Darkmoon Faire- Elwynn Forest This Week

I know, I know. Darkmoon Faire. And this month, it's in the wonderful land of Elwynn Forest. But you already knew that, right? For all the scribes out there, this is one of the best weeks for selling. Read on, young Grasshopper...

Now depending on your server, this is something that you all need to watch for. Not only watching single card prices, but "Turn-in Decks" and "Actual Decks" are what we are focusing on...kinda like a "D- All of the Above" situation.




Take some time this week and watch prices if you are unfamiliar with the fluctuations in the market during the Faire. A great way that I learn my server is through Auctionator Shopping Lists. I have a set list that I use for Cataclysm Decks. If you haven't used this addon or haven't used it's options, this is the time to learn how.....

First off, you will need to go to the Buy Tab (1) on your Auctionator Addon within your Auction House Screen. Next, add a New Shopping List (2): In this case, I labeled it Darkmoon Card (3). Now, under the list I already have (5), you can add in these in the search pane (4).  Upon writing the item in the search (for instance Darkmoon Card- (4)), you will see it drop to the window (6), then after you click add item (7), it will drop over to your shopping list. Easy enough? Good.

Now you have a few options. You can either open your shopping list and click individually on each, or you can click the "Search for All Items" (below the Add Item (7)) and everything on your list will pop up. Even easier? Thought so.

Now buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell! Once again, make sure you are on a 48 hour auction, make sure that you either A. have a stockpile of mats or B.) watch herb prices (as they fluctuate quite a bit during this upcoming week). Now craft, post, sit back and enjoy the sales coming in!

Darkmoon Cards- Good Enough to Go All In?

With the Darkmoon Faire hitting this weekend, we are once again seeing the prices of both Decks and Single Cards go to the "normal" rate. You know what that means, right? Yeah. If you are a Scribe, don't skim. Take the time to read thoroughly, as you might learn something. =)

With the prices of Herbs on most servers seeing a definite drop from a month ago, they are starting to stabilize around the 30-40g mark per stack (Cata level herbs, Obviously). What does this mean to us? Alot. Ready for some Alto math? Don't worry, there's no tests involved....with most folks having finals coming up, thats the last I want to toss at you.

1:1- Cinderbloom, Stormvine, Heartblossom and Azshara's Veil

1.5:1 - Twilight Jasmine and Whiptail


Ok, here we go. What I mean with the ratio's above is Inferno Ink: Stack of Herbs. So if you are snatching up Cinderbloom at 30g per stack, you are "Alto Approved" through the RNG to get one Ashen Pigment, and 5 Blackfallow Inks (you can turn 2 Burning Embers into a Inferno, and you can turn 10 Blackfallow into an Inferno). Now if you grab a stack of whiptail for 40g, then you are expecting 3 Pigments, and 5 Blackfallow Inks. Make sense? Good.

Now to figure the rest. We need 10 Inferno Inks per Card. At the above numbers, 10 stacks of Cinderbloom means 300g (10 Inks). With Whiptail producing the 1.5 on average, we can get our 10 with only 7 stacks. Math? 280g. So in this case, more profits, albeit 20g, with Whiptail.

Now for Volatile Life. Not much you can do here to change the prices that are in the AH. And per Card, we need 30. So if you hit them up at 10g per, 300g there. At 5g? 150g. Easy, quick math. Now you want to know if they are profitable...

What I look at is my own little RNG (random number generator) when figuring out if Cards are profitable. Since there are 32 options made from the Darkmoon Card of Destruction proc, once again, easy math. The number I use currently use is 1600g (average sale price per card). Take the cost of above (to get your mats) and subtract. There is your estimated profit per card.

Now you want to know how I get my average sale price? Easy. Take the highest and lowest card in your AH right now (mine is 325g and 2875g) add em, and divide by two.

Hope this helps out the folks that are getting into this market, and remember, the week before and week of are "normally" the highest returns, and the most volatile as well, so watch your times and values in the AH. I see that Friday nights and Sunday days are the highest sale prices, but this may vary server to server.

Have fun, and make some gold! Oh, the Faire is outside Shatt this month...Starting Sunday!