Random things (LJ, GoT, WoW)

[thistlechaser]

kishenehn mentioned missing his 2,000th post, which made me curious if I was coming close to one.

5,096 Journal Entries

Bah! 5,000 posts would have been a big milestone, too. Oh well! Hopefully I'll catch the 10,000 one. :P

My comment stats always surprise me:
43,356 comments received
43,697 comments posted

Look how close those numbers are!

Game of Thrones: While this is in German, it's still really cool to see:

I love seeing how all the computer effects are done! Especially how they did the direwolf.

WoW: I'm down to the lowest amount of gold since... I don't remember. 500K, down from 1.3M at my highest point. (But I'm up to 12 deathchargers!) The... "good"? news is that all the Crimson Deathchargers are duped nearly for sure, which means Blizz will hopefully do something about the price soon.

See, this is the availability and price of the deathchargers across all (US) servers:


Compare that to the charts for the music box, the locket, the tabard, and the favor. All of those are going up slightly, but none like the horse.

As a refresher, when you kill the Lich King with Shadowmourne, he'll drop a box that has an equal chance of turning into one of five items, the horse being one of them.

So why would the number of horses be increasing so quickly, when the other four items are not? Either something went wrong in the code and the horses are now dropping more often than the others or they're being dupped. (Or Blizz changed the code on purpose, but why? On something old like this?)

Thoughts on it being dupped vs caused by some other issue?

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

They're duped. There was a dupe a few months back that people were using on the Deathcharger and on epic red gems. I'm not sure if the recent numbers are due to stuff that people managed to hold onto after the last dupe somehow or if there's a new one, but there's definitely a dupe involved.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm on Alliance side now, checking the AH for mats and such that I need on Horde. My jaw is on the floor. They have TEN deathchargers up, all listed by one seller, all for 55K. That's not even subtle!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Generally, people who dupe, aren't too smart and thus lack subtlety. I mean, duping once (one to keep, one to sell/friend) I could totally see someone doing. But this guy is just asking to be banned. Hopefully they just smash everything connected to his battle.net account if it turns out he is (probably is but you know) duping. That'll teach him (no it won't).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Some of the deathcharger sellers (dupers?) only sell one at a time, but if you look at their selling history, they've sold a lot of them. C'mon, Blizz, why can't you shut this down? The pre-MoP quests start on Tuesday, which means MoP itself will be dropping soon after, so they need to clean up the market before then. PLEASE!