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|Hery Ramilison
|May 27 2014 12:12pm
|MySQL Utilities 1.4.3 GA (including MySQL Fabric) has been released
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Dear MySQL users, This is the GA release for Utilities 1.4 and the first GA release for MySQL Fabric. MySQL Utilities version 1.4.3 is compatible with MySQL Server versions 5.1 and greater, but should work with earlier versions (greater than v4.1). Python v2.6 and v2.7 are supported. In addition to server utilities, MySQL Utilities also contains MySQL Fabric: a framework for managing a collection of MySQL servers. MySQL Fabric is deployed as a separate service daemon that contains support for high-availability and sharding. The management framework maintains a database of the routing and state information for the servers making up the system and provides an easy-to-use command line interface for adding, removing and organizing servers. High-availability is provided by continuously monitoring the servers and executing slave promotion when the master crashes and just as importantly automatically updates the state and routing information that gets messages to the right server. MySQL Fabric comes with built-in support for sharding either using ranges or consistent hashing and supports the sharding of multiple tables to ensure that rows with matching sharding keys are stored in the same shard. MySQL Fabric also contains support for global tables that are duplicated on all shards as well as the ability to synchronize schema updates across all of the servers. To provide high performance and avoid latency, transactions are directly routed by Fabric-aware connectors rather than routing via an external proxy. The connectors dispatch transactions to the correct shard, perform load-balancing, and handle read-write splitting. Currently there exists Fabric-aware versions of Connector/Python, Connector/Java, and Connector/PHP (through a Fabric-aware mysqlnd_ms plugin). MySQL Utilities v1.4.3 is available for download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/ A brief summary of changes is listed below. Please check the CHANGES.txt file inside the distribution for a more complete list of changes. Bugs Fixed (2014-05-27) ---------- * Due to the several changes in the high-availability and sharding sub-systems, the automatic routine to automatically find the lockable objects for a given procedure was not always valid. The consequence was that some procedures may have tried to update the same group concurrently when they should have been serialized. (Bug #18712020, Bug #72553) * When executing "mysqlfabric manage setup", some of the generated "CREATE TABLE" statements were explicitly requesting the InnoDB engine and ignoring the default-storage-engine option, thus preventing use of NDB as a state store. (Bug #18648779) * Any empty password definition ("password = ") in the configuration file would emit errors. (Bug #18524482, Bug #72149) * The FailoverDaemon class from the failover_daemon module was refactored to extend the Daemon class, so that the duplicated code was removed. (Bug #18546744) * Remote commands were authenticating the request twice, both before and after the command was sent to Fabric. This meant unnecessary requests were made to the state store. (Bug #18477189) * Executing "mysqlfabric manage setup" would sometimes halt with a connection error due to a short timeout. (Bug #18458461) * Commands failed if the "protocol.xmlrpc.user" option was not provided in the configuration file or from the command-line. Now, the user "admin" is the default. (Bug #18459012) * A "group add" with a server as "localhost:32274" caused Fabric to hang, as 32274 is the port used by Fabric. (Bug #18454737, Bug #72119) * A "PROMOTE" after "RESET MASTER" would cause Fabric to hang. Now, "SHOW SLAVE STATUS" is used to check whether the slave has processed all of the entries in the relay log. (Bug #18454679, Bug #72118) * The mysqldbcompare utility was not correctly checking differences for different rows internally associated to the same span key. Only the first difference was displayed. (Bug #18477410) * Optimizations to the mysqldbcompare utility include: + A new step was added to the data consistency check, now executing a CHECKSUM TABLE first (which is faster when no differences are expected). The current comparison algorithm is only execute if this preliminary full table checksum fails. A new --skip-checksum-table option was added to skip this new step that otherwise is executed by default. + The BINARY type is used instead of CHAR to store hash values in a more optimized way. + Unnecessary keys were removed from the temporary table (including the primary key). + ENGINE=MyISAM is now used for the temporary compare table. (Bug #18483844) * The temporary table created by the mysqldbcompare utility was missing an index for the 'span' column, meaning that the "_COMPARE_SUM" and "_COMPARE_DIFF" queries were doing full table scans. (Bug #18483844) * Some Fabric commands, such as "server.set_status" and "group.promote", accepted a reference to a MySQL server's uuid but not a reference to an address and port. (Bug #18440617, Bug #72094) * The mysqlrplms utility did check the MySQL server version when executed on MySQL server 5.7. (Bug #18434209) * With fabric, the pylint_tests script mixed the output from both pep8 and pylint results. A new --tester option was added that allows the tester to be chosen, which can be either "pylint", "pep8", or "all" (the default). (Bug #18383839) * Invoking the mysqlfabric utility with the wrong number of parameters would display general usage help for the utility, but it now shows help for the specified command. (Bug #18370958) * The mysqlrplsync utility was allowing the --exclude option to take an empty value, and the user was not notified. This now generates an error. (Bug #18381748) * The mysqldbcopy utility threw an internal Python exception when --rpl=slave was passed in without specifying --rpl-user. (Bug #18338321) * The "__name__ == '__main__'" attribute check was added to all scripts that can be executed as a standalone program. (Bug #18376793) * The mysqldbcopy, mysqldbimport and mysqldbexport utilities were not fully functional for all possible data types. Prefixes such as TINY, SMALL, MEDIUM, and BIG were not being taken into account when verifying the column data type. This issue was only present when the source server did not equal the destination server. In other words, when copied and not cloned. (Bug #18373190, Bug #71890) * The mysqldbexport utility would export BLOB rows using two statements; an INSERT followed by an UPDATE. This did not function if the exported table did not have at least one "UNIQUE NOT NULL INDEX", since UPDATE statements cannot uniquely identify each row. Now, they are exported using a single INSERT statement. (Bug #18373190, Bug #71890) * dump.shard_* did not take into account disabled shards, and therefore reported disabled shards through the dump interface. (Bug #18259479, Bug #71701) * The mysqlserverinfo utility threw an internal Python exception when passing a non-existent server to --server. (Bug #18262507) * The mysqslindexcheck utility was considering a PRIMARY key as redundant when this key was compared to a unique index with more columns than the PRIMARY key, which caused the DROP statement to be displayed as "None;" with the --show-drops option. In this scenario, the index key is now marked as redundant instead of the PRIMARY key. (Bug #18281513, Bug #71745) * The mysqlauditgrep utility did not support changes made to the audit log format in the "NEW" format. Both "NEW" and "OLD" formats are now supported. The audit_log_format option defaults to "OLD" in MySQL server 5.6, and "NEW" in MySQL server 5.7. (Bug #18314951, Bug #71838) * An indexcheck option was added to the mysqlindexcheck utility. It reports on tables without a PRIMARY or UNIQUE key. Previously, this information was only available with a high verbosity level (-vv). (Bug #18241174, Bug #71690) * mysqldbcompare failed to properly compare the same views on different schemas. This caused the objects to be seen differently. (Bug #17864081, Bug #71022) * Because each xmlrpc session requires a database connection, it is possible to exceed the maximum number of connections in the backing store. The failure detector did not function properly when the number of connections was exceeded, and as such it could not promote a new server to the master. This scenario now generates an exception when fabric starts with the built-in failure detector is enabled. (Bug #17747197) * The mysql/utilities/common/parser.py script would stop processing when a blank line was encountered. However, the General Query Log may include multi-line statements that include blank lines. (Bug #71851) Documentation ------------- Online:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysql-utilities.html The source distribution includes the manual pages for each utility under the docs/ folder. Reporting Bugs -------------- We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports: http://bugs.mysql.com/ Enjoy! On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team, Thanks, Hery
|• MySQL Utilities 1.4.3 GA (including MySQL Fabric) has been released
|Hery Ramilison
|27 May


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Here is one more lesson that I will be uploading for today or at least for a little while. Here is a new Pokemon species that will be in X & Y. Here is "how to draw Keldeo", step by step. My little sister insists that she already watched an episode that had Keldeo in it. After doing some research she turned out to be right. Keldeo is what you call a water/fighting type Pokemon. They are a genderless species that has a low catch rate. This colt or horse looking species has a yellowish tan colored coat. The feathery mane is orange, and the tail is a light blue color. There are also dark blue colored large brows above each eye. Drawing Keldeo is going to be pretty simple to recreate because it will be like drawing a pony. I hope you have fun with this lesson folks, I'll be back soon.
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At a speech that was supposed to be all about health care, President Barack Obama on Friday defended the growing controversy over government's access to telephone and online information, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the secret collection phone records and Internet use.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Obama said at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. "I think on balance we have established a process and a procedure that the American people should feel comfortable about."
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He said the information being collected is limited to numbers and duration, and he invited those in Congress opposed to these policies to debate them.
Obama's comments, which were quite lengthy in response to this new national controversy, came after Britain's Guardian newspaper first broke a story about the National Security Administration collecting "metadata" from millions of Verizon customers. NBC News also confirmed that U.S. intelligence agencies can tap into the servers of the country's largest Internet providers.
Obama said he holds the Constitution and privacy as utmost ideals. And he said he welcomed bipartisan debate of such policies even if some Republicans "weren't worried about it when it was a Republican president."
Still, he said these types of programs, which have been in existence since 2006, "help us prevent terrorist attacks, and the modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers and duration without a name attached and not looking at content, and on the 'Net, that it was worth us doing."
MORE: Transcript of Obama's Talk in San Jose
While the phone controversy grabbed headlines, Obama's original intent was to focus on the Affordable Health Care Act, Obama's landmark health care legislation.
"It's working the way it's supposed to," Obama said, highlighting how there are 13 insurers in California who are now offering competitive prices on insurance rates. "The premiums are lower than expected."
Obama discussed the importance of the act, especially for the 10.2 million uninsured Latinos in the country. In California, there are 5.3 million people currently uninsured.
As of Jan. 1, 2014, no one can be denied health insurance and everyone in the country is mandated to buy insurance, while subsidies are offered to those in the lower income brackets. He wanted people to sign up for the plans at healthcare.gov or coveredca.com.
Before Obama spoke, San Francisco psychiatrist Dr. Laura Davies, an advisor to the Affordable Health Care Act, told NBC Bay Area the plan will save her money as a self-employed professional. "I"m probably going to pay $100 less a month, " she said.
But there are skeptics.
Silicon Valley professional Rebecca Nishiura fears she'll end up paying more for insurance through her company. "My main concern is that the premiums will be increasing. I'm also concerned about my care. Is it going to be affected?" Others worry that with thousands more Californians set to get insurance, doctors' officers will be flooded with new patients.
And an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday shows that 49 percent of Americans think the signature health care reform law is a bad idea.
MORE: Health Care Law's Unpopularity Reaches New Highs
Aside from the big topics of the day, a lighter note of Obama's San Jose talk came when he stalled for a few moments before talking about Obamacare. His notes weren't at the podium.
"There's only one problem, my remarks aren't sitting up here....People!" Obama said with a chiding tone. "Things on Friday afternoon. Well, things get a little challenging."
MORE: Obama: "One Problem: My Remarks Aren't Sitting Here
Then, the president made a little small talk and shouted "People!" one more time. Finally, the papers were handed to him, only after his staffer stumbled to the podium.
"Oh goodness," Obama said with a big grin on his face. "Folks are sweating back there right now."
After his healthcare speech, Obama is set to take off for Los Angeles. There, he will have lunch at the home of Peter Chernin in Santa Monica. Tickets range from $10,000 to $32,400. Then, he'll fly to Palm Springs, for a two-daysummit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two are set to take to the sprawing Southern California desert to speak about cybersecurity, North Korea's nuclear threats and other big issues.
NBC Bay Area's Marianne Favro and NBC Universal's Managing Editor Josh Kleinbaum contributed to this report.


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Let me start by thanking the folks at Google for creating this idiot proof system for reaching out to kindred spirits.
At the same time, I want to thank each and every one of you who visit each week. This is really a collaborative effort and I am delighted to receive your comments and scans of your own bookplates.
At the same time, I want to thank each and every one of you who visit each week. This is really a collaborative effort and I am delighted to receive your comments and scans of your own bookplates.
My Meerkat bookplate arrived yesterday and I have already pasted one in a treasured book and sent some out to collector friends. If you would like to exchange bookplates let me hear from you. My contact email for such things is firstname.lastname@example.com
The Papermania show is coming up in Hartford Connecticut on January 6th and 7th. If you are in the area be sure to attend .It is one of the best east coast ephemera shows. You can get specific information at http://www.papermaniaplus.com/
As a direct result of the blog exposure I am in the early stages of negotiation with a British publisher for a book about the bookplates of famous people . My grandmother taught me the essence of a Yiddish word which I will Anglicize Kina Hurra. I think it means something like this :If you are too specific about an upcoming event you may prevent it from happening. It's sort of a precursor to quantum mechanics.
Here's to a happy healthy prosperous new year. See you in 2007
1/31/2006 Mr. Eli D. Goldstein was kind enough to send me the following information:
" The term you refer to as "Kina Hurra" in your blog is actually Kayn ayin hora (from the Hebrew Kayn Ayin Ha' Ra ) and refers to the evil eye (ayin hara) - it is usually used when one for example praises someone but does not want the evil eye to "spoil" the praise e.g. He is such a nice person -"kayn ayin hora". The pronunciation "hurra" instead of "hora" is usually used by Polish Jews"


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Survey: Data breaches difficult to spot, prevent
IT pros worry that false positives and a lack of resources are preventing them from blocking data breaches, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
IT security professionals are struggling to detect and prevent data breaches, according to the results of a recent survey of 853 U.S. security executives conducted by the Ponemon Institute LLC.
Nearly two-thirds of security executives said they have no way to prevent a data breach, while most respondents said their organizations lack the accountability and resources necessary to enforce data security policy compliance, according to the Elk Rapids, Mich.-based think tank. The study, conducted in June and July, was sponsored by Palo Alto, Calif.-based security firm PortAuthority Technologies Inc.
According to the Ponemon Institute's final report on the survey:
Ponemon said the findings suggest IT pros are between a rock and a hard place because they're shouldering the lion's share of responsibility for preventing breaches but don't have the resources to be 100% effective.
"There's a lot of frustration at the CIO level, because there's a feeling that the responsibilities should be shared across the management structure more than they are," he said. "They're also concerned about their ability to enforce security policies. Even when someone finds the culprit behind a breach, policies aren't enforced and mistakes are repeated in terms of what users do in their computing habits."
But Ponemon said respondents don't see their situation as hopeless.
"A lot of these people feel their current problem is a resource issue, but that technology can help them solve some of the problems," he said.
Raj Dhingra, PortAuthority Technologies' vice president of products and marketing, said his company sponsored the study because it wanted to pinpoint the root causes of corporate data breaches. "We feel this study helps bring greater understanding of these issues, while validating that the industry requires much more than just monitoring of information leaks, but automated enforcement to best prevent information leaks," he said.


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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's foreign minister says his government was notified through security channels of the arrest of an Australia-Israeli citizen in Israel in 2010 on serious security charges months before he died.
Israel admitted for the first time Wednesday that it held the Australia-born dual citizen under a false name for security reasons and that he died in prison more than two years ago. The details shed new light on a case that has raised questions about its secretive Mossad agency.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr told a Senate committee on Thursday that: 'The Australian government was informed in February 2010 through intelligence channels that the Israeli authorities had detained a dual Australian-Israeli citizen, and they provided the name of the citizen, in relation to serious offences under Israeli national security legislation.'


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Madaari boldly dares into corruptive territories of the Indian Political scene. A world so chaotic and yet so powerful that nobody bats an eye or takes a stand to point fingers at those who run the nation. An everlasting pursuit of degradation that gradually gnaws at the soul of this country. A business that chugs on fuels of the diligent, whilst people rhythmically sway as per the will of the throne.
Irrfan Khan's Nirmal Kumar is as he puts it – that average man who doesn't have time to notice the negligence of the world, chiefly because he had his world in his lap. Then one day a mishap takes away the only he thing he ever cared about. That's when he decides to take the world by the storm to rip them apart.
I will take this cheque and turn it into a dagger.
He kidnaps the son of the Home Minister of India, his wounds still fresh, to make a point and bring the whole Indian system down to its knees.
Vishesh Bansal was brilliant as Rohan Goswami. As a child actor with a loud mouth he does fairly well, and looks like he has a bright future ahead. Rajiv Gupta still doesn't cease to bring that humorous tinge to every tale he is associated with, tickling you occasionally with his thorough expounding.
Madaari is Irrfan Khan. Fueled by his impressive acting, it is a movie embellished by his passion. His nerve wrecking performance will bring tears to your eyes. His Nirmal Kumar is a character who we might have come across on the streets quite often. A blended contour of emotions that you never had a chance to meet just because you were too busy in your own world. If only you looked, if only you cared enough to notice.
His best performance lies in those devastating bits of insanity – When he is holding onto a filthy school bag and a dilapidated water bottle, sitting on the hospital floor for hours. A tearful father stopping passersby explaining his grief, whilst the world takes him for a loon. When madness seeps over him and he becomes oblivious of his own existence. When he finds his son lurking at odd instances of his imagination.
There are other gorgeous moments in the movie as well; beautiful lines that the extraordinary screenplay of Madaari housed. The voiceover of Irrfan made it all better. Poetry seeped in occasionally making dialogues even more so gorgeous letting us prey on pensive sentience. Madaari is a constant feast of beautifully written remarks that will fling you into deep musings.
By the time you reach the climax of the movie there are two alternate endings inscribed within which the stunning editing of Madaari cashes in on – The first wherein Irrfan gets shot when he takes the bus, the other when he decides to take the train instead. The fact that the former is a more palpable story and would normally occur if you decide to take such colossal measures against the government, gives it more credibility. If Madaari is inspiring, which it is, a whole lot of the trodden are already thinking of a similar way to fight Government atrocities. To that I would say don't. That's how you will end up. That was reality right there. That's where the actual movie ends too.
But Nishikant Kamat had different plans for it, taking into account our unflinching attachment for happy endings. Even though he does justice to it, the movie uproots when the confessions come dropping in. Tushar Dalvi loses his placid demeanour and things start to look a little animated therefrom. But Irrfan comes to the rescue nevertheless and saves them all with his spectacular performance.
Also, Madaari's storyline is quite similar to that of Jodie Foster's Money Monster, which poses questions at its originality. But surprisingly Madaari was everything that Money Monster couldn't possibly become in its valiant attempt to stand against the corrupt.
Apart from the aforementioned insignificant issues, there was nothing wrong with the movie. Editing was magnificently done. Music was superbly complementing the theme of the flick.
Irrfan stays the soul of the movie. Highly recommended! Don't miss it for the world.
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Two months ago we brought your exclusive first renderings of the 2014 Chevy Corvette. Those images, in ZR1 trim, were based off our first-hand look at the new sports car. As you'd expect, they ignited a firestorm across the automotive world, with many believing what we showed you were fake. Hell, even GM — an automaker who claims they never comment on future product — issued a weak-ass denial of the authenticity of the images.
But now this morning, thanks to our friends at KGP Photography, we have these first spy photos of a pre-production version of the new Corvette.
You never should have doubted us.
These images show the 2014 Corvette — the seventh generation C7 Corvette — testing in the real world as a production-spec IVER prototype.
And as you can see, everything seems to match up quite nicely to our exclusive renderings. For starters take a good look at that rear end — four pipes in a trapezoidal exhaust opening.
Check out the hint of Camaro-esque taillights. Yup, that's totally the distinctive look we revealed in the middle of November.
Next, look at the roofline. Does it look familiar? It should — it's the exact same one we showed you back in November.
Or the front end with that big open-mouthed grille? Yes, that's precisely the look you saw in our renderings.
The A pillar? Totally what we showed you. The kick at the bottom right corner of the door? It's there too.
Take a look through both sets of shots and compare for yourself. I think you'll see why we were so excited to bring you those renderings back in November.
Those who were in our corner — thank you. Those that weren't? Don't worry about it — we know it won't happen again.


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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Tony Mitchell had 24 points and eight rebounds to lead North Texas to a 61-59 overtime victory over Florida Atlantic on Saturday night.
The Mean Green's Roger Franklin's layup at the buzzer tied it at 53 in regulation.
Jordan Williams scored 14 points and Roger Franklin 12 for the Mean Green (8-12, 3-6), who had lost three of four coming in.
Greg Gantt led the Owls (10-10, 5-4) with 22 points, and Stefan Moody chipped in 12.
Florida Atlanta led 30-25 on Gantt's two free throws 2:07 into the second half, but North Texas caught the Owls at 39-all on Tony Mitchell's dunk with 7:48 left. It was close the rest of the way.
North Texas' P.J. Hardwick made two free throws for a 55-53 advantage 21 seconds into overtime, and Florida Atlantic never caught up. Hardwick's free throw with 21 seconds left gave North Texas the final margin.


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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Making 5000 Gold for the Epic Flying Mount - Part 2
For the second part of my Making 5000 Gold for the Epic Flying Mount post I will share a few tips on how to maximize your earnings and efficiency while leveling.
1. Try to sell every dropped item that's white or above on the Auction House. This should be common sense but I still see people who vendor even greens. I won't even mention those who vendor gathered mats like ore and herbs. Bad! Bad!
2. Always pick up gray items from mobs and vendor them. I find it amazing how many people despise looting gray items. Dudes, those grays add up a lot, especially gray weapons and armor and also those items that stack! If you don't have enough bag space, just get bigger bags.
3. Speaking of bags, always carry the biggest ones you can afford. At the very least you should have 4x 16-slot Netherweave Bags, however, these days 20-slot Frostweave Bags have dropped a lot in price so I would definitely pick those up. In fact, I have equipped my 65 Shaman with 20-slot bags, even back when they were 120 gold a piece. Now that they dropped to 60 gold, you should have no excuse for skipping out on these bags. More storage = more items gathered = less trips to a vendor/mailbox/AH = better efficiency = bigger profits.
4. You do have a bank-alt, don't you? If you don't, shame on you. Just make a level 1 alt and stick him in a major city close to a mailbox, auction house and bank. You should mail all the stuff you want to sell on the AH to this character. While you're leveling you shouldn't even step in a major city unless you're going to the class/profession trainer or for various quests. More time spent in the playing field = more drops = bigger profits.
5. Don't buy useless crap from the AH. People are tempted to buy vanity items or various pieces of gear that won't actively help them to level or be more efficient. On the other hand, DO buy leveling gear with good stats for your class/spec. I encourage this especially before you hit Outland, as the quest rewards up to that point (with few small exceptions) are notoriously crappy (plate with spirit anyone?). So, while I'm leveling, I'm always on the lookout for cheaply priced green gear on the AH. For example if I find a nice AGI upgrade as an Enhancement Shaman for < gear =" faster" survivability =" more/faster" loot =" bigger" href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=2592">Wool Cloth, Mageweave Cloth and Felcloth.
6. While leveling, don't spend money on food buffs, scrolls, elixirs, etc. You won't need them typically, as most leveling content is designed to be soloed without buffs. Occasionally a few buffs might help you solo a group quest but during your adventures you will accumulate a plethora of food, scrolls and potions anyway.
7. Related to above, don't bother with enchants while leveling. They're simply not worth it (remember, leveling quests are not raid material) and most are expensive. Of course, if your leveling character is an enchanter, do make liberal use of enchants. That's valid for every profession. Another exception would be if you can procure a nice blue or epic weapon which will last you for 10 levels or more; by all means, enchant that weapon but be reasonable with how much you spend. Just use your judgment.
8. When selling ore/bars, try to figure out which one gets you the best returns. Sometimes, ore sells a lot better than smelted bars. Just be aware of your server's economy.
9. Also when selling stacks of something, try to determine whether it's more profitable to sell whole stacks or to split them into singles. For example I've noticed on my server that while Saronite Bars sell for, say 1.5 gold apiece when stacked to 20, they often sell for 3-4 gold apiece individually.
These are just a few of the strategies I use to make gold while leveling. Your mileage may vary and you may discover new ways in which to bring in the cash. These methods work well for me and I hope at least some of them will work for you. As a final remark, I will offer this: if you expect others to "bail you out", give you cash or if you can get the gold from your guild, then these tips are probably not for you. However, if you don't learn how to make gold on your own, you will probably never have enough to buy everything you need and you will always be dependent on others. This works in real life too!
29 comments:
- Zalenna Feathermoon said...
Great post , it is a shame they didnt knock down the price of Epic Flying , but i only need it on 2 characters anyway
My Main and a Farm alt , are the only ones
- May 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- Joe said...
Massive thankyou!!! I shall be testing out your tips asap! Currently im now sitting on 2k gold. I'm hoping with these tips, i can make double asap! Cant thank you enough!
- May 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM
These are great tips. I wish I would have had this list when I was leveling! I'd venture to guess that if you followed the instructions here and in the other post, you would EASILY be sitting on 10K by the time you need epic flying.
I only run Auctioneer on my bank alt since it uses a lot of memory, so on my main I use the addon SellFish to determine which quest rewards will net me the most gold. The general rule to decide which quest reward to choose from (assuming there is no gear upgrade) is Plate > Mail > Leather > Cloth. It's not always 100% true but if you don't run Auctioneer or some other addon to tell you exactly how much something will vendor for, this rule of thumb usually works.
- May 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Eric said...
one comment: You get a discount in the auctiontion house based on your honor with that faction. If you really want to maximize your gold, don't have the bank toon actually post items in the AH, but return them to a toon with some rep in that home city.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM
- Joe said...
Oooh! Nice tip Eric!
- May 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@Zalenna Feathermoon Thanks! I happen to think that the 5000 (6000-7000) gold, although pretty steep, is necessary to keep the circulating gold in check. Basically the game needs some sort of gold sink or else prices on the AH would be astronomical. New players without high-level "sugar daddies" wouldn't be able to afford anything. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard dropped the cost of the epic flying skill to 2000 gold or so, in the next expansion maybe.
@Joe I hope it works out for you man! I'm telling you, once you gain a bit of experience, making gold in WoW becomes trivial. In fact right now I'm back at around 20G and I'm having a hard time deciding how to spend it!
@TB try using an addon which shows the vendor price for items. Instead of Auctioneer I'm using Auctionator which is an awesome alternative to the former. It also shows vendor prices when you hover over items so it's a no-brainer to choose between quest rewards. I really, really need to do a review of Auctionator.
@Eric I truly had no idea about this. So you're saying that AH deposits and cuts are lower for players that have higher reputations with the city where the AH is located? Intriguing. However, unless you're willing to use a high level character as a bank alt, I'm not sure how practical this is.
- May 6, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Don't forget fishing! That's one gathering skill that everyone has, and food buffs are always in high demand. On my server, Dragonfin Angelfish usually sell for a cool 30g/stack, sometimes spiking up to 60g/stack. And fishing up Elemental Water from Azshara was how I financed both my epic and normal flying mounts. I got between 75-120g/stack for it back when everybody was switching over to Jewelcrafting - one of the recipes used most often for skilling up uses Elemental Water by the truckload.
Cooking can sometimes be profitable as well - just ask those people who sold Delicious Chocolate Cakes on the AH for 30g each during Childrens' Week. And you'd be surprised how few people bother to level up those secondary skills.
Also, Enchanting and Jewelcrafting can function as pseudo-gathering skills - Enchanters can DE gear they don't need to get shards and crystals, while Jewelcrafters can prospect ore to get gems. For a while on my server, prospecting Thorium Ore was a good deal - each of the old-world high-end gems sold for 10-30g apiece, and the ore was 40g/stack.
Then there are dailies. Fishing dailies always reward gold, regardless of level (so go back to Old Man Barlow in Shattrath for an extra 6-7g/day while leveling up). At 80, it's easy to make 100g+ a day doing dailies. Plus, at 80, you can go back through Northrend or Outland and do quests you missed while leveling up - you'll get money instead of XP.
- May 13, 2009 at 8:16 PM
- Darth Solo said...
You are right, of course. However, your tips are mostly applicable at level 80, while I was mostly discussing a leveling character. However, they are very good tips. Especially the part about doing dailies and the quests that you missed. You will get a lot of gold from those.
Regarding professions... it depends how much time you want to invest in market research, crafting, buying of mats etc. If that's what you like, go for it, but some people don't sit well with that.
Fishing and cooking are something that I missed. On the other hand, I was thinking about my shaman who's on another server and who will never have fishing and cooking. That's because I decided to level those 2 professions solely on my main. It's simply too stressful for me to level them for my army of alts.
- May 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Really fantastic advice in both parts one and two of your article. You've done the community a service by posting this stuff. Keep up the good work!
- May 13, 2009 at 8:44 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Aw shucks! Thanks but there are other blogs out there which are a lot better than this one. What you see here is from the solo-player perspective so if you are one of us, I hope my advice will be useful to you.
- May 13, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Paralysedbeaver said...
There is a problem with the post. It skips from step 5 to step 8
- May 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Darth -> it's a very useful post, I enjoyed reading it, and I've decided to switch my uselss lvl61 DK to two gathering professions instead of one gathering and one crafting profession.
And, whilst it's a great human trait to be humble, when someone tells you it's a useful post, accept the praise :)
Thanks once again!
- May 14, 2009 at 1:19 AM
@ Eric
Please post the source for your information. I have found the auction fees to be a flat 5% cut no matter the level or reputation of the character. Your information is plain wrong and misleading.
- May 14, 2009 at 4:17 AM
- Darth Solo said...
OK it looks like there's a major screw-up here. I added the part about enchanting a day ago and I must have somehow deleted the other parts :( I don't know of any way in which to recuperate the missing text. I'll try to fix it later after I get back to work - if I can remember what were those other points. This article was written like almost 2 weeks ago.
- May 14, 2009 at 6:43 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@Anonymous, after Paralysedbeaver: which professions did you get?
- May 14, 2009 at 7:05 AM
Besides two gathering professions, another thing to consider is Enchanting + gathering profession. Enchanting is notoriously expensive to level, however at skill cap, when you can simply sell all your dusts and shard and essences with no need to keep them any longer, Enchanting is a huge money-maker. Plus while leveling, you can disenchant your own Soulbound items as well as all that stupid Plate with Spirit gear.
I think Enchanting + Mining is a great combo. Mining can give you the cash to level Enchanting when you reach a skill-up plateau and need the infusion, and then at 450 Enchanting and Mining, you can really rake in the dough when you can sell everything you disenchant and mine
- May 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM
It's not always so simple when AH'ing greens. The market value, deposit, and AH cut can make vendoring more profitable. Deposits can eat up profit if the item requires multiple postings to sell.
- May 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- richinvb said...
I find this very true. someone was kind enough to suggest that I get two gathering professions: skin/mine and I have close to 4k banked at 68. I do have a rule to post something on the AH no more than twice. I will try it over a weekend and then drop the price slightly and try it during the week. If the item does not sell then I bank it, give to a friend to DE if I have one or just vend it.
- May 14, 2009 at 1:04 PM
One thing to keep in mind is that, in addition to your bank alt, it can be really helpful to level 2 characters at once. In terms of just leveling, you'll have one getting rested xp while the other levels. And in terms of money, you can get all gathering professions, plus enchanting.
I do find enchanting is an excellent source of money as well once it's leveled. And having 2 characters leveling with one of them enchanting ensures no BOE greens go to waste and, thanks to vellums, you'll have free enchants on your characters to make leveling easier. Enchanting can be a pain to level since BOE greens may not come by frequently enough. But if you run out of mats, simply switch to the other character for a while and send all the BOE greens to your enchanter. Just try to make sure your characters level at the same pace so your enchanter can DE all of the stuff you get.
And don't overlook skinning. While it may not be as profitable per stack as mining or herbalism, it is easiest to level and easiest to obtain items to sell on the AH, plus you don't have to switch between Find Minerals and Find Herbs on your mini map.
My recommendation is to have one character with either mining or herbalism as one profession and enchanting as the other and the other character with mining or herbalism as one profession (whichever you didn't choose on the other character) and skinning as the other.
OK, off the soapbox now!
- May 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Darth, you should definately take what Jederus said as a compliment. Follow his link and you'll see he is a pro. Just signed up for both his and your RSS feeds in fact.
- May 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Guys, some really good, constructive stuff in these comments. I appreciate all of them and I'm sure they'll be very useful to all who are interested in the subject.
@liquideggproduct you are right, of course. Selling greens is indeed tricky but with a bit of knowledge and the right AH mod you can make an informed decision on which items to sell, which to vendor and which to disenchant. For example, plate with SPI is pretty much useless -> vendor or DE, while leather/mail with AGI or cloth with INT/SPI/STA are good candidates for selling.
Depending on the deposit, I will post and item 2-3 times, not more, and if it doesn't sell, I will vendor it. I will also wait for the right moment to sell on the AH i.e. when there aren't any similar items listed.
@jederus thanks again for the kind words. I didn't realize who you were :) but I was well aware of WoWenomics.
- May 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- Kimberly said...
Quick random comment, I buy recipes from vendors and sell them. I made a crapload of gold on the recipes found only in Stranglethorn - jungle stew and what not. Reselling faction only pets - like cockroaches - on the booty bay AH can be really good too, if you feel like making the trip.
- May 16, 2009 at 11:37 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Yes indeed Kimberly. There are so many ways of making gold in WoW that almost every player their own method. Selling recipes (especially limited quantity ones) is one method. It is based on the fact that people are inherently lazy and can't be bothered to 1) research where the recipe can be purchased and 2) actually go there and buy it.
Vanity pets are very profitable and I have an article concerning a particular pet, coming up soon.
Personally I only sell 1 pet consistently because I don't have time for running around and picking all pet types. As for recipes, I don't find it worth my time.
- May 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Altaholic said...
Over a month late on this, but I wanted to add/clarify something. Don't necessarily put ALL greens on the AH. A lot of greens (especially weapons, and especially Outland + Northrend weapons) vendor for a great deal of money. This also means that the AH deposit fee on them will be a bit steep. If you put up something on the AH and can't sell it, then you were better off just vendoring it to begin with. And high level greens frequently do no sell well on AH because the quest rewards at that level are themselves pretty decent.
There is a whole class of greens that I consider vendor trash to begin with. Got a nice level 80 green axe that says "of the whale"? Yeah..
Anyway, nice blog. I quit wow myself from commitment phobia and general social burnout. Considering some light rehab by rerolling and going solo. My whole life I've been called a lone wolf anyway. Can't figure out why I felt so compelled to be a good guildie all that time. Should have just gone solo to begin with.
- June 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Altaholic you are right, of course. People should learn to make their own judgments regarding which items are good for the AH, vendoring or DE-ing.
I won't advise you to return to WoW if you are afraid of becoming addicted. If you have other hobbies IRL, maybe you should enjoy those. However, you can definitely enjoy WoW by playing it on your own, without making any commitments to a potential guild. I mean, look at me and others like me. I am still fairly addicted though, even playing on my own.
- June 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Ziboo said...
Thoroughly enjoy your blog and tips - thank you!
Definitely agree on the gathering to start. But I do have enchanting on alts that have one one gathering profession. Nice to d/e drops/loot or even green items the other alts make.
I have a bank alt in Booty Bay (lvl 1) that I send Horde/Alliance only recipes and pets for the neutral AH. I've found this works best on a PvP server.
- June 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Darth Solo said...
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- June 26, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Hey, I've never been good with gold, if i have it, i spend it, i try painlessly to save up for epic flying, but i either get bored of quests or just spend spend spend! i have 2 80 toons one ally one horde, ally is sitting on 2.5 k gold and hordey on 1.5 k, i still have another 240 quests between SP and Icecrown for the horde charachter, how much do u think i stand to make from them if i do dailies in and around them? also any tips on how to make another 2.5 k quickly for my ally main, ive done all quests a nd have the breadwinner acheievement, i just dont know where the gold has gone but now i only have dailies available, i dont do professions as i find them mundane!! any advice would be welcome
- July 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM
- Darth Solo said...
Well, at level 80, 240 quests * 13 gold (if I'm not mistaken) should give you around 3000 gold, give or take. Plus drops from mobs and quest rewards that you can sell, for a total of around 5000 I would guess.
If you don't have any professions, I would suggest you grab a couple of gathering skills. Those can make you a lot of gold. I know gathering may be boring but you need to think about the end result which is a nice new flying mount.
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It has happened. After more than a year of arguing and fighting in and out of court, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck up an agreement over Android. The new deal seems to help both parties. Microsoft will invest $300 million to take a 17.6 percent share in a new subsidiary of B&N that will merge its Nook business and college divisions. In return, Barnes & Noble has agreed to "license" Microsoft's Android patents and develop a Nook app that will be bundled with Windows 8.
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One year ago, Barnes & Noble accused Microsoft of patent bullying after the Redmond tech giant filed a patent infringement suit against the book retailer, which uses Android in its Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and Nook Simple Touch readers. (Motorola is also fighting Microsoft in court.)
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Was Microsoft afraid of the potential repercussions if the battle was to go to trial? Did it decide to buyout Barnes & Noble's morality and anger so it could add another big manufacturer to its list of Android "licensees"? It certainly appears that this may be the case. Microsoft already has a broad patent deal with Amazon, and could have likely asked it to create a Windows 8 Kindle app.
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Rebecca O'Brien said: "We're really honoured to be recognised by the School - especially as they've chosen to put Ken and I on the billing together. Making films is always teamwork and this associateship is a major endorsement of that. Thank you, LFS."
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The Free Software Foundation this week announced that it has established a petition demanding that Microsoft release its proprietary Windows 7 code as free software.
If you're juggling multiple remote connections daily, this is the utility for you. Brien walks through the steps to use mRemoteNG, from installation to deployment.
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled plans to deliver an extension that will change the default search engine to Bing in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers.
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that some of its customer support case information was exposed last month due to misconfigured security settings in an Azure-hosted database.
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