My Shaman dinged 80 while flying in the cold peak of the storm…
I had stopped raiding for around 3 months
And now I am ready to come back…
With much more gold for my expense, and as one of the High demand role, the healer (I did had a lv 80 healadin but she is on the horde faction).
This time, I don’t need to grind nor be in the pathetic Pug…. for long…
Being healer as a Healadin, is an eye opening thing for me, as I was always play as a Damage Dealer before. I saved much time on finding pug, and I can ask bad player to leave, which would be the wildest dream of a DD. As I am confident of the answer of “He or me, your choice?” now.
I had some BOE gear purchased, Crafted, and 40 Flask of the Frost Wyrm sitting in my bank.
I’ll be back in no time.
Once my gear is complete (From ToC), I’ll join a progressive raid for Normal Ulduar (Overgeared according to Gevlon’s Achievement ).
Side Note 1: [Warning : non-Econ related post]
I’ll be start writing on non-Econ related content as well.
More about my wow-thoughts other than money-making, may be side-track a little. But hope that you’ll enjoy. (Didn’t have a name for it yet)
Side Note 2: As promised on yesterday. I was having a bad sleep, maybe due to excess work yesterday, so I decided to finish the post first.
Side Note 3: Damn! I lost my edit version yesterday. Seems like I only previewed but not saved the content >.<
Sin of being Red
The Sin of Being Red.
Recently, I was quite busy at work and for my wow game hour, I spend most of the time with my girlfriend, as she just started to join me in Azeroth.
(Thanks for the effort, my love). (Another reason for slow update on blog as well. No, darling, I am not blaming you)
Okay, there is a lot of curious question a new player will ask, when they just started. And there are some I find particular hard to answer, here is one of them.
“Why we are killing these animal/people ? they looks pretty cute to me”
“Because they name is red, that means they’ll attack us if we get too close”
“My kitty(in RL) will bite you if you piss her off, will you kill her too?”
and I recalled recently Larisa talked about moral, and Gevlon talked about raiders of dungeon. This raise some question for me, long ago.
Reasons
Why should I kill them
because their name is red,
because killing them drop loots,
because killing them give me XP,
because those NPC asked me to! (Which give me gold/loots/xp)
This question strike me before twice..
1. when I was leveling my paladin, and I would try to role-play it, upon each judgement I would try to come up with some war-cry. “May the light forgives you”
I am not having problem with miners, and students, but for helping a crazy prince for killing his citizens?. “You are damned since your name is red to me.” seems the only universal answer for me. Other than that, it’s hard to come up with any “rightful” reason to justify myself. Isn’t that paladin means to be good? or I am just some zealous paladin which kill everything on the “path of the light” which is not good (aka, the name is not green?)
2. The Second time is my paladin’s first run on Alterac Valley, on my way to get my [Cold Forged Hammer] . My BE paladin is my first Horde Character, I kept running on Alterac Valley with my Alliance main, and did little pvp on my BE. That run is a slaughter, and I am healing my way thought there. I put a macro for playing “Lament of the Highborne” on my BE’s hotkey bar, And I played the song all along that battle.
It’s go like this
By the light, by the light of the sun
Children of the blood
We ride through the “cross road”
Our enemies are breaking through
On the first tower, the battle is swift, 5-6 Hordies vs 1 gnome warlock,
Children of the blood
By the light
Failing children of the blood
They are breaking through
The are trying to resist on the First Towner, an Female Draenei paladin try to defense, but was chopped down Brute-force by Tauren Warrior, we burn that flag right a way
O’ children of the blood
By the light of the sun
Failing children of the blood
The Alliance formed a defense line on the bridge, as any other “turtle” game in Alterac Valley. Billzard, Arrow Rain, Rain of Fire…
Tons of corpses of Gnome, Dwarf, Draenei. (My Alliance is a Gnome Mage).
We finish the battle with exceeding alliance’s resources, aka creating Corpse Piles.
Post-Alterac Valley Syndrome
That shocks me, while I was so get used to, the alliance’s races.
We won, single handedly, but I was sad.
I never set foot again in Alterac Valley with my BE Paladin. (I do in winter-gasp later thought, when I get used to it)
Finally, I gave up reasoning or justify my brutal killing again in the game. It just pure self-fish earning as a person, not big heroic thing, I kill because I need that/this as a hunter preying on its prey.
Others percept this differently from me, some could just rightful themself, and even ganking others. In which I never understand, it seems meaninglessly to me just to grief others, and the ganker cannot generate any profit either, just a waste of both time (At the end of the day, Blizzard wins with the game time consumed)
Some refused killing for leveling,
but for others it’s too much to be leveling that way. (Which I admire the effort on doing so, I can never done that myself)
How did you reasons for the dreadful life for your wow character? especially if you are “Holy” as priest or paladin.
(Sidenote: My Warlock alt, smirk a lot and find it very enjoying just to see other suffer, so no guilt at all, MuWahahaha~~~~ )
I know, many people hate channel and I was one of them.
I even /leave trade when my alts first got into city.
But, it’s very different for me now.
End of Spam, Beginning of Gold Mine – The Second Chat Log
I got a second chat log frame solely for chat channel, and get it off the main chat log frame (And this really help a lot, and I recommend on that)
And yes, people will keep spamming it with the same sentience again, again and again.
But once in a while, just once in a while, something very different will happens. I got a [Proto-Drake Whelp] for 100g and resale if for 400g the week after. I got four [Frostweave Bag] at 40g, while immediate reselling in AH for 68g.
Rusher do announce on the trade channels, when they need for leveling, or get rid of the goods, they annouce in trade channel. And also for the fellow trader wish to get rid of goods.
The Talking
Some people like direct trade since they can squeeze more from the seller. I normally avoid that, since it gives a bad reputation around. What I do is to ask around if the buyer/seller who are willing talk about it. It’s free for them, but I’ll get to know more about what’s going on.
The Leveling Crafter:
What’s in demand, why is he buying but not on the AH.
What’s in need when they raise a certain profession especially when you are not familiar of them.
And Chances are,
they’ll need some other goods very soon as well.
The (Rushing) Farmer :
These poor souls had no other methods for making money, or at least not willing to learn about it
they’ll keep supply goods when they are in need of money, so forming a COD relationship with them is great. Or at least tell them to look for you instead of yelling at trade channel. If your pricing is right, they’ll probably come back
Fellow Trader or (Long Term) Famer:
What profession he’s in, and goods that possible will interest him. (E.g. a Epic-Trader will always found interested on [Titansteel Bar])
It’s good to know if ever there are goods I’ll need to get rid of, I’ll know who to ask first
The Network
After sometime, you’ll know who’s into what.
You may even gain profit by line up supply lines. E.g. Buying Leather from Farmer, and selling them to leather-work crafter. Keeping the network is an hardwork, so i didn’t do this myself, but knowing who’s into what, can give you a sense where the profit is.
Knowing where the money goes will yield you a lot when the market shifts.
Talk is cheap, But Information and Networking are not.
- Zekta
Citation:
While this post is written, there are similar article on the topic at
Seth@OneCopper had his Tips on this post, While my posts is on “Why”, his post is about “How”. Definitly worth look into.(I had been drafting this post for weeks , seems the trading world is not so big)
wowinsider about trade channel for rookie, (which of course is different from what we discussed here)
I was a late comer, When everyone is raiding on DT, I had just ding 70 and started on raiding Kara. I got my T4 set and then Wotlk came out. And I raised my main and alt to 80 since then.
I had a healer (Paladin) and two dps (Mage and Hunter(just ding 80 in two weeks ago)).
I am a traditional (and responsible one) instance runner,
that’s I’ll only go to a heroic instance/raid, if I
Run the normal instance once (for heroic), and know what’s going on
Read notes about the boss changes and his skills
And I also raid much, the same reason for Gevlon. I can’t stick with the “every week raiding” for 2-3 nights for 3-4 hour thingy. It’s just not my playing style. I’ll talk about my Healer career.
The Pug
My gears are from pug, and pug are disaster, always.
Under-gear tank, what-is-healer-mana-bar tank , and the I-am-in-a-hurry tank. Mindless DPS, Mr. I-like-stand-in-fire-or-anything-look-funny etc etc. (I guess everyone is familiar with them)
Well, to be honest, I wasn’t a good healer either. But it’s really hard to tell, if it’s the tank’s fault, the dps fault or my fault.
I got my gear to 1600sp (from reputation and drops) and then I started to raid Naxx with my guild.
The Raid
I started raid for Naxx-25 (Yes, not 10-man) since my guild is lack of healer (as it’s always be) willing to go. While there are more than 40 people of naxx-25 gear-ready people, They seldom join our raid. (That’s a little specious) We had to take 10-12 pug people to fill the remaining slot.
That raid was horrible. First day (Fri), 8pm-12am, Second day (Sat) 12pm-12am, Third (Sun) 12pm-1am. And yes, we take down Kel’Thuzad after 28 hour.
And I was one of the only 2 guild members left in there.
You'll know when it came to the end
The Burn Out
I run couple of time with them afterward, but not a full run, 28 hours of raiding exhausted me. But then raiding is so repeative for me.The only different is what gear drop, and what people we take with us. I do know every single boss in naxx will do, and what to do about them. And yes, there are many M&S who does not take flasks and not even have well-feed buff which piss me off.
I can’t said I excelled in healing, There are many things I can learn (and My reflex is not that good either). (Side note:I am not a good “dancer” yet either) But raiding to me is no more fun.
And I hate farming for gears, and with M&S dragging you backward is much more painful.
What to do?
What I did
I didn’t raid with my healer anymore (That was two month ago) , I seldom login as well on the horde side (My healer is on the horde faction, while my other toons are on Alliance side). I leveled my NElf Hunter Alt to 80, and do the mindless dps afterward.
I may go back to my BElf Paladin and /gquit one day and start my raiding again, but with the poor quality of PUG and gear farming process, It’ll take a long time to recover.
All my toons are still in the old, cold, monotone single spec world.
For some reason, I didn’t go for instance and raid for nearly two weeks now. And I consider it’s time to buy more and earn more, instead of spending on the static priced dual spec system. (I did the price of waiting though…)
This is Madness! no, This is the Patch!
(Okay, I admit it isn’t fit very well here)
And I do take my time on making the [Nesingwary 4000] for my hunter who just ding 80. With merely 200-300g cost. Someone sell the [Sun Scope] in 10% price on the very day of the 3.1 patch. (For reference, someone had sold lots of epic that day with 888g for the [Nesingwary 4000], but the price raise back to 1000g on the following day)
I keep selling my stockpiled of pre-wrath’s material, and make a nifty profit on it. Especially on the Primals. The increased traffic more “price-insensitive” seller and buyer had entered the market, I got lots of sweet deals to pickup. With the 10kg asset base, and 2kg cash. I do gain 2kg this week, not as good as the inscription industry, but still, looks nice for me.
I may find a tailor for the [Netherweave Bag], as the market had no idea of the material cut yet. (I found more people step into the trade already though…)
On a side note about the white kitties though, there were 6 kitty show up on the market recently, on price 120-140g. I do pick them up with bid, and tends to dry up the market.
I had adapted a weekly update per week is a nice thing. While I had many little thing noticed a long the week, I would like to have a sumary post on the little thing and news to share. I’ll schedule the post ons Sunday Morning, for the summary of the week.
Share
My plans for future posts is to schedule posts every two days, about 6-8 am in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. and with a Sunday Weekly update. Occasionally with hot news updates.
The reason behind this is,
1. I don’t want to flood the blog with posts (people tends to miss out the second new post, if that happens, and I want them in full coverage)
2. a well-seasoned post everyday is a bit hard for me. But I would read blog, email and comments daily though.
News
Gevlon’s Return,the whole event come shortly in a few days. In Summary
1. Gevlon Hit the Gold Cap.
2. Gevlon Missed for a few day, many commenter guessing what’s going on
3. Gevlon posted a post on LF Guild, and state his term of find a new guild, if failed he’ll stop blogging.
4. Since Gevlon post do not allow blogging, many blogger post their view on their own site. (Including me, list will be on the next item)
5. Gevlon got deal finish in jsut a few days, and Announced he’ll continue blogging.
6. Everyone is happy (Expect those M&S and Socialist maybe?)
Change of Name
Okay, I had changed the name from “Zekta’s Stuff” to Phase3Profit.net (Reason), Since Zekta’s Stuff is too generic here. I also made a small picture with model viewer for the new name here, hope you like it.
Linking Policy
I had wrote a page on my linking policy, the reason of writing that is…. Instead of blocking people ask for link. What I really wants is to encourage them from asking, since I found a little hesitate to ask when I just started blogging.
New Blogosphere member(s)
(that I come to notice):
From recommendation from Larísa, shy is a really good writer on her raid life
I like her writing style and humour tone, especailly this article.
Only Ten More PointsGlinda started blogging about achievement there, by the time of children week, I found that serving achievement achiever is very profitable, (and makes a better world for both of us (Traders and Achievers)). She had a great post of how to make profits on selling cakes. Glinda if you are reading this, Thanks for the reminder and keep the nice post coming. I’ll keep visiting you for your next tips
Not Another Mage Blog
Cassini was a old come-backer of Wow. Okay, I admit that I am not sure that what’s he’s going to focus on, but from the aspect of his class of choice and my toons, I guess I’ll get much interesting founding there. Will feature anything I found interesting later
There are also many sites I came to notice, will include more later
Note to self, make a new nice topic pic for the report
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