Oh noes - I borked the economyFollow

Well maybe it wasn't all me, but after my DK pinged 450 on alchemy I turned into a crazy flask producing nut house. Buying up every piece of frost lotus that came on the AH under 30g, now you can't buy frost lotus for less than 55g, lichbloom has gone through the roof, as has goldclover.

Teh bottom has fallen out of teh market

Time to find another economic avenue to destroy

I did make 5k in a week though, oops.

Edited, Sep 25th 2009 9:27am by Goggy

When my server came online last year, a guy was bet (from another server) that he could not make 100k gold in a certain amount of time. He transferred his 80 druid and in short order had the inscription market owned completely by himself and by june (I believe) had transferred back to his normal server. He completely ruined the economy of inscriptions and herbs and there was a trickle down effect to most other products as well. We are basically still recovering from it.

Frost Lotus sell for more than flasks on my server.

Hate this crappy economy.

1 frost lotus makes 2 flasks though, plus with elixir spec you have a chance to proc extra flasks


My server (typical prices for making spellpower flasks)

lichbloom x 20 - 21g
ice thorn x 20 - 18g
frost lotus x 4 - 132g

Makes 8 flasks - total cost = 171g
Sell flasks at 25g per = 200g - 5% = 190g

So it's a thin profit margin at times, but generally those procs become the true money makers. It seems to me about a 15-20% chance to proc an extra flask. I admit if it weren't for the elixir spec, the profit margin is so slim I wouldn't bother.



edit- forgot price of vials. My strat with flask spam on the AH is just buy mats and sell high enough to break even. And all the procs are pure profit (minus 5% AH fee). They sell quickly. I also try to wait for deals on herbs and buy in bulk those days. So I make a little more profit then I mentioned above, also other days I can sell for 29g, etc.. just depends on market cycles.

Edited, Oct 14th 2009 3:45pm by mikelolol

Elixir of Mighty Fortitude :P


(or Agility...or level a scribe and mill the cheapest Northrend herbs ^^)

Meh, there's a lot of people who don't like it when others brag about breaking their economy. I can understand it, but I personally don't really care. I think a lot of people here rate others down for stupid ****, but the karma system is working as intendedTM.

I totally agree with you on cloth, herbs and ore. But with enchanting mats it does make a little bit of sense considering the odd amounts of mats needed for a lot of enchants. I keep my mats to 2 or 5 per stack at least, to make it slightly less annoying.

To Holyownage, what are you selling your saronite at? For my server people just list it on AH for 13g, which Im not 100% sure breaks you even from just taking a couple stacks, making bars and selling to vendor for 25g...

I am mining/JC right now and looking to make some my gold back after buying epic flying for my DK alt.

Get Auctioneer or some other AH addon. At least with Auctioneer you can sort it after cheapest buyout price and you can choose cheapest item price as well as stack prize.

Edit: Sarion beat me to it, sorry.

Edited, Nov 1st 2009 1:12pm by Mazra

Saronite is f-d on my server too - I'm this close to just turning it into bars and vendoring it (or turning it into gems on my JC toon) as the bars are barely clearing 26g a stack and ore is at around 12 bid/14 buy. Ah takes, what, a 5% cut so those people are only just making over vendor cost assuming they make the sale on first posting, otherwise, they're taking a loss.

Rate up for pointing this out though as I was this closing to dumping a full mining bag on the AH and probably would have taken a loss - now I'll start farming the AH for under vendor cost ore and just recycle it.

I'm going to scream if this is the case on my server too - hold on a sec...
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/SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@#$% cobalt is going for @#$% 2g for a small handful and 3g+ for the rest.

/sigh

So what's the best zone for cobalt pharming. :```(

I just made that post about Small Eggs, lol. I own that market, selling a decent number of stacks a day for 16-18 Gold. And getting a stack is so fast, and it produces Light Leather (5-6G/stack) as well.

Why in the world do people have trouble making money in this game? I'm not even the type that has ever had a 5 digit value for Gold. But c'mon...

It does. Not super fast and kinda slowly, but it does. And since I'm killing the mobs anyway...