Now like I mentioned before there’s quite a few places promoting hundreds Free Facebook Credits easily by doing surveys or linking your friends, or adding apps etc.  However as most people have found out the hard way these are all scams.  As mentioned here, the only way to get Facebook Credits are by either doing incentive offers for Facebook Credits or via in game.

Problem with the method of earning Facebook Credits via a game, is that most games on Facebook only give you points that work toward their game, and not for any other game.  So I want to compile a list of games that let you earn Facebook Credits.  So far I know of two games, but if I find any more I will add them to the list.

Note: Pop-up blockers like Adblock must be turned off to view these offers since they are in video ads that you watch.

• Vampires: The Darkside (http://apps.facebook.com/vampiresdarkside/)
  Click on the ‘Council’ tab to get to this screen.  Then look for the highlighted link ‘Watch & Earn’.  This will bring up a commercial for you to watch, after the video is done the Facebook credit is added to your account immediately.
• Chronicles of Herenvale (http://apps.facebook.com/herenvale/)
  
  This one will require you to go through the game’s tutorial until you get past ‘Questing’ which takes a about 2-3 minutes to get through.  Once you’re done every now and then you’ll see the ‘Daily Deals’ pop up.  If a video is available it will be the first thing to play,  in which all you have to do is watch the video and wait for it to end.  Facebook Credit will be instantly credited to your account.

So far these are the only ones that I know of that give out Free Facebook credits in game.  If you readers know of other games please leave a comment and let me know.  I’ll look into it, and if it is legitimate I’ll add it to this list here.  Happy gaming!

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1. Up to 160 Free Facebook Credits on 2/24/2012 via Shopkick

However after spending some time searching for ways to get free Facebook credits, I ran into quite a few scams or survey sites that promise you credits after completing offers or purchasing things.  There were even outdated posts on games like Hello City to get free credits which doesn’t work any more.

Well recently I’ve been lucky enough to come across not one, but two, places to get free Facebook Credits, and this Friday (2/24/2012)  there’s a special event that can get you 160 Free Facebook Credits with NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

One is 4Loot and is a search engine which you need to just use their search engine to rack up points (you can download tool bars/plugins etc. but I don’t recommend doing that).  You can probably earn enough to get 25 Facebook Credits in a month or so, which to me is alot of time.

The other way is via Shopkick, which is an app for iphone or droids that lets you get credits for doing nothing but walking INTO a store on their list.  These aren’t vague store that only exist in some states, but fairly well recognized places like Sports Authority, Old Navy, Macys, Wet Seal etc.

Now I mentioned that there’s an event this weekend, and here’s the gist of it.

1.  Download Shopkick to your phone here:

2.  Once you downloaded the app make sure to login to the app on your phone in the settings page.  Do this and you will receive an extra 50 kicks (worth 2 Facebook Credits)  from me for using my link above.

3.  Visit store with the green ‘walk in’ points listed to earn your free credits.  YMMV depending on where you live (ie: here on Maui I can only go to 4 of the listed store this friday).

This weekend (2/24/2012) there is a special Black Friday Sale weekend going on that will net you around 200-400 kicks per store that you just enter WITHOUT having to buy anything.

Below is a list of the 10 stores giving out 200 kicks each (valued at 8 Facebook Credits).

• American Eagle Outfitters
• Arden B.
• Best Buy
• Crate & Barrel
• Macy’s
• Old Navy
• Simon Sales
• Target
• Toys R Us
• Wet Seal

Within Shopkick itself there are bonuses that you can collect to receive 2x points per walk in making this week’s even net you around 4000 kicks (roughly 160 Facebook Credits).  After you’ve collected your kicks you can turn them in immediately for Facebook Credits.

And that’s it, no purchases needed, no surveys to be done, and you can earn more free Facebook Credits daily even after this promotion is over.

If you want to know more about saving money on via Shopkick bargains, someone already has a post describing those as well here or watch the video below.  The Shopkick FAQs are found here on their website.

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Also as part of Lol’s Season 2 this year Riot Games has just included a new map scenario called Dominion in the open beta phase.  While i have to admit that I’m quite a fan boy of the Dota genre, this map is filled with some pretty fast paced action.  Check out the following Dominion trailer to get a little insight into the game.

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The videos pretty much explain the map, but for those of you who didn’t watch them here’s the recap.  League of Legends – Dominion is a capture and hold type of game.  Teams start on opposite sides of a mirror map, and vie for 5 different contestable points.  Instead of the standard level 1 hero to begin with, a 5 man team will start at level 3 with about 1300 gold for gear.  Also with the new map there’s 2 new summoner skills, and a bunch of new items that come along specifically for the map, and balancing.

Currently there’s no need for farming or getting exp in this mode.  As soon as the game clock starts, your character starts receiving quite a bit gold, and exp per second so you never really fall behind in gear.  The way to points score the game can easily turn around if you’re team overextends etc.  Teams usually split up in two directions to take the two closest nodes, and sometimes a 3rd one if you have a fast moving character like Rammus to start with.  This will go on until of of the teams score (or take away) 500 points, which can be fairly fast at about 10 minutes or so for a 1 sided game. So far on opening day of open beta the game is pretty fun, however I feel like it will be very short lived.  The high pace map almost feels like there is little to no strategy at the moment when everyone just rushes nodes or defends nodes ala ‘Arathi Basin’ style.

For those of you who haven’t yet played the game, don’t worry, its completely free to play.  You just need to signup for an account here and download the program here.

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Don’t get me wrong browser based games have come a long way from before.  1-up has even posted a list made up of 101 of 2010’s best browser games, many of which are very impressive.  Here’s two that really caught my eye so far that I’ve been playing quite diligently:

Elements the Game

This one had a feel of the collectible card game Magic the Gathering.  It was very addicting though at the start it was somewhat difficult.  The ability to play against random people online, with decks that you’ve built up is pretty nice.  Though some of the player vs player decks don’t work well against the god decks the computer runs with.  The different types of cards and abilities made it fun, and the fact that you could ‘improve’ your cards to be better made the game addicting since perfectionists try play the game, to raise enough cash, to upgrade their whole deck.

Heroes of Might and Magic Online

This one is a spin off of the old Might and Magic series that I remember playing as a kid back in the 90s.  The Creature types, and the way your cities need to be upgraded are similar, however the game is no longer turn based.  Its real time and similar to other online strategy games like Travian or Evony.  My friends, and I, are doing pretty well on the 3rd us server called “Zombie Assembly”.  The only downside to it is that the worlds are relatively small (400×400 grid), and new players are only allowed to join newer servers due to space limitations.  I hope that they increase the capacity at a later time.  It would be really nice to be able to play or bring on more people to an older server.  The goal is the collect ‘Tears’ after you’ve reached a certain rank to dominate the rest of the world.  After which the world resets, and you’ll gain a slight advantage the next time around.  I hear it takes roughly 6 months for the game to come to fruition.

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In the guild that I’ve been a part of for a while now, we’ve been using Ventrilo for the last few years.  It was really good for organizing those 40 man raids in World of Warcraft back in the day.  At one point we probably had upwards of 150+ people when we were zerging fighting the destro back in the days of Warhammer Online.  Aside from having to mute everyone, but the leader the server handled pretty well with that many people.

There was one really annoying thing about having that many people online though.  It was the fact that everyone was speaking at different volumes depending on how they had their microphone was setup.  Well we figured out a way to fix that so that everyone sounds roughly the same volume all the time regardless of what they have their outbound microphone volume setup as. Its called Ventrilo Normalization, and its a really great tip for using Ventrilo Voice Chat.

The steps are pretty easy, and you can tweak it yourself to suit your needs.  There’s a really good post about it here:

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This list doesn’t need to be applied to just Rangers, but can be done by anyone who can kite, or find a partner to duo with.  Here’s the link to the forum post, and happy hunting!

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Its really the same concept as the Leatherworking tip I posted a few years back for World of Warcraft.  Its a common sense know how much you can sell your product for, and know how much it costs to create the product.  Also include how much time it takes for you to create it to see if its worthwhile.

I will use Tailoring’s  Strong Durable Leather Jerkin as an example.  Please note that this is a generic vendor recipe.  The materials for this recipe is relatively cheap since no one wants white quality gear at level 38, so take advantage of that fact to net you some quick money.  Even the Critical version of this recipe is outdone  by its level 33 equivalent making it relatively worthless for players.  Or is it?  Let’s take a deeper look into it.

To make one you’ll need:

• 11 Strong Leather Pads
• 16 Strong Leather Cords
• 4 Fine Armor Flux
• 28 Aether Gem

Now go check the Auction house for these items, and see what the prices are.  I’ll use my server’s prices to demonstrate my point, also I’ll include the reagent price(vendor) for Greater Leather Hardeners.

• Strong Leather Pads – 1k-2k
• Strong Leather Cords – N/A
• Fine Armor Flux – 1k-2k
• Aether Gem – 500-1k
• Strong Leather – N/A
• Strong Rawhide – 100-500
• Greater Leather Hardener – 478

Also note that it takes exactly 38 Strong Leathers(76 Strong Rawhide) to make the pads/cords.  If you’re familiar with Aion’s crafting system for Tailors you’ll know that the Strong Leather Pads have a chance to ‘Crit’ into Strong Luxury Leather Pads, and Strong Finest Leather Pads, so you’ll need to make a few extra.

So lets total up the cost of these materials here:

• 11x Strong Leather Pads – 10156 Kinah (22 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 16x Strong Leather Cords – 7648 Kinah (16 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 4x Fine Armor Flux – 8,000 Kinah ( 4 Fine Armor Flux x 2000 Kinah)
• 28x Aether Gem – 28000 (28 Aether Gem x 1000 Kinah)
• 76x Strong Rawhide – 38000 (76 Strong Rawhide x 500 Kinah)

This totals up to 91804 Kinah in materials OUCH!.  Easy enough right?  Now you are probably wondering why you’ve gone a created a rather crappy looking piece of leather that noone on the Trade Broker is even going to buy.  Well since you’re at the tradeskill vendor why don’t you just dump the newly made jerkin off there, and find out that that nice npc who sold you all the reagents, is willing to buy this crappy item from you for a whopping 114,000 Kinah.  Netting you an extra 22k Kinah profit guaranteed.

Now don’t forget about critical craft chances.  One in five of these Jerkins will Crit into a Strong Noble Durable Jerkin and these vendor for a whopping 142k Kinah.  That’s a nice 50k profit.

Now the only thing stopping me from mass-producing this is the fact that other people have already caught on to it, and I often find the trade broker on my server devoid of leather/fluxes.  It still doesn’t stop me from tailoring 5-10 of these a day.  The most time consuming part is making the Strong Rawhide into Strong Leather, which I usually do in bulk before I go to bed as it takes a few hours when you do a large quantity.

That about wraps up this tip for making some easy Kinah, but to be honest, the best way to make alot of Kinah is to just level up.  At level 41 as a ranger class I can make roughly 150-250k an hour soloing the elites in Lepharist Citadel in Eltenen, but that’s another story for a later time.

I haven’t quite caught up to 8 Million Kinah like the guy posting the Kinah Guide here, nor have I bought one of these guides yet.  Anyone know if its even worth it when making gold in Aion is soo easy?

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This one is easy enough to do, and starts in Heiron with the quest ‘Suspicious Shugo‘, which sends you on a quest to find a Shugo by the name of Roikinerk.  This Shugo though wanders around quite a bit, and throughout Heiron so tracking him down is probably the hardest part since he literally travels throughout the whole zone (Basically the Rexxar of Aion).

Once you do find him, Roikinerk gives you a quest called ‘Price of Goodwill‘.  He then stuffs your head in a bag, and you wake up aboard the Steel Rake in a prison cell.  Getting out is pretty easy, as you just talk to the npc next to you, and grab the port scroll that’s in his bag.  The teleport scroll conveniently places you onto the Black Cloud Island in the upper abyss to talk to an npc, who then sends you over to the Sanctum Outer Dock area to finish the quest.  Once that’s done, and completed, you’re now able to get onto the Steel Rake.

The Steel Rake instance entrance is the NPC right next to the shugo ship after you complete the quest on the Outer Dock of Sanctum.

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