What are you stockpiling for the patch?Follow

For the last few weeks my guild has been collectively stockpiling a massive collection of ore, herbs and enchanting mats across two vaults for Ulduar. Our ultimate goal is to have everything we could possibly need to make the new flasks, make ammunition for our hunters and enchant every upgrade every one of our members gets the moment it is equipped.

Borean Man O' War x 500, sadly all fished up.

Because when demand climbs, you can sell more units at a higher price unless you run out of stock. If you’re saying you don’t think you could run out of stock after the patch, fine. If you’re saying the risk involved in buying low hoping to sell high isn’t for you, fine. If you’re saying that it’s impossible to greatly increase profits by being bullish or bearish on the AH, well, my experience is to the contrary.

I’ve made rough calculations about the active Horde population of my server and the ballpark percentage of them that will need new glyphs in the week following the patch, basically supposing that for every character with an epic mount, three glyphs will be bought. That’s a lot of ink. I’ve been stockpiling inexpensive herbs for weeks now, and still have not hit my target numbers. Ore and dust prices are still dropping, but I plan to start stockpiling them soon in preparation for the next arena season opening.



I’m kind of surprised by the notion you might have liquidity problems. I mean, I’m spending thousands on vanity mounts and BoE epics for pre-70 alts, and I still have more gold than I feel I could usefully invest on the AH. I wouldn’t think maintaining a capital reserve would be a problem for you, given a commanding share of your enchanting mats market.

Demand. If I can sell "Item X" for 10 gold today, but sell "Item X" for 50 gold this weekend, I'd do that. I think 99% of the population would.

Mike ripped me before because I said I liked to hear opinions vs. links in regards to farming Mining. What you can't find out from a link is how many people are farming a typical zone lately, hence the real opinion/info from people I requested. For example, if Hinterlands has 100 nodes and Tanaris has 50, you'd think Hinterlands...but if 5 people are always farming Hinterlands that changes it.

/Highjack thread off. I think Mike wakes up on the wrong side of his bed every day.

And why wouldnt it? Its called supply and demand. Most people are too stupid to have everything they need before the patch. Not to mention everyone will again need stat food, elixers, enchants, gems, ect. Every single content release since the start of this game it has happened, and this will be no different. If people are already paying me 120g for a stack of dragonfin filet to farm naxx, why wouldnt they pay 200g per stack to farm uld? I think your the one living in never-never land mike

Edited, Apr 14th 2009 8:38am by montaghar

Could be, but I'm the one with three epic flyers, and enough gold on hand for a fourth when I need it. On the other hand, I don't NEED to stockpile anything to make lots of gold, so that may color my thinking.

You don't need to, but it's a fact that if you guess correctly on what's needed you'll make a bundle during this patch. A guildie of mine has been buying stacks of Saronite Ore for 20g a stack and Prospecting it; has been turning a 50-100% profit already, but he stockpiled a bunch of the gems this week. I expect he'll make a 200% profit on most of it. Making twice the amount for a few minutes of thinking "Hmmm, what might be needed in 3.1?" is a very good idea.

Oh, I get it. Some of us mistakenly thought you were weighing in on the best way to make gold, when what you were really saying is that you’re not trying very hard to make gold. Sorry about the confusion.