Well the Lich King expansion is here. In many ways, it is even better than I had expected....the quests are much more imaginative and fun, many of the mobs are new, the tuskarrs are really adorable, and so on. One thing I have noticed to my vast disappointment, is they have pretty much elimanated any new sources of making gold, without farming. None of the new vendors have recipes that you can resell in the AH, none of the vendors have items that are resellable, either. This is at least so far, I have not gotten past Dragonblight yet. The only thing I have found to resell is some toys in a shop across from the Alliance portals place in Dalaran....and since they are one use only and already sell for 42 silver, the profit margin is pretty low. From what I understand, even the first aid book is a drop that is BOP. The cool ghostly skull pet you can buy in the sewers is also BOP. It almost feels like Blizzard deliberately shut down any means of making gold by reselling items you find at vendors. I don't know about you, but I was very disappointed by that.
Jade
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Death Knight Preparation
There are a couple things you can collect now, for quest turn ins to gain easy XP for your Death Knight.....to help him level faster. First of all, there are the Argent Dawn turn ins in Eastern Plaguelands. To be able to get the quest, you will need to be friendly with Argent Dawn, so that means doing a few quests in EPL and WPL. When you hit Friendly, you can get these quests in Light's Hope Chapel to collect 30 each of the following:
Core of Elements
Crypt Fiend Parts
Bone Fragments
Savage Fronds
Dark Iron Scraps
Each turn in (first time only) is worth 9550 XP, so that is a cool 47750 XP that you can net from items you can farm up now, since they are not soul bound.
The second thing you can do is start collecting wool, silk, mageweave and runecloth. Each faction has cloth turn ins that give you XP and they are located in:
Two in Ironforge
Stormwind
Exodar
Darnassus
Two in Orgrimmar
Undercity
Silvermoon City
Thunder Bluff
The quests are located by the tailor trainers (usually) at NPC's called Cloth Quartermaster and the name of the quest is "A Donation of...." For each of the 5 turn ins you will need 3 stacks (60 pieces) of wool, 3 stacks of silk, 3 stacks of mageweave, and 3 stacks of Runecloth. Multiply that times the 5 turn in locations and you have 15 stacks of each type of cloth, 60 stacks total. Hope you have lots of inventory space ! You must turn in the three lower level cloths in order to get to runecloth. Your reward is 17650 XP for each turn in....a hefty amount for doing nothing but forking over cloth. 88250 total....definitely worth your while, and as an added bonus, you get rep with each of your faction's races !
Happy DKing !
Jade
Core of Elements
Crypt Fiend Parts
Bone Fragments
Savage Fronds
Dark Iron Scraps
Each turn in (first time only) is worth 9550 XP, so that is a cool 47750 XP that you can net from items you can farm up now, since they are not soul bound.
The second thing you can do is start collecting wool, silk, mageweave and runecloth. Each faction has cloth turn ins that give you XP and they are located in:
Two in Ironforge
Stormwind
Exodar
Darnassus
Two in Orgrimmar
Undercity
Silvermoon City
Thunder Bluff
The quests are located by the tailor trainers (usually) at NPC's called Cloth Quartermaster and the name of the quest is "A Donation of...." For each of the 5 turn ins you will need 3 stacks (60 pieces) of wool, 3 stacks of silk, 3 stacks of mageweave, and 3 stacks of Runecloth. Multiply that times the 5 turn in locations and you have 15 stacks of each type of cloth, 60 stacks total. Hope you have lots of inventory space ! You must turn in the three lower level cloths in order to get to runecloth. Your reward is 17650 XP for each turn in....a hefty amount for doing nothing but forking over cloth. 88250 total....definitely worth your while, and as an added bonus, you get rep with each of your faction's races !
Happy DKing !
Jade
Profession Info
Just a short one today. I ran across this in my travels.....unfortunately it does not include Inscription, but it has a ton of info on power leveling professions.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102789457&sid=1
More Later :)
Jade
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102789457&sid=1
More Later :)
Jade
Monday, November 3, 2008
Make a Ton of Gold With Vanity Pets
Sorry for neglecting you all, but Hallow's End is always a very busy time for me. With 15 characters, trying to get all the things done on each of them is a 24/7 job. Alas, I still didn't get it all done. Anyway, I have got some really great news of a way to make tons of gold so easily you won't believe it.
There is an achievement that you can get, for obtaining 50 unique vanity (non combat) pets and the reward is an adorable skunk pet. Now I am sure you are aware there are some anal people that play WoW that will have to do every single one of these achievements and there are also some people that just have to have Stinker, the Skunk. Either way, it mean lots of gold in your pockets selling pets in the various Auction Houses.
There are several ways to accomplish this, but by far the most lucrative way is to transfer pets from the other faction. (Alliance to Horde and Horde to Alliance) People will pay a lot of money to obtain a pet that they normally do not have access to. My best advice to you is this: DON'T GET GREEDY !!! There are some people on the servers that I play on that are trying to sell these pets for 50 gold each..... how ludicrous is that ? Look upon these greedy individuals as those that end up just making you look more fair and reasonable. Sell these pets for a decent price....I never charge more than 10 gold each and most of them I sell for between 5 and 8 gold each. Don't try to gouge people for 20+ gold....all that does is make people resent you, and sometimes they will remember your name and refuse to buy anything from you, ever !
If you don't have any characters on the other side, or a means to trade (you need a friend or to have two accounts, you cannot buy your own auctions) then you can also sell pets in the neutral auction house.....you just will not be able to sell them for as much. I put up 36 pets in the Booty Bay AH for 5 gold each (everyone else was selling them for 10 gold to 50 gold) and I sold them all in less than 6 hours. That was around 150 gold, and that was just selling Horde pets, I didn't even try selling Alliance.
If you don't know where or what pets are available, you can always look them up online, but let me give you a list of the ones that I usually trade. This will not be a complete list, as I am doing it from memory. (how scary is that ?)
Horde
Snakes from Orgrimmar
Prairie dogs from Thunder Bluff
Cockroaches from Undercity
Dragonhawk Hatchlings from Fairbreeze Village
Alliance
Rabbits from Ambersill Ranch by Ironforge
Cats from crazy cat lady between Goldshire and Stormwind
Moths from Exodar
Owls from outside Darnassus
Neutral Locations
Parrots in Old Port Authority - Booty Bay
Anaconda Chicken - Racetrack in Shimmering Flats
Stormspire (Netherstorm) has an exotic pets dealer that has some reasonably priced pets and also some very expensive pets. I would stick to the cheap ones, the profit margin on a $40 gold wyrmling will not be much.
If you are an engineer, you can make mechanical squirrels for next to nothing and sell them for 5 to 10 gold or more. There are also mechanical chickens and frogs, but the mats are a bit more extensive. You could try advertising in trade chat as being able to make them if others supply the mats, for a fee.
There are other great gold making opportunities that come from achievements and I will be covering them in future posts.
Happy Gold Making !
Jade
There is an achievement that you can get, for obtaining 50 unique vanity (non combat) pets and the reward is an adorable skunk pet. Now I am sure you are aware there are some anal people that play WoW that will have to do every single one of these achievements and there are also some people that just have to have Stinker, the Skunk. Either way, it mean lots of gold in your pockets selling pets in the various Auction Houses.
There are several ways to accomplish this, but by far the most lucrative way is to transfer pets from the other faction. (Alliance to Horde and Horde to Alliance) People will pay a lot of money to obtain a pet that they normally do not have access to. My best advice to you is this: DON'T GET GREEDY !!! There are some people on the servers that I play on that are trying to sell these pets for 50 gold each..... how ludicrous is that ? Look upon these greedy individuals as those that end up just making you look more fair and reasonable. Sell these pets for a decent price....I never charge more than 10 gold each and most of them I sell for between 5 and 8 gold each. Don't try to gouge people for 20+ gold....all that does is make people resent you, and sometimes they will remember your name and refuse to buy anything from you, ever !
If you don't have any characters on the other side, or a means to trade (you need a friend or to have two accounts, you cannot buy your own auctions) then you can also sell pets in the neutral auction house.....you just will not be able to sell them for as much. I put up 36 pets in the Booty Bay AH for 5 gold each (everyone else was selling them for 10 gold to 50 gold) and I sold them all in less than 6 hours. That was around 150 gold, and that was just selling Horde pets, I didn't even try selling Alliance.
If you don't know where or what pets are available, you can always look them up online, but let me give you a list of the ones that I usually trade. This will not be a complete list, as I am doing it from memory. (how scary is that ?)
Horde
Snakes from Orgrimmar
Prairie dogs from Thunder Bluff
Cockroaches from Undercity
Dragonhawk Hatchlings from Fairbreeze Village
Alliance
Rabbits from Ambersill Ranch by Ironforge
Cats from crazy cat lady between Goldshire and Stormwind
Moths from Exodar
Owls from outside Darnassus
Neutral Locations
Parrots in Old Port Authority - Booty Bay
Anaconda Chicken - Racetrack in Shimmering Flats
Stormspire (Netherstorm) has an exotic pets dealer that has some reasonably priced pets and also some very expensive pets. I would stick to the cheap ones, the profit margin on a $40 gold wyrmling will not be much.
If you are an engineer, you can make mechanical squirrels for next to nothing and sell them for 5 to 10 gold or more. There are also mechanical chickens and frogs, but the mats are a bit more extensive. You could try advertising in trade chat as being able to make them if others supply the mats, for a fee.
There are other great gold making opportunities that come from achievements and I will be covering them in future posts.
Happy Gold Making !
Jade
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Inscription
Well, I have decided to jump on the bandwagon an make my mage an inscriptor (inscriptionator ?) hehe She is already a herbalist so that's convenient, as that is the gathering profession that goes with inscription. Like prospecting in Jewelcrafting, Inscription has a partner skill called Milling. The Inscriber "mills" stacks of 5 herbs into pigments. Pigments are used to create inks, which are one of the mats used to make Inscriptions.
Some of the things inscriptors make they can only use themselves. These include things like Scrolls of Recall, which are sort of like a back-up hearthstones. They can also make off hands, and shoulder improvements called Master's Inscriptions, such as Master's Inscription of the Storm which provides spell power and a boost to critical strike rating.
Armor and Weapon Vellums can prove an invaluable resource to Enchanters. These Inscriber-created items allow any Enchanter to affix enchantments to them, allowing the Enchanter to trade, mail, and sell the enchants. If you do not know any Inscriptors, the blank sheets can also be sold on the AH or traded.
Inscriptors can also make cards, which come in two varieties, Tarot and Darkmoon. Tarot cards, such as the Mysterious Tarot, allow you to create a random card in a set of five. Once you have assembled the Tarot deck, you can then travel to the Darkmoon Faire to turn them in for some green or blue quality armor and jewelry. Crafting Darkmoon Cards allows you to obtain the rarer cards from the original Darkmoon sets. With higher level Inscription, you can craft both Outlands-specific and Northrend-specific Darkmoon Cards. Both types of cards can be traded, mailed, or sold on the AH.
Lastly, Glyphs are where the Inscription profession really shines. These enhance both the spells and the abilities of anyone who uses them. There are both Major and Minor Glyphs, and they can be utilized by the classes for which they are specifically designed. Each adventurer can use multiple types of Glyphs and they can be replaced or upgraded at any time, but doing so destroys the original, like socketed gems. Your Glyphs can be found in the Glyphs tab of your Spellbook. Ultimately, this can be a constant money-maker for the Inscriber. You can also gain access to Inscriber-only glyphs via discoveries made through Northrend Inscription Research.
All in all, I think that inscription will be a money making profession, in the long run. However, it probably will not be right away, for anyone that is not able to level it to 375 right now, such as someone that has been saving herbs or has thousands of gold to waste buying them in the AH.
Which brings me to my final topic for the day. Since inscription is such a hot commodity, I am sure you all have noticed the prices of herbs in the AH. They are ridiculous !! So if you have any hanging around in your bank, now is the time to sell them !!! Or if you have a toon that is a herbalist.....now is the time to farm some ! You can get a lot of gold, even for stack of peacebloom and silverleaf, so even if you don't have a herbalist, make one and level them to 5 and pick up herbalism and farm some low level herbs, it is definitely worth your while !
That's my opinion and I am sticking to it ! hehe
Jade
Some of the things inscriptors make they can only use themselves. These include things like Scrolls of Recall, which are sort of like a back-up hearthstones. They can also make off hands, and shoulder improvements called Master's Inscriptions, such as Master's Inscription of the Storm which provides spell power and a boost to critical strike rating.
Armor and Weapon Vellums can prove an invaluable resource to Enchanters. These Inscriber-created items allow any Enchanter to affix enchantments to them, allowing the Enchanter to trade, mail, and sell the enchants. If you do not know any Inscriptors, the blank sheets can also be sold on the AH or traded.
Inscriptors can also make cards, which come in two varieties, Tarot and Darkmoon. Tarot cards, such as the Mysterious Tarot, allow you to create a random card in a set of five. Once you have assembled the Tarot deck, you can then travel to the Darkmoon Faire to turn them in for some green or blue quality armor and jewelry. Crafting Darkmoon Cards allows you to obtain the rarer cards from the original Darkmoon sets. With higher level Inscription, you can craft both Outlands-specific and Northrend-specific Darkmoon Cards. Both types of cards can be traded, mailed, or sold on the AH.
Lastly, Glyphs are where the Inscription profession really shines. These enhance both the spells and the abilities of anyone who uses them. There are both Major and Minor Glyphs, and they can be utilized by the classes for which they are specifically designed. Each adventurer can use multiple types of Glyphs and they can be replaced or upgraded at any time, but doing so destroys the original, like socketed gems. Your Glyphs can be found in the Glyphs tab of your Spellbook. Ultimately, this can be a constant money-maker for the Inscriber. You can also gain access to Inscriber-only glyphs via discoveries made through Northrend Inscription Research.
All in all, I think that inscription will be a money making profession, in the long run. However, it probably will not be right away, for anyone that is not able to level it to 375 right now, such as someone that has been saving herbs or has thousands of gold to waste buying them in the AH.
Which brings me to my final topic for the day. Since inscription is such a hot commodity, I am sure you all have noticed the prices of herbs in the AH. They are ridiculous !! So if you have any hanging around in your bank, now is the time to sell them !!! Or if you have a toon that is a herbalist.....now is the time to farm some ! You can get a lot of gold, even for stack of peacebloom and silverleaf, so even if you don't have a herbalist, make one and level them to 5 and pick up herbalism and farm some low level herbs, it is definitely worth your while !
That's my opinion and I am sticking to it ! hehe
Jade
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Three Cool Add ons I Found
Well, in my travels I have found a couple good add ons that I wanted to tell you about. But first ! I have to tell you about a really cool program that my friend Michael told me about that updates your add ons all by itself.....well, most of them. Some add ons are not supported by the program, but very few that I have found. It is called Wow Matrix and you can find it at wowmatrix.com. All you have to do it download it and it runs. No configuring, no complicated set up, you don't even have to tell it where your add ons are....it finds the folder itself. Now that is what I call service ! Simply click on the Update All button and off it goes, finding all the updates for your add ons and installing them for you. It even shows you what mods it cannot update for you, so you can do it manually. Why can't everything be this easy ?
The first mod I ran across was also recommended by Michael (affectionately known as the ModKing)and it is called WoW Instant Messanger. If you have been frustrated by trying to find your whispers in a sea of channel chats, or if you have been embarrassed by sending the wrong whisper to the wrong person ("I think you are so sexy" to your Guild Master, instead of your boyfriend)then this is definitely a mod you will want to have. It gives you your whispers in totally separate, movable boxes, so you can easily find them and respond to them. It also sounds a tone to let you know you have a new message. This mod also has no configuring, just toss it in your folder and it just works......always a plus in my book ! WIM is available on the Curse Gaming site.
The second mod I wanted to tell you about is called Auctionator. Now, this add on is no Auctioneer, but it does allow you to place auctions up quickly and easily. You simply hold down the alt key and click on the item in your bag. It will bring up a window (also can be brought up by clicking the Auctionator tab at the bottom of your screen) and it puts your item in a window and at the top shows the price that the mod recommends you sell it at, which is determined by the prices of like items that are in the AH right now. (you can tell it by how much you want to undercut your competition, in the options) It even lists the items that are up for auction, at that time, and the prices they are being sold for, noting which of them are yours and which are others. If you don't agree with their recommendations, then you can type in your own price for bid and buyout. It it pretty handy dandy, the only complaint I have is that it does not hold the prices that you post your auctions at from session to session. Such as, say you are selling Scorpid Surprise Recipes. If you type in your bid and buyout prices, it will hold that price if you want to sell more than one, but if you go to sell them the next day, you have to type in the price again. Ah well, nothing is perfect. Auctionator also does not have a database to suggest prices or a scanning function. It is more or less just a small price comparer for those of us that sell the same items consistantly, and need to know what the competition is selling them for that day. It's pretty handy, but I will still be looking for another AH add on to do what Auctioneer no longer does, simply or easily. Auctionator can be found on the Curse Gaming site.
Hope springs eternal :)
Jade
The first mod I ran across was also recommended by Michael (affectionately known as the ModKing)and it is called WoW Instant Messanger. If you have been frustrated by trying to find your whispers in a sea of channel chats, or if you have been embarrassed by sending the wrong whisper to the wrong person ("I think you are so sexy" to your Guild Master, instead of your boyfriend)then this is definitely a mod you will want to have. It gives you your whispers in totally separate, movable boxes, so you can easily find them and respond to them. It also sounds a tone to let you know you have a new message. This mod also has no configuring, just toss it in your folder and it just works......always a plus in my book ! WIM is available on the Curse Gaming site.
The second mod I wanted to tell you about is called Auctionator. Now, this add on is no Auctioneer, but it does allow you to place auctions up quickly and easily. You simply hold down the alt key and click on the item in your bag. It will bring up a window (also can be brought up by clicking the Auctionator tab at the bottom of your screen) and it puts your item in a window and at the top shows the price that the mod recommends you sell it at, which is determined by the prices of like items that are in the AH right now. (you can tell it by how much you want to undercut your competition, in the options) It even lists the items that are up for auction, at that time, and the prices they are being sold for, noting which of them are yours and which are others. If you don't agree with their recommendations, then you can type in your own price for bid and buyout. It it pretty handy dandy, the only complaint I have is that it does not hold the prices that you post your auctions at from session to session. Such as, say you are selling Scorpid Surprise Recipes. If you type in your bid and buyout prices, it will hold that price if you want to sell more than one, but if you go to sell them the next day, you have to type in the price again. Ah well, nothing is perfect. Auctionator also does not have a database to suggest prices or a scanning function. It is more or less just a small price comparer for those of us that sell the same items consistantly, and need to know what the competition is selling them for that day. It's pretty handy, but I will still be looking for another AH add on to do what Auctioneer no longer does, simply or easily. Auctionator can be found on the Curse Gaming site.
Hope springs eternal :)
Jade
Patch Woes
I have been playing WoW a long time and I have lived through many a patch, but this has got to be the worst one yet. All the sudden, the major add on groups that I use have decided they are not going to update......leaving me high and dry. The two most notably screwing me are Cosmos and Auctioneer.
Cosmos was a large package of mods that I have used practically since Thrall was in diapers. It did a large variety of things and was only one download, instead of having to update them all separately. When I read they were no longer going to update the package I was totally bumming. /sigh
But the most crushing for me, the AH Queen, was Norganna's decision not to update Auctioneer classic. When she came out with Auctioneer Advanced, a few years ago, I tried it and I found it to me WAY too complicated with WAY too many features that I find to be useless for my needs. It is hard to understand and even harder to use, so when she came back with Auctioneer Classic, I breathed a sigh of relief that I would have my easy to use, perfect AH companion mod back. Imagine my horror when I read on her site a few days ago that she is not going to update it for 3.0. I tried to take it like a trooper, and decided to give Auctioneer Advanced another go, thinking maybe she had simplified it in the intervening time. I was distressed to find, upon checking it out that it is just as horrible as ever as to being hard to understand, hard to use, and bogged down with a bunch of features that are either unintelligible, or useless to me. No more simple add on that just suggested a price, and held the prices you wanted to sell at. /sigh
I have found the current mod crisis to be worse that what we went through in Burning Crusade, by far. I keep updating the mods I still have with their replacements, that they say are fixed and working for 3.0, but I still am having tons of problems. My chat log is full of gibberish, and no chat shows up at all. Weird error messages with garbled warnings that make no sense. Mailbox mods that won't show up at all. And a mod that supposedly lets you move around your frames....that doesn't.
I am pretty much at my wits end about all this, so I am going to set it aside for a few days and hope that the programmers get their act together, and in the mean time, look for some new mods to replace the ones from Cosmos.
If any of you have some suggestions.....please let me know !
Jade
Cosmos was a large package of mods that I have used practically since Thrall was in diapers. It did a large variety of things and was only one download, instead of having to update them all separately. When I read they were no longer going to update the package I was totally bumming. /sigh
But the most crushing for me, the AH Queen, was Norganna's decision not to update Auctioneer classic. When she came out with Auctioneer Advanced, a few years ago, I tried it and I found it to me WAY too complicated with WAY too many features that I find to be useless for my needs. It is hard to understand and even harder to use, so when she came back with Auctioneer Classic, I breathed a sigh of relief that I would have my easy to use, perfect AH companion mod back. Imagine my horror when I read on her site a few days ago that she is not going to update it for 3.0. I tried to take it like a trooper, and decided to give Auctioneer Advanced another go, thinking maybe she had simplified it in the intervening time. I was distressed to find, upon checking it out that it is just as horrible as ever as to being hard to understand, hard to use, and bogged down with a bunch of features that are either unintelligible, or useless to me. No more simple add on that just suggested a price, and held the prices you wanted to sell at. /sigh
I have found the current mod crisis to be worse that what we went through in Burning Crusade, by far. I keep updating the mods I still have with their replacements, that they say are fixed and working for 3.0, but I still am having tons of problems. My chat log is full of gibberish, and no chat shows up at all. Weird error messages with garbled warnings that make no sense. Mailbox mods that won't show up at all. And a mod that supposedly lets you move around your frames....that doesn't.
I am pretty much at my wits end about all this, so I am going to set it aside for a few days and hope that the programmers get their act together, and in the mean time, look for some new mods to replace the ones from Cosmos.
If any of you have some suggestions.....please let me know !
Jade
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