One Copper

last warning!

2009-10-26T01:15:00.000-07:00

One Copper has moved!

This is your last warning!

GO HERE! for your daily doze of the gold drug!
BTW: The first official podcast is up for download and stream at the new site so be sure to check it out!

later today: ???

2009-10-22T22:56:00.001-07:00

this eve the Podcast is being recorded and will be placed on my NEW SITE.
So be sure to check it out!
There you can also see: ALL the new posts. the Itunes link! and just a bigger and better website ^^

grtz
Seth

Reminder!

2009-10-20T23:07:00.000-07:00

To all,

Don't forget that One Copper has moved to one-copper.com!!

Any links may be updated
So must your RSS feed.

A lot of tips and tricks can now be found there!

Sincere Regards,
Seth

(one of the) last posts

2009-10-18T23:36:00.001-07:00

So the new site is ready to go and while it's still finnicky I'm probably going to stop posting here.
With this I would all like to thank you for comming here on a daily basis. And I hope that you all find the new and improved site as great as this one. Both in Content and lay out.

Also please update your feedreader since this is also going to change.

For all who linked me in their blogroll:
Thank you.
If possible please update the link to one-copper.com

Also I got a new email: seth AT one-copper DOT com.
Any new questions can be sent there.

Hope you enjoy the new site!

Grtz
Seth

preview: oooh my!

2009-10-18T09:39:00.000-07:00

new one-copper site

Want something changed let me know.

Social pressure, eh?

2009-10-15T22:49:00.001-07:00

I thought I had more goblins reading this blog tbh...

I had 10 votes over 5 days on the latest poll (should I continue the podcast)
Now yesterday I asked you all to vote or I wouldn't continue with the new site etc etc.
And I even said "social pressure, eh?"...
Now Hydra made a good comment about being in a goblin blog....

Social pressure is worthless... I don't ever do anything because I'm forced to do it by pressure.
If I don't do this, another person won't do that. That just doesn't work with me. Now from the 600 vistors yesterday, 30+ voted. which means that there are 30something that haven't yet learned the way of the goblin. Ofcourse I'm very happy to get the votes, so now I know to continue or not. But this was an easy lure and some of you got catched by the trap.

This actually also reinforces my statement that a lot of people are being let on by social aspects of life. Otherwise I would have had the normal +/- 2 votes a day.

So what did you think of my small trap yesterday? Was there social pressure to vote? If you have voted, why? and why not if you didn't? These things intrest me today.

Sorry for the small post, I'm having a meeting at work and don't really havethe time for anything larger today. This weekend I'll also buy the new site, so keep on the lookout for my farewell post on blogger.

Grtz
Seth

quicky!

2009-10-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
As said yesterday I don't have too much time to write something up but this was important enough to let you all know.

IF I get 25 votes (GOD YES!) before tomorrow eve, the new website will be bought and ready for use this MONDAY including a podcast next week friday for your weekly shot of goldmaking sweetness.

If not, I'm waiting another week before starting the podcasts and website.

Social pressure, eh?

grtz
Seth

Afternote: okaaaaj that was quick... Who cheated?
Afternote2: go and congratulate Zekta He just got up his 100th post! Gz man, you earned it.

Guest post: Inscription.

2009-10-14T02:49:00.000-07:00

Heya I'm Carbon from A Gnome's Conquest and thank you for reading my guest post at One Copper.

I'm here to talk about Inscription and how its making absurd amounts of profit right now. In patch 3.2.2 Runescroll of Fortitude were implemented in the game allowing players to have the fortitude buff without a priest. Here I'll explain why Inscription is currently such a hot profession right now.

We'll start off with figuring out the cost per glyph. To figure this out we divide the cost of your adder's tongue or icethorn prices by 6. On average you will get 6 ink of the sea (12 azure pigment) from 1 stack of adder's tongue or icethorn. So if your adder's price is 20g a stack your ink of the sea will cost 3.3g each meaning your glyphs will cost 3.8g and 7.1g respectively (1 ink and 2 ink glyphs plus parchment cost). While this sounds expensive think about how many glyphs sell on your server for 10-20g. On top of that I sell glyphs on a regular basis for 400%+ mark up.

While that sounds great here is how you can simply make money just by milling your herbs without selling any glyphs. Runescrolls of fortitude take 1 snowfall ink and 5 resilient parchments to create. You will on a large enough scale get an average of 1 snowfall ink per adder's tongue and icethorn stack (2 icy pigment per stack). The recipe creates 5 scrolls for the cost of 1 ink and on many servers the runescrolls are selling for as much as 20g each. That means selling 5 runescrolls at 20g each is giving you 100g per snowfall ink. That stack of herbs that cost you 20g just returned 100g before you even touched glyphs. On my server for example the scrolls are selling for 7g each right now. That's still 35g per snowfall ink which is the same as 1 stack of high end herbs (my server 15-18g).

I hope you enjoyed my guest post today at One Copper and you can visit me at gnomesconquest.blogspot.com to read more.

Thanks again,
Carbon

leveling enchanting: where did 1.5K gold go?

2009-10-14T00:05:00.001-07:00

I logged in yesterday and was like: ok... I was at 120K and now i'm at 118K again... what happened to my 2K of money (1.560G to be honest)

Ooooh yeah the nether essences.... damn.

Leveling enchanting is a real pain in the butt. It's fairly slow and very, very expensive.
Ofcourse now that Vellums are available (since wrath) It's less painfull.
You can enchant the vellums and sell them on the AH, they don't have a cost to post so thats even better. Ofcourse you can also use the vellums for other characters, so If you are a altaholic like me it's nice to have about 10 diffrent scolls with enchants on your guildbank.

Nether essence is very difficult to farm (green weapons lvl40-45) so I didn't want to have my available time in Zul'farrak. And I bought the items: 1.5K gold for lvling enchanting from 200 to 295.

I'm keeping enchanting a bit around that lvl though, want to spend more time getting everything in order. (getting my alts to 80 and gearing the last 3 spots on my shaman)

Also: I don't know If I'm getting a blog up tomorrow. I can't play today (going to pool and poker this eve now that I have a bit more time between work, school and home situation) And I'm off to a booksalething. 20K+ books all for 90-75% cheaper then in a store. (if you live in Belgium or the Netherlands: Boekenfestijn, look it up)

A fortune starts with one copper.
Seth

copycat!

2009-10-13T05:19:00.000-07:00

Well I'll be damned...
I've been sitting here the last months telling people: farm lowlvl stuff, and one of my favorite examples is Mithril and Thorium ore/bar.

MMO-Champion has made a new guide, using that farming info.
Ofcourse this is something any player with a mind can think of, so I'm not even suprised.

What bugs me though is: Now I have to find a way around my own lowlvl farming goldmaker....
And to be honest the only awnser there is: Farm yourself!

or

Crash the market... héhé thats an idea *evil thoughts*
Go into a bidding war so that the prices tumble down to below 50%, buy them all up, wait a week, and resell again at 80%

So that problem's fixed.

the path of life isn't written in stone

2009-10-12T22:07:00.000-07:00

The path of life isn't written in stone
which means that everyone makes their own happiness and succes. Yes there are some things outside of your control. But be honest how large is the chance you are hit by a truck this morning?

YOU choose to work for something, to work at your own attitude, to work and get out of the snakepit you were born in. Don't go telling me that people that come from a bad background can't be succesfull... For every so many poor there is a "rich" one. And that one (most of the time) worked for it. When someone works hard enough he can get very far, not everywhere but very far.

Tools for the Needy
There are so many tools to help the "needy" out there, it's kind of a hoax.
Can't pay for university? Don't worry work hard and we will pay for you.
Can't pay for a house? Just take the effort to walk 500meters to the nearest office and we'll pay for you.
Came from another country? Don't worry we'll do everything for you
Can't speak the native thongue? Don't worry the people will adjust.
Don't worry the people will pay for your food, clothing, car, school, whatever you need! They will adjust.

"But he came from a 3th world country we have to help them"

Help them by learning to actually work for something. If he gets all the above thats fine. IF he actually starts working, and learns how to live in the western civilisation (spelling?) But if you got all that, would you even bother learning the language or work? It's a free day in paradise from my aspect. Getting EVERYTHING while doing NOTHING.

It always feels good when you see 3 foreigners in a BMW blasting music down the street, looking them stop at a OCMW (helpcenter) and get a paycheck where the working class is jealous off.
Why? because they came from wherever.

And dare to say anything about it and you'll be a racist...
We DON'T care about the race! It's just a great example, people from our own country do the same damn thing... it's called wellfare. WE work so we pay taxes, taxes in which are used to get wellfare money which in it's part goes to all the people that are too lazy to work.

Statistics in a random (truely) western country:
People from the country itself: age 18-67 working class: 89% (got to love decline in the economy)
Foreingers intigrated: age 18-67 working class: 42% (4% of total people in said country)
Total: 15% don't do sh1t with their lives.

so tbh.. They are just a "easy" group to pick on. It's more obvious. Though the group is waaay smaller.

The point being is: The Needy can get as much as every working (wo)man, by doing nothing.
IF you really don't want to achieve nothing in your life, if you don't want to have more then 90% of the country. Just stop working go to a wellfare office, and get the free ride through life.

How you ride your life is totally up to you.

I'm a goblin... I am that 10% And I'm not afraid to say: I feel GOOD about it. And I hate working for the 15% of people that don't do a fck with their life.
I'm a Goblin and I'm proud of it.

PS: can any of the 600 readers actually comment some feedback about the podcast? Thank you!

PPS: Just got my taxletter... isn't it pretty... another 6K spent on taxes this year, probz 4K to the welfare system. here you go take the workers money.

Monday Morning Hang Over: Farming has started

2009-10-11T23:23:00.000-07:00

My mate has challenged me this weekend to a race. A lvling race, since I lvld my first toons in a powerlvling guild I was pretty optimistic that I could win... but then I heard what he wanted to do.
Lvl all 10 classes to 80. Sadly enough I never turn down a bet. I accepted and am currently leading with: 2 x 80's / 1 x 47 / 1 x 40 / and others. Now I'm not going to extensivly lvl just yet. God knows that I have more time, now that I disbanded TSB. (my raiding guild=> wanted more time IRL so no more 3H a day raiding and 1H a day ahing etc) I'm going to grind Stonekeeper shards and Badges of conquerer things. the 10/20% lvling increase will hopefully get me the win.

Well that's that.

First off all Thank you for the comments on my first Podcast test show. All comments have been read and taken in account. Now depending on how many more comments and views I am going to get, the new site is going to be live this or next week.

So improvements on the Podcast that I'm looking at:
1. new mic. (really needed)
2. Being less nervous at the beginning of the show
3. better quality "cuts". No more roosters that make you topple of your chair.
4. Better research before recording
5. others on the way

Well thats it for this monday.

Grtz
Seth

Podcast: Testshow: Finally here

2009-10-09T12:40:00.000-07:00

So... YES the testshow is finally here.

first off all before you start listening:
1 - This is being recorded with a fairly bad mic, a better one will be bought if the podcast is to your liking.
2- In the podcast you'll hear me say sheep, I listened to the podcast again and I thought it came out as cheap, so trust me if I say it's meant as SHEEP.
3- any comments or ideas are more then welcome as long as they are constructive.
4- I was very very very nervous so be gentle. You'll probably hear it in the beginning and a little lest at the end, so be sure to give me info about that.
5- this podcast isn't downloadable at this point. I want to see how the reactions are before pumping money into a site.

Grtz
Seth

Podcast: Almost here!

2009-10-08T22:26:00.000-07:00

Yes Yes the podcast is comming today! hopefully not 12h from now it's online.
Since it's a test episode it will be posted as a video here at the site and on YouTube.
If you like it or don't don't forget to comment.

Also the site is probably moving to a selfhosted site! Again comments or mails about the hosting (suggestions with other words) are most welcome!

If there is anything else you want to hear in the podcast: Comment or mail.!

Grtz
Seth

Crafting: Drums of whatever.

2009-10-07T23:15:00.000-07:00

The new Drums and scrolls (kings/fortutide and more I thought) are actually so... not needed.
Granted for leveling by yourself it would be awesome but tbh at lvl80 you aren't really lvling anymore. For 5 mans they are sweet too, but who wants to spent such gold on a pug? if 99% doesn't take a flask (when undergeared, if that is even possible) why take a drum/scroll?

Tbh, there are so many Paladins and priests that for a raid it's practicly worthless.
I have a leatherworker and the income of those drums is abmyssal. I had to repost 3(!!) times before 1 sold. No competitors even close to my figure (just above mat price+ ah fee + 1% profit)

I have checked the price on other servers, but ofc, don't know how fast they are selling.

Right now I do not think its worth the gold and is " a hole in my pocket".

Grtz
Seth

PS: last day of recording on the podcast tomorrow. So that eve or saturday morning it's up!

Deep thoughts: Got reviewed

2009-10-06T23:49:00.000-07:00

First off all:
Sorry I didn't post yesterday, RL has kicked me in the B*lls yesterday.
Now back to the post:

I got a review from Sarainy over on her site. A review that was actually much to my liking.
There are some good points in there, and I actually didn't know that some of my labels where empty.
Now Sarainy if you are reading this: Great review, but ya missed a negative point...
My youtube link is broken... I said to myself I would fix it... like said it a month ago, and still didn't get around to fixing it. But really the negatives and positives are all to my liking and fairly objective. (from my point of view) So Thank you and great post!

The Podcast: Friday is the big day! last day of recording and it's up. Had some difficulties with my cat.... seriously she wrecked my headphones. Don't ask me how, it's like the dog ate my homework, but this one is acually true. It also seems that I ain't the only one doing this: JM2C also has released his idea's for his goldmaking podcast so, good luck with it.

The site: When the podcast has gotten good "reviews" on the test show, I'm going to change the blog and podcast to a site of my own. For direct streaming, and the ability for you guys to download it. If anyone has a good provider for a pod/blogcast . Let me know.

I'm out of time here, so wrapping this up.
Later this week I promise to actually get some tips up again because it's been a while.

Grtz
Seth

Monday morning hangover: oh my I help people!

2009-10-05T05:48:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Well, I didn't have a post friday, why? I had a "gastroscopie" with other words, they stuck a tube in my mouth to look at my stomach, throat and the thing you use for swallowing.
I was kinda high the rest of the day, so a post wasn't one of my priorities.

Well Good news first: on the last episode of Twisted nether My blog came up for a question so jeuj. (= happy) Always good to get some extra attention.
Goblinism also got some extra attention this week so that was quite well.

Now as I am a self proclaimed Goblin, I get quite a few comments that are saying "you are selfish and selfcentered". Now this is 90% true. But I want to explain a point here.

Being a Goblin doesn't mean that I don't help people. It's just I don't help the dumb, the lazy and the other. I Help people that are actually trying to make their "lifes" or "WoW" better.

Fe. I got some nice whispers yesterday that went like:

Can you spare me a gold?
- Yes I can
*invited you in a party*
- Declined
Where should we meet?
- Why should we meet?
For the gold...
You said you are going to give me one gold?
- I said I CAN spare one gold, I didn't say I would.
nvm

I would never ever give the milk/money what ever to someone. I would however teach them how to milk/ how to make money. Thats also the reason I blog. And I presume Gevlon blogs. I try and teach people to make gold, Gevlon does, Zekta does, JM2C does...
Do we give gold in game? 99% sure: NO.
in Goblinism I said that if needed I would fire 100 people to save my company. Now that's true as ever, I would fire everyone if needed as a matter of speaking. But what you should know is that the people that are staying are the ones who want to learn to milk. they don't necesarly need to be te "best", they need to want to be the "best".
Fe. In my guild, I always took 1 or 2 people that wanted to learn. I didn't care about their dps, the rest off uss can easily cover for them if we didnt do hardmodes. And after that raid, the next time we run they will dps more/tank better/heal better. And not because of the gear, because of what they learned. Prime examples: Galeo, Stralight, Panndora, Shayline. They all started with uss with lesser gear and lesser "experience" raiding. When yesterday I disbanded the guild, I could look back and see that they all improved soo much that they were the people I wanted for my core group. I teached total newbs from making 10G a day to a real competitor on the AH. And actually cutting in my profits.

So with this kinda rantpost: Goblinism doesn't say: me and the rest can screw themselfs. It sais: everyone that isn't willing to learn: Screw you. And I'll profit of you.
Well atleast thats Goblinism for me. And as with everything in this world: Goblinism is relative to the subject. (subject meaning person in this context)

let the flames come my way.

Grtz
Seth

Banned: Controlling the market.

2009-09-30T23:51:00.000-07:00

Now this is pure pure bull.

If you force a market to a specific price, and control the whole market for a specific part. oooh let's say herbalism. You'll get banned. I'm not joking either. You will get banned.

Why?
Missuse of game mechanics....
I mean what the F***. Missuse of game mechanics? It''s just a monopolie...

First off all:
Everyone that reported persons for something like that, you should get banned and go back to school. A monopolie is one of the most risky things to do in game. The amount of money you have to spend to get that monopolie. And you have to camp the AH to be sure you can buyout everything thats lowerpriced then your goods. It's hard work, so don't go whining.

So this one is for my fellow Banker: Trissing, Bad luck man, hope you're alright.

Grtz
Seth

Must HAVE!

2009-09-30T03:55:00.000-07:00

This: Crafting Spreadsheet.

I haven't tested it yet (since I can't play today). But from what I have seen and heard it's really good. thanks to Sarainy, full Credit to her for making this piece of art.

So what are you waiting for? Go and get it!

PS I know this sin't an addon but I'm putting it in the section anyway since its equally important.

Grtz
Seth

Podcast: TestShow

2009-09-30T03:01:00.000-07:00

It's almost here folks, the testshow.
I still need to do some effects with audicity for my segments and stuff but the script for the first record is almost ready.

I just need one more thing before I can record. And thats: A mail.
I would like a mail from you, with a question or topic you like to see awnsered or discussed on the podcast.

So if you have something mail it to: onecopper.blogspot AT gmail DOT com

Deep thoughts: Comments

2009-09-29T23:38:00.000-07:00

First off all I would like to thank Gevlon for the link in his blog. The topic I wrote yesterday have brought on one of the heaviest discussions yet on this blog.

And Thank you for all the comments, good and bad, ofcourse more the good than bad, but both must exist.

Did I took on a topic that normally is written by Gevlon? Yes. Have I copied him? No, As said when I started this blog, YES I share the same views, but if my views are given, I'll give them on my own. With my own thoughts and writing. So for the Trolls that say I'm a knock off: Do your research.. oh right a troll, you do not have the mental capacity to do such things.

A nice comment I got here was the following (in blue) My comments about his comment are in black.

Unimpressed. I could care less what other people think about my own thoughts about social pressure. IF you actually read the whole post you should have known that

I read this post and I felt it was useless and unnecessary, and not only because it parrots Gevlon's pet theme. Same as what I said before.

I find your perspective immature. I believe you will look back on it one day and feel the same, and perhaps even be ashamed of yourself. Aaah yes, the mature perspective is: oooh the world is so great and I need to help the people that are too lazy to help themselfs to make the world a better place for all those who are too stupid/lazy to think for themselfs. I will go and feed the hungry with my golden spoon and become a hero.... Sorry not interrested... The world is cruel and the only thing that you have to do while you spend your time here is making your own time here as bearable as possible.

There will come a time in your life when you do not need to worry so much about looking after yourself and your loved ones. Then you will be able to spend some energy making the world a better place, perhaps bringing some peace and security to those less fortunate than yourself. Same as with the golden spoon thing, get your head out of the clouds and see whats around you. If there would be peace in this world you would probably starve to death. About half a billion people get payed because they are in the army, make weapons, make vehicules of combat, make security systems etc. etc. No war = Good bad for quality of life. Every revelution in economy and technology has come due to war. If there is non the economy would take a serious hit and it will probably be you that are "less fortunate". Don't get me wrong, I don't want to redeem war. but before you say such things be realistic.

At the moment you seem so caught up in your own personal struggle that you have no ability to care for anyone else. What if that struggle went away? If you had all the money you needed or wanted, would you still want more more more just for the sake of it, or would you turn around and make a positive impact on the lives of others? I do not have a "personal struggle". I have a great and good paying job, got a girlfriend and do what I like to do. If I had all the money I needed I would get some extra, why? If things go bad I'll have the extra. If i had the extra I would never ever turn around to make a positive impact on the lives of others. why not? Again I will not help the people that can't help themselfs. It is better to give a thirsty man a shovel to dig his well, then to give him water to drink.

Open your eyes, look at the world around you. I'm not even going to comment on that one.

We are all one. All life is one. Where will we all be in 100 or even 1000 years? The very atoms which comprise our physical bodies will still be a part of the living earth, as they always have been. No That is wrong, I am me and all the rest is the rest. in 100 or 1000 years I'm dead and decaying in the ground. And for your information. Our bodies haven't been a part of this world for ever and ever and ever. I was conceived 21 years ago. Before that I didn't exist, or maybe you like to count those 40 days as spermcell too. That still isn't "always a part of the world".

There is more to life than yourself, your business, your girlfriend and your bank account. Perhaps once those things are no longer of concern you will see the wonder in the world around you.No there isn't. I care about myself and the people close to me. If I would see someone shot in the street, I would not help. Because I'm not going to risk my life for someone I don't know. And neither would 99% of the world. I'm just mature enough to admit it. Instead of go cringing in a corner when that moment arrives.

You think the life is one big happy family and that you are obligated to help others to make the world a better place. It is appearant that you follow the social laws of others. This is why you will probably never feel truely happy. Because the rest ain't as "fortunate" as you.

Why isn't everyone as fortunate as me? Because they didn't work as hard.
I am the one with the real world view, you are the small boy that thinks everyone should have the same amount of riches.... and that the world should be saved from capitalism.
Comunism started out the same way... a good thought just not applicable in this day and age.

Goblinism

2009-09-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

Dark Legacy Comics last episode showed the real goblin-way.
If I would have seen this comic 3 years ago, I would have scuffed it, since I was of the aspect that one should always help his fellow man. After some events and the wisdom of years I came to the understanding that this is one of the worst ways to go through life. Right now I think about 2 people Me and my Girlfriend, and everyone else can do their own thing without my help. Why should I loan a friend money? Half the time you don't get it back. Why should I spend time helping them if they don't return the favor?

The only way to live a decent life is think about yourself. If you have a company that can survive a year longer by laying off 100 people. Do it. So what if those people have kids to feed and homes to pay? IF they don't get layed off, you'll go bankrupt and they will be in the same misery 3 months later. not only that all of your employes will be without a job, and even worse, you will be out of a company with bills to pay. The goblin way is the ruthless company way, and besides of luck the only way to get filthy rich or atleast more then average money.

I know that what I'm saying is "mean" and "uncaring". Why should I care about people that don't care about me? The only reason why I give money to charity (120$ a year) is because I can refund it from the taxes. I'm not going to give a homeless guy/gal a dollar, I'm not going to sponsor someones surgery or whatever. I deduct the maximum taxes of charity each year and thats enough.

We all live by social laws, the only diffrence between me and you is that I make my own social laws. I don't live by any other, I'm not going to boost because It's "Friendly" and "Social". I'm not giving the homeless guy a dollar because "it's the right thing to do". Go get a job!

Am I wrong with this post? Most of you will think so. But to be honest, I don't care. I'm right in my own rules. That's what I care about.

I Value people's opinion, on blogs and ways to work etc. But not about my train of thought, my social rules etc. I have the goverment telling me what to do and that's enough, My social views are my own. Deal with it. And while you are at it, make your own social rules and laws, don't let other people force them through your throat. Do what YOU want to do, not what people expect you to do.

Grtz
Seth

Edit: Spelling + link fixed

Monday Morning Hang-over: Visitor thoughts

2009-09-27T22:57:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

A weekend has passed and I saw 2 things on my Google-Analytics that struck me odd.
First off all: If I talk about the Podcast, if thats on my last RSS I drop from 350+ to around 200
Now this is a bit weird, and yet it's normal.

People come here to read about gold making, How do I make gold and how can you make gold.
So it's clear that me being all excited about a Podcast is not in the readers pattern. So If I'm going to talk about the Podcast again (and I will) I'll do it first so that my RSS feeder sais: crafting whatever or farming this or selling that.

Second off all and this was the real weird thing: normally in the weekend I have about 50-100 (maximum) views, now The podcast was submitted Friday eve (the preview) and saturday and sunday I had 150 views.. so I have less people that are interested in the podcast, but those that are interested come back every day weekend or not.

Now for today, I'm at work right now, after work I have an appointment for another work and after that I can go to see a "specialist" which is actually just a doctor specialized in (my case) throat and swallowing, So that means I can't work on my Podcast tonight.
For the people that are actually interested in the podcast: it's comming out before 15th october.
always fun to sneak in some news between everything else.

What did I do at the weekend? Suprisingly not much trading made about 300G profit and thats it. If you know me by now you should know I hate peeveepee. why? Ganking, I'm a huge altaholic and my alts keep getting ganked. Well My girl got ganked by a lvl77 rogue, and she got grieved by it , sooo much she was getting pissed about it. So I went on my 80 shaman, got my dps spec up, got some random voa125 pvp gear on and Griefed the rogue a whole freaking hour. I murdered him over and over and over again. then he took rezsickness to rez in his own town in helfire, so we got 5 guys together from the guild and murdered the town over and over again.
When we were done with him he logged out 'cause I standed by his corpse for 30 mins...
Yes I'm evil... Nobody griefs my girl, or anyone from my guild. I'll corpse camp that dude till he starts crying irl. Well He just caught me on a bad day thats all.
Now my warlock is solely lvling through pvp and I actually love it, he's 28 right now, has been on the top of damage, flag caps, base assaults since lvl 24ish. and its going good.
I even got some arenas done again on my hunter, and I'm slowly starting to love it.
But thats not why you're here.

Blogsphere,
A new Blog popped up: A fistfull of coppers (its also on my blogroll) It's starting up and while I think it needs some work, Its off for a good start. If you don't have much time to read and want some basic and fast tips this is a great blog for you. Short and to the point.

Grtz
Seth

Preview

2009-09-25T14:50:00.000-07:00

After I've been messing a bit with all kind of stuff, I came up with this little gem... and my girlfriend helped me record it. well "gem" depends on how you look at it.
It only lasts 10 seconds or so but if you love it say so, if not say so too

Grtz
Seth

Podcast: Segments...

2009-09-24T23:35:00.000-07:00

For my RSS readers: Crafters Corner: Alchemy Thats my real post for today.

As all of who listened to podcasts know, you need some segments in it.
The segments I'm playing with right now are:
-Crafters Gold -- What can you craft for money?
-1G please! -- making your first buck or make a stab at goldsellers/beggars
- My crops -- farming tips
- Hole in the purse -- On what NOT to spend money
- Ask Seth Copper -- Me awnsering your questions
- ....

Now those are all money making segments or at least to a certain degree connected with it. The poll is still going so it could be that there are more segments being added that are not about moneymaking:

-- Ding! -- lvling tips
-- Killing Blow! -- PvP Tips
-- In my old days... -- back in my day boy, we had something like Blackrock ......
-- Oh my you're so strong -- lvl80 tips (raiding/ dungeons etc etc)
-- ...

If you want to add more or have great Idea's make a comment! Because... I'm starting... THIS weekend... with recording... oki, I'm starting with recording tunes, and stuff. I want to learn how to work with audicity and implement some songs and stuff.
The Podcast itself could be only a week away or a month away. How come?
Well I need to get everything worked out , need to know what exactly you guys want etc etc.

So:
Any questions for the podcast: send an email.
And guys Vote, seriously.. I had 400 visits yesterday and only 10 people voted on the poll, so if you want to have something to say, want something to hear on your mp3.. vote

Thanks all,

Grtz
Seth

Crafters Corner: Alchemy

2009-09-24T23:31:00.000-07:00

Alchemy jepz...
It ain't worth that much in the goldmaking aspect but it can be profitable.

Potions: Seriously potions, Greater Healing potions and mana potions sell very well these days.
Now that they stack in 20 and that pvp BG's are giving xp. people are buying them. I'm playing a warlock lvl23 (afflic) right now and seriously I have a full stack of healing/mana potions with me.
Why? It makes the BG easier, faster and increases your xp... YES it does. With those potions it makes it easier to carry the flag. It's easier to cap the flag, and if you cap the flag you get xp. It lets you live longer to do more damage in AB so that the horde/ally get less chance to cap a node. which means more points for you = more xp.

Also and I tried this and it actually work.. not for huge amounts ofcourse but it really does work:

[2. Trade][23:Damiän]: Now open for bussiness: The leveling [Alchemy] Store! Looking for potions and elixers? Get them here! Want to be a hunter with Stealth? [Lesser Invisibilty potion] Can help you! Want to kick that rogues butt in the BG's? [Greater healing potion] Will let you self heal and confuse him! I thought I was fighting a Warrior? Get them NOW!

Seriously I had 3 whispers from lowlvl (10-30) :
1 for a full stack of healing potions, 1 for for a stack of greater healing potions and a stack of mana potions, and one for 10 [Lesser invisibilty potion]s (and yes a hunter XD )

The first one said no after he heard the price, the second one bought the mats and gave me 10G gold fee and the third one just bought them with my mats.

So my tip for today: Don't forget the alts that are lvling through BG's they really want an edge to lvl faster and kick some horde/alliance butt.

Grtz
Seth

Podcast Idea's

2009-09-23T23:59:00.000-07:00

The real post of the day is right under this one so you can skip this if you don't want to read anything about me starting a podcast.

Okaj let's get started

Soooo right now I've got 8 people that want me to start a podcast (2 want Goldmaking 6 want it all)
and one that said: Heeeeelllll NO.

so of right now: the dude who said: heeeeelllll NO, I'm sorry but you'r losing and the podcast is probably going to start in the next couple of weeks.

Well about the post right now:
If the podcast is comming I don't want a 2minute thing.. I want the 30min-1h podcast every week.
But ofcourse I need a couple of things for this. Ideas, collumns, Q&A, etc etc.

Now to come to my point tbh:
IF you have an idea, comment, want something in the podcast: Comment/mail me.
IF you want to help, do a show with me, got some questions you want awnsered at the podcast: Mail me.
IF there is anything else: comment.

And trolls I'm talking to you too! I know I atleast have one so please give me some trolling love and do a comment.

Grtz
Seth

1C to 100K : Inscription taking off ... slooowly

2009-09-23T23:28:00.000-07:00

So My inscription is still only 300. No I'm not lazy or slow. (I just don't have any time to play these days - sounds familiar?)
Well just with lvling i make about 200G profit of inscription a day. now along with my 1K profit a day from JC i'm at a good 1.2K a day. Now that the drums are here too... i'm aiming on 1.5K before friday. this would ofc mean that I actually need to log in on my main characters this week... so I'm hoping I find some time to do this all this week.

how am I doing you might ask on the 100K thing? well about 30K right now so i'll only need 3-4 more weeks to actually hit the 100K.

How do I do this? quite easy:
buy epic gems.
Craft them
put them up
profit.

Really nothing more then that. fe. I buy something for 100G and I sell it for about 220G.
I do this for about 10-20 gems a day... so well do the math.
Now for the inscription: 5 of every glyph that even is slightly profitable, with about 100 glyphs a day.

And I only post once every two days, so i could actually already have more gold if I had more time and stuff.

I'll have another post up about the podcast a bit later today so stay tuned!
-- and vote if you can! --

Bloggers Blog: Podcasts and "stuff"

2009-09-22T23:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome again for the second edition of the Bloggers blog. Before I start I would say: Welcome to the 105th post! seriously I went past 100 with out seeing. so yeah...

Oki I listend to my first Podcast: The Instance.. after the first episode I just downloaded all the ones on Itunes. then went back and downloaded Twisted nether too.
I loved it , seriously I love it. I'm sitting at work with my Ipod (120G baby!) in my ear just listening while working. And its awesome.

Why did I download my first Podcast? Well.... I'm thinking... of like... euhm... you know... starting one...

On other news... again have a look at my Blogroll, a lot of intereting things are going on on the blogsphere.

Most important (for me) is this:
Hit The Cap, Is a new gold-making money blog and it's great. Seriously it's off to a great start, nicely written and I can't wait untill the next post. The author said I - and many others - inspired her to write the blog and if that's true: Thank you.
Greedy Goblin left his guild and is switching servers! Great posts and fairly big news in my limited Blogsphere.

So to conclude I'm having a poll at the side: Do you want a general/goldmaking WoWblog by yours truly? (and friends)

Grtz
Seth

Edit: changed the "around the blogsphere" part

QA: Mining

2009-09-21T23:15:00.000-07:00

I got an interesting Question from Shayline the other day:
How can I make money with mining and only a limited time to play?

Well this is a very interesting question and one that is a real problem for the casual player.

First off all: you have 2 proffesion slots: so take another one with you (a crafting one)
But about the mining now:
1st of all: get to know whats high priced in the server and what can be sold in large quantities.
Since your on my own server, mithril and saronite are both good for their time.
2nd off all: try to get to an agreement with someone that they will buy lets say 5-10 stacks from you, every week for a fixed price. That way you are sure of income.
3th: if you can't get someone to keep buying your stuff: AH.. never ever sell something that can be used to a vendor.. always to a real player, either by /2 or AH.
Since mining is a gather proffesion, you'll always have to spend time to gather which means you can't make more money then the time put in. Ofc if you are grinding for mines in scholozar basin, you can get up to 450-600G for an hour of farming. which is significantly lower than what I make for 30mins at AH.

What could also boost your income with mining:
Get someone to prospect your ore, and sell the gems instead, and see if it's worthwile it.

My recommendation for "casual" players: Get some money together, then drop the gathering proffesion and level jewelcrafting or inscription. You'll earn double the money with only half the effort!

Grtz
Seth

Rant: Guild divorce

2009-09-17T00:54:00.000-07:00

Aaaah the rant, its been a fairly long time since I really had something to rant about.

Well yesterday after 16H of work I came home logged infor WoW and saw 18 people missing! (9 people but each with alts)
Half of our core raid team, and an officer left. why? they wanted to start a Hardcore raiding guild (since TSB is Semi-Casual)
Well I don't blame them, for me and TSB members that stayed RL > WoW, if they want WoW > RL that ofc is their choice.

What bothers me is that my Officer, and some "close" WoW friends left with out saying anything, not even a mail. The one who left to set up his guild, let me a mail, but the rest? never heard of them again.

So after almost downing Yogg-Saron TSB is back at the first stage, not raiding and expanding our core team again. At least we are lucky enough that with a bit of training we can fill in our 2 most needed spots (Tanks).

oooh well, we'll see what happens next, one thing is sure though: I'm not giving up TSB is known and loved, and it's going to rise over the destruction, and emerge even stronger.
As always...
1 guild => officer left, i didn't have many time to play so we disbanded the guild
2nd guild emerged in july of this year.
2nd guild first problem: an officer got into a personall vendetta and tried to change the guild: he left, A week later Naxx was on farm and ul progression got up to kologarn.
2nd guild second problem: 2 core raiders didn't had time to play anymore. trained new people, recruited again: a week later we downed the keepers and another week later we were at Yogg
Now with this Problem we are going to down Yogg and ToC i'm sure of it.

I promise it even.

Addon: Panda!

2009-09-16T01:27:00.000-07:00

it's been long since I last praised an Addon. Too long even.
So today I'm talking about Panda.
It's light, it's easy, its superb!

What is it? Well its used to auto (dis)enchant, mill, prospect etc.
Lil sparky's workshop works with it too so you can see if fe. the herb is worth more than the ink and vica versa.

I would say go to curse, download it and if you like it you may pay a donation.

Deep thoughts Wednesday: Q&A

2009-09-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

So since I'm posting full time on this blog again. I want to give everyone the oppertunity to ask me some Questons.

Ranging from where have you been to what is leatherworking usefull for...

So post a comment throw me a Question and I'll post the awnser in a following post!

On other thoughts...
Cataclysm is comming out .. .yes it is... and my thoughts about it are:
BAD BAD blizzard! BAD BAD blizzard, OFF! OFFF!!!
*nerd rage* DON'T YOU DARE F*CKING UP OLD WORLD FOR ALL FREAKING ETERNITY!!!!!!
AAARRRRGGGHH!!!!

no seriously, I love them for making the old world new again but I don't want to say goodbye from old world. make it an instance or something! seriously ... plz...

Other problem includes LORE.... so we killed ragnaros.. we defeated the outland threats, we are kiling Arthas.... but VanCleef is still alive.... and stronger then ever....
hmmm... I think I killed the bastard about a 100times already.
Why are we even going to Outland and Northrend when the new azeroth hits?
Arthas = DEAD , outland = Peacefull...

think about it, what do you say on all that?

Bloggers Blog: something bad, something good

2009-09-15T00:31:00.000-07:00

Let's skip the small talk and skip right to the bad news.

A few day's ago I got official confirmation that WoW-Coining it will shut down. Though It's not certain that the author of this excellent blog will shut down for ever, it's a blog that I certainly will miss.
So by this, I'm keeping the blog on my blogroll for a week or two more, to pay homage to the authors excellent writing.

Coffelord, I'll miss you around the blogosphere. Take care.

Now for slightly better news.
I'm giving one person the chance to blog along with me on (a Fortune starts with) One-Copper.
An example post and your credentials can be mailed to: onecopper.blogspot @gmail DOT com
No experience required. (everyone starts without experience and they should get a chance of gaining it -_- unlike what companies say -_- )
I'm looking for a person who can make 1 -3 posts a week (how much the person in question may choose himself)

So do you think you are able to keep readers happy? Find the right post at the right time? etc etc. Send me a mail and we'll see what we can do!

Grtz
Seth

100 Gold to 100K : Scribe's Sanctum: 1-150

2009-09-14T23:41:00.000-07:00

So Yesterday I started the Scribing bussiness. Well at least I tried....
Ari: Heralism: 300 ( ooh the grind, the grind! *horror*)
Ell: Inscription 150

Ell could've getten higher but I wasted enough time yesterday.
Now for the bad part:

Problem 1: 1-150: not many glyphs that are worth selling, or that sell for profit.
fe. kingsblood = 1.90G a piece = 38G for a full stack.
5 kingsblood = 2-3 usefull pigment x 5 = +/-12 pigment = 6 inks
6 inks = 3 x a two ink glyph or 6 x a one ink glyph. both of which only sell for about 4-7G...
so 6x 7gold = 42G okaj profit right?
42G - 10% AHcut = 37.8Gold
= LOSS

Problem 2: Even though I grinded most of the mats (so I can spend more money on the books of glyph) I still don't have enough and will have to buy more to lvl and lose money, granted due to my grinding i only lost about 60G yesterday (including buying the 32slot- bags)

Problem 3: From what I see : most money is made with minor Glyphs at low lvl and highlvl glyphs from books. Which means I have to spend more money on getting the books since they are one of the few profitables.

Now my question for you guys:
How do you know your glyphs are making money with the goblin way? (with other words: severe undercutting)

Do you guys use the same formula as me (blue in the post)? or do you have another one?

Monday Morning idea's edition

2009-09-14T00:42:00.000-07:00

Hey hey !
*song* I'm back I'm back*

So I've been quiet lately, long hours at work, and some personal problems made WoW, blogging and others a bit difficult. Well it should be over now.

So i've been doing a lot of trading this week and now fully control the Rigid King's amber and the Runed Cardinal Ruby market. (post once every day for only 10G profit +/- 160G)
No-one is even trying to get under my price, and if they do I sell with 1G to even 50s silver. (including the AH cut etc etc)

But There was something missing... I Don't have enough time to do my daily JC quest everyday, and most off the tokens I use for the Dragons eye to improve my raiding gear.
So I needed another way to make decent money.
So what did I do?
invested 8K gold in gems, and are selling slowly to have a steady income. (about 500-600G a day)
Bought 2x Mychals botanic bag. (800G)
Dropped mining on Ari and picked up herbalism (240skill right now)
Dropping Skinning on Elloën. and....

Taking...

Inscription.

Yes before all the rants start... I said I would never ever take inscription. Yes, uhuh I know.
Yes, indeed, uhuh, now SHHHH!
As a "bussiness" man I had to take the opertunity. The market for glyphs is so huge, and uncontrolled that well it needs a banker... seriously.
I see glyphs selling for 60-100G! I can cut the price in half (customer happy), Get some good and easy gold (I'm happy) and others will sell a lot less (sellers not happy, which in turn makes me happy)

So yes Ari is maxing out her herbing skill so that Ell has enough herbs to minimize the costs.
When the skill is maximized I can start making profit on it.
When that is done, I'm going to grind for some more herbs. Then drop herbing and take Alchemy. To get my hand in the Alchemy market.

So if all goes well in 1 to 2 weeks time I'll have my hand in:
-Parts of the gem market
- whole Glyph market
- LW market (not that this actually is worthwile -_-)
- Alchemy market (mainly changing and selling gems)

Hope all goes well!
Any ideas or some comments are welcome!!!

Grtz
Seth

Writer's block

2009-09-07T01:56:00.000-07:00

Just a quicky today:
IF you didn't notice, I've hit a writer's block the last days,
with almost no time on wow, and a busy RL the words don't flow out of my fingers as they normally do. So as I'm writing this, I'm working on a new Vid. and some pictures of my small Gem bussiness.
(Certainly now after a weekend with no WoW it seems kinda lame -_-)

So stay Tuned, better updates will follow in the course of this week.

Questions as always may be asked through every available way! ( comments, mail etc)

Deep Thoughts Wednesday: I missed ya!

2009-09-01T22:56:00.001-07:00

Oooooh I missed Deep thoughts wednesday! Yes I have.

'Cause it's been so long I'm just going to spit out everything at once, just "smaller" as I would normally do:

First off all: Yogg-Saron. Our guild came in inches yesterday of downing him for the first time.
Time after time we failed. We discussed what went wrong, changed it and tried again. We didn't even made it through the first phase. A lot more trying and clear heads are needed before we are going to ever down him.

Officers: I love my officers I swear I do. But if they start messing up the schedule of Raiding that I made = Bad. Got one member pissed, 3 in confusion. It was bad. Though it wasn't drama, it could've been if we weren't as tight as we are.

Catacalysm: Can't wait... I want a goblin banker, just for the sake of it and I want a Worgen Druid and Warlock! Could they get on and give uss more info already?

Weekends: God last month I hated weekends, every weekend full with vacations and work.
Vacation to Ieper (ypres), La Roche, Spa and work on other 2 ... Can't I just take a breath?

Leveling: Started lvling with my girlfriend again, she wants a kitty dps, I started a mage and I don't know if it's the best way to go... also no 20% speed increase. God's help me but I want to see azeroth again before they fck it up and blast it into nothingness. (comments about something with synergy or a good lvling pair for druid kitty are welcome)

Banking: This is something I love and yet with all the raids, lvling, work, study etc etc I don't have much time for it these days... if I just got my weekends back... *mumbles*

aaaand all the other mashizzle.
Got something to get off your chest do it in this post, put it in this comment and hope it makes you feel a lill better.

Money Making: Jewelcrafting

2009-08-31T23:20:00.000-07:00

Well after the changes to jewelcrafting (purple gems) I thought, okaj its short lived prices will drop soon enough and the money youll make of it will be nought to 3G a gem....

I was sooo wrong and I love it.

Right now the basic epic gem costs: 100-150G on my server. (most hanging around 120G)
So this is expensive but who cares if have some start capital.

The best thing to actually begin making money is get:
Red gem 130G: +spellpower
Yellow gem 110G: +hit rating
Green gem 145G: +Intellect and MP5
Orange 125G: +hit and spellpower
Purple 100G: +spellpower and mp5

I sell those for respectivly: 180;200;200;170;170 gold... I sell about 10 each day...
(well starting so hopefully)
so small math =
50G x10 = 500G
90G x10 = 900G
55G x 10 = 550G
70G x 10 = 700G
-------
2650G

so 2650G - 400G+/- (relists+ ah costs) = 2250G (give or take a few coins) profit a day!
Yes the 2.2K gold is profit... total money in = about 10K and more...
which also means to do this you'll need about 10K gold...
ofcourse some of these gems have little competition so you can start in smaller nr.s on these.

The best tip I have for you before you start is the following: Start with 1 gem of each colors since the same color doesn't exactly enlarge your profits, it just makes the chance to sell bigger.

Grtz
Seth

100G to 100K; 4.9K worth!

2009-08-27T07:20:00.000-07:00

Hey all! I'm back, I'm back, etc etc.
Well I'm slowly selling Runed cardinal rubys for about 200G a piece while the normal cardinal ruby costs 130G. So money is trickling in slowly. I haven't had much time for something else so gold is comming in about 1K a day. (200-300G profit)

This weekend I'll be unable to play again, so the money making bussiness is very unstable atm.
More updates and better explanations are comming soon.

Any questions related to the blog can be asked as a comment to this post, and I will awnser them this week.

Grtz
Seth

Round-up: Epic fling and Vacation

2009-08-21T03:25:00.000-07:00

Well after four tries of COS timed i finally got the bronze drake... 4 times.... did it every time and lost it: proves my luck in the game -_-

Oh well on the money making site: i lost 5K gold yesterday since I bought epic flying ofr Ari and got 1K on Sethcopper (getting bakc to 3K).

I also found that even with the fluctuated prices of titanium ore it can be still profitable with some luck. (got 3 epic gems on a stack) So maybe some of the gold of my banker is going to be redirected to that. rare gems are still selling, though in lower quantity and lower amount of gold it's still profitable. Due to my sickness I also lost control over the red and blue gem market. Need to pick that up and push the price again.

Since I'm leaving on a short vacation. ( from sunday till thuesday) I won't be blogging or gaming during that period. After that though...Well let's say It's possible that I will reveal part 2 of my master plan. Just because i've slacked a bit on the blogg. It's possible but I'm not saying it's going to happen for sure...
Also some screenies and video's will be comming up again so have an eye on the blog for it!

Not money making related:
Myri, Damn your anti-Linux thoughts! And I hope you get your stuff back soon.
Driana, Thanks for Raiding with uss and following my blogg, It was... euhm interresting and fun ofcourse.
The Guild: Sorry guys, really need the brake in healthy conditions from WoW.
All the Readers, thank you for putting up with this waste of space and sorry that I slacked on blog due to many reasons (sickness, work etc) just remember that RL > WoW!

Grtz
Seth

Thursday: Shopping for Raids: oooooh no!

2009-08-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

Well as you all know Ari dinged 80 and is raiding.
Now the problems she has are the following:
- only 6 epics
- no enchants
- no flasks

So yesterday I took 3K gold from sethcopper (the new banker) and send it to ari to get a stock supplie of flasks, and get my gear enchanted.
Now This is a real setback for the money making since I have NOTHING on AH anymore.
I started scanning again yesterday and will continue today to do so to make up for the lost week of Data. Now hopefully I can start making some money again today so I can get my 3k gold back again.

Problems I forsee:
- On our server blue gems have dropped in price and they have dropped A LOT
- Epic gems are transmuted or bought with honour. So no real farming can be done. Or I should go for titanium ore but the price is still 2times the normal worth so it's better to actually sell them then to prospect them and hope for an epic gem dropping out.
It will be hard... But I will (hopefully) prevail.

Grtz
Seth

Back from the Hospital

2009-08-19T00:19:00.000-07:00

The day after my last post I was rushed to the hospital with a 40degrees fever.
Luckily for me it was just a couple of diseases that hit me on the same time. How? No Idea, well I'm back now, ofc, I haven't played in the meantime. But i'll start making gold again soon enough.

Ooooh and Yes I'm rerolling Goblins When/If they come out for my money making bussiness.
That's my memorial to the community.
Noobish quote: :-)

Grtz Guys hopefully see you soon!

bb
Seth

1C to 100K: 39 degree fever baby

2009-08-12T01:32:00.001-07:00

So still sick and not getting better at all... so auch

First of all:
Zupa, I'm crafting the spell power Ruby and the INT+mp5 eye of zul, and both give around 200-300G each. and I'm buying the gems at 150G a piece so ... ka ching ching. (gold sound)
This is also the way I'm making almost all of my profit right now.

WoW servers are down here in europe so I have no idea what I should have right now.
oki I'm off to lie in bed a few hours since I'm feeling like crap to be honest.

Grtz
Seth

100G to 100K: 2K gold

2009-08-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

I'm still sick, getting worse even, but the blog is something i want to keep alive.

so I continued my experiment.
Bought some epic gems and resold them: 2K in pockets and 3K on AH

all with rare and epic gems.
+spellpower and +ap are selling reaaaallly well.

For more to read I would suggest Greedy goblin ofc, and the new FU blog of my mate and Officer Myridin, both can be found at my blogroll.
ofc the others, like Zekta's are awesome too!

grtz
Seth

something else: FU!

2009-08-09T08:37:00.001-07:00

Hey guys,

still not good enough to actually start posting big stuff in here but here's a blog you MUST read: FU

Myridin, my man, Great job on that on , I actually laughed ^^

100G to 100K: quick update

2009-08-06T09:09:00.001-07:00

quick update:
started with 100G - and ofc the jewels ari made.
right now half sold: 500G in pockets still 500G on AH.
I don't feel quite good enough to right more right now, sorry

grtz
Seth

ps: ingame char: sethcopper (new banker)

in health but not in sickness

2009-08-05T06:06:00.000-07:00

Hello,

I've been strucken by 3 viral infections one on my nose, one on my throat and one at my airways.

So i'll be taking a break of WoW and blogging untill I get better :(

from 1C to 100K: SethOneCopper stepping into the world

2009-08-03T23:15:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
Since I got as much comments I can actually hope for. (about 1 for every 100 readers) I think it's safe to say, I have the general idea:

So this eve, before my raid starts I'm doing the following:
setting up my bank: Sethonecopper, which will be a lvl1 gnome.
Giving him 100G.
Getting on Ari and with her craft about 20ish jewels, to get off my feet and up to aboutish 500G
(crafted products will be: +32ap +16int and +8int/3mp5) Since she's still only 71 I only have 5-6 recipes to choose from but it should be enough.
I will not purshace a bank at this point, but it is going to be a "reward" from my hard work.
The DK will probably start this weekend and lvl to 65: professions: engineer and bs. the DK will only be lvld and powerlvl his professions with the funds of my new bank (sethonecopper)

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My Main is a LW so he'll not interfere with my new bank, but merly keep the old one at 10K for as long as necessary.
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My goal? :
1: Reach 100K
2: give you guys some tips, pointers and must do's along the way.
3: Dominate the JC, ENG and BS market. (high tiers of it lvl80 items)

Side goal: Eradicate the need to farm my own mats. giving me an extra proffesion spot on Ari.

Reports:
1 Weekly report, maybe Biweekly if enough happens (with other words: if I screw up, you get 2 posts a week!)

My Challenge for me and you:
Mine: to make money with a profession I never used past skill150 -my bankers have the basic skill since the first rings make quite a good deal of side money -
Getting gold not primarly by resale but by prospecting and crafting.
Try and delete the need of farming my own mats.
etc

Yours: If you want, you can start the same project, and send me a mail. I welcome you guys to try out the same thing, and write some posts about it, that will be posted here, full rights granted to the person who wrote them.

In my previous post i also used the word: Help, now this came out so wrong.
I actually wanted: 1: some one who may be interrested in doing the same. or. nr.2 which will be a subject for further posts. IF this seems a bit wacky, or interresting, you'll can't wait what I have planned for NR.2

EDIT: to avoid confusion: My jewelcrafter (Ari) already has ore farmed which I will use to start the project. The 100G is used as funds for bags and posting, eliminating me to buy/resale something the first days. which actually make it harder.

New Banker: New Idea: Interaction?

2009-08-03T03:24:00.000-07:00

Soooo you'vel read my post earlier today I presume...
It's getting worse, wacky Idea's are running through my mind! and I can't help myself....

So this time it's YOU that will help me. Instead of hopefully the other way around.

These are the terms:
I'm setting up a scheme to reach about 100K gold again (or more whatever) I'm going to use JC as my first source of income (JC425 on Ariäni)
The rest I leave up to you guys:

I want awnsers on the following:

1. should I start a new banker?
2. if so A DK or again a lvl2 gnome?
3. if the banker is a gnome should i lvl a DK?
4. which proffesions does the DKbanker or the DKlvld need to have?
5. Whats the starting amount I should have? (maximum of 1K!)
6. What should be te goal? 100K,200K etc?
7. Should I make a weekly or daily report about it?
8. should it have it's own guild from the start?
9. Should I use another one to' help' me? -make a coalition with-(GF, Zéntrix, someone new?)
10.Would you like to "help"?
11. is there anything I forgot?

I'm giving you all untill Sunday to think about it!

Grtz
Seth

Edit: corrected some errors

Hang-over:I'M BACK! ft. Manga & Zéntrix

2009-08-02T23:40:00.000-07:00

Good God,
As usual I havn't sleeped well or much...
Though this time it was for a whole diffrent reason. Firstly some background: I'm a huge Anime fan, yes I know very nerdish of me. And so is my wife, if you looked at her you wouldn't say so but yes she has a bit of the bug too. So after looking at where we could buy some Manga and Anime, a small store in Antwerp was found, now the small store wants about 80bucks for a serie of anime. Which is kinda outrages since the normal going price if ordered online from a respectable site = 40Bucks... Goblinish as I am, I did not buy it. Now a mate of me found "some" Anime at a very low price (not even 1$ a box) so I kinda bought 450Gigabite of Anime last night... and the download was going alll night. 37 episodes of Ruroni Kenshin later, I wen't to bad, feeling a bit ashamed of staying up so long even though I began feeling tired at around 2 at night.

But that's not why youre here, your here for Gold!

If you read my friday post, I sad Gz and well done to Zéntrix. I did that because he dinged 80 and is looking forward to a place in our core-team. (with some help off uss gearing him up)
Now he dabbled around moneymaking a long time. And kinda succeeded in it. But as we all know Raiding is expensive, certainly when our core team raids a fast and hard 6 out of 7 days atm.
(minimum of 2 a week attendance required) So UL25 is a lot of wiping and pain. And it costs money. a lot of money.
Right now, after being tired of money making, I found that I'm turning to the AH more and more, buying up saronite and prospecting them. half of which is turned into Gems for myself, and the other half going on AH to break even.
Now after my proposition to go hand in hand with Zéntrix to actually teach him myself (instead of pointing to my and a few other blogs: blogroll) I kinda need to see whats changed this last month of non-active stock selling.

So beware and get the hell out of my way:
THIS SOB IS BACK!

So what are my first actions?
-Scan for a week
- look at markets and use Marketwatcher to find trends again.
-going in whole diffrent areas: Armor kits and Jewelcrafting
-Setting up my DK in the near future (probz once ari's 80 so in twow weeks)
- undercutting the competition and destroying them by any means neccesary
- profit

What will I blog about?
All the above
-NOT about Zéntrix, like I said, I'm not Gevlon and while I share his idea's, and we do somethings the same, I have no intention of blogging about the exact same subjects or idea's.

So wish me good luck now that I'm exploring the deep and unknown oceans of Jewelcrafting and the shallow waters of Armor kits...

oooh and PS: Sorry for those 3 jewelcrafters in my guild, but you'll be out of a profit soon....
and sorry for the Alchemists/Inscriptioneers (or what ever) 'cause in 3 weeks time I'm taking your jobs too.
and sorry to the Blacksmiths... since if Ari dings 80 she's going to take your job too...
yet again: MOVE *insult here*, I'm back so get out of my AH!

One Question though:
Should I start a second banker to get banking again?
would be easier to track progress. but don't know if it's worth the trouble?

Grtz
Seth

Goldsellers: My B***es!!

2009-07-31T02:13:00.000-07:00

I love Goldsellers! I mean it love them! soooo much! yes indeed!

oki if your not a banker or going to love or hate them,
hate them because they spam and w you
love them if you need the cash and are stupid enough to buy from them.

As a banker I <3 them!
Serious... A lot of goldsellers, use bankers... learn who those are... and search them (auctioneer => searches => general and search on name) you'll see that a lot of their mats are around 50ish percent of the market price! and ussually at wednesday there is a big post of them on the AH. (at least at my server) that I buy and sell it saturdays at 20-25% profit. (including the AH tip otherwise it would be around 30%)

Do I help the goldsellers with this? YES
Do I care? NO
why not? Cause if I don't get money out of it somebody else will.

So I get gold from Goldsellers without buying it! Do you catch my drift?

How to spot them?
lvl1 humans most of the time, still in their first outfit. and most of the time a normal name (only the spammers have a xfmdrs name)

So look for them, and use them!

PS: Totally of the record here: Zéntrix My main man, Gratz! you'll know why ;)

Death Knights can be usefull...

2009-07-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

As long as you get them out of the battlefield and in the sanctuary of Dalaran or Ironforge.

I waited with this post soooo long and I still don't wan't to write it, why not? Well I'm not following my own advice on this one. Still not... and I should really get started.

First off all lvl a DK to 65. Yes I hate them too, just grid your theet for 4 hours and take a shower after that, 'cause you'll feel dirty and nubbish.
Second get 2 manufacturing skills on it. (JC and Inscription are both goodsellers)
Third: ? jk... get max skill.
Fourth: make gold.

Why Am I not doing this? Well to do this you need some seed cash or atleast a farmer.
I have neither, my shaman (lvl70) and warrior (lvl45) have the mining and herb skills. but both under the lvl cap, my main (for now) has Skinning so thats pretty useless since I have LW already. (and am not dropping it!)
The cash is also a drawback, i'll need about 5K to get him up max proffesions. And since my banker is at 10K for the last two weeks and I'm not even going to try and make more money on him for the time being, I don't want to spend that amount.

I'm thinking though that once Ari hits 77 I'm needing about 7K on her. so Once she's there I'm going to get money again. Why not now? well.. RL, Raiding, Guild, Work etc. I love making money but right now it seemed like a drag, I did the same everyday, no niches in EU Ravenholdt-A whatsoever,
Maybe if Arï's skill get maxed out...
goldfever has struck again!
*picks up pick axe and runs like a mad man!*

Deep thoughts: uhm yeah well...

2009-07-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

This is the best part in a writers life: Writers Block.

Too much going on:
dinging Ari
raiding with Ell
RL
WoW issues

so deep thoughts today about selfishness and guilds.

We all know that you play the game to have fun, and this actually gives everyone the right of being selfish, you play, your fun, don't care about the rest right?
Well no and yes actually, if your not in a guild this is a great way to play. though endgame raiding will become difficult.
If your in a guild it's a bit harder, even harder if your the leader or an officer. As an officer or leader you put the rest before yourself, you give up raidspots, donate cash, pay repairs, keep the morale up etc.
When the officer or leader doesn't do this we get GuildDrama.. and it's feared by all.

So let me know your guilddrama, your moneydrama, any kind of drama thats good for a laugh or tear.

Is it right to play selfish? if yes, even as a guildleader/officer?
if No, what about banking? aren't we selfish by ripping off other ppl?

Hang-over: Feels like real

2009-07-26T23:26:00.001-07:00

ooh God is it monday again? Already this late? Jeeez, I slept 4h from saturday morning untill now. Probably sick but refuse to go to a Doctor so bah..
The Hangover feels like real though, I crawled in bed at 5 in the morning, at 7ish I was awake again.

Well, I'm putting up a small post today about WoW, and its pixels.
Last week I had someone saying: "You don't know what I'm giving up to be here tonight"
to say it ingame my response was much like: O_O
You saw those guys too saying: "I'm poor"... No your not You are playing WoW, probably have a house, family, job.... How can you be poor? Go to Afrcia and have a look what poor is you *dirty comments here*

So today While you are reading this miniscule update, I would like you all to think about the game and RL. About the value you give to "Gold" and "Titles" and even the game itself. If you have done that, please post a comment about how you feel about the game and all it's glory, can you miss it? Do you feel bad if you don't have gold? Do you envy "rich" pixel goldfarmers etc?

These things I would like to know.

If it's too personal you may always mail me at: onecopper.blogspot@gmail DOT com. If you want to write a post about it, AND want to get featured here mail me the post and who to credit.
Otherwise leave a comment.
So we can all check how the state of our minds is, or we believe we are programmers or cabdrivers or what ever. Or do we believe we are a dual two-hander axe weilding killing machine.

Grtz
Seth

PS: I'm also looking for new reading material, and I think my readers could also use some, so if you have a blog you want me to check out: Mail me!

1 gold plz:Outland content

2009-07-23T22:39:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Remember when I said that Knothide leather sells well? Remember that I said to have a look at the AH competition, and that it should be quite low? Well a char of mine (Ariäni from Heroic totem)
Is alsmost done with Outland content, yes indeed 1 and a half more lvl of it. And I saw that it was the same for Fel Iron, Adamantite and really really good for Eternium.

Now this struck my interest a while back and I should have drafted it then, but as said most of this I write on the fly. Well some research later and I have come up with:

- Fel arnament sells gooooood and there aren't many of those actually on the AH
- Ores, herbs and leathers are in low quantity on AH and sell reasonably fast. (personal experience: max 2 relists)
- for Alliance: Elemental and Resto Shaman Gear! Serious! If it drops put it on the AH, especially the lvl58-60 ones, one relist needed and sold for a nice profit!
- Paladin healing gear: not that much though mainly the hands, feet and bracers that sell, a lower profit as the shaman gear though
- Disenchanting: The mats for Outland are selling for a price that I can't actually determin, on 3 servers 3 very diffrent prices, ranging from so low to moderatly high. Check your server for it.
-Aldor and Scryer reputation tokens (mark of kiljaeden) Sell fairly well, most by 1 or 10 get sold on the first listing.
- Gear req. lvl58 sells fairly well, as long as you don't put up anything stupid (blablabla of the wolf)

What not to sell?
- glowcap mushrooms and armanents of UB/SP the mushrooms are payement for the Sporegar and the others are reputation for cenarion (I think)... Don't buy them, too high of a price and they don't sell.
-Gems.... Seriously Ariäni is a JC and made about 100ish gems green quality... I always put them on by 3 (so 3x +6str, 3x +6agi etc) the only thing that remotly sells are the +str ones thats it.
-self made gear: Made gear by a proffesion (ex: Drainic boots) Don't sell at all, the quality is vastly infirior to what drops in the world, an dfor the blue items, you just need too much of mats (mats > good = loss)

I hope this were some good tips for the lvling Banker or player.

grtz
Seth

Let's look around...

2009-07-22T23:33:00.001-07:00

Hey all,

I hit a writers block today, can't come up with anything.
I would suggest looking at:
Heroic Totem for a good read about shamans, leveling and healing

and if you don't actually know what you want to read have a look at:
WoW Headlines
Which has every important class and AH blog (including mine ^^)

Grtz
Sorry for the no-update update.

Deep thoughts: Goblin thoughts

2009-07-21T23:56:00.001-07:00

Deep thoughts wednesdays brings the mind of no-one less then myself.... well at least it clears the cobwebs in there a bit...

If you have been here from the start, you know I started this blog in the honour of Gevlon.
I was a bit scared he would say farewell to blogging after reaching the goldcap, even worse when he reached it a second time. From the moment he started blogging he was bringin uss great tips and deep philosophies. Hereby a Thank you for being honest, greedy, not being "social" and for sharing it with uss.

As I also said in the beginning of this blog, I will not copy his style or blog like him. Why not? well I have my own style, I post "airish". I post light stuff, and most of the time I try to be somewhat funny. Not that I succeed in it though... (1g Plz has a post with moderate succes in humour though)

So I started this blog to actually fill up an emptyness within myself. Though Gevlon kept posting and kept the blog, I didn't stop since I enjoyed this, I enjoyed that the numbers and guests rised on my blog and that I got moderate succes.
I started at around 10ish viewers a day, and went to 200 a day. Right now I'm not even sure how many views i actually have a day, sometimes 250 the others 450 to even 700! (1012 views on this)

what I notice though is that the Goblin that started this, actually is also responisble for half my traffic.

So does this mean I'll mimic him? I rather not, since I like to be original.
Does this mean I should set up a project to take someone under my wing?
Hell no, since no-one would actually care and I don't have the time. I'm already guiding 4 persons to more wealth (a friend, my gf, a guildie, and a random who /W'd about the blog)
Should I continue making gold? I'm sticking my new banker on 10K and he's staying around that number. just because I don't need more, if I lose some (buying flight fe.) i'll make it up in a day or 2.
Should I stop blogging? Still don't know that yet, but thinking it over slowly.
Should I continue this post? Probably not, since it's sounding like a rant to me. Which it wasn't supposed too..

oh well, you'll read me later, I"ll see your traffic another day.

bb for now!

Jewelcrafting: Prospecting

2009-07-21T04:07:00.000-07:00

I still don't know what to do exactly with the blog, my mind is twirling about the subject. Yes or No? Continue or stop?
But in the meantime I can continue posting some golden pearls... or at least the dust of adamantite.

One thing few Jewelcrafters and bankers realise is that lower lvl ore is quite profitable. And I don't mean grinding it, i already said that a couple of weeks ago. What I mean is prospecting, A small example of my server is thorium ore. The prices are down to 30G for a full stack which is about half it's normal price. This is a bussiness oppertunity not only for resale (for about 45G cause of the major competition) but also for the value it holds inside.

A full stack can be prospected about 4 times. And everytime you get a blue sapphire or large opal etc. Those gems go for about 10-20G a piece on my server, and most of the time you get 2 out of a prospect so lets say that we get 6 jewels and all sell for 15G....thats worth 90 gold... 3 times your investment! Thats something you don't see on a daily base, 3 times the money you put in if you sell it back on the AH....

Now thats a goldmaking oppertunity for minimal time and effort.

Grtz
Seth

A fortune starts with one copper

Hang-over: They are quiting all around...

2009-07-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

If you haven't noticed already, the blogging community is getting thin... not even that, the wow community is getting thin...

It's summertime and a lot are quitting the stuff.
To be frank, I had some lvl of succes in blogging, but I'm beggining to wonder myself...
I mean what do I offer to the readers that's diffrent from my blogroll?
Zekta, Greedy Goblin, jm2c, AH antics...
They all talk about making money, they all talk about personal exp and filosofie (spelling?)

I don't blog to get my thoughts on paper, I blog so someone could read them, pass time, or just find it interesting.

Now most members i get here, are comming from above sites. So that means that they already found something interesting... Is it really needed that I continue this Blog?

I don't know...I'm doubting actually...
You tell me ...

Grtz
Seth

Work...WoW

2009-07-13T22:49:00.000-07:00

I've been informed yesterday eve, that i'm leaving today (in an hour) to Germany untill Friday evening. So I have no idea what so ever if I can continue the blog untill then.

Updates on this problem will hopefully follow, but if you don't see me untill monday At least you know why...

Sorry guys.
Grtz

Monday Morning Hangover: Experiment Explained

2009-07-12T21:54:00.000-07:00

After this weekend's view on my Blog, i saw that a lot of people actually read the 1G plz!: Experiment. While it was nothing more then a personal experiment to have a laugh this proved to be quite interresting.

So here by further explanation of the experiment.

Approach: My approach isn't the standart need G plz, no money for mount plxxxx lolol! I used a more sofisiticated and friendly approach in the lines of: Hello , I'm sorry to disturb you, but it seems I'm a bit short on cash for my lvl30 Mount, is it possible ot receive a donation? or
Hello, I'm collectiong Gold for charity. A poor boy (me), needs a mount since the beasts have crippled him, sadly enough there isn't enough money to buy one, care to help out?

These mostly gave me a: hehe, where are you man? And a gold went into my pockets.
As one of the commenters said, if a reason is provided, people will give in easier. Not only that it let's them feel social. And WoW is played as a social game isn't it? Also a thing that you can't underestimate is the power of laughter. by whispering or /2 spamming in a silly but good humoured way you will likely have a better reaction. (which is also true on /2 in low population hours)

For the record: This experiment was done at Ravenholdt EU (A) A medium server with about 5K Ally people. (give or take a few) And it was done everyday around 5-6 in the afternoon. (also give or take an hour).

For an awnser to some of the questions that have been asked by people in my guild / mails etc.

1.Why? Well this is how I keep myself and my readers Entertained. And an experiment like this was overdue

2.Aren't you ashamed that you have done this?
NO, NO, NO....I share the Goblin point of view (well about 90ish % of it). They are being Social, and it's my right to take advantage of it. It's my duty actually, As a banker it's yours too.

3.Are you continuing this experiment?
No, I have learned enough, also its a 400G/2H = 200G/H... i make 5 times a much at the AH.

4.Did friends respond yo your whispers?
Well I was incognito, so yes a few responded. Though I think only 1 or 2 actually gave Gold...

5.Are you ashamed for taking the gold of friends?
Bussiness is Bussiness.... see nr.2

Any others may be asked by mail or Comment.

Grtz
Seth

1G PLZ! : Experiment

2009-07-09T23:24:00.000-07:00

I've had a little experiment going the last week...
just for the 1G plz section of this blog, I did something I had never done before...

I begged in WoW!

More actually I begged 4 times!

At lvl 5, 15, 30 and 40 I begged with a warrior i created: Bedelaar (dutch for beggar)
(All begging did in IF by the bank)
So my findings of my experiment:

lvl5 (2h begging) 50Gold not many wanted to give me gold, low lvl you don't need it etc.
nothing to report with hmi

lvl15 (2h Begging) ~67Gold Same reason here, low lvl's don't need it...

lvl30 (2h begging) about 400G!!! I said i needed gold for my Mount... And actually a lot fell for it ! even some in /2 /w me to ask where i was. A lot of people seem to think that the mount is needed, that its needed to survive. Very interesting though

lvl40 (2h begging) About 150G. I was begging and my reason was i wanted to buy plate.. Not many responded

Well if you see these nrs. I certainly Know why there are beggars around. Do note that this begging that i did was from 16h to 20h. and always no more then 30mins a piece.
So 30mins begging, 30min wait, 30mins begging ...

So if your a Goblin and you don't mind taking money from helpfull people: let your lvl30 begg for a bit and it'll get enough money to lvl70ish.

Grtz
Seth

Crafter's Gold: Mining...how?

2009-07-08T22:48:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
Yesterday i checked prices from Mining materials on my server. And as we all know end-game mats of vanilla (thorium/mithril) are expensive. Now what i also saw is that (on my server atleast) they are worth more then saronite...
Saronite full stack = 20G
Mithril full stack = 50G
Thorium full stack = 70G

Even old gems are going for 15G a piece! some even for 30-50G (I'm looking at you Azerothian diamond!)
While I see hihglvl gems going for the same and even a lesser price!
So my advice for you: Are you lvling mining? or lvling a character? or just a high lvl miner and bored?
Try to go to some old locations with mithril/thorium (every 50-60 area is great! except for feralas) And see how much money you can make..
Ariäni lvld the past week, and while I didn't go out of my way to get anything. I came up with 3 stacks of mithril that I couldn't use anymore, and some stones and lowerlvl gems.
While lvling I made 250G just from those stacks. in a lvl 50ish area...
I don't know if you remember but...250G was a big deal back when on vanilla. Now 250G is enough for a raidnight and thats it, but while lvling this can get you a long way.
So again, if your lvling or want to start it, get mining... It's a pain in the ass from tin to iron (gap is quite big) but after that you'll thank me.

Grtz
Seth

Deep Thoughts: So you want to be money capped?

2009-07-08T00:58:00.000-07:00

Let's think about this for a while....

Greedy Goblin made 200K+ gold. Seriously: Gz for that.
BUT: WHY?
I mean what do we need to do with so much gold?
Make another character and start a new with that one to reach it again?

Come on!
I have found a new Way of living actually, Right now my small banker has 10K gold on it. and 2K on my main on that realm...
And I am happy with that. I don't NEED anymore, and once you realise that you won't want anymore.
Elloën (my main) Does NOT have epic flying, why not? I don't need it. He's a skinner, so I can skinn anywhere I want to. I don't quest a lot with him, and if I need to fly to a raid, i can use the time to explain tactics etc on Vent, give the orders to the healers, figure out the tanks etc...

I have 10K with that small banker on Ravenholdt, and if I decide to take epic flying, I just need one week and i'll have the 10K again. I don't buy armor for my alts, I don't need to buy mats for my alts, the only thing i spend my money on is my guild. 50G for repairs, if we wipe too much (500G total = 1H of AH work), mats for great feasts: 100G for 10 great feasts which is enough for a week, and those 100G i get back by Raiding.
This doesn't mean I'll stop banking, I love it too much, and got too much to share with you all.
In my own freaky way ofcourse. But I will take a step back ingame. I don't have the time to Bank an hour a day. Certainly not now that Ari (my shaman) is speedleveling to 80. (40->57 in 20h anyone? - without rested, or help 10% from shoulders though) I'm raiding daily, blogging, keeping my guild running, working on the guildsite, working at work, learning in my free time and ofcourse giving the love to my wife that she deserves.

So AHgame, thank you soo much for the 100K on DMF but I'm content with what I have on Ravenholdt, so I'll be seeing you a bit less, maybe 10mins a day, just enough to post up all the trash i get by doing raids and lvling Ari.

PS: Don't worry, this blog will keep his regular posts

skinner and leatherworker? Do some Heroics!

2009-07-07T01:55:00.000-07:00

Ahhh yes, Heroics! they almost give you nothing in gold, or things to sell effectivly (since every 80 wants epics) and yet they make me hordes of money!

If youre a skinner and leatherworker do the following:
run Old kingdom, VH and Ahn'ketet something... every day!
why?
Well you skinn leather, chitin and dragonscales from there.
yes indeed most of these don't sell for a lot of profit... about 20-40G for a full stack (server dependent)
BUT:
you can make ==> nerubian legarmor and even the purple icescale legarmors. These sell for 50G and 400G respectivly on my server.

Why running heroics then? (or even normal dungeons)
1) extra money while your doing it
2) chance of getting a boe blue
3) gearing up if your a Raider
4)to do something fun... if you don't wipe half the time ofc
5) emblems of heroism => jewels => profit

So doing about 1h-2h of heroics, gives you 5 benifits!
True not all in the form of money, but still just to get your mind of a hards day work. I know that a lot of people refrain from playing the AH since they view it as an half hour of pure boredom. And this is my little tip from today to get your money from minimum AH-"work".

Grtz
Seth

Monday morning hang-over: it feels like I lost a week...

2009-07-05T22:55:00.000-07:00

So It's monday again, and i haven't been on the blogosphere a whole week!
This took a lot of control on my part, not to check it every day but i managed.

Not only that, i haven't played WoW except for my daily Raids and keeping my guild inorder.
So For now, I suggest to have a look at my BlogRoll and take your reading material there.

On another note:
On my last post i got the comment of: Thuesdays are great for flask selling...
Well: I'm on a European server... Wednesday is THE day to sell flasks my man, Wednesday!

Small post I know, but i want to check up onPTR patchnotes, and other blogs before I start giving advice that maybe outdated!

Grtz
Seth

1G plz: let's take a break

2009-06-26T01:07:00.001-07:00

Hey all I'm back for a small post

Don't you ever have that something just won't sell, or it just doesn't work?
TAKE A BREAK!

If you crafted item doesnt sell its because of 3 reasons:
1) too much competition: wait untill the competition is lower and sell it then
2) not enough people online: post it in the weekend, when there are more searching the AH
3) it's just horrible: remember the "of the falcon"? agi+int isn't the most topseller or the "of the boar"? they just don't sell! list them for about 145% vendorprice, or let the mdisenchant, otherwise you'll not sell them.

And today I'm taking my own advice, my week's leave of work is comming (last day today!) and I'm taking the week of blogging most probably.
I'm against all the nerfs Bliz is giving old content, and it seems that my muse isn't happy with it either, i have about 500 idea's but they seem to melt on paper. (or pc screen)
This will also givem e about 15-30mins extra with my wife over next week, and we can really use the "alone" time. Since i don't draft texts, i all write them on the day they need to be posted, this will save me some time and frustration.

So This was my last post for June. I'll be back the 6th of july.

grtz
Seth
and remember:

A fortune starts with one copper!

Deep thoughts continued:

2009-06-25T04:50:00.000-07:00

Dàchéng said...: I notice no mention of real-life friends. Keeping friendships requires effort on your part, and I notice that your general day desn't include anything there. If this is not just an oversight, then you will lose your non-WoW friends if you have not already done so. Letting friendships wither could be a sign of addiction.

This is a great Comment I got on previous post.

I thought it was good enough to continue yesterdays topic.

Dàchéng, Yes I have friends. Though not a lot anymore. In the week, we don't have much time/energy to go out and see each other, but they also play WoW so we put up Vent, and talk while we play. In the weekend, we mostly hangout at my home or at a bar playing some biljarts.

Yet I must say when i was younger, i had a lot more friends, as time passed by though you naturally lose sight of each other. (diffrent home, school, work etc)
The first year i started to work full-time, AND did univeristy I didn't had a lot of time to spend with them, and i lost about half of my mates, later when I met my wife, that little time I had got split in 2. Most of my friends said then and there and litterly: it's uss or her. (Do mind that this was not the first time) I chose her.
My cell has about 348 numbers in it, of which 24 familymembers and 10 worknrs. (i got an extra cell for work so only emergency nrs) The rest were mates. Now i call 3 nrs...
I realised that "Friends" are people who call you when THEY need something. And when you need something, they all dissapear. So I'm left with my "family", my brow's, my Dearest Friends.

You should do good to listen to this piece of advice:
For every 50 friends you got, there will be 1 that's a true friend, one that isnt a M&S to put it in goblin words, only 1 that you will see between being a young-adult and adulthood.
Everyone else, will leave, forget you,find other friends...
there's a line from a song that goes: "Friends are enemies with secret identities, who come around and stab you in the back when you ain't looking"

Now that's exagereted by far. But do think about this: how many friends of yours would dump you for 1 million dollars? how many would you dump? There's probably only one or two that you won't let go.

I'm not saying this out of bitterness, I'm saying this out of wisdom. You (my readers who are saying no) are probably below <24 years old, and think that those friends you have will stay with you all your life. Go to your family and ask how many childhood friends they still see? my mom and dad don't see any, my aunt doesnt see any, my grand-ma doesn't see any, etc etc.

Don't think that having fewer or no friends is a result of addiction. I chose to have less friends, and there wasn't one day I was depressed about it. I make one phonecall and i know that my mate will be running to me. For me that's better then having to call 348 nrs and hoping that half of them show up.
I chose to let the relationship wither, not for the game, not for time but for me. I am happier now.
So right now i have: aquintaces (? spelling) and "family" (my dearest friends)
the first group, I see at work, at my favorite bar, at wow.... And they are fun to be with but thats it.
The second group, is the one I rely on, and those that can rely on me. And I take pride in it, that that group is small.

For the ones Thinking I must be 44 years old and a loner to write like this:
Biography:

My real name is Dave V.D. I live in Belgium and was born at 18th of august 1988.
So I'm 20y old,
weight: 54Kg
height: 1m72

My favorite hobbies: biljarts, spending time with my wife, reading, programming, hanging out with my brotha from anotha motha, and anything that can test my brain/body to its fullest.
(except contact sports: cant do those anymore - accident) and gaming (including WoW)

Work: I work as an ITer at N-allo and a programmer-analyst in my spare time.
Studies: Management, Acountancy and IT + IT-degree + degree to start my own company.
My IQ: 126-139 (from the tests i took these are my lowest and highest scores)

Favorite colour: Black and red (and green)
Music: HipHop, old rock and hard rock/metal
Movies: action, thriller, comedy.
Food: steak and fries

Anything else just ask.

How can I have wisdom then? Well, let's just say I crawled out of the snake pit and have seen a lot.

Deep Thoughts: When enough WoW is enough?

2009-06-23T23:20:00.000-07:00

It's a big topic here in Belgium: Game addiction

When are you addicted to the game?
Yesterday I came in touch with this topic.So i thought i'd write a small post about it.
Can people really say: "your addicted"? What are there parameters? Let's take me for example:
My general day is:
6h30 get up
7h leave for work
7h30-15h30 (normally) working
15h30 -16h driving home
16h pressing the On button of my pc, and checking my mail etc.
17h-18h dinner (including dishes) yeah i eat loooong, since i love the peace and calm, and family time.
18h10-19h banking (about 30mins i just sit and read a book of it ,while my scan is running)
19h10-22h Raiding and keeping my Guild in order.
22h - ??h (mostly 12h) Rent a movie, read or finish my rubikscube since it takes me an hour or 2 to complete.

Note: i smoke a cig every hour or so, so i need to go downstairs, and do it in my "smoking area"
Note2: the playtime in the weekend is about the same
Note3: i try and Not game on Thursday (personal time with wife etc)

So you should say: well ain't you adicted? you come home from work and almost instantly play!
Valid point! But:
1) I see that my work and work @ home are done first.
2) I don't watch TV (I really don't like it)
3) I read books at work (on my brake) aswell as the newspaper.
4)I don't have kids yet, and my wife is mostly @ school or something like that

So is that addicted? I don't really know. If you say to me: Quit a week.
I wouldnt mind, what i would mind though is: Who is going to run my guild? I saw at TAOW what happened when 2 officers took a brake... 25left the first week(!)
Second i would be bored half the time. I read a lot, but i do that at work and while smoking at home. I don't like TV so thats out.. I do like videogames... but heck thats the same.. i like boardgames, but you got to find people for that... I really really like sports, sadly with my injury a couple of years ago, the only thing i can do is jog and run. So no contactsports.. which were my alltime favorits (Basketball on concrete, hockey, soccer, ...) I could go out to a bar and play some biljarts (which I also really love) and thats something i would do, but not a whole week, cause then i would be an Alcohilic, since i'm at a bar all the time. Next week i have a week of liberty (no work)
So i'll be home with my lovely wife the whole week and this is what i'm going to do:
-sleep a bit longer as my 4h a day i have now.
-Go for a walk with my wife
-Go swimming (and this is a real achievement for me! since i'm an aquaphobic)
-Go to our yearly feast here in Heist, so shop and have some fun.
- just doing nothing ! (for about an 1h, i can't do that too long)
- reading
- blogging
-WoWing
- being romantic for my wife ^^

So you judge are you addicted? what is addicted? and as long as you keep your RL straight, is that really addiction?

Grtz
Seth

Edit: For the record I do have 2 addictions I reallly like: 1) My wife, and i will never give her up!
2) Smoking, yes I Like IT! so I don't care what you say about it, though I'm cutting back for my wife, she doesnt like it. And as said: She's my prime addiction, my sweet and perfect little drug!

Group Therapy: Price WAR!

2009-06-22T23:06:00.001-07:00

Thuesday is the day that I bring other experienced players and bankers to this site.
We are all short on time so It's just Me and Grodus. But we'll do fine

Grodus: Getting into a price war can be extremely detrimental to an item's value. If you're in a battle with a vicious undercutter, there are a few things you can do to minimize your losses:

1) Wait awhile. If it's a rare item, there's a good chance that your competitor's will sell and then you'll be able to set your own price. This technique doesn't work as well with crafted items or items that are easy to come by.

2) Keep undercutting. Either your item(s) will sell, or the price will go so low that you can buy out the others and relist at normal prices.

3) Stealth auction. If your competition is posting auctions for a 48h duration, post yours at a 12h duration before peak playing times. In all likelihood, your auctions will sell before anyone even notices.

There are more ways to effectively deal with price wars, but these are the ones I use most frequently.

Basicly Grodus already mentioned most of the tactics, Including what I do. Mostly I wait awhile for posting, or i push the price so low that i can buy most of his stock. What i also do is: creat a new charactar and undercut with him. If he sees 2 people (me and my alt) undercutting he can do 2 things:
1) give up, if he does so i can cancel all my auctions and relist.

Another tactic, which i don't use a lot but can do if he's persistent. Sell via Trade. Take the AH price -10% and you'll sell while he's wondering how come nothign is selling.

So these were the tips for today.
Thank you Grodus for your view!

Monday Morning Hang Over: Friday's post

2009-06-21T22:53:00.000-07:00

In light of my Fridays post, i got a lot of commetns regarding the Alts.
Why Wait untill 3.2? => its only one month away since the ptr patchnotes are up.
So if you haven't got one, this is valid advice, if you already have an alt let's say 20+ well go ahaid and lvl it.
On the Part where i say that it's sad that bliz lowers the difficulty of Old Content And to my commenter on that:
It's not only the mounts... It's the heirlooms, recruit a friend, the quests, the leveltime (remember the 20-60 lvl nerf?) the nerfing of dungeons (byebye Mallet of Zul Farak) about EVERYTHING that was Vanilla has fallen away or is shrinking in a corner crying and hoping it won't get cut down! And YES it IS sad! I don't care that you have lvled 4 alts... i have 3x 60's 4x70's and 4x80's All leveled over the course of 4 years. And i Loved leveling them, Yes loved it. Why cause it made sense too! It made sense to Pug and wipe in silly lvl30 dungeons to know your class, it made sense to buy that blue lvl40 items since you would be using it 10hours instead the mere 2hours you'll be spending now? It made sense to swear at lvl40's with mounts, It made sense to love your Travel form, Ghost Wolf or Aspect of the Cheetah. What is left of it?

Absolutly NOTHING... And yes it's Sad... Newer Players will love the changes ofcourse, and people who want to blaze to endgame will love it. Personally I want to learn how to play my class before lvl80, I want to learn how to tank with my warrior in old dungeons, i want to heal ZulFarak with his hammer again. IF you want to take the easy road and love it? Be my guest. But don't say it's for the better, no, heeeelllll no, It's just because your to slow,tired,dumb, new, burned out, what ever. to do it the old way.
So here is what I and Half of the "old guard" want: Blizz make uss a VANILLA SERVER!

Some people want it easy, well do your thing.
Personally i want to raid Molten Core again, 40 man ragnaros, and raid 5hours at one piece cause there inst something like being saved. I want the absolute and total dispair agian when you see 20guys getting one hit because Fire Resistance mattered.

So this was my Rant for today. I want to say though that I don't mind that people want to play an easier game, just dont' think that everyone wants this. Some people want a challenge. If i Wipe 3 times at a boss i'm happy, cause then it's something worth trying, if you don't know tactics and still beat a boss... whats the fun in that? the cheer? the joy?

So my conclusion:
50% of the players want to take it easy = do yar thing
50% want to keep the game interresting, alive and Hard (in the context of wow at least) = These want the fun of the game.

Grtz
Seth

1G plz!:In light of 3.2: Saved money = profit

2009-06-18T22:51:00.000-07:00

I'm sitting here for the last two hours, and I have a writersblock. I haven't slept decently in the last week or 2, Work is getting a pain in the butt and to top it off i bought another game, which me and my wife played for hours yesterday, only doing my cooking quest on WoW.

But maybe I finally found a topic.

First of: if Titanium ore is under 2G a piece on your server buy them! and hold them untill 3.2 drops. (Most of you should already know this, so sorry for the late comment on this one) The reason why is simple: Titanium ore can be prospect for epic gems in 3.2

But up for the post:
We all know about the travel changes in 3.2 if not here's a small list
ground mount = lvl20 (5g for learning and mount together!)
epic groung mount = lvl40
flying mount = lvl60 (flying will now decrease with your standing)

Why Am i talking about this, well aside from the fact that it makes the lvling easier... again... (personally i htink it's a bit sad, Bliz is so ready to give up the difficulty of old content)
It also saves you a lot of cash! And that from the Banker or Goblins standpoint is the most beautifull thing in the universe! So my Advice here is quite simple:
- Don't lvl alts untill 3.2
- Don't buy epic flying! (normal flyspeed = 150% in 3.2)
- If you do want epic flying = get it when 3.2 drops
On the epic flying this can save you about 1500G! now, when is the last time you made 1500G in one day? Well if you are reading these tips you probably haven't (or you just like my blog very much)

Again sorry for the video's, i'm still deciding what to do with it.. Comment, hint, hint *cough* HINT *cough* /giggle
This weekend I might get off another post, since the last week I noticed my posts getting smaller, so i'll game a bit, look at AH find something usefull and I'll be dumb and share it with you guys, so my server will be flooded with it. Nah, ok serious now, i'll find something decent to write about this weekend and search for that golden tip I like to give.

Grtz
Seth

Remember: A fortune starts with one copper!

Crafters Gold: and for something totally diffrent

2009-06-17T22:37:00.000-07:00

We all know that we can sell, armor kits, tailoring threads, belt buckles, glyphs, potions, flasks and gems. Even the mats for these products sell well. We sell, leather, ore, flowers, meat, cloth etc.
Well you can sell more as just that, no im not talking about enchanting mats, everyone knows that. But i mean food! and even Hunter's pet food! (mammoth snack) These sell really well! Thats not allSometimes from the daily fishing quest you get a grey quality hat, even though its grey, these can be sold for a good 10gold at the AH. Also some not so well known items that can be sold are: Frost oil that alchemists make (old Quest item) for a couple of Gold (i sell 1-3 of those every week for 5gold) and gyroatom (engineers make this, and also used for a quest item) for some gold (also 1-3 a week for 3-10G) even bronze and copper tubes can be sold!
I can't call this a real niche market, just because it isnt that large, but can earn a pretty penny. Same as Gromsblood, on most AH's this is non existent and can grant as much as 1-2G a piece!
Also.. and a lot of people dont mind this... but make your lvl10-19 and 25-29 Blue items! These sell like sweet candy! ex. thoughened leather armor, blue quality +19 stamina and made by leather workers, i can buy the mats for a mere gold (or farm them) and sell it for about 10Gold!
i mean thats 900% profit margin!
Something for the skinners: Have you been playing for more as a year? Do you still have that shadow cat hide? Strange but true i still had 20 when they took it out of the game, i have sold 10 of those and made a solid 50G! a piece.... why? well like i said, i probably have the last 20 on the server. And some people like to collect "vanilla material" that is unbuyable!

I know these tips are small, but trust me its free gold i'm giving you all here! I hope you enjoyed the small post of today!

Grtz
Seth

Farmers Note: Geh youh hands dihty boooy!

2009-06-16T22:55:00.000-07:00

Farming is needed...sometimes...if there is absolutly no other way...none, what so ever other way...nothing else... i'm not kidding!

but indeed sometimes it's good, sometimes it can be awesome even!
So for my fellow skinners and cookers:

On my server worm and mammoth meat are expensive... so i don't want to buy them a lot. The only thing you can do then is go farm... and I hate it so... Well northern Dragonblight is your salvation: lots of jormungar worms, even a cave! which drop their share of Arctic fur. You are also just a small distance away from storm peaks, which in it's south has a motherload of mammoths who again drop their share of Arctic furs. What i do here is i go out for an hour, (for the worms and an hour for the mammoths) and i get an average of 30 worm meat 30 mammoth meat and 60 chilled meat, above that i get about 120 borean leather and 2-5 arctic furs!
now i hold half my meat for cooking dailys so lets say i sell about 90 ofthem. and they sell for 2G a piece= 180G, i convert the leather to heavy leathers and i get another 140G of them, the arctics sell on my server for about 100G (!!!) so thats: a mnimum of420G and a maximum of 720G! but that ain't all, if you buy spices with your cooking badge youll get about 10 northernspices + 3orso in your goody bag, which also sell 2G a piece. (26 gold give or take)

It isn't an incredible amount of gold, but its good enough to afford you a week of raiding. And you'll have enough meat for the dailys this week. (or they must be shoveltusk.rihno meats - but these cna be farmed about the same)

Well small post for the farmers here,
time to get your hands dirty!

Grtz
Seth

Deep thoughts: Who are you? - I'm me!

2009-06-16T22:38:00.000-07:00

Well, it seems that the money making has taken a little dive this last week.
Probably because i haven't spend that much time on it. The new guild has taken a lot of my time lately, so does work, and does my wife. I promise it'll be better... soon... i hope...plz?

All the silly things aside, I'm getting used to the 5 -10 orso emails dropping in my mailbox a week for a thank you note or a help me question. I'm getting used to the ppl i helped on the server, Wing me for more moneymaking goodness... But this one was a first: I stumbled on a reader! A guildie even, someone who i haven't recruited even a week ago... so that was a pleasant suprise, what was even better: he liked the blog... so that was double good. I know the blog is becomming more popular, I started out with about 10pagevieuws a day, now I'm at 250~ orso.
Not a whole lot but still a good number. So ....

hehe ^^

Okaj sorry about the sillyness again, I just can't help it!
There will be an extra post here today! so just hold up and get your farmers weekly when it's out!

Group Therapy: The Pet Show

2009-06-15T22:37:00.000-07:00

One of the things I like to do on a RPPVP server is reselling
animals... jupz living breathing animals... I put them on a leash and
leave them in Booty bay with a woodenboard that sais "500G!". No
seriously I do Resell Pets, more specific: Faction Only Pets. from the
normal little dragonhawks to the Teldrassil sproutling (the argent
tournament one) I must say on my server they are pretty profitable, i
buy them at the crossfaction house and put them up on the Alliance AH
and instant profit. I Also buy cats from the old catlady and put them
up at the crossfaction AH, but they don't seem to sell quite as fast.
Though ofcourse I'm just one man, and one man's view isn't always
enough... I bring you my fellow Bloggers, the True Gurus of this
Blogsphere, The Inventor of Gold and the Mistress of Pets...

I don't dabble too much in x-faction trading, there are a couple of guys on my server (low pop pvp, horde 2:1 alliance) that already have this covered which in itself proves there is a market for it. Re tournament pets there does seem to be a x-faction market but personally I just have an arrangement with a horde to swap pets as do quite a few of the "hardcore" pet collectors, on these particular pets, asking prices have tanked from about 2k to 800g on my server, I think its a case of 'sell them NOW' if you're still thinking about it.

We often hear a lot of Engineers complaining they don't have any way
to make money, well the three BoE pets from engineering sell very well
on my own AH, that is the Mechanical Squirrel, the Lifelike Toad and
the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti. On my server I can sell 3-4 squirrels
per week, up to 3 toads and maybe one yeti but the yeti is a lot more
expensive to produce and I guess therefore not as attractive to people
going for volume (to hit 50, 75 etc) over 'quality'.

One pet a lot of people don't realise is BoE is the Mechanical
Chicken, obtained from completing the distress bot quest chain. People
going for Loremaster will probably end up with this pet and it sells
on my AH for approximately 1.2-1.8k.

I list my pets one at a time on a 24 hour b/o. Especially at weekends
when more people are playing I make sure to keep the stocks updated.

The other tip I can give you is to list when something in game draws
attention to the pet world. By that, I mean ingame holidays such as
Halloween, Easter, Brew Fest, Valentines and Summer Festival, or any
others where pets drop. These are the times people realise they've got
24/25 pets etc and are looking for something quick and easy (ie the
AH) to get them that achievement.

For some further coverage of which Vendors are of interest to people
planning to list pets either on their own, or the neutral AH, you can
find links on my blog post -
http://onlytenmorepoints.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-gold-from-achiev...

Until next time, Glinda, Mistress of the Pets

Zekta:
Guilty, I admit, I am the cold-blooded pet smuggler for selling those Noble Dragon Hawk to those pathetic Alliance. With help from those greenish goblin of course.

I am doing cross faction pet smuggling, rather than just putting it
on Goblin run AH. I had a travel thru Azeroth with my Horde DK, spend
around 25-30 minutes on traveling, and gather each type of pet for 12
each mail to one of my Alt parked at the Neutral AH, (Orgrimmar,
Thunder Bluff and Silver Moon). Transfer to the Alliance counter-part
on my girlfriend account, and start selling on Alliance's AH. Listing
3-4 at a time.

The average price on those pet would be 8-20g depends on competition.
Reasonable profit margin for covering buyer's trouble on smuggling it
themselves, but since we are doing it in bulk, the profit is nice.
They are selling like 5-7 per night, so one smuggle is able to supply
for 1-2 weeks.

Rare Faction based pet tend to gain high profit (but not in %),
however, they are much harder to sell. I found that once the price >
500g, buyer tends to shop very carefully, the price different is so
stiff that, they'll consider smuggling the pet themselves. So I am not
in the Argent Dawn and Whelps-like selling. Another reason for not
doing the Argent Dawn is that, I expect the price will drop soon due
to more and more people will do it for profit. Once those pet
collector done their collection (And got those mount as well), they'll
join the pet-selling group, similar to the Oracle's pet. (They are
sold at 5g on my server now!)

The main drawback of pet selling is that it takes up lots of space.
Since pets are not stackable. Storage space, relisting bag space etc,
will consume space pretty fast compare to glyph selling and flask for
instance.

Also, Pet is a good item type for market manipulation; we'll talk about it later I guess

A great inventory for your pet sales can be found at: http://warcraftpets.com/ (thanks for the linke Zekta!)

You heard it all! You can make serious gold of these creatures! Even you "I'm poor and can't make money untill late game-engineer" can make gold out of this one!

I would like to thank both Zekta and Glinda, for this great post they have written!

Grtz
Seth

Monday Morning Hang-over: Headache from Raiding

2009-06-14T22:27:00.000-07:00

Hey All,
I'm back after a weekend of trial and error on WoW. As you all know the Raiding guild has started (my own Raiding guild again... God i'm happy) but it took some gold to start up... around 2.5K actually. The Bank tabs (350G) was about the easiest and less expensive to obtain. the flasks (1K) were a bit harder, the food (550G!!!) was the hardest to obtain. I needed to powerlevel that thing... took me a lot of hatefull grinding and overpriced food to get to 400skill. the rest of the gold went to cheap glyphs, belt buckles etc.

Since it's been a while since i've leaded Raids, i did that a lot this week. Raiding Ul10, Ul25 (both just the first boss, since i don't wanna pug the rest) Raiding Naxx25 which was the downfall of my old guild really.tried some pugEoE10 (never again!) and OS10/25. I've led the Ul10 and OS10 and It wen't fairly well. (made one mistake in Ul10 causing a near wipe). Why am i telling you this? well i went from 18.3K gold to 19.2K this weekend... Which is about 2K less then i make normally(!) on my small banker
Monetize. And yes the raiding is responsible for it. Every Raid has a minimum cost of 50G. (2 flasks) and if I wipe i can add another 50G for repairs. + rebuffing me and my pet with food.
Well lets do some math: 6x50G =300G... EoE brought in a whooping 10 wipes! (im presistent what can i say?) = 500G, Naxx25 = 3 wipes in spider quarter (i never wiped more as once before on spider...) = 150G, OS25 (1D) = 2wipes = 100G, OS10 (tried 1D once) 50G.
so thats = 300+500+150+100+50= 1.1K that i spend on RAIDING! omfg... i mean ffs, 1337 raiding. No seriously thats a lot of cash... I know i can Pay it, certainly next week, when the guild costs are down. But still it's been a rough weekend for my goldpile. (but ofc we need to spend it on something right?) I know you"re all thinking what about that other K? well i dual-specced my resto shammy to Resto/Ele to lvl faster to 80.

So this got me thinking... if doing every raid in the game takes 1.1K a week.. (granted pug raids but still lets say 500G if your doing guildraids) How can most people keep paying for it? I saw a graph a week ago that said most ppl have less then 1K gold. Grinding? Dailys? certainly not AH atleast not on my realm.. only 280pages on ah, don't tell me the majority of my wooping 5000 fellwo alliance players use that thign a lot.

Another Gold related thing:The Movie... yes i know i've been saying it for 2 weeks now... I'm sorry but this week i did 12H workdays (minimum), i still had to learn for my exams (free Uni ftw!), needed to support my wife who's doing full time university so she wouldn't get a mental brakedown, and needed to be online so my new guild wouldn't fail from day 1. I just didn't had time... and to be honest, this week is going to be the same (except the exams they are done) but i've gotten a new project and a new deadline just before i wrote this... Anyone want to create some programs in C++ for me, and install a couple of servers? ooh well it'll be alright.
To be honest, i can't wait to tomorow, thursday and friday.. no more beating around the bush at those days .. its straight moneymaking info there!

Grtz
Seth

1G plz! : the needy without shame and a whine/rant

2009-06-11T22:47:00.000-07:00

So you have a lvl10orso character without gold? Your broke and don't know where to start...
AH is to difficult or too time consuming? Get these Dirty tricks...

Do note that all of the following are frowned upon and will give you a name not worthy of remembering.

Guild charter signing: If you see someone spamming I'll give 1G if you sign my guildcharter do it! It's easy gold, just /gquit sign the charter get your gold, and get invited back to your guild. It'll get you the gold you need, and the guy had his sign for A couple of minutes. I haven't done it before but yesterday I was setting up TSB, and a guy Wd me that i had to watch out for it. Like i would spend a gold on a charter sign....

Beg: We all know this method, and frankly if you beg to me, you'll get more then you bargained for. But ofc its the ultimate do nothing get gold tactic.

Boosts: You can always boost people with your lvl80, though the pay is low, the work is hard; It can be fun... *cough*

Ninja: Ninja that BoE item! Ninja that BoP item, what ever just getthat piece of blue shiny things and sell it!

Master Ninja: Be a Raid leader/Master looter, and give the item to a friend (or yourself ofc) that didn't even roll or need it. if you take it = gold, if you give it to your friend = a favor to ask next time. (You tried it didn't you Water?)

Be a newb: say that you are a nub in a dungeon run and ask for help and have crappy gear. You'll need on everything, and you can sell it afterwards! then just take your full blue gear out of the bank again and go lvl!

Bah I'm sorry for this rather short and unhelpfull post. I'm just a bit mad right now, My former guildleader was a jerk yesterday (again!) tried to ninja something from a guildmember for another guildmember, did a horrible job as RL, forces people to play a certain style/way while we aren't even a raiding guild and discriminates certain people in the guild just cause they don't like Anime....

I'm terribly sorry for all my Fellow Guildmembers, I'm sorry for you blogreaders that you don't get a real update today, Sorry to Raven: Your a sweetie, but I can't take this S*** anymore from a 15y old. And ofc, I'm sorry Fraz and Ofan. It was good being together again, a part of the old guild. come and visit TSB again will you?

Grtz
Seth

PS: sorry for the rant! I'm working my 14th hour straight now, i know it ain't an excuse, but It changes perspectives ^^

Crafter's Gold: Diamonds and necklaces

2009-06-10T22:22:00.000-07:00

You're weekly post that makes even the sadest of proffesions in a Gold-Making Machine!

We all like some Bling-Bling! And from lvl 25+ it's easy to get some rings and 30+ for your necklace... But you have to admit below that there's almost nothing to be found... except for jewelcrafting.
all lvl10-20 rings you have are goldmines, Yes, i know that every jc can make them. But almost no-one does. Even if your a high lvl character, you can easily make 5 rings/necks each of below lvl 20 and i promise most of them will sell. For the lower-level characters this can be your way to your first 100G, for others this can be a nice "side" income of a couple of G. Even when buying the mats for it, you'll still make profit. Ofc the high lvl gems are always a good seller.

And for those Gems (sockets) i have a tip for you. A lot of people post at the AH. And let's be frank, do you like searching through 7 pages of Red, 4 pages of purple and 6 pages of orange gems just to find the one you want to equip? A lot of people don't like it, they will still do it though since its the only way to get them. But you can corner it a diffrent way:

[2 Trade:] [Monetize] Selling some \Jewelcrafting/ for the guys and gals who love the bling bling! whisper me for a complete list or let me know what you are searching for!

The latter of this ad. Gives the customer the ability just to say: +16str Red plz. Which means less trouble for him = he's happy. when he's happy: he'll buy from you the next time he ,needs something. you may not believe it, but this can get you more to sell, and actually also a bit more expensive then on the AH. Also remember this: If you raid with your JC, try and bring a full bag of jewelcrafting mats, and after a boss, ask the raid, or W the person who won a socketed item, if they need something. 50% of them will want it.

This was my small post of today, since I'm low on time I'll keep it with this.
Grtz
Seth

Deep thoughts: Raiding, Alts and some

2009-06-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

Ok by now all of you should know that I love two things in WoW:
1) Gold, Gold, Gold and more Gold. Did i say gold yet?
2) Pure Slugfest, wiping-eve Raiding. with a bit of Sadomachosism, just enough that takes me to PuG's and wipe half the eve.
oh there is one other thing i love: Alts

Well my inscription Warlock is on Hold right now, even with the 10% exp increase from his shoulders, i don't really have the time to lvl him now. so he's waiting at lvl18 until half of july i think. Yesterday I spend about a days profit (1K gold) on Cooking on my "main" on Ravenholdt...
i went from cooking 1 to 375 and it only took about 3h of grinding and a whole lot of cash ... (BTW: THIS is why you MUST post your fish/meat on the damn AH, so i don't need to go farm and you guys can gain some profit! ^^) So just a bit more and i'm 450 and thats one step closer to my raiding guild. Though my co-Guildleader to be, and best mate in RL (my brotha from anotha motha!) got this GREAT idea... We are both hunters, both 80 and both well-equiped to start ulduar 10/25. (though i really need one more trinket for ul25, thats about it)
He said and i'm going to cite him as best as I can in english: "You know we are both dps, huh? Not to bad either, but there are a lot of dps out there... and you already raid healed and tanked raids untill 70..." At that point I was like: yeah, but thats a long time ago, I quited raiding with the shammy at january and i haven't touched that warrior in a years time! (overpopulated PVP server, and im not going to transfer another char) "Yeah but still you could do it... I mean you were pretty good, and we can both powerlvl (thank you Rizzen Again - my old powerlvling guild) So how long would it take to lvl a Druid?" Now i was getting suspicious of his idea and i feared the worst. I dunno, 2 weeks tops to get out of azeroth and outland I think, you know with work and all... " aah yeah so we could start one tomorow and be ready before the guild starts?" (29/06)

Well you get my drift. So against my will I'm forced to lvl a druid to 70 in 2 weeks time. So thats 3H a day x14 =42hours... thats impossible! But i'm going to give it my best shot. This is another challenge, lvl it as fast as i can so it's certainly above 60 before the guild starts.
Problem 1: Gold... another gold pit though i'm taking herb/skinn to compensate.
Problem 2: Homelife... I DO have a wife that needs attention and the love she deserves, so this cuts in my playtime (which is a good thing actually) A lot (not so good anymore)
Problem 3: My main char still needs a trinket!!!! and I want to raid as much as I can to get some achievements before the guild starts... (since this is a newly dinged one, i dont want ppl to think i can't raid just cause this toon doesn't have 50% of the achievements yet)

Pfew look at me a wall of text and not about money? Can't be.. let's add some.

A lot of people also say, when you are 80 you should take 2 Crafting proffesions. (for gold and bonus in raiding) And I agree upon certain aspects of that thought. But here's the clifhanger: It costs money to lvl and sometimes a lot! so how much may it cost to get gold out of it, afterwards! I mean engineering can be a very good seller once you cna make arrows and bullets. but it costs tons of gold to get there... so I'll need 3 weeks of crafting before i can even half my loses of lvling it.
So this is the point I'm going to ask for YOUR help. Or at least let you decide.
I'm a 80 hunter and have Leatherworking and Skinning, i'm going to drop skinning and pick up a crafting profession. Which one should I take? Do note that it needs to be: profitable and useable. (so no Engineering, sorry but that takes just forever and costs me too much on the new banker with small ah (10K in pockets now btw) , dunno about inscription, since i can't really use it)
So let me know what you decide!

GrTz
Seth

Group Therapy: Reinvesting

2009-06-08T21:49:00.000-07:00

Whenever we have profit, a piece of it gets reinvested back in to the AH. But what if you'd have 10K+ , 100K+ or 200K+ (!)? Is it possible to keep reinvesting? If so, how much, in what, and even why?
Personally, i invest 50% of my profit. with other words, if i earn 5G profit, i would use 2.5G for the AH and keep 2.5G. Yes, this makes progress slower, but then atleast I still have some back up money if something goes wrong. Ofcourse no two minds are alike and some would even shoot me for doing it this way. I know i'm not the all powerfull Guru, there are others out there.... well, for once they are here. And they are sharing their thoughts....

Zekta:I keep a comfortable level of cash (currently 4k).
my balance will be always on 5-6k level. So whenever opportunity hits, or I need for spending, there will be 2k cash for me. (if I need more, e.g. for a given gear, I'll save them up up front)
I normally invested in Ore, Ethereal, Pets, Leather, Gem. Whenever they're cheap or will raise for patch later. Sweet Deals are much harder to find lately, so I called for COD for Nether Cloth, Books, Herbs (For ink, I had 1-2 month ink supply now :( ). Am looking into noble card for that, but seems not so profitable in my server. I am still looking for other business to do (or to burn those extras ) peeking on JMTC's forum now.

Grodus: I play on a heavily populated horde server. Many of the markets are difficult to break into because of this, as there are some players who post auctions almost constantly, but I've learned to reinvest very strategically. In a given week, I tend to spend 2-3k gold to make back around 5-6k gold. It's not a huge amount of my overall gold as I'm usually sitting at around 20k, but it's a good number for anyone who wants results with less risk.
It's very important when reinvesting to know when to buy and know what to sell. I've found that the two best times for stocking up (and this will vary from server to server,) are Monday night before server maintainence, and Friday night. A lot of farmers will post their items Friday night to get ready for the Saturday rush. There's gold to be made there.
As for what to reinvest in, do some research on the items people need to have for raiding. Flasks and gems are great to buy on slower days and post them again on heavy raiding days. Even better if you have an alchemist. If you know of items that are useful for raiding, do some research. Even if someone has cornered one of these markets you can still make a profit by supplying the supplier.

Three seperate views gives a nice depth to the post don't you think?
Thank you Grodus and Zekta for doing this with me!

And remember A fortune starts with one copper!

Monday Morning Hangover: Politics

2009-06-07T22:41:00.000-07:00

oooh Boy it was a weekend.
Saturday most of my day was Wife, WoW and mates. Doing VoA 10 and 25 and clearing 2 wings of naxx i severly lost track of time, and just forgot about the video. (im still searching on a subject for that one too!)
Sunday it was aaaalll Politics. It was the day of the European election but also for our Flemish Goverment, so most of my day was spend in front of the tube. Crying and swearing that the guys where i vote on (and am a member of) we're losing severly.

This got me thinking about WoW though...(hopefully that ain't an addiction warning)
In RL if someone makes a mistake in politics they ussually pay for it. And Pay bigtime sometimes. (10% loss in the election)
Well the same happens in WoW actually though slightly diffrent. On my Naxrun of Saturday, it was my first time with Elloën as a RL and my first time ever to lead a PuG, my main was a RL untill the guild quited raiding and i transferred here to Ravenholdt, but i never ever leaded a pug before. Well i got everything together, took some extra flasks with me (bought them cheap) and sold them at pug members for 2G profit, (always take flasks to a pug raid, most of them forget to buy them)
Well i've had a great run the first two quarters. then things got hot and heavy.
Construct quarter: Patchwerk. First mistake of a member: didnt repair and died. so He needed to fly back to repair come back again, and died 2 more times because of the slimes taking half the raid (about 11) along to his death! Flaming started and i really needed to spam Raid to keep everyone in it. (god i hate not having ventrillo)
We died 3 times at patchwerk, as the RL this is my fault, someone not dps'ing enough? undergeared? i'm responsible for the deaths and trouble. So ofc my head rolled after the 3th time and we broke apart. This small ex. to just show you that even in WoW you take your respnsibilities, sometimes without even choosing it. If you pût something in AH and it sells for 25s instead of 25G = you lose money! if you like it or not you will lose money. trouble in the guild? officers are responisble and the guild can turn against them.

Oh well posts to read up:
Greedy goblin asks you an Easy Question.
WoW enomics is being funny on monday.
And Zekta gives his Weekly report.

Enjoy your first workday of this new week!

Grtz
Seth

1G plz!: Watch your step: Armor ahead!

2009-06-04T22:16:00.000-07:00

For all the new players starting their that don't want to beg for their first gold, here's another edition of 1G plz!

One of the biggest money sinks at lowerlevels, and through out the game is gear.
People and certainly new players think that they need the latest and greatest... you couldnt be farther from the truth...
If we just level, with some instances you'll probably be wearing gear that lies in the range of up to date and outdated 10lvls ago.. well i'm here to say: this aint a big deal! One of the prime examples is: Delzoun (Ravenholdt EU) he's a lvl 45 prot tank, who dungeons a bit while lvling. if you'll look at his armory page you can see he's not wearing the latest and greatest gear, hell my chest is a quest item from lvl30 (okaj, a blue Q item, with awesome stats but still).
I tank throughout dungeons with "outdated" gear, and still i have to see my first wipe with him. Granted i have died a few times in instances, but always managed to save the group. This is just to say: You dont need Expensive gear! quest for it, then dungeon for the rest, and you'll be geared in no time.

A few very important tips:
- Don't be sad if your still have a white or grey item the first 15-20 lvls, just look at the following tip.
- really really need gear? => dungeons!
- remember: you don't need that extra +1 intellect, its only 0.03% crit and 15mana! take a look at your spells... what costs less then 100mana at lvl40? nothing! So that 1% intellect increase won't matter!
- Sell your green gear that you find and don't use at the AH! remember others are still dumb enough to buy it. (only list it once though! and don't overcharge it)
- don't buy new armor when you can wear mail/plate at lvl40!
- Sell all your mail/plate items from lvl40-46!!! (great, great cash!)
-if a blue or purple item drops and its BoE don't you dare to equip it! it'll be outdated in 5lvls instead of 3 so just sell it on the AH and youll have enough gold (or more) for your mount! (believe me i once did this with: bow of searing arrows)

Yes, i know this post doesn't "teach" you how to make money, but it will save you about 100G+ through out the first lvls, so i made you money anyway HAH! Seriously, these tips will make you money, though you won't "see" it, youll be a gold richer for every equipment slot every level.

That's it for today, stay tuned!

PS: An "AH-config" movie will hopefully be made this weekend.

And remember
A fortune starts with one copper!

Crafters Gold: Low-level Inscription... andi mean low

2009-06-03T22:38:00.000-07:00

So Remember my warlock? he's lvl idunno 16? right now. I didnt have much time to play him, or even log him on the last 2 days, what i do know though is that my prejudice of Inscription was wrong... so terribly awfully wrong.

Damiän's (the warlock) inscription is up and about 90skillpoints, which ain't worth nothing for most proffesions. well, i'm 90 and have done 3 orso daily minor researches. with that i got ofc 3 minor glyphs.
2 out of 3 sell well: Glyph of charge (?) and glyph of bloodrage. Both are for a warrior and both can be sold at my ah for about 10G. while the mats to make them cost about 1G. I sold 3 of each, every day for 3 days. which gave me a 54G profit, just to log-in on an alt (!) now ofc 54G isnt much but its something, certainly if it's your first char, and you farm the mats... do you hear the money rolling?
Ofcourse this can expand... if i'm getting 10glyphs to sell at 10G ... just do the math.

If you just started playing, or want a good way to start making your money, this is really it.
farming herbs and leather can be nice profit, same for ore and leather. But inscription, really takes it to a next level. Though i still believe with some effort i could do the same with low-lvl Jc, i'll need more mat's to buy (less profit) or more time to do it (less profit).

quick recap:
1) low-lvl Inscription = Amazing
2) probably the top gold maker for characters between lvl5-20!

Grtz
Sethc

Deep thoughts: being active is expensive

2009-06-02T22:41:00.000-07:00

My newly dinged hunter (80) is getting a bit expensive... and by a bit i mean holy hell(!)
After raiding with other mains for the last 4y (and taking a break from it since january) I decided, with my current time schedule, i could do it again. So i said to myself... let's get this guy geared up...
What do i spend my money on then?

Heroics... yes heroics... sunday and monday where The Ocolus dailys... we wiped 9 and 6 times at the last boss... which means 50G repair a piece = 100G.
Leatherworking, i needed to get my lw up from 43? to 440... which cost me about 350G
gearing up... good cloacks almost never drop at heroics so i made my own... 250G
Flasks... My guild is going slow these days with my raidleaders being off on vacation and the GL being online about 15mins a day. so i had to buy them. (ofc i checked mats to flasks) so thats 22G a flask x 10 = 220G
Cooking... and this is the worst... already at 100G and only skill200... why didnt ever bothered? i mean its a hunter for godssake... ooh well.
4000 arrows a day. (minimum) = 100G

So yesterday i spent 1020G on my hunter...(!)
I mean i love making money and i love getting it in my mailbox, but i forgot how expensive endgame is. on Ravenholdt i now have a total of 10K in my pockets. and still some stuff thats worth 2K (avools sword of jin) but jeeez(!) i also decided not to get the fast flyer (i dont need it anyway, everythings explored and i dont herb/mine)

On the Raiders side:
I've done 2 pugs this weekend OS25 and Naxx25, both times i came in 10th of dps, which is considering my lowlvl rings/trinkets pretty ok. I've got one good item out of it so i'm happy. The guild is starting to raid again in 2 weeks (Raid Leaders will be back) and I need to get geared up... and deep down inside i hope that i' can get my own raiding guild together by the end of this month (thats going to cost me!) , probz not happening.
So if anyone of Ravenholdt reads this... if you want me to raid with ya, just ask! Elloën is at your service.

On a Brighter note:
My best mate decided to join me on my new server (Raven...) and he brought me 10 arctic furs, for 50G a piece, which is awesome since they cost 110G here.. can you hear Ka-ching, Ka-ching!

My tip for keeping your money up: work your proffesion(!) cooking,fishing, leatherworking, what ever, all of them have something that lets you sell for profit so USE it! I'm selling a lot of icescale legguards right now for a 50G profit a piece.

So what do you all think? is Endgame too expensive? did you saw your money drop a bit when you started raiding again? And any tips to the blogreaders to keep your money up?

Group Therapy: Family and WoW

2009-06-01T22:40:00.001-07:00

Hello all,
A lot of people say that "Videogames are anti-social", "Videogamers are nerds" or "he's a loner, he plays videogames". Well 90% of the Time they are probably right. But WoW is so diffrent. Myself and my wife as example.
When i met her, she already played WoW. Granted her highest character was lvl26 orso. But still... she played(!) Weirdest thing about it is beautifull, yes yes i know a lot of people say that his/her mate are pretty. But i'm not saying pretty here. She is gorgeous weird but true. So "Videogamers are nerds" isn't always true. I'm work in the IT and do know too much stuff for my own good, but still i don't look like one. Why is it that people are so hung-on on clichés?

Well my wife and I, we still play WoW and a bit more than we used too, with a bit more time on our hands and that we can see each other a lot more then we used too, helps with that. We have nights (certainly in the weekend) that we can put up our lap-tops next to each other and just game a few hours. Some of the nights, my best mate (who i made a WoWer) comes over, and we play with 3 in the living room. Even my lill sister joins in from time to time. So are we loners? I think not, Granted we don't "party" as much as we used too, but i'm feeling too "old" (read: mature) for that stuff.

Normally this should have been an interview with my wife. But due lack of time and memory (we kept forgetting to do the interview) we kinda forgot. So this is my way of saying thank you.
For all you have done for me, for all you mean to me, for letting me do the things i do and believe the things i believe, for loving me, but most importantly: Just for being who you are. Sweetheart, I love you.

Note that from next week, other bloggers will join this Thuesday post. I'm not telling who yet, just to keep you reading this blog.... (as we say in wow: ^^)

Grtz
Seth

Monday morning hangover: eating money

2009-06-01T00:54:00.000-07:00

pffff weekends eat my money away, friday night i was up to 6K in money and 10K worth, today i can say without blushing im at 5K and 7K worth (!!!) my "main" on Ravenholdt dinged 80 and needed some stuff....
1) powerlvling cooking
2) buying flasks for raiding
3) heavy repair bills (about 100G a day (!))
so money is a aspect of the game which i need to pay more attention on these days, but ofcourse the small AH isnt in my favor, a lot of niche markets have dissapeared, (arrows and bullets are now selling cheaper then the boxes) markets are overflowing, and others are dry and too hard to farm (arctic furs, which i need myself)

So trading wasnt that good this weekend, i also didnt have time for a vid (i'm sorry!)
But this gives you the chance to give a comment on what you want to see in the video... (hint hint)

for (more) reading material you can always visit the folowing blogs:
Greedy goblin is talking about uproar and trust.
Wowenomics is being funny again.
And ofcourse don't foget one of my personal favorits: Zekta's sunday report.

Grtz
and take care

1G plz! proudly presents: your first Gold!

2009-05-28T23:14:00.000-07:00

Your broke, your new or experienced or something in between and can't seem to make money... what are the basics of getting you to those first couple of golds?

outside the AH
The first gold can be made at AH (i did on my first character) but it can be faster if it comes from something else, And i dont believe i'm going to say this but: Farming!
leather, metal and flowers can be easily gathered and put up on AH for quick profit, this is a great tactic for the leveler. just do your quests (= money), kill your mobs (=money) and gather every node you see along the way. it's quick and easy money.
As a lvl 80 you can just do some quests to get your starter money. 5daily's = ~100G. which is enough to start playing the AH.

Try not to gamble, try to forsee:
So the basic AH tips for the low-on-cash first timers:
Stick with what you know! if your a miner, you'll probably know what the price of ore is on your server, and you'll have no idea what that pretty flower sells for. (the auctioneer addon can help you with that after a week of scanning)

Be patient! If you see a lot of ore's at half price don't start undercutting, just wait untill trade pick's up and sell your goods then. also if you have some left over cash for investing, buy some of the ore and sell it when the price is up.

Don't overflow, i say this a lot but its very important, if you put up to much your goods wont sell, know how many to sell! (this you will learn in the process)
make friends! Yes make friends, guys who DE stuff, farm mats etc. for you at lower prices! (= Trade agreement)

Take advantage: If there are almost no X ores at the market, put up yours at 125% they will sell (if the demand is high enough) If someone is in dire need for your product and asking over /2 Trade WTB X ore.. w him with your highest price possible.

Get to know your server, your clients, your fellow bankers, ... Take some time to get to know your AH. what is cheap and what is high priced, when to sell what and what is needed. when others are posting and who is posting waaay under the price. If you know this youll find some markets that are very profitable (at my server for example, cross faction pets are selling quite well, and almost nobody tries it.)

Those where my basic tips for today, i hope you find that gem you where looking for.
Every week there will be more and hopefully you'll be here to find that winner for you!

Crafter's Gold: Riding the train to 450

2009-05-28T00:02:00.000-07:00

We've all been there... we need to craft itemX to get some skillpoints but we don't have the mats... You go to the AH and see that the prices are so high you want to cry in a little corner... *cough* i mean you want to Swear the hell out of it!
Now what do 90% of the people do... they buy it anyway...
Crafters are the most impatient buyers that have ever walked this earth. you know it, I know it, damn (!) even they know it! Well let's make some gold out of it!

- Do not buy the mat's when they are skyhigh! I know this looks like a no brainer but still half of uss do it. Ex. i'm at 435 lw with my newly dinged 80hunter. and i need 10arctic furs to lvl up to 440...(in total i need about 20) Yesterday the price was about 190% of value (130G!)... be honest now... how many of you would have bought it just to get that skillpoint? huh? am i right? Bad habit! go to rehab, don't do it! it ain't bad if you need to wait a day orso to get that skillpoint.

- Let the braindead and needy pay for your skill up. one of my advertisings are simple: Crafting [Proffesion] your mats 5G fee, free if I get a skill up!
Yes, i actually lose a little on this one. i lose Time... but that's it. if you want to get to 450 and you are at 400+ it is a reasonable loss. (once you get to 450 the gold can come rolling in)

- Movement: charge for your time, as said in the former example, you lose time by crafting. okaj not much but still, let's say your in dalaran, and someone at ironforge wants you to come. you can try to get a extra gold or even just 50s for the effort, 85% of the people will pay the 50s for your trouble!

- not the highest skill! This is so true that most of uss forget it! It ain't true that only 450skills pay the bills... my borean armor kits and nerubian leg armor both sell well and are around 400 skill lvl... and they give about 20G profit a piece!

- buy mats when the prices are low and sell your stuff when their prices are high for some extra profit! easy and simple trick!

- know when to sell, kind of a duh, but still. sell your potions before raid nights, sell your armor kits/enchants just after it. and look at them fly out the door!

Well this was supposed to be a small post about crafters and AH but here i went and constructed a wall of text. Though i feel like this has a lot more info in it, i hope you all enjoy it.

Remember: A fortune starts with one copper!

Blog Updates!

2009-05-27T22:54:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

i'm back in (near) full health!
the real post of today will be posted shortly after this one.
But as you all can see the poll is comming to an end, and the results so far are pretty clear:
You all want Video's and a Weekly routine. The vids i'll probably start making in the weekend (any idea's are welcome!) but i'll give you my weekly routine right here and now!

Monday Morning Hangover huh? how did i get here?
Thuesday: Group Therapy Interviews & thoughts from Fellow Goldmakers
Wednesday: Deep thoughts my thoughts about drama...
Thursday: Crafters Gold turn that metal/fur/linnen in to gold!
Friday: "1 gold plz" Starting out ain't that difficult!
Weekend: --------------- RL taking over, sporadic updates

I hope you all are a bit happy with this set-up?
if not, you may always comment.

Deep thoughts: What's expected from you...

2009-05-27T00:31:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Everyone remembers the guy that one-hitted certain dungeons right? you know using an item that belongs to a gm...
Well i'm not going to rant about that one, but a couple of days ago i saw the following on ah: Green woolen vest. it's a low lvl item with +4 stamina and +1 crit rating... now the normal "colour" of the vest is Green... (if you dont get the joke: its an uncommon item). As i bought it with Damian though i saw it was bleached (common item) and that means that i can wear it and then sell it again at the ah...
ofc, after what happened to the gnome with his vest... i decided to report this, i dont want myself getting banned you know. And there the GM said, that i may use and resell it untill the next patch. I wonder if it would be the same if i didn't report it and just did it like that? Would Bliz be as understanding then? Are they maybe other things that are bleached? bow of thousand needles perhaps?
hmm i'm going to stop this post right here, since my deep thoughts are full of sickness and seem to.. well they don't make any sense...

Special thanks to my wife who posted this item.

Grtz
Seth & MissDavidson

Mission Monetize: In sickness and in health

2009-05-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,
I'm sorry to tell you this but today and tomorow I wont be posting a wall of text. My wife got sick a couple of days ago, and it seems that I took over it over. So sitting up is a real pain right now.

Though i'm going to give you a little update about monetize.
yesterday i made a little 250G profit, a lot of the stuff came back from AH, and the prices dropped on a lot of things that i'm selling daily (armor kits, vision dust etc). So i'm waiting it out before putting the auctions up again. Instead i'm buying it all up.

Again i'm sorry that i can't post a lot so here's some reading material:
Zekta's Blog which i find a good read anytime is prolonging her report.
While Markco is talking about the cost of buying low and selling high.
Also have a look at how funny money is, at WoWenomics.

again sorry for the short post.
I'll try to write something while i'm lying ni bed orso and let my wife put it up if she's willing.

Grtz
Seth

Grinding & Inscription madness take over!

2009-05-25T00:58:00.000-07:00

aaah heck...I've fallen in the trap... everyone keeps saying oooh inscription is soooo good for money making, it's aaawesome etc etc. Curious as the human being is.(read: I am) I decided to try it...
others say.... ooooh grinding can be soooo goood, look at all the herbs i sell.... damn... oki, let's see what it is then... So here I am... wanting to get herb/inscription. (no not mining, already got a miner/JC and not skinning since i already got a skinner/LW and i wanted something diffrent).
but hey, my main already has 2 proffesions... REROLL! (again...I'm seth and i'm an altaholic)
So here before you stands not only a lvl80 resto shammy, lvl80rogue (dmf mains) lvl77 hunter lvl45 prot warrior and a lvl26 resto shammy (ravenholdt toons) but also a supa imba facerolling OP awesome... lvl11 warlock. Feel my super hits of: 20?

I admit i have a problem rerolling everytime i want something new... Oh well this new toon will probably go unnoticed most of the time in this blog. (or you want to read about it : comment) But while lvling, i'll "grind" (The horror!) for herbs and lvl inscription (*feint*).
As you all should know by now, i hate grinding and don't like inscription, but i loved my lvl60 warlock sooo much... till my account got hacked that is (about 3y ago) and weeped in a corner like a little girl (just kidding guys... please don't hurt me) So everyone will fear Damän the Warlock soon... well... after i get my hunter, warrior and probz shammy to eighty... and i got 100K gold on ravenholdt...

[2. Trade] Damiän: WTB Time!
[2. Trade] Braindead: WTF Nuwb ROFL LMAO!
[2. Trade] Whiner: that ain't for trade!
[2. Trade] Discuss: Yes it is, he wants to buy it.
[2. Trade] interest: Damiän what did you want to buy
[2. Trade] 1337 : Scroll up, newb!
[2. Trade] discuss: Damiän didn't you just lose time by asking and reading all this?
repeat this 5 times before you have the awnser:
[2. Trade] a "friendly" person: Sorr Damiän we can't help you with that
[2. Trade] Braindead: just stp plaing, dud. reelly nuwb! ROFL!

...me: crying in a corner...

Ah well i'll fix it.
Somehow

Grtz
Seth

ps: Again the real post of today can be read by clicking this link.

pps: The above is what actually happened yesterday in Trade to some guy, i reported all but the original buyer. Yes i know Time can't be bought, but he may still ask for it. If you say wtb [BOP item] no-one has the right to report you just for making a mistake... same for this guy (sort of)

Other: How the Poll is going

2009-05-24T23:30:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
I see that the poll is getting some attention, so i would like to ask you all some Questions:

I see that most of you want a weekly routing of posting and some videos.
So my weekly routine will include the following,
Monday: Monday Morning Hang-over
Thuesday: ?
Wednesday: Deep thoughts
thursday: ?
Friday: ?
Yes i know a lot of questionmarks.. What i'm personally thinking is doing the following:
Thuesday: A fortune starts with one copper, just like my motto, to give some tips to starters.
Thursday: Expanding your wealth, for the readers with wealth to give info going from wealthy to filthy rich
Friday: Weekend Celebration, videos thoughts, mission updates etc.
Thue, thurs and friday may all be changed by your views, so let me know if you want something else

Video:
A lot of you also want some video's, well what do you want? video's for Tips, what i do (who i am ingame), getting the maximum of searchers etc?

Guest posts:
I've also seen that nobody wants guest posts.. i would like to know why that is?
loss of quality, originalism, style? A glimpse of what you all want would be nice!

You may make any suggestions by comment or mail (onecopper.blogspotATgmail.com) if you don't want everyone knowing your suggestions.
also, if anyone wants a shot for a guestpost, you may always mail me with what you want to post, and your name(credentials) so i can give you full credit for the post.

for the Feedreaders: the Monday morning Hang-over post can be read by clicking this link.

Grtz
Seth

And remember a Fortune starts with One Copper!

Monday Morning Hang-over

2009-05-24T22:49:00.001-07:00

Monday Morning Hang-over, is my newly created monday post. It will let you know what the weekend brought and more... or at least it will when my headache disappears.

It's been a busy weekend. though for some reason Monetize, still has 4.5K and 7K worth... i think it was my shopping spree...
I bought all the bagsslots of my personal bank, including netherweave bags to match them.
I also bought around 300-500 borean leather (!) to lvl my lw on my main. It's 433 now and have my full gear ready for lvl78 (im 77 3/4 right now). I'm also converting a lot of borean to heavy borean leather and making several armorkits, which are bringing me steady money (about 45G a kit, mats cost: 24G or so right now). I'm also using snatch more and more for cheap mats, though i will keep scanning manually. (yes i know this ain't efficient, but i trust my eyes more then an add-on) So i kept my worth up but didn't make a lot of profit.
Also my arrowmaker => saronite razorheads-bussiness has come down (again) since the guy knows what i'm doing (again), so i'll have about 50G profit less a week. I didn't start the Frostweave-bag selling since the prices keep hanging around 70G/piece. Though i did find a lot of resales. and had a stunning 50% bid-wins (!). i'm still waiting for them to sell.

How was your weekend? did the thursday-friday vacation bring some extra gold?

The World is ever changing...

2009-05-22T01:43:00.001-07:00

As we must adapt in-game, so must we in the blogosphere.
With this post (and the poll at the right side) I want you to say what you want in this blog...

More Videos?
Pictures next to the posts?
Another layout?
A weekly routine of posts? (ex: monda = deep thoughts, thuesday: starter tips, etc)
Guest posts?
nothing = it's great already?

well let me know what you think!

Grtz
Seth

starter: Selling sweet candy to a baby

2009-05-21T22:51:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
Since the blog is becomming more popular, i'm getting quite a few mails and even tells ingame, off people who like the blog but don't know how to get started... Almost all of them are lvl70+...
For uss it's simple, we know the market, and know where the money lays but for a lot of people this isn't so clear.
That's why i'm giving you crafters a little layout today:
So today... i'm going to give you some info about what sells REALLY well and what doesn't.
Though, i must say, that this is easier if you have the required proffession, you can do without.

Sweet sweet candy:
Flask of Endless Rage: i bought them yesterday for 22G each, listed 10 and 2h later they all sold (for 27G each) no brainer here, you can easily sell 10-20 a day for a nice price in the week/raiddays.
LegArmor: the highest leg armor (nerubian and jormungar) sell for about 45-55G at my server and the maths (2 of chiting or jormungar scales) cost 10G/20stack + 35G for borean leather. so that means : 35G + 1G (the 10G stack can be used 10times!) that you can have a profit of 9-16G! and they sell pretty well! (about 4 of each a day).
Heavy borean leather: hmmm this is sweet candy right here.. (at least on my server) have a look at normal borean leather, at my server its about 7G a full stack. while heavy borean leather = 120G(!) You need about 6 (i think) borean leather to get a heavy leather sooo. 20x6= 120 borean leathers for a full stack of the heavy one's. so 6stacks at about 7G cost you: 42G... and you sell it for 120G! this is a nice profit and sells pretty well, ofcourse, you'll dry out the AH if you do this every day. So be carefull!
Titanium bars... this is a buy by stack and sell by ones.. which can get you a decent profit and can be done for about 6-9 bars a day. pretty simple, not too much profit (about 1-2G a bar) but it gives you a steady stream of money.

It ain't that sweet, but it sure ain't a vegetable!
Transmutes: The long cooldown transmutes can get you some money, even just the mithril => Truesilver can get you a pretty penny! ofc, this can't be done very often (cooldown and all)
Titansteel: i've looked at this and the maths here are higher then the bar, so at my server this can't be done, but you should have a look at yours and see if it can get a nice penny.
Belt buckles: you are certain that these sell, and they can be worth a lot. though from what i see, is that they sell slowly (about 1-2 a day).
Glyphs: Once you are in, you can get wealthy fairly fast. the problem is... getting in. Greedy Goblin and JM2C both are in it, and look at their money: HUGE! problem though is getting their, whats making money in glyphs right now? the glyphs that come from books.... so before you can get rich, you'll be poor once more. You need some Northrend glyphs that gives you an edge, even if someone else has it, you need to be able to control it. Once your in control its a safe haven to money, its just the getting there thats hard. (and for me not worth it)
JC: low lvl JC (lvl10-19) can give you some nice gold, even at those lvls about 1G profit for a necklace ain't bad. higher lvl gems are also nice for profit though it's a bit of a search when you first get there.
Spellthreads: well look at the beltbuckles, they sell for nice profit, just a bit slower.
Shoulders... Yes shoulders.. but only the first you can make.. and for tailors this goes with headgear too. They sell fairly fast, and for a small profit. so low lvl crafter and need some money? => make shoulders!
Enchanting: barking it over /2 is a fairly common tactic, add a bit of flavor and you'll be selling some in no-time.
Scopes: good sellers (all of them) though they need some time.

eeeewwww Daddy, i don't like no spinage

Low level armor kits aren't sold .. if you have the maths for free and need to lvl up try it some time, i'm not getting this moved even if i gave money with them.
some scroll enchants, sell very badly too. have a look at what sells first. put up an enchanting scroll and see if it sells , if it doenst, don't put it up again.
gear (requires engineering 150): is probably the worst seller out there, why? 'cause they can make it themselfs! maybe an enchanter would buy these, but you'll have to go very low with the price, and you can wave byebye to your profit.

I think this is enough for now, test these tips, and let me know what sells for you.

for comments: anything i forgot, or that you say, this worked really well for me?

other: sharing happiness

2009-05-21T01:36:00.000-07:00

aaah very short post and only to share my happiness:
yesterday was an all day high: 200 visits! and... i capped 1K visitors! thank you all ^^

real blog of today is the one just before this: (wrote it yesterday , but posting today)

grtz
Seth

Tip: Flooding or an all time low price: What to do?

2009-05-20T06:24:00.000-07:00

Okaj,
What i've heard from others is that there are real problems with flooding and goods that are too cheap.
Practicly they are the same thing (or the good has become worthless due new recipes etc)
I've already posted my solution somewhere else and got some good reactions on it so i'm posting it as a part of my blog.

So the goods are too cheap... what do you do?

- wotlk has been out for a while now and probably some gatherers have seen the prices and (not a bad) droprate from the Goods , so they are (mass) gathering it. Which in turn means that they are undercutting each other and pressing the price down.

or
- Crafters don't have a real need for it, they craft other goods that don't require it (or at least not a lot). This can effect the price (less demand) most probably they don't need it because: other goods have more profit, price was too high, better gear, etc. Though some will still need it for skill up, haven't got better gear yet, profitable again...

Personal solution:
i would say start buying slowly (very slowly like 1-5% of the market) each day. the Gatherers will see that profit is too low, and that it is selling badly and will eventually stop posting it. When the supply is limited again, start dropping the goods very slowly (at the rate you bought) on the market again. this will ensure that the price stays up for a while. If it starts dropping again, sell untill you aren't making profit anymore.
rinse and repeat.

This tactic can mean though that you have the goods in your bank for a month or even more if the gatherer is really persistent (braindead). And you need another income to compensate for your investment. But in time it will pay up.

Grtz
Seth