My Woman

Ok, the woman used to play WoW.   Basically, her brother was a die-hard-WoW-playing-Alliance-hating-druidhuntershammy.  He played since beta and played EverQuest back in the old days.  She was freaked out by the sheer quantity of time that he played.  A few days after replacing my old PowerMac G4  with a new Mac that actually would run WoW well, I downloaded the demo.  As it was downloading, I began to hear it…   “What??? You’re Downloading  THAT GAME???   BlahBlahBlah!!!!!!!!”  After a day of downloading, I launched WoW for the first time….     After updating for several hours, I went to bed.   The next evening, I launched WoW for the first time again…   then after another update…  I launched WoW for the first time for real, and rolled a Nelf Druid!  After falling off of Teldrassil,  dying on a branch on the way down, and not being able to get back to my body and running halfway around the island in spirit form looking for a way back up, I gave up and rolled a new toon.  So, the next thing I know… the Woman has her own Night Elf Druid!!!   Yeah.    So, she and my new Nelf Rogue (not rouge, goddammit!) are questing happily LA, LA, LA!!!   We even rolled a couple of Orcs on her brother’s realm, and were amazed by his level 60 godliness (pre-BC, of course).   So, we’re playing WoW, and she starts playing hardcore!  I’m trying out different toons, and she’s going straight for 60!!! My Woman works from home sometimes.  I’d come home, and I work ask her how her day went:  ”GREAT,” she’d reply.  ”I went up 2 levels today!”  Ok…I had a bunch of my coworkers who played… they loved her!  She and I started our own guild… our guildies loved her.  Afterher druid hit 70, she started a new Shammy.  This thing was twinked like mad with Epic BoE’s from the Auction House!     Then one day…  she stopped playing.  Why?   We got friggin’ CABLE TV.   /cry!!!   After 3 months of not playing, she deactivated her account. Now I feel like that kneeling-Nelf on the bridge in Auberdine who’s lost his love and asks you to “free” his lost love’s spirit…  Only my love’s not undead and roaming around a High Elf ruin…   She’s in the other room watching Tyra.      Heart you, Woman! 

Some Realities about the WoW economy

Ok… really simple…   WoW has a pure, unregulated supply and demand economy.  It’s like the wild west.  With that said, there’s a few things to consider: FIRST, the more times level 70’s go running lowbies through Deadmines and whatnot, the supply of low level Greens goes up and prices go down:“hey!  my new toon just hit level 10, let’s see what i can buy for him at the AH with the 5 Gold my main just sent him!  …3 minutes later-> Whoa!   I just bought tons of 11-15 greens for a few silver each!”SECOND, there’s a more people running Ramparts right now than Maraudon.  Whyzzat?  Because 70’s are farming rep with factions in outlands.   If you’re a noob, and don’t know what that means, it means that you don’t just run a dungeon… you run it every night for a week.  Why the hell would you want to do that?  Well, you don’t WANT to, you NEED to… so you can get your Heroic Key for these dungeons, and you can run them over and over in Heroic 70 (read: ballbreaking) mode to give yourself a break from running Kara over and over.“hey, i just picked up 10 greens last night questing and instancing in outlands last night and spent 15 gold putting them up on the AH.  Let’s see how many sold…    /check mail ….   what?  none sold?   /cry.”Because people are running burning crusade instances frequently, a lot people get most of their gear form instancing.  My main ran ramparts 5 times before hitting level 65and i got 3 Blues and a lot of other crap.  In addition, I ran a ton of other instances as well.  Also too, as soon as you hit outlands and run a couple of quests, the green rewards are so good compared to your pre-58 azeroth junk, you feel like a king and get geared up just running around the hellfire penninsula, questing.So, after the shock of going from the smooth-rolling cadillac of selling level 45 greens on the AH for sweet gobs of gold to selling Bear-plate, Falcon/Monkey-mail, and Eagle-cloth for …. um… a few gold, if at all, then you begin to augment your business stategy.“Hmmm… I’m an Enchanter!  I’ll make gold from DE’ing!    ok… i just bought  a green level 62  belt on AH for 3 gold.  /DisEnchant 62 green belt ->  …ok, I just got 2 arcane dust… ok, I sold the dust for 1.6 gold each.   um… i just made 20 silver.   /cry”Want a faster way to make 20 silver?  Go run outside of Shat, kill the first thing you see, pick up Gray, sell to vendor. LOLKK, more on the WoW economy later.AND FOR THE LOVE OF FRIGGIN JEEBUS, DON’T BUY GOLD!!!!! 

Welcome to Grumpy WoW Guy!

Ok, Peeps. Welcome to my new WoW blog. Hopefully, I won’t send y’all running away screaming too quickly. I’m writing this blog as an outlet for my humble observations of the game. Hopefully I can help with the de-noobification of a few of you.I’ve been playing WoW for over a year, and I have had made over 50 characters on 4 different servers. My Main is a 70 Human Holy Priest. I also have a 29 Twink Orc Shammy.  Currently, I’m leveling up a Dwarf Hunter.