WoW Patch 4.3 Brings Tradeable Chaos Orbs

Chaos Orb Will No Longer Bind On Pick-Up

Chaos Orbs Will No Longer Be Soulbound In Patch 4.3

 Source:  www.mmo-champion.com/content/2485-Chaos-Orbs-in-patch-4.3

That's right!  It's finally going to happen.  Chaos Orbs will no longer be soulbound to your character.   This is one of the upcoming changes in WoW Patch 4.3 that has been confirmed by a blue post.  Head over to the mmo-champion link to see for yourself. 

• Chaos Orbs Will No Longer Be Soulbound
• Anyone In The Group Gets A Chance To Roll On The Chaos Orbs
• Chaos Orbs Will Be Tradeable
• You Will Be Able To Buy Chaos Orbs On The Auction House

The Positive And Negative Effects Of Tradable Chaos Orbs

This change to Chaos Orbs is both good and bad news depending on how you currently use and value your Chaos Orbs.

Positive Effects Of Chaos Orbs Being Tradable

• You will be able to buy Chaos Orbs on the auction house.
• A new market will exist for flipping Chaos Orbs for profit.
• Chaos Orbs may be headed to a Justice Point vendor soon as well.
• The Dreamcloth alternative Dream of Destruction may be another viable source for Dreamcloth.
• Crafted epic gear will be more readily available.
• You will no longer be required to run Heroic dungeons to get your own Chaos Orbs.
• You can farm orbs on your main or any other dungeoning character and just mail them to your crafters.
• Crafters will no longer have to choose between sinking their chaos orbs or barking their Chaos Orb craftables.

Negative Effects Of Chaos Orbs Being Tradable

• Everyone in the Heroic dungeon group will be allowed to roll on Chaos Orbs that drop off of bosses.  This drops your chance of winning a Chaos Orb to 20% per dungeon.
• The sale price of craftable epic gear will drop as the Chaos Orbs become easily available.
• Barking how many orbs you have and what you will sell them for as materials in your crafting recipes will become less profitable.
• The value of a chaos orb will drop even further.

Anyone else have any thoughts on the positive and negative effects of making Chaos Orbs tradeable in Patch 4.3?

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Chaos Orbs : To Sink Or Not To Sink? That Is The Question.

Chaos Orbs Are Still BOP

Chaos Orbs and Epic Crafting

There seems to be much discrepancy on how much a Chaos Orb should be valued at.  When Wes, R9sid9nt9vil, and I discussed what we thought that each Chaos Orb should be valued at, we settled on 1k gold for each Chaos Orb.  That was when the new Firelands vendors where just starting to become available to the players that had religiously completed their Firelands dailies.  If you were one of the first sellers of the new guns and epic weapons from the unlocked Firelands vendors, then you could easily earn over 1k per Chaos Orb.  Now the markets are a lot more cutthroat as many more players have access to the new recipes and can craft the new weapons.

We came to that original 1000 gold value for each Chaos Orb based off of the demand surge for the new weapons and everything require to get a single Chaos Orb.  You can only get 1 per Heroic Dungeon run and we all know the horrors of PUGs and how often the PUG doesn't even make it to the end boss before disbanding and abandoning the instance.  So given the time commitment required to get a single Chaos Orb (much more when most weapon recipes take 5 Chaos Orbs), I still value my Chaos Orbs at 1000 gold each.
Farming for Chaos Orbs is one hell of a chore too, even as a tank or a healer.  This is more frustrating in a PUG, since I don't have a whole lot of luck in finding random groups that actually finish dungeons.  For some tips on Farming Chaos Orbs check out the post by Epidermuss of Wrags To Riches.

How Do I Get 1000 Gold Per Chaos Orb?

My server values each Chaos Orb at a measly 250 gold per Orb.  There are multiple players on my server that bark in trade chat that they have all of the new Firelands weapon recipes or the older recipes that require Chaos Orbs.  When they bark, they ask for your materials and 250 gold per Chaos Orb.  250 gold per Chaos Orb isn't worth it to me, so I continue to value mine at 1000 gold per Chaos Orb.  How do I get 1000 gold per Chaos Orb when others are barking and valuing them at 250 gold?  I don't allows players to bring me materials and then charge a fee per Chaos Orb required because they don't expect to pay more than 250 gold.  I strictly craft the items outright and sell them on the World of Warcraft auction house.  This strategy brings in far more than 250 gold per orb because the prices are not negotiable.

You want to be careful when crafting ahead because you will be sinking your Chaos Orbs into an item when you go ahead and craft one to toss up on the auction house in WoW.  When crafting by catering to special orders from players, you avoid sinking your Chaos Orbs into a finished product.  This gives you much more flexibility in how you use your Chaos Orbs, but you are subject to the current market value on your server's trade chat.  By crafting an item and posting it on the auction house, you can control the buyout price of the item, thus controlling your Chaos Orb's value.

What are Chaos Orbs valued at on your WoW server?


Are you able to earn more per Chaos Orb by crafting items outright or by working for material and a fee per Orb?


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