Phase 3: Profit !

Carrot on a Stick?

Carrots keep us running – Gold, Gears, Fame, Friends, Oh and pets. To me, Argent Torment is another one.
Vanity Item, mounts, Pets… I had a hobbit of collecting pets, so I always keep an eye on Breanni’s Site .

Blizzard do a great job on the target marketing.

Target Marketing

The Marginal cost of time increases steeply if you really want them fast.

Take the Aspirant Phase as example:

In order to go to the next rank you need to complete Up To The Challenge which requires 15 [Aspirant's Seal]. Which is from the following quests.

1. Learning The Reins, takes around 2-3 minutes without flying, reward 2x [Aspirant's Seal]
2. Training in the field, takes a flight to the nearest  for mob, around 6-8 minutes, Rewarding 1x [Aspirant's Seal]
3. A Blade Fit For A Champion or or A Worthy Weapon or The Edge of Winter takes 20+ minutes (Just the time for flying forth and back are huge) rewarding 2x [Aspirant's Seal]

As there are only 3 quests you can do per day. Player will takes different part as their preference.

1. Very eager player who wish to finish the phase as soon as possible. Doing 3 quests for 30 minutes each day, Totally 90 minutes.
2. Only do the first 2, will takes you 5 days, with 10 minutes each day. Totally 50 minutes.
3. Only do the Learning The Reins for 8 days, 2.5 minutes each day. Totally 20 minutes.

So basically, The more eagar you want to get thru the phase, you pay more time than the others.

If anyone aim for the top, they are actually playing near double time for the next group (90 mins vs 50 mins) to take a lead of 2 days.

Blizzard set up different grind plan for player to sign up. So if you want to get there faster, you pay more.

Personally I don’t pay much attention to the “I-have-something-you-don’t” thing, so I just going for the second option (The 20-30 minutes flying really cool me down).

How about you? How many quests you take?

P.s Miy at Auction House Trading, simplified. consider the issue on the gold gathering perspective, which is nice to provide you another view angle for the event….

Kitty on Sale!

After got my hands on my four kittens. I kept thinking about when I should let them go?
Re-list right away?
Smuggle them to the Horde’s AH?
After some consideration, I’ll hold on them for the market price to raise.

Here is why…

Upon release of 3.1, Elven new vanity (non-combat) will be added. While more supply means lower price (the pool of existing pet increases, while the achievement only requires 50/75) The overall vanity pet price will drop only a little.

Acquiring new pet get more people close to the pet achievement goaland thus more eager on finishing it (consider a person with 38 pets and one with 48 pets). The incoming child week will also add 2-3 pets into play. While the urge of getting the achivement had lay low on the market for long. New obtainable pet will make some of them start their collection again, and they need to wait another week to obtain a new one.

Will you pay 300-400g to get the pet  achivement today,
rather than wait for another week?

I don’t know you, but I know many people will say yes.

As rare pet’s production will not increased over night, there should be a 1-2 month increases in price for my kitties.

I’ll place my bet on those cute kitties. How about you?

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Edit
Another factor may affect the market is that: there are fewer Gold around as the Dual Spec consume a large amount of it.
That’ll lower their avaible cash for luxuries (e.g. expensive pets)

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Update
The Patch 3.1 finally hit Taiwan server yesterday. Getting the pet is much hard than I thought. That’ll increase the price they willing to pay, but the demand will raise pretty slower.

On the other hand, the easy pet for children day will hit nevertheness. So the prediction of pet price raises should remain correct.

I am starting my little research pet project on the virtual world World of warcraft.
inspired by some professional blogger,
I am going to test my learning by trying it out.

Meet my little Researcher

She’ll restlessly monitoring the auction hall
and keep running between the bank and auction hall everyday

The investment is very little,
around 200g for the guild bank and bank space
another 100g and couple of stocked stock
from my main for standing the business.

I had been doing all those thing for 5 days,
and reinvesting them into the market.
And it seems to be quite okay for now,
I’ll post some info later, so stay tunned
(if anyone read this XD)

This will be in English, and here is why
I’ll keep this series in English.
For couple of reasons.

• I type faster in english than my native language chinese.
  (and my laptop is in linux which inhabit my favorite input method from running)
  and I am capable thinking in both english and chinese. (But not having the correct grammar though)
• I bet that around 50% of the player in my server don’t read English.
  and the remaining 50% will have a very large percentage
  don’t bother to read unless it’s important.

Why I’ll write something that
I don’t want people to read?

you may ask.

• They are competitor, if I use Chinese, it’ll be more appealing and reach farther.
  The reason I write this series is not because of these.
  I am not aimed to teaching people how to get rich in wow.
  But somehow they may.
• If it’s hard for me to get the idea, it should be harder for others to read(That was an old programmer joke)

  I want people read my post,
  not just want to get a bargin on AH,
  but why the reason for the market behavior.
  By writing in English I should able to block most of those non-learner (In my server)

• Another purpose for me to write, is to confine my own idea.
  By writing it down, I think more clearly.
  And at the same time I can check back what I had done and my progress.
• These posts are for me, and if you are interested, you’re lucky. And I am glad I had entertain you by some mean.
  I’ll always welcome comment,
  your comments are extra for me of working on it,
  I would really appreciate that.
  Since they’ll make me think clearer…

Thanks you for climbing this wall of text, if you got here