Of Gaming, Grinding and Gold.

Farming Flamescarred Junkboxes 4.0

2011-01-27T13:22:00.004+11:00

Exclusively to rogues, or people with rogue alts, the Flamescarred Junkboxes are an interesting gamble of your time with the hopes of pocketpicking a mob that happens to have a spare poison, class-specific healing potion, valuable mat, or heaven forbid an epic. What exactly do they drop? Well if you haven't clicked the wowhead link above, you should do so and have a look. There is a chance for a

Upcomming patch 4.0.6 Justice Points and Honor vendor additions!

2011-01-22T12:46:00.002+11:00

I'm so very excited about this. I've been Justice point capped for AGES, and I was really hoping they would be introducing something I could do with the damned things. So let's take a look at how these new vendors will alter the game. Let's look at the prices (Source MMO-Champion): Hypnotic Dust x1 200 JP or 100 Honour GCE x 1 800 JP or 400 Honour Heavenly Shard x1 1200 JP or 600 Honour Savage

2011-01-20T10:11:00.000+11:00

So, yes, I've been away, and my last post had nothing to do with WoW at all, and I do apologize. I've been on a bit of a hiatus, and without going into too much personal detail, due to life being a royal pain, it's likely my posts will be a bit sporadic, as I have warned in the past. On with the actual wow-related post. I thought I would start with what I've been up to in-game the past week or

Natural Disaster: QLD Floodings 2011

2011-01-12T11:12:00.001+11:00

I'm dedicating a humble post to those whom the flood effects in Queensland, Australia, because I do not think the world understands the severity of this disaster. This is for my family, extended family, friends, and guild mates who live in Queensland. This morning 75% of the state is underwater, flooded, or isolated. Death toll is currently over 10 people, and there's still more than 60 people

(Dis)enchanting. 4.0.3

2010-12-29T12:12:00.000+11:00

All right, I know it's nothing overly new, but it's certainly an awesome way to bring in the gold and I thought I would share my thoughts and logic about how amazing disenchanting is for item shuffling. Jewelcrafting + (dis)enchanting was a classic combo in Wrath, and it's still a great way to shuffle ore into larger profit margins. Right now ore has dropped to 100g a stack on my server,

Christmas 4.0.3

2010-12-26T11:50:00.000+11:00

Merry Christmas to the West, and Happy Boxing Day to the East! I had a wonderful Christmas, however the Holiday is not over for me until post-New Years, so my postings will continue to be sporadic. This is an interesting time of year, and a lot of you may have been profiting off of vendor purchased items, Christmas attire, and all the new accounts coming into play. If you have time, farm, farm

Fortune Cookies! 4.0.3 Cataclysm

2010-12-19T13:14:00.000+11:00

I have found a new love. Yes, the delicious little Fortune Cookie. At first I thought, "oh hey, a useful stat. So for my rogue that means agility. Oh wow this could be great for my hybrid characters as well!" So I made myself a batch or two of these. I was a bit concerned about using up so much Blackfallow Ink and my chance at 5000g from the Mysterious Fortune Card. And then I noticed used

Gold and heroic dungeon grinds. Cataclysm 4.0.3

2010-12-17T10:51:00.000+11:00

I've been so swamped with grinding rep, running dungeons and Christmas that I've hardly found much time to really focus on any gold-making. However, I've found JC to be the most profitable by far. If you can get yourself a cut that is desired, but no one else has, it's pretty logical that you're going to make a fair bit. Gem cuts that no one else has, or few people do, or even few people have

Overview of the first week of Cataclsym.

2010-12-13T10:42:00.001+11:00

First off, sincere apologies for taking my sweet time. I've had a very busy week and this month is about to only get busier as the holiday season approaches. This means I won't be posting as frequently as I'd like too, but I will be back into my normal posting schedule soon after New Years and hopefully I'll be able to write about some more detailed ideas. But for now I haven't even had a chance

Expansion day 2.

2010-12-08T22:48:00.000+11:00

So when Blizzard gives you massive issues with your main... go farm. I've farmed an insane amount of Obsidium Ore, and herbs with my DK in just a few hours. I was selling the Nightstone Choker and Hessonite Bands for 200-600g each, depending on the stats/ uncommon or rare quality and was on my way to getting closer to 525 JC (maybe server first) when suddenly I could not interact with NPC's

Expansion release 4.0.3

2010-12-08T08:45:00.000+11:00

Firstly, yay! I got to 82 last night, before getting surpassed by 5 other rogues for server first, decided I'm too old to stay up all damned night, and went to bed to get back at it in the morning. People are already level 84 after 7 hours of being away. So far that's only about 13-14 hours of total played time. Ore is unsurprisingly high, but all of my sleepily priced jewelcrafting items sold

Cataclysm Normal Dungeons Overview

2010-12-07T14:00:00.001+11:00

So while we're all waiting for the expansion to unlock, or perhaps the servers aren't working, or maybe the mail man was mean and lost your game box. Or maybe you just haven't thought about dungeons yet, being so occupied in the rest of Cataclysm. Here's something to keep you occupied. Follow this link to MMO: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2100-Cataclysm-is-going-live-THIS-WEEK! They've

Cataclysm BoE Drops List, for completionists.

2010-12-07T02:00:00.002+11:00

You were totally thinking I forgot about these, didn't you? Well, I didn't, so here goes. Fractella's Cataclysm BoE Drops List ** Disclaimer ** This is based on Datamined information and everything here is subject to change, or may be partially incorrect. It's entirely possible some of these items are not BoE at all, like wowhead says, and it's entirely like that some of these items are

The market, BoE snatches, and getting ready to roll in the gold. 4.0.3

2010-12-06T14:39:00.000+11:00

See below/ full article for "Fractella's Cataclysm Crafted BoE List" Alright, so we're just over 24 hours away from the Cataclysm launch. The markets are an unstable mess on many servers, and if you're on a server like mine, just plain not worth it, really. I thought I'd share a few things that are selling for me. Snowfall Ink was going crazy this last week. I think perhaps because today was

Cataclysm T- 2 days: Are you ready? 4.0.3

2010-12-05T13:03:00.003+11:00

Cataclysm is in about two days. It's on everyone's mind as we're buying up Wrath items while people clear out space for the incoming expansion. We're all pondering the best choices of action, which toon/profession to level first and how we're going to do it. So I thought I would go over a few things that I may have touched on, and other bloggers are talking about as well. Basic preparations:

Cataclysm: Darkmoon Faire Card Trinkets Guide.

2010-12-03T15:57:00.010+11:00

In a few weeks every level 85 will be looking to fill out their gear slots in order to gain them spots in raiding guilds, pugs, or even to make the first "scouting" teams into the new Cataclysm raid instances. Before you can set foot into these raids, you must gear yourself with crafted items (a topic for another day), Justice Point items and Heroic dungeon drops. The majority of items that

Looking at BiS enchants for Cataclysm.

2010-12-03T12:25:00.006+11:00

Being a melee dps (Rogue) I often can see a bit focused on my own class, and it's true, I do what I know best. However I wanted to discuss a few enchants every enchanter should be picking up right away once you get there. The new melee BiS weapon enchant is Landslide. (Effect featured in the post image) It is BiS for rogues to dual wield this pretty little enchant, and I'm going to take an

Dungeons and gearing up in Cataclysm

2010-12-01T12:23:00.004+11:00

Just a quick glance at Wowhead's data mined information to give us an idea of what to expect gear-wise when we begin our journey to Tier 11. 80-82 Dungeons: Blackrock Caverns Throne of Tides These two dungeons will be the first dungeons you will encounter at level 80. Both drop item level 279 blues in normal mode. Yes, that's 2 item level points above your precious Heroic ICC gear. However,

Alchemy's Cash-cow.

2010-11-30T11:06:00.002+11:00

So yesterday while working on my massive list of Cataclysm wonders, I got to get a little upcloseandpersonal with many of the new trainer-learned recipes and profession products. Something that really stood out to me was the Alchemy: Transmute Truegold recipe. It appears that Alchemists are the only profession masters that can produce this hot little bar that is used in both Blacksmithing and

Cataclysm Profession Material List

2010-11-29T13:32:00.000+11:00

I won't be posting anything here today, because I spent all morning working on a thread on the Consortium Forums called Cataclysm Profession Material List. I'm a Wind Trader on the Consortium forums, and I thought it was my turn to do a bit of grunt work. So I complied this list while working on my own materials snatch lists in preparation for the coming expansion. I hope you enjoy.

What is batch posting?

2010-11-27T12:10:00.002+11:00

Here's some additional information for those of you that are unfamiliar with batch posters and the how and why they work. So what IS a batch poster? A batch poster is an addon that does a live scan of the auction house for every item you have programmed into your groups, calculates a posting price for each item based on the settings for the group it's in, gets you to confirm the posting, and

Batch posting other items.

2010-11-27T10:24:00.002+11:00

Let's just go ahead and call it. The market is crazy, and varying incredibly server to server, and even day to day. As I've already noted, many things are extremely expensive on my server, and in extremely low supply. While other servers are the opposite, where people are madly dumping items they believe will be obsolete in Cataclysm. Lucky for those servers. In the meantime, I've been

Achievements, quests and drop rates.

2010-11-26T12:24:00.000+11:00

As many have reported and probably read, 4.0.3a has shaken up the markets a bit with changes to drop rates on formerly rare recipes and items. An example of this would be Recipe: Savory Deviate Delight, which was a rare drop in the Barrens, but now drops fairly frequently. I've also noticed the drop rate of uncommon items has increased during some achievement farming. I did a quest chain in

Now that the world has changed...

2010-11-25T12:00:00.002+11:00

Quick gold tip: Meta gems have been changed, well a few anyways. A very popular meta, Relentless Earthsiege Diamond now "requires more blue gems than red gems". Unfortunately, the majority of classes that prefered this meta have more red than blue gems on their gear, because they are agility stackers. This means that rogues, hunters, and I believe cat druids will now all need to change their

Patch day 4.0.3a! New Azeroth.

2010-11-24T10:56:00.002+11:00

Just a short post today folks, so let's get right into it, shall we? Yes, Blackfallow Ink is the new currency for Ink Trader Jessica Sellers in Dalaran. Yes, Ethereal Ink is 10 Blackfallow Ink. No, Vanishing Powder is not gone, but we can still sell on the AH for a good profit. Wrath herbs have already dropped 30% over night on my server, as well. The new Azeroth looks amazing. Take some time