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.
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