Farming Gold in WoW

If you want to make some quick Warcraft gold just by farming, these are some of the best spots and items:The best low level farm spot is in Westfall on the western shore, near the windmill. There's a camp of Defias Trappers who drop linen cloth over 70% of the time. The big advantage of this spot is the remarkable respawn rate. It would be hard to kill them all before the first had respawned

105,000 Banned

Blizzard closed another 105,000 accounts during November:In our continued efforts to combat cheating in World of Warcraft, more than 105,000 accounts were closed and over 12 million gold was removed from the game economies in Europe, Korea, and the US in the month of November.They cite the use of bots to farm gold and items as the main reason:The closed accounts were associated with activities

Be a Deviate

Here's a good way to make some easy WoW gold from level 20 onwards.Perfect Deviate Scale is selling for around a gold each on most servers. This is needed for the Deviate Scale Belt in much demand for level 19 twinking.There is only one place this drops and that is Wailing Caverns. The mobs outside of the instance range from 15 to 17 elite. They drop Deviate Scale and Perfect Deviate Scale. If

No more WoW downtime?

Blizzard have announced that they are testing live maintenance rather than shutting the server for several hours every Tuesday.There is to be NO maintenance shut-down on Dec 26th.Let's hope the weekly shut-down is now a thing of the past.

The Fastest way to Make WoW Gold

This isn't as much some secret way of making piles of WoW gold as an observation and advice.I was wandering around Winterspring the other day with my level 56 hunter picking up a few herbs, killing the odd mob that got in my way. You know the stuff. As I picked each herb, and looted each mob, I was noticing the selling prices of the loot. Auctioneer has one great feature that tells me the selling

Gingerbread Cookies and Milk

Christmas has arrived in Azeroth. And with it, the regular quest to bring Santa gingerbread cookies and milk. If you've looked in the AH at the price of small eggs, needed for the quest, you will have noticed that they are selling for up to 1 gold each. I started stockpilling these back in November and am very happy to fill the insatiable need for a gold a piece. You can farm small eggs easily

Wow 2.0 Auctioneer

Ok, I've decided I can't live without the Auctioneer addon. That may be a bit of an exageration, but I certainly can't play WoW.I've downloaded the alpha version, complete with bugs, from here and will be part of their testing team. I'll let you know how it goes.UPDATE: I've used it for a couple of days. Although it has a few bugs there are no major problems. No client crashes or anything. If

I'm Getting Paid to Play Games!

I wish I had discovered this site earlier. Now you can get paid just to play beta versions of new games. Only a few bucks an hour but it's basically free money as far as I'm concerned. The game publishers send you a video game via regular mail. The games are for consoles as well as for regualr PCs but you get to tell them which systems you have when you sign up. You play the game for a few

LFG

Is it just me, or is the new WoW 2.0 LFG panel just about useless? It seems to work about as well as the meeting stones with the only advantage that you don't have to travel to the zone entrance to use it.You sit there watching an empty screen for 10 minutes then somebody joins. They either leave the party immediately or mutter some excuse about having to feed the dog and then leave. Another

I want my addons!

As predicted, most of the World of Warcraft Addons are not working with the WoW 2.0 patch. My favorites, Auctioneer and Enchantrix will not be ready for a couple of weeks according to their site:Due to the fact that many of our developers are extraordinarily busy with real-life concerns at the moment (such as exams etc), we are postponing the release of all 2.0 addons for 2 weeks after 2.0 is

Are you paying taxes on your WoW gold income?

You may soon have to according to an article in Znet."you probably haven't wondered whether the United States government will someday tax your virtual winnings from games played over the Internet. The real question is: Why hasn't it happened already?"

WoW Addons to break

With the upcoming patch to version 2.0, it appears that most, if not all, Warcraft addons will stop working:WoW 2.0 represents a major change in the UI code, and as such ALL AddOns will need to be updated before they will work, if for no other reason than the Lua 5.0 to Lua 5.1 changes. Some AddOns will be more seriously affected, and a few will have to be redesigned."which really sucks. Some of

What Blizzard's Warden is doing...

If you never read anything else on this blog, you should read this. I'm serious.4.5 million copies of EULA-compliant spyware

WoW Statistics

If you haven't seen it already, take a look at the World of Warcraft Statistics Page"This page provides you with up-to-date statistics about some of the most important aspects of World of Warcraft: most sought-after items in the Auction House, most common player-created items, the fiercest killers in the NPC kingdom, most gathered and found items, most looted items, and the most popular quests."

Making Warcraft Gold - Worth it?

If you have a high level character it's pretty easy to do an instance run or to use mining or herbalism to make a decent amount of gold.The problem is if you only have characters below level 40. You can trade the AH for some decent gold and can probably make up to 20 gold for an hour of effort once you know what you are doing. If this is enough, that's great but what if you need 400 or 500 gold

Drool

Check out the specs on this PC Made specifically for WoWFinally the WoW Online Gaming PC ™ has arrived! Because WidowPC is run by gamers, many of us are involved in the most popular game in history - World of Warcraft! We can't count the number of times that our friends have asked us to build computers for them that will run World of Warcraft with great performance, but cost them as little as

An Apology from Blizzard

Recently banned users who were using the cadega emulator have received an apology from Blizzard and a 20 day credit.In consideration of our error, we are applying a credit of two weeks play time onto your account, in addition to crediting back the time that your account was locked. This comes to a total of twenty (20) days credit, which should be visible on your account within the end of the

Trick Auctions

I'm describing this more as a warning than a way of making gold. I personally find it unethical but it's your call.A number of people have started putting items in the AH – usually enchanting or tradeskill items - with a very low bid and a ridiculously high buyout price hoping that buyers will see a bargain and get so excited that they click on the buyout button by mistakeFor example, as I write

Make Love, Not Warcraft

Fascinating article on the making of the Southpark episode featuring WoW.South Park recently aired an episode involving World of Warcraft in which half of the show featured custom machinima footage. Machinima.com was given access to key members of the animation staff in order to find out more about the creative process behind the episode.

Blizzard banning Linux users?

Disturbing news at TransGaming that Blizzard may have started banning Linux users:I think that perhaps one of the new "anti-cheat" mechanisms that Blizzard implemented can wrongly flag linux/cedega users as using banned software.

Shadowfang Keep

I recently started to twink a level 19 rogue for the battlegrounds and decided to equip him with two Assassin's Blade. Unfortunately several other people had the same idea and the only two available were priced at 400 gold a piece.The dagger drops mostly off the boss mob in Shadowfang Keep, Archmage Arugal. This instance is intended for groups in their low or mid 20's with the mobs ranging from

The Lameness of WoW

An article on slate.com The Lameness of World of Warcraft makes some good arguments against the grind in WoW and for some customization and a changing storyline.

Burning Crusade Release Date

Blizzard have announced the release date of The Burning Crusade expansion:Blizzard Entertainment® announced today that World of Warcraft®: The Burning Crusade™, the highly anticipated expansion to the world's leading subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft, will be in stores on January 16 in North America and Europe.

More on cross-faction pets

I've mentioned selling cross-faction pets in the neutral AH to make some easy Warcraft gold previously. If you are Allianace, you can sell Kittens (Cat Carriers) purchased in Goldshire. If you are Horde, you can sell snakes purchased in Orgrimmar.These both cost 50 silver and sell for about 4 gold in the neutral AH.The only problem with this is that not everybody visists the neutral AH. On

Entire WoW Guild banned

Blizzard have banned an entire Horde guild after they were found using an exploit to remove walls.Pantaloons, a member of the Overrated guild thinks they deserved the ban"We are the only US Horde guild that clears Naxx, been like that for a few weeks. People found that the pre-C'thun trash was so painful, that they decided to install some stupid thing that deletes walls or something, and you can

Easy Warcraft Gold for Horde

I made over 24 WoW gold yesterday with my level 4 Horde warrior.I'm sure you want to know how, so...I bought these few items in the Orgrimmar AH and from vendors in Org:Schematic: Red Firework from Sovik near the engineering trainer. Cost 18 silver each and I bought 2.Crimson Snake from Xan'tish who wanders around the Valley of Spirits. Cost 50 silver.Recipe: Savory Deviate Delight cost 1.5 and

World of Warcraft Encyclopedia

WoW Encyclopedia now online - races, factions, languages and a whole lot more. The official World of Warcraft Encyclopedia.

Trading Enchanting Materials

I covered how to use disenchanting to make Warcraft gold in an earlier post. Taking this one step further it’s possible, and easy, to make plenty of gold without ever leaving the AH. You can do this by trading the enchanting materials you would normally place straight in the AH.I’ll illustrate this with an example using Greater Astral Essence. These normally sell for about a gold a piece on my

The Warcraft Diet

How Greg lost 41 pounds in 90 days playing WoW.

Should you buy Warcraft gold?

Should you buy Warcraft gold? I dunno, there's a few reasons that you shouldn't: 1. It's easy enough to make, at least at mid levels and higher. Buying in gold sort of devalues the game.2. It costs real money.3. It's against Blizzard End-User License Agreement and could get your account banned. Very unlikely for gold buyers, but they sometimes ban gold sellers.4. It makes it unfair on

How to get gold for your Warcraft mount in one day

Tags: World of WarcraftIt’s frustrating when you get to level 40 and suddenly realize that you only have a couple of gold to your name. Getting a mount is going to cost you 100 gold. Making that in a day isn’t hard if you know where to go and what to look hunt.The Big Iron Fishing Pole is treasured by anybody with advanced fishing skills since it gives +20 to fishing. Depending on the server it

Burning Crusade Delay Official

Yes, it's official. After several days of rumors Blizzard has now announced that they will "delay release of "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" until January, missing the holiday season, to give developers time to polish the much anticipated online video game."You just know that a bunch of programmers are being hauled over the carpet by Blizzard managers.

Lazy Warcraft Gold

Here's a way of making some quick WoW gold if you have a lazy dwarf (or Orc or Gnome or whatever) who hates walking more than a few yards from a flightpath or city. It's reselling limited availability recipes for a profit in the Auction House. All of these are available in cities or a few steps from transport. Just travel around to each vendor (only a gentle stroll needed, I promise) and buy

WoW Fishing Buddy

Here's another must-have UI. It's Fishing Buddy from Sutorix."A full-service fishing add-on. It's a combination of TackleBox, Impp's Fishing Info and a fishing equipment manager all rolled into one."

93 Warcraft Gold in 30 minutes

I wanted to share with you how I’ve made 93 gold with only 30 minutes work. Ok, to be fair, the elapsed time was about a week, but I only spent 30 minutes max actually doing something.It’s using one of my favorite methods, that of limited availability recipes. The four that I used were:Icy Cloak available from Ghok’kah (Horde) in Dustwallow Marsh and Micha Yance in Hillsbrad Foothills (Aliance

AH Cross Selling

No, it's nothing like cross-dressing, this isn't one of those blogs.I'm talking about selling in the cross-faction auction houses in Booty Bay, Everlook and Gadgetzan. There are a number of items that are of limited use to Horde characters but very useful to those in the Alliance, and vice-versa. Try and sell them in your local AH and you will get only a pittance – take them to the

BBC NEWS | Technology | US Congress steps into cyberspace

Now here's a scary thought:BBC NEWS | Technology | US Congress steps into cyberspace: "There is a concern that the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) might step forward with regulations that start taxing transactions that occur within virtual economies"

World of Warcraft Guide Brian Kopp's 1-60 Alliance

World of Warcraft Guide Brian Kopp's 1-60 Alliance: "The counterpart to the best 1-60 Horde guide is here. This is the best Alliance guide you will find to powerlevel yourself in 5 days played.

Burning Crusade Boss Videos

World of Warcraft Burning Crusade: Boss Videos "A handful of us are playing World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade well into the morning hours."

60g an Hour

What If You Can Legitimately Earn 60g an Hour And Earn Enough Money For Your Epic Mount In Less Then A Day?Ultimate WoW Guide

MFO: World of Warcraft Horde Power Leveling Guide

Nice Horde levelling guide all the way from 1 to 60. Includes maps and quests. Not as comprehensive by a long way as Joana's guide.MFO: World of Warcraft Horde Power Leveling Guide: "MFO's Horde Power Leveling Guide - this guide is intended for your second toon, not your first and includes tips and quest locations for every step of the way, from level 1 to level 60"If you can spare a few bucks

Joana's 1-60 Horde Leveling Guide for World of Warcraft

Level 60 in under 5 days? This is for Horde only, but Joana certainly knows his WoW.Joana's 1-60 Horde Leveling Guide for World of Warcraft: "My guide contains the same leveling strategies, questing patterns, techniques, and secrets I have used to get the best record time to level 60 on a new server, which is 4 days 20 hours /played! "

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Updated Hands-On - The Two New Races - PC News at GameSpot

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Updated Hands-On - The Two New Races - PC News at GameSpot: "We try out brand-new blood elf and draenei characters in the beta version of one of this year's most highly anticipated games."

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Preview

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Preview: "Sooo… the great adventure into the Outlands begins. ... It took me TWO FREAKING DAYS to download 2.13GB worth of Burning Crusade installation files "

WoW Money Making Guide

Fairly comprehensive World of Warcraft money making guide for beginners:WoW Money Making Guide: "I wrote this guide to try to help basically two sorts of players: newbies to WoW and players who raced ahead in levels without learning how to make money "

Save the World... of Warcraft

Read this if you are thinking of upgrading (?) to Vista:The Great Flying Tortoise : Save the World... of Warcraft: " I play World of Warcraft to pass the time if I don't have anything else scheduled to do. It's the only game I play right now, so it weighed heavily in my decision to upgrade to Vista."

Realmic - World of Warcraft - Money Making Guide Pt. 1

Nice beginners guide to making WoW gold:Realmic - World of Warcraft - Money Making Guide Pt. 1If you’re just starting out whether it be your first ever World of Warcraft character..

Auctioneer made my WoW experience amazing

Article describing success with the Auctioneer addon that I highly recommend:Norganna's AddOns - Auctioneer made my WoW experience amazing: "I have been using Auctioneer for about 3 months now. I want to thank Norganna and his team for making this program that has changed my WoW experience and made it something more than it could ever have been otherwise."

Gitr’s WoW Blog

The perils of relying on Google for blog traffic.Gitr’s WoW Blog: "I have been wondering why my traffic is 1/3 of what it usually is. I finally did a search for ‘wow blog’ on google, and I’m not there any more!

World of Warcraft Addict’s Blog

Nice review of the South Park WoW episode if you missed it:World of Warcraft Addict’s Blog: I’m sure everyone got a chance to watch the South Park episode last night...

Recipe Searching

I had a question about where to find recipes and patterns on vendors. Here are the direct links on Thottbot:For vendor recipes use:WoW RecipesFor patterns use:WoW PatternsScroll down until you see Vendor as the source. Look for those showing a limited supply for reselling in the AH to make gold.

Animation Magazine | South Park Meets World of Warcraft

Animation Magazine | South Park Meets World of Warcraft: "Comedy Central and video-game developer Blizzard Ent. have joined forces to launch the milestone 10th season of the adult animated series South Park. ... Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny come to the rescue when the actions of a renegade player threaten to destroy ... World of Warcraft. "

Warcraft gamers locked out after Trojan attack

Warcraft gamers locked out after Trojan attack: "Keylogging scammers are once again laying siege to World of Warcraft gamers."

Leaked Footage From WoW: The Burning Crusade

Leaked Footage From WoW: The Burning Crusade: "You might want to hit the mute button and take off your thinking caps before watching, as this footage of the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion,"

The Burning Crusade Preview at ActionTrip

More comments and review on The Burning CrusadeThe Burning Crusade Preview at ActionTrip: "The Burning Crusade development has taken. It seems that the expansion was designed from the ground up to suit the needs and time constraints of the more casual players..."

Auctioneer

If you only ever install one World of Warcraft add-on I recommend Auctioneer.To quote from the documentation here:Auctioneer is an addon that allows you to view information about an item that may be useful in helping you determine what it's worth. Straight out of the box, Auctioneer knows much about many items in the game, and will tell you many things about the item when you move your mouse over

Recipes

Following on from selling manuals, there are a number of other items which can be purchased from vendors and sold for a profit in the AH. The manuals are nice because you can purchase unlimited quantities, but sooner or later somebody else has the same idea and competition drives prices down.Some recipes can be vendor purchased but only in limited quantities. vendors will have only one or two

Wired News: Warcraft Wonders of Tomorrow

Wired article on "The Burning Crusade" expansion. For some odd reason, the article wanders into a discussion of Warcraft cybersex. I've obviously been hanging around in the wrong zones. Wired News: Warcraft Wonders of Tomorrow: "The new World of Warcraft expansion is just around the corner, and people are atwitter with anticipation. Two new playable races! A whole new continent! Flying mounts..."

Fishing

Fishing is one of those secondary WoW skills that many people just ignore. They think it's pretty boring. Well, actually it is a little but you can make 30 to 40 gold and hour at character level 20. Most of the fish you catch will be vendor junk but a few fish have tradeskill uses and sells well in the AH. The first two won't make a lot of gold but are good for a little extra spending money

Manuals

I've been making a chunk of warcraft gold recently buying a few manuals from vendors and selling them for a big profit in the Auction House. Whay don't people just go to the vendors and buy them themselves? Good question. Ignorance or laziness I guess. These are all on the flight path for Horde or a short journey for Alliance.Old Man Heming in Booty Bay in Stranglethorne has "Expert Fishing -

Gathering Professions

I'm sure most people have worked this out, but one of the easiest way of making gold at low levels is to take up either skinning, mining or herbalism. I usually do skinning and mining. Skinning doesn't make a lot per item gathered, but there are plenty of animals to skin as you level up. Light leather which can be gathered in abundance at very low levels sells for around 50 silver a stack on

Warcraft Gold Guide

I'm not generally a big fan of purchased WoW guides, but I'm going to make an exception for this one.It's the World of Warcraft Cash Creating Guide and claims you can make up to 50 gold an hour using only legal strategies that won't get you banned.Does it work?Actually yes, there's a lot of great information in this guide. I was impressed and it certainly worked for me.Click Here to check it out.

Enchanting

Well, specifically disenchanting can make some easy gold without ever leaving the AH. It works best on established servers, the older the better. Don't worry if this isn't a chosen tradeskill, just roll another character, get him (or her) to level 5 and get enchanting as a skill. Mail your new character a couple of gold to get started.Look in the AH for green armor, it doesn't matter if it is

WoW Gold

This blog will be used to record ways to make lots of gold in World of Warcraft. It's aimed at lower level characters, say level 5 to level 30 or so. I've been doing this for a while on different WoW servers, so I thought I would share the best methods. I wil also list tthe latest gossip and WoW news.World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. This blog is not associated