WoWoW: Second Career Choices
Star TrekStargate:AtlantisFireflyby John Zakour
I haven’t been playing as much WoW this week due wanting to push forward on my next and the promotional time needed for my Zuda entry Lasers Dragons and Lies. So I haven’t been allowing myself to play until I have written at least 2K words and sent out a bunch of emails to contacts telling them to check out LDL on Zuda. That said, when I have been playing WoW I am been concentrating on one of the more boring (but important) aspects of WoW, making money, well gold.
When I first starting WoWing a bout a year ago I was a herbalist and alchemist. I quickly leveled them both up to their max. I liked herb collecting from the start. Herbs are all over the place, you don’t need a special tool to gather them and they stack nicely and bring nice sums at the auction house. The thing was Alchemy wasn’t exciting enough for me. So I switched. I wanted to try something different and whacky so I went to Engineering. At first Engineering was fun. I love some of the descriptions of the items and some of the things you can make can be useful. Yet at least to me most of the things I made seemed to be costly in time and materials then they were worth. So I decided to switch again.
This time I went to skinning. I figured skinning was easy, kill things, skin them and then sell the goods. I quickly (within a matter of days) leveled skinning up to 450. Now I had two sources of straight income. I could collect and skin all I wanted and really get the gold flowing. This worked great for about a month but then I got bored again. I don’t know why I but decided to try another profession, this time Inscription. I guess I figured inscription worked well in WoW because of my herbs and worked well in RL as I am a writer.
Over the past couple of weeks I have gotten my Inscription up to 350. I have learned a couple of things, at least on my server most inscription items don’t sell that much and inscription seems to be less useful to me as a player than alchemy was. So I may complete the circle and go back to Alchemy.
Bottom line is I am glad I am least happier with my real life career than my WoW career choices so far. I guess that’s all that really matters.
Hmmm, maybe I should work on my fishing and cooking?
John Zakour is a humor / sf/ fantasy writer with an online Master’s degree in Human Behavior. He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including: Rugrats, Grimmy, Bound and Gagged, Dennis the Menace, The tonight show and, Joan River’s old TV show.) John also writes his own syndicated comic, Working Daze for United Media. John has been the weekly cartoonist for Geek.com and has sold cartoons or gags to hundreds of journals, magazines and web sites. John also has been a regular contributor to Nickelodeon magazine writing Fairly Odd Parents, Rugrats and Jimmy Neutron comic books. Recently John has started writing Simpsons comics for Bongo comics. John’s has written seven SF novels for Daw books the latest The Flaxen Femme Fatale hit bookstores on December 4th.
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