Crafted Weapon Upgrade Tokens

[warhoof6556]

Hi all,

This past week, I made about a dozen Steelforged Essences (BS) and Weapon Crystals (Inscr) to sell on the AH. But none sold. Then I noticed people are posting these for little more than the cost of mats. What the hell happened? Why do people do this?

I did the math for my server, Area 52-US.

15 Savage Blood @150G each = 2,250G
15 Sorcerous @30G each (varies) = 450G
70 Ingots/Paints @10G each (on avg) = 700G
Total: 3400G

People are now listing these Stage 1-4 upgrade tokens for around 4K. That's only 600G profit. I don't mean to complain, but I feel like professions are all but worthless now, unless you have tons of Felblight for the Mighty and Savage tokens.

Anyone else feel the same?

[tclphz]

Hi all,

This past week, I made about a dozen Steelforged Essences (BS) and Weapon Crystals (Inscr) to sell on the AH. But none sold. Then I noticed people are posting these for little more than the cost of mats. What the hell happened? Why do people do this?

I did the math for my server, Area 52-US.

15 Savage Blood @150G each = 2,250G
15 Sorcerous @30G each (varies) = 450G
70 Ingots/Paints @10G each (on avg) = 700G
Total: 3400G

People are now listing these Stage 1-4 upgrade tokens for around 4K. That's only 600G profit. I don't mean to complain, but I feel like professions are all but worthless now, unless you have tons of Felblight for the Mighty and Savage tokens.

Anyone else feel the same?

I feel like your ingot pricing is off...

I'm not sure about you but i get about 4 ingots per 5 ore (about 10g on Illidan) with the chance of a sorcerous earth (can't forget to take the cost out)
- Even ignoring the sorcerous, it's 2.5g per ingot, then you get 20 per 30 ore( about 60g), 3g
- So if we use about 3g in your scenario, you'd be making gold.
- How is your ingots/paints so expensive?

By my last spreadsheet, per ingot I make 11.6g on truesteel essence, 22.1 on mighty truesteel essence, and 23.5 on savage truesteel essence. So take away the cost, it's still pretty good.

[JemiS]

Your ingot pricing is off.

Last I checked, with 200g SB I was coming in at around 3k cost for upgrades.

Most servers, you can buy ore on off-days for around 200g/stack, especially if you buy in bulk. That puts my cost per ingot at 1.5g per, not counting sorcerous elements (Of which you get 2-3 per day, which easily offsets your ore cost entirely).

The only way you end up paying anything close to 10g/mat is if you're using primal spirits to generate them.

Should put your cost at around 2800g, which is 1200g profit, which is pretty good for 2 days work (7 SB/day from Barn, 88 paints/ingots per day from professions+garrison building).

I think your main problem was making so many at once, when you didn't know if they'd sell well or not, as well as trying to post them on a weekend rather than Monday/Tuesday.