The Wolf of Warcraft

As you can see, I am at over 2 million gold in assets and liquid gold. I am fairly proud of myself, even though I log in and only have just over 46k. Now, some people would stress out over this. Feel like they aren't getting very far, despite working their butts off. There is no need to panic, even if you have less gold than when you started.  'The whole point of gold making is to make gold though, Tauna!' you say. The assets count as part of your portfolio though. In real life, a person is worth whatever their bank account is plus the value of their assets (roughly). If you value yourself just by the gold you have, then there isn't much point to gold making. The best way to make gold is to reinvest. I had dropped down to 10k gold since I have started gold making, and started stressing when I looked at that small amount of gold. 'What have I done?', I thought. I just spent everything I worked so hard for! Then I opened up my TSM and saw the...

So, you are sitting at the Auction House using the new sniping tool from TSM . Suddenly a massive discount shows up on the AH, but you need to drop a lot of coin to get it. Your heart starts racing as you think of the possibilities and decide after half a minute that you are going for it. You place the buy, run over to the mail box and collect it. Now comes the Flipper's Remorse. You think about all the coin you've just spent, how long it's going to take to get rid of an item and worst of all, you begin despising the item. I had a pretty severe case of this with Shadowfang. I spent my first 90k on it, with no buffer to return to. It definitely set my gold making back a fair bit. It's sad to say, I even got a bit depressed in real life because I had no virtual gold left. I despised that sword. It was cursed and I wanted to be rid of it so bad, I would have taken anything. I did eventually go on to sell it for well over it's worth though. So, ho...

This post is inspired by the person who listed Shoulderguards of Honest Labor at 16,000 gold on the Auction House and expects them to sell Well, we have all been there. Trying to list something at an outrageous price on the Auction House because there isn't any on there. We expect it to sell, I mean, there isn't an competition, right? Surely if there isn't any others then it will have to sell. This isn't a post about naming and shaming mistakes, because everyone does them. I've put up Robes of Insight on the AH for 10k, hoping they sell. Of course, they didn't. But I was persistent on my listing and listed them at 10k for a while before they sold. Before I knew about The Undermine Journal. (TUJ for short) See, this website is very handy when you are pricing rare items. Without knowing the value of something, you aren't getting the most out of your item. Using Shoulderguards as an example, here is a step to step guide: Go to your s...

So, you've found a rare item? You have used The Undermine Journal to find the true value of the item, checking with your realm's page and the global page. Now, how do you sell it for the best profit? The way that I do it is posting it on the Auction House and barking at the same time. If you can sell it in Trade Chat, you avoid the 5% cut from the Auction House. And those 5% cuts add up quickly. I've covered this topic slightly with my posts on Mysterious Fortune Cards and Panthers, but I felt it required it's own full blown blog post. Barking is an art and if done right you can sell things for a better profit than on the Auction House. Having trouble moving a certain investment or rare item? Barking can help. So, what is barking? Basically it is a macro that you set up to sell a certain item. Every ten-fifteen minutes you click it, and hopefully someone picks it up. To include in the macro: A link to the item A rough price Advertisement! ...

Ever since the dawn of WoW, people have been realm hopping around. And with the addition of cross-realm Normal and Heroic Seige of Orgrimmar in the last few hours it means that people now have more reason to change realm. Trialing new members from other realms or finding a guild to raid with has never been easier! So, here is a simple guild to transferring your gold across realm. This post is aimed at people who are either going to be transferring to a new realm or starting on a new realm and want to either transfer all their gold or start again. Limits are annoying Level     Max. Gold 10-30     300g 31-50     1,000g 51-70     5,000g 71-80     20,000g 81+     50,000g These are the limits for transferring gold cross realm. As you can see, 50,000g is the most you can transfer on one character. The reason this limit is in place, assumingly, is to stop gold traders realm ...