Phase 3: Profit !

Count this as a warm-up post…

So I have been ocassionally visit Azeorth a bit recently. Although I am still busy around like a headless chicken, I really need sometime to let my brain take a break. Outside azeroth, there are much thing to do, eg. relative to visit, excerise, task planned to be done, pet project to finish… but sometime you just want to take some time off those brain twisting task and take a break.

As Gevlon defined, I am probably of the casual player group, it’s really no point for me to keep up with the endgame stuff, since probably cannot follow up the main stream grind and always left behind. And without having friendship like Gnomeaggedon had, there are really less point of raiding.

Therefore after my studyroom finish, My Wife join me on wandering Azeorth yet again, as a Worgen couples, Warrior and Druid pair, and when she’s not available, I started leveling my Worgen Priest thru LFD. Joining the Priesthood.

As I mostly online at peak hours, finding a group as a healer is not as bad (Although if tanking gurantee a instance queue) And I started my LFD and Questing combo leveling journey.

I was surprised how many instance I missed before (Although I have to take the same dungeon 3-4 time for the leveling). I totally missed Dire Maul and Scholomance through out my Wow Career, not worth running/too troublesome as people commented before. Now with LFD tools, we occasionally drop into those instance, and have some fun with it.

The runs however, is quite linear. Although I occasionally add some random factor, e.g. wand-ing those mob off, jump around or adding some DOT if I feel really confident. But other than some shield-less Paladin / Warrior tank, it’s kinda repetitive.But all in all, priest is a fun healer class to play with, no doubt

Until next time…

The Story…

I never make up my mind to say good bye here, just get posted in lower frequency while BigJimm was still working hard on sharing his thoughts (I still appreciate that and miss him).

I stopped logging into Azeroth for a year since then, due to some personal matters I shyed to share before, but after reading Gnomeaggedon’s post on Movember recently, I decided to share it with you.

One of my family members was having a mental difficulties, and the whole family was spending much effort on wrestling it. Since World of Warcraft was one of the escapes, I decided to stop encouraging it by not setting foot into it all together, and not even speaking a word of it (Not to mention blog posts).

Fighting mental illness is a full time job, and depression and helplessness spread through the whole family. We had to do everything to help.

Where have I been?

I have been to America for a week, but sadly BigJimm was just not in town at that moment.

At Daytime, I had been climbing the career ladder; an became a team leader of a team of three. Mainly for negotiate requirement, distributing tasks and trouble shooting.

On my game life, it’s nothing more than Eve for a while, then some single player game and takes up learning photography all together (Lots of spending had been done)

The most important part is that I am luckily enough to have married a cute wonderful girl who helped me get pass so much difficulties and tolerate when I am upset… There are still much to learnt and settle down but I feel very happy about this

Where is everyone else?

Most of the blogger on my Wow RSS subscription resigned, Lights dims, upon the “failure” of Catalysm, many people decided to part with Azeroth. I know I’ll miss all of them, especially Larisa who I count as my mentor at heart in my blogger life.

Gevlon and BRK are the evergreen blogger, but most of the others are left…
On the desert corner of blogging sphere, I wonder should I continue…

So What now?

Since BigJimm and Sovrun would probably stop writing for a while. I would try to transform the blog to talk about more general economy, game or not. The purpose of the blog was always be learning experience sharing, not very game specific from day one.

“There always are explanations for every business opportunity. -Zekta”

Although I cannot promise much update for now,
May be we can continue our journey together, for science…

I wanted to add a quick note, then start back with the original topics that I started.  I am sorry for the absence.  A cascade of things happened to prevent me from being able to post like I would have liked too. I will start at the beginning.

Step 1 – The OMG: I normally write posts while I am on a plane traveling from one locale to another.  I have made plenty of trips since my last post, but I had one major problem.  That’s step one if I remember…Admit you have a problem.  Well, here goes…My MacBook Air that I travel and run my WoW Gold Making business with died due to a complete SSD failure.  It was not recoverable and I lost all of the WoWEcon posts that I had drafted along with the outline of the program.  Needless to say, between my travels and having to drop it off for warrantee work.  It took longer than I would have like to get back up and running.

Step 2 -  The rehab:After download 4.1 my add-ons (many thanks to TSM), and setting up everything again, I am left with run a the mill subjects that were news to me, but already posted on many of the other sites.  I am finally back to where I want to be.  Yesterday, was an easy 11K Friday without much of a time investment.  I have mainly been focused on Glyphs, Enchants, a bit of Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing (mainly belts and spikes).  I noticed that I am way more low key.  I haven’t cancelled and reposted my glyphs since the break.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love having 300K in liquid gold, but I am lacking something to spend it on.

Step 3 –  The challenge: A friend of mine is on another server with 10 toons from 80 to 85.  However, he is struggling to have much in the way of gold, generally between 6 and 15k.  He needs help, his mounts are slow, dailies are too repetitive. What is a guy to do?   Well, I started a DK on his server.  Holy Cow, Batman!  It looks amazing.  Almost every profession has a ton of profit possibilities.  It is way less competitive than mine.  So look for updates on my status.  I am planning on starting off with Inscription.  It is easily the best early grind profession.  I haven’t had much luck with making anything else profitable at low levels.  Well, stayed tuned.  I just left the starter area with about 10g to my name on the server.  I also need to level another toon in my main group to get Tailoring (my last profession to max).  BigJimm has kept me out of the bag market for a while with his…hmmm…how to say it kindly….bitchin’..no…hatred…no….waffling.  Miss you Jimm.  I hope the move went well.

Cheers!  actually I prefer skål, but it’s not quite as well known.