Saturday, April 11, 2009

5 items you need to sell before 3.1 (for BoE epics)

While still relevant, this post is slightly outdated. If you wish to read about patch 3.2 preparation, you can click here.

With the ulduar patch coming in a few weeks now, I've been asked by several people on which items to sell while they still can. Today I'll cover the bind on equip gear, since these are the items that costs anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand gold. Some of you probably have some in your bank, or you have to find some way to liquidate your guild bank before patch hits. Today's post will show you 6 items you need to release back into the market before 3.1 hits.

Basically, the items that will be the worst hit will be those that have an immediate BoE ilvl 226 or ilvl 219 upgrade from ulduar. People looking to gear up their mains or alts, will hold off buying the following items, since it would be more cost efficient to purchase the higher item-valued slot piece instead of buying a ilvl 200 item only to replace it a few days later.

Another criteria for selection, is the exclusion of any future ilvl 226 BoEs that require runed orbs. Requiring 15 Emblems of Conquest, runed orbs will likely be an expensive commodity for quite a few weeks to a few months following patch release. Each crafted BoE will require about 5-6 runed orbs, which would be about 90 emblems. That would be almost enough to buy t8.5 head and chest piece. As such, I highly doubt that runed orbs will reach equilibrium prices anytime soon and will remain overpriced and expensive.

While some of the following items are still a decent placeholder for a newly minted 80 starting to gear up, come 3.1 there will be a disparity between these epics and the highest tier ilvl available, seriously devaluing the amount by which you can sell them for.

Thus, without further ado, here are the items that needs to go into someone else's inventory:

1) Anything that goes into the wrist slot
That is, basically any Emblem of Valor bracers that you have.
The key reason you should sell them off now, is because
a) more and more people now know that there is no further use for valor tokens, and the next thought that goes through their mind will be to convert them to bracers and sell it off, increasing your competition. And to make it worse, they will be willing to sell them at any price, driving it down to perhaps 500-800 gold each.
b) the week ulduar comes out, guilds will rush through ulduar-10 to ensure extra gearing up of their raiders, not to mention a large army of people waiting to bite their teeth into ulduar through pugs or small guilds. Ulduar-10 drops a plethora of ilvl 219 bracers, meaning that people gearing for bracers will be looking at the ilvl 219 wrist slots, and not your EoV bracers.
For a more detailed run-up of the bracers, check out my previous post.

2) Jewelcrafting:

Titanium Impact choker will be replaced by
-Nymph Heart Charm

and Titanium Earthguard Ring by
-Signet of the Earthshaker
although druids might still go for the Jewelcrafting ring

3) Tailoring:
Deathchill Cloak, Wispcloak

Will be replaced by
-Asimov's Drape

4) Blacksmithing

Spiked Titansteel Helm, sell it before
Iron Riveted War Helm appears on the AH

and the same goes for Titansteel Shield Wall
before people go for the ulduar 25 shield Northern Barrier

5) Leatherworking:

Get rid of Giantmaim Legguards, since Darkcore Leggings will be dropping in ulduar 25


With this list in hand, its time to hit the AH and trade channel and sell them off before their prices depreciate!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sherry - just wanted to let you know that I've been reading your blog and am enjoying it. You have very good information, and different points to make than other blogs in the same genre. I have a tailor/enchanter, and especially appreciated the twink item info (silk headband/spidersilk boots). Twink items are the one group that I have not thoroughly researched for possible profit-making, as I don't have a twink at any level. So thank you very much for that tidbit - it reminded to me to get to work. In any case, I wanted you to know that you aren't just sending your thoughts out into the nothingness of the internet. There are people reading your blog!

Oh, and I'm not on Medivh. :)

Sherry said...

Thank you for commenting, and I'm glad you've enjoyed reading my blog! I do realise my methods for making gold are rather different from the other blogs, which was one of the reasons I have started blogging about them.

The twink market is one of the markets I make sizable amounts of gold per week in however, but I suppose most people think the Lvl 80 market is the most profitable path to riches.

I attribute that partly to the fact that twink players already intend to spend huge amounts of gold on low level gear, and you provide a service for them by making the item/enchant available, thus charging for the premium.

Feel free to email me if you have any particular questions, or would like to know anything in particular about any market!

Thanks for the vote of confidence :D

I wish you good luck in your gold making endeavors!

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