Comments on: Arena Season 4: How did you do?

By: Rakhman

Rakhman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:55:20 +0000

I made around 4k initially from 20-odd Earthstorm Diamonds I had transmuted in the run up to Season 4. The price had doubled so I actually made a “profit” of 2k.

I then made a further 1k from clearing any primals and especially the Planar Essences I had stocked, which also seemed to rocket up in price.

I’m presuming we’ll need to wait for Season 6 for another repeat; I guess if S5 starts with Wrath then people will still be busy levelling rather than buying enchants for their gear… plus the new top end enchants will require new mats. Which is why I shall be DEing every useless Northrend reward to flog on to powerlevelling enchanters.

By: JSG

JSG — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:34:33 +0000

BTW, for some reason, on my server the market for primal nether is just garbage. It used to fluctuate between 50-75g (I even sold a few for 100g)… but now there are just SO many, and people are dumping them on the AH.

I’m not even sure if there is any demand for it any longer. But hey, I guess November is a little ways off. I’m just hoping the price picks up. I’m a bad speculator sometimes- I agonize while the price is low, even while I’m stocking up. But then the price goes up and supply is low, and then I get to feel like a genius. But I worry the whole time until that happens.

By: JSG

JSG — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:51 +0000

I made some money, but there didn’t seem to be a noticable increase in enchanting mats, which I had stocked a lot.

In hindsight, I really wish I had stocked more Primals instead. However, I think the price increase (which still persists) is more attributed to Blizz banning the botters, rather than any market effect. Well, perhaps also because it’s summer and there are fewer people out farming, but at least on my server, someone can make serious money farming.

Me, I hate farming, so I just play the market.

I also made a few silver spellthreads (haven’t purchased my way up to exalted yet, so no gold), made a few hundy on those, but now I have two sitting in my inventory and some jackhole is selling them for hardly any profit. I don’t mind competitors, but stupid competitors really screw the market.

Again, in hindsight, I wish I would have purchased my way up to exalted Aldor before S4 hit, because NOBODY on my server is selling gold spellthread in the AH. I’d be able to make a killing. Now, maybe not so much. Anyone think it would still be worth it?

By: JoeB

JoeB — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:56:56 +0000

For about 3 months before S4 I started stocking up on primals and cobra scales. By the time S4 hit i had 30 Nethercobra leg armors, 25 nethercleft , 20 Runic spellthread, and a ton of spare primals.
Im sitting pretty with 45k in the bank now.

In 2 weeks I made 35K Profit !!!! I sold out of the nethercobra armors in 6 days.

By: Donny

Donny — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:50:21 +0000

I’d like to correct what i said earlier about doing poorly. i thought the price of Large Prismatic Shards would peak before the second weekend after S4 hit but they didn’t really peak at 35g on Madoran until 2-3 weeks and the price has remained 26g up from 21g ever since.

By: pixellock

pixellock — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:07:44 +0000

I made 15K in the first 8 hours, and wrapped up with just over 20K for the week. I cut my teeth on the S3 event. OK, so actually I missed it almost completely, but saw how others made a gold mine and decided I was going to do the same for S4. I learned some from this blog, and lots from the epic but now defunct elitistjerks.com “Art of Making Gold” thread.

I had a full stack of Golden Spellthreads, almost as many Runic Spellthreads, a stack of Skyfire Diamonds and a few Earthstorms too, a few leg patches, and a few stacks of Primals (Life, Mana, Air). There were a few times here I had the limit of pending sales (55?) in my mailbox and couldn’t even pull the money out fast enough. It was a good problem to have.

I’m sitting on 30k and just about feel ready for WothLK.

By: Dodger

Dodger — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:39:58 +0000

This was the most awesome week ever. I turned around more money than in the previous two months. The most surprising winner (to me) was planar essences, which went from 7-9G to 23G for two days. Large prismatics were surprisingly bad, they went from 15G to 21G, i still sold about 80 of them.
The biggest total gain i had on earthstorm and skyfire diamonds. We are on a small backwater server, and even under normal circumstances, there are not more than 5-10 each in the AH. Prices soared from 130G for an earthstorm to up to 299G (i couldn’t belive my eyes when i opened the inbox). I also sold quite a few leg enchants, and primals.

All in all a very satisfying week. I think i can lay back and enjoy the game until WotlK now.
Semi-offtopic: how do you plan on preserving your money into the new expansion? surely the inflation would eat a bit part of it if you don’t invest. but invest in what? i reckon inscription mats might do the trick?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:12:51 +0000

I made around 2K selling 2xGolden Spellthread, a few Steady Talasites and a few Glowing Nightseyes.

Invested around 400G for Primal Nether and raw ore+raw gems.

Profit was around 1.6K, which isn’t too bad considering I’m trading casually and doing it just for the fun. On my server, there is a lot of smart traders, so there is not much room for 5-digit profits.

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:49:28 +0000

I managed about 15k. As I was away for the start date, I was pretty conservative in putting all my gems up for sale. I basically sold all the LPS, voids, primal earth, essences. A surprising thing was that primal nethers did not sell. The prices for gems has yet to recover on my server and rubies are still selling for 100g.

By: Marten

Marten — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:24:07 +0000

Did ok I think, mange to pull in 10k the first day. But I did under stock on a few items sadly. Mostly legpatches, enchating mats, some primals and gems was the ticket.

Thanks for a great blog!