BMAH Blues Return

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:40 AM

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Mommar here.

When the Black Market Auction House was introduced with Mists of Pandaria,  there were rumblings in the universe that it would even out the playing field between the gold haves and have nots.

Up til the introduction of Patch 5.1 it was a good tool implemented by the powers that be at Blizzard to remove tremendous amounts of gold from the economy.  Players were bidding thousands and thousands of gold on patterns and very rare mounts.   The plan to stabilize the economy was well on it's way to completion.

Then with Patch 5.1 a new little toy was introduced.   An invitation to an exclusive Brawlers guild.   Everyone loves to be the first in line for something exclusive.   So players bid ten thousand,   twenty thousand to have one of the rare....   well kinda rare.... maybe rare?   When you have 10 invites every 12 hours for bid plus the ability to farm them from different faction NPCS just how rare can they truly be?

But here is the problem that wasn't expected.    Before patch 5.1 there were three slots to fill each rotation on the BMAH.   One was generally a pet (mostly the argent dawn pets),  one was usually either a PVP gear item or a PVE Epic.   The last was generally filled by a BOP pattern.   This gave enough inclination for players to bid and continue to remove gold from the economy.  Now with 10 Blood Soaked Invitations for bid at any one time,   there seems to be only one slot available for bidding and on many servers it seems to be only that one pet few if any want.

I have been skeptic from the start at just how the BMAH would be taken by the gold goblin economy.   Most players who have worked with the economy understand that when you buy something from someone they in turn will buy something from someone else.   This keeps the gold flow coming,  eventually if things are done right coming back to your coffers.   The 'dead end' bidding of the BMAH wouldn't help the wow economy to flourish but would depress bidding on the BMAH.   Now that the majority of slots are filled with the invitations,  the BMAH is starting to become irrelevant to the economy.   There is still the chance that an epic pet or needed item will show up.  But I will not be surprised if a revamping of the BMAH is done in a future patch.   Or the goals of the BMAH will have to be changed.  

Either way, hopefully everyone got their invitations to the Brawlers Guild dance and recital.   I've got a banana peel with your name on it.

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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The Guild: Striking A Tone of Sales

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 8:00 AM

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Mommar here.

If you have read these articles for a bit you've heard my story of why I started learning how to make gold in wow.   The short of the story was that I wanted to be productive for my raiding guild and try to obtain patterns and gold to advance the group.

Selling to your guild mates is a tricky subject.   Some guilds charge for everything.  Guild members sell crafting items or potions.  Some mages will even sell access to their water and food creations.   Other guilds have a completely cooperative attitude when it comes to guilds services.  

With the guild ranks,  gold for the guild bank became much easier.   With rank 16 guilds receiving an automatic deposit into the guuild bank with each looting of a killed mob.  (Cash Flow Perk).   Before this a guild member had to directly deposit gold into the guild bank.   From this repairs could be deducted depending on what the guild master had allowed for guild members.

The idea is just how valuable is your guild when it comes to your gold making experience?    Many times guild banks are full of items that just sit there for a long time.  Gaining virtual dust that other players might find valuable.   Sitting down with your guild master and working out a deal to empty out some of the less useful items.   You even have the choice of working out on a commission basis or just buying the items outright.  

The one caveat with something like this is that you should want to stay in the good graces of your guild.  If you put on your gold goblin hat and put the squeeze on your guild for a few extra gold,  they will remember this when you need something.   An extra gold piece is not worth bad feelings between guild members.

This was one of the reasons for my personal gold making I decided not to sell to fellow members.  The only time that I broke this rule was when someone was taking advantage of the guild.   If I find items that I have a difficult time selling (some glyphs,   older gems etc) I would drop them into the guild bank.  Many times on purpose I would drop items that were in demand by guildmates for their own use.  Meta diamonds are always in demand.   This was during the Wrath expansion and I took a look at who had been taking items out of the guild bank.   I noticed that all of the raw meta diamonds I had placed in there had been removed.   Not a big deal since I figured they were being used to level.

I took a look at the auction house and noticed that all of my meta diamonds had been undercut.   Unfortunately it had been by the person who had removed them from the guild bank.  I talked to my guild master and they were confronted.   They said they were using it to recooperate the cost of the leveling of there jewelcrafting.   I had a problem with this since I had no intentions of suplementing someone's crafting with my production.  Ultimately they left the guild in a huff.

Another time I broke my rule for not selling to guild matest due to abuse by another player in the guild.  They had just recently been brought into the guild and were asking everyone for items to 'level'.   Being in a friendly guild many people were donating.   But even in the most friendly of guilds there comes a limit.  Going with my gut feeling on everything I started to sell at cost the items they were looking for.   Jumping onto another toon that the player didn't know not from the guild I told them I had heard 'rumors' they were selling items.   Getting them to tell how they were 'taking advantage' of their guild wasn't to difficult.   In this case instead of presenting my evidence to the guild I just talked to the people he was buying from and made sure that they were getting full value for their materials.   Once again the player left the guild shortly after.

Selling to your own guild can be tricky at best.  You have to measure both your motive and the motive of your fellow guildmates.  Keeping a healthy attitude between each other can be beneficial to both.  

Keep what you want in mind and whether the risks are truly worth the rewards.  Sometimes not selling is just as beneficial as a room full of gold.

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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Know Their Roles

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 2:03 PM

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Mommar here (as if it would be someone else)

There is one constant when your dealing with World of Warcraft.  Every interaction you have with someone is a possible chance to sell.  Whether it's a direct sale request from a guild member,  or with a complete stranger from Trade Chat.  Each time you contact someone,   the opportunity to sell or invest is there.

One of these places is Heroic Dungeons.   Heroic Dungeons are where players are getting geared up for raiding.  When a piece drops that they need and win,  that is the best opportunity to find out if they need an enhancement.  If it's a healing piece and your a tailor,   have a good healing thread ready to sell.   Leatherworkers can have armor patches all ready to sell in a moments notice.  Jewelcrafters should have their blanks ready to cut and sell to the winner.

This can also be looked at a good opportunity for advertisement.   Cutting a deal with a player in a Heroic can advertise your business just as good as barking in trade chat.  Many players like to work with one or two players instead of having to run around finding the character enhancements for their toons.

The other point of this is to have knowledge of what is going to be the best for that player.  A tailor will fit a piece of wardrobe for a new customer each time.   An excellent tailor will know when to crease and fold that same wardrobe to make it stunning.  Your knowledge base on what the best DPS item or Healing item can reward you with added gold in the long term.

Every contact is a potential sale.  Every piece of knowledge puts you one step closer to your ultimate Gold Goblin Goal.

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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Kyparite: The New Pyrite

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:33 PM

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Mommar here.

If you were like me during cataclysm you heavily invested in Pyrite Ore.   With the tantalizing hints that Epic gems might be prospected from the ore,  players went heavily into the red after liquidating their assets.

Kyparite ore is already shaping up to be very similar in investment potential.   It's used in purchasing patterns from the Klaxxi quartermaster.  It's also used to craft some of the 463 weapons such as the Masterwork Phantasmal Hammer.   Engineers can even use this ore to craft a engineering mount (Depleted-Kyparium Rocket).   Jewelcrafters even have the option of prospecting these for gems.  With a higher percentage of Mid range gems being prospected overall.

So the question for investing is what will become of this ore?   The odds are very slim that it will be used for Epic Gems.  The Cataclysm expansion version of delivering epic gems encouraged players to run higher level raids instead of just sitting in their home towns and prospecting for profit.   Many of the Professions are built to get players out to invest time in leveling.  Currently the only two major professions that can be leveled to their maximum without stepping out into Pandaria is Alchemy and Inscription. (technically engineering can be leveled to 600 without any need to enter Pandaria but the materials necessary are so heinous that it isn't a useful part of the conversation for now).

With Ghost Iron ore hovering around the 2.5-3.0g mark on many servers,  it starts to look at being an option of investing some gold in Kyparite ore for now.   Keeping an eye on deals that might arrive,  or taking a larger effort to farm your own could become profitable in the long run.

We do not know what other tricks and treats will be brought on with future expansions,  but planning ahead with picking up deals on Kyparite ore can add to your coffers and your profits.

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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Brawlers Guild.. Blizzard Your Killing Us Here

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:38 PM

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Dear Blizzard.

I understand that things change with each PTR build.   I understand that one week something might make complete sense,  when the next week after the coffee and crumb cake high has exhausted itself you might change your mind.  But please keep us Gold Goblins writers in mind.   We already look like fools at times when we type 'your' and you're.   So when we say something is a bad idea to get involved with,  please keep this in mind when you change how something works.  It will save us plenty of time and energy from having to backtrack a previous strategy.

Thank you

A loyal fan.


So now you are reading this and saying 'really?', what mighty change are you talking about.  Is my DPS becoming higher?   Healing more awesome than awesome?   Free gold for the needy?   Nope. sorry,  you are on your own for all of that.  But one sentence in one PTR build has changed anything I have said about the Brawlers Guild and getting involved with it as an investment opportunity.

One of the previous problems as I suggested in the previous entry was that there was a hard limit on how many invitations a player could give.  They could give one invite once they reached level 7.   They could also purchase ones off the Black Market Auction House for an exorbitant price,  but the developers had already stated they didn't feel most players could corner this market.

Now that we know they will drop off of certain NPCs (world bosses and probably dungeons encounters) there will be a hotter market for these.   It's still unknown just how the Blood Soaked Invitation will be completely implemented.  The Powers that be might just change their mind and give them as Christmas gifts for everyone.   But a lot of the market will depend on availability.   If they do drop from NPCs in dungeons and raids,  prepare to be needing on the item and selling it quickly.   The burst of opportunity for sales will be  front loaded.   As more and more players go through these dungeons/raids after patch 5.1,  then the market will become more and more flooded.

So be prepared again and keep digging for information and be prepared to kill some NPCs.  Remember the first rule of Brawlers Guild.   We have no clue about Brawlers Guild.

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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Change Of Scenery

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:39 AM

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Mommar here.

The curse of autopilot tends to fall on every player at one point or another.   Repetition can be very useful when it comes to making gold in wow.   Reposting of glyphs that didn't sell one day,  weapon and armor enchants,  purchased blues and epics for flipping options.   There is nothing wrong with these autopilot techniques to be able to make gold on a daily basis.

But occasionally that change in scenery is needed to throw off your competition.   I have players that are determined to shoot me in the foot simply for the fact that it is a personal feather in their cap.   Anytime someone is successful in their field then someone has painted a target on them.   It is a part of the game and
should be considered a personal medal of achievment.

It is one of the reasons that most players do not know my alternate characters.  And just at what auction house they are parked at.   A little research might be able to find them from the armory,  but the odds are players are not going to take that time.   Having multiple toons playing the auction house can confuse your competition into thinking there is more than one player in the game.  

Lets take glyphs for instance.  I've always used the wall pasting technique.   Through a basic search function I see any glyphs that are selling for over 50g,  those are what I list for my profits for that day.  I craft them or look at my back stock.   Then I will take half of those and send them to one of my alts for listing.  This may seem like an extra step of work,  but it prevents most players from seeing just one active player in the glyph game.   Two players can become a force to others.  

Sites such as The Undermine Journal at the press of button can tell exactly what one player has listed.   But if they go with just that search your competition will not see the multiple auctions that you have listed under other alternates.

Controlling your market and a simple change of scenery can throw the wolves off your trail and keep them from targeting your goals for the kill.

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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Explaining Mists of Pandaria In 5 Words

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 9:29 AM

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This weekend a friend of mine talked to me about how I thought Mists of Pandaria was turning out.  He had decided to take a little bit of time off for his family and friends.   Another friend gave him a 60 day card as a gift for some work he did,  so he asked what he was getting into.

I started to give him the unvarnished truth about how I felt about the expansion.   Including what I share here and all the other parts that I both enjoy and do not enjoy when it comes to the expansion.   He is familiar with parts of my history when it comes to the game as well.

Later after I finished my schtick on the pros and cons of MOP I wondered if I had been a good ambassador to the game.   It is still a game that draws me to play,  but it is far from the addiction that it had been earlier in my life.  Still drawn to gold making and to enjoying quests,  but partially retired from raiding.  All of these things wrapped into how I felt about the expansion.

Then I proceeded to believe that what were the main parts of an explanation of warcraft.  And just how far could that description be filtered down too.   Could it be lowered to just a few words


1:   Mythos

I believe that the mythos created with Mists of Pandaria is some of the best storytelling that Blizzard has come up with.   Not just the straight forward quest text.  But the Lorewalker mythos,  the factions tied together into a overall war between different belief systems.   The last time that Blizzard told an overall story like this was during the Burning Crusade expansion.

2.   Pokemon

There is no escaping the idea that one of the mini games is Pokemon.   This is one of those breaking points with a lot of players.   There are no requirements to be a pet trainer,  and it has absolutely no effect on raiding.  But for many players,  just the thought of having it anywhere close to the game they love is an affront to their gaming beliefs.

3.  Dailies

After reaching level 90,  Dailies become one of the big parts of many players lives.   Whether they are raiders,  or questers or like to sit around a home city and make bad Chuck Norris Jokes.   Dailies to advance in gear and in reputation are a major part of logging on every day.   With previous expansions there were multiple options to obtain reputation.   Token purchases,  dailies,  running heroic dungeons and even questing could raise most reputations to exalted.  With MOP,  you will do your dailies and you will like it.

4.  Scenerios

These were the masterstroke for Blizzard to work with both the casual player as well as the hardcore player.   Having a setup where all you need is to queue and wait for three players,  no tank or healer required has made queue times much quicker.   It gives a taste of structured dungeons without the need to beholden to a healer and tank to queue.

5.   Repetition

This is the bane of any game,  whether it's monopoly or the most advanced MMO on the market.  Once the shiny parts wear off of a game,  then you have the base parts that get replayed time and time again.   With 5.1 just on the horizon,  new areas will be open to combat the repetition that can plague any players gaming life.   Repetition can result in boredom,  boredom can result in players looking to other places for entertainment.

There are more words that players will use when describing Mists of Pandaria to themselves.  Some would use Savior,  others might use cursed.   Either way,  the way that we frame words to describe what draws us back into wow,  can do the same for others.  Or drive them away to do something else.

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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Eyes On The Prize

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 1:30 PM

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The election is over (I voted Thrall myself as a write in candidate), and players are knee deep in the midst of Mists of Pandaria.  

I have always been goal orientated.  From working on leveling,  finishing quests and achievements. Grinding reputation with whatever faction I am working on at that point..  My goals are to accomplish my next step to whatever goal I have set for myself.   Upgrades to my gear to new toys I get to play with.   It becomes easier to view things as step by step towards my goals instead of just being a whirling dervish of inaction or misguided randomness.

This also includes goals in making gold in World of Warcraft.   There is no question that it has become slightly more difficult to make gold in World of Warcraft.   Higher requirements for levelings and Spirits of Harmony grinding has made some items more valuable.    Past techniques such as the Jewelcrafting shuffle have had to become a much more selective process to remain profitable.

But being goal orientated allows a player to set where they want to be.  Measuerments of their own accomplishments based on their own views of where they want to be.   PVP and even PVE raids have unofficial ladders of accomplishments.  But Gold Goblins have to create their own ladders to view when they have been personally successful.

Become goal orientated in your dealings with everyday chores.  Setting those goals will give more meaning to the tedious grinds of listing items,  or grinding out dailies.   Enjoy the rewards once you reach your goals and then prepare to set your next goal for the future.

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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Lorewalker This Way

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:23 PM

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Mommar Here.

I am very partial to the beauty and mythos of any expansion pack.  Whenever I level my main through an expansion I tend to actually read all of the quest text.  I will take time to watch all of the NPC speeches and cut scenes.   It makes me level a little bit slower but I get the full enjoyment of the expansion.  

With Mists of Pandaria the Lorewalkers faction was introduced.    If you take a quick look at their quartermaster as many tend to do to see what loot they can acquire, they really do not seem to have much.  A couple of useful trinkets for that bane of all existence Archaeology,  and a nice shiny mount called the Disc of the Flying Red Cloud.

Nothing to get all that excited about unless you like interesting lore,  and shiny new mounts.   There are multiple easy ways to obtain exalted with the Lorewalkers.   Multiple add-ons and guides on how to make it very quick and painless (between one and two hours depending on your travel speed and accuracy).   The main point is to complete stories from different parts of the main areas on Pandaria.  Some of the items are only found in the level 90 Valley of the Eternal Blossoms.  The Vale can be opened at level 87 but will not have any active quests until Level 90.   Some players reported being able to enter this area earlier via bouncing around the mountains as well.

After you get all of the items (many of them are around packs of mobs so you will have to run in and then run out quickly with your tail tucked between your legs),  you end up with items in your mail to turn into Loremaster quest giver .   Each turn adds a ton of reputation to your Loremaster credits and after turning all of them in,  you have Exalted and access to the Flying Disc.

As I was leveling my first toon I started picking up some of the different lore items as I was in areas.  If I saw one I would pick it up and read it and then move on.  You can always wait til level 90 with flying to make things much easier on yourself.

After reaching level 90 I added an add-on to my pack called Handynotes.  Along with handynotes is a companion add-on called Handynotes Lorewalkers which added site markers to where all of the items are found on the mini-map.   You can always use one of the multiple maps that are online to find the points manually (the gang at Wowinsider have an excellent guide).  I also used this questline to finish up my Pandarian Explorer achievement.

Either way not every quest is about loot or gold.  Sometimes it's just fun to run around and sniff the roses,  pet the trees and look under rocks and see what stories are there.  There is always room for making gold tomorrow.

No,  I did not name my flying cloud disc Nimbus.  His name is Cadillac because Gold Goblins always ride the best.

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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Can Pokewow be saved?

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 5:50 PM

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Pet battles was a major ingredient that Blizzard counted towards the success or failure of Mists of Pandaria.   Their goal seemed to be to bring the more casual player into a solo adventure game.  Also included in this target audience for the battle pet game was younger players.  

I've talked to many players who play the pet battle games with their children and to them it has been a roaring success.   In that case,  the pet battle game has been very successful.   Other players will talk about the addictive nature of "catching them all" as they travel and train around Pandaria.

But for a gold goblin view of the pet battle it's been a relative failure.   Gold goblins groaned out load when the news that wild pets would be removed from the options to sell on the open market.   Learned pets going account wide as well as issues with many of the add-ons for sales has caused the pet market to be difficult for some and nearly impossible to become profitable on other servers.

A rough draft of patch 5.1 has arrived on the PTR's with some changes to the pet battle system.   The big change is the ability to take a Battle Stone and upgrade a pet.   Where the stones themselves are Bind on Pickup,   upgrading a pet to a Uncommon,  polished or even perfect level could jump start the sales of high level pets on the auction house.

In the coming month more information about the battle pet changes will be released.   Small changes can have a large impact on how players view and even play the pet battle system.  More interest into a system could spark income possibilities for gold goblins.   If pet sales have been floundering for you up to now,  there is hope on the horizon.

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. 

Previous Entries

Buying Patterns For Investment
How Not To Influence People
Long Term Plans
The Measure Of A Goblin
Pulling the Deal Trigger
The Vikings Are Upon Us
Dailies For Second String
Flipping Out To Survive
Resetting The Plan
Discipline In the Ranks
The Professions Race To 87
Junk In The Trunk
I bought My Gear on Ebay
Time Is Money Brewfest Edition
Brewfest 2012:
Slow Markets Does Not Mean No Markets
Easy Money From Skinning in MOP
Warcraft Harvest Festival:  Whats it good for?
Leveling professions - Easysauce
First Day In Pandaland
The First 48
The Gospel of Goblin: MOP Edition
MOP Prep:  Last Minute Shopping
O Be Careful Little Goblin What You Buy
The End of Warcraft? Whats Next?
Not So Bottomless Bag of Holding

Long Term Plans

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:13 PM

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Planning and strategy has added a new dimension to being a gold goblin.   With previous expansions it was much easier to arrive at a certain crafting level,   buy raw materials and then craft items for profit. There was very little planning necessary.   Call it blunt force investing,   it was just necessary to obtain the patterns and go our merry crafting way.

With Mists of Pandaria it has become more important to stay on schedule when it comes to using your crafting timers.  Whether it's Scrolls of Wisdom with scribes,  Living Steel with Alchemist or the Jewel crafting timer to learn new cuts.   Each time one of these timers is missed,  it puts the timing to finish up an epic item one day farther down the road.

Lets look at something from the Inscription epics to show what I mean

Inscribed Crane Staff

Rain Poppy Staff x 1
Starlight Ink  x 20
Scroll of Wisdom x 20
Spirit of Harmony x 5

So if you look at the numbers strictly.   The first 5 Spirits of Harmony you collect are already called for with the crafting pattern.   If you obtain no more than these 5 then it will take a minimum of 20 days to craft the staff.   Once you reach level 90 there are weekly Inscription quests that you can obtain Scrolls of Wisdom as well.  All of those quests require extra Spirits of Harmony to complete.   This is why paying attention to your profession timers and even just taking the 5 minutes to finish them every day can pay off.

The other two timer based items,  Living Steel and your gem research timer for jewel crafting   Both are more forgiving due to the use of Spirits of Harmony for extra transmutes/research.  For players who have their crafters still sitting in main cities, this ends up keeping them only available for the daily crafting/research.

Living Steel also can be purchased to replace lost days,  but is still extremely expensive on multiple servers.   The daily timer and lack of Spirits of Harmony drops keeps these items rare and valuable.  But then rare and valuable also brings a smile of opportunity to a gold goblins eye.

Keeping track of your profession transmutes/research will set you on the right track.  And keeping a disciplined planned attack at crafting will reap rewards as you continue your quest through Pandaria

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. 

Previous Entries

The Measure Of A Goblin
Pulling the Deal Trigger
The Vikings Are Upon Us
Dailies For Second String
Flipping Out To Survive
Resetting The Plan
Discipline In the Ranks
The Professions Race To 87
Junk In The Trunk
I bought My Gear on Ebay
Time Is Money Brewfest Edition
Brewfest 2012:
Slow Markets Does Not Mean No Markets
Easy Money From Skinning in MOP
Warcraft Harvest Festival:  Whats it good for?
Leveling professions - Easysauce
First Day In Pandaland
The First 48
The Gospel of Goblin: MOP Edition
MOP Prep:  Last Minute Shopping
O Be Careful Little Goblin What You Buy
The End of Warcraft? Whats Next?
Not So Bottomless Bag of Holding

Pulling The Deal Trigger

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:25 PM

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There is a lot of thought that goes into being a gold goblin.  Not just thoughts of how deep of a dive to make into the mountains and mountains of gold that someone has accumulated.   Where to store that gold,  how to spend that gold.   Many thoughts go around when can I get the next deal to keep ahead of the pack nipping at my gold loving heels.

If you have been reading previously,  you've seen where I believe that disciplined investments will put you ahead of the game.   Not relying on luck or hope that an epic item will drop into your lap to sell.   Working around flipping items for profit,  selling raw materials to crafters for profit and maintaining an edge to new sales revenues.

The mind is as quick as you train it to be.   The majority of the items that you scan you should know within the first 10-15 seconds whether you can make a profit from it.   Granted there are times that some items require a little bit more research.  But for the most part it's your trained instincts that can tell you whether it is a steal,  or time to walk away and look for a better deal.

Training that instinct takes time.  It also take a certain amount of mistakes that will occur during your gold making career.  Major league baseball players who bat 300 are considered all stars.  This means that 7 out of every 10 times up to bat they do not get a hit.   As gold goblins we try to have a better batting average.  But losses of gold will happen from time to time.  To play the game you have to be in the game.

Just keep in mind that every time you win,  look at why it was profitable.  When you lose gold,  ask why it occurred and keep from making the same mistakes again.   Pulling the trigger on the deal requires you to know exactly what target to hit.  Otherwise you will miss and your gold making batting average will suffer.

Good Luck and Good Shooting


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. 

Previous Entries

The Vikings Are Upon Us
Dailies For Second String
Flipping Out To Survive
Resetting The Plan
Discipline In the Ranks
The Professions Race To 87
Junk In The Trunk
I bought My Gear on Ebay
Time Is Money Brewfest Edition
Brewfest 2012:
Slow Markets Does Not Mean No Markets
Easy Money From Skinning in MOP
Warcraft Harvest Festival:  Whats it good for?
Leveling professions - Easysauce
First Day In Pandaland
The First 48
The Gospel of Goblin: MOP Edition
MOP Prep:  Last Minute Shopping
O Be Careful Little Goblin What You Buy
The End of Warcraft? Whats Next?
Not So Bottomless Bag of Holding

Resetting The Plan

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 6:00 PM

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Mo-Man here.

There are times that I wonder if the readers of these entries truly believe that these are the same techniques that I use to obtain my gold.   Similar to the infomercials that play on late night tv for the chop-o-fix-o-matic that guarantees that it will cut and slice through anything.  The same people that you will swear probably have a personal chef and hasn't hit that supposedly useful treadmill in 10 years.

Well,  to set things straight these are the same techniques that I use.  And generally I will tell you the truth whether they are successful or not.   In the past week I haven't been able to put all of my techniques in place due to limited game play.

Where I did find the leveling of professions on some very easy (alchemy is just completely insane on how fast it can level) to the known limitations that Blacksmithing and Leatherworking have (minimum level 87 to maximize the profession).  The money options have been less than successful when it comes to recouping my investment.

There are definitely certain items that shouldn't surprise me are still successful in selling.  Where all of the major epic weapons/armor sales have fallen by the wayside.   My engineer is still racking up the occasional sale from Flintlocke's Woodchucker.   Selling those have balanced out the lack of sales in the Jewelcrafting department.  

So I find myself into a quandry with the idea of resetting some of my ideas and taking a loss.   Wrath gems for now are relatively dead.   Where the blank gems can be converted something saleable, some of them have become vendor bait.  

Other long term investments such as pets and vanity items are taking a back seat to character leveling 
and profession leveling.   Players do not have as much free capitol to be able to purchase vanity items
or throw away items.   But then Mists of Pandaria expansion  is here for at least a year and a half
if not longer.

So has the panic bus pulled up to JMTC central?   Not yet,   I'm still in the plus column for MOP overall.
And I have yet to cut into any of the reserves I set aside for my rainy day fund.   Each profession had a 
certain amount set to invest towards leveling.  And two out of the 5 are on the plus side currently.  But
the changes in the professions have definitely taken its toll on expected sales.

So what's the lesson to be learned here?   That sometimes you can reset where you are at and figure
bottom level of success.    We are here for a marathon of sales,  and this was one small race in a much
longer series of races.   So look at where you are at now,   reset your thought processes if need be
and measure your success.   

Mike Tyson was quoted as saying  "everyone has a plan til someone gets punched in the face".   So 
if you were surprised by your lack of money making in the first week of Mists of Pandaria.  Consider
it your punch in the face and you have 11 more rounds to go.  

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. 

Previous Entries

Discipline In the Ranks
The Professions Race To 87
Junk In The Trunk
I bought My Gear on Ebay
Time Is Money Brewfest Edition
Brewfest 2012:
Slow Markets Does Not Mean No Markets
Easy Money From Skinning in MOP
Warcraft Harvest Festival:  Whats it good for?
Leveling professions - Easysauce
First Day In Pandaland
The First 48
The Gospel of Goblin: MOP Edition
MOP Prep:  Last Minute Shopping
O Be Careful Little Goblin What You Buy
The End of Warcraft? Whats Next?
Not So Bottomless Bag of Holding