Monday Random Thoughts

- I was thinking about blizzards possible introduction of the game time that can be sold in game, presumably as an item.

- It occurred to me blizzard would just create a brand new market for gold farmers.

- It would work like this.

- Someone with more money than time buys game time tokens to sell in game for gold.

- Someone with more time than money and the ability to make gold will buy it from him.

- The more time than money person will then sell game time for 10 dollars per month instead of 15.

- The guy with more money than time will see he can by game time tokens cheaper and buy from the guy selling for 10 dollars.

- One buys for 10 dollars, one buys for gold, and they just sell back and forth.

- The more money than time person gets tons of gold, the more time than money person gets tons of cash.

- With a nice set up like this and a lot of people working on it, say with one of those gold farmer web sites, and they can make a fortune.

- Basically just buying and selling the same game tokens over and over.

- Kind of messed up in a way right?

- But it gets both parties what they wanted.

- Gets the person that wanted gold the gold and the person that wanted money the money.

- I see no problem with this, but it could raise a red flag with blizzard.

- My biggest concern is duping.

- On my server duping is still insane, people selling every super rare item item in the game and they always have them in stock.

- Spectral tigers?  Sure there is a guy on my server that could probably provide every single person on the server with one.

- For 450K gold each that is.

- Don't know if you know about that mount, but trust me, there is no way in hell one person legally has 100s of them.

- Heck, there is no way one person legally has 10 of them.

- Unless that are insane and spent several thousands of dollars on them.

- I am a free spending person and I would never even buy one of them.

- Not at a thousand dollars real money and not at 450K in game gold.

- Amazing how blizzard never admits there is a problem with duping.

- Last blue remark I heard was that it was not possible.

- Yeah, you keep believing that if you makes you feel happy.

- I think I'll believe the truth instead because that makes me happy.

- Speaking of believing something that makes you feel happy it reminds me of an argument I had with someone in my guild about PvP.

- Mind you I am not a PvPer, but I do know simple logic.

- He said that gear is all that matters in PvP.

- I said gear helps, but if someone sucks gear will not make them better.

- He said I do not know what I am talking about, that even if someone sucks if they were in full PvP gear they would win because gear is all that matters.

- I said, keep believing that if it makes you feel better.

- I can't help but think that people that say those things are just really bad players that refuse to admit they suck so they have to blame it on something else, like gear.

- I admit I suck and as such I know if I am decked out in full top PvP gear that if I ran into someone with less gear that was actually skilled, they would own me.

- Because you can give me all the gear in the world, if I don't know how to use it I will still suck.

- Skill does matter.

- Gear just increases the potential.

- So yes, I will live longer, which could in turn help me learn and help me get better, but I would still need to actually get better to get the most out of that gear.

- I am not going to just win because I have gear.

- I really hate the gear excuse.

- Yes, if you had more gear you can do better, but the gear does not make you better.

- You still need to do well.

- And that is what got me about the guy with the PvP argument.

- He said, it is all about gear, skill does not matter.

- And when exactly did you start playing this game?  6 minutes ago?

- People amaze me.

- I would love to see what he would have to say if he lost to that rogue that always battles people with the warglaives on and wins.

- Wonder if he would say the guy out geared him.

- Now on to other things, like another level 100.

- That is number 6, a priest.

- My priest is going to go back to her roots, how she originally leveled to 60.

- Through PvP only.

- My priest is going to be my PvP character this expansion.

- At least that is the current intention so I am going to put the gladiator sanctum in her garrison.

- I did not intend to level another character, it just happened.

- I went out to do some questing, just for something to do and hit a grove.

- Before I knew it, I was 100.

- I have leveled in a few expansion and I can say, without a doubt in my mind, that warlords leveling has to be the fastest leveling I have ever experienced.

- Warlords leveling is like the leveling in other expansions, after it was nerfed twice.

- You know how a few months in, maybe after the first patch, they always lower the experience needed.

- Then when the new expansion comes they nerf it again.

- Well that is what it feels like.

- I guess it feels that fast because I have rested.

- Could you imagine if I had used to experienced gain things they sell in the garrison too.

- I know they want to make a smooth and nicely paced ride to max level, but on a rested character it moves way too fast if you ask me.

- Oh well, so be it, I do hope that others are enjoying it.

- Because I know many hate questing.

- I like it, and I do not mind it being faster, I can deal with it.

- But for the people that hate leveling I bet they would say it still takes too long.

- I am just NOT buying those experience potions personally because it it too fast as is.

- And I really do not want any more 100s.

- This expansion is dreadfully alt unfriendly.

- I'll get more to 100 for sure, just like I did this weekend, without even trying.

- When I want a change of pace and feel like questing for a few hours and boom, I am suddenly 100.

- But I am not going to stress it.

- As long as I have my tank, healer and damage dealer I can fill any role.

- And outside of mythic, which I do not see myself raiding at all being it is tied to one server and there are no mythic skilled players on my server, which are all one time kill bosses, you can kill bosses over and over on normal and heroic.

- So I do not need lots of characters any longer.

- I tanked for the first time this expansion.

- Well, tanked a raid for the first time this expansion.

- Went to, and downed, the 6th boss on normal.

- Not so bad for my first time tanking this expansion I guess.

- Considering we still have not downed the 7th boss yet on either difficulty anyway.

- We will probably get that this week.

- As I get more gear my bear seems less squishy.

- Still feel like a sponge however.

- I won one piece that run, guess what it was?

- A ring.

- I have the legendary quest line ring and had crafted myself a ring with bonus armor on it just a few hours before raid.

- Is that a kick in the gut or what?

- And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I despise professions now.

- It takes forever to get enough material to craft an item.

- Then it takes even more time, and a lot of materials to get it to normal raid level.

- Then it takes way more time and many many more materials to get it to heroic raid level.

- And any of those can easily be replaced by a drop.

- Sorry, but thinking of the investment in making these things that really sucks.

- Fully upgrading it, the time involved, the materials involved, and the luck of getting the stats you want on it which if you don't just require more materials and more time and more luck.

- Sorry, but the base item level for the materials needed should give you normal mode, upgraded to stage two should be heroic level and upgraded to level three should be mythic level.

- And I would still say it was a risk, because a drop can replace it.

- For something so easily replaced, it should be easier to make.

- I could have upgraded my hunters ring to the third level but decided to use the materials to make my druid a ring because I had no luck getting one.

- Now winning a ring makes me feel like I wasted all those materials.

- I hate wasting things.

- I hate wasting time, wasting materials, wasting anything really.

- I do not like these new crafted items.

- And I will say once again, if they are going to keep these low item levels on them, they need to remove the crafted 3 rule.

- If you could wear as many as you wanted, then the levels are fine.

- But being you can only wear three, they really should be better than they are.

- My hunter is doing nicely gear wise still this expansion.

- Won a heroic helm and heroic shoulders this week.

- So moving up slowly but surely to 658.

- Every expansion you always have one slot that gives you hell.

- This expansion it seems to be my legs.

- I am still wearing 630s.

- Not even 636, not even with a gem slot, not even with a third stat.

- Nothing.

- Just plain and simple and boring 630 legs.

- I am just having a horrible time with pants.

- Then I looked at my warrior and said, it could be worse.

- Poor guy is still wearing 588 pants.

- I guess 630s are not so bad after all.

- I did some cleaning up this weekend and noticed I might have lost a few items.

- You know, the mail ate them.

- My own fault, I will not blame anyone but myself.

- I logged into a bunch of 90s I sent timeless gear to on servers where I did not have much of a gold stash.

- Figured if someone was going to convert them and sell them, might as be someone that needs to gold.

- Funny how even after selling well over 1000 sha crystals I still had hundreds of these pieces.

- And so many 90s that never opened the chest on timeless island because I did not want to have more I needed to bounce between characters.

- I was not disenchanting them now, sha crystals are worthless, I was just vendoring them.

- I converted a bunch of them and sold them to the tune of almost 4000 gold.

- And I still have more.

- I wonder what the one guild I am in on my paladin on another server thought when looking at the guild news and seeing me convert like 80 of these things.

- That paladin, and the hunter and mage at 90 with him on that server will suffer from warlords.

- I do not see myself getting them to 100.

- Too much micromanaging of the garrison for me to want so many alts.

- I would feel compelled to keep their garrisons up to date and I won't want to make more busy work for alts.

- Really wish there was a way to level professions without needing to do some stupid daily cooldown for materials.

- Blizzard, really WTF, who came up with this retarded idea?

- Whomever it was deserves a kick in the nuts.

- Mean I know, but what was he thinking, he deserves it.

- Did he not understand some altaholics like me like to level professions but do not want to be on that character every single day to do so.

- And not just altaholics like me, but many casual players.

- I guess that is where the garrisons came in, you can get a lot more materials with the right buildings and then make stuff with that to level.

- But once again, it goes to the busy work idea.

- I really do not want busy work on alts.

- I really do not want to feel like I have to log on to alts daily to do a cooldown.

- They are called alt for a reason, I might log into them once a month, at most, and I can not level professions that way.

- And if I can not level my professions with my characters, I do not level my characters.

- I am thinking that the only character I will end up leveling that is not on my main server this expansion will be my horde hunter.

- Just because I want to see how the other side lives.

- Otherwise it is not worth leveling alts on other servers any longer.

- At least for me.

- At least until I learn some self control and not feel compelled to log into them every day to do my garrison.

- But as long as their professions are not maxed, I will feel compelled to do so.

- I am weird that way.

- Seriously, why are there no green tailoring, leather working, and blacksmith items to make just to level your profession?

- I would love to hear blizzards answer.

- But I must admit, 640 items you can equip at level 91 are kind of nice.

- So maybe, just maybe, if I do decide to level those characters, that is exactly what I will do.

- I will level up the professions, slow as they are now of course, by making myself some gear, and then I will level past 91 once I have the three pieces and hopefully max skill.

- As alts, they can use the 3 pieces I am sure.

- Except for the hunters.

- Some of my alts hunters were in near full mythic gear, while 640s would be nice, they are not needed.

- But for a few, like my priest and mage and paladin whom never got much playing time, they can sure use a couple of 640s to make life easier.

- I sent a full set of timeless gear over to one of my druids.

- In case I ever level it, I wanted to level as guardian and all I had was boomkin gear.

- So while I now have a lower item level, at least I am in a more leveling friendly spec for it.

- I also dropped a profession, maxed one at that, on one of my DKs.

- If I ever level that one I will need to do a new profession from scratch.

- The reason for that?

- With the change to professions, having duplicates of some professions were useless.

- Like enchanting.

- Many of my DKs and hunters had enchanting, because they solo a lot and do a lot of current content and it was a nice thing to have.

- But with enchanting being near useless now, as long as I have one enchanter on a server, I do not need more.

- I hate wasting materials and dropping a profession to level another feels like a waste to me.

- But no less of a waste than having another plate enchanter when I already had one.

- So that DK is now blacksmith and engineering.

- Blacksmith is what I picked up.

- Figured I could use another one of those and it is a plate wearer.

- So if I level it, slowly of course, I can craft some gear while leveling.

- Also there was a second reason for me choosing blacksmith.

- There is always a method to my madness.

- I have 10,000 true iron ore and half as many blackrock ore.

- Now you understand why I only mine on the weekends right?

- So I have enough to power level it somewhat and that, in turn, can be disenchanted, to help me keep up on all those enchanting studies all over the place.

- Make sense?

- Not like the true iron sells for anything anyway, but the draenic dust sells for a small fortune.

- So I am going to turn my iron into dust and level another blacksmith.

- All the leveling patterns only need the iron, not the special stuff, up until 600.

- Hey, it makes sense to me.

- Have a great day.