Time to Remodel The Financial House

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:24 PM

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With Patch 5.4 just over the horizon the next few weeks will be very important with what items you purchase for use.  Just as important will be getting your house in order for the upcoming patch and beyond. 

I have talked many times about your lineup of professions and how important they can be.  Do you have all of the professions covered?   Do you have all of the farming professions covered between your alt army?   Where do they sit when it comes to leveling and access to patterns?

Goblins cannot assume that they are ready just because they show up every day.   With the changes in daily timers for all of the professions.  For changes in farming the different areas for patterns and access to new recipes.  These should be put into your mental picture of just how your team needs to be set up.  Is your Blacksmith's inability to farm continually going to affect your access to future patterns?  Can your farmers keep up for the demand both from your own money factory as well as others that you service?

Just sitting down with your trust paper and pencil and jotting down your lineup will help.  Knowing what changes you need to do in the next two weeks will get you a goal to accomplish in the upcoming two weeks.

As the scouts say,  be prepared.  Or as our faithful enemy from Outlands repeated over and over again.  YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!


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. 


Sense Of Entitlement
Patch 5.4:   Golden Lotus Beatdown
Four Levels of Wow Activity
Patch 5.4:  Preparing your Farmers
Patch 5.4:  Easy Gear.. Easy Go
Prepping for Patch 5.4: The Beginning
The End of a Pricing Era
Patch 5.4 prep:   Do You Know Where Your Tailor Is?
The Pitfalls of Trade Barking
7.7 Million Customers and Nothing Sells
Priorities in PVP Gear Pricing
Prep for Patch 5.4: Long Term Goals
Weekend Is Here
Take Me To Naxx
Profit Anonymous

Only Worth What Someone Will Pay

Sense of Entitlement

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:58 AM

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Mommar here.

When I started playing World of Warcraft it was a very creative,  difficult game to master.   I've given you many stories of my questionable calls when playing.  Just as everyone else who plays WOW,  there is a steep learning curve on how to play.

As the game progressed through expansions it became easier and easier to obtain epic items.  At first it was only during raids and very high level of reputations could you get the ultimate in purple gear.  Later expansions opened it up to crafting,  making epics more and more available. 

Now it feels that you only have to shake a stick and an epic falls from the trees.  This is both a good thing and a bad thing.  The good is that it can make the game enjoyable to play.  Setting up the idea that players talent isn't dwarfed by the luck of the epic drop.

The bad thing is that there builds a sense of entitlement for epic drops.  As Patch 5.4 approaches this will become more and more apparent.  How many instances will you run where someone will start cursing up a storm because 'their drop' didn't happen.  Or worse,  they lost the roll for that drop and it's all your fault.

This is why I like making gold.  Where I might not be able to be the most epic of items with gold.  I can put together a nice set of gear just from crafting and buying.  My ability to make gold in the game is the only limitation that I have.  It can relieve the pressure of waiting for 'my drop' to happen.  This doesn't give you everything in the game of course.  Just read my not so legendary search for the Reins of the Raven Lord here and you can feel some of my phantom pain.

The biggest tool you have is your mind.  And making gold in this game,  obtaining epics and enjoying the game is completely dependent on that tool.  So the next time that someone throws an epic tizzy because they didn't get their drop for the 50th time.   Take a peek at that epic sword you bought and enjoy the rest of the run.

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. 


Patch 5.4:   Golden Lotus Beatdown
Four Levels of Wow Activity
Patch 5.4:  Preparing your Farmers
Patch 5.4:  Easy Gear.. Easy Go
Prepping for Patch 5.4: The Beginning
The End of a Pricing Era
Patch 5.4 prep:   Do You Know Where Your Tailor Is?
The Pitfalls of Trade Barking
7.7 Million Customers and Nothing Sells
Priorities in PVP Gear Pricing
Prep for Patch 5.4: Long Term Goals
Weekend Is Here
Take Me To Naxx
Profit Anonymous

Only Worth What Someone Will Pay

BMAH Strikes Back

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:08 PM

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Mommar here.

It finally happened.  The day that I have been dreading since the mechanics of the Black Market Auction House was announced.

Let me give you a little back story    If you have read my writings you know that I've been playing World of Warcraft for over 7 years.   Ever since the introduction of Burning Crusades there was one mount that I learned about that made me drool over and over again.  

The Reins of the Raven Lord drops from Sethekk Halls in a special boss (in the beginning you had to carry a druid into your party that was going for their epic flying form or already had finished it).   In a later 4.01 patch the developers made this boss accessible by everyone.

I wanted this mount very badly.   It looked regal and screamed of awesome in every way.   And knowing how rare of a drop that the mount was made me want it even more.  So I grabbed every run I could,  if my guild said anything about running Sethekk Halls (or as I referred to it Sexy Halls) I was there.  Tanking or dps or carrying everyone's bags.

When the instance became solo-able I started running it ever day (Heroics had a one day lockout),  with many guildees noticing I was in Sexy Halls once again.  It became my ritual and even my addiction.   One time brought a friend in there to run it.   The day had come,  and I had my first chance at the mount I dreamed about.   Unfortunately I lost the roll to my friend.  

So my trek continued.  Day after day I lugged myself into Sethekk Halls because the mount would be mine.  O yes it would be mine.    After 256 attempts (yes,  I actually looked it up) the mount finally dropped.  I giggled like a madman,  learned the mount and then exited the instance for the last time.

It has been a tradition of mine that when I get a new shiny mount I will run semi nekkid through all the main cities.   Call it my own personal celebration of sorts.  I got whistles and cheers and even some flack from other players but I really didn't care.

So fast forward to today when on the Black Market Auction House I see Reins of the Raven Lord for sale.   The bid was low (15k to start) but still a little tinge of disappointment crossed my mind.   I've always been a strange duck when it comes to items.   I don't like to buy items that are still available if I have the patience and tenacity to obtain them on my own.   The journey to me is just as important as the destination.   But that does not remove the opportunity for others to have one of the most beautiful mounts in Warcraft at a price they are willing to pay.

At some point every Gold Goblin decides what something is valued to themselves.   Their personal trinkets that add up to enjoyment.   That favorite mount that allows them to strut to their next quest in style.  Or even their costume that brings out the pirate accent in their mind.   All players decide the value of something whether it's gold or hard work.   Both are enjoyable in their own way.

So next time you see me strutting around on my Raven Lord mount,   give a wave and a smile and then figure out which trinket you have that your willing to obtain in your own way.


Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbearjoe @ 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. 

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