Since “the Junkyard” isn’t always usefull, I’m going to switch around “the Junkyard” with “Cataclysm Preparations”
So I’ll inform you of what I’m doing to get my money when Cataclysm comes out!

TSB has been set up a few weeks ago, and we’ve been in ICC twice right now. Since TSB is still new, and we are recruiting inexperienced raiders. Why Inexperienced? If we show them the ropes and gear them, they will have a greater sense of “loyalty”.

Why am I doing this? Why am I starting so slow with the guild? — only first 4 bosses down –
Easy… the Cataclysm guild changes. If we set up a “loyal” and “smart” core team now, it will help us then. I don’t mind learning ppl how to play for a month orso if we can take the fruits of our labor when it’s going to matter. Now this isn’t really gold related so let’s get that in here too.

So the golden preparations for Cataclysm.. yep here they come… yes, yes golden info here….

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Sorry I was just having some fun here with leaving you all hanging… I need to get it somewhere right?

No but seriously now, I haven’t been playing a lot these days, but the time I have been playing i’m leveling my new druid. (lvl26) and against my own style I took Herbalism and Skinning as my professions.
When Cata comes out, a lot of people will be rolling Worgen/goblins.
I suspect after the first week has passed, and the speedlevelers are 85 we will see an increase in the demand of lowlevel materials. So I’m stocking up all herbs/leather from 1-40, and later on from 40-80. I don’t think the price will skyrocket, but I do think that all those materials will sell quickly if not expensive.
As I’ve said before I don’t like 2 gather proffesions for the time it takes away from leveling.
duration of leveling == 100% time needed
leveling with 2 gather prof == 100% + 20%
leveling with instances as tank/healer == 90%
with heirlooms == 70%
so if I level a healer in instances with heirlooms I should be able to level 30% faster then normal. Yet this is impossble due to the farming (which can’t be done well in instances)
So let’s say I still lose about 1/5 of my time gathering this and that. Yet this is worth the time, as the mats are sure sells. And with some luck sure sells for 200%-300% of their value.

oh well I’ll close up here before I’m going to start typing that makes no sense at all.

I had listed up some links I liked and came to the conclusion that I just cannot share them. Why not? Well have a look at our previous “Junkyard”-entry and look at the blogs there, now look at the blogs on my blogroll….
All the links would go to those blogs.

I’ve said it before the gold bloggers are thinning out and the decent link’s keep coming from the same blogs. So starting from next week, I will include 3 orso links about WoW in general.

Today I’m asking you, the constant reader to post your favorite link of this week here. (even if -big if- it came from my own blog)
I would love to see some reading material I haven’t noticed before. And am sure others will too.

In other big news though: you should go and check out the Armory, it now has a 3D char profiler which is “kind of cool”. Make your biggest rival in the AH stand in the most embarrassing position known to man!

This week a few bloggers returned from their vacation, so a few more links.

Gevlon had some serious gold making tips week, If you have inscription as a profession be sure to check it out!

Bobreaze has some Blacksmithing tips.

And WoWstability brought out a spreadsheet about Mechano hog’s

Caffeine, smokes and AHfees had his 100th (well 103th) post this week so drop by and give him a “gz”!

Twitter!
I really hope you don’t follow my twitter O_° I made a totall ass of myself a couple of days ago… Though I was happy since I made a lady smile. And that is the cheapest and yet most beautiful thing you can give a person.
Also my twitter followers had a sneak peak on a new blog that is coming forth…more info on the twitter or next week on the one-copper.

Other news:
I logged in on WoW yesterday! The banker now has 250G, with 2 rounds of selling and started at 10G, not too bad, since I didn’t do the resell game and only used my low lvl leatherworking (+ world drops) to gain gold.

Coffelord(Midnight WoW junky), if you read this all, get better! drop in on his Twitter (@Coffelord) to wish him well.

And I don’t mean the readers… I mean the bloggers.

First off I replied the comments on yesterday’s topic, so if you commented, have a look there. Thank you all for responding, which is a clear message that you “like” the blog.

An interresting fact about yesterdays post: I gave the Trolls a “free” pass to bash me and the site… Haven’t got one. That felt weird…

Okaj back to bussiness: What happened this week? Our collection trash is opened and we are looking for those little gems…

A little “self-promotion”: Back to Basics got a second chapter added to it’s guide!

Gevlon had a great tip for people who didn’t use auctioneer too much. Fight the arrow scam by using % quick and easy…


The Happy Scribe is saying goodbye, be sure to give him our best!

Cafeine, smokes and AHfees isn’t something I read regularly but this post really helps Engineers.

And well ehm… that’s it… not more people posting good new posts. (If I forgot one be sure to comment so I can add it – if I like it)

One thing I’ve seen though as leveling my druid. all the blue enchant mats are going to drop. Seriously if you don’t believe me, they will….
Have you used the LFG lately? what do you get when you are done? right a blue item… half the time it’s useless.. sooooo… come on, you know this one…no? The enchanter dissenchants it and sells it. Now you can do 1-3 dungeons an hour while lvling, which means 4-5 blue items (let’s say one each run + the one if you kill the last boss)
That are a lot of enchanting mats people! So my prediction for 2010: blue 1-375 enchant mats are going to drop in price!

I’m probably not going to post tomorrow or Monday (Hospital visit) so let me be the first to wish you a Happy New Year!

And here we are at the junkyard, it smells nasty, it looks nasty, but somewhere in this mess there is a golden coin!

The Junkyard is more a mix of things that happened this week, tips for gold, twitters and more, and we are starting off with Winterveil

As I posted “Getting ready for christmas: Farming” I knew that there isn’t too much for the Crafters among us, so I’m posting it here, very simple and very direct: CRAFT IT NOW! if you have the pattern to do it, do it now, the mats are still cheap so craft them and put them up for sale when winterveil starts.
what Getting ready for Christmas: Farming was by Hydra: “AKA a list of items you should have been picking up in the AH for silver to change in to gold during this sparkling holiday season.”"

Didn’t get a lot of comments, except for the 200 spams, this week, but I would like to thank all who commented yesterday, great help and i greatly appreciate it. Special thanks goes to Zqu, who commented for the first time in light of recent developments with the blog.


Twitter stuff, I finally added some people to follow (total of 50ish) and was actually fairly quite the whole week. Coffelord started a hashtag #keepbloggingSeth, and did a yell to the twitter community to keep me blogging. Very nice gesture, thanks Coffelord!

blogsphere
Gevlon updated his site which was cool. Markco stopped by to flame a post. And Zekta got his Guestposter.(Gz on that!)
and so much more! (If i forgot something comment I’ll put it in)

Random happiness and thoughts: WoW.com is looking for a priest and hunter writer… maybe I’m applying today, don’t know yet. I have an 80 hunter that went and got his own guild, and went through os10, naxx and parts of Ulduar as a raidleader before I switched to my Shaman. But I haven’t played him in a looooong time, and I don’t even know if my blogging is actually good enough for something like that.

Patch 3.3 dropped… I think this is the first time ever I’m talking about that .. but yes it dropped, and my prognoses was off by about a month … auch… A lot of bugs still in the patch though, when I did FoS I kept DCing on the last boss, every time I entered the last room, I got thrown out of the game!

In light of patch 3.3 start making some glyphs and epic gems guys! and start selling them tomorrow.. a lot of people will have new gear by then.

just to mess with you all:
WoW Joke: Your mama’s so fat, I tried to shadowstep her and got disconnected. (don’t take it personally)

that’s all the “gold” I could dig up from the junkyard right now so I’m leaving it with that.

Grtz
seth