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Weekly Review [Jan28-Feb3]

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Woah. This was a HUGE week in sales for me, and I barely even made any sales! There were some incredibly high priced items that filled the market – a green transmog that sold for just shy of 3 million all on its own (you can see that lonely blue dot way at the top on the 28th). I also sold a small handful of expensive recipes, including Gift of Arthas, for just over 300,000g. These recipes were recently returned to the game, and some servers have them priced quite cheap, and others not so much. Blackrock Bulwark, Varruth’s Guillotine, and of course the usual pets – Ethereal Soul-Trader, Guardian Cub, and Hatespark the Tiny all rounded out the week. I hope the rest of February is just as fantastic.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

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Dungeon Dive: 100 Runs of Sunwell Plateau (81-90)

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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later! Here’s the next 10 runs of Sunwell Plateau I did, and as you can see – zero – noteworthy items dropped. In fact, the estimated gold earned is not even 2k! We did earn 482g from currency looted, but absolutely nothing else dropped. Let’s see where that puts us after 4.5h (total for all 90 runs) of farming:

  • Total approx gold earned (runs 1-90): 1,135,937g
  • Actual amount of gold earned to date: 198,105g
  • Actual amount of GPH: 44,023g
  • Value of items still listed on the AH: 17,046g

The gold earned per hour is still pretty nice, even though we got absolutely nothing from the last 10 runs. Unfortunately I also have almost nothing on the AH, so I hope something drops in the final 10! If not, it’s still a respectable amount of GPH, but it might signify something else, like a nerf to the drop rates, or a lull in overall sales (completely normal for this phase of an expansion).

I’m trying to figure out which dungeon I want to experiment with next, it will probably just be something casual and simple, much like this was. If you’re looking for the rest of the posts, you can find them here:

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

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Addon Spotlight: CraftSim [recipe scan]

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A lot of people might already be using the addon CraftSim for Dragonflight crafting because it has some awesome features that we all love when it comes to inspiration and crafting different ranks – but one of their newest features is the one I am most in love with.

You can now scan your recipes (learned or unlearned) and using TSM or auctionator price sources (I personally scan the AH with auctionator, then use those as they’re more reliable for my on the spot crafting) you can figure out which recipes you can craft for the most profit – and then you can queue those with the CraftSim Craft Queue, AND you can create an auctionator shopping list directly from that queue, and go purchase all of the items you want. Magical. I love it.

There ARE some things to be aware of! Number one, unlike TSM it does not tell you if it is perhaps cheaper to craft (instead of purchase) the subcomponent or even to go purchase items from vendors. That includes thread and other vendor sold items. Not really a huge deal, but something to be aware of.

Number two, if you want it to take sales rate into account, you MUST have TSM loaded. You can change the restock amount, the profit threshold, and the sale rate threshold.

At the time of this post, there are some small issues – number one, LUA errors when you open your professions. Number two, it seems like engineering in specific has some errors when you attempt to scan Shadowlands or BFA. The addon developer is VERY active and responsive! There’s a discord and a github where you can post issues.

You might recall I’ve been having some major issues using TSM to restock this season, it tends to lag completely out, even when crafting smaller batches, and I’ve just been very frustrated. There is some minimal lag with CraftSim that I’ve found but it’s MUCH more manageable, and honestly, I am just loving it so much for all of my crafting needs. You can grab this addon over on Curseforge, spend some time getting to know it. I find it’s pretty intuitive and simple to set up, and it is absolutely a crafting powerhouse for anyone who enjoys professions and making gold.

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Dungeon Dive: 100 Runs of Sunwell Plateau (71-80)

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A bit better results this time around! I know I’m late posting this, but life(tm) got in the way. So where are we at with our 100 runs of Sunwell Plateau (killing only trash). This is now 4h of ‘work’ on my 61 speed run druid.

  • Total approx gold earned (runs 1-80): 1,134,000g
  • Actual amount of gold earned from sales to date: 197,623g
  • Actual amount of GPH: 49,405g
  • Value of items still listed on the AH: 17,046g

A few things to note (as always). Number one, if the value was below 200g I vendored it. In the past I didn’t do that, I just put it all up on the AH, but I know the AH fees would get to me over time, so to the vendor it went. Number two, wow, we’re running out of items to sell! I’ve only got 11 items of ‘worth’ left, for 17k. Hopefully I still have enough to interest a few buyers. All of my schematics sold, and I just have a few blue weapons left. I’m playing / selling on a high population server, so things tend to get undercut quickly (but there’s also more buyers, when they happen).

There’s only two more sessions to go and then it will be time to try out a new dungeon. I’m just shy of being able to purchase a token, but for less than 5h of game play, I don’t think that’s too bad. Of course if you REALLY don’t like running dungeons, then don’t bother attempting this. One of the most important points (to me, at least) is that making gold should be an activity that you ENJOY. You’ll be more likely to stick with it – an exception of course is if you’re trying out different methods for content creation purposes or you’re just trying to find what works for you.

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Daily Creative: Goals for 2024

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I have some unofficial goals that I’m attempting for 2024, and I thought I’d put them out here so they’re ‘in the world’ for a bit of accountability. They’re not enormous, but I hope it will help further my artistic endevours, especially on days I just don’t feel like it.

  • Knitting/Crochet – 24 in 2024. I want to complete at least 24 projects this year. It doesn’t matter if they’re large projects or small projects. I’ve been focusing on crochet (and keeping a few knitting projects on the side) because I’m eager to learn, but when it comes to yarn, I want at least 24 completed projects. So far I’ve made a handful of amigurumi using parfait chunky yarn, so I think this is a reasonable goal unless something (life) goes drastically sideways.
  • Digital Drawing – 24 in 2024. I want to complete at least 24 digital drawings this year. This goal is MUCH more difficult for me, especially since lately I’ve veered back into traditional art (more on that coming up in a future post). I wanted to do 365 drawings last year and I think I ended the year with a grand total of 5. I need to remind myself that I have to actually make time for art, if I want to art. I’m bad about that.
  • Reading: (I’m sure you saw this coming) 24 books in 2024. I think this is a very reasonable goal, I’m already a few books in. I tend to read in spurts, sometimes I’m very into it, and other weeks not so much. Since I have so many hobbies I rotate through them from month to month. Still, let’s make some time for reading.

As far as creativity goes, those are the goals I hope to achieve. I’ve left them broad and open ended on purpose, with no real direction given in the hopes that I will naturally stumble into activities that complete them over time. We’ll just have to see! What about you, have you set up your creative goals for 2024 yet?

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