Anyone with PTR have info on the new JC designs?

Rep Reward?

Which vendor?

Details on gem attributes?

Which ones do you all think will have a descent market once the patch hits?

For the common designs that drop from bosses in BEM, how many kills did it take to get some of these, and how many did you have to have in your party?

I think rogue/druid farming LPSs out of normal setthek would be more profitable. Even if it took the same time per kill as solo-farming SPSs (more likely faster) your share of the split hawl is 1.5 SPSs per boss instead of 1.

While there are quite a lot of "effortless" ways of making gold via buying and then prospecting/crafting/reselling I find the best way to go for myself is straight up old school farming. I've made as much as 2500g on a single night making very little use of professions. Knowing the market is key in this case as well as attention to drop rates and the farming patterns of others.

I typically "diversify my portfolio" as to not flood the market and have a long wandering farming route that starts at Allerian and meanders across the globe depending on the farming habits of others and what I feel like going for. Being a warlock I have the ability to tag multiple mobs, self heal, and kill on the run with very little downtime. Food and Water are very expensive so usually I kick off the farming spree with a visit to the daily BG to pick up my mage food and maybe 12g. Blackened Basilisk sell for around 25g a stack and you can effortlessly dot train the entire zone multiple times in a very short period. Netherweb Spider Silk is always a big seller in the 6g range and you can farm those out quickly as well and sell 30 a night easily. Signet/Tomes/Primals are next on the list with a quick trip to SMV.

Very important to old school farming is understanding what mobs are "quest mobs" and how a quest mob impacts your farming. Typically they have much higher respawn rate but the downside that they will not drop "world drop" items or recipes. The SMV enraged air elementals are a perfect example of this. Never will they drop a single blue item or JC/Enchanting pattern but will drop the standard assortment of motes, greys and greens. The way these mobs are programmed there has to be a set number of them in existence on the map at any given time, if one is killed that lowers their population below the programmed minimum one will instantly respawn at one of their points. While this has very little impact on a solo farmer, with enough people in this area you can force "instaspawn" nirvana where you wont even need to take a step to tag a mob. As long as the other farmers are hitting the mobs as hard as you you will never have to mount to make it to your next kill. This can be achieved by an organized group, but I prefer it to be 4 farmers of the opposite faction, and myself tucked away in my magic corner chain pulling 30 mobs back to back.

You also can't ignore the value of grey items... Make sure your bags are empty enough to carry every last scrap you can. A typical grey item will vendor for 1g and stackable greys for 2.5g. Effortlessly murdering multiple mobs on the move as a warlock means you will probably spend at least 30% of your farming time simply going back to loot. Really cuts into your through put but can be alleviated by what I call a "loot bunny". Basically you have a 60+ guildy sick of questing follow you for the steady steam of incoming XP and do all your looting for you. They get the XP... I get everything else at the end. If their packs get full they can unload to your packs on the move and keep going.

Greens that vendor for under 7g are DEed by my priest to be made into LPS along with the cloth drops. If the LPS market is low sometimes 16 slot bags are a better way to go. The priest is parked at Halaa to snag up as many Avenging Blades as possible.

Oddly enough runs through ZF can make you some cash while you help your friend with quests and whatnot. There is an abunance of greens for DEing and large amounts of mageweave cloth, both are fetching good money on my server and using mageweave to tailor to DE can squeeze even more out of it.

While I could probably make just as good cash using my capital playing the AH there is something to be said about mass murdering your way around the globe.