Almost reached gold limit!

Unfortunately, that is the wrong gold limit. I'm down at 9,000g which is a change of about 10,000g in 3-4 days. I'll start by blaming the gnome. That rich bastard got about 5-6000g just to gear himself up and he's still squishy! Some of the gold went to level up engineering from 100~ to 350. The mithril and thorium is expensive. I'm waiting with the last part(that require about 290 cobalt bars and 350 saronite bars, Ugh >.<) until I'm a bit richer.

It's not all lost though, I got 30 epic gems(waiting for a friend of mine to cut half of them, the other half is already cut and lying on the AH), a nobles deck, 7500 saronite ore and 1½ guild bank tab with various high level northrend herbs.

I also got 240 eternal earth and a big bunch of green gems to make into jewelry, looks like this will be another long night.

Quiet.

Well, I ran out of gametime a couple of days ago and just got it back. Therefore, I haven't really seen the impact of the mmo-champion post(link)

Now when I'm back, the impact is shown. Adder's tongue prices up from 14g / stack to 24 g / stack. Lichbloom is quiet the same(about 22g / stack), Icethorn was up in 30g / stack but is now down at 17g / stack.

Eternal earth is up like 250%(from 5g / stack to 13g / stack)

Infinite dust went up like on most other servers, unfortunately I had no stock with infinite dust to sell when it was high and now it's down to normal rates.

This has no huge impact on me, but it's still an impact. No more money from saronite ore. I haven't got enough eternal earth to turn my stock of green gems into jewelry and I wont buy more with the current prices.

I used to rely on Adder's tongue for pigments, but now icethorn is cheaper, so that's what I'll buy if the prices go down low enough.

However, I still got a couple of farmers that sell saronite ore, titanium ore and eternal earth for less than AH prices so I'll manage.

On a not so related note, my mage is now level 80. When he reached 80, he had 10k health, 12k mana and 800 Spell power. So, how do I gear him up? Hmmm, guild is looking for a dps for Ulduar 25 man in the middle of the night. Sure!

We were only looking to do one more try on razorscale. It went something like this: Oh, he did blue fire under me, let's move! Bam! Dead. I got one tick of the fire and got hit by the fireball just after.

I thought that was the end of it, but I got a battle res! Sure, there was a more useless mage who was dead, but I'm a gnome, right? We got razorscale down and I got Collar of the Wyrmhunter.

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.

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.

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.

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.