Good point, they're decent sellers even today, and they're going to get even better. I'll stock up on some mats and see how that goes. The top end people might take it over flasks simply because they *will* be better, depending on how competitive they are. =)

Being in a guild that will most likely jump straight from Illidan to SW (at Council now), here are some of my notes:
We have enough marks to give everyone 1-2 flasks per week, so regarding "normal raiding" (4 nights a week) I think they will still be in demand. Mana potions are always needed, but afaik guilds tend to be rather inbred with those. IE. a pot master makes them for everyone out of mats, so propably a lot better off selling mats unless the herb prices compared to pot prices are low enough to allow you to undercut the Manapot prices somewhat noticeably and still make a profit.

edit: Using spell dmg food myself, I never have plenty, allways enough due to slow grinding myself, but never enough to feel "secure". I pack a stack on me, and when I run out, I'll go grind another simply because the ah prices are ridiculous for it. 25g / stack, no way. Kill a basilisk = Gain one Spdmg food.

I wouldn't overestimate the foresight of Joe Averageraider, even if he has completed the content. I personally hover at about 20 flasks plus 10 marks (plus mats for a few more) but I know quite a lot of people who will never have more than 5 flasks on their bank. I also think that quite a lot of raiders have become rather lazy in terms of farming their mats. So I think there is still a good chance to make cash on the lazy raider syndrome.

So, three replies that say:

* Stocked until WotLK.
* Stocked for normal raiding, progression might require purchasing stuff.
* Don't expect people to have more than a couple of nights worth of consumables.

Boggle me silly. :-)

I think I'm just going to play it safe and slowly feed out stuff and see how it gets. If I lose some profit that'll just have to be, it's not like I need the money anyway, I'll just be spanking myself (in a non-pleasurable way) for not actually maximizing my profits. Thanks for the input.

Come to think of it all 3 options kind of coexist, I haven't asked everyone in guild, only what I've gathered from people chatting. But if this is true and depending on the number of guilds that will hit Sunwell vs number of guilds that also use consumables but are still actively doing 3-5 night/week there will be a rise in demand, in some places quite high possibly. I'm sure there are enough people that will find themselves using 15 flasks/week up from 0-3. Might even start herbing more aggresively to replace some of the Supreme Power with Pure Death and sell Supreme Power once 2.4 hits myself $$

Don't forget that it's entirely possible that Marks of the Illidari will not drop in Sunwell. If that's the case, any stock built up by the guild will quickly run out, and demand will only rise for flasks. Regardless, when 2.4 invigorates the high-end raiding scene, we're going to see a lot more economic activity where consumables are concerned. Hell, I might just start farming basilisk meat in Zangarmarsh to sell on patch day.

1200g to reach 350 JC? I spend around 200g to get the JC skill of my twink to 374 (375 soon). You can reach 355 with mass cutting green gems until the last design turns grey. The green gems are like vendor trash these days and you get large amounts if you prospect 500 adamantite ore. There is no reason to spend 1200g to reach 350 JC.

The way from 355 to 375 is also very easy.

Kill some mobs in Nagrand until you get 80 [Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Sample] to quest 4 [Halaa Research Token]. Now, you can buy [Design: Steady Talasite] to push your JC to 360+. Its one of the useful talasite cuts and its nearly "for free".

Check the AH for [Design: Braided Eternium Chain]. I got mine for 75g, which was very cheap. But you wont spend more than 200g and you will use it anyway to exchange your eternium in LPS. This design is an "must have" and will bring you to 375 in no time. Now, you make good profit with your LPS factory.

As people noted in the spi/int thread, the Elixir of Mastery should also become much more popular with casters (gives 45 Spir & 45 Int in combo with Elixir of Draenic Wisdom).

LPS are going for about 20-25g on my server and you can make them though DE (arcanoweave bracers) for about 17g.

With the ability to break up void crystals into 2 LPS, I suggest everyone re-price point the value of Void Crystals. I know many are selling for 15g or less on many servers and they are technically worth about 40-50g each now.

One thing to keep in mind here is that many guilds have literally a 1000+ Void Crystals at this point. Will raiding guilds be selling these come 2.4?

Even though its a one per day transmute I suspect the value of LPS will drop a fair bit rather than the prices for Voids skyrocketing. The supply of voids at the moment is extremely large. The markets are going to get flooded if even a fraction of the ones out there are suddenly put up for sale at high prices.

I'm a frost mage. I usually farm air elementals in shadowmoon valley. I mount up on an epic mount, fly to one spawn, kill, then mount and keep repeating in a circular pattern on the southern end. With an epic flying mount, you can kill them almost as fast as they spawn.

The only downtime I ever had was when I ran out of mana. I found that equiping these trinkets and putting on mage armor let me kill almost twice as many mobs between drinks. They are both VERY easily attainable by any level 70:

Power Infused Mushroom This thing is ridiculous. I kill one mob about every 15 seconds which ends up being about 800mana/min or 66mp5.

and

Mark of Defiance The more you cast the better this gets but I usually get about 4 procs per minute while framing SMV which translates into about 600mana/min or 50mpg. The +dmg is just icing on the cake.

Usually there is nobody besides me farming the air motes on my server at that location. If I don't have any competition, I can normally get about 8-9 primal airs per hour. I've been farming this location almost since BC came out and I haven't found anywhere that gives me as high a return except maybe AH sniping. The only catch is that it almost requires you to have an epic flying mount to farm it efficiently, otherwise you're better off doing nagrand elementals or kirin'tor village.