Inscription Guide
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Gavin under Auction House, Gold Building, World of WarcraftInscription went live on October 15th with patch 3.0.2, and a lot of our subscribers who have been paying attention to our advice made thousands of gold in a matter of a few hours.
We’ve leveled Inscription with every beta and PTR patch, and we know it like the back of our hands. We’ve done it more than 20 times through all the crazy changes, and farmed who knows how many herbs in the process. In a previous post, I reported that in just a little over 4 days I hit the gold cap of 214,000 gold selling glyphs in the Beta.
I’ve been telling you for a while that Inscription is going to be a huge gold-making machine. I’ve spent the last four years playing this game, and I look at World of Warcraft a bit differently than most players. I know how to spot tidbits in patch notes and see gold hidden between the lines. I know how to take advantage of special events and how to get prepared ahead of time. Inscription has the potential to make you more gold than anything else, ever. Period.
When I sat down to write this guide, I didn’t want some low-rent list of what to craft and in what order – those things are all over the internet (and already outdated, and most are dead wrong to boot!)
So we put our heads together and our noses to the grindstone, and when the smoke had cleared, we had a monster 40 page Inscription guide that teaches you what to make, when to make it, how to sell it, and how to squeeze every last gold coin out of the other players on your server.
Here Are Some Of The Things I Teach in my Inscription Guide:
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- Inscription Basics – I’ll talk you through exactly how Inscription works for the scribe from start to finish. If you know how it works before you try to work it you’ll be a master of the profession before you even hit 375
- Why You Should Do Inscription – Learn how big this market is really going to be, and why it’s worth THOUSANDS of gold to you
- Selling Glyphs – Understand exactly how to sell everything you make with Inscription
- Mods you simply must have – Grab the tools you will need to make sure you stay on top of all the noob scribes and nutballs out there
- Pricing Strategies – Learn how to price your glyphs to sell like mad and still make maximum profits
- Maximizing Your Profits – Where you’ll learn how to position Major and Minor glyphs on the market to bury yourself in piles of gold and why Minor glyphs may be the best money maker in the game
- Mastering Inscription – A step by step process where you will learn what herbs to buy, how to use herbalism the right way to farm specifically for Inscription, and how to hit skill level 375 in the shortest possible period of time
- Printable Action Plan – Once you’ve read the report you can print out our action plan as a quick reference. Armed with all that information and a solid plan you can attack Inscription today knowing exactly what you need to do next to fill your bank with massive piles of gold.
This beauty is not just a profession leveling guide; It’s a personal tutorial that will teach you how to completely crush the Inscription market. With this guide by your side, it won’t matter how many other people on your server are Scribes – you’ll constantly be one step ahead of them.
You’ll learn:
- Which herbs to really stock up on, it will surprise you (page 22)
- Which Glyphs to sell for almost 300 gold the very first day (page 19)
- A method of selling that will have people begging to send you their gold (page 15)
- An herb farming location often overlooked for one of the hardest pigments to create (page 26)
- When To Stop Right In The Middle Of Leveling To Run Straight To The AH And Sell (page 37)
I know there are lots of free Inscription guides out there. I’ve already seen most of them and you know what? They suck. They are outdated and poorly written, and NONE of them go beyond the basics. We have a saying here at the DYS office – “you can do the best you can, or you can be the best there is.” My Inscription Guide is the best there is…
Guaranteed
I’m so positive that you’ll absolutely LOVE this guide that I’m willing to guarantee it. Try my Inscription Guide out for a full 30 days. If you’re not happy with the guide, just email us here at DYS and I’ll happily give you a full refund.
Free Updates
Inscription is going to change significantly over the next few months. As those changes come, we’ll be updating the Inscription Guide regularly. You’ll receive each of these updates completely free of charge.
Instant Download
My Inscription Guide is a downloadable PDF file – you’ll have it on your hard drive in under 2 minutes.
Here’s the bottom line. This guide is your step-by-step battle plan for dominating your server when it comes to Inscription. Take a look at all the comments on this post from people who bought the guide and used it.
Mageblade wrote:
WOOT, bought the guide, logged in on patch day 4 hours after the server went live and was the first person on the server to hit 355. lvled in 3 1/2 hours and posted 1/2 on AH and sold other half in Org. I MADE 2,876g in 3 hours. THANK YOU!!!!
Go take a look at the gold sellers websites around the net – how much would 2,876 gold cost you? About $60. That doesn’t even take into account the hours of frustration you’ll save by knowing exactly how to level up Inscription – Mageblade started 4 hours after everyone else, and still beat them all to 355.
Even though my Inscription Guide will teach you how to earn thousands upon thousands of gold, we’re not charging an arm and a leg for it. In fact, the price is only $7. Remember, that price includes free updates, and your purchase is covered by our 30-day, 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Go read the reviews below this post – our customers LOVE our guides, and there’s a reason… they’re the best available.
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Beautiful, i might take a look at it myself.
Gavin, i just got done reading your inscription guide and ive never paid for a guide for warcraft before but i have to say, this is awesome!!!!! Thanks for everything you do!
Sarah
Guide is great very informative. Cant wait to Dominate the Market on my server! Thanks guys.
Hey Gavin, I just bought the Guide and I tell you this thing must have taken you forever! I hope you don’t have another job because I don’t think there is ANY way for you to get any sleep otherwise. I appriciate all the hard work. I’ve been farming for days getting everything I could, and think with this guide I just might be able to pull in a FAT pile of money come Patch Day. Thanks for all the help,
Daryl.
The $7 kind of popped out of nowhere. I realize that for goods or services rendered in a capitalist system there needs to be compensation – I actually strongly support this. However, in a WoW-based blog that already gets revenue through pay-per-click ADs the fee was kind of unexpected. I happily purchased the guide, and though the first 10 pages are pure fluff (not to mention lots of white space) the rest of the guide is fairly useful. I’ve saved up about 10,000 herbs anyway so I probably didn’t need it, but I’m glad I did. I hope people who bought version 1.0 won’t be asked to pay for 2.0/3.0 versions.
Everyone who gets this special edition will also receive free updates to all future versions. That’s the big bonus here: well that and this version should make you more gold in one week than anything else you’ve ever done.
Not only are you getting the updates for half price, but you also get this edition basically for free when you think about it AND if you go through the action plan you can’t do anything but make a LOT of gold. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
We know it would have been much better to give everyone more time, but we just ran out of time. Inscription got some changes just Wed., and they were significant enough that we had to re-level it a few times to make sure everything was as right as we could get it for release today.
I bought the guide when it first came out and started stocking up my herbs. Didn’t want to spend the gold to buy them so i picked them all myself. First day of the patch arrives… Auctioneer can’t be found working anywhere, LOL and my server is down a good 4 hours past the time they said it would be up. Most of the other servers, of course, were up hours earlier.
Anyway, I followed the guide exactly, and I’ve made about 1000g each day on selling glyphs since, even without having auctioneer to help.
I’d say it was well worth the $7 the guide cost me.
Oh yeah. Considering the hundreds+ hours of work and research that went into putthing this guide together, the price is a bargain.
Making lots of gold is wonderful.
Ok, please don’t bullshit me like every other guide out there (you guys are normally pretty straight forward though). I recently switched from ally to horde, and don’t play to go back to my 70s on the ally side. The problem is that I don’t have 70 yet on the server I plan to dominate. Highest level is 42, next one (which is my herbalist) is 35. My herbalism is at 225. Are the items you suggest to farm within my farming range, or should I just level this one to the bigger boys? I plan to just sell herbs at first, and take on inscription at a later date…
I’ll give it to you straight. Level 42 will get you through the Master level which will get you to skill level 225. That level is going to leave you without a bunch of major glyphs, but will allow you to learn all of the minor glyphs available at this point.
If you planned on selling herbs, let me offer another potential thing to sell. Go ahead and grab inscription and farm the herbs for and learn all of the minor glyphs you can while you level. Don’t just wait until later to do Inscription. Learning minor glyphs is on a 20 hour cooldown, so don’t wait.
The guide is laid out as a step-by-step plan, and you can just stop when you hit the limits of your current level. Using the guide you’ll still make a killing even if you can’t go all the way. You’ll just Dominate the lower half of the market, which is still a lot.
You could sell inks, they will be more valuable than the herbs for a while, but if you are going to level Inscription high enough to make all the available inks, you might as well be making the glyphs and be selling them for even more profit.
It would still be to your benefit to have the guide. The biggest reason is that if you get it now, you’ll get it at half price and still get all the future versions to use when your toons are at level 80. It’s a no lose proposition for you.
See, that’s what I wanted to hear. The truth! Thank you so much! I think I’ll go ahead and buy the guide, as it seems that it might just be beneficial for me to start on day one… Now, is the only location to pick up Inscription going to be in Outlands? If so, I need to go buy a port now, and run my way to the location…
There are Inscription trainers in every major city, the outlands trainers in Hellfire train the last levels and glyphs. So in your situation you’ll be just fine – you won’t need to go to Outlands for anything.
Hi Law and Gavin,
I’m dropping LW tonight and switching to Herbalism on my Shadow Priest to farm Herbs for leveling Inscription in 3.0 on my Warlock.
Honestly, if I purchase your guide (I’ve been a DYS reader for almost 2 years now), how much gold can I REALISTICALLY make in the first week of 3.0 go-live?
Wow, that’s hard to say. There are just too many variables there. But my guess is that I should be able to make 10% as much on the live servers as I did in the Beta, which means I expect to make 25,000 gold or more the first week.
Now, I have a LOT of experience working the AH, it’s really my favorite thing and my area of expertise in the game. If the AH was Raid gear, I would have all BT gear and the legendary drops. If the Ah was arena I would have all the best PvP gear.
But here’s the thing – that’s what this guide is about. We wanted to write something that would help everybody do well with this one. It’s a unique opportunity, and we want our readers to make nearly as much gold as we do. You might not make as much gold as Gavin and I do, but you may very well make more. It kind of depends on your server and how the market moves. Inscription is the perfect storm of everything we look for in a gold-making opportunity.
The Inscription guide WILL help you squeeze every possible gold piece possible out of this event. If we’ve done our job well, there will be folks that use our techniques to make even more gold than we do on their server. That’s when you know the information was great, when what people learn from the teacher allows the student to be even better than the teacher. We’ve been teaching you guys for a couple of years now, and the Inscription guide will take you through one of our gold-making processes in such a complete way that you can’t help but make a pile of gold much bigger than you could have without it and maybe even bigger than mine.
Without a doubt this guide is essential! In addition to Gavin’s and Lawbringer’s words of wisdom I have been doing some additonal research on my own (referance inscription) and the info they put out today isn’t common knowledge on the street at all. Its packed with all kinds of little gems of info that will ensure you maximize your profits. Without it you might make some serious errors come patch-day! This is the most if not the ONLY comprehensive guide out there. On a scale of 1 to 10 this is a definitive 10! Worth every penny!
Theos/Theor-Medivh
I have a concern about competition. I have a fairly low pop server but some really aggressive AH folks on there whose names are constantly monopolizing the market for various items. I would guess a few of them are probably subscribers here even. With that in mind, are there any potential issues for something like this? Is your guide assuming everyone is asleep at the wheel with herbs/inscription or can I do well in a small but competitive market?
Thanks for all the help.
Matt
I know there is a great market on the first week of 3.0 patch, but how about after WoLK release? it’s 1 month after, but I want my DK to get Inscription instead of droping my other toon’s prof (really want to keep alc on priest)…. should I just sell some of the extra herb on AH? or have my lvl20 alt mill the herb? or just wait for the DK
The market will surge again to a degree when all the DK’s hit the market, but since people will be able to make DK glyphs BEFORE wrath hits, it won’t give you as big of a bump as this first round.
Inscription and glyphs will continue to make gold for – well, ever basically. There are still JC’s out there making good gold cutting gems. Glyphs beat gems silly. Also, don’t you just KNOW that there will be recipe drops? Every other profession has them, so it would be stupid to think that every single scribe will always have all the same trainer glyphs.
I know it might be tough to think about dropping alchemy if you’ve learned a lot of proc recipes. If you don’t have another reasonably high level toon to do Inscription with, it STILL might be worth your while to drop alchemy for this one. My Scribe dropped LW 375 and skinning for this. It’s just too big a gold-making opportunity for me to wait on.
So, don’t wait for the DK, making the level 150 inks won’t be a big gold-maker (making inks will probably only work if you can make a lot of them at nearly all the levels up to 300) and if you simply can’t bring yourself to drop alchemy you’re only left with one choice, sell your herbs. Peg your price at 300% above whatever the current market is and I guarantee you not a single one will go unsold.
The really ironic thing about this choice is that since herb prices are about to skyrocket out of control and stay much higher than ever before, your alchemy from farming the herbs themselves is about to go through the roof too – kind of a funny choice you’re faced with here.
Just adding my comment here – I am an Alch/Herb and my Pally is taking Scribing – as for the Drops, I would *think* there will be some since the trainers stop at 350. This could also be for game balance, and Blizz is waiting for Higher levels to be around before releasing the Higher Glyphs. However, Pot Formulas Rarely drop, i have only seen/gotten a few, and most are in instances. So – that being said, I would expect the more Fluffy Glyphs to be drops. Possibly some rare and “Epic” Drops as well, but based on past experience, I wouldnt expect many. I want to see if there will be Rep Glyphs – that should be interesting.
The Guide was helpful.
Looking forward to seeing where this will go.
Currently, My Servers AH is Flooded with the lower level stuff needed to level. I am holding onto some of these so once the market adjusts, I will get prime coin for them.
Additionally, the 2 Minors I have are selling Nicely for 100g a pop, and i have sold over 15 so far (not many, but covers the cost of the herbs i didnt have in stock)
Cheers, and god luck.
why would i spend money on an inscription guide that will probably only make me profit for about a month? I would much rather spend my money on a more gold-reliable guide
thanks though
You’re in luck, we are doing one of those – BUT . . .
If you do Inscription right from the very start, you can be THE scribe on your server, which will make you lots of money for a lot longer than just a month. The key here is that this patch has the potential to make you more money than anything else you can possibly do for the next month.
I think you’ve got the wrong impression about just what this is and how good we are at what we do. But I hear you, and we’ve been working on a complete gold guide that covers how to make thousands of gold every week no matter what special things are going on that will be available soon. But I don’t think that’s a good reason to miss this one – up to you.
Matt – If the aggressive AH guys have this guide, you will all still make a killing. If you read the guide you will understand why. 5 People on a server couldn’t flood the market the first week. If they don’t have this guide, you WILL beat them at this. Either way you win. And at half price and all the future updates it’s a no-brainer.
Actually – it would be my personal opinion that if those other guys are DYS readers, it would be the best possible situation. They will not do stupid things like drastically cut prices and crazy things that will make the market move DOWN. They will know that they can move the market UP. A few of you who can do this could potentially keep the market much higher for a lot longer than if everyone else selling glyphs is a noob.
But, more directly, if you are in a small AND competitive market, you have only two choices: supply all the scribes with ink, or go to market with a better plan and beat them all to heck. Honestly I hope you choose to do the latter. This guide will tell you everything you need to know to beat them all at this opportunity.
Got & read your guide. Good Job!! The list of herb mats helped a lot to get me organized. I have a personal guild bank with 5 tabs, one dedicated to herbs. After going through your list & taking inventory, I found I was short in a couple sections, while over in others. This alone will save me a bunch of time. With your guide I figure I should reach 350 within short order once the patch goes live. I already have all the mats to reach 375, but am buying/farming more until patch day.
I do have a suggestion. In each section the herbs sell for different prices. For example in section 8 (Nether Pigment Herbs), Nightmare Vine sells for around 35-40g while Felweed sells for around 3-5g per stack. I was able to buy over 70 stacks of Felweed for 3g a stack in one shot.
I had purchased your leveling guide & now have 5 70’s & 2 60’s. Figured by buying the inscription guide I’d help support you & this site. More than got my money’s worth. Keep up the good work. More fun to do it myself with a little knowledge than to cheat & buy gold or pay someone to level my charaters. Why were playing wow to have fun.
Thanks
Rege
Aegwynn
This guide is nothing short of amazing. It consists of where you need to train, what to train, where to pick herbs, and what/how to sell for the best profits. It may be really in-depth, but that is because these guys have put together every little detail you need to know and more. I can’t imagine the time spent on this.
If you havn’t bought this guide yet then I suggest doing it now. Not only is it half price currently, but this will prepare you so that when the Xpac comes out you will be the top inscripter on the server within a day. Most people will start from scratch and even if they have herbs stocked they still won’t know what to do. This way you will be fully prepared.
Yeah this inscriptions prf is great our herb AH market is nuts it’s at 900% above market * Insane* iv’e got about 50000 herbs lol mega gold rush here
haha iv’e been casually farming 4 ever with over 2 guild bank tab’s of mountain silver sage a winner on this server with prices at 70 gold a stack WOOT WOOT
DOMINATE
People who get this guide might question some of the pricing strategies we used. IF you have any question about how profitable this is going to be, just read the post above and then look at this:
70 gold for the second best Silvery Pigment herb means a mill price of almost 18 gold. This is only 90s difference from the EXACT price we predicted in the Inscription Guide! Not only that, but the patch isn’t even out yet. Prices will go higher than this, and so will glyph profit potential.
IF you’ve farmed all your herbs by hand OR were able to buy all your herbs for lower than past market value – AND herbs jump like what we’ve seen already, that means you can sell your glyphs based on FUTURE herb prices, while using mats from PAST prices and watch the gold roll in like a tidal wave.
We covered every single bit of this in this guide, and everyone who gets it will find ZERO surprises on patch day and beyond.
For those toying with the thought of buying the guide consider this.
1. The info contained within every single free guide on the net (inscription and herbalism) is contained and put to shame in this one.
2. Maximizing profit is an understatement. I’ve just read it and estimate a 500% increase in profits than i would have gotten, mostly from ignorance of where the real money making is.
3. Free updates.
4. The money-saving tips in the previous DYS post “Order Wotlk Now” will pay for this guide rather quickly, and you will still have the benefit of having it.
Bottom line, if you want to crush the opposition to pigments and make glyphs of them, spend seven bucks.
I just bought the guide and I am waiting on delivery. Just hope that your guaranteed update covers any new mods and such. Bought Brian Koops leveling guide awhile ago expecting ALL updates, just to find him charging extra now for the in game mod. That left me filled with doubts about guides on this site, but I decided to give you guys one more try. Hopefully I won’t be disappointed.
Hey Koyote,
You should have received the guide instantly after payment. If you didn’t send a copy of your receipt to editor@dominateyourserver.com and we’ll email it right back to you.
As for updates… when we say free updates, we mean it
-Gavin
Hiya Gavin & team!
Was a bit doubtfull about buying the guide, but it didnt cost much so I thought ‘why not’. Very glad I did
Its pretty indepth and will def save me much time and stress on patch day.
Quick question though, looking through the herbs i will need to hit 375, im way way over stocked on Albaster Pigment herbs (around 100 stacks) would you recomend i sell the earthroot now at about 5g a stack and just use the peaceblooms/silverleaf (making me 3g profit per stack) or wait and sell them all on patch day onwards? or indeed just keep them and use them myself?
Many thanks!
Just got the guide and I’m blown away by the step by step details. Also, great for planning what herbs I need. I had a lot of misconceptions based on other guides, such as the WoW forums etc…I found that I overstocked herbs on some and had at least one type of pigment that I didn’t have enough of. Huge surprise as I thought for sure I had enough. I would have been caught out paying through the nose to stock up on that ink to level further. Time to hit the farming again before patch to get what I need. Great guide, would recommend to anyone not on Dath’Remar (that’s the server I am going to dominate lol). 2 Thumbs up on $7 well spent. Thanks.
sigh boy talk about bad timing haha .. payday is not till the 14th.. and i know ill missout onthe special price but what’s a month of wow compared to 5 epic flying mounts when i currently have none.
waspire is an original and unique name and im still the only wow toon to have it.
lets see if i can uhumm borrow some cash from my brother. see ya tomorrow .. Good luck all on patchday.
for horde side on antonidias the market for herbs is Scarce and the market on alliance is like HUGE .. i went and compared them bolth the horde side was 50% cheaper… price for silversage as of this morning was 65gper 20 with only 4 stacks available and alliance was at 95g with 15 stacks avail.
so gavin yea time to go farming.
Well I apologize for posting here but have no responses from the emails I sent you guys. I paid via Paypal and thought I’d have to wait for money to transfer from my bank so I closed the window and didn’t get the download either. I’ve emailed you at the address you gave for Koyote’s issue but no response yet. So I’m posting here so you’ll see it. Thanks.
Matt
Hi Matt,
Your guide is on the way!
-Gavin
Just wondering, what is the price for AHing the inks and glyphs? Is it free to list like enchanting mats or does it cost more like herbs/alchemy? How much should I save to list, buy parchment etc…?
Hi Guys I have bought guides from you in the past and they rocked!
I was also going to wait for the Xpack and slam inscription on a DK until I saw the potential for uber gold making. I have 375 herbalism on my 70 main and 375 alchemy. I am going to drop mining from my lvl 36 alt and teach her inscription.
QUESTION: Is there any benefit (besides gathering) to having herbalism on a character with Inscription? I’m hoping no as she also skins.
Lvl 36 will get this character to Master and then I can level her to get to the better high level glyphs?
Thanks
As far as I can tell there is no major benefit to having a toon with both Herbalism and Inscription, as long as you have a way to feed your scribe all the herbs s/he needs. However, to my mind it’s a natural pairing (just like Herbalism/Alchemy and Tailoring/Enchanting and Mining/JC|Engineering).
I’m not sure your statement is correct here. Herb prices are going to rise a LOT. having herbalism on at least one toon will reduce your production costs for mats to zero which means more profit.
Until herb prices stabilize, it will be very beneficial to have an herbalist to go with Inscription.
The guide doesn’t specify which beta/PTR revision the numbers in the checklist are for. For example, PTR build 9056 increased the number of herbs needed at almost every level, so that the shopping list in this guide (which I bought, and it well worth the money — great work) are a little lower than some other guides I’ve seen. Definitely take the advice that you should overstock: if you don’t, you are going to lose. Herbing after the patch is released is going to be painful, especially in the Old World.
The guide is correct according to build 9056. As a matter of fact, that is one of the reasons that we couldn’t put the guide out on monday. We had to go back and level Inscription another couple of time according to the latest build to make sure there would NOT be any surprises.
However, keep in mind that build 9056 may not be precisely the way Inscription finalizes for patch 3.0.2 – there may still be some minor changes. The other guides you are looking at actually are done from previous builds.
It’s not exactly accurate to say that 9056 increased the number of herbs needed on all levels. The biggest difference in 9056 was that there seems to be a shift from Silvery Pigment herbs being the hardest part to the Emerald pigment herbs being brutal.
It is a very good idea to overstock, that is why we say that having 40 stacks of every herb type is a very good idea. Not just so you make sure you’ve got enough mats to merely level, but also that you have plenty to make a lot more glyphs to sell after you level.
I have been subscribed to your articles for months now, and I have always found that they come very handy. Im Ashamed to admit that i used to think you were a scammer, it wasnt untill you recently posted this article that I decided to test drive your guides. I was preparing myself for a scam, untill i received and read your Inscription leveling guide. And I never thought i would actually be replying with good comments about it, I seriously had the impression that you wrote all of these comments about your guide to yourself to make you look more legit. But this has got to be the best guide i have ever seen, and i am very impressed, i thought i was prepared for inscription bit i was wrong, not untill this guide have i really been ready for inscription. I am also much more confident on using the AH. To anyone that is considering buying this guide, i highly reccomend it. It is only foolish to miss this oppurtunity, this window into lots of gold. And gavin and his team have showed us how to take full advantage of it. Thank you so much.
I’ve been following inscription for a while now, and I really want to jump on it when the patch goes live. Problem is, I just started on a new server to play with a bunch of guys, so my character is only going to be around 50 come patch day, and I have very litle gold. I’ve been farming as much low level herbs along the way, but my priority has been leveling. With this in mind, is it even worth it for me to pick up the guide, or inscription for that matter?
Tyler,
With the situation you just described, I don’t think that current version of our Inscription Guide will be as useful to you as it would be to someone ready to hit it on patch day (this version is all about how to maximize gold on patch day).
However, you’ve got plenty of time to level your toon and max out inscription before WotLK comes out. The next version of our Inscription Guide will be geared for that day, and there will still be lots of gold to be made then… the techniques will just be different.
If you want to do Inscription and you’re going to be able to get to level 70 before WotLK comes out, then I’d recommend getting our Inscription Guide now instead of waiting – it’ll save you $7 down the road (since the price goes up on patch day).
- Gavin
Thanks for all the advice guys, im on a slightly smaller server and because of that i bought up the whole herb market on thursday and have been steadily jacking up the prices in preparation for patch day so my insciptions sell for more, have also been buying up all the ******** stuff so people get stuck at that when they try to lvl since about a week and a half ago. our herbs on the server from outlands all the way down have over quadrupled and there are still people trying to pick them up. the few others who herb heavily on my server ive convinced its in there best interest not to undercut me by more than a gold per stack so come patch day there should be quite a killing to make especially seeing as how ive picked up all my herbs at a vastly discounted price when people were trying to empty their banks for the xpac
Let’s not discuss the contents of the guide in the comments. It’s in everyone’s best interest to keep this information to themselves.
Just one thing, i bought this guide and it seems solid. Although I think my server (Dunemaul EU) has gone a little too far in herb prices. Currently im looking at 10g for a stack of 20 PEACEBLOOM. It gets pretty astronomical once you get to the end end stuff, dreamfoil for 70g, anyone?
Basically, should i make any adjustments to what you are suggesting in the guide when it comes to selling these glyphs?
Most definitely! When you read our pricing section, just plug in your current price per mill on your server, and then make the same profit increase % on your glyphs. You are going to make a killing.
A change of subject. Will we be able to use our flying mounts in the new area? Or will we have to get new ones?
Yes, you will use your current flying mounts, but not until
a quest chainyou pay 1000g at level 77 give you the “cold weather flying” ability.Hey, iv’e been loading up on herbs for the last bit trying to prepare for the patch. I have at least 35 stacks of everything from golden up with 45 of the Emerald. On the lower end stuff I only have about 20 stacks each. I was just wondering how much this will affect proffits for me. Should I go out and get some more Alabaster and dusky, or keep focus on the higher end stuff to make a larger profitt on the higher end herbs? any opinions? Thanks.
The guide tells you where the sweet spot is. As a general rule more of everything is better, but Alabaster isn’t something I would have a lot of – it just doesn’t make anything very profitable at all. All of the rest are fair game, just be sure to hit the sweet spot hard.
Just a quick question. Does rare herbs like grave moss, wintersbite, and wild steelbloom have a greater proc rate at rare pigments? But the real question is, Is it worth farming or buying these rare herbs at higher prices than the normal herbs or farming these herbs than regular herbs?
If you’re farming – just get the most herbs you can. It’s not really worth the tons of extra time to go for the rare stuff since the proc rate boost isn’t more than 1%.
Almost the same thing with buying them, except that it’s nice to have a few stacks of the rare stuff just for the rare pigment procs, but don’t spend an arm and a leg.
We didn’t go into proc rates in this version because it’s pretty much a moot point for the first week or two. It will be more important later to farm the right stuff more exactly, but don’t worry about it now.
gavin would it be possible to reserve a copy at the 7 dollar price ? well honestly i want the guide but payday is wed… and like every military guy out there the 1st and 15th are the paydays.. so would ya be willing to extend it till wed night?
Check your email Waspire…
-Gavin
What a gentleman! =)
Still wondering if there are listing fees for inscription glyphs and such, anyone know? Is it like enchanting mats or more like alchemy with 1-2g listing fee. Really need to know so I can budget for it. Would hate to spend all my money on herbs and not be able to list the products. Also I would need to take off precious herb farming time to go do dailies for coin if I don’t have to. Any info, even if general approximates, would be appreciated. Thx.
Yes the guide has suggested prices, of course the actual one you will have to tweak for your server. I wont say any specifics, but this profession looks very profitable
I’m not talking about the goods price (like how much to charge, that is already in the guide) but the cost to list them on the AH. eg. to put up a stack of elixers on the AH cost around 1g20s to place the auction. Was wondering if it costs to list, like elixirs, or whether it is free like placing enchanting mats on the AH. I have the guide already but it makes no reference to the amount it costs, if anything, to actually place the inscription goods on the AH.
It was strange, but I found this question odd. So I logged back in to check and see why I hadn’t given much thought to listing fees. The answer is simple – they are so low I just forgot about them after the first few glyphs.
I checked listing fess for both a level 16 minor glyph “Glyph of Dash” and a WotLK level 450 Inscription recipe glyph “Glyph of Snake Trap” both had identical 30c listing fees. Now, there is no telling if that will remain the same on the live realms, but I wouldn’t expect it to change.
So the answer is don’t worry about listing fees, but you ARE going to need a couple hundred gold in your pocket when you start training Inscription to keep up with the training costs. 200 gold will cover all your training and listing fees easy.
first time paying real money for a game guild, it’s too good to miss!
very nice detail and math… <~ need some time to think about the number…
Great Job!
while getting herb in Winterspring tonight, I found there are tons of water elementals on Lake Kel’Theril, is something happening there?
Elemental invasion
The beta server economies are in a state of what I might politely call “hyper-inflation”. This is reportedly the result of guilds rotating their bank’s gold among members for the purpose of copying those characters to the beta, essentially reproducing the guild’s savings several times over. People are there because they are interested in just a couple of things, which is: Death Knight, Northrend, Arthas and the new proffesion Inscription.
Now, for Inscription, the ones who want to try out but are too lazy to pick up all the flowers by themselves just copying their guildies characters and stacking up their own gold. Being able to easly buy the Glyphs and try it out.
Gold means nothing at a Beta, cause noone of the items u buy, sell or what-so-ever will be lost anyhow after the beta.
Now for in a real server, its kinda different. Top guild with top amounts of gold will have their own members who are well prepared to skill up their scrips. Top marketeers who has a high amount of gold wouldn’t waste it on you, no instead of that, they made sure they bought out all the cheap herbs and being well prepared before Lichy comes out.
Yup, there are some crazy and lazy people within a server. who would actualy pay 400-500 gold a minor glyph. But in my oppinion, it will gonna be rare if that happens.
What about the competions that will drain the price down. For sure.
If your reasoning is even remotely correct about live servers, then no one would ever be able to make any gold at all on any profession ever. That is just not the case. You say that “reportedly” everything you say is because: . . .You should change your source to DYS. Your sources are dumb if that is what they are saying. And they have absolutely zero real knowledge about how the WoW economy works.
Gold IS inflated in the Beta, but I think you are giving WAY too much credit to people. There may be a few guilds that have done what you describe, but what really happens in online games is much more about organized chaos rather than true organization.
Besides, what this guide will teach people is how to BE one of those top marketeers, just like Gavin and I do all the time. WE make several thousand gold every week selling what I would consider to be junk in relatively low demand. Average stuff. We don’t mess around at all with professions for the most part, except when they will make us some coin.
Yes, the prices will drop and stabilize after the first two weeks. But to say it’s not worth doing because a LOT of other extremely organized people participating in a well-concerted effort to get their own glyphs for guild use will make it a zero market is absurd on the highest order.
You may not sell very many glyphs to power guild members, but those people only constitute about 1% of the WoW marketplace. What about the other 99%? Besides that, the glyph market is so big that there is no way that 20 good scribes on a server could even touch outstripping demand.
When I was selling glyphs in the beta, it wasn’t the price that shocked me quite so much as the astonishing speed with which they all sold regardless of price. IF, following your statements, all the players on a Beta are only power guild players and they already HAD all those glyphs – then why in the world did every single glyph I posted sell in less than 12 hours?
Beyond that, it turns out that demand on live servers always outstrips PTR and BEta demand for one of the very reasons you try to make into a drawback. Since toons WILL be able to keep what they buy, it makes them MORE important, not less.
So, like we have said to some other naysayers in this and other threads on this issue: we HOPE you keep this mindset. It GUARANTEES that I will make even more gold the more people there are out there who think that way. I’m just going to shrug and make a monster pile of cash in spite of your prognostications because I know that they are just not reflective of reality.
The reality is that most WoW players are casual gamers. Casual gamers make up the vast majority of the population on most servers. Casual gamers are there to have fun. The WoW economy mirrors real life much better than you, apparently, think. In the real world VERY sophisticated companies sell things to people all day long using VERY sophisticated marketing methodologies. But, just because Wal-Mart does it well, that doesn’t mean that there is no room for anyone else to ever sell anything ever anywhere in any town where a Wal-Mart exists.
I don’t even think there are guilds in the game that could rival Wal-Mart type models for anything. As a result, there IS a monster market for glyphs just waiting the people who do it. And the more people who COULD do inscription and DON’T because of any reason just put more gold into the bags of the people who know for a fact it’s going to be the biggest profit maker in the history of WoW.
Our experience with Season 4 basically blasts your entire proposition right out of the water. If there ever was a time when power players would run and end-around on everyone else, it would have been then. But I turned 5k gold worth of high end enchanting mats (that all those arena players could have gotten all by themselves) and sold them for more than 15,000 gold in less than a week to all those power players. so , bah . . .guilds dominating the market is a joke. WE are the best marketeers in WoW, and everyone who listens to US makes a killing.
and on that note, im currently selling minor Glyph of the Ghost Wolf for 400g on my server. thoguh i will be dropping this soon anyay cause the hype of OMG GLYPHS will end soon.
so far, 8346g made
Heres a question. I’ve just been leveling my toon and it seems as if i’ll be hitting 60 come monday. I’ve been saving uop what herbs i can but i dont have close to enough. However, I can manage to get quite a bit of gold, around 5k, which would buy me roufly 40 stacks in each level range. For starters, is 40 stacks at each level range enough to really make good profit, and is it even worth it considering i’l have to buy the herbs for 5k. I kinda wanted to know before I buy the guide, or else i’ll wait till closer to wotlk as im a bit short on cash atm.
40 stacks will be more than enough. It’s not really about making thousands of glyphs, it’s more about turning a profit on what you’ve got. The real key is to become a high end scribe very fast. establish your name on the server and make a killing by buying mats low and selling crafted items high.
Personally, I spent about 6K on herbs, and then farmed the stuff that I was missing to make sure I had what I consider to be a lot. A lot is more than enough. 40 stacks of herbs for each pigment range will do just fine. If you wait until after the patch, a big chunk of potential profit will be gone forever as prices drop and stabilize. It will always be profitable, it will just be the MOST profitable for the first two weeks, and then for those people who know all the most sought after glyphs.
Bought the guide, not my first, very good job as usual. I play on a huge and old server, and I have seen prices rise and fall in response to different things, but what the herbs are doing right now is incredible! I am fully ready, got herbs up the wazoo, and am taking a few days off work for the event.
One question, I dont remember reading, and it would of been nice info to know before hand, how much gold do I need to train up to 350?
You’re going to need about 250 gold on hand to make sure you have enough for training as well as the small listing fees for glyphs at the AH.
I purchased your guide and I’m impressed with the content, but I have a question about it. Without giving too much away, one of the steps in the guide requires the use of Dawnstar Ink. According to Wowhead, Dawnstar Ink is taught only by Professor Pallin in Dalaran. Is it taught somewhere else or is that going to be an issue? There are plenty of inks used in the guide that appear to only be taught in Dalaran. Am I missing something key here?
All inks are available at the triners, so don’t worry about what isn’t up yet at wowhead or thott.
How do you guys feel about the announcement of dual specs retaining the glyphs for each spec .I think it will cause a second wave of inflation once Wrath goes live cause everyone will want glyphs for each spec. But once Wrath hits I’m worried the dual spec feature may kill this profession once a single set of Glyphs has been purchased they wont have any reason to repurchase any. Unless they want to play the third spec.
Well, we’ll deal with that when Wrath does go live, until then, realize that this version of the guide is for the first two weeks of Inscription and we’ll cover the new elements in plenty of time to take advantage of those. We can only deal with what we’ve got right now.
good guide lots of common sense involve suggestion for update section where nether pigments tell people to just get felweed to make its the most common herb in outlands and the cheapest the most i pay is 10g a stack all other outland herbs r far more expensive. better to sell them and buy felweed just a suggestion
felweed also has the lowest rare pigment proc. It makes some sense to have a variety of different herbs because the rare pigments are often the difference between hitting a certain skill level with ease or having to grind it out the hard way.
So, I have enough herbs to take one char to 350+ and another char to go to about 150-175ish (could be higher depending on RNG). I was wondering if it is worth leveling on the second char and having two chances at learning profitable minor glyphs, or if I should just stick to one char and forget the hassle of plvling 2 chars.
that’s not a bad idea since the minor glyphs will command the highest prices. You can learn all of the current minor glyph recipes if you can manage to get to skill level 205, so that would be the benchmark to hit to have two toons able to learn all of the minor glyphs.
Does the Minor Inscription Research randomly select a Minor Glyph recipe to teach you from all those below your level? What if you stay at level 75 and attempt to do it every day? Would you run out of available glyph recipes?
Yes you would run out. You cannot learn proc recipes that are higher than your current skill level. You would end up getting repeats.
Thanks for the extra info guys. A final question for Gavin and Lawbringer, what type of increases you are expecting to happen in the price of elixirs/flasks now that all raid bosses are being nerfed 30%. Of your observations on beta and PTR, to do expect a jump in alchemy products, especially the ones that use Outland mats? Don’t want to say here which ones that the guide mentions, but I’m sure you know the ones I mean, the ones that can’t be used to create minor glyphs and only major. Did you see an increase in profits from Alchemy for them, or is it more profitable to keep turning out major glyphs? Or would it be better to try and dump them tonight and tomorrow before the patch hits? Any advice would be great as I have a large abundance of these mats?
Don’t dump the herbs. I make mention of the alchemy issue in another post further down, but a summary to you here:
Hold on to alchemy items potions/elixers/flasks until about friday and then put them up over the weekend. Everyone will be wanting to go try the raids that have been kicking their butts and a bunch of guilds will just flat run out of mats what with herbalism going nuts and all. Perfect timing to put a lot of high-end alchemy stuff up at a 300% to 500% increase from former prices since other alchemists will not be able to make them cheaper because mats have gone through the roof. You may be the only game left in town because you’re the only one with mats.
IS this guide based on Beta or PTR?
On the PTR, you are short on your mats required, or maybe a typo? Your 100-105 says that Lion’s Ink is 1 Golden Pigment, on PTR it is 2. I had a boatload extra herbs so no issue.
Lawbringer,
I read the guide and have a few comments:
(1) please note in the guide that the Outlands trainer is at the top of the mage tower in Honor Hold (well, 2nd from the top floor, actually), and is not in Shatt – like many other trainers. This is probably obvious to most, but it would still be good to have it in just to make the guide more complete.
(2) You state that pretty much all herbs give 2.5 pigments per mill – but some give better than that it seems and there appears to also be a difference in how many rare pigments each herb drops. I do not know that my milling is “statistically significant” to make sure the claim is valid, but it appears that the following herbs are somewhat “favored”: Mana Thistle, Icecap, Blindweed, Winters’ Bite, Khadgar’s Whiskers, and Stranglekelp. Earthroot and Bruiseweed *might* also be favored but I clearly did not have enough milling with those to make any claims. With your larger mill runs, have you seen anything like this or did the numbers even out over time? I milled 100 – 400 herbs of *most* types, so it is hardly perfect testing.
(3) I think corrections are due and coming soon if not on the Patch day. As of the PTR on Monday (day before the patch goes live) there are a few times when the amount of mats goes DOWN for a higher level Glyph. For example, the Glyph of Whirlwind (lvl 345 Glyph) only requires 1 Ethereal Ink while the previous glyphs (lvl 330, 335, and 340 glyphs) required 2 Ethereal Inks each. Ink of the Sky was also orange when I learned it at lvl 275, when all the other inks are green when you learn them. I can only assume these are Blizzard’s “typos” and will be quickly corrected.
(4) A thought/question. There are a number of books that can be made, that are held in the off-hand and give decent stats. I was amused to see that there is a “Tome of Cheap Tricks” or something like that which gave great stats to a rogue or fury warrior – but why on earth would a rogue or fury warrior drop their off-hand weapon in exchange for a few stats!?! My feeling is that to get the most benefit from the Tomes/Books is to do inscription with a caster, like a Mage or Warlock who really has nothing to hold in their off-hand other than a stat-giving item. Since the books are BoP/Scribe Only items, It might be best to pick one of those casters for your Scribe. I was planning on having my 70 Pally be the scribe (dropping 375 mining) but now I’m thinking about my 56 Mage instead. But even as I look at that, I am guessing that the epic drops from instances will be better than what Scribes will be able to make, so I’m not sure this is worth worrying about – sort of the tail wagging the dog. Your thoughts? Will there be a way a rogue can hold a book AND dual wield – or a pally and his shield?
(5) I am not seeing any updates for ATSW or Lil Sparky’s Workshop. The status of AAuc is confusing – they have a solid 2.4 build and they are working on the 3.0 build, but will AAuc work between the next patch and Nov 13th? Skillet does seem to be getting some love and was last updated in the last 2 weeks. I have never tried Skillet but it looks like that is where everyone is going from ATSW (the one I know… Sigh). What do you know about these key addons? The primary reason I don’t have more/better milling data is because I kept falling asleep while trying to mill 20-30 stacks of herbs at a time…. Man is that painful after you have gotten used to ATSW’s one button click.
The Action plan lists the location of the Outlands trainers as Honor Hold and Thrallmar, so there shouldn’t be anyone in Shatt looking for a trainer.
In another version it will be more important to watch which herbs you are using because of the pigment proc issue. But if you’ve got 40 stacks to begin with anything will do. The average across almost all herbs in every pigment range is around 2.5. Yes there are certain herbs that have much better rates than others for the rare pigments especially, but if we are trying to blow the doors off this anyway it shouldn’t be an issue yet.
If I can get back in to the PTR today I am going to make one last leveling run to make sure we’ve caught any last minute changes, but the PTR may be long gone so we may just have to hold onto our shorts and go with what we’ve got so far.
I get the feeling the books will be basically worthless really. The stats didn’t seem to blow me away, and the requires Inscription nature of them means no market. I’m not sure there is much use for them outside of a way to get some skill points here and there.
Skillet and ATSW are virtually the same thing. You might try Skillet and see how you like it. I really doubt that LilSparky’s will need an update. It hasn’t needed one in a long time and I doubt the UI is changing enough in the right places for it to need an upgrade. This may also be the case for ATSW, but it’s always hard to say with mods.
As for AADV, just get the 3.0 version and install it tomorrow morning before the patch and you’ll be ready to rock. More than likely the 3.0 Beta build will just go Alpha right after WotLK. I wouldn’t expect a ton of major changes to how it works after this patch. But rest assured AADV will be up to date in time. those guys never miss.
Hi:
Great guide. Can you put some thought into the cost/benefit of creating alts just for the purpose of leveling them to 205 to pick up additional minor glyph recipes?
It seems that with 5 alts you could get the recipes quite a bit faster (though you may get duplicates which should not happen with only one character)
I did think about that some, but I think it would be more of a pain in the rear than it would be worth. Really the biggest profit is just being in the middle of the mix the first few days. I think it would end up being a huge pain to try to keep track of which toons had which minor glyphs, plus you would get a lot of repeats in what you learn that way. Especially considering that on the PTR and the Beta at least you sometimes WOULD get a duplicate ‘learn’ that you already knew.
I am a Shadow Priest and have a Shadow Weave set. i really wana buy yhis guide and level inscription but that would mean i would have to drop tailoring, i.e not wear shadow weave set. I want to make gold but i also want to raid till WOTLK.
What would you suggest?
That’s another difficult choice. I would say Inscription, it all just depends on whether being able to wear your set is worth 10,000 or a lot more gold to you. If you are really going to be raiding a lot you will probably replace the set in Kara and beyond, so again I would say Inscription. You are cutting it pretty close to get prepared in time for tomorrow afternoon however.
i purchased one of your books but i still havent recieved it. i was wondering if i can get some feedback before the patch comesout tomorrow
send your receipt to editor@dominateyourserver.com and we’ll clear that up for you.
We had another guy wondering whether to drop alchemy for Inscription, and it would be a very difficult choice if you had a lot of proc learned recipes in alchemy.
Alchemy on all levels is going to rise probably 300% just because the mats for alchemy are going to rise so sharply. In all reality there will probably be a smaller rise in the Outlands mat alchemy stuff since there is a much more abundant supply of outlands herbs than anything else. But, with a bunch of people just trying to level Inscription, and people gouging for herbs, doing alchemy with bought mats is going to be almost impossible, or at the very least, incredible expensive = big rise in elixers/flasks/potions.
I would do a little alchemy and pop your prices hard based on the mat cost. At a minimum the market will follow you and you might be able to not only set the price for glyphs, but also set a new set of marks for alchemy products. Talk about a double-whammy. It might take a few days for alchemy prices to hop. What you might do is do all glyphs until you see an unstoppable drop in those prices, and then hit alchemy onec everyone realizes they are scarce on the ah and supply is low compared to demand.
Once gain, thanks for the extra info. ATM I have around 700 stacks of herbs saved. I will report back once the patch is live and the dominating has begun. I’ll keep you updated on the mountains of gold
Thanks for a great guide and info to truly DOMINATE this Pacific server (Dath’Remar).
Well, I started working on the lvl 27 rogue I wanted for a scribe about three weeks ago.
My little rogue is now lvl 50, and sitting where the trainer will be in thrallmar with bags full of herbs, and my GF’s druid has another three alts worth of them standing by in preperation.
Seemed like it would be a waste to not spend the $7 on the guide (looks like a lot of work went into it btw – thanks) after all that effort. Looking forward to tomorrow
One last post from this bleary eyed gatherer…
My little druid.. scribe to be… is now lvl 61 and just tonight I said wth.. lets get one more toon with herbalism. Don’t ask me why I didn’t do it sooner.. I have no idea lol. I sat down for the last few hours before server shutdown and powered her up to 260 something herbalism and she’s now sitting, waiting with inbox overflowing with herbs, to grind up inscribing tomorrow. I’m glad I did it because now I should be good to power level it up with plenty extra to give to friends and my guild as well as all those drooling ah customers with gold lined pockets
Goodnight all… see ya on the flip side.
When I read that I thought, “Wow, that was cheezy.”
Me too… I was really tired lol
Hi:
I am worried about what you said above about Minor Glyph Research giving duplicate recipes. If one of 60 recipes is randomly assigned with no regard for those already learned then the time to obtain all recipes would extend to an average of 281 days if you did the research every day without fail.
Statistically speaking I am sure you are correct. Actually this is one of the questions I can’t really comment on. I haven’t done alchemy, so I’m not sure how the learning procs work on live servers.
In the Beta and PTR, you learned a recipe every time you did minor inscription research, even if it was one you already knew. On the live servers you may merely only get the “learned new recipe” message when you actually do learn a new one. But that might put you back at 200+ days again based on the number of options available.
However, if it does work like that then it’s going to be a LONG time before anyone learns all the minor glyphs, which means prices for those is going to stay high forever basically. Either way, whether it’s 20-30 days, or 200-300 days it means big profits for those who are smart and stay on top of things.
Just thought I’d let you know you’ve got a few typos – theres a couple spots where you state the recipe as needing heavy parchment and the mats list for that recipe as common parchment.
you’ve probably caught it by now, but just in case you haven’t.
also do the updates get emailed out? if not, how do we get them?
On Proudmoore and Vashj it seems no one read your guide, but saw 3.0 coming. Literally 100s of Inscriptions in AH within hours – all so low prices it is enough to make you cry.
500 stacks of herbs later… and I am not sure what to do with them. Might just sell the herbs.
While this is not the best possible scenario, you don’t have to get mad – just get even. You didn’t say if you were doing Inscription. You didn’t mention if the glyphs were high level or low level. Lots of things I don’t know here, but there is ALWAYS a way to profit off of idiots.
If you feel stuck with herbs and glyphs prices are too low – then hold the herbs until all those retards run out of herbs. The glyphs will dissappear at low prices because they will sell out like instantly. The dummies won’t be able to make cheap ones any more and then you can do 2 things:
Replace the glyphs at higher prices using your own herbs
Sell the herbs to the glyph dummies for twice what you paid for them.
Never let a surprise get you down. No matter what happens to a market, there is always a way to make a profit.
“Always look on the bright side of life” (little dance)
I farmed or paid as little is 2-3s per herb (right up to Khadgar’s) so cost is not an issue for me. In fact for peacebloom and silverleaf I was paying no more than 0.5s each, usually less than 0.2s for them.(100 stacks on each server or there abouts)
I will keep enough to level inscription from the herbs below Silvery, and sell all the low stuff – its going for between 20 and 40g a stack
But as for levelling Inscription, yes, I even dropped alchemy for it – it is likely to be steady long term gold. 10k gold in a week as I expected maybe not.
Alchemy was good, but not as good as it used to be. Inscriptions will be better once the idiots run out of resources.
And as always, great info from DYS.
Well taking a little break from making inscritions while the server is down. I’m up to 363 in less than 4 hours. Have everything except for the outlands in the ah (server went down just as I was entering the ah). As I was posting each new level at the ah I was noticing that most of what I was posting was already sold. Will keep you informed as this progresses.
TX, so far working great!!
Rege aka Rap
Aegwynn
Well servers are down, but I got on for a good 4.5 hours – got my Inscription to over 350 and have already made over 4k gold. I was the first one to list in the AH and sold 3-4 of the first tier glyphs (Such as Backstab) for around 350 gold each =).
I’m still the only one (as of server crash) listing highest level glyphs, and still getting over 300 for them. There were 3 others in Thrallmar training with me, but they either haven’t listed them yet or are just doing them for a guild.
At any rate, thanks for the guide, it was a huge help with plowing through quickly!
Remember that a lot of noobs would not have downloaded the patch early and will be out of the server for a loooooooong time. customers will definately increase with that huge market.
well, I got my roguelet to 365 and I’ve made about 2k so far selling glyphs at 50-75 a pop, but there’s about 800 glyphs on the AH for about 5g per.
It’s discouraging, but I’ll wait and see what tomorrow brings.
I think it’s mostly people clearing out their banks after levelling fast and being dumb about it.
any advice would be appreciated, but in the meantime I play the waiting game
buy them out and resell, idiots are going to run out of herbs quick
Well I’m about to go to bed, 9 hours later I’ve made about 12k. Was doing great until ONE SINGLE GUY destroyed the market by selling every Glyph from 1-350 for 10 gold, flooding the market with 10 of each at a time.
Why? He could have made a ton more, but “had 40k gold and knows how to make $”. I guess he could get repeat customers now, but man. One guy. I’ll just have to hope he’s not on when I am tomorrow so I can buy him out!
Been selling Alabaster herbs for 20-25g a stack steadily – seeing the associated glyphs for the same on AH, and buying them up for 1-2g.
Basically stockpiling the Glyphs, and will drip feed them back into the market once it goes dry which it will by the weekend I expect.
Revised estimate is 20k gold.
selling faster than I can make them and for even more than the guide suggests
Koyote,
I envy you coz now I’m at work and can’t get in on the action. Keep the market prices up till I get home :}Thnx-Iammoney
hi,
I have bought this Gavin Inscruption guide v1.
Its awesome!
I just wonder what you guys expierence is within the US, since I am from the EU.
Also, what I would love to know is, any of you found out yet which ones sells like hot chocolate cookies?
Regards,
Shaily
This guide has been invaluable. I made 3000 gold within a few hours, and I have over 500 listings of Glyphs of every type. My first Minor I found was Astral Recall which isn’t that great – I was able to sell them for 67g/pop. The mail service isn’t working like I hoped, but I think it’s because people aren’t calmed down yet and are still are all finicky.
PS. For all you loyal readers of DYS out there stay tuned for two more surprises Gavin has in store for you.
so far made a good 8000g on my minor glyph monopoly (Ghost Wolf)
made 1800 from spare herbs that i had elft over
and about 500 from selling major glyphs.
my server wasnt one of the servers that died in the arse when the patch came out, so the market was flooded very very very fast and very very very ehavily.
Well I had one of the unluckiest servers – 5.5 hrs after they said we’d be playing (about last to get up), got going then down again for another solid hour while everyone but 2 other servers was happily running.
Also unlucky about 20 other folks are hard levelling Inscription and many are posting Glyphs at okay prices but I dunno – gonna be hard competition like I expected – WAY too many to buy out. But I made 500gp on Major Glyphs, got a sucky Minor but oh well. I’ll be patient.
Matt
Our server also had a lot of scribes. It seems like most servers went according to expectation and a few, like mine, just went bananas. But in reality that’s not that odd either. Right now on Fenris AADV is showing 38 pages of glyphs! It’s a LOT, but here’s what you do:
When there are a lot of scribes, go sell your extra herbs while the market for glyphs is low. This way everything you spent on herbs/farmed is giving you a big return on your investment.
Corner the minor glyphs. There will just not be many of those floating around yet and you CAN buy all of those out and relist. I also got a terrible minor glyph, maybe the worst one in the game lol – eye of Killrogg.
Ack, so I just started buying the good ones and relisting them at higher prices.
It also seems that there are SO many people who have no idea what glyphs are on a lot of servers. So don’t worry about the market prices, they will stabilize and we’ll know what’s going to sell well much better in the days to come. Let all the other scribes buy herbs from you and burn through them. They are putting too many glyphs up before demand can rise – just wait it out.
Now, I posted at VERY high prices and made about 5k immediately, now nothing is selling much except those few glyphs where I was the only one making them for some odd reason. No problem, the lower prices are still in about the range we predicted in the guide, so I’m not going to sweat it much. When my high priced auctions end I’ll just relist them at market rate and keep going til I sell out – should be another 5-7k gold.
So, between selling off piles of extra herbs (6k worth at past prices) for double what I bought them for at least (another 12k gold) the first glyph sales at 5k, the minor glyph cornering and after the rush sales at 7k I will hit my target of 25k or more this week.
When the market throws you what seems to be a curveball, just dodge and hit it from a slightly different angle.
I’m out of gold and the number of cheap auctions is up to 1500. nothing more to do but keep posting and hope people buy
then wait out the idiots, soon they will be out of herbs and you will have the market again
oh yeah and the auctioneer addon seems to have stopped working
anyone else have this problem?
tried to update auctioner and the site was down I guess to much traffic. Anyway my auctioner is not working either.
got the newest version from http://www.auctioneeraddon.com/, but something is not working, so no recommend listing price today.
Hi Gavin Lawbringer!!
Got the guide it was awesome. One problem i followed it to the letter, but was only able to level to 365. Everything is gray now, and can’t level anymore, so i guess i must have done something wrong.
Thanks
Lyaim
the only green glyphs available past 365 are the DK glyphs which are worthless right now, so don’t sweat it. There will be a lot of glyphs from 350+ in wrath so you don’t need to worry about hitting 375.
not as worthless as you might think actually, ive now made an other 500g on DK glyphs from people getting prepared And cause no one else was putting up DK ones
I have all the Major Glyphs and the are all gray at 365 as well. Even the DK glyphs are gray. Not that worried since getting the last 10 will be easy with WotLK just wanted to ad my little piece.
I’m rather frustrated i had about 3 hours of unstoppable sales and made about 3k But then everyone started posting all the glyphs 1-350 for max 5g each and its not just one or two people its more like 15+ so the market is so over saturated nobody will pay anything for them.Not to mention Ive even been pegged as a scamer because of the price changes and sales that I made through trade chat. So Im having a real hard go of it.
Yeah I had one guy laugh at me saying “You’re selling Earth Totem Glyph for 350?? I just bought it for 15!!” I explained that I just threw them up in the AH while leveling before anyone else had them listed.
However, I quickly went back through all my auctions and relisted any that were WAY overinflated so I wouldn’t get a bad name. Keep doing that and you’ll be fine, most people won’t remember your name as long as those overpriced auctions don’t constantly stare them in the face.
I’m waiting to see how Gavin did so far
I tell you one thing- this tradeskill is kind of a pain in the butt! Well worth it, don’t get me wrong, but making multiple glyphs for every class, unstacking them, and listing them takes awhile. Then by the time you’re done with “Warlock” glyphs, starting back at the top with “Druid” to see how much you’re undercut, then trying to find those undercut glyphs in your listings out of the 300 you have listed on the AH is a PAIN. I though Jewelcrafting was time-consuming, but at least the colors of the gems made them easy to find in your listings.
Does anyone know if there’s an addon that can sort your AH listings by class, like is done with the glyph tradeskill window? That would make sorting your auctions so much easier! The only way I can find individual glyphs now is to sort all my listings by price, then check the price of the glyph I want to cancel and locate that since prices are in order, which still takes awhile. By the end of a few hours my eyes look like this:
I agree Craig, it’s an absolute PITA to cancel the auctions right now due to the way they are organized and all look the same. Unfortunately on my server a lot of people are undercutting by 1g-2g which makes it a real headache. I was able to buy 166 Glyphs (varied 1-350) fro 1500g from someone. He COD’ed them to me, and they’re sitting in my mailbox now. I figure I can either relist them for profit now or wait it out and slowly bleed them back into the market after it stabilizes.
All told, I’ve made about 4K since last night. I’m confused as to when to stop buying out the undercutters.
at 9am this morning, we already have some major glph on AH, but cheap… I saw listing for under 10g and got my renew under 7g, as thing heating up, they are going to 15g before noon. Herbs got high list price, but not many buy out. I guess those plan for Inscription had their herb ready, and those aren’t ready is herbing, or waiting to use them on DK when WoLK release.
Yes AADV is not working quite as well as it should, but it seems odd to me that so many folks are having trouble with it. I had to fiddle some, but finally just used ONLY AADV and ATSW and was able to live with the error messages and still use AADV for posting and scans.
Be sure to get the new release for version 3.0 on this page: http://auctioneeraddon.com/dl/#release
Love your guide.. what a great help. Unfortunately there’s no help for all the idiots on Echo Isles selling glyphs (even Nether pigment one’s) for 5, 10, 15gold.. It’s not just 1-2 ppl either.. a lot off what i’ll call none-economic educated ppl. Wake up Echo Isles.. there’s a LOT of money to be made, but you’d rather just give the stuff away…. I can only hope that these noobs run out of mats, and let the serious dealers do our thing.
See my reply above to this same situation about how to turn chicken fooey into chicken A-la-King! There is ALWAYS a way to make a profit no matter what the market is doing.
eh, I got overrun by the buyout and resell strat
ran out of gold and there’s STILL over 1k underpriced on the AH
guess I’ll have to cut my losses and sell cheaper
Unfortunately I was only able to level it up to 196 or so before signing off last night. It was late here before my realm came back on line and I had an early day at work this morning. Therefore I hope I have not missed the boat on this. I will be leveling it today hopefully all the way to 350 or so.
Even at 15g a glyph it is still all profit except for whatever the parchment costs are because I farmed all the needed herbs all over the last week or two. Trust me I had much rather sale them for outragous amounts but I will take what I can get. The buyout and resale is not an option because man there were a ton glyphs on the AH when I signed off last night. It would take 50,000 gold ta buyout them all and relist.
its still all about the minor glyphs, will be getting my 2nd in less than an hour, and already made a killing off the monopoly on Ghost Wolf, fingers crossed
Yea last night when our server was kicking everyone (about 9pm server time) I hopped over to Aggramar on Horde side where I have a little toon I never play and checked the AH to find NOT ONE SINGLE GLYPH. And no one in Trade channel even talking about Inscription. Made me cry, knowing there were 20-30 folks on my server already posting for loser prices. LOL oh well.
Matt
Insanely many people levling inscription on my server dropping glyph prices LOW.
It’s tough to do some monopolistic buying and reselling when the mats it requires to re-create most Major Glyphs are ridiculously easy to come by.
For example, you can try to buyout all cheap Major Glyphs, but then you’ll have some noob re-listing Majors for super cheap again because they’re so easy to make.
After the Minor Glyph market gets flooded in the next couple of days, where should we focus our attention to continue to earn profits from Glyphs?
Furthermore, I thought I was going to be super rich yesterday after I learned my first Major Glyph (Glyph of the Penguin)….two seconds later I see (I’m no kidding here!) 4 others in trade chat selling the same Glyph. This leads me to believe that the Penguin glyph for mages was absolutely intended to proc a LOT during the first few days of 3.0 go-live. Boo hoo
first minor glyph u mean. On my server only 2 people got that, i was the only one who got mine, mby you were just really unlucky
I have only seen one person with that one on my server. I have done 2 researches…first one turned out Scroll of Recall SERIOUSLY..what a load..second one was a pretty decent lock one that I can’t seem to remember for some reason haha.
Things went pretty well on Cairne yesterday. I really hadn’t decided to go inscription until last week and none of my toons are herbalists. But with the guide’s help I took advantage of a still-soft market for herbs on the AH and had quantities on hand right in the range of what the guide suggested-all for about 600g. As I began leveling inscription last night I hit the AH with glyphs about every 75 points. Listing only those glyphs I used to level (I didn’t make any extra of anything at the time) I’ve netted about 2200g after investment on the herbs (2800g gross) and I still have about 50 listed and ink for another 175 or so. It wasn’t until late last night that I saw anyone listing glyphs in the AH except for about 5 of us that seemed to be doing it seriously. Two of them were listing pretty much everything for 45/50g and it was easy to get under those folks for quick sales. This morning I saw a number of other smaller players in the market starting to bring it back down. I’ll probably hold any unsold glyphs until Friday evening expecting a good market from the weekend players. The herb market is hard as a rock or dry completely which was not unexpected. But handing out free glyphs to guildies and mentioning that any extra herbs they come across would help me out netted me a few stacks for nothing. I stopped leveling somewhere in the mid 360’s and will be content to wait for more recipes to go further.
One thing I noticed was that rogues are more willing to pay for glyphs than anyone–it was easy to sell glyphs to them for 30% above what everyone else wanted to pay. Not sure why exactly, but I’m glad I saw it.
First Minor Glyph, yes, sorry. I guess I was just extremely unlucky…I thought for sure that I was going to be gouging the heck out of all Mages on my server for at least that day
I was still able to sell as many of these glyphs as I could make for around 50g. I tried to create a Mini-Cartel with all current Glyph of the Penguin crafters, but some people just don’t understand Economics and would rather sell for an unbelievably low price.
lol i hear ya on the cartels business, tried to get everyone to pos high and undercut small, but NOOOOOO they all decided to undercut by 10g or more, pushing it low fast
I thin the thing that wasn’t factored in very well in our calculations is that there is not distinction between glyphs that are good for lowbies and those that are good for lvl 70s.
This means a couple things. One, a lot of the low level people can’t buy glyphs cayse they don’t have the gold, and two, there are a fair number of people (on my server anyway) who don’t want to gouge people who can’t afford it.
Basically there’s no way to price fairly for scribe AND lowbies, cause all the low-priced stuff will sell out, mostly to high level toons if it’s priced for lowbies, and if it’s priced to what a lvl 70 toon can afford, then the lowbies won’t get anything.
lowbies should hit lvl 70, and aford it then
Hey,
Just wanted to say thanks for the great guide. I got into my server right when it came up. It went down for an hour or two right when i hit 300. Came back up, i finishing lvling to 350 with the guide. Spent about 1 hour in Org as the first Inscriptionist with all major glyphs, made about 3k gold within the first hour. Then made around another 2k before i logged off that night. I started the pricing on glyphs, and after the hour of selling, the other inscriptionists came in and starting low balling. I was selling glyphs for 50g each, people started putting stacks of 10 on the ah for 10 – 20g, and other people in trade were selling for 35 – 40g per. I had great business all night, even though i was getting the “you have the most expensive glyphs!” in trade chat.
The guide really helped with leveling. Thanks!
Hey,
Good thing was that I was still selling them for 50g each while other were flooding the AH with them for cheap, and a few were spamming trade right after me with cheaper prices.
Just wanted to say thanks for the guide. It was a great help. I was the first on my server to reach 350, and it took about an hour for others to get there. Within that hour I made over 3k gold, and another 2k before i logged off. I was selling glyphs in trade, 50g each. I posted in trade, and got overwhelmed with whispers.
The guide was great. Helped me lvl up really fast. Thanks!
AWESOME Gavin! Cleaned up on my server. First guy to 350 people were calling me a liar! Posted the first glyphs and that first hour was chaos, but money was pouring in (got in the way of leveling at times!) By the morning I had 7k gold in my mailbox. Now newbies are pricing way low as they try to level up, picked a few categories to dominate and triple my money taking advantage of them being morons.
Eldre’Thalas has the same problem as most servers – idiots dropping prices so low can’t make good money. Most glyphs were starting around 40-60g for the majors, and today, down as low as 5g. And there are tons of them. Only a handful of people (myself included) are above 350. I put up a variety of glyphs last night (maybe 50) and only 3 sold so far. I was also lucky enough to get the minor ‘glyph of the pack’ for hunter, and not one person is biting at 200g. The guide mentioned selling that for at least 275g. Hopefully, prices will climb again this weekend. I need to at least break even from all the herbs I bought over the last few weeks.
Thanks so much for your guide! I started a little too late to be able to gather all the mats needed and was only able to level to about 135, but the night the patch went live the lowest level glyphs were going for 20-30 gold each and I easily made 800 gold. Thanks again:)
LOL my frist minor glyph was ghost wolf, my 2nd, is water walking XD AND i got monopoly on BOTH!!!
The thing that is going to make or ruin us is how many folks just dump the profession because it is unprofitable and how many folks will reglyph in the future. I think everyone is surprised by the sheer volume of people who have taken up this profession. Seems like players have finally educated themselves to being prepared for patching/expansions, but haven’t caught up on the way to function in WoWs economy. Like they say, a little knowledge is sometimes more dangerous than none.
Wish my auctioneer was working properly to get an idea of the shortages in the market in other professions that people have left. But I have a feeling that everyone has left the profs that have been hard to turn a profit lately through over saturation of crafters like JC and Alchemy. Hope the market levels or people use up their herbs quickly, because instead of making mountains of gold after the initial rush, I might be looking at losing a mountain of gold.
If your market has a lot of scribes selling for way low prices, and you’re done leveling, sell herbs (assuming you have lots left, of course). The demand for them will jump friday night to sunday night for the weekend warriors who want to do inscription. The high demand will cause herb prices to rise (or at least stay high), and you should be able to swoop in and undercut the market while still making far more than you paid for what you have on hand.
You have two choices as to your glyphs: the first is to undercut everyone else… even if you’re selling majors for only 5g each, you should be making a hefty profit based on what you paid for herbs weeks ago.
The second choice is to hang on to your inventory and wait a couple weeks for the market to stabilize, and then slowly drip them into the market over time for slightly below market prices.
A big factor for the low prices of glyphs on some servers is the huge supply – noobs would make 100 glyphs while leveling, and put them ALL on the AH for rock bottom prices (because there were already so many there, they had to price even lower for a chance to sell them).
In the next 48 hours, all of the leveling dump auctions will expire unsold, and the people that placed them up on the AH will vendor them, reducing supply… that’s when you start relisting.
-Gavin
Had someone undersell my 100g for Vanish glyph, So i bought him out and relisted them at my price, and sold all of mine and all of his..
WOOT
Thx Gavin.Unfortunately I inked most of what I had for the lower lvls, going to hold on for when the market gets stable and just make the best selling ones for each class. I was fortunate not to have milled many of the outland mats and still kept alchemy.
WOOT, bought the guide, logged in on patch day 4 hours after the server went live and was the first person on the server to hit 355. lvled in 3 1/2 hours and posted 1/2 on AH and sold other half in Org. I MADE 2,876g in 3 hours. THANK YOU!!!!
Hi – why not do minor inscription research as soon as you can instead of waiting for level 250?
The chance at getting a higher lvl minor instead of an introduction one. Still it will come down to luck and you may end up with a low lvl one anyway, but at least you have a chance.
My first minor was glyph of bloodrage.. noone else has it on my server at the moment.. i waited till 250 to do the research. so far i have sold a lot of glyphs at WAY below the ah.. at least im selling them instead of sitting on em. and i make enough back to buy more herbs to mill. and the minor glyph i have sold 5 of so far for 50g a pop. hehehehehe. getting the rare pigments is what is killing me.. so random and only 1 at a time when it does proc.
WARNING don’t wait too long to do minor inscription research.
I waited till I was at 365 and I got two death knight glyphs the past two days – I think that lower levels have less of a chance of hitting death knight stuff, so do it before you pass 300
I’m making a profit again, mostly selling person to person. Most of the minor glyphs are up for about 10-30g since the people making them are making a LOT of them.
as for undercutting, well, I’d have to be selling my glyphs at about one gold a pop atm.
ah well, building up a client base is good for the long term
P.S. how are people pricing scrolls – I’ve just been asked for some and I’m not sure what to sell the high level scrolls for >.>
First off, nice guide. Never bought one before, but I don’t regret it yet.
@Aspect: In my experience, scrolls don’t tend to be worth a great deal, because a) most are overwritten by a class buffs (the exceptions I can think of are Agility and Strength, at least before 3.0.2) and b) they drop fairly commonly from mobs.
Now, a couple of things.
). However, here’s the problem. Some ‘tard levelled faster than me, then proceeded to sell most of the high level glyphs for ~25g. So, what do I do? I’m new to the AH playing game, but I see 2 options:
Using the guide as… well, a guide, I stocked up on herbs and got to 350 some time late last night (as I had other stuff I had to catch up on
1) Talk to the person ingame, telling them they’re being an idiot and try and jack the market back up before the rest of the idiots arrive at high skill levels.
2) Buy-out what glyphs I can (I only have ~700g on me, as I spent most of my gold on herbs, and I didn’t have much to start with), and hope that the idiot runs out of herbs and I can list at higher prices before everyone else arrives.
Any help you can provide would be vastly appreciated.
Cheers.
Also, how did you price the mail requests?
AH values? The glyph values listed in the guide? How much people were willing to pay?
1) You can try to talk to them, but it only works occasionally. People don’t like to admit they don’t know what they’re doing, and often will get defensive. I used to send a nice mail letter to someone (less intrusive than a /tell) when they were undercutting a lot just to say “hi, if you’re doing it on purpose that’s cool, play how you want, but if not try listing for just a tad less than the previous auction or the market falls through the floor.” But there are so many people doing it now that it’s not really a viable option.
Like I mentioned before, 1 guy on my server brought the entire glyph market down on the first night. I tried to reason with him, but he claimed to be rich anyway (I never understand this philosophy- why use the AH if you don’t need the money? And if you just like to make money when you don’t need it, why not make as much as you can?).
He then scolded me for price gouging – um the patch went live 2 hours ago, supply and demand, hello? Why doesn’t Sony just list their PS3’s for $10 over cost? It’s not like we’re talking artificial hearts here! It’s a game, glyphs are something no one has to have on day 1 to play the game, we SHOULD get a premium for all the time and work we’ve invested (I’ve been planning for weeks, stockpiling, paying real money for guides
, etc!) /rant off.
2) I wouldn’t rely on buying out everything and hoping other scribes herbs will run out, except in certain cases. It’s better to buy out just a couple of auctions that look good. For example, Glyph of XXX is selling for 15gold, except one for 11g and one for 8g. Buy those 2 out and make 3 more, sell em all for 14.99g (make sure those sellers aren’t online or they’ll just rec-undercut you). But if there are like 10 for 8g and the next is 10 are 12g, it’s not worth it.
Well, I decided I had to finally make a comment. I have been reading the tips on this site for a long time now and they have been great. I bought he guide as soon as it was available and I’m glad I did. I realized that I was possibly not going to have enough herbs, so I kept farming the specific ranges I needed.
Unfortunately there are way too many people with inscription on my server and they are all selling for way too cheap. The first hour or so I was selling all the glyphs almost instantly as I levelled, but that stopped after everyone else started posting theirs. So far I’ve made about 1500 gold just from selling the glyphs I made while levelling, but that is far less than I had hoped for according to the suggested prices in the guide. Fortunately I also have an enchanter, so I sent him a few vellums to enchant and those made me a few hundred more gold as well.
Anyway, the guide was great to give me some structure in levelling up inscription and I feel that it was a good purchase. Perhaps the weekend will prove to be more profitable. I suppose I can always sell off my herbs if needed. Thanks for all your hard work guys, I truly appreciate it.
On the scroll thing – I had a rogue asking me for the scroll of stamina rank 6, and by the pricing guide, it seemed like an awful lot to charge for two scrolls, but the rogue ended up paying 50g for 5 scrolls. I feel like I might have overcharged, but not when compared to the cost of glyphs (gave a discount by that mark).
I am having trouble understanding the behaviour of major glyph buyers. Wouldn’t they just want to buy the two highest level glyphs in their category? On my server, the nether pigment herbs are the cheapest of all (50s each) so the highest level major glyphs are the cheapest to make. All lower level major glyphs are expensive to make as are most minor glyphs. Maybe Blizzard should reduce the number of felweed and anchient lichen nodes to get the prices back in line – or is my server unique?
The highest level glyphs aren’t necessarily the ones most people would use. Plenty of the first glyphs you can make are just as good or affect a “more often used” ability/spell than some higher level ones (of course, that’s not always the case).
What I don’t understand is Blizz’s method of choosing the icons for the glyphs. Why not make every glyph but on heavy parchment (or light or common, etc) have the same style icon, but just with a different symbol? And personally I think they should put the class icons on the glyphs instead of little squiggles, would be much easier to tell them apart. I’m putting some in a guild bank and you have to mouse over each one to tell which class it belongs to.
Well, i was EXTREMELY lucky. i had a couple of people working with me. I was using my own personal GBank to stockpile herbs. I was not only the first to 350+ on my server but with a runner(getting me more herbs from bank and loading up the glyphs in the AH as i did nothing but stay in with the trainer and level) and someone hocking my wares in trade channel, I made over 10,000 gold in the first 24 hours….most of this was in the first hour and a half before the serious idiots were out there. The biggest money was of course coming from the outland herb glyphs, which since i was the only one with them for about an hour, I got away with charging 135 gold each
.
My biggest disappointment however is that NOBODY understands how rare those minor glyphs are for a few days….and since they are called “minor” surely they cant be worth as much as the el-cheapo 5 gold major glyphs the morons on my realm are now posting. I even whispered a guy who was selling his minor glyph for 9 gold (this was the first night!) and told him he could make a lot more on a minor right now. His response “i dont want to rip anyone off”. I didn’t feel like explaining that there are so many 70s sittin on a ton of gold, and that the first night isnt the time to price for lowbies…i checked later, he marked up to 17 gold… /facepalm
Otherwise, the only other thing that helped line my pockets with gold was that we also had toons in place and ready to go at the neutral AH in order to transfer high level glyphs over to horde side and flood the horde faction AH market as well before anyone else got levelled up. We did, and we got paid.
when the market dries up a little (and it should very soon because people are selling the inks for SO much LOL, and herbs are going for, example…90 gold for a stack of kingsblood HAHAHAHAHAH…i expect i will have made at least 20k by the end of the first week of inscription.
Good luck to all of you, and i hope your markets dry up fast, (ie the idiots pricing at 5 gold DIAF) so you can get back to running your market.
ITS A GREAT GUIDE! 3.5k made after only two days knowing what to farm LOL – but the guide is actually incorrect in a few places like the inks need more pigment than said in the guide so i am falling short on herbs =( but anyway ill fight through, it just i do hope that having boguht the guide the updates to it are free, gavin – please say yes, but ty for guide, it really has helped and nothing i can put it down about changes the fac tive made more money than i have ever before due to the guide.
WELL worth the £4 I spent, thanks all who made it!
Yes Tom, updates really are free
-Gavin
Well, here’s my 40 hour update: I have made just shy of 20k gold in the last day and a half!
Maybe it helped having 350 Inscription, as I was just skipping the 10g and under austions and concentrating on the 20+ ones.
I thought I lucked out and got Slow Fall as my second Minor, as no one else had any listed. But another guy got on and had gotten it the day before, He was actually cool, and contacted me about not price cutting and just listing them at 75 bid/ 100 buyout. It worked for a bit until another guy posted a few under us. And then the worst- the one guy who flooded the market on Day 1 with every single glyph for 10g (and is also constantly on) must have gotten it as well, and listed them all for 25g. Gah I hate this guy. He actually is in a guild (of 1 maybe) called “AH Undercutters”. So sad. But I bought his last few this morning (for once he was absent) and relisted them at the higher price.
I tried Gavin’s idea and bought the last minor glyph on the AH of Aquatic Form for 75 and tried to relist it at 250, but no one bought it and the guy that made it got on a few hours later and put his back on. I think people don’t really realize that Minor Glyphs are so rare and just think they are a ripoff. So I think posting at 99.99 (or 75 or 65) gold for most of them is the best bet for now, you’ll likely get a lot more sales that way. Try 39.99 for the not great ones, that was selling ok for my Astrall Recall (maybe I should go 25?).
I have a question for my fellow scribes- which ink are you running lowest on? I had a boatload of herbs, and still have quite a bit of most inks except for Lions Ink. I think maybe b/c the best sellers in that range use 2 of them in the recipes? In anticipation of this, I’ve been buying many of the 10 gold and under recipes that use 2 of these inks, and hope that once the noobs have sold all of theirs they made to level with, they’ll be out of Lions Ink as well and I can repost high (and heck with 20k gold now I can afford it lol).
One final note- I logged on my Jewelcrafter last night just to repost whatever was in my mailbox that didn’t sell (I haven’t logged him since the patch). Usually there are a ton of gem auctions, I think b/c people have gotten bored waiting for WOTLK and decided to level JCing. Well, it seems many of those people went to Scribing or something, as the once saturation of gems was back to lower levels. I was able to post a ton of gems that were completely sold out (even Soild Stars
and everyone and their momma has that recipe) and were selling them quickly as well. I sold 2 epic gems within minutes of posting them. So if you have a high skilled alt, this is the time to put that skill to work as everyone else is trying out new stuff!
Lion’s Ink is the only ink I ran out of.
Sorry for the long posts, but I wanted to add some advice-
A HUGE help to my fellow scribes: like Gavin suggested, get the Auctioneer Advanced (AADV) addon working and learn the basics of it, for this profession it is vital. I’ve always used it before but not really it’s posting feature. I wasted an hour of selling time last night messing with it to learn how it works and trying to stop all the error messages, but I feel it made all the difference. Don’t just turn it off since addons are funky due to the patch!
My routine as soon as I get on is to first cancel all my auctions (since it costs so little to do so). You can use Google to find the macro that one-clicks to cancel every auction you have without a bid on it. Then using AADV, find the going price and list yours for like 1 silver less. What is great about AADV is that it will automatically list all your stacked glyphs separately. So, if you have 5x Glyphs of Backstab, you just put the stack in the window once, hit post, and it will post all 5 as separate auctions (you have to configure it to do this; you can also set it to only list 2-3, etc.). Seeing how many Glyphs we use, this is a HUGE time saver. It still takes a few trips to the mailbox to get every glyph you cancelled (use Postal!) but doing so saves time overall from searching all your auctions to cancel individual ones.
AADV also remembers your prices, so if all 5 Glyphs sell out as you are standing there, just throw another stack into AADV and it will remember the price you had set- another huge timesaver. Using this I was literally throwing glyphs up left and right and made a killing.
Another tip is to put at least 3 of the same glyph in, and before the 3rd on sells, post back up to at least 3. If all 3 sell then maybe the next guy’s glyph will too, which then of course notifies him. He’ll then make a new one and maybe post after you, undercutting. But if you can keep posting them without the next guy’s glyphs selling, he’ll never know and you can just sell yours over and over (this works best for quick sellers like Shadowbolt and Sinister Strike).
Ah!! Time for a tiny break from the last few days crazyness of Scripting.
Firstly, I was amazed at the amount of people who learned inscripting on that patch day. Was about 30 people at the org trainer and 20 at UC/TB and that was just as soon as server came up. Different people would come as the evening went on.
I found the guide I purchased to be invaluable really. Saved me a lot of time (and it took a good 3 hours to go from 1-368 and I had all the herbs in stock)
The sweet spot herbs as predicted by DYS where indeed the ones. Countless people in trade chat WTB Fadeleaf/Khadgars/Gold Thorn
I chuckled to myself as I looked at my lovely 50 or so stacks (double what i originally had saved before reading the guide)
To start with glyphs where being sold for crazy low prices. Dont think anything was much over 10g. Within a hour or 2 though they had all been sold and then the prices started to rise. The better major Glyphs are going for 20-40g now.
I got a crummy discovery Minor. Some shammy rez thing, but am only one with it and have sold around 20 at 100g each. Then I still had way too much silverleaf/peacebloom so i took an alt upto 150 just for the discovery (coz id realised how few minors where on sale,and wouldnt really be anymore for another 20 hours)
My alt discoverd the druid minor Thorns, which isnt too bad. Course its the only druid minor currently been discoverd on my server, even 3 days later (sadly though 2 others have it) they are still selling very well though at around 60g each. Mats cost a few gold lol and I have shifted over 40 of em.
I think my initital herb cost investment was something like 2-5k (hard to keep track coz was buying em for a month and prices varied so much).
Total from all Glyph sales after about 60 hours is about 8k and i still have about half of my herbs left. Expecting to sell more over the weekend than have done already…so just hoping i get a cool new minor discovery or at least no one elses gets the 4 i already have heh.
Thanks again DYS team. Hows things going on your live server?
One last bit of advice on AADV that makes it a must- you can keep your tradeskill window open at the same time as the AH window! Then just click the gplyh in the skill window and it shows up in the AH search box. Makes searching for prices a ton easier and faster than trying to remember and then type each glyph’s name individually. I’ve always used this feature but realize that many people may not use AADV and therefore not know it can do this. Again, with inscription causing you to make so many glyphs at all skill levels, this is more handy than ever.
I’m just repeating what Gavin has told you, but thought it was worth reiterating.
I stopped selling glyphs yesterday and sold all my remaining herbs in inventory. I did manage to sale about 5 hunters major glyph of arcane shot (or something like that) for 25 gold a pices all my other glyphs I had to sale for 10 to 15G. Stopped selling them and made 700 gold selling herbs in about an hour. Pretty decent I would sa.. Only problem now I am out of herbs lol.
Server I tried this on now seems to have hit a sweet spot. Started selling for around 40g, and seem to be selling one to two an hour. Only only lost one of each glyph at a time. Others seem to have stopped AHing their glyphs.
Only made about 1k gold, but, I still have loads of glyphs to sell, and loads of low and high end herbs, ran out of Silvery Pigment herbs, but have sent my warrior to Winterspring to farm icecap. He is the only one there most of the time.
Minor glyphs, nothing yet, only got some Armor Vellums. Bad luck I guess.
FYI, when using Minor Research, the minor glyphs don’t show up in your bag, only some scrolls (and maybe the Vellum was from that). However, you should get a message in chat saying you’ve learned Glyph of XXX; then you can make them.
If you aren’t getting this message, try looking through every glyph you know and seeing if there are any minor one in the list, perhaps you’ve just missed the message or your chat window isn’t set up to show it.
Maybe it’s possible not to learn anything when using Minor Research, but I haven’t heard of that happening, and even then to have it happen a few times in a row would be rare IMO.
It does happen that you DON”T learn a minor glypf when doing research. My first one netted Scroll of Recall. Since then I have gotten Glyph of Shackle Undead and Glyph of Water Shield.
My bad – yes, I got Glyph of Battle, which it pretty “useless”. Prat was broken, so none of of my chat windows were working.
NEW question!
Those darkmoon faire type cards – what are they? are they worth it? I bought your inscription guide (and like it) but I’m not sure if I should invest in the cards.
If I find out (ie, someone answers this) I can decide without wasting ink!
-M
Thanks in advance
Just a followup to my first post. I’ve now gone from 3000g profit to 8300 profit as of this morning. I’ll probably have another 1.5-2K waiting for me when I get home.
Now I’m looking for some insight from anyone reading. Here’s my situation (and some of you may be in a similar one):
I have quite a bit of gold and several thousand herbs still in my bank (plenty of T1 herbs – i.e. Peacebloom). I maxed out Inscription, and I have a fairly large variety of major glyphs of all classes sitting on an alt (100-200 glyphs). I also have a lot of rare ink, regular ink, and I have discovered Astral Recall (bad) and Water Shield (good) for my minors; I’ll get the third one 5 hours from now. I’ve cornered the market on about 5 Minor glyphs total (including my own) at about 75-95g/ea.
My question is, “What do I do with the market?”
There are about 15 Major glyphs I’ve also cornered and command 20g-49g from. The rest of the Majors have dropped in price ranging from 90 silver to 15g. Most of the 25-40g ones from last night dropped at some point this morning when the next wave of scrubs leveled. I’ve snagged all the 5g ones because I can’t contain my anger, and I’ve tried reasoning with the “laydown sellers” to keep prices high. All this does is make them defensive.
SO…do I try to sell my herbs, sell my 9g-11g glyphs, something else, or a combination of these? Tarots, Vellums, Scrolls – meh. The market is considerably more cramped than it was in the first 24 hours. Knowing that plenty of people will play this weekend to finally re-tweak their UI and have fun, should I do something totally different? I’m all ears.
“I’ll probably have another 1.5-2K waiting for me when I get home.”
I had 1866g waiting for me.
Same prob here like theexistence just discribed.
Ive decided to wait and fade away into the shadows for now with the Majors and let the others fight out for selling their glyphs for a redicilious price of 5 gold.
The fact is, I know people spending 90 up to 250 gold for these major as they got sold when I was the first at my server. Now they are for sale for less than 8 up to 3 gold. ./snicker So I just wait…. till their herb dry up and “hopefully” I can continue selling them for a “fair” price of 20-50 gold each, even tho its risky, cause many people has learned glyphs by than and surely can make some glyphs for free to their friends.
But as we know……. lots of World of Warcraft players are casual… or lazy and can’t be arsed to wait till their friend is online (or farm the mats themselves and log into their alt) and make them one. Instead, they most prolly just buy it from AH, hack, 30 gold aint that much, atleast worthy to avoid again, farming herbs.
Oh, and now I wrote this, People must be tired of herbing (for those who did) meaning, I totally understand, when u finally hit the max skill, u can’t see any herb anymore, meaning, just buying it from AH!
Market has stabalized a little on Dath’Remar, made around 1000g this morning selling glyphs that have now gone back up to 20-30g a shot. Some are still 2-5g (mostly the crappy ones anyway) but still a nice profit from the cheap mats. My minors that I have discovered are selling around 50g each. Not quite the crazy prices as patch day but still more than profitable. Probably will get all crazy again come the weekend and surge and drop again. Overall a good experience for those who didn’t panic and sell off too cheap early. Still have tons of glyphs left so hopefully the demand will continue.
The markets on the two servers I have been doing inscription on are flip flopping. However, I have noticed a trend where the low priced glyphs are selling, then appearing higher priced. So this bodes well, since it seems others are buying and relisting to inflate the market. I stopped doing this as there were just too many.
With close to 500 glyphs sitting in the bank, I hope to at least average 25g each this weekend. Epic mount finally!!!
Proudmoore is officially a dead market atm. People are putting hundreds of glyphs up for less than 1 gold. I have bought all I can in the hopes they don’t sell, they vendor them, and the market picks up.
GREAT GUIDE was the first to 350 on my server made about 7000 to 8000g so far but i got one problem i got to 365 and every thing is gray now is there some other majors or something got all that ones that were in honor hold??
Don’t bother levelling too much.
You can’t get anything new till Lich King anyway, besides the Minor daily.
By then, you should be able to get some Northrend recipes that get you going again.
Well, day one we made 8000g selling gyphs at ~100g each, day 3, glyphs are already down to 2-8g each, since everyone was undercutting each other.
Making lots fast did work innitially, but over all I don’t think its trully possible to make that 25000+ you were talking about on a high population server. The only reason we even made our 8k is that we had 350 inscription at 9am patch day (1 hour after servers came up) within 24 hours, atleast 20 people had 350 and glyphs had dropped to the 15g mark, now as I said they are at 2-8g.
I have a feeling that glyphs will be a one hit wonder money maker, no need to change them with gear, only spec, and people can do that for 15g now.
So far I’ve got 4562g just from the glyphs I made lvling, with still about 100 in the bank. Made plenty of inks that I have in stock, quite a few 1000. Also, Alchemy elixirs and flasks have been wiped out completely from the AH so I have been making a ton of gold posting the most popular ones. As the only one posting these I am making a killing due to the short supply of herbs on my server.
As noted above, I was running low on Lion’s Ink, and natdog27 posted saying he was too. I also saw trade chat asking to buy the herbs to make this. So, figuring this was the low ink area for now, I bought out all the lowballed glyphs which uses 2 Lion’s Ink and am hoping that these same low-ballers only did it to level and don’t have enough ink left to add 100 more (tho I know new Scribes are leveling daily).
I bought a few 1 Lion’s Ink ones as well, such as Lightning Bolt. Pretty much anything under 8 gold I bought up and listed for at least 8, sometimes up to 15. The main undercutter wasnt on last night so maybe he just was trying to level the skill and not make money (hopefully!)
It is the same no my server. I have also been buying up all the Lion’s ink golden pigment herbs (kingsblood, liferoot, steelbloom, grave moss) to block others from being able to level without farming the herbs themselves. It cost a bit at first, but once there are none for sale then the people listing them have no idea what they are worth and the price drops.
Another thing that I did was to use /who to determine which classes of 70’s were most common on my server and then produce the glyphs for only those classes when possible while leveling. You can also use the AH search to see the total number of glyphs for sale for each class and look for any classes that are underserved based upon their percentage of the population.
The herb shortage is starting to kick in on my server, prices have been stable for the most popular glyphs and minors are still selling high and well. Almost sold off all my glyphs that I leveled with, about 5000g back. But the biggest indication of herbs running lower is the limited supply of the most sort after elixirs and flasks, made a bit over 1000g on them today. Would have been a lot more if more guilds were raiding. The unavailability of up to date mods and server instability has caused many guilds to call off their raids. Also the instability of servers, downtime and people with their toons locked in BGs for hours on end’ because of a bug, has not helped any.
I was very skeptical at this the first couple of hours, even though I was, maybe, the first on the server to reach master rank and had monopoly on some of the glyph for a short hour I didn’t seem to make much money.
Well I was wrong, I’ve earned 9000G on just the glyphs, and only 3 days has passed. I’m amazed really; I only stumbled across this page by mere coincidence, and that was two days before the patch. Two days of preparation yielding 9kG is amazing.
Thanks DYS
Domination for sure here, Anaraya 70 Druid – Frostmane, even with server crashes all afternoon, I ran back and forth from the Inscription trainer to the Mailbox, psting all my Glyphs for 100G-150G each on AH as I passed it, I dominated the Glyph market for about 3 hours in which time I made over 3,000G now a few days later I’m at over 5,000G refusing to sell my glyphs for less than pre-patch cost to make them. Thx DYS I’m hoping to continue to make a ton of G off my next few Minor Glyphs all of which are selling very well for 80-100G.
2 DK glyphs so far, silly to put them in game when they can’t be used yet. Oh well, hope in 1 months time they are not too flooded in the market.
ok, total gold so far, 18,000 +
minors: Ghost Wolf, Water Walking, Thorns, Pestilence, Distract, Horn of Winter
Made Over 10k from the guide so far guys! This despite the market being flooded with glyphs on my server. Now I’m mostly selling minors and some of the hotter selling majors. Best 7 bucks Ive spent on WoW bar none.
Cant wait for 2.0!
After first six days, I’m still down 4k from where I started. Can’t even sell herbs now as the prices have come way down. Minor research has been a bust; so far 3 for the death knight and the other three Fading, Vanish & Water Breathing have all been learned by at least 3-5 other people who are listing them for about 1-10g each. Guess at this point I’ll hold onto everything I have, wait for the market to stabilize & go back to making my gold the old way.
By the way, being able to level my inscription in short order was more than worth the price of the guide.
Rege
Aegwynn
Proudmoore (Horde) is still a disaster, Glyph market is swamped with idiots selling them for 1-2 gold, even ones that require Outland herbs.
The herb market is extremely highly priced, but they just aren’t selling.
The only Glyph that seems to be selling well is Glyph of Thorns, but only commands about 15g a pop.
Still, on one server I have been clawing back the market, buying out Glyphs for up to 10g and selling them for between 15-25g in 3-4 specific Glyphs.
Another week, many of the new Scribes will give up, and the market can be recovered, just like in RL.
Yah, I have got a few minors so far and have only been able to sell 1-2 for anything over 100g, so nice big cash sink that one.
So I revised my tactic for the higher Glyphs, made 5 of the “orange” ones, sent them to the Class Leaders in the Guild for them to hand out between their teams.
Like others, I am now only working on consignment and hoarding herbs to powerlevel when LK comes out.
I however am still looking for bargain “special” inks on the AH and Researching every day.
Update #3:
As of today 10/20 I’ve made about 19,000 gold since the patch came out on Tuesday. The specific inks the guide suggested stockpiling on were pretty spot on (though I’d add Lion’s Ink to that list). My goal was 20,000 in a week and I should get there, though, I will say the market has slowed considerably in the past 24 hours. Thank god for cancel auction macros!
Here are my personal tips for the week ahead if you’re coming up a bit short of your goals.
1) Be on the lookout for great bargains on regular ink. What I’ve found is that a lot of people are dumping stockpiles of ink and pigments after they finish the level grind “just to get rid of it.” Dominate them by snatching up their mistakes – just today I bought 20 Lion’s Ink for 40g or 2g each. I then take one ink and an (essentially free) parchment and turn around to sell the glyph for 9g-39g.
2) Try doing /who searches. The minor Glyph of Vanish was selling for about 40g on my server a few days ago until someone posted 3 at 20g each. I bought all 3 and reposted at 39.5g only to have him post 3 more at 20. I bought those and then he posted 3 more. Then I brainstormed a bit and tried doing /who troll rogue, /who undead rogue, and /who orc rogue. I made a macro offering to sell the glyph to them for 29g and I let them know I had just a few left. Most of these people said “no” politely, but about 1/3 asked me to link the recipe and 1/5 bought on the spot. I offered to travel to them wherever they were in the world (I’m a mage so it’s easy.), and I even gave them a free port too. Most of these people were in random places around the world doing random things and were thrilled that I would offer this “great deal” to them. Several then asked me to make additional glyphs (which I heavily marked up) and sold those to them on the spot. Just remember to brink all mats needed for all the glyphs you can make.
3) Know when to stop pushing. If there are 20 auctions of Glyph of Rip selling for 2-3g don’t post yours at 1.99g – that’s pointless. Search EVERY major glyph in the AH and write down or inventory which sell well and which don’t. Stop making the bad sellers and only focus on the big sellers – my cutoff point is 8.5g for example.
4) Monopolize (or share w/ 2-3 ppl) minor glyphs while you still can. You will only have about 1 week or less to this as of 10/20. if you see only 1-3 minors of a certain type you know will sell, check to see if that seller is online. If they’re not then buy them and relist them higher.
5) Sell herbs if your market is moving them. Note: Some servers have stagnant herb sales because the prices have breached what people are willing to pay, but most should be able to still do this.
6) Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. (True for RL too.)
My final tip is something that I’ve always known to be true and will likely never veer from:
The price of a good or service should be what people are willing to pay for it, NOT what you THINK people are willing to pay for it. Think about that for a second. To all those morons out there posting minor glyphs at half of what you’re trying to sell them for – they THINK people won’t pay your price so they heavily undercut you and drag the market down just to make a quick buck. In the process they lose potential profit, often forget about their opportunity costs, and prevent you from sales. There may never be a solution for this problem, but at least you can approach the problem from a different mindset.
Good luck dominating!
Since patch I have made 10 000g in sales with still 2 000 inks in the bank. Things have slowed up considerably yesterday so I’ve only been making the minors I have discovered and a few of the glyphs that are still selling alright (mainly the pvp oriented glyphs for the popular pvp classes.) I was thinking of another way to unload all my inks and not getting stuck with a heap when the market slows further. In wow, like RL, people pay for ease of service. How about selling enough inks for someone to level from 0-350 as a package deal? Would it take 350 inks to skill up? Gavin, Lawbringer, is it possible to lvl on turning just inks into glyphs alone to 350? It would be great to mass sell in big chunks like that instead of the market dribbling in 5-20 gold at a time. I’m sure people would pay for the service of not having to farm or pay the high prices on the herb market. It could be advertised as a way to lvl and make sellable glyphs every step of the way to 350 without having to take so long milling, inking, then glyphing. Also, I’m sure lots of people are planning on rolling their new death knights with inscription and plenty of guildies have told me they will. I’m sure some folk would pay for the service before wolk to get a start up on the competition with their DKs inscriptions. (making myself a healthy profit for the service of course) So I guess my question is, apart from is it possible, how much would you charge and expect folk to pay for such a service?
Yeah I’ve stayed around the 21k mark, bought over 1k in the Mooncloth bags to hold all the glyphs, and spent randow $ on other things. The market has really slowed, the same one guy continues to discover the same minor glyphs as me and puts 15 at a time on the market for 8g when I was selling them for 40. There are a few high-end, good-selling major glyphs, but another guy is always on, and though he doesn’t undercut me by more than 1 copper, he wins the war every time on getting things posted under me. So, I’m about ready to retire I think, though I’m happy as I made a killing in 1 week.
I’m going back to my JCer, I think I’ve made about 8k on him in the past 5 days as all the other JCers are having fun. Posting and listing gems is a ton easier, esp. now w/o 10k competitors, maybe my Scribe will revisit the scene in a week and see how the dust has settled. Otherwise I just don’t have the fortitude to cancel and relist glyphs 3x/day when it takes over an hour to go through the process just once, they’re just too many!
This next patch is going to be a gold makers dream with inscription, not from the general population, but other scribes. If your server is anything like mine, you would have noticed that scribes have gone absolutely nuts over the Nobles deck (the best trinket ingame for many classes). Making these decks has been a major headache due to the low proc of icey pigments and the random nature of the card that you receive for your efforts. Most scribes without deep pockets have come up a few cards short while depleting their bank accounts. Well, with this next patch you will be able to trade in your stockpile of useless Ink of the Sky for the much sort after Snowfall inks. There will be a vendor in the sewers of Dalaran that will exchange 10 of your Ink of the Sky for 1 Snowfall ink. That means that every scribe who has been working on a Darkmoon Noble deck will be in a frenzy, in the 1st couple of days after patch, to complete their decks and get their OP trinket.
This provides 2 opportunities. Many scribes are unaware of the change and have been selling Ink of the Sky at rock bottom prices. This is a great opportunity to buy something of next to no profit/cost and turning it into a much desired and valuable item.
The other opportunity is going to be the real killer though. Two words, ETERNAL LIFE. Sitting at around 15-20g on the low end of my servers AH, expect the price to at least double in the days immediately after the patch. To make a Darkmoon Card of the North you need 3 Eternal Life and the stocks on the AH are going to run dry very early on patch day due to the Nobles deck scramble. If the other scribes on your server don’t read the Forums or play the PTR you are one lucky scribe if you have stockpiled these little beauties ahead of time. You could have a monopoly on the market because the demand will be so high and will far outweigh the collection of these mats and the servers ability to replenish stocks for a few days. Talk about domination.
Also, don’t get caught holding a lot of these Darkmoon cards (both Nobles and others) when the patch hits. Dump them now. The value of them will plummet with over supply, this will be due to the random nature of the card you get and the fact that people will make a ton of cards trying to get that last card needed to complete their decks (1/32 chance). Best of luck scribes, get ready to DOMINATE.
Edit: Above I meant Ink of the Sea instead of Ink of the Sky
Is this guide still relevant or was it intended more for the initial rush of glyphs?
The guide is still very relavent. Yes, it has information that was primarily of the most use for the opening of Inscription. But the leveling guide and to-do list will still get you to 450 Inscription with the least pain and expense possible. I’m working with Gavin this week, as a matter of fact, to give you guys a little Christmas present . . . .
Cant wait!