eleven :: Summer Begins

Ooops! With the busy busy-stuff of the Spring semester, I completely let the blog go and now half a year has passed already! There's been a lot that has changed and a few things that haven't. I have been playing wow mostly to make the gold and I haven't had any time to do raids or run in circles around Stormwind.

I had been using Pixelmator when editing the pictures. Now I have upgraded to Photoshop! JOY!

Let's start off with a general overview. I will need to update a lot of the pages. *Work work*

Character Changes:

• My lvl 13 bank alt has been deleted, and replaced by my lvl 76 Priest.
• Bank alt died and was reborn.... a death knight... she has risen again!
• The hunter is also gone.... and replaced with a new freshly leveling hunter... I don't see this little guy getting anywhere past lvl 20. :(
• Took a Scroll of Resurrection and boosted a warlock to lvl 80... my newest xmute slave.
• Rogue and Shaman have hit lvl 85.
• With the addition of the Warlock and Death Knight, I now have all available classes.

 2nd Gold Goal Complete! Actually, I've been over 200k for a long time now. I've been stuck around 220k for over 2 months. I spent nearly as much as I was earning, in addition to helping out a friend level not 1... not 2... but 3 professions. As well as forking out gold for epic flying training... *sigh*

Major shifts on who is holding on to the gold. The pet market is starting to blog down as new players try to get a slice of the profits.  Flipping herbs isn't as easy as before with the ever so slowly rising Herb prices. The Inferno Ruby market is still relatively stable. I also tried out the Glyph market. They are still a pain in the ass to sell since I only post 1 - 2 times a day. I am undercut nearly as fast as I can post up all the glyphs.

I have a whole summer to look forward to!

seven :: Finger in the Jewelcrafting Pie, Friday Overview & Goal

As the title states, I finally decided to put a finger into the JC pie. I haven't really tried to mass sell any cuts since Wrath, and I wish I took part in the Obsidium Shuffle when the prices were rock bottom. Oh well. I take what I can get these days, and it's a fairly nice deal. There is definitely some stiff competition in this slice of the market and your ability to sell the gems is timing and a lot of luck if you can't stand at the auction house all day guarding your posts. A few times, mere seconds after posting, I have had someone buy the auction. Any lasting longer would usually be undercut well within 10 minutes. I took note of the top competitors and their posting times on TUJ and posted only after they have all logged off. Then I hop to bed and wake up the next morning with most of them were sold. Works great for me! Less stress at having to constantly cancel and repost.

There is a balance between selling gems and saving for possible uses for Epic transmute.

Next stop, enchanting scrolls with all the mats I've stocked up on DE'ing the jewelery I made. I don't think making glyphs would ever be an option for me this expansion. Maybe I will try it in MoP... maybe.... As for inscription, I wonder what the future of the Darkmoon trinkets will look like in Patch 4.3.

I am glad that I started this blog. I has allowed me to become more goal oriented and it is great for taking notes in a fun way. It has also brought me back to Photoshop, and I'm having tons of fun with that as well. In my raiding guild, there was recently a paid name change and I had the opportunity to make a new header for the guild site. I am rather proud of the work I did on it. Cheers to more in the future!

And as for that, I have hit my first Gold Goal - 100k gold! Now, my next would obviously be 200k. Let's see how far I can get before Patch 4.3 hits.