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Just a quick note that The Golden Crusade Shuffler has been updated to V1.0.1
Changes in this update include:
If you find yourself using these features please consider updating.
Most of us use TSM, Auctioneer and/or Auctionator in combo with Postal – are there any other lesser known gold making addons you use?
Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these. Are people still even doing these? I think everyone’s finished theirs already. Oh well.
There really aren’t a whole lot of add-ons I use for gold making anymore, TradeSkillMaster does so much you don’t really need any others. Regardless, here are the three gold making add-ons I use:
If I wanted I could get rid of the last two, I’m pretty sure TSM does all the things I’m using those two four, if only I took a few moments to figure it out.
Other add-ons I use that I find helpful include:
Well that was a pretty pathetic list wasn’t it? Again I’m pretty sure what I use by Altoholic for can be done on TSM, but I don’t think TradeSkillMaster has anything like Bank Stack under it’s hood.
This post was part of Nev’s 20 Days of Gold Making blog challenge. Find all my entries in the 20 Days of Gold Making and 20 Days of WoW Blogging
As many of you may know, I’m a huge fan of Twitter (for those of you who don’t follow me already, my handle is @Xsinthis). No matter what interests you, you can find someone talking about it on Twitter.
To that end I’m building a list of gold tweeters, which you can find here: https://twitter.com/Xsinthis/wow-gold-tweeters
If you’re not on this list and think you should be, or have suggestions on who to add, let me know either in the comments of this post or on twitter.
Thanks a bunch!
A lot of gold makers seem to come across this problem when they reach major milestones, they can’t spend any gold below that milestone. It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, they’re both rich and poor at the same time. Alright, so that comparison is a bit stupid, so sue me.
I’m finding myself in this predicament right now. My new guild wants me to push to get my brand spanking new monk ready to raid as soon as possible, and towards the end I coughed up the gold for, among other things, the 522 crafted healing leather helm. It brought me down below 500k gold for the first time in, well, since I first hit 500k gold I think.
It’s not the first time I’ve brought myself down below a bench mark. After I reached one million gold I peaked at about 1.2 million gold before various purchases and poor investments brought me down to around the 600k gold mark. Since Mists of Pandaria launched I’ve been hovering around the 600k – 700k gold range, making gold steadily but also spending fair amounts of it (the new JC mounts anyone?).
It think the biggest issue lately has been apathy (something I’ve mentioned a lot in this blog it seems), since last January or so I’ve just been coasting, not really doing much in World of Warcraft. I really need to start working properly on gold making now that I’m playing again, but I just haven’t had time in the last few weeks. After Friday though I’m done my placement so will have loads of time, I’ll hopefully be able to pay more attention to gold making.
So there was a lot of hype pre patch about the Lightning Steel Ingot and the Lightning Forge. It seems like everyone was stocking up on Ghost Iron Ore and Ghost Iron Bars for the big boom when patch 5.2 dropped (not only from the Lightning Steel Ingots though, a lot of it was because of the Blacksmith levelling changes). Personally, I didn’t bother doing any preparation for patch 5.2. Not from some expert insight or intense research, heck I didn’t even think much about the upcoming patch. No, it was pure apathy that kept me from doing any stockpiling this patch.
I saw an ever so slight jump in Ghost Iron Ore prices after the patch, though nothing ground breaking. Most of the bump in demand can be attributed to regular patch shenanigans, new gear means more people need to get gear gemmed and enchanted.
Anyways, so after my realm got the Thunder Forge I decided to check out what the hype was all about.
I was disappointed.
The way it works is there are three tiers of weapons, each successive tier requiring the previous tier as an upgrade. It’s like upgrading the weapons, but since they’re Bind on Equip you’ll need to buy a new one if you equip it. They also take a crap ton of resources (a metric crap ton for those asking). Here’s the mats for each tier of weapon, along with their item level
| Tier | iLvl | Lightning Steel Ingot | Living Steel | Spirit of Harmony |
| 1 | 463 | 5 | 2-3 | 3 |
| 2 | 476 | 10 | 4-6 | 6 |
| 3 | 502 | 15 | 6-9 | 9 |
This is just a bit of a life update, so feel free to skip this, it’s pretty boring, writing crap down just helps organize my thoughts.
As the title suggest, I don’t have much of a weekend. I spent several hours today at the college helping out with the college’s preview day, and am going to be most of the day studying or working on projects tomorrow. Basically prospective students (their family for younger students) came in to check out the college, ask questions, and speak to faculty and current students.
I’m not exactly sure why I sacrificed my Saturday afternoon to this venture (alright, there might have been a girl involved…shut up) but it turned out pretty well considering I slept in and got there an hour later than I intended too. Everyone was supposed to help with general college tours as well as help out with their specific program (I’m in Civil Engineering Technology for those unaware) but me and the rest of the people helping out our coordinator neatly avoided having to do that (we just simply didn’t, we hid in the Civil labs).
The presentations ended up lasting about an hour each (there was two) but things like question period and lab tours extended each session by about 30-45 minutes. One of the potential students (it was an older guy, mature student) asked me, specifically me, how much time I put into the course outside of schedule class (and of course the whole group turned to pay attention to me to listen to my answer). I felt pretty awkward because, well, frankly I put very little effort into the program outside of class time. The Lab Tech came to my rescue though and explained how it varies from student and student.
I also enjoyed it because it let me reflect on the past three years of my life, all the time I spent at the college. Talking to prospective students made me realize just how much I’ve learned in my relatively short stay at the college. In the three years I’ve realized how much I don’t know still and how much I’ve yet to learn, but it was nice to realize how far my education has come already.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this many times before not only on this blog, but on my Twitter and on /r/WoWEconomy as well, but I hate farming. Hate it hate it hate it. Always have, probably always will.
It always has just seemed like too much work, and usually for too little reward. It’s not just in gold making I have this issue either, anything that might be considered farming I hate. Like dailies, especially the original batch of Mists of Pandaria dailies. Hate them.
I haven’t run the numbers this expansion, but there’s usually better ways to make gold than any kind of farming. While I’ve discussed before how Gold per Hour is hard to quantify for anything other than farming, it’s safe to say that farming yields the lowest gold for your effort.
That being said, I have been using the actual farm in game, Sunsong Ranch that is. As I mentioned a little while ago I’ve been slacking this expansion, I don’t even have one raid ready character. So to catch up on things like reputations I’ve been doing the work orders at Sunsong Ranch. Once I’ve caught up with my reputations I’ll just be planting Songbell Seeds to get as many Spirit of Harmony as possible. Even though it’s at a farm it’s not really farming, but I thought I’d mention it anyways.
This post was part of Nev’s 20 Days of Gold Making blog challenge. Find all my entries in the 20 Days of Gold Making and 20 Days of WoW Blogging
Last month Sapu, Lead Developer of TradeSkillMaster, held a contest to decide what the next TSM preset theme would be for TSM. The results were announced last week and my entry, The Functional Gold Maker, won first place!
Here was my entry:
With version 1.6 of TradeSkillMaster The Functional Gold Maker is now a preset theme, so go update your addons and check out my theme!
Blizzard has released some updated patch notes for 5.2, including changes to professions. Here’s the section we’re concerned with for gold making:
Zerohour's Nameless Blog
Viles Auctions
Vault of Light
The Overcut
The Crimson Hammer
The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
Sugar & Blood
My Legs and the Giant Spoon
Markets for Gold
Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile
Kamalia et alia
Jaded Alt
Harpy's Nest
Gold Shields
Gnomish Gold
Cold's Gold Factory
Auction House Addict
Admiring Azeroth