The Darkmoon Faire is in town this week and it gives me an opportunity to explore things new and old. Apparently at some point they added a carousel which grants an hour's worth of +10% rep, some mount races, a flying through fireworks game, and a couple of pet battlers.
The pet battles are probably the most efficient way to get tickets, as beating both trainers gives 15 tickets, which is more than you can earn from all of the other mini-games combined. Plus, once you can beat the trainers once with your team, you can beat them every day with the same team, which is a cool 105 tickets over the course of the week. Enough for a pet or a couple of heirlooms or a tenth of a mount. Yeesh.
Ran a handful of dailies as I'm stupidly close to finishing Exalted with the Turtles and some faction. What's this? One quest right where I need to turn in the daily requires "20 Tiramisu". The reward is an improved cooking recipe I could learn, a bump in the ol' cooking skill, and Turtle faction rep. Well, I'm sitting by the quest guy and a mailbox. I know! I'll have an alt in Stormwind just buy the stupid things off the auction house, mail 'em over, and call it a day.
Enter Zaliza, a level 85 gnome priestess, who is rocking… 5 gold. Terrific. Twenty of these desserts should run about 60 gold so I bop over to a merchant and sell off trash gear that's been sitting around for the better part of a decade. 75 gold. Perfect. So, I hustle to the AH, do a quick search… and see that there's about 400 for sale all by one guy in batches of 5 for 350g each. Wow. Ok. Prepare to be undercut harshly, guy.
Still no reason for this not to be profitable, so I start listing the few things left in my inventory when I see it. "Black Mageweave Leggings" made by some tailor named "Zyrial". JOY! Since all of the transmog stuff was changed years ago, I don't have to keep the item in my inventory and some other character has the skin (literally) already… I was able to auction the scandalous panties guilt-free. They sold in minutes for just over 300g. Muahaha. Admittedly 300g doesn't go anywhere near as far as it used to, it still gave me great delight and renewed my regret in not having a reliable tailoring alt. Ah, well...I had other fish to bake. I logged back on to Strev to do some fishing.
You see, perhaps the most disturbing thing about Kul Tiran cooking is that, aside from vendor mats, every recipe contains fish oil. Every fish caught in BfA can thus be juiced into a vial of oil, so fishing is worth about 8-12 gold per cast. This should spike a bit more in a couple of weeks when new raids drop and people realize they need more feasts, so plan ahead. In 10 minutes I had several dozen fish and was happily turning them into a couple hundred just desserts. My happy little bundles went on the auction house at 300g per 20, which was hideously overpriced, but still undercutting guy by nearly 80%. I'll find out tonight how all of that went.
I set aside enough to turn in my quest and got a little closer to being able to ignore turtles forever.
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