 0.5 gold per card purchasing them at 4.0, (There are currently thousands on the ah at this price). or 1 gold per flip if you can purchase cards at 3.5 (I have seen cards posted at this price). 

In 9.2.7 the changes to the auction house making commodities region-wide mean that there are many cards on sale and the price often dips below 4.5.

This is one of the simplest and effectve ways to make money in wow. If you can purchase, say 15000 cards at exactly 4 gold your expected profit is an instant 7500 gold, (ignoring the question of how to flip the cards which we'll come to). 

Now it is a bit more complicated than that because of the huge fluctuations around the expected profit. This is mainly because much of the average value of a card is tied up in a 6000-1 profit. 

Without the larger payouts your returns will only be 2-3 gold. You could be losing gold for thousands, even tens of thousands of flips, with extremely bad luck. I would recommend not doing this with less than 100000 gold for that reason. 

Now you actually have to flip the cards, which can take a while. Fortunately the time it takes to flip a card is reduced by haste. The best method I have ever found is to take the cards to the end of the Deadmines Instance, engage captain cookie but do not kill him, and use the haste buff from his food to increase your haste by up to 3000%. 

Alternatively flipping the cards is an excellent way to way to fill in the downtime : whilst waiting in raids, at the start of battlegrounds etc. 

Finally you can automate or semi-automate the process fairly easily with something as simple as a mouse recorder. But as this carries major ban potential I'm not going to go into further details on this.

*(Here is an older article I wrote on the subject of actually producing the cards)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/up-to-35000-gold-7943230

Comments

Anonymous

Here's what i got in case anyone is curious. On 2.5k cards at just under 4.5g each. Total cost 11150g gold. I ended up with 17309 gold. Of this, within the first 1900 cards or so i opened inside the deadmines (bonus speed was limited to 100% additional on normal, unless i did something wrong or was meant to go in HC), i got 4 cards valued at 3k each, which more or less saved my money. Of the 600 remaining, it was a complete loss when i opened them after hearthing home and would have earned more re-selling. Having insufficient bag space or no steward or other manner to offload the cards whilst in the deadmines will be a pain. As for those wondering why such a small sample. Well i'm broke on that server and it was all the gold i had. It just i was told not to do it so it had to be done... Would i try it again? Not without a automated mouse clicker which is something i don't use, nor play using. Therefore no unless i somehow end up drunk and think its a brilliant idea to open gatcha cards in wow.

Anonymous

The link at the end of the article to the method to make the cards does not work for me at least.

tom nook's sweet ass

just tried buying 50K gp worth at 4.6 a piece ended up with a 22.8K deficit. so i'm not so sure it's that worth it to be honnest.

Archvaldors Warcraft Hacks Premium

The amount should be under 4.5 gold. Buying cards at 4.6 would lead to an expected loss. I'm not sure how this wasn't clear in the article? Even then there will be huge fluctuations.

Archvaldors Warcraft Hacks Premium

Unfortunately with small sample sizes you are unlikely to get the larger value payouts, so you are effectively playing at a huge disadvantage. That was why I recommended only doing this with 100K. When you went to the deadmines did you pick up cookie's food-that should give you a haste buff, which was the idea?

tom nook's sweet ass

i know it was very clear, i just tought 10 silvers was not that big a deal. i knew there was possibility for deficit, that's the point of gambling. i just didn't think the odd were that stacked against us. to be fair, my original post could have been better structured

Anonymous

Yes i collected it which gave me a nice speed increase. Please don't get me wrong, i wasn't complaining about the method nor the outcome. Even with the disadvantage, i've gotten really lucky in earning around 5k extra from the initial 11k purchase. It's just the physical pain to my finger that stops me from reattempting it :D

Archvaldors Warcraft Hacks Premium

I didn't mean that as a criticism. If people misunderstand something I generally tthink that was my error not theirs and I want to know how to explain it better. The thing is with buying cards over 4.5 you should EXPECT to lose money, which is a bit different from accepting you might have bad luck and not win.

Archvaldors Warcraft Hacks Premium

Yeah this is not for everybody:) I used to hack casinos and sportbooks before doing this and often took on risky positions like this when I had an edge: even doing it for 15 years I still hated losing-which wasn't even that often.

Elion Blk

i bought for 100k Gold, Cards with the price of 4.05g. My Profit i made was 20k Gold.

Elion Blk

i used Autoclicker Program and didnt got banned, idk if somebody else got banned from this software

Anonymous

you can stack only 5 times the buff from dm, as a mage i could only turn to 300% haste, if u dont automate, its time consuming, good doing this when you run arround in oribos waiting for mates :d

Lakaen

How much time does it take roughly to do 100k worth of cards?

Archvaldors Warcraft Hacks Premium

At 3 cards per second (practical maximum) you'd get 555 minutes worth of cards flipping or just over nine hours. In practice much of the time you can sell back the cards to the ah for more than you paid-flipping them is just a form of insurance in case that isn't doable in the short-term.

Anonymous

im having some decent profit with the considering I initially went in with 30k down just to test. Im wondering, Archvaldor, is it worth it to flip the green bloodcards you recieve from the initial flip, or is it more worth it just just vendor the greens and move on.