Off Topic - Pilgrim's Rep Buff

I got this and figured I'd pass it along for those of you working on reps (such as insane). Thanks again to AlexS for this heads up :D

Hello,
I'm an active reader of your blog, and would like to say nice job on it. Just an idea for you to mention on an off topic post, http://ptr.wowhead.com/?spell=61849. This is is buff during pilgrim's bounty, and if it comes out, can be really useful for those of us trying to get the Insane achievement. Not sure if it increases rep gains from librams and the "Free Knot" quest but maybe some people would be interested.


From wowhead it looks like its whenever you eat holiday food. Hopefully this is something we can stock up on for even after the holiday (day of the dead bread still works and you can still summon the pet :P). Even more of a bonus if it's boe :P

Pardon the Dust

It's 1:30 am. I can't sleep and I'm completely bored. So I'm playing around with different templates so don't freak on me if things look different. No, You are not hallucinating. I am considering dark on light if my idea pans out. :P

Anything to avoid Dire Maul runs /shiver.

Playing the AH part time

As I said I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to hit the gold cap while studying school and what not. While school is going to be my first priority I will still have other priorities as well. Sorry about the delay in posting. Crappy internet and honestly I just didn't have anything worthwhile to write. I'd rather keep my posts to wow and actually worthwhile of your guys' reading time.

I have a feeling I'll still be playing wow about the same amount of time as I normally do but for the past few months I've done nothing but AH pvp and while I'm not completely burned out on it I actually enjoy grinding goblin rep in dire maul (if that gives you any idea how much tolerance I've built up sitting in exodar for months). How long will this last? Who knows I have a pretty bad case of ADD at times and generally rotate my activities in game quite a bit.

I really liked the schedule I was doing and it worked for the amount of time I did it but I felt like I was scraping ideas together and the quality of my posts were degrading so while I'll still be updating my blog and playing the AH I'm only going to update as needed. Some weeks I'll posts 6 or 7 times and other weeks I'll post 2-3 times but one thing you can be guarenteed is posts of a decent quality.

Now on to today's post. How am I going to play the AH and hit the gold cap but spend as little time as possible doing it? Best way I can explain it is more routine posting and sticking to that. Instead of hourly bombarding of the AH during peak hours I'll post every morning on a 24 hour auction. What sells will sell what doesn't will be returned to be re-posted. My goal is to spend an hour or so every morning remaking gems, glyphs, etc that sold the day before and be done with it.

My gold income most likely will drop but this frees up my time for working on insane and still studying for school which is coming up here in a few weeks. I'll rely on having my disenchanter process my crystallized jewelery and I'll find someone to prospect my ore for a set price. I'll lose a little bit of profit but the amount of time I save is my main goal right now.

Are any of you guys part time AH players? If so how are you doing it? Drop me an email or leave a comment to give me some ideas. Right now I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to do this but I have a basic idea.

Off subject but WOOT!

I just found out today my financial aid for schooling covers 100% of costs and I can start working on my BA for Software Engineering.

Yay. You may now resume your AH grinding ^_^

Concerning Yesterday's Comments

Hey I figured I'd make a post about this so everyone can see and hopefully clear up any misconception that may arise from the changes.

LargeRichard wrote:
"This plus the change to loot options to disenchant (even if your not an enchanter!) will surely cause the mats market to plummet. As and enchanter that worked hard (and paid a lot of gold) to get my skill up it doesn't seem fair. But I'm also going to be on the look out for those that are looking to dump mats off at bargain basement prices, some offers are just to good to pass up!"

I'm not sure if the disenchant option is in effect as of now or if that's a 3.3 change but I don't remember the last time I ran a heroic w/o an enchanter. It might drop prices a little but I don't see them plummeting because of it. All the enchanting mats are already mass producible.

Bobreaze wrote:
"Unfortunatley this is making the jc/enchant combo less viable we could see entier markets lower in price. I think i need to focus on my glyph person the vellum market looks great on my server. almost 80g for a stack of normal vellums even better for others."

I see one of two things happening. Either people will spend more on ore and eternals to offset this change and prices stay as they are or they wont spend more and prices crash. I personally am going to increase my prices that I buy ore and eternals at. I'll work on the math and will probably have it as my post on Tuesday about what my new prices and such are.

Sorry! lol

I went through adding tags to my posts. I was unaware it would spam your feeders. :(

Not sure how it looks on the feeders but today's blog can be found here: http://gnomesconquest.blogspot.com/2009/10/speculation-33-glyph-books.html

Sorry again and I won't backtrack last month :p

Delayed Post

I might be able to post up a post tonight. If not I'll post one up tomorrow for sure. I'm currently swamped with herbs (picked up 400 stacks last night and another 150 stacks this morning) and with the fair ending tonight I need to get to processing these herbs and some cards pumped out.

Sorry in the delay just giving you guys a heads up.

Poll In Addition To Post

Just wanted to let you all know I've changed my layout a bit. It's still the light text on dark background but not as extreme. Let me know what you think via comments or the poll.

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Just got home from fishing and out to eat w/ family. It'd been an extremely long day (about 15 1/2 hours) and I'm passing out.

Sorry I didnt get to a blog today. I should be home relatively early tomorrow and will post one up.

Going to talk about JC / enchanting and my set up.