Special Brand Of Stupid

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 1:00 PM

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It happens to everyone.   At some point the day will come when you hit that edge of hearing the same repetitive words over and over.  Whether it is your little sister telling you to wake up,  your parents telling you to go mow the lawn.  It will happen to you at some time in your life.

To set the scene,  I believe in being helpful in World of Warcraft.  You will not see me running around places jumping up and down like a hyperactive chichuaua looking to do good deeds.  But if I'm running past someone who is killing a mob I will take a few steps back and help out.  Usually a wave is thrown in my direction or a thank you.  Not a big deal but if it helps someone I score one in the win column.

One of the ways many people on servers is answer simple questions over the trade channels.   This happens especially when it comes to the rare monsters that pop up on Timeless isle.  Chants of 'when is Houlon', 'Timer on Houlon' etc happen all the time.  A quick answer is given and everyone moves on.

But occasionally you get one person that seems incapable of looking up anything.  For the next two hours you hear questions like 'Is there any rare up'.  'Where is [Insert Timeless Isle Rare]' or my favorite one of the bunch 'Please wait for me'.   Patience still kicks into the game play that answering these questions are easily answered, even if they become monotonous.

This weekend where I had to draw the line was arguments that happened when it came to some answers that I 'helped' with this weekend.  One of them started with the timer on Houlon.  I had helped with the kill on my hunter and was running to finish up some of my dailies.  If you have looked up Houlon on Wowhead you know there are three spawn points that she can pop up at.  The most common spawn pop is just past the bridge on the upper side of the hill.  But occasionally she will spawn further up the hill or even all the way past the second bridge.  In this case she popped on the first spawn point, but wasn't tagged.  So she popped up at the second spawn point and was engaged.  After the kill a player asked 10 minutes later about what the timer was on Houlon.  Trying to be helpful I told them that she had already showed up and was killed.  For some reason the person proceeded to try to argue with me that I hadn't killed her and that they had been at the spawn point all the time.  Then explaining that there are still three spawn points they responded with 'I know where she spawns.  Obviously they didn't cause if they did, they wouldn't have been griping about waiting for her.  Sometimes you just cannot win and it is better to retire from the field of stupid and do other things with your game time.

The other event that proved to me that there is a special brand of stupid was the incessant amount of questions there were about where rare mobs were.  I use an add-on called rare coordinator to keep track of timers on the island.  When a rare is announced on the add-on coordinates are also included in where the rate is.  Some of them, such as the Emerald Gander, can only give general area directions.   Most players get the coordinates and hopefully they are close enough to get there and get a tag on the mob.   But occasionally people miss their chance and have to wait til the next round.  What ground I was the complaining that no one waited for them to arrive.  No one waited for them to be escorted to the promise land of the rares and let them get the first shot.   Coming off as a requirement that everyone should help them to obtain all their goals, including the mount form Houlon because they had just arrived on the island.  The answer to this is a resounding NO.   No one truly owes anything, anything other than to let them figure it out themselves.  When people take their time to help,  be nice and say thank you.  Otherwise, there are information websites such as wowhead and mmo-champion that can give 90% of the answers.  Expecting someone to walk you through everything is insane.  Not being grateful for the help that people offer and complaining just gets other to shut up and leave you to your own ignorance.

Not everything is bad with helping.  But sometimes helping is to let people swim in the deep in for a bit til they learn to at least float.  

Okay, time to put my soapbox back up.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting.

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Silver And Gold Have I None

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:39 AM

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This weekend will be the first weekend that cross realm raiding will allow players to get grouped into Normal and Heroic raids for SOO.   Blizzard got this feature into the system with the latest hotfix.

No one should argue with the idea that cross realm raiding for flex has sparked a large amount of players to continue playing with the last tier in the Mists of Pandaria.  With the inclusion of the queue add-on into rotation on many raiders system,  the door has been opened to a large amount of pick up groups being successful in their search for vengeance against Garrosh.

The one problem I can see with opening up Normal and Heroic Raiding into the cross realm area is the high possibility of expectation to be 'carried' through content.  This already occurs in Flex runs where one or two players are undergeared or not as capable as they should be.  This is mitigated by many players having a higher and higher impact with upgraded gear.  Where being carried in the earlier SOO flexes (flex 1 and flex 2) isn't as important,  getting up to a Garrosh encounter with players doing sub par 100k dps can be the difference between success and the long run back to grab your ghost.

There has been a sharp decline in population on many servers with players starting to drift off at the end of the expansion.  With the knowledge that there is another 4-5 months of Mists of Pandaria content to be played, players are looking at other games for entertainment.  The new Diablo 3 expansion, opening up next week as well as other MMO's opening their doors to entice players away from their Azerothian adventures.

But Cross realm raiding should open up some markets to players looking to enhance their new shiny gear.   Watching Oqueue there was not a large amount of changes of people searching for Normal/Heroic runs during the week.  This weekend will tell whether players still keep their Guild runs in house or look outside for help to fill the gaps that exist in their raiding schedule.

Keeping your eyes open for the markets that get a spark can add gold into your pockets and some sales onto your ledger.   Being prepared with quality enchants and enhancements can put you farther in the game.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting

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Worth What Someone Will Pay For It

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:33 PM

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Mommar here.

I have been a collector for years of specific items.   Started out with Baseball cards during the 80's and beyond.  Moved onto coins and other odds and ends.  Always have had a passion for Dragons and buying dragon type of items.  

One of the things that drives my collection is simply one axiom.  It's worth what I was willing to pay for it.  The same ideal applies to price items in your WOW selling structure.  Each server is different in what prices they are willing to pay for certain items.   A PVP server is more willing to pay for PVP based gear than a PVE server.  Low population servers will pay for higher level gear because they are unable to obtain the drops consistently in raids and instances.   Servers with a large player base will have higher prices for specialty items and lower expectations for raw materials.

Key to helping with your pricing is knowing your economy and what people will buy.  This is not the first time I have said this,  and it will continue as long as World of Warcraft has an economy.   What someone will pay for an item is exactly how much it is worth.

There are plenty of sites to learn about past sales.  Theunderminejournal and wowhead show past sales averages.  Some of them can be misleading depending on the past sales and exactly how many have been listed.   So combining the two (information and economy, knowledge) puts you in the driver seat for pricing and selling at the best rate possible.

The most interesting time is to have someone post a price check in trade chat and see just what people's opinions of an item price are.  Many times an argument will break out about how a quote is too high,  always ending with someone announcing that they should only have to pay 1c for an item.  It is a throw away line that is a sign of contempt for that item.  But then the person not wanting to pay a price is not really the target audience for the item.

One of my favorite items to see is the Haunted Momento.  If you have it it is a cool item that has a ghostly apparition behind you wherever you go.  Every so often it will pop up on the auction house with people asking between 20-25k.  I have grabbed a couple at the 1k mark and flipped them quickly.  But post a comment up in trade about the item and watch the fur fly.  It's a trinket that is completely useless, but if you know what it does the cool factor rises exponentially.

Timing,  knowledge and a willingness to understand your target audience can defeat anyone who criticizes your listing ask price.  Do not worry about whether they will pay for that item or not.  Be concerned to find the person that is more than willing to shell out the gold for your precious item.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting

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Buying Cataclysm Mats

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:55 AM

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Patch 4.03 (or for those playing the home game the introduction to the Cataclysm Expansion) introduced new enchanting materials.   Wait,  doesn't that happen with each expansion?

What I like about the Enchanting materials during the cataclysm expansion is that they have reasonably kept their value.  There was a huge downward spiral right at the end of the expansion that players were looking to empty out their treasure troves.  Picking up many of these for an Avg of 5g netted me a healthy profit over time.

Why did it net me a healthy profit?   Because I kept on crafting the pets and some of the enchants that cataclysm brought along.   Where the enchants available have long since only become important to power leveling players the pets still sell very well.

The Enchanted Lantern (or the alliance equivalent Magic Lamp) still sells depending on the amount of profit I am looking for.   Getting 500% or more on my investment is nothing to sneeze at.

The other reason that I like the Ethereal Shards and Hypnotic Dust for investment at that time because players leveling a new enchanter would run into the need for those around the 470-480 mark of power leveling.   Selling these in batches of 10-20 can give you that magic number of 200% profit.

Looking at Theunderminejournal.com and its numbers shows the mean Avg sale of 13g a piece.   That's a little expensive for investment.  But wait,   we are smart and have an enchanter (or buddy enchanter) and access to ilvl 287-333 crafted gear.   Buying these materials cheap and disenchanting them for the materials to resell (sounds familiar right?   This is one of those cornerstone items of Disenchanting your fortune gets built on).

One more thing.   The developers have already announced a gear squish.  This is going to have the effect of getting people into dungeons and gear that much faster.  That means all that dropped gear that the players might have used will end up getting DE'd or vendored.  Where some might say sell all of the cataclysm gear at vendor prices,  I like to swim upstream.  Pets and enchants will always sell.  Look for those wonderful junk deals that players will have on the AH trying to rid themselves of gear they do not see the opportunity you see.

Starting to prepare your next round of investment now for Warlords of Draenor instead of waiting for the rush will allow you to be ahead of the gold game.  Storage area,  Investment for DEing and prepping for deals to come.   Sharpen up the pencils and the trigger finger to be ready to rake in the profits.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting

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Stop Teasing My Rocket

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:20 PM

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For those that have lost their calender somewhere it is Valentine's day.   This is the first year that I didn't feel like ranting about the holiday and how ill the commercials make me feel.  Wait,   does that count as a rant?

If you are like me, you have been queuing for the chemical brothers run for cash and prizes.   The same items have been available for a couple of years now so most players already have at least Peddlefeet.  But with the new expansion and new blood, possibly arriving it would be good to have a few available for sale.

The big sales item during and after this holiday is the Swift Lovebird mount.  With the patch rotation starting to wind down many players do not want to spend the time to obtain 270 love tokens.  So if you have all of the items that you want from the holiday picking up one or two for future sales might again be a wise investment for those extra tokens.

I will be honest,  another grind for item x gets a little old after a time.  Just putting the lovely charm collector's kit and finishing up your Timeless Isle mob grind makes this cake to finish.  This has made the entire holiday start to grow old in the tooth.

Adding personal challenges have made the events at least tolerable.  The mobs to kill in the Scenerio die quickly with even an average geared group.  The longest I had the entire event last is 2 and a half minutes.  But it's all for the Big Love Rocket.  The downtime in the event is that it takes longer to run to the three main cities than to finish up all of the quest events.

Not to jump on a Valentine's soapbox, but this is another event that is in need of updating.   Either new items (lets face it,  who wouldn't want to buy new valentine's garb for tokens) or new events that can add to the enjoyment.   The older events like this get, the more they are to be skipped by players to do other things.

I am a big fan of innovation and change when it comes to events and gaming.  Games such as Rifts and the announcements for Everquest next has set a high bar for innovation.  This is another pretender to the throne when it comes to being the king of MMO's.  But the king is starting to show a little tatter at the hem of their clothes.

Enjoy the holiday and the weekend.  Take some time to remember those you care about that you're still around and alive.  Eat some candy,  watch a love story and have some fun.  

Good Luck and Good Profit 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. 

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Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:55 PM

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It's the day that many people dread.   The anti establishment will convert you to the belief that Valentines day was created as a marketing ploy to sell more candy and cards.   Moans and groans of people who waited until the last minute to get a gift for the one they love.   Mcdonalds parking lots full for that 'special meal' while the expectation of fun that won't happen later in the evening.

So if you're going to phone in another Valentines day why not at least get them something useful.   All people like to get new equipment and gear and mounts.   It will show them how much you think about them while you're laying the Smackdown on mobs.

And it's this train of thought that has kept many people single for their entire lives.   Valentines day has lost a lot of its luster since Walmart started advertising for it somewhere mid November of last year.   But certain gifts keep thoughts alive on what to give.

Take a look at your crafter and see just what you can make that has a more permanent nature.  Mounts that can be given to those you care about can make people feel much more special than a high five and a smack on the rump.  

Valentines day isn't really a horrible holiday.  It's just lost that special feeling both in and out of the Warcraft universe.  

Now I need to go deliver those 'Thrall is my valentine' to my friends

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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He's So Great He's A Fivefather

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 8:00 AM

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It's Lunar Festival time.    One of the 'traveling' holidays that has you going from area to area to kiss up to those that came before you.  

Where if you look at the top it would seem to be much more difficult to make gold during this holiday.  No obvious holiday boss to kill.  But there are a few suggestions on how to rack up some good gold.

If you honor all of the different elders around Azeroth,  Northrend and Even Outland you can obtain a maximum of 85 Coins of Ancestory.    If you have bought all of the items necessary to finish the achievement a good purchase would be the appropriate lantern (Festival Light for Horde or Lunar Lantern for Alliance).   In the next couple of days there should be many of these appearing to be bought.   If the flood hits your server quickly,   take your new pet and tuck him into your bank.  When the sales stop drop him on the cross faction auction house in Tanaris.   If you can work out a deal with a friend or can swap it across to one of your toons you can net a nice profit by selling the lantern on the opposite faction auction house.

The gang at Icy-Veins.com has put up an excellent guide on the lunar festival including exact placement for the elders to talk too.    Give them some link love to make your quest much easier.   A good option to obtain gold is to advertise in Trade chat if you have a two seat mount.   Dragging someone who might not have the ability to get to certain areas can net you a certain amount of gold into your pocket.

And where I won't be offering any tokens,  If you want to treat me like an Elder you can probably find me in Orgrimmar.   Kissing up is accepted.

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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Pilgrim's Bounty, For The Educated

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 2:34 PM

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Mommar Here.

It is that time of the year that we should start being thankful.   Thankful that we have a game we can play,  and that there is gold to be made.

Well,  not quite exactly when it comes to the Pilgrim's Bounty holiday.    Blizzard has made this holiday very achievement heavy for players with very few physical rewards.  Players can get a new Holiday themed suit,  and a new turkey pet (sorry gang it's BOP so no selling it seems).   There are a few chances to be able to make some quick gold if you catch people at the right time.

One of the achievements is called The Turkinator.  This is one of those achievements that will come easy for some classes,  and other classes it will drive them batty.   The basic idea is to go to Elwynn Forest or Tirisfal Glades to kill turkeys all over the area.  You have to kill 40 turkeys killing them one at a time to keep the buff you receive up and running til you hit 40 (it will drop off in 10 seconds if you don't kill another turkey).

Most players found that this can be annoying if you end up with a lot of players in the area.   But one item the Tracker Snacks gave non hunters a huge advantage to finish this achievement.   Now that many players have this achievement under wraps it isn't as large of a market as it had been previously.  Still cooking and placing a few on the Auction House will net you some gold.  Especially for players who are just getting used to the market it is a good test without a large amount of investment.

For those that enjoy the pain of non food enhanced turkey combat.  There is a macro that the genius group on the boards came up with that will help with killing turkeys in no time.

/tar Wild Turkey
/run if not GetRaidTargetIndex("target") and not UnitIsDead("target") and UnitName("target") == "Wild Turkey" then if turkey == nil or turkey == 0 then turkey = 8 end SetRaidTarget("target", turkey); turkey = turkey -1 end;

If you have a busy server I usually suggest killing them either early in the morning or later in the evening.   The turkeys become easier to find and less farmed for holiday themed cooking items as the event continues.

Now for the juicy part (hee hee) of the event.   This is going to be a perfect time to take one of those alts that you have ignored their cooking and get it up to almost 400 cooking on the cheap.  

Here is how you perform this cooking miracle

Learn Cooking + spiced Bread (1s 10c)

• Learn Cooking + Spiced Bread (1s 10c)
  Make 100 Spiced Bread (overkill, but easy to calculate with) (7s)
• Buy the Bountyful Cookbook (1s)
• Make 100 Spiced Bread Stuffing (Remember to learn Journeyman cooking between 50 and 75) (2s + 5s)
• Make 100 pumpkin Pies (Remember to learn Expert Cooking between 125 and 150) (10s + 1g)
• Make 100 Cranberry Chutney (Remember to learn Artisan Cooking between 200 and 225) (10s + 2g 50s)
• Make 100 Candied Sweet Potatoes (Remember to learn Master Cooking between 275 and 300) (12s + 10g)
• Make as many Slow Roasted Turkeys as you need to get to 350 Cooking, and then learn Grand Master cooking (35g)

Grand Total cost of getting to 350 cooking**: 47g 98s 10c* 

If you want to go higher,   you can start to kill turkeys in the above mentioned areas to craft Slow Roasted Turkey up to the 400+ mark.   Most of your investment in this is time and energy.   But the buffs from the turkey are very nice for long term usage.

(All credit goes to the Wowhead Forums,  give them some link love)

Icy-Veins have a walk-through for all of the achievements for Pilgrim's Bounty so if your a little behind on your achievement hunting they are the guide to hit to get things done quickly.

Don't let the holidays distract you from your normal gold making procedures.  You never know what opportunities might appear if you keep your ears open.   From soloing Sekketh Halls for the Terrokar Turkey Time achievement to get lower players a chance at the achievement.  To players dancing on mailboxes for gold tips.   Thinking outside the turkey box might net you a few extra gold this week.

Someone tell Blizzard central it's time for a turkey centric boss.   I would go for that for next year.

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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burn them fires.

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:58 PM

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So it's mid summer (at least according to Blizzards calender of events).   So this brings to us the Mid-Summer Fire Festival.

Wow insider has a great write up on the festival.  Including where to find all of the bonfires and the achievements you will want to get your Violet Proto Drake for the  It's Been a Long Strange Trip achievement.

So if they have already written up an awesome guide,  why should you read the rest of this?

Cause you love me?   Okay,  I'm not that deluded.  But a couple of things to remember gold speaking for the pets you can get.  And a few gold making opportunities.   These events tend to be my number one answer when someone asks me "how can I make x amount of gold quickly".

-   The Ice Chip (teaches you the Frigid Frostling pet) that drops from the Satchel of Chilled Goods on your first ahune kill is unique.  But if you notice it isn't listed as being BOP.  Since the notes for Mists of Pandaria has stated that many of the BOP pets will become BOE.  A wise gold goblin will continue to run ahune to gain the Burning Blossoms from the satchel.  Also finishing up the full complement of Bonfires during the holiday event can be used to purchase Captured Flame.   If you have multiple toons running the events once on each toon,  then purchasing one pet for your collection,  and saving the rest til MOP could put you well ahead of the game.   Many players are taking their wowcations right now so they won't be back for the festival.   These pets if they do become BOE will become valuable rare pets for training during the first wave of MOP pet buying.

The other money making possibility is to grab your two seater (you do have a two seater vehicle right?) and transport low players to the different locations they can't reach by themselves.   Name your price in trade and for maybe 30 minutes work pull in an easy 2k or more.

Most of the items that Ahune drops end up being small or non upgrades to many current items.  But don't ignore even the 10g vendor gold.  It may seem like chump change,  but small gold increases are always enjoyed.

Enjoy the blizzard holiday.

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 "@Dragonbearjoe" or leave a comment here. 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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Love is in the lunar faire

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:09 PM

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his week starts the rare triple combo of holidays.  We're in the 2nd week of the lunar festival,
today starts the Love is in the Air holiday,  and this week the Darkmoon Island is open for inspection.

Should be a busy week for everyone.   Not a lot changed with the  Love is in the Air event.   Only major change is that there is a mount available,  the [Swift Lovebird] for 270 [Love Tokens].  This should spur continual sales during the event.

Thankfully for the goblins in all of us,  the [Lovely Charm Bracelet] are again BOE this year so look to sell these either through trade chat or on the AH.  Grab a [Lovely Charm Collector's Kit] on all of your questing and raiding/instance alts.   They do drop in PVP as well,  but you have to get the kill shot to get credit for the charm.

Every year the Blizzard powers that be tend to tweak the drop rates when someone finds a very nice
farming spot.   So keep an eye for good farming spots,  especially if you have finished the opening to
the fireland dailies.   Craft or purchase a [Potion of Treasure Finding] and run do some farming in the cataclysm areas.   My suggestion if your at level 85 is going to be based around Mount Hyjal,   up and down the area close to the Sanctuary of Malorne.    Mobs die quickly and large amount of fire volatiles drops.

Lower levels want to look for large amount of mobs that can be killed quickly.  The wrath expansion areas still have many mobs that are within "level appropriate" to get drops of the charms.  Other professions such as skinning might find the twilight highlands area a good option to skin the dragons for raw materials. Leather is still selling at a premium on many servers.  If you stay withing 2-4 levels of mobs you are killing you should continue to get the drops for the charms you need to make the bracelets.

Here is a link to Wowinsder for their overachievers guide to the entire holiday.  Keep an eye here for any updates we have as all three holidays continue.   Also please post comments on your suggested farming spots.

Don't forget to have your [Darkmoon Adventure's Guide] for dungeon and raid instances for drops of the rare tomes and items to turn in for Darkmoon Faire tokens.

All this going on is going to keep people busy for the week.

Good luck and good hunting

[Addendum 12:07]  Looks like the bracelets aren't able to be placed on the AH.  so trade chat is the only [option]

Read this for blizards refund policy on buying the wrong item.  Short and sweet version.   Make sure of your purchases.  The powers that be won't be refunding tokens if you buy the incorrect item.

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