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 :)

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. :)