I have not been online much at all. I figure I should try and take advantage of the new patch. So here are a few things I plan on doing. I have not watched the notes that close this time so there could be some ideas I have that are way out of date.
Book of Glyph Mystery market spike. I cleaned out all the glyph mastery books and rest the prices. If I remember correctly, there are 3 new glyphs that are learned from the books. Before I call it a night tonight, I will post them extra high. The first people logging in looking for them will see my books. It is possible that I will have the market long enough to sell a few before someone with books realizes there is a market here.
Posting glyphs for a market reset. I have not posted glyphs in over a week now. So I plan on restocking and posting at fallback prices. Last 3 patches the glyph market reset on me as I tried hard to stay on top of it. This time I am going to push my threshold up and fall back to a high fallback where the market is lower. If the market demand causes a reset like I look for it to do, I will catch enough fallback sales to make it worth it. If I was going to camp the AH at any time, this would be it. Instead of camping this time, I will try this trick instead. I am also making sure I have parchment on the AH. When prices fall back, there is a surge of parchment purchases.
Reset the eternal shadow market. This one is a bit more risky. I think I remember reading about something new that uses eternal shadow. The risk here is the amount that people may have collecting dust in the bank. This is one of those items that people can collect a lot of and not find it worth it to sell them. They think they should vendor it or sell it later so it goes into the bank. Not many people will have Books of Glyph Mastery, but there can be a good deal of people with these eternals.
I’m tempted to pick up all the cheap eternal earth for the same reason as the shadow. My ah has a large volume of it on the AH so I don’t expect to reset the entire market like I would the shadows. But by stocking up on the cheap eternals I have a chance to use or flip them anyway. I may miss a big market reset here, but I feel like I should play this one safe.
I hope when the servers go back online, I will be sitting in a good position in all of these markets.
There is a lot of power in this application. More than most people realize. Many people don’t even know it exists. It is basically a gear calculator that can help you make choices about your items. As you get more of one stat the value of other change. To truly compare gear, you need to take into account the other items you have. This is more important for some stats than others. Some classes feel the effects of this more than others. Rebalancing hit and spot checking side grade items is what I use it for the most. Like any good tool, you need to know when to use it and when not to use it.
Here is a video guide they had on the Rawr website. This is a great overview on how to use it. So take a moment to watch it.
So you can see how easy it is to tell if an item is an upgrade or not. When you select a gear slot on the right side, it lists all items of that slot and highlights your equipped item. Items higher in the list are better upgrades. You can also see how close to best in slot your item is. This is very valuable when looking to spend badges or dkp on items of the same item level. Most of the time you can just tell if its an upgrade, but when its not as clear is when rawr helps you the most.
Rebalancing hit is one think I like to use it for. I mark all the items that I have. When I get new item and there is a large difference in hit in the same slot I will turn to rawr for help. I mark the new item and run the optimize option. Rawr will let me know if i need to put on one of those old pieces of gear because of the hit difference or if its better to regem. It takes into account all stats, but hit is the clearest example.
Now that I am a raider, this is about all that I use it for. But I also found a lot of value in it when I was about to finish leveling my characters. When I get about 3 levels away from max level, I plug my character into rawr to plot out my gear path. It has filters so you can include or exclude raids, pvp, craftables, and things like that. So I set the filter to show me all the quest, rep, and craftable items. This highlights all the best items you can pick up with minimal work as you hit 80. If your questing, you may as well be questing for the easy gear. If its a rep item, you can be doing quests that give you that rep. This has little value now in WotLK with so many options available to get gear. Remember this one when your char hits 83-84 and your thinking about getting raid ready.
