🚀 go-pugleaf

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>So , back for a while before the patch.

Yay, it's been too quiet round here, think almost everyone's been on a
break :-)

>The patch kicked in last night, no warning it just took off.
>With the new battlenet loader I got updated last week the background 
>defaults had reset to p2p.
>   Response just crashed as it ate bandwidth, 9.9G to download although 
>people with the beta invites would have it already.

Nah, we all have to download it, beta installs to a different folder
(in my case not even on the same drive for space reasons), and while I
could probably copy+paste stuff, they've changed the format of all the
files with this patch, so best to leave well alone and let it sort
itself out.

Btw the install is significantly bigger than before, my live install
is 27GB while my beta install is 48GB! System requirements says 35GB,
so I guess they'll compact the beta size down a bit but yeah, if
anyone's tight on drive space, be warned. Thankfully I'm not that low
on space on my SSD, it just wasn't big enough for 75GB of WoW across 2
installs!

>  I got a Sky Golem, the best thing I can say is from the forums
>'sky golem=nice ground mount'  blech, I can't play pandas because of the 
>yompityyompity, and golem weaving is worse. I was going to build one 
>with a month of daily prof mats, but 6k on the AH? no question.
>  6k is about the ah price of the 30 living steel, let alone the 600 
>ghost iron , smelting, remembering to do the daily....

Hehe nice getting that, I still don't have one! Haven't really played
much in a while, moved house a couple of weeks back and that's taken
up all my time over the last month, mainly just playing D3 when I have
some free time, slaughtering tons of demons is quite good for reducing
stress levels!

>Prices are pretty much random for mats and some items, people clearing 
>out bankers and happy to get 1/3 price or less. Or people rounding out 
>characters and willing to pay over the odds for short supply items to 
>get it done today.
>The AH is about 50% more items since it is joined realms, or maybe that 
>is just returning players.
>   A lot of bots....a LOT of bots, which could explain the dumping and 
>weird prices.

Haven't noticed prices much different to normal, but I'm expecting
them to start dropping soon... with a small bump for gems when 6.0
hits as all the people who didn't have the cloak go and do Ordos and
get new stuff with sockets ;-) I'll have to start running stocks down
I guess, still well over a month till WoD itself though. One bonus is
I'm assuming 6.0 is when server-wide AH hits, and finally my alliance
alts will be able to actually sell stuff - my JC over there sells 3-4
gems per listings batch max (and I have most recipes now), my Horde JC
sells 20-30 a go. Granted, at lower prices, but still, Horde is tons
more profitable. It should even out a lot and make Alliance much less
annoying for trading once we all use the same AH.

Currently needing to find some time to play WoW more, got a bunch of
acheivements I should try and clear up before WoD, plus several
characters to level up for crafting purposes (garrison profession
buildings help, but I'll still do better with my army of alts actually
ready to get to the garrison themselves!), also want to finish
levelling my draenei priest, since I've been playing (a template
version of) her on beta, really want a draenei alt for this expansion
given the draenei storyline stuff! Lvl 88 now, want to push to 89
before Brewfest ends so I can get a trinket, seeing as Timeless one is
unique and I doubt I can be bothered farming 50k coins for the 535
Timeless one...

Also got my rogue parked outside Sethekk Halls working on Anzu, was
intending to farm several different mounts daily using different alts,
but didn't get that far yet... and rogue is the best for dungeon
farming since he can skip all the trash with stealth, takes me about
2.5 minutes from entering to leaving :-P