Patch 3.3 – LFG & Economic Impact
Posted on 2009 under Enchanting, Patch Notes, Tailoring | 1 Comment30 Oct
It may be worthwhile to chime in on the economic impacts of the LFG Change in Patch 3.3. One does not have to look far to see that this could have an impact on enchanters and tailoring to some extent. The changes in supply and demand on enchanting materials such as Abyss Crystals and Dream Shards as well as Frostweave Cloth on any given realm should ruffle some markets once people start digging into content. You might want to be cautious on trading especially a few days before patch.
Enchanting markets are always sensitive to ebbs and flows from doing the content. Increasing content or reasons to revisit content create inventories of items that can be disenchanted. Tailors with a passive ability to obtain more cloth drops will also see bags start to fill up as well. We’ll tear it down to the nuts and bolts after the break.
Patch Note Changes: (Downward Market Pressure)
- Additional 5-man content.
- Cross Realm LFG – allows players run more 5 man / 5 man heroics. Greatly improving functionality of the existing service.
- Additional emblem awards for running 5-mans
- Auto-disenchant features will allow for more items turned into enchanting materials.
Positive Effects (Upward Market Pressure)
- Icewing Citadel with a dozen bosses, enchanting materials will most certainly be in demand.
After accounting for the pro’s and con’s here it’s obvious there will be more negative forces at work on the enchanting and frostweave.
I don’t think anyone is too terribly upset about frostweave prices lowering, it’s already dirt cheap and a little lower is not going to make anyone’s bottom line cringe. I would say it may be worthwhile to move any Frostweave you may just have sitting around now though. Tailors also may want to keep an eye on the price. About a week after the patch, Frostweave should start dropping in price and probably see an opportunity to craft items to disenchant for a tidy return.
As far as enchanting mats are concerned, I think we’re going to see more materials available pushing down some prices so if you’ve been thinking about moving inventory doing so sooner rather than later might be a good idea. My main is an enchanter and I keep a good bit of inventory on hand for the Alt’s, I’ll probably push some inventory into AH right at the start of Patch 3.3 but I think the negative forces here will certainly weigh down the value of Enchanting materials as the 5 mans get hit like it’s nobody’s business in search of badges to round out some gear for Icecrown 10/25.
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by Malanigra, on November 11 2009 @ 5:03 pm
The main problem for the potential for an economic benefit from this, though would lie in the cross realm factor.
If any one realm has an influx of enchanters, vs a realm that doesn’t, mats will start becoming more and more sparse, dream shards especially, do to the disenchanted item going elsewhere unreachable by the target market. The same holds true with boe drops and other blue drops that now have a good chance of entering someone else’s economy.
This may, however, balance out reduced difficulty of obtaining such items, and help keep demand stabilized to prices.