With 9.2.7 the AH has merged within each region allowing for all commodities to be available to every server. This has allowed for overall pricing to drop as more materials are now available to everyone.
In response to this Blizzard, with the reset, raised the price of Penumbra Thread from 9gp to 11gp.
Exalted Rep had a discounted price of 7.2gp raised to now 8.8gp.
This effectively has squashed vendor shuffling for Tailoring & Leatherworking.
(Buying mats → crafting item → vendor item for $$)
For example: Tailoring could at a low price of Shrouded Cloth craft a Shrouded Robe that would vendor for 49.86 gp. With Thread being 7.2gp, you could net 6.86 gp when cloth was 1gp. Now with the new thread price, you lose -1.14gp. It is no longer a beneficial activity.
Now near the end of every expansion, you look at your bank and realize you have a ton of mats that have stockpiled over time. (I currently have over 10k Shrouded Cloth) that you need to clear out before the next expansion release.
Since my cloth cost is 0gp, my only cost is buying thread. At 7.2 gp, I could net 13.86gp per item. It has now dropped to 5.86 gp (still a net positive).
But now we discuss the amount of time it takes to generate money.
It takes about 4 seconds to craft a robe, so 15 robes/minute.
(This isn’t taking into account max bag space and the time to vendor the Robe)
So over the course of an hour, I use to be able to make 12,474 gold.
It has dropped 57% to 5, 274 gp/hr.
If you had a second WoW account that could just stand by and do nothing this might still make sense. But on a single account, there are better things to be doing with your time.
Blacksmithing is still viable for vendor shuffle if you are stockpiled on Laestrite Ore. Flux pricing has remained at the rep price of 7.2gp for now because the current Vendor Shuffle is a negative loss.
Ceremonious Breastplate is currently -1.26gp to craft & vendor. Using my own mats, I earn 37.14gp. If they were to raise flux pricing to match thread at 8.8gp, I would still be making 33.94gp per item.
I am currently acquiring these materials passively thru the Mission Table on 13 characters. So I will continue to empty bag space over time when I have some free time.
Meat & Fish have bottomed out in the market as well. Normally I could craft 25 Feasts per week and they would sell for 450gp each (11,250 gp). I would then buy the Soup Kettle for 250gp and use the remainder of the fish/meat assortment to craft Soup Feasts for M+ runs. (I was still 5,000gp up by doing this). Those days are done, Feasts have seen prices drop to 150gp this week. It is no longer profitable to sell feasts and craft Soups. My bank alt is slowly suffocating on Fish/Meat stacks that have no real value outside of the 6sp vendor price.
Bottom line - If your sitting on a stockpile of mats, you can still safely eliminate it for raw gold.
Just don’t be expecting to make the same amount you previously did before 9.2.7.
Trevain
Perhaps this thread needs to be posted in Discord too? (I’m currently fixing supper and getting the dogs fed and ready for their after dinner walk so I can get into the game.)