• A completely changed Old World of Azeroth, devastated by floods, earthquakes, and volcanos
• A new profession called Archeology
• Two new races: Goblins for the Horde and Worgen for the Alliance
• New classes available to existing races, like Tauren Paladins and Dwarf Shamans.
• New raids and dungeons, including a Heroic version of Deadmines
• Guild leveling
• Stat changes, like the removal of defense, attack power, and spell power
• A completely revamped talent system

Now, of course, changes to the endgame and an increased level cap mean that you’ll want to get to level 80 as quickly as possible before the expansion comes out – probably in the fall of 2010. Even though there is no release date yet, you don’t want to be caught off guard. You need to get to 80 well ahead of time so that you can start accumulating the gear you’ll need to play the expansion.

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.

1. 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.
2. Train two gathering professions and sell everything on the Auction House. (See box to right.)
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. 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??

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!

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.

The four main gamer types are:

• Explorers - Like to discover new places and see all the sights in the game.
• Achievers - People who want to level quickly as well as rack up Achievement points and gear.
• Socializers - Prefer the human interaction of Guilds and chat, or hanging around in an Inn.
• Killers - People who enjoy beating either monsters or other players.

I’m an Achiever/Killer, which means, basically, that I like to level fast and kill lots of monsters. Of course, because I’m an avid WoW player, I like the social and exploring aspects of the game too, which I enjoy much more now that I’m a high-level player. But the Bartle Test was pretty good at predicting which parts of the game I like best. Cool, huh?

What did the test say your gamer type is? Tell us in the comments.

In my opinion, these WoW guides are geared for entirely different types of people. Zygor is definitely better for people who wish to power-level, while Warcraft Pros is more for people who wish to experiment with different kinds of classes.

Bottom Line: My opinion is that Warcraft Pros is more of a guide for people who like PvP or want to try a new class that they’ve never played before. On the other hand, the Zygor guide can help people of any class power-level faster and does it easier because the in-game add-on points the way for you, rather than flipping the pages of a book next to your monitor.

I hope this list has helped you out a bit. I’ve got tons more of these tips coming up on this blog in future posts. I’ve also written up my story of getting to level 76 in just a few days of game time, which might help you out too.

Other resources:
- Check out my 3 simple tips for reaching level 80 faster.
- Go here for the ultimate source for even more leveling hints.

Another common problem is trying to tackle a quest that’s too hard for your character’s level. Often a quest-giver will allow you to have access to a quest that’s 3 or 4 levels above you and if you try to tackle these solo, you’re in for a lot of frustrating corpse runs.

These are very common problems and I guarantee you that everyone who plays WoW has had to overcome them one way or another. With World of Warcraft leveling, it can take years to garner enough experience to know which quests to do in what order, and which quests can be done concurrently. Either that, or you can get yourself a little help!

Check out: WoW Leveling Guide

So won’t you like to know exactly who these people are these nameless people who are addicted to the most exciting virtual world that ever existed?

Ever since its launch in 2004, World of Warcraft has never lacked popular support. If you try an online search you will be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information on WoW. Everybody is talking of it but nobody knows the secret of the WoW craze.

Check out:  Horde Leveling Guide

(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.)

Just spent half an hour fruitlessly spamming the Trade channel in hopes of getting your new gear enchanted? Maybe (just maybe) the players on your server aren’t the most unfriendly, unhelpful people this side of Silithus. Maybe you simply haven’t figured out the most effective way to use [2:Trade].

According to loyal WoW Insider reader Sarabande, there’s more to successful in-game transactions than simply advising someone to “use the Trade channel for trade.” We agree – so this week, let’s cover some basic tactics to get your sales sold, your portals ported and your enchantments enchanted.

(This posting is from WoW Insider. Click the link to view the full article from its original source.  You find a lot of other world of wracraft tips and tricks. )

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.

“Being a foreign defendant in Texas is not a pleasant thing,” a lawyer familiar with the NCsoft case said. “The juries are, many would say, biased towards American plaintiffs and have a propensity to offer high damages. Some defendants might view them as an unfriendly jury and it might make the defendant more likely to settle.” That could be bad news for companies like Blizzard and Linden Lab, which Kidrin says he is “absolutely” going to sue if his suit against NCsoft is successful.

Worlds.com apparently came into possession of the patents by way of Starbright World, a social network for serious ill children that’s part of the Starlight Starbright Foundation. The patents don’t cover virtual worlds specifically but rather “an architecture for enabling thousands of simultaneous users in a 3D virtual space.” Lawyers from the General Patent Corporation reportedly encouraged Worlds.com management to “aggressively pursue” licensing arrangements with MMOG companies.

Read on at the URL below

Origional Source – http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90098-Patent-Troll-Ready-to-Sue-World-of-Warcraft-Second-Life