Phase 3: Profit !

The most Profitable Profession.

My Reasons (Excuses) of not learning inscription before

Although Gevlon and Markco ensured inscription is still the most profitable profession, I was hesitated to actually become on myself. This is a summary of what drew me back…

1. I was busy on the BLSH and Disenchanting business, which gave me 300-500g per day.
2. My cash flow was always 4-5k and I am always reinvesting the remain into the market again, for investments and low-priced items. (I’ve 6 stacks of Eternal Life as investment)
3. Lack of alts – which means I had to drop one of the profession for the inscription. And since I aimed to be Grandmaster Scribe I need a 65lv+ alt, while I only have 2 toons at the moment (My DK is on the horde side)
4. Last but not least : Cowardness

In my life, I always doubted when I made a conservative decision.

Is that because of reasoning from facts, or is that just my fear of changes?

It’s reasonable to stay back from big investments when your cash-flow is low (on point 2). And Lacks of alt requires me to drop one of the money making profession (50-100g per day) for it as well (point 3).

The Turning Point

• Steady flow of cash – Although it happened long ago (I do book keeping) , knowing it is an random event. I had purchased dual spec last week (Since I kept on earning money and always had some spare cash around). I discovered that, from my BLSH business, I already can spare 1k per week on investments (Which is not much for Big Traders, but consider I had only 20k total estimated-value goods).
• In my whining post about raid, Gelvon asked me why I don’t buy a spot as he did. One of the reasons is that I don’t have enough earning and gears. So I had incentive to earn more now
• I decided to drop my 150 enchanting for the inscription. Which is not a big hassle, since I can have my low level alts to deal with it, I consider mid-level disenchanting not very money-efficient (The Profit to price of gear is not as great as low level one). But that’s discarding 100-200g skill training investment
• The Most important one, is that Gelvon and Markco ensure that the inscription profession is still very profitable

What I did, and Tips for new scribes

• Take a deep breath, and tell the Inscription trainer “I cannot do that stupid gear-crushing work anymore, can you teach me how to do those lovely writing thing?”
• Buy a [item]Pack of Endless Pockets[/item] or even two, for some reasons, the prices goes very low on my server (<10g), My assumption is that, it’s on the leveling path of leather-working. The price of herb bags are very high (300g+), so don’t bother
• With one bag empty in bank, so you can swap the back in and out if you don’t have a dedicate bank alt for it like me
• Sell Green Pigment or ink on mid level, unless you want to create the off-hand or tarot for profit. I didn’t check the price for it though…
• Low level ink ([item]Moonglow Ink[/item], [item]Ivory Ink[/item])is not worth stocking, also as their associated pigment and herb. Since you’ll probably need only one [item]Moonglow Ink[/item] per day for Minor Inscription Research anyway
• The Sweet spot of inscription started from selling Glyphs, so never consider give up before you crafted your first Glyph. The profit margin is about 200-300% f you pick the right glyph
• [item]Ink of the Sea[/item] price should be you anchor point for pricing, Jessica loves us!
• LilSparky’s Workshop and AdvancedTradeSkillWindow combo do help a lot for the “profit-rotation”.
• As suggested by others, the mid-level pigment and ink is always overpriced/inflated on AH, don’t bother buying/selling

I am a happy businessman hereafter

Sidenote: I am 350 inscription now, and spent around 1000g (While had a stock of ink and Glyph). But I expect to earn those back in a few days. (I got a lots of herbs on 60% off for milling to Ink of the sea)
Sidenote 2: I may write up another tips post, for more organized thing I encounter while leveling (The list now is relevant to 0-250 level).

How about you? are you start to sell Glyph yet?

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