Cazmia's Ramblings

I hate Patches!

2012-02-01T14:08:00.000Z

So, I open my wow client to find the optimiser. Cool beans, knew that would be coming, what could go wrong, its meant to take approximately 15 minutes. 25 minutes later, the optimiser is done. YAY. Next up, patching.

Patch download comes up, cant be nothing TOO big, its only a tiny tidly patch surely... Nope. Its a great big stinking 1.4gig patch.

Now, given that I have THAT sort of download speed, goodness only knows when it will be finished *sighs*.

Another Burpy Epic

2012-01-21T04:27:00.002Z

Been meaning to blog this for a while. I know its not gold related but, it made us laugh.

This blog post was brought to you today courtesy of Burpy's epic rambles!

Quick Update

2012-01-17T17:16:00.000Z

Well, Reset tomorrow, its downtime this week, so now I need to do a lot of crafting, disenchanting and prospecting so I can post before the downtime.

My second alchemist is now maxed, and Cazzamari is level 77. Shes potions master, and I am not sure yet if I am going to drop herbalism at 85 and take another crafting profession or not.

Reset day, 700k and other things

2012-01-11T15:39:00.001Z

So, I've been very bad lately at updating my blog. However, I am going to rectify that issue here and now.

Its reset day, and whilst prices aren't as high as they used to be, they are still acceptable. I just wish I could blow all these people who drop prices by 50-150g in one undercut off the planet. Add to that, the people who post massive walls of goods on the AH at this stupid price, Stop it. I will NOT buy you out. I will just merely undercut you by 1c or 50s, and then laugh as you lose a lot in ah fees if your items dont sell.

The best bit of advice ever given to me, by Burpy, was dont post lots of the same item as you just get undercut before it sells. He was right, thanks for that Burpy.

I finally hit 700k yesterday. Next milestone amount for me to aim for is 800k. My new years resolution was to make gold cap on at least 5 characters, I'm now starting to wonder if that was a bit stupid, and therefore might scale it back to 3 characters.

I'm now levelling my mage again, shes going to be a potions speciality alchemist I think, Shes sitting on 375 alch and herb atm, and level 63 I think.

So close

2012-01-10T16:18:00.003Z

So close to 700k liquid gold.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, been a bit hectic around here of late

The funniest thing Ive heard all day

2011-12-17T23:13:00.005Z

Yes, this came from a guildie and friend tonight.

"Ive just superglued my finger to my bear trimmer"

WOT?

Edit: Screenshotted this one because it was just so damned funny.

The Day Before Reset

2011-12-13T05:15:00.002Z

Well, after a slow couple of days, I am now at the day before reset. As you may remember in my last post Busy Week, I was up to 180k on the JC posting character. Well, now I am at 300k.

Im concentrating on posting the enchants and Gems on the JC, whilst using the bank alt for everything else. I've moved glyph posting over to the bank alt too, although, I am questioning the wisdom of this after having to make several trips back and forth to the AH. I will probably reduce my glyph market considerably once I've got all the ones I can make added to TSM but for now, I've been crafting 3 of everything.

I've also got a rather messy guild bank again. I keep meaning to find the enthusiasm to tidy it up, but it seems to be sadly lacking.

A Busy Week

2011-12-08T04:41:00.001Z

Well, its been a very busy week in the life of Cazmia on wow. I've been prospecting ores like mad, disenchanting like mad, and well, getting mad at the competition.

Surprisingly, I reached a new high in mail openings tonight.

Highest Opening Yet!

When I logged off, my Jewelcrafter character who has been handling most of the auctions, was sitting at around 180k liquid gold, with a lot more tied up in gems etc.

I do apologise to my readers for not posting more often, but I've been caught up in the auction house for the past week.

A huge thanks to my guild mates in Inner Circle by the way, especially Wenchie, Willy and Burpy. If it hadn't been for you guys getting my interest with the gold thing, I wouldn't have as much as I do today.

Oopsie.

2011-12-02T06:46:00.001Z

I've done it again. I didn't intend to be awake all night, but I have been.

Thursday was a marginally less profitable day by around 30k, mainly because I have totally run dry on gems and most enchanting mats.

In other excellent news, my AuctionLite has been fixed so now my mass purchasing can go like clockwork again.

What an Interesting day

2011-12-01T09:00:00.006Z

Well, Patch 4.3 hit, and I got my Tyrael's Charger!

Having only JUST finished my preparations for shutdown early Wednesday morning, I logged in and did a quick dungeon on Cazmia, before meandering towards the DK to post some gem auctions.

Well, those gems FLEW off the shelf, a little undercutting shenanigans, including Pleb and his shenanigans, but they sold. As did almost all of the enchants, Ebonsteel belt buckles, Pyrium weapon chains (and there have been barely any of those up at all) and the assortment of buff foods I had prepared.
I made roughly 60k on the back of a 10k-ish investment.

I was about to log off earlier, when I did my quick customary scan of the AH (buying en-masse is a pain at the moment, my beloved AuctionLite is dead) and saw that some absolute idiot had placed on the ah... 97 stacks of Elementium Ore for the bargain price of 2g a stack! Yes. 97 stacks of Elementium Ore for 194g! Needless to say, that ore has now been prospected, transmuted, and cut, ready to go back onto the AH later in the form of gems.

Other noteable news of course, is that Siskonyrkki made the busy sellers list on Undermine Journal. I flung my usual post gems from one character, and everything else from the bank alt out of the window, in favour of the one stop shop approach.

In a few days time, I will probably mail all leftovers to the bank alt and sell from there properly.
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Patch 4.3

2011-11-30T02:15:00.001Z

Well, 4.3 hits EU today. I think im fairly close to prepared, but its kind of too bad if im not because the servers have gone down.

I managed to get all the gems prospected, all the rings made, disenchanted, and the scrolls started on.

I can finish the rest tomorrow when I log in I guess, after the invariable crap with addons etc.

Playing AH with Stupid!

2011-11-21T03:05:00.002Z

So, for the past couple of weeks, I've noticed this person posting gems on the AH. Nothing strange there you might say. However, read on, to find out why I suspect him.

This character, is a level 1, we shall name him... Pleb. Pleb seemingly has no brains. Hes practically camping the AH for 2-3 hours at a time, just to maintain his auctions as No.1. You undercut him, he reposts immediately. You match his auctions... he undercuts you and his previous postings. This hasnt gone un-noticed by the JC guildies who also post.

What the heck do we do with this idiot? Hes pretty much single handedly contributing to the tanking of the gem market.

And, dont get me started on the complete lemming who, the other day when I had red gems posted up at 200g, (and selling them like hotcakes I might add) decided for some reason unknown to anyone but themselves, to undercut by 100g. Just why the heck would you do that? I can understand the undercutting, but why oh why would you wish to reset the red 40 stat gems (it was either agi, str or int I dont remember now) to 100g instead of taking advantage of the Wednesday raid reset to maximise profits. Needless to say, I bought him out, and took advantage of his gems and profitted on every single one.

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2011-11-17T02:24:00.000Z

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Liarsenic Art

2011-11-12T18:16:00.001Z

If you have a facebook account, please, I implore you, check out Liarsenic Art and like it. This amazing artwork is by my friend, John.

Where has all the Ores gone?

2011-11-12T03:41:00.001Z

Well, This was meant to be originally titled "Where has all the ~~Rum~~ Ore gone?" but it wont let me strike through a title. However, this is a very good question.

Today, I managed to snatch up some Elementium Ore. More than I wanted to really pay for it, but still. Spent 5k on it, prospected it, turned the Carnelians, Hessonite and Nightstones into blue quality gems, the rest, was shuffled and disenchanted. Zephyrites are going on the AH, in stacks of three. Lets see if those sell. Sure as hell beats cutting and vending them anyway.

Anyway, back to the title of this post. Where HAS all the ore gone? There is a distinct lack of ores on the AH at the moment. Obsidium is selling for majorly stupid prices. By that, I mean over 50g a stack. Really, what the hell? Usually, you can count on your friendly ~~bot~~ prolific farmer, to be flooding the AH daily with cheap ores. But nothing, nada.

Still trying to get my head round the setup of TradeSkillMaster. I'm slowly getting there however.

Auctionhouse PVP and other things

2011-11-11T03:01:00.002Z

Well, I didnt feel like doing anything much today, so after last night's mammoth crafting session of gems etc, today, I went about a little AH-PVP. I camped out at the AH most of the afternoon and evening, posting, and reposting all those blue quality gems I had cut. As soon as there was a significant amount of people undercutting me, I cancelled and reposted.

Well. It worked. I held most of the gem market (I say held, but really, in effect, just offloaded a ton of cut gems lol) until I logged off a little earlier, and had also made myself a cool 9k on the DK who is my JC toon.

This has left me however with a little dilemma. Do I continue to shuffle gems the way I have been? Turn all into necklaces and rings, mail to Priest, disenchant, mail mats to bank alt/stockpile and then cut the blues into gems and vend, banking the rares... or, do I keep cutting the blues (they dont turn into jewelry) and then transmute the rest of the gems into the rares, to repeat this method at a future date?

If I go down the transmute route, this then leads to yet another dilemma. I dont have a transmute specced alchemist, and I'm not really sure I wish to give up my elixir spec on the Paladin. I guess I could drop mining on the DK (She has mining and JC) and take Transmute spec on her, it would cut out the mailing back and forth, but I would need to either buy the herbs, or farm them up on the Hunter or Paladin. One other option would be, to level this Mage I have at level 11, and train herbalism and alchemy on her, and take transmute spec. Im guessing that is probably the most viable option of the three. I am loathe to drop the DK's mining.

I guess I have a while to contemplate this, as currently, there is NO cheap ore on the AH. I suspect I will be waiting until the weekend when the slightly less scrupulous people flood the market... I hope. The new patch date has been pretty much estimated for beginning of December, and therefore, people may well be stockpiling now.

I sure as hell hope not.

Level 80

2011-11-05T04:30:00.001Z

Well, Cazlana is now level 80. Shouldnt take too long to get the rest of the levels done. Also maxed out her Blacksmithing and Mining. Will work on getting missing patterns etc when she is 85.

Also, I uploaded my first WoW Vid. Its only the Alt run with Inner Circle. Nothing special.

Levelling Joys

2011-11-01T03:28:00.001Z

Well, I've been quiet on this front for a few days, because I've been nerding the levelling of my Rogue. Shes gone from 41, to 75 in just over a week. Hoping to get to 85 by next weeks reset so the gearing process can begin. Im taking extra care to level her professions as she goes along though. Dont fancy grinding those out at 85.

In other news, Cazmia killed heroic Halion in Ruby Sanctum tonight.

Quiet Days

2011-10-25T04:37:00.001+01:00

Its been a quiet week, so I bring to you, some Horde/Alliance bonding in Darnassus.

The First Annual Jazz Kitty Convention.

Jazz Kitty's Do Darnassus. Featuring :- Akilia, Jâcôb, Donateblood and Cazlehtiä

Also, if anyone can recommend a good movie making program, then please leave a comment. It seems Windows now longer ships movie maker free as standard *sigh*.

Heroic Shannox Deadified

2011-10-20T23:18:00.001+01:00

Well, Heroic Shannox went bye bye tonight. Guild first kill too :D.

Left to right: Garneth, Shadder, Hsaru, Rayze, Wreckful,
Iceni, Cazmia (Me), Ixzo, Arokh and Swanhild

Yet more needles....

2011-10-19T10:22:00.002+01:00

Is there any end to them? Just had my flu vaccination. Was the nurse I like though so it wasn't so bad :D.

Ragnaros Exterminated

2011-10-19T04:17:00.004+01:00

Yes, the big ugly bugger went down last night like a ton of bricks! Loot was shit, but I'm a happy Caz! Hopefully this spells the end of all the struggles and he will be as easy as he seemed tonight.

Left to Right: Iceni, Swanhild, Willowe, Ellinde, Rayze, Cazmia (me), Ixzo, Thibbleedorf, Wytryszek and Wreckful (And click for full size!)

Gold making is coming along fine. On around 30k at the moment, not been paying much attention to it properly though for the last few days. Will have to get back into it properly.

Hallows End is up, Cazmia already has the achievement, Will work on Cazlehtiä's later on today. While I was traversing the world of Azeroth, I discovered this.

The Engineering Trainer in Theramore - He's called Caz too!

Yes. Its an NPC called Caz. Thanks to everyone who pointed out that its a male gnome, yes, I see this, I am not stupid! I dont care though, its called CAZ!!!!!!

Still Subscribed (Parody)

2011-10-14T20:30:00.001+01:00

I really think you should all go watch this video.

<3 Raven ;)

Thoughts and musings

2011-10-14T06:34:00.002+01:00

I can't sleep so I'm watching Mary Poppins and trying to work out whether it's worth investing into a modified version of the "obsidium shuffle". I say modified in that instead of selling the dusts, I could turn the hypnotics into bags, and the rest into scrolls.

This however leads to another problem and that is embersilk cloth. It takes 15 bolts to make one bag. I guess this is something I'm going to have to look into in further detail.

I would be loathe to go into scrolls partly because I don't want to start cutting into what various guildies are selling. I guess I will have to see.

Needles, blood tests and vampire nurses!

2011-10-11T10:47:00.003+01:00

So, I have PA and today was blood test day and B12 injection time. What a "fun" event that was. The nurse arrived, did her whole poke and prod for veins and finds her target... Needle goes in... Vein collapses.

Cue more prodding in my arm with the needle. Veins refuse to cooperate. Now the bad news. "Looks like we will have to use the back of your hand today" WHAT!!!!! No. Just. NO! Cue another 5 minutes of slapping and tourniquet strangulation... On the wrist this time. Vein found, needle in... Bam vein keeps collapsing. By this time I just want it all over.

After a painful 15 minutes in total all 6 large vials of blood are extracted and I now have a very sore hand and arm where the first futile blood removal attempts failed.

I have however had my B12 so thats me for 3 months.

New PC

2011-10-07T19:01:00.002+01:00

Well the other pc decided to pretty much die, so I have a nice new shiny one now.

Gold making is going well. Just wish I wasn't so tired all the time.

The Culling Of Alt Junk!

2011-10-03T14:05:00.003+01:00

Just woke up and checked my auctions on the iPod and some of my annoying junk is selling finally. I vended the crappy tbc gems in the end. When I get online today I guess I will go farm old instances again for more worthless junk to sell.

Ragnaros and more

2011-10-03T02:13:00.003+01:00

First things first. Congratulations Inner Circle for getting Ragnaros down tonight :D.I'm proud of our entire raiding team, even the ones who sadly couldnt be there tonight. We have all worked so hard to get that kill, and for those who werent there tonight, we all know, our time will come :D.

For those of us who werent in the ~~ragnaros~~ Ragnatoss Extermination Crew tonight, we got to go play in Blackwing Descent with our lovely GM, Ellinde. Muchos fun was had by all, mostly im guessing, provided by me and my notoriously silly deaths. Really, who would have known that one druid/Shaman/Priest/Paladin/Hunter/Mage/Death Knight, could die so many times, or fail so many times on things like tornados and the like.

However, I take the ribbing my fellow guildies give me over this in fun, because thats what it is, and I love my guildies dearly, IC is like a home away from well home. I do occasionally miss my old realm-mates from Turalyon, but, IC is giving me new and enriching friendships. Guys, if you happen to read this, thanks for being as nice and fun as you are.

Now, onto the other order of the day, my endeavours to make gold. So far this isnt going as bad as I thought it would be. Ive had various recommendations on what to do, and some I'm following, some I'm not (Sorry to my retro run buddy but I really cant bring myself to charge quite 300g for some greens) but, it seems to be working so far.

We will see I guess, but for now, thats all :D.

Oh FFS

2011-10-02T02:30:00.003+01:00

It really hasnt been my day... bloody youtube amongst other sites have fucked me off..

5am iPod thoughts

2011-09-30T05:13:00.002+01:00

Tell that one person they are amazing... And do it often!

BT

2011-09-29T22:53:00.002+01:00

Thanks BT, for being such a gigantic bunch of arsebadgering mingetwangers, and screwing up my plans for tonight!

How things suck!

2011-09-29T04:03:00.001+01:00

Well, today has been a pretty crappy day for me. First of all, a stupid addon update screwed over my ui, and I lost all my settings. Then I had to spend several hours raging at my computer before it got fixed. Im just thankful that a smarter guildie than me realised where that stupid purple cast bar for nothing in particular was coming from (ty Ixzo, Id probably have screamed a thousand times louder if it hadnt been for you).

We had an alt run to Firelands tonight, taking my priest to 4/7 normal. Got 4 more Embers for my start on the Legendary. Just need to get 19 more bosses down and I will have my first part :D. Then, I really need to make some serious gold for 3 Sands of Time.

Which leads me nicely to the next thing. How the hell do I make gold, without risking a ban. Im going to look into the AH some, fishing, and obviously, professions. Perhaps that big pile of Wrath dusts I'm sitting on will sell well.

I'll think more about that tomorrow. For now, I am going to bed.

Majorhomo Executed...

2011-09-26T02:52:00.002+01:00

So, got my first kill of Majorhomo Faghelm tonight. I am a happy girlie :D. Spent a couple of fun hours refining tactics on good old ragnatoss, seems an easy enough fight to be honest.

Hes an ugly looking bugger aint he. Anyway, in other news, my Shaman is also Over 9000! achievement points. Thanks to all the guildies who have helped with these endeavours should you happen to be reading this.

Guess thats about it just now. Going back to the boring passtime that is fishing *yawns*

The First Post

2011-09-23T03:26:00.004+01:00

Well. These things deserve a first post usually, so here is the first post :).

I cant really think of what to write in here at the moment, so I will leave it at this.

I will however share this with you. My first Signature tag made in a few years. A rainbow animation of Fluttershy :D.