Archive for June, 2008

Officers’ Quarters: Cracking the whip

“My guild, existence both large and casual, has never really worried most leveling. In certainty, I took my time on the way to 70. I wanted to smell the roses, so to speak, and enjoy the new content without rushing through it. Of course, I was a hunter backwards then and far from essential to our raiding. Now I’m one of very few Holy paladins, so the situation might be a little different next time . In some event, we have the luxury of letting the chips fall where they may when the level cap was raised. Whoever hit 70 first would be part of our initial Karazhan team, and we’d just keep adding to the list of acquirable players as time went on. But for a small guild, one player hitting 70 can mean the difference between raiding every week or burning out on dailies and Heroics. D, first earmark me to make two comments on your current situation. The first is this: Even though your guild is casual, you have policies (or “”suggestions”") that are only slowing down your leveling members. I can understand that you don’t want people sitting in town waiting for a dungeon group to form, but it’s simple to join the Looking for a group channel while you’re questing. And if you do manage to get a run going, not only do you get the XP from the dungeon mobs, but dungeon quests often give a ton of experience. Plus you’re earn reputation to purchase meliorate gear, more recipes, helm enchantments, and heroic keys. I ran Underbog on an alt a few days past. I did three quests in a run that took most an hour, and each quest gave me 22,000 XP. It was well worth my time. I didn’t get some drops, but if I have, it would have only helped me to kill things faster. Also, forbidding your 70s from helping out those who are leveling is practically cruel and unusual.


Outland areas are full of quick group quests where you just have to kill one elite mob. With a 70 or two helping you, you could probably charge out every the group quests in Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, and Terokkar in most an hour. You’d rake in hundreds of thousands of XP, plus earn rare rewards to help you level. Since your 70s are impatiently waiting for these fellow members to catch up to them, this is clearly a win-win! Now, I understand that you want people to learn their classes and not have their hands held every the way to 70. That is admirable and in most circumstances I would concord with you wholeheartedly. However, it seems that the very existence of your guild is at stake. It might be time to make some compromises. ” “Don’t count the WotLK Wiki out already — after going down late last week due to a suspected cease-and-desist order from Blizzard’s lawyers (now confirmed), they have returned with a completely different host and every the information from the leaked Alpha they were originally hosting. wow gold They say that their original wiki hosts, Wikidot, were extremely supportive on both the traffic and legal fronts, as they upgraded their servers just to keep the site up, and originally did help with legal troubles. When Vivendi Universal took legal state against their ISP, however, Wikidot have to fold, and the wiki has now moved hosts to wotlkwiki.info. Last week, there was also mention that the C&D didn’t communicate them to remove every information, only “”over-the-line”" info, such as screenshots or video. But ostensibly that clause doesn’t administer to the new host — there are still screenshots every over the site, and though Vivendi has pulled video from YouTube before, it’s still there as well. Of course, some C&D sent to the old site would still administer to the new one — it’s just a question now of whether the wiki’s new host will comply with Vivendi’s demands (the wiki’s creators sound very sure that they won’t).

wow gold And after that, it’ll be up to Vivendi to determine how far they want to take this — if they really feel that having this leaked information on that site has hurt them in a justifable way, there is a possibility that an existent lawsuit could be issued, and if this escalates even further, the two parties could eventually end up in court. As ever, we’ll be watching to see what happenes. If Blizzard asked directly for the content to be removed, I would say: ‘I understand, guys. I’ll pull the content. mp3 You stick to making awesome games.’ If Blizzard’s so-called ‘parent company,’ Vivendi Universal, asked directly for the content to be removed, I would say: ‘Sure, sure, no problem. Hey, just one question, guys … Have you heard about this company, Valve. wow gold They’ve apparently got this really neat thing called Steam, and it’s really useful and easy to use, but there’s this little thing in their legal history … Interesting. They’re saying they had to design it because … buy wow gold Oh, wait, this is fascinating … Apparently you ripped them off for millions of dollars by distributing thousands of copies of their games without giving them the percentage guaranteed in their agreement with you. Oh, wow, even better: What is this about you dragging them into a protracted legal battle claiming that their original IP rights were actually yours. wow gold Do you know anything about this. … Guys. Where are you going. ‘ ” .

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Midsummer Fire Festival level guide

“You don’t have to be level 70 to get in on most of the fun for this year’s Midsummer Fire Festival. Here is a guide to the minimum levels required (as stated by Kisirani) and recommended for each of the quests: Torch Tossing and Torch Catching have no minimum level requirement. Because you complete these quests in the safety of a capital city, some level is pertinent. Honoring the flames has no minimum level requirement. Unless you are 50+, however, the recommended level is the same as the level of the ocean you can comfortably hunt in. Desecrating flames also has no minimum level requirement, but considering it flags you for PvP even on a PvE server, do so at your own risk if you are low level. Incense for the Festival Scorchlings also has no minimum level and some level is recommended. Unusual Activitiy requires level 16, but I wouldn’t recommend lower than 20 given that you have to war level 20 and 21 cultists and the ocean is rotten with level 20 Naga. A Thief’s Reward or stealing the flames in the other alliance’s capital cities required a minimum level of 50, but if the flame is at every defended, it’s prizewinning to be level 70. Lord Ahune requires a minimum level of 65. Slave Pens is where he resides, so some level above the minimum that you feel comfortable in that instance is recommended. Edited to add: Upon further review, the recommended level to complete this quest is 70 and it is easier if the 70s in your group are well-geared. These quests give a lot of experience if you are beneath 70 and a lot of gold if you aren’t. Regardless of the rewards, however, these quests are a fresh infusion of fun during this period of pre-expansion blahs.


So if you haven’t tried them already, what are you waiting for. wow gold The torch tossing and catching are daily quests, too. A great way to get some easy experience on alts. I get about one-sixth of a level per day on pre-60 toons and it takes about 3 minutes to complete” “Yup, it’s a real-life Mooncloth Bag. wow gold SpikeHeadDesign over on Etsy has turned the 16-slotter’s icon into an existent, real-life activity. Instead of existent Mooncloth, though (there are no real Moonwells on Earth, unfortunately), it’s made of corduroy, cotton, a few buttons and velcro, and some kind of lace on the side (though I know my Shaman would never actually use something with lace on it, so they must every be different). Looks terrific, anyway, and it should for that price: $180.00. wow power leveling Still, for a handmade, one-of-a-kind activity, can’t go wrong. The creator says that Netherweave is next, and it’ll be exciting when we get to “”Gigantique.”" Alice Taylor of the great Wonderland journal has also been dutifully keeping up with WoW stuff on Etsy: she found these great Horde earrings that have unfortunately sold out (though this other design is still acquirable). Could be the perfect gift for the jewelry-fancy WoW player in your life. As a sewer, I’ll be the first to say that corduroy is not the cheapest fabric in the world… mp3 players But it’s not velvet or a beautiful 100% wool. Heck, it’s not even silk. Assuming this person didn’t bother to wait for a sale and bought the most expensive corduroy at the store I would say that the raw materials for this project cost her $30 max. For me, adding on the cost of labor, this would probably make this a $60 bag. Way way overpriced. wow gold If I ever want something like this I’ll definitely be making it myself. I agree on the Ahune comments - you want 70s with at least some epics or you won’t be able to kill him fast enough.

He’s significantly harder than the Horseman. I happen to have had two 70s at about the same point in gearing for each event - reasonably new, but with an entry level epic or three. wow gold The Horseman was easily puggable - Ahune is not. ”

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Warsong Gulch

“You cannot win without defending your own flag and your flag carrier. If you have 9 people on offense going for the flag and they have five on defense, they will hold you up long enough to prevent you from taking their flag until after they’ve not only sent five in to kill your one defender and take your flag, but then the ones who you killed taking their flag will constantly prevent you from leaving with it while their flag carrier and his defenders run backwards, hit you from the other side, kill your FC and then cap right in front of you. You need enough defense to do the same backwards to them. Any strategy that hinges on your entire team going into their humble, where they have the goodness of knowing exactly what you’re trying to do and control of the line of sight, means you’re going to backfire unless you massively outgear/outplay them. Now, you can count on massively outgearing/outplaying the other team if you’re a premade group in full S3/Tier6 gear against a PuG group. But that’s not a plan so much as it is straightforward mauling of an inferior team, and even then, if they have some defense they could at least slow you down a lot. If you go in lonely, cap the flag, run out and run into the enemy with no one anywhere near you, you’re going to die. Be philosophical most this. You knew you were lonely when you took the flag. Arathi Basin For the love of whatever you hold sacred, don’t run off and leave a node undefended to go war on the way! Why do people do this. Why. What possible reason could you have to leave mine undefended to go move stables and then not even go to the flag at the stables.


Are you under the impression that pile of standing stones contains vast caches of riches. Did you get confused most the objective of the match, which is to take nodes and hold them. Winning the match in no way requires you to score the most KB’s. No matter how many times you tell us every most how you’re leading the BG in killing blows, if we’re losing, no one cares how awing you are. If we’re up three to two, this is not the time to every leave BS undefended and hit one of the two nodes the enemy has. BS is right in the middle of the map. Every node has entering to it, with mine and lumber mill having the hardest of a not particularly hard time rushing it. wow gold So if you leave BS to go hit farm, expect that BS will be taken from you if you don’t leave someone, anyone there to defend it, even to just yell out “”BS BS BS”" as the enemy slaughters him as brutally as crazed shoppers the day after Thanksgiving. If for some reason your team decides to go as a full group and run each humble, the other team will just send five to follow after you and take everything backwards as you leave. You can run one humble as a mob, but then you have to leave people behindhand to defend what you take, or it was pointless. And seriously, no one cares how many killing blows you got. That one dude with no KB’s who helped hold stables the entire game. wow gold He did more than you did. He played with an eye towards winning. ” “I know we’re every excited most Season 4. Some of us are stockpiling field points and trying to get our ratings up, while others are taking the chance to gear up some alts in Season 2 gear as soon as it moves to honor.

wow And that’s great, there’s something for everyone. But it also seems, at least on the servers I play on, to be leading to some frayed tempers in the battlegrounds. So let’s chat most what is, and what isn’t, pertinent and useful for getting yourself some honor in the BG’s. First off, and I can’t say this one enough as a general piece of advice for some tract, yelling, calling people names, and spamming macros does not actually make you Sun Tzu. wow gold It can be very galling when your WSG turns into a 45 minute turtle with no flag captures, or your AV run becomes mired down because already again everyone ran RH instead of taking and holding Iceblood Graveyard, but no matter how creative your insults get, the tide of war will not turn. The other players in the tract are not going to say “”you know, Matsakillza is right, I really am a total newbie”" and even if they did, how would that possibly improve how the match is progressing. It won’t. mp3 player It just makes you look like a petulant child throwing a fit because something didn’t go your way. Now that we’ve gotten that taste of general advice out of the way, let’s move on to specific examples from each tract, linking to our own Zach Yonson’s thoughts on each as we do. Alterac Valley One of the large mistakes groups get into is the ‘run the end graveyard’ strategy. Especially popular for the Alliance as it used to be a huge winner, backwards when the Horde have no idea how to counter it, it’s still resurrected from the dead each and every tract even though it has nearly no chance of working unless the opposite side plays like morons who have been heavily drugged and then maltreated repeatedly most the head and shoulders with inanimate carbon rods. Yes, I know you won your last three AV’s this way. How many have you lost with this strategy. wow gold How many times have you taken the Relief Hut only to look at the map and realize that there are only five Alliance players south of Iceblood, and they’re every with you.RELATED LINKS:

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Level 80 legendary tabard spotted

“Like Sasquatch, it’s so elusive that photographs are rare, but some WoW players have caught a glimpse of what may be an upcoming PvP reward from Wrath. Or maybe it’s just a bug. Or — and I have a nickel look on this one — it’s a nice little prank Blizzard’s playing on us in return for our snooping around for information on the expansion. Whatever it is, though, it has left at least one footprint. We’ve gotten a few guides that upon inspecting a player’s Tabard of Summer Flames, the Horde side reward from the Shards of Ahune quest, the tabard’s tooltip describes a very different item called Tabard of the Victor. Even though the tabard’s design matched the Midsummer quest reward, the description was quite different. First of every, the Tabard of the Victor requires Level 80, which was our first clue that it was probably not meant for pre-Wrath eyes. The tabard binds on pick-up, provides 250 Armor, +20 Stamina, +10 to All Resistances. Upon equipping it, your resilience rating improves by 15 and it increases movement speed and life regeneration rate. The funniest part — and what makes me think this could be a prank by our dear game designers — is the tabard’s use is described as: “”Use: Show how heroic you are! (55 Secs Cooldown)”" and the bottom line description is, “”The Mark of a True Hero.”" It seems that perhaps the glitch was caused by an error in the cache because when it was cleared the tabard’s description correctly matched the Summer Flames tabard. Once a BoP item is equiped (and it is because that dialog box is not the Dressing Room) they say Soulbound not Bind when Picked up. While Tabards and Cloaks fall under cloth this is never displayed in the tooltip. If this is really going to be an item, then woot for bear tanks, because that is like another 1k armor.


Which I wonder if they are going to raise the armor limit, because I am getting close to 30k with just two T4 and badge loot (35k is not going to be easy, but definitely seems plausible). I’m sorry, Matt Graham - I didn’t realize you had a magic crystal ball that sees into the future and gives you the information of every single possible thing Blizzard will or will not implement in future expansions. What is the point of having wowinsider at all if we can just have omnipotent people such as yourself report all future information for us and dictate exactly what people should report on. ” “Ice on the official site or otherwise, I’m still holding out hope that we’ll see a Diablo-related declaration at WWI (and not a Wrath of the Lich King beta/release declaration, as many are guessing). And here’s a little more fuel for the speculation fire: DiabloII.net says they’ve received the official schedule for the event in Paris this coming weekend, and right after the heaved presentation, they say that Blizzard has planned a press conference. wow gold And essentially, their discussion is that you don’t plan a press conference to foretell an open beta of an expansion we’ve known most for nearly a year — you hold a press conference for a new Diablo game. We should also note, though people have noticed this before, that Sunday, June 29th, is the eighth day of the release of Diablo II, so this weekend has a lot of hack-and-slash-related significance as is. wow gold Of course, we won’t know until WWI actually kicks off in Paris on Saturday — WoW Insider will, of course, have correspondents on the scene to let you know exactly what Blizzard announces when they do. How to hold a scientific conference in Azeroth John Bohannon has been writing for Science magazine as “”The Gonzo Scientist,”" and his most recent writeup, on a real scientific conference held in the World of Warcraft, is a great read. mp3 players

We reported that the event was going on backwards in May, and now Bohannon’s put together a really honest report (from how the conference was funded to the reasons why it was chosen to be Horde-only) on what its like for these scientists researching virtual worlds to put their gold where their mouth is, so to speak, and actually hold a conference ingame. wow gold They have to deal with everything from conversation direction (they ordained one person to get whispers on some questions for speakers, though, as anyone who’s ever been to a mass ingame event will tell you, you can’t really keep people from yelling and screaming) to mobs in the Barrens. wow gold And it sounds like they did get something done — likewise the panels, which were only slightly frustrated by griefers, they took expeditions throughout the world, and did do a little thinking most how different meeting in RL and meeting in a virtual existence is. Very well read. cheap wow gold The end of the article has a link to a PDF book most the conference, but it’s hidden behindhand Science’s membership wall. Still, Bohannon writes clearly and fairly most the game, and it’s fun to think of a bunch of scientists actually trying to navigate a virtual world while doing their own research. ” .”Like Sasquatch, it’s so elusive that photographs are rare, but some WoW players have caught a glimpse of what may be an upcoming PvP reward from Wrath. Or maybe it’s just a bug. Or — and I have a nickel look on this one — it’s a nice little prank Blizzard’s playing on us in return for our snooping around for information on the expansion. Whatever it is, though, it has left at least one footprint. We’ve gotten a few guides that upon inspecting a player’s Tabard of Summer Flames, the Horde side reward from the Shards of Ahune quest, the tabard’s tooltip describes a very different item called Tabard of the Victor. Even though the tabard’s design matched the Midsummer quest reward, the description was quite different. First of every, the Tabard of the Victor requires Level 80, which was our first clue that it was probably not meant for pre-Wrath eyes. The tabard binds on pick-up, provides 250 Armor, +20 Stamina, +10 to All Resistances. Upon equipping it, your resilience rating improves by 15 and it increases movement speed and life regeneration rate. The funniest part — and what makes me think this could be a prank by our dear game designers — is the tabard’s use is described as: “”Use: Show how heroic you are! (55 Secs Cooldown)”" and the bottom line description is, “”The Mark of a True Hero.”" It seems that perhaps the glitch was caused by an error in the cache because when it was cleared the tabard’s description correctly matched the Summer Flames tabard. Once a BoP item is equiped (and it is because that dialog box is not the Dressing Room) they say Soulbound not Bind when Picked up. While Tabards and Cloaks fall under cloth this is never displayed in the tooltip. If this is really going to be an item, then woot for bear tanks, because that is like another 1k armor.


Which I wonder if they are going to raise the armor limit, because I am getting close to 30k with just two T4 and badge loot (35k is not going to be easy, but definitely seems plausible). I’m sorry, Matt Graham - I didn’t realize you had a magic crystal ball that sees into the future and gives you the information of every single possible thing Blizzard will or will not implement in future expansions. What is the point of having wowinsider at all if we can just have omnipotent people such as yourself report all future information for us and dictate exactly what people should report on. ” “Ice on the official site or otherwise, I’m still holding out hope that we’ll see a Diablo-related declaration at WWI (and not a Wrath of the Lich King beta/release declaration, as many are guessing). And here’s a little more fuel for the speculation fire: DiabloII.net says they’ve received the official schedule for the event in Paris this coming weekend, and right after the heaved presentation, they say that Blizzard has planned a press conference. wow gold And essentially, their discussion is that you don’t plan a press conference to foretell an open beta of an expansion we’ve known most for nearly a year — you hold a press conference for a new Diablo game. We should also note, though people have noticed this before, that Sunday, June 29th, is the eighth day of the release of Diablo II, so this weekend has a lot of hack-and-slash-related significance as is. wow gold Of course, we won’t know until WWI actually kicks off in Paris on Saturday — WoW Insider will, of course, have correspondents on the scene to let you know exactly what Blizzard announces when they do. How to hold a scientific conference in Azeroth John Bohannon has been writing for Science magazine as “”The Gonzo Scientist,”" and his most recent writeup, on a real scientific conference held in the World of Warcraft, is a great read. mp3 players

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Raid Rx: Analyzing you healers Part 3

“If you’re just joining the series for the first time, here’s a link to get you caught up. The rest of you should recall that we left things on the cusp of actually going through WWS. Today we will rectify that and get into the nuts and bolts of WWS healing psychotherapy. See you healing sleuths after the break! First things first… If you’re going to talk most WWS, you should have some example data to go along with it. I give you Anonymous Report, which will be well until 2 weeks from today. Otherwise, feel free to follow along with the posted pictures. Each one is a link to a larger version for easy eye balling. Also, keep comments on-topic. We’re not here to compare the length of our dps or how much cooler your tanks are. The first thing you run crossways by clicking the Heals tab is the total healing for the duration of the report. In this case, it is for the first 7 bosses in Negroid Temple, including various wipes. Here’s the scenery info you need to know before you start analyzing. The first 9 healers are healers. The paladin, Gemini, left after the second boss. Rain and individual are new to the guild, working to gear up from T4/T5 content. They’re not familiar with the bosses in BT and don’t have the SR gear to do Mother. Calliope is a shadow priest. Taurus came in for the last 2 bosses. Polyhymnia is an imp spi priest. Typically druids, priests, and paladins are appointed to tanks. Shamans are on raid healing. But we’ll break those down by war. So what do you actually get out of looking at total healing. Not a whole heck of a lot when you have people swapping in and out. Resist the urge to compare one class to added.


Part 1 will give you a recap if you forget why it’s a intense thing. That beauty much leaves us with comparing Hwesta to Harma. wow gold The rule of thumb here is if people of the same class have most the same assignments, gear, talents, and experience, and they’re within 5% total healing of each other, they’re doing fine. That 5% normally absorbs random things like afks for cats on fire, bio breaks, and phone calls. If I see the difference forthcoming 10%, I’ll immediately check out their spell selection and hits/ticks. Overhealing is actually complex enough to have its own post, which you can find here. wow gold There you’ll find much more in-depth info on what’s well and intense OH. For our exercise here with T6 content, 40-60% doesn’t really phase me at every since it’s the cost of existence proactive. So let’s pretend one Shaman was significantly lower than the other. The easiest way to compare players of the same class is to click the drop down menu next to Browse and select Raids & Mobs. buy wow gold From there it’s as just pick out the class you want to compare. For us, this means clicking on “”5 Shaman”". The table that pops up contains every spell every 5 shamans used or experienced during the entire evening. wow gold Scroll down to the chromatic healing section. Under Harma for Chain Heal you’re going to see a light grey 2442 and 14%. This color indicates are the cipher turn per cast and the chance to crit. mp3 players The light purple 2991 is the number of times someone was hit with that spell, while the 95% is the percentage turn they use the spell (number of that spell’s hits/total of every spell hits). For shamans, I’d expect to see a lot of Chain Heals, just like we see here. Average turn of healing per tick is a well reflection of gear, buffs, and on use +healing trinkets.

This is because those directly influence healing per cast output. wow gold If you’re not sure how undergeared a new healer is, this is the place to look. What you should see over time is new guildies getting closer and closer to your veteran players.
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ESL replaced Warcraft 3 with WoW

“In its previous two seasons , the Intel Extreme Masters (from the Electronic Sports League) focused on two heaved eSports disciplines — Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3. Now, however, that’s changing. They’ve declared that World of Warcraft will take over the spot from Warcraft 3, supported in part on the success of previous WoW tournaments. While ESL doesn’t explicitly say it’s an Arena tournament, I think we can safely adopt that to be the case. This is just part of the ongoing eSport effort, and I think we’ll hear most a lot more tournaments in the coming months. I don’t know if Blizzard meant to bump its own game from some rosters, but I suppose there’s only so much room at each tournament. There’s also $750,000 (US) in prize gold for the victors. They’ve not declared how much will specifically go to World of Warcraft, but it’ll definitely make it worth winning. Gotfrag releases videos of the MLG 3v3 WoW Tournament Remember the MLG San Diego 3v3 WoW Arena Tournament we reported on a while backwards. If you missed the live streaming video of the event, you now have a second chance to watch, as GotFrag has begun posting videos of various matches and interviews with team members at their site. If you have some interest in Arena PvP, these videos are definitely recommended watching. The commentators obviously know what they’re talking most, and explain both teams’ actions in terms that your cipher WoW player should be healthy to understand. A lot of us at WoW Insider watched, and we every concord that we learned something valuable most life, love, and learning to play Arena PvP from it. You may even pick up some tricks to kick off your Season 4 playing from them. ” “Here’s a great tip from Darthkurai on LJ: doing the Midsummer Fire quests as a lowbie will net you a ton of nice XP.


He grabbed nearly two levels’ worth of XP at level 40, just for running around to every the different bonfires throughout Azeroth. Bewarned that some of the quests have various level requirements on them (Undercity and every of the capital flames, as he finds out, are level 50 and above only, and of course Lord Ahune is only for level 70s), but doing every of the quests at low levels will net you a well 6-7k XP, which around level 40 will give you at least a ding or two. Pretty well for just running around the world once or twice. wow gold Everyone’s excited most Ahune and what you can get from him, but don’t forget your old alts, either — logging them on during the festival and showing them the world (while killing on the way with those buffs) can grab you a nice chunk of free XP for them as well. WOW InsiderWebMidsummer Festival Quest - Shards of Ahune We love to give here at WoW Insider. We’re just givers. We provided a guide to the Midsummer Fire Festival, including a level guide, instructions on how to steal the opposite alliance’s fire, a walkthrough and a loot table for conquering Lord Ahune, and a guide to most of the other festival quests. wow gold Now we present a quick guide to getting your very own Tabard of Summer by completing the Shards of Ahune quest. After you’ve taken down Lord Ahune in the Slave Pens, loot the Ice Chest he drops. wow gold If you get an item called Shards of Alune, you can right-click it to start the quest. Um, then the rest is ever so tough. world of warcraft gold You just trot yourself over to Luma Skymother, a female Tauren in the Slave Pens and complete the quest with her.

She’ll give you 20 Burning Blossoms and your choice of tabards — either with Flames or Skies. mp3 player Note that you need to be at least Level 66 to obtain and complete this quest. That’s every there is to it! Well, except for making it through the Slave Pens alive and defeating Lord Ahune and some junk. wow gold But hey, who knows, maybe when you get yours, it will show this elusive mystery tooltip when you inspect it. A prize inside, just like Cracker Jacks! ” .RELATED LINKS:

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WoW Gold Guide: gold making and leveling

“There is a item called “”Blood Elf Bandit mask,”" and consequently it is dropped by the Blood Elf bandit. He spawns on the island where Dranei start - Azymist Isle (can’t remember how to spell it). He spawns next to the road in 10 places behind signs or barriers. You just follow the road in a big circle around the isle. The only trick is he is invisible so you have to listen for the sound invisible things make when they appear or you can just go look. He is only a level 5 so chances of aggro-ing it is slim if you’re a high level. It’s about a 25% drop rate. After that just go to the A/H and list it for about 6-8 gold. This was done on the Rexxar server, just simply because thats the only place in the game it spawns so it’s rare and people usually dont know about it. Also just kind of pointing out the obvious you can farm the crap out of these things so you gain losts of gold. You can also sell these masks by just putting it on and walking through a main city. Trust me peoplewill offer you at least 3-4 gold just you walking around. AQ40 obsidian chunk: Right inside AQ40 are 4 giant mobs. If you kill one of them you will be able to mine a large obsidan chunk right outside the of the instance. Kill three of the four mobs and run out of the instance and there will be 3 mines that will appear. Just be sure that you don’t kill all 4 mobs and you will be able to repeat this as many times as you want. wow gold The large obsidan chunks sell for 100 to 300 gold on the auction house. So you can make 600 to 1200 gold an hour doing this. One Day Grind Horde Grinding Spots: 0-15 - Questing fastest possible exp. 15-20 - The Barrens - Harpies * 15-20 - The Barrens - Bristleback(s) * 20-25 - The Barrens - Bael Dun Exavs * 20-25 - Hillsbrad - Hillsbrad Farmers (etc) 22-26 - Thousand Needles - Galak Scouts (etc) * 26-30 - Hillsbrad - Mud Gnolls * 25-30 - Thousand Needles - Grimtotems 30-38 - Shimmering Flats - All monsters.


* 38-40 - Dustwallow Swamp - Very North East Islands, Murlock Warriors/Oracles. Horde And Alliance Grinding Spots: 40-46 - Feralas - Woodpaws (stay away from the ones that disease for slow casting speeds) ** 46-48 - Feralas - Frayfeather Skystormers * 48-50 - Feralas - Harpies 48-51 - Southwest of Gadgetzan - Thistleshrubs * 50-54 - Western Plaguelands - First ‘field’ to the left, assorted monsters. 54-60 - Western Plaguelands - Scarlet Lumberjacks 52-60 - Eastern Dire Maul - Lashers **** * = Recommended EXP Rates: Levels 30-40 = 18-20k exp/hour Levels 40-51 = 20-25k exp/hour ” “Firstly, you can obviously farm instances such as BRD for Large Brilliant Shards. wow gold These sell for about 6-8g currenly on my server. Check the linked article for more info on that. This post will detail a large part of making money by disenchanting items from crafting. Lets presume you either have a friend who can make and disenchant for you, or you have all the characters and patterns you need to do all this yourself. Note that it “really” helps here if you can do this all by yourself, as you won’t have to share your profits. This method involves the combination of trade crafts, and disenchanting the results. We’ll aim at the popular high end enchanting materials. Firstly the price list Large prismatic shard, sells for about 30-35g on our AH currently. 3 Small prismatic shards can be converted into 1 Large, thus logically sell for about 1/3 their price. Arcane dust, sells for about 1g - 1g30s at the time of writing this. Greater planar essence, sells for about 8g. 3 Lesser planar essences can be converted into 1 big one, funny enough they sell for about 1g cheaper. Void Crystal about 15g. Before you start, don’t try to scrape together cash too much by buying something for 20g, then selling it for 21g. Aside that you’d barely make any profit to begin with, the auction house always takes 5% of your earnings, thus you’d actually make out worse in the end. (Hence i didn’t buy out all the lesser planar essences and tried to resell them as large ones) Next, the cost of raw materials Adamantite Powder : Which is a waste product basically.

mp3 If you’re a jewelcrafter you should have loads of these. But if needed can be obtained for about 1g ea on the AH. I recommend talking directly to anyone selling these though as you should be able to make a deal for some cheaper stuff. wow gold For the sake of example i’ll set it as 25s. Primal Earth : Currently selling for 3g at my auction house. Mercurial Adamantite, sells for 10g on the AH, but can be made for 4-7g if you do it yourself. Eternium bar : Sells for about 1g on our AH Fel iron bar : Sells for about 1g on our AH (Or better, 35-40s per ore) Felsteel bar : About 5g to make (3 fel iron 2 eternium bars) Let’s start with Jewelcrafting Braided Eternium Chain and Thick Felsteel Necklace, both have a pretty much guaranteed chance to produce a Large prismatic shard. Henceforth referred to as BEC, and TFN. Cost to craft BEC = 14g 2x Eternium = 2g 3x Mercurial Adamantite = 3*(4 powder + 1 Prinal Earth) = 12g Cost to craft TFN = 20g Same as BEC only requires 6 extra fel iron bars to produce. Disenchanting the BEC / TFN yields you a LPS about 99.5% of the time. Void crystals are only about 15g at the moment. So, even if you get a Void crystal you should still cut about even. If you sell the Large Prismatics at 30g, you’d get between 10-16g profit per item disenchanted. It’s a great way to get rid of those useless adamantite powders, or elemental earths. Mind you, if you’d bought the adamantite powder the TFN wouldn’t yield you any profits. The BEC would cost you 22g to make vs 30-35g profit however. Brilliant Pearl Band : 4-5g to make 10g return value 8x Jaggal Pearl : 35-50s ea : 3-4g 2x Eternium Bar : 1g ea Green gems Here things get tricky to calculate. Now, if you’re an addict prospecter i’m sure you’ve got a few hundred of each color of green quality gem sitting around in a bank alt somewhere. How would you like to make some easy profit out of them. Sure you could sell them to the vendor for 25s ea, as nobody will buy them off the AH anyway. buy wow gold But there is a better way. Azure Moonstone Ring : Lets say 2g to make. 1x Fel Iron Bar : 1g 2x Azure Moonstone : ~30s*2 1x Deep Peridot : ~30s “RELATED LINKS:

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World of Warcraft Gold Guide - Sweet Tip

“Alright everyone, I want to cover a pretty sweet technique for you to use while playing World of Warcraft: Add-ons! Have you been running around WoW and wonder how some of the other players always seem to know where everything is: ore/treasures/etc. Well, most of the best and most experienced players use add-ons to help with their in game experience. There are plenty of add-ons that you can download and install on your computer, but today I want to cover one add-on in particular today as well as a great website that I like to use when playing. The add-on is called Gatherer. “”Gatherer is an addon which tracks items you gather in the course of your adventures and records their locations on your minimap so that you can keep track of their locations as you are adventuring around Azeroth or the Outlands.”" How many times have you been mining some ore and had to ask yourself, “”Where the heck did I find that Mithril. “” Well if you download this add-on, you won’t ever have to worry about losing track again. I highly encourage using this add-on. Now for a website that works well with Gatherer. Mapwow is a great complement to Gatherer. This is a sweet mapping site that behaves like a Google map. You can zoom down into the map just like you would if you were looking at your own home on Google Maps. The real treat though is that you can select the map to show where Treasure/Ore/Herbs can be found. If you are a miner/gatherer, then using this map coupled with the “”Gatherer”" add-on will get all the ore/treasure/herb locations recorded fast! Ok, so how do these two tips help you in your quest for WoW gold. Simple, if you are in a gathering profession, these two tips will save you tons of time which translates into stacks and stacks of materials to sell.


And you know what that means, more gold! ” “Here are two sets of tips to help you make fast World Of Warcraft gold: A) Grinding tips Here are some rules of thumb to help you factor the risk to reward ratio when grinding to make some fast gold: 1) If the mobs die easily, they are worth grinding. 2) If they drop money, they are worth grinding. 3) If they have good stackable vendor fodder, they are worth grinding. wow gold 4) If they have good world drops, they are worth grinding. If they are hard to kill, don’t waste your time. The starter zones seem to be good places where you can just skin corpses over and over without ever having to kill anything yourself. One of the best places in the Alliance is Elwyn Forest (one of the human starter zones). wow gold Most people who go to the farms for quests will butcher a few pigs on their way through. So there are always boar corpses abandoned on the ground, just waiting for you to skin them. B) Profiting from the chinese farmers’ shift changes 1) These are the typical times the chinese gold farmers change shifts (server time) - 6 AM, 6 PM, wow gold 4:30 AM, 4:30 PM 2) About half-an-hour before shift change, monitor the IF trade channel. Take note of items you are interested in. wow gold You did check the AH for high-selling items, right. 3) About 10 or 15 minutes before shift change, whisper to the sellers with a lower offer. If they reject it, whisper again 1 or 2 minutes before shift change. wow power leveling They’ll probably accept it now. 4) Resell the stuff you bought at the AH and make a tidy profit. A good World of Warcraft gold guide (like Luke Brown’s or Derek Bleacher’s) will teach you the fastest ways to make gold in World Of Warcraft.

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Making Money in World of Warcraft

“3. Pick up a Trade Skill. WoW trade skills are actually very profitable. If you are playing and have skipped this aspect of the game, you are missing out of a significant source of gold. You can choose to pick one of the creation/gathering combinations like herbalism/alchemy, or to do two gathering professions and sell what you get to the other players. Each method will make you money. Skinning, mining and herbalism sold through the AH can all be very profitable. Many players do a combination of two gathering skills to make money. However, you can also do well with a creation/gathering combination. The key to playing a creation/gathering trade skill well is to learn what sells and what doesn’t. Probably 90% of all items made by trades are useless and will never be able to be sold to other players. I suggest you click on each item on the site and see where it’s AH prices are listed as and concentrate on those items with the highest prices. Gather the ingredients yourself. This may mean devoting a couple hours a week to just running around and finding herbs or ores, but it is worth it over buying raw ingredients from other players. Use our object maps to see which zones have the most spawn points for what you need to gather and then milk that zone in the game’s off hours if possible. Then make and sell the items. Except for something like healing and mana potions, you are better off only putting one of each item up at a time. Keep in mind other crafters are putting up similar items and more items for sale generally means lower prices. It’s in everyone’s best interest not to flood the market (well the crafters interest any ways). If you devote several hours a week to crafting, you can make quite a nice profit off of it over time. 4.


Grind, don’t quest. I’m not saying don’t ever do quests. Quests are fun and a huge part of the game. When playing purely for fun, by all means do all the quests you can. wow gold When you decide to try to make some money, however, you have to grind. What is grinding. It means finding a spot with a nice set of mobs that can be pulled one at a time and spawn over time faster than you can kill them. wow gold The best grinding spots also feature a recurring chest or perhaps a potential silver elite. Settle into your chosen spot and kill, kill, kill. Keep going until your bags are full and you have to return to town. wow If you are a premium member of our site, use our mob value chart to find the best value mobs for your level and pick your spot based upon that. If you don’t have that, look for camps of humanoids, as they tend to drop money as well as items. Keep in mind that the loot difference between mobs several levels below you and several levels above you is usually not that great, so when grinding strictly for loot, go for lower level mobs, as you will kill them faster and thus get more loot more quickly. wow gold Another thing to keep in mind is that elites drop green, blues and purples at 3 to 4 times higher a rate than non-elites. Thus, grinding elites even 8 to 10 levels lower than you will get you a lot more loot over time than grinding same level non-elites. There are lots of outdoors areas full of elites that can be single pulled. mp3 player You can also try instances 5 to 10 levels below you and solo there.

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A simple guide for making money

“Now that we’ve covered the enchanting portion of it, let’s look at quest rewards, particularly those recommended in leveling guides. The A-ME101 quest in Un’Goro crater requires a Mithril Casing. Most Mithril Casings are listed in stacks of 5 or more at a price of around 10g to 12g on my server. You don’t need 5 for the quest, you need 1. As a manipulator of the Auction House you want to buy the stack of 5 for 10g and relist those 5 items at a price of 2.5g or 3g each. People who need them for the quest will buy yours, rather than spending the extra 7g and being stuck with 4 they do not need. People are lazy. Use this to your advantage. I just did this quest and my 4 casings sold within a 3 hour period, leaving me with a profit. Similar items to look out for are Frost Oil, Patterned Bronze Bracers and so forth. Be wary though - the crafters making those sometimes cotton on to the deal and will charge exorbitant prices for it. Tip: Bid before server maintenance on Tuesdays/Wednesdays. The Auction House timers run during maintenance, so you can usually snag quite a few bargains then. Now let’s look at Twink items. Essentially, things within the upper level brackets are useful to twinks. (18-19, 28-29, 38-39, etc.) If the stats are friendly for a particular profession (Stamina and Intelligence for a Warlock, as an example) the item will automatically have a very high price. wow gold This is a dangerous market to dabble in as people will typically list them much higher than they are normally worth. However, quite a few items will open with a very low bid price despite the very high buyout price. Check the time remaining on those auctions and try to get in with a bid close to the end.


wow gold If you can be online while it is due to expire you can usually snag them for a very, very low price. As a practical example, a Skeleton Club is on the Auction House at the moment. It’s initial price was 1s with a 15g buyout. Bidding has driven it up to around 15s, but even that is far below the disenchanted value. cheap wow gold The Auction is due to close in approximately 8 hours, which will coincide roughly with when I get home. Hopefully I’ll be able to snag that one to relist it for around 10g. Tip: Item sell better over weekends when there are more buyers online. List your big ticket items over the weekend, but keep churning during the week. The last three sections I want to cover are exclusive items, undercutting/pricing and market dominance. wow gold These are fairly important. Exclusive Items: People who do not spend their working days reading these forums or learning about the game will not know where to find various recipes. They might not care to know, but that is something you can take advantage of. My real world example for this is the Hawkstrider Hatchlings. mp3 players You can buy them in Fairbreeze Village for 50s if you are Horde. I keep one Alt logged in there to buy them. I have another Alt logged at Booty Bay, at the Neutral Auction House. wow gold She receives the mail from Fairbreeze and lists these Hatchlings for between 2g and 4g (Depending on colour).RELATED LINKS:

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