The original release of WoW to many is called vanilla WoW, where the level cap was 60 and we all ran around Azeroth farming materials. Some of those vanilla materials offer a far greater return for your farming time, if you don’t mind kicking it old school, you can make yourself a tidy profit pretty quickly.
The reason these materials still find is a demand can be categorized as (a) yes, people are still just starting to play the game (b) creating new alts or (c) changing professions. The latter is pretty common, right now I’m torn on dropping tailoring on my main (separate story on that later) and perhaps grabbing inscriptions. After the break, we’ll talk about some materials that provide some pretty surprising returns for you farming time or might be good spec buys during the week for that AH Day Trader. Read more… »
At the WoW Economist, we thought it would be silly not to comment on the parent company. Quarterly results were published for Activision Blizzard (Ticker: ATVI) last week, I could have rushed to post my thoughts but then I thought today would be a more worthwhile as Modern Warfare 2 was released today and it’s huge part of the ATVI overall market strategy for brand / franchise growth.
For a shop that has so many strong franchises, ATVI has been a bit of an enigma for most investors. The market seemed to have hit bottom in March 2009 however since then ATVI’s stock has been a total roller coaster to nowhere which is somewhat odd when you consider the fact that ATVI is sitting on a cool half billion annually in subscriber revenue from players like us in World of Warcraft. After the break we’ll tear down Activision-Blizzard, draw some contrasts and comparisons as Gamers and / or Investors. Read more… »
It still appears that Braeg Stoutbeard is still selling Artic Fur the PTR for the equivalent of 10 Heavy Borean Leather. The big winner here will be those with the Leatherworking profession who didn’t bother to max out yet, and this should be the boost that gets them over the hump to 450 leatherworking. I know there are many people out there who somewhat looked at the professions and said “meh, that last leg is really not worth the investment since I was able to get much better gear in other places.
There are definitely some gold making opportunities with this change. Many may say we’ll it’s really no secret here it’s in the patch notes, but let’s remember that there is a vast portion of the community that doesn’t pay attention to bloggers on the game nevermind niche blog’s like the WoW Economist so after the break we’ll dig more into the finer points of this change.
In that Cataclysm we’ll be getting a Guild Talent Tree. My original assumption is that there will be two primary types of builds available a PVE / Raiding type build and one for PVP. Having my coffee this morning, I was reading a post on Just My Two Copper alluding to the impending Guild Talent Tree being designed. It also made me go back and read another article on Cold Comfort as well was WoW.com to ponder the subject. I’m not sure if Just My Two Copper is on target, but it definitely got me thinking about economic talents that would be worthy of consideration for Blizzard.
After the break we are going to dig into the art of the possible where the Guild Tree allows for not a Gold driven build but probably options that allow for a Socio-Economic type build or options PVE and PVP guilds could grab that they felt most complemented thier guild’s charter. Read more… »
Blizzard has opened a Pet Store for players to purchase in game pets. WoW.com had it covered at press release but I thought it warranted a bit more discussion. Although our friends have been dipping their toes in microtransactions related to the game, this is definitely the first time they’ve let someone actually acquire an ITEM in game by paying real cash for that item.
This one is for charity, half the proceeds are being donated to the Make a Wish Foundation. This is a terrific charity, and in times when money is hard to come by for most charities, if you were going to contribute, this really isn’t a bad way to do so. I may actually go ahead and buy one for that cause. Looking beyond that though, I’m a bit freaked out by this announcement and a bit more on that after the break.
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