Patch 3.3: The end of the enchanting profits?

We don’t know yet when the patch will hit. My guess is in 2-4 weeks, with the raid instance released around x-mas.

Let’s take a look at the interesting parts of the patch notes:

*Group Disenchanting Option: In addition to rolling “Need” or “Greed” on items, players now have the option to elect for an item to be disenchanted. “Disenchant” works exactly like “Greed” except if a player wins the “Greed” roll, they will receive the disenchanted materials instead. Players who choose “Need” will always win the item and will always beat those that choose “Greed” or “Disenchant.”

According to players on the PTR you don’t need an enchanter in group. What impact will this has on the enchant materials market? I can bet half of my gold this will have a huge impact. Average Joe will get mats in his bags automatically (not just dream shards, but dust and essences) that he will go and deep undercut on the AH before he logs off. Add to that that there will be ALOT of groups doing dungeons after the patch, because of this change:

* The current plan is to make Emblems of Triumph the “base” of emblems so everything that drops Emblems of Conquest would be changed to Triumph and then the new raid content would drop the new highest emblem along with things like the heroic daily and such.

This means everyone and his mother will run heroics to get the Triumph loot they still need. I do realize the materials needed to enchant all this gear, but it won’t be nearly enough to suck up the surplus mats that will float around. It’s tough luck for us traders who deal with enchant mats if this change goes live. Sitting on loads of mats? Sell it now! With the mats the general cost of scrolls will also sink. Needless to say, this also goes for Crusader Orbs, which will drop around 2-300%.

The next change does not concern enchanting directly, but is an interesting side-note. I have been unable to find an official source for this, but it’s generally accepted on many blogs:

In patch 3.3, Braeg Stoutbeard is going to sell Arctic Furs for 60 Borean Leather (10 Heavy).

This will of course be normalized after a few days so that the value will be 60 Borean Leather = 1 Arctic Fur, but we can speculate abit and make an extra buck from this change.

//Nim

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