It's the perfect time to make a new bank alt!

Diamonds in the Rough

As you may have read my post on the JMTC forums, I believe it is the perfect time to make a new bank alt. What I did not include in this post is how you might "stealth" your new bank alt (at least temporarily).

If you're like me, you thoroughly hate players with names that include ASCII letters (ex. ä ë ï ö ü and sometimes ÿ). They're hard to spot, annoying to find on the character map, and are often incorrect when you think you've found the "right one". But it gets worse - try reading them in the auctioneer window! Talk about tiny...

Anyway, for those people seriously considering making a new bank alt to "fake out" competitors (my competition just bought all of my glyphs off the AH - at well above cost!) I suggest using ASCII letters in your name. If you wanted to get REALLY annoying, you might even try a bar-code style name (ex. liiïlilïllïïiïll). Should you decide to go forward with your new ASCII'd bank-alt, be sure to copy/paste the name you use into a text file somewhere. It makes it much easier to copy it back into your friends list, QA2 etc. Lastly, I believe it is important to note that there are some name restrictions on RP type servers - where a barcode name would simply not be allowed.


MMO-More Money Pls!

Now that we all live in a post MMO-Champion world, we need to capitalize on it - if we can. The over-all reaction I seemed to gather on the JMTC forums can be summed up in two words - "bunker down". If you're like me, you bought out the cheapest herbs you could find on the AH, got your hands on as many Books of Glyph Mastery as you could, and filled your pockets with a few Packs of Endless Pockets.

Though there have been scattered reports of people striking gold with this strategy - I have to say, I haven't seen green pastures yet. I now play on a very old, VERY populated server - and it seems that the sheer mass of people trying to get through the doorway has simply corked the whole operation. I'm still playing the waiting game with my cache of herbs and inks - so for the next week, I suppose I'll be taking the "wait and see" approach.


Next Time:

Check back next time to find out where my most recent Auction House adventures have taken me, whether this whole MMO-Champion fiasco turned out to be a false alarm, and if I've FINALLY hit 1800 rating on my Arena team.

~ GG

New Post coming Today (hopefully)

Hi again everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that I anticipate posting today about the topics mentioned previously (at the bottom of my last post).

Further, if you read my post on the JMTC forums - you may want to wait before you make that new bank alt! I've saved a gem-or-two about what you should do when making it. Consider it a gift to all of you who followed the breadcrumbs to this treasure chest.

Check back later today for more!

~ GG

My Story

A few months back I transferred from Laughing Skull to Darrowmere (Horde) in order to join the raiding guild <Áfterlife>. I would eventually come to find that Darrowmere was very much like a small hick-town in the middle of nowhere, where just about everyone was a racist - and most people (including members of the guild) didn't take kindly to "outsiders". Needless to say, I didn't enjoy being part of <Áfterlife> (and eventually transferred away) - but I did learn some very valuable lessons while I was there.

During my time on Darrowmere, I was very fortunate to have met someone I consider to be an "uber-goblin".When we met he was so filthy rich that he had been goldcapped - twice. Anyway, this "uber-goblin" was kind enough (foolish enough) to teach me his ways, and slowly began to fill me in on his money-making schemes. At the time I had recently maxed Jewelcrafting and Enchanting, and this uber-goblin told me that, "all you need to do is to buy out Saronite ore, prospect it, cut it, and sell it - and you will turn a profit."

I'm not going to lie, I was skeptical. I had only 1,000 gold to my name, and a gamble like this would put me into a "make or break" situation. Especially with the cost of repairs and the Ulduar patch looming on the horizon. In the end, I told myself "what the hell" and one night, I invested 800 gold on saronite ore. By the time I had finished prospecting and cutting it was late - so I went ahead and posted everything up with 1c undercuts via Auctioneer, calling it a night.

When I woke up the next morning I was met with a sight that would start me on my rode to Goblin-ism. I had made 3,000 gold overnight! Talk about a thrill! Anyway, of course I began re-investing, eventually incorporating Enchanting materials into the mix with the use of Eternal Earths. Between that time and my eventual transfer away from Darrowmere, a period of a couple months, I made what I consider to be a good sum of cash - approximately 15,000 gold.

Sadly, after transferring most of this gold found sinkholes over the period of a few months - in buying my girlfriend her Epic Riding / Mount, in forming a Guild and purchasing Guild Bank tabs, as well as the simple things like repair bills.

And then, two weeks ago I took the 2,000 Gold I had in my pocket, and started all over again.

Check back next time to find out where my most recent Auction House adventures have taken me, my thoughts on MMO-Champion's recent "Money Making Guides", and whether I've hit 1800 rating in Arena's!

~ GG

Coming soon to a Blog near you...

So at the moment I'm setting up the blog itself, working on a few things in the way of "theme" etc. Look for more updates in the near future (hopefully tonight!)

~ GG