Well, it was bound to happen with the DMF leaving town and the ink trader setting up shop but I didn't expect this level of "crash":
https://theunderminejournal.com/item...jin&item=72235
This is Silkweed on my server, as Silkweed is the primary herb most people use for milling purposes due to the difficulty of Fool's Cap to obtain and the relative ease of obtain-ability of this herb coupled with the small amount of alchemy uses. Obviously not the whole story is being told by the Market Price, as the bottom of the market is now down to 2g. The quantity available is also fairly telling of current buying habits as supply hasn't really changed. There's been almost a 66% reduction in price over the last week and it's STILL not selling.
What if you buy and craft into inks? Well that's a sadder story:
https://theunderminejournal.com/item...jin&item=79254
https://theunderminejournal.com/item...jin&item=79255
Yes, even trading up you're only make a 30g profit on IoD to Starlight. Starlight suffering currently a 75% reduction on price.
Thanks to Golden Lotus, herbs are worthless to an alchemist with the main block to market availability being the Golden Lotus, the ridiculously rare herb that nobody can seem to get enough of:
https://theunderminejournal.com/item...jin&item=72238
But even there we see the pinch as more and more people spend their SoH on alts, on gatherers on this herb. What if an alchemist were to buy both the Silkweed and Godlen Lotus and produce the final result, the Flask of the Warm Sun (+int)? Well...
https://theunderminejournal.com/item...jin&item=76085
That's right. A grand total of 15g profit, if the flask even sold at all. Judging from once again the glut of market availability, people are relying on guild alchemists for their raiding needs right now.
The real question is, in the face of nearly unlimited supply how can Blizzard make markets viable again?