Comments on: Inscription: The Production Line

By: CourdyDoorb

CourdyDoorb — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:45:11 +0000

By: NimAappomacaf

NimAappomacaf — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:51:01 +0000

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:08:44 +0000

I think the glyph selling business is definitely unique depending on which server you play on. Although you’re right about the 5g vs 45g glyphs – I have a different theory about that, but that’s for another post!

If you still need/want Snowfall Ink for Major Glyph Research I’d suggest trying to buy cheap Adder’s Tongue. If you don’t need Snowfall Deadnettle and the other lower level herbs sometimes sell for next to nothing (like half the price of Adder’s Tongue/Icethorn).

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:49:39 +0000

My baby pally is trying to get into the inscriber business. My server is weird – many glyphs sell for 4-5g, others sell for 45g. The key? Who knows the recipe. There are certain scribes who obviously have a bit of a monopoly on some glyphs. I seem to be able to make a few of those monopoly glyphs so I’m trying to undercut.

No profit on Snowfall ink at all – it sells for 8g while Ink of the Sea sells for 5g.

Not sure about the bots but there’s definitely one sniping bid-only herb auctions, no human player could time things as beautifully. Going to try contracting a particular farmer I noticed selling herbs fairly cheap to provide me with some, not sure it’ll work.
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By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:27:32 +0000

Hmm I must look into buying Adder’s Tongue. If it’s so good, is it really the much cheaper than Icethorn?

By: Natarumah

Natarumah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:28:11 +0000

Edit: My statements on Adder’s Tongue were obviously not needed – it was already mentioned above, doh!

As for the inks, check if lower-level inks sell for more on the AH – you can convert inks at the Glyph trainer in Dalaran and sometimes make a weird amount of profit from this. (As Gevlon stated multiple times)
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By: Natarumah

Natarumah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:26:03 +0000

In my personal experience, Adder’s Tongue is one of the best herbs to mill. It may be a folk tale, but it does seem to product lots of Snowfall Inks and the like. I also found it is often more profitable to sell the inks rather than the glyphs, since AH Goblins buy it to mass-produce their glyphs from.

My Alchemist hasn’t sold a flask in months. If I go and herb enough (including the frost lotus) it is so much more profitable to sell the mats and buy flasks…I even specced my alchemist for Transmutation and do a single gem transmute every day. I consider it a free 100-125 gold for 5 minutes a day with hardly any movement (since that is the profit even after buying a base gem and an eternal, if I’d have to).

I found that the Glyph market is run by bots, since they undercut all day long, and the cut gems are as well. So my main line of profit (rather than raiding) is raw epic gems, herbs and the occasional glyph that slips by the bots.
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By: PapaNasty

PapaNasty — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:13:56 +0000

Also your comments regarding flasks are pretty much on the money soto speak.

Alchemists do usually run at a pretty solid margin on flasks, since most alchemists buy wholesale soto speak, rather than from the AH, and so get significantly cheaper prices than in the AH.

Which is why it’s usually not profitable to list flasks unless you’re buying large amounts of herbs cheap, particularly as the bigger players often watch the AH like hawks, and if anyone undercuts them they will just undercut the person back. They’ll then continue to undercut their opposition even if they are making a loss by doing so, just to drive the competition out of the market.

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:03:19 +0000

@Nadir and @Typhus Thank you for the reminder about Adder’s Tongue – have amended my post to include it. At the moment I have tons of Snowfall Ink so I’ve been buying up very inexpensive Deathnettle and Talandra’s Rose (at around 5g per stack) and milling that instead. I’ll have to keep an eye out for cheap Adder’s Tongue now too.

By: nadir

nadir — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:10:57 +0000

Adder’s Tongue is generally the best herb to mill. It’s usually the cheapest and produces the same amount of pigments as lichbloom and icethorn. Also, the main reason to aim for these 3 herbs is that they produce more than 2x as much snowfall as the cheaper herbs. The snowfall itself often covers the herb cost.

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36901#milling
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36903#milling