Before I go more into my history in game I have a couple of things to mention about my activities this week. First, the netherweave bag market is an interesting one. No cloth on the AH at the end of the week with low bag stocks meant very high prices. Then cloth started appearing and the price of that and the bags dropped. I had bags on at 4-5 different prices over the weekend. Now, the market is fluctuating between 11-15g a bag with it looks like only 2 of us concentrating on it. I have been buying up all cheap cloth (under 7g a stack) and I now have a huge number of bags in storage. So, lets see how that plays out.
Secondly, on Monday someone put a bunch of herbs on cheap. And I mean cheap. Adder's Tongue at 14g a stack when I normally never buy above 20g and a number of others below market vlaue. I bought the entire lot of Adder's Tongue and the only other item was Goldclover at around 16-17g when it is normally at 19 or higher. We rarely see the low end herbs drop below 19g and high end are normally at 21+. So I spent around 1900g and ended up with 1900 Adder's Tongue and 700 Goldclover. I ignored the rest of his postings even though they were below market. Net result, a long time converting to inks and something to talk about on Friday.
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I don't remember much of my early attempts at alts. Oh, I eventually had all character slots for the server I was on full but that took time. but I was never really an altoholic. Not then. Now? well, I have 3 80's and am working on 4, 5 and 6 with 7 and 8 on hold. One day I will cover them but today I will tell you about when I first started on other characters. Comfortable? Lets begin...
I was leveling Brogan. And it was slow. Those who remember vanilla wow will remember how slow. Nothing like today. It was really slow. My Brother-in-Law invited me to his guild. He had been playing for a while longer and he had been asked by a bunch of night elves to help create a guild. He was playing a night elf priest at the time. So, they created this guild and called it Tremors. Don't ask me why. But one day, BiL asked if I wanted to join the guild. Another new experience, I thought, sure why not. So, this plucky little dwarf was invited to the guild. Now, I don't know if he was guild leader then or if that occured later. The officers eventually moved to other guilds and BiL was given leadership as he was the only officer left. I suspect it was done a while after I joined.
So I was in a guild. Wow, new people to meet and at times play with. We were a fairly casual guild and would help out each other in whatever way we could when we could. I remember being involved in a couple of guild instance runs. I never really instanced much back then and still don't now. But I remember that it could be fun but then also quite annoying. There was the infamous Uldaman run. All guildies, my BiL the priest, our warrior, and three hunters. All the others were night elves and I was the only dwarf. I still have a screenshot of us ready to go in. But what I remember most was that the other 2 hunters were of the right level and the rest of us higher. So we left loot for the other two. And one hunter always rolled need.Yeah, right. Every loot is hunter loot. It turned out that the hunter pressed the dice button because that is the one to roll. We had to explain to him the difference between need and greed.
Soon, I had real life friends start playing and they came onto my server too. a couple had been long time players and played on Argent Dawn, a heavy RP server in the EU at the time. So, I had people I knew in real life in the guild I was in. I was an officer by now and started putting more into the guild. I created a website and forum for their use, started getting people to help each other with professions and all. It was a fun job, well most of the time. But sometimes I wanted to be alone, not be bothered by anyone. And so I made some other characters where I wouldn't be disturbed. Plus, I could have them learn different professions to Brogan and make these available to myself and eventually the guild. I also was running into space issues as I found my bank filling up with the stuff I was keeping and so had quickly learnt the advantage of bank characters too.
These alts didn't get very far. The highest got to around 23 or 24 but most never got higher than 20. Like I said, it was slow leveling back then. But I did work on professions. I had a blacksmith being supplied ore by Brogan. I had a tailor and enchanter who got materials, again, from Brogan. My leatherworker/skinner had to go out and do the work himself. But I was learning about how I could support other professions through interacting with characters and through using the stuff I would stockpile. And I kept a lot. Not as much as today but even then in pre-guild bank days, it was impressive. One day, I will go back and have a look at what I have stored. Its been while and not sure whats left after The Transfer. More about that later.
And then a new holiday was added in WoW. It was February and Valentines had come to Azeroth. I remember the holiday well. Back then you were required to apply perfume or cologne, talk to NPCs with hearts over their heads and give them a token. You would then get an item back, these would be combined and combined again and then given to little goblins next to the faction leaders. It meant running around the cities gathering. But there were problems. Oh, I remember in Stormwind there was only one guard you could talk to and he was camped constantly by all of us. And then he got drawn into the fight with a Servant from the Blasted Lands who had been kited there. But there was a different issue in other cities. I found that certain people would only respond to perfume. For that I created some level one female alts and had them run to the cities to gather the bits Brogan needed. I hadn't even considered using perfume on Brogan. And so I ended up with even more bank alts. And these new characters were used to store even more.
My empire was growing, but for how long...
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