Another area where things have changed pretty dramatically for me in-game (beside the gold-making adventure) is the change of guild address. After a long, long time, I and several others, left Heroes Inc. to start a new guild called “Unusual Suspects”.
This was not an easy or quick decision for me, or anyone else who ultimately left. I certainly know it weighed heavy on the one who is now the leader of the new guild. For me, Heroes had become my WOW home, a place that was comfortable, where I knew (almost) everyone, where squabbles or quirks were handled or regarded in a familial manner and where loot drama generally didn’t happen. It was hard to make the decision to break away, even if we all knew the situation had become dysfunctional.
I know the seeds for the separation were planted before Lich King arrived. It probably began not long after LK was announced, took a while to germinate and then grew once LK hit. At first, the splitting of the guild into two, 10-man raid teams occurred voluntarily, and without drama. But the different progression speeds between the groups irritated relationships and illuminated differences, getting worse as time went on. I acknowledge that my team-hopping contributed to the split, but I am observant enough to know that I was not the cause. Still, I am sorry for the many feelings I hurt by my actions, and I hope those who were hurt forgive; I ask them to forgive me.
In the end, I think the split will prove to be a good thing for all those involved; that we removed ourselves from the close quarters with each other that was leading to the mutual irritation. There are a few I haven’t talked to since the split; I hope one day to be able to rekindle my friendship with them.
Whatever happens down the line, I will always think fondly of my time in Heroes, and feel much respect and admiration for all those I left, especially Ferth. Thanks for providing me a WOW home for all that time.
This week’s AH win: The continuing high demand for Infinite Dust. There was a while where I became concerned that the dust was becoming unprofitable to produce, but last week and especially this week, the demand–and prices–have been high. Nice.
The Baconstrip™ Maine Weather Report:
62° F and cloudy
Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Is there anyone at home?
Yes, Mr. Floyd, there is. My apologies to Bacon, Tax, and anyone else who was actually reading my blog. The drama of the raid team switch / guild stuff and my seeming lack of readers, as well as RL stuff, lead me to a blog-posting hiatus.
So, what’s been going on? Well, there have been a lot of things happen, and I don’t have time to write about them all right now. Over the next handful of posts, I’ll (try) to cover a particular area of my game experiences of the last couple months.
I’ll start with the area with the largest impact on my WOW experience... gold!
Right around the time Ulduar hit, and I switched raid teams, I decided I was sick and tired of never having enough gold to do what I wanted in the game. It also occurred to me that I might want a distraction to ease the pain of leaving my raid team.
With these things in mind, I began to scour the net for advice and tips on playing the Auction House for the purpose of amassing a fortune in game gold. I found a handful of sites with much good information (Greedy Goblin, WoWenomics, Just My Two Copper to name a few), and started testing the waters. Getting positive results, I went deeper into certain “industries” and began to really make some gold. When I started in mid-April, all my toons together had about 2.5k gold; in 4 weeks, my bank alt was pushing 15k. Not bad, not bad at all.
Suffice to say, here 3 months later, I’ve made quite a tidy sum, enough to buy Ofn a chopper, a ring (*love* the additional hearth ability), pets one - two - three - four, and a belt (requiring 6 runed orbs!). At the moment, the statistics for my bank alt list “total gold acquired” at 88k+ ... wow! I am currently saving up for the big, costly mammoth, but I won’t buy it until I have double its cost in hand.
For those curious to know what I’m doing, I won’t go into details here, but my AH products encompass the professions of enchanting, jewelcrafting and tailoring. I am happy to share the details with my friends and fellow teammates—just hit me up in-game and we’ll chat. It’s really not that difficult, but it does require research into learning the market for specific industries, weighing mat prices against created prices and learning your profit price points. Most days, I don’t do anything other than buy raw mats on the AH and craft/cut/create items to either sell, or break down into a different mat, never leaving IF’s bank and AH area. I will never farm materials for gold again. (Rep grinds are another story, lol.)
Aside from giving me the flexibility of doing some things with and for Ofn that I otherwise would not have been able to do, the abundance of gold has enabled me to contribute to the guild bank, assist others in acquiring items to help with raiding and, for the most part, pay for my own raid consumables and repairs, saving the guild the expense. Given how many dirt naps Ofn takes, those repair bills add up!
Finally, playing the AH these last several weeks opened up a new and unexpected source of gameplay satisfaction. We’re all familiar with the feeling one gets from selling a high-priced item on the AH and receiving the “auction successful” message in the mailbox. Now throw in the jostling and jousting with other banks and AH’ers in multiple markets, with all the undercutting and monopoly-attempting, and the satisfaction at *hundreds* of successful auctions is that much greater, knowing that, for the moment, you’ve beaten out several competitors and sold your product. It’s another type of PVP.
This week’s AH win: Some guy posted 2 stacks of Dream Shards at 6g per shard. I promptly snapped them up and have been feeding them back into the AH at twice (or more) the price. Thanks, dude!
The Baconstrip™ Maine Weather Report:
69° F and mostly cloudy.
So, what’s been going on? Well, there have been a lot of things happen, and I don’t have time to write about them all right now. Over the next handful of posts, I’ll (try) to cover a particular area of my game experiences of the last couple months.
I’ll start with the area with the largest impact on my WOW experience... gold!
Right around the time Ulduar hit, and I switched raid teams, I decided I was sick and tired of never having enough gold to do what I wanted in the game. It also occurred to me that I might want a distraction to ease the pain of leaving my raid team.
With these things in mind, I began to scour the net for advice and tips on playing the Auction House for the purpose of amassing a fortune in game gold. I found a handful of sites with much good information (Greedy Goblin, WoWenomics, Just My Two Copper to name a few), and started testing the waters. Getting positive results, I went deeper into certain “industries” and began to really make some gold. When I started in mid-April, all my toons together had about 2.5k gold; in 4 weeks, my bank alt was pushing 15k. Not bad, not bad at all.
Suffice to say, here 3 months later, I’ve made quite a tidy sum, enough to buy Ofn a chopper, a ring (*love* the additional hearth ability), pets one - two - three - four, and a belt (requiring 6 runed orbs!). At the moment, the statistics for my bank alt list “total gold acquired” at 88k+ ... wow! I am currently saving up for the big, costly mammoth, but I won’t buy it until I have double its cost in hand.
For those curious to know what I’m doing, I won’t go into details here, but my AH products encompass the professions of enchanting, jewelcrafting and tailoring. I am happy to share the details with my friends and fellow teammates—just hit me up in-game and we’ll chat. It’s really not that difficult, but it does require research into learning the market for specific industries, weighing mat prices against created prices and learning your profit price points. Most days, I don’t do anything other than buy raw mats on the AH and craft/cut/create items to either sell, or break down into a different mat, never leaving IF’s bank and AH area. I will never farm materials for gold again. (Rep grinds are another story, lol.)
Aside from giving me the flexibility of doing some things with and for Ofn that I otherwise would not have been able to do, the abundance of gold has enabled me to contribute to the guild bank, assist others in acquiring items to help with raiding and, for the most part, pay for my own raid consumables and repairs, saving the guild the expense. Given how many dirt naps Ofn takes, those repair bills add up!
Finally, playing the AH these last several weeks opened up a new and unexpected source of gameplay satisfaction. We’re all familiar with the feeling one gets from selling a high-priced item on the AH and receiving the “auction successful” message in the mailbox. Now throw in the jostling and jousting with other banks and AH’ers in multiple markets, with all the undercutting and monopoly-attempting, and the satisfaction at *hundreds* of successful auctions is that much greater, knowing that, for the moment, you’ve beaten out several competitors and sold your product. It’s another type of PVP.
This week’s AH win: Some guy posted 2 stacks of Dream Shards at 6g per shard. I promptly snapped them up and have been feeding them back into the AH at twice (or more) the price. Thanks, dude!
The Baconstrip™ Maine Weather Report:
69° F and mostly cloudy.
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