How Was 4.0.1 For You?
That, above, is a picture of my bank alt’s backpack. As an experiment before 4.0.1, I put all his gold in the bank. After very limited buying and selling, that’s how much I have now, as a direct result of 4.0.1, aka: Glyphmas! So I made about 9500 gold, not counting expenses.
Here’s my personal recap:
First of all, I don’t have a Scribe. I have no toon with Inscription. How did I make so much? Well, the night before 4.0.1, I went through my AH and bought any glyph that I could find at 5g or less. I was working alot in real life, I didn’t have time to properly prepare, and didn’t do anything before about midnight server-time the night before the patch. We recorded a special Call To Auction, then I went and bought any cheap glyph. That was it. I spent about 1,000g total and took about 15 minutes. I didn’t make as much money as Euripides or Markco, but for the amount of time I invested, I’m pretty happy. Glyphs that I bought for 4g were re-sold for 150g. Good times!
Other winners: uncut gems, infinite dust, eternal life, and eternal belt buckles. The belt buckles I owe entirely to Markco- he said they were going to be hot and he wasn’t lying. Due to a weird market spike, I was able to sell buckles that I bought for 18g (fyi: I don’t have a Blacksmith either, I just bought them cheaply) for 75g each. 30 buckles later, I’m very happy with my investment.
I didn’t have many losers, but the lack of a change to the various epic gem transmute timer cooldown(s) has made my Eternal Fire prediction inaccurate, but that’s about all I can think of. They’re selling like they usually do, but not in spectacular fashion at all. Another loser was the complete lack of Auctioneer, which means I was still figuring out Auctionator and bought a few stacks of Saronite Ore for 75g by mistake. I also was killed while attempting to solo Bloodlord Mandokir because I didn’t understand my stats and abilities. That was surprising, and hasn’t happened in a while, but that’s about all that jumps to mind in terms of bad things that resulted from 4.0.1. So, all things considered, I can’t complain.
But I digress… what I really want to know is how did you, Dear Reader, do in these past few days after 4.0.1? I want to know. Please put some feedback in the comments to this post. I’m sure we all did well, but I’d like to know how you did in specific markets. Thanks in advance for all feedback!
GL! /bow
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October 15th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
As per the experts, I was able to dump all my gems pre patch and avoid all that nasty profit. I forgot it was a school holiday on Monday and so the time i was planning to spend making glyphs was spent helping a younger relative gear his pally. Very, very annoying but RL obligations > WoW. Nobody pointed out that I should have made a couple of dozen spellthread before the price doubled. But nothing was worse than the addon situation. I misinterpreted the comments on the AA board and was expecting a usable AA much sooner. I started using APM before finding out about zero.
I did buy all the cheap scarlet rubies for transmutation, but should have been willing to buy more and buy more cheap glyphs. And bought out enough icethorn for a few thousand ink; should have bought more. The only other thing I did right was the vellums. Not only cheap vellums but peacebloom and silverleaf and moonglow.
P.s., Every leveling enchanter needs one golden pearl for their runed arcanite. Thus, just like in your college days, your rod causes you to spend a lot for the golden clam.
October 15th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
I’ve made about 15k off of Glyphmas, and wish I’d stocked up more on glyphs beforehand. Unfortunately, I had somehow missed the news that glyphs were going from 1 ink to 3 inks, so I ended up with a lot of inks and only 20 of each glyph.
I’m hoping to extend the profits for myself for a week or so, though, as the supply of glyphs on my server is still relatively low. WotLK herb prices have doubled to the 40-50g/stack range, so as a result I’ve been buying up any glyphs at 15g or less to restock myself (some people still have addons posting glyphs at 3-5g, which is under the new cost to make).
The addon changes really put a dent in my week, though, and I’m still sorting out my UI trying to deal with errors. In fact, it’s been bad enough that I put any leveling or dungeon runs on hold for myself all week, planning to nail down my UI this weekend.
October 15th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Sadly, my account was hacked and robbed last Friday and hasn’t yet been looked at by WoW fraud… so I had NO capital available to take advantage of anything. However, I was able to log in within about 8 hours of the patch release, and knowing about Glyphmas, I checked the AH to find… nothing. I don’t mean no glyphs, I mean nothing out of the ordinary. Items selling for 5-10g, very few selling at 40-50g. I was able to pick up the few things that i actually had money for at very reasonable prices… and that was it! Competition was far too fierce for serious profit to be had on my server, too many people were ‘prepared’ for Glyphmas forcing prices down. I’m sure some made some cash, but it looks like a lot more took their unsold glyphs home that first day.
My money in the future is in herbs. I don’t think people realized the increase in demand for inks. Herbs has always been a cooler market than Ore/Bars since their are just less applications for them, but not now. I expect the Glyph market will still stay very viable for some time now, as people will be making Alts by the score starting now
October 16th, 2010 at 2:39 am
I crafted 2000 glyphs before the patch and sold 850 in the first 36 hours after the patch dropped; 14k profit.
I sold 80 epic gems at 50 gold profit per gem, I did not post a single uncommon or rare gem as I have not yet decided what I want to do with them.
I sold 20 Eternal belts at 25 gold profit per belt; pocket change.
I sold 200 stacks of herbs; 6k profit.
I did not enter the enchanting mats and tailoring markets. No particular reason other than I was too busy in other markets.
I sold all but 2 of my Tome of Polymorph: Turtle at 0-25% markup as Blizzard has announced the tome will still be available in Caraclysm.
I spent 10k on 310% for my double-gatherer (she will see some action when Cataclysm is released) and my wife’s primary horde toon.
I spent 165 gold on a Tankard O’Terror for my rogue. The wife could not stopped laughing at this one because I owned 28 of those at the same time last year.
I spent another 25k buying exotic pets at reasonable prices.
I ended up poorer than I was last week.
October 16th, 2010 at 4:43 am
Made 100k in glyph sales since the patch, only had a 20 stack of each and no add ons for the first night.
October 16th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Been buying and milling herbs for the past month or so in preparation and spent last weekend stocking up on glyphs for AH bankers on both sides, so far up about 130k with some plans to try and restock for the rush of old players back into Azeroth when Cata hits.
October 16th, 2010 at 7:59 am
NOTHING
Glyphs never went above 40g per. Damn you casual realm!!!
October 17th, 2010 at 3:55 am
I spent far too much time thinking about gems and gem changes and not enough buying up glyphs. Sure, I had a crazy busy weekend with Canadian Thanksgiving but I knew this was coming and should have spent an hour or so glyphing the guaranteed hot ones (ie. the ones that I had written down that I would need on my 80s post-patch) and buying up every glyph in the AH under 2 or 3g. Dur! I did post about 500, all at a 57ish g fallback, 15 minutes before the servers went down for the patch.
As it stands, with the depressed gem prices in the couple weeks pre-patch and the 250g+ prices on many gems on patch night, I made about 20k on gems, just selling crazy numbers of them. I logged in to my glyph sellers and was thrilled and surprised to gather in page after page after page of 57g sold glyphs, so that was good times. Certain enchanting scrolls also sold really well post-patch and for a couple of days I could sell 10x+ a day for 5 times mats price. Sadly, scroll and gem markets have gone down to roughly normal now
. Some glyphs are still high, but most are sane now.
So even after what I considered really poor preparation, I was still up 52k over Tuesday-Thursday, on roughly 7k materials cost, so I’m pretty happy, but really kicking myself over missing the really big glyph boat. I had maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the glyphs covered and I still made tens of thousands of g off em. Well done to those of you who covered the lot!
October 19th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Did zero prep, had minimal inventory, started 2 days late, learning as I went along. Netted about 15k. Complete story:
http://wowmidas.com/2010/10/18/fighting-for-scraps/