Over the last few days I’ve discovered what presents a challenge to me in this game. It’s the auction house of course. Here I have a decked out (well, for me) level 70 Priest in crafted and won gear from a pretty decent dungeon and have I distributed his new talent points yet or seen the new areas?

Not remotely. Instead I’m logging on my podcast character and bought up 6 new items in one session, all within 40-200g each. All blues except for the epic robe I couldn’t pass up at 6g the first night I logged on.

I bought one lvl 78 blue Warlock/Mage weapon for 200 gold that I figure will go for at least 400, and several under valued blue armor pieces. At the time, there wasn’t any competition from like items and so I feel pretty justified in my immediate purchase. The stats were of course the main aspect, but if there are several others like them already up, well that’s just too much effort to expend in a “who can post it the cheapest” war, exactly the type of wars that are best avoided.

Neither of my first two purchases have sold yet. The epic robe I bought for 6g has another competitor who bid lower by a hundred, so I took it down and reposted somewhere in the 300’s. I won’t mind even if it goes down to 100g (unlikely) since I’ll have made 16x my money. The other item has as well had many more competitors but started out solo. But it’s still valued pretty high (too high in my opinion) so I expect still some profit.

Here’s the number I started the other night with: 2181 gold. Meanwhile, let’s see if we can’t get some talent points spent for my priest… what the heck is “Divine Hymm?”

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