Chaitee Loses Her Job (Part One)

Chaitee Loses Her Job (Part One)

Keya has her class mount now, and the family can try to get back into a more regular routine. Chaitee is back in the hot seat. Sales are down, profits have slipped, prices keep falling, and buyers aren't buying. For the first time in several months Chaitee has no backlog of goods - a backlog is when there are more than 50 goods already paid for sitting in the mailbox. Current as of Monday morning, there are only 43 items in the mailbox.

Chaitee has taken the severe step of holding back goods because prices have fallen below the cost to make them. The overstocked, under priced goods are being bought up and there is nothing Chaitee can do but wait it out. Her position NOT to buy up the bargain basement items has proved good strategy as there seems to be no bottom to how low prices will go. Bag prices have dropped to the point that materials are worth more than the bags.

Chaitee's personal leveling has been uneven. She is keeping up with her missions. She has only two followers so far and hasn't really needed a combat ally yet. Then again, she hasn't done much leveling for herself. Chaitee is 46% of the way to level 103.

She likes beast mastery, but she's struggled when she faces foes who get past her ranged attacks. Chaitee looks longingly at Keya's powerful defensive gear and wonders if she should consider changing her spec. She's considering Survival, where she can defend herself with ranged traps and a melee artifact weapon in close quarters. Her mail armor helps, as well. She got even more interested when she learned the Survival spec includes a pet. Maybe Tazzy can still be a working pet. Not sure.

Chaitee's main challenge for leveling is that she hasn't been able to work on it consistently. That's resulted in broken quest strings and missed opportunities. Sista faced that situation when she began leveling at the same time the guild was pushing her to get her professions lined up. Unfortunately, as a result, Sista may never be fully functional.

Chaitee spent some time talking with Sista. Sista has resigned herself to the role of collecting mats and making bags. She gets to travel, mostly on her way through Stormwind, including stopovers at Wyrmrest Temple in Northrend for Naxxramas work, and  the Twilight Highlands where she hunts Bastion of Twilight prey. Sista is content, if not happy. She advised Chaitee to make up her mind - take the Auction House gig and be satisfied with that, or seriously working on her leveling. Trying to do both at the same time is what got Sista messed up.

It was a lot for Chaitee to think about. She had to remind herself that only a short time ago she was a content level 32 Auction House hound, although she admittedly had aspirations for a larger role. Those aspirations came true with the Boost.

Chaitee has a lot to consider.