Auction House iPhone Application

Auction House iPhone Application

We’ll let everyone know if and when we get to the point of adding this application to more devices. We’re currently focused on getting the functionality working properly for this device at this time. (Source)

Auction House and Armory Integration

Since the launch of the World of Warcraft Armory, we’ve been regularly releasing updates and new features designed to help players stay connected to the game even when they’re not logged in. Today, we wanted to give you a heads-up about a new service now in development that will let players access the Auction House directly through the Armory website or Armory App for iPhone or iPod touch.

While there are still plenty of details to be worked out, we’re designing the service to offer auction functionality similar to what’s available in-game. Players have been requesting — and we’ve been hoping to implement — a feature like this for a long time, and we’re excited that the Armory and the game have evolved to a point that makes it possible.

This is a fairly complex service to develop, due in large part to its unprecedented integration with the game, so we don’t have an exact release date yet. It’s important to note here that certain elements of the service will be premium-based, which we’ll go into more detail on once the service functionality is finalized. As with all of the services we offer, we plan to integrate the Auction House and Armory in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience, and we won’t release it until it meets the quality standards that we’ve set for our other features and services. You may be seeing bits and pieces of the Auction House service pop up in the test builds we use for the public test realms as we go through the process of internal testing. We’ll have more info to share with you here and at http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com as we get closer to release. (Source)

We are sure some people are very excited about this new addition, especially those who like to check their auctions before leaving for work or even those who constantly watch the economy like a hawk. There are various benefits to having the auction house available at your fingertips. So far Blizzard have announced this feature for the iPhone as well as through the Warcraft Armory website. Those currently who would like to play the auction house at work or school but can’t, now have a way to. Time will tell what sort of features as well as limitations will be integrated into this new feature.

Do our readers agree or disagree with this new auction house feature?

Market Watch – 02/01/2010

Our new column Market Watch focuses on the latest and most informational news from our forums. So lets dive in and see what current gold making tactics our tycoons are engaged in…

• Best selling gems and highest profit gems by: Kumíko – Our gold capped and millionaire player lists his best selling gems on the market today, it is definitely worth a look if you are a Jewelcrafter with access to some of these recipes.
• Prospecting/Jewelcrafting/Disenchanting spreadsheet by: Delcitina – Our resident spreadsheet creator has updated the prospecting spreadsheet for 3.3. Get your copy now by visiting our forums.
• 3.3 Epic ammo by: Killgore9998 – Finally some more profits to be made as an Engineer with the help of the new epic quality ammo from Icecrown Citadel recipes.
• Heavy Borean Leather / Arctic Fur by: LargeRichard – One of the easiest Leatherworking tricks you can do for a quick profit.
• Crafted Runed Orb Epics by: Warcraft Econ – Runed Orb crafted epics are still selling well?

Hall of Fame: Kumiko of Malygos-EU (1 Million Gold Achieved)

The Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame is a column featuring the few elite players that have hit the World of Warcraft gold cap of 214,748 gold 36 silver 46 copper. We have with us, Kumiko of Malygos-EU, who will be sharing their stories with us today. He has reached 1,000,000 gold, well above the gold cap.

Please tell us a little about yourself and your gaming experience.

Hello. My name is Boris. I play my feral kitty Kumíko in the raiding guild on the german EU server Malygos. I started WoW right at release day and experienced vanilla wow with my human priestress Nem, who is still well known on Antonidas EU. With her I managed to save 48k gold till the end of vanilla just with buying and selling epics and rare twink items. In fact I made much more, but I blew out the money for any upgrade I could find for my rogue toon. I didn’t use any profession so far for making gold. When BC came out, I rerolled and played my actual main char Kumíko (healer at first, when black temple started I switched to feral). I bought every level 70 beginners epic I could find to stuff her out and joined my raid guild. After that all my gold was gone and I had to kill mobs and farm greens and greys to get the daily money for raiding (repairs, flasks and food). It was a pain in the arse, because I hate farming gold by killing mobs. Then I saw a guildmate making enormous amounts of gold with his jewelry profession. So I learned JC and from that day on I invested all farmed gold for rare JC recipes and soon was the first and only player on Malygos, who could cut every gem ingame. At the end of BC I had nearly 500k cash and, believe it or not, I guzzled all for my brother’s toons, guildmates, friends and every luxury available. I thought I would quit WoW, but that didn’t happen, because I’m addicted to it. When wotlk started, I bought every damaged necklace I could find. Only few people read patch notes and look for quest items i.e. on wowhead.com. So I already knew, what to look for, weeks before the latest expansion came out. The first 100 necklaces I got for a median price of 50G. Later i payed up to 100G. And when the prices finally reached 200G+, I already had every rare gem cut in my book. Even the useless ones.

Do you raid or PvP most? Both? How do you enjoy the game?

I don’t like PvP. Neither arena nor battlegrounds. I only like raiding PvE bosses. Ok, i do my daily dungeon quest for the two frost emblems until i have my T10 set and the emblems cloak, but that’s it.

Why did you choose to collect this amount of gold?

My worst nightmare, my greatest fear is, that i have to kill mobs for cash to continue raiding. Thank all gods of Azeroth, this won’t ever happen again. And that’s the only reason why i play the AH.

How did you go about getting to the 214k? Did you use professions? Auction House arbitrage? Any creative ideas?

I used my JC profession. Once I had all recipes in BC, it was very easy to get the gold cap. It’s much easier, when you can spread your auctions and offer five gems of every kind instead of auctioning hundreds of runed rubies. Scan the AH every time you can. Look for cheap offers. Buy low and sell higher, but not too high. Let’s take eternals for example. Just buy all cheap eternal airs you see in the morning. Then send 20 to 40 of them to an anonymous toon and offer them way overpriced in the AH. The other sellers enter the market right below your prices, they just undercut but are still way too high. The other 80%, the main charge of your eternals, put into the AH some hours later or when you get home from work. best time is half an hour before the competitors (and you) start raiding. Undercut them by far, but still stay high enough for a good profit. Your offer looks cheap in comparison and you’ll see, you get bought out.

How did you learn to do it?

Before I played WoW, I already had played Everquest for five years. In fact, there I really learned to play the AH, buy cheap, sell high. Everquest had a lot of “twink items”. Items with many and good stats on them. Hitpoints regeneration, haste, large amounts of stamina and so on. Some of them were as good as endgame gear. And they all were and remained tradable, even after equipping. And even a level one char could equip them. So i.e. a fresh created level one toon with cloak of flames (haste), fungi tunic (hp regen) and two scepters of destruction (imba dps and insane procs) could kill a group of level 10 mobs, level very fast, own every place and flex its epeen to the max. That were the days, when trading was much more fun and time killing than the rest of the game was.

What addons, if any, do you use to help you make gold?

I only use Auctioneer for mass acutioning and Postal to empty my mail box. Time is money. I don’t care about suggestions and data from auctioneer. All prices and clues have been storaged in my brains.

Are you still going for more gold? If so, do you have a new goal? Are you close?

Of course I do. It’s my way to play the game. The last 1000 gold isn’t worth less than the first. It’s funny, when you realize, how many hours you spent to make one million gold, you don’t ever want to break it again. So I only use my surplus for new stuff. Bought four portable holes to self reward me for the effort. There is no new goal. The second million doesn’t look very appealing to me. If it comes, I’ll take it. If not, I don’t care.

Do many people know you have this amount of gold?

Yes, my server knows. And there are players from other servers, who log on to malygos with a level one to get some hints from me.

Did you spend your gold on fun things? What have you bought? What things would you like to buy?

Got the first chopper on my server. And I bought the new totc craftings right after 3.2. The knightbane carapace was 40k and the bracers of swift death were 20k. I am not Scrooge-like. I hope, Blizzard is bringing out some really nice gold sinks with cataclysm. I mean, very pricey and very exclusive things. An exclusive flying mount for 250k gold would be nice. Not stuff for 20k everybody will be able to afford. It must feel epic to buy it.

Do you have any special tips that you would like to share?

In fact, no. There is no master plan. No secret. Just use common sense and read patch notes carefully. A good profession can help. JC is very good, as long as you are one of the first to get all recipes. The joke is, you can get much more gold with farming than with playing the AH. But you have to like farming several hours every day.

Do you have any fun stories from when you were grinding?

Nope. I hate grinding. That’s why I always make one of the first three max level chars on my server after each expansion. I want to get through it asap. Once in BC, I grinded through the mana ghosts for primal manas at Kirinvar Village in Netherstorm. The ground is an inclined plane, which made me feel so giddy, that I puked. Is that a fun story?

What was the best deal you ever came across?

Twelve “damaged necklaces” in the auction house, in a row. Three days after wotlk came out. For 10G buy price each one. Took me the longest eight seconds in my life to buy them. But the best deal were the 1700 stacks titanium ore I bought pre patch for 100G-120G each. Invested 180k for all. On Patch day, titanium stacks rised up to 300G per stack. Nevertheless I started prospecting them at 3.00pm in the afternoon just when I logged in and finished the last stack at 2.15am in the night. Ported to Dalaran and got every epic JC recipe in the game, sold the rest of the powder for a good price and had enough raw gems to dominate the market for weeks. After all I had approx. 80k profit in cash + whatever you would say, all epic gem recipes are worth.

Do you remember any of your worst deals?

I remember them all. But they didn’t matter. Every new patch I have some very big deals with very good profit. Then some, which just repay and some, which are a loss. As long as the big deals have the majority, everything is fine. The losses merge into the crowd, because I do wide spread mixed calculations.

What are your future plans with WoW?

To stay the strongest kitty on my server like I have always been. In 2010 I want to get out of home more often and do things that really matter *laugh*

Thank you for taking the time to do this interview for Warcraft Econ. Do you have any last words?

Get an authenticator ASAP!

Fishing: How Profitable Is It? Part II

Back in January of 2009, we wrote about how profitable fishing was shortly after the release of Wotlk. Our numbers came out to be about 300g per hour. We decided to do this test again after noticing some increased prices of fish on our server. Our new numbers now are almost 500g/hr! Not bad for fishing in Wintergrasp without having to move an inch.

The Experiment

For this test we wanted to maximize the fish caught in the smallest amount of time, so fishing in Wintergrasp was a good choice. After fishing for about an hour, 217 total fish were caught among other things. Below are the results.

• 76 [Glacial Salmon] 288.8g
• 69 [Nettlefish] 62.1
• 72 [Musselback Sculpin] 75.6
• 1 [Siren's Tear] 50
• 16 [Dalaran Clamchower] 14

Total: 490.5g per hour

New URL for Warcraft Econ Social Network Site

Social Network: http://www.warcraftecon.socialgo.com

Forums: http://www.warcraftecon.com/forums

This will fix almost all the problems some users are still having.

Social Network and Forums Quick Fix

If either sites are not working, try these steps below while the DNS updates. Most problems are on the client/user side.

http://www.warcraftecon.com

http://www.warcraftecon.com/forums

1. Include WWW in the URL
2. Shift+Click the Refresh button if sites are not loading properly
3. Flush you DNS cache by using Command/CMD (not sure in Mac’s)
   1. Windows: Open up cmd.exe
   2. Type: ipconfig /flushdns
4. If forums link isn’t working, try loading it in a new window.
   

Warcraft Econ Social Networking Site LIVE!

Everything is finally LIVE! The social networking, forums, community blog, and more!

http://www.warcraftecon.com (update: site is down for some reason, working on a fix)

and

http://www.warcraftecon.com/forums

To kick start everything, we have our first interview of a Warcraft Millionaire, who has achieved 1,000,000 gold! You can read the blog entry over at the new site. Also for those that want a new rank and title (gold capped, millionaire, other contributors to the Warcraft Econ network), there’s a thread on how to request it.

Remember there lots to do over here, including:

Member profiles
Messaging
Bulletins
News Feeds
Live Chat
Groups
Event management
Activity feeds
Photo sharing
Video sharing
Status updates
Community blogging
Discussion forums
RSS Feeds

What are you waiting for?! Go create a FREE account now! The forums require a separate account.

Warcraft Econ’s Social Networking Site Finished!

But… we still have to wait till the DNS stuff I don’t understand gets updated. It may take up to 72 hours they said.

Ranks have also been updated, they now look like this:

1. Tycoon – Orange Colored Name
2. Broker – Purple
3. Investor – Blue
4. Trader – Green
5. Farmer – Grey

Titles:

[Gold Capped] – Hit gold cap of 217k
[Gold Millionaire] – Hit the 1 Million gold mark

In the mean time, we have been thinking of running a contest for various TCG loot cards! When our new sites launch, it will very new and empty, so we could use some content for it. We’ll probably have our readers contribute so the forums and other sections of the site as a way to enter the contest. It won’t be anything too hard, just submit some content or comments. This will be a good way to celebrate the launch as well as develop some content for it. Possible loot card may come from the latest expansion deck, which we will have to buy on eBay. We would love to include  [Reins of the Swift Spectral Tiger]  however the price of those are way out of our league unfortunately.

Is this something our readers would be interested in?

Forums Done!

The Warcraft Econ forums are pretty much done. The ranks, titles, topics, and other elements are complete. We have also removed the rank “Beggar”. Now on to the social networking part of the site… We hope to release both parts together within a week. Stay tuned!

Update: Forum ranks Re-done, From Beggar to Tycoon!

After some input and thoughts from the community, we decided to redo the ranks. Instead of rewarding for number of posts, you are rewarded by quality and contributions. This will change the color of your names according to WoW’s item quality colors. As for gold capped players who have submitted proof and interviews as well as gold millionaires, a special title will be awarded under your name. So in other words; gold capped and millionaires will be given a title for recognition purposes, however will start at ‘Beggar” rank/color and have to move up the ladder by contributing if they ever want to hit a “Tycoon” rank. Anyone other thoughts on this?

1. ***Future rank*** – Gold (Artifact/Heirloom)
2. Tycoon - Orange Colored Name (Legendary)
3. Broker – Purple (Epic)
4. Investor - Blue (Rare)
5. Trader – Green (Uncommon)
6. Farmer – White (Common)
7. Beggar – Grey (Poor)