WoW: Drips and drabs

[thistlechaser]

It's official! Cata is coming out on December 7th! :D :D :D Day before my birthday, eeeee!

So, December 7th... I think that will be long enough to make one pre-Cata goal, but the other is more random so it's harder to guess.

My first pre-Cata goal, for no real reason, is getting 100K gold. I keep getting close, but mini-Keen is sucking out a lot of funds. His fast flying set me back 4.5K. D: Also, my AH markets are deader than dead. But still, I need about 11K and have two months to do it. Should be fine.

Second goal is to have a whole guild bank tab full of the two XP items that come from fishing (sealed poison and waterlogged recipe). I now have five alts who do fishing dailies, and the wonderful chryseth has been sending me his, so I'm getting close (about two-thirds full)! Also, I started buying them at the AH, though that had been originally against my rules. (I decided that was a silly rule. I'm all for tossing gold at XP and rep!)

In Brewfest news, big-Keen got yet another kodo this morning. Current count:

Keen (mount collector) - Kodo x3!, Shanker x2!, Ram (97/100 mounts!)
Haken: Kodo, Shanker, Tankard
Crowfeathers: Ram
Thack: Remote x2, Shanker, Tankard

Comments

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, 100k gold? The most I've ever had at one time is probably... around 8k, between four 80s. I'm weird, I love farming but I'm really bad about organizing and playing the AH. It just bores me to tears. I'll spend hours and hours researching my class and figuring out gear and then grinding for said gear, but when it comes to money I'm always in a pinch. Sigh.

Now, with Cata coming out, would be the best time in the world to start farming and gathering stuff to sell when it does release, but I don't even know where to begin! I'm so pathetic. -_-;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know. It's a silly goal, because who in the world could ever need that much money? I've made and given away four motorcycles, and traded a fifth for a battered hilt to gift to a friend, and bought a hilt for myself, and the gold just keeps on piling up! I couldn't even tell you how I'm making it, because the AH is such crap nowadays.

Now, with Cata coming out, would be the best time in the world to start farming and gathering stuff to sell when it does release

I think you're probably right about that. I think raw mats are probably selling better right now (I deal in finished products, unfortunately). I suspect ores, herbs, cloth... maybe skins/leather might move well for all the new characters who are going to want to powerlevel their professions.

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a silly goal at all! But then again... I'm looking at it from a raiding perspective. Not often, but occasionally a BiS (best in slot, just in case you didn't know!) piece will be BoE and just will not drop to save your life. In those cases it'd be awesome to be able to just snatch it up for retarded amounts on the AH and have that little edge on people. That, or often good raiding guilds won't provide the flasks, buff food, etc. for a raid, (or sometimes the buff food they provide isn't the very, very best for your class) and especially in progression scenarios where you're wiping a lot... buffs can get expensive. Not to mention all the wiping. (And I, like a retard, decided after playing a hunter with mail to repair -- hey, why not then roll two friggin' plate-wearers? Yeah!)

Dunno if you ever heard of Markos, from Just My Two Copper, but he used to have a blog that Alex followed all the time. It was on money-making strategies and how to earn a crapton of gold. He used to suggest things like that, especially when new patch was coming out. It worked even more beautifully if you played the PTR, because you knew what was coming up and could specifically start saving and get an edge on the market.

Oh, if only I had the attention span for all that. I envy people with more gold than they know what to do with.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

BiS (best in slot, just in case you didn't know!)

Never would have guessed! :D

That, or often good raiding guilds won't provide the flasks, buff food, etc. for a raid

Wow, it boggles me that any guild would! In my MMO experience, you better bring food, "flasks" (not called that elsewhere, but generally tools for your job), or you're not getting in.

(And I, like a retard, decided after playing a hunter with mail to repair -- hey, why not then roll two friggin' plate-wearers? Yeah!)

Ha! Plate repair is insane! Happily I have two leather folks, which helps to balance the two mail and one plate 80s.

Dunno if you ever heard of Markos, from Just My Two Copper, but he used to have a blog that Alex followed all the time. It was on money-making strategies and how to earn a crapton of gold.

In general, I wouldn't follow an online guide on making gold because too many other folks could see the info as well. Luckily the vast majority of WoW folks don't want to do research, so they work a little better here.

Oh, if only I had the attention span for all that. I envy people with more gold than they know what to do with.

It's just another aspect of the game! I feel like I couldn't ever raid, I'd stand in fire or forget what order to touch crap in or something like that. So we're just good at different stuff!

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Wow, it boggles me that any guild would! In my MMO experience, you better bring food, "flasks" (not called that elsewhere, but generally tools for your job), or you're not getting in.

Aye, the "good" guilds definitely expect you to come prepared with what you need, but there's a lot of really carebear guilds that'll just hand out the stuff like it's everybody's birthdays. In those cases I take it... even though it's not what I need to perform my best. If they don't care, I don't care. Heh.

In general, I wouldn't follow an online guide on making gold because too many other folks could see the info as well. Luckily the vast majority of WoW folks don't want to do research, so they work a little better here.

I know exactly what you mean, but he usually doesn't give specifics. His stuff is more akin to teaching someone to play the stock market. Instead of saying, "Go out and do this, and sell it for this, and then do this." he gives the basics. It's helpful stuff, I'm just too lazy to actually implement it...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

. In those cases I take it... even though it's not what I need to perform my best. If they don't care, I don't care. Heh.

Oh yes, if they're just giving it out, no reason not to!

I know exactly what you mean, but he usually doesn't give specifics. His stuff is more akin to teaching someone to play the stock market. Instead of saying, "Go out and do this, a...

Oh! That makes sense.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

My guild has taken to remind me to use my flasks. I often have them but completely forget to use them. We'll get like an hour into a raid and someone will be like, "Vel, do you have any flasks?" and I'll be sitting on 18 of them just not using them.

With some of the Cata stuff that's coming up for guilds, I am going to talk to my guild leader about perhaps providing flasks and food for the core members in the future. With the guild level perk that generates an additional 10% of looted gold specifically for the guild bank we will need something to spend it on other then repairs heh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Forgetting I understand! But at least you have them with you.

With the guild level perk that generates an additional 10% of looted gold specifically for the guild bank we will need something to spend it on other then repairs heh.

That makes sense!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Dude. 100K?

I've never had more than 7 or 8.

And I've made three choppers -- one for a now ex-guildie, one for a guildie, and one for my wife. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It's kind of like FFXI. I had many many millions of gil, while most other people had a few thousand. (Sometimes I panic on WoW because I don't have millions! All game money is the same value, right? :P )

A choppers is a great gift for a spouse! :D

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I never said that I made them for people at my expense. :) They all three provided the mats and monies and I bought the vendor parts with their money and build the bike for them at the forge in K3. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh! I misunderstood! Well, it's still nice that you made it for them! :D

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Wtf hacks on the mounts! Damn you! My guy is sitting at:

1x Kodo
2x Tankard o' Terror
1x Remote

I still need the ram! ; ;

Time is running out!

At least I got a remote for getting to MC faster and the 2x Tankard for some easy enhancement weapons if I switch before Cata.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could save up 100k gold. Not because it would be overly hard or impossible but there really isn't anything I can buy with 100k so I would slack off cause the end goal doesn't have much of a meaning...

Now if there was like a multi-seater flying dragon skeleton of doom for 100k, I'd have it in a month. XD

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Sign me up for two of the M-SFDSoD!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I'm not earning faster than I am. Some days I only bring in a couple hundred gold, and that's by doing nothing. More and more often, I'm 100% fine with doing nothing. Because really, what am I going to do with it?

Now if there was like a multi-seater flying dragon skeleton of doom for 100k, I'd have it in a month. XD

{Yes, please!}

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Want two more kodos? You could have 'em! Cheap! :P

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

100k? Nice... Most I've ever managed is around 15k across all major alts I think but that was mostly because I wasn't really buying anything and it was still coming in from dailies.

Yeah, I must say that I prefer WoW's money system to the Asian MMOs that have a single currency (e.g. gil from FFXI or kinah from Aion) that goes up into the millions. Spending a million kinah on some item, while I know in my head it's approximately the equivalent of 100 gold in WoW, still feels like OMG MILLION. Spending 100 gold however just doesn't feel as bad.

I suppose it's relative to how rich I'm feeling. I have about 2.5 million kinah on my main character in Aion, whereas I had a lot more (equivalently speaking) in WoW, so maybe that's it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Dailies are a surprisingly good source of money. Five fishing dailies = 50 gold, plus a bunch of other stuff to sell (often really good things, gems and "trash" stuff worth 100 gold).

Spending a million kinah on some item, while I know in my head it's approximately the equivalent of 100 gold in WoW, still feels like OMG MILLION. Spending 100 gold however just doesn't feel as bad.

Yeah, though I don't feel anywhere near as rich as I was in FFXI, though my buying power in WoW is so much more.