I finally got completely fed up with WoW and quit playing near the end of Cataclysm. There were many reasons why I finally quit WoW. Suffice to say it was something that had been building up for a long time already, then along came the news about Kung Fu Pandas to put the final nail in the coffin.
I've been playing Eve Online casually for about 8 months now. One of the things I like best about Eve is it's completely different from WoW in just about every way.
The player base seems to be quite a bit more mature too though that might be because there is no global chat channel providing a convenient soapbox for the worst sociopaths. Or maybe it's because block (Eve's equivalent to /ignore) has NO LIMIT on the number of players you can block. I love that feature and use it quite liberally!
Another point in Eve's favor is it's very cheap to play. In fact if you're any good at making money in games you can play Eve for free. You don't have to buy Eve Oline, the client is a free download and expansions are free too. All there is is a one time $5.00 activation fee and $15.00 for 30 days of game time (less if you purchase multiple months at once).
Then there are PLEX which can be purchased with real money from CCP's website or bought from other players with ISK (Eve's in-game currency) off the market in game. Any PLEX you have can be sold on the in game market for ISK or used to add 30 days time to your account. If you make enough ISK to buy PLEX you can pay for your accounts without spending any real money. I currently have 4 Eve accounts, over 50 billion ISK and easily make more than enough ISK to purchase PLEX for all the accounts every month with plenty left over to keep growing my wallet bigger.
For those who might be interested in trying Eve Online there are 2 types of free trial accounts, 14 day trials and 21 day trials. 14 day trials are available to anyone from CCP's website. 21 day trials are "Buddy" invites from existing players.
Here's a link to a free Eve Online 21 day trial from me via Eve's "buddy program". The link is safe, it leads to a secure "buddy invite" page on CCP's official Eve Online website.
Feel free to give me ( Moxnix Induli ) a shout in Eve Online if you start playing after reading this.
I'm starting a new Eve Online blog which can be found at Merchant Monarchy
Monday, 5 November 2012
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Sheep and Lemmings - Don't be one!
Sheep are herd animals and herd animals follow the leader. Lemmings will follow the leader right off a cliff! Many auction players behave like sheep and lemmings.
Sheep
Sheep like to play it safe. They don't come up with ideas of their own. They just follow someone else's lead, whether it be the lead of a rich player on the server, some blog author's lead or even just following to the letter some guide full of old, outdated ideas and information. Sheep come in two types, the ones that follow the lead of other players (rich ones mostly) on the server and the ones that dive right into whatever the latest post on their favorite blog says will make them "lots of gold" without knowing a thing about their server's specifics in that market. They can't understand why it never seems as profitable as promised for them. Tip: it doesn't work as well because a) your server isn't the blogger's server, conditions may be very different and b) whenever a popular blog posts about something a whole lot of new people dive into it headfirst.
Lemmings
It might take a while but sheep will usually notice (eventually!) if they're losing gold and will leave unprofitable or low profit markets. Lemmings on the other hand don't even seem to realize when they're losing a lot of gold. They'll just keep on going right over the cliff. You can take advantage of lemmings simply by posting under your cost.They'll keep undercutting and you can buy them out.
Moral of the story
Sheep will continue bleating the "buy low, sell high" mantra, droning on about how "1c undercuts keep prices high" while ridiculing more advanced strategies and talking about hitting the gold cap (years behind) as if that proves their methods are superior. They don't even realize market leaders who don't follow the herd have capped entire accounts in less time than they needed to cap just once.
If after playing the auction for a while you still can't spot the sheep and lemmings then you probably are one. Stop following the herd, lead instead of following and make more gold!
Sheep
Sheep like to play it safe. They don't come up with ideas of their own. They just follow someone else's lead, whether it be the lead of a rich player on the server, some blog author's lead or even just following to the letter some guide full of old, outdated ideas and information. Sheep come in two types, the ones that follow the lead of other players (rich ones mostly) on the server and the ones that dive right into whatever the latest post on their favorite blog says will make them "lots of gold" without knowing a thing about their server's specifics in that market. They can't understand why it never seems as profitable as promised for them. Tip: it doesn't work as well because a) your server isn't the blogger's server, conditions may be very different and b) whenever a popular blog posts about something a whole lot of new people dive into it headfirst.
Lemmings
It might take a while but sheep will usually notice (eventually!) if they're losing gold and will leave unprofitable or low profit markets. Lemmings on the other hand don't even seem to realize when they're losing a lot of gold. They'll just keep on going right over the cliff. You can take advantage of lemmings simply by posting under your cost.They'll keep undercutting and you can buy them out.
Moral of the story
Sheep will continue bleating the "buy low, sell high" mantra, droning on about how "1c undercuts keep prices high" while ridiculing more advanced strategies and talking about hitting the gold cap (years behind) as if that proves their methods are superior. They don't even realize market leaders who don't follow the herd have capped entire accounts in less time than they needed to cap just once.
If after playing the auction for a while you still can't spot the sheep and lemmings then you probably are one. Stop following the herd, lead instead of following and make more gold!
Monday, 30 April 2012
Cataclysm Ore Processing
Ore is one of the most basic bulk materials and can be processed in many different ways. Most auction players probably already know about the shuffle but there's more to ore processing than just the shuffle.
I'm going to limit myself to talking about processing cataclysm ores today though similar methods apply to most other ore types too. I'll further limit myself to talking only about *bulk processing methods that can help us use up mountains of ore. Pre-expansion blues have set in pretty much everywhere now so most servers should have mountains of cheap ore available.
This is the time to be buying and stocking up on things you'll sell to leveling / skilling up characters during the next expansion. If your liquid gold keeps going down now but your stock keeps going up, don't panic. It sounds like you're doing it right to make a very lot of gold in the expansion!
Cataclysm Ore Types
Elementium
- prospects into uncommon and rare gems.
- produces a rough average of about 4.5 uncommon gems per stack and 1.5 rare gems per stack
- smelts into Elementium Bars
Obsidium
- prospects into uncommon and rare gems
- produces a rough average of about 6 uncommon gems per stack and 1 rare gem every 3-4 stacks
- smelts into Obsidium Bars
Pyrite
- prospects into volatile earth, uncommon and rare gems
- produces a rough average of about 4 uncommon and 3-4 rare gems per stack. Not sure about the earth.
- smelts into Pyrium Bars
Useful professions for ore processing
Jewelcrafting
- prospecting
- cutting gems
- crafting jewelry to disenchant
- great synergy with enchanting
Enchanting
- disenchanting
- crafting scrolls
- terrific synergy with other crafting professions, especially jewelcrafting and smithing
Alchemy
- gem transmutes
- great synergy with JC
Blacksmithing
- crafting armor to disenchant
- crafting belt buckles to sell
- great synergy with enchanting
Mining
I'm going to limit myself to talking about processing cataclysm ores today though similar methods apply to most other ore types too. I'll further limit myself to talking only about *bulk processing methods that can help us use up mountains of ore. Pre-expansion blues have set in pretty much everywhere now so most servers should have mountains of cheap ore available.
This is the time to be buying and stocking up on things you'll sell to leveling / skilling up characters during the next expansion. If your liquid gold keeps going down now but your stock keeps going up, don't panic. It sounds like you're doing it right to make a very lot of gold in the expansion!
Cataclysm Ore Types
Elementium
- prospects into uncommon and rare gems.
- produces a rough average of about 4.5 uncommon gems per stack and 1.5 rare gems per stack
- smelts into Elementium Bars
Obsidium
- prospects into uncommon and rare gems
- produces a rough average of about 6 uncommon gems per stack and 1 rare gem every 3-4 stacks
- smelts into Obsidium Bars
Pyrite
- prospects into volatile earth, uncommon and rare gems
- produces a rough average of about 4 uncommon and 3-4 rare gems per stack. Not sure about the earth.
- smelts into Pyrium Bars
Useful professions for ore processing
Jewelcrafting
- prospecting
- cutting gems
- crafting jewelry to disenchant
- great synergy with enchanting
Enchanting
- disenchanting
- crafting scrolls
- terrific synergy with other crafting professions, especially jewelcrafting and smithing
Alchemy
- gem transmutes
- great synergy with JC
Blacksmithing
- crafting armor to disenchant
- crafting belt buckles to sell
- great synergy with enchanting
Mining
- Smelting bars
- good synergy with smithing
The Shuffle
The shuffle (aka Elementium Shuffle or Obsidian Shuffle) in it's simplest form only requires Jewelcrafting. You prospect ore into gems, cut some gems and sell gems in both cut and raw uncut form.
Alchemy and Enchanting are commonly used to add value and often considered part of the shuffle.
You can make jewelry from uncommon gems to disenchant for enchanting materials. Either sell the mats for a quick profit or take it a step further, make scrolls with them and sell the scrolls, hopefully adding even more value.
- Carnelian, nightstone, hessonite, jasper and alicite are all good for this.
- Carnelian are often reserved for inferno ruby transmutes, but they DE into far more Celestial Essence than anything else (rough average of about 2.5 GREATER essences per spike).
- Jasper usually have the largest profit margin but produce a lot more dust than essences.
- Nightstone and Hessonite share the same DE table. They are usually the most expensive uncommon gems to buy (besides carnelian) but they also disenchant into more Celestial Essence than anything else (again besides Carnelian). This usually means a significantly larger total profit (not to be confused with profit margin) than Jasper or Alicite.
- Alicite are usually the cheapest useful gem to buy and have the same DE table as Jasper but you need 2 of them to make 1 pendant with. If you can buy 2 Alicite for less than half the price of 1 Jasper it's more profitable making jewelry with Alicite than with Jasper.
- Zephyrite is completely useless for the purpose of making jewelry to disenchant and usually sells for around vendor price.
At times it may also be profitable to craft jewelry that disenchants into heavenly shards from rare gems and volatiles. In my experience to date the only one that's ever been profitable for me is Viscious Amberjewel Band (4 amberjewel, 8 volatile water, 1 setting) though if gem and volatile prices continue dropping other such crafts could become profitable too. In particular if volatile air ever drops to around 5g Vicious Sapphire Ring (4 ocean sapphire, 8 volatile air, 1 setting) should be profitable DE fodder too.
With alchemy you can transmute uncommon gems into rare gems, mainly inferno rubies and shadowspirit diamonds (other gem transmutes may be profitable too but often are not). Shadowspirit Diamonds are particularly good for using up very large numbers of uncommon gems very quickly and in equal numbers (3 of each color per transmute produces 2 diamonds).
Beyond the Shuffle
That covers what most auction players do with their ore now and what's generally considered to constitute the "full" shuffle, but there are still a few more things we can do with bulk ore..
First of all there's smelting bars, which often sell for more than the ore goes for though smelting bars by itself isn't enough to make having a miner really useful. Of course you can take it a step further, add some more materials and smelt Hardened Obsidium or have alchemists transmute Truegold for you, but that's not what you really want smelting for either. What you really want smelting for is to smelt vast quantities of bars on demand so your blacksmith can use them to make huge numbers of things to disenchant.
With your blacksmith you make Stormforged Shoulders (or Stormforged Legs, both use the same materials) which disenchant into 1 heavenly shard. These take 2 folded obsidium, and 8 Elementium bars to make. If elementium and obsidium are both going for 40g a stack, your cost is 4g per bar and 8g per folded for a total cost of 48g per shard. If shards are usually 75g or more on the auction, you can make a pretty decent profit selling them in bulk at 70g each. If you sell scrolls it's always nice to be able to produce your own shards on demand and at a reasonable cost.
Then there are Ebonsteel Belt Buckles. It takes 4 Pyrium Bars, 4 Elementium Bars and 4 Volatile Earth to make one buckle. If both ores are going for 40g a stack, that's 2g per ore, 4g per bar and earth is probably under 1g each everywhere now for a total cost of 36g per buckle. If you can sell them for 72g each that's 100% profit, not too shabby. Another good way to make a sizable mountain of ore disappear.
Finally there are Carnelian Spikes, which take 3 carnelian to make. Many shufflers get so caught up in the cutthroat inferno ruby market they forget all about doing anything else with carnelian. I often see competitors selling inferno rubies for 50-60g each when carnelian are going for 25-30g and GCE are over 100g... Go figure! Of course when questioned they always insist they're making big bank on rubies because they get their ore cheap/free.
Another thing that's particularly nice about smelting, producing belt buckles and shadowspirit diamonds is you don't have to sit there repeatedly clicking a button. You can start up a long crafting queue and walk away from the computer until it's done. You don't have to disenchant them later either and they even stack, saving you plenty of bank / bag / mail space!
There are of course even more things we can do with ore such as using Engineering and Blacksmithing to craft items for sale but I don't consider that bulk processing and my purpose today was to talk about bulk ore processing.
The Shuffle
The shuffle (aka Elementium Shuffle or Obsidian Shuffle) in it's simplest form only requires Jewelcrafting. You prospect ore into gems, cut some gems and sell gems in both cut and raw uncut form.
Alchemy and Enchanting are commonly used to add value and often considered part of the shuffle.
You can make jewelry from uncommon gems to disenchant for enchanting materials. Either sell the mats for a quick profit or take it a step further, make scrolls with them and sell the scrolls, hopefully adding even more value.
- Carnelian, nightstone, hessonite, jasper and alicite are all good for this.
- Carnelian are often reserved for inferno ruby transmutes, but they DE into far more Celestial Essence than anything else (rough average of about 2.5 GREATER essences per spike).
- Jasper usually have the largest profit margin but produce a lot more dust than essences.
- Nightstone and Hessonite share the same DE table. They are usually the most expensive uncommon gems to buy (besides carnelian) but they also disenchant into more Celestial Essence than anything else (again besides Carnelian). This usually means a significantly larger total profit (not to be confused with profit margin) than Jasper or Alicite.
- Alicite are usually the cheapest useful gem to buy and have the same DE table as Jasper but you need 2 of them to make 1 pendant with. If you can buy 2 Alicite for less than half the price of 1 Jasper it's more profitable making jewelry with Alicite than with Jasper.
- Zephyrite is completely useless for the purpose of making jewelry to disenchant and usually sells for around vendor price.
At times it may also be profitable to craft jewelry that disenchants into heavenly shards from rare gems and volatiles. In my experience to date the only one that's ever been profitable for me is Viscious Amberjewel Band (4 amberjewel, 8 volatile water, 1 setting) though if gem and volatile prices continue dropping other such crafts could become profitable too. In particular if volatile air ever drops to around 5g Vicious Sapphire Ring (4 ocean sapphire, 8 volatile air, 1 setting) should be profitable DE fodder too.
With alchemy you can transmute uncommon gems into rare gems, mainly inferno rubies and shadowspirit diamonds (other gem transmutes may be profitable too but often are not). Shadowspirit Diamonds are particularly good for using up very large numbers of uncommon gems very quickly and in equal numbers (3 of each color per transmute produces 2 diamonds).
Beyond the Shuffle
That covers what most auction players do with their ore now and what's generally considered to constitute the "full" shuffle, but there are still a few more things we can do with bulk ore..
First of all there's smelting bars, which often sell for more than the ore goes for though smelting bars by itself isn't enough to make having a miner really useful. Of course you can take it a step further, add some more materials and smelt Hardened Obsidium or have alchemists transmute Truegold for you, but that's not what you really want smelting for either. What you really want smelting for is to smelt vast quantities of bars on demand so your blacksmith can use them to make huge numbers of things to disenchant.
With your blacksmith you make Stormforged Shoulders (or Stormforged Legs, both use the same materials) which disenchant into 1 heavenly shard. These take 2 folded obsidium, and 8 Elementium bars to make. If elementium and obsidium are both going for 40g a stack, your cost is 4g per bar and 8g per folded for a total cost of 48g per shard. If shards are usually 75g or more on the auction, you can make a pretty decent profit selling them in bulk at 70g each. If you sell scrolls it's always nice to be able to produce your own shards on demand and at a reasonable cost.
Then there are Ebonsteel Belt Buckles. It takes 4 Pyrium Bars, 4 Elementium Bars and 4 Volatile Earth to make one buckle. If both ores are going for 40g a stack, that's 2g per ore, 4g per bar and earth is probably under 1g each everywhere now for a total cost of 36g per buckle. If you can sell them for 72g each that's 100% profit, not too shabby. Another good way to make a sizable mountain of ore disappear.
Finally there are Carnelian Spikes, which take 3 carnelian to make. Many shufflers get so caught up in the cutthroat inferno ruby market they forget all about doing anything else with carnelian. I often see competitors selling inferno rubies for 50-60g each when carnelian are going for 25-30g and GCE are over 100g... Go figure! Of course when questioned they always insist they're making big bank on rubies because they get their ore cheap/free.
Another thing that's particularly nice about smelting, producing belt buckles and shadowspirit diamonds is you don't have to sit there repeatedly clicking a button. You can start up a long crafting queue and walk away from the computer until it's done. You don't have to disenchant them later either and they even stack, saving you plenty of bank / bag / mail space!
There are of course even more things we can do with ore such as using Engineering and Blacksmithing to craft items for sale but I don't consider that bulk processing and my purpose today was to talk about bulk ore processing.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Third Antonidas Monthly Mogging Contest
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| Parabola - 2 Honorable Mentions in Best Overall and Most Original |
The 3rd Antonidas monthly mogging contest was held today. Since my usual co-sponsors/judges couldn't make it today I had to do it all alone. As a result I cut down on the number of categories this time and ran the whole thing in about half an hour.
And the winners...
Overall Best Dressed
Darkathena - 1st place for 25,000 gold
Fleurjolie - 2nd place for 15,000 gold
Xcraft - 3rd place 10,000 gold
Parabola - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Cheesecake
Eowin - 1st place tie 10,000 gold
Lustforblood - 1st place tie 10,000 gold
Lustforbust- 1st place tie 10,000 gold
Wuh - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Mindkontrol - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Most Original
Gratram - 10,000 gold
Parabola - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
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| Gratram |
Monday, 26 March 2012
March Mogging Contest Results
The second Antonidas monthly mogging contest was held yesterday with a total of 205,000 gold in prizes handed out.
We will continue holding this contest on the last Sunday of every month. Categories and rules may change or be tweaked from time to time but the contest will be a regular thing. Check the Mogging Contest Page for the latest, most up to date details on the next contest.
This months sponsors were myself (Moxnixx), Mybankchyck, Jackiel and Notken. Winners and prizes for the March contest follow.
Overall Best Dressed:
1st- Ister 25,000 gold
2nd- Crythias 15,000 gold
3rd- Darkathena 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Bob- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Impersonation:
Squeakster 10,000 gold
Most Outrageous:
Gratram 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Cheesecake:
Tempt 10,000 gold
Imeatshieldl- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Dressed Bank Alt:
Myththsonian 10,000 gold
Most Original:
Ðoom 10,000 gold
Best Classic Set:
Gulvak 10,000 gold
Bob- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Use Of Plate:
Primarycrit 10,000 gold
Slateface- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Endlessvoid - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Use Of Mail:
Starcrossed 10,000 gold
Rangiku- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Use Of Leather:
Wuh 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Use Of Cloth:
Darkathena 10,000 gold
Sy- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Brekkie- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Finally it's too bad this needs to be said, but it's become apparent it is necessary.
It's our contest, it's our gold we're giving away and we award prizes to the outfits we like best.. If you don't like the way the contest is run, or feel it's "fixed" because your buddy didn't win, you can always start your own contest and give your gold away too. The contest is intended to be a fun event that only takes an hour or two to run.
We will not consider requiring applications from contestants to pre-judge and qualify outfits before the contest. We will not spend excessive amounts of time on judging and researching outfits during the contest and boring everyone to death either.
We will continue holding this contest on the last Sunday of every month. Categories and rules may change or be tweaked from time to time but the contest will be a regular thing. Check the Mogging Contest Page for the latest, most up to date details on the next contest.
This months sponsors were myself (Moxnixx), Mybankchyck, Jackiel and Notken. Winners and prizes for the March contest follow.
1st- Ister 25,000 gold
2nd- Crythias 15,000 gold
3rd- Darkathena 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Bob- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Squeakster 10,000 gold
Gratram 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Tempt 10,000 gold
Imeatshieldl- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Best Dressed Bank Alt:
Myththsonian 10,000 gold
Ðoom 10,000 gold
Gulvak 10,000 gold
Bob- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Primarycrit 10,000 gold
Slateface- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Endlessvoid - Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Starcrossed 10,000 gold
Rangiku- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Wuh 10,000 gold
Farquel- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Darkathena 10,000 gold
Sy- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Brekkie- Honorable Mention 5,000 gold
Finally it's too bad this needs to be said, but it's become apparent it is necessary.
It's our contest, it's our gold we're giving away and we award prizes to the outfits we like best.. If you don't like the way the contest is run, or feel it's "fixed" because your buddy didn't win, you can always start your own contest and give your gold away too. The contest is intended to be a fun event that only takes an hour or two to run.
We will not consider requiring applications from contestants to pre-judge and qualify outfits before the contest. We will not spend excessive amounts of time on judging and researching outfits during the contest and boring everyone to death either.
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Antonidas Mogging Contest Results
The first Antonidas Mogging Contest is over and was a huge success. 170,000 in gold and other prizes were handed out. A few categories were difficult to judge and some lessons were learned for the future (note to self: hold the next contest indoors so mounts aren't a problem) but overall things went very well and it was a lot of fun. We'll definitely be doing it again next month!
I've added a new page to the blog with more information on future mogging contests. That page will be updated frequently.
Being the first time, we got so wrapped up in organizing and running the contest we forgot to have someone write down the winner's names until after the contest was over. We couldn't remember the name in a couple cases.
1st place Famine 25,000g
2nd place Soliss 15,000g
3rd place Mike 10,000g
Honorable Mentions (5,000g each) to Dreary and Jalepeno, both of whom won prizes in other categories.
Thegayblade 10,000g
Dreary 15,000g
Szonya 20,000g
Darkbrekke 20,000g
A tie, both winners were awarded 20,000g
Frostgeneral 10,000g
Jalepeno (male) 5,000g
Shocknawwe 5,000g
Most Intimidating - No picture available
Farquel
15,000g
Most Original (10,000g) and an honorable mention who got her choice of 6 Epics (she chose a Lovebird mount) are the winners who's names we forgot.
Also, the picture at the very top of this post is Eklipse a competitor with a terrific outfit who went unnoticed due to some jerk on a mammoth following her around and standing on top of her the entire time. She received a consolation prize later and is encouraged to enter again next month since we loved her outfit once we actually saw it.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Mox' Mogging Contest - Minimum 65,000 gold in prizes guaranteed!
The First Antonidas Mogging Contest
Who: Founded by MoxNixx, your friendly auction house mogul!
What: Mogging (Transmogrification) Contest
Where: Antonidas US server at the Stormwind Docks
When: Sunday the 19th of February 2012 starting at 4:00 pm server time!
Sponsored by:
MoxNixx 50k gold
Sagal 15k gold
Jackiel 25k gold
<Hypnotic> 5 BoE Epics, 20 Living Embers
<Independance> 10k gold
Pürê 10k gold
MyBankChyck 40k gold
Thurstonhowl 10k gold
If you have any suggestions for the contest (categories, rules, or whatever) or wish to volunteer to help us run the contest feel free to post here on this blog. If you wish to volunteer your services as a judge please explain why you believe you'd make a good judge.
Mogging The act of changing one's gear to look like another piece of gear in World of Warcraft. Gamer abbreviation for "Transmogrifying". - Urban Dictionary
Prizes
160,000 in gold
BoE Epics
Living Embers
Rules
- Judges decisions are final
- Category sponsors may appoint their own judges if they wish
- Sponsors and judges are not eligible for prizes in any category they are sponsoring or judging. They are however allowed to enter and may be eligible for prizes in other categories at the discretion of sponsors for each category. Exceptions may be made for guild sponsored categories allowing their members to enter.
- To enter the contest you simply need to show up and parade before the judges for any categories you wish to compete in.
- There are no entry fees.
Entrants outfits will be judged upon a number of criteria including but not necessarily limited to:
- Aesthetics (looks)
- Originality
- Creativity
- Completeness
- Difficulty to obtain
Contest Categories
Overall Best Dressed
Sponsored by: Moxnixx
Judges: to be determined
1st place: 25,000 gold
2nd place:15,000 gold
3rd place: 10,000 gold
Most Outrageous Look
15,000 gold
Sponsored by Sagal
Sexiest Outfits
5,000 gold Sexiest Male character
5,000 gold Sexiest Female character
Sponsored by <Independence>
Best Cataclysm Gear Set
Transmog items limited to Cataclysm Dungeon and Raid gear only
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Pürê
Cheesecake!
For scantily clad female toons only!
Must be wearing an actual full set of gear, not just naked.
2 prizes of 20,000 gold each
Sponsored by MyBankChyck
Judged by MyBankChyck
Most Original
For something cool we haven't seen before
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Thurstonhowl
Most Intimidating
15,000g
Sponsored by Jackiel
Creepiest
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Jackiel
A number of BoE Epics have been donated too. We're keeping it surprise how these prizes will be handed out but it'll be fun.
A few other categories that are being considered include, Best NPC Impersonation, Classic Outfits, Funniest and some fun stuff like honorable mentions and booby prizes.
Sponsors
Additional sponsors, both individuals and groups are welcome. You can sponsor a new category of your choice or contribute to the prize pool for existing categories. A minimum of 10,000g or prizes of similar value is required to sponsor a new category.
Note to my regular blog readers, this is an idea I've been considering for some weeks and finally decided to give it a shot. This post is really intended to direct players on Antonidas US server to for contest information and rules. It will be updated frequently as things progress, new categories get added and so on.
Mogging Links
http://wowroleplaygear.com/
http://wowlookbook.blogspot.com/
http://www.wowhead.com/transmog-sets
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/mogit
Who: Founded by MoxNixx, your friendly auction house mogul!
What: Mogging (Transmogrification) Contest
Where: Antonidas US server at the Stormwind Docks
When: Sunday the 19th of February 2012 starting at 4:00 pm server time!
Sponsored by:
MoxNixx 50k gold
Sagal 15k gold
Jackiel 25k gold
<Hypnotic> 5 BoE Epics, 20 Living Embers
<Independance> 10k gold
Pürê 10k gold
MyBankChyck 40k gold
Thurstonhowl 10k gold
If you have any suggestions for the contest (categories, rules, or whatever) or wish to volunteer to help us run the contest feel free to post here on this blog. If you wish to volunteer your services as a judge please explain why you believe you'd make a good judge.
Mogging The act of changing one's gear to look like another piece of gear in World of Warcraft. Gamer abbreviation for "Transmogrifying". - Urban Dictionary
Prizes
160,000 in gold
BoE Epics
Living Embers
Rules
- Judges decisions are final
- Category sponsors may appoint their own judges if they wish
- Sponsors and judges are not eligible for prizes in any category they are sponsoring or judging. They are however allowed to enter and may be eligible for prizes in other categories at the discretion of sponsors for each category. Exceptions may be made for guild sponsored categories allowing their members to enter.
- To enter the contest you simply need to show up and parade before the judges for any categories you wish to compete in.
- There are no entry fees.
Entrants outfits will be judged upon a number of criteria including but not necessarily limited to:
- Aesthetics (looks)
- Originality
- Creativity
- Completeness
- Difficulty to obtain
Contest Categories
Overall Best Dressed
Sponsored by: Moxnixx
Judges: to be determined
1st place: 25,000 gold
2nd place:15,000 gold
3rd place: 10,000 gold
Most Outrageous Look
15,000 gold
Sponsored by Sagal
Sexiest Outfits
5,000 gold Sexiest Male character
5,000 gold Sexiest Female character
Sponsored by <Independence>
Best Cataclysm Gear Set
Transmog items limited to Cataclysm Dungeon and Raid gear only
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Pürê
Cheesecake!
For scantily clad female toons only!
Must be wearing an actual full set of gear, not just naked.
2 prizes of 20,000 gold each
Sponsored by MyBankChyck
Judged by MyBankChyck
Most Original
For something cool we haven't seen before
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Thurstonhowl
Most Intimidating
15,000g
Sponsored by Jackiel
Creepiest
10,000 gold
Sponsored by Jackiel
A number of BoE Epics have been donated too. We're keeping it surprise how these prizes will be handed out but it'll be fun.
A few other categories that are being considered include, Best NPC Impersonation, Classic Outfits, Funniest and some fun stuff like honorable mentions and booby prizes.
Sponsors
Additional sponsors, both individuals and groups are welcome. You can sponsor a new category of your choice or contribute to the prize pool for existing categories. A minimum of 10,000g or prizes of similar value is required to sponsor a new category.
Note to my regular blog readers, this is an idea I've been considering for some weeks and finally decided to give it a shot. This post is really intended to direct players on Antonidas US server to for contest information and rules. It will be updated frequently as things progress, new categories get added and so on.
Mogging Links
http://wowroleplaygear.com/
http://wowlookbook.blogspot.com/
http://www.wowhead.com/transmog-sets
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/mogit
Friday, 27 January 2012
Tradeskillmaster Release Version 1.03 released
Just a quick note the new improved version of TSM was released on Curse a few hours ago.
Get it here: http://www.curse.com/search?search=tradeskillmaster&filter-project-sort=3
Make sure and grab all the modules you use, except Gathering, which is obsolete now.
Also, the home site for TSM has moved to: http://www.tradeskillmaster.com/
The release version has a completely redesigned auction interface with a new auction tab replacing the old sidebar, many improvements and some new functionality including a market reset scan function. So much has changed it takes a little getting to used to but once you do it's great.
*** IMPORTANT NOTE *** The Gathering module was split into two new modules, Item Tracker and Warehousing. Make sure you UNINSTALL GATHERING when installing the new version.
Get it here: http://www.curse.com/search?search=tradeskillmaster&filter-project-sort=3
Make sure and grab all the modules you use, except Gathering, which is obsolete now.
Also, the home site for TSM has moved to: http://www.tradeskillmaster.com/
The release version has a completely redesigned auction interface with a new auction tab replacing the old sidebar, many improvements and some new functionality including a market reset scan function. So much has changed it takes a little getting to used to but once you do it's great.
*** IMPORTANT NOTE *** The Gathering module was split into two new modules, Item Tracker and Warehousing. Make sure you UNINSTALL GATHERING when installing the new version.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Unlimited Maelstrom Crystals
The demand for high end chants has gone up and driven the prices of high end enchanting mats up too (particularly Maelstrom Crystals and Heavenly Shards). Maelstrom Crystals are going for 200-250g or more on many servers now. What many don't know is it's possible to manufacture unlimited Maelstrom Crystals for under 150g each.
To get the best cost per crystal you need an enchanter in a level 24 guild who's exalted with Avenger's of Hyjal. Go to the Firelands vendors, buy cloaks and disenchant them for unlimited Maelstrom Crystals. If you're not exalted you must be at least friendly to buy the cloaks.
Exalted rep with Avenger's of Hyjal gets you a 20% discount on prices with the Firelands vendors
Bountiful Bags (level 23 guild perk) gets you a 20% bonus when disenchanting
Bartering (level 24 guild perk) gets you a 10% discount and stacks with the rep discount
In the best case, assuming you're exalted with Avenger's of Hyjal and in a level 24 guild, your cost per Maelstrom Crystal comes out to about 146g. Shattering crystals will keep your cost on Heavenly Shards to about 73g too. Horde characters of the Goblin race have it even easier, all they need is friendly rep since thier racial gives them a 20% price discount with all vendors (which does NOT stack with rep discounts).
In the worst case, you need to be at least friendly and the cloaks cost 250g each. Guild perks still apply though, you'll get 10% off for Bartering, and 20% more crystals from disenchanting with Bountiful Bags. Bountiful Bags alone brings the price per Crystal down to about 208g and Bartering brings it down a little further to 187.5g per crystal (5 x (250 x 0.9)) / 6 = 187.5. Exalted rep alone without the guild perks will bring the price down to 200g per crystal.
To get the best cost per crystal you need an enchanter in a level 24 guild who's exalted with Avenger's of Hyjal. Go to the Firelands vendors, buy cloaks and disenchant them for unlimited Maelstrom Crystals. If you're not exalted you must be at least friendly to buy the cloaks.
Exalted rep with Avenger's of Hyjal gets you a 20% discount on prices with the Firelands vendors
Bountiful Bags (level 23 guild perk) gets you a 20% bonus when disenchanting
Bartering (level 24 guild perk) gets you a 10% discount and stacks with the rep discount
In the best case, assuming you're exalted with Avenger's of Hyjal and in a level 24 guild, your cost per Maelstrom Crystal comes out to about 146g. Shattering crystals will keep your cost on Heavenly Shards to about 73g too. Horde characters of the Goblin race have it even easier, all they need is friendly rep since thier racial gives them a 20% price discount with all vendors (which does NOT stack with rep discounts).
In the worst case, you need to be at least friendly and the cloaks cost 250g each. Guild perks still apply though, you'll get 10% off for Bartering, and 20% more crystals from disenchanting with Bountiful Bags. Bountiful Bags alone brings the price per Crystal down to about 208g and Bartering brings it down a little further to 187.5g per crystal (5 x (250 x 0.9)) / 6 = 187.5. Exalted rep alone without the guild perks will bring the price down to 200g per crystal.
Monday, 9 January 2012
TradeSkillMaster Release Version Preview
Sapu's been working hard on the release version of TradeSkillMaster and it's getting close. Here's a link to the official preview at the TSM home site.
TradeSkillMaster Release Version Preview
Sapu was good enough to send me a pre release version to play with. Here are my thoughts after playing with it for a few days.
The most noticeable change is the auction house part of the User Interface has been completely redesigned. This is a huge change, everything has been moved around and it takes some time to get used to it.
The configuration window (which opens when you type /tsm) is mostly the same as before. A few things added or moved but for the most part it's the same old familiar configuration UI.
It's hard to say for sure but it seemed to me it's faster and less laggy than before. I'll be able to say more about that after running it when the server is most crowded (prime time raid nights Tues-Thurs).
A few features seem to have disappeared in the process. I don't know if they've been dropped for good or will be added back at a later date. One thing I really miss though is the ability to manually change post prices on the fly while doing a post scan. (Edit: The author says this feature will be in the release version)
Many of the changes are IMO major improvements. In particular I like how the sidebar window is gone (mostly anyhow) and has been replaced with an auction tab.
There are a few details I'm not fond of but this isn't a review, the new version hasn't been released yet and many of those details could easily be changed by release so I'm not going to get into that now. They're mostly little things anyhow, like a double click where I'm used to a single click with other addons or a key piece of information I want to see missing from a scan list.
TradeSkillMaster Release Version Preview
Sapu was good enough to send me a pre release version to play with. Here are my thoughts after playing with it for a few days.
The most noticeable change is the auction house part of the User Interface has been completely redesigned. This is a huge change, everything has been moved around and it takes some time to get used to it.
The configuration window (which opens when you type /tsm) is mostly the same as before. A few things added or moved but for the most part it's the same old familiar configuration UI.
It's hard to say for sure but it seemed to me it's faster and less laggy than before. I'll be able to say more about that after running it when the server is most crowded (prime time raid nights Tues-Thurs).
A few features seem to have disappeared in the process. I don't know if they've been dropped for good or will be added back at a later date. One thing I really miss though is the ability to manually change post prices on the fly while doing a post scan. (Edit: The author says this feature will be in the release version)
Many of the changes are IMO major improvements. In particular I like how the sidebar window is gone (mostly anyhow) and has been replaced with an auction tab.
There are a few details I'm not fond of but this isn't a review, the new version hasn't been released yet and many of those details could easily be changed by release so I'm not going to get into that now. They're mostly little things anyhow, like a double click where I'm used to a single click with other addons or a key piece of information I want to see missing from a scan list.
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