Friday, August 29, 2008

The Undead Cooking Show

I was wandering around the website of my buddy, the Tauren Chef and I ran into a video that just cracked me up. I haven't laughed so much in a while. It was called Cooking with Ethnea, and you have just got to watch it.

The Undead Cooking Show - Cooking with Ethnea

This was a total hoot, I hope you enjoy it !

This is my last post for today....I swear !! :p

Jade

Fishing for Gold

A lot of people have not caught on to the fact that you can make a lot of money by fishing. The way you make it is twofold:
  1. Selling the uncooked fish
  2. Cooking the fish and selling the finished product

I have found that I make more money by selling the uncooked fish, in most cases.

But fishing is boring, you may whine. :) Indeed, fishing is not the most exciting thing in the game, but the benefits you get from it make it well worth your while. Not only do you make a good amount of money from selling your finned friends, but you also can level your cooking, and make yourself some of the best buff food in the game.

In the beginning, the fish you catch is virtually worthless. You should start leveling your fishing as soon as your character hits level 5 and can train for it. That way you can use the fish to level your cooking, and you won't waste the lowbie fish you catch. Luckily, it does not take long to start catching fish that you can sell in the Auction House. Probably the first valuable fish you will see is Oily Blackmouth and Firefin Snapper. These fish are valuable because they are used to make Blackmouth Oil (used in Alchemy) and Fire Oil. (used in Tailoring and other professions) Now, you are not going to retire on what you sell these fish for, but you can start making money at low levels selling them. Many times the AH does not have any of these fish, so you can set your own price. Don't get greedy, but if there is no competition, you can charge more. Use Auctioneer to give you information on the going rate. (make sure you have scanned recently!)

As you level your fishing, you are going to run into junk fish along the way that you are going to have to sell for next to nothing, like Redgill. There is a way, I have found, to get more for these overly common fish when you sell them in the AH.......make sure to have the recipe in the AH also, so that people can buy the recipe and then buy your fish. People are always desperate to level their cooking, so if you offer them an easy way to do it, you will find you sell more fish, at a better price. The redgill recipe is sold in Booty Bay, in the Old Port Authority. For the locations of other fish recipes, use Thottbot or Wowhead.

Once you level up to fish like raw sunscale salmon, nightfin snapper and winter squid (around 200) you can really start making some money. These fish sell for around a gold a piece, depending on your server and the competition from other fishermen. They also make some pretty awesome food. The salmon food increases health regen, the snapper increases mana regen and the squid increases agility. Not bad for a lowly fish.

The higher your fishing goes, the more the fish sell for, and the better quality buffs they give, when you cook them. If you want more detailed information, I found a cool free site that has all the fishing info you could want: El's Extreme Anglin - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide.

Talk soon,

Jade

My New WoW Squidoo Page - The World of Warcraft T Shirt Shop !

I made something cool today on Squidoo.....a Wow T Shirt Shop ! I looked all around the internet for places that sold WoW T Shirts and I put them all together on a Squidoo page. Well actually I made two....one for general World of Warcraft T Shirts and one for Class specific World of Warcraft T shirts. The shirts range from the officially sanctioned Blizzard T shirts to fully personal t shirts made by people themselves. Some of them are really hilarious ! Check out my shops and let me know what you think !

Jade's WoW T Shirt Shop
Jade's WoW T Shirt Shop for Classes


For you up and coming Warhammer fans, I also made a Warhammer Store, you can find it at:

Warhammer Store

Ciao for now !

Jade

Monday, August 25, 2008

Release Date for WotLK ?

I haven't heard of any official announcements for the release date of WotLK, yet, but I noticed today that they are taking pre-orders for it on Amazon. In the ad to order it, it say the release date is November 3rd. The price is $39.99.

Just FYI,

Jade

Friday, August 22, 2008

Three Must Have Patterns for Tailors

Well, I think it's about time we get back to the main thrust of this blog.......making easy gold. Tailors, this post is for you !

If there is one thing I have made money selling, consistently, it is shirts. Shirts always sell, it's as simple as that. However, there are three shirts that sell better than any others.....and for more money. If you are a tailor, you would be insane not to get these patterns !

1. Rich Purple Silk Shirt ~ This shirt sells for anywhere from 3 gold to 8 gold (or more) depending on the server. You only have to be skill 185 to make it and the mats are a mere 4 silk bolts, one silk thread and a purple dye. Dirt cheap to make and this shirt probably sells for more than any other, simply because it is not made to sell by very many people......and the pattern is pretty rare. That is the bad news. The pattern is a world drop, and really cannot be farmed. It has been known to show up in SM, Uldaman, even Scholo. It also has made appearances in chests in any instance above level 35. My best advice to you is to keep and eye on the auction house and if you see it, buy it.....at any price. I have personally paid $100 gold for this pattern and trust me, it's worth it. You will make your money back 1000 fold, if you sell these shirts regularly.

2. Black Swashbucklers Shirt ~ This shirt sells for 7 gold, on my server......on other, older servers, it sells for about 3 to 4. Still, for a skill level of 200 pattern, and cheap mats (5 silk bolts, thread and black dye) it sells like hotcakes, because most people don't make it consistently to sell, and everyone wants to buy it. The best news is, it's a vendor pattern. It is limited quantity (1) but if you are patient, you can get it for a mere 18 silver. It is sold by a goblin vendor in the Old Port Authority in Booty Bay. He also sells parrots (he is a pirate supplier....arrrrrr !) but don't try to sell the parrots in the AH, they are very common, and don't sell for much.

3. Dark Silk Shirt ~ This shirt sells for about 2 to 3 gold, on the servers I deal on. Not a big price, but it stacks up, if you sell a few every day. The skill level needed is 155, and the mats are super cheap, at 2 silk bolts, 2 dyes, and a fine thread. This shirt sells well, and consistently and it is definitely worth adding to your daily list of items to put in the AH. The pattern is sold by the tailor vendor in Darkshire for the alliance and Tarren Mill for the Horde. I can't remember the cost, but its a pittance compared to what you will make selling it.

So there you have it. Tailors, listen to me and gold will be rained down upon you. :)

See you all soon,

Jade

Friday, August 15, 2008

And the Other Obsession Is.......

My other obsession lately has been trying other games. I have tried a bunch of them lately....the free ones. I thought I would give you a short review of the ones I have tried. Ranking system of 1* to 5.

SilkRoad - (**) The graphics in this game are pretty nice, about the same as Perfect World or SWG. The character creation is non-existent, you chose from pre-made toons. The in-game tutorials were pretty good, on how to play the game. The major problem with this game (and why I would not play it) is the only type of character movement is point and click. I hate that !!!

Mabinogi - (*) I was all fired up about trying this game.....it has good reviews and from what I read, an extensive crafting system. You can even make originally designed clothing ! It sounded like heaven, to a crafter like me. Imaging my dismay when I logged in and found a game that looked like a Saturday morning cartoon from 1969. The graphics are worse than awful. The characters all look like 10 year old kids and only had point and click movement. (you know I hate that !) Ten minutes of playing this game and it was on the express train to uninstallville.

Anarchy Online - (*) The concept of this game was really cool......a sci fi theme with spaceships and aliens. Sounded like it was right up my alley. Another crashing disappointment awaited me, after going in. The graphics are pretty horrible, though better than Mabinogi (what isn't) they are blocky and dated. The character creation, while you don't have that many choices of race, you do have some customization in appearance, if you don't mind blurry, blocky heads. One saving grace is that they have a TON of professions, all of which sound pretty cool and interesting.....if the rest of the game was not so dismal. The character movement, while using W, S, D, A and the mouse, it's very hard to guide your character (literal hell for this carpel tunnel wrist of mine) and the only way to fire your weapon is by hitting Q. Q ?? This game sucked and was, as they say......gone in 60 seconds.

Hero Online - (****) Hero is pretty fun, and while it is no WoW, at least it is playable and has nice graphics. The character creation is garbage.....you have 3 women and 2 men to choose from and their appearance is pre-determined. (I felt like I was in Clone City whenever I was in town, with the same 5 faces everywhere...hehe) The character movement can be changed from point and click (you know how I feel about that!) to W, S, D, A and mouse in the key bindings. The armor and weapons and quest system is not hard to figure out. The worst thing about it is the lack of quests. You only get a few per level and the rest of the time you have to grind. There are many comical things in this game, not the least of which are the men's hairstyles. Since the game is Asian based, all the toons wear Japanese looking armor, and instead of helmets, you get hairpins for head armor. When a guy puts on a hairpin, it gives him a little bun on top of his head with this giant pin (it actually more resembles a knitting needle) stuck through it. The first time that we saw that, Sy and I almost fell out of our chairs laughing.....it is hilarious looking. The good news is, hairpins actually improve the hairstyle on female characters. Anyway, Hero isn't bad to play, for a free game. If you want something to do as an alternative to WoW, while you are waiting for WotLK to come out, you may want to try it.

I think I am done with other games for a while. After reading the hype on their sites, the reality is just too heartbreaking. :)

Till Next Time,

Jade

I Squidoo, Do You ?

Lately I seem to be obsessed with a couple things.....lol. The first is Squidoo. I found Squidoo a couple weeks back and since then I can't seem to stop making lens ! Lenses are a squid term for pages. Squidoo is a site that you can go and make pages (for free!) about anything you want. They have tens of thousands of them on any subject you want. The interface is so easy to use, you can have a page up and literally running in 15 minutes. They also have totally automated "modules" you can put on site that require no website knowledge at all. Like modules that will put 3 to 5 (you choose how many) things from E bay, Amazon (I told you they were affiliated with everyone on the planet) or Cafe Press on your site, and if someone buys something you get a cut of the money. You can put an RSS feed on the site that contains daily news about your topic, and will change every day, all by itself. You can also put polls, You tubes, Twitter stuff and just about anything else you can think of.....all with a few simple clicks. Now how can you beat that, for free ?

The following are a list of my lenses:

WowTipspace
Introduction to Perfect World
Perfect World - Races and Classes
How to Buy Cubigold for Perfect World
Perfect World - How to Use the Item Mall
Perfect World International

I know it seems like there is a lot of love for Perfect World, (another MMOG I play) and not much for WoW, but the reason for that was there were no lenses on Perfect World at all......so I figured I would fill that void......hehe. Anyway, Squidoo is fun ! Many people have made "how to" pages for everything from how to make french onion soup, to how to change the oil in a car. Some folks just make a page about their hobby, or passion.....or even about themselves. Lots of people make lenses as lead in pages to get people to their website to try to sell them something. Squidoo does not care if your page is commercial, unlike most other sites (such as My Space) so you can even make pages to sell stuff.

So that is one of my obsessions lately, see the next post for my other one.

Cheers,

Jade

Profession Spells

Bliz released this week that we will be getting a new, unique spell, depending on which profession you have. They released a partial list as follows:

Blacksmithing

Socket Bracer - Permanently add a socket to your bracers. Requires a level 60 or higher item.
Socket Gloves - Permanently add a socket to your gloves. Requires a level 60 or higher item.

Tailoring

Lightweave Embroidery - Embroiders a subtle pattern of light into your cloak, giving you a chance to cause an additional 800 to 1000 Holy damage when you damage an enemy with a spell.You can only embroider your own cloak and embroidering your cloak will cause it to become soulbound.

Darkglow Embroidery - Embroiders a magical pattern into your cloak, giving you a chance to restore 300 mana when you cast a spell.You can only embroider your own cloak and embroidering your cloak will cause it to become soulbound.

Swordguard Embroidery - Embroiders a magical pattern into your cloak, causing your damaging melee attacks to sometimes ignore 1000 of your target’s armor.You can only embroider your own cloak and embroidering your cloak will cause it to become soulbound.

Herbalism

Wild Growth - Embrace the natural energies surrounding you, healing you for 2000 over 15 sec. (300/480/720/900/1200/2000 Depending on Rank). Instant, 5 min cooldown

More later, :)

Jade

Thursday, August 7, 2008

How to Use Macros

Got a short freebie for you today. It's a tutorial on:

How to Use Macros

Hope you find it useful.

Jade

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

WoW's Version of Mystery Science Theater 3K

Cool site number two, for the day. It's called Project Lore. It's a site made by five guys and they are making a string of "episodes," ....... narrated videos of playing WoW, such as Episode 4.1 Underbog. This vid shows their five toons doing the instance Underbog. Funny outtakes that cut to the room where the guys are playing at their computers (complete with monitors that have better paint jobs than most muscle cars) are a fun diversion from the work of the dungeon, but when they are fighting in UB, it sometimes shows a small picture of four of them (one in each corner) playing while the rest of the screen is in the dungeon. The sound that plays is the actual guys talking as they kill the mobs........ arguing, cussing, compliments and wisecracks are all heard and most are pretty funny. This is why it kind of reminds me of MST3K. The good humor and comical comments run along the same vein as the old show, and give you the same feeling......like you are there and a part of it, instead of just a spectator.

There is one introduction vid and 16 episodes: 3 for Hellfire Ramparts, 4 for Slave Pens, 5 for Mechnar, and 4 so far for Underbog. All of them are worth watching, if for nothing other than the comedy. (you will definitely find them more humorous if you have done these dungeons as many times as I have) You will also find some useful tips and information about actually doing the dungeons and playing the game in general. Laugh while you learn, that's a win/win situation.

The site also has some pretty nice guides for the classes, professions and dungeons. Though the information in them is pretty basic, they are fairly complete and I did learn a few things from reading them. I noticed they are looking for more guides and asked for any guide authors that are interested, to get in touch with them.

This is a new and innovative take on WoW.....something you don't really see all that often, any more. Definitely worth checking out !

Project Lore

That's all for now,

Jade

Your Character, Immoralized !

Well, it has been a week of discovery. Today, in my internet travels, I ran across a rather cool site called FingerPrints.com. This site will make a 3D statue of your WoW toon in exact detail. From what I understand, when this site first opened, they were so swamped with orders, that they did not have the resources to fill them all, so they have gone to a lottery system and you can enter, and if you get chosen, they will immortalized your toon for a mere $125 + SH.

It's a pretty interesting site, you might want to check out just for the heck of it :)

More Later,

Jade

Monday, August 4, 2008

Off Topic - Blingo

I ran across a rather cool thing today during my travels on the internet. There is a search engine called Blingo that is run by our old buddies at Publishers Clearing House. Every time you do a search on Blingo, you have a chance to win a prize. Now, the prizes are not new Lamborghini's (much to my disappointment) but they do give away gift certificates to Amazon (is there ANYONE on the planet that they are not affiliated with ??) or cash or other stuff that most folks find useful. Since you use search engines every day to look things up, why not use one that gives away prizes ?

Anyway, I thought it was worth mentioning, since it's free to register. :)

Here's a link for you:

Blingo

Check it out !

Jade

Sunday, August 3, 2008

A Few Patterns that Sell Well

Sorry to be MIA for so long, but we had a tree to fall on our house and the contractors have been here working and painting and making a huge mess, so I have had very little time for what *I* want to do. :(

Today I have a couple shorties for you, before dinner. First, some recipes you can pick up in Shat City and sell on the AH to make a quick few gold. The first one is in the Lower City, behind the Aldor Bank, on the lowest tier of the birdmen treehouse. If you have to go on a ground mount, then you go up the bridge that takes you to the highest tier then go around and go down the stairs to get to the lowest tier. If you can fly, just fly up. It is the recipe for Primal Might Transmute and it costs 8 gold. Depending on your server, you can resell it for 12 to 30 gold in the AH.

The other one is the recipe (schematic) for Fused Wiring, available from a engineering supply vendor on the other side of the Lower City (behind the Scryer bank) by the tailor trainers, fruit vendor and reagents guy. You can also get this recipe from a goblin engineer supplier in Everlook, Winterspring. If you are having trouble finding it in his inventory, you can kill him, and when he respawns he will have it (and usually a few others at well) but you will lose some rep by doing this.

These are both limited supply (1) recipe, so if you don't see it, then keep checking back, it will respawn, but unfortunately, you can only buy one. I make it a point to pick up both, every time I am in that neighborhood on business.

There is one other pattern that always sells for quite a bit of gold, even tho it is a lower level, and that is the pattern for Nightscape Shoulders. This is available for the Alliance, in the Hinterlands in the bunker type building by the mailbox. In one of the side rooms, that is off the main lower level room, there is a leatherworking supplier that sells a limited quantity (1) of this shoulders pattern. I was not going to mention it, since I have never much luck getting it. I would say only 1 out of every 5 times I have looked for it, I have found it there. I am not sure if it just has a really long spawn rate, or what, but more times than not, it's not there.

The Horde can get this pattern in Camp Mojache, Feralas from the leatherworking supplier there, and the success rate is much better. The vendor is in the biggest tent.

This pattern is really is worth looking for if you have a leather worker, since the mats are cheap and easy to get. The shoulders sell in the AH for anywhere from 3 to 12 gold, and they always sell the first time, because the stats are agility and stam......a popular combo for many classes. The pattern itself sells for 10 to 49 gold in the AH.

Time for dinner, so that's all for today !

Cya,

Jade