Snowfall Ink - Stock or dump.

After four months of not playing and not doing anything WoW related I decided to start again just before Cata, to sort out my stocks and prepare for the 7th. I rediscovered three banktabs filled with Snowfalls on one of my mules and that has gotten me to think. Do I buy more, keep it this way or dump and lower the eventual losses? I decided to keep it this way and stock up whatever Snowfalls I get from milling for glyphs.

Cataclysm herb prices and Inscription skillups.
I think that the first 2-3 months of the game , the Cataclym herb prices will be very high, making the first  skillups (Runescrolls/Darkmoon card of the North) with items that use Snowfall Ink possibly cheaper than using the new herbs.

New scribes
With everyone and their mother rolling worgen and goblins; many of these guys that don't already have scribes will jump on the '' INSC MAYK MAD MONI BRA''  train and level Inscription. This will make Northend herbs rise in price, making buying my Snowfalls cheaper/faster for skillups.

Insane in the Membrane
They are removing the Shen'dralar faction from the game and they are removing it from the requirements to get the achievement. Shen'dralar was the most expensive and time consuming part of the achievement and with this removed many will start chasing the achievement and increase their rep with The Darkmoon Faire. Expect to see Darkmoon decks to be booming again. This alone makes me want to expand the tabs and start stocking, but I am already sitting on enough to craft close to 1000 cards, so instead I will keep on milling and let it accumulate naturally. Official post about the achievement.

99 problems, but my server ain't one.
Be cautious if you are playing on a low-pop realm, they tend to be much pricier and will make it difficult to find the items needed to craft cards, or insanely expensive. Also the amount of people going for the achivement can be lower, making selling the cards/decks harder. This can lower your profit and will add more risk to stocking.

Have fun, be carefull.

Inscription: Posting

Last week I briefly mentioned about my ventures into the glyph world. I want to elaborate a bit on that topic now. Playing on a server with heavy campers I didn't really get into the glyph scene but seeing the lack of them on my new high pop realm I decided to give it a go. In six days I posted 5 of every glyph with 48 hour intervals  and made approximately 2500g profit; these were mainly from the expensive ones. I was still cut down many times and saw that a large amount of my glyphs didn't sell at all and decided to adapt to the realm campers.

I posted another week , but this time instead of once every two days I posted twice every day - 10am and 10pm - and the outcome is this:

March 08 - 720g
March 10 - 610g
March 11 - 1200g
March 12 - 480g
March 13 - 1960g
March 14 - 2330g
March 15 - 1150g

That's  ~7250 gold . Herb / Parchment costs are ~1900g. That's 5350 gold for 20 minutes of work a day.
For max income from selling glyphs it's essential you know as many as possible. Buy up every Book of Glyph Mastery out there because they are insanely cheap these days. Good luck!

Inscription: Cancel all auctions at once.

Macro version

/run local i=1;local n=1;while n ~= nil do n=GetAuctionItemInfo("owner",i);if n~=nil and strfind(n,"^Glyph of") then CancelAuction(i) end i=i+1 end

Full Version

local i = 1

local n = 1;

while n ~= nil do

n = GetAuctionItemInfo("owner",i)

if n ~= nil and strfind(n,"^Glyph of") then

CancelAuction(i)

end

i = i + 1

end