3.2 hit faster than I thought it would. Had I known, I would have dumped my 4 boxes of arrows very quickly. Luckily I had just bought about 30 stacks of saronite ore for 16 per stack and not done much with it, so I was ready to change my strategy if things got tough in the ammo business.
It only took a few days for the price of 1000 stacks of Saronite Razorheads to take a huge nosedive due to the new reduced materials cost. It used to take about 15 gold to make 1000 Razorheads. Now it takes 2 bars or about 4 gold. So, the cost of arrows is now 1/4 of what they used to be and the demand is probably about the same. I don't know if the lowered cost will cause more hunters to buy Razorheads over the vendor Terrorshaft arrows but my gut tells me they won't. So, I fully expect to make less than 50 gold per week on Razorheads now, which is pathetic. Sure, I could play the deep undercut game, but without a larger customer base, I don't think it would be worth it. Maybe I will just as an experiment.
Mammoth Cutters haven't dropped in price much at all. I attribute this to the fact that they are a little more complex to make since they require Volatile Blast Triggers. Since most people are lazy and don't want to bother with the extra materials, they aren't flooding the auction house with thousands of super cheap bullets.
This coming week will give me a better idea of how ammo sales will go. There's a lot of new stuff to do so I'm hoping that hunters will be using lots of ammo this week.
On other fronts, I'm taking it easy with epic gems for now. There seems to be a lot of undercutting at the moment and I really don't want to spend all day camping the auction house. Once the majority of jewelcrafters have exhausted their supply of epic gems from honor and badge purchases, I'll start selling my epics slowly and steadily. It will also give players more time to get deeper into the new Argent raids so they can get new gear to gem.
I was also able to get the plans and create Jeeves the mechanical butler. He is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the game. Having a permanent repair bot that I can also use to access my bank is full of awesome. Along with Jeeves I created the Wormhole generator. The first time I used it, it teleported me about 500 feet above the big lake in Borean Tundra. Take the warning on the device seriously and make sure you have your parachute cloak tinker! The other times I've used it, it put me right on the doorstep of Ulduar and Utgarde Keep. It seems the Gnomes know that wormholes should open right in front of instances, which is very convenient. Who needs to fly between points A and B when we can just fold space-time so that point A IS point B!
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Since the patch, the price of Frozen Orbs has really taken a tumble. On my server (Azuremyst EU) I've noticed it tumble from a stable level of about 85g all the way down to 55g, before buyers emerged and brought the price back up to 60g. At that level, 60g, there are enough sellers to form a ceiling. I've been buying all the way down, and I get the feeling I'm trying to catch a falling knife! Any idea what has changed the market in these Orbs?
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ReplyDeletePeople running more heroics to farm conq emblems that don't need the orbs drive the markets down when they just sell them to make some quick g. They have gone from around 90-100g on my server down to 30-40g each.
ReplyDeleteSame goes for Abyss Crystals dropped from about 130g to 55g since the new reg 5man drops epics, I guess its farmed to death. As for ammo arrows hadnt been selling as well as bullets the past several weeks. I still sell in stacks of 200 seems to be the only way eek out extra profit from the flooding. Bullets are still selling for my pre patch price of 10g per 200. Arrows is the one that I have to cut the most.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree with B-Rab on the Frozen Orb price drop. More players are farming heroics for Emblems of Conquest and I doubt there's much of a demand for the crafted items that are made with frozen orbs. I'd bet that over the next few weeks the price of all ilvl 200 BoE items (crafted or not) will take a nosedive.
ReplyDeleteI certainly hope those things take a nosedive Rorik. I need new gear (And virtually a whole new DPS set)
ReplyDeleteThanks. So it seems that this isn't just a temporary drop and I should not continue to hoard orbs waiting for a price recovery!
ReplyDeleteThe only reason to buy orbs is to craft ilvl 200 epics or to make Icy Prisms and Spellthread. If you need that kind of gear, you'll probably just grind heroics and take the heroic gear + buy Conquest badge gear. Plus, you'll be able to get frozen orbs from the heroics that you are running for gear. Demand for Frozen Orbs should be very low because of this.
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