Concentration Builds & Tinderbox Hotfixes - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 345
Hello! Welcome to the 345th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we take a look at the prices of Profaned Tinderboxes and the results of spotting opportunities to flip as well as looking at some hotfixes to Patron Orders. We also discuss best uses for Concentration and talk about Perception and Finesse with Dual Gathering.
My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Profaned Tinderbox Prices
This is an interesting item that's seen some price spikes and troughs over the past month, the Profaned Tinderbox. It's used as a reagent in many high end weapon enchants and can be hard to come by via certain delves by all accounts.
Graph courtesy of undermine.exchange
Some have managed to make a nice profit by gambling it will go back up when It took a nose dive recently..
It's not much to you goblins out there, but as a WoW noob it feels pretty good. I started with nothing, only the gold made from leveling. Picked up mining/herbing and sold ore/herbs until I had 250k. I saw people posting on here that there was a tinderbox exploit which had caused the prices to tank.
I checked undermine journal and saw the price had halved, and the supply had nearly doubled. Guessing that blizzard would probably patch this soon and the prices would rise again, I went all in. I dropped all 250k that I had earned on tinderboxes at ~4,000 gold per unit.
I waited a week and sold all of them at between 9000-9500g per unit when the price came back up. It was a big risk to a noob like me with 250k being the most gold they ever had, but it was cool to see it pay off.
Of course, it's a risky strategy that in this case paid off, but is subject to the whims of exploits, hotfixes and changes in drop rate all tying into supply and demand.
It can be gambled on any item, especially high value commodities, but there's no sure fire predictor otherwise we'd all be doing it!
While this is cool it only works a certain percentage of the time. Read more on wowhead.com
