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Derek's Gold Mastery Guide Review

2008-05-28T03:32:00.000-07:00

Derek's Gold Mastery Guide, is one of the newest WoW Gold Making Guides to become available recently. This guide promotes that it can help anyone at any level make close to if not more than 150 gold an hour in WoW. While this claim does appear to be outrageous, Derek's Gold Mastery guide does an exceptional job of providing step-by-step ways to farm plenty of WoW gold. Many other WoW Gold Farming Guides would do well to take notes on how Derek's Gold Mastery guide illustrates the art of WoW gold farming into completely legitimate and easy to follow steps.

Derek is the author of the Warcraft Riches Guide, hence why it is sometimes called Derek's Gold Mastery Guide. Derek has been playing World of Warcraft since the beginning and has mastered golf farming in Wow. Many of these secret methods he picked up by observing the online WoW gold famers who inhabit the WoW realms. These WoW gold farmers are very efficient in how they collect gold. They then create websites and offer the gold they farmed to other WoW players for a price. For many of these gold makers, this is their career. By watching these WoW gold farmers in action, Derek was able to pick up valuable secrets on how to quickly make huge amounts of gold in WoW.

Derek's Gold guide is divded into many smaller sections. This allows the user to determine which way they want to make use of to make obscene amounts of gold in WoW. One of the sections is the WoW Guide to Leveling Professions. This guide goes through each WoW profession and illustrates the fastest method to level each of the professions. Derek's Gold Mastery Profession Guide also explains how to use each profession to make the maximum amount of gold possible.

Other guides included as part of Derek's Gold Mastery guide is a section on the Auction House, a Fishing guide, and a General/Grinding guide. All of these guides provide easy to follow steps on how to make the most gold possible in WoW. Some World of Warcraft Gold Farming Guides only provide information on one piece of the WoW economy. The Warcraft Riches guide is the rare WoW gold book that provides plenty of information on how to make WoW gold through many different methods. Whether it's the Professions, the Auction House, or Grinding, Derek's Gold Mastery guide has ways to make large amounts of gold through all of them. Some of the secret tactics can even be used in conjunction to really see the WoW gold farming skyrocket.

When trying to find a good WoW gold guide, take into account what aspects of WoW are entertaining. If killing monsters is fun, then methods to make gold via monster killing should be considered. Just because a WoW gold guide makes claims of 200 or more gold an hour does not guarantee that the manner in which the gold is farmed will be fun. The Warcraft Riches guide offers many different ways of WoW gold farming so even if some of them are not interesting, there are plenty of other options available to maximize your gold farming efforts in WoW.

Want to learn more about Derek's secrets for making WoW Gold? Then check out Derek's Gold Mastery Guide Here

NB! If you want to get to the highest level in world of warcraft as fast as possible, read this mapmod v2 review: map mod v2. Good luck.

General Tips

2008-04-12T01:31:00.000-07:00

This is my brief, dare I say, “guide” to not only faster leveling but keeping it exciting.

General Tips

Always Loop quests together
Travel is your enemy for speedy leveling all the way up to level 70. Chunk quests together and while your out and about get a couple of them done at a time (think 5 of 6), then return back to the quest hub. (I can see a guide being helpful here for those of you who haven’t done the quests enough to know where to go and what to do.)

Pick up a gathering profession
Nodes are usually guarded by a mob or pathing mobs, you will get loads of exp just clearing to gather these resources.

Cities are a timesink
So much to see and do that you will ride around aimlessly doing nothing for 30 minutes. You may decide to try and do an instance (wasting 15 minutes to get one or two people in your group – only to have the group disband from lack of interest), or you need an enchant, or you decide to raid the AH and level up cooking, or whatever you do you are actually wasting your alt leveling time. And if you have an active guildchat and you combine wandering around a city and chatting with your buddies, you will waste loads more time doing no leveling progression.
tip Keep a high level in the city for resource needs for you alts and always make this the last thing you do before logging.

Don’t go home every (two) level(s)
Remember travel is your enemy, and you don’t need the lastest and greatest upgrades to keep going at your quest hub site. Nor do you need the next “of the eagle” belt from level 30 to 32. You can do just fine without it.

The Meat N’ Potatos
The trick I have learned to leveling and enjoying leveling is to create a little bit of “overpowered” feeling somehow.

Set Goal levels for gear
I do levels 25, 40, and 58.

Before I start a new alt I will begin check on gear for ~level 25, I use my higher levels to enchant or enhance the items if possible. After I get plenty of pieces I proceed to create the alt. It is a sweet day when I ding 25, 40 and 58. **Many times I will switch specs upon these levels also to mix it up. Right now I have a 33 shaman I am working with who is restoration (with a 2hander), but I already have all my level 40 enhancement stuff ready, and I plan to start collecting elemental pieces for level 58.
Not only are the days sweet when you ding these gear levels, but you will find that planning ahead and maximizing your gear makes your gear last a lot longer, and you will not need to upgrade every few levels.

This is also a cognitive reward and motivation to see such an improvement when you reach these levels. It has a lot to do with how lacking your gear will be just before you hit another gear level, then how Overpowered you feel afterwards. Do not underestimate the Overpowered feeling you may burn through 2 levels in 90 minutes, just because you can’t believe how easy leveling just became and you feel unstoppable.

The 5 second rule
If your leveling a caster make sure you wanding the last bit of health so mana regen will begin right after kill, instead of 5 seconds after the kill.

Make two new alts at the same time!
If your getting a buddy to port to you Shatt at level 10, (which you should be doing to set your hearth) might as well get him to port another one also. Try and level two toons at the same time, the quests stay fresh this way (I love mixing up a caster and melee, because they play so differently). Try and keep one rested, so you are always questing in blue exp rather than purple.

/who , is your friend
Grind and soloing questing will get tedious, try and find someone already in the zone to quest with, because it will force you into using more spells from your spell book and you develop a better sense for the class your playing. (No one likes a solo player when he finally gets into an instance in BC). Don’t wait on your friends to arrive, just pick up someone out there, and if you friends come, then all the better!

Consumables
You should be using elixars and oils/weaponstones, they come cheap early and will fill the gaps your gear may be lacking just before a gear level, and make you all that more Overpowered just after a gear level.

Finally

Have a Vision
I have created and deleted 10 times as many toons as I have ever finished leveling to 70. The thing I discovered is the toons I created on a whim, never lasted. While those that I planned on and followed the “gear level” plan I adored, so now this is how I roll.

This is an example. This is my lastest, a gnome dagger rogue.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Madoran&n=Renaissance

There are just a few nice touches on her at the moment (like the double unholy is killer at lower levels, mobs hit you for 1 instead of 16) , but you know what’s coming up right … level 25!!! Can’t wait!

If you create the “can’t wait” feeling, you will find that leveling goes really fast.

Hope this helps. PS, if your main goal in World of Warcraft is to get to the highest level as fast as possible, Joana's Horde Leveling Guide is what you need. You can also use mapmod v2 to make your leveling process even faster.

Selling Your Junks

2008-03-17T12:33:00.000-07:00

Obviously one of the things that motivates players the most is earning gold. Gold gets you new equipment, better abilities, and in my opinion, just looks good in high quantities. So how do you make gold?

Mining is one way, but running instances like the deadmines combines mining to get bronze with lots of magic/wool/linen drops. And if you can run it alone, plenty of coin drops from those elites! I found out at an early level that large sums of money can be made with mining. Shortly after I found that linen stacks can go for 1-2g! I was shocked. I tested it over and over and with one stack of linen or wool with a buyout of 2g for linen and no buyout for wool can get you rich! Place both at starting bids of 10s and set for 24 hours.

The Deadmines are a goldmine for getting cash at low lvls. Bronze can even be smelted in mid instance! Magic items can be sold in AH or to venders and wool and linen are in heavy supply!

Looking For Gold?

2008-02-22T08:24:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of ways to make good cash. You just have to find them.

Primals are a great way to make extra cash. If you farm any primal, (other than earth which sells for around 5g each) you can make about 150g/hour off of them if you consider the average sale price at around 20g.
you will also make around 50-80g in vendor trash, not to mention the chance of good blues that sell for 30-50g or so.

I am also an herbalist. this can add up to 40g from herbs and extra motes without much searching for herbs while farming anything.

Rep items are also a great thing to farm. Granted they might not have as large of a return as some other farming spots, but the creatures you have to farm are often close together and very easy to kill. If your a rogue you should pick pocket everything. Consider the fact that any humanoid/demon drops upwards of 20g and stolen money at lvl 68 to 70. with the drop going up to about 22 23g this turns out to be 40g on top of whatever other items the mob might drop. you also get items and boxes from pickpocketing this generates even more extra cash.

A good this to do while farming is to also know multiple spots to farm so you can mix it up because its never good to saturate your own market. I change spots about every 2 hours.

if your and alchemist you should always remember to get the primal earth to water transmute. you can buy a primal earth for about 5g and then make about 15-20g by making it into a water ever day. thats not bad for a minute and a half of work.

this is only a fraction of the ways in which to farm yourself cash. Now go out and find yourself even more ways. 300+g/hour is definately possible. i've done it.

PS, visit Zygor Guides to learn how to get to the highest level faster than you thought it is possible.

Best Race For Each Class

2008-02-16T13:22:00.000-08:00

Warrior: Dwarf
Rogue: In honesty, they're better off dead. Other than that, I'd go with Tauren or Draenei
Mage: Anything but Blood Elf. Gnome is a good choice.
Warlock: gnome
Hunter: Orc
Druid: Night Elf
Priest: Depends. Undead
Shaman: Hard can say. Orc?
Paladin: Dwarf/Draenei

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Problems With a Map Mod? iDemise 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide

2008-01-13T06:12:00.000-08:00

I had the same problem and If I remember correctly you fix it first by going to your WoW Folder>Interface>AddOns Folder and delete anything in there that has to do with the MapMod v2.

Second you can either go to this site http://www.teamidemise.com/faq.php and follow the steps for upgrading from V1 to V2 or just do this
There are 2 folders where the old MetaMap.lua is being saved, preventing you from uploading the markers from MapMod v2. You need to enter these folders and delete all files that start with "MetaMap".

File 1
Program Files > World of Warcraft > WTF > Account > Your Account Name > Saved Variables > Delete All Files starting with the words MetaMap

File 2
Program Files > World of Warcraft > WTF > Account > Your Account Name > Your Server Name > Your Character Name > SavedVariables > Delete All Files starting with the words MetaMap

When you have finished this. Download the MetaMapv2 from the members area. Inside is a file called MetaMapEXP.lua. You install this the same way as you installed the MetaMapEXP.lua from the old version. Just follow steps 4-7 above! Everything should work.

Hope this helps

PS. If you want to know more about iDemise 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide, you should visit this link:
iDemise 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide

Any Level (1-70) - 4000 Gold Per Week - Free Guide

2007-12-30T10:26:00.000-08:00

Very good way to get lots of wow gold is by selling Traveler's backpacks. I do mean ALOT! Usually, Alliance are two times oe even three times more populated than hordes. To start your main have to be on Horde side because he will be getting the money. You will also need to have an Alliance character. Farm a little bit money for your Alliance character and when you get about 20g, go to the nearest Auction House and buy traveler's bag. Then fly to tanaris and set buyout very low.

Relog with your main and buyout those bags as quick as possible. Ok, you got the bags? What next? Since the Alliance population is much bigger, there are much more on AH and they cost much cheaper. On my server i can get one bag for 5 gold but on Horde it costs 10 Gold. So i bought one bag for 5 gold, sell for 10 gold and i profit 5 gold per bag. But the price can be different on your server.

Nice? Now you get your main a little bit money, and you farm again with Alliance char. Now put it on tanaris. If you buy bag by 5 G per one, then put on tanaris on 6g per each, so you will get a little bit money down from your main character, but not with your alliance char because tanaris takes 15% from the item to themselves... I farmed about 4000g in one week usuing this method. Good luck.

The Chicken

2007-12-19T08:36:00.000-08:00

I myself have worked hard to learn and find every pet in World of Warcraft. The easiest and most complicated pet is the Chicken.

To get the Chicken, you first must go to The Saldean's Farm in Westfall, Eastern Kingdoms. There you will see quite a few chickens running around; do not kill any of them.

Now you must make a macro. It must consist of /chicken multiple times, I used it about 6 times in the macro. Now you must target a chicken and use your macro several times until you are then able to talk to the chicken. After talking to the chicken you will then receive a quest which will order you to go purchase a bag of Special Chicken Feed from Farmer Saldean who is located right next to the chickens in front of the house. After purchasing the feed just turn the quest in and the chicken will immediately turn into an egg which you have to hatch. Anyone can hatch this so its a good way to earn money and keep this a secret. Downfall is that someone who is around you can steal the egg so be quick or you may have to redo the trouble.

How To Make 1000 Gold In 2 Hours - Tips by FanFan

2007-12-15T02:11:00.000-08:00

Strapped for cash? need to buy epic flying mount? Want to make 1000g in 2 hours?
NB! This is all very Dependant on a server's economy. On one server it may sell for 25g, where another could have it for 5g.

Nagrand - Elemental Plateau (67,23)

Wind Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of air, 10x combines to 1 Primal Air = ~20g per
Fire Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of fire, 10x combines to 1 Primal Fire = ~25g per
Water Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of water, 10x combines to 1 Primal Water = ~20g per

2 hours of farming yielded 978g

Nagrand - Lake South of Throne of Elements (58,26) under the water

Water Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of water, 10x combines to 1 Primal Water = ~20g per

Netherstorm - Ruins of Enkaat (34,57) north of area 52

Mana Wraiths = Drop 1-2 motes of mana, 10x combines to 1 Primal Mana = ~15g per
Rock Elementals = drop 1-2 motes of earth, 10x combines to 1 Primal Earth = ~10g per

1 hour of farming yeilded 500g

Shadowmoon Valley - The Hand of Gul'dan (47,45)

Fire Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of fire, 10x combines to 1 Primal Fire = ~25g per
Rock Elementals = drop 1-2 motes of earth, 10x combines to 1 Primal Earth = ~10g per

2 hours of farming yeilded 840g

To learn how to make 200+ Gold Per hour visit
Dereks's Gold Mastery Guide

How to earn 100 g/hour

2007-12-13T08:48:00.000-08:00

Enchanting, or more exact disenchanting, can make a lot of money. But not very much alone. If you combine it with Leather working however it can be a great way of earning a lot of money. There are especially a few combos that are good. One of the best is Nightscape headband, lw skill 205

It is made from 5 Thick leather & 2 Silken Thread. Quiet normal price for 20 thick leather 1 g on ah, although its not hard to get it cheaper. 2 silken thread cost 10 s. For 20 thick leather & 8 silken thread you pay in total (1 g + 4*0.10=) 1.40 g. From that you can make four Nightscape headband which can be sold to vendor for (45*4=) 1.80 g. Okay here is a small profit, and it will of course rise or fall depending on leather price. But if you instead disenchant these you will get roughly (values taken from a disenchant addon I use):

79 % 3,5 vision dust
17 % 1.5 greater nether essence
4 % 1 Small radiant shard

20 vision dust is roughly priced 10 g buyout at ah
10 lesser nether essence is roughly priced 12 g buyout at ah (lesser is more expensive than greater :-)
1 Small radiant shard is roughly priced 1.25 g buyout at ah
(Values taken from auctioneer addon i used for 1.5 year)
3,5 vision dust = (10g/20*3.5) 1.75 g
4 lesser nether essence = (12g/10*4) 4.8 g
1 Small radiant shard = 1.25 g

Now taking chance of each result into account

79 % 3,5 vision dust 1.75
17 % 1.5 greater nether essence 4.8
4 % 1 Small radiant shard 1.25

Ordinary disenchant value ((0.79*1.75)+(0.17*48)+(0.04*1.25))=2.25 g

In my example I made four Nightscape headband for 1.4 g and if i disenchanted these will they according to my formula be worth 2.25 each which means (4*2.25) 9 g. Total profit will be (9-1.4) 7.6 g.

I have counted with buyouts here so the profit will obviously go down if you cant sell you disenchanted stuffs for buyout. But even if you only can sell it for half the price you will get a nice profit (9/2-1.4) 3.1 g.

Adding time to the formula it takes 30 sec to make one Nightscape headband. 2 minutes to make 4. Add to that 30 sec to disenchant them and another minute to bid for leather and putting up the disenchanted material them up on ah. That will make 3.5 minutes. At buyout profit that means (60/3.5*7.6) 130 g earned each hour. At small profit, each enchanting price halved, that means (60/3.5*3.1) 53g/h.

So over 100 g/hour without ever leaving the city and without cheating or scamming others. Sounds god doesn't it. The obvious limitations is ofc the thick leather supply (and ah-price) and the price on your server on vision dust and nether essence. The other limitation is that you cant really flood the market with your dusts and essence.

(This is based on prices on my server shattered hand, but the profit should be substantial on most servers. Be free to put your own server values in the formulas)

All About Pet Loyalty

2007-12-13T08:45:00.000-08:00

've been searching for info about pet loyalty and in general it seems to be spread all over the net, so I've desided to make this post on pet loyalty with the info I've been able to gather. I hope it will be useful, and if you have anything to add or correct, please fell free to do so.

What is pet loyalty:
Pet loyalty is a measure of how close a bond your Hunter has with its pet. It is measured in six levels: Rebellious, Unruly, Submissive, Dependable, Faithful and Best Friend (which takes the longest to obtain).
For each level of loyalty gained the pet will gain training points. Any other effects of pet loyalty is unknown. But if both your pets loyalty and happinesss is at its lowest your pet will leave you.

What is pet happiness:
Pet happiness is a measure of how happy your pet is... It is measured in three levels: Unhappy, Content, and Happy.
If your pet is Unhappy it will only do 75% of possible damage and it will loose loyalty, if it is content it will do 100% and not change loyalty, and if it is Happy it will do 125% damage and gain loyalty.
In order to increase happiness you must feed your pet. You can see which kinds of foods it likes through the character screen, on the Pet tab.
You can also see the state of the pets happiness next to it's portrait in the game field (just below your own). The small smiley-icon shows it.

What are training points:
Training points are like skillpoints, only for pets. Just as you can level skills on your hunter, you can level skills on your pet, only instead of learning by doing, you pay with training points.
Most pet skills come in several ranks, each more powerful than the last. Pets don't need to learn each rank, you can bypass some if you'd like.
As you learn the skills, the higher ranks get cheaper, or in other words, you end up spending the same amount of training points whether you buy each and every rank of a skill as you would if you bought the highest possible rank to start with. One thing to keep in mind when training your pet is that while it can learn many different passive skills (armor, stamina, resistances) it has a maximum of four active skills (bite, claw, rake).
If you want to change what you've taught your pet, you can unlearn all the training points you've spent at a pet trainer (just like you can unlearn the talent points you've spent on your hunter at your trainer) for an increasing fee.
You can respec your hunter without respeccing your pet, and you can respec your pet without respeccing your hunter.

The newly tamed pet:
Your pet may have negative training points if it knew a skill from before you tamed it, corresponding to the cost of learning that skill.
The higher level your pet is, the more training points it will get from gaining loyalty. If you tame a lower level pet it will get less points from loyalty but make up for it by getting the rest from levelling. So at level 60, with loyalty level 6 and nothing learned, your pet will always have 300 training points, regardless of when you aquired it.

Raising loyalty level:
Your pet will gain loyalty only if it is happy. It seems to come more quickly for lower level players than for higher levels.
How to get through the loyalty levels the fastest is a topic that seems to be much discussed. Most agree that from loyalty level 1 to loyalty level 2 you need to go hunting with it, for mobs that will give you xp (which are also the only mobs that will give your pet xp). From then on some say that you need to keep xp'ing, some say you should still go hunting, but taking it to the battlegrounds is good enough, and some say that you just need to keep it happy and spend time with it.
Getting your pet killed will seriously decrease its happiness and thus will slow down the loyalty levelling process.

A bit of math:
TrainingPoints = PetLevel * (LoyaltyLevel - 1)
A rule of thumb I found is that 5 bars of unrested and unquested xp = 1 pet level (when the pet is 1 level below you).
Pets of the same loyalty and level will have the same training points regardless of whether they were tamed at a low or high level.

Easy travelling between capital cities

2007-12-11T11:31:00.000-08:00

To easily travel between the 4 major cities all you have to do is this:

Horde

you can use the zeppelin system to travel between Orgrimmer and Undercity and you can travel to Silvermoon Citgy by using the Telestone near the entrance to Undercity and at the back of Silvermoon City and to get to Thunderbluff you need to run through the barrens which should be pretty safe.

Alliance

You can take the boats through Darkshore to go to Darnassus and The Exodar and to get to Ironforge you take the boat to the wetlands and run through to DunMorogh and then to Ironforge and then top get to Stormwind you takle the shuttle train.

How to earn rep for darnassus easily

2007-12-09T02:12:00.000-08:00

Go into feralas, find rage scar hold, kill yetis.
After a while you should get a drop called "Prestine Yeti Hide".
Use it to start a quest.
Go to feathermoon stronghold and just west of the inn, there is a guy near the water.
The quest asks you to give the hide to him and you will gain i think it was 250 rep for darnassus and 70 silver.

By the way, you can only ever carry one at a time, and it drops once every 10 or 15 yetis or so. Good luck

Zeet's Breakdown Of The Pure Classes

2007-12-07T11:37:00.001-08:00

Physical Classes:
Warrior the basic fighter, who can be offensive and defensive, but has no healing capabilities
Fury: Quick hitting, "rouge in plate" dps spec
Arms: Burst damage, Big hits pvp spec
Prot: Defensive, tanking pve spec

Rouge NINJAS!! (with poisons and picklocking skills) who are a mostly offensive, strategy class
Assas: Final blow, specialising in finishing attacks and poisons
Sub: Stealthy, first hit or bust, burst damage spec
Combat: Fighting spec, causes steady damage

Hunter the only class that specializes in physical ranged damage, gains support from pet
Beast Mastery: Specializes in enhancing the pet as well as the hunter
Marks: Specializes in ranged damage
Survival: Specializes in traps, melee attacks, and surviving

Caster classes

Mage ranged damage dealer, causes mostly direct damage
Frost: specializes around causing damage with effects
Fire: specializes in dealing a LOT of damage, but not so much effects
Arcane: Specializes in enhancing the mage's other spells and causing extra effects

Warlock ranged damage dealer, causes damage over time and some direct damage
Afflic: specializes damage over time
Demon: specializes in enhancing the demonic servant of the warlock
Destro: specializes in direct damage spells

Priest damage or healing hybrid, causes damage or healing while enhancing allies
Holy: primary healing spec, improves your heals and your holy attacks
Shadow: improves damage as well as vampiric abilities (% shadow dmg -> health/mana)
Disc: enhancing spec, improves the priest's ability to enhance or shield others

if i decide not to be lazy ill make a better guide of the hybrids.. heres a short explanation:

Shaman: "true hybrid" class, specs improve melee (enh.) or magic damage (ele.), or healing (resto)
Druid: shape shifter class, specs improve feral (bear/cat) damage, spell damage, or healing
Paladin: defensive class, specs improve tanking, healing, or damage abilities

Cheat Sheet

2007-12-05T09:55:00.001-08:00

Click on the image to see full-size cheat sheet.

Raiding with your Pet

2007-12-04T06:12:00.001-08:00

A long, long time ago, even before I played a hunter, I would team up with hunters in parties. They would be doing damage, and all that they were supposed to, yet I would notice that most didn't use their pet. When I asked them why, they said the pet didn't do much damage. My theory has always been that all damage, even the slightest bit, would be beneficial, and concluded that the lack of pets was either because the pet was at danger of dying or that it was hard to control. Granted, before The Burning Crusade, pets were much less strong than they are now, but I still hold on to the claim that using the pet is always beneficial, no matter the spec - even in raids.

This guide is all about raiding, and is mostly aimed for beast mastery hunters, although a hunter with any spec should try and keep his or her pet active and healthy for as long as possible. But since beast mastery hunters rely on their pet, and many seem to spec away from beast mastery for fear of losing their damage when their pet dies, it's important for a beast master to know what to do and what to expect in raids.

This guide will provide tips and tricks to keep your pet, and thus your contribution to the raid, up.

Controlling your pet

There are many means for which hunters can control their pets. Some use key bindings, some use macros. Of the popular macros there are the classic hunters mark/pet attack macro, but I personally feel it limits me when I want to do either one of those. But in the spirit of teaching, here it is anyways:

/cast Hunter's Mark
/petattack

Instead of this, I prefer to use key bindings. Two simple buttons: Q and E. My "Pet Attack" key binding (default is shift + T) is bound to Q, and my hunter's mark is bound to E, meaning every time I want to attack something, I press those buttons simultaneously, and the pet runs off while I apply hunters mark. I can then proceed to use whatever skill I want after that, and if I should want to make my pet attack something else, I can quickly send it to that target without losing my hunter's mark on the first. Use whatever method you prefer to, but remember that it is important that you are able to keep your pet completely under control during a raid.

Choosing a good raid pet

There are many pets out there, and lots of fun ways to use them, but not all are great for raiding. If you are new to raiding, you a probably best off by getting a pet that focuses on DPS (cats, ravagers etc) rather than utility (owls, wolves etc) rather than that cool looking bear. Here is a list of pets that I would recommend for raiding:

Cats and ravagers: High in damage, cats are often the prime choice for hunters. They can learn high damage skills as well as dash, and have a lot of cool and unique skins.

Owls and bats: Although we don’t see many bats and owls in Outland, they can still be a good choice for damage and utility. Both have the ability "Screech" which does somewhat low damage, but lowers attack power of all enemies in melee range by up to 210, which is a considerable amount. You might drop a tiny bit in damage, but 210 attack power off an enemy is still significant.

Wind Serpent: Though the wind serpent is past its glory days, it’s still a viable pet for some hunters. A survival hunter combined with "Go for the throat" talent, will cause your pet to spew out lightning breath like it was born to, and will rack up the damage quite nicely. Sadly it falls behind on fights where the enemies have a lot of nature resistance.

Scorpids: Scorpids has been a good alternative for beast mastery hunters because of the neat "bug" concerning their scorpid poison. This has been fixed in patch 2.2, yet it is still a malicious little pet. If you want to use a scorpid, pop all trinkets and bestial wrath before it applies the first poison and the strong effect gained from this will stick on the target as long as the scorpid can reapply it.

Wolves: Although the damage from wolves is lower than that of cats and ravagers, some might find its ability "Furious howl" a nice treat. Furious howl, which is on a 10 second cooldown, increases the damage of nearby party member’s next physical attack by 45-57 damage, which is effectively another 5 DPS for each melee in your raid. You will most likely not be in range for the buff, however.

Talents:

There are tons of good suggestions for raid specs on the various forums all around, so I am not going to post suggestions of my own. I am, however, going to name some key talents to pick if you are speccing beast mastery:

Improved revive pet: If you are a beast master, and your pet dies, you lose about 35% of your total DPS. You need to get it up again fast.
Improved mend pet: Cheaper healing and an easy way to clean your pet from that nasty poison.
Frenzy: A pet with frenzy as well as serpent’s swiftness and cobra reflexes will attack incredibly fast, which is also nice for the next talent.
Ferocious inspiration: 3% more damage to all of your party members is arguably one of the best buffs out there. It scales perfectly, and increases not only the damage of you and your pet, but also your party members. With a fast attacking pet, this will be up most of the time, giving you a great damage boost.

For most fights, massive resistance on your pet is not needed.

World Of Warcraft Evolution

2007-12-03T11:49:00.000-08:00

Fishing Tips

2007-12-01T17:36:00.000-08:00

I have now reached a fishing level of 150 and did you know:

1) Using fishing baubles (found at fishing vendors) are really helpful in making sure every fish hooked does not get away.

2) Fishing inside surface rings gets you fish that are of a higher price than normal or fish that can be used for potions. (I found 2 so far - firefin snapper and oily blackmouth both are used to make potions)

3) Fishing inside surface rings with higher fishing levels also allows you to snag crates with goodies inside

4) If you have snagged a crate and are low on bag space don't open the crate until after you have unloaded other items. A crate has at least three items inside.

5) A debris circle rings always let you snag a crate.

I admit I have really only fished in three areas so far (Menethil Harbor, the Loch and Darkshore) that I find enjoyable. I like to hear the sound of waves in my ears and look around at some great scenery like the sun setting over the ocean. It also has enough excitment when I hook a fish.

Goldmaking Mini Guide

2007-12-01T15:13:00.000-08:00

When shopping for the perfect armor/weapon/useless thingy, the first place most people visit is a vendor (a common mistake), and then as they read the trade channels more and hear the phrase "vendor trash" they'll get the courage to go to the AH. Beginners in WoW need not worry about the AH and it's scary prices, because most of the gear you'll get is frms quests, and you'lll lvl out of it quickly. My first tip is: IF YOU ARE BELOW lvl 10 DO NOT BUY GEAR FROM THE AH!!! Odds are you'll lvl so quickly that before you know it you'll need to buy new gear.
You'll most likely get enough gold to spend at the AH at somwhere near lvl 15 (depending on your money-making skill lvl). I've compiled a list of things not to buy, for these items *at least on the realm Mok'Nathal* are usually horribly overpriced:

1. Leather: Of any sort, a stack of 20 ligh leathers can cost more than 40s, and I don't think any leatherworker that hass the money to throw around will get much skill from that.

2.Herbs: In general are very expensive even more so on the AH, I suggest getting out there and working up your herbing skill istead of breaking the bank.

3. Low lvl Armor: Lower lvls tend to lvl quite fast, and though I don't think anyone replaces their armor after each lvl, getting low lvl armor from the AH isnt very smart (it'sll get tired real fast)

4. Trinkets: Trinkets that do nothing are not worth spending gold on. Not many people will see it, as they'd have to inspect to see it. This is what I call a USA: Useless Splurged-On Artifact.* (It doesn't need to be an Artifact)

In the AH:
1.Watch for low buyouts, these are the deals that go fast, pounce! (Also keep this in mind if you have an item you want gone, fast.)

2. Watch for typos. People may have mispriced their items waaaaaaay less than they're worth, these will aslos go fast. It may sound cruel, but hey, WoW's pretty cutthroat.

On the Trade Channel (/2): 1.
Haggling is generallly accepted unless the person clearly states that it's not. Don't try and force a haggle. The seller has the right to say no.

2. Compare to the AH prices the trade channel is generally cheaper than the AH, so make sure you have some quick reference prices.

I hope this little mini guide helps :)

Final Mount Grind

2007-11-28T09:48:00.000-08:00

Are you level 37-42? Don't have a mount yet?

Grind the Rock Elementals slightly east of Karagath in the Badlands, it's easily accessable to both factions, and yields alot of money through vendor trash, and they often drop elemental earth, which sell for 1g on some servers, after a typical 2-3 hour grind, I have made up-to 10g in drops, I've also had 1 blue drop, and several green drops from this spot, and the elementals yield nice experience.

Good Luck

Warrior Or Rogue - Who is Better

2007-11-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

I have a 70 rogue and a 56 Warrior. I like them both.

Why I like my rogue:
* I can stealth when I don't feel like fighting. If I need to get to a specific objective and really don't feel like fighting through a dozen mobs to get there, stealth is ready for me.
* I fight fast and I fight dirty. Anything that can bleed or be poisoned will fall to me, and quickly.
* When I get bored, I can hang out in a city and sap flagged players.
* I can pick my own lockboxes and groups love me when I open that locked chest to reveal a blue BoE.
* If a fight gets nasty, I can always vanish, gouge or sprint away.

Why I like my warrior
* Tanking instances is really, really fun (even if it is sometimes stressful and causes headaches).
* I've never spent more than 30 minutes in LFG before finding a group who wants a tank.
* My gear looks hardcore.
* I can use any weapon I want.
* I can take a lot of hits.
* Given enough rage and good luck with crits, I can utterly DESTROY a mob with just a few hits.

And now the bad ...

What I don't like about my rogue
* When I get hit, I get hit big.
* My job in instances can be done by a robot -- sap, garrote, backstab the targets in kill order.
* Getting a PuG as a DPSer means long waits.

What I don't like about my warrior
* Leveling was pretty hard.
* To do well, I need to either spend lots of money or lots of time in instances to keep my gear up to date.
* I have to fight through everything to get to my goal. (no stealth)
* If I find myself in a bad situation, I'm pretty much ground beef.

A Small Part of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide - LVL 1-12 Durotar

2007-11-26T11:54:00.000-08:00

I do every single quest in Durotar! Here's the fastest way to do em:
Start off doing "Cutting Tee th"
Then once you hit level 2, go accept "Sarko th" (at 40.62) and do "Sarko th" (at 40.66). Then turn it in and accept "Sarkoth" pt.2
Go turn in "Sarkoth" pt.2 and "Cutting Tee th" ... accept and do the following...
"Sting of the Scorp id" "Vile Familia rs" "Galgar's Cactus Apple Surpri se" and "Lazy Peo ns"
Turn those quests in, then accept and go do...
"Burning Blade Medalli on" and "Thazz'ril's Pi ck" (these are done in the cave at 44.56)
Once those two are done use your hearthstone.
Turn those quests in, then..
Accept "Report to Sen'jin Villa ge"
Leave starting noob zone...
.....

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Warcraft Player Suicide - The Player Wanted To End His Life

2007-11-25T07:21:00.000-08:00

Evidently, some kid used some different cheats to play World of Warcraft...that is including a stolen CD key. So, no surprise to anyone his account got banned.

He then decided to try DUMB IDEA #1, which was bribe Blizzard to let him back into WoW. It was claimed he bribed them with $3,000 from Paypal. No clue where that money "may" have came from.

Of course, Blizzard denied the bribe so our hero tries something a little bit different...

DUMB IDEA #2: He then sent Blizzard an email stating that he would end his life if they didn't let him back in the game.

If this story is true or not it is probably the best way to handle something like this.

Blizzard of course, got serious with this kind of threat. First off, they sent him an email with phone numbers for various different crisis centers.

A few hours later, police ended up at his doorstep. They identified the kid by the IP address he was using for his internet connection. On Blizzard's part this was the best way to handle this. I bet though the kid was just being dumb and would say anything to get his account re-activated.

I bet he won't do that anymore. Who knows if this story is totally true or not and who really cares.

I have known people that would be dumb enough to try this stuff so it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it is real.

Easy Copper For Horde

2007-11-25T07:16:00.001-08:00

For some easy copper for a beginner near Orgrimmar, go to Thunder Ridge, it has alot of quick spawning Copper ore everywhere, and for anyone who needs it badly, a guide on where to go to get it in Thunder Ridge. EVERYWHERE! It's on the top level and bottom so you sometimes have to alternate between top and bottom.

Gold Making - 900 Gold An Hour (Group Farming)

2007-11-24T05:31:00.000-08:00

Here is a description of this gold making video: Gold making vid me and my warlock friend did at level 68, we're in more or less only green gear. The trick is to get to the first chest, lockpick it and go out, reset and do it all over again. Goes fast, gets you some nice loot and alot of cash after selling it all! Extremely important to have a rogue with 300+ lockpicking or he/she will not be able to lockpick the chest!
Other than that, have fun and earn yourself some serious gold