Blog focus, life focus, game focus... its a thing I seem to miss a lot, staying focused on a topic and carrying one thought from to begining to end is something I seem to fail at. I tend to think of things as write or converse and just go off on a tangent without coming back to the orriginal subject, or even remembering what it was. With writing its easier to go backwards and re-read what is writen, and circle back, edit, cut paste and flow. I know this is something to work on, hence blogging, like many things, the communication takes practice to develope. In time I hope to be able to clearly convey a message in few words and be happy with the message. I like to write, as the audience is volutary, and you are not trying to hook an audience of warm bodies, your writing will apeal to some and not others. The audience will be who wants be a part of it.
So, as I continue to write, and continue to play WoW, I hope to learn more and get better at writing and communicating a directed message without rambling all over. Though sometimes you just let it rip and spill random, disjointed thoughts. The part I would like to most get over is my current need to plan, review, outline and edit in several steps. With practice I hope to be able to sit down with an idea, and write to the subject with out all the middle steps. This blog has seen many edits and deletions for what I percieved as failures or lacking in clarity or direction. But in doing that I have also deleted or edited the track record to review at a later date and see my own progress. I guess it all come back to Focus, and KISS (Keep It Simple Silly). The lessons go far beyond the game, and will certainly aid in my communication with my wife, and kids first, and extend beyond to business personal like in every way. Like making gold in game, there does not seem to be any trick to doing it, practice, experiment, and try... try again. Now this is on record in the blog and it is my own "journal" entry to review over and again later.
There I think I did it. Focus on the subject with little deviation.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Love the Comunity of WOW, and blander
Games claim to be the WOW killers, they often think they have better graffics, more engaging play and a new fresh skin. But WOW has a community of web sites, bloggers, addons, tools that will not exist in other games till someone can make a profit for it by running the website or donations... That will not soon exist in any game, its a community that built itself from the WOW phenomenon. No game will soon topple WOW by my predictions because the community and availabilty of information can not soon be replaced.
Wowinsider
MMO-Champion
Pug-checker
wow-heroes
Worldoflogs
Stokpile
Gevlon
(tons of other bloggers)
wowhead, thottbot, alakahzham, wowwiki (4 that all do the same thing, more or less)
API plethora of addons and developers, maintainers, translators, and those that will assume the maintenance when one steps out of the role.
the list could go on forever, the community is just HUGE!!! and continues to ebb and flow. That can not be replaced. Then there is the in game community of old friends and its more than a console game. As good as they are, they can not really compete w/ WOW because they have nothing on the social gaming crowd. Only WOW has broke their own all time and first day and first month sales records... thats a lot of momentum.
I regularly contribute to the community now that I have amassed a knowledge base in the game, this blog, comments on others, and just in game community. How to level professions, tips and tricks, how to make gold. I had one guy that for 4 years had played as an engineer and did not know about extracting elements from clouds. I, blathering on in vent about how I made my first 5K gold for epic flight as we exchanged stories about the subject I mentioned the Zapthrottle mote extractor... He had no idea and went to get it in a couple hours. Yeah, sholozar basin and hours of circles "zapping" clouds for eternal fires. I made my first stake at that about 2 years into playing the game, and its been almost all uphill since then
Now I always have gold, I fell to under 400K because I decided to buy BOEs. Against my nature but, raiding has not been so good to me. I geared for heals, then when going for DPS all the spirit gear put me to 21.4% hit... It bothered me so I spent another twenty something thousand gold to get gear and gems enchants to get my hit down. BTW it worked out nicely, I managed to get to 17.00%, and realize that no other gear combination will probably ever be able to do that again.
I love the commmunity, and its why I play WOW and only WOW. I have to thank Cold specifically for the tidbit in his post about mass invites for the Guild. Sorry guys, I would link em but not so good at all that yet. Maybe I can go back and edit with links to this stuff.
Right now, I finnaly loaded up and started running Zero Auctions. What a time saver. I love the log, it gives me names of who under cut me... when I see one name repeatedly... OOHHHHH, ITS ON... biggest problem in some markets is getting undercut below market value.
Auctionator is my prefered AH addon for miscelaneous AH action outside of what ZA does. Lil Sparky's Workshop... can not say enough about how uselfull this can be. but it is only as good as the date it gets, and right now auctionator data is not great. I used to run auctioneer, but it was buggy for me and I could never get a full AH scan. The differnce that I am missing is the average cost that Auctioneer uses, vs. the snapshot low price that Auctionator uses.
I also loved Advanced Trade Skill Window back in the day, but I has become buggy, like demanding more graphics and freezing the game. Like many that play I have a bit of ADD tendencies and need to be doing something, when the game freezes, and I am sitting ther waiting.. GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Tax season and if the wife and money allows i am looking to UG the PC to a SSHD and a new MB w/ better than the single core processor I am running.
I play for fun, and I can say, having a lot of gold is fun. Having lots of crafters is fun, it feels like it costs less when you make your own enchant scrolls and gear to twink out that new toon.
Random thoughts on the twinking toons, I am so very much looking forward to the GXP changes from BGs. I twink stamina on low level toons and often run around w/ double the HP of several toons on my team. But balancing is ROUGH... hunters, are just killer, they should be number one on your kill priority, not the healers.. at low levels anyway.... I can not solo spam heal myself and live through a decent hunter that focuses me. I would like to see some balancing for low level BGs. If you dont have heirlooms your at a major disadvantage off the bat. the cost to keep up enchants on replaced gear, gets costly fast. I only keep 3 scrolls on my hunter rogue, 7 stam to boots and bracers and agi to gloves. thats it... all pretty cheap to make relativly too.
Rambled on enough.. random thoughts and the power of the community.. a mountain to cross over that will take an amazing game to topple WOW, because that is one thing the designers and programmers can not "develop" at HQ...
Wowinsider
MMO-Champion
Pug-checker
wow-heroes
Worldoflogs
Stokpile
Gevlon
(tons of other bloggers)
wowhead, thottbot, alakahzham, wowwiki (4 that all do the same thing, more or less)
API plethora of addons and developers, maintainers, translators, and those that will assume the maintenance when one steps out of the role.
the list could go on forever, the community is just HUGE!!! and continues to ebb and flow. That can not be replaced. Then there is the in game community of old friends and its more than a console game. As good as they are, they can not really compete w/ WOW because they have nothing on the social gaming crowd. Only WOW has broke their own all time and first day and first month sales records... thats a lot of momentum.
I regularly contribute to the community now that I have amassed a knowledge base in the game, this blog, comments on others, and just in game community. How to level professions, tips and tricks, how to make gold. I had one guy that for 4 years had played as an engineer and did not know about extracting elements from clouds. I, blathering on in vent about how I made my first 5K gold for epic flight as we exchanged stories about the subject I mentioned the Zapthrottle mote extractor... He had no idea and went to get it in a couple hours. Yeah, sholozar basin and hours of circles "zapping" clouds for eternal fires. I made my first stake at that about 2 years into playing the game, and its been almost all uphill since then
Now I always have gold, I fell to under 400K because I decided to buy BOEs. Against my nature but, raiding has not been so good to me. I geared for heals, then when going for DPS all the spirit gear put me to 21.4% hit... It bothered me so I spent another twenty something thousand gold to get gear and gems enchants to get my hit down. BTW it worked out nicely, I managed to get to 17.00%, and realize that no other gear combination will probably ever be able to do that again.
I love the commmunity, and its why I play WOW and only WOW. I have to thank Cold specifically for the tidbit in his post about mass invites for the Guild. Sorry guys, I would link em but not so good at all that yet. Maybe I can go back and edit with links to this stuff.
Right now, I finnaly loaded up and started running Zero Auctions. What a time saver. I love the log, it gives me names of who under cut me... when I see one name repeatedly... OOHHHHH, ITS ON... biggest problem in some markets is getting undercut below market value.
Auctionator is my prefered AH addon for miscelaneous AH action outside of what ZA does. Lil Sparky's Workshop... can not say enough about how uselfull this can be. but it is only as good as the date it gets, and right now auctionator data is not great. I used to run auctioneer, but it was buggy for me and I could never get a full AH scan. The differnce that I am missing is the average cost that Auctioneer uses, vs. the snapshot low price that Auctionator uses.
I also loved Advanced Trade Skill Window back in the day, but I has become buggy, like demanding more graphics and freezing the game. Like many that play I have a bit of ADD tendencies and need to be doing something, when the game freezes, and I am sitting ther waiting.. GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Tax season and if the wife and money allows i am looking to UG the PC to a SSHD and a new MB w/ better than the single core processor I am running.
I play for fun, and I can say, having a lot of gold is fun. Having lots of crafters is fun, it feels like it costs less when you make your own enchant scrolls and gear to twink out that new toon.
Random thoughts on the twinking toons, I am so very much looking forward to the GXP changes from BGs. I twink stamina on low level toons and often run around w/ double the HP of several toons on my team. But balancing is ROUGH... hunters, are just killer, they should be number one on your kill priority, not the healers.. at low levels anyway.... I can not solo spam heal myself and live through a decent hunter that focuses me. I would like to see some balancing for low level BGs. If you dont have heirlooms your at a major disadvantage off the bat. the cost to keep up enchants on replaced gear, gets costly fast. I only keep 3 scrolls on my hunter rogue, 7 stam to boots and bracers and agi to gloves. thats it... all pretty cheap to make relativly too.
Rambled on enough.. random thoughts and the power of the community.. a mountain to cross over that will take an amazing game to topple WOW, because that is one thing the designers and programmers can not "develop" at HQ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Long in between
I did not lose my tail in the DMC market but I definately made the wrong gamble. Then I just got tired of looking at them. I banked on the market going dry between DMFs. I was wrong, and as I watched prices fall pretty steadily, I did not see supply go away. Then the new fair came, and I was only able to seel deck to recover costs and investments. Oh well, lesson learned, now if only I knew what the lesson was. I have leveled a couple toons far enough to have a bigger base of professions to work with. Not all maxed to 85 and in Cata markets, just there is a a lot of small and slower nich markets on the way up you can play with. Twink style enchants are great sellers, as well as any armor you can craft that is rare quality can usually be sold for a profit, excepting chest and shoulders due to BOAs. A few other markets I am exploring with are in Primal might, and Formula: Runed Arcanite Rod. Usually sells for 100G profit or more, just for using teleport moonglade on a druid, or leaving a toon parked there. Daily I am looking for a couple more items to that look likely to have modest volume, strong profits and low competition, craft and set up Zero Auctions for the items. It is howerver hard to deal in lower end markets. Supply is hard to come by on some mats and prices are often all over the place.
It seems I have moved in on at least one persons market. I see there name in the Zero Auctions log repeatedly on my scrolls. Now for the fun patience game, or see if the economy can handle both of us. This is all Wrath and lower enchants, as the hunter is only level 70. That is enough to go solo the whole of BRS for Large brilliant shards, but a bit slow to do. It will speed up when I get enchanted myself with taking him out on a leveling spree.
lately the fancy has been in playing my twinkish druid healer, and rogue up. Running around a BG with more than 2x the HP of some of the other players... Stupid fun, completly stamina stacked, where I can, but then still have the Primary stats to go toe to toe with others and win... RAWR, or while healing instances, being able to out dps the dps...
the guild still seems to fluctuate a lot, a couple seem semi regular, and mass random invites once or twice a week. It is still slow in growing, but i never expected it to be fast. it is a long term project and I have fun with it. The guild is not social, it is just a leveling guild. we do almost nothing together, ever, not even use /g when we are on. I guess it is sorta an anti-social guild. people join for w/e reason, and stay for their own reasons too. the incentives to stay are minmal, but it is something to maybe keep a few players around, and coming back to level. It is still disappointing that blizzard has such a gap to the time it takes for low level toons to get GXP vs. higher level. Getting GXP from BGs will be great, as I do a lot of BGs on the way up since they are just plain fun, and relatively speaking is not that expensive or hard to be twinked, i dont have BOE head or back, and consistently have the most HP of anyone on my teams. by 10% and more frequently. Consequently, I found that I enjoy AB a lot more, but the xp from AB seems to be dismal compared to WSG... what a drag.
Why is it that people just dont seem to grasp the concepts of WSG... I wont rant, if you been there and know, you know. If not, you to may be one of the bads or you may not BG. I often do think player go there just to grief their own team...
Thats all this time, random thoughts and rambling, like most of what passes between my ears.
It seems I have moved in on at least one persons market. I see there name in the Zero Auctions log repeatedly on my scrolls. Now for the fun patience game, or see if the economy can handle both of us. This is all Wrath and lower enchants, as the hunter is only level 70. That is enough to go solo the whole of BRS for Large brilliant shards, but a bit slow to do. It will speed up when I get enchanted myself with taking him out on a leveling spree.
lately the fancy has been in playing my twinkish druid healer, and rogue up. Running around a BG with more than 2x the HP of some of the other players... Stupid fun, completly stamina stacked, where I can, but then still have the Primary stats to go toe to toe with others and win... RAWR, or while healing instances, being able to out dps the dps...
the guild still seems to fluctuate a lot, a couple seem semi regular, and mass random invites once or twice a week. It is still slow in growing, but i never expected it to be fast. it is a long term project and I have fun with it. The guild is not social, it is just a leveling guild. we do almost nothing together, ever, not even use /g when we are on. I guess it is sorta an anti-social guild. people join for w/e reason, and stay for their own reasons too. the incentives to stay are minmal, but it is something to maybe keep a few players around, and coming back to level. It is still disappointing that blizzard has such a gap to the time it takes for low level toons to get GXP vs. higher level. Getting GXP from BGs will be great, as I do a lot of BGs on the way up since they are just plain fun, and relatively speaking is not that expensive or hard to be twinked, i dont have BOE head or back, and consistently have the most HP of anyone on my teams. by 10% and more frequently. Consequently, I found that I enjoy AB a lot more, but the xp from AB seems to be dismal compared to WSG... what a drag.
Why is it that people just dont seem to grasp the concepts of WSG... I wont rant, if you been there and know, you know. If not, you to may be one of the bads or you may not BG. I often do think player go there just to grief their own team...
Thats all this time, random thoughts and rambling, like most of what passes between my ears.
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