Winter Veil Inflation
Dec 16, 2008 Auction House, Crafting, Farming, Gathering, Holidays, How-To, Investing, Professions, Wrath of the Lich King
I’m sorry I didn’t get this post up sooner so you guys could start preparing. Wordpress has been giving me some trouble lately. If the most recent updates don’t fix it, I might have to move to a new blogging platform.
Winter Veil is finally here and so is the inflation. Most of us have seen it before - hundreds of gold for stacks of Small Eggs among other things. It brings back memories of WoW’s first Winter Veil and farming the hell out of owls in Teldrassil for eggnog.
With many players going after the Merrymaker title, a few of the player-created items are in very high demand. This demand has caused the materials to skyrocket in price, giving us an opportunity to earn some major cash. Seeing as this post is a little late, we won’t be able to invest in much. But some quick and easy farming, even on low level alts, will prove to be very profitable. Here are some items you should look out for and sell while the demand lasts:
- Wool Cloth and Bolts of Woolen Cloth
- Runecloth and Bolts of Runecloth
- Rugged Leather
- Copper Ore and Copper Bars
- Small Eggs
- Deeprock Salt - this is a big one, going for about 20g each on my server. Deeprock Salt can be turned in with 5g for five Preserved Holly.
The following may be profitable investments as they can be purchased cheaply from vendors. I’ve often started earning funds on new bank alts by selling a few Rune Thread on the auction house for a few hundred percent markup - the markup and demand are likely much more significant at this time of year.
- Rune Thread
- Green Dye and Red Dye
- Holiday Spirits and Holiday Spices
- Ice Cold Milk
Hopefully there’s still time for you to take advantage of the holiday madness. Let me know how you do!
Tags: Seasonal
December 16th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Bolts of wool and silk cloth I get. Same with rugged leather and small eggs (which I had saved for a year and was pulling down 1.75G per egg as fast as I could post them yesterday).
But Deeprock Salt? What exactly is that used for? No holiday recipes need it, best I can tell. Don’t you mean copper bars, which is one of the ingredients of Winter Boots?
Speaking of Winter Boots, I’ve been selling those recently for 57-60 gold each. Merry Winter’s Veil to me!
December 16th, 2008 at 6:47 am
If you’re a leather worker - you can buy 24 Thick Leather for much cheaper than 4 Rugged Leather for those Winter Boots (at least on my server, Frostmane - check yours) Like a tailor turning cloth into bolts, 24 Thick Leather = 4 Rugged.
I haven’t participated in the making of money - but I did plan ahead and have saved quite a bit acquiring the materials for all my achievements.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Add runecloth to the list. Runecloth bolts are used for the winter clothes.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for the Runecloth tip. I actually meant to put Runecloth, not Silk Cloth. The change has been made.
I’ve also clarified the use of Deeprock Salt in the Winter Veil festivities.