(update note: this blog post is now out of date)
How would you like your Gold Queen Served Today?
Kindle Flavor? Certainly sir!
Today was a very slow but ultimately very exciting day for me. The big news first is that TGQ was accepted by Amazon to be published on Kindle which is very sexy indeed.
A warm welcome to new readers who have joined us on Kindle. I indulged in one for myself last year, and find it invaluable. Sometimes it feels so much like a book that I try and physically turn the page!
E-Mail Flavor? Yes ma’am!
The other great news is that, if I have got all the technology working properly, you should now be able to sign up to read TGQ via email with a new RSS to e-mail daily blog newsletter!
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And to encourage you to use the new service, I’m going to offer you a FREE copy of The Gold Queen’s Guide to Gold Every Day (my detailed daily routines) This is a little ebook I’ve put together, which details my daily routines and guides you around my time management schedule that I try to complete every day in order to make the most gold from all my professions. As a bonus, I’ve also included a look at a daily checklist, and two types of weekly checklist that can help you automate and drive more gold straight into your embersilk bags!
You may have to bear with me as I get to grips with the new blog-by-e-mail proprietary technology, but with a little luck, we’ll have it steadily announcing itself at 9.30am EST on every day that I post one or more entries to the blog.
I hope you will excuse me from a daily post today, if I do any more work I think I will go BANG! Normal service will resume in the next day or two.
In the meantime, if you get any problems with signing up to the blog for the free ebook, just let me know and I’ll take an arcanite spanner to the gyro-widget-thingy.
Some pets, also known as small companions, are increasing in price in the Auction House. Whilst I could have predicted some of them would rise, due to lower availability, and MUDflation (look it up, it’s a real word!), here are some that have surprised me:
- Tickbird Hatchling. Buy at 25g, sell at 1,000g You couldn’t get rid of them fast enough in WOTLK, now we want them!
- Razzashi Hatchling – rising in price. You held on to yours, didn’t you?
- Argent Tournament pets, well this one was obvious
- Elementium geodes – very very volatile. Buy at 200g, sell at 2,000+ One to keep an eye on. YSMV (Your Server May Vary)
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About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
This post is dedicated retrospectively to Mageshadow and sent with warm gold hugs to him and others who have had their world of warcraft accounts hacked.
1. Keep your CDs and CD key safe. You might need these if you have to contact Blizzard to get your account reinstated.
8. Guild leaders, don’t let any guild members have access to your guild bank unless they have an authenticator. You can set this up in the guild ranks.
Supporting these types of illicit services is not only against the Terms of Use, but it promotes botting, spamming, and other forms of exploitation — as well as account theft. While the promise of gold stockpiles and effortless level-85s may be tempting, you could end up paying more than just cash for sharing your account information with these companies. (Also, that gold you’re interested in buying? We’ve found that it is most commonly stolen from compromised accounts and turned around to be sold back to other players. Not cool.
And in case you’re still dead set on giving your email account and password to a random foreign company whose business is based on violating Blizz’s terms of use:
Through our normal support processes and the assistance of players, we also find that many accounts that have been shared with powerleveling services are then hacked into months later, and all of the items on the account are stripped and sold off. Basically, players have paid money to these companies, sometimes large amounts, and they’re then targeted by these same companies down the road. We come across stories every week of the after-effects of players using these services, and some players now have to deal with long-term repercussions — in addition to consequences such as possible account suspension or closure, in many cases the companies they paid use their personal information to perpetrate identity theft and credit card fraud. These are long-lasting effects on players’ personal lives that can take years to recover from.
The last two days have been absolute horrors! First of all, an experiment with a 3 column blog went revoltingly wrong. The design was all over the place, colours everywhere, and the comments feature broke! I’ve been trying to clean up the design, it was too grungy for a ‘queen’. Hope you like the current shininess. Shall I change the background?
Then I bought an epic staff for 16k, hoping to flip it for 20k. It didn’t sell for 20k. I tried 19k, and got undercut, so I gave up and posted it for 18k. Hurray, it sold straight away, except it didn’t, because I’d accidently posted it for 1.8k Oh dear, that’s 14k down the toilet. That’s quite possibly the biggest and worst mistake I’ve ever made in WoW gold making. I was really gutted. Guild mates suggested I speak to the buyer, but a queen never gets on her knees, so I just let it pass. At least I made someone happy!
What was the worst mistake you’ve ever made? How did you sort it out?
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Alright guys, back to work! Get out of Uldum and back to the AH! Whiptail has been officially hotfixed:
Herbalism
- Whiptail was spawning too quickly in Uldum after patch 4.0.6. The spawn time has been reduced.
I was very lucky, I found a new friend on my server who wanted to take advantage of this and farmed through the night, twice, and filled my inbox with more whiptail than a girl knew what to do with.
Lucky I had that milling macro.
autoloot then:
/cast Milling
/use Whiptail
/gloat
I’ve been to Uldum since the hotfix, and whiptail is still spawning fast enough to farm, pretty much the same as before the patch. No more herbs running up and filling your bags!
May I suggest that you run to your AH now and scoop up the cheap Whiptail before prices return to normal?
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Dugi’s Guide half price
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