The Queue: Where's my bailout Blizzard?

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.
Dear Blizzard,I've spent the past year and a half writing about WoW. I need some gold. Can you bail me out?
I can provide you with a promise I'll restructure my daily questing and resource farming, providing a leaner and meaner gold flow for my raiding activities. But I'm going to need some start up help.
Regards,
Adam.
P/S: If I don't get my gold bailout, I'll Blame Canada and not you (which happens to be today's music selection).
Athinah asked...
"I'm so happy that signs of the new druid forms are coming out but...When exactly are they coming out? Is there a chance that they could come out sooner if Blizzard finishes them sooner? If not, what are the chances of the next patch coming out in a month or so?"
The new druid forms will be coming out with patch 3.2, which will be released to the PTRs within the month (most likely), and then will be released to the live servers a month or two after that. I wouldn't be surprised if 3.2 has a much faster turnaround than 3.1 did, since there won't be so much raid testing to do.
Max asked...
"Here's something I've been wondering: how do I know I'm seeing everything in the game (Old World, Outland, and Northrend) that's worth experiencing? I'm just in vanilla still, but the content can still be overwhelming at times and I always feel like I may be missing out on interesting or fun parts of the game, simply because I don't realize they are there."
The only thing you can really do is just play the game, make sure you've explored each zone completely, and research everything you find. Achievements will help with that somewhat in that they'll give you a direction to take your questing and group work with, but when it comes down to it all you can do is good old grunt work exploration of the game.
Blaiz asked...
"Why are low level herbs so expensive?"
They're used in bulk for a lot of profession leveling. Right now no one wants to farm them really. People would much rather be farming Northrend stuff. So those that do farm them are able to put them up on the AH for a premium, and pretty much get whatever they want. I recently leveled up inscription to the 430/450 level from scratch, and there were stack of some vanilla WoW herbs going for 100g. It's kind of insane, but that's the market. I should note that this can be different depending on what server your on as well.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Janaa Jun 1st 2009 4:13PM
ya.. The day inscription launched, I was selling silverleaf @ 70g a stack. Wheeee!!
Jon Do Jun 1st 2009 4:37PM
Ah the fond memories.
I pre-stocked my herbs and power-skilled Inscription to about 350 on release day.
And I made about 5000g on the skill-ups.
Holgar Jun 1st 2009 5:07PM
The week before incription came out didn't have much time to spend ingame but I was counting on herb prices going up so I farmed Swamp of sorrows on two characters expecting to get about 2000g or so for them to help out with my epic flier training.
They both ended up with an epic flier apiece and 1-2k gold left over I was extatic. If I had had more time I would have had enough left over for a few mammoths.......
themightysven Jun 1st 2009 5:14PM
jon do
don't you mean the frond memories?
Taladan Jun 1st 2009 7:02PM
Children's Week. Everybody needed Mageroyal for the Chocolate Cake.
I sold 10 stacks of 3 Mageroyals for 10g each. ;)
Amaxe Jun 1st 2009 8:15PM
I remember that. I had stockpiled herbs, but not enough, so I said "Screw this," abandoned it and sold my remaining herbs and (because I am a masochist) went to Engineering on that alt
rtwinger Jun 1st 2009 4:14PM
It is definetely great for low levels to farm and earn easy money.
matt_janoski Jun 1st 2009 4:16PM
Gotta love those low level herbs. I can spend an hour in the barrens and make 50-80g selling Mageroyal and Kingsblood.
Heilig Jun 1st 2009 5:02PM
Huh. I can spend an hour in Icecrown farming Lichbloom and Icethorn and make 200-250. Funny how that works.
Hoggersbud Jun 1st 2009 8:06PM
But you miss the awesomeness that is chat in the Barrens!
Cthulu Jun 1st 2009 4:19PM
Thanks for the great funny at the beginning. But about herbs, when inscription came out the price of all herbs skyrocketed with the demand of a new pofession. same as books of glyph mastery. My server they went for 2k at beginning and now go for as little as 150g. Supply and demand and wowconomics are a very interesting study to look at the price of materials over time.
schm0 Jun 1st 2009 5:49PM
Yeah, and now the glyph market is so over-inundated with product that the prices have dropped to all-new lows. The Inscription market bubble has burst, I believe. But herbs, which are also used for Alchemy, are still going strong. Just goes to show that collecting raw materials will always yield a profit.
garfunkel Jun 1st 2009 4:31PM
we Canucks love that song :)
and even if it isn't our fault, we'd still apologize anyway
keep yer stick on the ice!
cheers'
Adam Holisky Jun 1st 2009 4:33PM
"keep yer stick on the ice!"
Go Gretzky!
BladedDingo Jun 1st 2009 8:55PM
Forget Gretzky, Thats Red Green!
Arivia Jun 1st 2009 6:57PM
And Adam fails the Canadian test. Better hope the women find him handsome, he's sure not handy.
Charles Jun 1st 2009 7:09PM
Maybe if we got him some duct tape he could improve his skills.
/Northern Michigan, close enough.
/Eh
Amaxe Jun 1st 2009 9:00PM
Red Green I presume?
traptinacivicsi Jun 2nd 2009 3:55PM
"..And remember to keep your stick outta the ice!"
- Red Green
tatsumasa Jun 1st 2009 4:33PM
there seems to be a lot of discrepancy as to how people feel about the new druid models with regards to what some of us were expecting, what was said, the time it took, and now what's being delivered. after the cat models are revealed later this week, do you think you could do some sort of poll to get a better idea as to how people really feel about them? thanks.