Playing Catch-up

Playing Catch-up

This post covers a lot of ground, from craziness on the AH, a little surprise PvP, to helping a friend find her lost cat. It covers several days. Try to keep up. :-)

To Begin: Chaitee, Sista, and Keya all took deep breathers, knowing that for many this period will be light because of Easter. Much of Keya's stomping grounds had little to offer.

Then there was the morning that the World of Warcraft was simply not available. After the initial grumbling, the family opted for a lazy afternoon without the wars and the sleepy Auction House. Plenty of time later, when things should again start ramping up for the new week.

In the "Too Crazy Even for Chaitee" category, which is being carried over from earlier in the week, Chaitee has had to tread lightly, wondering what is wrong with buyers and sellers? Actual items for sale like enchants and bags are hardly selling at all. Sellers are playing the game of dropping prices by one silver at a time, just barely underselling the next guy. Why bother, the buyers are on to this and aren't taking the bait. Mat farming is a bit more stable, but Chaitee doesn't know if that will last.

Chaitee is treading lightly, unsure of what the week is going to turn into. It really does look like Sista will spend most of her time her time farming. 

What is most amazing to Chaitee is silkweave cloth. This cloth has been a very stable product, reliably selling at 4g apiece, the bag crafted for 360g, and sold for around 500g. That model was blown to bits over the past few days. Silkweave sellers flooded the market with prices as low as 2g. Bags could be crafted for 180g, half the usual cost. The hopeful news is that the AH price for silkweave bags has stayed pretty close to 500g. That assumes someone buys them.

The "cheap" bags, frostweave bags, are doing good business, but that's because sellers are low balling the price (around 240g, while Chaitee is selling at 289g). Chaitee has not been able to force up the price, the chintz's.

As Chaitee was leaving, Keya turned up and just rolled her eyes watching Chaitee go by mumbling to herself.

Keya was a busy girl. Friday night Keya finally decided to invade Stormheim and get a slew of quests out of the way. I think she counted 14 quests completed. She was a bit surprised, pleasantly for a change, when some of those quests granted nice amounts of AP. With the help of a couple of forays into the Broken Shores, she was able to get the 24,000 AP required to add a new rank to her weapon.

It'll take 34,600 AP to get to the next rank. That's a big one, though, called Metamorphosis. It upgrades her Pain talent and turns her into a Demon for a period of time. She has just under 7,000 AP toward that 34,600. Most of the winnings are around 950 AP, so Keya is counting hers by world quest winnings. Using that barometer, Keya needs to complete 28 more world quests to get to the next rank.

That is proving more difficult than Keya expected. After a slew of successes, the number of world quests has dwindled substantially. Those still available offer gear upgrades (Keya has outgrown most of the gear upgrades), order resources (which don't include AP), and building resources, which also exclude AP. She's over 13k now, but that still leaves 21k to go.

Keya reluctantly called it a night, hoping that another day things would bring better success on Sunday. Bunnies beware.


Sunday Morning about 7:15am. Wow won't let me login. Blizzard's fault or is my computer once again acting up. I tried to access the Blizzard forums and that, too, is not responding. Still suspicious of my own computer, I found a site that monitors Battle.net. It's definitely down. By late morning, though, Warcraft was up and running.


Keya has been very lucky entering PvP areas to complete world quests. Twice she's been successful, avoiding confrontation. That luck ended in Aszuna in the well known PvP area there. It was deserted when she arrived, and Keya was getting some good mob killing done. A horde player saw Keya working the mobs and attacked her. Keya never really even saw who killed her. With her strong defense, there must have been more than one. She died quickly. Keya was there for the farming, so after rezzing she left the Pvpers to their game.

Still, she managed to sneak out with 235 AP before they caught up with her.

The Cat Caper. Baba is wonderful cat of a good friend of ours. Our friend was going on vacation for a week and we were going to take care of him while she was gone. Baba slipped out of the house the day before our friend had to leave, and did not come home. What could have been a real trajedy was fortunately cut short when two days later Baba was found in the nearby park by a girl scout group that has an office there. We are picking him up today and will take care of him until our friend gets back.

Okay, I think everything is up to date now. Further updates should be a lot shorter.