Friday, February 10, 2012

Transmog Weapon List

My whore...I mean Weapon Seller...Yea

No one that I follow on Twitter has made a weapon list for transmog yet so I am taking it upon myself to start one. By no means is this a complete list and I'll be editing this page as I feel it warranted to do so.

My own set of "rules" or boundaries for the list are as follows:
  1. Weapon sales are slow. Even the "top tier" BoE weapons tend to rot a bit on the AH. For that reason, I will try to only list items I know have solid sales records with myself and others. 
  2. I do not sale Wands, Daggers, Guns, Fist weapons, or [Cross]Bows. Fists just aren't used, Wands aren't seen yet, Guns/Bows are bland and super slow sellers, and the hand-restrictions on Daggers make them frustrating to use for Transmog.
  3. I provide no solid tier pricing. Since weapons are much harder sales than armor I will assume those that dig into it enough to search and sale weapons have a good feel for their server's transmog market. I do however sort the weapons in a "Tier" order with the best on top.   


1H Swords and 2H Axes seem to be the best weapons for faster selling (comparatively) great looking BoEs. Also you may notice far more rares than greens. Unlike armor, people tend to steer away from all but the most unique and awesome uncommon weapons.

1H Swords
Teebu's Blazing Longsword
Blade of Wizardry
Krol Blade
Doomforged Straightedge
Hanzo Sword
Speedsteel Rapier
Phantom Blade
Bloodletter Scalpel
Crystalblade of the Draenei
Ethereum Phase Blade
The Butcher
Skettis Curved Blade

Please note that Blade of Wizardry is main hand only and its not going to move fast right now with few decent caster swords to mog into it. I listed my top 2 1H "Japanese style" swords. There are uncommon swords in the same style (and a rare Assassination Blade) but they don't move near as fast. Phantom Blade is crafted and Ethereum Phase Blade is vendor so watch competition.

2H Axe
Nightfall
Glorious War-Axe
Lucky Strike Axe
Ghostly Battle Axe
Ogre Splitting Axe
Crystalforged War Axe
Huge Thorium Battleaxe
Lord Alexander's Battle Axe
Hellslayer Battle Axe

Nightfall and Huge Thorium are crafted, though rarely, watch for competition.  Don't under price the next four they are the bread and butter here. Crystalforged is popular but more common so expect competition. Hellslayer is a recolor of Executioner's Axe and a few uncommons, but they don't have the moving power so didn't make the list.

1H Mace:
Unknown Archaeologist's Hammer
Melia's Magnificent Scepter
Silvermoon War-Mace
Excavator's Brand
Fist of Reckoning
Knight's War Hammer
Spirit-Clad Mace
Petrified Shinbone
Oggleflint's Inspirer

The main thing for 1H maces is there isn't much "awesome" here, most of the sellers either look silly like the first two or are shaped like something else like Excavator's Brand. The last two are shaped like bones and are not actually transmogable at this time, but that doesn't stop people from buying them to try.


The following categories need some work and/or don't have a vast assortment of options:

2H Sword:
Blade of Hanna
Duskbringer
Ta'Kierthan Songblade
Demonslayer
Doombringer
Warmonger
Dragon Wing Blade

The katanas aren't as fast moving as their 1H cousins, and both Duskbringer and Songblade are extremely rare. The uncommon katanas (plus rare Archaic Defender) just don't sale at all. Dragon Wing Blade is the same skin as Demon/Doom but suffers from the uncommon curse of selling else often.

2H Mace:
The Hammer of Destiny
The Judge's Gavel
Blood Knight Maul
The Oathkeeper

Blanchard's Stout is a recolor of The Judge's Gavel in gold, but I have had no luck moving it so YMMV. The Oathkeeper is a recolor of The Hammer of Destiny but falls much lower on list because it is super common.

1H Axe:
Axe of the Legion
Axe of Rin'ji
Silvermoon Crescent Axe

Axe of Rin'ji has an uncommon recolor Felstone Reaver that I cannot get to sale.

Polearm :
Banner Slicer
Blight

Banner Slicer is a unique and beautiful skin. Most other BoE polearms are very plain. Blight is probably the best selling Trident style model, watch for other crafters though.

Why no Staves? Because I've sold maybe 2 staves since Transmog has come out. Now if an Exodar Life-Staff showed up for nothing on the AH I'd definitely flip it, but I just don't pay much attention to BoE staves.

Extra Tip: Wands are going to be main hand weapons in MoP. I am going to consider stocking up on the best looking BoE ones to sale to the people that will undoubtedly be trying them out.

PLEASE submit any feedback or additions by either responding to the tweet I'll send out because this post or by commenting here. I did all of this very quickly so I know it can be expanded or honed.

EDIT: Thank you Jim. Refer to comments for an importable list into Auctionator (since I do not use that addon)

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5 comments:

  1. WTB Auctionator shopping list versions of these. I'll be making my own but it might be nice to have them available for others.

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  2. I went a head and made them into one giant list. (I'm pretty tight on Shopping List space.) It may take a bit longer to search but it happens in one shot. If you want them in their own tiers simply add "*** List name" to the list in between the weapon types.

    The Auctionator Importable list:

    *** Mogging Weapons
    Teebu's Blazing Longsword
    Blade of Wizardry
    Krol Blade
    Doomforged Straightedge
    Hanzo Sword
    Speedsteel Rapier
    Phantom Blade
    Bloodletter Scalpel
    Crystalblade of the Draenei
    Ethereum Phase Blade
    The Butcher
    Skettis Curved Blade
    Nightfall
    Glorious War-Axe
    Lucky Strike Axe
    Ghostly Battle Axe
    Ogre Splitting Axe
    Crystalforged War Axe
    Huge Thorium Battleaxe
    Lord Alexander's Battle Axe
    Hellslayer Battle Axe
    Unknown Archaeologist's Hammer
    Melia's Magnificent Scepter
    Silvermoon War-Mace
    Excavator's Brand
    Knight's War Hammer
    Spirit-Clad Mace
    Petrified Shinbone
    Oggleflint's Inspirer
    Blade of Hanna
    Duskbringer
    Ta'Kierthan Songblade
    Demonslayer
    Doombringer
    Warmonger
    Dragon Wing Blade
    The Hammer of Destiny
    The Judge's Gavel
    Blood Knight Maul
    The Oathkeeper
    Axe of the Legion
    Axe of Rin'ji
    Silvermoon Crescent Axe
    Banner Slicer
    Blight

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  3. For those who have never imported an Auctionator shopping list I explain how in the video in this post (at about the 5:00 mark).

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  4. Some items to add/information:

    Grim Scythe (BoE scythe model)
    Warden Staff (Priestly Staff)
    Soulkeeper/Staff of Hale Magefire/Elemental Mage Staff All share the same model, but are relatively rare, but tend to pop up quite a bit on huge servers (like Lightbringer [A]) but on my med/low population, they barely ever pop up.

    The obtainability of Phantom Blade were increased recently, for those Blacksmiths interested in crafting it to sell, I recently wrote a blog post about it here.  Thanks for this great list, I really appreciate it, look forward to using it in my mogging arsenal.



    Cheers,

    Phat Lewts

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  5. Thank you Phat! I did not include any Scythe models for Polearms because there are about 6 BoEs and numerous BoPs with a simple Scythe model, some of them more common than others, and I haven't gotten any of them to sale unfortunately.

    Your staff discussion has convinced me to think over a small list for them though starting with the Soulkeeper lookalikes since there are a few rare finds to hunt out.

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