So.. I started playing WOW again... I''m not raiding or even in a guild so I'm not really expected to be online which is nice. The freedom to just play when you want without needing to be online for the raid really makes the game easy to put down when real life knocks on the door. I figured, Hell, I've been spending 100s of dollars on new games trying to fill my free time since I quit. I figure it's cheaper to play WOW.
When I logged on 7 days ago, I had 27 gold. Now I have 9000. Mining/Jewelcrafting has been so freaking profitable for me. I've also been taking tons of risks with my money that I wouldn't have taken when I was actually attached to the game and it's really fun. (Is it bad the only reason I knew I started playing 7 days ago was because I just opened and bought a new egg from the oracles dude this morning?)
I bought a stack of Titanium Ore for 300g. To make a profit I knew I needed 2 epic gems. With 4 prospects and a 25% chance per prospect the odds were against it. The risk payed off through and I got 4 epic gems from the stack. They sold for 150g each.
Then I bought 71 stacks of Saronite ore at 14g per stack. It cost 994g. I prospected all of the ore and auctioned everything and made roughly 2000g. It's hard to say exactly how much I made, but Scarlet Rubies alone brought in 700g. Chalcedony was bringing about 120g+ per stack and other green quality gems were bringing 30-60g per stack. Some of the blue gems though like twilight Opal and Sky Sapphires, I ended up cutting them and vendoring them. Hell, I bought a couple off the AH, cut them and vendored them for a tiny profit.
Being up early in the morning helps. Mining with a 310% flying mount in Wintergrasp at 6am is insane. I'm so glad they didn't rebalance the spawn rate of nodes when they allowed you to start flying in there. I bet they do fix it sometime in the future though.
Oh yeah.. BREWFEST! I'm 1 achievement away from the Voilet Proto-drake. I already have the Plagued proto, but finally having a 2nd 310 mount means I don't have to fly the exact same mount everywhere.
Just need 190 more brewfest tokens!
I like taking long breaks from this game. When I come back there's all this new stuff to do. New dailies, New mounts and pets to collect. I didn't realize how much stuff had come out since I quit. I was pretty much caught up and had every obtainable mount and companion pet but now there's like 10 raptor pets and all the argent tournament mounts that I gotta earn.
ok.. Talked too much, bedtime. Gnite.