FUSED WIRINGS

If you are an engineer, then chances are you probably have been making easy money off of the newly non-BOP engineering crafted pets, Lil Smoky & Pet Bombling. While the markets for Core of Earth, Essense of Fire, and Heart of Fire have been fluctuating, the market for Fused Wiring has exploded. If you have a JC and an engineer , then you can church out some easy profits as fused wirings are selling for 25-30g each, and you get a stack of 5 with each crafting. These take 2 Essence of Fire and 3 Delicate Copper Wire (made by Jewelcrafters) to make 5 Fused Wirings. Delicate Copper Wires require 2 Copper Bars each.

Therefore:

6 Copper Bars + 2 Essence of Fire = 5 Fused Wiring.

So check your markets, there are very few sellers of Fused Wirings, but they are required for both new pets, so you are supplying engineers that are crafting as well as supplying those that are just gathering the mats for their pets as well.

Also Big Iron Bomb has been selling well for me as well at a buyout of 25g each, as this is an ingredient in the crafting of the Pet Bombling. These are cheap to make as well, requiring just 1 silver bar, 3 iron bars, and 3 heavy blasting powder (3 heavy stone) to make 2 of these bombs.

So how are profits?

Anyone got any good stories regarding profits since Patch 3.3.3?
I'm making a large chunk off of buying saronite ore, smelting it, and transmuting it to titanium and selling in stacks of 3, since the titansteel CD is gone. Also selling engineering pets, slowly.

Would love to hear anyone elses windfalls or misjudgements.

The New AH Function

Let's just say as a player that refuses to use any addons, I am just loving the batch posting option that is basic UI for the auction house now. Let's me post a ton faster, which means more play time. Yay!

Come on Servers!

Man, I am getting sooo ancy waiting for the servers to come up, so I can start getting the pet shop rolling. /drool

LITTLEST PET SHOP

Get ready to unload some Lil Smoky and Pet Bombling PETS. Jepetto in Dalaran will have a new pet as of today, but it is BOP.

Trading Gold for Game Time

So I recently encountered a player that makes a ton of gold on the AH. Grats. But what to do with all of the virtual gold. Apparently he claims to trade gold for game time cards. Instead of accepting cash, he just gets them to buy a game card and send him the code. He also claims to not have paid out of his own pockets for gametime in over 2 years. This sounds like a good plan, but isn't this a violation of game policy, just the same as selling gold?

Are We There Yeti?

Yetis are by far one of the best mobs to skin. Why? Yetis are the only mobs that are humanoid and skinable, which means they drop gold. The yetis that are level 34 or below also have a chance to drop Large Fangs, which can be sold on the auction house or saved and used for craftables such as Barbaric Bracers. So if you are a upcoming skinner, make sure to spend some time on the yetis to get more cash than just skinning animal types. Also these yetis will always be found near caves and mining nodes for anyone with mine-skin combo.

TITANIUM FARMING ROUTES

Stumbled across this site which breaks down all maps and routes for farming titanium ores. Also quick link access to all other mining farmer routes and maps as well. Definately worth a look.

Check it out here

Titanium Transmute

Why is converting Saronite Ore to Titanium Bars so profitable on many servers?

My idea is that it tends to be a money making strategy that requires multiple characters because the 2 professions, Mining and Alchemy are not a typical combination you find on a single character. Anyone got a Miner/Alchemist? Probably not many. Therefore this is easiest for players with both a miner and an alchemist. If you have both, look into it. There is good money to be made from transmuting and selling on the AH in stacks of 3 and single bars.

Dead Mire Bog - FARMING FTW

First Farming Post, since that's what you asked for.

The Dead Mire Bog

This is by far my most favorite spot to farm, grind, level, and raise some professions. I have levelled at least 4 charcters farming this area alone thru 2-3 full levels and gathered a ton of resources while doing it.

Why is this place so great?

Withered Giants & Bog Lords

1) These kills provide Sporeggar Rep (which will get you to the cooking patterns that you can sell for 25g each.)
2) They drop unidentified plant parts, which get you to Cenarian Rep Honored.
3) They drop motes of life.
4) They can be herbed for more motes, more unidentified plant parts, and tons of various herbs.
5) There are adamantium nodes in the area.
6) There are various herb spawns in the area.
7) The hydras can be skinned.
8) The Bog Lords drop tendrils which can be used for Sporeggar rep.
9) Super fast respawn rate.
10) They drop lots of vendor trash and greens.
11) Town is very close by for selling and making more room.

So this place alone gives access to: Rep, Rep items, Herbs, Ores, Skins, and Greens.

If you save all the primals and sell them during the DarkMoonFaire you will make even more money.

FARMING WINS

Looks like farming has won the first ever poll, on which area you would like to see more information about. So in the near future posts I will be focusing on some farming tips and ideas as well as other categories that did receive votes. Thanks to all who voted.

Netherweave Market

Logged in after a few weeks absence to see that NW Bags are down to 7.5g each, but I found stacks of NW for 4g, so its still profitable to make the bags. But 4x NW bolts, I've been selling for 15-20g and stacks of NW i'm buying out and reposting for 12g. Any both NW cloth and Bolts are selling. So lesson learned, sometimes the raw materials or intermediate materials will sell for much more profit than the final end product.

Digging Back In

Well, the weeks of 70 hours with tons of Overtime have come to an end. I now have a regular 40 hour work week ahead of me, with tons of morning playtime available. What will this mean for my gold making?

Time of day of available playtime, will have a big impact on my ability to make gold. I tended to get a ton of sales from teh Overnight Market, but now I will have to adjust to selling during early mornnig and afternoon hours.

Any tips or ideas?

Boss Givin You Problems?

An excerpt of interest.

Studies that accuse social networks of reducing productivity assume that time spent microblogging is time strictly wasted. But that betrays an ignorance of the creative process. Humans weren’t designed to maintain a constant focus on assigned tasks. We need periodic breaks to relieve our conscious minds of the pressure to perform - pressure that can lock us into a single mode of thinking.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/

Take a Break Every Now and Then

Taking a break from the game every now and then can be mentally productive. Breaking from a task allows us to think more creatively, then trying to continously come of with new ideas, while submerged deep within our in game tasks.

I recently was gone from the game for nearly 3 weeks, due to personal, work, and financial issues. But awaiting me is a new shifted and refreshed auction house market to have fun with and crush the dreams of new players who only aspired in my absense. Mwahahahaha!

Engineers Rejoice

Good news for those of us that are engineers, PTR Patch notes were updated for the 3.3.3 PTR to make the non-combat Pet Bombling and Lil’ Smoky both Bind on Equip soon, instead of Bind on Pickup. So they will be in Huge demand just after the patch as people use these 2 to get closer to their pets achievements. These are also very cool looking when compared to a stupid deer or a frog, etc.

STOCKPILE FROZEN ORBS

NEW PATCH 3.3.3 NOTES:

Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods.

So start saving them up, or buying them up if you see them cheap.

WIZARD 101 : TUESDAY GAMING

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Finally found a good FREE game to play on Tuesdays!

Check out this game I've been playing -- Wizard101! You learn cool spells, duel against monsters, explore lots of worlds, and decorate your house!

If you just sign up and download Wizard101, you get a special surprise!

See you in Wizard City!

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
by Julian Dibbell

My Thoughts
This book came out a few years ago. I would recommend it to any online gamer. Not only is is very interesting, but it is a great look into the world of gold sellers, chinese farmers, gamer widows, etc. This book was a super fast read as it is one of few books written by a gamer for gamers, without being non-fiction.


Review
Filled with genuine ethical dilemmas and questions about virtual sweatshops and economic justice, Play Money probes the ever more hazy line between gameworld and society, giving a fascinating insight into the peculiar promise of the technologies that increasingly shape the culture we are building, as production melts into play." The Guardian --The Guardian

Product Description
Play Money explores the remarkable new phenomenon of MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments. With city-sized populations, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world. The desire for virtual goods-magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs-has spawned a cottage industry of virtual loot farmers: people who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month. Play Money is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle but now-with computer gaming poised to eclipse all otherentertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and work, virtual and real increasingly blurred-look more and more like the future.

More Frequent Postings Coming.

Been working around 65+ hours a week at work and they installed websense web blocker, so my posts have been minimal lately. Good news: Got a worhole and proxy set-up now to get around Websense. Take that! Ha! And will have a few more days off to be able to play and post as well. So get ready for some more good stuff soon.
Thanks for reading.