In about a week the Feast of Winter Veil starts and goes thru to January 2, thus another year gone by with a new Warlords of Draenor patch, coming soon. Time to reflect on our past achievements, disappointments and congratulate those who accomplished their goals, I had goals, i accomplished none of them, although, i did accomplish a few things on my short term goals list, not Santas List, but it was a short list, get my max Leather-worker to 100, and start all the other toons on their garrisons for those rare blue recipe materials, that are now magically soulbound expcept for a few that somehow ended up being tradable. For now i am working on my guardian/resto druid, working mostly on the tank part, something i know little about,and am taking a step forward in the new year to learn a little more about tanking and controlling crowds while in dungeons and raids. But for now lets focus on Winter Veil Feasts and think about how much gold we can make in the coming weeks.

Feast of Winter Veil is hitting servers early Tuesday the 16th so get prepared to drink some Winter Veil Egg Nog, sit by your Cozy Fire, and open your Stolen Present— There’s a new holiday gift waiting for you under this year’s tree, and your Father Winter’s Helper has stopped sulking and is ready for some pet battles, so this is one holiday you don’t want to miss!

The Feast of Winter Veil is a festive time of year during which players can sample delicious festive treats, playfully toss snowballs, and receive special holiday gifts! The Feast of Winter Veil is a reference to the end-of-year seasonal holiday ofChristmas, featuring Greatfather Winter as an in-game version of Santa Claus.

During the Feast of Winter Veil players are sent on various quests, involving such adventures as rescuing a stolen reindeer and defeating The Abominable Greench in order to retrieve a lost shipment of goodies! There are a number of special festival-only foods which players can purchase or prepare, ranging from delicious Gingerbread Cookie to the maybe-not-quite-so-delicious Graccu’s Mince Meat Fruitcake! As the festival nears its end, on the morning of December 25th (corresponding with Christmas Day) players can retrieve festive gifts from beneath tall, decorated trees found in Orgrimmar or Ironforge. These gifts contain seasonal, festival-only items and always includes a special item available only during that year’s festival – never again!

Completion of the eleven holiday achievements specified by Merrymaker will grant a player title – Merrymaker <Name>

Things for us Greedy little gold makers, I mean Merrymaker’s to stock up on, bolts of runecloth, bolts of woolen cloth, rugged leather, Heavy leather, Elemental Earth, Steel bars, frost oil, Elemental Water, Elemental Air, and finally Mithril bars, these are the items needed for crafting the following holiday recipes.

Crafting Recipes

Players with Leatherworking, Tailoring or Cooking may find that they’ve received mail from Greatfather Winter written on festive stationary. Oddly enough, the Alliance Greatfather sends the gifts to both factions – a free recipe! Tailors will receive either Pattern: Green Winter Clothes(Horde) or Pattern: Red Winter Clothes (Alliance), Leatherworkers will receive Pattern: Winter Boots and Cooks will recieve Recipe: Hot Apple Cider. There are certain skill level requirements for each recipe to be mailed, but if for any reason you did not receive a recipe, don’t worry–the recipes can be purchased at vendors in the major cities, as listed below.

There are other recipes available inside Ticking Present or Smokywood Pastures Special Gift: Formula: Enchant Weapon – Winter’s Might (snowflake glow), Plans: Edge of Winter (axe with icy glow), Pattern: Gloves of the Greatfather, Pattern: Green Holiday Shirt, Recipe: Elixir of Frost Power, and Schematic: Snowmaster 9000 (make more snowballs during the year).

Stock up, sell high and buy low

On another note, i got back into the Inscription market, and started slow with a few of the higher priced glyphs and at the same time bought about 40k worth of over priced herbs, i was buying tons of herbs at 3g per, and the market price on US Sargeras was at 2g which seems to be a steady price now for herbs. I also picked up alchemy on this same toon, learned alot, getting back into alchemy, cost substantially more to level both of those professions at the same time. Total cost for both from 0 to 700, about 12k after all the mats i purchased and stockpiled, as i havent been selling more, ore, herbs meats, fish, and other Warlords of Draenor materials. The alchemy market seems weak and heavily laden with under priced flasks and potions, with about 200-300k gold it could easily be corrected, but since everyone has a level 2 garrison and a strong few have level 3 garrions they can make everything under the sun from their own herb garden and own mine, with a few gold and some resources that are hard to come by once you have leveled to 100. I would like to see some market correction like the glyph market experienced.

Some of the information above are excerpts from wowhead.

Toodaloo for now, more later!