| A Time to Farm? Bots Dying! | | | | disenchant for profit depending on the price of |
| Blizzard has done a fantastic job on regulating | | | | infinite dust. I see between 16 and 40 gold on |
| bots the past two months and the results are | | | | average from prospecting a stack of saronite. |
| already apparent to most players who buy out | | | | The key is cutting the uncommon gems and |
| herbs and ore regularly. Lichbloom for 50 gold a | | | | quadrupling their value, as well as transmuting |
| stack? Icethorn for 25 gold a stack? My my my | | | | meta gems. |
| these are the prices that we saw at the START | | | | Lichbloom, Adder's Tongue, Icethorn |
| of wotlk! Sometimes it gets so bad that lichbloom | | | | Here's where it gets tricky. These herbs are |
| break 100 gold a stack. | | | | skyrocketing and it's going to get tough for glyph |
| It's funny, I think back to all the posts gevlon has | | | | makers very soon. The best deal I've seen on |
| written on how blizzard secretly loves botting | | | | my server is adder's tongues for 18 gold a stack |
| farmers and how they are so evil. Blizzard actually | | | | and that's about as good as it's going to get. |
| HATES bots and has done an excellent job | | | | These herbs are the best for milling to craft |
| removing them. However, the killing off of most | | | | glyphs and other inscription items, so seeing them |
| bots is a double edged sword for real gold | | | | so expensive really limits what you can do unless |
| makers who buy tons of herbs/ore every day. | | | | you change the price range on your glyphs. Since |
| No longer can you employ strategies such as | | | | it's my blog I'll tell you how I'm dealing with this :). |
| snagging mats real cheap when a farmer posts | | | | For starters, I am only selling glyphs that cost 20 |
| each day. What's going to happen eventually is | | | | or more gold. Next, I'm selling armor vellum III's |
| that the price of crafted goods will gradually rise | | | | for 8 gold or more, runescrolls for 5 gold each, |
| to sync up with the new material costs, but until | | | | and faces of doom + iron-bound tome for 200 |
| then the markets will be a little lopsided. | | | | gold each. With these prices I basically avoid the |
| Throw into this mess the holiday as well as kids | | | | pain of posting hundreds of 1-19 gold glyphs and |
| being back from school and you have a seller's | | | | instead can craft 100 20 gold glyphs for |
| market. Here's a look at how you can respond: | | | | maximum profit to time ratio. |
| Saronite Ore | | | | Borean Leather |
| Transmute into Titanium Bar – One stack of | | | | Haven't noticed a change on my server for |
| saronite ore gets you 1.25 titanium bars. With | | | | borean leather. If anything the price has |
| transmute spec this can be a nice 133% return | | | | decreased and leg armors are making even more |
| on investment. Titanium bars tend to be around | | | | profit, especially rare versions of armor kits. |
| the same price as a stack of saronite ore. | | | | If prices get to the point where they are |
| Prospecting + Cutting/Transmuting – You can | | | | ridiculous (ie 100 gold stacks of lichbloom) just go |
| take everything you get from prospecting | | | | farm it! Also, don't prospect/mill everything you |
| saronite and cut gems or use the mats to do epic | | | | own so that you can take advantage of when |
| and meta transmutes. Even with 20 gold a stack | | | | material prices get unusually high. Is it time to go |
| of ore you can still make good money doing this. | | | | farm on your server or continue crafting? |
| On some servers you can even craft rings and | | | | |