People are Strange

When you’re a stranger. -The Doors

So every time I am able to eek out a few minutes to write a post here, I look at the searches bringing traffic to my site. Spank me is inevitable, as I wrote a post about my wife’s warrior named spankmeplz. Today, I got a disturbing search.

Sylvester Stallone has an Amazing Ass

WTH?

I don’t even know what that means.

Ok, Druid is 73, and moving quickly. I have pretty much stopped BG, because I want gold from quests. Also questing in Outlands and Northrend has provided me plenty of herbs for my Inscription and alchemy professions.

That being said, I am having to purchase almost every Northrend herb that goes for less than 1 gold in order to keep up with the inscription business.

That being said, I am not making as much as I thought I would, but still enough.

I mainly heal with my Druid.

I tanked Regular UK and Regular AN last night. It was fun, but that shit requires crazy multi-tasking. Especially when I have a warrior who loves to spin in circles with his axe out.

I want everyone to have a great Thanksgiving. get your pet. Have some fun with the family. Be thankful for the things that matter.

Enjoy some Turkey.

Overbusy Much?

Many long days have passed from darkness to light.

And that, ladies and gentlemen is the end of my RP career.

Ok, so I alluded in the last couple quick posts to how busy I have been. And I think normal readers know that I post as often as I can, but work gets in the way occasionally. Also, my baby girl (4 years old) had a really nasty case of pretty much every sickness known to man. Thanks public school system. I can’t be mad at them though, it is bound to happen. I ended up having to take a week off work and spent most of each day trying to get her to eat/drink, and holding her to comfort her. It was really sad. BTW, a kid with a temperature of 101-104, is frigging hot to hold. Ok, this isn’t a parenting blog.

In between work and kid. I actually have gotten a bit of wowing in. Or at least have gotten a lot done in the wow career of my druid and my hunter.

Some of you may recall I have a druid who was stuck at level 38 for a really really long time. I think something like 6 or 7 months passed since the last time I played the druid. I just got tired of questing in the old world, it sucks. So, I made a pact. I would level from 38-58 doing nothing but BG and a few power runs through instances if a guildy wanted to do it for achievs. It took me hardly any time at all to get those levels. I have almost all the WSG, AB achievements, I now have the Black War Raptor (which is a completely bad ass mount BTW). Because my intent is to heal on the druid at end game, I went into the BGs as a healer. This has caused me to have to learn to hotkey and heal under extreme circumstances. I did run at level 45 ZF, and ST with a regular group. At first I was really nervous about the healing thing, but when I realized how much slower paced and easier it is to heal an instance than a BG, I felt better.

I also Dual Specced Feral. For a while I was kitty centric, but really was not enjoying the energy mechanic, so I started playing a bit with the bear form. I liked it enough to respec a little bit to be more bear friendly, and am now cruising through Zangarmarsh pulling oodles of mobs and destroying everything. I still bust out heals when I go into BGs, but leveling Prot on my druid for the last levels is proving to be fun. Druid is almost 65 now, has done all the quests in HFP, and maybe 20 or 30 in Zangarmarsh.

The hunter has also been busy, but mostly only for raiding. We are consistently clearing to Soggy Yoggy, but we are unable to pass phase 2. We just cannot clear the damn place.

We have attempted to zerg OS10+3 and can get Sartherion to 10% before she goes immune.

Tried doing some 25 stuff with a sister guild. They are a good group, but not as geared or as progressed or as experienced in raiding. OS25+1 was easy. Ony25 did not happen, we wiped several times, the problem was retarded ass PUGs.

Finally got Crusader Title from the Argent Tournament. Then promptly purchased the awesome dragonhawk. Then Stopped doing the dailies so I can concentrate on the druid. I will go back to being good about dailies once Druid hits 80 and starts raiding/heroicing. The good thing about getting the Crusader Title, it comes with 2 titles and 5 achievements. Which is a good time.

I kind of suspended my AH experiment with the alliance  pets. I found that it will work to do it, but I really wanted my DK back on Horde side, so I deleted Alliance DK and created Horde DK. I ended up making a couple grand on the pets, books of glyph mastery, but…it was just taking up too much time, and I was camping the AH. My druids Inscription/Herbalism and my Warlocks Alchemy are pulling in shit tons of gold so I will just keep doing that.

I think that is about it as far as all the really big deal cool things. Yes I do have ADD with alts by the way, but now that the druid is over 60, he will be my main until 80. I only have 16 levels left…

Warrior, stagnate.

Mage, stagnate.

Pally, stagnate.

Priest, shammy, other priest, warlock all stagnate.

But I work on them sometimes…

DPS Meme

I love memes, not because they inspire truly thought provoking blog content, but for two other very important reasons.

1. 1) They link the blogging community together and create a webring of sorts.
2. 2) I don’t have to come up with original content, I just answer some questions. This last couple weeks have been crazy with work and kid sickness…so good timing Zarii, otherwise there would probably not be a post today.

On a lighter note, I should be back to my normal posting schedule next week. The kid is done with whatever nastiness she had, and I am finally getting caught up from the week I had to take off work to take care of her.

So…Inward and onward to the Meme!!

Started over at http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ and I was tagged by Karii  over at Zarii and Me.

What is the name, class, and spec of your primary dps?

Sfcnez, Hunter, Survival (/cry).

What is your primary dpsing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)

Primarily 10 mans with the occasional 25 thrown in, I don’t have a lot of time to PUG 5 mans so I only do those sporadically.

What is your favorite dps spell/ability for your class and why?

There is a lot of synergy with the SV class. Explosive shot is more powerful with Black Arrow, Steady shot is more powerful with serpent sting (serpent sting crits now FTW ! <3 2 piece T9). I am going to have to say the combination, when factors are right of Lock and Load/Sniper Training/Explosive Shot damage starts cranking when you are doing all that correctly.

What dps spell do you use least for your class and why?

Not being a PVP guy usually, I will say… Wing Clip. It just sits there. When I am chain dueling to master my skills, it gets used, but that is pretty infrequent. Oh, this says DPS spell…well in SV spec Arcane Shot never gets used, so that one. In BM it is Aimed shot, but I haven’t been specced BM in so long, I cannot remember why I did not spec into it.

What do you feel is the biggest strength of your dps class and why?

We provide Strudels…I am jsut kidding, though I did provide some strudels to our healer last night, but that is OT. I just happened to have some in my bag. Later on I also resurected someone with my gnomish army knife. Talk about utility.

Seriously though, we are decent at CC even though it is not used so much anym0re. A well played SV will destroy a target with great burst damage. Currently two of our top three damage producing raiders in my guild are SV hunters. So I will say damage is the biggest strength.

What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your dps class and why?

The obvious answer is melee damage. For the most part, it is easy to avoid needing to do it, but when it comes up, it is pitiful. Really, though for what we do, we do well. Ranged DPS.

In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best dps assignment for you?

oooh, really this is situation dependant…Ony? Keep Black arrow/Serpent Sting up and help with elites. VoA, Spam shot priority and stay out of shit you aren’t supposed to stand in.

What dps class do you enjoy dpsing with most and why?

Probably shaman…Bloodlust drives my damage done through the roof. Pallys in general for kings (OMG KINGS RAGE).

What tanking class do you enjoy dpsing with least and why?

I like them all, all three of our rotating tanks in our 10/25 content are warriors and they are great. I haven’t really been with a DK or Pally tank in a while. Though at one point out DPS DK had to turn on Frost presense for an emergency pick up, he did ok, but…well he is not a tank. I think maybe Druid tank, just because I rarely see them anymore.

What is your worst habit as a dps?

My tendency to watch the GCD and CD timers on my shots and mouse click instead of keybind. Those two things combined slow me down some I think.

What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while dpsing?

I really don’t mind wipes if we are progressing, but when we are continually wiping because of the same mistakes, I get irritated.

Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other dps?

Yes.

What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a damage dealer?

Recount. Though to keep myself from being a DPS whore, I keep it from showing during combat. I do a quick peek in between encounters to check it out, so I can see if I am missing something rediculous. I usually use it though to compare the shot by shot damage done with the other hunter I raid with. This helps me adjust after the raid my stats if need be. For example for a long time My steady shot was doing more damage than my explosive shot, whereas his was the other way around. This enticed me to talk to him, we looked over gear and found I had been stacking the wrong gem. (+agi FTW BTW) Recount is what parsed that together for me and made me ask the question.

What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your class?

Hunters are not facerolllol anymore. There is a lot of shot prioritization that goes on. Also, we are not all Huntards.

What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new dpsers of your class to learn?

Proper shot prioritization, how not to pull aggro, and most importantly, don’t clip the last tick of your Explosive Shot. That last one actually takes some practice.

What dps class do you feel you understand least?

I have an 80 Warlock that I just can’t seem to slam dps out of. It really frustrates me, since I loved gringing levels with it throughout the leveling process. I think it is because I use her as a fancy alchemist more than a raider. It is sad. Poor thing. I have played I think all of the DPS classes to at least level 20 I like melee, just havent hit 80 with one. Though my healing druid will love having a feral spec once i make a little more gold.

What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in dps?

to aid in DPS? Power Auras to tell me when my black arrow and Serpent sting expire or are dispelled, and Mics Scrolling Battle Text to tell me when Lock and Load procs.

The only Macro I use is my opening send in pet, cast hunter’s mark, start auto shot macro. Everything else is old fashioned.

And while it does not assist with DPS, I love Spartan UI.

Strength over other stats or balanced stat allocation, and why?

Agi, Agi, Agi…can’t have too much.

Tag!

I choose REPGRIND and RtD.

An Addon Review (Routes)

I normally do not write reviews or opinions about add-ons. The reasons are many, but I just don’t really possess the vernacular to articulate what I am trying to say about an add-on. Last night I found one you have to read about. Because it is amazing.

Routes is the name of the add-on and here is what is required to make it work.

• Cartographer and/or TomTom (I use both and it is amazing)
• Gatherer

Here is what it does:

1. Calculates and optimal route for farming anything
2. Draws the route on your World Map and your Mini Map
3. Talks to your TomTom Arrow and tells you where to fly next

Here are a couple steps to get it working.

1. Download and install Routes, I think I got if off Curse.com, but cannot verify at this time.
2. Ensure Gatherer is turned on
3. Ensure you have uploaded all nodes from wowhead through gatherer (this may take a few minutes but is totally worth it)
4. Type /routes into your chat box up pops a UI.
5. Click add (on the left about halfway down)
6. Name the route
7. Pick the zone you are in and what you want it to calculate the route for (i.e. specific mining nodes or herbalism nodes) (I clicked all mining nodes which were available this is self-explanatory, if you are on your miner you do not need to see the routes for herbs)
8. Click the button that tells you to cluster (make sure cluster diameter is set to 60 yards)  (imperative, even though it is optional)
9. Viola

Impressions:

I went to Shadowmoon Valley to farm up some adamantite and Fel iron so I can finally build Jeeves. Told it to optimize and cluster my route and started following the arrow. Basically what it does is points you to the proper direction to get nodes. Now, how does this not violate ToS? It does not tell you were current nodes are, only where nodes have been found in the past. Everyone who has ever farmed nodes of any type understands that nodes will spawn in set, but random locations. This just points you through the most optimal route to hit all nodes.

The cluster function puts all nodes within 60 yards on one point, the radius for discovering nodes is 80 yards so you can expand it that far for a shorter route, but you may miss respawns which are close to you.

Routes calculated my inital route to be over 1million yards long to hit all mining nodes within SMV (sounds like a lot, but you cover the entire area and get lots of stuff). After I clustered it went dow to a little under 600k yards. It took me about 45 minutes to do the whole thing and I ended up with 5 stacks of Fel Iron 3 stacks of adamanite and sadly no stacks of khromium. I also had a bunch of other gems and such and since I am an engineer, I also stopped to farm gas nodes (because I can and I am sure someone wants them). So 45 minutes and I got the whole region, to include a bunch of nethercite ore. You can also set it to do route optimization for Netherwing eggs, but I did not get to that last night as I was not going underground. Tonight I will set up another route that only includes the eggs and we will see what I get from those.

For anyone who prefers to farm mats and not purchase them PICK THIS UP. It really streamlined the farming process. Though I have yet to try it with herbalism.

Tonight I hit Wintergrasp to see how effective it is when other people are farming with me. It was nice to have SMV to myself.

Last night I was supposed to kill Yogg, we decided to take a break for a few days. We have been raiding hard for the last 4 days. I think the break will be nice. Sunday though its his ass.

See you all on Monday.

Sometimes work gets in the way

I always have things to do at work. However, I am not so busy usually, that I cannot take a few minutes to post a blog. These last two days have been extremely hectic though and I have barely even had the chance to play WoW, let alone post about it.

So, what have I been doing on the AH? Various things. I am making a killing buying and reposting greater cosmic essences as lesser cosmic essences. I have also taken to purchasing Books of Glyph Mastery and reselling them to the Alliance at sometimes 300% price increase.

Also, my epic gems are going like crazy. I no sooner get them posted then someone is buying them. I actually don’t mind not being able to make enough gems…

I am getting really paranoid about the whole Hallowed thing. I am exactly one sinister squashling away from getting “the Hallowed” achiev, I do the dailies every day and I trick or treat as much as is humanly possible. I have received more wands than any hunter should ever have in his inventory, but no friggin sinister squash…and I have only seen one drop off the horseman, which I lost the roll for.

My hunter gear is moving up nicely, It is great running around with a group that consists of me as a hunter and one other player that either DPSes with his hunter, heals with his druid, or Tanks with his Warrior. He is also slightly more geared than I am on his hunter so usually I get the gear when it drops. Razor’s Edge did drop off Lord J last night, but I lost the roll to a DK.

Vanddora pretty much just does transmutes and flasks for me, so her warlocky ass is still in iLevel 200 stuff.

We will finally kill Yogg tonight. He is the last boss in all content that we need to down. Then we move to H10ToCr and hardmodes in Ulduar.

ok, gotta run, little one needs to have her ears checked out. I think it might be an ear infection.

How to undercut me with my own product

Sounds confusing right? Don’t worry, I will explain…

I started this weekend by purchasing a couple items I was sure would sell.

First, I bought 5 Flasks of Endless Rage on the Horde (28G each) AH and put them on the Alliance AH (50G each). I sold zero over the weekend, even though I was undercutting the next highest by 15 gold. I canceled the auctions this morning and re-listed them at 35 gold. If I sell them at that price I will be happy and will just chalk it up to not making as much as I was hoping too. Not sure less than 7 gold is enough of a profit to deal with the Pain in the Ass it is to move the material. Unless I can start selling a whole shit ton. We will see.

I bought a lot of cats this weekend. You know the cheap 36S cats? I have sold most of them and am posting them at 2G each. First I put them all on the Horde AH. (Here is where the tutorial comes in). Then the main competitor (who I was undercutting significantly) comes in and buys ALL the cats I had posted, so I went and acquired a LOT more of the cats (13 each) and took them to put on the Horde AH, I chickened out at the last-minute, thinking if the competitor saw that many he would not buy them, so I only put about 7 of each cat on the Horde AH. I left the other 7 of each on the neutral AH.

Here is where it gets funny:

I go back a couple hours later, all my cats have been purchased for 2 gold each. Minus AH fees, flight fees, and AH cut, I am making about a gold on each kitty. Well, this knuckle head decides he is going to undercut me with my own cats WHICH HE PURCHASED. So he buys the kitties for 2 gold and is selling them all for 1G99S99C. I have no idea what he is doing unless it is trying to “scare” me out of the market. I will tell you though, what it did do, was scare me back to the Neutral AH, I cancelled half again the Auctions I had there and reposted them on the Horde AH. He did not take the bait this time. But I have sold all but 1 of each kitty on both AHs. I will let those expire and not cancel and relist.

Here is what I learned about the cats:

1) I can sell a lot on the Weekend I think I sold a total of about 65 or so, I will have to go back and check because I cannot remember.

2) I will keep pricing them at 2 gold each, because they move at that price.

3) I am only going to keep 1 or 2 of each cat up during the week.

4) I think it is time to start going for the moths as well. They sell for 50S and are going for 10G on the AH. I think I can post for 5G and be good.

5) I will not make enough money to really do “well” by making only a few gold a piece on pets. This is just to get me started and I am making a profit, just not what I want to make.

I finally got my alchemy to 450 and started making epic gems. The mats are really, really easy. On a whim I put an uncut gem on the AH and made 120G in about 5 minutes. The next day, different gem, same thing. I am working on getting Xmute mastery, as it seems that is a more fiscally responsible type of alchemy to do. Not sure why Primal mights are still going for 150Gold on my server though. So I am transmuting them myself. Getting the Primals is kind of a Pain though, but meh.

And the last thing on the AH business before I post totals.

Another area I am exploring is the Book of Glyph Mastery Market. I bought four off the Horde AH for 30-35 Gold each. I posted all of them on the Alliance AH for 100G each. We will see tonight how that works out. I have also taken to buying items to convert one way or another. For example, I purchased 7 Greater Cosmic Essences for 16 Gold Total. I then Turned them into 21 Lesser Cosmic Essences. I almost immediately sold 4 of the lessers for 8G each which doubled my investment in about 4 minutes of work. I am also experimenting with Primal Earths, Fires and Eternal Stuff.

Ok, on to the good stuff:

Maghu : 1352G 46S

Nagtodeath : 73G 79S

Liselle : 100G 36S

Somehow my bookkeeping is either jacked up, or I reported false numbers the other day. Maghu has not lost money on AH, but I am showing (according to the list 2 days ago) a drop of almost 200G, and a gain of 50G and 40G for Nag and Liselle respectively. Which would put me down about 100G. I will go back tonight and relook the numbers. I think I will have to scratch all earlier reports and start with a clean list tonight. We will see.

So anyway, it may seem like I spent a majority of my time on the AH this weekend, but it really was not that much work. I hardly played at all this weekend, as my daughter had her 4th B-day party so I was busy getting the house ready for people to come over. I logged on about once per hour on Saturday to trick or treat and do an AH check, but mostly I was on about 5 minutes or less every hour.

Man I have rambled the shit out of this thing. I think I will call it quits now, I am sorry these last few days have turned into a journal for me to keep track of my budding AH business. Even if I am screwing the numbers up.

Day 2: Stagnation

Is that even a word?

So, none of my pet auctions have sold after those first 2. I was raiding last night, and since my time is limited every night I did not get the opportunity to do much auctioning. Plus my alliance toon was killed by one of my guildies. She did not know it was me…more on that later.

I had farmed a Leaping Hatchling from Takk the Leper Leaper. I sent it to my wife and asked her to put it on the nuetral auction house so I could sell it to those alliance pukes since it goes for about twice as much on their AH than mine. Well…long story short, she accidentally right clicked it and learned it instead of mailed it. That was a quick 700 gold lost. But no worries. I blame it on her pregnancy.

I have been purchasing small amounts of Frost Lotus, as it seems there is never much more than about 5 or 6 auctions on the alliance side and there are a lot on the horde side. I will be putting those up tonight to see how they fare over the weekend. They should pull in about 20 Gold Profit on each one.

So about the raid.

My guild is pretty much rocking things right now. We started late due to half the raid works with each other and they had to work late. No worries, there is halloween stuff and such to do. We had 3 hours scheduled to clear the Siege area and Kologarn. Well since we started late we only had 2 hours. We cleared All siege with no deaths, a bugged Kolo with 1 wipe and no deaths on the next one. Freya with no deaths, Thorim with no deaths and took a quick shot at Iron Counsel since we did not have time to get through the trash and attempt Hodir. Next week we are going to start doing the achievements since this stuff is going so quick now. Also, we accidentally got the achievement for killing Razor douche without him taking off more than once. That was not planned but was definitely a great achievement to get.

Kologarn bugging was kind of a drag. We were attempting to do the “no arm kill” achievement. Well Kolo was picking us up and would not put us down basically crushing each of us to death. The arm would not take damage. And he single-handedly crushed us one at a time. I was the last one. I basically stopped DPSing and let him take me. It was sad. On attempt two, we were a little overzealous and destroyed his arm. No worries.

So, why did my guildy kill my alliance toon? Well I was in Booty Bay scanning the AH and she was in a group raiding Booty Bay. She sees a level 58 Alliance and killed me in about as much time as it took me to say “hey that’s my guildy”. I logged onto my hunter, joined group, chided her relentlessly, and proceeded to FINALLY get Bloodsail Admiral. It goes so much faster with a group of five, one of which was a dedicated healer.

I think I need to do this one more time and get exalted with Bloodsail Admiral, I just think that one would be cool to be exalted with. I am not even sure you can do it by killing Booty Bay Bruisers. I will have to research it.

I will post screenshots later. I kind of forgot to email them to my work address.

I love my new title BTW, I don’t usually sport any titles, but I showed up to my raid wearing all my pirate regalia, created a new outfit on outfitter, and had my helm on display with the little parrot out. Speaking of which, it would be epic if The parrot /say everything you said in true parrot fashion.

Ok, gotta go to the last meeting of the week. I will see you all on Monday, hopefully I will be able to update you with tales of multiple hundreds of gold made over the weekend.

Happy Hunting.

Profit: Day 1

Ok, so before I go too much into it, I am starting really small. I do not have a lot of capital to start so I am going to play the AH in small chunks until I get the whole thing figured out.

Soon I will be dealing in everything to include cocaine muskets. (Note, color = Faction)

I leveled my DK to 58, got her to Stormwind and have 20G53S. Nagtodeath

I moved my wife’s lvl 24 Rogue to Booty Bay, she has 58G 78S. Liselle (Yes David Eddings Reference)

My main banker is in Org and has 1524G 36S. Maghu (Another David Eddings Reference) (I love this Author)

Other toons don’t count as they will not be participating in this experiment. Maghu will NOT be sharing his funds. I am not ballsy enough yet to start with nothing, but I don’t want to pad the experiment either. If Maghu puts stuff in the horde AH, he will foot the bill for the deposit/mailing/AH cuts. He will also keep all money that comes in from the AH, but he will share profits.

So I start with a grand total of – 79G31S

Liselle is just hanging in Booty Bay, phase two begins after phase one which is:

Nagtodeath spent 36S each on 8 cats for a grand total of 2G88S, spent 6S flying from SW to BB and 15S each on 8 cats to list on Neutral AH, for a grand total of 4G14S initial investment or 52S per cat. I listed all 8 for 5 gold each. These were the only ones on the AH, so I am not sure if this is a good price or not.This morning I had sold two of the kitties, after the AH cut, I earned 9G10S.

/number crunch

I doubled my investment! I now have 88G41S and have only sold 1/4 of my stock.

So, this post will probably be boring for most, but I have to document this crap in order to make sure I am not screwing it up. I will come back and read it to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes twice.

I am not going to go run and put up a bunch of kitties on the neutral AH, but I will make sure my stock is replenished for the weekend. I am also not afraid to cancel auctions and repost below. As long as my listing price is higher than my IpK (investment per kitty) I will be happy. If this turns out to not be profitable, I will try the kitties on the Horde AH. If that works, I will be putting the cockroaches/snakes in the Alliance AH. There are always cockroaches/snakes in the neutral AH since there are som many horde on my server.

That leads me to another interesting point. I of course scanned all three AH before I started. There were approximately 10K auctions on the horde side, 90 Auction in the Neutral, and 4k Auction in the Alliance. Interestingly enough, the Alliance and horde prices were really really close. Which surprised me, I assumed there would be a huge discrepancy in the prices. I know buying low and selling high is not a great way to make money, but I think it is different if you are playing two different markets.

Which brings me to one more point…

Cleared 10 ToCr last night on my first shot in. Got some flaming cool shoulders and had to listen to the jokes about flamers and such for a few minutes. Those shoulders replaced my last T7 piece. And I still don’t have the Epic Achiev…stoopid cloak.

Another New Toon…Again

I know, this is starting to become a disease, but there is a good reason for it this time.

I have been perusing Gevlon’s site for some time now. I find his posts to be amusing and not stupid. Plus, I have always held the opinion of myself that I could make some money on the Auction House if I really tried. I also read and re-read the series over at Casual Hardcore. Last night I decided to get off my ass and actually attempt to make some money. And I have  a strategy.

List form go -

1) Become whatever master makes me proc extra flasks on my Warlock.

2) Max alch on my warlock, she is at 445, I need to get those epic gem transmutes so I can sell those, though my main money making from her will be flasks.

3) Level a DK past the starting level on the alliance side. Gevlon gives good reasons for using a DK as a bank alt, namely

1) already able to learn profs up to 375

2) 12 slot bags

3) Already knows all Kalimdor and EK flight points

4) Already has epic riding and an epic mount.

4) Get into the Alliance only pet and recipe market (there is currently only one person in these markets and I can significantly undercut him and still make a profit).

5) decide what profs to make my DK (thinking inscription, JC, tailoring, LW). I want something I can do by purchasing mats with little or no gathering necessary.There are pros and cons to each, just not sure which will be most profiatble. I know Glyphs are supposed to be great, but I already have a toon that will be using most of the herbs I purchase. Tailoring will be good for bags, LW will require me to cut out a portion of the population (cloth wearers), JC will be expensive to level via buying mats (though if I have the money at that point, it will probably pay off, expecially once I start transmuting them). We will see what works.

6) Figure out what side of the server has better money making opportunity (this money will be for my mains, and I intend to do no raiding on the alliance side, but money is easy enough to transfer back and forth.

7) Utilize one of my wife’s character slots to sit at BB neutral AH to move money and goods back and forth.

Make money, buy cool mounts, pets, toys, etc.

9) I will keep you all posted, I think.

I am starting with about 2k gold across all my toons. I want to see what I can turn that into. My DK is a Draenei (SP?) and is going to be awesome. She has a JC bonus which is why I chose her, plus IF I ever do raiding with her +1% hit is a great racial. I wanted to do the DK on my wife’s account, but she already has one who is horde and she wouldn’t let me delete it.  I instead deleted my DK and created on on the other side. I will be starting as soon as I finish the starting quests with about 25 gold on the DK, I think I can get some bankroll with just that limited initial investment.

Looking at the iLevel200 Guns my engineer can make looks like it will be profitable, but I am not sure and I don’t have that kind of capital right now. I will experiment with that a little later.

Wish me luck.

General Vezax is Dead

That’s right ladies and gents, we killed the big bad general. After one wipe, then a quick assessment and slight strategy adjustment, the fight clicked and we had what I would call a near perfect kill. Nobody died, and he went down in about 8 and a half minutes.

I got Hopender which makes me slower but much more agile. There was a 14 AP drop but a large agi and Armpen buff, after I put +20 Agi gem and massacre on that bad boy, I am styling. My last staff looked cooler though. I now am way over hit cap. Which is irritating since I have no Hit gems or enchants. Meh, it will work itself out. I am also going to save the last staff for a while…just in case.

After Gen we of course went on to battle Sara and Yoggy. Our first attempt we lasted about 18 seconds. I am not exaggerating, it was a fast wipe. A few wipes later we were making it to 2d phase, but kept running into issues. I think there was just a lot going on and some people were not really sure what they were supposed to do. Plus those damned constrictor arms kept reaching up and getting us. It was really irritating.

We debated extending again, but decided it would be better to start over again and get the badges. This week promises Ony, 10ToC, 10 Uld, and other such fun.

I finally got exalted with the sunreavers, but was unable to do the new quests last night, since I was busy getting trounced at chutes and ladders by my 3 year old earlier in the evening, and I had to go raid. Small price to pay IMO since my daughter not only beat me, but also my wife (and I promise we did not let her win). Little one was gloating all night. She also pulled the ol’ “Daddy since I won  at Chutes and Ladders, can I watch you raid?” I asked her to explain why those two go together and she was unable to so I tucked her in. She is going to be a force to reckon with and I already feel bad for her future husband (she can start dating at 42).

Also picked up the quest for the blue ladies and for the first time in months did not get to complete the quest since again, it was raid time. The intent was to go do it after Ulduar, but it was late when I logged off. I will hit it today after lunch. I hope, like fine wine, it is getting better and better, and I expect to get the mount this afternoon. Emergency post will follow if I get it.

Ok, I rambled a lot. I was pretty stoked about killing that big ass General and I am pleased with my first week in a new guild.