The Times Ten Challenge

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:20 AM

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Congratulations.  You made it to the end of October.  Tonight for many parents they will be carrying their kids to get bags of goodies.   Then in two days they will be sorry as their hyper sugared up children are bouncing off the walls.

This is also the end of the month here at JMTC Iowa Branch where I can tally up my gold profiteering and see what sold.   Most of the profits I made came from Jewelcrafting and Enchanting.  Easy access to raids through LFR,  Flex and even Oqueue has opened up more opportunities to upgrade players and alternate toons.

We are also less than two weeks from the beginning of Blizzcon.  Many players are waiting to see just what tidbits for the new expansion will be presented.  Where will we all be going for our quest to hit level 95 or even higher?   What gold opportunities will be there and just how much inflation will exist.

I decided I needed a personal challenge.  This may sound like a humble brag,  but when you reach a certain level of wealth you are less frugal with your gold.  The habits of just buying something to craft instead of trading or mining become that much more prevalent.  Where leaning on your craftsman a little could make you an item to transmog you find yourself just buying the item from the AH and moving on.

Next month is also the annual Nanowritmo writing challenge.  This challenges new or experienced writers to write a novel,  prose or anything they want in the next 30 days.  This will be the first year that I'm throwing my hat into the ring and give this a try. 

So the Times Ten challenge goes like this.  You take a certain level of gold in increments of 10.  You can start off with 10g,  100g,  1000g,  10,000g etc.  With that you have the option of purchasing,  crafting or flipping anything.  Best percentage at the end of the month wins.

It's on a repeat record but self motivation becomes very important to be able to climb beyond your own personal gold hurdles.  No one will be screaming in your ear to earn more gold or tell you you are a gold making noob.  Unless that's what you want then leave a message in my email and I will call you a gold making noob to appease you.

November will be an exciting month but make sure to take this last day of October,  grab all your tricky treats and lets invite the next month with a smile.

Good Luck and Good Hunting


Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

The Blanket Method
Lost All Hallows Day
You Never Know
New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)
Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

 

The Blanket Method

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:34 PM

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Difficulties exist when a gold goblin is trying to cover all of the professions.   It is difficult not to get lost in adding items to your existing mental queue to craft.  Between Leatherworking and Blacksmithing there are 100's of items that can be crafted and placed to make gold.

The balance to find is what items will make the most profit.   I have never been a fan of the blanket method of adding items.  This includes the Malevolent PVP gear that is the on the market.   If tailors have finished all of their cooldowns each day they should have all of the Malevolent PVP patterns available to craft.   Leatherworkers and Blacksmiths have a few more days before all of the patterns are at their disposal.

Already on some servers the PVP belts and PVP boots have lost their profit margins.  They have the lowest amount of materials needed to craft.  These are also the lowest in demand due to the Honor/Conquest points being relatively easy to get.  Pants and Chest pieces tend to sell a lot better than the lower profitable items.

This also means the lower tear from last season has gone down to liquidated pricing.  Occasionally I will see players listing these for the same price that they were sold during last season.  This is unfortunate being ignorant of the market as it is.  Think of last years fashions and how you generally find them on the discount racks at stores.  Yes there is a possibility that you might be able to get a quick sale at a large price.  But the time and effort of relisting it over and over again might not help with paying the bills.  Ultimately that item will become enchanting fodder as well.

The same happened with PVE gear.  Even now it's just easier to Disenchant greens that drop during raids and instances.  On some servers,  especially if you do not have access to and enchanter, it's better to just vendor the greens for the gold that they bring.  But keep in mind that if you are having to continually re-enchant gear due to upgrades (thanks askmrrobot.com) then you might want to still disenchant these items for your own personal enchants.  Enchanters always appreciate you bringing your own materials to the party and just paying a tip for their efforts.

Any gear below 496 and weapons are basically dead.  an hour in the Timeless Isle and you can have the majority of your pieces to make a decent set of gear.  If you are finishing the daily quests continually you will have an extra stack of gear sitting in your bank for when your other toons are able to equip it.  The only items that are still viable are the epic crafted weapons.  Unless you run the older raids, epic weapons are at a premium.  I listed all of my toons and where the weapons drop for them which guides me on where to spend my extra roll tokens.

The gold is still out there.  But moving out of crafting and more into enhancement items (leg armor,  enchanting items,  glyphs) will guide your gold making into the future.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Lost All Hallows Day
You Never Know
New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)
Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

Lost All Hallows Day

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:32 PM

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When the after passion hangover ends and you come the realization that your back to the daily grind which is post patch 5.4.   Many players turn to the holiday events to keep their entertainment level at some type of peak level.

But this year has been the most disappointing when it comes to the Halloween events for World of Warcraft.  Before players were running Headless Horsemen 5 even 10 times to attempt to get the Headless Horseman's Reigns.  Ever since I rolled my Main Tauren I dreamed of him being firmly planted on a horse.   This was long before you could just walk into Brill and buy all the horses.  I ran Attumen The Huntsman til my eyes bled wanting to get that horse.  Then the introduction of the Horsemen event gave me another opportunity to have a bull on a horse.

These were the times that you had to group through trade chat.  Searching high and low for a tank and healer instead of just queuing and waiting as we do today.  You had a cubic ton of tricky treats in your bag with nothing to do with them but turn them in for cheesy prizes.   The introduction of daily events gave you even more entertainment.  Feline Familiars were plentiful and always in your bag.

Now the event has started to show it's age.  Players who are just getting through the first year of playing in World of Warcraft haven't lost the excitement of the new event.  But veterans are ending up just going through the motions.  I've used the different candy buckets as a opportunity to level some of my lower toons to get a few XP points.   Even sales of the different pets end up being nil because you can just get enough tricky treats to buy them.

Blizzard has shown drops in their subscribers every quarter.  Some of this is explained away because of the dropping of multiple accounts.  But with a almost cult like following of it's players,  there still needs to be some shine and polish put on some of the older events.  Not just on the possible sales opportunities but overall to keep players interested in these events.

One thing I've always suggested is to keep your pets that you purchase or have drop and save them for later when the event is over.   Where these pets might be inexpensive now they can raise in value later on.  Especially with a new expansion on it's way and the possibility of new players joining the Warcraft experience.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

You Never Know
New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)
Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

You Never Know

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:11 PM

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Mommar Here

I have actively kept my 'real life' away from this blog.   The biggest of reasons is that it would generally bore you to tears.  Knowing the intimate details of my life will not enhance your gaming experience or end up putting gold into your pocket.

But this week a few things happened that I felt the need to share.  One Thursday I was at my Lawyers office giving a deposition for a car accident I was involved in a few years ago.  During the questions I was asked what my hobbies were.  I listed off computers,  and watching movies and long walks in the park.   I also told the lawyer that my sign was Sagittarius and all of my dislikes.  Okay no it didn't end up being a centerfold interview but you get the idea.

One of the items that came up was writing here.  Now prepare to be shocked but not everyone knows what World of Warcraft is.  The opposing lawyer being a mature person probably had never played an MMO previous.  So for the next 5 minutes I answered questions about just playing WOW,  what I write here and general questions.  So somewhere in the annuals of history I get major geek cred for having said World of Warcraft in a legal proceeding.

The other event that occurred was on Friday.   My shammie was running a Oqueue setup on the first wing of Siege of Org.   The run went extra smooth with the raid leader knowing exactly how to set up and how to get everyone on the same page.  Having run many LFR's and even Flex runs that ended up with rage quits and hurt memories it was refreshing to get a clean run.  As we were finishing up with Sha and looting the raid leader was getting many virtual pats on the back and thanks for an awesome run.  He then proceeded to tell everyone thanks and nonchalantly tell people that he was the main guide writer for Icy-Veins.com.   No-one would have guessed that we have that high of a profile raid leader on this run.  It went down as one of my top 20 events in my career playing wow.

So the moral of the story boys and girls?  You never know just who that person is that your arguing with,  calling a noob and generally making a north end of a south bound donkey out of yourself.  People are people,  and you never know who that person is on the other side of the keyboard.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)
Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

Party On Dudes

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 7:00 AM

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Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!

Abraham Lincoln (Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure)

For some reason I have my doubts that good ole AB (not Alton Brown you foodies) would have some interesting things to say about today.   Most of them wrapped around how to get those little people out of the shiny box with twisting dials.

This isn't one of those soap box moments that writers with blogs get to climb on from time to time.  Everyone has had to deal with rude,  arrogant, nitwitted players who seem to believe it's more important to get theirs than to help.  Sorry about that Mr Pally from last night.

But the reality is that your time is just as important in making gold.  Yes,  running past someone and dragging 15 mobs behind you,  including everything near the Archiereus Of Flame to have a good laugh.  It was funny the first couple of times.  Now it has just become annoying along with someone making that body description joke that far too many players think is the funniest thing ever.

One of the biggest reasons that I tend to help out other players even if it's just hitting a mob their killing a couple of times is to pass it on from the help I've received myself.  The same thing occurs with my deals.  I was offered 100g a piece for 2 Demonseye gems.  As the self described pack rat I've been since I started this game I had a couple (yeah,  a couple being 127 ugh) in one of my guild banks.  So I jumped over to my alt,  found them in the vast sea of junk in the guild bank and found the buyer.  We did the trade and I gave him both for 50g.  Even living with the idea of supply and demand 50g was pretty stiff for two gems.  He thanked me and offered if there was anything I could do.   Taking his name into my friends list I might have to enlist his services at a later time.

I'm a big proponent of how you treat others is how you are treated.  Even with Warcraft being a semi anonymous service you still have to be answerable to your own conscience.  People will also measure who you are by how you act.   They might not remember you as you blast past them and steal a mob they were looking at,  but ultimately the same behavior might end up happening to you.

So the next time you see someone killing an elite,  stop a second and help out.  Then target them, type /wave and know that you did your good deed for the day.   Tomorrow might be your day to receive a /wave in return.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)
Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:50 PM

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In the past few months I've started to balance my gaming life between making gold and raiding.  Making gold has not always been the forefront of playing World of Warcraft.  Originally I was raiding with a enjoyable fun group of friends.  Ultimately as with many guilds we ended up breaking up due to players leaving the game and finding 'real' lives.

Later on I started to drag my way through the trenches in making every mistake in the book in making gold.  As I was doing this I started to drift away from raiding.  To keep the story short something happened with the guild I was at that point and I completely left raiding and focused on playing solo toons (and the occasional groups) and making my own fortune.

With the introduction of a much stronger Looking for raid and flex raiding I was able to step up my raiding schedule without interference with my gold making duties.  Spending an hour a day making gold through the different means we've talked about allowed me to step back into the boss arena and take my swings.

I did find one thing that made it more difficult to pick up groups was that I live on a medium population server and there wasn't a lot of cross realm conversations.  LFR would let me pick up one raid a week where I could loot for each boss.  This was nice but by the end of the week I had run all three of my raiding toons through everything and I was back to bumbling my way around Timeless Isle looting and pillaging those poor mobs. 

Then a friend made a mention of a very interesting tool.  Someone had taken a PVP pre-made add-on named Oqueue and converted it allowing cross realm groupings for raids.  The core functionality of the PVP side is still there and very strong.  But with the addition of cross grouping for all types of raids it opened up a very interesting and enjoyable side. 

It's very simple once it's set up.  When you first add the package into your addon folder and start up the Wow engine you see what looks like two eyes on your mini map.  Clicking that and your assaulted by a varied amount of  data.  You see a list of everyone that is using the new Oqueue channel that's in the background and just how many raids are there.  At the bottom of the window the first button I clicked was one that said 'qualified'.  This limits what you to see based on your gear you are wearing. 

There are a lot of settings that are available but the basic strategy is that you see one of the raids or premades that your interested in.   It sends a cross realm friend request to whoever is hosting the group and they decide if your added or not.   There is also a wait list function that is built in so that if the premade is full your set into a queue (get it,  the name and queue ha ha) and if someone drops then the next one up is added.  You do have to queue and stay in the spec that you want to raid in.  So tanking spec gets picked up as tanks and heals/dps the same. 

One of the things I did notice is that when I was helping with a four celestial kill that if I flipped between windows reading something that it would fade me between realms.  This became a problem because I had joined a premade on a pvp realm and ended up fading cross realm into about 20 flagged allies.  After my death run back I didn't flip between my windows til after the raid was finished.

The forums at http://oqueue.forumotion.com give a lot of tips and tricks on how to get the most out of this addon. 

Hopefully see you in the next flex raid.  I will be the one pew pewing from the corner.

Good luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Never To Early To Reset
My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

Never To Early To Reset

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 1:02 PM

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As the newness of Patch 5.4 starts to wear off I have decided to take a look at the future of Mommar Enterprises.   

Currently my line up includes a Leather worker,  a Blacksmith,  A Tailor,  An Enchanter,  an Alchemist (Transmute specialist)  Two Herbalist,  Two Miners and Two Jewel Crafters.  My scribe and a partridge in a pair tree round out the crew.  This has been my lineup sans the addition of the new Jewelcrafter.   Two of these are still leveling up so they haven't reached max level,  the rest are already maxed with the vast majority of recipes available.  

We already have a good idea that the new system to obtain recipes (through crafting discoveries as well as high end rep recipes) will be used in the new expansion.  This means that many of the crafters will not just be able to sit at a hometown to collect all of the new expansion recipes.  The only crafter that was able to do this was the scribe.   The rest required to hit either revered or exalted with specific reputation vendors to obtain the high end patterns.  

The debate in my mind is if I should look to double up any of my professions or to continue as is.  With Leather working and Blacksmithing the introduction of daily transmutes of their own opened up a huge market in doubling up on the profession.  The Lightning Steel Ingot and Balanced Trillium Ingot opened up Blacksmithing to be really dependent on getting these items as quick as possible.  Leather working with the Hardened Magnificent Hide is in the same situation.   The odds are something similar will be introduced in the later patches of the next expansion.  

Engineering,  having three of them with the company, will always be considered the red headed step child of money making. The original Ghost Iron Dragonling became a good seller up til the Timeless Isle patch.  Pets also evened out the sales possibilities with Engineering but it still sits a long way from being king of the proverbial sales mountain.

Doubling up on professions does allow a player to get two times the access to many of the patterns.  This especially applies to the daily transmutes and discovery recipes.  The biggest addage of making gold is to be the first to get something onto the market.  This allows you to set the price and make a very heft quick profit while others have to wait til the manufacture item becomes available for themselves.

So in the next few weeks I will be deciding if I need to double up on professions or not.  Once more information with the next expansion becomes available after Blizzcon I will be able to make a much more informed decision.  

What changes do you see yourself making with the next expansion?   What professions do you see yourself needing to double up on?   

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full
Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
Customer First

 

My Timeless Coin Heart Is Full

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:47 AM

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For multiple weeks players have been running around the Timeless isle killing mobs,  looting rares and even the occasional PVP scuffle.  The Timeless isle hub is the new endgame expectation that Blizzard has presented.  Its design is to get players caught up on armor requirements to raid and to be able to survive.

If you are like me you have multiple toons running around finishing up the dailies (my two mains it generally takes thirty minutes depending on how many rare mobs pop up and how fast of feet I am that day).  My other two that peruse the loot pinata island tend to take things a little bit slower.   Either way most of my time is spent running from one spot on the island to the other.

Which gives me a large cache of timeless coins to play with.   Having already obtained three Bonkers (putting them on the team named Three Wise Men), as well as multiple pets from the different mobs available (Team Beer is currently my favorite) it is easy to see how monotonous that the Timeless Isle is getting to be.   Also seeing just how many stacks of coins that are in my game portfolio there is a limit of things that can be purchased.

There are two things that can occur after you've purchased all the useable and vanity items for your players.  There are the satchels for the specific armors (cloth,  plate,  mail,  leather) that can be sent to your current enchanter to obtain a Sha Crystal.  You can obtain the Burden of Eternity at 50,000 coins to upgrade all of your armor.  You can even bow down to the gods of Blizzard in the hopes that they might add something new to the vendor later on in the game (probably not going to happen but we can always hope).

This might be the fatal flaw in the new Timeless isle hub is the largest amount of coins that can easily be obtained.  The draw to play the same area over and over is goal orientated.  Players see something they want,  they get enough of whatever is needed to buy that item and then they go and purchase that item.  The process repeats over and over again ad infitem.  Once that draw to repeat an area over and over is removed then you only have raiding available as well as finishing up old quests.  PVP is always an option as well but many players don't like PVP so they just ignore it completely.

Changes might not happen in this expansion,  especially since there is a high possibility of an announcement of the next expansion happening next month at Blizzcon.  But this 'catch up' technique if it occurs in future expansions will need to have some minor changes to keep players coming back for more.

But don't just throw all of those coins out yet.  Blizzard has surprised us in the past so once you have your awesome mount ready to fly keep grinding out some coins for the time being.  If anything you get that imaginary fullness of being rich at least on the Timeless Isle.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
Customer First

Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:25 AM

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Last week the first of the Sky Golems rolled off the engineering production line.   Lets grind out the numbers from the undermine journal to see where we are at:

(Numbers from horde side of the undermine journal)
(I'm using horde side numbers but alliance side will be similar in this case)

Average sales (horde side) 106062g
Market Price (Shandris server) 65,000g

Think of that Average sale as the everything clicks just right and the right buyer gets an itchy finger absolutely wanting that winged wonder for their collection.

Later, looking through the numbers you can see

678 available (horde side)

This is across all of the severs.  So there is a generous amount of these available (there is not a way to be able to tell whether these are flips or actually crafted by engineers.  Let's assume 10% of these are flipped and the rest was crafted).

So you have 30 days minimum between crafting of these per engineer.  The biggest question is should they be sold now or later?

Also don't forget to add that there are two pets (Pierre and Rascal Bot) which require half the materials to create.   These two items are going to affect posted sales for the Sky Golems being crafted. 

But for what has a cool factor of 10 and everyone was drooling over since it was rumored.  Why are these not falling off the shelves in droves?   I would propose that the majority of players who want them cannot afford them.

Follow my train of thought here.  Most players have not the wealth that the upper echelon of gold makers have.  They stumble their way around playing wow,  scraping up enough to pay for a few odds and ends.  Even with the gold pinata that is Timeless isle the majority of players are living paycheck to paycheck to borrow a phrase.

We have an example of this with the Mechano-hog sales that occurred during the Lich King expansion.  For an item that had a minimum crafting cost of between 12-14k there were players that assumed these were easy to craft.  So they would bid 10k.. 9k  even to the point of people arguing they should be only worth 5k in gold.  So now you have an item that costs 3 times the amount of gold just from the start to craft and add a minimum amount of time per each production.  Players do not have the gold to be able to meet the minimum bar needed to purchase.

I have personally flipped two of these for a nice profit and purchased one for myself.  Basically with the profit I made from the two flips I was able to purchase the third one.   But why would I purchase these instead of crafting them myself (I have two engineers that have the pattern and have enough of the materials to craft it by themselves).   Because in the short term the players that had enough money to buy them also had engineers of their own.  So the first one that was produced went into their own collection.  They didn't need it so they weren't buying them from the Auction House.

Obviously the undermine journal says that there are sales for the Sky Golems.  So the money is out there.  But don't be disappointed if your Golems aren't rolling off the shelves.   These are high return items and shouldn't be discounted because you want your profit now.  All that practice from flipping gems and gear will look like chump change when you get into this high cost bracket.  People will start to discount their Golems for a quick profit.  But I am still occasionally selling one of my Mechano-hogs (and have kept the materials on hand) even through two expansions.  10,000g profit now vs 50,000g profit later becomes a no brainer.

So as your flying in your new toy (and it is a blast) keep your head above the water and know your not alone in looking for the next golem sale.  It will happen and you will enjoy rolling around in the gold.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
Customer First

Gold Mercenary

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:28 AM

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As long as I've been playing World of Warcraft and making gold I've been a member of a guild.  All of these guilds have been self sufficient in their personal crafting as well.  If someone needed something crafted or needed an extra item it was generally either in the guild bank or someone would send it to you.

But at some point when your playing you might realize that you are putting more into the guild than the guild is putting into your enjoyment of the game.  It may be a matter of no longer being on the raiding schedule because you aren't as good as others.  It may be timing or even a personality conflict.  This is a part of the Warcraft life in general.  People come and people go because many times the friendships you have in a game are ethereal in nature.  You are letters on a screen and maybe even a voice on Ventrillo.  But that interpersonal communication isn't there anymore.

This is where a decision can be made in your gaming and gold making career.  Is it time to leave for another guild?   Or just to stay in the guild and be a guild member in name only.  Call it being a mercenary of sorts that you accept the role of fill in when a member is sick.  Can this type of attitude help to increase your gaming enjoyment even more?

I have been a proponent of taking your gold making to the next level for your own personal reasons.  No one should tell you specifically why to make gold.  They can offer suggestions on what your motivation might be for making large quantities of gold.   Ultimately your own reason is what should be pushing your motivation to dominate a game or to stay in the background.  Whichever you choose a big part of these decisions is what you do with your gold.

My own personal story has been laid out over the months I have written here.   Making gold for my guild and providing what crafting was needed for others was a major motivation to play more and more.  Once I stepped down as lead tank for one of the guilds and took a dps position my personal fortune was more focused on what I wanted.   Which mounts and which pets were the most important to me.  Still retaining my personal beliefs in selling to guild mates and my contributions to others.  Changes happen to everyone the longer they play the game of Warcraft.

So as you see your guild winding down,  with less and less people showing interest in raiding.  When your position in the guild changes to second string or even follower it becomes time for a decision.  Is it time to change your motivation towards the guild and become a mercenary for your own self?

Good Luck and Good Hunting


Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
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Making Gold By Asking Mr Robot

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:03 PM

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Every Warcraft expansion has new sites that become part of the culture.  Sites suck as Elitistjerks has been a hotspot of information for both the casual player as well as the best of the best.

The new kid (or relatively new kid) on the block is Askmrrobot.com.   This site is an excellent site on how to setup your new gear to be at it's best.  It's very simple to use and comes with many different abilities.  These include giving you a base plan of what gems and enchants are needed to get your toon into tip top shape.

Normally I wouldn't point to a pay site,  but in this case the free areas that are provided are excellent by themselves.  For the more hardcore raider the pay aspects become icing on the raiding cake.

But this entry isn't about me gushing over an awesome website.  As always,  how can you make gold from a website that tells you what gems and enchants you need.

That is the key right there.   Every spec is covered for all of the different races and class combinations.   And if you take a look at your toon and what gems you need,  it is a guarantee that someone else will need those as well.  More and more players are trying their hand at raiding with the new Looking for raid system.   So as your tinkering with your setup on enchants and gems the information will be revealed of just how much or what you should be selling.  If the haste enchant for gloves is the best for your class,  then the demand will be high.  What gems are you using for your new chest piece?  And just how many others will be using those same gems in the coming weeks?

The bricks to your tower of gold is built on information.  Even if it seems like a piece of information that only you would use.  Many players starve on how to get that last ounce of power out of their new awesome purple pants of doom.  Someone will sell those gems to them,  that someone should always be you.

So add Askmrrobot.com to your arsenal and jump on top of the game.   And be the gold raider that you have always dreamed of being.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
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Surviving the Raid

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:09 AM

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Looking for raid is one of the most popular ways of upgrading gear.  The difficulty is medium for most players,  making it very easy to grab a quick raid through the first or second tier of a current raid area.

With 25 man raids being created you will get multiple levels of attitudes when it comes to playing warcraft.  Players with varying amount of skills and abilities joining together for a common good. 

Okay,  that's the nice way of putting it.   Let's face facts,  LFR can stink from time to time.  Undergeared players joining to obtain fat loot the easiest way possible.  Players who are at the top of their game showing their dominance by explaining how everyone sucks unless they pull 100k dps.  Players who are barely there,  looking for a good excuse not to have to finish up their work for the day.  Even players who have imbibed a little too much adult beverages and are proud to announce the fact to the entire raid.

It's a part of the natural occurrence when it comes to raiding to have to have a thick skin.  Sometimes you run into players who are willing to be patient.   Attempting to improve players by explaining options and making the average player into a great player.  I was privileged when I first started raiding by running into a group that helped me become a much better player.  That one patient person allowed me to enjoy the raiding experience instead of turning me off for the rest of my gaming career.

Then on the flip side it was the snide and devious comments of others that had me walk away from raiding for a bit.  Players who had become full of themselves and their importance in life that name calling became their calling card.  At that point in my life I needed World of Warcraft as my outlet for entertainment due to recovering from a serious illness.

The reality is that you will have different types of attitude when it comes to raiding.  There will always be players that are better than you.  There will always be players that are not as good as you.  Players come and go and even in the raiding life that player that's calling everyone a 'noob' will be gone and probably never seen again.

Your attitude and how you carry yourself is a personal choice.  Until players are able to punch people though the screen (hopefully never) then they are just words.  There is no dishonor in walking away and looking for another raid to avoid a Warcraft bully.   They just are not worth the time or the effort to try to change.

Now back into the breach goes the fearless 25.  Mommar needs a new pair of pants.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.
Timeless Isle Tagging Is For Rich Chumps
Bring Me the Alchemist
Welcome To Loot Pinata Island
Last Minute Buys and Sells
Patch 5.4: Mental Preparation
You Found What????
Hearthstone:   The Beginning
Patch 5.4: Budgeting for the Patch
Get thee To a TradeSkillMaster 2.0
Patch 5.4 Prep:  No Sleep til Brooklyn
Customer First