Closing in on the big one million

I admit that I'm starting to daydream about life after the drive to one million gold. Having just cleared my mailboxes my total wealth is 906,750g give or take 5 silver and a few copper. The end is definately in sight, looming on the horizon getting ever closer with every passing hour. So what do I do then?

I've actually been thinking about this quite a lot over recent weeks. The transfer of my glyph business to horde has introduced a new impetus into gold making, and with Fringe closing in on 100k in sales a little over three weeks I've quickly jumped from from around 700k to todays figure. Providing I just plod along, I will hit a million before the end of the month.

I've often wondered whether gold cap was truely the end goal. A million gold isnt actually gold cap... you can have 999,999g99s99c on a single toon, so in theory gold cap is 9,999,999g99s90c for a single server. I have no intention of going that far. I also never intend to move all the gold to a single toon to get the error message saying I cant take anymore gold. Currently I have around 180k horde side and 620k alliance side - and any transfer of gold would cost 15% and I am not paying 24k just for an error message tyvm!

However saying all this, once Auditor shows me that my characters have a combined wealth of one million gold, I will have achieved the goal I set myself back...

I hit 500k in January 2011, and I actually hit the old gold cap of 214k in April 2010. The last few months have therefore been a significant increase in the rate I have been creating wealth - which isnt surprising due to inflation and the average players wealth

But when I hit the old cap I struggled to spend gold - old habits died hard - but I lost the drive to earn as well. I just kinda drifted. GKP runs eventually bought me out of retirement as did the new gold cap, but I dont want to drift when I hit a million.

But why not? Well for a start what would I have to rant and rave about here? Much as I have my occasional flirtations with other topics, gold is really the reason most readers are here. If I talk about standing around in Stormwind being a /trade troll I dont see many people hanging around. But saying that I am a goal driven person - so what goals do I set myself?

I'll be honest that I looking forward to easing off the accelerator a little. I will push through to a million but I will not be aim for two million. Instead I have decided to start over - but with a different take on spending.

I will bank the one million. It will sit across two guild banks and rot alway in whatever it is that pixels rot into. Whereas once upon a time 5k was my next egg - my safety net - now this will be one million. Everything I earn from that point forward it mine to spend as I see fit. I have a shopping list in mind and intend to act upon it.

For instance, the first 10k earnt over the cap will be spend on recipes/formulae that I currently don't know. These include the 5x maelstrom crystal enchanting formulae. These have never been gold makers so I never saw the need to invest in them - shortly I will.

Gear will be purchased, best enchants applied (espeically now 4.1 has hit) - generally I will twink my mains to the best of my ability. I will buy myself a vial of the sands (having already purchased two for others) - basically I am going to splurge and love every damn copper piece of it.

Its going to cost me gold - lots and lots of gold - which will force me to keep being a goblin - giving me more fodder for the blog. And by earning the gold for everything I get to treat myself over the course of weeks rather than dropping 200k into the economy and losing the joy of it in a few hours.

I also have the desire to screw around with markets in a way that hasnt been done previously - but that will take masses of gold to attempt. Perhaps I might find a use for that one million at some point in the future after all.

Anyway back to getting that last 95k - if you are on Cael feel free to buy my stuff - it isnt overpriced...much ;)