1. Introduction
2. Plugs/Shout-outs/Blog Recommendations
3. Golden News
4. Player questions:
5. Hole in my pocket
6. stockpiling cataclysm
7. Account security
8. Discuss a audio format of the B2B guides
9. Gold Making Tips
10. Guests!
11. Contest broken and starting again!

here you go! at last!
Grtz
Seth

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!

Hey all it’s monday and the first official podcast is up!

There are still some problems though and the main of those is simple:
We do not have decent intro music, interludes or plugs, so if you can help, or know someone who can, let me know!

Today’s topics:
-Hole in my pocket
-Guilds in cataclysm
-Starter tips
- Randomness

Enjoy!
PS: Don’t forget to comment on this topic so you can win a footsteps of illidan lootcard! (winner announced next week)

Well not exactly errors, more of human mistakes.
I’ve been usingthe remote AH for a bit more then a week, and found at least 7 auctions with a buyout thats a mere 1% of the real value!

the 7 auctions came from 2 other people, and tbh I think they are going to do it again.
the mobile armory makes human errors about 50ish % more likely in my view, since there are no addons, no price history, it’s a small “window” and a small “keyboard”. This means that the chances are likely that the “real” bankers will have a good time when it’s released and when (if) it goes mainstream.

What do you think? Will we see our goldsacks grow bigger or is dis a threat?

So this is waaaaaaay to late but I promised epic lootz and you’ll get epic lootz!
There will be 2 competitions simultaneously!

The first one is quick and simple: this Saturday I will be recording the new podcast with coffelord and we will post it on Monday. Now Everyone that leaves a comment on that post can win his own Footsteps of Illidan! be sure to enter your email in the required field though!

The second one and this is the “big” one is a bit different.
You can follow by the following:
- donating 2$/€ for a plug in the show
- leave a plug on another webblog/podcast (link it!)
- advertise us in your guild (Screenshot or it didn’t happen!)
-… anything else that helps this blog get more (in)famous
Once you’ve done that you have to send a mail to seth.onecopper AT gmail DOT com with the “proof”.
The winners of this competition will get: a Sandbox Tiger and one of these of your choice:
- one-copper T-shirt
- Authenticator
- Random loot card!

Also be sure to listen to the podcast (yesterday’s post) and comment about it, we need the feedback to get better. And we have a loooong way to go!
if a comment isn’t your style just mail me at
seth.onecopper AT gmail DOT com
or coffelord at
coffelord AT gmail DOT com

the same can be done for any questions, plug requests for blogs and podcast etc

And don’t forget folks, A fortune starts with….
you got it ONE COPPER!

oh man I got this “wonderfull” mail today:

“While browsing internet I have recenly visited your blog and read few articles. They were great I must say and I really enjoyed reading (bookmarked you in firefox already).”
Cool man! Another one likes the site!”

“But also few thoughts came to my head and I gotta ask you: do you make any money from this blog?”
Oh crap not this shiz

“If yes, that’s ok, but if your answer is no, why not to make some? Content of your website seem to be very high quality and it’s not fair when people with very-poor-content warcraft related websites are making hundreds per month… Don’t you think so?”
Oh crap it is that shiz!

People like him are the most stupied folk around. I mean think about it…
He sells goldguides… I deliver gold tips for FREE… and he wants me to put up his advertisement for his 50$ guide on a website that produces the same content for free…
Yeah that’s going to sell… Ofcourse there are always people that are dumb enough to buy those kind of guides, while the info is free. But I decided a long time ago that you all are too smart for that.

I admit when I started this site I bought a goldguide, here it’s out! everyone knows!
Did I do it because I needed the gold? NO. I did it because I wanted to know what people wanted to know.
the idea of this site and the Back to Basics Guides is simple: to provide the information that normally costs 50$ for free. because everyone deserves the right for information. What you do with that information or that you are even going to have a look at it, is the peoples choice. I just provide it.

Perfect capitalism. Information is free for those who want it, it is those who use it that “get by”.

Here is another informative guest post for you guys! This time from PokePoke, a constant reader.

When it comes to selling stuff in WoW, most people just dump stuff on the AH and wait for it to sell. That works well usually, but there are some items that people will just buy alot faster (and more) when you can “sell” it to them.

With that I mean the advertising in the trade (or other larger) channels.

While of course you use auctioneer with a snatchtool, it doesn’t mean everyone is. Searching every item you might want to buy takes ages. Some people will write some item names down or something like that, but most will just do it from the top of their heads. There is a lot of thing YOU want to sell, that THEY don’t think about.

For example (and I picked up the idea at another goldblog, completely blank on the name, will give credit when I remember):

- Rituals of the new moon

Its an offhand item that you can “use” and it will transform you into a wolf with about the same graphics as the shamanwolf, but then in 4 different colors.
Now most people in the game haven’t even heard about this item, but its funny and makes you look “cool”.

You can advertise this item like:

“On AH Rituals of the new moon”

You might turn a head or two, but the masses wont even read it or click the item to see what it is.
Think about why people need to buy the item, what does it do for THEM?
On this one its easy, it makes you transform into a wolf and there’s 4 colors to pick from.
So instead direct people to the purpose:

“On AH: Rituals of the new moon! Let your inner wolf free and become one!”

Maybe add something on the end for the 4 colors.

You will notice you will get a lot more /w with “cool how much”. Its new to people and YOU are bringing the fun to them.

This can also be done with “old” items. Selling rich purple silk shirts on the AH might make you sell a few, but you can change your act a bit. Shirts is not something people will look for every day, but if you steer people to it they will at least think about buying one. Any piece of “clothing” in WoW you can pretty much sell with the following:

“Spring is here! The new spring collection of [Rich purple silk shirt] and [Someotherstuff] is now on sale on the AH! Too casual? pick up a [Tuxedo pants][Tuxedo shirt]!”

Now you put something in the chat that people will read, either because its different or because its more fun to read then “shirt buy now”.

Risk?

Don’t ever overspam your items. People are not blind and they will not appreciate it when you go berserk in the chat channels. Don’t forget that the lines you type are usually a bit longer and will most likely take up two or more lines in the chatframe. The last thing you want to do is put more then 2 of the same shout at a time in the tradechannel. You will overspam the chatframe and alot of people will just put you on ignore. That’s another few potential costumers down the drain…

What I like to do is say it once, do some auctioning, do some more auctioning, say it again, do a HC, say it again after.
This way you probably will attract a bunch of new people with it, while the “old” crowd doesn’t notice you’ve said it before.

Also make sure you are not trying to mingle in an overcrowded market. If person X sees u chat in tradechannel with an item he is selling, he will most likely check the prices, relist and also chat something similar to you. The result is that you are not unique anymore, people will lose interest quickly.

Last piece of advice is that you have to keep your AH stock as unique as your messages. There is no point in throwing 50 purple silk shirts on there, keep it unique and special.

Pokepoke out

Thank you PokePoke!

Europe got the patch yesterday! Sadly enough I didn’t have too much time to check it all out so I did the important stuff only. My warlock got 40K (!!) honor in marks, and my Shaman got 20x Frost lotus from the frozen orb trader…
And Gold twinkeled in my eyes!

first off let’s see what you can get with the frozen orbs:

Crusader Orb = 6 Frozen Orbs
Runed Orb = 4 Frozen Orbs
1 frozen orb = every eternal
1 frozen orb = Frost lotus

The price of these at my server are:
Frozen orb = 30ish gold
4 orb = 100G
6 orb = 160G
Eternals = 8-14G (depending on which)
Frost lotus = 35-50G

Now these are probably going to change a bit. Though dependent on the server, my guess is that the “higher quality” orbs, are going to fall down in price (25%ish) , the eternals will double in price for the first month then settle on 150% value and the frost lotus is going to drop 10% in price. That’s my prediction, but since we can’t look in the future I’m working with my current nrs.
Currently my Goldmaking tips are:
1: buy frozen orbs that are below 25 gold on AH.
2: trade them to frost lotus
3: sell those for 30-35 gold on the AH = profit

So as of this moment a frozen orb is worth 35Gold, this will change though, but then ofc I’ll let you know.

Great tip by Oxymustard:
Nice tip, I’d also like to give out a tip to your Alchemist readers. If you’re an alchemist or are still leveling you better hurry and make Potion Mastery your area of expertise. You sometimes make 4-5 flasks for the price of 2. With flask prices dwinling in the 25-30g area that could mean a 40-60g profit on a frost lotus + mats.

For those that are tired of the same ways of making money. For those that want something completely else to do, for those that want something different.


How to make gold in a boring, suicidal, ludicrous or other way, this new installment will hopefully cheer you all up with prospects in the future!

Today: Old sKool Raiding!

Yes raiding lvl60 and 70 content, though for different reasons.
lvl60 raids and dungeons drop parts of the first ever made dungeon set and 3 of those (waist, hand and wrists) are BoE, now I know what you are thinking, but seriously they sell! and they sell for about 50-100G a piece, if you are lucky and run MC with 2-4 guys (3 is the best tbh, 2 makes some mechanics finicky) you can get dungeon set 2-3 wrists/belt. that was the first EPIC set and the wrists and belt again are BoE these sell for about 100-200G a pop. Now include this with about 100G you get from the raid itself + another 100G for core of earth, hearth of fires etc. and you get between 250 and 500G for a run of an hour, This isn’t the “best” way to make money but it is fun! if you want some old gear for your self (I got my full dungeon 1 set on my hunter) or want to get an achievement or just want some fun, this is a good way to make an extra buck

lvl70 dungeons/raids are yet again a bit different. These drop a lot of blue/epic BoP items so money doesn’t come from them, but the bosses drop about the double amount of gold, a lot of greens on trash and some misc’s all around. The money is about 200G if you are running with more 4 guys, about 250 when you run with 3.
Other reasons to run this content is to get some really really easy reputation. If you want to complete your skillbook this is another reason to run these things. (Don’t forget that those patterns etc, can make you money if your lucky) Or do you want a new mount? go for the impossible drops and get a phoenix, a horse, a raptor etc etc…

As said the money isn’t all that, but it still makes you a nice buck, and is guaranteed to push your skills if you only take a min. of persons.

So if you want some gold, some fun, some skill testing, some “bonding” in the guild/friends, suicidal runs (your a lvl60 running with 2 lvl80 guildies) or just want to tag along while bored. this is the place to go.

I’ll see you next week ready to go again!

Seth,
A fortune starts with ONE and only ONE copper!

Yes, podcast nr. 2 is getting out THIS MONTH!
after a lot of personal bussiness my time frame allows me to start podcasting again!

ofcourse I’m going to talk about what you can sell during the christmas event. I’m going to shout out the people that won the contest. (long overdue but they already have their prizes) I’m going to shout out the first donation I received (a week ago)
and more… and then some…
anything you would like me to talk about, change anything, etc etc, let me know…

PS email adress = broke again so leave a comment and if needed/asked I’ll mail you directly from another account.

grtz
Seth