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Leave Your 'Tude At The Door

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 2:40 PM

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Mommar here.

If you want to refer to my 'career' with World of Warcraft, I should be thankful to many of the people I have met in and out of the game itself. There are people even to this day that I consider close friends, others that I have had the honor of meeting even if it was for a fleeting moment.

But then some weeks tend to be more difficult than others. To the point that you start to wonder whether the reputation, gold and experience is truly worth it. As I have said before, I am running some of the older Mists of Pandaria raids for gold and reputation. There is this mental itch I have that when I see a non exalted reputation I must finish it off. In this case I do all of the Throne of Thunder raids i can get during the week. These raids include the dreaded LFR that everyone finds so tasty on the brain.

Most of the time these go off without a hitch. Poke Durumu in the eye with a big pointy stick, ride Tortos like a bronco even get a little shock to the system with Lei Shen.

But this week seemed to be a cavalcade of grumpy players. Players looking to pick fights for the smallest problem. Then a full blown meltdown if there was a wipe. Remember this content was the new shiny raids not 6 months ago. Most players are overgeared for the content, but there is still a certain amount of possibility of dying a horrid game death. But no one really signs on to be the target of someone's abuse.

Having spent easily 10,000g on repairs over the years I have been playing, seeing a raid fail to a boss is a normal experience. You just pick up, look to see what can be fixed and move on. If nothing can be solved, then it is time to leave the raid and go find something else to do. But there are times I feel I am in the minority when it comes to this attitude.

Noob, idiot, *&*$ and other words that would get you punched out in the real world get slung around as normal conversation. My raid can joke with me and tell me I'm weak sauce, but everyone has their limits. Lately my patience to have to listen to people go off for silly reasons has become less and less. Most of the time players will just direct it at the random player, but occasionally someone will shoot their mouth in my general direction. One raid i ended up dying due to poor tanking/healing and was accused of taking 'too much damage'. If I had failed in the mechanics I would have completely agreed with them. The wise player knows they are never 100% perfect, but in this case every movement out of raid damage was done correctly. Seemed this player also didn't understand how an arms warrior works when well geared. Hearing 'why is the warrior doing so much AOE damage' finally got me to respond. After explaining in a slow, precise matter that an arms warrior has 3 different cleaves that automatically go off you will get AOE damage. Along with this explanation was the fact that this player needed to be more worried about their low dps (under 100k) than putting the blame on everyone but their own shoulders.

Later this bothered me not because of the words I had used. What bothered me was that I had let his rash silliness get to me and take away my enjoyment of the raid. There will always be hotheads, always be players that troll for attention. There will always be players to be carried with a dps wheelbarrow. Raid wipes will occur no matter the skill of a group. But my attitude is what I choose it to be. I can choose to react or I can choose to walk away. Either choice is viable and functional.

The same goes for the good days and bad days of making gold. Our attitudes attach themselves to whether we can be successful or not. Making lots of gold is fun. Making lots of gold in the game without losing all mental sanity is even better. So enjoy the game with a good spirit and less stress. And remember there is always the choice to turn off the game and take a breath. It is a game and you make the choice of what attitude you bring.

Good Luck and Good Gold Hunting

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Going Looney over the Lunar Festival

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:15 AM

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Mommar here

Over the months I have given a lot of grief to the powers that be that they need to update many of the best holidays in World of Warcraft. Just adding a few holiday bosses would add a lot to the draw of these older holidays.

The Lunar Festival is not one on my list that needs to be updated. There is already a world boss, Omen Having been around in the old days of watching him wipe out entire raids quickly and seeing multiple people needing to run back to take another whack at him brings the way world bosses used to feel. Not to just kill a boss because he dropped great loot, but simply because that is what you did with friends.

As I was flying around on one of my characters picking up the different Festival elders for the holiday and collecting Coins of Ancestry. I still had all of the frilly dresses that you could purchase with the coins in my bank so my major interest in getting coins on all of my toons was for the Festival Lanterns. When these first came out they were a hot commodity to transfer to an alliance toon/buddy and sell for obscene amounts of gold. Now the transfer over to the opposite faction is much easier since pet books are linked across factions and across servers.

Setting aside the quest for gold (I know, blasphemy here) but this holiday is just beautiful to see and enjoy. From dropping into a alliance controlled zone to pick up a coin to looking at the coordinates you downloaded from the guide to figure out the fastest way to get to the next zone. Combining this with the occasional pick-up of pets that I didn't have it becomes a change of pace from just running Timeless Isle and Siege of Orgrimmar.

Where many people are stuck inside from the latest blitz of cold weather finding something that brings warmth and joy is important. Escapism is the biggest draw for Warcraft and this holiday is the best place to escape from.

The Lunar Festival it hasn't changed that much so here is a link to the Icy-Veins guide for 2014 which they deserve all the credit for putting together. Link

Take this weekend and stop and smell the Lunar Festival. Not just for the profit, but just because this is one of the most enjoyable holidays of the Warcraft Calender.

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.

Cleaning Out The Closet (Achievement Edition)

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:47 AM

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Mommar here.

On the server reset day I tend to be a busy little Azerothian beaver. Pushing 5 toons through Ordos and Celestial runs can fill up a lot of time. Add to this list wanting to finish up the epic quest line for my hunter, which ends up running TOT looking for raid runs when they pop up. Also include my timeless isle farming, plus two favorite shows being on TV I tend to stay busy on Tuesdays.

Then things start to slow down into the normal questing grind and picking up spot flex raid runs during the week. By Saturday night or Sunday I have started to need a palette cleanser of sorts. I have said before that I tend to keep Sunday's open to running old instances and raids for fun and profit.

One of the things I wanted to pick up before Warlords of Draenor was a Hellreaver Polearm before the next expansion. When this first dropped while leveling it was the coolest thing to lug around. Being the time well before Transmogrification was available to players I had to Vendor it to clear out some bag space. Now with a large amount of spaces to put things I finally picked up another one by soloing Hellfire Ramparts. Then proceeding to work on my Raids that I wanted specific items from I went over to Northrend to run the Eye of Eternity. Two Mounts, Reins of the Azure Drake and Reins of the Blue Drake drop from here. As I was finishing up with smacking Malygos around the achievement You Don't Have An Eternity popped up as completed. This was one of those achievements that I had forgotten about and had never completed during the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Popping up the Achievement browser I started eyeballing through all of the achievements that I had not completed. Little bits and pieces started jumping out at me of items I could complete. These didn't offer any gold or mounts or titles for myself. Finishing them would purely be of the 'yay, I did that' variety of life.

As I was running around and flying in a different area I ended up getting tied into a Wintergrasp fight. It had been a long time to be in Wintergrasp, but six of us got together and whooped some Alliance around the field of battle. Then I decided to give a try to finish up the Earth, Wind and Fire (10 man) achievement. This is the achievement that you have to kill all four bosses inside the instance within 60 seconds of each other. After doing a quick lookup I gave it a try. Failing miserably (don't worry true believers I killed them all but couldn't get them all together in a pack to smack them around inside the 60 seconds).

There are plenty of other achievements that are floating around the World of Warcraft for players to finish up. Instance, raid and even PVP achievements sitting there ripe for the picking and completing. So the next time you get bored and sitting in your home city go run out somewhere and look up what achievements you can finish. Not just for gold, but purely for the enjoyment of the game.

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.

Golden Days

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:40 AM

Mommar here.

Timeless Isle is a gold mine just for even the casual player. Spending an hour finishing up the dailies can net you easily 200-400g. As compared to the thousands that can be made through crafting and manipulating the auction house this might not seem like a lot.

Those that remember the beginnings of the game where a single gold was similar to pulling teeth to obtain. Players who had thousands of gold in their coffers were rich beyond belief.   Expansions opened up more areas to obtain gold through crafting, auction house manipulation and doubling of quest rewards when max level was reached.

But at what point does it stop being exciting to obtain gold?   I remember struggling those first 40 levels to obtain enough for my mount. This was long before Blizzard basically gave you a mount as you hit level 20. I would squeak as much profit as I could from hit or miss auction house sales and farming items to craft. Running around Orgrimmar because someone offered a tip for me to craft something from my book. Each 1g to 5g tip going into my wallet towards my so wanted mount.

Fast forward to now, and gold is not a problem for many. It isn't even a measuring stick of just how good you are because a player can stumble bumble their way around the world of Pandaria to kill mobs and finish dailies for gold. The Auction house bristles with large amounts of armor and gear, pets and mounts that are at inflated prices.

This is where setting personal goals become more important than just looking at the bottom line numbers. Many players set their sites on a larger than life mount that they want. With the Black Market Auction House those hard to get mounts become available from time to time. Mounts from the Collectible Card Game to drops from old instances. Even just setting a goal of starting from scratch and working your way up to the top. Anything that gets your mind motivated to go farther and keep your goblin ways from slipping by the wayside.

So what is your goal for the month? For the next three months? Are you prepared for the next expansion and just what gold opportunities will be there?

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.

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Let The Stockpiling Begin

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:51 PM

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With Patch 5.4 (the patch to end all patches.... Well at least till the next expansion) the possibly final curtain call will arrive on our travels into panda land.

That means that players will be dumping inventory in their banks til set up extra space for stockpiling for the next expansion. More and more players are learning from journals (even my musings hopefully teach from time to time) about how to obtain more and more gold in World of Warcraft. The more players playing the stockpiling game, the more dangerous it is to stay on top of the Gold Goblin unofficial leader board.

One thing to remember is to use your wits about you and to pull as much information as possible when any inkling comes out. Blizzcon is only 3 months away, and I'm expecting a huge announcement for the next expansion from the powers that be. But even now you can watch the trend to see players empty out their extra materials.

A few simple rules will help you know for now what to look to keep and what to ignore in the next few months.

1. Raw materials will sell well.

Every expansion has new players, and even with the shortcuts that were created for Blacksmithing and Engineering to level the professions faster, there will be demand for materials for crafting armor as they go. The low end materials such as gold bars and copper bars have always been a rough area. Many players start off being gatherers until they decide a profession. That means a glut of low end materials. Faster leveling also means some areas are rarely touched. Whens the last time that you heard someone questing in
Silithus? So having a little bit of Thorium will get you into the commodities game.

2. Gear, Gear and More Gear.

The next expansion will probably have an opening level of 88 or 89. Every expansion has almost doubled the power in stats and abilities. This means that players usually stop buying top of the line from previous expansions. So all of that Uber Blue and Purple gear overnight becomes brown gear (cause it ain't worth.... you get the point). Even the lower level gear had more difficulty in selling because players were leveling so fast they blew through shiny gear in no time. Weapons kept a little bit more of their sting because of how they looked to transmoggers. My biggest seller was still the offhand items. There are very few off hand drops as you level, so Mages and Warlocks were either running around with big spell sticks or whining cause there was no gear for them. Keep this in mind for the mid 20-40 leveling areas.

3. Use your resources and experience.

There are a lot more rules that can help. And I'm sure over the next few months we will talk about them. But now is a good time to start sharpening your research. If you have gotten out of the habit of spending 15 minutes a day on the different forums around the net get back to it. Looked at Theunderminejournal to see what people are buying in large quantities? Or selling in large quantities? Wowhead and other reference points will have tidbits of knowledge that will get you on the right track.

Keep your eye on the prize and keep looking forward.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

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Bring On The Next WOW Killer

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 7:54 AM

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Mommar here.

If you missed the news, the new MMO project called 'TITAN' received the heave ho and was scrapped recently. Sighting flaws in the design and overall bad juju all over the next generation MMO from Blizzard, the masses looking for the next wow killer were informed that they would get to see it when "Hades received a sudden Ice Storm" (paraphrased of course).

Titan has been a mystery to just about everyone, and with each Blizzcon that happens, players get more and more grouchy when they hear absolutely nothing about the new project. Diablo 3 players are already hungering for a new expansion to conquer, and World of Warcraft players are starting to drop because they are ready for new challenges. Having the Titan project be delayed to 2016 will make things more difficult on the Blizzard lineup.

Players like new ideas and challenges. If there is one knock against World of Warcraft is that they have always been slow to incorporate new technologies and new innovations. Where story telling has become much more vibrant with phased areas and different lines of interest. The basic gameplay stayed the same for years. Causing many people to try the new flavor of the day in MMO's as they come down the gaming pipeline.

I have said many times that the true WOW Killer will come from Blizzard themselves. Most players are not able to sustain a subscription to more than 2 to 3 games. And with many players becoming older, they lower that time allotment to just one game. They might try the new Star Wars MMO (it was new last year) or others, but after the shiny exterior wears out they come back to the game they have conquered.

With already the discussions of 5.4 in the wind for World of Warcraft, and rumblings of the new Warcraft Expansion on the horizon, this gives an interesting time table to when Blizzard will truly release their next generation MMO. If they ever release it at all.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

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