After thinking about it, and blogging some about it, I’ve decided to dip my toe into the Mists of Pandaria stockpiling pond. I have a few ideas to try, the first of which is dreamcloth.
There are six ways you can create dreamcloth, and five of them are on a once per week cooldown. Dreamcloth is BoP, so once created by the tailor it can only be used to craft other items, it can’t be traded or sold in its raw form. While this may be less than ideal in terms of options down the road, it means that only tailors can have a ready supply when demand jumps.
The way I’m approaching building up a ready supply is to set a ceiling crafting cost based on the materials required to make dream of destruction, which is the method that has no cooldown. The materials required for this method are 8 x bolt of embersilk cloth and 4 x chaos orb. Based on the advice of others, I’ll hold onto these materials in their raw form, and I’ll be able to make the dreamcloth on demand later as needed.
I’ll use the other methods only when their material costs less than my ceiling. Each of these other methods require 30 volatiles instead of the 4 chaos orbs, so when I can get volatiles for less than 1/7.5 times my ceiling cost for chaos orbs, I buy them and produce dreamcloth whenever that cooldown is available. In other words, to get the lowest overall cost for my dreamcloth stash, I’ll have to hold some of it already made to exploit the cooldown availability.
When Mists of Pandaria starts I’ll need to be able to craft and sell items that use dreamcloth for my investment to pay off. Of the 17 items crafted with dreamcloth, four require living embers, and four require essence of destruction, so I may pick up some of those when their price is low. But there are eight items that require no additional materials, including the illusionary bag, the luxurious silk gem bag, and the two spellthreads for caster pants.
This all makes me nervous. I’m just not sure if the demand for the items I’ll be able to craft will really be there. At least I’ll have some of the materials saved in raw form if there is not a huge demand. I’m going to be conservative and see how it goes.
