Are herbs going to increase in price?Follow

I'm a herbalist and I'm wondering what you all think? Does anyone know what herbs will be found in the DK starting area? I'm hoping to make some good gold selling herbs to budding incscriptionist.

If you'd bother to read my post you'd see that I was asking about the herbs to be found in the starting area and people opinion on if the price of herbs is going to skyrocket and if so what brackets of them. I'm well aware of how inscription works and the herb requirements.

It doesn't really matter what herbs are going to be available in the DK starting area, because that tier of herbs is already available in the game. Considering it's a 55-60 zone that's basically an extension of the Plaguelands, it would be pretty safe to assume that you're going to find herbs that you'd find in...Plaguelands. The new herbs that will be included with the expansion will be Northrend herbs, not DK starting area herbs.

If you're well aware of how Inscription works and the herb requirements, you'd know that any tier of herbs is subject to inflated prices. If it's true that milling herbs has a chance to yield an item that can be Deciphered for the possibility of a new glyph recipe, the demand for herbs will be high and remain high and as such, the prices will remain inflated for some time. Not until the majority of first-on-the-scene scribes have filled out their recipe lists with deciphered glyph recipes will the demand start to trail off, but there will always be a slightly higher demand for herbs than there is now due to new scribes working their way through the process. Unless you're 60+ with epic mount(s), gathering a full stack of any kind of herb can be more time consuming than it's worth, consider a full stack only provides enough materials to mill four times.

I've seen the same happen on my server as well. The low level ingredients are being sold for almost 10 times their original price. It was the same with low level ores and bars as Jewelcrafting was introduced with TBC! I guess the herb market will skyrocket in the early stages, to descend a little when things have dropped to an acceptable price again. In the end, the price will be higher than it is now - simply because there will be more demand for it. Basic economics, if you ask me.

What I fully expect to see happen are people with a fair bit of gold set aside camping the auction, buying up all of the "cheap" herbs they can find and re-listing them for insane prices for the first several days after the patch. If I were that particular brand of *******, I'd do the same thing, but I don't consider it to be in the spirit of a video game to assign myself the role of redundant broker/middleman to the detriment of other players.

That's why I'm stockpiling herbs now. 124 full stacks at last count...90 stacks of Azeroth herbs and 44 stacks of Outland herbs. And I'm not buying them...they're being gathered the "old fashioned way", which is not all that onerous a task when you've got two toons with 375 herbalism, both with epic land mounts and one with epic flight. In a sense, I should almost be glad for the price jackers. The people buying their herbs at inflated prices will be selling the resulting glyphs/vellum/hearth scrolls based on the inflated cost of materials, and then I can dart in and undercut slightly for pure profit.

Have to say I'm seeing price increases in herbs also. In addition I'm seeing areas like Hinterlands and Swamp of Sorrows getting farmed more often. Having considered buying up cheap herbs now to sell later I was dissappointed to see that none of the herbs were what I would call a good deal. I will keep picking and stockpiling in hopes of paying for my lvl 50 rogues epic flying skill. My 70 druid is my primary picker though.

The ones I had the most difficulty farming were the last two tiers of Azeroth herbs. To clarify, that's not to say it was "difficult", just time consuming. Once I caught on to the joys of Swamp of Sorrows, a lot of those problems disappeared. The very last tier of Azeroth herbs was a bit ugly though. Even with epic flight canvassing HFP, it took a good while. Feralas was actually fairly decent as well...surprisingly decent, in fact.

I've got 8 days to gather more herbs, but I don't need them. I've got very limited space remaining to store more herbs, and I'm going to have an enormous supply of pigment across all tiers on patch day. Enormous.

It's gonna be cool >:D