Making Gold With Inscription

About 99% of my gold has been made from inscription, there have been really great weeks where the competition was low, and other weeks where I was selling glyphs for 3g each and was still getting undercut so I had to accept lower profits while I developed my undercutting strategy and at a point left the market to wait for the competition to get bored of profiting 20 silver per glyph.

1) Crafting Glyphs  = 62,644g

While the average price of glyphs can range greatly from 3g – 90g, I calculated my “rate” an hour to be 1,000g an hour at minimum, seeing as how you can craft 390 glyphs an hour this comes to roughly 3g 50s profit per glyph needed to maintain that rate.

Since the snowfall inks you get during the process of making glyphs covers the cost to make the glyphs themselves you can assume that the money gained from making glyphs to be 100% profit.

2) Darkmoon Cards = 32, 781g + 7,400g = 40,181g

The darkmoon fair happens once a month and this is the time when I really realize my profits. For 3 weeks I’ll start accumilating tons of snowfall inks in my bank waiting to be converted into darkmoon cards (since they rarely sell outright on the auction house)

I will typically get around 1,000 snowfall inks saved up before the next darkmoon fair hits and then I can turn in the decks for completed cards such as Darkmoon Card: Greatness, Darkmoon Card: Illusion and so forth.

Another source of income from darkmoon cards are selling the cards individually to those who are looking to turn them in for reputation and also for completing their own decks. This comes in handy when you find yourself having excess cards after making all your decks, trade or sell them off.

3) Armor Vellums II, III and Weapon Vellums I, III = 19,466g

While this figure does include all vellums I found the only ones on my server worth the hassel to craft were the ones listed here, the profit/time to craft Armor Vellum I was just so low given the amount of volumn I could move a day.

These are a very steady source of gold for me, competition doesn’t undercut these auctions as much and I usually sell around 100 vellums a day.

4) Offhands – Faces of Doom and Iron-Bound Tome = 12,951g

I sell maybe 1 of each offhand a day, but the profit margins can be significant as some days I am the only one selling them at my fallback price of 285g each. At a cost of 70g to craft this is a nice profit amount for something that is very quick to craft.

5) Snowfall Inks = 4,292g

When you mill Northrend herbs you get azure pigments and icy pigments. Azure pigments go towards inks of the sea to make glyphs and icy pigments are made into Snowfall Inks.

I use these inks in runescrolls of fortitiude, the offhands and darkmoon cards. However each month I have an excess of 1,000 inks that I need to get rid of no matter how much I try to use up in the other items.

That’s why I do sales outright on the auction house of snowfall inks, I will sell them at a minimum of 11g each (in stacks of 5) and the highest I’ll post them is 19g each. Not that many of them sell on the AH but that’s fine as I make good profit putting them into darkmoon cards.

6) Runescroll of Fortitude = 4,144g

A steady seller, not a ton of gold made from this but it is a great way to get rid of all those snowfall inks that build up in your inventory.