WoG Brainstormz # 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.

WoG Brainstormz # 8 - Krasarang hunting (farming rares)

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!

WoG Brainstormz # 7 – Learning process

“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/ 

WoG Brainstormz # 6 – Averse to conflict, Grayz?

“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.”

The old rss feed is dead. New rss feed can be found here http://wogbrainstormz.libsyn.com/rss
So all links from the old post are dead. When new episodes are uploaded they'll be linked to the new rss feed.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. 

WoG Brainstormz # 5 – I can’t make gold

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

WoG Brainstormz # 4 – Burning through condoms

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 

WoG Brainstormz # 3 – I am false information

"WoW or Gold - We cook for progress."

"I'm Grayz, I am false infomation."

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

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.

WoG Brainstormz # 2 – Guild banking for my guild

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

Mentioned links:
Kripparrian - Perfect Macros in WoW

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.

WoG Brainstormz # 1 - Why a minicast, Grayz?

Hey there, people!
It's been a long time and tons of things have happened. Instead of typing it on the blog i'd rather talk about it, so come listen my minicast after the jump. /Grayz

Fatherhood and Priorities

 "It's okay. I got this one!"

I haven't updated the WoW or Gold blog for a long time and here's post on why. The amount of ideas I have for the blog as well as other things that are WoW related are many, but the time I have on my hands is a lot less now than it was 5-8 months ago. This won't change, so it leads to one of two things; Either I prioritize the blog and my WoW profile or I go with my real life and focus on what needs to be done there. The choice is simple.

There's a lot more after the break...

Diary Post - My Plans 16th of February 2012

 

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There's a lot of things happening both in-game and out of the game that are WoW and gaming related in general. After seeing Jim's livestream I was incredibly inspired to get my own show on the road, to say the least. What I mean by that is so much more than WoW, so let's just leave it at that. Make sure to follow him @powerwordgold on Twitter! His stream is really good, especially if you enjoy a relaxed experience with a fellow gamer.


Here's parts of my current plan. Things will change, but today i'm focusing on just putting some of my goals and ideas out there, especially since the first thing I choose to focus on will affect how much time I put into this very blog in future.

• Move my focus from writing on this blog to recording and posting videos for Youtube. I'll put posts on the blog when I post something, but i'll spend less time writing and more time talking. It's all about learning and the endgame. I'm all about new challenges in order to keep things fresh and interesting for myself, so the best way for me to evolve is by increasing the toughness of the challenges I choose.

Read my plans after the jump...