Monday (15 Aug) - For the love of Goatgirl

Monday (15 Aug) - For the love of Goatgirl

Mf's Mon/Tues raid officially starts at 6pm. Last week Mf did not schedule a raid because of low turnout, and he wanted to take some time to address that. Prior to that supposedly temporary shut down, Wild has been showing up around 6pm to see if there would be a raid, and if Mf needed Wild's help. He has always asked Wild to join his raid. Mf posted raid invites for this week, so obviously he was going to try to run a raid - the Firelands.

On Monday night Wild was in game at 6pm as usual. As usual, Wild did not sign up, but was available if needed. I don't know what Mf did last week, but whatever it was worked. Mf's raid was already full. They weren't new players, either, but guildie raiders who came back to the fold. Well, well, good for them, and kudos to Mf for doing whatever he did to get them to come. Wild was disappointed that there would be no guild Firelands raid for Wild on Monday, but happy that Mf was again fielding a raid.

The guild is working on getting the "That's a Lot of Bait" guild achievement, which requires guildies to catch a total of 10,000 fish from fishing pools. The reward, when accomplished, will be Seafood Magnifique, which dispenses the best buff food for raids. Wild decided to work on that while keeping an eye on trade chat to see if Wild could catch on with a Firelands or Baradin Hold run outside the guild. Since Wild would be have to be out of major cities to do his fishing, where he couldn't see trade chat, Wild asked Happy to hang around as well at his home base of The Undercity, and let Wild know if something came up.

Not long after that, See from Hunter Fortress came in game to do some leveling. She may have stories of her own to tell, but she ran a Stockades dungeon and leveled to 25, all the while chatting away with Happy. Wild hung around for about two hours, caught a lot of fish (some of which went to the guild, while the stuff that the guild couldn't use went to Happy to sell), but never found a raid to join.

Wild and Happy both went to bed around 8pm, but I roused Shevils at 9pm for a couple of reasons. First, I thought Speak might be around. Second, Shevils needed to talk to Philly about glyphs for Hunter Fortress, now that we were all leveling to at least level 25. We can't use glyphs until level 25. The third reason is that Shevils was still level 24 and needed to get to 25. I was sure that Shevils had already leveled to 25, but I must have confused her with Jocy (now 26) and Bean (now 25). Shevils made quick work of getting to 25. Philly, meanwhile, checked out Speak's glyphs and decided they were good enough for the rest of the Fortress. Shevils got her glyphs, and Philly sent three glyphs to See as well. Bean also got a couple of glyphs, but Philly ran out of mats for one of them. JB will have to get off her duff and go farm a bit for the likes of wild steelbloom, kingsblood, grave moss, or liferoot so that Bean can get all her glyphs. I "think" I sent Speak a Minor glyph, which he was missing, but if not let us know and Philly can make whatever Speak needs. Those glyphs can be pretty expensive.

You must be wondering by now who Goatgirl is. No, she is not another new member of the Wild family. Goatgirl is a farmer girl Happy met at the Auction House. Well, he hasn't exactly met her personally, but her signature has been all over the AH in recent days. Goatgirl has the distinction of dramatically shifting prices on the AH for a lot of the materials that Happy himself deals in.

Her activities, much to Happy's annoyance, has at least temporarily (and maybe permanently) destroyed the market for some of Happy's large quantity, medium priced mats. She's done this by pricing them so low Happy cannot make a profit from them and she posts them in huge quantities. The following items Happy has shelved for the time being as unprofitable: Arcane Dust, Dream Shards, Large Prismatic Shards, and Void Crystals. Other sellers have taken to underbidding even Goatgirl on occasion, and if they go low enough Happy will buy them up, knowing that markets change all the time, and Goatgirl could simply be gone one day, never to return. So it goes with sellers on the AH. And no, Happy hasn't put a contract out on her. Yet.

Goatgirl has also been a boon of sorts to Happy, because she makes mistakes. For example, Greater Planar Essences have an average price right at 10g each. That hasn't changed in longer than Happy can remember. So, Happy buys when the price dips to 7g or less, and sells them when I can get 12g each or more. So, on average, Happy makes about 5g for every one he sells. This very morning, Goatgirl posted almost 50 of these essences - at 3g each. What was even nicer was that sellers saw that - and underbid her! Happy bought ALL OF THEM. I mean, Happy cleaned out the market for these essences - and then reposted a number of them at 12g each. Over time Happy will make a great deal of gold on those essences. Goatgirl has made the same kind of mistake on some other mats as well. Happy buys them all up, reposts at a reasonable price, and says a silent Thank You to his Goatgirl.