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On 18/03/2014 3:04 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:


> Curiously, mining Ghost Iron for the mining skillups has proved to be
> far easier then seeking out Cobalt or adamantium. So, I'm mining 600
> level ore to get mining up to 425. I'm stockpiling GI as I go.
>
> Engineering hasn't been too much of a grind up to this point, at 425
> there as well. It's a walk in the park compared to fishing.

I am pretty sure you get skillups from smelting ore as well.

There are pages that say so but I take long breaks then the game changes.
  It may get you through a couple of humps since with other profs 
needing bars it doesn't hurt to smelt a stacks even at low proc rates.

**and now the rambling commences, you can ignore the rest probably**

I am also a pretty manic gatherer so didn't really notice.
Not time-gold efficient at all.

  One thing I noticed when dumping a tab of gear. One of the major AH 
players bought one so I checked it out. It was a 10k transmog piece.
I have no problem, I don't want transmog so it would never have been 
realised as gold in my small world. But -one- very low rate piece did 
turn of for sale minutes later on one of the other major accounts.
  I think maybe half the AH value is actually one player pretending to 
be in competition, or a tight cartel at the least.
  Prices are often way out of whack compared to undermine and I thought 
it was just gouging.
  The markets crash periodically, now it seems like it was for 
entertainment rather than competition.

  It really put me off the AH a bit but now I have a limited but 
integrated microeconomy so don't really need it. But since the AH was my 
prime fun and it now seems it was a virtual world within a virtual world 
it has really created a hole rather than a bliss zone.

I just finshed clearing out the warehouses of everything but essentials 
below 85 at about 2/3 market price. Runspeed enchant mats that sort of 
thing stay.
I figure I am not going to be around much longer, the xpac will change 
things again and the paid boosts -may- kill the mats market.
It is only virtual gold, I had good goldfishbowl time gathering them 
anyway and will probably be back sometime.

  It isn't the real money, wow is $15 a month, I pay $5 a day for 
desalinated water. Just not so much fun, or fun overload, all fun-ed 
out, something hollow.