Shout Out: The Undermine Guy!

I ran across a wonderful interview (Here) on the WOW Insider by a man named Erorus who runs probably my favorite website in WOW right now. The Undermine Journal gives you solid facts on what is selling, when its selling and even to an extent who your main competition is. It goes over Add-ons which are great but if the days lot have expired people seem to guess on the price of an item so this site tells you what the real market rate will bear on the price of an item. Not only on your realm but all realms similar to yours. You must check this out if you in any way like the gold making part of the game. I'm guessing most people know of this site.

But... introducing a site that ALLOWS you to see what realms are similar to yours.

I'm going to say many don't know about his other VERY popular, very helpful site called realmpop. A ingenious site that counts populations in a way I never thought of before. A quote take from the site states how they come up with the numbers:

How - To get the list of characters for a realm, first we record all the characters who posted to the auction house. Then we fetch and record their guild rosters. This should cover the majority of characters on a realm. To avoid getting listed, a character must never post to the auction house, and never belong to a guild where a guild member posts to the auction house.

Using the auction house to get real numbers is something I never would have figured could be done to get totals, but if you go to the site and see how he goes about it is amazing.  Above is a view of the info you can view on top of that you can to sort via his data seeing who has the highest Horde population etc.


What is lacking in graphic beauty on these set of sights is made up for in totality by the sheer amount  of info provided.

Thank you Erorus for adding so much to the WOW community and thanks to WOW Insider for doing this interview.

The beauty of the gems!

Leveling the Alliance pally, I'm getting a chance to fix all the mistakes I made while leveling the 1st pally. I'm not trying to make the new toon a carbon copy but familiarity is a tough habit to break. I did a bit of research on what profession I wanted to take.

I had fallen a bit behind on my herbalism and didn't want to go back and pick flowers to level it up to my where it needed to be. I had been selling all my ore and a good deal of gold on my toon. I also knew, if I got past Outlands without catching up or leveling up I'd be a mess and have to spend a huge amount of gold to level it 1-450.

My choice was to be a miner and JC. They go hand in hand and knowing the profession a bit I knew what I was in for. There are a few hang up points, in between Bronze and Mithril is really expensive as is 285-300 due to the gems. I got really lucky due to the cost of Azerothian diamonds being pretty cheap.

I do recommend if you are going to power level a profession you take a day or two to plan this out and stock some mats. Grab a guide....I used THIS one. I chose that particular guide due to the mat breakdown it offers. I did read all of them thou and seen, what I knew that I was going to have some tough spots.

I'm currently at 320ish and cutting Outland gems as well as mining Outland ore. A huge piece of advice I can give to anyone trying to level at this point is to find a way to get the green quality gems from TBC as they are about 5g each on the AH.

More to come in tanking adventures...