Monday, May 8, 2017

Loosening the Purse Strings

Loosening the Purse Strings

Chaitee was frustrated and bored. The Auction House was selling the same crap and no one wanted to buy anything. She cornered the market on stormscale just to prove she could and then sold it off for several thousand gold in profit, but that didn't really energize her, either.

She wanted something BIG. Keya wanted something BIG, too. She was growing tired of all these tiny baby steps she has to take in order to progress. Keya went slumming at the Stormwind Auction House, peering at all those goodies. The prices for even mid-level gear was posted at outrageous prices. There was gear that cost over a million gold! A million!

Seeing Keya's interest, Chaitee started looking harder at the AH offerings. Yes, you needed Fort Knox to get the amount of gold required. But Keya wanted gear. Chaitee thought she might part with a little more gold than the usual if Keya wanted to take a chance.

Chaitee showed Keya a pair of shoes. "Try 'em on," Chaitee suggested. They fit Keya like they were were born for her.

"They have a name," Chaitee added. "The Sentinel's Eternal Refuge."

"What do they cost?" Keya whispered. "Whatever it is I can't afford them," Keya knew.
Chaitee shrugged. "I will take care of the cost."

"Why?" Keya had to know. Chaitee replied. "I'm sick of seeing top tier gear obviously from dungeons and raids that you are cut out of the loop on because of the professions restrictions. Someone should show the world what Keya can do with respectable gear."

Keya pulled off her shoes, functional Lunarblight Treads (i850), and slipped on the new shoes. Those shoes are rated as i940. The shoes alone pushed Keya's gear level from i848 to i854, six full levels. The new shoes also came with three prismatic sockets. Three of them! Chaitee paid for those, too: +200 Agility, +150 Haste, and +100 Mastery.

Keya is now one sumbeech demon hunter! And that wasn't all. Keya quickly learned that those shoes had even more tricks available to her - such as a 5% increase in speed for one minute, which can stack up to five times! Keya can also turn into a whisp (out of combat only) increasing her speed further and gaining the ability to fly!

What did all that cost? One should not refuse a gifthorse when offered. But Chaitee was in one of her moods. "You want to know what it cost?" She asked. "The shoes alone cost One Hundred Thousand Gold." Nuff' said.

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