20 Days of Gold Making - Day 6 - Most Prolific Market

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20 Days Of Gold Making (Day 6)

Which Market Has Made You The Most Gold Over The Years?

Looking at sheer volume of  items sold the clear winner would be Mysterious Fortune Cards, but since we are looking at the biggest gold making market by profit, the answer is easily the Glyph Market.  We've only had Mysterious Fortune Cards through 1 and half expansions, but I'm sure they will end up on top over time.  Overall though the biggest gold maker has been the Glyph market, and for a number of specific reasons.

• Maxed Inscription within a few days of it's addition to WoW.
• Early Research discoveries were very kind as I unlocked big sellers earlier than competition.
• First Horde Scribe on my server to get all recipes from Books of Glyph Mastery & researches.
• I made a killing on Glyphs long before everyone jumped on the Glyph bandwagon.

When Inscription was first added to WoW, I identified it as a huge money maker and pushed to maximum as my main priority.  This was a huge payoff as I did my research every day and was able to rake in the gold every single day as I was one of the very early trend setters on my server.  I was able to list and maintain a lot of the research learned Glyphs at 200-300 gold per.  Once we got the Books of Glyph Mastery added into the game in Wrath of the Lich King, I was able to sell glyphs for upwards of 500-600 gold each as everyone was frantically buying the new Glyphs for their classes.  I was the first on the Horde side to learn every single Glyph recipe in the game and had the gold to bully my way around the Books of Glyph Mastery market.  Even after learning all of the Glyphs I could, I was still buying up and relisting all of the BoGM for crazy prices just to thwart my competition from finding regularly priced books to learn the Glyphs that would compete with my own.

I made a ton of gold selling Glyphs at crazy high prices deep into Wrath before the Glyph market became so popular with all of the wanna-be gold makers.  After the crazy influx of new competition into the Glyph market, it's now one of my most hated markets that I barely even dabble in anymore.  I've been working to unload existing stock without even crafting any new Glyphs for quite some time because I just am not willing to babysit and camp the auction house to make gold.  I've got better things to do with my time than to even worry about competing with unemployed all day walling idiotic undercutters that are willing to bleed their fingers to the bone milling and crafting for a few gold profits.  No thanks!

I preferred the early days of listing high priced glyphs with little to no competition and having 50-75% of the stock sell every single night.  Nowadays its a few gold profits per sale and 99% of the Glyphs get returned as unsold. 

I guess you could say I made out like a bandit while the market was fresh and now all of the copycats can fight over the scraps.  More power to you Kobolds fighting over the scraps.

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Wasn't Northrend Inscription Research Supposed To Replace Books Of Glyph Mastery in WoW Patch 4.2?

Confused About Inscription Research?

Northrend Inscription Research Vs. Books Of Glyph Mastery

There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the ways that new scribes must learn recipes for their Inscription Profession.  I have been fielding multiple questions via Twitter and email asking what is up with Northrend Inscription Research.  This has become a common question lately, so I took some time to look it up.  I seem to remember and expected the same changes in Patch 4.2 that these players are now stumped over. 

Wasn't Patch 4.2 Supposed To Allow For All Glyphs To Be Discovered With Research Only?
Is Northrend Inscription Research Bugged?
Why Is Inscription Research Not Awarding New Glyph Recipes?

Wait, Hold Up!  REWIND!

The confusion is coming from this statement released by Blizzard during the Professions Dev Q&A. 

Quote:

Will you provide a way to speed up the acquiring of glyphs usually acquired through research and glyph books? Glyph books (Book of Glyph Mastery) are hard to come by now that people spend so little time in WotLK content.


Yes. We will be changing the discovery spells so they can teach all possible glyphs, and the books will simply provide a no-cooldown method to do the same thing.

The confusion is coming from the fact that many of us assumed that this change would be coming in Patch 4.2, since the Developer's Q & A on Professions took place before the release of WoW Patch 4.2.  Then WoWInsider warned us to sell off our Books of Glyph Mastery because the Inscription Research change was "coming soon."  This just further led to the assumption that Patch 4.2 would bring the Inscription Changes.

The change would allow a newer character leveling Inscription to bypass the need for Books of Glyph Mastery, which are very expensive on most WoW servers.  When this Inscription Research (Discovery) change is implemented, the goal will be to allow Scribes to learn all glyphs from Northrend Inscription Research or Minor Inscription Research and not be limited by the fact that a ton of the good selling glyphs are only available from purchasing the expensive Books of Glyph Mastery. 

The problem is that they never said it was going to be added in Patch 4.2.  As of now it will still be added at a later date, if the plan continues as originally stated.  These Inscription Research changes never made it into the Patch 4.2 patch notes either.  So it never happened.  You currently are limited by the number of Books of Glyph Mastery that you are able to purchase.  The value of the Books of Glyph Mastery also has remained high on most WoW servers since they are still a requirement for learning some Glyph recipes.
Hope this helps to clear up the confusion that some of you are experiencing.



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Learn Glyph of Frost Armor

Glyph of Frost Armor

As I mentioned in a previous post on Glyph Changes In Patch 4.1, with the release of Patch 4.1 there would be one new glyph introduced to the Inscription Profession.  Scribes can now craft the Glyph of Frost Armor, a new glyph for the mage class.  It was unknown how the glyph would be learned once it became available. 


Quickly after the release of Patch 4.1, I learned that it was available from Northrend Inscription Research, which is just one of the possible options.  Scribes can also learn new recipes from Book of Glyph Mastery, Minor Inscription Research (but obviously minor glyphs only), or from the Inscription profession trainer.  Lucky for scribes it was one of the cheaper options.  Had it been learned from a Book of Glyph Mastery, it would have cost scribes far more in gold due to the scarcity and high demand that already exists for the Books of Glyph Mastery.   

Northrend Inscription Research and Snowfall Ink

The Northrend Inscription Research profession ability requires a Snowfall Ink, which may not be available on the auction house for your server.  There may exist a market for selling the Snowfall Inks for a super slight window of opportunity as all scribes will need at least 1 to learn the new Glyph of Frost Armor.  You can always get one from trading in 10 Snowfall Inks to Jessica Sellers or the newly added Ink Traders.

Book of Glyph Mastery Price Spike

Book of Glyph Mastery

Lack of Suppy

Book of Glyph Mastery is a world drop from Wrath of the Lich King in World of Warcraft.  These can drop off any creatures in the Northrend continent or within the Northrend dungeons.  Since the majority of the population on most servers has moved onto the new Cataclysm content, not as many Northrend creatures are being killed.  Therefore less Books of Glyph Mastery are being found.  This lack of incoming books, coupled with players alraedy unloading a lot of their stockpiles have created a spike in prices of these books.

Rise In Prices

At the end of Wrath of the Lich King, the Book of Glyph Mastery was selling for a lowly 25g and now I am selling them for 225g each.  There will always be new scribes entering the glyph game and many of these Books of Glyph Mastery are required in order to get many of the good selling glyphs.  So if you see them underpriced, be sure to snatch them up and repost for much higher.