Just My Two Copper - WoW Gold Guide

Mommar here.

The Alpha client has hit the greedy hands of friends and family (bet you didn't know just how many friends that Blizzard employees did you?).

That leaves a great hole in the lives of gold makers. Players are itching for the new content. Once the beta starts arriving, giving access to new content and new conquests, Pandaland will become the 'old news' of the water cooler.

With information trickling including the cost of important items it's now even more important to be frugal with your purchases. Garrisons will not be built in a day, and they are going to cost a pretty gold piece. Patterns ranging from 1000g to 5000g on the alpha servers. That's a lot of gold for an
item that many players are going to want.

The closer we get to a beta client, the more your time and money management will come into play. By the time the beta rolls around, you should be looking to have all of your PVP gear sold as well as many of the items that won't carry over to the next expansion.

Now don't look at this as the rats deserting the ship. You probably have at least a month or two months until the beta goes live. Alpha shakes out a lot of the bugs and gives the developers a good taste of what is in drastic need of fixing. But it does signal the changing interests of the normal player looking for the next big fix.

Right now I've been concentrating on selling Transmogrification items as well as items that enhance new gear. Gems, enchants and belt buckles. Also continuing to keep my engineer burning their timers everyday for the Jard's Peculiar Energy Source to be able to craft the two pets now and during the next expansion. There is a possibility that these as well as the other profession timers will not have a daily timer on them come the next expansion. I just am hedging my bet in case it remains part of the normal Engineer daily rotation.

Bags are still selling out continually. There is a logic to this. Yes, you receive 4 bags when a player uses their boost up to 90. But the bank still remains bagless. So every 90 that is boosted retains the sales opportunity of 8 new bags. That means keep 16 slot bags on the AH can get some continual profit into the coffers. 18 slot and higher bags are expensive and players are less likely to look to buy these bags for their banks.

Do not forget the specialized profession bags. You have many players who are farming leather and herbs. Leather especially is plentiful in the different zones and it is a royal pain to have to run over to a mailbox/vendor to dump your bags for the next round of farming. 36 slot Leatherworking or Enchanting bags should pick up as players revamp their toons into new gathering professions.

Opening of the Alpha client for Warlords of Draenor hasn't eliminated the possibility of sales. But it does require a sharpening of your abilities and being quick witted the closer we get to the next expansion.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting

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Have You Hugged Your Yak Today?

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:30 PM

Leave Your 'Tude At The Door
Going Looney over the Lunar Festival
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Mommar here.

Let's face facts. Having a large pile of gold is a good thing in a game such as World of Warcraft. It opens up a lot of options for toons. Gearing a toon quickly to raid level just requires a quick visit to the Auction House and perhaps a few visits to players with select professions. Want a pet? Buy it from the AH. See something you want from someone, drop a few pieces of gold and it is yours. When it comes to gold, if you have you you like it, when you don't you want it.

Mists of Pandaria brought into the game one of the best mounts when it comes to usefulness. The Grand Expedition Yak was introduced and quickly sought after by gold goblins everywhere. The ability to not just buy basic provisions and sell your gray items would have been awesome just by itself. Being able to drag along a Reforger for all of your gear changing needs was icing on the cake. The 120,000 price tag without any time of discount was definitely a kick in the gold teeth. But once you had it the usefulness was apparent.

With Warlords of Draenor and saying goodbye to the Reforging utility the Yak loses a little bit of its shine. It hasn't been revealed just what will happen with this multi player useful mount. But as my mind was rattling along I came up with some possible suggestions to the powers that be:

1. Portable Forge/Anvil Carrier

This guy only has one purpose in life. Lug a 200 lb Anvil that on request drops a combination forge/Anvil for all your Blacksmithing needs. Basically this would be a free version of the Thermal Anvil.

2. Portal Carrier

Ever wanted your own pocket mage? One that can make a portal to certain cities and zones? Even if the portals were on an extended cooldown just being able to occasionally zip from one area to another would be very useful. Being able to create one that party members could use would be even more valuable.

3. Mirror to your Garrison

This would be much trickier to pull off. One of the things with Garrisons that we know of is that you will be able to level up your minions/followers to cover professions that you do not have on your characters. Unless they have a high level access point the odds are that you will have to return to your garrison to have access to these professions. What if your friendly neighborhood yak could give you access to them? Set up a vendor that allows you to set your professions on their missions, collect the gear and even have them craft something for you on the fly.

There are many options that can be done with the traveling yak circus to replace the usefulness of the Reforging ability. Hopefully Blizzard will reward the players who sank the money into this awesome mount and encourage players to return to the plains of Pandaria for their own thundering yak of usefulness.

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.

Leave Your 'Tude At The Door

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 2:40 PM

Going Looney over the Lunar Festival
Cleaning Out The Closet (Achievement Edition)
WOD: Future Catch Up Zones
Ebay Warriors Prepare For Battle

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

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.

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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Ebay Warriors Prepare For Battle

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.

The Times Ten Challenge

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 11:20 AM

Congratulations. You made it to the end of October. Tonight for many parents they will be carrying their kids to get bags of goodies.   Then in two days they will be sorry as their hyper sugared up children are bouncing off the walls.

This is also the end of the month here at JMTC Iowa Branch where I can tally up my gold profiteering and see what sold.   Most of the profits I made came from Jewelcrafting and Enchanting. Easy access to raids through LFR, Flex and even Oqueue has opened up more opportunities to upgrade players and alternate toons.

We are also less than two weeks from the beginning of Blizzcon. Many players are waiting to see just what tidbits for the new expansion will be presented. Where will we all be going for our quest to hit level 95 or even higher?   What gold opportunities will be there and just how much inflation will exist.

I decided I needed a personal challenge. This may sound like a humble brag, but when you reach a certain level of wealth you are less frugal with your gold. The habits of just buying something to craft instead of trading or mining become that much more prevalent. Where leaning on your craftsman a little could make you an item to transmog you find yourself just buying the item from the AH and moving on.

Next month is also the annual Nanowritmo writing challenge. This challenges new or experienced writers to write a novel, prose or anything they want in the next 30 days. This will be the first year that I'm throwing my hat into the ring and give this a try.

So the Times Ten challenge goes like this. You take a certain level of gold in increments of 10. You can start off with 10g, 100g, 1000g, 10,000g etc. With that you have the option of purchasing, crafting or flipping anything. Best percentage at the end of the month wins.

It's on a repeat record but self motivation becomes very important to be able to climb beyond your own personal gold hurdles. No one will be screaming in your ear to earn more gold or tell you you are a gold making noob. Unless that's what you want then leave a message in my email and I will call you a gold making noob to appease you.

November will be an exciting month but make sure to take this last day of October, grab all your tricky treats and lets invite the next month with a smile.

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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New Toy For Raiding Boys (And Girls)

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:50 PM

In the past few months I've started to balance my gaming life between making gold and raiding. Making gold has not always been the forefront of playing World of Warcraft. Originally I was raiding with a enjoyable fun group of friends. Ultimately as with many guilds we ended up breaking up due to players leaving the game and finding 'real' lives.

Later on I started to drag my way through the trenches in making every mistake in the book in making gold. As I was doing this I started to drift away from raiding. To keep the story short something happened with the guild I was at that point and I completely left raiding and focused on playing solo toons (and the occasional groups) and making my own fortune.

With the introduction of a much stronger Looking for raid and flex raiding I was able to step up my raiding schedule without interference with my gold making duties. Spending an hour a day making gold through the different means we've talked about allowed me to step back into the boss arena and take my swings.

I did find one thing that made it more difficult to pick up groups was that I live on a medium population server and there wasn't a lot of cross realm conversations. LFR would let me pick up one raid a week where I could loot for each boss. This was nice but by the end of the week I had run all three of my raiding toons through everything and I was back to bumbling my way around Timeless Isle looting and pillaging those poor mobs.

Then a friend made a mention of a very interesting tool. Someone had taken a PVP pre-made add-on named Oqueue and converted it allowing cross realm groupings for raids. The core functionality of the PVP side is still there and very strong. But with the addition of cross grouping for all types of raids it opened up a very interesting and enjoyable side.

It's very simple once it's set up. When you first add the package into your addon folder and start up the Wow engine you see what looks like two eyes on your mini map. Clicking that and your assaulted by a varied amount of data. You see a list of everyone that is using the new Oqueue channel that's in the background and just how many raids are there. At the bottom of the window the first button I clicked was one that said 'qualified'. This limits what you to see based on your gear you are wearing.

There are a lot of settings that are available but the basic strategy is that you see one of the raids or premades that your interested in. It sends a cross realm friend request to whoever is hosting the group and they decide if your added or not. There is also a wait list function that is built in so that if the premade is full your set into a queue (get it, the name and queue ha ha) and if someone drops then the next one up is added. You do have to queue and stay in the spec that you want to raid in. So tanking spec gets picked up as tanks and heals/dps the same.

One of the things I did notice is that when I was helping with a four celestial kill that if I flipped between windows reading something that it would fade me between realms. This became a problem because I had joined a premade on a pvp realm and ended up fading cross realm into about 20 flagged allies. After my death run back I didn't flip between my windows til after the raid was finished.

The forums at http://oqueue.forumotion.com give a lot of tips and tricks on how to get the most out of this addon.

Hopefully see you in the next flex raid. I will be the one pew pewing from the corner.

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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Nobody Knows the Golems I Have Sold
Gold Mercenary
Surviving the Raid
Darkmoon Faire Dead?
Golden Days
Tip For Timeless Isle
Be Prepared
Poor Poor Spirits of Harmony
Not Enough Loot On My Hands
10 Rules To Price My Golem.

I'm Not Dating My Guild

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 9:15 AM

Sometimes you just have to step outside of making gold in World of Warcraft and learn to enjoy the game.   Enjoyment of the game and the people involved is truly what should keep people coming back for more.

My Guild as working on a flex raid in Seige of Orgrimmar.   We had picked up a few players in open raid and were progressing relatively well.   They fit in pretty well with our banter and slung a little bull around when necessary.

Around the last of the raid night one of them commented that he had a date and was needing to get ready. Of course there was the necessary mocking and announcement that some female was more important than the raid. It was all in jest because many of the members of our guild are couples including a few that live together. Anyone who has lived with others for long periods of time will tell you that 'date night' is one of the lifeblood of a good relationship. But this isn't a dating journal is it?

So after the prerequisite banter the player left for his date.   We continued on for a little bit longer then called it a night. So I told you this part of the story so I could share another different view of the same story.

The boyfriend of a friend of mine was playing one of the Star Wars MMO. As he was playing she took the time to go and shower.   Not to be graphic because this is a PG blog, but she stepped out of the shower and wore a towel and little else. Coming up behind him she wrapped her arms around him. His announcement that he was 'playing his game' took the steam out of what should have been a much more exciting night than the digital killing of mobs.

So why is this an important ideal to remember? It won't be that long before those purples and awesome gear that drops in this raid instances will became the cannon fodder for every vendor and enchanter. It may be 3 months or it may be 6 months before the next expansion but that sense of accomplishment will be replaced with a new adventure.   Your friends will be the next day or even the next week.   That relationship might need that power boost at that point.

So if your friend comes up behind you, wraps their arms around you and whispers in your ear.   Tell them to hold on a sec,   get on vent and then tell your digital friends that you will see them next week.

That's when you really win the game.

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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Time to Remodel The Financial House

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:24 PM

Only Worth What Someone Will Pay

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

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

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

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

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

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. dOT com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up and I will buy you a glass of juice.

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The End of a Pricing Era
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Priorities in PVP Gear Pricing
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Sense of Entitlement

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:58 AM