Ah, My Co-host Coffelord asked this question on the podcast and it seems that we are not the only ones asking that to ourselves.

Anaalius asked himself the question too and hits the mark with his latest post.


The same goes for Cold with his post on why he makes gold.

And last but not least my blogsphere buddy Zekta awnsered the question with flair! Have a look at his post!

Though we all have different yet similar reasons to make gold in the game, we are compelled by the Auction house, it’s our mistress. The thing that can smack us in the head when we make a wrong buy or love us gently when we claim our gold.

Have you awnsered the Question yet? If not, here’s your chance! send me a mail at seth.onecopper AT gmail DOT com with a post, or just link your thoughts right here in the comments!

Auctioneering is not just music it’s a way of life!… oh wait that’s something else…
carry on…

Edit: McRaffles has also written a post containing his urge to make gold, as an extra he gave a fair and very well written review of our podcast. Thank you McRaffles!

I’ve been playing “a lot” of DDO lately, After Eve, WoW and FE I can say that DDO probably has the most inflated economy of them all, and EVE probably has the most extensive one.

What I can see though is that due to the lack of addons it’s easier to make money, yes I said it: EASIER.
The problem on WoW is that a lot of ppl use auctioneer, so a lot of sheep (dumb ppl) can see the prices by unit by percentage by what ever. Without the addons certain scams (selling 100 arrows instead of 1000) would be a lot easier. You could make a boatload of gold before the masses learn to read.

If we would lack the addons to clear our bags, to filter them, to post them etc. etc. the real bankers would have an easier time, back in Vanilla this was the case, I had 5000G and that was by far 10x as much as the others, I was probably the only banker on my server, because it took time, patience and a lot of “insight”.
The addons make our lives easier, but at the same time they hurt us.
How do you stand on them? Would you prefer to get rid of them and make more money the hard way? or would you like to keep them and let the rest of the wannabes meddle with our gold?

Discuss!

Wednesday is the day I bend my mind over nasty things. or at least it was the day before all the misery happened and the blog went on hold for a month. Sorry again, I can’t apologize enough for that month of loneliness…

Today I’m not writing something up myself however….

Trees can think!!! seriously they have thoughts… no I’m not going crazy…fine don’t believe me?
read this: Tree of life

Told you trees could think!
Now Keredria put my own thoughts on paper better then I could have.
So enjoy her post.

Edit: also look at Zekta’s post over at Phase 3 Profit! Really agree with him there.
oh and btw: Welcome Back Zekta! It’s been lonely without you here.

I’m going to replace a post every two weeks with a discussion. I want to see what the community has to say. About gold, about wow, about economics. This week a general WoW discussion
Goddamn the man!

Me and a good buddy of mine are racing to 80, which means I’m actually spending a fair amount of time on WoW.

The score right now:
lvl60: He was first
lvl70: I was first
lvl80: aren’t done yet
Me: 75 Afflock
Buddy: 73 Furry Warrior
Now we aren’t comparing time. Since I lvled in BG’s once AV was available(untill lvl58 then from 62 to 68 again), and he went LFD-nuts.

That’s why my lock has Engi-Tailoring as his professions. Tailoring is cheap & fast. And it helps my recently switched 380enchanter lvl up which in turn brings profit.
Engineering, is just for PvP, i love stunning 10 people at the same time. Although I’m throwing goldpieces at them, it’s quite fun. (What else to do with 100K?) Engineering is a pain to lvl but once you can make arrows/bullets it becomes profitable again. Not that I would recommend it but at least it’s manageable (also the squirrel’s sell well!)

Well I’m posting this totally useless piece of info, to get info from you guys.
If you have the chance: look at Damiän on the Ravenholdt-EU realm.
I’m using an Affli-lvling built, that stresses my health, HP5, and periodic dps.
I’m pulling in 8 guys, pop my shield and SoC everyone (lightshow ftw). Then it’s haunt and corr for health.

I have about 2h a day I can play, he plays 4-5h a day. (he’s really keen on defeating me -_-)


So.. I’m questing and do the LFD once a day, and do a quick AV when possible. (does anyone actually paly IoC?)

The Question here is: How would you do it? I would love to see your input and how YOU and the other readers think abou this. Would you still take money making professions? Would you BG/LFD… would you cheat? (use a tank/healer for the instant-lfd’s) etc.