World of Warcraft: Wotlk - Character customization
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Barbershops in Wrath of the Lich King
Had a chance to check out the barbershops yet? It's a nice place for a little touch-up:
Horde and Alliance Working Together? Noooo!
Check it out. This movie is from the end of a series of quests in the Dragonblight region of Northrend. Horde and Alliance put aside their differences, but the Forsaken have other thoughts on the subject. By the way, it's pretty damn cool.
Go here to see it on the Bliz site.
Go here to see it on the Bliz site.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Zygor's 1-80 in-game Leveling Guides
Zygor's Guides are totally in-game leveling guides for Horde and Alliance. No switching from game to website or document, no switching back and forth from game to map, just fast leveling with no distractions.
Included with Zygor's guide is an automated waypoint system, TomTom. What this means is that everytime you finish a quest not only does the guide itself update, but the waypoint arrow does also. Just follow the arrow from quest to quest, nothing could be easy.
Here's a video which will show you how it works. (See the 2nd video, below, for remarks about Wrath of the Lich King and the 1-80 guide. ) This video refers to the launch of the guide back in May, but everything else is the same and the guide is updated for the 3.0+ patches.
Zygor's Guides will be Wrath Ready on Nov 13, so grab it now, start leveling, get the update when it hits, and then run non-stop up to level 80.
Learn more about Zygor's Guides here
Included with Zygor's guide is an automated waypoint system, TomTom. What this means is that everytime you finish a quest not only does the guide itself update, but the waypoint arrow does also. Just follow the arrow from quest to quest, nothing could be easy.
- Zygor's Guide is 100% in-game, visible in the main window
- Available for Horde and Alliance, all the starting areas are covered.
- keep track of what class you are as well as your level and your location, at all times.
- Easily scroll through the guide and move from point to point.
- Reduce the window to a small size, so it doesn't block as much of your screen, and move it anywhere.
- All the necessary quest details are included in the guide detail, you will probably never need to look at your quest log.
- The waypoint arrow, and the guide, automatically, 99% of the time, resets with each new quest. You will never have to manually set a waypoint or look up some location.
- Most class quests are included!
- Zygor's Guide will be ready for Wrath of the Lich King, arriving on Nov 13th.
Here's a video which will show you how it works. (See the 2nd video, below, for remarks about Wrath of the Lich King and the 1-80 guide. ) This video refers to the launch of the guide back in May, but everything else is the same and the guide is updated for the 3.0+ patches.
Zygor's Guides will be Wrath Ready on Nov 13, so grab it now, start leveling, get the update when it hits, and then run non-stop up to level 80.
Learn more about Zygor's Guides here
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Rogue Arena Tips
clipped from wow.zuggaming.com Ideal Strategy, Jump the Druid in Stealth
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Going for the Gold, WoW Gold
The World of Warcraft (WoW) is a game that is played by some 10,000,000 people and is still growing. One of the things that every one of these people has in common is a need to have a sufficient cash (gold) flow for their characters.
Now, some people are pretty clued in on how to make gold in WoW and some have actually made a business of it. They farm the items that they then sell to vendors or other players, amass large amounts of gold, then sell that gold to players for real cash. Some go insane and hit the wow gold cap. Yes, there really is such a thing.
Blizzard, the Creator of WoW, frowns on buying gold (and items,) by the way, and has been known to ban the accounts of people who do so.
So for the rest of us here's a short guide on how to increase your World of Warcraft Gold account.
Auctioneer is essential
Download the Auctioneer Addon (google it) and install the thing. You want the full suite and you'll want to read the documentation and learn how to use it. Why? You'll find that it's a really big help in learning the market for your server, which is an essential step to making real gold.
Make Your Banker
Make an alternate character as your dedicated banker. You'll take this character to level 5 (class and race don't matter) and take it to the nearest big city. Then pick up the "enchanting" skill, which you'll use to disenchant low level items.
Your banker will never level again (unless you want to buy up that enchanting skill someday.)
All your other characters will use the banker to sell their stuff, buy stuff, and send stuff here and there. Find a stack of ore? Hit the nearest mailbox and send it to the banker to sell. A pile of green items from your last instance run? Off to the banker.
Need gear for your main character? Your banker buys it and mails it off to you. Need more storage space? Use the mailbox. Mail stuff to your banker, the banker returns it, and you let it sit in the mailbox until you need it.
Gathering the gold
Pick up Mining and Skinning as your two professions (make sure you buy a pick and a skinning knife!) Skin everything that's skinnable all the way to level 70. Skins always sell well and some sell for several gold per stack of 20. Some of the Outlands skins sell for several gold each.
Ore is all over the place. Start with copper and mine everything you can. Use your "smelting" skill to smelt the ore into bars which will drive up your mining skill. Ore always sells well, the better stacks going for 30 gold or so each, but those Outland skins are far more valuable.
Gathering Items
The Gatherer Addon is a big help here in that it will mark your map as you find stuff, so you can do efficient gathering routes later on.
As you kill, main, and slaughter your way across Azeroth and the Outlands you will see plenty of item drops in addition to the skins you pick up. The item names will be colored grey, white, green, blue (rare), and purple (really really rare.)
Everything white or better goes to your banker (unless your main can use it) for sale on the Auction House. Many green items won't sell very well so those should be disenchanted into their magical parts and those parts are then sold.
Learn the Auction House.
Use Auctioneer and your own observations to best estimate the best price to sell any particular item, which will vary from time to time. Thursday through Saturday is the best time to sell stuff, Sun eve through Tuesday is the worst.
For example, you collect some "Large Fangs" from StrangleThorn Vale. They're white, but you might be tempted to sell them to the vendor. DON'T!! Looking at your Auctioneer tooltip you might notice that they sell for around 1 gold each (which they really do.)
Ship them to your banker and have that character search the Auction House. Find out what the going price seems to be (which may even be more than 1 gold each) and price those teeth appropriately. Price too high and they don't sell, price too low and I'll buy them and resell them at a (much) higher price.
Keep your eyes open for the prices of items as you gather them and you'll start to learn what to gather, how to best sell it, and how to make some serious gold.
If you really want to learn all the gold making ticks and tricks you'll look at this Warcraft Millionaire dude, who's hit the gold cap on four characters. That's close to 1 million gold.
Now, some people are pretty clued in on how to make gold in WoW and some have actually made a business of it. They farm the items that they then sell to vendors or other players, amass large amounts of gold, then sell that gold to players for real cash. Some go insane and hit the wow gold cap. Yes, there really is such a thing.
Blizzard, the Creator of WoW, frowns on buying gold (and items,) by the way, and has been known to ban the accounts of people who do so.
So for the rest of us here's a short guide on how to increase your World of Warcraft Gold account.
Auctioneer is essential
Download the Auctioneer Addon (google it) and install the thing. You want the full suite and you'll want to read the documentation and learn how to use it. Why? You'll find that it's a really big help in learning the market for your server, which is an essential step to making real gold.
Make Your Banker
Make an alternate character as your dedicated banker. You'll take this character to level 5 (class and race don't matter) and take it to the nearest big city. Then pick up the "enchanting" skill, which you'll use to disenchant low level items.
Your banker will never level again (unless you want to buy up that enchanting skill someday.)
All your other characters will use the banker to sell their stuff, buy stuff, and send stuff here and there. Find a stack of ore? Hit the nearest mailbox and send it to the banker to sell. A pile of green items from your last instance run? Off to the banker.
Need gear for your main character? Your banker buys it and mails it off to you. Need more storage space? Use the mailbox. Mail stuff to your banker, the banker returns it, and you let it sit in the mailbox until you need it.
Gathering the gold
Pick up Mining and Skinning as your two professions (make sure you buy a pick and a skinning knife!) Skin everything that's skinnable all the way to level 70. Skins always sell well and some sell for several gold per stack of 20. Some of the Outlands skins sell for several gold each.
Ore is all over the place. Start with copper and mine everything you can. Use your "smelting" skill to smelt the ore into bars which will drive up your mining skill. Ore always sells well, the better stacks going for 30 gold or so each, but those Outland skins are far more valuable.
Gathering Items
The Gatherer Addon is a big help here in that it will mark your map as you find stuff, so you can do efficient gathering routes later on.
As you kill, main, and slaughter your way across Azeroth and the Outlands you will see plenty of item drops in addition to the skins you pick up. The item names will be colored grey, white, green, blue (rare), and purple (really really rare.)
Everything white or better goes to your banker (unless your main can use it) for sale on the Auction House. Many green items won't sell very well so those should be disenchanted into their magical parts and those parts are then sold.
Learn the Auction House.
Use Auctioneer and your own observations to best estimate the best price to sell any particular item, which will vary from time to time. Thursday through Saturday is the best time to sell stuff, Sun eve through Tuesday is the worst.
For example, you collect some "Large Fangs" from StrangleThorn Vale. They're white, but you might be tempted to sell them to the vendor. DON'T!! Looking at your Auctioneer tooltip you might notice that they sell for around 1 gold each (which they really do.)
Ship them to your banker and have that character search the Auction House. Find out what the going price seems to be (which may even be more than 1 gold each) and price those teeth appropriately. Price too high and they don't sell, price too low and I'll buy them and resell them at a (much) higher price.
Keep your eyes open for the prices of items as you gather them and you'll start to learn what to gather, how to best sell it, and how to make some serious gold.
If you really want to learn all the gold making ticks and tricks you'll look at this Warcraft Millionaire dude, who's hit the gold cap on four characters. That's close to 1 million gold.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Wrath of the Lich King Pre Order
Amazon has the Wrath of the Lich King World of Warcaft expansion up for pre-order. Details here: Wrath of the Lich King expansion
Being able to level to 80 will be one of the features of the expansion. The EliteWoW guys will be one of the first to have the 70-80 leveling guides, for both Ally and Horde, with a free upgrade, so you're covered if you grab yours now.
Being able to level to 80 will be one of the features of the expansion. The EliteWoW guys will be one of the first to have the 70-80 leveling guides, for both Ally and Horde, with a free upgrade, so you're covered if you grab yours now.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Rogueish Cunning Blade Quests
Rogues in the World of Warcraft have an optional quest, not at all required, which has a nice dagger as a reward, the Cunning Blade. Each race has a very different quest to do in their own native area, so the Blood Elves will never cross paths with the Trolls and neither will ever see a Night Elf.
The quests aren't hard if you remember to sneak up on the target from behind. Also, your Sap ability is your friend.
Here's a complete walk through of each of the Cunning Blade quests for each race, with tips to make the hard parts a little easier:
Level 10 Rogue Cunning Blade quests
The quests aren't hard if you remember to sneak up on the target from behind. Also, your Sap ability is your friend.
Here's a complete walk through of each of the Cunning Blade quests for each race, with tips to make the hard parts a little easier:
Level 10 Rogue Cunning Blade quests
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Power Leveling Your Characters - Hot or Not?
Power leveling - Loved and hated by many. Passionate believers on both sides advocate for it and curse at it. So what is it?
Once upon a time games game with a variety of cheat codes which would allow a variety of different goodies to be had by one's character. FOr example, Doom: enter a code and you're in God Mode. You'll take no damage. Enter another code and you'll have infinite ammo.
In other game you might enter a code and now your character is much higher level. Of course, since these are single player games no one really cares if you cheat your way to the end. Besides, a little God Mode was great fun from time to time, especially after getting one's butt kicked repeatedly.
Things are a bit different in the modern day MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.) These games require, usually, a monthly fee, have thousands of people playing at any one time, and what you do can easily have some effect on other players.
There aren't, usually, any cheat codes either. Those that pop up are quickly stomped out by the Developers. So a replacement had to be found and one of the replacements is Power Leveling.
Power leveling is the process of getting your character leveled faster, generally much faster, then the normal game system allows. World of Warcraft, for example, has the 70 (soon to be 80) levels. I think they're great fun to blast through, at least the first few times, but some people have other opinions.
Perhaps they have several high levels characters and are tired of the leveling grind. Perhaps they're fairly new to the game, but all their pals are playing the high levels and they want to join in. And maybe they just have a short attention span, little interest in the game, and they just want to jump to the end game and play there (and will usually quit soon after. )
Can you see a need here? Some people did and so the Power Leveling services were born. Basically the service takes your money, plays your level 1 character, and a couple of weeks (real time) later you get a brand spanking new level 70 (if it's for World of Warcraft) character. If you paid even more money that character might even have some killer gear.
Fnding a power leveling service is easy. Go to Google and enter something like this: "WoW Power Leveling" or "Guild Wars Powerleveling" or... Well, you get the idea. Be prepared to spend at least $100 for WoW power leveling, a lot more if you want all the goodies.
An even faster route is to just buy a character/account off of ebay.com. Just hop over to ebay, find an account you like, pay a few hundred bucks, trust the seller, and you have a new character to play.
There are a couple of issues here. One is that if you're new to the game you will find that despite having a brand spanking new level 70, maybe even with nice gear, that you will get your behind handed to you by every monster in the game. Teams also just can't stand players who have no clue about their characters, so you won't last long in teams before being punted. And don't even think about PvP.
The other issue is that Power Leveling and the buying of accounts are both against the Blizzard terms of service, so they are within their rights to ban you from the game. You don't get you money back, either. The odds of it happening are small, but who cares what the odds are if it happens to you?
So the plusses of the two methods above are that you get a high level character (for whichever game,) in far less time than you could do it yourself, at the cost of a few bucks. The downside is that you'll get pwned by everything until you get your character figured out. Oh yes, plus the risk of a ban.
Another method of power leveling (in World of Warcraft,) that’s far safer for your account, requires either two accounts or a helpful high level player who can clear dungeons rapidly. High and low levels team up, the high level kills everything in the dungeon and the low level cleans up on the XP.
It’s tedious, but you’ll level fast. You won’t have a clue as to how to play your higher level character, but you’ll have the gear from the dungeons. Spend some time learning your character and you’ll be ok, with no chance of a ban.
For the average player, who doesn’t have a helpful guild willing to power level him, and isn’t willing to shell out the dough (and risk a ban) there is a very solid alternative.
Grab a copy of a WoW leveling guide, for example and power level yourself. It's not as fast as the dungeon grind, but it's far superior to figuring out a fast leveling path by yourself. A good guide will show you a step by step path to getting leveled fast at a fraction of the cost of buying a power leveling service or a character off ebay. You’ll also have the benefit of having a much better understanding of your character, having played it through all the levels.
There are several of these guides available. Some are Adobe PDFs, so you’ll switch back and forth from the game to the guide, or grab a clipboard and print the guide. Check off the steps as you go.
Other guides are in-game, even to the point of displaying on your main screen and literally pointing to the next place to go.
Check them out, see what works for you, and get leveled fast!
Once upon a time games game with a variety of cheat codes which would allow a variety of different goodies to be had by one's character. FOr example, Doom: enter a code and you're in God Mode. You'll take no damage. Enter another code and you'll have infinite ammo.
In other game you might enter a code and now your character is much higher level. Of course, since these are single player games no one really cares if you cheat your way to the end. Besides, a little God Mode was great fun from time to time, especially after getting one's butt kicked repeatedly.
Things are a bit different in the modern day MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.) These games require, usually, a monthly fee, have thousands of people playing at any one time, and what you do can easily have some effect on other players.
There aren't, usually, any cheat codes either. Those that pop up are quickly stomped out by the Developers. So a replacement had to be found and one of the replacements is Power Leveling.
Power leveling is the process of getting your character leveled faster, generally much faster, then the normal game system allows. World of Warcraft, for example, has the 70 (soon to be 80) levels. I think they're great fun to blast through, at least the first few times, but some people have other opinions.
Perhaps they have several high levels characters and are tired of the leveling grind. Perhaps they're fairly new to the game, but all their pals are playing the high levels and they want to join in. And maybe they just have a short attention span, little interest in the game, and they just want to jump to the end game and play there (and will usually quit soon after. )
Can you see a need here? Some people did and so the Power Leveling services were born. Basically the service takes your money, plays your level 1 character, and a couple of weeks (real time) later you get a brand spanking new level 70 (if it's for World of Warcraft) character. If you paid even more money that character might even have some killer gear.
Fnding a power leveling service is easy. Go to Google and enter something like this: "WoW Power Leveling" or "Guild Wars Powerleveling" or... Well, you get the idea. Be prepared to spend at least $100 for WoW power leveling, a lot more if you want all the goodies.
An even faster route is to just buy a character/account off of ebay.com. Just hop over to ebay, find an account you like, pay a few hundred bucks, trust the seller, and you have a new character to play.
There are a couple of issues here. One is that if you're new to the game you will find that despite having a brand spanking new level 70, maybe even with nice gear, that you will get your behind handed to you by every monster in the game. Teams also just can't stand players who have no clue about their characters, so you won't last long in teams before being punted. And don't even think about PvP.
The other issue is that Power Leveling and the buying of accounts are both against the Blizzard terms of service, so they are within their rights to ban you from the game. You don't get you money back, either. The odds of it happening are small, but who cares what the odds are if it happens to you?
So the plusses of the two methods above are that you get a high level character (for whichever game,) in far less time than you could do it yourself, at the cost of a few bucks. The downside is that you'll get pwned by everything until you get your character figured out. Oh yes, plus the risk of a ban.
Another method of power leveling (in World of Warcraft,) that’s far safer for your account, requires either two accounts or a helpful high level player who can clear dungeons rapidly. High and low levels team up, the high level kills everything in the dungeon and the low level cleans up on the XP.
It’s tedious, but you’ll level fast. You won’t have a clue as to how to play your higher level character, but you’ll have the gear from the dungeons. Spend some time learning your character and you’ll be ok, with no chance of a ban.
For the average player, who doesn’t have a helpful guild willing to power level him, and isn’t willing to shell out the dough (and risk a ban) there is a very solid alternative.
Grab a copy of a WoW leveling guide, for example and power level yourself. It's not as fast as the dungeon grind, but it's far superior to figuring out a fast leveling path by yourself. A good guide will show you a step by step path to getting leveled fast at a fraction of the cost of buying a power leveling service or a character off ebay. You’ll also have the benefit of having a much better understanding of your character, having played it through all the levels.
There are several of these guides available. Some are Adobe PDFs, so you’ll switch back and forth from the game to the guide, or grab a clipboard and print the guide. Check off the steps as you go.
Other guides are in-game, even to the point of displaying on your main screen and literally pointing to the next place to go.
Check them out, see what works for you, and get leveled fast!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Elite WoW Leveling Guide
The EliteWoW Guide Review
For Horde and Alliance, this is killer guide. It gives you an easy to follow path that covers every step of the way from level 1 to 70, whether you're Alliance or Horde, and no matter which race your character happens to be.
Biggest minus - It's not a fully in-game guide, so you will have to switch back and forth from the main map to look up coordinates and set waypoints. Not a big thing, but it adds some time if you're speed leveling.
Biggest plus - A good path that will get you leveled as fast as any guide out there fast and the price is lower than the competition, much lower than some.
What you get - The EliteWoW Leveling Guide is an Abobe PDF with the leveling path to take you from level 1 to level 70. It includes the starting areas for each race. Each Horde race will start in its own area, level to 13, then head out to the barrens where they all follow the same path. Personally, I feel that the Blood Elves should go to the Ghostlands for the run up to 21, since the leveling there is faster. The again, I'm not writing the guide. :)
Alliance will all level in their respective areas until 11, then head to Westfall, except for the Draenei who will stick with their own areas until 20, then all Ally will follow the same path for the rest of their leveling.
Each step in the guide is bulleted (see below,) so you'll just go from bullet to bullet and level, do the steps, and level fast.
Every quest is linked to Thottbot.com for more info, if you need it. Click the link and you'll see what Thottbot has to say about that quest and what comments Thottbot users have made (usually quote a few.)
On the (Meta) Map
Every quest that has a coordinate is listed in the MetaMap coordinates, so you can go to your map, scroll down the coordinate list, left click the coordinate in the list and you'll see a glowing dot on the map. Right click the glowing spot and set you waypoint, then off you go.
The MetaMap is an addon to your game and complete, easy to follow, installation instructions are provided.
One quibble: The entire guide is a list which is not broken up by any images or chapter headings. Since it's an Adobe PDF you can search for where you want to go, Shimmering Flats, for example, but chapter or sections headings, linked to from a table of contents would be nice.
Here's a shot from the Elite WoW Guide for the Dwarf/Gnome starting area. Note the list of steps, the links to Thottbot.com, and the coordinates. All the coordinates can be found on the main map if you've installed the MetaMap addon.
This is your main map with the EliteWow MetaMap addon installed. The list of coordinates from the guide is on the right side and you'll note the dots scattered about the map. Right click any of the dots, set a waypoint, and off you go.
The MetaMap "Add/Edit Note" window. You can make your own map markers and you can edit any other market, including the ones that are part of the guide.
Open up the guide and you'll see some leveling tips and then you're right into the guide. Pick your race, click the link, and off you go.
Many people print the guide, put it on a clipboard, and cross off each step as they do it. This lets youi keep track of exactly where you are in the guide and you'll find yourself leveling at a much faster rate that you eve have before. If you take a week-long break youi will be able to pick up right where you left off.
And the price! Zygor's Guide is $50 for either Horde or Alliance. iDemise, Joana, and Brian's Guides are all in the $35 to $38 range for Alliance or Horde, and the Elite WoW Guide is $40 for the combined Horde and Alliance guides.
Wondering about whether the Elite WOW guides will become obsolete with the new patch and the new level 80 cap? Here's what they have to say about that:
A killer guide at a great price. Click here, get yours and get leveld fast.
For Horde and Alliance, this is killer guide. It gives you an easy to follow path that covers every step of the way from level 1 to 70, whether you're Alliance or Horde, and no matter which race your character happens to be.
Biggest minus - It's not a fully in-game guide, so you will have to switch back and forth from the main map to look up coordinates and set waypoints. Not a big thing, but it adds some time if you're speed leveling.
Biggest plus - A good path that will get you leveled as fast as any guide out there fast and the price is lower than the competition, much lower than some.
What you get - The EliteWoW Leveling Guide is an Abobe PDF with the leveling path to take you from level 1 to level 70. It includes the starting areas for each race. Each Horde race will start in its own area, level to 13, then head out to the barrens where they all follow the same path. Personally, I feel that the Blood Elves should go to the Ghostlands for the run up to 21, since the leveling there is faster. The again, I'm not writing the guide. :)
Alliance will all level in their respective areas until 11, then head to Westfall, except for the Draenei who will stick with their own areas until 20, then all Ally will follow the same path for the rest of their leveling.
Each step in the guide is bulleted (see below,) so you'll just go from bullet to bullet and level, do the steps, and level fast.
Every quest is linked to Thottbot.com for more info, if you need it. Click the link and you'll see what Thottbot has to say about that quest and what comments Thottbot users have made (usually quote a few.)
On the (Meta) Map
Every quest that has a coordinate is listed in the MetaMap coordinates, so you can go to your map, scroll down the coordinate list, left click the coordinate in the list and you'll see a glowing dot on the map. Right click the glowing spot and set you waypoint, then off you go.
The MetaMap is an addon to your game and complete, easy to follow, installation instructions are provided.
One quibble: The entire guide is a list which is not broken up by any images or chapter headings. Since it's an Adobe PDF you can search for where you want to go, Shimmering Flats, for example, but chapter or sections headings, linked to from a table of contents would be nice.
Here's a shot from the Elite WoW Guide for the Dwarf/Gnome starting area. Note the list of steps, the links to Thottbot.com, and the coordinates. All the coordinates can be found on the main map if you've installed the MetaMap addon.
This is your main map with the EliteWow MetaMap addon installed. The list of coordinates from the guide is on the right side and you'll note the dots scattered about the map. Right click any of the dots, set a waypoint, and off you go.
The MetaMap "Add/Edit Note" window. You can make your own map markers and you can edit any other market, including the ones that are part of the guide.
Open up the guide and you'll see some leveling tips and then you're right into the guide. Pick your race, click the link, and off you go.
Many people print the guide, put it on a clipboard, and cross off each step as they do it. This lets youi keep track of exactly where you are in the guide and you'll find yourself leveling at a much faster rate that you eve have before. If you take a week-long break youi will be able to pick up right where you left off.
And the price! Zygor's Guide is $50 for either Horde or Alliance. iDemise, Joana, and Brian's Guides are all in the $35 to $38 range for Alliance or Horde, and the Elite WoW Guide is $40 for the combined Horde and Alliance guides.
Wondering about whether the Elite WOW guides will become obsolete with the new patch and the new level 80 cap? Here's what they have to say about that:
We will make sure all our customers receive updates of new guides, this includes the current Elite WoW 1-70 Guides and future 1-80 WoW guides for the next World of Warcraft expansion: Wrath of the Lich King!
A killer guide at a great price. Click here, get yours and get leveld fast.
So What Is the World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft (WoW) is the latest game in a long line of Blizzard successes, from adventure game like Diablo, to "Real Time Strategy" (RTS) games such as Warcraft I, II, and III. All of these games are still played by millions of people worldwide.
WoW is very different from the RTS style of the other Warcraft games. Like the adventure games players control a character within a game world, exploring the landscape, fighting monsters and carrying out quests through their characters.The major difference is that literally thousands of people can be playing the same game at the same time, interacting with each other. It's an entire virtual multiplayer world, referred to as an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.)
The game rewards success through money earned, items (loot) gained, and experience which allows players to develop their skill and power. Players will level from 1-70 and then have the option of participating is the game's "end-game" content. Among other things, players may take part in battles against other players, including duels, and fights against player characters allied with an enemy faction. This can be done with both the Horde and Alliance factions.
Most of the quests in the game are done while leveling and can be completed alone, without the help of other players. Unlike some MMORPGs, World of Warcraft is a very solo friendly game. Teaming has its benefits as well, besides being more social, teaming allows the player to tackle other sections of WoW, such as its dungeon areas, which are designed to require players to work in a team to succeed.
Any group of players, from 2 to 40, may assault a dungeon. Some of the dungeons (instances) are intended for low level players in groups of five, and can be soloed by high level players, but the highest level and most complex dungeons are designed to take entire guilds, of level 70 characters, months of game play and many attempts in order for them to succeed.
With the Burning Crusade expansion having been released, which allowed players to hit level 70, and partake in greater raids, the gaming experience of WoW players across the globe has only been enhanced. The upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, will allow players to hit level 80 and will have much tougher raids and end-game content.
If you want to really enjoy WoW and learn the fastest way to get from 1-70 (or 80,) then check out the Elite WoW Leveling Guides. These guides have been written for both Horde and Alliance players and include easy step by step instructions on where to go and what to do to reach the highests level as rapidly as possible.
WoW is very different from the RTS style of the other Warcraft games. Like the adventure games players control a character within a game world, exploring the landscape, fighting monsters and carrying out quests through their characters.The major difference is that literally thousands of people can be playing the same game at the same time, interacting with each other. It's an entire virtual multiplayer world, referred to as an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.)
The game rewards success through money earned, items (loot) gained, and experience which allows players to develop their skill and power. Players will level from 1-70 and then have the option of participating is the game's "end-game" content. Among other things, players may take part in battles against other players, including duels, and fights against player characters allied with an enemy faction. This can be done with both the Horde and Alliance factions.
Most of the quests in the game are done while leveling and can be completed alone, without the help of other players. Unlike some MMORPGs, World of Warcraft is a very solo friendly game. Teaming has its benefits as well, besides being more social, teaming allows the player to tackle other sections of WoW, such as its dungeon areas, which are designed to require players to work in a team to succeed.
Any group of players, from 2 to 40, may assault a dungeon. Some of the dungeons (instances) are intended for low level players in groups of five, and can be soloed by high level players, but the highest level and most complex dungeons are designed to take entire guilds, of level 70 characters, months of game play and many attempts in order for them to succeed.
With the Burning Crusade expansion having been released, which allowed players to hit level 70, and partake in greater raids, the gaming experience of WoW players across the globe has only been enhanced. The upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, will allow players to hit level 80 and will have much tougher raids and end-game content.
If you want to really enjoy WoW and learn the fastest way to get from 1-70 (or 80,) then check out the Elite WoW Leveling Guides. These guides have been written for both Horde and Alliance players and include easy step by step instructions on where to go and what to do to reach the highests level as rapidly as possible.
To Buy WoW Gold or Not to Buy WoW Gold
World of Warcraft is without a doubt the most popular of the many MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game), with enough leveling and gold making being available through quests to give even the most hardcore player plenty to do. WoW can be played without having lots of gold, but it certainly helps if you have enough gold to spend freely on goods and services.
Mounts aren't essential, but they're really nice to have, and the level 60 and 70 mounts require some fairly serious cash. Top of the line gear isn't essential, unless you're raiding or doing higher end PvP, but it will speed up your leveling in that you'll kill faster and have less downtime. If you want to "twink" any of youir characters that will require serious gold.
In the World of Warcraft, your life is almost dependant on having enough gold. It can help you level from 1-70 and gives you an advantage over enemies. And if you have some gold, then you can make more gold (through buying and re-selling of items.)
Making gold is not as easy as some World of Warcraft players might think. Blizzard deliberately made it like that, since they want the player to earn his loot, but where there's a will, there's a way, and there are a variety of ways to make enough gold to enjoy the game.
One method is to buying in-game gold with real cash from people they know or from someone that has advertised their service (gold sellers) on the internet.
Buying World of Warcraft gold has it's benefits: it will help you advance through the game faster and easier than without it, and it will help you power level your character from 1-60 or 1-70, depending on whether or not you have the expansion pack. Get the new expansion "Wrath of the Lich King," which most likely comes out in late '08, and you'll be leveling to 80.
But should you buy gold? One of the objectives of many a WoW player is to find or farm as much gold as possible. But what if you simply buy the WoW gold from a World of Warcraft gold vendor off a website? If your real world cash flow allows, why not just buy a pile of gold to buy your epic mounts, leveling gear, potions, etc?
If people can play World of Warcraft for hours on end, then why all the fuss about buying and selling gold? If you are one of those players that has more cash than time, buying gold can actually help you get more fun out of WoW. There is a good and a bad associated with everything, and World of Warcraft is no exception to this.
So should you buy gold, or not? The one real glitch to buying gold, aside from being accused of cheating by other players, is that buying gold is against the Blizzard Terms of Service. Buying "any" in-game item, character, or asset, with real money, is against their rules and they can, and sometimes do, ban the accounts of people who do the buying (and the selling.)
There's also the issue that some gold sellers are less than reputable, so if you're buying gold it'll pay to do some due dilegence on the seller.
The only person who can answer the "Should I by gold?" question is you. The certainty of fast in-game cash (for real money) weighed against the possibility of an account ban or the chance of getting scammed.
The people behind Elite WoW claim to have always done it the real way, by leveling fast and earning gold as a result of being a high level WoW player. If your interested in leveling fast, then you should by all means check them out.
Mounts aren't essential, but they're really nice to have, and the level 60 and 70 mounts require some fairly serious cash. Top of the line gear isn't essential, unless you're raiding or doing higher end PvP, but it will speed up your leveling in that you'll kill faster and have less downtime. If you want to "twink" any of youir characters that will require serious gold.
In the World of Warcraft, your life is almost dependant on having enough gold. It can help you level from 1-70 and gives you an advantage over enemies. And if you have some gold, then you can make more gold (through buying and re-selling of items.)
Making gold is not as easy as some World of Warcraft players might think. Blizzard deliberately made it like that, since they want the player to earn his loot, but where there's a will, there's a way, and there are a variety of ways to make enough gold to enjoy the game.
One method is to buying in-game gold with real cash from people they know or from someone that has advertised their service (gold sellers) on the internet.
Buying World of Warcraft gold has it's benefits: it will help you advance through the game faster and easier than without it, and it will help you power level your character from 1-60 or 1-70, depending on whether or not you have the expansion pack. Get the new expansion "Wrath of the Lich King," which most likely comes out in late '08, and you'll be leveling to 80.
But should you buy gold? One of the objectives of many a WoW player is to find or farm as much gold as possible. But what if you simply buy the WoW gold from a World of Warcraft gold vendor off a website? If your real world cash flow allows, why not just buy a pile of gold to buy your epic mounts, leveling gear, potions, etc?
If people can play World of Warcraft for hours on end, then why all the fuss about buying and selling gold? If you are one of those players that has more cash than time, buying gold can actually help you get more fun out of WoW. There is a good and a bad associated with everything, and World of Warcraft is no exception to this.
So should you buy gold, or not? The one real glitch to buying gold, aside from being accused of cheating by other players, is that buying gold is against the Blizzard Terms of Service. Buying "any" in-game item, character, or asset, with real money, is against their rules and they can, and sometimes do, ban the accounts of people who do the buying (and the selling.)
There's also the issue that some gold sellers are less than reputable, so if you're buying gold it'll pay to do some due dilegence on the seller.
The only person who can answer the "Should I by gold?" question is you. The certainty of fast in-game cash (for real money) weighed against the possibility of an account ban or the chance of getting scammed.
The people behind Elite WoW claim to have always done it the real way, by leveling fast and earning gold as a result of being a high level WoW player. If your interested in leveling fast, then you should by all means check them out.
WoW Leveling - How to Get Banned
A Grind Bot is a program that runs on your computer and plays your WoW character without your intervention. Players use farm or grind bots to avoid the "tedium" of leveling their own characters, or to grind and farm gold for them while they are away from their computer.
Essentially, the bot plays their character for them in World of Warcraft. Some players consider using bots when playing the World of Warcraft, but remember, grind bots are against the rules in WoW as set by Blizzard, and they will eventually get your account banned.
Blizzard has actually won a lawsuit against the manufacturer of one of the best know bots, Glider, to stop their bot program from being distributed.
Farm bots work by camping at productive grind spots, making it difficult for honest WoW players to make gold by ruining their gaming experience. Some of these farm bots will attack other players, other just clean the areas out, leveling nothing for honest players.
Imagine the pain when you get your character to level 68 or 69 and then you get banned. Don't waste your time with bots. Get the Elite WoW Guide which will not only get you leveling faster but you will also find that making gold will become easier than ever.
Essentially, the bot plays their character for them in World of Warcraft. Some players consider using bots when playing the World of Warcraft, but remember, grind bots are against the rules in WoW as set by Blizzard, and they will eventually get your account banned.
Blizzard has actually won a lawsuit against the manufacturer of one of the best know bots, Glider, to stop their bot program from being distributed.
Farm bots work by camping at productive grind spots, making it difficult for honest WoW players to make gold by ruining their gaming experience. Some of these farm bots will attack other players, other just clean the areas out, leveling nothing for honest players.
Imagine the pain when you get your character to level 68 or 69 and then you get banned. Don't waste your time with bots. Get the Elite WoW Guide which will not only get you leveling faster but you will also find that making gold will become easier than ever.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Massive WoW Gold Really Is More Fun
When I'm browsing the Auction House I like to be able to buy the interesting items when I see them, whatever they happen to be. To do that, of course, I have to have enough gold.
I used to farm the stuff, using my 70 rogue. You know the deal - mine for this, skin that, kill the mobs for the drops, etc. Why can't I use my 70(s) for the fun stuff?
Now you can - use the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint. Build a small network of low level characters, on both factions if you have two accounts, and build you gold stash at a rate that far exceeds what you can do through your gold farming.
Here are teh details, check it out: the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint
I used to farm the stuff, using my 70 rogue. You know the deal - mine for this, skin that, kill the mobs for the drops, etc. Why can't I use my 70(s) for the fun stuff?
Now you can - use the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint. Build a small network of low level characters, on both factions if you have two accounts, and build you gold stash at a rate that far exceeds what you can do through your gold farming.
Here are teh details, check it out: the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint
Monday, June 30, 2008
The Rogue Poison Quest
Rogues and poisons. Well, they do have talents labeled Assassination, so it seems perfectly natural, right? All a Rogue has to do is a little quest and she can apply poisons to her weapons. These poisons can slow movement, slow thinking (spell casting,) or do either instant damage or damage over time (DoT.)
For a complete walkthrough of these quests you can go here: Rogue Poison Quest, but the basics are below. The quest can be obtained at level 20. Alliance has it easy, Horde Rogues will need a buddy or two, or otherwise be able to handle a 23 Elite.
By the way, unlike the lockpicking quest, this quest is required to get the poison skill.
Horde -
For a complete walkthrough of these quests you can go here: Rogue Poison Quest, but the basics are below. The quest can be obtained at level 20. Alliance has it easy, Horde Rogues will need a buddy or two, or otherwise be able to handle a 23 Elite.
By the way, unlike the lockpicking quest, this quest is required to get the poison skill.
Horde -
- Talk to the Rogue Trainer Shenthul, in Orgrimmar
- He'll have you do the secret salute then give you a quest. Accept it.
- Go to the Sludge Fens in the Northern Barrens, and find Fizzule
- Use your flare gun, as instructed, and salute him.
- He'll tell you what to do next.
- Go to the tower just west of you
- Pickpocket Foreman Silixiz at the base of the tower and get his key
- Kill the guys you need to kill and go to the top of the tower.
- Kill Gallywix (23 Elite) and open the chest. (You can pick the lock of that chest continuously if you want to work up your lockpicking skill.)
- Dispell the poison affilcting you with an anti-venom (if you have one)
- Go back to Shenthul and hand it in
- He'll send you to Tarren Mills to finish up and get the poison dispelled.
- The Alliance version is much easier that then Horde version.
- Talk to Mathias, the leader of SI:7 in Stormwind. He’ll give you the quest Mathias and the Defias
- Head to Westfall and go to the south east corner to talk to Agent Kearnan.
- The agent is very trusting, so you don't need a special salute or anything.
- You'll get the quest to enter the tower.
- Pickpocket the guy at the base of the tower and head up.
- Sap or kill Klaven at the top of the tower and open the chest (You'll be poisoned.) By the way, you can't continuously pick that lock. Just the one time is it.
- Dispell the poison with an anti-venom and head back to Mathias. He'll give you your poison skill.
- If you need to have the Touch of Zanzil dispelled he'll send you downstairs to the Doc.
- Note that you don't have to kill anything to do this quest.
Rogue Lockpicking, the Basics
The World of Warcraft Rogue has a unique ability - picking locks. This allows the Rogue to open chests, footlockers, and doors that would be otherwise inaccessible short of using a seaforium charge. Rogue's can also pickpocket boxes off humanoid mobs.
Here's a link to a complete Rogue lockpicking guide, but you can get the basics below.
Horde (Blood Elves can do this one or their own in the Ghostlands) -
Ask your Rogue trainer where you can go to level up your skills.
Also, pickpocket humanoid mobs for lockboxes. Open the boxes to level your skill and get Rogue poison materials. Every once in a great while these boxes will also contain more interesting items, but they're rare.
Here's a link to a complete Rogue lockpicking guide, but you can get the basics below.
Horde (Blood Elves can do this one or their own in the Ghostlands) -
- Head to Ratchet and talk to Wrentex the Wretched to get the lockpicking quest
- Get your tools and an ECAC from the device next to him.
- Head south along the coast to a ship parked up against the shore.
- Run up the bow spike and go to the stern and enter.
- Pick the locks there until your skill is at least 80.
- Head downstairs, to the bottom, find the chest at the back.
- open it, get the item, activate your ECAC
- kill the level 18 parrot in the next room (it'll be level 50 if you don't use the ECAC)
- Return to Wrentix and hand in.
- Get to Lakeshore (in Redridge) and talk to Lucius.
- He'll give you your tools and send you to Alther's Mill, to the east.
- Once you hit the mill, pick the practice locks till your skill is at least 80 then open the main chest.
- Return to Lucius and complete the quest. You'll reeive your certificate of Thievery and get some snide remarks.
Ask your Rogue trainer where you can go to level up your skills.
Also, pickpocket humanoid mobs for lockboxes. Open the boxes to level your skill and get Rogue poison materials. Every once in a great while these boxes will also contain more interesting items, but they're rare.
Zygor's Leveling Guide for Horde and Alliance
Given the thousands of quests in the World of Warcraft is it any wonder that people will choose to endlessly grind mobs (humanoids, monsters, beasts) in order to level?
When questing it's easy to get lost or find yourself traveling hither and yon in order to finish the quests. Many quests provide inadequate info which means that you can't head straight over to your objective.
Yet quests provide a lot of bonus XP as well as the occasional item, some of which are quite nice. They also provide relief from the endless grind.
This is why people pick up one of the many quest guides that are available. Quest guides are much like the strategy guides that you get from the store for your favorite console games. They tell you where to go, what to do, and in what order.
Some or these guides are websites, some are Adobe PDF documents, and some are in-game widgets that stay on your main screen. Zygor's is the latter. Not only does it remain on your main screen, but...
When questing it's easy to get lost or find yourself traveling hither and yon in order to finish the quests. Many quests provide inadequate info which means that you can't head straight over to your objective.
Yet quests provide a lot of bonus XP as well as the occasional item, some of which are quite nice. They also provide relief from the endless grind.
This is why people pick up one of the many quest guides that are available. Quest guides are much like the strategy guides that you get from the store for your favorite console games. They tell you where to go, what to do, and in what order.
Some or these guides are websites, some are Adobe PDF documents, and some are in-game widgets that stay on your main screen. Zygor's is the latter. Not only does it remain on your main screen, but...
- The window is resizable and moveable
- It automatically tracks which quest you're on and updates when you finish
- It provides enough info that you almost never have to look anywhere else, not even to your quest log, to be able to finish the quest.
- It provides a waypoiont arrow to the location of every quest objective, and the arrow updates as you reach those objectives.
- Zygor's Leveling Guide review
Friday, June 6, 2008
The Power over Poison, a Druid Quest Walkthrough
Gotta Druid?
New to the class or some of the quests? Several of the Druid quests are rather long and involved, one of those being the poison quest.
Here are the links to a couple of complete poison quest walkthroughs. Hopefully you'll be able to get through these in fine style.
New to the class or some of the quests? Several of the Druid quests are rather long and involved, one of those being the poison quest.
Here are the links to a couple of complete poison quest walkthroughs. Hopefully you'll be able to get through these in fine style.
Reviewing Joana's Horde Leveling Guide
Got a Horde character?
Need to get leveled to kill off some of those slimey alliance fools?
Gotta join your pals in some raids, but you're not high enough level yet?
Then you might want to get your hands on a copy of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide.
Joana's Guide has been around since the beginning of the World of Warcraft and has been regularly updated since then, even for the latest WoW patches.
In fact, with the 2.3 patch update (which allowed for faster leveling) Joana was able to trim several zones out of the guide, since the XP earned there was no longer necessary. (You can still do them if you like.)
If you play a Hunter you'll find a talent build, hot keys, and all the class quests. If you don't play a Hunter you'll still find that Joana's guide will get you to 70 as fast as anything else out there.
So for more info, here's a detailed Joana's Horde Leveling Guide Review.
Need to get leveled to kill off some of those slimey alliance fools?
Gotta join your pals in some raids, but you're not high enough level yet?
Then you might want to get your hands on a copy of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide.
Joana's Guide has been around since the beginning of the World of Warcraft and has been regularly updated since then, even for the latest WoW patches.
In fact, with the 2.3 patch update (which allowed for faster leveling) Joana was able to trim several zones out of the guide, since the XP earned there was no longer necessary. (You can still do them if you like.)
If you play a Hunter you'll find a talent build, hot keys, and all the class quests. If you don't play a Hunter you'll still find that Joana's guide will get you to 70 as fast as anything else out there.
So for more info, here's a detailed Joana's Horde Leveling Guide Review.
Friday, May 23, 2008
The Massive WoW Gold Blueprint, Questions Answered
So what the heck is a Massive WoW Gold Blueprint?
Good Question. Jonathan Kinens, the author, is launching this thing is a few days. It's a ste-by-step guide to making a ton of WoW gold, without using your level 70 as an endless ore gathering machine.
In fact, much of what is done with this guide is done with very low level characters! Want a ton of gold to outfit your level 19 twink? Jon will show you how to get the cash without using your 70(s) or begging from the guild or having some sugar daddy to outfit your twink.
One of the cool things he does is a 30 day speed run to 1000 gold. Starting from 0, on a new server. No help, no gifts, obviously no 70s.
Here's the first of four videos on getting Massive WoW Gold
After watching it, join Jon's notification list and then click through to his blog to ...
What Jon did was take questions from people, from his blog and through email. He collected around 400 questions and answered most of them in a two hour call.
Click here for the audio (in two, 1 hour each, parts.)
Good Question. Jonathan Kinens, the author, is launching this thing is a few days. It's a ste-by-step guide to making a ton of WoW gold, without using your level 70 as an endless ore gathering machine.
In fact, much of what is done with this guide is done with very low level characters! Want a ton of gold to outfit your level 19 twink? Jon will show you how to get the cash without using your 70(s) or begging from the guild or having some sugar daddy to outfit your twink.
One of the cool things he does is a 30 day speed run to 1000 gold. Starting from 0, on a new server. No help, no gifts, obviously no 70s.
Here's the first of four videos on getting Massive WoW Gold
After watching it, join Jon's notification list and then click through to his blog to ...
- get the links to the other videos. and
- enter to win a free copy of the blueprint! I'll leave it to you to find that post on his blog. Don't worry, it's not hidden.
What Jon did was take questions from people, from his blog and through email. He collected around 400 questions and answered most of them in a two hour call.
Click here for the audio (in two, 1 hour each, parts.)
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