160K in the GB

Making a lot from glyphs these days. On the agenda: automation of enchanting. Plus, I can't keep enough Titansteel in stock to meet demand.

I hope people don't read about the gear reset in Cataclysm.

Cataclysm gear inflation

Wow. Level 78 items that outpace ICC epics? http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1841-Cataclysm-Item-List

What is Blizzard thinking?

Down to 140K gold

But now I've killed Algalon.

OK, so the nine people I hired to come with me killed Algalon and I lay dead on the floor for the last 70% of the fight.

Still ... 9000g well spent.

Update: the tally is in

And after moving my gold around I've got 144K in my dwarf's guild bank.

~70K to go before I reattain the gold cap. Piece of cake, right?

Back in the game.

I suppose it was inevitable. I've been combing the internet for Cataclysm leak information, and after stumbling upon some item stats, I've decided to get out of the gear grind on every toon I have save my main. Now, granted, my main is pretty nicely geared -- only 1 piece that's still iLvl 245 (a trinket, no less), and 4 pieces that are 251 -- but I still want to continue to do progression with him, which, of course, is dictated by the gearing process. Last weekend I got the crazy idea to get into a GDKP run on an alt -- my pally who I want to level with as prot -- and thank goodness I didn't, as every holy or prot drop would've been an upgrade for him, and by God I would've bid as such. However, visions of level 78 dungeon drops at item level 279 gave me pause, and I do so firmly declare: no gear grind for my four 80 alts. That means positively no using the dungeon finder to run random heroics in order to get one more piece upgraded to 245, no weaseling into GDKP runs to gear up an alt I won't play at all until the expansion drops (and who will then proceed to shard the gear I bought at a four-figure bounty as soon as a quest giver rewards him with a level 80 blue), no hunting down discounted Crusader Orbs or Primordial Saronites to get high-end pieces crafted.

In essence, my WoW goals until Cataclysm are simple:

1. Kill all the raid bosses I haven't dropped yet.
2. Make gold.

The boss kills are straightforward: Algalon, Sindragosa, and the Lich King himself. I don't really care about difficulty levels (I haven't done any Ulduar 25 hard modes, either of the incarnations of TotGC, and I'm not sure I'll have the patience to progress through ICC hard modes) but I do care about completing the content while it's relevant.

And making gold is self-evident. I want to get the achievement for Realm First for at least one of my professions so a huge outlay of gold will be necessary to snag all the inflated mats from the AH. And I want to turn my huge pile of gold into an even huger one come Cataclysm.

Right now I'm sitting on better than 140,000 gold. I'd like to be capped again when Cataclysm rolls around, if not more. I've started clearing out my vaults so that I can stockpile bolts of netherweave cloth and Ink of the Sea for the newly-announced "medium glyphs." I'm almost wholly relying upon enchanting, alchemy, and jewelcrafting to make a profit. I imagine I'll be up beyond 150K by the weekend and after that, who knows.

I think the gold cap by October should be easily achieved.

Now I'm down to 175K gold

And I'll be spending more soon, I hope.

I've all but stopped making gold; after a while, it really didn't hold my interest, and I'm glad to be rid of it. Still, it bothers me; people bid too much in GDKP runs and I can't gear up and profit simultaneously anymore. Epic flipping is more of a gamble for some reason. And now we can trade Frozen Orbs for whatever we want and I don't want to take the time to relearn the economy.

Fortunately, I've made some headway on a few goals. My priest has shot up from level 36 to 65 since I've used the time I used to devote to turning a profit for more fun purposes. My warlock has but a single iLvl 232 piece to shed and has two pieces of Tier 10.251. I've downed six bosses in Icecrown Citadel. And I'm three Ulduar achievements away from my 310% speed mount.

Overall, my WoW life is good. Still, that tally is so far from the 200,000 gold I told myself I'd keep on hand. I wonder when it will bother me enough to get back into the fray.

226Kg in my guild bank

Yeah, seriously. I'm still going.

The person or people who decided to drive down glyph prices are gone and we have a new part-time camper (one who doesn't even undercut by 1c ... he matches the price and cuts the bid value. Brazen, eh?) so I've been playing with Inscription again. Plus I've been realizing that I never should've stopped making Eternal Belt Buckles. And I moved almost all of my Darkmoon trinkets and a Tankard of Terror and found mats for old-world enchants at a reasonable price and have been doing my JC daily again and ... and the beat goes on.

My DK is a tank and I am LOVING playing that toon. I didn't think I'd like a DK. I didn't think I'd ever want to tank. I was wrong. I hope I can let him go at 80 or else I'm going to be spending an inordinate amount of time on WoW. He's three bars from 76 as we speak.

My healing priest has been enduring waits of 16-18 minutes in the Dungeon Finder queue. Seriously? I'm a healer, we should be going in SECONDS.

I've missed the GDKP runs on my server. I haven't been doing my daily heroic on my main because of all the time I'm spending on the DK. I need to step that up.

And my net worth is quickly approaching a quarter million gold. Crazy.