Earlier this month, my realm was connected! Aside from the excitement about a higher volume auction house and new competition, what this meant for me was
bag space. No longer restricted to 11 characters, most of whom like to get out and about on occassion. I had an opportunity to create some purely Auction House alts, and spread out my inventory a little. There will be plenty more on my connected realm adventure, but for now I want to concentrate specifically on spreading my glyphs.
Over the course of the month, I created a small army of gnome warlocks on the other half of my connected realm. I set one up as a consumables seller which allowed me to instantly consolidate gems, enchants and PvP gear more efficiently across my regular characters. The other three I created for the sole purpose of selling glyphs.
Twitchie rejoiced. All that bag space.
In the midst of rounding up
[Pristine Hide]s and
[Inferno Ink], it struck me, "How do I divide up the glyphs amongst my new minions?" I really wanted to organise them by performance, so that the glyphs that make me the most gold are in the same place. If I wanted to cut my posting time by about a third on any given day, I could get the most profit for my time, and ignore posting on the other two characters.
I came up with a metric we'll call Gold per Lunar Cycle. It is the amount of revenue a specific glyph generates on average per 28 days. I was going to go for a week, but the numbers just looked a little light. I use the date the glyph was first sold as the starting point, so that the comparison can be made between glyphs that have been around forever and newer glyphs. Since I don't actually know (*shock* *horror*) all the 5.4 glyphs, I've allocated them to my
premium seller and excluded them from the results. It did look pretty funny when one of the 5.4 glyphs came out on top for performance with only one sale, right at the end of the month. My last caveat is that the data doesn't take into account the change in popularity of a glyph when it gets changed over time. Blizzard have been pretty good at canibalising item ids to keep the number of glyphs more or less in check.
Lastly, I added a new chart to my arsenel to track how each set of glyphs compare against one another. At the top of the post, is a pie chart that shows the relative value of sales of all my characters that sell glyphs from March 2014. Twitchie, of course, easily posts the most glyphs and dominates the chart. Milarepa has the remainder of the pre 5.4 glyphs and Borgambrinus exclusively the post 5.4 glyphs. An honorable mention goes to Pigmalion and Seonadh who have a fledgling glyph operation on a completely different server. I think I might have posted only once or twice in March over there, with my DK not even level 75 and still plodding through Northrend inscription research. The chart will be very much in transition for April, and for May should see my three glyph minions going head to head.
TSM2 Groups below, batched by the name of the glyph minion selling them, followed by the table ranking performance. As always, if there's anything you'd like to see highlighted or an alternative view of the data, let me know.
Serviteur will post all 5.4 glyphs regardless of performance:
104046, 104049, 104050, 104051, 104052, 104056, 104101, 104102, 104104, 104107, 104109, 104120, 104124, 104126, 104128, 104129, 104130, 104131, 104135, 104136, 104276, 104047, 104048, 104053, 104055, 104099, 104103, 104105, 104106, 104108, 104122, 104123, 104127, 104133, 104134, 104137, 104138, 104270, 104121
Serviteur:
42909,
42899,
45736,
42457,
68039,
45743,
77101,
40900,
87890,
85697,
41097,
45738,
45732,
85221,
45806,
45757,
45744,
44922,
45758,
45739,
45756,
87393,
71155,
42460,
40915,
42417,
45792,
42914,
45742,
43533,
43386,
42753,
43534,
45625,
90715,
41518,
80588,
42456,
43671,
63416,
43535,
45779,
45602,
41534,
43550,
43334,
42414,
42454,
45601,
45731,
45764,
79513,
43374,
42898,
68793,
45772,
83107,
45740,
42903,
43672,
43369,
43868,
67482,
43331,
80585,
43399,
45800,
45746,
45781,
40912,
45770,
43316,
42745,
41107,
42472,
43370,
79538,
86541,
45623,
85696,
43542,
87889,
42739,
43415,
43342,
45799,
43338,
89868,
45780,
87892,
42957,
43421,
87276,
40906,
43547,
42902,
69773,
43425,
41529,
43544,
41100
Favori:
43351,
63539,
45789,
42915,
43867,
43365,
41105,
42967,
80584,
45737,
43431,
49084,
87882,
43359,
43869,
43366,
45753,
42404,
42464,
44684,
45766,
41098,
85685,
87896,
43398,
42406,
42455,
45735,
93202,
43674,
45745,
44955,
80586,
40902,
45790,
66918,
42969,
42749,
43332,
43548,
43400,
43378,
45769,
40908,
40923,
43364,
42751,
45761,
43368,
45767,
42900,
45603,
87894,
82345,
43372,
42409,
40909,
42407,
45794,
67487,
43385,
43412,
45741,
79515,
42754,
41524,
87887,
43380,
43551,
43371,
43539,
85700,
44923,
42904,
40919,
43379,
45771,
43388,
87902,
43367,
41110,
43389,
43394,
45778,
41531,
42901,
42752,
41552,
41537,
41092,
40921,
43416,
45775,
42402,
43355,
42743,
40899,
45733,
45755,
40914,
42908,
42408,
41101,
42736,
42400,
43827,
45782,
42954,
43344,
63481,
45783,
42459,
42907,
67484,
80587,
81956,
43395,
42911,
42910,
40916,
42396,
43335,
43419,
42748,
42462,
42465,
85699,
41104,
43340,
87900,
42398,
43356,
85683,
45747,
42738,
85692,
41096,
42401,
42968,
87279,
42897,
43397,
87884,
41103,
42403,
41517,
42405,
43423,
45777,
43537,
45768,
87392,
41527,
45804
Laquais:
42746,
87901,
41533,
43393,
45762,
83096,
42737,
50077,
45793,
43430,
43826,
87891,
42956,
43549,
67486,
43362,
87885,
44920,
67483,
50045,
85684,
42735,
42467,
43825,
42411,
42415,
43377,
42397,
43543,
43381,
42958,
45734,
45795,
42466,
43350,
45785,
43413,
42458,
42906,
45604,
40920,
42959,
42912,
42964,
85689,
42974,
42955,
43391,
87899,
87881,
48720,
41108,
40903,
43360,
41109,
42965,
87883,
42463,
43417,
85695,
40913,
41526,
43546,
42972,
41099,
43396,
43390,
87880,
45760,
43373,
42416,
42963,
42917,
41102,
42913,
43422,
87277,
43554,
87278,
64493,
43432,
87888,
41542,
63420,
40896,
79514,
43428,
42453,
40901,
67485,
80581,
42961,
43536,
87893,
43725,
42973,
41539,
43673,
45797,
43343,
87897,
87895,
42461,
41095,
42971,
43392,
41541,
84652,
45622,
43339,
42473,
42741,
41536,
43541,
43414,
41094,
40922,
40897,
85691,
85698,
42905,
85687,
42410,
41538,
44928,
41540,
40924,
42471,
41106,
42960,
43552,
42744,
41532,
43418,
45776,
42966,
43376,
43361,
42470,
43424,
87898,
42962,
42970,
43553,
41530,
41547,
41535,
42399,
42412,
43427
