Diary Post: Social Guilds and Raid Problems

Progression is simply raiding to improve your teamwork and your own personal skill, that's it. And as it is atm we lack that ambition, as a team. We need more players that are willing to put in the effort. Normals are not the LFR and the difference in how you have to approach the two is larger than the jump from normals to heroics.

This post was written on the guild forums and the topic is worth having on the blog, cause it's one that's been annoying me for a long time. Inspired by this very important article on Wowinsider. 

I will use this in a blog post. It's an important topic and I have tons of thoughts about it. I write in a very general way to "provoke" people into responding so You can join in on the discussion, after the break.

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 10 - The RAH beats in-game addons

"Take care of your kids!"

Topics:
Limiting my time on the in-game Auction House while increasing my time on the Remote Auction House, Change of playstyle, Leveling alts, Why I stopped using two accounts, Gold making plans prior to Mists, How gold making changed with the changes to most professions in Mists, Using various pricing strategies, Take care of your kids!

Diary post: 5.2 - What's the Game Plan?

"Right, let's make the next move!"

This was written prior to 5.2, but posting it has it's value.

 If i've set a goal, reached it and have other goals to achieve moving on becomes the only option.

Patch 5.2 is going live tomorrow on the EU servers. I can't seem to stay away from the blog when i'm excited about something, so here's a little update.

• Gold making is completely dead. I don't have the willpower I once had to dedicate tons of time into researching markets and being online, undercutting mofos x amount of hours per day. Don't get me wrong, there is gold to be made, but after Cataclysm which was one huge gold expansion for Grayz, especially due to crappy internet which made raiding impossible, I just feel like i've done it and that there's no point in going hardcore into it again.
  

WoW or Gold Brainstormz Episode 9 - Alts return

Topics:

Leveling alts, Why should I do it?, How i’ve changed my playstyle since Mists launched, Striking a better balance between WoW and Real Life, Gearing up alts, Playing my main (Hunter), Gold making philosophies, Structuring my life and noticing some improvements

On the Move: Give Me More Donations, Please!?

"Spare a couple of thousand dollars furr a transfurr, plz omfg lolz?....."

"On the Move" is a blogging notice that i've added for posts written when commuting or whatever. Hopefully it will make it easier for me to post more frequently and jot down ideas when they're fresh.

Donations to podcasters, bloggers, youtubers etc. Is it a good or a bad thing? Are there good and bad reasons to donate? Does Grayz care? If so why/why not?

The answer is actually short and simple. I care about contributing in the way that I choose. I care about showing support for the gamers that do things that I like. People will always do what they want regardless of if they want to donate or if they're the people wanting donations. And I won't care as long as they stay away from repeating the donation lingo every single time that they do podcasts, streams etc. 

My thoughts on minding other peoples business after the break.

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 8 - Krasarang Hunting (Farming Rares)

TAG IT!!!!

After tons of 5.2 PTR talk on tons of podcasts i've had it and had to add my two cents, by NOT spending time talking about it. Many WoW podcasts suffer from a format structure that hurts more than it helps at times. I'm not claiming that mine's better, but I know for certain that I don't want talk about what bores me to death. So on this episode I focus on some rares that i've been killing.

Let's Go!

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 7

“Sounds like I’m a fucking mountain climber. Yeah, this is the mountain episode.”

Topics:

Raiding, BM opener sequence, Cooldown rotations, Using my recordings/blog to learn, 

Mentioned links:
Kripparrian’s BM Hunter Raiding Guide (MoP) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-kMki1BM4
Hunting party podcast - http://outdps.com/category/world-of-warcraft/hunter/hunting-party-podcast/
Convert to raid - http://converttoraid.com/home
Stokpile – http://theahpile.blogspot.com
Arktem's Beastmastery Hunter Opening Rotation - http://www.wowhuntershall.com/2012/11/12/arktem-beastmastery-opening-rotation-video/ 

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 6

“Long story short, MAC is on vacay and isn’t coming back any time soon.”

 “So if I say you I don’t mean you, I just mean you as in me as in you, Grayz.”

Topics:

Raid teams, The BM Hunter is back on the raid scene, Being averse to conflict, Listening to raiding podcasts helps, Reading strategies, You play as you are, Skill over ilevel, Beginning to use World of logs

Unforseen consequences

For this episode I decided to give you a backstory to something that happened in real life that affected the editing process and which will have an affect on future episodes as well. I’ll be using my girlfriend's PC instead of my MAC and I don’t know when or even if I’ll solve it. Either way, this problem has lead to some very interesting and creative ideas. The MAC intro to this episode is a giant leap in my video editing and experimentation process. 

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 5

Mists? ”…you fear, you die, you’re slow…cuddle bears, care bears, puppies and death.”

 

Topics:

Selling Mounts, Duping, Cooking, I can’t make gold

 

Mentioned links:

Power word gold - http://www.powerwordgold.net/search/label/Podcasts

Horde for life – http://egonetworks.com

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 4

Topics:

Selling Glyphs, Raiding, Dailies, LFR, Editing the minicast, WoW or Gold blogging, Guild Banking, Gold Making, Raiding Tiers, Mists is great!

 

Mentioned links:

Horde for life –  http://egonetworks.com

Call to auctions - http://calltoauction.blogspot.com

My epic heals - http://myepicheals.com 

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 3

Topics:
Cooking, Raiding, Dailies, LFR, Guild Banking, Gold Making,
Spending too much gold on Ironpaw tokens.

"WoW or Gold - We cook for progress."
"I'm Grayz, I am false infomation."
  

You hate the LFR!? You hate dailies!? Shut it!

This post was written prior to patch 5.1 release, but was published after!

So many raiders and podcasters and bloggers and forum trolls and guildies and... **********... complain about gearing up in Mists. Whether it is by grinding rep or if it's through the LFR very few players are content with the current situation. And as more raids are being released it will become even more obvious that this "problem" is related to the first months of the expansion and nothing else.

Want to know how to clear content in a WoW or Gold fashion? Reach the required ilevel to enter the raid, know everything there is to know about the encounters and choose players that fit or that can think while doing their thing, on the move, rather than the highest ilevel junkies. Finally, learn from every single wipe and have the courage to try new things, especially if your setup is different due to the lack of available classes.

There's much more walls of text after the jump and i'm really fed up with ALL of the cry babies!

Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0 Plans part 2

Part 1 can be found here.

1. Maybe sell all Golden Carp to buy cooking mats that i can trade with 20x meat/fish rather than 60x. This depends a 100% on the auction house prices. Today the Golden carp prices dipped and buying and trading for Ironpaw tokens was the clear cut choice.
2. Buy the 100 Year Soy Sauce when it's up for 300g or less so that I can spend more tokens on the other cooking materials. Gold has less value than the mats I can get from the tokens, since making the gold is easier than farming due to the lack of play time.
3. Only do dailies when I feel like regardless of faction.
   
   The list goes on after the jump.

WoW or Gold Brainstormz episode 2

Topics:
Cooking, Raiding, Gold making, Guild banking, Grayz's WoW background, Professions, Mists is great!

Mentioned links:
Kripparrian - Perfect Macros in WoW

Listen to the second episode after the break.

Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0 Plans part 1

Here's a  post that outlines some ideas that I currently have in WoW. Mists is great and that's a line i'll keep on repeating!

Done tasks

• Geared up for raiding - Check.
• Begin organizing my main's guild bank (not one of my personal guild banks) - Check.
• Crafting Darkmoon Faire trinkets to sell - Check.
• Learning all Glyphs - Check.
• Maxxing out all Ways in Cooking - Check.

There's more that i've done and plan on doing after the jump.