Due to unforseen circumstances the podcast will be out tomorrow or the day after. It has been recorded but I have to find the time to edit it!

Aaah another monday, another workweek and a new week to start ranting about WoW. However, the expansion is comming out and I see myself playing less and less WoW. I see myself posting less and less on the blog, and making myself less and less money. I have to admit that I just don’t find the reason to post or play anymore. You see fe. with the B2B guides, they are going to be useless once cata hits! Well not completely but still a large portion of what we know is going to change. No more farming on a tiger, no more “not selling green gear” no more icethorn selling etc etc. And if you know all that the only thing left to do is do your raids/daily’s and be done with it!

Do you see yourself not logging in to WoW when you used to just log in to check what was going on? Did you find a new mistress in the meantime (Like I found DDO) or are you still working hard to get your toon where you want it to be before the Xpansion?

At least one thing is sure: Either it’s going to be very expensive or we are going to make a lots of gold, however it turns out though, it started all with one copper.

oh yeah, looking at my playtime this weekend (friday eve-sunday eve):
WoW: 3h (1 on saturday 2 on sunday)
Fe: 8h (2 on friday, 2 on saturday 4 on sunday)
Way of the Samurai 3 (PS3): 2h (1 saturday, 1 sunday)

This is by far the most I could ever play on a weekend! a wopping 13H on a weekend. And sadly enough WoW was down and got knocked out.
I bought FE and am loving it, now when I get on my pc, I seriously have to consider what to play!

But let’s be honest here. What do we do in WoW? personally I just do these:
-Random heroic
-bankalt trading
-Daily JC
-Raid
And when I have time/feel like it lvl my druid (61!)

We are out of content. Seriously, 3 lvl80′s, most of the dungeons done (damn you Bad dragon in ICC), and tired of doing the same thing over and over again.
but we still have content! You haven’t completed ICC or UL! WRONG.
I have completed EVERY raid before ICC, just not on my freaking Shaman.
So that leaves us with ICC right? you haven’t done that one right? Right. I haven’t but that is not my choice, I need 24 other people for that. When they are online I can continue, when they are not, I’m out of content.

So here is my question for this grey monday morning. (ash clouds still hang over Belgium)

If you aren’t raiding, how do you keep yourself entertained on WoW?
my prediction: 3 comments, 2 of them saying pvp, one a troll…
GO!

I’m back from my little holiday and oh boy I’m like, happy, I know right?
No but seriously, My short story is featured in EON magazine. I won their competition! When I heard the news yesterday I almost exploded, It’s been 4 months since my entry and I had classified it as another loss so it was really exciting to win! Although it doesn’t pay. I get a signed book and…. I GET PUBLISHED. Which means that about 20 thousand people are going to read it. That’s about 20 times more then my reader base on the blog.

The blog is getting to the 1 year mark, and maybe it’s time to admit defeat. To finish the B2B guide, and the “new” guide that is planned after it. And just let go. I really enjoy writing, but something… something.

On happier news: my resto Druid dinged 49 this weekend! and I got my first 10K back on my new banker. (up from 5K) Didn’t do anything else since my schedule was pretty tightly packed over my “vacation”.

oh well, glad to see you are still reading,

Grtz
Seth
A fortune starts with one copper

Holy hell… seriously holy frigging hell.
I thought this day would never come.

Let’s start at the beginning right?
As every monday morning, I go over my blogroll, when I reached Phase 3: Profit! I saw that WoW.com had listed a “Recources” page with an “economy” Section. tbh, I never knew that there was one… Was it ever advertised? No idea, I’ll look into it.

I send in a request to WoW.com several times to include this site in one of their “daily link posts”.
Never had an awnser, not on good ones, not on bad ones. Some readers have asked to include the First issue of B2B in one of the link posts. They never got an awnser… So yeah, I thought that they were ignoring the Gold bloggers, ’cause of that old escapade JM2C had with them.

So I started reading, and opened the link, to see who was actually listed. And to my suprise…. One-Copper was listed… Seriously I went like WTF? In the middle of my office.

So I guess, Thank You, WOW.com.
I have no idea, if this is a “well done, we love your site” or a “it’s okaj, now stop asking for links” either way though, I can’t help it to feel a little bit proud.

So the weekend has past and I’m sick of wow… Ok that’s a lie… I’m sick of healing… nope not correct either… I’m sick of the lfgtool. Yes! That’s it! I’m sick of the lfg tool. It’s a great tool but there are some flaws, – serious flaws – in the system.
1 – retri palas and arms warriors think they can tank… oh yeah.. <3 healing those... they take a painload of damage (no shield, or prot talents), the aggro is out of control, (most of the time i'm healing the highest dps instead of the "tank") and they really think they are right of doing that. Now this is on my lvl33 resto druid, so granted its not that bad. I rejuv everyone and do a regrowth on the "tank" and we survive. But remains annoying. Also the LFG just hates me... really hates me. I did SM graveyard 12(!) times in a mere 2 hours on saturday... that's a bit much...
ooh well, enough ranting, since lfg is actually an improvement over the old system, even if it sais: "you're the healer? oki then, let's screw you over with a dps two-hand swordwielding, spirit-leather wearing retri paladin hahahahahahaha!"

Today I introduce a new blogger: CK, he’s a faithfull reader of the blog, has a brain, and now a blog! It isn’t bad at all, and if e keeps it up, it will go in my blogroll. Just have a look and let us know what you think!

This is it for now though, I really need some aspirin… the hang-over is a bad one this week.

Edit: for everyone that uses lfg. Don’t come complaining if you don’t get healed!

In the last 3 weeks orso I have been getting a lot of questions about professions. Today I’ll be awnsering the common ones for the broader public.

What are the best money making professions?

Tbh… everything. You can make money with everything. There are a couple ones that are better ofcourse. Tailoring/enchanting works really well, so does mining/JC, skinning/LW, herb/inscription. The best thing is to take one crafter, one gather proffesion untill lvl80 and make the things that give you a good (though slow) profit. Lill’ sparkys workshop can work wonders for that. Once your lvl80, work your way up to 420+ on the crafting prof. and drop the gather one. take up insc, jc or ench and start lvling it with the profit made from lvling it. once that is up to 400+ you’ll make triple money. proffesions that make good money from best to worst: JC, Ench, Ins, LW, Tailoring, mining, herb, skin,alch, BS, Eng.

Should I drop my gathering proffesion for a crafting one?

really depends, I would say yes but only if your first crafing is above 420. AND you have a nice stockpile of good/gold to lvl it further.

Should I take 2 gather professions while lvling?

Nothing wrong with that! I just don’t do it, because I don’t like to spend too much time on the side while questing/dungeoning. Yes, yes crafting takes time too. I usually gather all my mats, and after 10 lvls i go and use them all in one trek to lvl my crafting one. (while I’m afk watching some anime…hey that rhymes!..ahum)


What about engineering?

Engineering has some things that make money (bullets/arrows, bronze tubes for allaince, overcharged cap..) but most of the time it’s just fun, explosive and helpfull. My warlock has Engineering and he’s a walking timebom. Damiän is gearing for pvp, and the cloacks, rocket hands, bombs, etc make it easy to suprise my enemy’s and kick some ass. Also the mailbox and wherever you want auctioneer == great utility for bankers.

Thats it for todays questions, if you have more send them to seth.onecopper@gmail.com, twitter them or post them as a comment!

for more info, you can always check the Back to Basics guide on this site!
A fortune starts with one copper

few… the alcohol ain’t out of my system yet and I’m already posting again… It’s that EARLY!!! (5 in the morning)

Now I promised you some posts last week… yet they didn’t make it to the blog.
The reason behind that is pretty simple: I lost my internet connection from Thursday until Saturday(!!!)
If that wasn’t bad enough, the roads were blocked by snow and ice, so I couldn’t get anywhere except to work and back. Something that takes 30mins. took me 4h(!) and Belgium was dozed for the third time this year with too much snow for our own good. Don’t get me wrong, since we haven’t seen a decent amount of snow for the last 10years this is a good change… but enough is enough… seriously.

So my weekend, consisted mostly of a FAIL tournament of MTG (my first ever!), some WoW, a lot of bioshock 2 and ofcourse, pleasing the wife.
Now before you say anything… I’m against Valentine, I don’t need a special day to let my girl know that I love her. She hears that plenty of times a day, gets multiple presents a year and is treated as loyalty 24/7. Sadly enough my girl does celebrate Valentine and if I don’t get her something, while she gets me something, you’ll see a dead man walking around in Dragonblight…
Oh God it’s been more then a week ago since I last opened my C++ book… Well let’s get started at that while I wait at work….
bb

Did you get a lot of gaming in this weekend? Or did you spend most of your time celebrating “Valentines Day”.

Few… It feels like forever since I’ve last been here (on this page writing a post)…
And tbh It is. Not only have I been a terrible poster in January, my heart wasn’t in it as well. For better or for worse though, thats going to change.

Starting 23th of Feb. (The Spirit Blade) is making a comeback on Ravenholdt-EU. I’m getting /W of all the old guildmembers, that they badly need TSB again. That + the fact that I actually have time again, and that my former officer and rl friend can free up some time too gave us the courage to start again.

Soooo… the blog is getting a fresh start, the guild is starting again and well happy thoughts all around!

On the gaming front:
Warlock lvl78… I <3 and Hate him at the same time. I can dish out 2+K dps on trash and about 1.8K on bosses. Sadly enough it's impossible to punsh it out in a dungeon. I don't know what is wrong with the tanks these days, or if it's just affli but I seem to get "AGGRO" -- flashy flashy red borders... -- all over my screen after the 2nd SoC explodes. In pvp it's just awesome. dotting everyone up while running, if I see 2+ I pop my shield SoC 2, DC 1 (5K life back), and UA if I'm still standing. Yes I die - a lot. But the moment I rez it's "Killing Blow" x3-5 times. And that ladys and gentlemen puts a giant, wicked smile on my face.
I stopped my subscription for STO already, it's good but it's no match for EVE or WoW. EVE's economic and pvp system surpass STO by a mile, while WoW does the same for everything else. It isn't a bad game, but it isn't "great" either. Sorry but byebye!
I started MGT (Magic: The Gathering) and are planning to pursue that a bit further AND qualify for the PROtour. Which means I have to end up in the top 64 in Belgiums GrandPrix. (wish me luck).

Personal notes:
Lot of work… Lot of studying.
But… IM GOING TO JAPAN!!!!!!
Seriously in September I leave on a 1month trip to Japan.. can’t wait to go there!

Well that’s it for today. I hope you have enjoyed the post, and join me again on this wonderful trip that’s called WoW

You probably noticed I took a week off blogging. While it wasn’t deliberate, it did really good. I thought about the blog, and thought about it plenty…
Thought about it so much even, that my mind went back again to “the point”.
The point being: is it still viable to have this blog up? Do you still gain something from reading the blog. Luckily for me, it seems you, or others like you do.

Shayline (TSB!) won the match, since she downloaded an app for the iphone that displays wow-gold blogs, in which I’m ilsted. Better yet even, I’m one of the more popular ones, which must means that I have something to say worthwile, or at least, that people enjoy reading this blog.

Now I also have to tell you that I will skipp the Auctioneer chapter of B2B another week. My work schedule is very very hectic, and my studying is eating a lot of time. And I want to spend my precious free moments with my GF, when possible or actually playing WoW. (Warlock lvl74 … almost there!)

I don’t know if there are any programmers reading this blog, but there will be a seperate link soon to a second blog of mine, talking about C++, or better said the road from “noob” to programmer in C++. The link isn’t up yet since I want to have a couple of posts up before I share it.

Coining gold is also going fairly good, I actually started making gold again, I stopped a couple of weeks ago at 100K (I always stop at 100K no point of getting more) and dropped back to 90K this friday. (dualspec + epic mount + gear + dualspec for my warrior). Yesterday I was back at 95K(!)

What did I do?
- Well first off I still had about 500 glyphs and half of them sold = +/- 1000Gold
- Got 80k honor on my hunter + 70ish on my shaman: got 15 epic gems and sold them for 200G a pop: 3K gold
- Sold a flying carpet to a sheep for 400Gold (laughed my ass off, and I really should have screen shotted it)
- 600G (ish) in reselling… (cloth, ore, leather, meat, etc)

Oh well thats it for today, I’m back, And I hope you like it!

I played a little on my Warlock yesterday went from 63 to 64 and got some nice worldpvp kills… The first guy that said Death knights are overpowered should think twice before saying that… I slaughtered a couple, a couple of times *evil grin*

What hit me though is that WoW actually doesn’t appeal to me anymore as it used to be, if we look back to the early beta untill now soo much has changed it’s unbelievable that it’s still the same game.
Warlocks went from pvp ownage to sissy’s and back again. 40 mans don’t exist anymore, 3h dungeons don’t exist anymore, you can lvl 3 different ways and gaia can sue your Tauren at lvl20 now when he rides a hawkstrider. And most of the changes are good, most of the changes make life easier, yet some changes like the massive 5mans and 40mans were sad, we don’t really miss them. For every “bad” change there were 5 good ones, and the future holds even more and better changes.

Yet there is ONE thing that blizzard has forgotten, and that “thing” is actually the reason why you read this blog. GOLD, or at least the “gold-making game”.

In the last years, not much has changed, the Auction houses were linked together and the amount of money earned in the wild grew larger and larger. yet the prices of everything stayed pretty much the same. With the exception of the money sinks, like mounts, riding skills and dualspec. And even those are lowered.
The money game doesn’t change for us, every expansion it’s the same thing. Yes with new items, but basically it stays the same ole’ game.
You buy some, you sell some, and thadaaaa profit. You farm some, you craft some and thadaaa profit…

The economy is made by players and they stick to the same “strategy” because it works, and be honest, the economy in WoW doesn’t have much leeway. All the crafted items are the same quality and quantity. (how much you can farm/buy). One out of ten playes has the same skill as you, and one out of 100 sell their items on the AH, the exact same item on the exact same place at the exact same time (read: 99% of always) for almost the exact same price.

Personally I think it’s time to step it up, make different qualities items with more procs or skill lvl advantages. I don’t care what else, just make it different, make it better and more extensive!

In other words,
Blizzard Improve our game too!

FYI:
If the reaction is good on this post, this will be part of a contest this friday. (lootcards as price!)