Ink Shortage

One of the inevitable realities is you will reach a shortage of materials.  The last week, I started taking
screenshots to illustrate this as I ran out of ink.  I’ve been a bit sick, so I finally writing about it.

I wouldn’t say I was in a panic, but I was running out of ink.  So in order to stretch the last bit of ink,  I started buying cheap lower levels herbs.  In theory, a wise goblin would do this constantly.  In reality, my short log ins don’t usually allow for it.

The only real difference for the milling process is I save myself time and use panda to mill it.  In theory I could combine the hotkeys but in practice panda just saves me the effort of typing every single herb in.  The panda addon allows for one click milling if you want to clear out all those different types of herbs.  I definitely find it useful.






It is worth noting, I couldn’t find any wrath or TBC herbs cheap enough to use.  Thus, I used the last bag of ink I had left to focus on both ink of the sea and ethereal ink.  I burned nearly half my remaining supply.  Eventually, if prices weren’t favorable, I was going to coast with my current stock and reluctantly give up a portion of the market.  Alternatively, I could have raised my profit threshold and crafted glyphs fewer glyphs for larger margins only.

This is a really decent problem that any marketer will face eventually.  Hence, this type of idea is useful to almost any creator of glyphs.

Of course this probable doesn’t  last forever either.  25 gold is the upper limit for me of acceptable.  I don’t like paying it.  But the alternative is worse--no profit.  From the early screenshots to the late ones, I’ve made about 30k on glyphs and darkmoon cards this week.  Let’s look at the numbers…25.4x384=9,753 gold.  So I’ll give up about 1/3 my profit for the week to replenish my stock.  As unhappy as I am at paying 25 instead of 19 to 20, it beats paying 40 and keeps the cheaper materials out of the hands of my enemies.








Over the course of the day while I was milling I sold a few more hurricane decks and recouped my profit even faster than I expected.  Overall, this tactic of using low level herbs basically let me get away with waiting for more favorable prices.