Friday, August 31, 2007
Moving Day!
So, tonight I am busy packing, and I will be moving back to Ohio University tomorrow. Odds are I won't be posting either of those days, but once I get settled back in at school, I will resume my somewhat regular posting schedule! See you soon!
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Basic WoW Gold Tips
1. It's really easy and should be done right from the start of the game. Grab the 2 primaryprofessions, mining and skinning. While you're out leveling yourself you can easily skin the animals.You're bound to eventually enter a mine which will have many minerals. Be sure to mine those ores.You can easily sell off the extra items to merchants or players.2. Make sure you grab quests every chance you
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WoW Gold Guides
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Enchantrix
Enchantrix is one of the many great Norganna addons available (same maker as Auctioneer!). Currently, it is in beta stages, and is not part of the Auctioneer pack, as it was in the past. When Burning Crusade was released, Blizzard made some changes to some key formulas for determing what an item will disenchant into, and so Enchantrix needs something of an overhaul. It can be downloaded as a fairly stable BETA standalone from this page.
The idea behind Enchantrix is simple, and much like Auctioneer, which you will need in order to use this as it is intended. Through many scans, Auctioneer gatherers a database of prices on all items it sees on the Auction House. That includes all of the enchanting materials. What Enchantrix does is check its database for what an item can disenchant into, at what % chance, and use Auctioneer data to turn out an estimated gold value of the materials you get for disenchanting it. The goal is that you find an item for sale for sale that can be disenchanted into materials worth MORE than the item.
First thing's first. Download Enchantrix, unzip to your Addon folder. Now, we need to do one thing before getting started. Go to your Enchantrix folder in your WoW directory, and open "EnxConstants.lua" with Wordpad. Look for the table labeled "const.StaticPrices". This is where Enchantrix gets the info on how much the Enchanting materials are worth. Change these to reflect the prices on your server to make Enchantrix more accurate. Please not that in the file, the prices are listed in terms of COPPER. 100 copper to 1 silver, 10,000 copper to 1 gold. Keep this in mind when fixing prices. If you want to change the price for a Large Brilliant Shard to 10 gold, that is 100,000 copper.
Make sure you enable it at the character select screen, and log in to your banker!
Enchantrix should load automatically. Just in case, type in "/enchantrix on". This makes sure that it will display the information on the item tooltip (mixed in with the Auctioneer data). Now, type" /enchantrix show" to bring up a nice GUI to mess with your settings. Generally, these are find how they are. If you change them and restrict the results you get from your searches, you're only hurting yourself. In the end, it's YOU, not Enchantrix who will determine if something is a good purchase. The program can't do everything. :p
Let's make some sense of what you're seeing. When you mouseover a disenchantable item, you will see something like this:
Obviously, the highlighting is my own. What do these values mean to you? Well, from the top
So, how do you make money with this? Here are the slash commands you need to know to search your Auctioneer data. Yes, these 2 are all you really need to know.
Also keep in mind, if something is listed at a high profit, say 20 gold, and there is a 10% chance of a Nether Essence, or something else very valuable, but a 90% chance of worthless junk, that 10% is inflating Enchantrix's estimation of the items value. Don't let Enchantrix do all the work! If you don't understand stuff like this, and just buy everything listed as profit, Enchantrix (like Auctioneer) will lose you money.
As one of my readers pointed out in the comments, Enchantrix isn't a huge Auction House money spinner. Like I said (also in comments!) it is almost always more profitable to sell an item than disenchant and sell the parts. But yes, sherretz has a good point in that perhaps the best use of Enchantrix is on random greens you pick up Thanks, sherretz, and for the number error too!
And I can't believe I forgot to point this out. If you're level 70, hit Scarlet Monastery or ZF, or Uldaman or another instance. Those BoE blues the bosses drop have decent odds on disenchanting into decent materials, probably worth more than the item itself. I did a post about Scarlet Monastery like that, if anyone is interested. Same principle works in any instance, but SM is probably the most efficient.
I'm going to do some more posts on this, including good Disenchanting items from vendors, and crafting ones if I can find some decent ones. See you later!
The idea behind Enchantrix is simple, and much like Auctioneer, which you will need in order to use this as it is intended. Through many scans, Auctioneer gatherers a database of prices on all items it sees on the Auction House. That includes all of the enchanting materials. What Enchantrix does is check its database for what an item can disenchant into, at what % chance, and use Auctioneer data to turn out an estimated gold value of the materials you get for disenchanting it. The goal is that you find an item for sale for sale that can be disenchanted into materials worth MORE than the item.
First thing's first. Download Enchantrix, unzip to your Addon folder. Now, we need to do one thing before getting started. Go to your Enchantrix folder in your WoW directory, and open "EnxConstants.lua" with Wordpad. Look for the table labeled "const.StaticPrices". This is where Enchantrix gets the info on how much the Enchanting materials are worth. Change these to reflect the prices on your server to make Enchantrix more accurate. Please not that in the file, the prices are listed in terms of COPPER. 100 copper to 1 silver, 10,000 copper to 1 gold. Keep this in mind when fixing prices. If you want to change the price for a Large Brilliant Shard to 10 gold, that is 100,000 copper.
Make sure you enable it at the character select screen, and log in to your banker!
Enchantrix should load automatically. Just in case, type in "/enchantrix on". This makes sure that it will display the information on the item tooltip (mixed in with the Auctioneer data). Now, type" /enchantrix show" to bring up a nice GUI to mess with your settings. Generally, these are find how they are. If you change them and restrict the results you get from your searches, you're only hurting yourself. In the end, it's YOU, not Enchantrix who will determine if something is a good purchase. The program can't do everything. :p
Let's make some sense of what you're seeing. When you mouseover a disenchantable item, you will see something like this:
Obviously, the highlighting is my own. What do these values mean to you? Well, from the top
- 99% Small Prismatic Shard x 1.0 -- There is a 99% chance to get 1 Small Prismatic Shard. (If a 2.5 or something comes up, no you won't get 2.5. You could get 1, 2 or 3 of them)
- 1% Void Crystal x 1.0 -- There is a 1% chance to get 1 Void Crystal.
- Disenchanting requires skill 225 -- Self explanatory. You need 225 skill to disenchant it.
- Disenchant value (HSP) -- This is the "highest sellable price", or an optimistic estimate of what Auctioneer thinks you can sell it for, based on information from past scans.
- Disenchant value (median) -- This is the value based on the average selling price in all historical auctions. It's usually the reliable one, as it's based on your ever-updated Auctioneer data.
- Disenchant Value (baseline) -- This is the value of the pieces as determined by a website like Allakazam or Thottbot. As those tend to derived from multiple servers, this may or may not be accurate on your own server. My advice is to ignore this value, unless you fixed the lua file as I explained above.
So, how do you make money with this? Here are the slash commands you need to know to search your Auctioneer data. Yes, these 2 are all you really need to know.
- "/enchantrix bidbroker
" -- Same as Auctioneer. So, "/enchantrix bidbroker 50" will return items that can be sold for AT LEAST 50 silver. If you put it 500, it would be the ones that sell for at least 500 silver, or 5 gold, so always think in terms of silver. - "/enchantrix percentless
" -- This will return items that have a buyout a certain % LESS than the disenchanted pieces are worth. "/enchantrix percentless 50" would return only items that have a buyout 50% less than the disenchanted materials could be sold for. Higher values yield higher profit results, but fewer of them
Also keep in mind, if something is listed at a high profit, say 20 gold, and there is a 10% chance of a Nether Essence, or something else very valuable, but a 90% chance of worthless junk, that 10% is inflating Enchantrix's estimation of the items value. Don't let Enchantrix do all the work! If you don't understand stuff like this, and just buy everything listed as profit, Enchantrix (like Auctioneer) will lose you money.
As one of my readers pointed out in the comments, Enchantrix isn't a huge Auction House money spinner. Like I said (also in comments!) it is almost always more profitable to sell an item than disenchant and sell the parts. But yes, sherretz has a good point in that perhaps the best use of Enchantrix is on random greens you pick up Thanks, sherretz, and for the number error too!
And I can't believe I forgot to point this out. If you're level 70, hit Scarlet Monastery or ZF, or Uldaman or another instance. Those BoE blues the bosses drop have decent odds on disenchanting into decent materials, probably worth more than the item itself. I did a post about Scarlet Monastery like that, if anyone is interested. Same principle works in any instance, but SM is probably the most efficient.
I'm going to do some more posts on this, including good Disenchanting items from vendors, and crafting ones if I can find some decent ones. See you later!
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Enchantrix
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Postponed!
So, I am working on getting a guide to the Enchantrix addon up, similar to my Auctioneer guide. However! Tomorrow is my 4 year anniversary with my girlfriend, and I will be out all of tomorrow night. So, unless I get it done in the morning, which is iffy at best, it'll be one more day. Sorry, folks!
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Misc Posts
PvP:High DPS Mage in Arena
Enjoy the wonderful PvP Video in World of Warcraft Arena!
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World of Warcraft Video
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Primal Water and Primal Air for Alchemists
In response to a request, here's some info about primal waters and primal air.
Now, alchemists can transmute water to air, which is nice to have, as air can be somewhat difficult to farm sometimes. On my server, primal air is the most expensive primal of all, and the least available, likely owing to that it has no particularly awesome farming spot (use my search bar if you're interested, I think I covered good farming spots in another post). Also, the recipe to transmute primal water to primal air is indeed a revered reward from the Cenarion Expedition, so a huge amount of people aren't going to be doing it.
What it comes down to is patience. The cooldown on transmuting Primals is a long one, so it isn't as though you'll be making a ton of gold a day by doing it. But, you WILL make gold. Primals are one of the most easily sold items, in my opinion. I always sell mine through the trade channel, and they always sell well, if you undercut the AH by a gold or two. Again, the problem is simply time taken to transmute. If anyone wants to try this, my advice is to grab up multiple Primal Waters at the lowest price you can, and keep them in your bag to transmute whenever you can. When you market them in /trade, be sure to give the option of buying them individually, in case someone doesn't want "10x primal air!".
On a related note, you can also transmute Primal Earth to Primal Water, via a Sporeggar revered recipe. Primal Earth is just dirt cheap, because it's so easy to get. You can make a much bigger profit with this recipe, transmuting Primal Earth to Primal Water (in the neighborhood of 20g profit, on my server).
Now, alchemists can transmute water to air, which is nice to have, as air can be somewhat difficult to farm sometimes. On my server, primal air is the most expensive primal of all, and the least available, likely owing to that it has no particularly awesome farming spot (use my search bar if you're interested, I think I covered good farming spots in another post). Also, the recipe to transmute primal water to primal air is indeed a revered reward from the Cenarion Expedition, so a huge amount of people aren't going to be doing it.
What it comes down to is patience. The cooldown on transmuting Primals is a long one, so it isn't as though you'll be making a ton of gold a day by doing it. But, you WILL make gold. Primals are one of the most easily sold items, in my opinion. I always sell mine through the trade channel, and they always sell well, if you undercut the AH by a gold or two. Again, the problem is simply time taken to transmute. If anyone wants to try this, my advice is to grab up multiple Primal Waters at the lowest price you can, and keep them in your bag to transmute whenever you can. When you market them in /trade, be sure to give the option of buying them individually, in case someone doesn't want "10x primal air!".
On a related note, you can also transmute Primal Earth to Primal Water, via a Sporeggar revered recipe. Primal Earth is just dirt cheap, because it's so easy to get. You can make a much bigger profit with this recipe, transmuting Primal Earth to Primal Water (in the neighborhood of 20g profit, on my server).
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alchemy,
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Gold in Outlands,
Professions
Guide Me!
Wow, my posting schedule has sucked lately: about once per 3 days.
I'm drying up on material! There are only so many great tips, and tons of just so-so tips out there. So, guide me, folks. Post a comment on the type of tips you want to see: grinding, tricks, auction house stuff, other addons, blah blah etc etc!
Thanks a bunch.
I'm drying up on material! There are only so many great tips, and tons of just so-so tips out there. So, guide me, folks. Post a comment on the type of tips you want to see: grinding, tricks, auction house stuff, other addons, blah blah etc etc!
Thanks a bunch.
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Misc Posts
WoW Mining Guide---Best WoW Gold Maker
Mining in World of Warcraft is one of the best wow gold makers. Just be sure to sell your stuff in the Auction House in smelted stacks. The Buy Out option is one of your best advantages when you sell so make sure you use it. It's usually best to smelt copper and tin into bronze or vice Versa. Be sure to check the going price and figure out if selling the bases or the product will sell for
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WoW Gold Guides
Make 1000 WoW Gold in 2 Hours
Strapped for cash? need to buy epic flying mount? Want to make 1000g in 2 hours?Nagrand - Elemental Plateau (67,23)Wind Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of air, 10x combines to 1 Primal Air = ~20g perFire Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of fire, 10x combines to 1 Primal Fire = ~25g perWater Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of water, 10x combines to 1 Primal Water = ~20g per2 hours of farming yielded
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WoW Gold Guides
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Rogue Solo in Stratholme:300 WoW Gold per hour
If you want to get more wow gold, the two videos below will give you some tips, specially your class is Rogue.Part 1Part 2
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WoW Gold Guides
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The Orb of Deception
I think one of the best things about the expansion for World of Warcraft is that at level 70, you can do a lot of things alone that you couldn't do at 60. Thankfully, no one bothers to do some of these things, so if you pull it off, you can make some serious cash.
Enter, the Orb of Deception. It's a trinket that transforms a member of one faction to look like a member of the other faction. I know, it's totally useless! But the "cool" factor, or the "I just have everything else" counts a lot here. These things go for 500 gold, easily. It's a rare find on the Auction House these days.
So how do you get it? Head to the Dire Maul Arena. Keep an eye on you chat window and wait for Skarr the Ubreakable or Razza to yell something: that means they are at the arena (takes a few hours to respawn, so go kill time mining or something while you wait, or farm the instance). Soon as one pops, go and kill it! They have about 10% chance to drop the Orb, but will always drop SOMETHING decent. Azeroth blues sell for TONS more than Outland blues, so you are guaranteed some gold!
If you aren't a caster who can kite, or a hunter, you may want to take a friend. Of course, if you have decent enough gear, burn your cooldowns and take some potions, you'll probably be alright.
Enter, the Orb of Deception. It's a trinket that transforms a member of one faction to look like a member of the other faction. I know, it's totally useless! But the "cool" factor, or the "I just have everything else" counts a lot here. These things go for 500 gold, easily. It's a rare find on the Auction House these days.
So how do you get it? Head to the Dire Maul Arena. Keep an eye on you chat window and wait for Skarr the Ubreakable or Razza to yell something: that means they are at the arena (takes a few hours to respawn, so go kill time mining or something while you wait, or farm the instance). Soon as one pops, go and kill it! They have about 10% chance to drop the Orb, but will always drop SOMETHING decent. Azeroth blues sell for TONS more than Outland blues, so you are guaranteed some gold!
If you aren't a caster who can kite, or a hunter, you may want to take a friend. Of course, if you have decent enough gear, burn your cooldowns and take some potions, you'll probably be alright.
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Farming Tips
Money Making Guide for World of Warcraft
when you make a new charcter make your professions fishing cooking start fishing in low level fishing areas then cook the fish it will be getting your cooking higher and your fishing higher once your fishing hits 170 go to stranglethorn vale make sure your at least 30 before you go there then go to wild shore its a 40 area so before careful then keep travling by the water so you wont die from a
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WoW Gold Guides
Monday, August 20, 2007
Zodiac:World of Warcraft Pose
Aquarius 21 Jan-19 FebPisces 20 Feb-20 MarAries 21 Mar-20 AprTaurus 21 Apr-22 MayGemini 23 May-21 JunCancer 22 Jun-22 JulLeo 23 Jul-22 AugVirgo 23 Aug-22 SepLibra 23 Sep-22 OctScorpio 23 Oct-21 NovSagittarius 22 Nov-22 DecCapricorn 23 Dec-20 Jan
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WoW Funny Screenshot
Sunday, August 19, 2007
World of Warcraft:10 Classes Dolls
Below is the related video about World of Warcraft Dolls:
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WoW Funny Screenshot
Quick Linen at the Defias Windmill
Here's one for the lower level folk out there amid my scant readership.
Westfall is the best place in the game to farm linen. Linen, you say? Who cares about linen? Well, a lot of people care about it, particularly people leveling up tailoring and first aid skills. Linen goes for about a gold a stack, which is good money at lower levels.
The Defias Windmill is on the Northwestern shore of Westfall. It isn't noted on the map, but I have supplied a handy reference here. That isolated block of white dots is the windmill. Now, here's the kicker - the mobs here respawn more or less instantly (Defias Trappers and Defias Looters. They go down fast, they come back up faster. If Blizzard hasn't fixed this yet (and I don't think they have), they probably never will, so it's a good tip to know. You can farm tons of linen here, and small change in copper because they are humans, and they carry money. And of course the random green drop.
So, there you have it. For the low level trying to get some cash, or the any-level trying to SAVE some by not buying their way through the lower levels of Tailoring and First Aid. Happy farming!
Westfall is the best place in the game to farm linen. Linen, you say? Who cares about linen? Well, a lot of people care about it, particularly people leveling up tailoring and first aid skills. Linen goes for about a gold a stack, which is good money at lower levels.
The Defias Windmill is on the Northwestern shore of Westfall. It isn't noted on the map, but I have supplied a handy reference here. That isolated block of white dots is the windmill. Now, here's the kicker - the mobs here respawn more or less instantly (Defias Trappers and Defias Looters. They go down fast, they come back up faster. If Blizzard hasn't fixed this yet (and I don't think they have), they probably never will, so it's a good tip to know. You can farm tons of linen here, and small change in copper because they are humans, and they carry money. And of course the random green drop.
So, there you have it. For the low level trying to get some cash, or the any-level trying to SAVE some by not buying their way through the lower levels of Tailoring and First Aid. Happy farming!
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Sneaky Tricks,
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
WoW Jokes:Darling,you can not play WoW like this!
1.The so-called "Farm" is not that i kill monsters and you just loot.2.If you can not see me after skinning,please make good use of the screen in top right corner,don't shout around me.3.When i was attacked by many monsters,calm down,my darling,don't cast "Word: fortitude" which can not heal me.4.It doesn't matter if i died,but i saw you were skinning many times .5.One time,you cried for help,but
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Vanity Sells - Blood Elf Bandit Mask
For those of you who have never seen it, this is the Blood Elf Bandit Mask. Bask in its glory. Yes, it takes up your head slot, and has no stats. But it looks as cool as hell, and that has some definite weight when it comes to pricing! And yes, this is somewhat difficult to get, but not too hard if you know how. This, one of the coolest "vanity items" in the game, sells for maybe 50g or more, depending on the server. I have almost never seen them on the auction house, and I know plenty of players, even high level ones, don't even know they exist! So, yeah, this can sell for lots of gold.
You need to head to Azuremyst Isle and kill the Blood Elf Bandit. Now, here is where it gets tricky. Scope out the map (click the link to go to Thottbot), and you'll see that the bandit pops up in a number of places. They will stay in the general zone they spawn in, but they are STEALTHED. Not that a high-level player will have trouble seeing a stealthed level 7 mob, but still, it makes it harder. And if you kill it, there's only a 10% drop chance on the mask! Rough, I know, but that just drives the price up. Also, the mob respawns a short 2 minutes after being killed, which is nice.
So what do you do? Simply run a route that takes you through all the spawn points (pretty much just a big oval, folks, not too hard). Really, unless there is competition, you should be able to find and kill him every 7 or 8 minutes, so you can probably get 1 mask per hour, more if you're rather lucky.
Now, this is an ALLIANCE zone, so it's more likely to be farmed by Alliance toons. So if you get one, it's worth a shot putting it in the neutral Auction House, because however rare it is for an Alliance to have it, a Horde having it is even rarer! Adjust the price accordingly, and let your Horde friends know it's available. Or, if you're on a non-PVP server, put it up for sale with your Alliance toon, buy it with your Horde, and then relist it on the Horde auction house at a higher price. Ooo, sneaky!
So, next time you have nothing to do, give this a shot. It's a bit unconventional, but hey, some players LIVE for having cool looking characters (especially on RP realms). Happy farming!
You need to head to Azuremyst Isle and kill the Blood Elf Bandit. Now, here is where it gets tricky. Scope out the map (click the link to go to Thottbot), and you'll see that the bandit pops up in a number of places. They will stay in the general zone they spawn in, but they are STEALTHED. Not that a high-level player will have trouble seeing a stealthed level 7 mob, but still, it makes it harder. And if you kill it, there's only a 10% drop chance on the mask! Rough, I know, but that just drives the price up. Also, the mob respawns a short 2 minutes after being killed, which is nice.
So what do you do? Simply run a route that takes you through all the spawn points (pretty much just a big oval, folks, not too hard). Really, unless there is competition, you should be able to find and kill him every 7 or 8 minutes, so you can probably get 1 mask per hour, more if you're rather lucky.
Now, this is an ALLIANCE zone, so it's more likely to be farmed by Alliance toons. So if you get one, it's worth a shot putting it in the neutral Auction House, because however rare it is for an Alliance to have it, a Horde having it is even rarer! Adjust the price accordingly, and let your Horde friends know it's available. Or, if you're on a non-PVP server, put it up for sale with your Alliance toon, buy it with your Horde, and then relist it on the Horde auction house at a higher price. Ooo, sneaky!
So, next time you have nothing to do, give this a shot. It's a bit unconventional, but hey, some players LIVE for having cool looking characters (especially on RP realms). Happy farming!
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Farming Tips
WoW Equip
WoWEquip is a stand-alone tool for designing equipment templates. It is completely stand-alone and does not interact with the game in any way.This tool will allow you to easily put together sets of equipment and view your stats and bonuses while using them. The interface should be immediately familar to anyone who has played WoW as it emulates the in-game display. Items can be entered manually or
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WoW Tools
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Sick
Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone. I'm sick right now, haven't felt up devoting that kind of brain power to anything. I work tonight, and that is going to suck. >.<
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Misc Posts
Funny WoW Screenshot
i have collected some comic pictures about World of Warcraft,hoping you like it!
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WoW Funny Screenshot
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Hunter and Warlock Farm WoW Gold in Black Temple
Hunter and Warlock,only two,farm WoW Gold in Black Temple.
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WoW Gold Guides
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
WoW Gold Farming Strategy: Un'Goro Crater
This guide is written with Un'Goro Crater in mind because that's where I farmed most of the time at levels 47-57 but you can apply most of every hint to your preferred zone.With my shaman, I came to Un'goro Crater at level 48 a Saturday and left the zone by the next Saturday level 55 with more than 500 gold and a full paid enhacement set costing 300 wow gold and some goodies. I had one week of
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WoW Gold Guides
Monday, August 13, 2007
100 Gold Per Hour WoW Gold Guide
Making 100 WoW Gold per hour of play in World of Warcraft isn't as hard as most people may think it is, especially for hunters. There is one secret to this and that is you MUST play a hunter in order for this to work and you MUST have feign death! On a side note, if you are a hunter and don't have feign death go get it and quit being a noob. It also helps for you to already be famaliar with the
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WoW Gold Guides
May the Grind Be With You - More Aldor Rep
Boy, am I sick of grinding Aldor rep. I've been LIVING at Legion Hold in Shadowmoon Valley for a week, grinding whenever I play. It's contributing well to my flying mount fund, but still, it gets old.
So, today I tried a new spot - the Arklon Ruins, southeast of Area 52 in Netherstorm. Wow! It's actually a great place to grind. The mobs are Artifact Seekers and Felblade Doomguards. Unlike the Legion Hold mobs, who have high-damage spells you need to watch out for, these mobs only auto attack, and weakly. They are quite squishy, and I only had to stop to eat about once per 10 or so kills. Also, they drop Marks of Sargeras at about 30%, which is 5% higher than the mobs at Legion Hold! It doesn't seem like much, but it really is. They also drop Fel Armaments more. In 1 hour of grinding I got 2 greens, 42 Marks, and 4 Fel Armaments! The only downside is that I didn't come out with 100+ Netherweave to sell. :(
So, there you have it. For a speed grind, hit Arklon Ruins. For lots of gold as well as rep items, Legion Hold.
So, today I tried a new spot - the Arklon Ruins, southeast of Area 52 in Netherstorm. Wow! It's actually a great place to grind. The mobs are Artifact Seekers and Felblade Doomguards. Unlike the Legion Hold mobs, who have high-damage spells you need to watch out for, these mobs only auto attack, and weakly. They are quite squishy, and I only had to stop to eat about once per 10 or so kills. Also, they drop Marks of Sargeras at about 30%, which is 5% higher than the mobs at Legion Hold! It doesn't seem like much, but it really is. They also drop Fel Armaments more. In 1 hour of grinding I got 2 greens, 42 Marks, and 4 Fel Armaments! The only downside is that I didn't come out with 100+ Netherweave to sell. :(
So, there you have it. For a speed grind, hit Arklon Ruins. For lots of gold as well as rep items, Legion Hold.
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Gold in Outlands,
Grinding Spots
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Warrior Farm WoW Gold:90 Gold in 20M
As a Warrior,you can get 90 WoW Gold in 20 Minutes.Can you believe? Watch the video below:
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WoW Gold Guides
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Skinning Quillfang Ravagers in Hellfire
Crystal Infused Leather, aside from sounding very cool, is used in most high level Leatherworking recipes. However, it's kind of a specialty item in terms of where it comes from. It sells anywhere from 10-15g per stack on my server, so it's worth it to grind for it. It's not very hard, either!
Head to Hellfire Peninsula, and grind on Quillfang Ravagers. Kill, skin, rinse, repeat! Hold onto the Fel Scales they may drop, and keep your fingers crossed for greens! This is a somewhat out of the way spot (check the map for location), so don't worry about too much competition!
This isn't fancy: skinning is a straightforward deal! File this info away into your list of good gold grinding spots, or for when you roll a Leatherworker. ;)
Head to Hellfire Peninsula, and grind on Quillfang Ravagers. Kill, skin, rinse, repeat! Hold onto the Fel Scales they may drop, and keep your fingers crossed for greens! This is a somewhat out of the way spot (check the map for location), so don't worry about too much competition!
This isn't fancy: skinning is a straightforward deal! File this info away into your list of good gold grinding spots, or for when you roll a Leatherworker. ;)
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Professions,
Skinning
World of Warcraft:A Guide Through All Heroics
Hellfire Citadel - Hellfire Ramparts (Flamewrought Key (Honor Hold/Thrallmar revered))Difficulty: 2/5Basics: The main group killing mobs are the Raveners. Those raveners can one-shot your cloth, two shot your leather, and mostly equals "hurt". They often come together with wolves, and they are CC'able, to be sure to sheep or sap them. Also, when picking them up, try to disarm them - this
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Thursday, August 9, 2007
Farming motes on elemental plateau - level 70
So the Burning Crusade has been out for a solid four months now, and Tyr?s Hand is virtually deserted. Have you wondered where exactly it is all the gold farmers have been hanging out?Well they?ve been frolicking around the Elemental Plateau in northern Nagrand, of course! Located just a quick flight above the Throne of Elements, there are Water, Air, Earth and Fire elementals all bundled
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WoW Gold Guides
WoW Gold guide: mote of life farming in zangarmarsh - levels 62+
The best zone to farm Motes of Life is by far from the mobs in Zangarmarsh (Wowhead WowWiki) in the Outland. But did you know there is a semi-secret way for some players to farm way more?Here you have Withered Giants, Infested Root Walkers and Fungal Giants, among others. All of these have a slightly higher than 18% drop rate for motes of life, are not the hardest mobs to kill and can be farmed
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Mapwow.com
Mapwow is a very, very useful tool. Basically, it's like Google Earth, but for World of Warcraft! Even better, you can set it to show the spawn points of any environmental nodes, like herbs, mining nodes, or treasure chests!
With the ability to zoom out, you can find which zones have inherently more of whatever item(s) you are looking for. If you're a rogue, I suggest you begin farming treasure chests in Outlands as soon as you have the ability. You can gather lots of blues or epics with some persistence and luck (or, lacking luck, just lots of persistence). Or if you're a blacksmith, make some keys and go to it! I do recommend that if you're going to go farming for things like this, have at least your epic ground mount. Of course, a flying mount makes everything in Outlands even easier, ESPECIALLY when you can bypass all the mobs and get to where you want to go without hassle!
Alternatively, look up the Cartographer addon in Google, and you will find that it can be set up to modify your maps ingame to show these same spawn points. I have more info about that particular functionality in my post about Cartographer databases!
With the ability to zoom out, you can find which zones have inherently more of whatever item(s) you are looking for. If you're a rogue, I suggest you begin farming treasure chests in Outlands as soon as you have the ability. You can gather lots of blues or epics with some persistence and luck (or, lacking luck, just lots of persistence). Or if you're a blacksmith, make some keys and go to it! I do recommend that if you're going to go farming for things like this, have at least your epic ground mount. Of course, a flying mount makes everything in Outlands even easier, ESPECIALLY when you can bypass all the mobs and get to where you want to go without hassle!
Alternatively, look up the Cartographer addon in Google, and you will find that it can be set up to modify your maps ingame to show these same spawn points. I have more info about that particular functionality in my post about Cartographer databases!
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Farming Tips,
Gold in Outlands
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Information About the Death Knight
Blizzard wanted to get this information out about the Death Knight, check it out...There are a lot of things still being worked out with the Death Knight class such as specific spell abilities. Unlike a traditional caster type however, a Death Knight's spell power comes from runes that are etched into their blade. Think Warcraft III when you think about the possibilities of abilities for the
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World of Warcraft News
May the Grind Be With You - Alliance and Horde in Shadowmoon Valley
Okay, everyone, this one is kind of fun. In Shadowmoon Valley, in the Outlands, the Alliance town is "Wildhammer Stronghold", and the Horde town is "Shadowmoon Village". These are two of the main quest hubs in the zone for each faction, and interestingly, you don't even need to leave town to complete one of them!
For the Horde, the quest begins with Chief Apocethary Hildagard, and for the Alliance, Zorus the Judicator.
The quest you are interested in is the second of a chain, the first of which there are no requirements to take, other than speaking to Fantei in Shattrath first. So, find your NPC and knock out the first quest, and accept the second, which for the Horde is Spectrecles, and for the Alliance is Harbingers of Shadowmoon.
This is a typical grind quest, but here's the kicker: It takes place INSIDE a town. The mobs are very easy to kill, level 67-68. They drop lots of Netherweave, and are plentiful and quickly spawning. In short, this is a perfect, safe, lucrative place to grind! And the best part is that you're perfectly safe! So, next time you get ganked at your favorite grind spot, keep in mind that you have a much, much safer option open to you!
For the Horde, the quest begins with Chief Apocethary Hildagard, and for the Alliance, Zorus the Judicator.
The quest you are interested in is the second of a chain, the first of which there are no requirements to take, other than speaking to Fantei in Shattrath first. So, find your NPC and knock out the first quest, and accept the second, which for the Horde is Spectrecles, and for the Alliance is Harbingers of Shadowmoon.
This is a typical grind quest, but here's the kicker: It takes place INSIDE a town. The mobs are very easy to kill, level 67-68. They drop lots of Netherweave, and are plentiful and quickly spawning. In short, this is a perfect, safe, lucrative place to grind! And the best part is that you're perfectly safe! So, next time you get ganked at your favorite grind spot, keep in mind that you have a much, much safer option open to you!
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Gold in Outlands,
Grinding Spots,
Tailoring
Sunday, August 5, 2007
WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Screenshots!
Blizzard has announced that The next World of Warcraft expansion set is Wrath of the Lich King .Let's watch the Screenshots first........
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WoW Funny Screenshot
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Officially Announced!
Blizzard is proud to officially announce the next World of Warcraft expansion set, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King! With the opening of the Dark Portal, and the renewed war to stop the Burning Crusade's destruction of worlds, the heroes of Azeroth have given little thought to the frozen wastes of Northrend ? and the terrible, ancient powers that wait there. Yet the brooding evils of the
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World of Warcraft News
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Get the Edge in the Auction House
Something few people take into consideration in the Auction House is the ORDER that items are listed in. The major factor in this is what the BID is set to. So, if you're undercutting someone's buyout, and they have a lower starting bid, their item gets listed higher up on someone's search results.
Now, no one is going to buy an item they don't even know is on the Auction House. Every little edge counts, and this one is easy to apply. Before listing something, check to see what your competition is. You'll already be undercutting their buyouts (you'd BETTER be, if you're listing it with competition!), but make sure you undercut their BID price as well. It only needs to be a little bit, and that will ensure that your item gets highest priority in someone's search! Every little bit counts.
Now, no one is going to buy an item they don't even know is on the Auction House. Every little edge counts, and this one is easy to apply. Before listing something, check to see what your competition is. You'll already be undercutting their buyouts (you'd BETTER be, if you're listing it with competition!), but make sure you undercut their BID price as well. It only needs to be a little bit, and that will ensure that your item gets highest priority in someone's search! Every little bit counts.
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A World of Warcraft Weeding
What happens when an Orc Hunter falls in love with an Undead Warlock?No, this isn't an ugly baby joke. It's a true story about a young couple that met and fell in love through World of Warcarft. Lee-Ann* and T.B.* met in the World of Warcraft. A friendship formed right away that grew over time, eventually resulting in the couple meeting in person and forming a romantic relationship. Two years
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World of Warcraft Articles
Friday, August 3, 2007
World of Warcraft Gold Guide: Transmuting
Wondering how to make some big bucks on transmuting here is a little guide have fun with it.Transmuting Mithril To TruesilverLet's say you've just recently put together your Alchemist's Stone and got to Artisan level. After heading to Gadgetzan, the first transmute you'll gain access to is the Mithril->Truesilver one. (There's also the Iron->Gold one, that's really good for nothing so you might
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Warlocks Need Ghost Mushrooms!
So, everyone always complains how easy it is for a Warlock to get their epic mount. They just quest for it, they don't need to buy it! True enough, but they need a lot of materials to fulfill the quest, and Elixers of Shadow Power, the main ingredient of which happens to be Ghost Mushrooms (3 of them).
Ghost Mushrooms are not easy to find. So, they are low in supply, and at least in the case of Warlocks, high in demand. They don't show up on the Auction House terribly often, because they are somewhat difficult to grind for, and the potions that Warlocks need almost never show up! So, if you're an Herbalist, head over to the Hinterlands and start looking. This is one of the few places the show up reliably. They also show up in Marudon, the Desolace instance, if you can solo it.
It's hard work getting these, but the rewards make it worth it. Warlocks, in a frenzy to get their awesome-looking mount, and NOT going to want to spend days on end grinding these mushrooms, and then brewing the potions. If they aren't Herbalist/Alchemy, they have no choice but to buy them! I don't recommend putting these on the Auction House, at least not all of them. Make sure to poll your guild or in /trade to see who needs them. Most Warlocks are aware of what they need before they even begin the quest, so they won't mind getting a jump start on materials!
Ghost Mushrooms are not easy to find. So, they are low in supply, and at least in the case of Warlocks, high in demand. They don't show up on the Auction House terribly often, because they are somewhat difficult to grind for, and the potions that Warlocks need almost never show up! So, if you're an Herbalist, head over to the Hinterlands and start looking. This is one of the few places the show up reliably. They also show up in Marudon, the Desolace instance, if you can solo it.
It's hard work getting these, but the rewards make it worth it. Warlocks, in a frenzy to get their awesome-looking mount, and NOT going to want to spend days on end grinding these mushrooms, and then brewing the potions. If they aren't Herbalist/Alchemy, they have no choice but to buy them! I don't recommend putting these on the Auction House, at least not all of them. Make sure to poll your guild or in /trade to see who needs them. Most Warlocks are aware of what they need before they even begin the quest, so they won't mind getting a jump start on materials!
Questing at Level 70
Here's something many people don't consider. When you hit level 70, the experience you can no longer get from a quest is made up for by having a larger gold reward. Currently, my quests in Netherstorm are worth 11g99s, even the easiest little things!
When I was leveling, I grinded quite a bit for gold. The end result is that I've still got 3 ENTIRE zones of untouched quests. At at least 12g per, and 20g for elite/group quests, that's more than enough for my first flying mount, especially when added to the gold I'll get from drops! Don't underestimate this, everyone. There's a huge difference between getting 3.9 gold for a quest and getting 12 gold per quest. This can be serious money, and you still get the equipment and reputation. It's win-win-win! So, if you've got the stomach for grinding, do it! Save up those quests, and complete them at 70. Your wallet will thank you!
When I was leveling, I grinded quite a bit for gold. The end result is that I've still got 3 ENTIRE zones of untouched quests. At at least 12g per, and 20g for elite/group quests, that's more than enough for my first flying mount, especially when added to the gold I'll get from drops! Don't underestimate this, everyone. There's a huge difference between getting 3.9 gold for a quest and getting 12 gold per quest. This can be serious money, and you still get the equipment and reputation. It's win-win-win! So, if you've got the stomach for grinding, do it! Save up those quests, and complete them at 70. Your wallet will thank you!
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Tag Team Blacksmith/Enchanter
There's a lot of waste produced when raising crafting skills. When I was grinding up Blacksmithing, I had more Fel Iron Breastplates and other items than I knew what to do with! I couldn't sell them reliably, so I ended up just vendoring them for a little under 5g each, which is only a little less than they went for on the AH.
Still, there are much better ways to deal with the waste you get from Jewelcrafting, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, or Engineering. All you need is an enchanter friend or alt. What I recommend doing is when you begin leveling a trade skill, roll an alt as an Enchanter.
Now, as you grind out endless greens and occasional blues to level up your craft, send them to your enchanter to disenchant. Not only does your enchanter get skill ups for doing this, they also get tons of enchanting material. Now, they can keep it, or do what I recommend and SELL it. Enchanting supplies sell far more reliably, and often for more money than what was disenchanted to get it. So, that Fel Iron Plate may not sell well, but the Arcane Dust and occasional Planar Essence or Large Prismatic Shard sure will!
This can be a huge money spinner, or not so huge, depending on how much crafting you do. Still, this is better gold than you're going to get by wasting these items, and it will add up!
Still, there are much better ways to deal with the waste you get from Jewelcrafting, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, or Engineering. All you need is an enchanter friend or alt. What I recommend doing is when you begin leveling a trade skill, roll an alt as an Enchanter.
Now, as you grind out endless greens and occasional blues to level up your craft, send them to your enchanter to disenchant. Not only does your enchanter get skill ups for doing this, they also get tons of enchanting material. Now, they can keep it, or do what I recommend and SELL it. Enchanting supplies sell far more reliably, and often for more money than what was disenchanted to get it. So, that Fel Iron Plate may not sell well, but the Arcane Dust and occasional Planar Essence or Large Prismatic Shard sure will!
This can be a huge money spinner, or not so huge, depending on how much crafting you do. Still, this is better gold than you're going to get by wasting these items, and it will add up!
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blacksmithing,
Enchanting,
Professions
HiredKiller's WoW Gold guide to making 20g-50g A DAY!
Since I am feeling pretty sexy with the new blue name and scholar tag... I will share with you all my ideology on how to make money in games such as this. Rogue's you should pay special attention....Ok, so you don't have 2 or more people playing your account and you don't have one of those popular farming bots. Well, good news... I will give you some simple tips that are a mainstay for me in
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