So there I was...sitting in my cubicle at work...

I decided to get the AH addon (WoW Armory) and I had no idea how much it had evolved.  I have it installed on my Motorola Photon so it looks great first and foremost due to the 1080p screen.  Aesthetics aside the app is killer in terms of its usefulness.  I just posted dozens of auctions from my personal bags and personal bank in minutes. 

Now that gems stack you can utilize this application to sell multiple items like never before.  I was always so frustrated by the lack of support that JCs had in terms of stackable wares and decent sized bags.  Cataclysm has recently changed all that for the better.  JC is now even more dangerous when it comes to making gold...this app just multiplies that even further.

I am having great conversations with guild members as well.  I just joined this guild (Delinquent Society -AD US) on my main pvp toon and they are a great group of people.  Now I can chat with some of the more obscure players while I am at work...working. LOL!  Seriously I am very happy with my $3 purchase and highly recommend this for the 9-5 workers out there who day dream about the crowded AH.

Office Space- The Bobs Interview with Peter...

Season 11

When the servers come back up two things are going to happen-  People are going to buy items that have resilience on them and then they are going to buy enhancements to those items.  The well prepared with turn in various PvP currency types to get new gear but they will come to the AH to pimp it.

You should be selling any and all items that a battleground-pounder will need- enchants, gems, PvP crafted gear, buff food, and bandages.  People will do anything and everything to squeeze out as much resilience as possible as they grind their way to get the honor needed to start purchasing S11 gear.

This cycle will last for at least three weeks as there are easily three tiers of gear to upgrade to- S11, S10, and S10 equivalent crafted blue gear.  Get on the ball when the servers go live and create those lists for your AH mod of choice if you have not done so already.

I will personally be doing both the honor grind and the AH supply during this event.  Check out Cynwise's Battlefield Manual for PvP tips and to get a glimpse at what might sell well on your server.  Happy hunting and may the best Justicar/AH Goblin win!

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How do you kill that which has no life?  [Blizzard Exec #4]  South Park season 10

Back in the Saddle Again...Again

Hello Blogiverse!  I am back from a ten month hiatus and I am ecstatic to be here.  I fired up WoW after applying for the one year renewal; insuring my guaranteed copy of Diablo III. Once I made it in I noticed that my account had been hacked.  The 600k gold I had on my main was gone and just about anything of value was also gone.  Despite this set-back I am still very happy to be playing again.

I am currently figuring out what addons I want to run for the auction house.  If anything has changed over the last ten months to make auctioning a little easier please let me know readers.  I am also adding feeds to Google Reader to give me stuff to read at work to add to my "food for thought" plan of attack.

I am excited and optimistic that I can get my account up to 5 million gold.  I will running more secure this time with a complicated account password and an Android mobile authenticater, should my old account hacking buddies decide to return...

First impressions of my first two days back (Sat-Sun) are very high.  I love the changes in 4.3. I knocked out numerous achievements with Darkmoon Faire.  I was buying season ten PVP gear while queuing up repeatedly for random battlegrounds...AND WINNING MOST OF THEM!  I also pulled in about 27k my first day and about 50k the next day from auction sales without any addons!

The time away has put me behind on recipe acquisitions (JC) and training.  I will have to do a lot of research to see what has come out from new reputations, dungeon drops, removed items, etc. but I'll figure it out.  Once again if any of you have any tips, especially new websites and utility services (like WoWEcon for example) then shoot me a message.

One last thing, I got my Sea Pony companion on the second cast...moments after a friend told me it was a loot-able item.  Since he fished for well over an hour the word "friend" is not exactly a word he may choose to describe me (LOL) but it does give me hope that all will be back in good order soon.  Thanks everyone!

Just two more episodes of Dexter to go!!!  [happy and sad face]

More to come- I will be adding a pro-tip section, not only a blogroll section but a review of each blog as it is added, expanded reader saturation (I am going to hogtie some experts, make them read my blog, then have them invite all their readers to add my blog URL to their favorites), and last but not least [drumroll] a daily post that will be scrutinized by myself for at least 20 minutes [scouts honor]. 

The [more to come] section is not a promise of things to come but more of a "hope toilet" that I will stand over and wait for a steady stream of ideas to culminate into a healthy torrent of warm liquid thought...

TradeSkillMaster (continued)

I guess now that WoWInsider has spilled the beans on TSM it is only a matter of time before everyone with an ounce of sense will begin using (abusing) the addon.  [sigh]  I am on board.  I have no choice.  The other addons are deceptivly inferior or broken/discontinued.  TSM sucked up most of the talent to make its design team...

I use Panda, Auctionator, AuctionLite, and the staple of all (most) goblins- Auctioneer.  With TSM replacing QA, ZA, APM I must use it to fill that void.  I already said what I think the perfect AH addon would be but I am a but one small voice.

I can do everything I need to do with Panda and Auctionator but it just eats up all my play time.  I LOVE Panda FYI.  What a beautiful way to simplify professions.  Tiny little morsels of GUI-clicky goodness!  ...I digress, I hate getting "ranty".  I am going to try Norganna's answer to making glyphs to see if that will delay the TSM takeover.

On a different note...Rift.  Try the open beta currently underway but don't blame me if you find yourself spending less and less time in Azeroth.



Bai Yun at the San Diego Zoo. Click pic for live Panda-Cam!!!





TradeSkillMaster

I like it.  I don't like it.

I personally miss the simplicity of the QA scan, click queue, click buy materials, and then click to create each item (or multiples of that item).  Why make it harder...more complex...more resource heavy?

My idea for an easy to use AH addon- Make it intuitive.  I should be able to open the AH, wait a brief moment for the addon to get the information it needs then it can produce a pop-up screen (log style) of what has sold, not sold, and been undercut on.

Eliminate multiple steps, irrelevent settings, and options.  The mod should be called "Sell Stuff".

The addon should sell your stuff with competence.  It should create its own history in which to judge the market(s) it is competing with.  Done.  I can haz more gold and watch more TV.  Substitute "watch more TV" with your favorite past time.

In a perfect world...right?

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Getting My Sea Legs Back

I have been absent and for that I apologise. I guess I feel a little overwhelmed and slightly irrelevant/redundant when it comes to blogging about gold. Once you create a blog with a narrow minded moniker it leaves you with few options to pursue for blog content. I know, I know...excuses. I am a perpetual procrastinator at times. I need to set some goals...

First goal (for now)- "Write something on my blog every day if possible. No excuses!"

I will do my best.

Quick tip- Roll three jewelcrafters. Have one do metas, one do blues, and one save all daily tokens for epic cuts when they come. If Blizzard decides to change the way epic patterns are purchased (i.e. pyrium powder) then those tokens can always be used to purchase a ton of Chimera's Eyes to be sold or traded for patterns or raw gems.