Pilgrim’s Bounty, Mage Gold Rush

Pilgrim’s Bounty Guide

For gold gamers, Pilgrim’s Bounty event means two things. Portals. And cooking.

Pilgrim’s Bounty Mage Portals Guide

If you have a main or alt mage character, shimmy your backside over to a quest center such as outside Stormwind or Orgrimmar.

  • Bring 100+ rune of portals.
  • Stand in a clear space close to the quest giver.
  • Cast a portal to every capital city that questers need. In a line.
  • Start screaming, yelling, and spamming your service, offering portals at your chosen price. (1g-10g). Note: don’t get into an undercut war with competitors. Match their price and share revenue.
  • Invite each buyer into your party after being paid.
  • Keep up the portals.

Nothing sells faster than watching another player instantly portal through to where they also want to go.

This is the strategy I used in 2009 and 2010

Pilgrim’s Bounty Cooking Guide

Pilgrim’s Bounty is your best opportunity of the year to level your cooking profession skills fast and cheap. Take advantage on all your alts.

Ready, Steady, Cook

Recipes:

Learned from a single purchase book from Pilgrims Bounty vendor.

  • Spice Bread Stuffing
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Cranberry Chutney
  • Candied Sweet Potato
  • Slow-Roasted Turkey
  • Bountiful Feast

Level cooking guide from WoW Ladies a LiveJournal group of which I’m a long time member.

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I’m Late I’m Late Oh My Ears And Whiskers!

And the white rabbit jumped into Wonderland.

That’s how I felt when I got an email last night from my long-time mate and gold clever-clogs Jon Kenins. 144 challengers are officially entered into Gold Speed Run VI, making it the biggest speed run ever.  And I’m not in the race! Argh. I’m late. And I can’t get to a PC.

I’ve asked Jon to find me a random server and reserve me a place, just in case I can get out of here in the next week or 2. My ego is (over-)inflated enough to think I can catch up!

What is Gold Speed Run?

Gold Speed Run is a free-to-enter competition for members of Jon’s Massive Gold Blueprint guide and for members of the new guide written and compiled over October, “Gold Speed Run Guide”. It’s a day-by-day 30 day video guide to give you the best advantage in the race. It took so long to make because we kept adding bonus after bonus. Pdfs, daily agendas, then 30+ daily video reports from each of the last three gold speed run races filmed over-the-shoulder with every tip analyzed, explained and followed up. Each GSR race is also usually accompanied by free teamspeak access for live tip-sharing, laughter and encouragement.

If you don’t fancy joining this gold speed run, then you can do your own GSR. Alto was thinking about doing one. Just roll a level 1 on a new server, and see how much gold you can make without external support in 30 days. It’s a good exercise in learning addons and the rise and fall of commodity prices.

I’m pretty sure I’m currently placed 145th out of 144 “runners” but I know a few readers are amongst the 144. So please let me know how you’re doing! Last speed run birthed new blogs and new friends. So let me know so I can link up.

Follow The White Rabbit

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References
1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865. Image: Disney
2. The Matrix, Wachowski bros, Warner bros 1999
3. Massive Gold Blueprint. Affiliate link.
4. Gold Speed Run guide. Affiliate link.

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What’s in Your Stockpile?

My world of warcraft guild bank inventory is used for temporary bag space for fast moving items, and for holding long term stockpiles.

1. Runecloth. My bread and butter pipeline. Buy low, sell high. Doesn’t always sell but when supply dwindled, sale soar sky high. Up to ten times cost prices.

2. Heartblossom. I just have a sneaky suspicion that this herb is under supplied. I’ve got enough spare gold to gamble it on a hunch like this.

3. Tree frogs. Guess who went crazy and bought a few hundred too many? I’m paying the price by having to store them. I am drip feeding them into the healthy companion pets market on AH at 10-50g ish.

4. Elementium geode pets. Such a unique pet, I’m sure its.undervalued! I try to buy at 30-40g and resell at 150-200g if I’m lucky.

5. Tome of polymorph turtle. I bought too many of these at patch 4.0 and instead of panicking and selling them all cheap, I’m drip feeding them on AH the best prices I can.

6. Cupcakes. Sitting pretty waiting for next years children’s week event, when I sell them in a.package. They also sell slowly on AH for 1-2g each.

7. Deepstone oil.  Because I make this in bulk when I’ve collected enough super-cheap fish. Again I trickle them into the auction house, one stack of 8 at a time. You know why a stack of 8, right?

8. Inferno Ruby. Did you wonder why these are all so expensive and low supply? Yeah, because I’ve got them all. Muhahha

9. Winter veil clothes. A bank alt’s favourite at 100g each, almost pure profit.

10. Golden draenite.  I buy cheap singles, stacks of 20 or odd numbers and resell in stacks of 4. For buyers who need golden draenite for crafting flying carpets.

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Raid Finder Patch 4.3 Tool

Patch 4.3 Raid Finder introduces a new opportunity for casual players and semi-hardcore alts to experience end game content.

Blizzard have decided to gate access to end-tier gear.  You can’t buy tier 13 with valor points. You have to raid to get the gear.

Will Raid Finder Work?

Are you serious? Does dungeon finder work? Sure, I’ve had some great pugs, with everyone pulling their weight and treating each other with respect. But they’re rare.

Usually I get lumbered with new 85s, lazy angsty nubs who delight in ninja looting, ninja pulling, sleeping in the fire and randomly going AFK. When you’re not even wearing any raid gear, but are doing 40% of the dps, despite stopping to combat res the fire hugging healer, you know 4 nubs are being carried. Again.

Blizzard’s answer is to dumb down their content further, which drives me even crazier.

Raid Finder Loot Rules

Is there an antidote to Raid Finder?

If patch 4.3 raid finder is as bad as dungeon finder tool then we’re going to need a solution. Sure, you can dump your bf/gf, sell your children, pack in your day job and rejoin that hardcore raid guild. Or join a “brand new” social-raid guild composed of 20 dps and 1 healer.

I think a better solution is to resurrect GDKP, gold dkp.

With GDKP, you can be assured that your pug members will be buffed, prepped, and focused.  Players are less likely to stand in fire when they hear the sound of their gold burning.

Are you going to be using raid finder?

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I wish I had bought

Tabard of the Lightbringer for 1,000g at the end of wrath of the lich king.

I got everything else, the crimson deathcharger, jainas locket and sylvnas music box, but I refused to buy the ugly dwarf item or the tabard.

Now, you can’t get them for love or money. The only way is to do the Shadowmourne quest line yourself, braving the endless ICC pugs, or suck up to and wave thousands of gold at another wow player going for shadowmourne.

Sigh, such is life.

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I give up. NSFW White Ribbon

I’ve been trying to keep my personal life out of the wow gold blog. Readers want tips for making gold, not my blubbing and whining.

Since being in hospital, I’ve been writing all my posts with pencil on paper, then laboriously tapping them in to wordpress on my smartphone. I didn’t want to let you down. Also, it gives me something to focus on other than recent events. Do you know how hard it is to research a post/article without real internet, without WoW?

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But the truth is, I’m royally fucked up in the head right now. I still have some physical checks to go though. The good news is I’m healed without need for surgery. The bad news is I still need tests for nasties like HIV. Even though the animals held me for an hour, its my head that’s broken. I’m actually on suicide watch in hospital after 3 serious fails. This is the part of me that they literally tore apart. Some part of me died between 2nd and 3rd rape.

I’ve missed being involved in the community, I even missed the start of the Gold Speed Run I was so proud to help edit during October. I was looking forward to launching it.

It seems like the community has missed me too, despite my mediocre blog post attempts! So which of you is responsible for organising today’s utterly overwhelming white ribbon campaign? I recognised a white ribbon immediately – I donate to women’s charities. My nurse actually offered me Sedation (drugs? Yes please!) When I started weeping as the blogroll filled with white ribbon bandages. I am overwhelmed. My broken little head can’t take it in.

So I give in.
No more struggles to pretend I’m ok. I relax into the support you show. It’s ok not to be tough. I’m not ashamed to be broken and f_cked up.

If you are part of White Ribbon today, please post your link below. I want my readers to be staggered and overwhelmed like me at how strong this matrix of wow gold bloggers is.

I really hope the community is proud of itself. I love seeing you pull together.

Update: Below are many of the blogs that participated in today’s show of support.

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