"Weekly" Update Number 2

[Ualaa]

I'd like to have enough, that I can buy whatever the gold sink is for each expansion I'm still playing the game for... ie, epic flyer on all active toons, cold flying on all toons etc.

Without having to worry about gold again.

I'm sure transmutes will be boring after a while.
But I managed to force myself to run dailies on at least two teams and sometimes three, for several months.
5 minutes per team (less actually) for the actual transmute...
And maybe 15-30 minutes on the JC toon to prospect, cut and list gems...
Well, that's a lot more profit per day, for much less time spent... under an hour will be better gold then dailies on all seven teams/sets I play (and not all seven are high enough for dailies even).

[zenga]

Aren't you afraid that the cooldown for transmutes will be removed or reduced? Pretty much like smelting & titansteel? That being said, i start to have a nice amount of gold across all my toons. My first idea was to buy epic flyers, until i realized that i hardly fly myself. I either use a flightpath, use a teleport or use the dungeon tool. For the 10 dailies i do everyday i find it not worth it atm. My 2nd plan was to get me all the crafted 264 stuff for my main team. I could affort it (and then being broke), but i'm too jewish i guess. In hc's i pretty much blow through everything right now, i have no issues to survive (when it comes down to combat, not to dancing). And i don't raid yet (apart from the weekly and i end up top positions with my shammies). If i would have 3-400k i wouldn't mind spending it on that, nor on hilts. But so far one way or another i rather stock it than spending it (contrary to irl ).

[Ualaa]

Currently there is a cooldown, and there is a cooldown on the current test realm build.
So, it will probably remain in the game for a while.

I see the removal of cooldowns, as a method to allow crafting to gear toons to a point where they can raid.
The same as heroic badges are currently.
But enchants/gems aren't so much gearing, as they are the final additions to gear (tweaking).

However, even if cooldowns are removed for the remainder of this expansion.
There will be a cooldown on the transmutes (epic gems, cloth, ore etc) for most of Cataclysm.
So in that eventuality, then we're just getting our toons into a position to make the killing in Cataclysm instead of now and in Cataclysm.

[crowdx]

I am rapidly moving to the opinion that gearing any toon now past t9 (unless raiding) is not very useful, once Cataclysm comes it will wipe out all that work and the extra iLevel will not make that much of a difference in leveling speed.
Once my current team dings I will just gear them to close to a 5k GS and then do the dailies etc and stock the gold.
Even with this current team I am wary of spending any gold on gearing when I ding 80, due to knowing I can probably gear them over a week or so without spending any gold.

[Shodokan]

I am rapidly moving to the opinion that gearing any toon now past t9 (unless raiding) is not very useful, once Cataclysm comes it will wipe out all that work and the extra iLevel will not make that much of a difference in leveling speed.
Once my current team dings I will just gear them to close to a 5k GS and then do the dailies etc and stock the gold.
Even with this current team I am wary of spending any gold on gearing when I ding 80, due to knowing I can probably gear them over a week or so without spending any gold.

3.3.5 isn't even out yet, theres still at very least 3 to 4 months of wrath. If you don't enjoy raiding then there is no point in gearing any toon past heroic level gear...ever. If you do enjoy raiding then pick one toon and raid on them or something. You don't have to raid on them all if it isn't something you enjoy. Nor do you have to waste gold on minor upgrades with gold.

[Ualaa]

The tradeskill section of the Cataclysm information page, mentions skill caps rising to a 525 cap.

So, the goal now is pretty much:
a) Ferals to 80th.
b) Warlocks/Priest to 80th.
c) Alchemists all to 450, w/ transmute spec.
d) Stockpile gold.

The early gold sink will be 28x Alchemy from 450 to 525.
But if Cataclysm is not until the end of the summer... chances are good I'll have over 500k gold by then.

[DrChaos]

This thread made my head hurt........