Cataclysm Gold Guide

[chriahs]

We've seen it in the past in the real world and in the world of warcraft, Inflation.
When you ask your grandma or grandpa about the prices of things like Candy bars,a gallon of milk, and other things they will almost always say that it cost less, 5 Cent candy bars may sound good but there income was also lower. If there's one thing i have learned is history repeats itself.

In the world of warcraft inflation is also in affect, Quest's give more gold, BOE epics are dropping much more often. Prices on things that you buy from NPC's continue to lower like the prices for mounts and there training. Mobility is also in affect, You can now have a 60% speed mount at level 20, 100% at 40, 60 you can fly 150%,at 70 you can fly at either 280% or 310% speed. Flying mounts also make it easyer to cover more terrain and farm more ores,herbs,mobs and quest faster.

With the guild level changes guilds will have Tons of cash from Cash flow.

What does this mean MORE GOLD.That 20k gold that took you forever to get will be worth less then it was.


Now to the point today investors all over the world are investing in minerals such as gold and silver because they will always be worth a good amount of money and can be used as currency anywhere. World of warcraft only have 1 currency used between players so that is not a problem, we need something to invest in. The hard part is finding out what.

Due to Flying mounts in azeroth and profession changes ores,fish and herbs prices will drop. So they are not a good choice. We need to look at something that will rise in price.We need something that people are going to use, something like Runecloth.

I think runecloth will rise in price because of the 2 new races Goblin and worgen.
Factions love runecloth for some reason and its a great way to gain reputation with any
factions. When Burning crusade came everyone wanted the Hawkstrider or the Elekk's (Blood elf and draenei mounts) even though they were ugly. The prices for runecloth increased by a huge amount. Now think about this, back then everyone had to carry any mount they wanted in the bag and bags where smaller back then. That means that more people will want runecloth because the mounts will not take up space and they are in my opinion WAY cooler.

The one major flaw is... if blizzard decides to let the new races have a quartermaster or they upgrade the cloth used. I think the chances of that are minimal. ( If this were to happen i think you could just sell your runecloth on the AH for about the same price )

So what are you waiting for Get a level 1 to ironforge or Orgrimmar Buy/make a guild bank ( i suggest buying from another player who doesn't want it anymore) and buy all your personal bank tabs put huge bags in there and buy ALOT of runecloth fill your Guild bank, your personal bank , and your inventory.

If anyone has any ideas for diffrent items please send me a PM or post.

[BlasterM]

well, your thoughts of inflation in wow is good, however your choice of items to invest in sux... Okey, right now a stack of rune cloth is 4-10g on most servers 20k gold used to buy runecloth would then give you 2-5k stacks of runecloth to store, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.. I my self is trying to find something good to make money off, but like at the other expantions the only good choice seam to be like rare pets and items alike (revamp of azeroth might remove some pets aswell)

[darkzippy]

Runecloth already has a real steady price, arround 5-max 10G a stack. More alts/goblins etc will make people go through those zone's, making them get some runecloth at the start. But this will also get balanced very soon.

Aswel for herbs, ofc we will get flying mounts now and we could farm faster. Still doesn't mean we will, many players still hate farming. So in my opinion at the start the prices may drop a little but eventually will start to balance out to normal again.

You should watch the gold blue print if you really want to be prepared for cata.

And again, runecloth will be a no no.

[Sklug]

I would say this is a decent theory in market prediction but I will tell you why it will be flawed.... YES, more people will probably want runecloth, we agree on that... BUT, considering the current inflated prices of 5g a stack+ they are not super cheap and not worth a massive investment. Here is why. Though the runecloth will be more desired at the start of CATA, there will also be SOOOO many more people running old world stuff that the supply of runecloth will be much more available, thus dropping the overall value of the runecloth anyway. Thus, the equalibrium price is not going to go up by very much. If I remember, runecloth in the Burning Crusade was about 2-3g a stack, and now in WOTLK it is 5-7g a stack(on my server at least). I would expect it to not be much different in CATA... So, unless you can get Runecloth at 1-2g a stack, I don't really think it's worth it.

Anyway, if you are looking to just get the stuff now so you can get the rep needed I say why not =p

Thanks for attempting to contribute and at least you didn't write some half-arsed thread, so I'll +rep ya man for trying. And you know what, who knows, I could be completely wrong...

[tatortotts]

I remember somewhere that they said you would not be able to raise your reputation with the Goblin/Worgen factions through runecloth.
There was a guide similar to this one, and someone posted the flaw.
Hate to break it to you.

[chriahs]

Thanks for the comments, tatortotts if you could find that post i would love it. Please give suggestions on items that should be invested in if you do not agree.

BlasterM Good point pets in instances that are going to be changed or removed might be a better choice.

Do not forget though this runecloth wasn't just to make money it was to keep the same amount of gold value and prevent you from losing out on inflation.Again though runecloth.. takes up huge amounts of space.

[Derpa]

I remember somewhere that they said you would not be able to raise your reputation with the Goblin/Worgen factions through runecloth.
There was a guide similar to this one, and someone posted the flaw.
Hate to break it to you.

I haven't seen anything about quartermasters.

But I do know they will not be setup at the tournament grounds.

[chriahs]

I hope they keep it in and tatortotts your braty "hate to break it to you" thing is stupid because in my thread i say

The one major flaw is... if blizzard decides to let the new races have a quartermaster or they upgrade the cloth used. I think the chances of that are minimal. ( If this were to happen i think you could just sell your runecloth on the AH for about the same price )