Tag: blaugust2025

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!