You’d think the flu would end a lot more quickly, but nooooo. Which isn’t to say I still have the flu, because I’m no longer contagious, but I’m still coughing. Needless to say, I’m getting rather tired of the whole thing. (cough)
Raiding with Mingle has progressed, and above me is exhibit A. Meet the ex-old god, Yogg-Saron. Of course, that’s the good news. Now we’re going to be doing hard-modes in an attempt to reach Algalon. (Sadly, I wasn’t blessed with any loot to commemorate the event, so I had to make do with a fleeting feeling of relief – it’ll be interesting to see how we do next week) We followed that up with a 6-minute Malygos kill which was quite satisfying.
I’ve spent a bit of time on Dingle as well, running Naxx10 and some Ulduar10. Naxx was as much of a pushover as you’d expect, but Ulduar was a tad more punishing. (Just a tip: The trash before the cat lady Auriaya can’t be 9-manned by alts – we had someone go afk to go to the dairy and buy some cigarettes who didn’t come back for over an hour, and we had to do something with our time.)
Also, PvP. Yes, Dingle actually did a little, and even picked up a couple of the simpler achievements from it. (She picked up the end of a fail AV, an AB, a couple of EotS, and the tail end of Wintergrasp)
The Midsummer Fire Festival has been and gone (yes it was very funny, celebrating summer in the middle of the southern hemisphere winter while I was sitting in front of a heater, wrapped up in multiple layers of clothing, sipping a hot cider vinegar and honey drink while recovering from the flu), and I mostly ignored it. I did a little exploration while honouring/extinguishing fires to get Tingle some flightpoints and a little more xp (she’s currently in Southshore, sitting on level 35), but I didn’t spend much time on it with any other characters. (My money is on the next in-game event being Northrend Children’s Week, which is apparently being introduced some time after the 3.2 patch goes live.)
Glyphs are continuing to treat me well, not to mention profitably. I’ve switched from manually price-checking and listing them over to batch-posting, and the time it takes to post them all has more than halved (plus I can be afk while they go up).
Anyway, here’s the (100% batch-posted) numbers for last week:
For the seven days from 29th June – 5th July:
Total glyphs sold: 721
Average price per glyph: 8.88g
Average sales per day: 914.89g
Total income from the AH: 6404.22g
Remember those extra books of glyph master that I assumed I’d be able to resell for a profit? Well, do you remember the saying about assumptions? Needless to say, I suspect if I want to sell these anytime soon, I’ll have to eat a small loss on the deal. On a more profitable note, I’ve sold about half of the decks I made for the Faire; I still have a handful to go, but I expect to have them sold before the faire moves on.
I’ve spent quite a bit of the proceeds already, on Runed Orbs to make a pair of Spiked Deathdealers for Dingle (which was a little cheaper than it would otherwise have been, thanks to Mingle being able to buy four orbs with Emblems of Conquest) and a Scroll of Blood Draining to put on Stoneguard, which dropped from Kologarn. The crafted plate tanking belt from Ulduar is the next upgrade I have planned, but I’ll have to check if we have a blacksmith in guild who has the recipe.
After the mixed results from my minimal time spent tanking in Ulduar, my respect for Ulduar main-tanks who also lead their raids is substantial. I had enough trouble keeping track of the things currently pummeling me, without keeping track of everyone else at the same time. But on the positive side, I’ve managed to get an achievement on Dingle that my ‘official’ raiding character hasn’t managed yet:
Meet Flame Leviathan+2.
/wave
(cough)
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