20k broken then i fell back through the hole.

I broke 20k gold this morning which means brought in around 5k gold over the weekend. Thats a good bit of profit. Unfortunatley i fell through the hole i made when breaking 20k. Im back down to 17k gold but currentyl have 853 IOTS. What made me fall a stupid decision. I decided to try and make cards and well it was a mistake i spent to much gold on eternals. So i guess live and learn. The other thing was i purchased an ass ton of icethorn around 150 stacks. I finally got a farmer to sell me 100 stacks at 12g each and 50 stacks from the AH from ah for 9g-15g. So now im ready for a crafting session tonight.

To make all this profit this weekend i didn't rely just on Inscription. I sold several epic gems and even crafted some bags. I was looking at my enchanter yesterday and i think ill craft some vellums to send to him. That away i can max out his enchanting with mats ive collected over time. This will give me another market in which i can begin bringing in profit. Hopefully everything pans out and ill be able to tell you how enchanting is making me killer gold.

My first tattoo

So i went and got my first tattoo. It was a different experience. Tattoos are painful don't listen to shit that says its not that bad. Its not that bad after your done the pain is baisicly gone but during the process it sucks. The end result however is worth the results.

Win some and lose some.

The last few days my glyph sells have ben pitiful. I average around 700-800g a day which is alot lower than the 1500g my first few days of being a scribe. There are several factors to why this has happend. The first one is just being undercut it seems like my main competition manages to log in right after me and undercut me. This is no big deal but it does slow the sale of glyphs. So I have tried to begin posting after my competition on days that i manage this my sells are dramaticly higher than if i post to early and get undercut. The other one is players seem to have slowed their buying of glyphs. I suppose they have gotten their telents set and dont need to adjust them at the moment.

I am starting to stockpile more ink im thinking about droping my threshold on ktq and just creating every glyph. This would give me a bigger market pressence and the chance that some of the leveling glyphs may not be posted. Which would allow me to post at my fallback price which is nice. Im going to have to refil glyphs tomorrow which is going to be tedious but its necessary tokeep crafting. Currently im sitting at around 12.5k gold total which means im well over the 10k barrier and heading towards 20k quickly. If the weekend sells are good i may be able to break 20k by next weekend.

Stokpile asked me to post more about bulk mail 2. Well I have pics on it and plan to do a guide as soon as i find the time. Hopefully I can paint on the pictures to prepare them for a monday post. This addon is absolutley essential if you use diffrent toons to craft it is amazing how useful it is. More on this in a few days though.

Today is friday the best day of the week. I'm going to get my first tattoo tonight wish me luck. I know its going to be painful but the end result is worth it. Here is a link to what i plan to get done http://captainmorwen.deviantart.com/art/Earth-Element-Tattoo-120268945. Ill post pics on it also mainly because i want to share them with my readers.

Glyph machine: Upgrades & modifications

The glyph machine got an overhaul on monday and tuesday. Monday Ibegan expanding my production i now keep 8 of every glyph that i can craft. This took a good bit of effort and i began running into the issue of no bankspace and full bags. It also took a lot of ink to increase my stacks from 3-8. Which meant alot of my gold got reinvested into herbs instead of sitting there shiney. I ended monday with 7k ish gold.

Tuesday came around and Idecided I needed to top my glyphs off. Well i managed to shuffle bags around and get my glyphs crafted. This was when I decided enough was enough the glyph machine needed a new wheel. So I added my priest to the machine as a banker. He currently is level 14 and doing nothing but gathering dust. So i purchased 2 inscription bags for him and parked him in the silvermoon AH. I then downloaded bulk mail 2 addon and added it to my small army of addons. This addon allowed me to set up a rules that said every DK, Druid, hunter, and priest glyph got sent to my priest. So now when I open my send mail window if i have any of these glyphs it will ask me if i want to send. Click send and bam 30 seconds or less later my scribes bags where half empty. Now i have 2 wheels spinning in my glyph machine and im making good progress in the market.

How big of a competitor am I? This is a hard question for me to answer last night i had 888 glyphs posted. In the whole AH there were 3000 glyphs. So i suppose im a huge competitor in my market. It seems like the more i expand my bussiness less people under cut me. Currently i have one person who i know under cuts me in the mornings and at night. I have his names saved to my friends list and make sure to post right after both of his toons go offline. Im hoping a few more days of keeping him undercut and he may decide to leave the market. My glyph machine is moving and i hope to keep the gears oiled and keep producing profit. Last nights sales finaly pushed me over 10k gold combined between my 3 toons. I hope to eventually make it to the gold cap andI can see inscription carrying me to it.

Glyph Machine: Chugging Along.

My glyph machine is running smoothly. I have finaly learned all of the glyphs i can from books so now im down to just learning 2 new glyphs a day. My current production level is 3 of each glyph. Which i have been restocking almost daily. Im going to up production of glyphs to 8 of each glyph. This will allow me to post glyphs with out having to cancle saving me time to do cancling later when i have time. I also began crafting the some vellums and a few fort scrolls. I also decided to make some off hands just to try and see how they sell.

My current gold on my glyph banker is 6k gold. On my other bank toon i have around 2k gold. Which means grand total is 8k gold. Ill easily break 10k again this week. I also have been itching to dive into a few old markets. Im planning on producing more belt buckles if their price is up. I am also going to try and make 10 titanium rods and 10 arcanite rods to sell. These will bring me gold from other markets and are post and forget type of auctions. Hopefully by using multiple markets i can increase my daily income. I managed to make around 2k gold on saturday in sells all from inscription. The gold machine keeps chugging i just have to keep it maintained and add some more bells and whistles so it can go faster.

Ink Test.

So here is the math to show how much i'm currently spending for IOTS. In my test i purchased 49 stacks of herbs. This is about the average amount of herbs I purchase mainly because supply is always lower than i would like.

29 stacks of icethorn 14g each 406g

20 stacks of lichbloom 17g each 340g

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Total investment 746g

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Produces

46 snowfall ink and 275 ink of the sea

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46 snowfall ink x 8g= 368g

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746g-368g(snowfall)= 378g spent on IOTS

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378g/275IOTS= 1.3g per ink of the sea which means any glyph that sells for more than 1.8g is pure profit. Hopefully this helps people make the decision to jump into inscription.

day 3 as a scribe.

WEll I made it past my first couple of days as a scribe and had tremendous profit. Day three though my profit dropped to only 500g. I believe there was one factor for this. I posted my glyphs early around 9 o clock and didn't even post all of them. So not only did i not cover a majority of the glyphs, i posted early enough for my competition to come in and undercut me. Its a lesson i needed to learn. To make great profit you have to put in the effort and make sure to do things properly. Posting after the competition gives me more oppourtunities to make sells before being undercut. Posting all my glyphs makes sure that if someone wants it i have it posted. I probably lost out on a good bit of sells las t night due to my mistake.

Tonight and tomorrow are going to be crafting days im hoping to increase my glyph stock to 8. this will allow me to post glyphs twice before having to cancle. This will cut down the time i spend on wow which makes my wife happier. Currently between both characters i have over 5k gold seems like ill be busting through the 10k barrier sometime next week. I plan to make a major investment in herbs over the weekend. Ill be stocking up so i can try and only have one mill day during the work week. This will also reduce total time needed to keep my glyphs crafted because i wont have to mill before i begin crafting if i have to restock glyphs mid week. I also plan to purchase more books to try and learn all the glyphs i can.

On a side note did anyone realize they were making most glyphs one ink in 3.3? I didn't until last night which means less ink consumed. I think blizzard just made one of the most profitable proffessions even more profitable. It also means that a large stock of ink will last much longer than it used to. I still havent done a proper calculation on how profitable selling glyphs currently is but i know that total gold spent on herbs has been 1400g since maxing out inscription which means ive made over 4400g on my scribe since he is sitting at only 3kg. I guess when i purchase my next bulk batch of herbs ill try and document everything and work on the math to get my total glyph cost.

Glyph machine night 2

Night 2 of the glyph machine consisted of milling, crafting , posting. I had purchased 700g worth of icethorn the night before so i decided it was time to mill and craft. I also increased my crafting que from 2 of every glyph to 3. I'm hoping to increase it to 5 by next Monday. Currently a crafting que of 3 left me making 365 glyphs. Not bad seeing as some of the crafting was just 1 glyph to fill a stack back up. I'm noticing that like everyone said leveling glyphs sell like shit sandwiches. Which means they sit in my bag doing nothing because my threshold is at 4g 30s and some are down to 99s.

I'm doing my daily research ad investing in books when i see decent deals. Today when i checked my mail at lunch after checking it i had 2500g which means i made around 1500g last night. Not a bad profit. Hopefully with my gold supply going higher i can invest in more icethorn and spend less time milling next week. Glyphs are a great business and things smooth out after that first jump into the market.

i was comparing myself to my competitors last night and it seems that I'm posting as many glyphs as some of them. most post only 3 to 5 of each glyph. They however probably have a bigger stock so they don't have to mill as often. My goal for next week is to increase my stock to at least 5 of each glyph. I'm trying to figure out what the benefit of having stacks larger than 5 would be. I guess i wouldn't have to wait at the mail box if i got undercut i could just hit post. But i don't mind canceling then clearing my mail then posting again. Currently i have 400 glyphs posted out of 2600 which means I'm getting closer to gaining 2/5 ths of the glyph market. if i could get my glyph production up to where i had a presence of 1/4 th i would be more than pleased. I'm not sure why i want to be 1/4th of the glyph market but it seems like it would offer greater chances for making gold. As always please leave comments and advice its always appreciated.

"Damn" My first night as a scribe

Damn is the word that describes my first night as a working scribe on my server. Damn I love KTQ and QA3 I would die with out them. Damn milling 60 stacks of icethorn sucks my balls. Damn Skillet makes me press start for every glyph. Damn this was so worth leveling why didn't i do it earlier.

Last night I began my journey to becoming a profitable scribe. I began my night by milling 60 stacks of icethorn. After I completed milling i took an inventory of stock I had over 700 IOTS. I then began the task of downloading and configuring KTQ and QA3. Which I had read several guides on earlier in the day to become familiar with them. KTQ was easy just send it the command KTQ QUE 2 glyph I had its threshold set at 5g. So this meant KTQ sent a command to skillet to craft 2 of every glyph that sold for more than 5g. Skillet is an addon similar to ATSW which allows crafting to become easier. A quick trip to the vendors and I had all the materials needed to craft 2 of every glyph. After a long time of pressing process que and changing out inscription bags crafting was complete. As you can see in the picture below my bags were stuffed full of every glyph. I had 7 full inscription bags of nothing but glyphs 366 in total.

After getting my bags full i ran to the Ah to begin configuring QA3. I had a few miss fires with the configuration. I accidentally set the threshold to 50g when i meant to make that my fallback. I also tried to post items with nothing in my item group. After spending time sorting this out I finally got QA3 configured how i wanted. Currently my threshold is 4g30s and my fall back is 50g32s5c it will under cut by 1s32c every time i post. I know I am not a goblin in how i post but if i got in a under cut war i could change my under cut and threshold values.

My first night as a scribe I captured 1/10th of my glyph market I had around 366 auctions posted out of 2600. Not bad for a first night hopefully i can keep the pace up. My results for my effort showed almost immediately. Within 5 minutes of posting my auctions i had 6 sells. Last night after posting my scribe sat at 350g. After re posting a few times and getting mail he sat at around 1700g. Which means for my first day seriously doing inscription i raked in around 1400g. I have since reinvested 700g in the purchase of more icethorn. The glyph machine is taking off its exciting and new. Ill try and get more accurate numbers to show how profitable inscription is for me. I look forward to sharing my experience with my readers and hopefully inspiring them to take on the wild task of building a scribe empire.

glyph images. Post on them tomorrow.

OMG glyphs. "A noobs perspective of the daunting glyph market"

So i reached 65 yesterday and began leveling inscription to the max. I reached 446 before running out of green glyphs and snowfall to do darkmoon cards. I did my daily research and bought 17 glyph mastery books. Currently my glyph bussiness is kinda unsteady i have around 300 IOTS in my bank. The hard part is just trying to figure out what glyphs to make.

I belive i may follow kevmars example and begin making every glyph starting with 3 of each kind. I am going to modify it though to make each glyph that has a value of 6g or more. I think this would probably be the easiest method to learn the market and find out which glyphs i shouldn't make. It will also allow me to get QA3 set up so i can begin posting and canceling glyphs more efficently. Auctioneers appraiser jsut doesn't cut it for making it big in the glyph market.

Currently have around 2.5k gold on my main banker my scribe is at 80g due to the purchase of books & cheap tiger lily. However i need to find a good supply of icethorn or equal level herbs. The reason being is that it produces more icy pigments for snowfall ink. Which i am either going to sell or use to craft more darkmoon cards. Last night i made 6 cards and luck was on my side i crafted 3 nobles cards. Their value is around 1500g the other 3 cards though dont sell for much.

My goals for tonight are craft 2-3 of every glyph above 5g in value and configure QA3 to post and cancle them. I also need to look into inscription bags it seems that im going to need several of these in the future. Glyph machine is starting work im just at phase 1 and will need several days to get my machine moving.

Update on idea

SO upon research done on my lunch break the pigment needed to make midnight ink is dusky pigment. Which can be gotten from mageroyal, briarthorn, stranglekelp, swiftthistle, and bruiseweed. These herbs average around 20g per stack of 20. So that eliminates them as a viable source for getting ink. Other herbs to take into account instead are the northrend herbs. They sell between 15g-20g a stack for adders tongue while not great i still plan to experiment and see what kind of profit i can make getting ink of the sea crafted and trading it for midnight ink.

The plan invest 500g in northrend herbs that ill have someone ink for me. Sell the snowfall ink to offset the cost of herbs. Trade ink of the sea for midnight ink and craft as many vellums as possible. Sell the vellums for a minimum of 4g profit preferably higher. Hopefully the combination of selling snowfall ink and weapon vellums will net me a profit of 500g. Ill better be able to project a estimate of profit once i have all the ink of the sea and snowfall ink crafted. While this is a fairly interesting idea this is just a trial run to see if the profit is worth further investment. I hope to keep my readers updated on how many herbs i buy, how much ink they produce, The amount that i get from selling snowfall ink so that i can offset the cost allowing me to make more profit from each vellum. I intend to tell you how many vellums i make and my strategy for selling them. Which will include how i intend to price them and stack sizes.

Inscription idea

AUTHOR NOTE:Please make sure to read the post update to idea. Some of my statements in this post are inaccurate and have been corrected in the update. It also contains my new strategy and goal for this process of making gold.


I was siting here thinking on how to make money from inscription without having to level my 61 DK and it hit me. Weapon Vellums I on my server there is almost no supply for these however the demand for them is fairly good. I believe these could be a potential gold mine because players making lower level weapon scrolls for twinks need them. Crusader Fiery agility life stealing all of these pre-bc enchants can be placed on a weapon vellum I and some enchanters focus exclusively on selling just these scrolls.

Why this could be a great gold mine. If i remember correctly weapon vellum I requires 2 midnight ink which i believe can be obtained from peace bloom the cheapest herb to get. So I'm just going to use hypothetical numbers here tomorrow ill post real calculations.

peacebloom x 20 = 2g max = about 6 inks if I'm lucky.

6 inks turns into 6 vellums. sell them for 1g each which means 6g- 2g cost =4g profit this is small but it can add up. Also this is hypothetical the vellums could sell for more max i would say probably 4g per vellum.bringing the total profit for a stack of peacebloom to 22g. While i wish these numbers were 100% correct they aren't ill create a post about my current market and the results from the experiment tomorrow or the next day depending on how quickly the vellums sell. Check your markets this could be a decent gold maker to supplement your income with a minimal investment.

A wonderful insight in how to profit from inscription.

Seth At one-copper.comgreat post on inscription. With excellent comments check it out.

Link http://one-copper.com/2009/10/22/inscription-just-mill/comment-page-1/#comment-375

here is the best comment by Amin which i guess is Seth.
" I am still finishing up Northrend research so I am still using my ink. I do however “just mill it all”. I will periodically put up extra Ink or Sea and Snowfall just to see if it will sell. Sometimes, a few do but not many at least on my server.
What I have been doing instead is buying goldclover for 16g stack, milling it into pigments and getting avg 20 Azure and 1 Icy per stack. I turn the Azure into IotS and sell the Icy. I take the IotS and make 5 armor vellum III.
Now for the math.Stack of GC = 16g20 Resilient parchment(46s/each) to make the vellums = 9g 20sTotal spent = 25g 20s
Armor Vellum III made = 10 @ 6g 75s (after AH fees)Icy Pigment sold = 10g – 12gTotal gold made = 78g 5s
Total profit from one stack of GoldClover = 53g 85s
I bought 6 stacks of GC the other day and did this, profit after 24 hour AH sales – 317g 10s"

Go check it out it is a great post.

My Project

So Ive made my first post and for some reason it has really excited me. I feel this need to share all my knowledge on one day. This is a good thing and a bad thing I could make several post today and have nothing to share tomorrow. Which would be a bummer. So this post is just a way to share the begging of a project I am under taking. I hope to share the results with my readers to encourage them to make feet first leaps into new adventures.

The project I started a few nights ago is leveling inscription on my level 59 DK. I had a few herbs probably around 20 stacks of various North Rend herbs and a few inks my cousin gave me. My first order of business was to get the herbs milled and inked for me. I found a generous inscriptionist that did it for a generous 30g tip. I kept all the 10 snowfall ink and 91 Ink of the sea. I then set out to Dalarn there I found Jessica sellers and the inscriptionist trainer and vendor.

I leveled inscription by trading my ink of the sea for the various inks I needed at the time. About every five levels I stopped to train. After an hour I reached level 150 and had ran out of ink for the night. This was a good start to what may be a good gold making profession. One way to make gold off of this was to sell the snowfall ink for around 26g each 260g profit is not bad. Another thing to be wary of is while i could have went and bought 20 of every leveling ink its better to take your time and buy what you need for at least 5 levels. Because after 5 levels the ink type may change and you would be stuck with ink that is worthless for gaining skill levels.