2009/09/27

My life's work is un-done!

Made my trade macro for selling the crystals. Used it several times and then got a whisper for a guy who wanted to buy it all. Now, I'm not quite sure if I want to do it. I posted 700 shadow crystals on AH and sold 200 to the same guy. Now, I noticed how my gold was going down quickly. The deposit fee on shadow crystals are 1g 50s and I was putting buyout on 80s.

Since the whole idea with posting on AH was because I wanted to flood the market for fun, I wasn't expecting any great profits, however I was not expecting losses. That's why I stopped the posting which limited the shadow crystals that I posted on AH to 700 instead of 1000.

My gold buffer is getting bigger. I sold a nobles deck for 4k and got a blue wand in the deal(that's one dream shard more!) This was a great relief since I've been trying to sell it for one and a half week. I still got one more nobles deck to sell. I made one from inscription and bought one from AH for 3.5k with the intention to resell it.

Milled 3.3k herbs yesterday and made into ink which I crafted into glyphs. I realize now that I should probably get another bank alt to sell glyphs for me.

2009/09/26

Onyxia

So, my brother killed Onyxia yesterday. Short story: The 310% mount dropped, my brother got it. I think it's one of the first. There's 4 screenshots on WoWhead. He sold it to another guy in the raid for 10k. Some might find it stupid, but I don't know what to say. We all got different goals to achieve in WoW.

I got a friend who's all about achievements, he's farming mounts and reputation for those achievement points because that's what he likes. He thinks my brother is crazy for not keeping it.

Me on the other hand, I don't care about achievement points, I care about utility. The mammoth with two passengers and repair/vendor on it got utility but the rivendare mount got no utility. Sure, the Onyxia mount is 310% instead of 280%, so it got some utility but for a person without epic flying skill who's not even close to getting it, selling the dragon to pay for your epic flying skill might be the best choice(although he could probably have haggled the price up 50%)

I probably would've kept it because of the extra speed bonus, the extreme rarity and the awesome looks. Sometimes, you have to make exceptions.

I finally found an addon that opens ALL my mail instead of the first 50. It still takes time between each batch with 50 mails, but it's automatic.

I'm noticing an price increase in farmed materials like northrend herbs and ores. Adder's tongue went up from 12g / stack to 22g / stack and does now cost more than a stack of lichbloom. I still got a large stack of herbs that I intend to mill tonight, so I'll be fine for a while.

2009/09/24

Origin of Trowlcat

Since I've been slacking with posts, I'm going to tell you the story of the name of the blog, Trowlcat.

There once was a small night elf baby(By night elven standards, that is. He was still two heads higher than an adult gnome). He was living a happy life in Auberdine and was unaware of the fact that Blizzard was planning on ruining his hometown in their next expansion.

One day, he got a sudden urge to do something with his life. Like chasing after a flag in a sawmill all day long, or rushing to a dock on a small rocky island. This urge was natural for elves in his age, and he went to darnassus to get proper training. He was going to become a Druid!

He stayed in Darnassus for several years and quickly realized the truth of becoming a druid. You specialize in an animal, and copy the behaviour and form of it.

A short time after(which is not really a short time, counted in Furbolg years) when the night elf was the height of three gnomes, he could finally join force with the might heroes he had once seen on TV.

He fighted for his life, for the challenge, but most of all for the epics. Until one day when the Gods calling themselves Blizzard, superior even to Algalon the gnome eater, announced throughout the world of Azeroth, the coming of dual specializations.

The day came, and the so called dual spec were implemented. The young druid felt a power he had never felt before. He was more balanced than before. He could be both a tree, and an owl. He was a trowl!

Days went by, and he was growing impatient. He was stronger than he had been before, but he wanted more! He trained himself to the extent of his abilities. He became agile and flexible. He became a cat! He marked the change in druidic history, a legend among legends, he became a Trowlcat.


Okay, enough of the story-telling. The real story was in guild chat and went something like this:

Me: Hey, want to heal Naxx?
Him: No, I are owl!
Me: Owl go tree, please?
Him: Owl can be Tree!
Him: Trowl!
Me: Trowl go cat too?
Him: Raaah!
Me: Trowlcat :O

I hope you enjoyed the story though.

My life's work is done!

First of all, I'm sorry for not posting anything for a week. There was a nice and big post but it apparently disappeared. I also forgot my email that I use to log onto the blog.

Now, my life's work is done. What is that you wonder. I'll show you:


Now, what should I do with it? I can vendor it of course. Although, I could also cut it and sell it for more. However, 2000 gems takes a while to cut although the profit is more than double. I'm thinking of advertising in trade. Something like: "WTS JC work. I'll sell you green gems for 40s each. These can be made into cut gems and sold for 50s each(or 1g if you get proc) This is easy profit for little work. I got 2,000 gems so make your order now."

I am also thinking of buying the services for people to mill and make ink for me. I'm a lazy goblin and I think it's going to be a good investment, with less time used on repetitive, half-afk stuff, I'll have more time to do other things, like expand into other markets.

2009/09/17

Done?

First day with a lot of glyphs posted and 200 sold. Not good. Why not? My QA options was not properly adjusted since I miscalculated the minimum price to post glyphs for. I sold glyphs for 1g instead of 2.5g. Now, there's apparently a guy that noticed, and bought about 100 of my underpriced glyphs. I'll have to get him out of the market later.

I'm getting low on gold(sitting on about 15k) and I tried to sell one of my nobles in trade chat, no luck though and I'm still stuck with two.

I did some more arena today, and after our slowdown this Tuesday, we went up quite fast. We're at 1210 rating now and climbing. Today's score was 13 - 5 if I recall correctly.

I'm going to have to focus more on Jewelcrafting during the next couple of weeks since my glyph business wont be very profitable. I'm going to snatch all herbs that are not overpriced and make a lot of glyphs and sell them right over minimum price, as long as there are some big glyph producers left.

2009/09/16

Crafting day

So, today is crafting day. I'm expanding my glyph business so I'm making a lot of glyphs, I don't know how good they will sell though. I'm wondering if I made more glyphs than I got ink to do. I might run out of ink of the sea.

My 4 x 32 slot inscription bags are not enough anymore. I ran out of bag space when I was buying parchments.
I did some more arena yesterday. We're starting to slow down, although our win count is still higher than the loss count, and I'll make it stay that way. I'll blame things such as, my partner having a headache, low fps, stupid mistakes(from blizzard's side, I would never do anything wrong *whistle*). We broke 1k rating yesterday which was an achievement for us. Our next goal is 2k.

Yesterday's milling brought in lots of snowfall ink which resulted in 27 darkmoon cards. The cards gave me enough for new nobles, undeath and chaos deck. I checked the nobles deck and it was on for 3.5k, I bought it up and put my on for 5.5k. I'm most likely going to sell the deck I bought for about 1k more than I bought it for.

2009/09/15

The work continues

My firewall was pretty much broke all the time last week. We finally changed the disk to a new computer and it's almost working smoothly.

This however, leads to me being a tad of schedule. When I wrote my introduction, I was prospecting saronite. The saronite is now prospected, the jewelry is done and the jewelry is undone(into shards and dust).

Now inscription comes to mind. I've been getting lots of adder's tongue for like 13g / stack and I've been buying like 5000 adder's tongue. I already milled 2000 two weeks ago but the pigment from the last 3000 is being turned into ink as I write.

I'm thinking about creating more types of glyphs. Normally, I take all glyphs with two stars or more on wowpopular, but since I'm not lacking the ink, I'm thinking about creating 10 of all useful glyphs.

Unfortunately, I will not be done with glyphs today. Ink will be done soon, then I'm going out for a couple of hours before returning to do some arena with my fellow feral druid. Glyphs and darkmoon cards will have to wait until another day.

2009/09/12

Introduction

Every blogg needs an introduction. Things about me:
  • I'm a discipline priest on Bloodhoof-EU.
  • I'm a wannabe goblin(greedygoblin.blogspot.com)
  • I raid when my guild needs me(Raiding Ulduar/TotC)
  • I pvp with a feral druid, started this season and it's going pretty well.
Right now, it's going to be a long night. I bought about 3000 saronite and I'm prospecting it as I write. It's going to give me a nice bunch of gold in a couple of days. I had a nice night a couple of weeks ago which made me 10k in about 4 hours. I sold a nobles deck and 800 infinite dust, so it was basically a one time thing. I'm now currently at about 20k spread out on a couple of toons.

Raiding: I just raided Trial of the Champion 10 man with my guild, first time ever. It went okay although we wiped on the jormungars because of lots of small errors.

Pvp: I did pvp in TBC and also in all seasons in wrath of the lich king. Short story is that I failed in all seasons. This time is different though, we're at about 30 - 6. My partner got hot streak last week and I got it yesterday.

Right now, it feels like I'm just rambling on about nothing. Also, prospecting saronite at the same time didn't work. I better end my introduction right here.