Tag: WoW

Sales have been slowing down as we approach the release of BfA, and I have been struggling to manage even 6k a day in order to continue my subscription using only blizzard balance. Of course it’s not a huge deal since my account is paid in advance for a few months now, and I already pre-ordered BfA, but still, I was really enjoying those 50-100k days. It doesn’t help that I’ve been taking a more laid back approach to my gold earning, and I’ve been spending a LOT of gold myself on trying to raise my professions to 800.

I found out that you’ll still be able to get to max level in crafting using just BfA – but if you want the recipes for the previous tiers (and lets face it, completionist in me does) you’ll need to level up through those tiers. I’m pretty sure this is for the vendor recipes only and not the dropped ones, but you’ll still want to have a good collection of recipes either way. That’s why I’m expecting an influx of more expensive crafting materials.

I’ve also heard rumors of Ashran being changed / removed so that the only way to raise faction will be through the medallion of the Legion item that allows you to raise Draenor factions. I’ve purchased a few and I’m hanging onto them in case these rumors prove true (I believe there’s a guide about this on YouTube as well). Along with the Ashran rumors is the fact that no one is really sure what will happen to the auction house components you need from Ashran, so people are stock piling those items, too. Just in case. Having an auction house in your garrison is really nice, chances are if you’re sniping you don’t have to worry about being phased, especially on a busy server where that happens quite frequently.

I’ve got so much Clefthoof meat that all of my characters are now at 700 cooking, which is nice. It takes less than 1k meat to raise the skill, and I end up with all sorts of discovered Draenor recipes. I did raise cooking to 800 on my main character (old main? Not sure who I’m going with for BfA) and fishing is on my to-do list as well.

I’ve been making various bags to sell along with living steel combines, but money is still only trickling in. I know it’s partially because I play on a low population server, but I hope to see it pick up eventually. I snagged some semi-cheap 880+ ilevel gear and have been attempting to flip it, but there just hasn’t been a market. From what other goblins are saying they’re also experiencing a bit of a dry spell, but there are always some sure wins. I have a very difficult time trying to sell pets at all on my home server, and I wish this were different.

I’m over 100k liquid gold at the moment, but I really had my eyes set on breaking 1 million, and it feels like I’m starting over from scratch. Not a big deal, I’m certainly not hurting, but if I want to ever reach that 1 million I’m going to have to cut back on my own spending and find out what is currently selling, even if it is just a few gold here and there. I’m also still doing garrison missions, but with only 1 character having max level followers, coin there is only a few thousand a day, too.

Anyway, we’ll see how it goes. I know money making will return as soon as BfA hits, and maybe even as the pre-patch stuff goes live, so I’ll just have to keep an open mind and prepare myself for the expansion.

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

There’s a profession change coming in Battle for Azeroth that I am not a fan of – but it makes perfect sense and one of the reasons I’m not fond of it is simply because it’s not how things have been going for the past two expansions. For the past two expansions you could level a profession from 1 to the cap of that tier using materials ONLY from that expansion. Just picking up crafting for the first time in Legion? No longer do you need to go into the vanilla world any more, you can do it all in Legion zones.

In the next expansion this (from what I’ve seen / heard) changes, and instead you will be required to level up through that tier using materials from that expansion. This is how (IMO) it should have worked the entire time. It keeps old content relevant and people who are leveling up actually have a market for their older goods instead of just the top tier being the only viable tier. Still, change is change, and I tend to be leary of it until I see it in action.

That’s why one of my main goals is to get all of my characters as close to 800 in their professions as possible, before BfA comes out. So far I’m at a grand total of ZERO characters being at 800. Not a one. While I have always been able to blow through most leveling adventures, the fact that Legion requires you to quest and do dungeons to unlock recipes has been a huge deterring factor in leveling. I also find skill points rare and far between, relying instead on Darkmoon Faire for easy skill ups (5 a month.. woo). I have 11 characters, and with none of them even close to reaching 800 in their professions this is going to mean a lot of time and work in order to get them up to snuff for BfA. I love crafting in WoW, I just haven’t had any enthusiasm at all with the latest systems. I’m hoping this changes.

We’ll just have to see.

This is a newer addon that I just started using a few weeks ago. It’s called GSE: Gnome Sequencer Enhanced, and what it does is allow you to create advanced macros in world of warcraft. To quote the description:

GSE allows you create a sequence of macros to be executed at the push of a button.  Like a /castsequence macro, it cycles through a series of commands when the button is pushed. However, unlike castsequence, it uses macro text for the commands instead of spells, and it advances every time the button is pushed instead of stopping when it can’t cast something. This means if a spell is on cooldown and you push the button it will continue to the next item in the list with each press until it reaches the end and starts over. It comes with an editor and everything you need to get started.

I’ve been using it in some lazy situations where hitting just one button is an optimal situation for me – like when I’m using my monk to farm dungeons. I bound a hotkey to my mouse button 4 (I use a Razer Deathadder mouse so I don’t have a lot of extra buttons) and when I hold it down, it will spam the number 1 from my hotbar. In the case of my monk, that’s a macro of attacks. In specific, this macro:

Sequences[‘WW_ST’] = {

— This Sequence was exported from GSE 2.2.03.

  Author=“Flashgreer”,

  SpecID=269,

  Talents = “3,X,3,X,X,3,2”,

  Help = [[Set the Boss/Targeting dummy as your focus, to make sure you use touch of death. If Chi starved let go of macro for a sec, the resume.]],

  Default=1,

  Raid=2,

  PVP=3,

  Dungeon=2,

  Heroic=2,

  Mythic=2,

  MacroVersions = {

    [1] = {

      StepFunction = “Sequential”,

      KeyPress={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:7/3] Serenity”,

      },

      PreMacro={

      },

        “/cast [nochanneling,combat,talent:7/2] Whirling Dragon Punch”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Rising Sun Kick”,

        “/castsequence [combat,nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Fists of Fury”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Strike of the Windlord”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/1] Chi Burst”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/3] Chi Wave”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:6/1] Rushing Jade Wind”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:4/3] Leg Sweep”,

      PostMacro={

      },

      KeyRelease={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,notalent:7/3] Storm, Earth, and Fire”,

        “/cast [@focus, exists, harm, nodead][@boss1, harm, nodead][nochanneling] Touch of Death”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling, talent:6/2] Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger”,

      },

    },

    [2] = {

      StepFunction = “Sequential”,

      KeyPress={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:7/3] Serenity”,

      },

      PreMacro={

      },

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:7/2] Whirling Dragon Punch”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Rising Sun Kick”,

        “/castsequence [combat,nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Fists of Fury”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Strike of the Windlord”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/1] Chi Burst”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/3] Chi Wave”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:6/1] Rushing Jade Wind”,

      PostMacro={

      },

      KeyRelease={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,notalent:7/3] Storm, Earth, and Fire”,

        “/cast [@focus, exists, harm, nodead][@boss1,exists, harm, nodead][nochanneling] Touch of Death”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling, talent:6/2] Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger”,

      },

    },

    [3] = {

      StepFunction = “Sequential”,

      KeyPress={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:7/3] Serenity”,

      },

      PreMacro={

      },

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:7/2] Whirling Dragon Punch”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Rising Sun Kick”,

        “/castsequence [combat,nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Fists of Fury”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Strike of the Windlord”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/1] Chi Burst”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:1/3] Chi Wave”,

        “/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat/1  Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, Disable”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:6/1] Rushing Jade Wind”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,talent:4/3] Leg Sweep”,

      PostMacro={

      },

      KeyRelease={

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling,notalent:7/3] Storm, Earth, and Fire”,

        “/cast [nochanneling] Touch of Death”,

        “/cast [combat,nochanneling, talent:6/2] Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger”,

      },

    },

  },

}

Today it was announced that Battle For Azeroth will release August 14th! That’s about a month earlier than I thought it would come out, just before kids start heading back to school. I’m due with Nug on July 27th, so I may even be able to get in some game time by then, though I imagine it will be greatly reduced hours.

There’s some preparation I’d like to do for BfA, especially since I’m sure they’ll be reducing the gold output from Order Halls. In no particular order, some of the things I want to finish off before BfA are:

• All 6 110 alts to 950 order hall and collecting coin missions as often as possible
• Professions all at 800 in preparation for BfA
• Class mounts for as many characters as I can
• Allied races unlocked
• Level my final 2 characters to 110

Right now I’m working on the professions portion because it’s simple enough to do if I actually focus. I’ve swapped my main (again) from my priest to my monk, and I am having an absolute BLAST with the class. The monk is a character I boosted to 90 way back when and then I never touched. I leveled to 100 doing invasions, and then afterward (again) never touched. This time I’m playing windwalker (though I do have my tank and heal artifacts as well) and I just can’t express what a great time I’m having. I feel like I’m actually contributing to groups, and it’s fairly stress-free since I’m not playing a healer (the class I typically play). I’m not 100% sure if I’ll stick with her as a main in BfA, we’ll have to see – but for now I’m having a great time.

The two remaining characters that have yet to reach 110 are my shaman and my warlock, neither of which I am that keen on playing. I currently have:

• Monk – Engineering / Inscription
• Paladin – Alchemy / Herbalism
• Druid – Mining / Herbalism
• Priest – Tailor / Enchanting
• Priest #2 – Skinning / Mining
• Hunter – Skinning / Leatherworking

Then the two pre-110 characters

• Shaman – Mining / Jewelcrafting
• Warlock – Engineering / Blacksmithing

The only profession I have at 800 is skinning on my 2nd priest, and everyone else is hovering in the 600-700 ranges so it’s a pretty big goal of mine to get them done. Rumor is it will be harder to level up professions through the older tiers, so I really want to be able to focus on the new content.

What are you going to be focusing on for BfA? Any plans in the works? Let me know in comments, and as always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

The collection of addons I use is growing, and some of them are quite amazing so I thought once a week I’d take an in-depth look at one that I use, explaining how it works and what it’s used for. AddOns are not essential to any game, but they do help quality of life a huge amount, and I think there are so many options available out there it’s nice to get a cohesive list.

The first addon I’m going to talk about is one called altoholic. If you’re not familiar with how to install addons in World of Warcraft, well there’s really no excuse these days it’s pretty hands off. You simple download the twitch desktop client (previously known as the curse client) swap the screen over to mods (top left side), find WoW (make sure it’s pointing at the correct directory) and you’ll see two columns. One is ‘my addons’ and the other is ‘get more addons’. Pretty simple stuff. Then you just do a search.

Anyway. Altoholic keeps track of pretty much everything for all of your characters, and it’s lovely. It will keep track of order hall resources (and pretty much any currency you want), how many order hall followers you have, what ilevel they’re sitting at, what your artifact weapons are at as far as levels, what professions each character has and what level they’re at, bag space, and even what inventory they each have. I’ve been using this addon to monitor old WoD garrison resources so I can trade them in for craft materials to continue to level up a few characters that are below 700 in their respective craft.

It will tell you if missions are completed, how long it has been since you logged them in, how many auctions they currently have on the go, how much mail they have, how many AH bids they have, and even things like achievements.

It’s basically a one stop shop to see everything about everyone you play, and if you happen to be a collector of alts (like some of us are) it’s an addon that I really can’t recommend enough.

What I like most of all about this addon is that besides logging your characters in there’s almost no customization required. The default display is everything I need though you can customize some features and even enable account sharing if you happen to be multiboxing.

The addon is also pretty small as far as memory usage, clocking in at around 3.8mb for me personally. So far I haven’t come across a downside, but if you spot one please do share!

Next week we’ll be taking a look at GSE: Gnome Sequencer Enhanced, an advanced macro addon.