Mats Speculation for Cataclysm

[Littleburst]

I'm wondering if mid-level materials will be a much better bet. Having leveled every profession at least once, and most of them 2-3 times, I have always found the middle range to be the worst for finding materials in the AH. After all, lowbies can farm copper or peacebloom and both are found in huge amounts throughout starter zones.

http://www.justmytwocopper.org/2010/...lysm-gold.html

Markco agrees

[zenga]

@littleburst

do you find that guy any reliable? read/heard quite a few things about this guy, his marketing techniques and goldselling. i avoid his site as pest tbh

[Littleburst]

@littleburst

do you find that guy any reliable? read/heard quite a few things about this guy, his marketing techniques and goldselling. i avoid his site as pest tbh

Well, I screen several blogs for usefull information, but I don't use any of them. Just cba. Don't need more gold. So i can't really tell.

What I do know is that he interacts with several blogs, where justmytwo2c seems to be the 'main' site on which info gets posted. So the other blogs seem to be happy to contribute to his blog, without getting anything in return besides free 'advertising' for their blog. He also has a podcast with 2 other AHjunkies which can be usefull. I listened to one so far, not to much new things in it, which was expected due to the market being quite stable before patch 4.0.1.
Based on those two, I'm quite confident that the info on there is good. But a lot is common sense. Like buying mats -> craft -> sell with profit. focussing on tradegood markets, don't buyout but bid on lowerlevel tradegoods etc.

So I can't really say that the site proved usefull to me, but I don't think any other blog did either. No real OMG insane profit things.

[Ualaa]

Anything, where the demand will outpace the supply is a good bet.

The only tricks are identifying the items which will be in demand.
And selling when the most people want them.



I personally think, the majority of new toons will have a main with a fair bit of gold.
And prefer to buy 'x', rather then slow their leveling pace and farm it.
Particularly, with 800 other new toons in the same zone also farming.

I'm not infallible, and could be wrong on this.
I've got 30 stacks each of Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Briarthorn, Copper Ore, Tin Ore, Linen Cloth, Wool Cloth, and am working on Strange Dust.
A tiny bit over 1000g on mats, which I anticipate selling a large mark up.
But if they don't sell in the 25-100g a stack range, it's not like 1k is that big of a deal; and they'll sell for something.

[Littleburst]

Anything, where the demand will outpace the supply is a good bet.

The only tricks are identifying the items which will be in demand.
And selling when the most people want them.



I personally think, the majority of new toons will have a main with a fair bit of gold.
And prefer to buy 'x', rather then slow their leveling pace and farm it.
Particularly, with 800 other new toons in the same zone also farming.

I'm not infallible, and could be wrong on this.
I've got 30 stacks each of Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Briarthorn, Copper Ore, Tin Ore, Linen Cloth, Wool Cloth, and am working on Strange Dust.
A tiny bit over 1000g on mats, which I anticipate selling a large mark up.
But if they don't sell in the 25-100g a stack range, it's not like 1k is that big of a deal; and they'll sell for something.

I have -never- checked herb prices. What's a normal price these days? I just checked AH and they're all 1,5k-2g each. Which i found extremely expensive. Actually considering to go farm herbs now.... 4/5 x herbalism will never harm. Or just one 1 toon. Since I'd like to have some alchemists.

[Ualaa]

I've been buying the lower stuff, whenever I can get them for under 3g per stack.
Average is closer to 10g a stack, for this level of mats.

The WotLK era herbs, seem to be 20-30g per stack.
So I've been buying those whenever they're under 20g, but have enough of the higher ones.

I wouldn't mind more of the mid-range herbs, for Cataclysm.
But won't be paying 50g a stack, which is the going rate for stacks of Khadgar's, Sungrass, Firebloom etc.

When I was doing the alchemy leveling..
I'd just buy all of the herbs, primals, etc.
And averaged 6k per toon, to go from 1st to 450 alchemy and transmutation spec.
I occasionally had to farm Briarthorn, Stranglekelp and Sungrass... had herbalists parked in the relevant zones.

[birdbleed]

How's this going for you guys so far? I remember the price of low level mats soaring in previous expansions but, at the moment, prices have actually dropped on my server

[Mercbeast]

The rush on my server was pre-cata. I think most people bought up what they wanted before the expansion.

[zenga]

I never believed prices would rise day after expansion. There is still a good part that does not have cata yet. Once people start to make new alts, i.e. when their main is geared and leveled, and they start to level professions you'll notice an increase.

[birdbleed]

I never believed prices would rise day after expansion. There is still a good part that does not have cata yet. Once people start to make new alts, i.e. when their main is geared and leveled, and they start to level professions you'll notice an increase.

That's kind of what I've been thinking (hoping) too. I didn't invest nearly as much as Uaala though so worst case scenario for me = I've got enough mats for a couple of my own alts.