Monthly gold update

Last month I came in at about 546k gold. This month:

Laktose!

Crescendo!

Piffle!

781,600! Whoa. 235,000 gold this month! That's a big difference compared to the previous month, which was about 140k profit - almost 67% more!

Playing dressup - it's not just for dolls!

The other day I posted a picture of my mage looking somewhat similar to Shredder. He just ended up with that gear by chance, it was all from garrison quests. I thought he looked pretty cool with just two exceptions: his cloak was too short and his weapon was totally derpy.

So the other night I decided I had had enough of not looking 100% dapper and decided I would visit one of the tranmog NPCs and fix the situation. There was only one problem ... apparently I have been vendoring/disenchanting every single piece of gear I replace. I had nothing to transmog. Nothing! Not a cloak, not a weapon, not a robe, not a hat ... nothing.

Fortunately there was an easy solution to this problem - there are a number of vendors that sell old PvP gear for honor. Oh, except I have no honor on my mage. Hm. Fortunately, I remembered stumbling upon some NPCs in Dalaran that sell old PvE gear. I ported to Dalaran, bought the cool looking stuff and then went to wowhead to see if there were some anywhere else. Sure enough, there are also a few in Orgrimmar!

The only problem was that they don't sell any good looking 2h weapons. The solution to that? I noticed a level 300 BoE staff in the Guild Bank that looked pretty sweet. For some reason I have the ability to withdraw 10 stacks a day, so ... uhh, yea. Anyway, here's the new and improved Piffle:

New cloak, weapon, and robe. Cloaks MUST be long!

The robe is very similar to before, just has a little more orange / yellow in it

I felt like that complimented both the new cloak and weapon

It wasn't until after I bought everything I wanted from the vendors that I realized I had spent seven thousand gold! Haha, woops. I went through the same process (with the Orgimmar vendors, at least. Dalaran is harder to get to if you can't just port yourself there) with my Priest and Druid as well, being a little more thrifty this time. I probably spent around 10k total on all of them:

The staff is actually what you get from salvage boxes!

Cape is probably the best looking one I have on any character!

The Chest and gloves are last season's PvP 

Not sure how crazy I am about the yellow / green scheme on my druid. But it's a fun change for now!

The next expansion has been previewed

I didn't see it myself, but someone put together this album which has some of the information that they showed: http://imgur.com/a/kiFqg

Some quick highlights:

• New class - Demon Hunter!
• Separate system for PvP talents / abilities
• Artifact weapon you level up
• Instead of single person garrisons, you'll be chilling in a specialized domain for your entire class

This ... this was creepy

So there I am in my garrison, collecting mission rewards and sending new ones off, when I notice something out of the corner of my eye come into my main hall. After exiting out of the mission interface I was able to get a better look at what it was that had floated in ...

You never take me out anymore!

... a kite!?


So strange.

When nobody wins ... everybody loses

What you're looking at here is the scoreboard at the end of an Arathi Basin rated battleground match. The game started off very poorly for us - the leader of the group decided on a strategy (all but two to Blacksmith!) and then when we saw where they sent all their troops (to Lumber Mill) he changed it ... which led to us getting neither of them, somehow. So we spent some time with just 1 and 2 bases at the beginning.

Somehow we made a great comeback, swiping 4 bases of our own for a time ... and losing one of them right at the end. This led to ... a tie!

And, as you can see in the rating change, everyone lost rating because of it. Kind of weird how that works, I would have thought no rating change.