This week in review

So haven't really been to successful in actually making much gold this week.  In fact I seem to be spending more then I'm making at the moment.  Part of it is upgrading garrisons on a few of my different alts, and some it has just been playing around with different things.

One of the things I'm trying to play with is trying to buy up temporal crystals under a certain price and ignoring what my addons are telling me is the market value since I don't actually see that price very often.  I've sold a few different weapon enchants but overall I'm not sure its worth it right now.  I may just stay focused on the ring, neck, and cloak ones till I feel i'm in a better spot.

I also been trying to buy up 90 greens after hearing of a strategy involving that and re-listing them for more.  I don't know if its just to early in my attempt at this and i just need to give it more time, or is it to late in the expansion for this to work well for me.  I'm spending more on the greens then i'm making at the moment.

Phenom starts Normal Highmaul Raiding

So my guild Phenom started normal raids this week and I was almost hoping to least get the first three bosses down.  The third boss we tried was Brackspore but was wiping constantly, but then we wiped constantly on the butcher Tue before raiding again this Thur.

After we died a number of times on Brackspore one of our people wanted to move onto Tectus thinking we would have better luck but me and the guild leader where not convinced that was a good idea.

I got nothing this week, but congrats to those in my guild who did this week.  Anyone else still struggling on the first few bosses?

Been away, but came back just before warlords

Hey All,

Don't know how many people are still following my blog, not that I had many following to begin with.   But I recently started playing World of Warcraft again.  When I quit I had giving away two hundred thousand gold to a friend of mine.  I have sort of regretted doing it since I have been playing again.  But since I started again I started to try and get back into gold making.

It has been slow going since I started again.  But so far I have been doing fairly alright and almost back up to the two hundred thousand plus gold i had across my characters before I quit.  I got about one hundred and sixty thousand gold at the moment.

...so far I have been doing fairly alright and almost back up to the two hundred thousand plus gold...

My first character I got to one hundred since the launch of Warlords of Draenor has been my shaman.  and so far the most of my sold crafted goods have come from alchemy though enchanting and glyphs are starting to get up there.  I wasn't to sure about selling glyphs and still not but I'm gonna keep at it for awhile and see how that goes.

I am still looking into possible other ways of making gold this expansion, but gonna try to stick with it till I hit the gold cap this expansion.  Right now though I'm out of a job in real life so I am not entirely sure how long I will be able to keep playing right now.

Last night I looked to see what I've sold the most of and for the most profit and my two highest selling items according to TSM accounting has been tangled vines for most sold..to a vendor and draenic agility potions for profit.

I will try to post something once a week if I manage to make myself take the time.

How is everyone else making gold this expansion? what have you had the most success with so far?

Violence and World of Warcraft

Image from Wikipidia

I do not know much of the facts or what happened to the Gold Queen.  She was attacked not long ago by five men which has left her hospitalized.

Violence against women or anyone for that matter is something that is just not acceptable, and should never be tolerated.

I received a e-mail forwarded to me by Power Word Gold about this from someone who wanted the gold making community to post something simultaneously with a link and/or image to the white ribbon campaign.  I decided I will just go ahead and post something now.

What I've been doing

It has been awhile since I posted to this blog so just thought I'd post something quick about what I have been doing.




I haven't been able to afford to re-up my World of Warcraft account for awhile now, though I don't know if I really want to return.   Mostly just want to play with friends I have there, but not so much interested in the game anymore.



I've been playing a few games on OnLive as well as playing Bulletstorm, Fallout: New Vegas and few other games I have on my computer.  Mostly first person shooters.  There are a number of games that are already out that I want to get my hands on and some others that will be coming out.

Currently my wishlist consists of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Batman Arkham City, Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: Old Republic, Rage, Assasins Creed: Revolations, Warhammer Space Marine, Serious Sam 3, Borderlands 2 and I'm sure the list will just keep on growing.  Not sure if there is a way to post my Steam wishlist or not.

Anyways I need to find more time to actually post here, and post about what I'm doing.

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Playing Rift

Realm of the Fae Mountain Top in Rift

So lately I haven't been playing World of Warcraft as much but instead have been giving Rift more of a try.  I tried it once before when it was still in beta and while the game is interesting and is sorta fun to play, there is just some reason why I still can't seem to find myself as immersed  into the game as I did when I first picked up World of Warcraft.

Epic Gems

For awhile now I've read a number of times about epic gem predictions so here is mine.  There will be no epic gems this expansion.  Since 4.3 is going to be the last major patch of this expansion, what would be the point of adding in epic gems now?

Honestly I think just having uncommon and rare cuts are enough anyways, Though I do have a wish for rare cuts in the future, even though this is probably going to be the last expansion for me.

I think they should add a perfect cut proc to the rare gems, have the rare gems have a chance to proc something like +10 to a secondary stat.  So say you cut a 40 int gem, and it has a chance to proc 10 hit or some other secondary stat on it as well as a perfect version of the gem

Guild Chat Courtesy

Just thought I'd post a bit of something having to do with a post I was looking at today on WoW Insider, "Drama Mamas: Should guilds mandate courtesy?"

    Dear Drama Mamas,

    I am a guild leader of a large social guild, with a large group of officers.

    At officer meetings there are a small group of people who continue to bring up the subject of guild members not saying hello when people log on or grats when an achievement is made, they feel as if they are being ignored and are not welcome, although I have had no complaints from other guild members. This subject has been discussed many times and the main conclusion that the majority of us agree upon is leading by example, as we can not force guild members to say hello or grats. But the same people continue to gripe about this one subject which sometimes leads to aggressive discussions on the officers forums. I understand that they feel strongly about it and have attempted to address the problem many times and tried various things to appease them to no avail.

    How can I diffuse the situation without resorting to doing something drastic like demoting them, which may cause serious ramifications for the guild (i.e. people guild quitting, aggressive discussions overflowing into guild chat and accusations of abuse of power).

    Sincerely

    Perplexed

Single Player Games That Require Internet

Screenshot of Assassin's Creed II from Wikipedia

I have about 7 days off from work as I took my second week of vacation for this year, and for some reason my roommate just had to get behind on paying the bill with Comcast yet again, who provides are internet, TV, and home phone.

Greater Planar Essence weapons or armor?

A post over at JMTC titled "Cheep Greater Planner Essence," provided some decent information on getting greater planner essence cheeply, but the overall post fell short in some areas.

One of those area's is it listed some cloth armor amoung others that can be dis-enchanted into greater planner essences but isn't something to bank on.

Disenchanting for profit

Well I'm leaving the scroll market for awhile as they don't seem to be moving quite as well lately, to many are just returning to my hands, so I decided to move to the raw material market, prospecting and making rings and necks to disenchant, which I already do, but instead of taking that next step and turning those materials plus whatever extra I needed from the AH to turn into chants I'm going to just post mats.

How much is a Dreamcloth? and Snatch List

Just a quick post that was related to my last one and figured I might as well share this.  When I got the pattern for the 36 slot jewelcrafting bag and noticed people already had it listed for so little I got to wondering if I was just valuing Dreamcloth wrong.  One of the reasons I avoided selling anything with dreamcloth so far had partly been cause I wasn't sure what its value was.

After using a spreadsheet for a bit I figured, ya know what, one of the suggestions Power Word: Gold gave me was right on what I was looking for but for some reason didn't think of.

Dreamcloth and 36 Slot Jewelcrafting bag woes

Current Listings of Luxurious Silk Gem Bag

Well unfortunately for me, I didn't do the fireland dailies maybe two days on time so I got behind on unlocking the moonwell vendor as fast I had hoped to.  I finally got the pattern last night though, but at the same time I was instantly saddened when I went to toss up my first two bags to find that there where three listed now for anywhere between fourteen-hundred to two thousand gold.

Why has this saddened me? well I'm not sure if maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but I would think you would price your dreamcloth based on the most expensive cooldown to make one.  Dream of Azshara oddly enough is the one that is the more expensive of them atm, costing something like eight hundred six gold to make one dreamcloth, costing somewhere around two thousand four hundred eighteen gold to make three and your damn right for using week cooldowns I want to at least get one-hundred fifty percent on making them, which would be three thousand six hundred twenty-nine gold as my threshold.

So what do you do? I guess I might have to research more into the actual cost of making dreamcloth I mean people have been happily selling the high end spell-threads for five-hundred while I would turn up my nose at such amount..

Should I buy them out and list them higher?

What Has Been Selling This Week

Queen and Bay via Daily Dose of Imagery

So again I'm a bit late at getting around to posting this, I really should get more in the habit of taking some time to write post for my blog.  Anyways, What has been selling this week?

Well for starters I'm trying a few new things for the upcoming weeks, I've started to whitelist a few of my competitors so that I'll be posted at the same price that they are, assuming there price falls above my threshold, but if it does not I'll be posted at my fallback.  I've already talked about my new threshold and fallback strategy for this coming week in a previous post, maybe its just that I'm nearing the first major milestone of two hundred and fifty thousand gold that I'm become more greedy?  I did sell a bit more then the previous week one hundred eleven more items, and brought in a bit more, but over all wasn't my busiest week.

So whats surprised me? Well enchant gloves - greater mastery for perhaps the first time ever I think has reached my top list of gold sales.  What disappointed me is perhaps something I should start adding to this as well, is that I didn't make hardly any sales of Fortune Cookies.  In another post I pointed out that I had made a fairly decent profit off selling Fortune Cookies.  It seems in a short time without really barking or anything that the secret is out and I have competitors, the price is still good, but since even though I did well with it, it hasn't been my main focus.

I've made the bulk of my gold via enchanting so that is where most of my focus is at.  I'm also behind on the fireland dailies, so be at least another day before I do the filling the moonwell quest and pick up the jewelcrafting bag pattern, I haven't checked to see if any are up yet, but soon I will be trying to post those.  Here's hoping that I'll be having those in my top sales soon, stay tuned.

Related Post:

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Heavenly Shard for Cheep

Image via Wikipedia

Had thought I already posted about this already, and I may have, but I forget which post it was in.  Anyways wanted to share real quick one cheap way to obtain heavenly shards for enchanting or just to sell the shards.

What you need is a blacksmith and a miner, or if for some reason you have a blacksmith but no miner, at least have a friend who can do the smelting for you.  You could possibly buy the bars, but it most likely won't be nearly as cheep.  So what do you need to do?

Depending on the price of ore on your server, and the price Heavenly Shards are going for will determine how effective this method would be for you, make sure you check both before going ahead and using this method.

I'm not actually taking a look at my servers actual prices at the time of writing this, but I know that shards are going somewhere between 95-110g a piece regularly now, occasionally getting lower.   That is a hell of a increase over pre-4.2 numbers, where I bought them around 40-45g.

So lets just throw some random numbers out there, say you can buy both elementium and obsidian ore for about 1g 75s per ore.

Now Stormforged Shoulders take 8 elementium bars or 16 elementium ore, and 2 folded obsidian or 8 obsidium ore.  So your total cost for a heavenly shard is 34 gold, 20g for elementium ore plus 14 for the obsidian ore, now you can turn around and sell those bad boys for a 61 gold profit with these just randomly picked numbers that may or may not be close to reality or possibly turn them into more gold with enchants, which you choose is up to you.

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Enchanting Threshold and Fallback Settings in TSM

Screenshot of my Auctioning Categories

The other day I had an idea for how I might change my threshold and fallback in TradeSkillMaster for my enchanting.  I'm not that sure it is the best idea but I am going to roll with it for awhile and see what happens.

The idea is this, I want to make the most gold possible, and got to thinking enchants fall into different price categories, so why don't the threshold and fallback I have been using?

You have the expensive enchants that are five hundred gold or more to make, and writing that I almost have to laugh.  Expensive takes on a new meaning when your steadily approaching two hundred thousand gold.

You have your medium range once that are about one hundred fifty to five hundred to make, and your low cost ones that are anywhere under that amount.

So what if say the low end I was only willing to sell my enchants for least twice the crafting cost and I set the fallback to something ridiculous like six hundred percent?

What if the medium range I set the threshold to one hundred fifty percent and the fallback to four hundred percent?

what if the high end I set to only list one and not cancel with a threshold of one hundred twenty-five percent and a fallback of two hundred percent?

What Has Been Selling This Week

Lion Gaming by Joseph Morse

So figured better get started on this post, or it just wouldn't happen before today is over.  Well it is actually over since today is now Friday and not Thur like I meant to get this post up on.  So without further ado, Whats been selling this week?

So this week I've been taking a bit slower in my gold making, not much, but as you can see I didn't sell as many items, less then last week anyways and didn't take in more then last week.  but still a decent amount and I'm steadily growing bit by bit over the one hundred thousand gold, and moving towards that first milestone of two hundred and fifty thousand.  I'm already over half way there, but not sure how much longer it will take to actually get that point.

When I broke one hundred thousand I told me self I'd buy a Traveler's Tundra, but I keep moving that goal higher. Oh well, eventually I'll just break down and buy one, maybe one for every toon I have that can ride it.  I digress and without further ado, here is what sold.

So what wasn't to much of surprise when I was finally able to make them was fortune cookies made it onto my list in a big way, and up till the last couple days was the second highest thing on my list, I've sold about 3k in cookies over the last week and a bit, some of the early sellers got pushed off the chart a bit.

I could have tried barking in trade to try and up the sales a bit, but when I finally got into a market where there is maybe one other person posting cookies...is it really worth getting competition that would push the price into the ground like tends to happen with more in demand professions on my server?

I don't know, I may just try barking about them more and see if they start to fly more.  After all they don't just have to be an inscription to have these they have to have there cooking nearly maxed and do at least 5 days of dailies for the recipe if they don't already have it.

Lowbie Gold Guide: Letherworking

Thandra @ Llane Screenshot by tamed lion

Awhile back I created a hunter with the plan of leveling them up to be my leather worker though I've been debating more and more about just power leveling it on my main, but thought hey, at the vary least this could be.

Keep in mind that I haven't been playing this hunter as much as I would like and primarly the way this character has been making gold is by making low level leather working items and I only been playing them a little here and there, sometimes just signing on to buy leather craft a few items, auction them and sign off.  At this time my hunter is level 23 and has six hundred sixty gold eighty one silver and nighty copper, the only help I really gave this character was some bags, two 20 slot leather working bags I bought from a vendor and a couple embersilk bags I made on my mage.

I'm sure some other more seasoned people would be able to make more then that in the time I've invested in my hunter, but its still more then your average player would most likely have by that level, and since I was about the only one doing it, I had next to no competition with the items I crafted.

What Has Been Selling This Week

Welcome once again to my late post of "What has been selling this week," Where I just point out that hey, least I'm richer then most people, in World of Warcraft at least.  The picture for this week's post is a photoshop edited photo of my newest goblin...er...evil...I mean gnome priest scribe to my gold making line up.

So since 4.2 went live I've been kicking my ass for not having any stockpile, or least next to none of one of materials for enchants and such, though I still managed to keep making a bit of gold, though right now I'm not really much over the one-hundred thousand gold mark, though I suppose I should have at least posted a hey I made one-hundred thousand gold mark.

Cooking some Fortune Cookies

Image via Wikipedia

I recently made my priest my scribe, I partly did it just to see if I could make some more gold off inscriptions and right now, I'm not having to much luck but then my main profession is Enchanting, but aside from get my scribe to five-hundred twenty-five skill level, I decided to pick up the fortune cookie recipe to see if that would help me make some more gold off my cooking.