The light action of the past few days will hopefully start to ramp back up again. Our cat is doing very well and we are starting to feel like we can relax a little.
Wild is signed up for the Wed/Thurs ICC10 and Philly is standing by to get her ICC 5 mans completed, the pre-requisite to getting into ICC herself. It was frustrating to see all of the ICC 10 PUGs that formed almost constantly over the weekend to get the frost weekly done, and not having the time or the ICC5 completions to get in on one of them.
Wild bought a new heirloom for Java, a level 18 alliance paladin. He has the [Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons] with it's 10% experience bonus, and now has [Polished Breastplate of Valor] for another 10% bonus. Wild let him try on the new gear and then let him run free for an hour. Java returned home to Exodar as a level 20 and riding his new ground mount.
Java on his new Mount
For an unprecedented third straight week, it looked like there was no maintenance on Tuesday. The usual login message announcing the maintenance period was not there. However, when logging in I was disconnected twice before getting in game and then got a pop up screen stating that the server was offline. Another attempt to login resulted in a brief message stating that the world server was down. Five minutes later, though, I was able to login. My guess is that they did rolling restarts this morning without the usual heads up messages. Or possibly something crashed. Blizzard isn't saying.
The stranglehold on the AH loosened a bit Tuesday morning. Usually a quiet day for trading as it's too close to all the action of the past weekend and not close enough to the coming weekend. It appears that some sellers, frustrated with the poor state of the AH over the weekend, did a little dumping and Happy made off with some very good bargains that should help his profits this week. Happy's best buy was three stacks of Greater Planar Essence, in very short supply and worth twice their average price, at one-third the price Happy would have paid for them. Half of them have already sold at nearly double the price Happy paid for them. Things are still tight, but Happy will be able to pay his bills.
Happy and Lost also decided to experiment. Small Radiant Shards list at under 2g each on the horde AH. They used to be a good source of steady income for Happy, but that market is near dead with only small spurts of action. Those same shards sell for 6g each on the alliance AH, and that price has held steady since Lost first started her own AH business. As a means to increase the coffers of Tea Green, the alliance side guild that Lost, Java, and others are part of, Happy agreed to make a sweet transaction of the cheap radiant shards. Happy bought a stack of twenty shards for about 18g. Happy passed them to the horde agent at Booty Bay, and that agent sold the stack for 20 silver (one-tenth it's purchase price) to the alliance agent also at Booty Bay. From there the stack of shards worked their way to Lost. If the 6g price holds (and if there are actually interested buyers on the alliance side) then Lost could see about a 100g profit from the sales. Even at lower prices Lost should still make some pretty good change.
On the flip side, Happy hasn't yet figured out how to make money off of frost lotus exchanges between the AH's. JB needs a lot of frost lotus to make the flasks that anchor Happy's profits. Happy buys in bulk when the price gets to 20g or less. Unfortunately, frost lotus prices are stubbornly staying at around 22-25g, and Happy really, really, really hates paying a premium when he knows he should get it for less. Happy is running out of flasks to sell, though, and JB needs more frost lotus to restock him. On the alliance AH frost lotus is selling for 15-16g each and that galls Happy to no end. Lost simply doesn't have the gold to buy them and isn't sure if this is a temporary drop or if that is the normal price. The cost to move the frost lotus from the alliance to the horde side, even at the lower cost, is probably not worth it. The large chunk that the neutral AH takes out of transactions is minor when the item is sold at a nominal price like the one silver for a small radiant shard. But Lost can't buy frost lotus for 15g each and then sell them to Happy for one silver - she'd go broke in a hurry. But the price Happy would have to pay to cover both the cost of the frost lotus and the take from the neutral AH might not be worth doing. And yet . . . Happy is still thinking about it.
Finally, with the Cataclysm expansion motoring toward us ever faster, there will be two new members of the Wild family coming. The expansion includes two new races: Goblins become a playable race for the Horde, and Worgen (think werewolves) for the Alliance. On the alliance side I had wanted the worgen toon to be a paladin, but that is not one of the classes allowed. Java was relieved to hear that. Since the heirlooms available to Wild's account are all mail/plate armor types, I've decided (for now, anyway) that the worgen will be a warrior, instead. On the horde side there is a pair of cloth heirlooms mostly gathering dust since Philly made level 80. Those heirlooms will go to the goblin, who for the moment is probably going to be a mage. There is no mage in the Wild family. All of this is subject to change and the whims of the moment. But of course. :-)
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