My vote for idiot of the month

[shaeman]

Perhaps we should have an idiot of the month award - and I'd like to nominate myself for the first award.

I set myself a target of getting myself at least one epic flying mount.

I read that mining and a zapthrottle mote extractor could result in lots of gold so I burned 1.5 - 2k of gold powerlevelling engineering. I also discovered that my normal mount was too slow to do the route and make decent dosh (I really need the epic flyer for that), So I read another guide.

Basic premise stratholme is easy (on this green geared fresh 70 paladin)... other classes should be able to do this from 65 on.

So off I went on my mostly purpled 70 hunter.

Epic fail. I posted here and found out that palaadins solo stratholme more effectively, so off I went powerleveling the pally (and a druid for other reasons). Run after run after run after run of SM followed. Thinking of all the fun I would have in the future, when I could use my pally to rip apart stratholme, and aoe lots of mobs etc.

I realised that for the last few sessions of play for hours at a time I have had next to ZERO fun. I had successfully turned a game into a job - and an unpaid one at that. How incredibly stupid!!!!!

And the only reason I wanted a flyer, was to make money faster so I could buy more flyers for my other 70's.

Please learn from my stupidity - ask yourself why you are grinding away for anything and if it's actually worth it.

(As a sidenote I've decided that boosting my team through instance after instance isn't my definition of fun, it may be the quickest way for me to get to 70 but I think I am going to take the slower route and enjoy myself along the way. I'll BG, instance with a couple of others if i can. I'll Not sweat it if i can't).

[Icetech]

thats how i feel, if i get mounts.. great if not oh well Im not all in purples... oh well will be eventually

[Crucial]

Levelling up a profession is a long term investment

The best way to make money is through the AH. Always has been, always will be. Find out what sells a lot and use the fact that you can mulitbox instances to obtain the items - primals/nethers, coilfang/fel armaments, shards, card deck drops- multiboxer friendly dailies can be supplemental, herbs and ore can be obtained as you do instances as well. Just to give you some perspective here, I have 5 epic flyers, about 6 different professions maxed out and almost 10k gold saved up and I barely do any dailies at all. All I do is run some heroic instances, disenchant stuff - then every few days I throw the crap on the AH and wake up the next morning with a mailbox full of loot.

[Sarduci]

If it's not fun, then don't do it. [img]../forum/images/smilies/biggrin.png[/img]

Seriously, you may have hit the end of life for the game if everything you do is no longer fun every time you play. End game is nothing but grinding in one fashion or another.

[shaeman]

You sound like you have the balance right.

You've gone for the fun, and the money has come in as a result. You spent the time getting your 5 shammy team to 70 and (I'm hoping) having fun running them and got the money from it as a side benefit.

My problem is that I took something that I could have achieved over time and turned it in to an item that I must have now.

With that as the focus I started looking at ways to achieve that target as quickly as possible. Spreadsheeting things up working out hourly gold rates farming various places etc.

I'm very target based and normally achieve them. However somewhere in there I got a huge list of money making techniques and decided I wanted to incorporate them all, which resulted in me spending loads of gold (the precise opposite of what I wanted to achieve) and in going off on little side projects that wasted time. e.g boosting my druid and paladin from 30 - 40.

I'm glad that I've figured this out in a couple of weeks rather than months down the line.

So now I've got a plan that doesn't revolve around a flying mount, and should at least enjoy my playtime while doing it

[Icetech]

see fun for me is sitting outside the GY at cosmowrench and re-wiping guilds that have just wiped on a boss but theres no money in that

[shaeman]

see fun for me is sitting outside the GY at cosmowrench and re-wiping guilds that have just wiped on a boss but theres no money in that

hehe - sadly i didn't even roll on a pvp server [edit:fix spelling mistake]

[Gadzooks]

You sound like you have the balance right.

You've gone for the fun, and the money has come in as a result. You spent the time getting your 5 shammy team to 70 and (I'm hoping) having fun running them and got the money from it as a side benefit.

My problem is that I took something that I could have achieved over time and turned it in to an item that I must have now.

With that as the focus I started looking at ways to achieve that target as quickly as possible. Spreadsheeting things up working out hourly gold rates farming various places etc.

I'm very target based and normally achieve them. However somewhere in there I got a huge list of money making techniques and decided I wanted to incorporate them all, which resulted in me spending loads of gold (the precise opposite of what I wanted to achieve) and in going off on little side projects that wasted time. e.g boosting my druid and paladin from 30 - 40.

I'm glad that I've figured this out in a couple of weeks rather than months down the line.

So now I've got a plan that doesn't revolve around a flying mount, and should at least enjoy my playtime while doing it

If you're spreadsheeting gold/hour, it's not a game anymore.

Let it go. You'll have a LOT more fun that way.

[shaeman]

believe me I've let it go No spreadsheeting going on anymore.

[Ellay]

What kind of classes do you play?

During my question from non epic flyer to epiced out bling bling I did all sorts of gold making tactics, the first easiest one now is to do dailies - they are quick and painless. Second is that I was able to run through pretty much any normal dungeon and a swift amount of time and would charge others handsomely to do so. This was probably the most fun method because you met a lot of extremely grateful people in the process which took away the boredom factor and gave a unique outlook on the game.