Arcane Tomes - They Aint What They Used To Be
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Raknathal under Auction House, Gold Building
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Before patch 2.4.0, the arcane tome was the jewel of the Scryers. Now, it’s only a dusty old book sitting on the shelves of the Auction House. Patch 2.4.0, unleashed the Isle of Quel’Danas along with Kael’thas’ private army, the Dawnblade, creating a massive surplus of Arcane Tomes to be had. Also, to fight Kael’thas, Shattrath City has dispatched the Shattered Sun Offensive, which rewards players who are also exalted with the Aldor or the Scryers. An unforeseen opportunity arises out of these events.
What exactly happened to the Arcane Tomes and Fel Armaments? The new private army of Kael’thas, the Dawnblade, drops Arcane tomes like any other Blood Elf mob in the world, but also at greater rates. Due to the increased chance of getting an Arcane Tome and the increased activity in the Isle of Quel’Danas (Daily Quests Galore), a massive surplus of Arcane tomes has been pouring in. Due to decreased activity in other areas, Fel Armaments have become scarce, but the demand has stayed the same. Prices for Fel armaments have shot upwards, and Arcane Tomes have plummeted as a result.
After conducting some research on four realms, Medivh (Normal), Warsong (PVP), Thorium Brotherhood (RP), and Emerald Dream (RPPVP) I found conclusive information on the prices of Arcane Tomes and Fel Armaments. First, a fact from all the servers, Arcane Tomes had numerous pages of the item on sale. Fel Armaments had two or less.
On the Normal server that I researched, the average price for Alliance and Horde for an Arcane Tome was 15 gold 33 silver whereas for Fel Armaments, the average price was 24 gold 85 silver. The difference is 9 gold 52 silver.
On the PVP server, the average price for an Arcane Tome was 11 gold 37 silver and 17 gold 14 silver for a Fel Armament. That is a 5 gold 77 silver difference.
As for the RP server - I don’t know if it’s just this realm, but the numbers are extreme. The average price for an Arcane Tome was 14 gold 85 silver and for Fel Armaments it was 41 gold 27 silver! That’s a 26 gold 42 silver difference!
On the RPPVP realm, the average price for an Arcane Tome was 16 gold 16 silver and 23 gold 37 silver for Fel Armaments. The overall average price for Alliance is 11 gold 31 silver for Arcane Tomes and 23 gold 59 silver for Fel Armaments. And For the Horde (no pun intended) 17 gold 55 silver for Arcane Tomes, and 29 gold 78 silver for Fel Armaments.
So, what’s the point? Farm Fel Armaments; you can undercut the price and still make a lot of gold off the ridiculous prices. Fel Armaments is where the money is at, also it’s just good to have them because now if you want them, you can’t go to the Auction House and get a good deal like you normally would.
Where? As they say in the famous Youtube movie, Ni Hao, “Go farm some in Shadowmoon Valley.”
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another effect of the new dailies has been the dramatic decline in AH prices for netherweave cloth. this cloth was already under-priced for its level, since it’s the primary cloth dropped from 60-70 (runecloth still drops a little in the lower 60s) but with the added motivation for every 70 in the game to go kill humaniods every day over and over, the supply of netherweave has soared while the demand has fallen. i’ve seen it selling for less than mageweave. how ironic that we get used to the economy being a certain way then one simple change can throw it all off.
On the Muradin server (PVE), Arcane Tomes go for 7-10g, and Fel Armaments go for easily 20-30g.
Yo,
Ok farm arcane tomes they are ezer especially as me a mage can just aoe the shit out of em ok then trade the arcane tomes for fel arnaments then sell the fel arnaments. O BTW NYHM ROCKS
On Steamwheedle Cartel (EU RP) Fel Armaments are selling for around 30-60g a Piece depending on how busy the Auction House is, yet Arcane Tomes, youd be lucky to get 10-20g Per Tome.. This server is realy falling apart on the Horde side
Seems to be the effect everywhere.
On Dath’Remar (or Dath’Drama, for those of you playing at home), Arcane Tomes are selling for 8-10g, while Fel Armaments sell for 28-30g. That’s a huge difference - and this is on an Oceanic Normal server.
I even just saw an Arcane Tome selling for 6g b/o. Thats not right.
Blizzard need to do something to increase the Fel Armament drop rate or soon the inbalance will be immense. Still, profit while you can.
Ok Kirin Tor (US)
Fel Armaments are around 25g - 30g for a single one. Arcane tomes at minimum are about 6g - 12g. For a RP server thats really not that bad.
To explain the high insane prices on RP servers. People who Raid/PvP all the time believe all the idoits are on the RP servers, so they will believe that they will make more money on them if they sell.. lets say [Gavin's Dagger of Supreme Awesomeness] A purple item that has a 0.01% Drop rate off of The Black Stalker in Heroic Slave Pens. People will fetch after that and sell it for about 5,000g. A Few months ago to rebel againist the high prices, I farmed for hours on end for blue, and purple items and set the prices down a bit lower.
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