The Power Word: Gold Chronicle

WoW Gold-Making News - October 17, 2012

2012-10-17T00:53:00.000-07:00

Bid Wars

Candlefly's Gold Adventures [rss] • The last few weeks, my online time has been limited but I’ve done my best keeping up with my gold cap pursuits via the Remote Auction House. Something I’ve been trying to do is grab profession leveling mats at a really low price via bidding. I don’t care if I don’t win every bid because … Read Full Post

Comment obtenir un maximum de Poussière de vision ?/How to get a maximum of Vision Dust?

Jackspot [rss twitter] • Après l'euphorie de ce début de Mists of Pandaria, les prix semblent commencer à se stabiliser ... ou pas. Même si jusqu’à présent je ne me suis pas trop intéressé à ces nouveaux marchés, j'ai tout de même réalisé quelques belles ventes grâce au cuir exotique entre autre./After the euphoria of the early Mists of Pandaria, prices seem to start to stabilize ... or not. Although so far I am not too interested in these new markets, I still made some good sales with exotic leather among others. … Read Full Post

Hall of Fame – 1 Million Gold Cap Club: Toughdogmeat of Madoran-US

Warcraft Econ [rss twitter] • What I have: At first I had a miner/blacksmith and I wanted 10k so I wouldn’t have to worry about buying a flask or food item. Then I decided to level a DK with alchemy/jc so I could just make my own but I was too cheap to buy the herbs so I leveled a mage with herbalism and tailoring … Read Full Post

Insanely Fast Respawn Farming Trillium Ore/Ghost Iron/Snow Lily/Golden Lotus

ALTOs Gold"ish" Advice [rss twitter] • Crazy spawn rate not nerfed....yet. So get there and farm up crazy amounts while you can. Because tomorrow, you just never know.... And it's not the caves that you are used to farming up in Kota Peak....You gotta drop down one level for this one....the two 'upper' caves are farm … Read Full Post

The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 045

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • Episode 045 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies. In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss what they've been doing in gold-making recently, discuss MoP material prices, professions, Tiller's faction … Read Full Post

Inscription - Excel profit file

World of Auctions [rss] • I've made a new Excel file to help me decide how to make best use of all the herbs I purchase. I've been buying about 200 stacks of herbs daily and deciding how to turn all those pigments in a healthy profit has taken me a lot of napkin math, so it was time for an updated version of my Cataclysm profit file … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - October 11, 2012

2012-10-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

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Easy buying on high population servers

World of Auctions [rss] • Over the past days I've spend a lot of time buying herbs, milling them for pigments and create inks to resell the Starlight Ink. On the high population server I'm curently playing on I've noticed one major difference compared to my previous server; browsing the Auction House is slowww … Read Full Post

Mists of Pandaria - The Plan & The Results (So Far)

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • Like many Scribes, I stockpiled some decent stacks of all the various inks although nowhere near the quantities that some bloggers were talking about! I didn't precraft glyphs, that's never been how I work but when I saw how low the prices were dropping, I did grab some … Read Full Post

Skinning over 1,000 leather an hour!!! [Video]

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Invisibility Potions

The Gold Queen [rss twitter] • I haven’t seen any posts anywhere about people doing this and I am the only one in the market atm on my server, here goes. I have been having a lot of success with Invisibility potion, the pattern is a drop, easily found on Auction House. The mats are 1x ghost mushroom + 1x sungrass. Both can be easily farmed next to each other, thousand needles for sungrass … Read Full Post

Simple Living Steel Material Price Calculator

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • I made this Living Steel price calculator for myself but at the request of the livestream viewers I've made a version available for downloading/copying for everyone to use. Yay! I use this daily to calculate which method is the cheapest for making Living Steel (Ghost Iron Ore v. Tillium smelting, etc) … Read Full Post

Updates to The Golden Crusade Shuffler

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • As of writing the current version of The Golden Crusade Shuffler is V0.2.3 Since I released the shuffler Sunday I’ve made a series of changes, some of them bug fixes, some of them feature requests (and a good deal of bugs introduced when adding the new features). Since release the changes look like this: … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - October 7, 2012

2012-10-07T21:40:00.000-07:00

Image Source: Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile

TradeSkillMaster Guides - Updated for MoP

Clockwork Riot [rss twitter] • It's been a busy few days for me but it's done! A lot of people were requesting an updated TradeSkillMaster guide series using the new interface. Between that, the new features (Quick Posting <3 ) and the fact it would give me a chance to make them easier on the ears I decided it was time to update … Read Full Post

Leveling Zen Master Alchemy - My Way & The Right Way

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • In my usual manner, I checked the Auction House for pandaren herb prices & was pleasantly surprised by how cheap the Green Tea Leaf was, so I grabbed 18 stacks for around 490g (just 25g a stack!). I knew they were the starter herb for Alchemy & of course my main money making profession … Read Full Post

Trillium Ore Alternatives by Anunnaki

The Hatchery [rss twitter] • A new feature in MoP is the Luck of the Lotus Buff which is obtained when you loot Golden Lotus as an herbalist. This buff "Allows you to sometimes find extra treasure from monsters in Pandaria. Lasts 15 min. Effect persists through death." I was not quite sure what this meant when I first looted … Read Full Post

Encore of random tips for Pandaria

Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile [rss twitter] • The first few Faires that happen after the launch of an expansion are always busy, mostly because of the trinkets you get for turning in the decks made with inscription (either cards made once a day or whenever you can). However, this is the first Faire where you can get the full advantage … Read Full Post

How To Eat An Elephant

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • I'll bet many players (myself included) are feeling just a bit overwhelmed since the launch of Mists of Pandaria. Whereas in Cataclysm I felt like a master of the universe, in Mists I'm feeling like quite the noob. Why is this? For one thing I think Blizzard packed much more content into … Read Full Post

Announcing The Golden Crusade Shuffler

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • – A Shuffling Spreadsheet for Mists of Pandaria. As I promised in Is the Shuffle Profitable in Mists of Pandaria? (Spoilers: Yes It Is) I have put together a spreadsheet to help aid players making gold with the shuffle in Mists of Pandaria. You can find the download as well as detailed instructions … Read Full Post

Faction Boosts for Alts Coming Soon

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • For those of you who missed the news yesterday (and my tweets), Blizzard announced that they are upgrading the faction system to incorporate boosted rates for alts: Basically, once one of your characters has reached at least Revered reputation with a faction, all other … Read Full Post

Massive Early On Inscription Profits

Vile's Golden Auctions [rss twitter] • It's always a great time to play WoW when it is in the starting phase of a new expansion. For the majority of the people it's the new content, the new instances, the new raids, the new PvP seasons but for some it's the new opportunities to make gold. Well if you are one of those people that … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - October 1, 2012

2012-10-01T20:47:00.000-07:00

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Tillers Farming in MoP

Vile's Golden Auctions [rss twitter] • There are new posts about places where you can go and "farm" certain stuff that you need in the game, be it ore, herbs, cloth or even Motes Of Harmony. Well today we are going to take a look at a certain fraction in MoP that deals exactly with this, the farming part. This fraction … Read Full Post

Cashing in on Trillium [Video]

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Mists of Pandaria: Initial Gold-Making Impressions

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • It's hard to believe it's only been two days since the launch of Mists of Pandaria. Seems more like a week with all the playing I've been doing. Read on past the jump for my initial gold-making impressions of Mists of Pandaria along with some thoughts on lore and what others have found as far as gold-making in MoP … Read Full Post

Gold Tips – Transmute: Living Steel

Manthieus Movies [rss twitter] • Well Mists of Pandaria is here and wow is it fun. I have spent the first week leveling characters and professions. Here i will show you how to make the most out of your daily alchemy cooldown Transmute: Living Steel. This is an item that will be in great demand as it has similar properties as … Read Full Post

First Impressions of Mists of Pandaria

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • First off, as of Saturday afternoon the auction house is as slow as maple syrup on a winter’s day (yea I’m Canadian and going with stereotypical Canadian metaphors, so sue me), it’s taking forever to get anything done on the auction house. I guess I can’t expect anything else on the first … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 29, 2012

2012-09-29T12:46:00.000-07:00

Image Source: Vile's Golden Auctions

Grab bag of random tips for Pandaria

Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile [rss twitter] • As far as I can tell, you have 2 options in gold-making right now at the beginning of this expansion : get to level 90 ASAP or farm your way to level 90. If you get to max level, you're going for gold-making by crafting items to put on the AH. You could also make gold by selling … Read Full Post

Level 83-84 Mists Items: Time To Stock Up

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • My current plan for the 83-84 Mists of Pandaria item market is to collect these items while most players are leveling through the initial Mists of Pandaria zones where they drop. If Mists of Pandaria has a similar curve to Cataclysm the cheap supply of these items is likely to dwindle … Read Full Post

Spirit of Harmony Farming in Kun-Lai

Clockwork Riot [rss twitter] • Hey folks! I'm looking for the best places to farm Spirits of Harmony. I look forward to checking out level 90 zones but for us low-level folks looking for Spirits check out my newest video … Read Full Post

White Kitten - Quick Gold Making for PvP'ers

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • Now that Pet Battles & the Pet Journal are available in game, it's even easier to transfer this White Kitten between factions - just learn it then log to the character that is going to sell it, enter the Pet Journal & cage the little beastie - hey presto, one free faction transaction without … Read Full Post

The New 77-80 Market: 82-84

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • As predicted, there is a new era of twink gear out that is equivalent to Cataclysm's 77-80 market (which is still alive and kicking). Keep in mind that now is not a great time to sell, it's a great time to buy. Lots of this will be on AH's for relatively cheap, and now is not necessarily the best time to post … Read Full Post

MoP, Selling Caged Pets

Vile's Golden Auctions [rss twitter] • We have new things to do, and new ways to make profit off from nearly every place we take a look at. Well today i chose to talk about a market that i think is going to be the next luxury market in WoW. As a clarification ,when i say a luxury market what i mean is a market that people … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 21, 2012

2012-09-21T21:49:00.000-07:00

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I bought myself a guild!

Vault of Light [rss twitter] • While idling around Stormwind a few weeks ago I saw someone announce in Trade chat that they wanted to sell a level thirteen guild (prior to the change to guild xp in the latest patch). I've always wanted my own guild but I could never justify the price of buying a level twenty five guild which …

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WoWflation September 2012: Going out of business sale – everything must go!

WoWMidas [rss] • No surprise here, folks. Month over month, prices dropped almost 40%! Same as when Cata was imminent, prices tanked. Unfortunately, this isn't obvious from the pre-Cata data, because the last reading pre-Cata was a full month before launch, before the fire sale began. Our current reading (10 September) …

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Essence du Néant supérieure - (Greater Nether Essence)

Jackspot [rss twitter] • L'essence du néant supérieure s'obtient "principalement" en désenchantant des armes ayant un ilvl compris entre 46 et 50. En effet, pour obtenir des essences - (Greater Nether Essence above is obtained "primarily" in disenchanting the weapons with ilvl between 46 and 50. Indeed, to obtain priority species you will disenchant weapons. Items of armor on them you will get dust) …

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The 5 Most Enjoyable Ways We Made Gold In Cataclysm

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • Each player has their own special ways of making gold in World of Warcraft. No two players are the same. No two servers are the same. This means that each of us walks our unique own gold-making path. Since Mists of Pandaria is coming out in 5 days we thought it would be good to …

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MoP Beta Files: The New Inscription Research

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • As I've reported previously, creating this item also helps you discover a new glyph recipe. When it was originally implemented, I was concerned that this might be a randomized chance. I'm happy to report that I've used it dozens of times now and I have never failed to learn a new recipe …

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1 Million in Mists of Pandaria

Manthieus Movies [rss twitter] • Making Gold is what i love, and a new expansion is the best time to do so. So here is the class and professions i will be leveling to start. 1 Million gold sounds like a lot now, but 20k gold was a lot just 2 years ago in this game. Try this for yourselves and let me know. I will see you all once …

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 13, 2012

2012-09-13T17:12:00.000-07:00

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New Pets and Mounts Crafted By Professions

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • Mists of Pandaria is bringing a slew of changes to professions and the general game, and one of such changes is the addition of several mounts and pets craftable by professions. The following professions get new pets and/or mounts: … Read Full Post

All Quiet on the Durotar Front

The Gold Queen [rss twitter] • I’ve had my children home on school holidays. My children are aged 12 1/2 (allowed to play WoW without his school pursing their lips at my degenerate mothering skillz) and I have a 8 year old with Autism Spectrum Disorder who is allowed to play WoW occasionally as long as I’m … Read Full Post

AOE Looting's Effect On The Cloth Markets

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • After doing a Black Rock Depths run on my 85 I ended up with Runecloth. A lot of Runecloth. Indeed the AOE looting system that was introduced in Patch 5.0.4 has made running old instances much quicker. If you don't have to bend down to loot every mob you can simply round up a … Read Full Post

Shake That Salt Shaker - Engineers Get Groovy!

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • Just a short post today as I'm away from home & can't access my main account. I will resume my weekly sales updates once I return home again though. One of the nifty gadgets that Engineers can make is the Salt Shaker. It requires an engineering skill of 250 & is usable only by Leatherworkers … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 11, 2012

2012-09-11T16:54:00.000-07:00

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MoP Beta Files: Recent Profession Tidbits

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • I'm sure most of you saw this post regarding the Alchemy Specialization quests. Apparently they won't be fixed until MoP is out: Alchemists may have noticed that they are currently unable to select a specialization. This is because the specialization quest now requires … Read Full Post

Robes of Insight Now Being Duplicated?

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that with all the illicit BOE mount duping that's likely been going on on the servers lately (you've all heard the level 1's in trade chat trying to sell Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger for 15k) that it would only be a matter of time before the dupers moved … Read Full Post

The Duping Witch-hunt

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • Recently, Jim from Power Word: Gold came out with an article entitled Robes of Insight Now Being Duplicated?. Although the number of Robes is rising, as indicated in his blog and via data from The Undermine Journal, I'd like to take a moment to take a critical look at his observations … Read Full Post

Recipe Vendor MIA - Some recipes no longer obtainable!

Clockwork Riot [rss twitter] • Hagu, a listener of the Litecast, sent in a question asking if the Desoalce caravan had been removed since they couldn't find it. I went out to Desolace to check for myself and sure enough the caravan seems to be MIA. I've gone … Read Full Post

Augmenter vos profits avec la "longue queue"

Jackspot [rss twitter] • Je vous rassure tout de suite, bien que le titre de cet article soit un "poil" ambigu, je n'en suis pas encore réduit à exhiber mon "engin" pour me faire des pièces d'or en cette fin d'extension WoW. Blague à part, qu'est ce que la "longue queue" ? Plus connue sous le nom de "longue traine" ou "long tail" en anglais … Read Full Post

The ClockworkRiot LiteCast - Ep 008

Clockwork Riot [rss twitter] • In Episode 008 we discuss what inflation is, Argent Tournament pets, sources for enchanting materials, and more! … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 6, 2012

2012-09-06T23:10:00.000-07:00

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Engineering Pets - Part 3 - Rabbits & Robots

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • So this is part 3 of my look at Engineering craftable pets & the materials required. The Personal World Destroyer is a small robot & the De-weaponized Mechanical Companion is a mechanical rabbit to add to your collection of mechanical toad, yeti and squirrel … Read Full Post

Youtube WoW Gold-Making Hangout

esevenf [rss twitter] • I was a guest on a fun Youtube Hangout for WoW Goldmakers with Jim from Powerword: Gold, TrimbleIRL and McKinnon talking about making gold after the 5.0.4 Patch, profession and talent changes and preparing for Mists of Pandaria … Read Full Post

Now it's your turn

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • I first started this blog when a couple of the existing gold bloggers bowed out. They had done their time, and were moving on. It was time for a new wave of bloggers to step up; and new sites to be formed. I was a noob with half baked … Read Full Post

All I got for Patchmas was an Ink Nerfbat

WoWMidas [rss] • Ok, so that’s not entirely true. This is a tale of laziness, woe, and redemption. Read the “fine” patch notes. Such a simple thing to do. And yet I blew it this time around: I didn’t read about the 5.0.4 changes carefully enough. I should have read … Read Full Post

Buyer’s Remorse

The Gold Queen [rss twitter] • A reader emailed asking if I had experienced Buyers Remorse after buying the Swift Spectral Tiger Mount. We get a lot of emails at The Gold Queen and although Community Manager Matojo answers where she can, sometimes the personal questions need a personal reply … Read Full Post

MoP + DMF = Petmas

The Auction House Grind [rss] • Over the past few months I have been advising friends and guildies to stockpile their Darkmoon Fair tokens. The original plan was to see if the Darkmoon pets would become tradeable come MoP. From the beta and PTR we now know that while the pets are still listed as BoP they can be learned … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 4, 2012

2012-09-05T02:07:00.000-07:00

Image Source: Kaliope's Crafting Blog

MoP Beta Files: Leveling Zen Inscription

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • I started with 10 stacks of green tea leaf, 9 stacks of rain poppy and 1 stack of silkweed. From these 20 stacks of herbs I got enough pigment to make 100 ink of dreams and 9 starlight ink. I only used 66 inks to level my Inscription skill from 525 to 600. Depending on what recipe … Read Full Post

Preview: TradeSkill Master Desktop Application

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] •
Yesterday on the WoW Gold Blogger Live Hangout Sapu, Lead Developer and Director of TradeSkillMaster, treated the bloggers in the hangout to a sneak peak at a new desktop application in the works for TradeSkillMaster … Read Full Post

Now, a faster mailbox…

WoWMidas [rss] • I may have been doing it all wrong before, but emptying glyphs or gems or herbs out of my mailboxes used to be a slow chore. At least as far as I understood it, there was a one-minute cooldown per 50 mailbox items (an item being a slot that would hold up to 12 stacks). So even if the 50 items came out … Read Full Post

1 Million Gold Cap Club: Riverider of Whisperwind-US

Warcraft Econ [rss twitter] • I am Riverider, a Mage on the US Whisperwind realm. I’ve played computer games since 1978 on a Commodore PET computer. My first MMPORG was Everquest, but I quit after a few years because it was taking far too much of my time. A few years later I took up World of Warcraft … Read Full Post

Aftermath - How I Fared in 5.0.4

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • So 5.0.4 dropped a week ago today, and I personally have made 110,780g since the patch dropped. Glyphmas 1.5 Yes Inks were still tradeable, but I made out pretty well precrafting. I ended up with 11 of each glyph I could make (I was aiming for 20) and was able to sell off a good amount of them … Read Full Post

Spirit of Harmony

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] •
We want crafters to be out in the world adventuring instead of camping out in front of an auctioneer. I can only think of a couple of times that I joined a general QQ chorus and they generally revolved around real names or real id. But this one ... ugg … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - September 2, 2012

2012-09-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

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Step Right Up!

Candlefly's Gold Adventures [rss twitter] • Step right up! Darkmoon Faire is here and there is a lot for a Gold Goblin to profit from. To profit, you’re gonna want tickets. Read on past the jump to find out how to get the most tickets possible and other ways to profit from DMF. So, it’s the first of the month and Darkmoon Faire is active … Read Full Post

Le loot de zone (AOE loot) va-t-il influencer les marchés ?

Jackspot [rss twitter] • Tout d'abord j'espère que pour ceux qui ont eu la chance de partir, vos vacances se sont bien passées et que vous avez pu profiter un maximum avant cette rentrée qui s'annonce chargée, du moins dans World of Warcraft. En effet, pour ceux qui ne seraient pas encore au courant ou qui vivraient dans une grotte … Read Full Post

MOP Leather and Blacksmith

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • Given Blizzard's stated intention that "Initially, we want crafters to be out in the world adventuring instead of camping out in front of an auctioneer, hoping to score some cheap mats.", consider taking up gatherer + crafter. I do not make this suggestion lightly, and it will still be wrong for a lot … Read Full Post

Of Risky Bets and Price Resets - My Patch Week So Far

Swishco Ventures [rss twitter] • As most of you are hopefully aware, this Tuesday (Wednesday for the EU) was Patch 5.0.4, the pre-expansion patch for Mists of Pandaria. After a bit of a rocky start with the usual extending of maintenance, I first logged into my glyph seller to re-post anything that had expired during … Read Full Post

Priest Tier transmog with a difference.

Vault of Light [rss twitter] • Recently I've been playing both my Warrior and Paladin a lot. Being plate wearers they have the option to transmog to some plate skirts but I tend to keep them in full pants. Tanking in a dress doesn't feel quite right to me. With that I've started looking at cloth legs a bit more. There are no Priest tier sets … Read Full Post

WoW Blogger On-Air Hangout #5!

Gold Shield [rss twitter] •
Keeping with the weekly tradition(a new tradition, but one nonetheless?), here is the latest On Air hangout … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 31, 2012

2012-08-31T20:14:00.000-07:00

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So Many Points, So Little Time

Candlefly's Gold Adventures [rss] • Blizzard recently announced that Valor and Conquest Points would be converted to Justice Points and Honor Points. Since these points are capped at 4k, if you are above the cap, you should use your points in the next two weeks in order to avoid a reduced pay off. Converting an old … Read Full Post

The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 042

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • Episode 042 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin, Faid and Gimp bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies. In this week's episode we discuss what we've been doing in gold-making, the Mists of Pandaria 5.0.4 pre-patch … Read Full Post

Disappointments with Patch 5.0.4

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • Well a few days have passed since Patch 5.0.4. dropped and the gold making scene has been…disappointing to say the least. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, Blizzard ruined glyphmas 2.0 (those grinches!) by means of a “bug” (I’m using obnoxious air quotes … Read Full Post

MOP Alchemist

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • At the start of cataclysm; there was an absolute flood of flasks; with them being sold below cost so that guilds could level for their cauldrons. Even I fell for this; making far too many flasks that were simply not needed at that time. However, elixirs were still significantly cheaper; and while … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 30, 2012

2012-08-30T11:53:00.000-07:00

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Farming Embersilk Cloth Patch 5.0.4 Update

The Overcut [rss twitter] • I love AoE looting the plan had been to check out deepholm and move over to some 5mans but deepholm sucked me in with the crazy drops which i seriously think might be nerfed. From now on will open chests and record totals for cloth/greens. This is because flying to mailbox is not fun and I can only get biggers bags in MoP … Read Full Post

Blackfallow Ink Still Tradeable in 5.0.4

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • As noted by Blizzard, the 5.0.4 ink traders appear to require Ink of Dreams as payment in the purchase window when in actuality you can still purchase inks with Blackfallow Ink. While not totally unexpected this change took a few of us by surprise. In all of our own advice/reporting about the potential … Read Full Post

Engineering Pets - Part 2 - Yetis & Toads

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • The Tranquil Mechanical Yeti & the Lifelike Mechanical Toad - two very different creatures in many ways & two that I cannot make myself yet! Having a master list of materials is very useful though - I am buying the less common materials cheaply whenever I see them on the Auction House so once I have the plans … Read Full Post

MOP First weeks - the patch that dropped

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • One thing I didn't expect was that you could create your 11th character now; before you have upgraded to MOP. Well, starting today; there is a new rush of alts. Not as many as there will be come September, but definitely some. (So many monks; so many pandas - most of them panda monks) … Read Full Post

Auction House Sorting: A Whole New Game

Clockwork Riot [rss twitter] • Some sellers, particularly in glyphs, may have noticed they were getting some strange sales. Even if there were countless glyphs cheaper than yours people would sometimes buy your higher priced one. Why? Blizzard messed up their Auction House sorting with the patch and right now, contrary to … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Leveling Zen Tailoring

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • The only thing you need to level Tailoring is cloth. Lots and lots of cloth. There are no extra materials required for this profession if all you plan to make is the basic items. The only other material used at all is Spirit of Harmony. I have to say this change on the elemental side is certainly streamlining … Read Full Post

Preparation for Mists of Pandaria - First night after the patch

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • I went straight to my trainer to learn all the recipes. I crafted the new glyphs – but not the Monk glyphs. Is anyone buying Monk glyphs?Demand for glyphs rose and good sales were made. But as i suspected the demandwas not abnormally high – certainly not another glyphmas. I was still making good sales … Read Full Post

Patch 5.0.4 and New Glyphs

Swishco Ventures [rss twitter] • As suspected, the Ink Trader no longer trades for Blackfallow Ink, instead demanding the new Ink of Dreams (which is unobtainable until Mists launches). Second, as was suspected, glyphs that changed but kept the same item ID were changed to the new glyph. More importantly, though, there are several new glyphs available … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 27, 2012

2012-08-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

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WoWflation August 2012 – Watch out…prices spike!

WoWMidas [rss] • Haven’t seen a price spike like this in a long time. Up 30%-40%. Note also that prices have tripled since October 2010, a month and change prior to Cata (just around the last Wrath patch). Now would be a good time to note the categories that have given huge returns. See anything? … Read Full Post

What do Auctioneers bring to the game?

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • A fair question, i don’t suspect the developers foresaw the rise of this breed of player at the outset. But i greatly suspect it is in their thinking now when they consider what to do with the professions in the game. On my server there are 3 or 4 of us who “own” the glyph market. i don’t see any other … Read Full Post

Mini-Mods: #2 Buy Em All

Gimps Gold [rss twitter] • This small but amazing addon adds some extra options to the Shift+Click buying options when purchasing from vendors. As you can see the normal bulk-buy window has two additional buttons “Stack” and “Max”. These two new buttons add great power bulk buying allowing for intelligent buying based on … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Leveling Zen Jewelcrafting

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • The first thing you should know is that the JC trainer in Pandaria has more recipes than the trainers in the older cities. This is rather unusual since most of the other profession trainers have basically the same stuff. The Panda trainer has the JC-only gems as well as the high end jewelry recipes. If these … Read Full Post

MOP Profession firsts

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • Are you considering achieving a realm profession first? Apart from vanity, there are good reasons to do so; some may recall me mentioning Wek at the end of Wrath and the start of Cataclysm. He achieved realm first Alchemist. His elixirs were much in demand, and more than paid … Read Full Post

Battle Pet Update

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • As you may remember from my previous post or elsewhere, pets were originally slated to be mailed back to you caged if you had any duplicates. This has been changed. Instead, for MoP launch, the limit of 500 pets total is going to be lifted as well as the 3x per pet limit. So on pets that are not unique you will be able … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 22, 2012

2012-08-22T23:13:00.000-07:00

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MoP Beta Files: Leveling Zen Leatherworking

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Today I tackled Leatherworking as the next tradeskill to get some Beta action. I've actually been working on Leatherworking for a long time, mostly on the leather collection side. As a result I started with over 30 stacks of exotic leather … Read Full Post

Buying Multiple Vendor Items At Once

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • Today's tip is one that might come in handy if you're buying a lot of ink to stockpile before the 5.0.4 patch on August 28, 2012. To buy multiple vendor items at one time hold the Shift key while right or left clicking an item in a vendor window. … Read Full Post

The Patch of Chaos

Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile [rss twitter] • This will be a patch of chaos and confusion, where Trade and Guild chats will be full of questions about what's changed, what hasn't changed, what will change once Mists launches. The Auction House Imagine a catastrophic event … Read Full Post

Mini-Mods: #1 Professions Database

Gimps Gold [rss twitter] • In this edition of “mini Mods” we take a look at “Professions Database” a small and relatively unknown Addon from Vladinator. This simple addon allows you to access the full professions database from any character, with or without the Skill level … Read Full Post

Luck Favors The Prepared by Kitbasher

The Hatchery [rss twitter] • With the release date announced for the Mists of Pandaria expansion it is a good time to start thinking about what to stockpile in preparation for Mists. In the spirit of disclosure I haven't done an in depth study of everything that is changing in Mists … Read Full Post

MOP Addons

Foo's WoW Musings [rss] • How will you survive when your addons break during the changeover? One of them will break. It will most likely be when either the initial patch launches, but might be when MOP is released. It will be the addon you consider most important … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 18, 2012

2012-08-18T16:24:00.000-07:00

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Profession Stacking – Alchemy

Gimps Gold [rss twitter] • With the MoP pre-patch hitting the Public Test Realms, and Beta becoming more and more stable, its time to ask yourself, “Are You Prepared?” So Don’t Let Illidan say his favorite Line and take … Read Full Post

My Mists of Pandaria Stockpile? Not Much.

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • By far the most popular question I've been asked in the last two weeks has been "What should I stockpile for Mists of Pandaria?". Each time I feel that I must disappoint the questioner when I give my answer. It's not that I haven't given .… Read Full Post

Getting Ready to Make Gold in Mists of Pandaria

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • I’m sure most of you reading this can relate to that Chinese proverb, as we now have a set date for patch 5.0.4 and Mists of Pandaria everyone sort of kicks into a panic mode and I don’t know about you but I keep thinking about … Read Full Post

Ready to MoP up the competition!

AFKkrafting [rss twitter] • As it turns out I managed to stockpile everything on my list (which I’ll go over in a bit), plus pull in around 20,000g on my bank toon. I have already stopped buying materials for sales and am running on what I have left, but those will run out … Read Full Post

TMC 153 - Mounting Tasks

The Mana Cooler [rss twitter] • In this focused episode of The Mana Cooler, I try to prioritize tasks as Mists Rapidly approaches … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Spirit of Harmony Details

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Blizzard has posted an entry in their blog with more information about Spirit of Harmony. Some of it we already knew but there are details here that I hadn't seen before. You can read the full post here, but I wanted to emphasize … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 17, 2012

2012-08-17T02:07:00.000-07:00

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The Hunt for Infinite Dust

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • A week or two ago, Huntermastery sparked a good discussion with his post about what not to stockpile for Mists of Pandaria. One of the items on his list was Infinite Dust. His argument was that abyss crystals were a more effective way … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Leveling Zen Alchemy

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Alchemists are getting some significant changes to their leveling process in Mists of Pandaria. The vast majority of your recipes have been moved into a research/discovery system. The trainers will only teach you 2 recipes … Read Full Post

Preparing For MoP Investments Part 2

Vile's Golden Auctions [rss twitter] • First market that you would want to keep your eye on would be the materials market. Now to make it clear, i won't focus on telling you about each crafting profession separately but am i quite sure you will get the idea. The idea behind … Read Full Post

TradeskillMaster Tutorial - Posting fast using the mouse wheel

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • instead of me pressing the Post or Cancel button a hundred times every time i post glyphs from a character i have it set up that if i spin the mouse wheel up or down whilst pressing CTRL (the mouse pointer does not need to be over the Post … Read Full Post

Value and Cost

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • There seems to be a bad habit in the gold making community where many players seem to confuse what an item costs and what it’s value or worth is. Unfortunately this isn’t just contained in the digital world, many people get confused … Read Full Post

I Blame Soco!

Gimps Gold [rss twitter] • Well in real life im Billy, a 25-year-old with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Games Design, who works in a bar. Throughout my life I’ve never been much of a “Lad” and always been more of a Geek/Nerd of sorts, into maths and computers … Read Full Post

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WoW Gold-Making News - August 15, 2012

2012-08-15T08:18:00.000-07:00

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Weekly Sales Update - 12th August 2012

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • Well what can I say? What a crap week I've had on the Auction House! To be fair, I've hardly played at all, not even to keep my auctions up so I shouldn't have expected any different really. With sales of just 9656 gold for the whole … Read Full Post

My Quickest Skinning Cataclysm Spot

Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile [rss twitter] • I know it's quite late in the game to be bringing a Cataclysm skinning tip, but it may be helpful for alts or for any of the reasons I'll mention later. Hey who knows? "Might come in handy" is the point … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Round One Herbalism

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Over the past week I've been working through Herbalism and I think I have enough information to build a preliminary guide. Once again I hope to do a secondary pass and refine the process, but this guide will get it done. The hard part about gathering in Pandaria is the massive presence … Read Full Post

5.0.4 Releasing August 28th

Swishco Ventures [rss twitter] •
According to a blue post, we now know that 5.0.4, the patch that sets the talent and mechanic changes for Mists of Pandaria, is coming in two weeks. Please be aware that with the release of the … Read Full Post

TradeskillMaster Tutorial - How i set up my Glyph Auctions

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • TradeskillMaster is currently the most powerful tool an auctioneer can use to make gold in World of Warcraft today. It has a steep learning curve but time spent initially is handsomely paid off. In this post i will show you the step by step process … Read Full Post

Farming your ink

The Overcut [rss twitter] • So you might be hearing a lot of people talk about stockpiling including me. This is a great idea but if you don’t have a lot of liquid gold you might want to think about farming some things for your MoP stockpile. What if you wanted to farm … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 11, 2012

2012-08-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

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TSM Glyph groups

Gnomish Gold [rss twitter] • Lately I've been noticing as more people are bored and leveling their alts, my glyph sales have really gone up. To the point where as I'm posting I'll see glyphs I've just posted being sold! When this happens I re-post them and move on … Read Full Post

MoP: Interesting Changes in the Latest Beta Build

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Another set of changes in going into the Beta this week and there are some interesting things going on with professions. First - Blacksmithing is getting some kyparite recipes. This may change the outlook for those … Read Full Post

Preparation for Mists of Pandaria - Converting my Blackfallow Inks

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • Going back to Catacylsm - the pre-Cataclysm patch took away the ability for Ink of the Sea to convert to other inks via the Ink Vendor. That was not critical given Ink of the Sea was still the most popular ink for Inscription … Read Full Post

Les mobs rares épisode n°06: Silithus (Level 55-60)

Jackspot [rss twitter] • Salut tout le monde,Voici le sixième épisode de la série des mobs rares, aujourd’hui je vous propose de faire une petite ballade à Silithus, une zone de level 55-60. Silithus est l'une des dernières zones de l'extension Vanilla. Outre le fait qu'elle possède comme … Read Full Post

Of Bots, Dupes, and Ethics

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • So I’ve had this idea rattling around my head for a few days now but Jim Younkin’s post today on Strong Evidence of Rampant Item Duplication in WoW was kind of the final stick pulled in a game of KerPlunk…yes I just likened my head to … Read Full Post

5.0.4 on the Horizon

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • Well it's official. We are now currently downloading 5.0.4, the Pre-expansion Patch leading up to Pandamonioum. If you're interested, the patch notes for the current 5.0.4 build on the PTR can be read here. For those of you who don't like … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 9, 2012

2012-08-09T22:56:00.000-07:00

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The Informed Marketplace

Swishco Ventures [rss twitter] • I was emptying some mail and posting some auctions today, and as I was doing so, I kept a bit of an eye on trade chat, as I always do. Someone asked if people weren't doing Dragon Soul anymore, which led to discussion … Read Full Post

Arranging Professions: A Case Study (Part 1)

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • Yes, through the magic of server transfers I have two Deathknights which was incredibly convenient since I hate levelling (my priest was boosted from scratch to level 80 with Scroll of Resurrection too) … Read Full Post

Crafting And Selling Netherweave Bags by fenjayminor

The Hatchery [rss twitter] • Crafting and selling Netherweave bags is a good background or startup gold-making activity. These bags are nothing new - they were introduced almost three expansions ago. But they have not stopped flying off the shelves since the days … Read Full Post

Splitting my end market

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • It is worth remembering that maximising gold earnings in World of Warcraft is not only a function of “gold per hour” but also a function of the time a player is willing to devote to gold making vs other activities such as questing … Read Full Post

Auction Durations - 12 vs 24 vs 48 Hours

Cold's Gold Factory [rss twitter] • When deciding which auction duration to apply to your auction house goods, there are various factors that should come into play. These factors can include, but are not limited to: Auction house fee to list the individual item … Read Full Post

Why I Like Gated Markets

Gold Shield [rss twitter] • So, today I got a comment on my post about Spirit of Harmony, but I wanted to take the time to reply to it in its own post, partially because I want everyone to see it, and partially because I cannot think of anything else to write … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 8, 2012

2012-08-08T12:08:00.000-07:00

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Nesingwary’s Loot Valley, Valley of the Four Winds

The Gold Queen [rss twitter] • Happy hours were spent today running up and down the ravine next to Nesingwary’s Camp in Pandaria. This is a fantastic zone to farm, and doubly so if you have any of the gathering professions. I found … Read Full Post

Why I am Happy About Spirit of Harmony

Gold Shield [rss twitter] • The following may put me in the minority opinion among gold-makers, but that's fine. I am not your average gold-maker, if there is even an "average" to speak of. In other words, I am not the type of gold-maker that does it for the sake of it … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Prospecting Ghost Iron

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Today I've been working on my Mining leveling guide and as a result I've got 2 bags full of ore. I thought that might be a good time to do some prospecting and take some notes for you guys. I know there's some concern about … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: Round One Mining

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • Some of you have already hit on the trouble spots with Gathering (let's call it that to distinguish it from Farming). Panda zones have phasing and some hubs are completely absent until you've quested through them … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 7, 2012

2012-08-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

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Another Reason You Should Start a Farm

Gold Shield [rss twitter] • So far, the only times I have mentioned the new farm we'll be getting, is in the context of cooking, and how to make that so much easier. Well, for those who don't plan on cooking, or will be more focused on making gold with their … Read Full Post

Old players returning ahead of Mists of Pandaria

Markets For Gold [rss twitter] • These former players are returning to complete old content, emptying bag space and completing quests to prepare themselves for the new content. Hence, they will be putting surplus items onto the Auction House to make a quick … Read Full Post

Attention Bloggers! Blizzard Store Mount Giveaway!

Capped By Cata [rss twitter] • I hope that got your attention! If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out my progress here over the last couple of weeks, then you’ve missed out on a lot! Ok, not really, but I am writing again! With that being said, I need help … Read Full Post

Weekly Sales Update - 5th August 2012

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • I've had another crazy busy week so my attempts to ramp up my goldmaking have rather come unstuck! I've managed to maintain a nice flow of gold from glyphs but I do have some stiff competition there now so with my random … Read Full Post

Testing Battle Pet Cageability And Quality In MoP Beta

Power Word: Gold [rss twitter] • There has been much speculation around what would happen to our current pets when it comes to the Pet Battles system being introduced in Mists of Pandaria. We've seen a blue post indicating that some pets may become "Rare" … Read Full Post

How to get the Darkmoon Faire Pets

Hunter Mastery [rss twitter] • The Darkmoon Faire is one of those daily questing hubs that comes around once a month in the first week. The new Darkmoon Faire Island has been out for months now, with Patch 4.3. Many players at this point have collected everything there is to collected … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 4, 2012

2012-08-05T00:18:00.000-07:00

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Preparing for Mists, Part Three: A Preface to Part One

Gold Shield [rss twitter] • So, in all that talk and crude maths about the new feast in Mists, I neglected to let you in on just how difficult it will be, at least in the very beginning, to level one's cooking up to a point where one can even purchase the main feast, let alone cook it … Read Full Post

Poking Around Beta Jewelcrafting

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • So finally got around to actually doing some beta testing (shocking right?) and thought I’d share my thoughts and observations so far. First, as of this latest patch at least, it’s possible to get to max Jewelcrafting the first day … Read Full Post

Finding Mr Grubbs

Auction House Addict [rss twitter] • On the podcast I said that Mr Grubbs was an easy one to pick up because I clearly remember my paladin picking up maybe 8 pets in the area whilst finishing the zone or when farming for the Crusader enchant but I wanted to test my statement so … Read Full Post

Top 6 Items To Craft For The MoP Monk Influx

Cold's Gold Factory [rss twitter] • With the Mists of Pandaria expansion looming and the obvious flood of Monks on the way, it's time to stock up on specific items that we can use to craft items sought after by these new Monk characters. I have always been heavily invested … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 3, 2012

2012-08-03T16:36:00.000-07:00

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Preparation for MoP: Farming of Course

Capped By Cata [rss twitter] • During a recent twitter conversation, I was talking about my Mage who I will be taking through the MoP content first. This is the first time I haven’t been focusing on my warrior in an expansion. However, with my Scroll of Res mage … Read Full Post

1 Million Gold Cap Club: Palidan Winterhoof-US

Warcraft Econ [rss twitter] • I’m a 50 year old married male geek with three kids and I work in the computer industry. I’ve been an avid gamer since my teen years, first in arcades and then with home computers but I only started playing World of Warcraft about 2 ½ years ago … Read Full Post

Spirit of Disharmony

Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile [rss twitter] • In Mists of Pandaria, gone are the different elements that we'd farm or transmute or collect to be able to craft this and that. Blizzard has understood that a great imbalance of the different elements as well as farming spots … Read Full Post

Staggered Raid Release - Good for Raiders and Gold Makers alike?

Swishco Ventures [rss] • Hey there, gold fans! In the midst of all of the hype and preparation for Mists of Pandaria, there's one recent bit of information that's not getting as much attention as it otherwise might. Blizzard has announced that with the opening tier of raids … Read Full Post

WoW Gold-Making News - August 2, 2012

2012-08-02T17:06:00.000-07:00

Image Source: Kaliope's Crafting Blog

Preliminary Prospecting Results From Mists of Pandaria Beta

The Golden Crusade [rss twitter] • So today before the Beta server shut down I started buying some ore and prospecting to double check the prospecting rate incase they changed … Read Full Post

Preparing for Mists, Part Two: Market Speculation

Gold Shield [rss twitter] • In this second part, I want to go over some potential hot markets(and not so hot ones) to pay attention to come Mists. To preface, this is all speculation … Read Full Post

Phat's Weekly Lewt Review: 7/31

Phat Lewts' [rss twitter] • In my previous post I mentioned farming Jadefang for the pet drop, Tiny Shale Spider. I cannot advocate you doing this enough. Based on pet farming forums … Read Full Post

MoP Beta Files: First Look at Zen Engineering

Kaliope's Crafting Blog [rss twitter] • In addition to Jewelcrafting, Engineering was also activated on the Beta realm last week. Today I'm bringing you some of the highlights from Tinker Town :) … Read Full Post

July 2012… WoWflation? Not much, recently. But beware!

WoWMidas [rss] • I’ve kept up with the data gathering for WoWflation, though I was late for July data. Just made an imperfect index a little less perfect, I guess. If you dig into the numbers … Read Full Post

48 dailies...

WoW Mogul [rss] • Rumour is that there will be 48 MoP dailies available, worth an average of 20g each and, if they give rep, providing 250 for the respective faction. So an enterprising … Read Full Post