Since this was just an item from Mara and I’ll be upgrading in a week or two (I’m lvl 52 now after my long holiday weekend with two bars till 53) its not a huge issue. But then I start thinking what if this was an epic drop or something from an end game raid that you don’t see often. As of last night (tuesday) my ticket was still open with an escalated status. I don’t have any problem with blizz, but if I had to actually wait that long to recieve my gear I’d be pissed. I really needed it since the guild just started doing BRD and I’m a low lvl tank for that instance but if this happened with a different item later in the game it could mean the difference b/w successfully tanking mara if you know what i’m saying.

But anyway, maybe the shield will be waiting on me when I get home tonight so I can vender it and have my faith restored in blizz. If not no big deal but blizz will go down a space or two on my favorite people list. Oh, and by the way…not sure how much I like the shield now that I got it. The stats are awesome on it but when I’m running and the shield is on my back it’s outer edge is constantly rotating and starting to get me sea sick lol.

Epic Mount Training and Mount for Growl – my 62 Druid

Regular Flying Mount Training and ugly Flying Mount for Skychaser

After this massive outlay of cash I still had around 140-150G left.

I ran instances exclusively for blue gear and used the same Warlord’s Bludgeons from level 60 to level 70 – which helped. I was never tempted to wander off and blow my funds on a slight weapons upgrade. Armor for enhancement shammies is fairly easy to come by via questing and instances (though hunters cry a lot when we take it from them…)

At 70 – just wandering out and killing a couple quests and doing the battlegrounds daily quest will net you 30-50G. Money will cease to be an issue as you continue to grind. Every server has its cash-cows and for me – they were cloth and motes. Every crafter needs motes of some sort for enchants or rare (and not so rare recipes) so they always tended to sell well during the weekends.

Beyond that – just selling the quest rewards you don’t need (or DEing them and selling the dust) is an easy way to mount training as well.

I can post what I did this weekend too.

Although it has nothing to do with WoW.. Except friday, if that’s considered a weekend. >_>

Go go Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 4 until I get my new WoW card. ><

Thanks for reading so faithfully. I’m going to do some more at lunch about what I did this weekend. Hopefully I get the post finished.

I have a 35 Belf Pally that already has 300 enchanting…

Think I should just use that, or can 300 enchanting not DE 60-something items? I haven’t played her in a while.

Time to go back to classes, blah!

Thanks for the help.

Love your blog, keep it blogging, keeps me entertained in school.

When I was around level 60 something, I dropped my professions on Deadr and picked up Enchanting. I leveled it in a matter of a few hours using greens on the AH.

With the right tools (read Auctioneer with Enchantrix) you can buy all of the right items to disenchant your mats or take some runs though the lower dungeons ala solo mode. There are good free enchanting guides all around for finding out how much of each dust/shard you need and where the trainers are and what to enchant to reach optimal efficiency.

From that point on, you can DE all the greens that drop in Outlands (usually 2-5 per hour while grinding and questing for normal leveling. When you’re not playing much, you can scour the AH for items that are for sale below the DE’d value of the mats they make. You can easily make 50g per night in just a few minutes with level 60+ items.

You will pay out through the nose for the last 2 enchanting rods, but that’s the price of making money.