I used to be just ok at making gold in WOW.  My biggest market would be patch notes.  I would figure out what changes caused market changes and invested like mad.  Sometimes I get burned but more often I would make bank.  This last year something changed.  The general population started doing that too.  They saw the results people like me made early on and everyone shared what they thought dream shards would do.  This did not take that market away, but it made it swing a little more and made it harder to predict.  If everyone invests into something, your payout is smaller.

So I went online looking for other things people did to make gold.  I revisited some sites I looked at before and it indicated that inscription was the new market to be in.  I also discovered the JMTC forums where there were a lot of very helpful people.  I learned as much as I could from them and became an active member helping others and sharing my ideas.  I found myself stalking the forums a little too much.  I probably should have asked to be a moderator.  I developed my inscription method that lead me to write the core logic in KTQ from those forums.  Many people there helped me beta test and refine it.

I was talking about inscription soo much on the forum that I decided to move it to a blog.  On my blog, I didn’t have to wait for someone to respond too.  I could also lay out my story.  My blog grew at a fairly steady rate.  I commented on other blogs and I released a few mods.  KTQ is the most well known that drives most people here.  I did enjoy sharing my ideas and the ways I made gold.  Even my competition told me they liked to read my blog. 

I had a nice solid system in place.  Bulk herbs, large crafting queues, lots of inventory, and tons of posted auctions.  While I was doing that stuff, I could write on my blog and I had a lot to talk about.  Then my system kind of fell apart on me.  I had a lot of issues in real life that needed my attention out of town and shortly after I returned my account had issues for a few days.  My guild was also only doing easy content to make everyone feel good about killing stuff.  It just got me out of my pattern. 

I did keep posting and I did work auctions from time to time.  I did less and less and over the holiday break, I didn’t even log into wow.  So my unofficial break is more official.  Its also hard for me to come up with good warcraft topics while I am not playing it. I am just shifting my focus to other things for a while.  I kind of did the same thing at the end of Buring Crusade.  The content is winding down and I will not miss much if I take a break now.  I expect a full return for the next expansion if not sooner.   You may still see my mid level warlock riding nude in the barrens when my daughter is online.

So what exactly is my focus now? Programming.  So I am still around writting code. I have just started on a few mini 3D games.  I think they will be a lot of fun if I can make them look as good as I see them in my head.  I’ll talk more about it once I get some core features implemented.  So be ready to see more of me in the future.