Tag: blaugust2025

Still crawling towards 500 mounts

I know there are people who have over 1,000 mounts that are available in game (I’m not sure of the exact number currently available, but it’s up there) but for me, mounts have always been a side quest that I wasn’t interested in picking up. I always choose pets over mounts, especially when it comes to the monthly tenders spending. About 2 years ago I thought why not start also collecting mounts, and I made a small goal for myself to reach 500 mounts usable on a single character. This feat is more difficult than you might think. On paper I’m sitting at 502 mounts total – but as you can see by the achievement above, I actually only have 474 mounts that can be used on a single character. This is the ‘true’ representation of mounts that I’ve collected.

My goal to collect 500 mounts was supposed to end when TWW released, but that absolutely did not happen. I’m HOPING maybe I can potentially reach it before the end of TWW? The thing is, I’m not sure if I WANT to actively hunt mounts like that. I’m still missing quite a few pets from TWW (and some from DF, even), and I’d rather work on collecting profession recipes which is another fun hobby of mine. I suppose we’ll just have to see what I have time for.

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

Midnight Excitement

It’s Gamescom over in Germany, and this year Blizzard is participating and they decided to do their big reveal for the next expansion, Midnight.

Now, obviously the thing I am most excited about is housing but there is a lot of other stuff that has been revealed, as well.

A new allied race, a new demon hunter spec, and a new prey system make up some of the announcements that came out on top of the player housing. We know the level cap will be raising to 90 (we’re almost right back where we were before the level squish), and there’s lots of demos going on.

I decided to stock up on tokens from in game BEFORE the announcement because I knew the price would go up if I waited any longer. I spent around 2 million gold, and bought the epic edition of Midnight for my main account, along with the base version for my alt account. I’m not sure if I’ll bother buying it for my AH account, since I don’t level any characters on that account I’m not in any great rush. The expansion won’t be out for some time yet, but I am hoping we get to explore player housing before then – especially since the Legion remix has a housing vendor.

Did I mention I’m excited?

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

Gold Making – Week 33 / 2025

Time for another gold making update. Welp. I made just over 9 million gold for the week, which was an anomaly of epic proportions. I noticed Valkyl selling off a bunch of recipes and posting about them in the WoW Econ Discord (I happen to be a moderator over that way, it’s a lovely server that I’ve been a part of for many years now) – and it just so happened that I also had over 20 copies of that same recipe, but I had forgotten about it in storage. The downside to having so many guild banks. Thankfully wowthing.org keeps fantastic records of where all my stuff is, so I’ve been using it more and more to hunt for items that I may have stashed aside at one point or another.

The majority of my weekly sales came from those recipes, I dumped them all. While I do have a lot of pets and transmogs that I prefer to sell at a slower rate because they WILL eventually sell, there’s not much use in hanging on to 30+ copies of a recipe just to sell them at an inflated snails pace. I dumped them all off on Area52 and a single person purchased them all, who will probably re-sell them. That’s fine. All of these recipes were purchased well below what I sold them for, even with the discounted quick sell price.

The real surprise of the week came from the Warder’s Shirt sale. There are only a handful strewn across the NA region, and they’re not cheap (although you can absolutely purchase them for cheaper than I was selling). This is an example of one of those transmogs that take a VERY long time to sell, but when it does – it’s very nice. I imagine next week will drop back down to my 1-2m a week sales rather than this enormous number since I don’t really have any more items to dump, but we’ll see.

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

Warcraft Crest Thresholds

I watched a video on gearing up today and learned that there are crest thresholds, and I had no idea.

What does this mean? Well, normally when I get a nice piece of gear, I focus on that single piece and try to level it as many ranks as I can.

This is ‘wrong’ – not wrong, but inefficient. See, if ALL your gear is upgraded to a certain threshold, you will then have no use for those crests, and Warcraft will let you (at a 3:1 ratio) convert them to the next crest up. How did I not know this is a thing?! Right now my paladin is sitting at ilevel 686, and had I followed this method, I’d be converting all of my weathered crests to carved. The problem is I have ONE necklace that is already 8/8 and is my weakest piece, so even maxed out, it doesn’t reach that first threshold. I’ve been doing my weeklies and questing, trying to get a piece to replace it but I haven’t had any luck at all and there are none on the auction house. I imagine that on Tuesday I’ll finally (maybe) loot a neck piece, and be able to get all of my gear above that first threshold so I can convert the now defunct crests to the next tier up.

Sometimes YouTube actually teaches me something (I suppose paying attention in game could have also resulted in the same response, but let’s face it, that’s not likely to happen).

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

And Now for Something Completely Different..

I love ramen, but like a lot of people I don’t exactly have any experience with the noodles, and I never know what to buy or what I might enjoy. While I do like SOME heat, it really depends on the type of heat. For example, I love sriracha. I don’t like Franks.

I admit it, I saw these carbonara noodles on tiktok, and they looked amazing. I decided to buy them on amazon, and they are WAY too expensive – I purchased them at $18 for 5, and now they’re at $25 for 5. Thankfully, my grocery store also supplies various versions of these noodles. The downside is that they’ve been out of stock FOREVER. They’re also only $8 for the package. Anyway, I was ordering groceries for the week, and I saw they finally had them in stock so of course I bought some. I made them, I ate them, I loved them. I made them with breaded cooked chicken breast, and a runny egg (I also mixed the sauce with some Japanese mayo). Fantastic. Highly recommended. I think one of my favourite features is that the spicy sauce can be applied with as much or as little as you want. I normally use it very sparingly. Other days I might want a little more heat.

Sometimes, it’s just nice to have something simple to eat that doesn’t require all sorts of preparation or thought.

Now returning you to your regular scheduled gaming posts..