With the advent of WotLK we taught hundreds of people how to seriously cash in with inscription.  If you missed out on the initial gold rush there, there is still hope.  You don’t even have to be a scribe to take advantage of this one.  But if you haven’t dropped inscription yet you might be even better off.  This little deal might make all that time spent between November and today worth it.

If you’re been trying to make any gold with inscription at all you probably have been doing some card crafting trying to get bits of the Nobles deck which awards
Darkmoon Card: Greatness http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42987. 

For at least a little while, Nobles cards were fetching anywhere from 1k-4k on Fenris.  And while the market has slowed some, you can still do pretty well with Nobles cards (and a few others) if you can make them in any quantity.

Just in case you need it, here’s a material list for the cards:
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=59504

-1 Resilient Parchment (Vendor bought)
-6 Snowfall Ink (created from Icy Pigment, rare mill drop from any Northrend Herb.
Can also be bought with 10 Ink of the Sea from a vendor in Dalaran http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=33027)
-3 Eternal Life
-3 Ink of the Sea (creater from Azure Pigment, common mill drop from any Northrend
Herb)

Now some decks aren’t so great, and that’s why the card prices are crap.  Chaos is good, Prisms is nice, but why is Undeath so bad that noone will buy it and its price on your server is low?  Because it has a 45 second internal cooldown and the proc gives a little less than 1,000 damage, making it basically…useless, unless you really need the passive crit that much (and you don’t).

So why are we just telling you things you all probably already know?  Well, if you play a lot on
the PTR (like me :p) you will have noticed that the popularity of the death cards has vastly increased.  This is because its internal cd has been lowered to 30 sec, its damage increased to near (and often over) 2,000 per proc AND it can now crit for up to 4,500 damage.

Now, people have complained a lot about the engineering trinket (Lightning Capacitor) being overpowered in PvP with its 3,000 damage every 1 minute (as burst damage), but others (engineers, like myself) have said it’s a sacrifice as it gives nothing during the cooldown and CAN backfire damage on you too. Now with this buff to the Death card, it will become a vastly better than its current iteration.

It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the price for Death cards getting gains in price of double to triple shortly following the patch.  Be aware that these price bumps may or may not stick on your server, so timing is critical.  Scan both Ally and Horde auciton houses to find the very cheapest cards and try to put them into full decks.  Put those decks on the AH on patch day for just a bit less than the Nobles deck to set the new price standard on your server and you should be able to make some serious dough.

Keep in mind that you may not sell any at the new uber price, but starting high is better than starting too low.  It is much easier to undercut than price push every time.  You might even begin posting those decks in the first couple of days before the patch, or now if you don’t mind eating the listing fees to get the price up where you need it to be.  But your best be is probably to nab all the straggling cards out there and hold them until 3.1 – then make some really Dominating coin.