Sunday, February 13, 2011

Snap decision

I woke up this morning and did my usual rounds of the gold bloggers on my blogroll and found THIS post from Alto over at ALTOs Gold"ish" Advice. Based on Alto's excellent research (pretty pictures always help), it appears that the recent boom in supply of whiptail from the Uldum zone is over and the incredibly fast node respawn times are no more.

What does this mean for any aspiring Goblins?

If this truly is a hotfix and not just a really unlucky night for Alto, it means that the price of whiptail is going to go back up to a level similar to before patch 4.0.6's explosion in supply. With that in mind I quickly jumped onto my bank toon and purchased all whiptail stacks up to a cost of 100g per stack. The price of a stack of whiptail on my server before supply went crazy hovered between 140g and 200g per stack so I stand to make quite a large profit just by flipping the 130 odd **Edit: 200 odd** stacks I just bought.

If on the other hand prices stay low, well I'll just have to be more creative in how I offload so many herbs to recoup my losses but you can be sure that inscription will play a central role.

4 comments:

  1. I think this may have been an unlucky night for Alto. I'm actually just checking blogs on an herbing break; I've been herbing Whiptail over the past hour and am still seeing really great spawn rates.

    I do believe it may be semi-impacted by the number of people in the zone and so during off-peak hours like now the nodes probably spawn a bit slower than, say, 7 PM in a Wednesday, but they're still spawning very quickly. :D

    I too bought a lot of Whiptail today though. Darkmoon cards gooooooooooooo!

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  2. Yeah I reckon you're right Faid, based on the continuing cheap supply of whiptail on my server it looks like Darkmoon cards are going to happen in a big way!

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  3. Sorry for the unrelated to the post comment, but just wanted to say, I tried to add you to my blogroll but everytime I add it it adds something called Rogue Cunning that apparently updated something 4 months ago, but every time I click the link it's broken. /shrug

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  4. hmm... I'll see what I can do about that

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