Doing better than I thought: 100K in the bank again!

For whatever reason I thought that my goldmaking had really slowed down lately, but then I went back and read that just three weeks ago I only had 75,000g in the bank. Well, this afternoon, right before I left for work, I made the deposit that put my total back up to 100K. Considering there was nearly a full week where I only logged in at coffee shops, and another five days when I didn't log in at all, I guess I'm doing pretty well after all! With a couple of major things finally settling down in my life, I'll have a bit more time to focus on my in-game efforts; I'm set to be a force to reckon with!

The profits are coming from (1) glyphs, (2) blacksmithing, and (3) the daily epic gem transmute (still for over 100g profit, incidentally.) Leatherworking has been a complete wash; with the price of arctic furs, currently, the leg armors sell for a loss, so I've stopped making them. Blacksmithing would be even more profitable if I could convince this cadre of idiots to stop selling Eternal Belt Buckles at cost, but my plate armor and enchanting rods have been doing nicely. Now that Frozen Orbs have tanked, I'm considering making a couple epic off-hands from Inscription and selling them at a mere 100g profit (bottoming that market out and considering Snowfall Ink to be free).

I'm still unable to profit off of the "saronite shuffle" version of the JC/enchanting cash cow. I'm considering taking a harder look at the low-level dusts and seeing if I can't magic a bit of a profit out of that. The shammy is sitting at 37 and is currently meandering through Desolace (and not really looking forward to the upcoming Dustwallow/back to Stranglethorn/back to Tanaris sequence). I'm eagerly anticipating hitting 40 and dual-wielding (not to mention cruising around on my Hog!) but since professions are primarily what I'm about, the next tier of level seems ever so far away ... back to the grind, I suppose.

The gold is back in glyphs ...

For whatever reason, there's gold in glyphs again. After weeks of never selling a glyph above, say, 8g, all of a sudden yesterday the majority I sold were over 10g, a few were over 40g, and I even sold a couple over 100g. I'm gonna mill and craft like whoa tonight.

92,300g in the guild bank. Hopefully I'll be half-capped during the weekend at some point. I just need to figure out leatherworking ...

90K gold in the guild bank

Yes, this is essentially just a rearrangement. My one seller had a lot of gold that had been withdrawn from the guild bank on him and I simply deposited this, alongside some proceeds from glyph sales, into the bank. Sitting on 90,000 now. Not bad.

Vacation tomorrow, and then on Monday ... my server's sellers had better watch out.

Back in the saddle ... till Wednesday

Well, I leave for a trip on Wednesday and won't be playing WoW regularly until a week from Monday, but I guess an update right now won't be completely pointless.

Right now I have just 75,000 gold in my guild bank, but I've made progress in other areas. My DK dinged 68 on Friday night and went ballistic, finishing the Transmutation Specialization quest in record time and powerleveling Leatherworking almost all the way to the maximum. I sold the four leg armors that I crafted without a relist, but unfortunately Arctic Fur prices have gone through the roof on my server (they were hovering around 20g a month ago and have since jumped to 60g ... what?) and this is not a profitable venture at the moment. With Frozen Orbs sitting in the 20-30g range, I was hopeful that I could enter this market and make a killing, but no dice. I'll be watching material prices like a hawk, though, so once the market is right you'd better believe I'm going to be a player in it. I've also been doing my daily Majestic Zircon transmute; with mats going for 15g and the gem selling for 150g uncut, I'd be stupid not to! I should have the Cardinal Ruby transmutation quest complete before I leave for my trip so I'll be ready to soak up the multiple procs when I get back.

I did sell a Nobles Deck during the Faire, happily, so my cash on hand is looking to be a bit more than I'd expected. Unfortunately, Eternal Life hasn't been cheap anytime I've checked it, so there probably won't be more cards in my future. Fortunately, nobody else has entered the glyph market during my hiatus, although I'm sure my competitors are loving the lack of competition.

Plus, my shaman is approaching level 35 (and 300 JC/enchanting, of course)! I just finished up the Mirage Raceway quests, so that means lookout Stranglethorn! Then the slog toward Outland begins (and eats away at my soul).

That's the update! Later!

Bringing my total down: 75K in the bank

After all that I posted this afternoon, I needed a bit of "therapy" via WoW to calm my day down and get refocused. That session ended up lasting 3 hours (thank you to the kind people at Caribou Coffee!) and included:

• Glyph posting on all my alts. All told: 550 glyphs! I guess the undercutting has gone down a bit while I've been off; usually there are many sub-threshold offerings and as a result my glyphs don't post.
• A bit of leveling on the DK. Went from 3% to 20% of the way to 68 in Netherstorm; too easy with a flying mount and two heirlooms! I shudder to think of how quickly the kills would come if the DK was wearing well-itemized plate shoulders and chest instead of the caster gear he has now. (I didn't want to farm more emblems to get him to 68! Sue me!)
  
• Powerleveling leatherworking on the DK. His skill went from 0 to 231 today, then I ran into a bit of an issue with whether I was willing to purchase rugged leather at 1g per. I opted not to. In hindsight, that's really kind of a clumsy thing to do; one powerlevels a profession because one sees profit at the end of the tunnel, and a bit of additional cost shouldn't slow the process. (If it was 200g/stack instead of 20g, then yes, you wait. But hoping to find it for, say, 15g a stack next time you log in instead of 20g? That's a poor philosophy.)
• Disenchanting every piece of skill-up leather gear made by the DK with the shammy. My bank is overflowing with various dusts; at some point I should re-read my enchanting power-leveling guide and figure out which dusts I should just be putting on the AH instantly.
• And finally, I bought my little shammy his turning-40 present: an epic mount in the form of Mekgineer's Chopper. Yeah, possibly dumb, and yeah, it sets my earnings back and is a significant delay in my march toward the cap. But I knew I wanted one on a toon, and I knew I wanted the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth as well. But that mammoth is BoP and comes with significant discounts at exalted with the Kirin Tor, and I would never pay 20,000g for a vendor item that I could get for 16,000g instead. So I dropped 15K on the chopper. I was considering offering up "13,000 plus my titansteel, arctic fur, and cobalt" for a nice round 500g tip, but right now on my server the hog parts plus titansteel bars are over 14K combined. Essentially, this means that I was maybe looking at saving 200-300g when all was said and done, and since I can make that back by blacksmithing two Savage Cobalt Slicers, I figured screw it. So now my 31 shammy needs to ding 40 and I can haul ass around Dustwallow Marsh and Felwood with a questing partner in my sidecar.

I probably have 100,000 gold between all my characters but I only have 75,000 in my guild bank. And because of my lack of gold-making ability with my internet connection down, I think I'm fine with that. When I get my new computer built and my home re-wired, we're going to start the real moneymaking.

Gold-making on hold

Well, it took me seven years, but I'm finally rid of the worst ISP in the universe. Unfortunately, the reason why is because I moved into my new house, and five days later my internet connection promptly went out. It's been five days since then, and although I've managed to sneak a little WoW in with my meals (free internet at Panera FTW) I've devoted almost no time to gold-making. I did post a batch of glyphs on Friday and managed to make all of 30g off of seven sales; the competition is evidently still there and not letting go.



The good news is that my DK has dinged 67 and will have the mats to level a good chunk of leatherworking once my connection is restored (on Thursday ... another five-day interval. Weird.) So he's one level away from transmutation specialization and is going to get there by questing through Netherstorm (a zone I've never been to at all with my two other characters who could survive there.)


All told, I'm probably still around the halfway point to the cap. With inscription burying me, I'll be racing toward 68 on that DK and leveling up the shammy (who sits at 31 currently) to get the mega-synergy between alchemy/JC/enchanting online.



Oh ... and I have all the components at home for a powerful gaming rig. Here's to getting work done on the laptop while I do my AFK work at WoW on a dedicated machine!