Another stint of inactivity here on Hive. December is usually a busy month for everyone and so it has been for me as well. Anything related to content creation tends to be the first things I prioritize away in busy times seeing as it's purely a hobby. I have been playing games still I just haven't been creating any content about them. Gaming is first in line. Content creation is second in line.
One thing that usually doesn't go hand in hand with busy times is playing World of Warcraft. This game is generally known as being extremely time consuming. While this is true it also comes down to what you want to spend your time on in the game. If raiding and pushing mythic+ keys is your thing then it's extremely time consuming. If you just like to sit back and slowly progress through the content both old and new then it's perfect as a game that you can sit down to play for an hour here and an hour there. That's what I've been doing these past weeks.
Collecting everything
When it comes to World of Warcraft I'm mostly interested in four things. Collecting mounts, pets, transmogs and making gold. I want it all. I don't have neither the time nor dedication to raid in this game. The aforementioned collection activities have a very non-existent barrier of entry and isn't necessarily very time consuming. You can log on, complete a few activities for 30 minutes and then log back out. Sometimes those activities might take you just 10% closer to getting that mount or pet while other times you can get 5 pets in that time. It all depends on the rarity of what you're chasing after.
Lately I've been doing some old content related to the Warlords of Draenor expansion. I've been chasing after a special fishing hat that I will be posting more about later and on that chase I stumbled over some daily quests related to the Winter's Veil event that's currently running in the game for Christmas.
These quests took me over to an area where I had to defeat these enemies called Grumplings and a few other things. While I was there I noticed these weird snow piles that I could interact with and once I did my collector addon told me that these mounds has a chance of dropping a unique pet version of the Grumplings at about a 5% drop chance. I quickly managed to snatch one for myself only to find out that these normally sell for around 1000 gold.
The gold maker in me immediately knew that I had to farm up more of these so I could sell some. The snow piles were around aplenty and it barely took me 20 minutes to farm out 8 more of these before I was sick of doing this repetitive task. I don't mind doing repetitive tasks for shorter bursts of time so I might come back to this area to farm more at a later time before the event ends.
What was also quite nice was that if the pile didn't contain a pet it contained a snowball of sorts. Some of these were of a rare kind that's only available during this event so they fetch a nice sum on the auction house as well. I listed these immediately while I put the pets in the bank of an alt. The auction house is flooded with these pets at the moment so I'm going to wait for the event to end and hopefully see the price go up a bit. Once the event ends these pets can't be found and collected for another year so having a little stockpile to sell throughout the year sounds like bank to me.
I also stocked up on a few items sold from event vendors. They have special kinds of wrapping paper and recipes that are again only available while this event is up once a year. I'm going to stockpile some of these in the bank to sell at a later time as well. These aren't huge profit makers but seeing as they sell for just a few coppers from the vendor I'm not losing much on this attempted investment.
All in all this was around 30 minutes of work for something that's hopefully going to make me around 10k-15k gold over the next few months. It's not quick money but it's a lot of money considered the time spent farming. As a rule of thumbs anything that nets 8k or more gold per hour spent farming is good in this game. At least in my eyes. I don't mind seeing the gold tick in little by little over time either. My goal right now is to play the game the way I want and find fun gold making methods so that I can rack up a lot of gold. I'm not sure what I'm going to use the gold for. There's always rare pets and mounts I could unload it on. We'll see.
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.