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!

Blaugust Day 1: Introduction

No idea what Blaugust is? Go read about it first (TL;DR I post every day for the month of August, and I’ve been doing it as part of a community for years now).

I don’t really post a lot of real life things here on my blog, keeping it to my hobbies (art, gaming, fiber arts like knitting and spinning, cross stitch) but every so often something creeps up and I talk about it. There’s no real explicit reason for this secrecy except that I’ve got young kids, and my husband is a first responder, so privacy is something we very much value. I figured for my first Blaugust post, I’d do a little bit of an introduction for anyone following along.

I’m a mid 40’s mom of two young kids, and like I said my partner is a first responder who tends to work very long hours. In between homeschooling and tending to the kids (who have complex needs) I like to play video games, read, knit, and things along those lines. When I was younger (not even much younger, but let’s say pre-children) I was not a very nice person. I have a temper – and I’d like to think that it is since having kids that I’ve morphed into my final form, who I am pretty happy with, overall.

I love animals (sometimes more than people) and I try to make an effort to let others know I’m thinking of them or that they’re important. I tend to retain weird information about people but rarely let others into my private circle. I have lived all over the world. My father was air force, and we were posted to Germany when I was 7. I have lived (and driven) from one end of Canada to the other. While most people I speak to have lived in only a small handful of provinces, some even living in their home province for their entire life – I love that I’ve moved so much. I have a very well rounded idea of what I like as far as a ‘home’ goes, and what I don’t like. That idea has grown and evolved over the years, especially after we had kids.

Because my partner is a first responder I find it difficult to keep tabs on some people. My hours of availability are sporadic, which carries over into my gaming. I’m not a night owl, and tend to game EU hours despite living in Canada. I do try, but I’m not very good at reaching out. The first responder side of things can be stressful. My partner has seen and dealt with situations that no one should ever be exposed to. He has saved more lives and helped more people than most will ever know. He has given so much of himself over to this job. I am incredibly proud of him, despite not saying it nearly as frequently as I should. Again, privacy issues. The stories I have could fill numerous books.

I feel awkward when I’m talking to people. I overexplain situations and give far too much information (like I’m doing here, in this post). I have maybe two close friends I speak to on a daily basis, and everyone else I’d categorize as acquaintances. I think I am probably not worth the time. Did I mention imposter syndrome? Well, stick that up there too.

As far as gaming goes, I prefer the meta game to the actual game. In World of Warcraft (my main game of choice) that means gold making. I have been playing since it released, in some form or another. I take breaks here and there, but I always return. I love collecting things, and old world content – but I also love the QoL changes that have happened over the years, and thus any form of ‘classic’ is just not for me.

I also love RimWorld, and Wurm Online, my two other most played games. Wurm is very niche, but has a dedicated and passionate player base. I’ve been playing that as long as Warcraft. RimWorld is single player, and I love it whether it’s modded or not. That game just speaks to my soul.

I’m a very prolific reader, preferring most evenings to curl up with a book instead of any games at all. I’ve recently started diving into audiobooks in the morning while I post my auction house stuff in WoW. I don’t think it will ever surpass reading for me, but it’s a neat way to explore books.

I think that’s about it for now, this post is already far longer than I intended it to be (yep, I ramble). I hope everyone enjoys their own participation of Blaugust, no matter how many or how few posts you manage to eek out. Let’s have a great one! As always, 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.