I'll Buy That For A Gold Piece

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 7:00 AM

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I love playing monopoly.   I've always used the grab corner areas and then start building strategy for my wins.  Thrills abound when the strategy works and heartbreaks occur when it happens to you.

One thing about monopoly is the idea of sore winners and sore losers.  At the end of it all, no-one truly wins at monopoly unless everyone has fun.

Playing the auction house has the same rules when it comes to winning and losing.  You can set your strategy and find out what works and what doesn't work, compared to other players.  That item that you get underbid on that you really, really wanted for your collection.  That sale that pushes you over your goal for the week only to just miss it because no one wanted to purchase it this week.

Both the auction house game and Monopoly can be very frustrating.  But that is also why it is one of the world's most popular games.  Frustration breeds learning how to play better.  Losing at games gives you the lessons needed to later on win.  What items sell and what items do not sell on your server of choice.

Many players choose not to challenge themselves with playing the auction house.  They will throw up a few items to pay for repairs, but anything beyond that is too much work.  Their prize just for participating is a small shiny trophy that everyone received at the game for showing up.  A gold goblin in training strives for the big trophy that only the highest achievers receive.

This week is going to be another week of winners and loser in the game of auction house trading.  I switched from just disenchanting everything in sight to dropping a lot of my green and blue gear on the auction house for sales.  Enchanting materials have dropped to a new low so it ends up making me more gold to sell the occasional pieces and then looking for vendor all of the rest at the end of the season.

Keeping up with my daily 'transmutes' from Leatherworking,  Engineering and Tailoring has kept me up on being able to profit both now as well as later.   The large bags (24 slot bags) produced both for standard items as well as specialty items are being sold at a good pace.  Netherweave bags have taken a drop down to regular levels so I have left those off the rotation for a few weeks to see if the market recovers.

As always,  I am still collecting specific items to resell with the next expansion.  Tailoring and Jewelcrafting still does not have a catch up mechanism announced so older materials will be in demand as players level their professions organically and not through the boosting mechanism.

With finishing another SOO flex 4 run for BOAs this week will be busy as we wait for the announcement of the new expansions beta key date.

Keep your head above water and keep off of my Boardwalk.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting


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You're Squishing My Items

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:49 AM

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Gamescon in Germany is almost done.   All the beer,  all the gaming and lots of little tidbits getting released.  

Game Director Tom Chilton,  the grand poohbah of giving us little tidbits of information was asked about item squishing in future expansions.   The basic idea of item squishing is to compress the numbers so that the damage numbers don't become so ridiculous they blow up the game itself.

A good dps during Burning Crusade could crank out 4 digit dps regularly.  As the expansions and stats on items became larger and larger,  the minimum 'good dps' numbers increased exponentially.   To the point that during Mist of Pandaria you saw burst dps that went into 6 digit (yes gang,  that's 100,000+) numbers.

So why talk about this now?   What's the benefits to the gold goblin for item squishing?   Anytime that there is a change in stats on items it brings looking for the best stats to have into play.  With new expansions (and in theory new races) you have lots of players looking for the best weapons to purchase to go back to uber god (or goddess) status.  The basic philosophy of I have what you want and I'm going to charge you a lot of gold for it becomes prevalent again.

So does this mean I'm saying jump out there and buy a bunch of items right now in the long term hope that we can make lots of gold?   Nope,  not at all.  But I would keep an eye on the market and if you see some blues or even epic BOE items on sale to take a few chances.  

In the next week gold goblins are going to be busy prepping for Patch 5.4.   Collecting materials and getting ready to drop into new zones and raids.  But that mental backburner can always be busy thinking whats ahead with the next expansion.  Item Squishing might be your new best friend.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

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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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