Phase 3: Profit !

I would like to direct everyone to Tim’s new post, if you are not subscribing to his blog already.

He summarized the Pandaren Monk pets event. Which happens on my leave, and have some outcry for blizzard’s micro-transaction changes.

http://timhowgego.com/animal-farm.html

http://timhowgego.com/animal-farm.html

Tim did a good work on analysis the game mechanic and the real work (similar to all other post in his blog). Personally I am not against RMT in game, not as paranoid as blizzard put it (or they act like, in Gevlon’s term)

There will be another post regarding RMT (Real Money Trade) where Gevlon already put down quite good point on and inflation etc. (Hope I can spare time on my last pre-work-again period)

Until Next Time…

Zekta Chan

P.s. I had added some 2D barcode for smart phone reader to snip the links, let me know if that’s annoying.
P.s.2 No, I don’t own a monk, even if they sell them in Taiwan.

Hi everyone, I am back. kind of…

My leave had been prolonged to the whole December and January. Trying to recover from the last dreadful project and reconsidering RL issue, I am still putting myself together.

I hadn’t been login to Wow for around two month, one of the reason is I take my time on looking into eve (I didn’t login there for a month as well), another reason is that raiding the normal content did not pose enough challenge (Doing the toc with M&S was not that hard after all) to me, and I don’t want to spend much time for the Hardcore challenge. I want to stay casual, while hard mode required much dedication, I don’t even want to reschedule my RL time for a game atm. (HC in Gevlon’s term)

Seeing lots of Wow-econ entry in my rss dim out kinda make me sad. Thanks Jimm for the updates we had when I am on leave. Or I may give up updating as well already. I understand why people stop writing, for one reason is that there aren’t much exciting things happen in Wow now, another is that there aren’t many topics left unexplored.

Since I am not directly involved in the world anymore, I won’t be able to give hot news regarding our beloved Azeroth. But for the coming post, I’ll summarize learning from wow-econ, other topic in virtual-econ (Things that shared in Wow, Eve, UO) and other topic I had come across.

BTW,  Happy New Year, and Happy Chinese New Year

Zekta

Hey everyone,

Zekta and I are getting back on track. I have an idea for a post, but as I started to write it and it turned out a little bit… whiny! So I’m going back to what I know best, which is answering the questions you have!  If you want a particular column written, let me know. I don’t have a P3P e-mail yet (we’re working on it), but until that time, just put them in this post as comments. Ask me anything about WoW gold, warrior tanking, grammar… whatever you like! If I can answer it, I will. (If it’s about inscription, it will probably be Zekta. I don’t like that much math in my fun!)

Also, re: the last post. Thanks for the replies- it seems that most people are keeping the hilt. I can’t blame anyone for keeping it; the quest is a fun quest (especially if you liked the Burning Crusade content) and the reward is good for most classes/specs (tanks, arms warriors and others being a glaring exception).

I’d like to say, however, that I believe the Primordial Saronite and Hilt will lose value fast, especially the Primordial Saronite. With the inclusion of ICC weekly quests, frost badges are more available than ever, especially for raiders.* The members of any 25m guild/raid run that can clear the content and do the weekly will be swimming in frost badges. The Shadowmourne quest (and it’s required 25 primordial saronites) will keep demand high for longer than similar items in the past (ie: frost orbs), but not much longer. Primordial saronite will hold value for another month or so (that’s my guess), but by that time should be well downhill.

(*I would like to note that I think the ICC quests are, at this point in time, a case of the rich getting richer. As a member of a newly-formed 25m guild that is struggling with Deathbringer Saurfang, the quests are just too much for us now. But the next level of guild above mine, which is already clearing more content and getting more badges… now has extra badges? Maybe this will have a trickle-down effect, or maybe it’s aimed at making that shadowmourne quest more achievable… but I’m not sure. I am curious to see the end result.)

That’s all for me! GL everyone!

/bow

Hey all!

I’m alive, and I think Zekta is too!

And… I finally installed Wordpress! That’s right, Zekta made me official. I have the password, I don’t have to send him my posts anymore… I’m in! I’m feel like Borat, “King in the Castle, King in the Castle!”

This is just a short post until we formulate something more substantial, but I have had something on my mind recently. Now that 3.3 is rolling along, there are two things that are obvious potential sources for profit: selling your Primordial Saronite and (should you be lucky enough) selling your Battered Hilt.

As I’m sure you’re all aware, Primordial Saronite is going for 1.9k-2.4k server to server, and it costs 23 Frost Emblems. The hilt is a very rare drop from the Icecrown heroic 5-Mans (FOS, POS, HOR) that sells for 10k-20k, depending on server. I want to know…

…will you (did you?) sell them or keep them?

I can see the logic in doing either. Personally, I’ve purchased a hilt (for an absurdly low 5k) and used it, won a second hilt and sold it (for 12k, which turned into BOE endgame tank boots tyvm!), and sold 2 primordial saronites from an alt. Because I’m in an endgame guild, I’m okay doing this- I have the 2 pieces of BOE gear I need at i264, and I already did the hilt quest once, so I’m selling and selling now. But for alot of folks, especially those that don’t raid, frost badges and the hilt will get you the best gear you’ll see outside of raids. So, put it in the comments- what would you do? I’m really curious.

GL! /bow

(PS: if the formatting is messed up, that is because this is my first foray into blogging. I’ll fix it, or Zekta will… I swear! lol)