Just wondering what everyone thinks prices will be when Inscriptioning comes out.
I'm kinda thinking it'll be something like
PIgments: 5-25g (Alabaster-Nether)
Inks: 10- 50g (Ivory- Ethereal)
Glyphs- 100-300g
Scrolls- Already in the AH...so prices are kinda set
Enchant parchments- figure 5-15g....maybe 20/25g for the lvl 60 required parchments
Prices for trainable recipes will quickly settle just above the cost of making the item, because almost everyone will be able to make these items. For low-level glyphs, that could be a couple of silver: A glyph like Backstab averages around 3-4 Peacebloom, plus a 20 copper for the parchment. Higher-level glyphs will cost a few gold (about 7 Felweed, plus 50 silver for the parchment, for something like Glyph of Mind Flay). Northrend glyphs may exceed 10g each.
(There's currently an issue with the vendor prices for glyphs: They're all about 38 silver. If the current code goes live, any herb stack sold for less than about 2 gold should be purchased, turned into glyphs, and vendored.)
Discoverable major glyphs will be fairly rare for a few weeks, and will allow Inscribers to charge a premium. Northrend research is a skill 385 recipe, with only a chance of discovering something. Minor discoverable glyphs should be rare (it takes 2 months to find them all), but will not be, because minor discoveries can be made by level 5 alts - there are lots of those about.
(That's the second money-making reason to roll Inscription on your low-level alts...)
I originally thought people would sell pigments and not inks. But now the recipes have been simplified, so that (with 1 exception) each ink uses a unique pigment, ink-selling may occur instead.
Overall, Inscription is a fundamentally low-cost, high volume profession, very similar to Alchemy. That's why we're so concerned that it doesn't have a clear, highly used consumable yet...
Yes, scrolls are the obvious consumable, but they don't seem to be cost-effective with materials; glyphs could be consumable, but adding the lexicons of power prevent people from changing glyphs in instances, which knocks out another potential market (especially with only 2 major glyph slots before level 80). I think reducing scroll materials a bit more, and removing the lexicon requirement would help. Another would be adding scrolls that work like some potions that persist through death.
After having played a bit with Inscription on the PTR, I'm somewhat puzzled about what Blizzard has intended for the pricing of glyphs.
There are glyphs that will be popular, and glyphs that noone will use. There will be glyphs that are cheap to make, and glyphs that are more expensive to make. But those two things seem to be totally unrelated - there are plenty of very popular glyphs that can be made soon after picking up inscription, at a low cost, and there are also quite some expensive glyphs for which I suspect the market is small. Inscription is the first tradeskill where cost of crafting any main product (that is: glyphs) seems to be more or less decoupled from the 'value' of that item. Though Inscribers will learn to note the difference soon enough, I can imagine that non-inscribers buying glyphs will be pretty confused about glyph pricing.
The only thing I can predict now is that minor glyphs will (initially) sell for more than major glyphs - not because of their functionality, but because of their rarity (blizzard fixed the discovery cooldown in the latest patch). And this will probably also come as a surprise to non-inscribers - "hey, this is a 'minor' glyph, doesn't that mean it should be cheaper?".
Anyone having more thoughts about what will happen when inscription finally launches? (Which is not unlikely to be next week's maintenance day)
I'm not looking forward to having to explain how inscription works to people. Most of the people I made glyphs for in the PTR didn' seem to understand it :(
I'm not sure how much I will sell my gylphs for. Maybe I'll give a load to my guild and then see how much they are going for on the auction house.
Current prices for major glyphs on a low-pop server (Maiev) are around 25-35G on the first day of the patch.
Hey there. Update from my server (nordssril). Glyphs are anywhere from 8G to 75G. They started out with a 20G base and moved up from there. Also I am testing minor glyphs at around 100g.. and I have takers. Which is nice but scary. :)
I picked up the profession the day it was released to the public. On Bronzebeard, Glyphs are roing for 8-300g depending on the rarity. I'm selling mine for standard prices, and giving them to my guildees, as I'm the GM of my guild.
In the first 36 hours of patch release I have made 4500g. The bubble is now burst unless you learn a minor that is hot! I am a little furious over the people posting glyphs up there in AH for 1s. Very annoying. Also a tip. One of my alts did not have a second profession so I used a few stacks of Silverleaf to get to Inscription level 75 so that she can learn Minor Glyphs as well. This way I am learning 2 every 20 hours. I will keep doing this until my main knows all the minors.
Also on the second day I didn't learn a glyph. It gave me 2 Scrolls of Recall ;(
The inscription bubble lasted longer than expected, though prices have dropped considerably given that hundreds of players/server are leveling inscription. I stockpiled herbs for the last month or two and have made just over 20k gold selling both glyphs and herbs on Kel'Thuzad since the patch. For about a day I was routinely selling stacks of Goldthorn and Khadgar's for upwards of 69 g -- which is ridiculous.
The majority of glyphs sell now for 1-10g, with a few notable exceptions like Glyph of Crusader's Strike and Glyph of Water Mastery which still fetch 30-50 g. Useful minor glyphs sell for the same if not more, but each day means more and more people discover them and undercut war the prices to nominal levels.
Like others have mentioned, leveling multiple alt's inscription is a great way to build your minor glyph resume; although you run the risk of getting repeats (I have three toons with Glyph of Revive Pet -- ownt).
I anticipate the demand to drop considerably proportionate to supply over the next few days to the point that slim profits will be made transforming herbs into glyphs. When Northrend Inscription Research becomes available there will be spike in new glyph prices but as a whole I think it will be difficult for inscription to keep parity with alchemy in terms of profitability due to a lack of universally used consumables.
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