Thread: Alternative Mop Shuffle

My Alternative MOP Shuffle
My maths relates to the fact that each stack of ghost iron ore will give 6 uncommon gems and 1 rare gem’s
Meaning after 6 stacks you may have 1 of rare gem and 36 uncommon gems(6 of each uncommon).

The 3 items being sold from this shuffle

1. Rare Red Gems Cut
2. Meta’s Cut
3. Ethereal Shard’s

Like any successful shuffle this will require xmute master, enchanter and jewel crafter at max level.


The Main Reason I chose this method was the fact that I find messing around with the lower tier gems for example the Yellow and Blue isn’t worth the relisting time and is in most cases more profitable as Ethereal Shard’s.

The one downside to this shuffle is the requirement of excess serpent’s eye but these are pretty cheap staying at around 3g a piece on my realm.

How I do it:
After Prospecting there are 3 basic trails you need to follow;

1. Cut Red Gems into popular profitable cuts or sell raw
2. Send Purple, Green and Orange Rare gems of to an xmute, then cut the primal diamond’s into popular cuts and sell or sell raw (Burning, Agile, Austere, Reverberating and Revitalizing)
3. Turn the rare and uncommon gems into serpent’s eye jewellery, then send to enchanter to disenchant this will give your enchant either lots of ethereal shard’s for making scrolls or for selling raw on Ah.
   
   1. Sun’s Radiance can be crafted into a piece of jewellery using 2
   2. River’s Heart can also be crafted into jewellery using 2
   3. Rougestone, sunstone, Pandarian Garnet and Tiger Opal can be turned into jewellery using 6 each.

* This leaves us with 12 uncommon gems being unused you can either vendor these or try get extra profit off these by cutting for perfects

Profit Potential
* This will be based around making a primal diamond after 12 stacks on average

After 12 stacks being prospected you may have 2 of all rares and 6 of all uncommons
This gives you;

• One Primal Diamond
• 2 Red Gems for Cutting
• 12 Ethereal Shard’s
• 12 leftover uncommon gems which I regard as “useless”

But this will require;

• 72 serpents eyes

Doing some maths based on a rough estimate of prices of ore and gems atm on Blackrock US Horde,
Costs = 12x30(price per stack) + 72x3(price per serpent’s eyes)
Money returned 500g for Primal, 12x 65g for Ethereal shard’s and 90g for Red Cuts
Profit = 794g/12 stacks
Profit Per Stack= 78g (a little under 2x what was invested)

*note this does account for procs and bountiful bag procs which should lead to an extra shard and meta per 10 resulting in an extra 50g more per 10 stacks from Primal Diamond and 65g extra per 10 stacks from ethereal shards,

Supply
Some of you may be thinking that due to closing the market into only 3 items it will limit your production potential yet on my high pop server listing 4 times a day I should be able to move at least 100 stacks worth if excess dream shards are converted into mysterious essence (and sha crystal) which reduces profit by 15g but allows for more stock to be moved quicker, but for 100 stacks you will need around 600 serpent’s eyes(a major downside)

Conclusion This Method may work well on high pop servers due to the high supply of prospector’s and a lot of serpent’s eyes floating around and a high demand for ethereal shards, but the majority of realms may struggle moving mass quantities.

Sorry my technical skills aren’t very good and I couldn’t supply you with a spread sheet or wowhead links. It is something I just quickly threw together it’s still in planning and would like some feedback from the community, I don’t fully understand the numbers behind prospecting, transmuting or bountiful bags so correct me if I am wrong. I do understand the fact that getting this many serpent’s eyes may be difficult but if you have lots of prospectors on your realm if you spam in trade you should be able to get a steady supply from jc’s who don’t like to sell their eye’s at 3g a piece.

Red gems sell for a (relative) pittance on my server. You're lucky to get more than 150g for one of the primary stat cuts. Sparkling blue gems and Fractured yellows are worth about as much. The real money is in the purple and orange gems (Purified, Crafty etc can sell for 400g or more) so I'd be hesitant to turn them all into metas. Some of the green cuts aren't bad either. Of course, the decidion to cut the hybrid gems rather than transmute them into metas is made a bit easier for me due to my JC still being level 85 and only having two unpopular meta cuts.

I'd imagine the prices for red gems, above, look pretty good by the standards of a high pop realm, but their balanced by the fact that ore is frequently 75g+ per stack.

Yeah im not sure about other realm's but i can get ore at around 30-40g and primordial rubies are at about 40g cut, 100g for imperial amethyst cut,150g for Vermilion Onyx Cut, 130g for Wild Jade Cut, River's Heart 30g, Sun's Radiance 40g