Gifts For Gamers: Sinister Squashling 14" Poseable Plush

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Sinister Squashling Poseable Plush Pet

14" Poseable Sinister Squashling WoW Pet

The Hallow's End  in game holiday is almost here in World of Warcraft and the Halloween holiday is quickly approaching in the real world.  Here's a great little item to help celebrate both the in and out of game holidays!  While you may be swimming in Sinister Squashling companion pets, I bet you don't have this cute little poseable plush version of the Sinister Squashling.  How cool would it be to have this little guy sitting in your window greeting all of the trick-or-treaters who come to your door? 


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Recap Of Top October WoW Gold Making Posts

October - Popular Posts From Cold's Gold Factory

Welcome to all of my new and returning readers! Each month I do a recap of the month before and highlight gold posts that appeared during the month prior. I highlight the top 5 most popular and the posts with the most comments / best discussion.  Be sure to check these gold making articles out, if you missed them when they went live.

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WoW Gold Post And Guides Recap

Top 5 Most Popular Posts From October

• Profits From The Creep Crate Pet Quest -  Easy money selling the quest items to ignorant players.
• Patch 4.3 To Bring Tradeable Chaos Orbs - Finally we won't be tied to running heroics on our crafters for Chaos Orbs.
• Patch 4.3 Cata Epic Gem JC Recipes & Tome of Burning Jewels - The JC Recipe vendor for the new epic gems cuts has been found on the PTR.
• Patch 4.3 Epic Gems Compilation From Multiple Bloggers - A portal to some of the hottest epic gem news from various WoW blogging sites.
• WoW Auction House Fail Tactics - Selling At A Loss- Why I think selling at a loss is pointless.

Top  Most Discussed Posts From October

• The Random Guild Hits Guild Level 20 - Easily one of the most controversial topics ever.  I've been called everything from a blood-sucking leech to a mastermind for creating a guild that allows all of my alts to have guild perks, while skimming gold from the Cash Flow guild perks.  Check out the original and first follow-up on the Passive Income guild project here: Passive Income Guild Invite All & Guild Bank Skimming and Cash Flow Update.  Feel free to leave your opinion on the highly controversial guild bank project.  We should hit guild level 21 tonight!
• BoE Sinister Squashling Soon? - How many did you already delete?

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BoE Sinister Squashling from Hallow's End?

WoW Sinister Squashling Tradeable Soon?

Sinister Squashling Is BoE On The WoW PTR

Jafo, who is one of the newer WoW gold bloggers who writes over at The Auction House Grind, has a post up with a new discovery from the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm (PTR):  Sinister Squashling Pet Is BoE.  Jafo found the Sinister Squashling to no longer be Bind-On-Pickup on the current PTR.  Hopefully this change makes it live with WoW Patch 4.3.  This news comes a little late for many of us, especially since we've already deleted a bunch of these companion pets this Hallow's End.  If you do happen to get yet another duplicate, don't delete it.  Save it in hopes of a future change in the bind status of the Sinister Squashling companion pet.  If these Sinister Squashlings become tradeable, they will be yet another option in the WoW companion pet selling business.

Remember, the PTR isn't gospel.  Although it's not much risk to save your extra Sinsiter Squashlings just in case they do become tradeable, take findings from the PTR with caution.  Hopefully, if these companion pets do become tradeable in WoW Patch 4.3 or later, Blizzard will retroactively change the bind status on the already looted Sinister Squashlings.  I believe that to be the most likely option, especially in the wake of the new Pokemon wanna-be Pet Battle Sytem coming in Mists of Pandaria.

Strategy For Selling Sinister Squashlings

If the Sinister Squashling becomes tradeable and sellable on the WoW auction house, you will need a strategy for selling your new companion pet.  If the change occurs in Patch 4.3, hold onto your Sinister Squashlings.  Most players already have a Sinister Squashling with the increased drop rate from the Loot-Filled Bags this Hallow's End.  Wait and sell the Sinister Squashling in a few months when others have already unloaded there companion pets for a lower price.  By waiting to sell, you should get a higher end sale price than if you were to sell closer to the Hallow's End holiday.

So remember not to delete any more Sinister Squashlings that you find while killing the Headless Horseman and farming the Scarlet Monastery chests this Hallow's End.


Check out the 14" Plush Poseable Sinister Squashling!

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Chest Farming In The HHM Queue During Hallow's End

Scarlet Monestary Graveyard Chest Locations

Happy Hallow's End Chest Farming Guide

It's Hallow's End still in World of Warcraft and as always we are busy killing the Headless Horseman in an attempt to get some rings for our alts, the nice plate HHM helm for Transmogrifying, Tricky Treats for acheivements, or the awesome Headless Horseman Mount.  Just like with the Coren Direbrew Large Brilliant Shard farming strategy during Brewfest, we can take advantage of the Headless Horseman dungeon queue. 

When the Headless Horseman is dead, most players will just leave the queue and go on with whatever they have planned.  I am almost always the last one left in the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard once the Headless Horseman is no more.  These players are leaving the instance before taking advantage of the instant port inside the Scarelt Monastery Graveyard.  It's the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard where there are always 1 or 2 Chests.  Wait for the others to drop the group before opening, so you can ninja the chest contents all for yourself.

Chest One

In the image above, I have marked in Red the possible locations of the 2 chests within the SM-G instance.  Once the HHM is dead and everyone leaves, I make sure to check both locations.  The chest up towards the front of the instance is always there, sometimes it is locked.  Just backtrack towards the front of the instance and do a U-turn to the right once you enter the torture area.  The chest is always located there around the corner to the right. 

Chest Two

The 2nd chest is one that may or not spawn in the HHM instance you create.  It is located down the crypt at the back end of the instance.  Just head down towards where the SM-G end boss would normaly be located.  If the 2nd chest spawns, it will be on the last level (on the left side) before hitting the bottom of the crypt.  This chest can also be locked, but often is unlocked.

Why bother checking these Chests?

1. Blue Gear - some great twink items can come out of these.
2. Recipes - often times you can find a recipe to flip for a nice chunk of gold.
3. Green Gear - much of the gear in the chests is level 28 and 29, which is perfect for selling to twinks.
4. Raw Materials - Cloth, Ore, Bars, etc.

This year I have found a River Pride Choker (+4 Str / +9 Sta lvl 28 blue neckpiece), which is a BiS for some Twinks, and a couple of +9 Str / +9 Sta level 29 Green Mail Leggings, which are also good sellers for melee dps twinks.  I also have found some low level recipes and plenty of raw materials and vendor trash, not to mention the coin inside the chests.

So take advantage of another holiday boss port and spend an extra couple of minutes and check those Scarlet Monastery chests.  You may find something well worth your while too.  Remember to bring engineering seaforiums, blacksmithing keys, or a rogue to open the chests in case you get the locked chests in your instance.

Anyone else found anything of value from these chests?

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Hallow's End: Creepy Crate Pet Quest Profits

WoW Creepy Crate Companion Pet

An All New Hallow's End

The 2011 Cataclysm version of the in-game holiday, Hallow's End, has seen some major revisions.  Gone are the old ways of making gold in WoW during Hallow's End.  Mask and Wands can be bought off the vendor.  The Bobbing Apples no longer give a buff and neither do any of the trick-or-treat candies.  There are some nice new changes to the Hallow's End holiday though, including a new quest chain that upon completion awards one of the new companion pets, The Creepy Crate.

Hallow's End Costume Wands Now Worthless

The new Cata version of Hallow's End has all but killed off the Profiting From Costume Zaps strategy that I have been using every year since the achievements were added to World of Warcraft.  Selling wand zaps was an easy way to make gold in WoW during Hallow's End with a little barking.  Not anymore.  The costume wands are now available from Hallow's End vendors and the trade chat channel is now filled with players looking to "trade zaps for the achievement."  Every bark I do asking to sell costume zaps, is followed up with people barking they are trading zaps for free.  No sales this year for costume zaps. 

The Creepy Crate Companion Pet Quest

Inside the inns of both the Horde and Alliance capital cities, you can start a new Hallow's End quest chain.  Upon completion of the new Hallow's End quest chain, you will be awarded with a new companion pet, The Creepy Crate.  The quest chain is pretty easy to complete, but there is an opportunity to profit off of foolish players who are also completing the Creep Crate pet quest.  One of the quests in the chain for the Creepy Crate quest requires you to collect 5 herbs (you pick them inside the capital city), 5 Crystal Vials, and 5 Arcane Powder. 

The funny thing is that even though the Reagent vendor and the Alchemy Supply vendors that sell the needed vials and arcane powder are located very near the quest giver, some players will still rush to the auction house to buy the Crystal Vials and the Arcane Powder while completing their Creepy Crate pet quest.  The vendors are right next door to each other in Org, but I started selling Arcane Powders and Crystal Vials within minutes of tossing them on the auction house.  I'm selling the 5 stacks for 22 gold each.  Some people are just clueless and every time there are new holidays, new achievements, or new quest required items added to WoW, there will be chances for profiting off of the less informed players in WoW.
Who else has been selling Crystal Vials and Arcane Powder to Creepy Crate pet collectors?


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Happy Halloween

The day is here when the little goblins will be out begging for treats and sweets as night time nears.  Happy Halloween boys and ghouls!

Hallow's End is in its final day.  Be sure to read my earlier post about profiteering and Hallow's End wand zaps from earlier this month.  Don't toss those wands.  They can be used all year long for the achievement seekers, are a suitable costume to sell to the nomal savory deviate delight buyers, and can be used for some super easy gold early into next years Hallow's End world holiday event.  As with any of the in game holiday events, planning is the key to profiting early in the events.  So save those wands for Day 1 of next year and start cracking down on stockpiling for Winter's Veil.  Be ahead of the crowd and plan for the next holidays now.

Hallow's End: Hallowed Wand Costume Profiteering

Hallowed Wand Costumes For Sale
Everyone who is working on The Masquerade Achievement needs to get a zap from each of the various hallowed wands.  There is a hallowed wand for each costume:  Bat, Ghost, Wisp, Leper Gnome, Pirate, Skeleton, and Wisp.  You will often see impatient players looking to buy these costume zaps in trade chat.  I myself set up a macro to shout periodically that I am selling hallowed wand costume zaps.  I charge 25g each or 3 for 60g.  Funny thing is I haven't even looted a single wand yet this year and I have made hundreds of gold from zapping the people who just can't wait until the holiday is closer to being over.  Yeah, if you wait you may not even have to buy any specific zaps as you can trade zaps, or get zapped for free while in dungeon groups.  As greedy little goblins, we offer these impatient ones our services to line our coin purses with their gold.

Save Your Wands
I haven't even got a wand yet this year and I'm making a lot of gold selling zaps, in between runs to the auction house and mailbox.  How?  Planning ahead.  Do not give wand zaps for free.  Do not zap people for fun.  Only trade zaps if you yourself need one for the achievement and the holiday end is looming near.  Do not delete your wands or waste their charges once the holiday is over.  Why?  The achievement doesn't even require the zaps during Hallow's End.  Yes that's right, I actually store these and sell some zaps during the year to people looking for a variation from the Savory Deviate Delights.  I also had a complete set of wands ready to go day 1 of the holiday, which is how I have been making the hundreds of gold during regular routines.  Hell, I been advertising Mistletoe Spirit Buffs for sale as well.  Those are from last year too.  If you have any of the old Hallowed Wand: Random from previous years, save those for people looking for a costume (Savory Deviate Delight buyers).  The random costume wands have been removed, but the zaps don't count for The Masquerade achievement.

Anyone else making gold off the impatient ones?

Hallow's End, The Headless Horseman And Empty Loot-Filled Bags

Sinister Squashling

The New Holiday Loot Bag
Hallow's Eve is here and its time to farm for your mount from the Headless Horseman.  Just like Ahune and Coren Direbrew, the Headless Horseman is now accessible through the Looking-For-Dungeon queue.  And just as the other drops had changed, he now drops a Loot-Filled Pumpkin, which can contain your rare holiday drops.  This pumpkin can only be rewarded once per day per character for your sole chance per day at the rare items.  All of the same item level 200 epic rings still drop off of The Headless Horseman himself.  Within the pumpkin bag, you may find:

1. Sinister Squashling
2. Hallowed Helm
3. The Horseman's Horrific Helm
4. The Horseman's Baleful Blade
5. The Horseman's Reins
6. 1 of the Flying Brooms

You also can open your bag and find not a single thing in there and receive a message that reads, "There is no loot."  Nice - the Loot-Filled Bag contains no loot.  Great idea Blizzard.  Regardless, you get your 24 Justice Points (unless you are capped)  after you open the bag, so it does have something intangible within it.

Opening Chests
If you are running this daily, take advantage of the free port inside the SM Graveyard and make sure to check for any chests that have spawned inside the instance.  Often they are locked so bring along some seaforium or blacksmith keys, if you are not a rogue.  All the chests within any area of the Scarlet Monastary have a chance to drop some nice BOE twink gear, so they are worth a peek. 

Any luck getting your mount to drop?  I have mine from last year :)