Bits 'n' Bobs

As you can see I've been a little busy this week working on the stories on my other blog. Naturally this has resulted in less time spent in game keeping the cashflow healthy. I'm still making about 2-3k a day but have been spending more than what's coming in. It's mainly going on buying mats for craftable epics for my Shaman and trying to maximise the guild's efforts into IC by bringing flasks etc. To be honest I madea conscious decision a while back to help our efforts as much as I can by using my in game wealth. There's not much point otherwise in hoarding so much gold. Can't take it with me when I eventually stop playing.
Flasks have stabilised at 45g which I suppose isnt too bad. Family commitments have naturally meant I cannot spend the time to play the market as aggressively as I would have like although I am shifting as many items as before only making more money.
One tip I do have though is about checking out the lower end mats required in those epic 264 craftables. I purchased Icy Dragonscales the other night for less than a gold apiece. I took what I needed and put the rest back on the AH at just over 8g each. I sold about 75% of these before someone dumped some extra stock on there at half the price. I'm going to keep my eye on this market over the next wee while. I'm sure the same might apply to the Blacksmithing and Tailoring options as well.

Citizens of Azeroth

Many years ago I used to write fairly prolifically. Mainly poetry, comedy sketches and the odd short story thrown in for good measure. I used to love penning random bits of silliness and to be honest I've let myself go stale. I know I can write although my editing skills are as rough as a badger's arse.However being recently made redundant has both given me time to reassess what I would like to do with my life and then to do something about it. So I have an idea and I'm running with it. And that idea is..
http://azerothchat.wordpress.com/
My hope is that this blog reignites my love for writing and telling stories. All good things hopefully have to start somewhere and this is my beginning.
The aim of this blog in particular is to try to add some backstory to the inconsequential characters of wow, those who have no history. It's all meant to be in good humour and to try something a little different, for me anyways.
The aim is to keep the stories in line with the ethos of WoW and the history within although there's always room for some personal interpretation. Some will be standalone pieces and others are intended to be serials. I hope you all like it and as always, your thoughts are welcome. If you even fancy commenting on the stories feel free to do so. All is ask is that you add a little flair to the comments, maybe even adding what you might have heard from these characters.

A new Venture

This is just a small heads up on a new idea I've working on which isn't gold related. I've had an idea for a while to write stories based around in game characters whilst at the same time learnign to blog more efficiently and carefully. It might go further than that but at the moment I just want to keep writing and working on the site.
Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be ready to share the blog address with you all.

Flasks - an update.

Well I promised I would delve vociferously into the flask market and I have to admit i've taken a slightly more restrained approach instead.
In total I have about 500 Frost Wyrms, 200 Endless Rages and 150 Stonebloods just now, with about another 250 Frost lotus sitting in the bank. The other night I bought out all remaining Lotus from the AH, well those at 70g and under and also cleared out the Lichblooms, Icethorns and Goldclovers as well. Thankfully I already had 50 Eternal life in stock.
I whacked a shedload of flasks ontoAH for 24 hours at 50g to see if they sold, roughly 50 of the DPS ones and 20 of the Stones. The Stones all sold but the DPS were sporadic at best, They were fairly easily undercut although promisingly not by huge amounts and not in huge numbers. Admittedly this was the weekend and beign a family man I hadn't the time to log in keep track of affairs, however I'm goingto try the same this afternoon in advance of the new raid week starting around teatime. I should get luckier I would imagine.

Am still going to post at 50g as I want to continue seeing over a 2 week period just how volatile the market is. Like Hulan commented on my previous flask post/thought, flask prices do not accurately reflect costs of the mats. Thus am hoping with a sustained clearing of the AH of mats I might be able to manipulate further. It's still early days mind and ultimately I'm not goingto be too disappointed if I am not too successful. Although I damn well sure won't make a loss.

Ticking along , free of stress.

I have been remiss. Goldcap was smashed about 2 days after my last bout of waffling. Then the spending spree began. A cloak for 8k and a big fat mammoth for tramping and trading around Northrend on. I'm a little disappointed that when ye repair using the troll dude on the back of said wooly elephant the costs do not go to you personally. Now I'm not too worried abotu my own repair costs etc but it would be nice when others who use him, the shillings come to you. I mean we did pay 16k for the fecker.
One of the joys about having hit goldcap is that it's remarkably easy how the gold continues to roll in, even having scaled back my efforts considerably. The mammoth and cloak costs have already been made back threefold and thats with barely bothering to spend as much time as I had been doing.
Gems are still the main earner although the price of uncut ones went ballistic for a while, Thankfully, Cut gems followed suit and the complaints about prices are more common place these days. Still, if you can't craft the said item you need then be prepared to pay the going rate.
Apologies for a random higglety pigglety post but to be honest there is a lot going on these days in the MagzGuild and naturally these take priority.

To round off  - I'll give you some info on one thing I have been doing recently in game and that's attempting to manipulate the Flask Market. I mean, come on, 25g for a flask!!!! Try 50g minimum by the time I have finished. It's a slow process but I do now have 400 Frost lotus in my bank to help me continue and there's more on the way. The demand is huge right now with ICC being the flavour of the month and I'm tryign to limit supply. I'll let ye know how I get on soon. I hope :p

Another for the Horde!

A stupid post title for a marvellous occasion. Magz junior has arrived a little earlier than anticipated and I'm now the proud father of  a little boy called Robert. Already we've started calling him Robbie which isn't terribly Irish but he's a little duck and he's mine.
I would probably be right in assuming that there are a few of you out there who have sprogged some wains of yer own, so you can now empathise with my current feeling of elation and satisfaction. We waited 7 years now since our first to have this little fella and that wait was well worth it.
Mother and child are in excellent health  and if I were to be honest I'm slightly ratarsed whilst scribbling this. It wouldn't be Irish if I weren't.

And as a sidenote  - whilst I was at the hospital the last few days, my auctions have tippedme over the 200k mark. Darkmoon faire, I truly love ye.

And to sum the occasion up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HZ4tzQmL8