Category: Gaming

[WoW] Week 11 gold making wrap up (2026)

Another week of sales – slightly over 2.3 million gold in profit. I did end up spending some gold, gotta level those professions up after all, but not much. I think I actually purchased two recipes I didn’t have, too.

The sales were nothing out of the ordinary. A lot of smaller transmog and a handful of recipes, with Area 52 once again being my server of choice, bringing in 1.5 million of that total. The NA token has been dropping in price, and I expect with the start of season 1 officially beginning on Tuesday, that it will continue to drop. Remember it drops when people have a need for gold – and new gear = a need for gold. It goes up when there is no need, or there is a market place sale, or a new item in the market place (like the furniture that blizzard has been pushing). The token almost always drops at the beginning of an expansion / start of a season as people want gold to buy gear / gems / etc.

In any case, I’m alright with my smaller sales. It’s not the 10 million I used to make in a week but again I’m only selling on 10 servers these days instead of 20, so it takes me around 30 minutes each day I post. Before it was taking me an hour, sometimes more, and I wasn’t seeing the returns I wanted.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself!

[WoW] How is Midnight Going?

I know I haven’t written much lately, life has been bouncing me around and I have folded inward a little, but I am of course still playing World of Warcraft, even if I’m a bit quiet. I figured I’d do a ‘where do things stand’ type of post.

Number one, I finally settled on a ‘main’ although it took some time to get there. I leveled up my paladin first, doing the Campaign, falling 2 levels short of 90, and then going back and finishing off 2 of the zones completely. When I finally reached 90 the class wasn’t feeling quite right to me. A bit bulky, a bit slow.

So I decided to level the monk up next. I did this through legion pet battle trainers which is my optimal method. I can just multitask and do something else while battling the trainers, and while it is NOT fast, by any means, it is simple.

The monk reached 90, and then I leveled up a druid and a demon hunter through the same method. I have 1 more character to get to 90 (my priest) in order to have my core four profession characters at 90. Granted, they don’t NEED to be 90 to work on Midnight professions, but it helps. I then started re-doing the entire campaign on the monk, because there’s just something in my brain that thinks “well, it’s not REALLY my main if I don’t do everything on her!”

I am not really a quest type of person. I enjoy doing them the first time, I enjoy the stories, but I do not like spending days on end questing. This is why I typically swap over to some other activity. I imagine it will take me some time to get the monk ‘caught up’ as far as the campaign goes, if I ever do.

In the meantime, I’ve been doing all of my daily quests, all of my weeklies, the events that I can, and even some PVP in there. Season 1 starts next week, so there isn’t a lot of ‘stuff’ to do right now. That’s OK by me. I also managed to get my house to level 7, though I’d really like it to be closer to 8. There is a LOT of housing I still need to collect, and I feel like for those players who DO like to collect, Midnight offers a lot of options. I think there is probably a section of players who are a bit bored at the moment though, waiting for season 1. We’ll see what that looks like next week.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

[WoW] Week 10 Gold Making Wrap Up (2026)

I was just not feeling it this week. I sporadically put things for sale but didn’t post with any sort of consistency, and instead spent some time getting quests done, doing world quests, leveling up delves, and doing all of this little tidbit items that need to get done before the actual season starts in game. I imagine everyone else is focusing on things like that, too. Then of course there is also housing.

All of that being said, I did make just shy of 2 million gold for the week, with a few large sales. The fel meteorite at the end was left overs from my remix days, most of my new auction house characters came from that and I just left it in their inventory.

A lot of old world recipes (I have even more that I need to get posted), and some transmog makes up the bulk of items this week. Now that I feel ‘caught up’ I should be good to post with more consistency, but if that doesn’t happen, it’s OK too.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

[EVE] Three Hundred Small Things

Three hundred.

When I first saw the number, I stared at it for a while, as if it might politely shrink if I gave it enough time. Tending caches has always been part of what we do—quiet work, steady work—but seeing it written down as a new requirement to joining Anoikis Division made it feel different somehow. I was already counting 4 days down, that would make 120 days flying with Signal Cartel. Sometimes when I think back to my days with Pandemic Horde I wonder how it could have changed so quickly. Other days I barely think about it at all.

Three hundred is a lot of anything.

So I made a decision early on: I wouldn’t rush it.

Burnout has a way of sneaking up on explorers. One moment you’re happily scanning signatures, the next everything feels like a chore and even launching probes seems like too much effort. I’ve learned to respect that line. So instead of sprinting toward the number, I’ve been taking it in bite-sized pieces.

A few caches today. A handful tomorrow.

The work itself is simple. Warp in. Check the container. Swap out what needs replacing. Update the records. Move on. Most systems are quiet when I arrive, the stars hanging still while I go about the task like a careful gardener tending something small but important.

Nothing dramatic happens.

No capsuleers appear on grid. No sudden scrams. No heroic rescues. Just the quiet rhythm of maintenance and movement, system after system slowly adding to the count.

Sometimes I pause after finishing one, watching the counter tick upward. 142. 147. 152. The numbers climb slowly, but they climb all the same.

Three hundred still feels far away.

But wormhole space has taught me something useful over the years: big journeys rarely happen all at once. They happen one careful jump at a time, one bookmark, one quiet task completed before moving on to the next.

So I’ll keep tending them.

A few today. A few tomorrow.

Eventually, three hundred won’t seem so large anymore.

[WoW] Week 9 Gold Making (2026)

Alright, well, first of all very little gold making was done this week because of course the Midnight early access happened and I’ve been questing and leveling and exploring with my characters. Still, some took place. For the week I made 2.9 million, which is pretty good considering I left a lot of days with unposted auctions. I am also posting fully on all 20 servers again instead of my top 10. I’m not sure it’s making that much of a difference yet, but we’ll see.

TradeSkillMaster has added a new ‘Gold Making in the War Within’ recap – which I absolutely love. I’ve posted a small screenshot of it above, where you can see that I earned a total of 188 million gold between August 2024, and February 2026. My profit is 179 million gold, having spent just over 8 million.

Scrolling down the page I can look at statistics like realm efficiency, and season performance. I can also check and see what my biggest sale was (thank you Primitive Mantle), and what my biggest purchase was (a Crimson Mechasaur for my personal collection). I can see my busiest month (September 2025, go figure), and how many active realms I’m on as well as how many accounts I use.

Being a lover of statistics, I am incredibly pleased that TSM has added this to their website.

I currently have 1 level 90 character but I leveled up with pet battles and not through doing any Midnight content, so that character is basically just waiting for me to finish the story, which I am meandering through on my ‘main’ a level 87 paladin. I am in absolutely no rush at all, I don’t think I will reach 90 today due to life stuff, but maybe tomorrow. After that I will continue to focus on my crafting characters and try to level up my professions. I know the game launches for everyone tomorrow, and so far it has been a beautiful experience, for me personally. I adore the zones, and while I am really not much of a quest person of course I will complete them all at least once.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself.