Tag: Warcraft

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!

Let’s Save the Bees

I love it when video games take real life situations and then bring them into the game – so while I was puzzled that we spent so much time rescuing bees in the latest campaign quest for world of warcraft, I was also pleased that they were bringing attention to the importance of these little flying critters in their own weird round about way.

The paladin is sitting at 684 ilevel, and I guess I’m one of the folks who somehow got their cloak to 714 before it was supposed to, to be honest I have no clue how that even happened, I didn’t do anything except quest, get my cloak, and pick up the cloak on an alt. Somehow that was enough.

I’m thinking I might tip toe into some M+ runs this weekend, I think 684 should be plenty to get started. I haven’t done any M+ in TWW, so why not now. In the meantime I’m not quite done the latest update to the campaign yet, so that’s on my list of things to get done today. As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

Gold Making – Week 32 / 2025

Sales have started to slowly pick up again now that 11.2 is here, and I finally got around to leveling up a bunch of pets to 25, and got a few more alts to 80. I treat all the pets that I sell as a level 1 pet even though they’re all level 25. Number one, it helps push them out the door. Number two, I’m using the pet leveling to level up my alts, since it’s really nice and simple. I don’t price them any differently because I’m not using any tokens or anything, and it’s something I would be doing anyway as it’s my preferred method of leveling.

Pets, transmog, and recipes. A lot more pets than normal since I had over 150 to put out there. My banks are still filled with bush chickens looking for homes, I can’t get rid of those fast enough.

As you can see, I don’t do a lot of sales in a week – 61 items sold for just over 2.4 million gold. The items I do tend to sell are sought after by collectors, and I never know when one is going to wander through. It helps that the collector’s bounty has ended, leaving behind a surplus of transmog in its wake. Me? I’m patient. Items will either sell, or they won’t. Each day I just keep reposting until they do. Sometimes I adjust my TSM operations to include a string where as it racks up expires the item also gets discounted, in case it’s just not moving at all. I use this method in particular on overpriced NLA (no longer available) items that have a regional value of 9 million but would never actually sell for that amount. Eventually it drops down to a value that someone is willing to pay.

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