Fun in ICC

So recently I joined a raiding guild, had fun downing some bosses, got some high hopes. But more importantly, I have proof that Algan got teabagged.

Pwned

Come Back

So, kinda outdated now, but a little thingy I wrote a while back that is rather heartwrenching.

Telranir stood stiffly on the edge of the balcony, ignoring the sudden biting wind and looking out over the many rivers of Darnassus with large, lost, eyes. He was resigned to wait for Syrri and Mars to come up with a plan. Resigned to the fact that it didn't seem likely Ezeri would be coming home.


As he realised this he began to shake, moisture welling up in his eyes. This had happened to him before, he'd lost all those he loved. Why did he have to lose her too? Why couldn't he just be happy and live out the rest of his life in peace with the one he loved?


Could he keep on going? Maybe he could, but he wouldn't be the same. He'd be a wreck, a shadow of the former Telranir. Maybe he'd even just give up and revert to his bestial self and continue wandering. Maybe that would be better, easier. If you don't love you can't lose.


He hugged himself tightly and bowed his head, silent tears falling into the river below, glistening briefly in the moonlight before they joined the multitude of water droplets below.


It hurt, mentally and physically. He couldn't sleep, wouldn't eat. What hope was there? She was in Icecrown Citadel, how could anyone survive in there for so long? There was no hope left in Telranir. Not real hope.


Sinking to his knees he continued to cry, rocking gently back and forth, without meaning to he began to pray.


"Bring her back, please mother, bring her back. I need her back. I don't know how to live without her. But not just for me, for the Enders, for her. Please bring her back..."


Slowly he turned his tear stained face towards the sky, full of radiant beacons of light and the mysterious aura of the moon. And he felt hope again.


"Where are you Ez...?"


"Come back..."


"Please."

Alchemy and you.

Alchemy brings out the mad scientist in us all.

Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite proffesions, one that makes me a ton of money and also saves me money too. Alchemy.

I LOVE Alchemy! It's brilliant! Why? Consumables, that's why. Almost everyone needs consumables these days. If I join a raid, I'm expected to have flasks on hand, it's become a requirement for raiding. And who makes the flasks? Alchemists do.

Alright, so let's look at how Alchemy saves me money first. When you buy flasks on the AH, typically you buy them for more than the mat cost, as people like myself will sell them for a profit. So if you were to buy, or god forbid, farm the mats yourself, you would be saving a fair amount of money. The same can be said for potions, though these days it's only really the hardcore raiders who will use potions. Then of course we have to take into account Mixology. This passive skill increases the effectiveness of an elixir/potion/flask as well as the time it lasts for. I can get away with only using 1 or 2 flasks a raid, whereas Mr Not An Alchemist over there has to use up to 4 or 5 which are no where near as good as mine.

Then of course there's transmutes. How we love them. I can take about 20g of mats and turn them into an epic gem worth 100g+ every day. I could, if I wanted to, get it cut and use it for my new gear I got the night before.

Alright, so, now we've looked at how Alchemy can save gold, how can it make gold? Well, like I've said, everyone needs flasks. Flasks sell like hotcakes. I love them. I sell about 50 flasks every evening. I could probably sell up to a 100 some nights if I could get ahold of the mats. I've found the best sellers to be Flask of Endless Rage and Flask of the Frost Wyrm, purely because they're the DPS flasks, and there are more DPS than there are Tanks or Healers. These can sell from 15g-20g each most nights. So let's do some maths.

15g * 50 = 750g = Minimum gold.
20g * 50 = 1000g = Maximum gold.

However that's just basic stuff, as we all know prices fluctuate and sometimes they can sell for even more. I remember one night seeing no flasks on the AH at all, I instantly put mine up for 50g each and the majority sold.

Now let's look at some other aspects of Alchemy, how about Transmutes?

Well first off of course there's the epic gem transmute. That's an easy 100g a day. I recommend you do this every day, it all adds up after all.

There's one more transmute that I've heard on some servers makes a lot of money, the saronite to titanium transmute. This takes 8 saronite bars and turns them into a titanium bar, best part is, there's no cooldown. On my server however I've found titanium prices to be slightly below the cost of 8 saronite bars, making this worthless for me, however if your server prices are better I can see this making a lot of gold.

One more transmute I'd like to mention is the Arcanite Bar transmute. You can pick up the recipe in Gadgetzan, or if you're lazy like me, on the AH. All you need is 1 thorium bar and 1 arcane crystal. I can pick these up for about 1-2g, the Arcanite Bars sell for around 20g. I don't know why they sell to be honest, they just do.

But what about specializations? Yep, that's right, Alchemy has three different specs to choose from. These are:

. Elixir
. Transmute
. Potion

Depending on the spec you choose, sometimes you can proc free items when you craft. So if I was making flasks, I might get twice as many flasks for the price of 1 lot of mats. It's like printing free gold.

Personally I'm Elixir specced myself, for flasks. But I hear Transmute is good for some people, and sometimes I hear about people having success with Potion spec. It's all up to you really.

Anyway, good luck and have fun raking in gold with Alchemy. :)

Farmers

Right then, to kick off the blog I'm going to start with a post about gold making, or at least something related to gold making. And while we're on the topic here's a link to an -awesome- blog full of gold making tips, that everyone should know about! Just My Two Copper run by Markco, Prot Warrior Gladiator and creator of the 20k Levelling gold guide.

Anyway, back on topic. So, farmers huh? We've all been there haven't we? Be it to farm stuff to sell for money, or to farm stuff to level crafting, or to farm rep... Everyone knows about it. Heck, it can even be a fairly good way to make money, it's a nice steady income. The one problem is farming takes time. If I want some mats for "free" I have to spend my time going out and gathering them. Which means it isn't free. What some people don't realise is that time is almost like a currency in itself. You "spend" time, therefore it isn't free.

Okay, okay, so I can't go out and farm stuff, 'cause that uses too much time. So what do I do? Get someone else to farm for me? That's exactly what you do! You buy the mats from other people for gold! But wait, I hear you say, that costs me money! Well of course it costs money, but we're not buying off the Auction House, we're paying someone directly to farm for us.

So, what's the difference between that and buying off of the AH?

Well, the thing about farmers is, you can sometimes get them to sell to you for cheap, and often at a fixed price. If I buy something off the AH, for say 10g, the next week it could go right up to 20g because of the fluctuations of supply and demand. If I pay a farmer, I can just pay him 15g every single week, without fuss. And the great thing is, often farmers can be persuaded to sell to you at a slightly lower price than the AH. Many farmers find the possibility of guaranteed sales and no 5% AH cut attractive, and so will lower their prices accordingly. Another benefit is that for every stack of herbs or ore that you buy from a farmer, one less stack makes it onto the AH for your competitors to buy.

Right, so now we know the benefits of farmers, how do we go around getting them to sell to us?

Have a look at the AH first of all, if you see one person selling lots of stacks of a mat at once, consistently, day after day; chances are that's going to be a farmer. So what do you do? Send them a polite in game mail politely informing them that you will buy any of their materials at such and such a price (Make sure it's a fair price, but slightly below market price if possible) -all- the time. Stress that you will always buy from them. If someone knows they can always sell to you, they're always going to sell to you, it's that simple. Be tolerant of your farmers, sometimes they might screw up on the pricing and C.O.D it for too much, don't fly off the handle and send them hate mail, either send them a polite mail saying the pricing was wrong, or just take the hit, in the long term you're going to be making enough profit to compensate. Send them a reply every now and then after a shipment saying how much you appreciate their services.

Farmers are a powerful resource, use them. :)

First Post!

Helloooo Blogosphere! Welcome to the new and shiney blog, "The Money Will Roll Right In". This blog will detail my adventures on the World of Warcraft RP realm Darkmoon Faire EU. Currently I've been playing for 5 years, and on DMF for a little over a year now. So far I've dipped into almost every aspect of the game, from raiding to roleplaying to goldmaking; sadly I'm not a big PvPer though. So look forward to plenty of posts on all these topics, and my current progress in the game.

So what's new with me on WoW then? Well, the RP guild The Enders, which I was up until recently the guildmaster of, unfortunately died. So just a quick shout out to any Ex-Enders members, you were the best, we had some fun times, and I hope to see you all ingame still for RP and general fun! I'll also be posting various stories and drabbles about my characters here for all to see.

Good things came from this though, I've stepped back into the world of raiding, joining the guild Invaders Must Die. They're an up and coming guild that look like making some serious progress in ICC. Last night we downed Rotface and Festergut with only 9 players, a real achievement if you ask me! So look forward to many updates on raiding.

Wait- Hold on. Isn't the title of the blog, "The Money Will Roll Right In"? Yep, that's right, that's because recently I've discovered yet another great thing about WoW! Goldmaking. It's actually insanely easy to make gold in this game. You just need some know how and a few basic things. Hopefully many goldmaking tips to come in the future.

Anyway, that's all for now. Looking forward to writing more posts and plenty of comments. :)