My Patch BonanzaFollow

I was probably the only person in the world who was grateful for yesterday’s extended maintenance. I got off work and made it home just in time that my realm was coming up right as the patch was finished installing, so I was among the first people to reach the AH. I’d prepared heavily for this patch’s release, mainly by stockpiling hundreds of inks of the sea to meet the demand I expected for glyphs.

The first thing I did was buy out all the reasonably priced herbs that could be used to make shimmering, celestial, jadefire or lion inks, restack them in groups of five and repost them at twice the going price of goldclover. I consider this a stupidity tax on scribes who don’t know they can trade ink of the sea for any other ink. About 85% of these auctions have sold already, with 36 hours to go.

Then I hearthed to Dalaran and went to the inscription trainer, who had about half a dozen new glyph recipes for me, including the highly profitable mutilate glyph. Then I did northrend and minor glyph research just to see if they’d pay out. No luck: on live as on the test realms, the world drop glyph mastery books are the only way to learn the shiny new glyphs.

I settled on my price points: 27g for single-herb glyphs, 37g for double-herb glyphs and 47g for fast movers. I threw up my existing stock at the 27/37g prices, then started a scan on the AH to see what I should craft. I put up two copies of every glyph where the market fit my price points. This took a long time, and before I was done, some of my early glyphs had sold. I replaced these with two copies for every one that sold. By now I had identified my first fast mover: Blessing of Might. I started posting it at the higher price.

Most of the glyph requests in trade were for the new, unavailable glyphs, but keeping an eye on it did alert me to supply gaps several times, and helped me identify another fast mover: the bloodrage glyph. Overall, the greatest demand seemed to be for ret pally glyphs, which I assume was from holy and prot pallies picking up a soloing or PVP spec. I felt a twinge of jealousy towards alliance enchanters: their larger paladin population must mean this market is absolutely insane.

Similarly, boomkin glyphs (wrath, moonfire), elemental shaman glyphs (lava, flame shock), and shadowpriest glyphs (shadow, shadow word: pain) were all moving well. Again, probably healers making soloing builds. The healing glyphs for those classes sold nearly as well, especially flash heal and the trainable earth shield glyph.

There didn’t seem to be a big run on any particular tanking or DPS glyph, though they all sold steadily, especially the DK glyphs. I found I had underestimated the demand for minor glyphs, and after buying out all the cheap mageroyal and bruiseweed on the AH, I had to make a trip to Dalaran to trade in ink of the sea for midnight ink. I replenished my stores of parchment and shimmering/celestial/jadefire/lions ink while there.

After a couple of hours of selling glyphs about as fast as I could craft them, I checked in on the enchanting mats market and was pleased to find prices had risen nicely on dust and shards. Essences were still in a slump—I suspect that market will never again rise to the prices I’d like, so I should probably revise my valuation of them. Perhaps after the next arena season starts. Meanwhile, I cleared out my stock of mats, then found to my delight that a lot—and I mean a LOT--of cheap eternal earth had just been posted. I bought it all up, then sent it to my jeweler to make into rings that I DE’d, along with usual cheap greens from the AH. Then I went back to glyphs, then poked my nose in the gem market, which was pretty heavily staked out, but I discovered a surprising demand for armor penetration gems. Then, back to glyphs.

It’s pretty fun when the AH is humming like it was last night. Racing from one moneymaking scheme to another gave me that little adrenaline rush I get from an arena match or boss fight. And yes, the cash is nice. I look forward to owning a fine selection of BOE epics from Uldular.

I've made a decent amount selling gems. Sovereign twilight opals are going around 55-60g a piece (I buy the raw gems for around 15g a piece, sometimes less), reckless monarch topaz for around the same price. Purified twilight opals for 45g, quick autumn's glow for 50g. If my auctions sell I will be in a good place. (I made back about half of my dual-spec money yesterday night).

I actually did not know that (because my scribe is a level 66 alt and never been to Dalaran - THAT will soon change), but thank goodness herbs to make the lower inks, besides celestial, were available and reasonably priced. In an hour (which is about how long it took me to list my glyphs), I made about 1500g. Moving on to enchanting mats, not quite as many of them sold but I did make a healthy 750g or so. I will be logging in soon to check the 24 hour damage total.