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Credits to Gevlon at Greedy Goblin blog for originally writeing this guide.
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The glyph industry
Here is a complete and full guide on how to make massive amounts of gold with insciption!
Chapter 1: getting inks
The scribe uses inks and parchments to make glyphs. (Surprise!) Jessica Sellers is kind enough to sell us any inks for the highest level ink. Inks come from pigments. Pigments come from milling of herbs by scribes. Milling provides “white” inks, used for glyphs and “green” inks, used for various things. Most of these things are non-profitable, except the usage of the highest level green ink, snowfall ink, which is used to craft epic offhands, darkmoon cards, inscription research and inscribes self-enchant for shoulders.
To make the milling profitable the price of the inks must be higher than the price of the herbs. This seem to be obvious but it’s not, since the “price of the inks” is not a properly established market price. Most scribes mill for themselves and not buy or sell white inks, therefore Auctioneer returns some random number as price of the inks.
Tip: sell inks. There are people who want a glyph, find it overpriced and wants to buy ink to bring it to a guild scribe. So there is market for single inks, I sell them for 5G.
You must define a price to the Ink of the Sea. This is an internal transfer price between your milling and glyph-crafting industry. This price determine the bottom price of the glyph. If you set it to 2.5G, you must not sell any glyphs below 3G or you are at loss. Of course if you set this price too high, you find too many “cheap” herbs and too few sellable glyphs, so you’ll soon be drown into inks. You must modify this price according to your ink deposits. If they become too big, decrease the ink price (this will decrease herb price limit, so you’ll buy less, and decrease glyph bottom, so you’ll sell more).
Captain obvious says that if you find inks below your price or pigments below your price /2, you shall buy them instead of wasting your time with milling. Don’t just check for Sea, you can find other inks/pigments too.
El has measured how many pigments come from the different herbs and found that it depends on the level of the herb. The first digit of the level defines what type of pigment comes (7x herbs give Sea, 6x herbs give nether). The second digit defines amount gained. It’s 2.5+x*0.05, (so 2.6 pigment for the lvl 72 Deadnettle and 3 for the lvl80 Icethorn). The green pigment (Snowfall for 7x herbs) comes in the amount of 0.24+0.036*x.
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