Sunday, October 29, 2006

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 other players who can't afford the decent gear and drives up prices in the AH.

I've never bought gold but the temptation did go through my mind in my early playing days. Depending on your server, gold currently costs about $15 to $18 a hundred pieces. If you can only make 20 gold an hour this means you are earning only $3 an hour. At that rate you can get a second McJob and earn more.

What do you think? Should you buy Warcraft gold?
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

How to get gold for your Warcraft mount in one day

Tags: World of Warcraft
It’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 sells for between 10 and 25 gold. There’s only one place it can be found and that is in the shellfish traps off the coast of Shadowprey Village in Desolace. When you open the traps you will either find a Big Iron Fishing Pole, Shellfish or, unfortunately, spawn a level 34 mob. The drop rate seems to vary but you can generally find 3 or 4 in a couple of hours. If you are Horde, keep the shellfish and turn five of them in to Jinar’Zillen on the pier for 55 silver and a Bloodbelly Fish. The Bloodbelly is used in a Desolace quest so save these. Alliance should obviously keep away from the village. This is entirely underwater so take breathing potions if you need them.

Badlands Grinding. I hate grinding generally but if you must, head for the Elementals camp in the south of Badlands. The elementals drop quite a bit of Elemental Earth as well as Deeprock Salt. The Elemental Earth sells for around a gold a piece on most servers.

Go Fishing. Head to the Barrens and fish for Deviate Fish. If you are Alliance on a PvP server, head into Wailing Caverns into the instance to fish undisturbed. Each Deviate Fish will sell for around 20 silver but you catch a lot of them is a short time. If you have cooking skills consider turning them into Savory Deviate Delight for some extra profit.

Solo one of the lower level instances. Remember how much loot dropped in Gnomergan or RFK? Then you were rolling against four others for your share. Now it can all be yours...

Tags: World of Warcraft
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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 up the recipes and resell in the nearest AH.

Each recipe cost only a few silver from vendors, the higher level recipes around a gold. Not as much profit on these as the previous list as many people have caught on, but you can still make an easy one or two gold on each recipe. Although all of these are limited availability, the restock rate is fairly high and you can often find all of them if you travel round at a quiet time.

Click on the links for vendor names and exact locations:

Pattern: Greater Adept's Robe from Darnassus or Undercity.

Recipe: Elixir of Superior Defense from Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Schematic: Blue Firework from Stormwind or Ironforge. Alliance only obviously. I've not tried this in the neutral AH yet. The Horde version is Schematic: Red Firework from Orgrimmar.

Recipe: Free Action Potion from Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Pattern: Gem-Studded Leather Belt from Booty Bay.

Recipe: Great Rage Potion from Darnassus or Orgrimmar.

Pattern: Icy Cloak from Hillsbrad Foothills or Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh.
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Monday, October 23, 2006

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."
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

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)

Gnomish Cloaking Device from Zan Shivsproket in Hillsbrad Foothills

Mithril Dragonling from Ruppo Zipcoil in The Hinterlands.

Deadly Scope from Knaz Bunderflame in Stranglethorn Vale.

All of these can be purchased for a few silver from these vendors (check the Thottbot links for exact locations and prices) and resell for several gold in the AH. Average price on my server is 6 gold each. I can sell at least one of each per day, giving a maximum profit of more than 140 gold a week, so I guess I was lazy :)

Since these recipes are all limited availability it’s a real pain to go from vendor to vendor checking to see if they have the recipe, so here’s a much easier method. Start 4 alts (or login to those you never play anymore) and walk them up to these vendors. The vendors, unfortunately, are all in mid-level zone, so strip naked and be prepared to die a few times. I got to all of the vendors without dying more than 6 times for all four by sticking to the paths. If you see a higher level going your way, don’t be afraid to ask for an escort. If you are on a PvP server a naked female character doesn’t get ganked half as much as a male. Go figure. Simply log into these alts, already parked by the vendor, whenever you can and grab the recipes. Don’t forget to mail the alts some gold for initial purchases. The vendors are sometimes near mailboxes, so you can mail the recipes back to your main, or just wait until you have seven and stone back to the city.
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

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 cross-faction AH and you may just get a pile of gold.

Let me give you an example. There are a few items which are used by mostly by only one faction. For the Alliance, they start with “Lightforge…”, for example Lightforge Belt. Those for the Horde end with “…of Elements”, for example Gauntlets of Elements. These items drop in high level instances on both the Horde and Alliance sides. When, for example, a Cord of Elements drops for an Alliance player they may put it in the Alliance AH for 4 gold or so. In the Horde AH, these may be selling for 40 gold. Unless you haven’t been paying attention you will see a great opportunity to buy from the Alliance AH (if you are an Alliance character obviously) and put the item in the cross-faction AH for 20 gold, making a profit of 16 gold.

If you have a Horde character, just do the same with the “Lightforge…” items.

If you are on a PvE server, it’s easy just to park a low-level alt in all three AHs to check prices.

Other items to consider are Deviate Fish on PvP servers and cross-faction pets such as White Kitten
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

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"
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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."
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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
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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 for the best go with Joana's Guide, ot the Alliance guide from Brain Kopp, otherwise this is one of the better free guides.
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Monday, October 16, 2006

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! "
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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."
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

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 "
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Friday, October 13, 2006

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 "
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

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."
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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..
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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."
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

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!
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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...
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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 Recipes

For patterns use:

WoW Patterns

Scroll down until you see Vendor as the source. Look for those showing a limited supply for reselling in the AH to make gold.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

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. "
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

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."
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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,"
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