AKA “There ain’t enough glyph sales for the both of us.” Needless to say, I expect my profit margins to take a hit while I try out my cunning plan to get my share of the market back from some rather insistent competitors. And I’ve been amusing myself with a resurrection quote addon.
Thanks to a bit too much time spent in Wintergrasp, Fingle’s PvP gear is coming along nicely. In about 17k more honor, she will be able to pick up the Hateful chest, which will give her the four-piece bonus, and she’s now wearing both the Titan-forged boots and belt. I’ve been distracted by other things, so the frequency of her PvPing has come down a bit, and I’m seriously considering not putting too much time into it until after 3.2 and the battleground changes that will make them less painful (especially Warsong Gulch – yes please to a 20 minute game limit!).
It looks like my healing with Fingle will be affecting my raiding as well, as I’m going to be changing Mingle’s second spec to discipline to help out with healing Iron Council hard-mode. We tried it a few times last night, and the raid damage was just flattening us. I was on primary dispelling of Steelbreaker’s Fusion Punch (with our very talented other shadow priest backing me up), and with all my attention on that I didn’t really have the time to do much dps.
After a couple of wipes I whispered our healing officer and suggested that it might be a good fight for me to do as disc, to help with raid healing (or at least raid shielding) when I’m not dispelling. The suggestion went down well, so if we go back to that fight tonight I’ll be sporting my shiny new (mostly repurposed) disc gear and a positive attitude.
Last night’s raid actually went surprisingly well, considering how often we’ve been off-form lately. We started by one-shotting Flame Leviathan with four towers up, followed by one-shots of Kologarn and Mimiron, and two-shots of Auriaya and Thorim. Iron Council was troublesome, as new hard modes usually are, but we were keeping a pretty good attitude about it all.
I’ve finally reached another milestone on Pringle, and it’s surprising they haven’t made an achievement out of it.
I mean, seriously. 450 fishing isn’t worth at least some kind of achievement spam? That’s just ridiculous (and kind of disheartening). They’re failed to recognise when you max out other professions as well, and I think it’s a missed opportunity on Blizzard’s part.
Speaking of professions, I’ll touch on the interesting times I foresee ahead of me thanks to some increasingly persistent competition in the Glyph market. I noticed over the last few days that my sales have dropped considerably, and when I checked after posting my glyphs on Monday I found that by the time I’d finished listing my second group two people had undercut almost every glyph I’d listed in group one.
Needless to say, I’m not taking this lying down. (Actually I’m seated, but that’s beside the point.) I’ve changed my posting system to minimise the effect of being undercut, and lowered the undercut percentage in Auctioneer while I work on regaining a more substantial share of the market – I only started yesterday, and while my net profit has dropped quite a bit, I am still making a profit, plus I think I’m cutting into their sales as well. I’ll see how things look later in the week, though, and see if further changes need to be made.
For now, though, I have things to do, fish to catch, and other chores to complete.
/wave
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