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.

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!

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!

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.