Beta Enchanting Changes
Bad news for sellers, the only rod ever used will be the copper rod.
Enchanting
Unless you have been selling Arcanite for another use, then get rid of your arcanite. This is a bit of a shame for transmute-spec alchemists who have been quietly owning this market. Like myself.
What else can you use your Arcanite for?
http://www.wowhead.com/item=12360/arcanite-bar#reagent-for
Personally I’d go for stock dumping or turning them into Sulfuron Hammer for now. Alternatively if your blacksmith has the no longer in game enchanted thorium breastplate pattern, they will sell well for transmogrification buyers.
Enchanted Thorium Breastplate
Zurhho on Wowhead offered this advice:
[quote] If you are like me, reluctant to post on realm forum or ask in trade chat, you can find a blacksmith who has this plan with the following method (though somewhat time consuming).
1. Go to WoW Armory.
2. Look up any popular guilds on your server.
3. Click the Roster, top-right of the filtering options, there should be a drop-down menu “Achievement Points”, click it, and select “Professions”.
4. Select “Blacksmithing” in the Profession filtering option, and set minimum to 300 for the Skill level filtering option.
Enchanted Thorium Breastplate
Now you have a list of blacksmith who potentially have this plan learned, just need to check their armory manually (the time-consuming part).
When you are checking their profession armory, here is a few things to watch out for.
1. Click “Learned” button! Else all the blacksmith you check will have the plan learned (since “Not Yet Learned” is selected too by default).
2. Type “enchant” in the search bar.
3. If that character has the plan learned, check their character armory by clicking their portrait, scroll down to the bottom, check when the armory was updated.
4. If that character looks pretty active (last update within 3 days or so), add that player to your in-game friend list.
5. Ask them to craft the armor for you when you are ready.
I know it is a lot of steps and tedious, but I prefer to have the ability to choose who to ask, and when to ask. I spent around 1 hour searching through 6 guilds, and found about 20 blacksmiths with the plan, and 9 of them were online within the last 3 days.[/quote]
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I like this change, not so much on the gold making side, but more so on availability. When leveling enchanting, the rods are often not available on the auction house.
I try to keep one of each rod listed at all times for 100g, but the bottleneck was the price of arcane crystals (currently 90g on my server). needless to say I wasn’t trying to make much off them.
I’m surprised you have so few arcane crystals when thorium is virtually falling out the sky now ^^
More often I see players buy big amounts of Arcanite Bars for Thunderfury and Sulfuron Hammer. So dumping the stock is not fully needed. They are the biggest buyers on my realm. But must say the change from rods removed a whole market from me that I been quite alone in the latest months. Was sad to see that change in the notes.
Thunderfurry reagent. 100 bars needed. I’m on a high pop realm but these are still routinely in demand as raw bars.
great idea, thank you. Although I can’t resist the idea of a “thunderfurry” being a Pandaren Shaman …?