Comments on: Speedy Scribe: Power level your Inscription in patch 3.0

By: frankieb

frankieb — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:44:22 +0000

i wondering if there will be epic glyph drop maybe in heroics or something i dont see how one can make alot of money since ppl are undercutting so bad and the discoveries are not so random many ppl getting the same ones. i can make some gold when im the only one to have dicovered someting but as soon as someone els does its over. is it worth sticking it out im at 437/450?

By: mindgem

mindgem — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:54:24 +0000

I made 25gold from selling Glyphs on AH up til today.
But I have huge competition and I made some very fatal misstakes.

First of all, there was about 100 inscribers that reach lvl360 at the same time as me, about 1 hour after the servers came online.

I had 3 slots of guild bank filled with all flowers from Peacebloom to Mana thistle and I also had my full character bank with odd herbs.

I put my arse at the UC inscriber trainer and lvled it up just about as this guide told me to so I was very fast to lvlup.
I then quickly put everything up on AH for 19g each.

I sold soo much that first day.

But here’s my super stupid misstake. I sold every flower I got left after lvlup on AH for a very small sum, I figure no one wants the low level glyphs, only the outland ones. But turns out everyone wanted the Minor glyphs which all needed low level flowers.

So i ended up buying back my own flowers for like 500-1000g which I just sold for about 10g

Day 3 I lvlup Inscription to lvl75 with my Warrior just to research new Minor glyphs, It was little too late and I didn’t get much off it and most of them I already discovered on the Paladin.

Bye bye.

By: Blackthorn

Blackthorn — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:36:09 +0000

Hi there,

I have made 20k gold on patch day with beeing one of the first with glyphs and herbs on the AH. Sold stacks of Herbs for 200g each. It was so much fun.

So now that the prices are going back due to undercutting inscriptionists, what do you guys think might be the next blockbuster in moneymaking when wotlk is out? mithril / thorium? I think prices of herbs and glyphs might go up again because of old and completely new players just coming back to try out wotlk. Also the deathknight runes might be nice moneymakers. But I think to many people will have their runes up when wotlk hits the stores.

Now, sitting on 20k+ gold is nice, but I want more So I’d like to invest a little money. Is it a good idea to buy raw epic gems to sell them for more? Especially when there are not too many on the AH. The question is if people spend money on epic gems right before wotlk. What do you think?

By: Velithar

Velithar — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:11:31 +0000

25x Glyph of Sprint only got me to 297. I added 10 Ink of the Sky to get me to 300.

Thanks for the otherwise smooth ride to 350 tonight. (I knew I was hoarding those herbs on my alts for a reason. Too bad I didn’t want to sell them–the few gaps I plugged from the AH nearly killed me. Yikes!)

By: Iktomi

Iktomi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:43:52 +0000

The guide has proven fantastic - thanks heaps guys.

I would have to second the comment above regarding levelling up on the rare ink. For example, I had several stacks of Blindweed, which yielded quite a few Ruby Pigments. I managed to get about 10-12 skill points making them into Fiery Inks.

Keep checking every 5 skill points to see if each pigment level’s rare ink type is available.

By: Tex

Tex — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:53:36 +0000

I think Flyv has the right idea. My new scribe (a semi-neglected 22 druid) snagged the Pick Pocket glyph as his first discovery. I went to the AH to check Pick Pocket prices… anywhere from 75g to 200g each??? Jackpot!

I posted a few at 50g bid, 60g buyout, one of which already sold. Then I shipped the rest of my entry-level herbs (started with about 40 full stacks to semi-power-level Inscription) to an even more neglected alt, to have *them* skill up Inscription & discover a minor as well! She learned the priest Fortitude glyph, currently going for 25-35g on my server (Skywall, Horde side)

Can’t wait for my minor-research cooldowns to end… it’s gonna be like getting surprise gifts every day — twice XD

By: Chopstix

Chopstix — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:44:48 +0000

Fantastic guide. I used this to powerlevel a day after the patch was out. And I did not spend a single gold as I had the minimum amount of herbs to cover it. Many thanks!

By: Flyv

Flyv — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:38:30 +0000

I’m doing OK selling major glyphs, but the real value at the moment is if you get lucky and get a useful minor glyphs. Because of the discovery system minor glyphs are quite rare right now. I’m the only one with Feign Death on my server, and I’m selling a bunch at 100g each. I think I could maybe get more for each one but my volume will go down. I figure I’d rather sell more early while I’m still the only vendor.

By: Semira

Semira — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:06:11 +0000

Thank you SO much for this Guide. I must say, that the only changes I made was to spread out the types of Glyphs I made, so that I could test the market with each one, but the Guide was flawless in giving the right direction. Despite server downs, Kalimdor dropping repeatedly and other issues, I managed to go straight to cap with over 300 auctions up, clearing 2.8k in sales without being aggressive.

Oh, and getting the Glyph of Penguin as my first discovery did not hurt!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:43:18 +0000

“5x Weapon Vellum II to 250 Inscription”

This doesn’t give skillups at 245.