Inscription: just mill!
The crafter’s corner brings uss a weekly noise. It sounds like *tjing Tjing* And is annoying as hell… Try to stand in the middle of Ironforge for more then 10 seconds and you’ll know why. hammer on metal isn’t the sound that we all love and enjoy. Yet for those first 10 seconds it’s a bliss, since we all know that sound makes uss money.
Now that inscriptioners are still abundant ’cause of th emmo-champion guide I want to get this over with. A lot of new inscriptioners means that they are using a lot more herbs, some by farming, some by buying. Others are even more ignorant and buy the ink’s. And today I’m talking about those.
90% of the new inscriptioners are still doing the Northrend inscription research. Most of them also try to make darkmoon cards. Which in turn means they need a lot of ink. Now selling these ink can be very profitable.
I’m an inscriptioner (orsomething similar) too. And I do the following:
Buy as much northrend herbs as I need. Mill them all, make the inks.
Now the Ink of the sea I need for my glyphs, but the Snowfall inks are practicly useless for me.
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Now I buy a stack for about 25gold. And one stack gives me about 1-3 snowfall inks, which I sell for 12-20G a piece (depending on the current market price)
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Now That means that I can actuallly sell my glyphs for 1gold and make a profit. The snowfall inks alone give me back my investment so the only cost I have left is the parchments.
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That right there, Is how we can profit from “sheep” people that follow guides without thinking any further. If a guide is out there and it gets a lot of followers, uss Goblins, uss real Auctioneers and bankers Anticipate and React and Profit.
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I am glad to hear that out of one stack of herbs, you can make 1-3 Snowfall inks, however in my experience it’s much more like 0-1.
While I think the advice is solid, I have to disagree with your math. If we check out the drop chance off of WoWHead – http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43109 then at 25% chance, thats 1 pigment per stack, at 50% chance, thats 2 pigments per stack. Do you have a secret that gets you a 100% plus drop chances? Even assuming at 100% we would still only be looking at 2 Snowfall inks, per stack (1 pigment each mill) unless you could guarantee 1.5 pigment drops each mill.
I managed to get all the inscriptions last week finally, and it was a bit of a relief, but I also found that other then for my own characters, there doesn’t seem to be much of a request for them. I think that perhaps the people buying Ink of the Sea, are more likely the people who buy it, and then goto the Inscribers who are offering it for free + mats.
Spitt,
This mainly depends on which herbs you’re milling. I see the error in my writing though it’s 1-2. fe. icecap has a lower chance of dropping the pigment vs adder’s tonghue
I am still finishing up Northrend research so I am still using my ink. I do however “just mill it all”. I will periodically put up extra Ink or Sea and Snowfall just to see if it will sell. Sometimes, a few do but not many at least on my server.
What I have been doing instead is buying goldclover for 16g stack, milling it into pigments and getting avg 20 Azure and 1 Icy per stack. I turn the Azure into IotS and sell the Icy. I take the IotS and make 5 armor vellum III.
Now for the math.
Stack of GC = 16g
20 Resilient parchment(46s/each) to make the vellums = 9g 20s
Total spent = 25g 20s
Armor Vellum III made = 10 @ 6g 75s (after AH fees)
Icy Pigment sold = 10g – 12g
Total gold made = 78g 5s
Total profit from one stack of GoldClover = 53g 85s
I bought 6 stacks of GC the other day and did this, profit after 24 hour AH sales – 317g 10s
My math got confusing above, even to me once I read it. You get x2 armor vellum III per so in one spot I said 5 armor vellumm III and elsewhere I said 10 armor vellum III. What I meant were we 5 scribe creations which would produce 10 vellums. Sorry for confusing things but the costs and profits at the end are correct.
Just pointing out that other than glyphs, inks, cards, you can also sell vellums really well.
Actually it made sense to me
Would it be ok if I try what you posted? to verify it and maybe increase the profit I make?
grtz
Seth
While I agree that Armor Vellum 3, are the way to go, I for one, still farm my herbs. I have a small spot a short flight from WG, which I do with my herbalist. On average I pick-up 1 stack per 5 minutes. This includes the time it takes to regen the next batch of herbs and to run the small circle – sorry but not sharing the spot. I found this spot several months ago and only once had any competition to gather the herbs. Overall, I can gather 12-13 stacks of herbs per hour, and using the Armor Vellum 3 method, I can make quite a bit of gold with a bit over 1 hour’s work.
I don’t include Snowfall Ink in my calculations for Glyph prices as I find it’s too unreliable to do so. I base my calculations just on the price I pay for the herbs. Part of this is no doubt down to conditions on my server, but the general problem with including the Snowfall price in your Ink calculations is that if you are milling herbs in any quantity there comes a point where you are creating way more Snowfall ink that you are selling. You can use some of it by making other items that use it, but these items tend to be quite variable in the quantities that they sell, making it difficult to calculate the impact on your herb costs.
If you are in the position where you are selling the bulk of the Snowfall you get and it’s offsetting your herb costs, enjoy it while it lasts, but don’t rely on it.
This may be why i need to level my inscription up. That is some damn good profit from 1 stack of gold clover only need level 65 and a big herb purchase.
by the way Seth Im gonna link this to my blog its a great post for inscription. Needs to be shared around the community.
that Bobreaze would be an honour!
May I know the url to your site? So I can have a look at your work?
nevermind this, just found it
and adding it to my bloggroll great writing!
Seth I’m really liking the new website
Just wanted to let ya know I updated my blog roll.
Also on the long run you will get 1 snowfall ink per adder’s tongue, icethorn and lichbloom. Some stacks you might get lucky and get 2-3 but more or less it averages to 1. 2 at most. The low end (deadnettle, tiger lilly, goldclover, etc) will give .5 ink per stack (or 1 icy pigment).
Also runescrolls are huge money as 1 snowfall ink makes 5 scrolls and you can generally get double the value of raw snowfall ink.
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O_O nice tip on the runescrolls….I may have to start converting my snowfall to that. I also spend some time herbing too so my profit -v- time investment can change but then again time is money so if you are limited on time, I wanted people to see spending 10 minutes of AH purchase/Mill/Scribe/AH post time can be quite profitable.
@seth …go go go…….
added blog bobreaze “thumbs up”
Other variant is possible also
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