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The Darkmoon Faire Guide: part 1, basics.

Hello and welcome to the Gold Queen’s Darkmoon Faire Guide part one. (please note, this guide was written in 2011 and is out of date. New guide coming soon!) The DMF is a very under-used event in the gold-makers calender but can also be one of the most profitable. The Darkmoon Faire is held for […]

February 2, 2011/1 Comment/by The Gold Queen

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JMTC Blogging Carnival: How to make gold with limited play time?

Time is Money Friend This post has been written for the monthly JMTC Blogging Carnival. This month’s topic is: How would you make gold if you had limited play time? Time is money friend, and whilst we can make virtually unlimited virtual gold in World of Warcraft, time is something we cannot reproduce, trade, buy, watch, or […]

February 1, 2011/by The Gold Queen

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The Darkmoon Faire Guide: part 1, basics.

Hello and welcome to the Gold Queen’s Darkmoon Faire Guide part one.

(please note, this guide was written in 2011 and is out of date. New guide coming soon!)

The DMF is a very under-used event in the gold-makers calender but can also be one of the most profitable. The Darkmoon Faire is held for a week, every month, on the first week. It takes 3 days to set up then opens on the Monday and stays for a week. The location changes every month

Darkmoon Faire in Elwynn

Darkmoon Faire in Mulgore

Darkmoon Faire in Terokkar Forest, just outside Shattrath

You can visit a Darkmoon Faire in any location, whatever your allegiance, all factions start as neutral with the npcs. Be careful if you are on a PVP server and you travel to a location deep inside enemy country.

The next Darkmoon Faire is happening in Shattrath on 6th February 2011. You can find the dates of the next DMFs in your in-game calender. [ Incidentally, meet my main auctioneer character. He’s a dwarf who thinks he’s a blood elf! ]

The next Darkmoon Faire is going to be the most important in Cataclysm because it will be the peak time for turning DMF cards into decks and trinkets which are the best pre-raid trinkets for a lot of players.Â By next month there will be a lot more settled guilds and raiding will have taken off to such an extent that the value of the cards will be coming back down.

Next up: Part 2 The Darkmoon Faire Cards!

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]http://www.thegoldqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/twitpi.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]About the Author The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 9 garrisons, and max level professions. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house, crafting, reselling, and farming gold making.[/author_info] [/author]

February 2, 2011/1 Comment/by The Gold Queen

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JMTC Blogging Carnival: How to make gold with limited play time?

Time is Money Friend

This post has been written for the monthly JMTC Blogging Carnival. This month’s topic is: How would you make gold if you had limited play time?

Time is money friend, and whilst we can make virtually unlimited virtual gold in World of Warcraft, time is something we cannot reproduce, trade, buy, watch, or scan.

This is actually a very personal question, because it’s about how we prioritise our time, which actions are the most important to us, and which goals do we want to achieve. Do we really just want the most possible gold? Is the gold making work for us, or play? Do we enjoy gold making? It’s all very well putting into place efficient routines to maximise the amount we get from the time we put in, but is it really worth all this WORK if we don’t actually enjoy it? So what do we enjoy?

Yeah, that makes it all about psychology and priorities and motivation, rather than about work-time efficiency.

Time to get out our Pareto Principle!

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. (Wikipedia)

You know the one: you only use 20% of the stuff on your desk/in your wardrobe or more especially for me, I only wear 20% of my shoes, 80% of them get stuffed in the wardrobe behind 80% of the handbags I never use, either. Not that I even go in the wardrobe, because I only wear 20% of my clothes, which are mostly strewn over various chairs / the floor, like any self-respecting geek.

How does this apply to our gold making? It means that 80% of our gold comes from 20% of our efforts. I think you know what I mean. When you see someone selling Vial of the Sands for 30k and buy and resell for 50k, or the Glyphmas (patch 4.0) mess-up with Glyph of Mage Armor. Â But the problem is that we cannot know which item is a bargain, compared to our normal server prices if we do not keep track of the market price of the items. That’s why mmo champion and the current Patch Notes are the most important thing you can read if you are going to be a proper gold maker.

I’m gonna say that again in case you’re a TLDR: Know your market.

You can mess around with all the flipping of copper ore from 10s to 15s each you like, you can buy but the real gold is in knowing when to grab a real bargain, and knowing who you can sell it to, and how much you can charge. And that only comes from playing the game, and from loving the game.

Happy gaming, guys.

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