Winter Veil, gold exploit

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My banker told me yesterday that she is again making a nice profit during a holiday event. So I asked if she would be willing ot share some of her magic information. Here comes one way to make a nice amount of money during Winter Veil, in her own words:

"My dear citizens of Azeroth. As you may have noticed, the Feast of Winter veil us upon us. And as I have said before, a holiday event is good for Business.. Almost as good as a war.

I will give you one example on how you can print gold during this season.

The Feast of Winter Veil is, well if not a culinary holiday then at least a sugar rush holiday. A lot of the recipies that are connected to this season require only the most basic ingredients. So, my tip to you is... Most people do not know where to buy these ingredients so they start looking at the Auction House. Ice Cold Milk is one of the ingredients for Egg Nog and also, the Greatfather Winter is quite thirsty for it as well.

There are at least one vendor that sells Ice Cold Milk for about 1 silver located close to each Auction House in every major city. So nobody knows this, but you do. Buy up some milk and then auction it for around 25s each. Also try to vary the stack size that you sell it in. Most people will only need one glass of milk, but if you force them to buy 2 or 3 glasses in every stack then you are talking money. Do not get too greedy though, as even if you have a slightly higher buy out price then the other people that are selling this, your stacks will be smaller as people tend to sell milk in stacks of at least 5 but mostly 10 or 20.

So you can list your milk for a higher price then the lowest and still sell your stock before your competition. The first day of Winter Veil, I sold milk for around 500 gold. It has gone down a little since then so I do not regret sharing this with you. But it is still a hot market to try to establish oneself in.

I do hope that this has given you a little insight in how you can exploit a public holiday in Azeroth. I guarantee that each holiday has its own bag of tricks for big profit. So I may or may not write again during next holiday, it depends on how much gold comes my way.

// Yours truly ----------, Banker"

Nowind travels to Outland

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I finally received word from Nowind yesterday. Evidently her stay in Outland has ended and she has now moved on to the Borean Tundra. So I decided to drop by in person and pick up her travel journal.

So this is the tattered and torn journal of Nowind’s journey to Outland.

Day 1

I arrived at the crater where the Dark Portal lies in the Blasted Lands through a portal in the Mystic Ward of Ironforge. I know that nothing from my previous journeys in Azeroth could prepare me for what lies behind the portal, the stories that I've heard had that in common. So as I walk the last steps up to the portal, I summon raw determination and put all my thoughts into the present and step through....

I have used portals before, but this was something else. I could feel the time shift inside. The whole process seemed to take longer than usual and a lot of thoughts had time to pass through my mind, when the fear started to turn into panic it all ended abruptly and all I saw was red.

It took a few moments until I was able to focus my eyes, but before long I saw that the red came from the land itself, I had arrived on the Hellfire Peninsula.

Day 2

I took the gryphon to the Honor Hold from the portal last night and rented a room at the inn, I was glad that I didn't have to fight my way through the demons that had besieged the portal. Before heading for bed I took the time and spoke to the people living in the hold, I found the inscription trainer and paid him some silver to teach me what he knew. When I walked back towards the inn, I became a witness to an infernal attack from the sky.

Today I will spend with various assignments that I managed to acquire last night, including demon and orc hunting.

Day 9

Received a package with herbs from Eowind so that I could focus on my inscription studies and that I did. I also took a class in gryphon flying and bought myself a snow white gryphon. This should cut the time I have to spend in this god forgotten place.

Tomorrow I will head out to the Temple of Telhamat in western Hellfire and maybe visit the Druids of the Cenarion Circle at their camp if I can find it.

Day 16

Zangarmash.

What a beautiful place even though it gives me the creeps. I would not care to live here.

Add to this that the place is overrun with naga and you will start to see why I really really really do not like the place.

But it is beautiful, even I can't deny that. My stay at the Cenarion Refuge and the small town built on top of one of the gigantic mushrooms, Telredor, earned me a nice coin in my pocket and a bunch of friendly people to add to my friends list. If nothing else, I will return for their sake, even though one of them turned me into a crow.

Day 23

Today I finally arrived in Shattrath City, even though I could have taken a gryphon directly from Honor Hold i decided early on that I wanted to travel wherever my assignments led me. But now, after three weeks in Outland I have arrived in the shiny City of the Naaru. I took the tour of the city with one of the void walkers and decided that I like the Aldor more then the Scryers.

So tonight I will sleep at the inn on the Aldor Rse. I'm thinking of setting up more proper quarters here for the rest of my stay in Outland and travel to wherever I need to go for the day. I've missed city life.

But now I'll actually cheat a little and take try one of the portals here that lets us travel back to Azeroth. Think I'll visit the Auction House in Darnassus before I go to bed.

Day 31

The last week has been intensive. I ran into Emilyfion the other day and she took me to the Mana Tombs of Auchindoun where I got a new wand and staff. In addition I've traversed Terokkar Forest, visited the Allerian Stronghold, one of the few human settlements here. I had the chance to help them with wolf and orc hunting.

After Terrokar I went to Nagrand but I do have to say that I don't understand Eowind how she could force herself to become a well reputed, even exalted, hero of the Kurenai. I settled with getting friendly with them, at least I can accompany Eowind if she gets invited to dinner.

Blades Edge was not a place for me either. I like dragons, I like them very much and being forced to see their bodies everywhere in this isolated place really made me feel bad.

Lastly yesterday I went to Netherstorm, mostly just to see the place. I helped the goblins at Area 52 with some things, the sad thing was that when I returned with the goods they needed I found out that the whole town had been attacked during my absence. Not a living soul remained.

That was the final drop, I had seen enough of Outland and if I wanted to see Shadowmoon Valley, then I would do that later.

It was time to leave and return to Azeroth...