Once again, some asshat is trying to shove people out of the glyph markets. All glyphs except a few of each class are under 5g. All of them. I know it's a scare tactic but it's so annoying; there's a lot more profit to be made for everyone when people aren't trying to be monopolists.
They also bought all my glyphs around 6g and under....lol. People who do this are so silly. They give me their money and I'm still making profit under their scare tactics.
Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"My" farmer got banned. =( About a week ago I noticed he hadn't logged on in a couple days, I suppose Warden caught up with him. He and a couple other bots have not been around, so the AH is back to hosting one page of overpriced herbs. For some reason Eternal Life is still available at normal prices (Frozo?).
Thank goodness I stocked up. "Buy everything, even if you don't need it right now," is a great rule to AH by! I have 3 guild bank tabs of IoTS and a mailbox full of herbs, plenty to last me until the next farmer surfaces.
Thank goodness I stocked up. "Buy everything, even if you don't need it right now," is a great rule to AH by! I have 3 guild bank tabs of IoTS and a mailbox full of herbs, plenty to last me until the next farmer surfaces.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Botters, how do I love thee?
Let me count the ways....
Botters are annoying, especially to legitimate farmers. They are unstoppable forces that cannot be competed against. No matter how hard or how long you farm, you can't beat them. For a real, player farmer, they are irritating, even rage-provoking. For a crafter, they are your best friend.
Ripples passed through the gold-making community about two months ago when, suddenly and across many servers, herbs, ore, and leather disappeared from the Auction House. Prices soared from 12/g stack of Saronite Ore to 36g or more per stack. Casual scribes were forced to give up the market, faced with an absence of supplies for their business. What happened?
A little sleuthing digs up that Blizzard released a new version of Warden, their anti-cheating program, and broke or blocked many if not all of the prominent botting programs. For farmers, this meant huge profits from material-hungry crafters. For crafters and buyers, it meant a massive market overhaul starting from the ground up. It took several weeks, but eventually the increased price of mats bumped up the prices of crafted items. From what I've seen prices have stayed high since then as people get discouraged and abandon the markets.
Today, for the first time since the ban wave, I saw Saronite Ore for 12g and 13g a stack. Huzzah! In the last two weeks I've lowered my snatch numbers from 20g to 15g for Saronite, 15g to 9g for Tiger Lily, and 25g to 15g for Adder's Tongue.
From buying so many items I know that there are approximately 2-4 botters on my server and a few more seem to have showed up. Great news for me - since I am one of the most diverse and large-scale sellers on my realm, I snap up their mats, process them, and profit. As more people quit the game before Cataclysm I predict that in the coming months my profits may increase based on more crafters leaving the game (I have already seen this happen in the epic gem market). For now, I'll continue to buy and sell, and tip my hat to the botters that make a good crafting market possible.
Botters are annoying, especially to legitimate farmers. They are unstoppable forces that cannot be competed against. No matter how hard or how long you farm, you can't beat them. For a real, player farmer, they are irritating, even rage-provoking. For a crafter, they are your best friend.
Ripples passed through the gold-making community about two months ago when, suddenly and across many servers, herbs, ore, and leather disappeared from the Auction House. Prices soared from 12/g stack of Saronite Ore to 36g or more per stack. Casual scribes were forced to give up the market, faced with an absence of supplies for their business. What happened?
A little sleuthing digs up that Blizzard released a new version of Warden, their anti-cheating program, and broke or blocked many if not all of the prominent botting programs. For farmers, this meant huge profits from material-hungry crafters. For crafters and buyers, it meant a massive market overhaul starting from the ground up. It took several weeks, but eventually the increased price of mats bumped up the prices of crafted items. From what I've seen prices have stayed high since then as people get discouraged and abandon the markets.
Today, for the first time since the ban wave, I saw Saronite Ore for 12g and 13g a stack. Huzzah! In the last two weeks I've lowered my snatch numbers from 20g to 15g for Saronite, 15g to 9g for Tiger Lily, and 25g to 15g for Adder's Tongue.
From buying so many items I know that there are approximately 2-4 botters on my server and a few more seem to have showed up. Great news for me - since I am one of the most diverse and large-scale sellers on my realm, I snap up their mats, process them, and profit. As more people quit the game before Cataclysm I predict that in the coming months my profits may increase based on more crafters leaving the game (I have already seen this happen in the epic gem market). For now, I'll continue to buy and sell, and tip my hat to the botters that make a good crafting market possible.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
State of the Union: Glyphs
I'll make it clear right now, I am very late to the party in terms of glyph-making. A lot of people got filthy rich off of this earlier in the expansion; by contrast, my scribe was first created about 2 months ago. Feeling there was still money to be had, and that if it failed it would still be a good learning experience, I dived right in.
At first I was very hesitant to use addons. I'd dabbled in Auctioneer before and I did regular scans, but anything beyond that was a scary jungle of command lines and Skillet buttons. And honestly? I still don't use Skillet or KTQ, holding a deep mistrust of Auctioneer's market data accuracy. What has revolutionized the way I post (in all markets) is Quick Auctions 3. I won't bore you with the how's and why's, since there are many excellent guides out there for this addon (Yumfries' on Youtube helped me immensely), but this is a must. have. addon. No if's and's or but's. I was ACTUALLY posting glyphs by hand before I figured this out, and on the scale glyph-making must be to be profitable, that is not an efficient, feasible, or sane way of going about things.
About two weeks after I started making max-level glyphs, the 2nd version of Blizzard's Warden came out, and the Great Bot Holocaust of 2010 occurred. Ore, herbs and leather vanished from the AH and prices for raw mats skyrocketed. Some influential crafters farmed mats or had their own stock that kept crafted prices down for a while; however, they have inexorably crept higher in price, sometimes by 40g (cut epic gems). Only in the last two week have bots slowly begun to trickle past the new security and back into the game.
After 10 days of scrabbling for mats, I was almost ready to give up on glyphs. Fortunately, at around that mark is when I found "my" botter. For a while we did face-to-face trades at great prices, but nowadays I usually let him post on the AH so I can see if he undercuts someone for even less. He's also a great source of Frost Lotus and Eternal Life - but his primary items for sale are Adder's Tongue, Goldclover, Tiger Lily, and Deadnettle.
I've been buying huge numbers of herbs from him for a couple weeks. To give you some stats, as of this posting I have:
6128 Adder's Tongue
2000 Tiger Lily
3528 Icethorn
1174 Deadnettle
389 Snowfall Ink
3140 Ink of the Sea
Of course,these numbers don't take into account the other herbs I have used crafting Runescrolls, offhands, cards, and glyphs.
With this huge stock in my bank, I got to work. After mass crafting about 10-20 of every glyph, I split them between two special glyph bankers decked out with 4 Pack of Endless Pockets. I do a Summary scan with QA3 and refresh my glyph stocks about once or twice a week. I do not cancel/relist. Instead, I do a "waterfall" posting strategy. I post in the morning, and then every few hours whenever I have time I simply post again. If no one has undercut me, my glyphs stay up. If someone has, I undercut them with MORE glyphs without wasting time running back and forth and refreshing the mailbox. Having a large amount of glyphs is what makes this method possible.
I realize by now this post is probably getting boring, so I'll end with a few tips about glyphs.
o Post for 12 hours. This way you can get your stock back without worrying about canceling.
o Find a farmer/botter who can supply you with lots and lots of cheap herbs. Having a "warehouse" of herbs can and will help you tough through AH dry spells.
o Oh, about that warehouse.... Get a guild bank. Hell, get two or three. When you start buying a lot of herbs and turning them into inks, you're gonna need the space.
o Know your market. If you're sure Glyph of Sunder Armor never sells even if it's listed at 45g, don't craft it.
o Post quickly after resets. When your glyphs are the only ones on the AH, people will have to buy them. For example, my server had a 24-hour downtime last week. Since then glyph prices has doubled because I posted at my fallback, and undercutting has been descending slowly from that point on. A formerly 5g glyph is now an average of 23g. Yay!
STATS
o 1000 - 4000g per day from glyphs
o 3 private guild banks
o 1 scribe, 2 posting mules
o approximately 1 hour per day posting; milling/making inks completed in windowed mode while doing other things
At first I was very hesitant to use addons. I'd dabbled in Auctioneer before and I did regular scans, but anything beyond that was a scary jungle of command lines and Skillet buttons. And honestly? I still don't use Skillet or KTQ, holding a deep mistrust of Auctioneer's market data accuracy. What has revolutionized the way I post (in all markets) is Quick Auctions 3. I won't bore you with the how's and why's, since there are many excellent guides out there for this addon (Yumfries' on Youtube helped me immensely), but this is a must. have. addon. No if's and's or but's. I was ACTUALLY posting glyphs by hand before I figured this out, and on the scale glyph-making must be to be profitable, that is not an efficient, feasible, or sane way of going about things.
About two weeks after I started making max-level glyphs, the 2nd version of Blizzard's Warden came out, and the Great Bot Holocaust of 2010 occurred. Ore, herbs and leather vanished from the AH and prices for raw mats skyrocketed. Some influential crafters farmed mats or had their own stock that kept crafted prices down for a while; however, they have inexorably crept higher in price, sometimes by 40g (cut epic gems). Only in the last two week have bots slowly begun to trickle past the new security and back into the game.
After 10 days of scrabbling for mats, I was almost ready to give up on glyphs. Fortunately, at around that mark is when I found "my" botter. For a while we did face-to-face trades at great prices, but nowadays I usually let him post on the AH so I can see if he undercuts someone for even less. He's also a great source of Frost Lotus and Eternal Life - but his primary items for sale are Adder's Tongue, Goldclover, Tiger Lily, and Deadnettle.
I've been buying huge numbers of herbs from him for a couple weeks. To give you some stats, as of this posting I have:
6128 Adder's Tongue
2000 Tiger Lily
3528 Icethorn
1174 Deadnettle
389 Snowfall Ink
3140 Ink of the Sea
Of course,these numbers don't take into account the other herbs I have used crafting Runescrolls, offhands, cards, and glyphs.
With this huge stock in my bank, I got to work. After mass crafting about 10-20 of every glyph, I split them between two special glyph bankers decked out with 4 Pack of Endless Pockets. I do a Summary scan with QA3 and refresh my glyph stocks about once or twice a week. I do not cancel/relist. Instead, I do a "waterfall" posting strategy. I post in the morning, and then every few hours whenever I have time I simply post again. If no one has undercut me, my glyphs stay up. If someone has, I undercut them with MORE glyphs without wasting time running back and forth and refreshing the mailbox. Having a large amount of glyphs is what makes this method possible.
I realize by now this post is probably getting boring, so I'll end with a few tips about glyphs.
o Post for 12 hours. This way you can get your stock back without worrying about canceling.
o Find a farmer/botter who can supply you with lots and lots of cheap herbs. Having a "warehouse" of herbs can and will help you tough through AH dry spells.
o Oh, about that warehouse.... Get a guild bank. Hell, get two or three. When you start buying a lot of herbs and turning them into inks, you're gonna need the space.
o Know your market. If you're sure Glyph of Sunder Armor never sells even if it's listed at 45g, don't craft it.
o Post quickly after resets. When your glyphs are the only ones on the AH, people will have to buy them. For example, my server had a 24-hour downtime last week. Since then glyph prices has doubled because I posted at my fallback, and undercutting has been descending slowly from that point on. A formerly 5g glyph is now an average of 23g. Yay!
STATS
o 1000 - 4000g per day from glyphs
o 3 private guild banks
o 1 scribe, 2 posting mules
o approximately 1 hour per day posting; milling/making inks completed in windowed mode while doing other things
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