Thread: Stockpiling Quantities for JC/Ench

Originally Posted by Nilaus

This is completely contrary to the common notions on these boards. Patches gives huge boosts if you stockpile correctly. Pyrite Ore is gambling and not stockpiling. Enchanting mats, gems, leg armor and ore are examples of good items to stockpile as the demand will increase after a patch. If you have no stockpile and lots of liquid gold, then you are forced to buy my overpriced items on patch day like the rest of the suckers. Liquid gold does nothing when availability of raw materials is non-existant and the end products are charged at a premium.

You can ask @Aeg how much he made on a single patch rush if you doubt the validity of stockpiling for patches

I guess my wording was a little off. I was more referring to the people that invested their entire life savings in Pyrite Ore rather than the act of stocking up things that will actually be high in demand.

I was using Maelstrom Crystals as an example because if you didn't already start stockpiling them before the Maelstrom Shatter was officially announced, you're very likely to not make much profit, break even, or even lose a little bit. That's because their prices doubled within seconds of the announcement, any Maelstroms you purchase now are not worth stockpiling in the context that any of your competing goblins worth their salt will have double your profit margins for any enchant involving Heavenly Shards or Maelstrom Crystals come patch day.

I don't think one could even be considered a "goblin" if they couldn't even enchant/gem their own items on patch day and have to buy some overpriced crap on the AH :P

And taking a word of advice from @Meyer : I have to agree, make sure you prospect/DE/craft all your stuff BEFORE patch day. The last thing you want to do is have to lose an hour of sales re-cutting all those gems because they sold in 5 minutes.

At this point, depending on how much storage space you have available (or are willing to deal with, in the case of mailbox zealots), it might be best to leave some of your purchase thresholds untouched for ores and enhancement mats, even though prices are dropping. For example, all four volatiles seem to be dropping like rocks and I don't think you could go wrong with having a stock of them.

I love people who snatch up maelstroms for the next patch and pay a lot more than what they currently are worth.
Keep in mind the random daily dungeon which gives 140 VP now includes all old instances which are heavenly shard heavens already.
If anything, apart from the spike shortly after the patch, the price will go down on shards so stockpiling maelstroms to shatter is in my opinion unwise.

About stockpiling vs selling now :

Im basicly playing overtime atm, buying a lot to stockpile, but at the same time sell a lot - if only to reduce the potential loss of the investment ( which I dont think it will but thats a different matter ).
After the patch Im in a dillema though : to keep buying or not to.
If I stop then prices of ore etc will plummet which will lead to materials being able to be produced cheaper -> prices on sales go down.

If you know 100% sure you are going to play next xpac though and are going to play goblin then its safe to keep buying, eventually the elementium shuffle will be as rare as the saronite shuffle is these days - thus yielding greater profits.

I think you misunderstood or my writing wasnt too clear.

While Im selling a lot now , Im at the same time stockpiling : i.e. Im increasing my stock - I aint selling stuff thats put into my gbank , but half of the goods I produce go into the bank, the others go to auctions.

Yes it is a pre patch profit but the profit is still pretty damn good at the moment.
The way I see it now is that because Im selling non stop , my stock keeps increasing while my gold stays around the same.
This way no matter what happens at the patch Im not going to run at a loss.
There can be and will be some auctioneers who are at the same level prepared as I am and I know some of them are simply not caring if they destroy the market as long as they can scare one big player away briefly.