Goblin Squad

I consider my last experiment largely as failed, mostly due to the lack of profitable glyphs at low levels. While I was able to make a steady income, it just was not enough to keep my greedy mind interested.

Instead, I began preparing for the Cataclysm release and on planning my new all goblin multiboxing team!

The first and most important decision now is on group composition. What are the possibilities for my goblin squad?

Goblins have access to nearly all classes, except for paladin and druid. This results in limited choices regarding the tank: either warrior or death knight. As I have a deep aversion against the death knight class, this choice is pretty easy. I also don't particularly enjoy playing the cloth classes mage, priest and warlock (maybe I will take those with a possible gnome team, as I am pretty much stuck with the clothies there anyway...). Which leaves me with hunter, shaman, rogue and warrior and the following 3 setups:

• All shaman: viable in PvP (battleground! arena: not so much) but no tank for instances. Even if I am able to gear one shaman as a tank, I would not be able to use the dungeon finder. In addition, the changes in Cataclysm will make tanks dependent on their talents for tanking. As shamans don't have any: tough luck.
  
  
• Warrior tank plus four shaman: Much better for instances as it solves the missing tank problem, but quite useless in PvP.
  
  
• Mixed Team (Warrior Tank, 3 Hunters/Rogues, Shaman Healer): Even more useless in PvP than the Tank/4 Shaman combo. PvE wise, this should be an a-ok setup while probably not as easy to play as the others. But this has one major advantage: it's a real goblin squad! With guns and stuff!
  

It seems like when it comes to utility, every multiboxing combo is inferior to my current Tauren team (one feral/moonkin druid as main and four elemental shaman). I have a real tank for PvE and a spellpower boosting laserchicken in PvP. I even get another knockback.

But then again, it's not easy being green.

Business Report

When looking at my first business report, it becomes apparent that the results are meager, to say the least. Within 3 weeks, I wasn't even able to reach 1000 gold and during the last days, I slacked quite a bit, which is actually very noticeable when looking at the graph. I am even losing money, although that is due to me reaching level 20 and leveling inscription to 225.

As for the reasons of those poor result, I essentially blame it on two things:

• Bad server choice
  I got on a high population RP realm, so there are lots of players role-playing a business man which in turn leads to high competition, low prices and low profit.


• Low character level
  I am only able to produce trainer-learned recipes and some minor glyphs. Those are all mass-produced, some are not even worth 1 gold. The real profit comes from glyphs learned from Book of Glyph Mastery and Northrend Inscription Research. Both will be unavailable for me until level 50.

On my horde server, where competitions is not quite as fierce and where I have access to nearly all glyphs, the situation is quite different and I am earning a nice profit.

Tadaaa!

Between my my auctions, I decided to improve my fishing and stumbled upon a guide to catch the sea turtle. I finally got it after 845 casts. Now I only need to gain 3 more levels in order to learn how to ride it.

Profit!

Learning the first profession is very easy, it costs only 10 copper. However, gaining entry into the auction house market is a little harder. Not only are there no glyphs until skill level 75, the lack of funds also makes it a serious challenge to create auctions due to the deposit costs.

But I finally was able to produce my first glyph and sell it for a nice profit on the auction house. With that kind of money, deposit costs are a non-issue.

Profession choice

When I write my book on how to be a world class millionaire, I'm going to include a chapter on choosing the right profession. While you might be able to make some money with most professions, some are just more profitable than others.

Right now, the cash cow seems to be Inscription, so I chose this profession, along with Herbalism to get the materials.

The One Where It All Began

So I woke up in a dumpster in Coldridge Valley and realized that I was totally lost. I had no money, no food, no friends and my pants had recently been doused by a raccoon. In my quest to become filthy rich I had without a doubt already achieved the "filthy" part.

To also become rich will not be as easy, I am afraid. First, I will need to find a job!