My paladin is in outlands! Him along side of another 99 screaming death knights (DK). Leveling my paladin and blacksmithing in outlands made me acutely aware of two things.
One, if you can heal in outland, your life is wonderful! Well, maybe not that wonderful since you have to deal with the incessant plea of DKs looking for healer in LFG. But if you need to run an instance as a healer invites would fly in like snow flakes. What is also funny is none of the DKs seem able to tank. Since I can only tank or heal at a time I am often relegated to the unfortunately choices of either heal a DPS tank that thinks he can tank because he has put 3 points in frost or tank myself and wait for the group to find another healer.
Two, you can make a good living in WOW just by catering for DKs. I already kind know this since my primary glyph customers are DKs. Out of all the glyphs my inscriber can make, DK minor glyph sells best. I wouldn’t be surprised if I had made a flying mount doing exactly that. Blacksmithing is all together something else. It has been a huge money drain from the get go. Not only does it cost a fortunate to buy the ores so you can level up; save the occasional rod sell the crafted items from BS has been completely junk. They are either white or crappy greens that doesn’t sell at all on AH. The situation completely turned itself around after the painful stretch of 250-300. As soon as I skilled up into the DK range (>300), stuff made using BS suddenly are selling like hot cakes. For earlier recipes (300-310) I would break even on AH while the lately most things I craft are selling at a profit! My currently best seller is the Adamantite Cleaver which costs me 15 gp to craft but sells between 30-40 gp on AH. I looked up these buyers and sure enough they are all DKs.
Considering 40% of server are DKs I guess BS is worth having just to serve them.
4 comments:
Hmm.... I like it! I'll have to keep those glyphs in mind when working at them on my new toon.
Well. Depends on market I guess. After this blog went live my server's economy on glyph completely collapsed. Now they are selling at the cost of making them! Yuck!
It is hard to make money w glyphs unless you sell a thousand a day. But its fairly constant money. For what that's worth.
Here is the thing. You don't need to sell a thousand a day. You need find items that is needed but no one else sells and corner the market.
This can be done a couple different ways. One way is to buy out all the guys that is selling glyph for 4 gp/pop (namely you) and relist them at 25 gp. Since the demand for glyph is inelastic players will have to buy them at 25 or 4. This only works for a casual AH not for someone who is also out for the same market. If you are against someone who is in the same market and have the same savy you have it is easier to camp the AH and list those a few silvers below his listing price. This we generally split the market between me and him.
For me specifically I will exist an market when the price competition gets too cut throat and return when everyone else has bleed and left the battle field. I don't sell a lot of glyphs on a daily basis but each one I sell will net me at least 10-15 gp.
I have plenty stuff I cycle through on a daily basis so something is always making money at the moment.
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