Auction House for Everyone - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 241

Live Geposted 21.08.2022 um 13:06 von SamadanPlaysWoW

SamadanThe Big Auction House for EveryoneWhat Happened?patch 9.2.7 was releasedCommoditiesThe Auction House was alive!was closed for a whilesome players were locked outcurrently offline while they investigate

We’re aware of a bug that is causing some items to get stuck in invalid listings.This is a priority for us to fix, however, we expect the fix to take 2-3 more days.We’ll let you know as soon as the fix is deployed.

12 hours after the auction house commodities merger, prices have dropped 67% from their average yesterday and 57% from the median.#Warcraft

— WTBGold (@ryanaeckles) August 17, 2022Why This is a Big Deal?It has also made the Auction House incredibly accessible to all.

Alchemy

Cooking

Enchanting

Inscription

Tailoring

Blacksmithing

Leatherworking

What Now?u/wakeofchaos
Like the title says, all is not lost. Regional commodities and people dumping mats has created this combo of uber low and unprofitable professions/margins. Part of this is the merge, part of it is that Shaldowlands is ending and most of these mats will be no longer valuable.

So dump your mats if you want or keep them and see if it’ll stabilize for a few months once the people who want out get out. Prices are low but I expect them to rise a bit, for a bit.

All in all, remember that this is a video game. Many of us have the luxury of supporting our gaming habit through the things we provide to our servers and their auction houses. Gone are the days of controlling individual server commodity markets but here now are the days where we all get the luxury of high pop volume.

Shadowlands will likely have little benefit from this because of where we’re at in the xpac but I predict that Dragonflight will be wildly profitable for many of us. The supply is high and demand is low. DF will have the reverse and all of us will have access to high pop volume.

So try not to get too discouraged. Again, it’s just a game and things won’t always be this way. Heck, there’s still some ways to profit out there but not nearly as many as there were. It’ll get better though :)

I’m probably personally going to just play the game and do the rare ah thing here or there. Then gear up for DF once it comes around.
Penguin On the one hand I'm slightly horrified that my margins are completely gone for my markets: primarily flasks, feasts, missives, and other xpac specific fare.

Thing is, what I do put up goes much much faster than I've ever seen. I remind myself that on the long term, I'm still very much in the black. And cash flow is ridiculously high right now. I envision I'll be able to offload my remaining mats super fast, not at a "profit" strictly speaking, but all in all it's still gold.

I think I'll clear another million in the next week alone where a month ago I'd get maybe a fourth of that in a week. Bear in mind right now that's very passive; I check in once a day or so, craft and post/repost as necessary.

Speaking of; everything is getting posted at 48 hours. Stuff is going so fast I don't need to repost at 12.

I feel like with the new AH changes a lot of players will have to adjust what they consider to be 'good use of time' - farming things for 30-50k gph might not be realistic with this new market. #Warcraft #WoWGoldMaking

— GirlGoblin/Stargrace (@GirlGoblin1) August 20, 2022Penumbra Thread Price IncreaseAugust 16th Hotfixes u/RTalonsPenumbra thread is now 8g80s with exalted rep, no longer 7g20s

Hopefully someone will see this before making a big purchase.

Got excited at the large supply of “cheap” mats, and my LW just bought enough leather and bones off the AH to make ~12k bows AFK shuffling. Went to buy thread and saw the increase.

My 8g profit per bow will now be 4g loss… need to rework a spreadsheet to see what I should shuffle.

Leather bracers should be minimally impacted (6 leather 1 thread) but these 72k bones will need to turn into something…

Items and Rewards

Increased the vendor cost of Penumbra Thread to 11 gold (was 9 gold).
Developers’ note: This price change is to balance the decreased cost of reagents with the change to a regional commodity Auction House.