10 Blood Elf Paladin, Jewelcrafting

So, I gave in and made my 3rd bank toon a Jewelcrafter. Since she’s level 10, she’ll be able to advance Jewelcrafting to 150, but no further until I commit to playing her to 20.

Prospecting turns out to be a skill learned a few levels into your Jewelcrafting training, instead of right away when you become a Jewelcrafter. Level 20? 30? Somewhere in that range. It takes a stack of 5 ore and destructs them in exchange for green+ gems which you can then use with a Jeweler’s Kit to craft necklaces and rings.

Whoa man, am I burning through copper ore and bars. Stacks and stacks of it… easily 8 stacks (160 ores), and I’ve done very very little prospecting (25 ore worth). I’m at skill level 48 right now, and can make a variety of +1 and +2 jewelry boosting agility, spirit, intelligence or strength. They’re all designed for mid-teen level toons. I don’t know if they’ll sell for anything at all over their vendor price, but seeing that the weekend is coming up, I’ll let you know how it goes.

21 Undead Priest, Questing Solo

Back in The Barrens again after a rest in Undercity doubling as a Small Silk Sack hawker. I’m now at Tailoring 206, and I was back up to 80% rested when I headed back to Crossroads at level 20. Knocking off a few easy peasy green quests first in Silverpine and then in Ratchet and Crossroads has bumped me up to 21. I’m 1/3 the way to 22 and still have 40% rest bonus to spend, so I should make it to 22 before my next rest stop.

Then again, I’m going away for 4 days as of tomorrow morning, so by the time I get back I’ll have a bunch more rest bonus to spend on all my toons. I can’t keep up with spending the rest bonus on this many toons, it’s great!

Karma points in a Party

I partied briefly with someone in Silverpine when we were both going after Rothide Ichor, and while it wasn’t a horrible experience, I did have to snicker afterwards - he (toon was he, who knows if he was a she or a he) was a level 14 Shaman, I, a level 20 Priest, and we were killing level 15 and 16 beasts (in other words, minimal healing needed, I was DPSing and casting the occasional Renew, and my DPS was contributing more to each kill). One green item dropped, we both rolled greed, and I won it. He proceeds to talk about the buddy he could have sent that to. While I did give him the level 13 +2 spirit cloak, remember that “Karma” addon I talked about using? Yah, he got dinged down five points, and I wrote brief notes to remind myself why, too.

I Love The Auction House

Between all my toons, I now have over 300g from selling “under level 40″ things in the Auction House. How many weeks ago was it that I had spent all my money getting my Blacksmith through the Armorsmithing quests? I love the AH!

But for now it’s time to deal with some RL interruptions to WoW…

This past week has been pretty busy in The Real World, so my play time has been limited. My next three weekends are booked pretty solid as well (two out of town, including the Friday and Monday around the weekend as well), so I guess I’ll be gathering up a lot of rest bonus!

20 Undead Priest

Since I last wrote, I’ve levelled my Priest up 2 times and she’s now level 20.

43 Undead Warrior

Some quest grinding has brought my Warrior up to 43.

24 Troll Mage

Same here. Quest grinding, level up.

Professional endeavors

I realized once I got my Priest to 20 that my Mage also needed some professions work, especially in the Secondary professions area. Now that both toons could max out Cooking, Fishing and First Aid to 225, I wanted to take advantage of that for a while, while everyone regained rest bonus.

I used my 61 to farm cooking materials since the Auction House didn’t have any regular Clam Meat or Tangy Clam Meat, and also did some fishing in Tarren Mills with my 20 Priest to get some Sagefish to cook. Plowing through mid-20s murlocks in TM with my 61 Hunter was pretty fun, nevermind 2-shotting the teen-level crawlers and Wraithheads in Zoram Strand… but avoiding the spiders and bears near the river (lvl 22-25) while fishing with my 20 Priest wasn’t as fun.

20Priest and 24Mage are both up to using silk for First Aid now, but I have been funnelling my silk through the Priest for Small Silk Pack purposes, and never have any “left over” for first aid use. Ah well, my 61 and 43 can supply Mageweave bandages which all my toons are high enough level to use. :)

Auctioning Continuously

While I don’t have a lot of playing time right now, I’m still making sure I spend a few hours keeping the Auction House stocked with my regular sellables, so I’m still earning money while I’m not able to play. Sometimes I need to send some of my toons on “recipe buying excursions” to keep the stocks up with my Banking toon, but that’s nowhere near a daily thing.

I’m selling cooking recipes and Small Silk Packs predominantly, but on occasion I can get out and do some grinding/mining with my Warrior Blacksmith and I am able to create 5-10 smithed items to sell slowly over the week (+sta items mostly). Oh, and I’m selling Thick Leather Ammo Pouches and Quickdraw Quivers, too. The weekend is more lucrative for sure, but throughout the week I make a steady trickle of coin as well, so I never stop the cycle of listing items and picking up the cash or rejects from the mailbox whenever I log in.

THREE Bank Toons

So yah, I bit the bullet recently and turned my 10Pally into another bank toon, so now I have three. One does most of the generalized buying and selling of items from my play toons. The second holds mostly herbs and some low level first aid materials. The third holds potions and various “mined” components.

My theory with all of this is that I’ll make better use of potions that were created as part of the Alchemy Grind, and I’ll be able to quickly generate another batch of low level potions without spending more than mailing fees. Every time my miner and herbalism toons run across a node, I harvest the resource available whether or not I need it for levelling up. I figure if the stuff sits there for too long and is not useful, I can always auction it off.

I’m pondering turning my Pally into a Jewelcrafter since these mats are being sent her way anyway… but haven’t quite committed to that one.

Well, that’s enough writing about it. I don’t have much time to play, so I’d like to get back to it :)