Yawn Cracking Boring (you were warned)

Yawn Cracking Boring (you were warned)

Sista vs Atkar - Atkar pressed Sista into a contest to see who could collect the most materials for making frostweave bags. To Sista, the work was a necessary grind. To Atkar, though, it meant a lot more. The nightmares were returning. She had to stay busy. She had to feel productive. Below are the results:

Atkar's Take                  Sista's Take
778 Frostweave cloth    715
171 Infinite dust            172
3 Abyss crystals            3

Sista mentioned more than once that the amount of materials collected varies on every run. She tried to make it a fun contest, but all Atkar wanted was to win.

Atkar was ecstatic! She won! 

As for Sista, she was mostly bemused. Let her have her victory. After all, she has taken her Tailoring profession from nothing to all the way to level 658 and keeps at it every day.

Fighting a Losing Battle

It may not matter how well Atkar or Sista farm materials. There seems to be a paradox. Mat prices continue to climb while the value of the bags crafted by those mats continues to fall. Frostweave bags have fallen from 385g to 360g. Despite the glut there are very few buyers. Of even more concern is the fate of embersilk bags. Java has managed to keep the buying price at 748g but there is a lot of pressure that continues to push down the price. Competing with the embersilk bags are the silkweave bags. The cost to make a silkweave bag has risen to 720g per bag , yet the bags are on the market at 699g.

The farmers are the winners on this matchup. Silkweave is the only ingredient needed to make silkweave bags. Farm enough of it and the seller can set his own price for the bags. The one thing in favor of the auction house is that the competition has to keep under-bidding each other to maintain sales. That doesn't help in the short term. Java counts SIX farmers pressuring the market. It will have to end eventually, but it will continue to be tough times for now.

PS - Sista spent two hours farming mats at the Maw of Madness. She collected 226 embersilk cloth. It takes 75 cloth and 15 hypnotic dust for the materials. The cloth is easy, but the hypnotic dust must be created by enchanting and there is a random element involved as well. Bottom line is that the number of bags that results from this haul will vary between , say 6 at the low end and 8-10 on the high end. Yes, the good thing is that the only cost is in time. The down side is it's yawn creaking boring. Worse than fishing, Sista commented, if that can be believed. Her fishing skill, by the way, is a mere 173 out of 800. Sista was too bored to make bags. Maybe later.