Exactly one week from this moment I will be standing in line outside a game stop waiting to pick up my collectors edition of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
I have been on a big break from the game for a few weeks now. My guild stopped raiding and lately the wi-fi from work has been utter crap. I just logged on for the first time since 4.0.3a hit and emptied the mail on all my toons, deleted and sold most of the stuff in my bank and bags that I wont need, and set up all my toons with new hearths and AH access.
I will be logging on at least once next week on all my toons because tomorrow marks the 6 year anniversary of wow and when you log on during this time you get a feat of strength.
The other big thing I did tonight with WoW was to try out a new AH addon that is in its alpha stages right now. Trade Skill Master is the collaboration of a few addon makers who got sick of having to use bits and pieces of 6 different addons to do all their crafting and AH needs. They took bits and pieces from all the big ones: Auctioneer, QA3, etc, and pulled them into one addon that covers crafting, AH and collaboration between different alts. I didn't get super deep into it tonight, however I can see that for any serious crafter for profit this will be the main addon we use. The interface is smooth, very customizable, and once you get it set up it will be pretty easy to use.
Trade Skill Master will scan the AH, check for items that are above an approved profit margin that you can craft, then populate a queue for you to make them. It will also tell you if you have mats on an alt or in the bank, and if you want, it will only populate the queue from those mats.
It also has a nice posting interface with the back end configuration just like you get in QA3 or Zeroauctions.
It has a few clunky things that make it not super easy to navigate, but it is in alpha and clearly its aimed at high end crafting professionals. If you consider yourself a goblin this will be your go to addon in cata.
Since it is in closed alpha the authors don't have it open to the public. To get access to it you have to email a request to brendon.does.music@gmail.com and request an invite. He is looking for testers who will help get it tweaked for release.
Once I have gone more in depth with the addon and set it up fully I will write up a solid review and a how to on the usage of this great tool.
That's it for the update. This next week should be just that last bit of housekeeping before the expansion.
I've gone pretty much full gathering now. My main has herb & mining, and every other 80 has at least 1 gathering profession too. I'm so not a goblin.
ReplyDeleteGathering will be huge in the first week of the expansion. If you want tons of gold get on that main and go hit every herb/ore node you can find in the new areas and don't even try to level.
ReplyDeleteI would suggest going to hyjal until you can get elementium then go straight to twilight highlands for the higher level stuff. There is an easy route if you follow the cliffs to one side of the map then the river back for ore.