The economy has treated those who make an in-game living with inscriptions very well during WOTLK however in looking forward to Patch 3.3 one has to wonder if the the money making profession is going to see a serious nerf bat when this patch drops.
A key money maker for the Inscription Entrepreneur has been selling decks for the Darkmoon Fairie events. These decks have provided some significant benefits even up through patch 3.2. However the Icecrown Citadel loot tables may very well make these items finally obsolete. Although some may still be purchased for alts, they are great trinkets. Are players going to continue to spend that kind of gold for the alt? After all, between gems and enchants on gear coming out of Icecrown the average player is probably going to be a be stretch out.
I thought the value of the decks would drop dramatically in 3.2 however with the release of the trinkets made available with Emblem of Triump had only a nominal effect on prices. In trying to predict the market, it’s not hard to guess that Icewing having a dozen bosses and 12 trinkets available to the players according to MMO Champion’s PTR Build Notes as of 10/21/2009. Perhaps we’ll be surprised even more with a few BOE trinkets which would also put a hurt on the Darkmoon deck market.
At the end of the day, I don’t think the Darkmoon Deck market will vanish entirely, Glyphs will still offer good revenue streams and inks will still trade. I just don’t see a Darkmoon revival until Cataclysm.
What do you think?
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by Kring, on October 29 2009 @ 9:18 am
BoE trinkets will completely not matter because every raid has enough use for trinkets.
- primary spec
- alt spec
- alts
- chars not present on raid day
They will never hit the AH. The same way as the rings and cloaks from coliseum and ulduar never hit the AH.
A trinket can be used by 30% or more of your raid. And each char uses two trinkets. Per spec.
What might matter is if the 5 mans drop trinkets which would be easily enough to obtain.
by admin, on October 29 2009 @ 2:15 pm
It’s interesting because as long as Ulduar has been out our guild is still selling the BOE shield when it drops at a pretty hefty price. I think we sold the last one at 12,000 Gold. I would expect to see them hit the market if like many guilds, the BoE’s go to the auction house to support guild repair bills.
by Kring, on October 30 2009 @ 2:21 am
Compare a shield, which is useful to about 3 persons in a raid with a spell caster trinket which is useful to 5-10 people. And you only need one shield but you need two trinkets. So even if you already have a nice one, you still need a second trinket.
by Yeechang Lee, on October 30 2009 @ 11:48 am
I, too, believed that 3.2 would significantly lower the demand for Darkmoon Card trinkets, and missed out on some money that way. But then, I’m not a scribe, and only buy and sell cards, decks, and trinkets on the open market. From that perspective, Greatness was (and is) the big moneymaker, followed by Death, with all others as chump change.
I now doubt that 3.3 will change the market much, either. There are exactly two bind-on-equip trinkets in the game that require level 80 and aren’t Darkmoon Faire cards, and both are very rare iLevel 200 Northrend world drops. In other words, no BoE trinkets from Naxxramas, Sartharion, Malygos, Ulduar, or Crusader, all raids that drop at least one BoE item. Icecrown is very unlikely to change this. And even if I’m wrong and there are one or two, as Kring points out there is *always* demand for both main- and offspec uses for two trinkets per spec.