And you can't have a single copper. Mine mine mine.
A weird combination of events led to some 7000g showing up in my mailbox last night. The least odd thing was that someone bought one of my Nobles Decks off of the AH. I think it was listed at 3700g; after the AH cut it was right around 3500, so maybe I put this one up for 3650? Hard to know.
The next strangest thing was that I listed seven Nobles cards individually, and four of them were purchased within 24 hours. One of them for over 800g!
But the weirdest thing was that evidently someone successfully reset the market for Arctic Fur. I bought in a while ago at 22g apiece and have been sitting forlornly for weeks looking at my three stacks of furs that were (to my knowledge) still selling for 17-18g. Checking in yesterday ... the lowest buyout on the AH was 60g! How did that happen!? Since I'm not raiding, I confess that I haven't kept up on Trial of the Crusader craftables, maybe there's a demand now because of those? Anyway, I unloaded the majority of my Arctic Furs at a profit of 30-35 gold apiece, and then I mailed off 5000g to my banker, who put my guild bank into the six-figure club.
An auspicious milestone for sure, but I'm still over 7300g away from the halfway point. Let's finish strong!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Hovering just shy of 95K ...
I wasn't going to post until I met my next major milestone (which, if it's not bleedin' obvious, would be 100,000 gold), but a new and tenacious competitor has arrived on my realm, and real life has taken a substantial bite out of my playing time. These two concurrent events have conspired to drive my gold-making down -- way down! Add to that the fact that my titanium stockpile has disappeared, and you can see what I'm contending with.
I can't do anything about real life, and I'm certainly not going to farm more titanium. Didn't really farm much in the first place, maybe two stacks of ore. That was enough for me. And the competitor, frankly, doesn't bother me. For some reason he posts his auctions from Stormwind, so I haven't had a chance to check his statistics to see how much gold he makes since most of my auctioneers are in Ironforge, but it is annoying to watch my auctions go up between 4.5-8 gold where they used to be 20-50 or more. Still, if we both play the game the same way, the one with the most gold will eventually win; I just hope it's me!
I've been able to find a little bit of time to eke out levels on the DK, and holy cow does that process absolutely speed along when you're wearing two +10% XP heirloom items and, frankly, you can do what a DK does. Fevers and strikes and obliterate and dead! And death grip and fevers and strikes and obliterate and dead! And fevers and Dancing Rune Weapon and strikes and obliterate and dead! It seems like it's that fast sometimes. One fun part about this process that I didn't expect was the potential to explore new parts of Outland. WOTLK was released before I had a level 70 toon and both of my 80s sprinted through the Burning Crusade content like a it was a tiresome chore. This time I'm planning my route more carefully -- with the help of Jame's Alliance Leveling Guides -- and exploring regions I haven't seen before. When I hit 325 skill in Alchemy, for instance, I flew into Telredor in Zangarmarsh to pick up the recipe for Super Mana Potion and noticed that there were quests available to me at two hubs. I was surprised at this since, after all, I was only level 60, but here I am on the cusp of dinging 63 with a grand total of 10 completed quests in Hellfire Peninsula (one of my least favorite zones in the game). I've spent very little time in Blade's Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley, so I'm hoping that when I finish up with the very wonderful Zangarmarsh, there will be questing opportunities in these three zones (although I fear that I'll have to spend a bit of time in Nagrand and/or Terrokar before these "new" places become available to me).
With any luck, I'll outlast this annoying new competitor and be posting about the 100K gold that's in my guild bank. But for now I've deposited 90,000 and am moving glyphs at deep discounts.
I can't do anything about real life, and I'm certainly not going to farm more titanium. Didn't really farm much in the first place, maybe two stacks of ore. That was enough for me. And the competitor, frankly, doesn't bother me. For some reason he posts his auctions from Stormwind, so I haven't had a chance to check his statistics to see how much gold he makes since most of my auctioneers are in Ironforge, but it is annoying to watch my auctions go up between 4.5-8 gold where they used to be 20-50 or more. Still, if we both play the game the same way, the one with the most gold will eventually win; I just hope it's me!
I've been able to find a little bit of time to eke out levels on the DK, and holy cow does that process absolutely speed along when you're wearing two +10% XP heirloom items and, frankly, you can do what a DK does. Fevers and strikes and obliterate and dead! And death grip and fevers and strikes and obliterate and dead! And fevers and Dancing Rune Weapon and strikes and obliterate and dead! It seems like it's that fast sometimes. One fun part about this process that I didn't expect was the potential to explore new parts of Outland. WOTLK was released before I had a level 70 toon and both of my 80s sprinted through the Burning Crusade content like a it was a tiresome chore. This time I'm planning my route more carefully -- with the help of Jame's Alliance Leveling Guides -- and exploring regions I haven't seen before. When I hit 325 skill in Alchemy, for instance, I flew into Telredor in Zangarmarsh to pick up the recipe for Super Mana Potion and noticed that there were quests available to me at two hubs. I was surprised at this since, after all, I was only level 60, but here I am on the cusp of dinging 63 with a grand total of 10 completed quests in Hellfire Peninsula (one of my least favorite zones in the game). I've spent very little time in Blade's Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley, so I'm hoping that when I finish up with the very wonderful Zangarmarsh, there will be questing opportunities in these three zones (although I fear that I'll have to spend a bit of time in Nagrand and/or Terrokar before these "new" places become available to me).
With any luck, I'll outlast this annoying new competitor and be posting about the 100K gold that's in my guild bank. But for now I've deposited 90,000 and am moving glyphs at deep discounts.
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Plan: updated
Nobody reaches the gold cap by accident. Or, if they do, well that's impressive. A couple weeks ago I outlined my short-term WoW plan. It's prudent to update it now.
This long term goal remins intact. However, I've dumped abyss crystals from consideration given their free-fall with the implementation of Trial of the Champion.
I haven't been insisting on running the Heroic daily as much as I thought I would be; our server still struggles with a major tank shortage, and it's sometimes difficult to even put a group together. Rather than waste my time sitting around Dalaran in a group with two other DPS doing nothing, I've focused on other aspects of the game, like leveling my shaman. (I have run Trial of the Champion on regular difficulty several times; of course my loot never drops. QQ.)
I did manage to get Exalted with the Argent Crusade and thus the Crusader title is what I rock on my warlock. I also bought him dual-spec and am doing much better damage with Destruction than I was with Affliction. He only has about 20 emblems to go to buy that first piece of tier gear; hopefully that will be in hand within a couple of weeks.
Haven't even logged over to this guy in over three weeks according to Altoholic. I imagine I should pump him up to 68 so I can take advantage of the meta gem transmutes when my shammy is going for 450 JC skill. Plus, I've made so much money since the patch dropped that I can afford to pay inflated AH prices for alchemy-leveling bottleneck mats.
I'd almost forgotten how long leveling takes. Even with four heirlooms on this guy (four!) and the accompanying 20% XP bonus, leveling is still a chore. Grinding on skeletons in Duskwood is never as unappealing as when you're impatient to level a new profession or two. However, it's always genuinely hilarious when Crusader procs so that's a bonus (I bought the scroll for 60g off the AH ... great price!) Happily, I'm now to the point where Jame will help me level clear up to 77 in the Grizzly Hills. (For what it's worth, I wanted to test the quality of the other leveling guides on wow-pro.com and stuck to the early level guides; I don't recommend them. Jame's guides, though, should be printed out and kept next to you at all times from 30-77.)
So, what's the new plan?
Besides having no plan, the worst thing one can do is to follow an outdated plan. Therefore, here's my new plan for the foreseeable future. I will reexamine this when I have reached 100,000 gold, or after four weeks, whichever comes first. (I bet you know which one I'm hoping will come first.)
1. Gold making.Log in on all three glyph-posting bankers, cancel undercuts and all auctions at "medium" time left or lower, collect mail, post. If gold on hand reaches 1000 or more, mail it to the main banker. Log in to the scribe, do Northrend Inscription Research, make 5 of those glyphs, email them to the appropriate banker. If Savage Saronite sets and enchanting rods are sold, check that I have the mats on hand to make more. If not, do the usual AH run, which is: (a) saronite ore, (b) Icethorn, (c) Adder's Tongue, (d) cobalt if necessary, (e) price checks on abyss crystals and eternal belt buckles to see if they're worth listing. Craft plate pieces, mail them to the banker, list. Continue till the gold cap is reached, mail off 20K to my friend as a thank you for introducing me to WoW, continue till the gold cap again, and drastically reduce operations until I'm below 200K gold again. Possibly ruin the glyph market once I hit the cap by listing every glyph at 4g apiece when I log in.
This long term goal remins intact. However, I've dumped abyss crystals from consideration given their free-fall with the implementation of Trial of the Champion.
2. Crusader title on the main.Currently an Exalted Champion of four different factions, but maintaining Valiant status with Ironforge in order to double up on the dailies. Will continue to do the following dailies until I'm exalted with the Argent Crusade (about 9000 reputation points to go until I hit that): A Valiant's Field Training, At the Enemy's Gates, Threat From Above, Battle Before the Citadel, Taking Battle to the Enemy. Skipping the weapon-fetching quest and anything involving jousting in a ring. Additionally, if there is time each day, I will try to run the Heroic daily while wearing the Argent Crusade tabard in order to speed up the march to Exalted. (After Patch 3.2 goes live, this will become a mandatory activity in order to gear up the Warlock for raiding and so that Emblems of Conquest and Triumph can be collected so I can be a "scrub running around in full 8.5.")
I haven't been insisting on running the Heroic daily as much as I thought I would be; our server still struggles with a major tank shortage, and it's sometimes difficult to even put a group together. Rather than waste my time sitting around Dalaran in a group with two other DPS doing nothing, I've focused on other aspects of the game, like leveling my shaman. (I have run Trial of the Champion on regular difficulty several times; of course my loot never drops. QQ.)
I did manage to get Exalted with the Argent Crusade and thus the Crusader title is what I rock on my warlock. I also bought him dual-spec and am doing much better damage with Destruction than I was with Affliction. He only has about 20 emblems to go to buy that first piece of tier gear; hopefully that will be in hand within a couple of weeks.
3. Level the DK to 68.I really ought to just mail him the cloth +10% XP shoulders that are languishing on my never-played priest and get on with this. He's at 58 right now, and in order to get an alchemy specialization he has to be 68, otherwise I'd just stop at 65 when he could max his skill. Still, since the DK is still an OP class, I should be working on this much more fastidiously at the current moment before the inevitable nerf, but establishing myself as a gold-maker has taken so much of my time that it's usually time to hit the hay before I can log in on him. I have no interest in playing the DK but starting at 55 is very appealing.
Haven't even logged over to this guy in over three weeks according to Altoholic. I imagine I should pump him up to 68 so I can take advantage of the meta gem transmutes when my shammy is going for 450 JC skill. Plus, I've made so much money since the patch dropped that I can afford to pay inflated AH prices for alchemy-leveling bottleneck mats.
4. Level the shammy and his big money professions to maximum.Do I need another 80? Probably not. But I need a 77 to do that Damaged Necklace quest and if you're at 77, why not 80. Plus, it might be fun to smash face with a melee shammy in raid instances, and at the next boss drop back to heal. What I need to do is make a list of all the chokepoint ingredients for JC I need, and maybe send my paladin back to the Old World to grind out some mining (sigh) if things are too expensive.
I'd almost forgotten how long leveling takes. Even with four heirlooms on this guy (four!) and the accompanying 20% XP bonus, leveling is still a chore. Grinding on skeletons in Duskwood is never as unappealing as when you're impatient to level a new profession or two. However, it's always genuinely hilarious when Crusader procs so that's a bonus (I bought the scroll for 60g off the AH ... great price!) Happily, I'm now to the point where Jame will help me level clear up to 77 in the Grizzly Hills. (For what it's worth, I wanted to test the quality of the other leveling guides on wow-pro.com and stuck to the early level guides; I don't recommend them. Jame's guides, though, should be printed out and kept next to you at all times from 30-77.)
So, what's the new plan?
Besides having no plan, the worst thing one can do is to follow an outdated plan. Therefore, here's my new plan for the foreseeable future. I will reexamine this when I have reached 100,000 gold, or after four weeks, whichever comes first. (I bet you know which one I'm hoping will come first.)
- Continue making gold as I have been doing. This means doing my usual AH routine and engaging in copious amounts of inscription and small amounts of blacksmithing. It also means purging my remaining titanium ore stockpile.
- Make gold in a new way: by buying and reselling underpriced mats. I asked a question over in the JM2C Forums: what can you do with a huge sum of gold? And what I'm going to do is convert my priest to my fifth (yes, fifth!) bank alt and have him be Mr. Markup. I'll be buying, collecting, and relisting any Trade Goods that are underpriced. Wish me luck!
- Max out alchemy on the DK. Yep, it's time to suck it up and ride through the Dark Portal. Like a fool, I'll probably drop 6000 gold on both levels of flying just to save time on leveling, but if I do I'll be able to recoup the money that much sooner with sales from alchemy. Even though I anticipate that it'll be less fun than playing my shammy, I am prioritizing this because it simply needs to get done.
- Level the shaman to 35 and get enchanting and jewelcrafting to 300 each. Baby steps. If I'm going to spend all my time in the AH listing and relisting, I won't be able to do much in the way of leveling. Therefore if I can pick up five levels in four weeks while grinding up my DK, I'll be happy.
- Obtain my Tier 8 chest for my warlock. This one. Four weeks is a reasonable time frame to accomplish all of the above and still farm 27 Emblems of Conquest.
Pushed past 80,000
The Lord loves a titanium hoarder. Sales of ore that I acquired pre-patch pushed me over the 80,000 mark yesterday. I only have 15-20 stacks left so that well will be drying up soon.
I did manage to level my enchant/JC alt to 30 yesterday. Small steps, yes, but steps FORWARD. That's the important thing.
The next benchmark I'll be looking at is 85,000 gold, but more importantly 85,900. Why? Because that number is almost exactly 40% of the gold cap. Can I get there this weekend? We shall see.
I spent 45 minutes crafting death knight glyphs this morning. Nine more classes to replenish. I haven't made glyphs in well over a week. My sales are going to take a dive if I don't do this soon.
To the next 5000 gold!
I did manage to level my enchant/JC alt to 30 yesterday. Small steps, yes, but steps FORWARD. That's the important thing.
The next benchmark I'll be looking at is 85,000 gold, but more importantly 85,900. Why? Because that number is almost exactly 40% of the gold cap. Can I get there this weekend? We shall see.
I spent 45 minutes crafting death knight glyphs this morning. Nine more classes to replenish. I haven't made glyphs in well over a week. My sales are going to take a dive if I don't do this soon.
To the next 5000 gold!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Somewhere above 75,000 gold
... but still below 80,000. The competition has returned to the glyph market, and my profits are decreasing because I've been slow to craft replacement glyphs for those that I've sold. I thought I would do that last night, but I wound up running the regular and heroic dailies for emblems. (Only 27 to go till I can buy my tier chest!) I have also run out of savage and tempered saronite gear to sell, so I've crafted that and listed it. Hopefully I'll come home to find that all of that has sold.
I'm in the middle of a giant experiment at work, one which will require me to be in from 8 am till midnight tomorrow (on Friday! I know, right!?) but I'm planning to use that as an excuse to not come in at all on Saturday. Once I finish my exercise (a fifteen mile run, ugh) I plan to sit down and power that little shammy up to level 35 and with that, his enchanting and jewelcrafting to 300. That will be a gold (and time) sink, but the JC/DE combo is so potent that it's worth my time to invest in this toon and get him to max level so that I can reach the cap more quickly.
I know I say that every time, but this time I'm pretty close to believing it. Till then, it's strictly glyphs and blacksmithing.
I'm in the middle of a giant experiment at work, one which will require me to be in from 8 am till midnight tomorrow (on Friday! I know, right!?) but I'm planning to use that as an excuse to not come in at all on Saturday. Once I finish my exercise (a fifteen mile run, ugh) I plan to sit down and power that little shammy up to level 35 and with that, his enchanting and jewelcrafting to 300. That will be a gold (and time) sink, but the JC/DE combo is so potent that it's worth my time to invest in this toon and get him to max level so that I can reach the cap more quickly.
I know I say that every time, but this time I'm pretty close to believing it. Till then, it's strictly glyphs and blacksmithing.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Barely past the 70,000 gold mark
This morning's glyph sales just pushed me beyond the 70,000 gold mark. Well, pushed me beyond it again, I should say; I was there last night and decided it was the right time to level my alts' professions. My JC is only 26 so he's now maxed out for jewelcrafting and enchanting at 225 apiece. (Of course, this came with a bit of heartbreak, including buying several stacks of Heavy Stone off the AH at 9g a pop ... curse the marvelous bastard who wrung that gold out of me!)
With that in mind, I have a tough choice ahead of me: do I suck it up and level the DK to 65 so I can have a maxed-out alchemist? Power the little guy up from level 26 to 35 to reach the next tiers of JC and enchanting? Farm old-world herbs and thorium ore on my 80s so they can get there cheaply? Or chase gear upgrades with my two 80s in the Trial of the Champion (regular and heroic)? The latter option would be appealing, but I spent Sunday running that dungeon eight times. I looked at the loot table and there are five drops in there for my paladin: 4 for my retribution set, and one upgrade for holy. My first piece of loot dropped on run #7: my holy trinket. Exactly what I didn't want! I shouldn't complain though; my friend who came on his hunter got zero pieces of relevant loot. Zero. In eight runs.
On the other hand, 70,000 gold! 1600 more and I'm a third of the way home!
With that in mind, I have a tough choice ahead of me: do I suck it up and level the DK to 65 so I can have a maxed-out alchemist? Power the little guy up from level 26 to 35 to reach the next tiers of JC and enchanting? Farm old-world herbs and thorium ore on my 80s so they can get there cheaply? Or chase gear upgrades with my two 80s in the Trial of the Champion (regular and heroic)? The latter option would be appealing, but I spent Sunday running that dungeon eight times. I looked at the loot table and there are five drops in there for my paladin: 4 for my retribution set, and one upgrade for holy. My first piece of loot dropped on run #7: my holy trinket. Exactly what I didn't want! I shouldn't complain though; my friend who came on his hunter got zero pieces of relevant loot. Zero. In eight runs.
On the other hand, 70,000 gold! 1600 more and I'm a third of the way home!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Up over 65K (or: I LOVE PATCH 3.2)
I just deleted what was to be this post's original title: "I couldn't be happier with the results of this patch." That's just wrong; I could, of course, be happier about that. But as it stands, I'm pretty damn happy. In under six days I've added another 30,000 gold to my net worth, putting me a tad over 65,000 total. That means I'm more than a quarter of the way to my goal of hitting the gold cap. Exquisite!
I'm at work right now and I got here a bit later than I intended; someone pulled me into a PUG of the new five-man instance, Trial of the Champion, and while I was there the chest for my paladin dropped, which was excellent. Then my Northrend Inscription Research was up in 15 minutes so I spent some time doing a talent respec for the pally, and once again the RNG failed to give me the ability to make the Glyph of Obliterate. So I logged into my main banker to check how the Death Knight glyphs were doing and whether I should post some more before leaving (answer: yep!) and I noticed that the same person had purchased all of the titanium ore stacks that I'd put up for 330g. I whispered him to ask whether he wanted more at 325g a stack and he said yes. 21 stacks later I was looking at 6000g and depositing my riches in my guild bank! Worth the wait for sure, but now I'll probably be at work past 10. Them's the breaks.
I hope to make another 5000g tomorrow. Shouldn't be too tough; I've got a ton of herbs (at least 50 stacks) in my scribe's mailbox and, if I finish everything I need to tonight, I'll have basically the entire day to be logged in for undercutting purposes tomorrow while I take care of things around the house.
I hope 3.2 is filling your pockets! It's doing so beautifully for me!
I'm at work right now and I got here a bit later than I intended; someone pulled me into a PUG of the new five-man instance, Trial of the Champion, and while I was there the chest for my paladin dropped, which was excellent. Then my Northrend Inscription Research was up in 15 minutes so I spent some time doing a talent respec for the pally, and once again the RNG failed to give me the ability to make the Glyph of Obliterate. So I logged into my main banker to check how the Death Knight glyphs were doing and whether I should post some more before leaving (answer: yep!) and I noticed that the same person had purchased all of the titanium ore stacks that I'd put up for 330g. I whispered him to ask whether he wanted more at 325g a stack and he said yes. 21 stacks later I was looking at 6000g and depositing my riches in my guild bank! Worth the wait for sure, but now I'll probably be at work past 10. Them's the breaks.
I hope to make another 5000g tomorrow. Shouldn't be too tough; I've got a ton of herbs (at least 50 stacks) in my scribe's mailbox and, if I finish everything I need to tonight, I'll have basically the entire day to be logged in for undercutting purposes tomorrow while I take care of things around the house.
I hope 3.2 is filling your pockets! It's doing so beautifully for me!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Patch 3.2 Profit Machine
Now that Patch 3.2 has gone live, it's time to cash in! And cash in I have; over the past two days I've seen my gold pile increase by some 12,000 (and that's after having bought close to 90 stacks of herbs for under 20g apiece).
Titanium ore is moving, but slowly and at a price I was hoping would be an absolute minimum (that is, double what I paid). Oddly, it's really only selling in stacks of 5; I've moved a few stacks of 10 and 20 but 5 is the size that gets it out of the AH and the gold into my pocket.
The real money is in glyphs, especially DK, paladin, and hunter glyphs. The first two I expected, considering DKs had all their talent points refunded and respecs were in the offing and one of the main ret paladin abilities (Seal of Blood/Vengeance) was removed from the game (and its glyph was changed), but all the hunter glyph sales surprised me. Maybe people really are logging on to those shelved alts and getting them glyphed.
It's not over yet, though. I'm going to lay low tonight -- hopefully run a bunch of heroics to FINALLY get to exalted with the Argent Crusade -- but you'd better believe I'm going to be crafting glyphs from every single ink I can make. The more Glyphs of Dancing Rune Weapon, Howling Blast, and Seal of Vengeance I can sell for 120g a pop, the better.
Titanium ore is moving, but slowly and at a price I was hoping would be an absolute minimum (that is, double what I paid). Oddly, it's really only selling in stacks of 5; I've moved a few stacks of 10 and 20 but 5 is the size that gets it out of the AH and the gold into my pocket.
The real money is in glyphs, especially DK, paladin, and hunter glyphs. The first two I expected, considering DKs had all their talent points refunded and respecs were in the offing and one of the main ret paladin abilities (Seal of Blood/Vengeance) was removed from the game (and its glyph was changed), but all the hunter glyph sales surprised me. Maybe people really are logging on to those shelved alts and getting them glyphed.
It's not over yet, though. I'm going to lay low tonight -- hopefully run a bunch of heroics to FINALLY get to exalted with the Argent Crusade -- but you'd better believe I'm going to be crafting glyphs from every single ink I can make. The more Glyphs of Dancing Rune Weapon, Howling Blast, and Seal of Vengeance I can sell for 120g a pop, the better.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Plan.
- Gold making. Log in on all three glyph-posting bankers, cancel undercuts and all auctions at "medium" time left or lower, collect mail, post. If gold on hand reaches 1000 or more, mail it to the main banker. Log in to the scribe, do Northrend Inscription Research, make 5 of those glyphs, email them to the appropriate banker. If Savage Saronite sets and enchanting rods are sold, check that I have the mats on hand to make more. If not, do the usual AH run, which is: (a) saronite ore, (b) Icethorn, (c) Adder's Tongue, (d) cobalt if necessary, (e) price checks on abyss crystals and eternal belt buckles to see if they're worth listing. Craft plate pieces, mail them to the banker, list. Continue till the gold cap is reached, mail off 20K to my friend as a thank you for introducing me to WoW, continue till the gold cap again, and drastically reduce operations until I'm below 200K gold again. Possibly ruin the glyph market once I hit the cap by listing every glyph at 4g apiece when I log in.
- Crusader title on the main. Currently an Exalted Champion of four different factions, but maintaining Valiant status with Ironforge in order to double up on the dailies. Will continue to do the following dailies until I'm exalted with the Argent Crusade (about 9000 reputation points to go until I hit that): A Valiant's Field Training, At the Enemy's Gates, Threat From Above, Battle Before the Citadel, Taking Battle to the Enemy. Skipping the weapon-fetching quest and anything involving jousting in a ring. Additionally, if there is time each day, I will try to run the Heroic daily while wearing the Argent Crusade tabard in order to speed up the march to Exalted. (After Patch 3.2 goes live, this will become a mandatory activity in order to gear up the Warlock for raiding and so that Emblems of Conquest and Triumph can be collected so I can be a "scrub running around in full 8.5.")
- Level the DK to 68. I really ought to just mail him the cloth +10% XP shoulders that are languishing on my never-played priest and get on with this. He's at 58 right now, and in order to get an alchemy specialization he has to be 68, otherwise I'd just stop at 65 when he could max his skill. Still, since the DK is still an OP class, I should be working on this much more fastidiously at the current moment before the inevitable nerf, but establishing myself as a gold-maker has taken so much of my time that it's usually time to hit the hay before I can log in on him. I have no interest in playing the DK but starting at 55 is very appealing.
- Level the shammy and his big money professions to maximum. Do I need another 80? Probably not. But I need a 77 to do that Damaged Necklace quest and if you're at 77, why not 80. Plus, it might be fun to smash face with a melee shammy in raid instances, and at the next boss drop back to heal. What I need to do is make a list of all the chokepoint ingredients for JC I need, and maybe send my paladin back to the Old World to grind out some mining (sigh) if things are too expensive.
Over 35K, but with a brief radio silence
35K bit the dust a short while back. Those saronite PVP sets from blacksmithing are such a gigantic profit every time they sell, and I've had a lot of buyers lately. Maybe people are gearing up their DKs and doing PVP to bide their time before 3.2 drops? I don't know.
However, I had a big weekend planned despite being on a trip, and naturally before I even got to the hotel my Blizzard Authenticator had managed to jump ship and I've been unable to log in for almost 72 hours. I'm planning to call Blizzard customer service as soon as they open up tomorrow and spend my lunch hour at home listing glyphs.
Also on the agenda is a port to Dalaran for all of my bank alts. I don't know why I haven't done this yet, it seems so simple; generally the alt who carries most of the gold hangs out in Stormwind and has his hearthstone set to Ironforge so that if a farmer comes on and wants to drop raw materials for cheap, he has a high probability of getting where he needs to be very quickly. But if patch 3.2 is coming on Tuesday as Boubouille seems to think it will, I'm going to want to log out Monday night in Dalaran right near the jewelcrafting trainer to more easily offload those stacks of titanium ore.
Finally, I'm nearing the end of the road with the stupid, silly Argent Tournament. My warlock is exalted with all of the Alliance cities save Ironforge, and he's 500 reputation away from that. He's now exalted with the Silver Covenant, and is just over 9000 points away from exalted with the Argent Crusade. I need to get the Crusader title and then I will likely focus on leveling my shammy (along with his jewelcrafting and enchanting) as soon as I can purchase the 10% experience heirloom chest.
Sadly, my original main, my beloved retribution paladin, will likely remain shelved in the coming weeks and possibly months. He'll basically function as my blacksmith and Smelter-In-Chief, a sad an inauspicious fate for a guy I played almost exclusively for months. He sits sullenly in Dalaran, remembering that April night when he downed 10 of the 14 bosses in Ulduar ... and then never went back in. Poor fellow.
However, I had a big weekend planned despite being on a trip, and naturally before I even got to the hotel my Blizzard Authenticator had managed to jump ship and I've been unable to log in for almost 72 hours. I'm planning to call Blizzard customer service as soon as they open up tomorrow and spend my lunch hour at home listing glyphs.
Also on the agenda is a port to Dalaran for all of my bank alts. I don't know why I haven't done this yet, it seems so simple; generally the alt who carries most of the gold hangs out in Stormwind and has his hearthstone set to Ironforge so that if a farmer comes on and wants to drop raw materials for cheap, he has a high probability of getting where he needs to be very quickly. But if patch 3.2 is coming on Tuesday as Boubouille seems to think it will, I'm going to want to log out Monday night in Dalaran right near the jewelcrafting trainer to more easily offload those stacks of titanium ore.
Finally, I'm nearing the end of the road with the stupid, silly Argent Tournament. My warlock is exalted with all of the Alliance cities save Ironforge, and he's 500 reputation away from that. He's now exalted with the Silver Covenant, and is just over 9000 points away from exalted with the Argent Crusade. I need to get the Crusader title and then I will likely focus on leveling my shammy (along with his jewelcrafting and enchanting) as soon as I can purchase the 10% experience heirloom chest.
Sadly, my original main, my beloved retribution paladin, will likely remain shelved in the coming weeks and possibly months. He'll basically function as my blacksmith and Smelter-In-Chief, a sad an inauspicious fate for a guy I played almost exclusively for months. He sits sullenly in Dalaran, remembering that April night when he downed 10 of the 14 bosses in Ulduar ... and then never went back in. Poor fellow.
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