Mists of Pandaria Dailies
In the first of two major announcements, Blizzard mentioned that they want to drop the 25 dailies per day cap.
In Mists of Pandaria you will be able to do as many daily quests as you like.
Once a daily has been completed, it’s done for the day.
There aren’t unlimited quests, you can’t get tomorrow’s daily quest. But you can do more than 25 of them.
So you can do all the argent tournament ones plus all your professions dailies, plus all the Tillers and Anglers dailies. Plus all the Halfhill Market and all the other “hundreds of new quests” in Townlong Steppes and the Dread Wastes.
And with repect to Hyperbole and a Half
Shoulder Enchants
Head enchants are gone.
Wow, does that mean the best head enchants will be from Cata reputation factions? Or do they simply disappear?
I see lots of shouts of “give it to Engineers instead!” so we’ll keep an eye on that.
and then
Shoulder enchants can now be provided by scribes
As if scribes (not inscriptionist!) didn’t have enough OP powers of gold making already! This puts the top 3 gold making professions in Pandaria as
- Jewelcrafting
- Inscription
- Enchanting
In that order.
On a completely unrelated topic, Andy Wrynn is a naughty wee fella, isn’t he.
I’m still taking a 1-2 week blogging break. Still looking for guests posts. Let me know.
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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.
The Mists of Pandaria beta continues with new builds being launched.
New music
New quests
More profession news
New information for us as gold makers.
This post is full of spoilers.
Cooking and Fishing
Today I fished for Jade Lungfish which drops in Jade Forest about one in 5-6 fishing casts.
Did you fish in Dalaran Sewers in Northrend?
Then you’ll remember the famous Sewer Carp, aka sewer crap.
Well, the crap is back, but this time it’s golden. Golden Carp is a common fish drop. Luckily it can be made into all sorts of different food with cooking.
Halfway Hill Market is where all the cooking action is found. It’s the centre of the Valley of the Four Winds.
Cooking Specialties.
There are different specialties within cooking, each seem to give a buff to one stat.
- Way of the Grill: Strength
- Way of the Wok: Agility
- Way of the Pot: Intellect
- Way of the Oven: Stamina
- Way of the Brew: Not quite sure yet. Ginseng is the starter ingredient and I haven’t found any yet.
Stock Master uses the Ironpaw Cooking Tokens to offer a bag of cooking ingredients at level 90, which saves you time travelling to the right area to farm mobs.
Jogo the Drunk, a Jinyu npc, will give you a forecast for what appears to be crop growing, in exchange for 10g. You can gain reputation and friendship with him, but we’re not sure yet what the crop forecast is for. I’m guessing the Tillers or farming.
The temporary meat and fish traders currently only sell charred glyphs. Not very tasty, even to the more ardent vegetarian.
He used to be an adventurer like me
Each type of raw food seems to come from a particular type of mob. “Lore”, a player who commented on a wowhead page, suggests the following ideas:
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- Hozen – Jade Squash / Striped Melon
- Jinyu – Redblossom Leek / Striped Melon
- Mantid – White Turnip / Pink Turnip
- Saurok – Witchberries / Scallions
- Yaungol – Green Cabbage / Mogu Pumpkin
- Sprites – Redblossom Leek / Witchberries
- Zandalari – Redblossom Leek
- Virmen – Juicycrunch Carrot
[/quote]
Virmen particularly hate turnips, but I don’t blame them there.
The oven cooking trainer bakes fresh bread, a conjured item, and places it on the tables at Halfway Hill Market. You can pick some up. Handy if you’re not a mage, or a good cook.
Do you remember when Blizzard removed all the extra mats for cooking, spices flour and whatnot? Well they’re back with a vengeance. All those rice flour, noodles, soy sauce etc give me a headache.
Quests and Areas
Kasari Wilds look a little like Stranglethorn Vale. The Mogu ruins reminded me a lot of the troll ruins in STV. It’s also a nice place to farm tiger meat.
In one of the patches, I noticed the night elf female voice seemed slightly softer and revoiced. See if you notice any difference.
The Hozen are funny, especially their attempts at insults. “You ooking dookers!”
Bring:
- Gathering enchanted gloves.
- Fishing lures
- Armor enchants to add to new armor, they’re currently offering ilevel 399
- Bagspace. You will need 1 bag for all the food mats
- Health pots, food or bandages. Pandaria mobs hit hard.
- A travelers tundra mammoth. You can’t fly in MoP, until 90 I expect, and you will be glad to be able to vendor your common greys on the go.
Quests are not particularly enjoyable, but definitely bearable. The ubiquitous bombing runs, the cut scenes, the “kill everything and bring me their loot”.
That’s not crud in my bags, you rude panda
Chen’s quest to help him brew made me laugh and reminded me of Sholazar Basin.
One NPC made reference to how much “crud” I keep in my bags. I’ll have you know that this is the finest crud known to nelf-kind, and destined for the Auction House. hehe.
Also the irony of monkeys throwing barrels at me was funny. As Li Li says “what is it about monkeys and barrels, anyway?”
Finally
I need to take a week or two “time out” from The Gold Queen blog, I’ve been working on another Warcraft project for readers and I must concentrate on it in order to actually get it done! Please play nice whilst I’m away.
You can still contact me by email, twitter or facebook
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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.
What would you like to see increased here at The Gold Queen blog?
- Opinion
- Frequent, unconnected tips, very short.
- Long posts like the Mists of Pandaria Stockpile post, but not as often
- Dear Gold Queen letters and requests for help
- Reviews of guides
- Summaries of other blogs
- Occasional Movies, such as the Winterspring guide
- Addon discussions and news
- Niches, such as selling transmogrification or twinking gear
- Economy news
- Seasonal Guides eg Darkmoon Faire, Children’s Week
- Cut ‘n’ Paste no-brains gold making.
- Tutorials on why those methods work, so you can learn yourself.
- The current mix, which is all of the above.
Please bear in mind I only have so many hours per day! Personally I prefer to give you a mix of different news, guides, tips, ideas, and inspirations. Then, all different types of readers can find something interesting. If not in the latest post, then in the archives.
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.
Mists of Pandaria coming soon to Public Test Realms?
Latest beta build 5.0.1.15726 has been changed from “beta” to “ptr” and downloading a fresh copy of the client from battle.net gives you a PTR client.
Installing to your hard drive, the files are unpacked into PTR and then into Beta.
This has changed since I last downloaded the client!
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Pandaren on PTRs soon?
Could it just be a simple mistake? Errors are usually omissions rather than changing things too early.
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If you haven’t been invited to the Mists of Pandaria Beta, you could be playing your Pandaren very soon on the Public Test Realms.
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Do you have a moment to log on battle.net and check your current situation and offer some explanation? Thanks!
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.
At the core, it’s simple. Buy low. Resell at the prices buyers will pay.
You know that, right?
Then add on all the pets you need to learn about.
And add on the storage. Add on the psychology of buyers.
Add on knowing different ways to get hold of these. Add on the encouragement to keep at it. Add on the highs of patches and expansions when pets are in demand.
Take away the lows of the weeks when you think you’ll never sell anything. Take away the frustrations of undercutters. Multiply by the frustrations of “where did my competitor get that pet from?” and divide by the pleasure of a buyer asking “do you have any more?”.
Selling pets is one niche out of many. If it’s one you haven’t mastered yet, then please have a look now.
[[Link removed 2015. out of date]]
Pets are going to be huge in Mists of Pandaria. You know that.
Why shouldn’t you have a share in the gold too?
I’d ask you not to buy the guide and come on my server, but there are already two players who have the guide on my faction in my server, and we all still get along and we all still make 1,000g+ a day.
How much is the guide?
The Pet Selling Guide was priced at 9.99, with a discount to 7.99 for the first few days. Guess who was lazy and didn’t sort out the graphic design to reflect the increase to 9.99?
You can thank Martin, VeganCats, for raising this with me. I should have just changed the sales page to say 9.99
Call me lazy, or call me over-excitable, but I said screw it, we’ll do it the other way around….!
Price has been reduced to 7.99 from now until Mists of Pandaria
At MoP I’m withdrawing the guide from sale. So your free updates last until everything is turned upside down.
Oh, and Martin, I really appreciate your kind words to me recently, noticing the prices, and taking the time to chat to me and the other readers. That’s why I’m sending you $9.99. Your guide should be free, because you rock. And I hope you make a lot of gold with the pets guide and all that it inspires in you.
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Are you a regular reader and didn’t know I sold guides, too? Hey that’s fine.
My philosophy is give away 80% for free.
The final 20% plus the organisation of the 100% total into useful order, I ask for a payment for my time.
So The Gold Queen blog will be free, come by and get info any time you need.
You can always contact me by email or the lovely easy contact form if you wanna know anything. Ok?
It’s 2am, I’m-a going to bed. You should do the same. NN.
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.
Stockpiling for Mists of Pandaria
Avoid inflation, devaluing your liquid gold held in your inventory, by investing it in a stockpile of items.
These are items to farm now or buy from the Auction House and then hoard in your bank, or in your own guild bank of your alt/s
Please don’t use this as the ultimate mists of pandaria stockpile, as we still have months before the MoP release date (my personal prediction is first week of September) and news may come through.
Not sure which professions to level for Pandaria? I recommend cooking and fishing. Both are secondary professions, and learnable by all, and both will bring benefits in MoP.
Keep your eyes on Pandaria news on MMO Champion for news that can change your stockpile.
Preparing your Mists of Pandaria Stockpile
Items to Stockpile, and why you need them!
- Leg armors and spellthreads – not sure about these. Whilst they will be in demand until the MoP equivalents are available, they are currently over supplied and losing value. There will be no opportunities to buy these unless a guild bank disgorges stacks of them in panic. The best advice I can give you is therefore not to panic if you don’t get all yours sold before MoP is released in patch 5.1 If you’re very lucky you might even be able to sell them to another gold maker who thinks he knows better than you.
Gems
For new characters who are leveling jewelcrafting, stockpile these raw/uncut gems:
- Alicite
- Jasper
- Zephyrite
- Hessonite
- Nightstone
- Shadowspirit Diamonds
- Bloodstone
- Shadowgem
- Large opal
Avoid:
- Carnelian. Pretty hard to stockpile tbh due to huge prices. It will be in demand but you can’t buy it at a cheap price now.
For Jewelcrafters and Blacksmiths:
- Raw ores in general
- Adamantite
- Saronite
- Elementium
Raw Herbs
We store herbs in their purest rawest form. Whilst herbs can be made into elixirs, potions and flasks, or milled and made into pigments, inks and glyphs, this can’t be undone. Sounds simple, that glyphs or flasks can’t be turned into herbs, but it’s the essential basic reason why you should stockpile raw goods, commodities, that have not been crafted. The only exception to this would be in a case such as Glyphmas when the number of raw materials required for an item tripled overnight.
For Leveling Alchemists, stockpile:
- Cinderbloom
- Dreaming Glory
- Felweed
- Gromsblood
- Goldthorn, farm this in Arathi Highlands if you enjoy pain.
- Briarthorn
For your Scribe, stockpile:
- All cheap herbs (under 80s/each) except the cataclysm zone herbs.
Keep your eye on purple lotus herbs whenever you glance at the Auction House. This volatile herb is worth a lot of gold, and may be accidentally posted at a cheap price by inexperienced new Pandas.
For enchanters, and tailors
- Infinite dust. For leveling enchanters, nightmare tears, and imbued frostweave
- Elixir of impossible accuracy if you see any cheap.
- Frostweave cloth. Or take 15 minutes to farm Icecrown glacier.
- Runecloth. I can’t put my finger on *why* but it’s one of my constant massive-profits items. Grab some now, just not on my server. Buy 10s-40s each, sell 2g each. Stacks of 20.
General Stockpile for Mists of Pandaria
- Volatile fire, because of its many uses. Only skim the lowest prices.
- Volatile life, for transmuting into any of the other volatiles.
- Volatile air. Supply will decrease, and it’s already highly priced.
- Enchanting rods. Please tell me you already sell these. If not, get in there now!
- Hypnotic dust. Used by Tailors for bags. Doubles up as enchanting profession leveler, plus its very cheap atm. That’s a confirmed WIN
- Overcharged capacitor. Because everyone else will forget.
- Crusader Enchants. Everyone loves a scroll of crusader enchant.
- Emotion Buff food. Cupcakes make you happy!
The Mists of Pandaria Ore Shuffle
Are you still shuffling obsidium or elementium ore into gems, into jewellery, into enchanting mats, into enchanting scroll?
Consider hoarding the cheap uncommon gems instead, for making into level 79+ necklaces and rings. No one else will be making these items, which are in demand by Scroll of Resurrection players, and will be useful to new Pandaren. Who will be interested in a cataclysm ore shuffle for 5,000g an hour if they can make twice that from a MoP shuffle? Looking forward to seeing that.
Cloud Serpent
Your Mists of Pandaria Pets Stockpile
- Wood Frog, purchasable from Darkmoon Faire. Since the faire moved to Darkmoon Island, the number of wood frogs available has decreased. Possibly less campers?
- Black Tabby, because it’s so expensive. You can take your own chances with the Argent Tournament Pets, I won’t be investing here.
- Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling
- Brown Rabbit Crate
- Cat Carrier (Siamese)
- Mana Wyrmling
- Red Moth Egg (I’ve removed the other outland pets as they don’t sell as well)
- Elementium Geodes, due to a huge decrease in the number of Cata-zone miners.
- A small number of tickbirds and northrend pets, due to players being to distracted by NEW SHINY STUFF to get off their backside and go to Northrend themselves.
- Make a LOT of engineering pets now and hoard them in your stockpile for Mists of Pandaria
- Mechanical Squirrel
- Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
- Pet Bombling
- Lil’ Smoky
- Lifelike Mechanical Toad
This section wouldn’t be complete without a plug for my Warcraft Pets Selling Guide. Make gold by selling WoW pets. Now is pretty much the perfect time to do this.
Updated May 2012.
Do not go crazy about pets, never sink all your gold in one basket. There will be lots of Wild Pets available, as I wrote in December 2011. Instead, just bag the bargains and hoard them for 6-12 months to double or triple your investment.
Preparing for Pandarens
The Pandaren graphics are completely gorgeous. Lovely enough for me to ignore the linear questline of the starting area and the loss of any sense of adventure there. I’m thinking that if people rerolled to Worgen and Goblin, they’re going to go berserk for Pandarans.
- Bags Stock up underpriced bags that you see in the AH. Keep track of bags prices over time by using WoWuction My video guide shows you how to discover their 60 day pricing history for your realm.
- Embersilk for bags. You can’t stockpile embersilk at the 3g/each mark, and the prices can only rise as supply lessens. However, if you see any under 2g, GET THEM. Alternately, take your tailor for a 15 minute farm of cloth. I recommend 15 minute stretches of farming because that’s the most I can personally tolerate before I want to claw my own eyes out. If you have a greater tolerance, go for it. You could even try an hour of gathering and farming, using a potion of treasure finding. Please don’t come to the Fractured Front in Deepholm, because that’s where I do my own farming, and I don’t want any competition *grin*
- Scroll of Gathering Enchant, or Greater Cosmic Essence, whichever is cheapest. Because most non-stupid Pandaren will take a gathering profession as they level. And we all love an item that has been overlooked by the other gold blogs.
Make gold in Mists of Pandaria
Use your tailor to gather Windwool, the new cloth. Everyone will need Windwool bags, regardless of class or profession!
Use your herbalist to take the short trip to Shimmering Expanse, Vashj’ir, to farm Azshara’s Veil for the fast-selling, expensive Potion of Illusion. You do sell these for a fortune, right?
The Mists of Pandaria Ore Shuffle
Are you still shuffling obsidium or elementium ore into gems, into jewellery, into enchanting mats, into enchanting scroll?
Consider hoarding the cheap uncommon gems instead, for making into level 79+ necklaces and rings. No one else will be making these items, which are in demand by Scroll of Resurrection players, and will be useful to new Pandaren. Who will be interested in a cataclysm ore shuffle for 5,000g an hour if they can make twice that from a MoP shuffle? Looking forward to seeing that.
How to stockpile for Mists of Pandaria
As you have started to stockpile early, with 3-4 months before the expansion, you can afford to be choosy.
We are approaching the quietest time of the year, June, July and August is the dreaded Summer time break, when raid guilds gnash their teeth at the lack of players, when players hesitantly discover the sunshine and the effects of vitamin D.
We also have a slump at the moment as players desert MoP for Diablo 3 temporarily.
Liquidation sales have slowly begun on some servers, and will continue to gain momentum over the next 12 weeks when panic selling will begin.
Knowing what and how to buy is essential to all gold making. I strongly suggest you do not buy your stockpile in one week. Pace yourself over the coming months and skim the low lying prices. Don’t be in a rush. Panic is a friend of failure.
[quote]Remember: Stockpile items in their rawest forms to keep your options open. – The Gold Queen[/quote]
What to sell before MoP release date
- Potions of Treasure Finding. These will be replaced with Potion of Plunder, made with a vial and 3 Golden Lotus
- Blackfallow Ink, and expect the Glyph of Colossus Smash prices to plummet. There are very few other uses for this ink.
- Mysterious Fortune Cards, due to falling Blackfallow Ink prices. Bye bye, profit.
- Epic gems, meta gems, cataclkysm enchants, cataclysm food.
Very, very rich? What to stockpile
- Now the duping hacks are over, look at the leftover Crimson death charger.
- Check price fluctuations on Reins of Poseidus, as the number of campers could decrease if bots and farmers find more profitable pursuits. Note, if they can’t find them, your Reins prices might not drop to purchseable and flippable prices.
- Super expensive pets. Compare current prices with histories of the previous 60 days. Think Black Tabby, Firefly, Whelplings, Lamps and Lanterns.
- Rare JC Patterns. These patterns drop from Cata mobs, meaning their supply will decrease, unless Blizz buff and increase the drop rates:
- Design: Jeweler’s Ruby Monocle
- Design: Jeweler’s Amber Monocle
- Design: Jeweler’s Sapphire Monocle
Mists of Pandaria Speculation
Interesting ideas that could happen in path 5.1 or 5.2
- Speculation: truegold, dreamcloth, and fire prism will lose their cooldowns
- Speculation: complaints that if mounts and pets and achievements and hierlooms are account-wide, there will be complaints that professions should be account wide. Players will be divided into the whiners, and the outraged. Gold gamers will mock the QQers, worrying they will lose their advantage.
Final Advice for Pandaria Preparation
- Do your cooking and fishing dailies.
- Just before MoP hits, get 25 daily quests complete and ready to hand in. They will give you XP rather than gold, a nice bump towards level 86. I recommend 10 Tol Barad Peninsula dailies with Deepholm dailies to bring the number to 25. (Unfortunately the Molten Front Dailies can’t be held back for later turn in as they are sequential.)
I’ll just leave this link here to the Daily Blink’s cartoon about the MoP Black Market: http://www.thedailyblink.com/2012/05/the-black-market-wed-like-to-see/
[twitter name=”thegoldqueen”] This post dedicated to Matthew Hartl for poking me on Twitter. You can find up-to-the-minute opinions, ideas, and useful tips in under 140 characters at my twitter @thegoldqueen approx 10 tweets a day!
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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.