In this video I show you exactly how I made 6,000 gold profit in one day from crafting darkmoon cards and selling them on the last day of the Darkmoon Faire.
Darkmoon Cards
I have been heavily involved in the glyph business for the past couple of weeks, while the profits have been decent, about 2k profit/day for 30 minutes of work (article to follow) the market has become heavily saturated with glyph sellers and I’ve had to go back to the methods I use in Luke’s Guide to make my most gold while I wait out the competition.
Instead of dropping Inscription and moving onto another profession that is more lucrative, I spent some time to see what other ways there are to make gold from my profession and after getting profits from Vellums, Runescrolls of Fortitude and selling individual inks, I jumped into the Darkmoon Card market and I was amazed at the potential when I researched the Auction House prices.
Costs
In order to get Snowfall Inks and Inks of the Sea, you must mill Northrend Herbs. Icethorn, Adder’s Tongue and Lichbloom offer the most pigments per mill (3 Azure Pigments and 0.5 Icy Pigment)
I buy all of those herbs at 1g or lower, so the cost per ink would be:
120g for 120 Adder’s Tongue (24 mills) = 72 Azure Pigments (36 Inks of the Sea) & 12 Icy Pigments (6 Snowfall Ink)
This leaves me with an extra 33 Inks of the Sea, since I use these in Glyph making anyways I can recoup at least 2g for each Ink which comes out to 66g.
So the total cost for my 6 Snowfall Inks are 120g-66g = 54g
1 Darkmoon Card of the North
3 Eternal Life x 18g each = 54g
1 Resilient Parchment = 0.50g
6 Snowfall Inks = 54g
3 Inks of the Sea = 0g
Total Cost per Card = 108g 5s
Profit
Each creation of the Darkmoon Card of the North will create a random card from Ace to Eight of each of these decks:
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Prisms – Darkmoon Card: Illusion
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Undeath – Darkmoon Card: Death
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Chaos – Darkmoon Card: Berserker!
I checked the price for each card, 32 cards total, put them into a spreadsheet and found the average Auction House price came out to 250g. So even if you get unlucky with some Chaos cards that are only worth 50g each, which is a loss of -50g, it will balance out if you make a Noble card which is worth 800g, giving you+700g profit.
I ended up crafting 14 Darkmoon Cards, I got 8 Noble cards (6,400g), 4 Prism (200g) and 2 Undeath (240g) 6,840g – 1,512 = 5,328 gold profit. However I converted both the Nobles cards and Prisms cards into their Decks and turned them in for the completed Darkmoon Cards and sold them at a higher combined price to give me 6,000 gold profit.
Prepare for the next Darkmoon Faire and sell some darkmoon cards, they are still very high in demand. Play the glyph business at the same time and save over your left over Snowfall Inks for this opportunity. Be sure to check out Luke’s Guide which I use to generate my most gold an hour when I’m not doing inscription.
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Nice video. I posted a similar article a few days ago with my own observations regarding the Darkmoon Card market. I have yet to sell any cards or decks since the Fair hasn’t come to the Alliance side yet but it looks like there’s major profit to be made.
http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/10/profit-with-inscription-and-darkmoon.html
Darth that is sooo weird, I never read your post but its like we were in the exact same situations, with the excess Snowfall Inks, and I also made 14 Darkmoon Cards! quite the coincidence.
Nice vid you hit a nice streak there on the nobles cards there but is it me or do you not think they follow a pattern ? when I say this i have created around 15 of these decks and what i have found is that i will go through a phase of creating 15 cards to end up with 2 or maybe 3 nobles cards after crafting another 15 i would also hit a simlar streak to what was seen in your video.
Were my eyes decieveing me or did i see you buying stacks of 20 addders tongue for like 1 g wow
cool vid though
I’m sure it is random with the cards I did just get lucky, but I averaged out the price of all the darkmoon cards that I could make, which came out to 250g average, and the cost to make each was 108g.
So over a period of time it would have evened out to more like 150g profit per card rather than the 350g per card I was getting in this video. but still profitable non the less.
I wish getting full stacks for 1g, I had the “show stacks by price per unit” clicked off at the bottom… so it was 1g PER Adder’s Tongue.
Hey Will, I currently have 6000 gold, if you had to make an estimation, how much gold will it cost to get a full deck worth of cards? I know the cards are at random, but an educated guess would be greatly appreciated.
You can't really plan on getting a full deck by yourself, what you have to do is go ahead and start crafting them, I'd say about 20 crafts should give you one of the decks near completion.
What will happen is you'll have some duplicates of a card, you can sell that duplicate and use that money to buy up whichever card you are missing.
In this video I made 14 crafts, got 6 out of 8 nobles, but had 2 duplicates. I put those up for sale and bought out the missing ones I had which covered my costs.
Each craft will give you a 1/32 chance of getting the card you want, and seeing as how you get duplicates that chance always stays the same. but if you want a rough estimate I'd say it'd take around 16-32 crafts = 1,760g – 3,520g to get all cards to make a deck. but you can sell the remaining 8-24 cards to recoup the costs.
Interesting that you ignore opportunity cost. Do your Snowfall inks really sell for only 9g each on that server? (54/6=9) Why do you ignore the cost of Ink of the Sea? I’d estimate your cost is more akin to 160g~ a card.