At BlizzCon this weekend, Blizzard announced that the next World of Warcraft expansion pack will be called Cataclysm. They also announced some of the new features that will be included in it. You can watch Blizzard’s trailer for Cataclysm here. Here’s a quick summary of the biggest changes:
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Blizzard announces next WoW expansion pack
Sunday, August 23rd, 20096 sure-fire ways to get gold for your first WoW mount
Monday, July 20th, 2009
If you’re fairly new to World of Warcraft, to the point of still trying ot figure out the most efficient ways of leveling, the only way you probably know how to make gold is by selling loot from kills to vendors. Of course, some people beg or dance on mailboxes, but you and I have our dignity, don’t we? So instead, let’s talk about legitimate and even faster ways of earning gold.
Why do you need gold in WoW?
Remember when you got your driver’s license? All you wanted was some wheels to get you around town faster. But your Dad wouldn’t give you the keys unless you earned money to put gas in the tank, right? In WoW it’s pretty much the same thing. For the current WoW patch, you can buy a mount at level 30, which will put you back a total of 45 gold for training and a mount. But when patch 3.2 comes out soon, you’ll be able to get a mount at level 20! You can’t make that kind of gold by selling grays from the starter zones! And with our power-leveling tips on this site, you’ll be getting to level 20 or 30 even faster than most people. So you’d better start learning how to get your cash flow moving.
Learn the Fishing skill and catch Deviate Fish at the ponds in The Barrens called Lushwater Oasis, Stagnant Pools, and Forgotten Pools. These fish sell for big money on most servers and you can get them at any fishing level.- Train two gathering professions and sell everything on the Auction House. (See box to right.)
- Use sites like WoWEcon and Allakhazam to help you set your prices. Remember to choose your server and faction on WoWEcon because every server has a different economy.
- Continue to gather lower-level ores and herbs even if they won’t level up your profession because everyone needs these materials (e.g., Blacksmiths and Engineers always need Copper).
- If you choose Enchanting and you get a green quest reward that you can’t use, disenchant it and sell the shards on the Auction House.
- Use the Auctioneer add-on and read the manual!
You must balance your desire to power-level with the fact that you will absolutely need gold to buy a mount. Obviously, gathering herbs and figuring out Auction House prices takes time away from your power-leveling. On the other hand, what good is it to be level 70 and have no mount??
WoW Add-on Review: Bagnon
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Add-on Review: Bagnon
As I’ve said before on this blog, anything that makes questing in World of Warcraft less frustrating and more fun gets a big thumbs-up in my book. To make things easier in the game, you can find lots of add-ons at places like Curse and WoWInterface. Add-ons are little programs (Blizzard-approved) that you can install to make your WoW life more enjoyable.
Bagnon – A WoW bag organizer
One of my favorite add-ons is called Bagnon. It takes the place of all your different bags and merges them into one big bag so that you can see everything at once. You can even find items with a search box — which comes in very handy at higher levels when your bags are large and you can’t find those pots you need! This add-on is also handy because you don’t have to click multiple times to open all your bags at once: just hit one key (”b”) and you get a window that shows every item you’re carrying. Bagnon even works at the bank, too!
Quest help
I definitely recommend searching for add-ons that will enhance your WoW gaming experience. There are even add-ons that can help you with questing, like pointing you toward the monsters you need to kill or optimizing the order in which you finish your quests. I’ll be reviewing more of these types of add-ons in weeks to come. In the meantime, happy questing!
What’s your WoW gamer psychology?
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Ever wonder why you and some of your World of Warcraft friends don’t necessarily like to do the same things in the game? Maybe you crave the leveling “ding!” and obliterating every monster in your path, but your friend keeps wandering around, exploring every nook and cranny. Or maybe you know someone who’s just nuts about PvP but you can’t stand it.
Well, there’s a reason why some WoW players are so different from each other. A man named Richard Bartle discovered that different gamers have different types of psychological responses to games. He developed a test called the Bartle Test which helps people figure out what their gamer type is.
Review: Zygor Guides vs Warcraft Pros
Sunday, July 5th, 2009I’ve tried a lot of the World of Warcraft guides out there and I’m here to tell you they are not all created equal. You have to know what you’re looking for and do a little research before you can find the best power-leveling guide. In this post I’m going to compare the Zygor Guide with the Warcraft Pros guides so you can understand the differences between them and decide for yourself which one is best for you. (Of course I have my opinion, but I’ll leave that for last!)
10 World of Warcraft abbreviations you need to know
Sunday, June 21st, 2009If you’re a new player who just started playing World of Warcraft, you’ve probably seen a lot of abbreviations in chat that you might not understand. (Obviously, I’m not talking about common ones like LOL or OMG.) There are some terms that are unique to WoW and sometimes asking what they mean can be embarrassing. No problem, I learned a lot about WoW the hard way and I enjoy helping new folks. Read on for your personal decoder ring…!
WoW questing – the problem of redundancy
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Don’t you hate it when you’re questing in World of Warcraft, grooving along and killing some Gnolls, only to go back to the quest giver and realize that you needed something else from those same mobs? Or maybe you saw another quest in your log that wanted you to kill some nearby Zhevras and now you have to run all the way back to where you had already been.
World of Warcraft – the WoW craze
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Many online games have taken a beating recently. Games like Second Life for instance, these games have been losing their hold with the gamers for some time now. But for the World of Warcraft the story is vastly different. It is still continuing in the popularity charts. Gamers from the world over are still hooked in to it.
World of Wracraft Trading – Advice For The WoW Rookie
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009(Great post from WoW Insider. BTW – their site is a great world of wracraft resources. You definitely got to check it out. See link at bottom of post for their full article.)
(Personally, I find the trade chats intimidating. I keep to myself mostly and worry my wracraft skills in trade aren’t up to par so just let it go. This is stupid and you should get over it if you have the same problem.)
Worlds.com Lays Claim to MMOGs
Sunday, March 15th, 2009(Wonder where this will end up. Use the link at the bottom of the page to read the full article.)
Worlds.com claims to hold a patent for the idea of virtual worlds that dates back to 1995 and that could quite literally apply to every 3-D online world currently in existence. In fact, Worlds.com has already taken one MMOG heavyweight to court: Korea-based NCsoft, the company behind games like Lineage and Guild Wars. And while legal expert Ben Buranske, contacted by Business Insider, says the wealth of “prior art” will make the case tough to prove, World.com’s court of choice, the Eastern District of Texas, is notorious for handing heavy damage awards to plaintiffs in cases like this. Nintendo was recently ordered to pay $21 million in damages after a jury in the district found the company had violated 12 patents relating to its controllers held by a small Texas company called Anascape.
