DMC: BROKE

Finally, the Faire is back!!

I've spent over 50% of my liquid gold making decks for various people (myself included, lol) and I've got to say, it's damn expensive. I've bought every stack of any cata herb 100g and under since release and have made 75+ cards. I'm well ahead of my costs after selling a couple of decks and selling some at extremly under-market prices to others in the guild. I just feel like people think I'm lying when I tell them how much it costs to make a single card, so I thought I would share that with my audience (what audience, inoright).

The cards require 30 volatile life (5g-ish per), one high end inscription paper (2g-ish), and 10 of the uncommon inks (which sell for over 250g per and there aren't normally more than one or two for sale). If I bought all the mats required from the AH for ONE card it would, at an extreme minimum, 2652G. Oh yeah, the cards are random so if you have the luck of the dog turd like I do, then you'll make duplicates out the wazoo.



I mill stacks and stacks of mostly cinderbloom, getting 2 or ocassionally 3 pigment per mill, 4 mills per stack, so one stack of herbs ~ 10-12 of the raw, common pigment and an occasional uncommon pigment. I craft all the uncommon ink and then I craft all of the common ink into stacks from the pigment. It takes two pigment per darkflame(?) ink. There is an ink trader in Dalaran that will trade 10 darkflame inks for ONE of the uncommon inks. To sum it up, two stacks of herbs equal about one of the uncommon inks, so it's about 20 stacks of herbs per card.



I've been in the glyph game for a long time and have wrestled up some farmers who will sell huge quantities of herbs/V. Life's for less than market price b/c I can pay them no matter how much they want to sell, this allows me the craft these cards for under 2k per card. It costs me about 16k per card (in theory) to make a deck and they are selling for 25k+ on my server.





A couple of tips to make the DMC: Scribe life a little easier:

• Get to know other inscription people on your server who delve into cards. It's much easier to swap cards around when you know that the person is going to be there next week.

• I don't count any of the uncommon inks/pigments I get from milling into my calculations on cost because they are unpredictable, so I use them as bonus cards when I get enough of the ink.

• Don't be afraid to look at the AH for the price of cards. Stones cards are selling for less then 1000G but the Decks are selling for over 10k. I took the extra stone cards I had, spent 8K buying up cards before the faire and made two decks when I wouldn't have been guaranteed one full deck.

• Watch the prices of the decks, prices will fluctuate wildly based on how desperate people are to unload their decks and recoup the money invested. If your extremely disciplined, trade the decks in and hold the cards until the faire is over to sell at an even higher premium