Comments on: Shaani, the epic gem vendor

By: WoW Economist » Blog Archive » Sayin’ goodbye to crafting cooldowns

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:15:01 +0000

[...] the official patch notes have been released. From an economists point of view (as many readers have already pointed out), the changes to our crafting cooldowns, Void Shatter in particular, is a new [...]

By: Warago

Warago — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:50:31 +0000

Hey might want to share with your readers that the current ptr notes say that patch 2.4.2 will remove the Void Shatter CD. Buying void crystals for cheap (20g on my server), paying an enchanter a small fee and then selling the easily obtained large prismatic shards should pull a huge profit though ultimately the price of void crystals will rise and lps with drop so sell as many as possible on patch week.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:25:32 +0000

Off topic but would love your opinion. Blizz just announced that the cooldown on void shatter will disappear in the new 2.4.2 patch. On my server, which seems to be still inflated because of the new badge vendor, voids sell for 40g, and large prismatics sell for 25-30g. One void crystal and one void shatter can yield about 5-15g of profit with these prices. What do you think will happen to prices as the patch draws near? Obviously, the price of 1 void will converge to the price of 2 shards, but do you predict a drop in the price of shards because of the increased supply, consequently lowering void prices? Is it a good strategy to stockpile voids at this point?

Great site by the way. Just wish your entries were more frequent lol.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:43:35 +0000

Heya, awesome job so far, love the site, some real great ideas here.
I’m a WoW tradesman myself, and I’m just amazed how easy it is to make money in the game despite the majority of the peole telling the opposite.

Anyway, I came across with the new 2.4.2 patch notes today (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html) which have some real sweet chances for high profits. I’m just listing a few particularty interesting ones, hope you dont mind.

* All 23-hour profession cooldowns are now 20-hour cooldowns. - Well a bit of an improvement for my Void Shatter I thought.

* All 4-day cooldowns are now 3 days, 20 hours. - A bit of an improvement as well.

* Removed the cooldown from Void Shatter.

This made me look like :O though. Apparently Blizzard wanted to lower Shard prices and up Void prices with the Void Shatter ability, but Shard prices are pretty much skyrocketing despite that. No cooldown means the market will be flooded with Shards though, if you have the cash to buy out some voids now and control the market when 2.4.2 hits, you’ll be a millionaire.

Oh, may I have a suggestion as well? You could do this speculation type of thing based on patch notes. Patch notes in the past have helped me a great deal in gaining a lot of money (the S1 Arena items for honor patch - huge demand for gems, enchants & materials, the Primal Shadow droprate nerf, which made the 3g Shadow go for 20-25g, and now this no CD on Void Shatter patch) if youre a fastest to act, you can get a huge cut of the pie, information is money =)

Plus I’d like to ask what are you guys putting your money into to save it from inflation? Enchanting materials? Gems? I’m a bit confused with those, since the market seems to be pretty much flooded with enchanting mats anyway, and after you’ll be able to vuy epic gems from the vendor, blue gem prices will most probaly fall, like they have started falling again.

Well I guess to properly gauge that you would need to know how many badges an average person has, and will he be buying the items right away when he can, or will be saving up for gems as well. Because if he wont be able to buy epic gems right away, he will most probably use blue ones instead, producing a huge demand spike.
Still some speculation would be nice that will the supply will be able to keep up with the demand, and will their prices go significantly down or not.

By: miyuji

miyuji — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:35:59 +0000

as for the tailoring specialization, i know on my server spellcloth sells an average of 10-25g more per cloth over shadowcloth with mooncloth holding a middle ground. this is because most mages and warlocks spec into ice and shadow and need the shadowweave set, then are unable to respec as they would lose the set bonuses. as the spellcloth is also used more prevelently in other patterns such as the battlecast set, or was it spell strike….. whatever they are indemand for other uses.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:36:08 +0000

kifar: just take a look at the AH and see which is the most profitable. add up the average cost of the mats and subtract it from the selling price of the cloth x2 (specialization means you’ll be creating 2 cloth everytime you cast).

saint: the price of epic gem patterns is in gold but the epic gems themselves can be bought for badges.

By: SaintStryfe

SaintStryfe — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:41:52 +0000

Can you clarify - what are the prices of the Epic Gem Patterns? Is it gold or badges?

By: kifar

kifar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:50:12 +0000

A little off topic, (okay a lot off topic) but I thought you might have an opinion. As a 350 tailor I am trying to decide which specialization to choose. Mooncloth, spellcloth or shadowcloth. Any advice from a purely financial point of view?

By: Paigan

Paigan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:19:38 +0000

“On the other hand, if you have sufficient rep from Mount Hyjal (Scale of the Sands), there is substantially less risk because these recipes are ten times cheaper.”

If you don’t mind getting stepped on by a 40-foot tall demon and his minions.

By: Turtlehead

Turtlehead — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:19:15 +0000

Design: Reckless Pyrestone is the sleeper here. Why?

After capping hit, casters mostly gem straight +dam, ignoring socket color. Haste trades roughly 1:1 in stat value with damage for many casters (and both much higher than crit). A haste/dam gem that matches yellow socket is lovely–it makes grabbing socket bonuses on lots of gear a real option.