In Depth Look at My Shuffling Practices

This post is for the benefit of a friend, myself, and anyone else who happens to be interested I'm going to go into the details of what I do in my Obsidium Shuffle.  Remember to check prices out for yourself if you don't play on my realm. =P

The spreadsheet I use is found in this forum post: 

Just My Two Copper Forums: Prospecting/Shuffling/Transmuting Spreadsheet

The Consortium also has The Shuffling Spreadsheet That Killed Them All which I haven't tried out yet but have heard good things about.

To start with I buy any ore under 70g/stack.  This is the best limit I've found, as if I lower it to 65 I can't seem to get enough ore.  So when I check out Obsidium I will buy EVERYTHING 70g and under.  For my market if I buy at 70/stack I make about 105% profit.  (I just updated my spreadsheet now that I know my market better.)

I send some of it away to my banker for a stockpile and the rest gets stuffed into my JC's bank or sent off to the banker for the purpose of returning it so I can store it in my mailbox.  Since I have anywhere from 2k-6k ore at a time this helps me save a TON of space.

Next step, obviously, is to prospect.  Here's the breakdown of what I do with my gems.

• Carnelian:  All of these are turned into Carnelian Spikes and sent to DE.
• Hessonite:  These sell quite well and steadily to leveling JC.  I put several 20 stacks up each day along with a few singles.  None of these are DE'd and none need to be, they move fairly quickly.
• Alicite:  Most of these get crafted.  Occasionally they sell for 20g/each and I'll stick some up.  However if you are working with a smaller stock I would avoid doing this, as you'll probably make more by crafting/DE.
• Jasper:  Most of these get crafted.  They can also sell decently though so if you prospect in large amounts you can sell them raw as well.  I put them up in 20s and singles, and am sure to put up singles on the daily day.
• Zephyrite:  I put these up in 20 stacks for 20g/each and they sell to people leveling (I guess?) since people are lazy and don't want to have to buy multiple auctions.  So I can usually get a good number of sales even though it's a higher price since people are lazy.  Most of these though I save up for the daily day.  On said day I will put up singles as well as the full stacks and they almost all sell.
• Nightstone:  Again, no crafting for these.  They are posted in 20 stacks regularly as well as singles as they have a pretty high price even on non-daily days.
• Rares:  I post a couple of these of each color if the price is above 20g, but other than that I've been stuffing them in my gbank.  The only one that seems to be worth much of anything is the Inferno Ruby, those always move quickly and for a good price.  I've only got a few cuts right now so there's not a ton I can do with the others...if anyone can think of anything else to do with them drop a comment.
• Blue Jewelry:  I post these on the AH for 150-200g a piece.  When I start getting multiples of the same thing (or notice that one never sells) I send it off to be DE'd.

The daily gems are Nightstone, Zephyrite, and Jasper so having a stock of them for when the daily rolls around is a good thing to have.  (Sorry Mori, it was Jasper not Hessonite.)  Remember not to sell them all though...Once on the Zeph daily I put up and sold everything and then realized that I didn't have any left over for me. >_>;

If you are only doing small scale shuffling I suggest only crafting Alicite, and only keeping a stack or so of Jasper ready for daily days.  the enchanting mats sell faster and almost always for a higher profit.  However, once you get to the point of prospecting 1000+ ore a day it's important to diversify.  If you make 200 Alicite and 180 Jasper into Lesser Essence and Dust you won't be taking full advantage of doing things on such a large scale, because you'll have too many Enchanting mats to move in one night when you could have made some sales of the raw gems.

For me, selling Enchanting Scrolls is a loss, I make more by simply selling the mats.  However, I don't have access to Twilight Highlands on my enchanter yet, so it may be worth looking into for others.

I've been avoiding Shadowspirit Diamond transmutes for now, as my spreadsheet shows them at a lower profit for everything other than Alicite.  If I step up my shuffling some more I will be moving into this though (yay diversifying!) but I haven't hit that point quite yet.

In preparation for the upcoming patch it is likely a good idea to get some uncut metas piled away due to the new recipes being put in.