Darkmoon Fair viablity?

With love is in the air, going on, there's a couple great opportunities to make tons of money. The larger one is the love bird mount. In theory, it might sell for quite a bit later on. I am not as confidant as the cross faction pets though, since they inherently are harder to get. The second items are the charm bracelets. I see people buying them for over 100 gold, though I think they manually have to sell them. I've not explored it too much, but I have to admit, it is a pain to farm four of them each day.

I've been really busy with the Darkmoon Fair. I originally had about a dozen decks to sell, but one thing lead to another and I found good prices on both whiptail and cinderbloom. I lost track, but I think I bought around 600 stacks of it and 16 stacks of life to boot. Talk about tedious, but three movies, later it was all milled. The ink isn't so bad because at least you can go do something else while your character creates it.

All those herbs brought me 81 darkmoon cards. It certainly is a respectable haul. I finished 2 earthquake decks, 2 volcano, 2 tsunami, and 7 hurricanes. I had almost depleted my volcano cards before from making decks, so I already had a number of those. I am just a few cards short (mostly the ace of waves) of making a few more tsunami decks, so I'll be watching the AH hard for that card. I actually bought too much life, but there's always used for it.

 

I'd guess conservatively 2.5 k for the earthquake decks, 9k for volcano and tsunami, and 5k for hurricanes, for a grand total of 76k. That's about a return of 1 to 2 from gold spent to gold earned. 

As shown in the screenshot to the right t, I have a huge stockpile of ink again. (It also shows the original 14 decks I had made before hand.) Glyphs will trickle in money for the next month without any more milling. It might be time to start making fortune cards again even.

In conclusion, the darkmoon fair is still profitable. It would have been much greater if the darkmoon cards were still demanding double digits. The danger of course is, once Mists of Pandaria arrives, the darkmoon cards are worthless, though by then, the new cards will give us greater options to earn wealth.