Change in blogger modified time

Just a short note:

Once upon a time when you wrote a google blogger post and left it as draft for a while, when you finally published it - it kept the old date.  This mattered because of how posts were ordered on your blog; and more importantly - how other websites linking your blog 'aged' your articles.

Well, it appears that this behaviour has changed, and now updates the 'date' of your article simply by editing it.  Hence my Gold bid run advert again became my most recent article over the place sure looks empty since Diablo and what you should do about it article.

For the record; despite having a few newer faces due (a) us losing players to diablo and (b) new players being available due to their guilds all playing diablo; it was our best night for the pot.  Having several players wanting the mount that dropped of madness didn't hurt at all.

Caelestrasz Alliance Gold Bid runs

Do you have too much gold and not enough gear or boss kills?  Are you vain enough to think you bother me on the AH but are missing Deathwing kills?

Are you Squatbanker, Looksgood, Ðitto, Ïke, Xariara, Ultramechia, Scalineatiar, Zalectrial, Rhonstra, Cazzora, Certenton?  (Notfoo is me of course).  If not, do you have 10k to your name?

The gold bid run that I am in has room to carry buyers.

My priest Foofixit has Ilvl 397, 13 best in slot (according to Ask Mr Robot) pieces with another 2 so close that it doesn't matter.  So I must farm dragon soul a lot?  No. On Foofixit, my first Madness kill was 31 March 2012.  I downed Madness (and 4 other bosses) only 5 times. The only boss I downed more is Zon'ozz at 6 times.


As someone who has regularly pugged since forever, I have found the majority of players in the gold bid runs better than average.  We are currently working on Heroic Morchok; but then clearing DS easily (no wipes and very few deaths in normal mode).  If you are willing to buy, we want to take you.

As far as I recall, these are the rules:

• Willing and able to spend 10k on gear
• Have vent
• Patterns, rares, essences 1k minimum bid
• Normal Morchok armor 2.5K min, weapons from 3k min
• Weapons, offhands, trinkets: 7.5k min
• Rogue clusters @500g each (i.e. most bosses in 25 drop 2 for 1k) min (edited)
• Spine, Madness, Heroic bosses 10K min.
• Armor from other bosses 5K min
• Must be on at invite time (7:45pm) and stay till end of run for pot (11:30pm)

I am not the organiser of these runs (but a willing buyer).  Jetfoo (not me - and yes there is another foo out there) had this advert up on the realms forum.

Please whisper or in game mail Jetfoo, Acidburnx, Bbella or Vaul for a calendar invite.  It would not hurt to let them know how much you are prepared to spend.

The Diablo effect

A recession is "two down consecutive quarters of GDP".  A single week of Diablo probably does not qualify, but there may be two consecutive weeks of significantly lower numbers.


The bored have gone away to play. They are not farming; they are not raiding; they are not buying my gems, and are elsewhere instead.

I am currently buying large quantities of herbs, some uncut gems; and selling cut gems.  I am not currently selling a lot of glyphs, but anyone who has read my blog for any length of time probably knows what I do with herbs.


Normally when I buy out cheap herbs, they might temporarily spike in price but restock fairly soon.  That is not happening.  This means that I am significantly affecting the herb stores (possible) or that mass farmers are simply not there (also possible) - Diablo and maybe a bot banning.

Farming normally happens mid-week - not when raids are occurring.  Well this midweek - another small event happened - at least for those that could login.  There was no influx of super cheap herbs.  sob sob.

For gems, I am not being significantly undercut.  Sure there is some competition, but no-one seems to be working terribly hard to squeeze every last gold, and I at least have been earning nice profits.  (something has to pay for my gold bid run habit).  

Midweek I sold next to nothing;  Not from an increase in competition, but from a lack of buyers.  The Stormwind - dwarven district AH looked as (not) busy as the Ironforge AH.


I am still selling expensive Yellow Epic Cata gems (about 1500g) but the Cata Red epic gems are down to about 650g.  There are only two options for this - the drop rates of madness epic gems have changed to favour red or there is serious duping of some gems (which is a whine for another day).  Scatter shot selling (of anything and everything) still works for a nice profit and is keeping me liquid.  I picked up a few extra sales this morning, but expect the weekend raiding to be interesting - and not necessarily in a good way.

However, it is worth looking at new markets at the moment.  Maybe your traditional customers or your old competition is /afk.  Dust off those alts and see if they have something to sell into your AH.

New blogger initiative.

Have you ever thought about writing a blog?

I did - and look what happened. You ended up reading a meta-post about writing blogs. Have a read of the forum at New Blogger Initiative, and possibly read up on Matticus's take at  World of Matticus .

Blogs are work.  They also make you think about the topic you are blogging about.

For a lot of us, Blogging about our activity is as much fun and as engaging as the game itself.  The play of ideas works well.

Write about what you feel passionate about; and what you want others to know.  You may end up with a blog lasting years and hundreds of thousands of pageviews.  You may end up with 4 posts and decide it's not for you.  You won't know until you have tried.

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• If you have recently started a WoW blog with gold related topics, with the URL of your blog; or
• If you have a post you would like hosted here;or
• If you have an appropriate blog with to 8 or more WoW gold related posts over a couple of months.

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