Category: Gaming

The Cusp of Season 3

Am I excited about the start of Season 3 coming to world of Warcraft? Well, yes and no. I have been away from the game for most of season 1, and a majority of season 2. I’m excited to be around for season 3. It’s nice to be playing again, and I’m hoping to get some 10+ mythics under my belt. I’m not excited about the dungeon choices, and I think they’ll be rough.

I did spend a bunch of time this morning fixing up my banks. I unlocked all of the regular slots, unlocked the reagent tab, and unlocked void storage on any character under 80. This should allow me to swap over seamlessly to the new system. If you’re level 80, you’ll already get these new bank slots, but I have a lot of auction house characters who do nothing except AH stuff. I wanted them to be able to take advantage of the new system. I also removed anything that was in those banks because last time Blizzard messed with the guild bank system I ended up losing millions of gold worth of items and they never returned them to me. Not fun.

Aside from doing a few more quests to get my ilevel as high as I could (within reason) before the season starts, and fixing up the bank stuff, I haven’t bothered with much else. I did try to get a few achievements that I knew was going away (rk11 delves, etc) but I didn’t go out of my way to complete EVERYTHING. I might put forth more effort into that going forward into season 3, but we’ll see. Anyone else out there doing anything fancy to get ready? Let me know in comments – as always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

Gold Making – Week 31 / 2025

Sales have been picking up a bit this week (or they’re just better because I’ve been consistently listing them for once) with a fair number of items selling at high prices (58 items sold, and just under 5 million gold earned overall). It’s all of my usual items which includes older transmog, recipes, and pets. I don’t deal in current tier, or consumables (thinks that stack, like potions, ore, or enchants).

I also learned that the allied race quests have changed a while back – and I finally. FINALLY unlocked Kul Tiran. I don’t play alliance very often these days, and that single allied race has sat locked for ages because (way back when, apparently) you had to do the main BFA story line as alliance for it and I just don’t really enjoy questing that much. It was nice to finally get it done but I probably should have paid attention and realized it changed ages ago. It doesn’t help that a lot of the AI answers for … everything these days, is just plain wrong. Look deeper into the questions you’re asking (google AI told me Earthen were an alliance only face – NOT true at all).

Anyway, it’s another week of sales – slow and steady. What has everyone else been up to? How are your gold making adventures going? Let me know in comments.

Fixing up the UI

I don’t normally replace my UI in World of Warcraft – or at least, I haven’t ever since Blizzard made their UI changes where we could FINALLY move things around the way we prefer them – but I saw this one put out by Quazii with a version that doesn’t use ElvUI, and I thought – huh, that looks pretty neat and tidy. Minimalistic UIs for world of warcraft are something I really appreciate, so I watched the video, followed along, and set mine up. It took quite some time and I had to go back and re-watch portions of it, but eventually I got everything the way I wanted and I have to say, I REALLY like it.

Do you use UIs in game or are you more of a default player? Either way, I highly suggest people do whatever works for them. I know updating a UI after a major patch can be a HUGE pain in the ass.

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

Gold Making Challenges

Lately, I’ve seen a huge influx of creative challenges in Warcraft on how to make gold – but one thing a lot of these challenges all seem to share is that they use the most grind induced methods. I understand it’s the end of Season 2 on retail and people are bored, but spending 5 days played time earning enough for a single token? That just sounds painful to me.

I think if these people made some small tweaks to their challenges, they could still be interesting – and maybe even be more fun, too. One of the more popular challenges I’ve seen involves being ‘locked’ to a zone, typically a starter zone, and earning enough for a token only within that zone. In almost all cases I’ve seen this challenge being done on retail (both horde and alliance, both NA and EU) – and I think it’s more suited to classic MOP (I know there are no tokens in basic classic) where the cost of the token is lower, and QoL still makes this challenge a thing. It feel very punishing to do this on retail, when there are so many better zones this challenge could take place, right out the gate. Now, I understand that is the entire point of the challenge, but making gold should still be fun.

It all has me thinking about making my own YT videos on gold making. I’ve tried streaming in the past but I just couldn’t stick to a schedule. Maybe I would have an easier time of it if I just filmed when I played here and there, and then attempted some post production stuff. Honestly this is all just thinking out loud at this point.

I’m looking forward to Season 3 starting, but I think we’re all mostly in a waiting period for Midnight, and player housing.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Gold Making – Week 30 / 2025

This week was a slower one as I got myself situated across two accounts once again instead of just a single one. I know I’ve said this a few times in my gold making posts, but I sell across 20 NA servers, and I used to have those 20 characters on my main account dedicated to making gold but instead decided to shuffle them to my second account.

That leaves my main account dedicated to ‘fun’ while my 2nd account is dedicated to gold making. On days when I don’t feel like putting things for sale, at least there’s a little distance and I don’t have the characters looking at me waiting. Doing this shuffle means I had a number of days with no sales at all, or smaller sales than usual as I shuffled all the goods. I might level them up one day, but for now they can just sit at level 10 camped on their bruto where ever that may be.

I also spent some time (finally) leveling up pets. I don’t want to sell pets at level 1, instead I level them to 25 (and thus level up my alts at the same time) and then sell them – pricing them at the same price as level 1 pets. It’s my preferred way of leveling alts, and just plain fun. Here’s hoping everything is sorted enough so that this upcoming week will be a great one for sales.

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