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Donating Cash Before Deleting Characters

Valdesta — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:17:50 +0000

So, I've gone through my Characters listing and Realm listing and deleted a few more toons who were sitting unused on some realm I had toyed around with...

On one PvP realm I had set up on since my nephews once played there, I had a level 10 warlock and a level 1 bank toon and already had 50g saved up from the bit of Auction House work I had done while levelling that far.

I hate money being deleted outright, so I logged into my toons before deleting them, and did a /who to see was in my zone.

There was one other player in my zone - lucky winner!

I mailed them the 5g and few silver I had on my level 10 and explained in my letter that I was about to delete my characters on that realm because my main ones were over on Zul'jin but that I didn't want the cash to go to waste. I then mentioned I'd also log into my bank toon and send them some more money from there.

I logged into my bank toon and found I had 56g :) I sent pretty much all of it, plus a few low level cooking recipes I had on me that this level 10 mage might be able to use. Again, I attached a letter with it to explain where the cash was coming from and why I was randomly sending it their way.

I hope I hit someone new to the game and not someone to whom 60g isn't a big donation :)

Auctioneer: Downsides And Compensation, Part One

Valdesta — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:55:10 +0000

"Auctioneer" is one of the main addons I use within World of Warcraft as a tool in my "how to be wealthy" toolkit.

Each day, I scan the current Auction House listings with Auctioneer, and then I use it to determine what of my auctionable materials I put up for sale, how many get posted, and what prices I list them at.

By using Auctioneer, I've found a lot of "good deals" for my own purchases, and have been introduced to a number of easy-to-buy or easy-to-make items that have a low investment cost but high profit return.

But, by using Auctioneer's price-suggestion features, I've also noticed some not-so-reliable results being suggested to me, and have had to pay close attention to the true worth and value of materials I am looking to add to my sellers list.

Auctioneer Downside #1 - Starting With Nothing

The biggest detriment is that the Auctioneer addon package comes to you with an empty database - that is, until you have allowed the addon to scan Auction House listings at least once, the addon has no stored prices for anything and cannot offer listing-price advice.

Therefore, until you've completed a dozen or more scans with enough time between them (different days at different times of day) to make them useful, the Auctioneer's suggested prices are likely to be way off from your realm's "average", and it won't have ANY information for things listed infrequently.

In short, the more scans you do over time (1-3x a day maximum), the more complete the addon's information will be for you, the player, to use. Keep scanning regularly!

Auctioneer Detriment #2 - Price Storage Rules

A second detriment to consider with Auctioneer is that its suggestions are based only upon LISTING prices, NOT actual Auction prices. Auctioneer can only see what value things are listed for currently and record that, it cannot tell how much that item actually sold for, or if it sold at all.

What does this mean for you, the user? Two main things:

First off, it means the information Auctioneer provides as it makes recommendations for your own listing prices may be WAY off of the profitability mark, especially with a small number of scans to base its information upon.

Secondly, it means that Auctioneer data can be "skewed" by purposeful and excessive over-pricing of items posted by its users.

The result of both of these may likely be your vast over- or under-pricing of auctions until enough information has been collected to be accurate and for you to get a better "feel" for the acceptable price for this particular market.

How To Compensate / Find Your Profit "Sweet Spot"

Without scanning the Auction House for 2 weeks twice a day in order to start to build a respectable database of information, what's a player to do in order to recognize and avoid these under- or over-price skews?

Stay tuned for Part Two!

Discovering Arcane Vortexes in Netherstorm

Valdesta — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:15:06 +0000

Where do they come from?

Why are they here?

Who sent them?

Can Engineers extract motes from them?

Arcane Vortex - Netherstorm

I found this cloud-like thing in Netherstorm when I was farming for [Mote of Mana] for my [Primal Mooncloth] cloth transmute - I thought initially it was just another mote-extraction cloud waiting to be captured, but it behaved differently than the ones I've seen in Nagrand - this one would recharge my mana in little bits when I was close to it - multiple times a second, too.

So, I hung around it and had my pet do the scouting out of the Phase Hunters I was downing.

The cloud stayed there as long as I did (about an hour), and while it seemed to move a little bit, it never really did move very far, which made me wonder if it had spawned there instead of wandering there as I had originally suspected it had.

I'd never seen this kind of cloud in this place, and haven't seen it again. Does anyone know if it's one of those Mote Extraction clouds waiting to be extracted, or not? :)