Diary post: Liquidation and a little 5.4 speculation

Spending is the fun part!

Hi,

As a gold maker you have many options, especially once you have some capital. And i'll be honest, hovering around 50k nowadays compared to being way above 700k for the majority of Cataclysm is a different situation for me in Mists. I'm not broke, but i'm also far from rich. Especially in an expansion where hitting that 1 million mark means so little. Nowadays i'd say hitting 3-5 million would be the new "1 million".

So what am I doing to reach those 5 million? Not much and far from enough. My mission right now isn't to make tons of gold, but rather regain tons of slots in my guild banks. The past month i've been busy getting rid of old stuff that i've held onto for far too long. I won't list the damn thangz, but a couple of screenshots will give you an idea. 

WoG Brainstormz # 18 – Unforeseen consequences

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The title is a tribute to the classic game, Half-Life!

Notice: This is another recording where I’m playing at the same time as I’m recording. My girlfriend’s laptop has a noisy keyboard and the mouse gets loud at times too, so if you can’t stand it, don’t listen.

The Oqueue addon is my new trade chat – my new home, moving alts from my main’s guild, some thoughts about the social guild that I’m in and my playstyle, blogging for long-term reasons, the university of WoW= a great learning experience (psychology and economics among other things), the fun is in improving and pushing myself, how becoming a father has changed me and my gaming persona.

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WoG Brainstormz # 16 – Vicious circle of PTR talk

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Raid attendance issues, the gap in raid difficulties, flex raiding in 5.4, it’s hard to get deep discussions going in social guilds, a guild is like a family - for good and bad, increased patching speed does not = quality, many sudden changes makes it harder for players to keep up, podcasting and hosting talk, leveling alts

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WoG Brainstormz # 15 – I miss open world questing

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The gaming landscape is changing a lot, avoiding the boring grind for valor, alts and professions, linear starting zones are boring after the first time through, many social guilds aren’t social at all, linear gaming is boring gaming and I'm using the Pareto principle (the 80-20 rule) in WoW and at work.

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Diary post: Oqueue, patch 5.4 and the auction house

An Oqueue overview. A must have addon for active puggers!

The Oqueue addon is pure greatness

This addon has changed the way that I play WoW completely. The past weeks I’ve killed world bosses at least 20 times. Something that would be impossible if I only tried doing it on BDF EU. With this incredible addon I can do BG’s, RBG’s, raids, legendary quests, do Monkey runs, farm the Northern Barrens and much more. This addon is great! There’s  one huge downside, it will spam your bnet friends from time to time and when that happens it’s impossible to keep a conversation going.

With this addon I can play on the level I feel comfortable with and not have to depend on my guildies or friends to be online. With my playstyle that’s closer to the anti social part of the scale this suits me perfectly because there’s no weird reasons to bring along someone or not to do it. It’s just log and play. I love it!

For my plans @ patch 5.4 and my current Auction house activity read on after the break.

Diary post: PvE, PvP and Brainstormz

I'm trying something new this time around. Let's see if I can stick to it even once. What it is? Writing shorter posts, on the realz. Yar. Really. Aight. Go!

PvE

Raiding's been up and down this expansion. And the reason for the downs is lack of dedication, lack of a raiding core, lack of teamwork, lack of persistence, the loot that’s available in the LFR, odd and hidden social rules in the guild that irk me and finally the increased difficulty (seen from the Wrath raiders PoV, not mine <<BC mentality for life!>>). So, to avoid future disappointment and unnecessary “drama” I’ll choose a different path for 5.4. I’m not leaving my guild, I’m just not counting on doing anything that requires effort with it.

There’s other topics after the break and they involve PvP and some thoughts about podcasting in the future.

WoG Brainstormz # 14 – You can’t kill me

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So all links from the old post are dead. When new episodes are uploaded they'll be linked to the new rss feed.Planning to switch my second enchanter to a second jewelcrafter, posting/pricing strategies, I prefer clearing raid content when it’s current, I begin discussing PvP in 5.3 but I get cut off and so the episode is ended

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