Jeweled Onyx Panther

When Mists of Pandaria came out I took a cursory look over the different professions. I looked a bit more closely at the ones that I have, and my eye was caught by Jewelcrafting. At various levels of rep with the Order of the Cloud Serpent you could buy recipes for different panther mounts. Jade and Sunstone panthers were available at Honored. Ruby and Sapphire panthers could be bought at revered. And once you were exalted with them you could make a Jeweled Onyx Panther.

Each of these colored panther mounts is a bunch of expensive materials, and the Onyx is all 4 of them combined. It's a ridiculously expensive mount. The vendor mats alone are 72k for the Onyx mount.

My main way of making gold with characters is to buy ghost iron ore. Mornara prospects the ore and turns the green quality ones into jewelry that Telt DEs. My banker sells the blue quality gems and enchanting mats. Once I saw the panther mounts, I changed that up a bit to save stacks of the necessary gems for the crafted mounts. DraNgNon and I also pool our skills and my other banker buys and sells herbs for flasks and glyphs that Kuan and Ikoli make. We've been accumulating gold on that banker and every time we have enough to buy an Orb of Mystery I've been having Mornara make a panther mount. And then I immediately have her mail it back to the banker so I don't accidentally learn the mount...

Anyway we finally got four of the colored mounts made. I tried to insist that DraNgNon get the first mount. But she pointed out that I'd been the one so excited about this. So here is Morn riding on an absolutely fabulous Jeweled Onyx Panther.



It really looks awesome. And it'll adjust to whatever speed you can fly or ride.

Making Bank

For a long time Lithui, my little blood elf paladin, was our banker. He is still currently GM of <Bank of Balou>.



But he's transferred his banking duties over to Nivki, my little goblin rogue. She has that fabulous Goblin racial for discounts on everything. So Nivki is scanning the AH, and listing Ikoli's glyphs and selling random crap that is in our bank.

Possibly I shall enlist DraNgNon's help to transfer GM from Lithui to Nivki.

the things people buy

Going for the gold

So Clara and I have decided our Bank of Balou guild will have to pay for its own damned fourth bank tab. That means Lithui, her paladin fence, has to sell shit off to make the 1000 gold necessary to buy it.

The first 500 gold was pretty easy. And our other toons now have slightly more bank space. The next little bit of gold came from Kuanchichi farming Cenarion Circle rep in Silithus - goodness that has a lot of Runecloth as a side effect. But now it's gotten to the point where it will take actual effort.

Last night we decided to really quantify what was needed to make the money. I logged in Ikoli and Clara logged in Lithui, who has various game economic addons enabled. And we went through the list of what Inscriptions she can generate, and she made some of each of the most profitable ones and sent them off.

This weekend we'll see how well that works.

I can't wait until we get the fourth Bank Tab. Bank of Balou is overflowing and I still have lots of shared items to put in there.

Bank of Balou

DraNgNon and I decided that we needed our own alt guild bank. We'd been dumping random rep stuff into Ancestor Cult, but there is only so much space and we can't buy new tabs. Also both DraNgNon and I are paranoid. If we're going to put primals and high level ore into a bank we want to make sure the situation is entirely under our control.

So I took my alt, Lithui, and pulled him out of Ancestor Cult and bought him a guild charter. He pestered various friends and finally got the required 9 signatures the other day. And thus Bank of Balou was formed! I picked out a nice tabard: black background, white border, and a golden snarling dog head. It's meaner looking than Balou usually is, well unless he sees his reflection.

The first tab was 100g. It now holds a LOT of cloth. And that's not all of the cloth that our banker alts were carrying either...

The second tab was 250g. It now holds crafting mats. It's got stone, leather, grinding stones, ore and bars.

The third tab was 500g. It now holds gems and primals. We hold on to all of our primals and eternals. Between tailoring, blacksmithing, inscription, and jewelcrafting we go through a lot of materials.

We haven't rounded up the 1000g for the fourth tab yet. It will probably be for rep items when we do though.

Lithui will also be selling stuff as we go and putting that money back into the bank. Because there is no reasonable cause for keeping 25 stacks of solid stone.
So the general principal for using the bank and keeping it under control is that we'll sell the extra stuff, but never all of it. So the 25 stacks of solid stone will dwindle to 2 or 3 or so. There is also no limit on withdrawing as long as you're going to use it. Our characters will generally keep the materials that they need for skilling up on themselves. For example, Viljo is keeping the Northrend herbs on himself and will send any other herbs he gets to the bank. Mornara is keeping the gems that will skill her in her own bag, but the ore she is past will be sent to the bank.