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Comments: Controlling Spending
Since I hit the cap I’ve really relaxed my sales, mostly my incoming gold has been coming from glyphs and my daily gem assembly line. So despite my recent spending I’m still 10K over the cap, my approach to spending is similar to my approach with gambling. I never gamble anymore than I’m willing to lose, I don’t hit the ATM in search of more cash to recover my hot streak. And so my buying in wow is limited to only the gold I’m willing to lose.
Since I’m capped on Khaas now, I’ve been storing my excess in my
» Focus: 21
» Protection: 8
» Rapidity: 17
» Total: 46 Need 6 more…
I’m buying the things at about 250 each, though I have found some great deals here and there. I’ll be glad to have this one done, I’m in the process of farming turn in mats for these Librams now. Slow but steady, the Blood of Heroes for Rapidity are proving to be as difficult to find as Libram of Protection on the AH.
Planning for the Future
With Cataclysm on the horizon I’m thinking more and more about my future gold making enterprise, the alt army is working well and I firmly believe it will continue to be profitable in the future. That said, I’ve started working on the second account. Currently I’m up to 2 80s, a 61, and a 60 with more to follow. The plan of course is to level Alchemy on all of these characters, as well as a few other redundant profession coverage. With 10 profession slots empty, here are my thoughts:
1. Enchanting – Although my main is an enchanter, it would be nice to have a character to disenchant massive amounts of items with guild bank access for Saronite Shuffle type functions, rather than mailing things back and forth.
2. Engineering – Simply because it’s nice to have a Goblin and Gnomish engineer for those rare times when something useful is available to either (Bullets and Arrows in ICC).
3. Inscriptions – I’m seriously considering doing a scribe on my second account, the reason being I can keep him logged on my laptop while raiding or whatever and keep flipping glyphs aggressively, and restock as necessary.
4. Herbalism – Farmer dedicated to herbs, sometimes farming is unfortunately necessary.
5. Mining – Farmer dedicated to ores, sometimes farming is unfortunately necessary.
6. Skinning – Farmer dedicated to leather, sometimes farming is unfortunately necessary.
7-10. Tailoring – I’m thinking the new cloth cooldowns could be quite profitable and I definitely want to be ready for any new bags/patterns.
All told, this is going to be a lengthy project that will take up a lot of the time between now and Cataclysm, but with the Bucket List near completion I definitely have plenty of time to spare…
The Bloodscalp Report
I’m a little “out of the loop” at the moment, but sales are continuing. The only thing I can really say is that prices appear to be continuing their downward trend across various markets. My guess is that the new content in the Ruby Sanctum will have a mild effect on prices (at best) and we’ll continue to see drops in market prices as the summer starts. The big factor here is going to be massive amounts of kids who normally would be in school all day now farming for materials and trying to make a little gold on the AH. This is going to drive prices lower, add in the end of the expansion crunch and you have a recipe for really bottom rung prices. The good news is, it makes levelling professions on alternate characters much easier. So now is the time to start looking at those alts and getting them ready for the end of the world.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading…
Khaas
Planning to write a Guide on how you did Insane after you finish it? Could be way useful to some people to have a well-written Guide from a commonly known blogger!
Grats on hitting the cap!
When I was farming Blood of Heroes, I used the addons GatherMate, GatherMateData and Routes and went in loops through Western and Eastern Plaguelands. Made that part of the achievement a breeze. Lately though, I can’t seem to muster the resolve to farm goblin rep =P
@Insolence – Saate.net has an excellent guide for the Insane title, not much I could add to it other than a few macros and things I’ve found useful, which I will be sending to Saate. So, yeah check his site out if you want to know about the Insane achievement, it’s very thorough and very easy to follow.
@Zardilann – The Bloods are just an annoyance more than anything, I’ve been doing loops everyday peridocally. Today I got 8, then went into Scholomance to farm some Skins of Shadows before raid. That’s pretty much how I’ve been handling it, do a loop then farm skins for an hour. I’ll get there soon, 3 Librams to go.
Have you done the Goblin grind yet?
@Khaas awesome thanks for the link!
@Zardilann I’m guessing so since its probably the easiest of the Reputations to do after the Bloodsail one.
@Insolence I don’t know. Personally, I found the other ones easier as they could be largely brute forced with gold.
Ah true, maybe I just disagree ’cause I tend to be broke…. Haha! Well in one errr morning of 40 Keys farming I did manage to get together about 50G… Lol. 3 Mobs, 5 runs an hour 1 key per Run (usually)… Nice way to farm innit?
@Zardilann – Yeah the ONLY thing I have left is Shen’drelar rep. And I only need 3 more librams and some turn in mats, then I get to hit DM North one last time to summon my squire and turn everything in. I have 2 Engineers on standby with portable mailboxes in case the Squire isn’t sufficient to the task…
I have however decided to give a general overview to how I did the whole grind with a few tips, won’t be a lot that I can add to Saate’s excellent set of guides however.