This profession turned out even better than I thought!

Mists of Pandaria is out, and although I have been slow off the starting blocks due to vacation I’m now stuck in. So let’s look at the big winner for early goldmaking, Inscription!

NOTE: I made a mistake in my milling spreadsheet and overestimated the amount of misty pigment significantly. I’ve fixed the sheet and the post to make sure it reflects real numbers. Inscription is still quite profitable!

I underestimated it

I knew inscription would be good with darkmoon cards, but holy smokes I underestimated darkmoon card alts. As of right now a darkmoon card has an average profit of around 2000 gold on my realm, which is absolutely massive. the good news is that it’s not too late to get in. I leveld Inscription from 1-540 and it costs about 4000 gold. Getting to 600 for cards is a little bit more, but you are still looking at likely making back the cost of leveling the profession in 2 -3 days.

Darkmoon cards for days

Darkmoon cards are the main profit maker and the Faire just opened so the market is booming. That being said prices are likely to trend down throughout the week as more players finish their trinkets and leave the buyer pool. The trinkets are very good as there aren’t too many trinkets in MoP. I would suggest selling the cards one by one, and hoping you dont get too many cranes cards, unless you already have a large operation, but at that point this video won’t be useful.

Sleeping on the off-hands?

The caster off-hands are pre-bis and good for quite a while as well. They cost 5 Scrolls of Wisdom, but the profit is massive. I’m not sure how much the current price can be trusted as far as being a price you are likely to sell it at, but they are around 22 000 gold on my realm, which would give you a profit per Scroll of Wisdom of about 3600 gold, which is better than the average value of Darkmoon cards.

Spamming greater inscription

Another thing I have been doing on my second account is just milling and crafting the Greater shoulder enchants. Using the cheaper herbs to mill I get enough for one shoulder enchant per 40 herbs, which means my crafting cost is about 140 gold right now on my realm. The enchants are selling for around 300 gold, so I am roughly doubling my gold every time I get a sale.

Results

I lost some sales data due to a syncing bug in TSM so I had to delete my savedvariables files, but I did get lucky with the 3 cards I crafted as all 3 were Serpents and I sold them for an average price of 3200 gold. Since then I’ve built up another 15000 gold in sales today mostly from inscriptions.