Mmmm, Auction House money… 18 Undead Priest/Tailor

So yes, selling Small Silk Packs on the weekend has proven so far to be very lucrative, as I’ve sold 14 packs for 95s each since becoming Tailoring 150 last night when those silk cloth pieces arrived. I listed 8 last night and 4 had sold by early this morning, so I listed some more, and they’ve all sold. And, when I look at how many Small Silk Packs there are listed, there’s 3 in total, so I’ve just bundled up another 10 and listed them.

42 Undead Warrior

Grinding is a real… grind with this toon now. The quests I have on my books are yellows and are very tough to do solo because the mobs reset so damned quickly in the area. I know the Outlands spawn time was adjusted to make up for the fact that it’d be overrun with players, but my zone was outside Outlands and far from overrun (I didn’t see another player in the zone), so I’m hoping its spawn rate is “supposed” to be like that and is trying to encourage grouping up, without having directly marked the quest as “group”. Otherwise, if this is a new resetting scheme all over the place, soloing is going to be quite a bit harder than it was.

A good piece of news is that I’m right in the middle of quests that involve humanoids that drop Silk Cloth :)

I’m trying to focus my advancement time on this toon, because everywhere I go, I hear parties that need “a tank and a healer”. On my own guild line they’re constantly in need of a “meat shield”. There’s rarely a need for a Hunter in a party (there’s already one there). I think this is the same story on every realm around, and it’s the reason I started up my Warrior and Priest toons.

So, today I’m working on [42] Skullsplitter Tusks, hanging out in hte Ruins of Zul’Mamwe with a few other Alliance and Horde toons. Since we’re on a PvE server, there’s no fear of being jumped by another player, but the Skullspliter Beastmasters and their panthers are mean enough and wandering around, looking for fights to jump into. I’ve already died twice thanks to the combination of the quick respawns and them jumping into battle when I wasn’t expecting it. I remember this quest being a pain in the ass for my Hunter going through, too, but I guess like other quests, it’s here to teach you how to refine your use of the Interface - this time by staying facing one way during battle while looking around at your surroundings to make sure nothing else is approaching.

I made a quick exchange with a mage on the server who was looking for page 25 of the Green Hills of Stranglethorn book while I was beating on Skullsplitters, I have no intention of finishing that backpack-filling quest so when he asked on General if anyone had it, I offered it to him for free if he came to where I was adventuring. In the exchange I got myself some mage bread, which I’ve been happily using as part of my healing repertoire.

I collected the final Skullsplitter Tusk in perfect time. I’m going out for dinner tonight and had just enough time to turn in the quest (4 bubbles to level 43) and then log in quick to my bank toon to see how many of my Auctions have sold since last I was logged in. I’m back up to over 100g in the bank toon and each of my playing toons have 20g or more on them too.

With a whole little family of toons working hard, it’s easy to bring in cash! ;)

61 Troll Hunter, call me Farmer

After doing another run through SFK and netting another 30g worth of “stuff”, I moved on to the Scarlet Monestary, hoping to find the recipe for Steel Weapon Chain for my blacksmith. I went through all four arms of the SM instances and while I didn’t find the recipe I had hoped for, I got a lot of equipment to auction off, and got about 120 pieces of silk for my future tailoring toon.

18 Undead Priest

I dropped Skinning on this toon, and picked up Tailoring. Now that I’m not focussing my efforts on Blacksmithing, my next goal is to allow my Priest to create Small Silk Packs.

Auction House Good Deals, Selling and Buying

Small Silk Packs are 10 slot bags which sell well (95s each) to new toons and are cheap to make because of the lack of real competition for silk in the general marketplace. While many professions use some silk, none use it excessively for a long time, so the cost of it is reasonable in the Auction House, and since there’s always new toons looking to bulk up on bag space, it’s a great little niche market if it’s not already solidly cornered on your realm.

As for buying, I lucked into some under-1g stacks of Wool cloth last night (this morning full stacks are listing for 3-4g each), so I bought up about 120 Wool cloth and mailed it on to my Priest, along with about 120 Linen cloth (which were extremely cheap, 10s per full stack), so it would be there for me today when I logged in to play.

I’m now at Tailoring 130 and able to make bolts of silk, so the silk I got from the Scarlet Monestary runs last night is now on its way to the tailoring toon. I’ll create a bunch of packs and sell them over time next weekend, and if it’s as lucrative an activity as I expect it to be, I’ll pump out a steady stream of packs even when I get no further skill advancement benefit out of doing so.

But, today there’s a lot of real life and not a lot of gaming time, so now that I’ve finished my Auction House scan and a few Censuses on Most Wanted realms, it’s time to go spend some time outside of Azeroth with friends, eating healthy food. :)

The accumulation of Rest Bonus is another motivation for me to have more than one toon going at any one time.

I picked up a new Addon today to replace my old, broken one from pre-2.0 patch. You can find XPextend here to try it out yourself. It changes your experience bars slightly to give you percentages of how much rest experience you’ve accumulated and how much experience you’ve accumulated towards your next level. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to give me any idea about how much time I need to wait in order for my rest experience to be at 100% like my old addon for rest bonus did, but beggars can’t be choosers, I guess.

18 Undead Priest

I spent all but 5% of my Priest’s rest bonus last night after my evening workout, and got myself up to 18, and trained with my new skills (one of which was New, and two of which were upgrades on existing things). I haven’t really taken much of a look at my talents yet (although of course I’ve spent the talent points), but I’ve been pondering my talent spec. I hear discipline/holy is a good route to go for a soloing-yet-instancing type, and I’ve been collecting +healing equipment now and then when I see it.

I think this weekend I’ll do my first instance with this toon, and see how the whole “healing and cleasing” thing goes. I’ll probably go into Ragefire Chasm (RFC) even though I’m a couple levels above its recommended start level (folks go in there at 12-14). I like to have confidence of strength over my opponents when I’m learning an experience. There’s plenty of chances for insane healing practice later on.

10 Blood Elf Paladin

I toyed around with her this morning and finished a couple of quests and burned off her 25% rest bonus in no time. I’m feeling happy that it takes a long time for rest bonus to build up and not long to burn it off on this toon because learning too many classes at once isn’t fun, and I’m happy to park this toon for a week and a half at a time while I learn the others.

42 Undead Warrior

I’ve spent about 150g on materials to help this toon through her 4-5 Armorcrafting quests, and thankfully they’re all done, and my toon is up to 243 blacksmithing. The “hear ye! hear ye!” shout that the Mithril Order guy did when I was admitted as an official Armorsmith was kinda neat as well, but I guess nobody was around to cheer for me… That’s what I get for playing at 9 AM on a Friday morning when most people are at work or school ;)

Now, I’m heading her back towards STV and Booty Bay area to grind on quests, but first…

61 Troll Hunter farms SFK

It’s time to restock some of my cash supplies. Since it’s the weekend, this is a great time to be selling things in the Auction House, so I decided to plow through a lowbie instance.

Shadowfang Keep has a reputation for having a bunch of low-level Bind on Equip (BoE) blues that can drop, as opposed to having a lot of Bind on Pickup (BoP) items that I’d only be able to disenchant, and not sell instead of being able to decide whether to disenchant for the shards or sell in the Auction House. Low-level is good, because people spend a lot of dough on twinking up their wee toons for PvP in the 10-19 and 20-29 brackets.

I almost wished I had an expert skinner tagging along with me, with all the wolves and the skinnable shadowfang corpses I was leaving about! This is definitely a great low level instance for those in the Skinning profession.

I still say it’s a crappy Hunter dungeon, however. Very tight quarters and tight turns mean a lowbie hunter with a wide aggro radius would have troubles being able to attack from afar without also aggroing other mobs.

Loot from Shadowfang Keep farming run

I ended up getting 4 or so blues, but they were all BoP so I disenchanted them (3 Large Glimmering Shards, 3 Vision dust, 1 Lesser Astral essence, 1 Greater Nether essence and 1 Large Brilliant Shard). Robes of Arugal even dropped, after I dropped Arugal without him blinking even once to another location in the room.

As for other items I could sell on the Auction House, I ended up with 6 BoE items (3 weapons, and 3 pieces of armor) plus a stack of Lean Wolf Flank (low level cooking mat) and nearly a full stack of both Linen and Wool cloth (the cloth I’ve kept for my alts, however).

So, I have calculated that if all of my shards and all of my BoE items sell for their buyout prices, I’ll get 25g from this run.

But wait, there’s more! I picked up about 1.5g in coins on the way through, and brought back approximatetly 1g worth of vendor trash as well. I’ll likely use up this bit of extra cash restocking arrows, however, so we’re back to this run having profitted me 25g.

Not too bad for about 50 min work (including travel time to get back to the AH and time spent listing and comparing current things for sale in AH)!