Thanksgiving (22 Nov) - Happy's Crazy Idea

Thanksgiving (22 Nov) - Happy's Crazy Idea

A few nights ago Happy and Lao (with input from Sis, Cerulean, Almond, et al) were talking about the poor state of enchanting materials. So many items have become nearly worthless since Mists of Pandaria. This is Happy's fourth expansion, and it is by far the worst in terms of lost value of mats from the previous expansion. Mats that were hit especially hard were dream shards and cosmic essences. Despite a value that has gone down to near zero, sales are infinitesimal. Happy doesn't like losing money, and worse, he doesn't like carrying stock that isn't going to make him any money.

So, he came up with an idea. Happy pitched it to Wild first, and Wild was, well, rather indifferent. It would mean getting out of his hammock and actually doing some work. Happy then thought of Sis. Sis is an enchanter. Maybe she would be interested.

There are many enchanting recipes that use cosmic essence and dream shards. Happy browsed the enchanting recipes on the AH and yes, there were some potential profit to be made making enchants using dirt cheap mats. Mats that Happy wants reduce the stock of. Happy is offering to send 12 stacks of greater cosmic, dream shards, and infinite dust (most enchants using the first two need infinite dust, too). Sis would have to do the work, but she could keep any and all profits. I don't think Sin's family has an enchanter, but if so, the same deal would apply.

Just let Happy know and he'll send over the mats.

Fist was in game Wednesday night for about an hour. She started in the Valley of the Four Winds. Her quest log is pretty full, but her usual high speed romp through them took a detour when many of those quests proved difficult. Difficult not in terms of dangerous mobs or anything, but finding the location, item, or person required. There are so many small villages in Pandaria! And each one has a few quests. Pandaria is a lot smaller than Fist thought it was, too. Just riding around looking for quest locations, Fist managed to wander into nearly every zone. In addition to the two zones Fist has been doing most of her questing in (Four Winds and Jade Forest) she also found herself in Kun-Lai Summit, Karasang Wilds, and Vale of the Eternal Blossoms. Not sure how Fist managed to arrive in Eternal Blossoms, as that is a level 90 pvp zone. At level 87, she decided it might be best to beat feet out of there. The only zones she has not been to are Townlong Steppes and Dread Wastes.

As for leveling, she is doing ok with her non-Dominos vanilla user interface. The one thing it doesn't provide is a percentage of experience. Fist had to calculate that herself: Hmm, 4,399,719 experience divided into 18,980,000 total experience equals, umm, let's see, ahh, here goes: 23% of the way to level 88. Or, in the ancient language of Bars, Fist is 4 1/2 bars (out of a max 20 bars) toward level 88. Been a long time since any Wild family member used bars to count experience. There were no screen lockouts, either.

Oh, in one quest that Fist was on, she found a gray item in a cave that was worth 100g! Saurok Stone Tablet has no use, but it's vendor value is 100 gold. It seems it can only be found in that cave, and only once per player. Still, a very nice bonus for Fist.