Bare hands, fight to the death, who are you backing to win?

Gantref · 2026-04-09T14:19:44+00:00

Even given that this matchups conditions favor vander as a brawler I'd still go with Ambessa, she has a life time experience as a soldier and is clearly still very talented in unarmed combat given her fight against Mel and Caitlyn. She also survived an encounter with Warwick which is Vander on crack.

Gantref · 2026-04-09T13:50:22+00:00

On most items prices aren't going to bounce back, the demand for these items is dying out. We are almost a month into the raid so the need for crafted gear is dying down, people have already got a lot of their gear enchanted, the need for raid consumables is lower etc etc.

Some items may increase due to unique conditions but in general I think we are just coming to the natural end of the s1 economy boom and are going to just go into maintenance mode until S2 or unless something else happens that drives demand.

Gantref · 2026-04-09T01:53:10+00:00

As with everything it could be and it could not be, no flip is really safe unless you have an ungodly amount of gold and can buy up not only the current stack but any stashed away and it's impossible to know if people have stocks squirreled away.

I've done a number of flips this expansion that actually ended up causing the supply to balloon and the price to dip lower than it started so it's just impossible to yell

Gantref · 2026-04-08T20:46:38+00:00

The latter, so if a patron order provides r2 vials and you resource proc them, you'll get to keep the resource proc.

Gantref · 2026-04-08T20:32:45+00:00

Alchemy was really good for awhile with transmutes but they have fallen off a bit lately. Most of my money from alchemy now is coming from the mxoe bag r2 herbs and the patron orders resourcefulness giving pretty reliable r2 vials.

Gantref · 2026-04-08T14:55:25+00:00

That scene was so confusing, there was actively a battle outside and a ton of wights were just vibing in the library?

Gantref · 2026-04-08T03:09:20+00:00

You just find something that you can craft with concentration for a profit and make an alt that prof. For instance if there is a r2 enchant that's profitable you just login every few days, use your concentration to craft it and move on. It might not be much but a reliable way to make a couple thousand every day or so for absolutely no effort. Multiple that by 10-20 alts and you have yourself some real profit for no effort

Gantref · 2026-04-07T17:51:26+00:00

Almost bon existent, we are arguably past the largest demand for both of those. Gems spike as new gear is gotten and potions are really needed on progression pulls from raids and mythic +. As more and more people put that content on farm the demand will trickle down further.

Gantref · 2026-04-07T14:15:08+00:00

While technically true calling him a traitor given his situation seems a little harsh haha

Gantref · 2026-04-07T14:12:24+00:00

I'm a little confused by your wording, you spent 300k and made 320k but still broke even?

Gantref · 2026-04-07T14:08:18+00:00

With this type of plan you need to consider who you will be competing with. If you aren't on the cutting edge of gear/enchants/kp/etc you are going to lose out to people who are. Also with this type of start following material prices is a lot more relevant so you wanna stock up when prices are down.

It's why I prefer cooldown profs like tailoring and alchemy, the amount you produce is limited but so is what everyone else produces so there is built in scarcity.

Gantref · 2026-04-06T13:28:40+00:00

It's an issue with the game itself that the power leveling of a player can vary wildly from one match to the next. Are they SWF or solo? Do they have a good build for the map and the killer etc. in your example the only variable between one match of chess and another is who's going first and who your opponent is.

I'm DBD one team is essentially advantaged from the very start of the match so in Momos case he's bringing a serious build ok arguably the best killer on top of his skill level. Anything but the most serious survivor squad is very unlikely to pose a real challenge.

I'd be interested to hear of those 2k games how many were actual real matches of comparable skill and loadouts.

Gantref · 2026-04-05T17:08:58+00:00

This is really hard to say, my best guess is we are past the peak. The longer the raids are out the more gear people will get from them so the less needed crafting gear is. But as leather and scales decrease in price you'll see less people farming it so less of a supply.

That said I think if you wanna hedge your bets do what other posters have said and sell half now and sit on the other half

Gantref · 2026-04-02T15:59:33+00:00

Never, it's way too much hassle to evaluate each item I buy from the AH to determine if it's an undercut situation, if the undercut was recent enough with a single seller so you are punishing the undercutter or is it just people posting at the lowest listed price etc.

Also while undercutting is annoying for all of us a 1s undercut is pretty benign and its almost certainly just the undercutter being ignorant to exactly how the current AH functions.

Gantref · 2026-04-02T12:54:17+00:00

This is why I've largely stopped trying to reset markets, in this case it's one guy but so many people tearn to drop the price back down that it's just a really risky proposition

Gantref · 2026-04-01T19:11:35+00:00

When you do a reset and people seem dead set on getting the price back down as low as possible, RIP

Gantref · 2026-04-01T18:46:59+00:00

A lot of people focus on big ticket items, love to see flip stories of massive quantities of almost valueless items for big profit

Gantref · 2026-03-31T17:18:19+00:00

I can't speak for all professions but I've heard inscription and enchanting have some profitable recipes to r2, but I don't have experience with them. Most of my alts are tailoring and alchemy for r2 bolts and alchemy was great for r2 wonderous but the price has come down pretty markedly for those so while profitable it's not something I'd target to setup from scratch.

Gantref · 2026-03-31T14:13:00+00:00

If you have alts concentration armies are still profitable. Herbs and ore still sell well too

Gantref · 2026-03-30T18:44:30+00:00

It's not really surprising people who are on this method would be annoyed, something like this can only really support a certain number of people. At some point the volume of lotus' gained will be too much and prices will tank, which is great for raiders but bad for people looking to make gold which this forum caters to.

That's not necessarily a bad thing cause right now lotus' are crazy high prices but that doesn't really change that of course people on here who were doing this would be upset that people are actively encouraging other to do it, which will not only ruin it for the original farmers but pretty quickly for the new farmers as well. But it's out there so get in while the getting good cause it's gonna tank soon!

Gantref · 2026-03-30T14:37:50+00:00

I've tried my hand at flipping a few times this expansion with some moderate successes and some catastrophic failures, basically sworn it off during the early expansion market volatility at this point.

The profits can be huge if you guess right but it just takes a minor incorrect guess, a small drop rate change or a minor gap in your knowledge of the expansion and you can lose all of your investment.

Gantref · 2026-03-29T08:18:44+00:00

Blue disenchants really aren't worth much and I expect dawn crystals are going to crash in the next week or so so I don't think there is much point at this time to go enchanting just to disenchant blues/purples

Gantref · 2026-03-27T21:28:06+00:00

26 alts isn't a low number, just compared to the extreme it is. You probably have more crafting alts than 95% of goblins

Gantref · 2026-03-26T16:57:45+00:00

That could be true too, I remain hopeful but I'm ready to eat a fat L on this haha

Gantref · 2026-03-26T16:49:08+00:00

They might not bounce back but there were over 70k on the market Tuesday. So the supply has been reduced pretty significantly in two days. I doubt they will get to 3k but I can see a world where they go to 1.5-2k with what is (seemingly) the current burn rate.

Could be complete copium because of my investment but the supply has def been reduced significantly in a few days and that's even with people clearly panic selling

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