I recently bought the big mount from Dalaran, leaving that char in 3-figures gold. Less than a week later, I bought the big mount from SoH, and that’s without having even auctioned anything with that char, doing one instance/day tops and while going through spring cleaning/reorganizing the house (I’d had to move everything due to Mom’s visit). It’s a huge difference for a level 12 but peanuts for an 85.
Gpot my BS up to 425. Just noticed that I can modify my own bracer and gloves to add an extra socket, which is nice. I hope this prof makes money when I get to 525, because it’s been a fair old investment in time and money so far.
Ah but it’s not huge and have a face on it like the crafted tanking epic so ner: Hardened Elementium Girdle
Well the Ebonsteel belt buckles will make you some money but the mats aren’t exactly cheap so having a miner a good idea. Otherwise it’s the crafted epics (like the belt above) but for those you’ll need Chaos Orbs so good luck! I’ve found the blue level 85 PvP gear not really worth it on my realm but that is another option I guess.
Yay my Forsaken rogue hit 58 so he’s off to Outland and I get to do the Horde quests there for the first time. From what I’ve seen so far they are a mirror image of the alliance quests which is a pit poor I was expecting some variety.
S’Ok, the toon is already maxed out on mining skill.
I have 4 quests added in that water-place where I use the sea-horse, and I have 4 dailies, in addition to my farming, so I’ll make it a leisurely stroll to 85, I think. 
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Great though of course you’ll have to work out whether dedicated farming is more cost effective than doing dailies and buying the mats.
One other thing I sell regularly is the tanking gear which I forgot to mention, both the Wrath set and the Cataclysm set. I had a bank tab full of cobalt and saronite though so not had to farm the WOTLK mats which aren’t cheap on my server at least.
Two words and two spoiler tags:
Thrall’s grandma.
Couple of Quasi-Questions (you know, the really dumb ones?).
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Can one pause a buff ability (such as elixir of water walking)? I’ve read there’s a play/pause macro one can make?
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And although I did it yesterday just to be cute and walked into the middle of SW lake, does it improve your “catch” if you do that?
Thanks
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You can remove a buff by right clicking on the icon that appears when the buff is active. I don’t think, however, that you can pause one then turn it on again.
I don’t think that yiour catch is improved by standing onthe water, but I have no real evidence to base that answer on…
Sorrow’s End dropped for me yesterday in Tol Barad. From a Rustberg villager I think. It just sold for 3250 gold on the AH.
Why would someone pay that much for a weapon that you can easily get a better one for by running a few heroics?
Interesting.
3250 isn’t that much gold any more really if you dedicate even a small amount of time to earning gold and you have access to a few professions at 520 odd you can make this in a night easily enough.
And the place is epic for rapid re-pops.Many’s the time I’ve had a mob respawn while I was still quick-looting the corpse of its previous incarnation. And, after I down that one, it happens again. At one point, I had to chain-fight 5 Shipwrecked Sailors off the exact same spawn point. If you depend on depletable resources (mana, for instance) for your combat ability, you have to either kite a mob away from its spawn before killing it, or you may have to abandon its corpse un-looted to avoid the next spawn.
All the spiders are skinnable, as is the elite shark and the foxes. It’s awesome, and I’ve gotten many a stack of Savage Leather off of other people’s kills. Except those bastards in a hurry who don’t loot after killing. Y U NO LOOT UR KILLS?
Buying the weapon now won’t preclude “easily get[ting] a better one” from heroics. If nothing else, they have (presumably) a better weapon to take into heroics, so maybe they’ll perform better. (Or, less charitably, won’t suck so bad.)
Maybe they have money burning holes in their backpacks. Certainly, 3k gold is not much money any more. Just a shade above walking-around change. And the rush of getting gear NOW motivates a lot. Whereas taking your luck with pug heroics… consider the likelihood of a chain-wiping, no-freaking-idea, insulting, probably-own-team-griefing heroic LFG pug, I can understand why.
Because I’m a packrat and I need bigger bags, and if I stop to throw something away so I can get that [Itty-bitty spider’s huge fang] off the corpse, three more spiders will pop on my ass and try to turn my turtle into Swallow’s Nest Soup.
Sorry. I am working on the bigger bags thing, now that prices have gone down.
No I am not deleting the tabards. No, not the dwarven fishing pole either. No, I do like that helmet! Yes, that sword stays too! I think it’s transference: since I can’t be a packrat irl due to moving every few months, I’m a virtual one.
I went to TB to do my dailies last night and there was a BH pug looking for a healer, so I volunteered. I was excited because it was finally my first Cata raid, even if it was only BH. I was a little nervous since it was my first time, but my gear is decent for a non-raider (350). It turned out to be pretty easy; in fact I had my half of the raid (10-man) topped off most of the time and was helping the other pally healer keep his group up because he was making me nervous. I finished at around 55% of the healing while he ended up at about 30%.
A PvP caster cloak dropped that I could have used, but the 'lock won the roll.
Also, as a side note, my 61 shammy has been chain-running BC dungeons via RDF since turning 58 and still has yet to be put in anything except Ramparts. I had a 64 DK tank one run yesterday and he was pulling 3 groups of trash (so, like 15 mobs) at a time without either of us breaking a sweat. It’d be nice to see something different though.
I always feel a little guilty about how my pet suffers. “OMG, respawns! Nobodysaurus, cover me while I loot these!”
Poor little devilsaur.
But there’s also that ability where your pets get happiness from killing things! I haven’t fed my pet in months! The blood of his enemies sustains him.
What is this “feed” thee speakest of? 
Part of the reason my pet (way back when I only had one) was a bear was his amazing trashcan-like stomach. Nowadays I don’t even know what am I supposed to feed most of the zoo.
Man, I miss being able to raid seriously. Unfortunately, my guild starts at 8PM, and MiniMiss goes to bed at 8:30 at the earliest…
On the plus side, I’m about 4000 hp away from having enough of a pvp set to get serious about 2v2 and 3v3 arena. Anyone here do arena pvp enough to give some advice on it? The team setup we’re looking at is Enhancement Shaman (me), Assassination Rogue, Affliction Warlock. Light on the heals, massive on the debuff/cc, and frankly I tend to lead alliance team hks and damage dealt at the end of battlegrounds with the rogue in the top five.
Aside from the answer that 3250 gold isn’t so much any more, there’s another reason: speed and determinism.
If a 333 blue weapon is an upgrade for a character, their weapon was not suitable for heroics and was probably dragging their effectiveness down. They could possibly run heroics if the rest of their equipment was good, but they’d be a drag on their groups until a better weapon dropped. They could run Grim Batol on normal for the Wild Hammer, but that’s where speed and determinism come into play. They could run a dungeon 10 times in a row and the item they need would never drop. So instead of partying in heroics, they’re wasting their time in normals and getting absolutely nothing useful.
So faced with the prospect of running Grim Batol until one’s eyes bleed, one pokes around on the auction house, where one discovers that for a relatively modest investment, one can have a decent weapon that will allow one to perform well in heroics, and perform well tonight, rather than some unspecified time in the future.
TLDR: For you, the time = money equation is weighted so that money is more important. For some, time is more important.
There’s also another reason: they want good gear but aren’t interested in running dungeons. I’m kind of at that point now; I really don’t want to run dungeons every damn night for the chance at upgrades, but I’d like to have a character that can pull his weight on the Monday Night BDL Heroic. That’s why I deemed the Dreamless Belt at 3300g to be a worthwhile purchase: I had a ton of money from running through Hyjal at 85, I’d get a solid upgrade with some much-needed hit rating right away, and I wouldn’t have to slog through dungeons with bad-tempered party members.