WoW Gold Making

Am I Still Making Gold in Warcraft?

stargrace November 26, 2024 No Comments

I know I haven’t exactly been posting a lot of World of Warcraft content since the release of The War Within, and some of that is on purpose as I took a break and stepped away from the game so I could find my ‘fun’ and some of that was just life getting in the way. I played the previous expansion pretty steadily, and I enjoyed myself but by the end of it I was really longing for a community, and a steady group of people around that I could get to know – in other words, I was lonely. My long time friends have moved on from WoW, and while I absolutely support their decisions, it still makes for lonely times in game. I’m hoping to find a community on the NA servers (even though I play EU hours) that’s casual and friendly, maybe on a roleplay server. We’ll see how that goes.

In the meantime – yes, I am still making gold. My methods have shifted over time, and I may not be bringing in as much gold as I have in the past, but I like to see the numbers go up. My warbank is capped, and I’ve been stashing individual amounts of gold around on my various characters. I have NOT maxed out my crafting yet, on anyone. I only have 1 level 80 character (I also have a 78) and I’m pretty lost as far as the story goes. I’m hoping to fix all of that over time, but it will take a bit. Ideally, I’d like to get ALL of my characters to 80, and I’m not sure that’s actually a realistic goal at this time.

I am also still actively playing two accounts, and I don’t think that will change any time soon. While I have been known to multibox 8 at once, those days are past me, and I feel much more comfortable with a smaller amount. I’ve also been trying to get more involved with the streaming community, they’re pretty close knit. While I’m not personally in the headspace to be able to stream, I do like keeping others company.

So. No promises that I’ll blog more, or even that it will always be Warcraft related – but there *should* ideally be more. We’ll see.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

Too Hot

stargrace August 2, 2024 2 Comments

I am not a fan of summer, and this summer has been particularly brutal. There’s no air conditioning in my house, and while we have purchased a small window version for a single bedroom, it can’t keep up with the multiple 40C days we’ve had on end. The heat means it’s uncomfortable to be in front of my computer, and when I am there I have no energy to do much of anything.

With The War Within just a few weeks away from launching, and the pre-patch events in game, I have wandered my way back to World of Warcraft, comfort game of choice. I started placing auctions on the AH once a day on my two accounts, and have gotten some pretty nice sales. I am still absolutely convinced that mega servers are in the works for Warcraft and that we’ll see them before the end of TWW.

Last time I posted I was going on about the many glitches we had seen in the pre-patch, and a lot of those have been solved, but a few still linger. Players are unable to remove gold from their banks without using a weird work around (if the banks are full). Cross realm guilds are a thing – but you cannot use the guild bank at the moment if you’re not from that server. Uniques are not appearing properly in warband banks if you log in with a character who already has the unique on them. You still can’t apply azerite abilities to gear when you loot them.

Speaking of azerite, +speed (and longstrider) have been heavily nerfed, much to the disappointment of speed runners. The influx of raw gold from doing dungeons/raids was also moved down back to pre-pre-patch levels. I think we all knew that one wasn’t going to last and wasn’t intended.

Besides the pre-patch in retail, I’ve also been (slowly) working my way through the Pandaria remix. There’s no way I’ll obtain ‘all the things’ but I suppose it’s ‘fun’ and at least I’m collecting stuff. I just dislike the FOMO of the event. One sure way for me to NOT do an event is to make it temporary. The pressure and fear of missing out is just annoying to my gaming style.

There’s still some Wurm Online (Unlimited) EVE, and GW2 in the works, too, so you might see a post about that in the future. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Back to Warcraft, and Making Gold

stargrace July 1, 2024 No Comments

As is my way, I’ve been wandering around for a few months now and haven’t really played much world of warcraft. I didn’t like Plunderstorm, and I didn’t enjoy the Pandaria Remix, either. I’m not a fan of removing players from the world and sticking them on their own servers, or time limited events. Breaks are good, and I do tend to take breaks from Warcraft, knowing that eventually I’ll wander back. It helps that I only spend in-game gold on my subscriptions, and I stopped feeling ‘guilty’ over my wandering ways years ago.

Anyway. This week I wandered back. It was Timewalking (Pandaria, go figure) so I completed that with my paladin, which is the character I think I’ve settled on as my ‘main’ for The War Within. I also happened to return when Snail Fight! Was up in Legion, so I spent the rest of the evening leveling up the 214 pets that have just been sitting there. I managed to get the list down to 100 or so that still need leveling. Doing that got me another level 70 character (my alliance rogue over on Argent Dawn) as well as 50-61 on a Warlock over on Hyjal. Almost all of my alts have been leveled exclusively through pet battles, my method of choice.

Sales this week were sporadic because I couldn’t decide if I was honestly returning to the game or not. At one point I had stuffed all of my AH items back into banks across Azeroth only to pull them out and put them for sale (again) the next day. The API has been down since the 27th of June, so TSM & sniping in general have been restricted to a per-server basis rather than region wide. It’s not unusual for this to happen, especially when an expansion is being worked on – the API has gone down in the past, and I’m confident that it will get fixed – eventually.

Wandering away from Warcraft lets me appreciate the things that it lacks, as well as the things that I love. I still haven’t found a community within the game, and that’s always the main downfall I have with it. I stick to my own happenings, doing my own things. My sporadic and random play time doesn’t lend well to static groups or raids, so I fit in when / where I can.

Anyway, that’s enough reflection for tonight. It’s nice to be back, and here’s hoping sales continue to swing upwards as I get back into my routine.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!