Monday Random Thoughts

- Played a little more often this week being I was doing some PvP.

- But seems like my life as a PvPer might come to a quick end.

- Two of the people that were helping me learn the ins and out and were well geared decided to faction change because they got sick of alliance groups.

- And this is why alliance does so poorly at PvP.

- Whenever someone gets good at it, they get sick of losing and switch to the side that wins.

- It is also the reason why you see horde heavy servers and alliance heavy servers.

- No one likes to be on the losing side.

- I did try to keep myself active however.

- Still checking golden lotus every day for that one quest I need to do to get the achievement for not getting hit.

- I saw that quest once this expansion, at the beginning, before I was worrying about the achievement.

- I've never seen it since.

- I only need that one half, have the other half.

- But no, they will not make it the daily.

- It is the only achievement under the quest header I am missing.

- It must be a murphys law sort of thing.

- Whenever I look it isn't there, which means whenever I don't it probably is.

- I am going to have to remember to check every day.

- Did some leveling this weekend on my newest DK.

- Went from 77 to 81.

- Yes, I still actually level even if I can just buy a 90.

- Hey, I like to level even if they did kind of ruin the leveling process.

- Feels weird going from wrath to cata content, always has.

- From a fresh questing character with mostly 138 to 174 gear and getting 272 gear from quests just does not seem right.

- I know why they did that, so the raiders could feel like they were getting upgrades while questing.

- Hey, blizzard, let me clue you in on something because you seem clueless.

- Raiders just care about getting to max level.

- Getting upgrades while questing is more of an inconvenience than it is a "fun" part of the game.

- The next upgrade I get from my SoO gear should come from a level 100 heroic dungeon.

- I do not need gear while leveling, so do not make it an item level to appeal to me.

- The game would go much smoother as well when things get old if they did not do those stupid jumps for no reason.

- I would not be replacing my 138 ring with a 272 one.

- Admittedly, blizzard has never actually been very good about balancing things, so why should we expect that they will balance things from expansion to expansion.

- But you would think after so many expansions they would have gotten better at doing it.

- Well, we thought wrong.

- Not sure what I think about professions bonuses being gone.

- On the one hand, I love that I can be whatever I want to be.

- On the other hand, I hate that I lose my engineer burst.

- And then there are other questions, like will alchemy still have double length on flasks?

- It was not really a performance bonus.

- It was more of a saves gold bonus.

- I hope that stays because I drink flasks like they are going out of style.

- I like the longer time.

- I started to do some spring cleaning on my characters.

- Listing massive amounts of auctions.

- Still trying to sell all those enchanting recipes that I made when I powered leveled a mail enchanter and a leather enchanter so I take full advantage of the rain of sha crystals coming from the timeless island.

- Still getting around 70 gold a piece for them.

- Nothing to shake a stick at.

- And I still have nearly 700 sha crystals left.

- Oh, and lots and lots of timeless gear left to disenchant that I am just keeping around for if I level another character.

- I have 8 mails of 12 pieces each of mail gear alone that I am bouncing between 2 hunters.

- That is 108 pieces that means 108 more sha crystals and that is not even considering procs.

- And that is only mail, not counting the cloth, leather and plate.

- Or the rings, cloaks, trinkets and necks.

- And if anything I have used more mail pieces than I have any others because I have gotten another hunter and shaman to 90 after they were released.

- So if I had to make an inaccurate, but probably close, guess I would say I have well over 1200 sha crystals rolling around.

- So much so that I had stopped opening more chests on the island because I did not want more junk I needed to bounce between characters.

- But spring cleaning got a lot done for me.

- Bounced a lot of timeless pieces and got them together so they are bouncing between the right people.

- Actually put on gear that had been collecting in my bags for many characters.

- Put 6 pieces on my druid.

- I had not put them on because there is just so much maintenance that needs to be done to them.

- I got sick if the need to regem, reenchant, rereforge every time I got one single piece for an alt.

- They are an alt, there should not be that much maintenance in keeping them up to back up potential.

- I already tanked all of SoO without those pieces on, so it is not like I needed them.

- But doing spring cleaning means I needed to clear out bag space and that meant putting that gear on and getting it done up.

- I thought my druid was my worst offender of gear they had not put on yet out of all my alts.

- And it was, until I decided to do my rogue.

- My rogue had 5 pieces in his bag, less than my druid, but I ended up with a few more before I did it.

- I decided to do the world bosses before I added the new gear, just to see if I could get more to do at the same time.

- Celestial was a bust.

- Ordos was a god.

- I won 2 pieces off of ordos and not only that but they were two things I really needed.

- Bracers which replaced a timeless island burdened bracer and legs which replaced 502s.

- So now my rogue was adding 7 pieces.

- I figured, might as well make it 8.

- I sent my rogue a leather timeless helm from my leather timeless catch all character and used a burden on that.

- It replaced a 502 helm with a 535, not bad.

- And the helm had crit and haste too boot, awesome.

- So 8 new pieces on my rogue and I went from a 525 item level to a 548 item level.

- Now to just get rid of that damn 502 weapon.

- My rogue does have the legendary cloak too, so that is why his item level appears better than it really is for a character with bad gear over all that I rarely play.

- While spring cleaning I had to do a lot of bouncing around.

- I had so many pets that I needed to learn but had 3 of each pet.

- So I have a bank alt on a server where the entire bank is my pet collection for selling.

- I am not selling mists pets, I am waiting until later when they will become rarer as they are not being gathered all the time in current content.

- So I would pop on my pet alt, cage some, throw them in the bank, go back and learn them.

- Sunreavers, Gahz from the barren line (yes some characters still had a bunch in their bags), the zandalari dinos, the durehorn runts, azure crane chick, etc.

- They are all over the place now but next expansion they will not be popping up all over and should sell for more.

- Or so I hope.

- I put all the timeless island "goodies" in my banks.

- I sent a lot of my characters back to thunder isle too.

- Had to use all those incantations I had in my bags.

- It is not in me to just throw away things.

- Got a lot of goodies from there.

- Those coffers sometimes contain things that sell for a fair deal of gold.

- And they contain elder charms which can be traded in for troves which can have lots of stuff that sells well too.

- See, I can not throw away one of the incantation, it is like throwing away gold, and I can't do that.

- My priest had 8 coffers in her bag but was full on charms so I could not open them because she was not exalted with them to spend the charms to buy the trove.

- So I did the dailies on her to get rep and the last quest got me to exalted.

- So I traded in, opened up, and got lots of gold to boot.

- And of course every character I sent there got themselves a key for later use.

- At 300-600 gold per run I get the keys whenever I am there and maybe one day when I am bored or need gold I will spam run it.

- Currently I have 87 keys over my characters.

- Would have lots more if thunder island was not so far away.

- I do not have the time to sent 18 or so level 90s over there every week.

- But if ever I am near there I always stop in a grab one.

- Like I said, 300 to 600 gold per run.

- Who out there would not stop for a second for 300+ gold?

- Well, I sure would.

- Would love to say that I did everything I wanted to do with my clean up.

- But not even close.

- Doing world bosses on my rogue, quests on my priest, other little stuff just to clean thing up, takes time and I ran out of time.

- It is amazing how with an army of alts like I have, even more since connected servers, how much junk you accumulate.

- So even if was not raiding, not PvPing, I was keeping myself busy and in game and doing something that, oddly enough, I like doing.

- Organizing things.

- For as great an expansion as mist was I think it will always end up being remembered for its end.

- This time we are in now.

- Where the game basically sucks.

- I think blizzard made a mistake saying the expansion might not be out until as late as december 20th.

- We would have been better off not knowing, hoping and thinking about it instead of knowing it was not coming for a long time.

- A very very very long time.

- Really, what were they thinking.

- Hey people, we are not putting anything out for over a year, feel free to take a break and unsubscribe, you won't miss anything.

- Giving us the date was the worse thing they ever could have done.

- As soon as they released that data my guild went from running a 25 man and 2 10 mans to not even having enough for 1 10 man most nights because everyone just quit or took a break.

- And the ones that did not take a break left the guild for a more active guild that was running more often like we normally did.

- Normally did that is, before blizzard told everyone to unsubscribe.

- Seriously, what were they thinking?

- What business tells their customers that there is no reason to buy their product right now.

- Blizzards business plan amazes me.

- It is as if they want to kill off their cash cow.

- Have a great day.