That's pretty much the same experience I've had. I, however, chose to drop over 6k gold on the AH to buy the mats and get the realm first inscription on Cairne. Not really sure why I did it, but I had money to burn, so I figured why not.

I've made a good chunk of it back through selling glyphs - as stated, that bestial wrath discovery was a godsend, I was getting about 200 gold per, and sold probably 15 before I started getting undercut. I still can't sell a card worth a damn, though, sadly. I've been able to construct two full decks - Prisms and Undeath.

As far as the cards being lackluster, I think [Darkmoon Card: Death] has some promise.

While I can't speak for the design of inscription specifically, isn't that much the same as with all professions - including the secondary ones - in this expansion, and is it really a bad thing?

Or rather; Is a design in which it is desireable/beneficial to max out a profession you're expected to keep for the entire expansion cycle in the first two weeks?

I kinda like this approach where the actual level matters less - and in some cases is more of a challenge rather than a grind - so there's room to fill them in later. If they decide to add more crafted gear, they don't need to stack it up at the cap. The people who are capped will be the people who are either completionists or the ones who genuinely uses the profession - because in many cases capping it offers no tangiable benefits yet, it's just something you can do. It feels like they've got more room to make crafting an actual progression than they had previously.

If there's progression in the crafting, and some future refining, then I absolutely agree with you. Even if they just add a glamour benefit to being maxxed (like the different Flying Carpets for tailoring), it would be nice. I think a lot of professions are hoping for this, as Inscription is hardly in the worst position overall in terms of usefulness. I know they have specifically said that they want people to get use out of their profession even if they aren't maxxed, which is definitely a good thing, but there should still be some point to being maxxed as well, they don't have to be mututally exclusive.

Considering the state that it hit live servers, especially the 290 to 300 gap where the inscriptions you should be leveling on require an ink you can't make yourself until 300, it just seems like overall the profession was just thrown together and not given enough attention. We've seen this before, but you would think a profession they announced well over a year before it hit live would have had some extra time spent on it in development. All of the annoyances were also discovered and reported in the Beta, and I think most of us were surprised when it hit live in that same state with virtually no improvement. I do sincerely hope they give Inscription a top to bottom review and refinement some time in the future, and I hope we see an evolution of all crafting skills throughout the expansion. However, they've given no real indication they intend to do that, and if anything seem adverse to making any of the crafting skills too desirable.

Remember to only count the premium the specific cut provides. If you can get 120g for the token bought cut or 100g for your best other cut of the same gem then you'll need to make and sell over a hundred of that specific token cut to break even on the cost of the recipe. So eyes are looking good to me, I'll go back and start filling out my recipe list once a few more people start making the eyes.

I believe the consensus on beta was that all cards are equally likely to be produced, so people paying more for the ace seems kind of silly :p

Greatness is definitely the most desirable deck though, partly because it's got obvious big numbers and partly because there aren't really any other trinkets that replicate it. Whereas even if prisms/chaos/undeath are better than the alternatives, there's always another trinket that's 'close enough'.

Honestly, there's a really good chance that some haven't been found yet. There's a lot of very good candidate mobs on wowhead for rare profession drops that have no or very sparse drop data uploaded. If the recipe is a rare drop that only drops for people of that profession, it could easily have been missed. Here's some examples of good candidates, out-of-the-way mobs that few people ever kill:

Eternal Watcher
Skeletal Archmage
Citadel Watcher
Fallen Spiderlord
Lithe Stalker
Restless Lookout
Risen Laborer
Glacial Bonelord

The Skeletal Archmages look especially promising, IMHO, as they share a lot of traits common to profession-dropping mobs. They're overpowered for their level (they cast ~2500 damage spells, but are normal 80 mobs) and there are random elites wandering that area. Being casters, they'd be a perfect mob to put something like Greater Blasting on.

I bought the titanium spellshock ring gemmed of AH for 3500g just because trying to buy/find sellers for dragon's eye and the variable prices was too much of a hassle. Never underestimate peoples lazyness and wish for getting things fast and easy.


Personally I'm enchanter/tailorer though it's quite okay to earn money from tailoring (wispcloaks going from 2000-3000g with own-farmed mats that take ~1 hour to get) the only way I've found ways to earn money of enchanting is disenchanting and selling the mats. People just refuse to pay good money for enchants even with my own mats. People come and ask for enchants with my mats worth anything between 500 and 2000g and expect to get it for 100g. Same with 20slot bags, mats from AH for such a bag ran for ~300g on my server, people barely want to pay 100g for a crafted one.

I am finding the same problem as above with the mass availability of the profession recipes. As an engineer my outlets for money making a quite limited, I did get to 450 fairly early and had most of the materials for a armor plated shot gun so I made one and based on the price then that materials were going for put it on the AH for 5k, and it sold. Since then I've seen people advertising to make either 450 gun pattern for tips. I put another APSG up , but it hasn't sold and when I advertise in trade I get interest but no genuine offers or responses when I quote what I consider a reasonable price. Having these patterns on the trainer plus the fact that frozen orbs prices are bottoming out looks poor for tradeskillers on making money. Jewelcrafters who grind out Kirin-Tor rep seem in a good position to make some money for a little while.

I've found mining to be quiet profitable so far provided you are able to actually farm Saronite / Titanium. Have to start at around 5am in the morning when everyones asleep though

I've decided to level cooking on a few 70+ alts so I can increase my supply of Northrend spices. Has anyone figured out the minimum cooking skill level necessary to get the cooking daily? I'm fairly sure it is below 375. They're all below 100 skill currently and don't see the quest yet.

I am hopeful that increasing my supply of spices will finally make it easier to earn money through cooking because they are currently the bottleneck to making larger amounts of buff food. Buying them on the AH is currently impractical because the high price eliminates food profits.

You only need 350 cooking, which is quite easy to get. My 70 hunter had 364 and could see the quest.