Tuesday (5 Jun) - Checking In

Tuesday (5 Jun) - Checking In

Is it over for Wildshard and family? I have not missed raiding. I miss our pvp family, but my own availability is still pretty sporadic. I was entertained by Diablo 3 for awhile, but discovered that I wasn't all that interested in running the higher levels of the game. WoW isn't even on my radar at the moment.

Happy still keeps up his storefront. He even dickered with a player who insisted on underbidding him on a satchel by one copper. We are the only sellers, and it was silly. Eventually he agreed, and we now sell our satchels at an equally silly 221g 99s 99c instead of the easy 222g. The price of compromise, I guess.

Happy has been trying to sell darkmoon card sets for the past two Darkmoon Faires with no luck. Players are willing to sell the sets at a loss, apparently, as Happy can't make a profit on what the sellers are asking. Happy still sells an occasional card, but may decide to work himself out of that market.

Mostly, Happy buys enchanting mats and stocks them away. With every expansion everyone thinks they won't need these mats. What really happens is that people stop farming the mats and when the supply runs out, guess who makes a tidy profit? Anyone wanting to level the Enchanting profession needs these mats in large quantities. I'm sure there will be plenty of players to sell to, with their new monk class alts and cute Pandas who will want to be enchanters.

A bigger question is whether there will be anyone in the Wild family to make use of the gold Happy is making.

Current predictions are that the Mists of Pandaria expansion will be released sometime between July and September. This is based on patterns of release from other expansions, but it is still mostly conjecture. Maybe the urge to play WoW will reassert itself by that time. I just don't know.

Random thoughts  . . .

Did you know that head enchants are gone? Yep, kaput. Blizz decided that the rep grind for the different head enchants was a dumb idea. So, instead of coming up with a good idea for the head enchants, they just got rid of them. No, not for the expansion, but right now. It's already done.

Wild's replacement in the RG2 raid has four normal mode wins in the final Dragon Soul encounter, Madness of Deathwing. That was six raids/weeks ago. Wild's timing was perfect - he stopped raiding two weeks before the guild started to get DS on farm. Funny and sad, both. Wild is still better geared than the druid that got Wild's spot.