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Satchel of Exotic Mysteries in Patch 4.1

Satchel of Exotic Mysteries is coming in Patch 4.1 Blizzard announced that Patch 4.1 will include a “Call to Arms” to encourage tanks and healers to join pug heroics dungeons. If you’re not a tank you can wait for 30 minutes for a heroic in the “looking for party” dungeon finder, which is a pain […]

April 11, 2011/4 Comments/by The Gold Queen

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Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle The Obsidium Shuffle has always been about taking an item and adding value to it. http://www.thegoldqueen.com/posts/beginners/practical-guide/worth/ “How much gold are you worth?” Item + u = better item. In the obsidium shuffle, we take obsidium, add “u” in the form of prospecting and get a gem. Then we […]

April 10, 2011/1 Comment/by The Gold Queen

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Satchel of Exotic Mysteries in Patch 4.1

April 11, 2011/4 Comments/by The Gold Queen

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Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

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Satchel of Exotic Mysteries in Patch 4.1

Satchel of Exotic Mysteries is coming in Patch 4.1

Blizzard announced that Patch 4.1 will include a “Call to Arms” to encourage tanks and healers to join pug heroics dungeons. If you’re not a tank you can wait for 30 minutes for a heroic in the “looking for party” dungeon finder, which is a pain in the backside if your guild tanks are all busy, and the pug tanks all disenchanted their braincells at level 20. (Source http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2568337 ) Adding a satchel to the dungeon rewards is meant to encourage healers and tanks to join the call to arms in the dungeon finder.

My main is a feral druid, I queue 80% of the time as dps kitty. The 20% of the time I queue as a bear/tank is either due to misplaced hope or insobrietry. Big Bear Butt writes: “Is that the best they could come up with for a bribe? … I, personally, love tanking above all other group roles available in the game, and yet, I do not queue for randoms as a tank. Why? Because of the attitudes I encounter when I’ve tried. The behavior. The abuse.” I agree with him. Blizzard gave people dual spec which enabled some classes to keep a healer or tank spec in their second slot. That didn’t work at persuading us to tank, either.

Putting aside my concerns as a potential tank for a moment, let’s look at the bribe of “Satchel of Exotic Mysteries” which Blizzard offer. Maybe this will cheer me up as a gold-maker, instead?

Possible items included in Satchel of Exotic Mysteries

1. “some gold” Ok, I like gold, but how much is “some gold”, is it worth me tearing my hair out?

2. “a chance at a rare gem” Only a chance? Only a rare gem? That’s not worth much. You’d have to be desperate.

3. “a chance at a flask/potion” Again: Only a chance? You’d have to be desperate.

4. “a good chance of receiving a non-combat pet (including cross faction pets)” This is BAD news for gold-makers who sell these limited supply pets to collectors. It’s also useless for pet collectors, who generally already have these. Fail.

5. “a very rare chance at receiving a mount (those specifically only available through dungeons , like the Reins of the Raven Lord from Sethekk Halls, Swift White Hawkstrider from Magister’s Terrace, and Deathcharger’s Reins from Stratholme.” A very rare chance? Big whoop. I’d prefer a very rare chance at getting these mounts by soloing the instances, without having to put up over-agroing dps, and healers who refuse to use their mana. these are not sellable or tradable, it doesn’t affect us as a gold-maker. Fail.

All in all, what a waste of time. Thanks a bunch, Blizz.

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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.

April 11, 2011/4 Comments/by The Gold Queen

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Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

The Obsidium Shuffle has always been about taking an item and adding value to it.
http://www.thegoldqueen.com/posts/beginners/practical-guide/worth/

“How much gold are you worth?”

Item + u = better item.

In the obsidium shuffle, we take obsidium, add “u” in the form of prospecting and get a gem.
Then we have the opportunity to add another ‘u’ of crafting that gem into a ring or neck.
Again, we take the item and add “u” of disenchanting. And again add “u” of making enchanting scrolls, which are then put on the AH.

TLDR: Along the path of Obsidium Shuffle, we add value. We add our worth.

Ore +u+ Gem +u+ ring/neck +u+ Dust/Essense +u+ Enchanting Scroll

Factor in, however, our time. “U per hour” if you will. Profit per hour. Gold per hour. Gold per minute, whichever time period you want to use.

The addon Ore Crusher, which is a simplified version of the Consortium’s complicated spreadsheet on the subject, calculates that profit, along each step of the path. At each +u, Ore Crusher asks “is this worth my time?” “Could I make more gold doing something else with my time?”

Ore Crusher calculates profit, gold per hour, U/hr.

More information here:

http://www.thegoldqueen.com/category/addons/ore-crusher

At times, your U/hr can be more profitable for you to cut and vendor the gems. Where the vendor costs of 9g per gem, gives you better profit than taking all your time to move the item along the production line from gem to item to dust to scroll. With the vendor price of a gem at 9g each, and it taking 2.0s to prospect and 3.0s to cut from raw, your U/hr is high. When you have a very busy server, and plentiful ore, your U/hr from ore to cut gem can be the most profitable along the whole production line.

Now the 9g per cut gem under threat, the whole production line has had its foundations shaken, and we need to think again about everything, back to basics.

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Satchel of Exotic Mysteries in Patch 4.1

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Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

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Satchel of Exotic Mysteries in Patch 4.1

Satchel of Exotic Mysteries is coming in Patch 4.1

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All in all, what a waste of time. Thanks a bunch, Blizz.

Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

Adding Value with the Obsidium Shuffle

“How much gold are you worth?”

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All in all, what a waste of time. Thanks a bunch, Blizz.

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