Sunday, May 25, 2008

World of Warcraft Leveling Tips



A lot of world of warcraft players are constantly on the look for wow speed leveling tips. As a hardcore gamer of the game since it's inception I have tried and heard just about all the secret ways to level characters in Wow. Some have worked some have not and I hope to show in this quick article exactly what has proven to shave off huge amounts of time from my speed power leveling runs within world of warcraft.

Most power gamers in wow play or have played by mastering and memorizing the steps used within the some of the more popular wow leveling guides such as Joanas Horde Leveling guide and Brian Kopp Alliance guide. This was fine and dandy 2 years ago but these methods no longer are efficient, nor do they allow for multiple playing styles which takes away from having a unique all power character within the game. Here's why

Let's look at the standard playing format used by most world of warcraft players. They are attempting to power a way through a particular zone and you get stuck. Either you forget the steps or just can't quite find that sweet spot for exp, or npc or whatever the case may be. Most wow players simply play the game with their popular leveling guides open in the background. So they simply Alt+Tab over to the guide find what they need then Alt+tab back over into the game and carry on. While this may only take a few seconds or up a minute of total time to do so, playing in this way is not the most efficient means. If you were to total up all the used game time in wow speed leveling using this method and total it up over the course of say 20 levels you quickly see that this can amount to a lot of wasted in game time. In fact when I added this up on my last wow speed leveling run I discovered that I could have easily been a couple levels higher then I was currently if I had found and used a more efficient way to level without Alt tabbing.

With advances in the game and changes to the gui, and with the help of mod developers here's the ultimate world of warcraft leveling tips for any gamer. Stop Alt+tabbing. Plain and simple. Now I know that this isn't exactly very easy to do, but what if you could gain all the information you needed from a world of warcraft leveling guide without having to leave the game at all? What if you could get whatever information you needed for any class, race or what not right from within the game? Again thanks to recent developments this is now possible. All the best information from the popular leveling guides now sits right inside the game as an in-game leveling guide. No more alt tabbing, no more wasted game time. When I used this first in-game leveling system I shaved off 2 full days off my speed leveling runs. This is a huge advantage to anyone looking for secret ways to level characters in wow.

Now obviously one article isn't enough to discuss all the advantages to using an in-game aid such as this which is why I wrote more about it.

T Nantais is a hardcore wow gamer. His discovery of the only in-game world of warcraft speed leveling guide that acts just like a map mod has made the whole difference to his playing style. For more information check out http://www.squidoo.com/ultimate-world-of-warcraft-leveling

Friday, May 16, 2008

From Leading an Army to Becoming a Foot Soldier

Blizzard’s development team faced the daunting task of turning the popular Warcraft real-time strategy experience into a role-playing one. Instead of managing an army, you can now become a foot soldier with the opportunity to work your way up to hero status and near-immortality.

On the Alliance side, you can choose from the Humans, who struggle to maintain a foothold in Azeroth after losing Lordaeron to the Undead; the Night Elves, who planted the giant tree Teldrassil to live in but now find their home dying of disease; and the Dwarves and Gnomes, diminutive in stature but capable of building grand things.

The Horde features the Orcs, who were brought to Azeroth from another world and now find themselves trying to make a new home; the Undead, many of whom rebelled against the Lich King and now find themselves fighting the Alliance under the command of the Banshee Queen, who rules from their Undercity capital below the ruins of Lordaeron; the Tauren, a spiritual race whose members’ imposing girth belies a gentle nature that only becomes violent when provoked; and the Trolls, fierce creatures who have struck up a friendship with the Orcs.

There are nine classes in the game — Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior — but not all eight races have access to all of them. Each race also receives special bonuses, such as the Undead’s ability to breathe underwater and the Dwarves’ increased skill with guns.

We’re on a Mission

Some quests in the game build into a series, with each new mission more dangerous than the last, while others are single tasks. All, however, earn you rewards, in the form of money and/or special items, as well as experience points that help you progress to the next level, which brings with it more power and abilities.

“Much of the story in World of Warcraft is told through quests and, to a lesser extent, the ambience and environment of the zones,” explains Blizzard. “There are literally thousands of quests, through which you learn more about the current state of Azeroth and the continuing threat of the Undead Scourge, remnants of the demon invasion from Warcraft III.”

At higher levels, you can access special dungeons known as “instances,” which are unique to the group you enter it with. (You don’t want to enter them alone.) This allows your party to explore and kill monsters without other groups interfering or swiping all the good loot.

Player, Meet World

Blizzard hosts three types of servers: Role-Playing (RP), where players are encouraged to make their characters act and talk as their races do; Player vs. Player (PvP), where players of opposing factions can freely attack each other, but only in the contested areas of the continents; and Player vs. Environment (PvE), which is the standard version of the game, one where Alliance and Horde characters can attack each other only if their NPCs are attacked first. On none of the servers can characters in opposing factions talk to each other unless they learn those languages, which only happens at very high levels.

No matter which type of server you join (you can create characters on all three, if you want), your character progresses through levels the same way. As he grows in power, he accumulates talent points that he can redeem for incremental advantages. In addition, he can use the money he earns from quests, as well as from selling items he obtains during quests but doesn’t want to keep, to learn class-specific skills and work his way up in two of the nine professions available in the game: alchemy, blacksmithing, enchanting, engineering, herbalism, mining, leatherworking, skinning and tailoring.

Your character can use her professions to create items she can use and wear or sell to the merchants found in towns and cities (or sometimes wandering the roads). For example, she can use mining to obtain metals that she can turn into armor with the blacksmithing profession. (Note, however, that some classes have armor restrictions, so, for example, a Mage or a Warlock couldn’t use the items created with the blacksmithing profession, but they can use the ones sewn together in the tailoring trade.) She can also learn three secondary skills: cooking, fishing and first aid.

It’s All About Who You Know

Your character also gains a reputation for herself as she makes her way through the world. As Blizzard explains: “There are many quests that ask you to kill enemies of a particular faction. For instance, in Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale, if you kill many Bloodsail Buccaneer pirates in the area around the city, your reputation with the Booty Bay goblins will improve, while your reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers will suffer. If you raise your reputation high enough with Booty Bay, merchants there will give you a discount on goods, and you will unlock quests if you have a high enough reputation with certain factions.

“Conversely, if you just enter Booty Bay and begin murdering all the goblin guards there, your reputation with the city will suffer. If it gets low enough, you will no longer be able to enter the town safely. Guards will attack you on sight, and even if you get past them, merchants, flight masters, quest givers and other NPCs will not talk to you.”

On PvP servers, you can pick up dishonor points for slaying opposing NPCs far below your level. Blizzard says: “Make enough of these kills and you will earn so many dishonor points that no NPC will trust you. Your reputation with your own faction will drop so low that your own race will turn against you. Your own guards will attack you on sight, and your own NPCs will not talk to you.”

You can reach as high as level 60, at which point, Blizzard notes, “there will still be a lot of content to entertain you. Maximum level players can go on raids, which are massive dungeons or epic battles with loot, monsters and bosses more spectacular than anything else in the game. Soon we will also add hero classes, which allow characters who hit the cap to continue to advance in power.”

The first ultra-elite monster added to World of Warcraft was Onyxia, a black dragon who can be found deep within the Burning Steppes’ Blackrock Mountain in the Eastern Kingdoms. She and other hideous beasts live in the Molten Core, ready to spit fire at the highest level characters who dare cross their paths. To have even the slightest chance against her and her minions, your party must join up with others to form a raiding party, a massive assault force working in concert.

Sleek modern train.

The Might of Magic. An Undead Mage casts a spell.

Train crashing.

Stranger in a Strange Land. An Undead Warlock wanders into Alliance-held territory alone. Not a good idea.

End of the line.

Attack the Hand that Drains You. A warlock sucks the life from a member of the Alliance.

Map of the United States.

Have a Pint and Sit a Spell. Dwarves catch up on the latest stories of quests both grand and small.

Map of the United States.

Quick Trip Home. Use your hearthstone to teleport you back to your home base.

Onyxia the dragon.

You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry. Equipped with buffs and staring down Onyxia the dragon.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

World Of WarCraft (The Burning Crusade)

World Of WarCraft (The Burning Crusade)

The Burning Crusade is the first expansion for WoW(World of Warcraft). Isay first because I see three more expansions to come. As long as WoWdoesn't lose everyones interest first. It has a price of $40. Some say it is a littlesteep but worth the new goodies in the expansion.

There are two new races. The Blood Elves and The Draenei. The Blood Elvesare partied with the Horde and their final goal is to have the power thatthey had once possesed before the world tree was destroyed. Their classes arePaladin, Mage, Warlock, Rogue, Priest, or a Hunter. Their race abilities areplus 5 to enchanting, a mana tap (alot like life tap), A silence that worksand AOE and A (+5) magic resistence. Blood Elves start above Undercity in asection of land that was unviewable before.

The Draenei are an Alien race that crash landed beside Darnases. What theywant is to grow stronger and retake their homeworld. They were inspired byheroic stories of the aliance fighting the burning Horde. The avalalbleclasses are Paladin, Shaman, Hunter, Priest, and Mage. The Draenei raceabilities are plus 5 to jewlcrafting, All party members get a plus onechance to hit, Shadow resistance (+5) and a small heal for self and partymembers.

The biggest thing that everyone is talking about it the max level has beenraised from 60 to 70. The not so glamorous big change is the introduction ofthe outerland. In the outerlands are 61-70+ elite mobs, five new instancesand flying mounts. The flying mounts are only prohibited in the outerlandsthough.

Other then the new races and the outerland the game is about the same as itwas before the expansion. The expansion doesn't really effect any low levels.If you're thinking about starting out new in the game nothing really changed. Though forall those 60 they have all kinds of possibilities. What I find nice is thatthere are things that no one has done yet, so no one is an expert at the newinstances. Classes that were doomed to end up a certain way have changed. Like a Warriordoesn't have to be protection because now there is stuff for him to do solo so he can gofury or arms spec.



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Sunday, May 11, 2008

How to Speed Level in World of Warcraft



How to Speed Level in World of Warcraft

WoW speed leveling is the goal behind every hardcore world of warcraft gamer. I know as I am a hardcore gamer myself having played the game since its inception. Every time I create a new character my goal is to break my own wow speed leveling record. A task that is easier said then done especially if you play on PvP servers like myself as each power run is different.

The heart of warcarft speed leveling started back when the first leveling guides hit the scene. These were and still are immensely popular among world of warcraft gamers but the question is are power leveling guides like Joanas horde leveling guide and the Brian Kopp Alliance guide still considered true speed leveling guides? The answer may surprise you.

Let's look at how a typical gamer plays world of warcraft. They are power gaming through a particular zone with the goal of either finish chain questing or grinding like mad. Somewhere during the course of this you get stuck, you either forget where that npc is found or where that sweet spot is to travel through or the most efficient means of finishing that huge chain quest. What to do? Well you probably have landed up doing the following, you find some tree or rock to hide behind so you don't get ganked and Alt+Tab over to your trusty leveling guide. It only takes a few moments right? Then you Alt+tab back into the game and your off again on a whirl wind speed adventure. Sound familiar? I bet it does because as I said most wow players play with this exact same playing style.

The problem is this is not how to speed level in World of Warcraft. Why? Because, it simply is not efficient. If you were to keep a running total of exactly how much time you wasted Alt tabbing in and out of the game, and add this up over the course of several levels the amount of in game time you wasted would surprise you. In fact you would probably find that this was enough wasted time to amount to a couple levels.

The trick to warcraft speed leveling is efficiency. You need to maximize your game time and minimize your down time. We have all heard that right. But it is also true of Alt tabbing. The sheer tactic of Alt+tabbing wastes time. To be a true wow speed leveling guru you need to eliminate this playing habit in order to get to level 70 faster.

This is exactly why leveling guides like the old standbys are no longer efficient. Sure they had their place a couple years ago but they just can't keep up with the ever evolving game. Thanks to changes and developments from mod develops it is possible to tap into the knowledge of these popular leveling guides without having to leave the game.

iDemise developed the first and only in-game leveling system. It sits right inside the game just like a map mod and is 100% legal. Having this information at your fingertips from within the game is a huge advantage. This eliminates the time costly alt+tab effect and enables you to shave days off of your speed leveling runs. The difference this makes to playing the game efficiently is huge. For this reason alone while Joanas Horde Guide and Brian Kopps are great, they no longer are efficient enough to be called wow speed leveling guides.

T Nantais is a hardcore world of warcraft player. His discovery of the only ingame world of warcraft speed leveling guide that acts just like a map mod has made the whole difference to his playing style. For more information check out http://www.squidoo.com/ultimate-world-of-warcraft-leveling

Friday, May 9, 2008

Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer

Last spring I took the measure of my life, and decided that my favorite video game, World of Warcraft, had to go.

I was 30, and by most objective standards, was doing pretty well. I lived in an old building in majestic Harlem, with a lovely son and partner, and made a show of wearing a suit and fedora to a job that merely requested jeans and a collar. I had a joint bank account and dental insurance. Yet, on any given day, if you'd asked me about my greatest accomplishment, it invariably began with my second life—the one in which I was a seven-foot blue elf whose hobbies included firing crossbows, trapping wild boars and reenacting the video for Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." In May I quit because I didn't want any illusions about which of my two lives were more important.

Like most of my generation, I was raised on video games. Like most of my generation, I assumed that this obsession would pass at the proper time—say when I turned 30. But like most of my generation, I was wrong. Our assumptions were based on the idea that video games would never grow up. But no genre has worked harder to disprove that maxim than MMOGs—Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Unlike with normal video games, where you interact with just a computer, MMOGs allow millions of people to play with each other in sprawling online virtual worlds. Most MMOGs target people like me who, as kids, took 20-sided dice and J.R.R.Tolkien a little too seriously, and none do it better than World of Warcraft. At last count there were 8 million people journeying through its fantasy world known as Azeroth. On Tuesday that number will increase, when the game's creator, Blizzard Entertainment, releases its sequel to WoW, The Burning Crusade, a game that will likely smash all previous records for games made for the PC.

All those trips to Azeroth add up to a lot of money. WoW subsists on a monthly subscription fee of $14.95, which means Blizzard rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars monthly. Their clientele are mostly young men like myself—the same young men who've been giving studio executives headaches as we abandon the box office and TV.

It doesn't take much to see why. This summer I could have paid 10 bucks to watch Superman Returns for three hours. Or I could have paid 15 bucks to be Superman whenever I wanted. It isn't just the thrill of playing dress-up either; Superman Returns is static, always saddled with the same ending. But WoW, like the real world, changes with every choice I make. Fighting with two swords instead of one gives me a better shot at beating down an opposing mage, while spending hours wending through a haunted manse might win me a coveted staff. Also, unlike with old media, my choices affect people around me. I can form guilds, essentially virtual clubhouses, band together to quest for rare breastplate, recite the assorted lore of Vin Diesel or Chuck Norris, or simply hang out in front of the local inn doing the electric slide.

WoW wasn't the first MMOG I'd ever played, but it is the best. The interface is clean and easy to master. The world feels mammoth and its geography runs the gamut from painted deserts and sprawling savannahs to snow-covered mountains and swamps teeming with gators and fish men. Despite its size, players easily navigate the world via roads, ships, zeppelins, giant bats and mythological creatures like hippogriffs. Players in Azeroth choose to be members of races like humans, orcs, trolls or night elves, and then pledge allegiance to one of two factions. But unlike in other fantasy games, neither side is wholly good or evil, and both factions are under siege from a plague that turns its victims into mindless undead.

Its biggest draw, without a doubt, is its human factor, and WoW's fans have quickly shaped Azeroth into a second Earth. Players hunt for gold, and epic items, then put them up for sale on eBay, thus turning a hobby into a livelihood. They have cyber-sex, date, and get married. They hang out with old friends who may live hundreds of miles away.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

How to buy Warcraft Accounts the easy way

The World of Warcraft

The World of Warcraft has conquered the hearts of over 7 million people around the world. This game is pure entertainment and it offers a way to relax and at the same time interact with other people who are fans of this virtual world. Playing World of Warcraft offers the chance to experience a large range of feelings, from defeat to victory, from tension to relief. Players have the opportunity to find friends and enemies, and establish various relationships with other players. The purpose of the game is ongoing, yet what makes World of Warcraft so successful is the ability for players to freely use their imagination to develop the most interesting strategies to play the game. Because of this, one of the most exciting moments is experiencing a high-level character in action. However, building up a powerful character takes time, a commodity that in this day and age is something we find less and less of. Because of this, people are now experiencing the thrills of World of Warcraft by power leveling, or buying accounts from other people. In fact, there is a large community of players who are interested in World of Warcraft accounts already made by others and sold online.

All the levels of the game are very attractive and offer a spectacularly composed world full of quests, dungeons, and monsters. However, for veteran players, it is more interesting to have access to a variety of classes and to try experiencing the game from a different perspective. Experienced players don’t feel the need to pass through the explanatory levels and to hear all the details about the World of Warcraft so they try something else: they buy Warcraft accounts that allow them to have more fun.

There are many differences in purchasing accounts and power leveling services. One problem with power leveling is the wait. Typically, a character may take up to 2 weeks after ordering to be played! Purchased accounts, on the other hand, can be received after only one hour. Another disadvantage is that power leveling companies frequently use bots in order to level their characters. This exposes your account to a high risk of being banned. However, the one reason many people chose to power level instead of purchasing is because the name of the character and server it was on was chosen by them. Now, this is all but true. Warcraftloot.net offers free transfers to any server of your choice, along with the name that you desire. They will also allow you to choose your own account name, and will include your email address, phone number, and secret word on your account. Because of this, there are no reasons to power level, due to the additional risks and waiting time.

Other players sell their World of Warcraft Accounts for several reasons. Some of them want to quit playing the game or want to create new characters because they feel they no longer enjoy their character or because they have guild members whom they no longer get along with. There are also others who decide to sell their World of Warcraft accounts because they have additional accounts. A special category is represented by those who create these accounts especially for purchase because they are aware of the very high number of people who cannot wait to begin playing the game as a powerful avatar. These people are players who know the game and enjoy leveling characters that might suit others, and enjoy the game themselves at the same time.

Your character is your alter ego in the World of Warcraft. Choosing your characters looks, behaviors, name is one of the most important aspects of the game. The player must be able identify and bond with the character he or she plays, otherwise the game is not enjoyable. The main deterrent from purchasing characters in the past was the lack of personalization – your character’s name was already chosen for you. Warcraftloot.net is aware of your need to personalize the characters you play and gives you the opportunity to select your own name when you buy WoW accounts .

Warcraftloot.net offers you a high number of characters who are worth taking a look at. You can buy Warcraft accounts which have characters appealing to the broad spectrum of personalities.. If you check the list of World of Warcraft accounts you will be satisfied with the variety of possibilities that await for you in order to make it easier to begin playing the game. There is no way you won’t find what you are looking for.

The people at Warcraftloot.net are fellow gamers just like you who understand the game and its players. If you want to be sure you will enjoy the game, you should consult the experts on the website. They will be there for you to help choose and to answer any questions related to World of Warcraft.

Another advantage on warcraftloot.net is the fact that the entire process on buying Warcraft accounts is extremely simple. The site does not only gives you all the details you need, but it will make the purchase as easy as possible. The prices are great and the transfers fast. You can use the account you have bought within just one hour! It is unique in that you can choose your own server and name… for free!

So, now you have enough reasons to buy Warcraft Accounts from this website. You can be sure that your information is safe with us and your only worry will be to play the game with the new character you just bought.


The World of Warcraft

Monday, April 28, 2008

World Of Warcraft Review

World of Warcraft is by far the best and largest MMORPG out yet. World of Warcraft follows a long history of the original strategy game warcraft. There were 3 popular titles that were released previously that were also an extremely big hit. Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III and the 2 expansions "The Frozen Throne" and "Reign of Chaos". The release date of the game was on Nov 23, 2004. A year after its release and there are about 4.5 million subscribers and still growing stronger each day world wide.
World of Warcraft takes you to a 3D environment in the World of Azeroth. The World is the largest virtual environment ever created. You can explore through deserts, forests, mountains and more. It may take months before you can finish traveling through all of Azeroth. There are of course mounts such as horses, gryphons and other animals that can help you travel through Azeroth.
Along with the great 3D environment you are able to customize your characters looks in the highest of detail ever possibly invented. There are next to an infinite combination of faces, eyes, texture, size, weight, coloring to choose from. Unlike many other MMORPGs, you're bound to find a twin here and there but the possibilities have gone unlimited with Blizzards character creation.
World of Warcraft consists of 2 fueding realms, the Alliance and the Horde. Each realm may choose from 4 different races. Alliance members may choose Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, and Gnomes while Horde members may choose Orc, Tauren, Troll and Undead. Along with the 8 races there are also 9 classes that you may choose from which are the Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior. Each player also has the ability to choose a profession for their character. A profession is very helpful to the players as it may help them create great armors, weapons, items and other equipments. A player may choose 2 primary professions and as many secondary professions as they like.
Blizzard has been updating World of Warcraft much more than their previous games that required connection to Battle.net. Quests, items, fixes and other great enhances are being added or changed to improve gameplay. Unlike other MMORPGs, the quests of WoW are made to help leveling and is much pleasurable. It is not as repetitive as you are required to kill the same monsters and the constant travelling back and forth to speak to a dozen NPCs.
Like most and all MMORPGs, WoW has their own game economy and ingame shop/auction house. Their currency is based on copper, silver and gold. World of Warcraft gold is most commonly used to purchase weapons, armors, items, skills, spells and travelling. While selling back items to a NPC shop is easy, the returns are unfavorable. Majority of the players would sell off their unwanted items to other players at a highest rate than what the NPCs will offer.
PvP has been by far the most thrilling theme of most MMORPGs. World of Warcraft includes PvP servers and non PvP servers. As Blizzard continues to update the game, their most recent patch included the battle grounds. A zone where the Horde and Alliance comes together and competes. The winner will receive special rewards and methods of increasing their overall character status.
Blizzard has taken ideas from many different games and combined them all into 1. It has yet been by far the most successful MMORPG to this day and still growing rapidly. With a subscriber base of 4.5 million players world wide, I'm sure the game will continue to be popular for over a decade.

History Of World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft stands as the greatest game in the popular Warcraft series
World of Warcraft has been an extraordinary success since its launch in November 2004. It has impressed game critics and has captivated millions of players, who adore the world that the game has created. It is no longer just a game but is now a genuine phenomenon, and one that shows no signs of abating. It is one of the key games of recent times, and stands as a landmark title for online gaming.
World of Warcraft’s appeal lies in that it has created a truly engaging online world. This massively multiplayer online role-playing game is set in the world of Azeroth, a fantastic land that is filled with heroes and monsters and many other creatures. The game’s strength is that it functions as an experience, as a world that exists on its own terms that you may visit and explore as you please.
World of Warcraft is the 4th title in the series of Warcraft games, which have been entertaining people for over a decade. The series began in 1994 with the game Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, a real time strategy game set in Azeroth. This was a fine title, and a good introduction to the series, but in truth the franchise was just getting started. The best was still to come.
Indeed, it wasn’t until 1995 and the release of the second game, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, that the series really found its voice. Warcraft 2 was a masterpiece, and it improved on the original in every sense. The game had beautiful graphics, epic storytelling and fascinating, absorbing gameplay. The high standards of the series continued in 2002, with the release of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. This was another classic and a remarkable game in its own right. The predecessors of World of Warcraft were all superb.
Blizzard Entertainment published all of the Warcraft titles, and the games attracted a huge following. When Blizzard announced that there was going to be a 4th game in the series, it was natural that people were interested. This interest intensified when it emerged that the new Warcraft title was going to be an online multiplayer game. World of Warcraft would make Azeroth more interactive and redefine it as an experience.
The fans of the series had high expectations for World of Warcraft, as it promised to be a terrific and innovative new title. Blizzard held a beta test for the game in March 2004, and gave selected players a preview. Those who played it were very impressed and it received great reviews. The anticipation for the game’s release grew stronger as 2004 went on.
World of Warcraft was officially launched in North America on Tuesday the 23rd of November 2004. It was well received by critics. The launch was a major success, and it achieved huge sales on its first day of release. Blizzard estimated that 240,000 copies were sold in the first day alone. These were record numbers for a game of this genre and so World of Warcraft became the fastest-selling online game in history. It was a smash hit.
World of Warcraft sustained this success; in fact, the popularity of the game began to snowball. It really took off and caught the public imagination, with more and more people becoming enthralled with it. 2005 saw the game explode into a global obsession. In February it was launched in Europe and in June it was launched in China, with other countries following suit. It proved hugely popular everywhere it was released, and by 2005’s close it had more than five million subscribers worldwide.
World of Warcraft has evolved since its initial release. There have been a number of updates for the game, and the universe of Azeroth has grown. Blizzard have made improvements, fixed any problems, and have worked to make the game user-friendly. They have also expanded the game, by adding sections like Blackwing Lair, for example, the dungeon lair of Nefarion, one of the villains in the game.
In June 2005, Blizzard added major player versus player content in the form of two special battlegrounds, Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch. Alterac Valley allows players to engage in battles of 40 on 40 people, while Warsong Gulch offers new challenges, like stealing your opponent’s flag from their camp. These battlegrounds are the most substantial update to World of Warcraft since it was released.
Now, in 2006, World of Warcraft is as popular as ever. An expansion, titled The Burning Crusade, is set for release this year, and should expand the world of Azeroth even further. World of Warcraft has become the pinnacle of the Warcraft series, and is a magnificent and distinctive game.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

World of Warcraft Gold - Dont Need to Be Desperate Anymore

By: Johny Rider
World of Warcraft is the leading massive multiplayer online role playing game in existence. 10 million players across the globe consistently fill this online world for fun and adventure and have been doing so since 2004. But, just like our off-line lives, the online world of Warcraft requires money in order to enjoy a full experience.

World of Warcraft has grown to be the most exciting online role playing game in existence with over 10 million subscribers at the start of 2008! Millions of people, young and old, have been playing this MMORPG since its creation back in 2004. And, like with so much of our off-line experiences, the on-line world of Warcraft relies heavily on money. So what do you do to make more money in World of Warcraft?

You can make plenty of money, called gold, in World of Warcraft in several different ways. You can mine for gold. Some players craft objects for gold. Others enchant for gold. You can even kill monsters in pursuit of that shiny metal! The world in WoW is so large and comprehensive, it is possible for your characters to make a good living. But, many people are choosing to save time and energy slogging away gathering gold and buying WoW gold from gold resellers.

World of Warcraft has grown to be the most exciting online role playing game in existence with over 10 million subscribers at the start of 2008! Millions of people, young and old, have been playing this MMORPG since its creation back in 2004. And, like with so much of our off-line experiences, the on-line world of Warcraft relies heavily on money. So what do you do to make more money in World of Warcraft?

It is possible to make money - or earn gold- in World of Warcraft in many ways. You can enchant for gold. You can craft for gold. You can mine for gold. You can even kill monsters for gold. The game experience in World of Warcraft is so expansive, you can make a good on-line living with these methods. More and more players, though, rather than focusing on a job to make money, are purchasing WoW gold instead. This saves time and effort and allows players to pursue more enjoyable aspects of the game.

As you play WoW and start to gather gold, you must have bags. It seems obvious, but many players forget that you are limited in what you can carry by the number of bags you have! The more items you can carry, the more gold you can convert. Trouble is, though, that bags are expensive and made of hard-to-get materials. This is a primary reason why so many serious players buy WoW gold online.

Many players use their enchanting skills to make gold in WoW. You can disenchant magical items and get special material from that disenchanted item. You can then use that special material to increase the value of other items. You can also sell that material to others for gold. Perhaps you're looking for some of these special materials and you don't want to spend the time looking for it. What do you do? Buy WoW gold online and then find the items or materials you need in the game. This is just one more way to make your character faster and stronger.

You'll soon find as you start playing World of Warcraft that bags are a requirement for generating gold. You can only carry large numbers of items if you bags. You can sell these items for gold. The more bags you have, the more gold you make! Bags present a new set of difficulties, though. They are expensive and hard to make. This is why so many people purchase World of Warcraft gold online through gold resellers

WoW is such an exciting game! Some players start their characters at level one and slowly work their way through the levels, gaining experience and gold over a long period of time. Others find this slow questing tedious, or they want to start a new character but become frustrated at its vulnerability in the early stages of development. More and more people are looking to buy World of Warcraft gold online in order to bypass much of this boring stuff.

World of Warcraft Cheats and Hacks: The Truth About Them

By: Johny Rider
The World of Warcraft and cheating? One would have thought or hoped that the world of gaming would have remained one where the thrill of skill obviated the need to cheat. Unfortunately that is the not the case and the World of Warcraft has also been affected by users who resort to cheating.

How does this happen? Users use cheat codes to go up from one level to another and they in turn pass on these codes to other users so they can cheat their way up through the many quests and levels too. In effect what happens is that the serious players who pride themselves on making it up on their own are obviously annoyed. Especially when they see newer and newer levels being mastered all thanks to cheating! And you find out just how to do it in the free World of Warcraft cheats.

Most of the games today are all MMORPG or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Just like other games that have a massive player base – the World of Warcraft too has many loyal players who indulge in World of Warcraft cheats to level in their game faster.

Blizzard is the creator of the World of Warcraft. Blizzard completely disapproves of the use of World of Warcraft cheats. However this does not necessarily mean that people who use cheats stop doing so at anytime. These people create and use these cheats to level at a quicker pace in the game.

The Grand Masters of the World of Warcraft who hawk-like, keep watch over the game continuously are not able to detect those gamers who use the World of Warcraft cheats. There are above eight million gamers spread over the entire world and the people who use these cheats may be a small fraction out of the whole lot and are very difficult to detect.

What can be done with people who use these cheats? There is nothing that one can do to stop these gamers from using the World of Warcraft Cheats. If you are a gamer and you come across other players who you think is using the World of Warcraft cheats then you may make a complaint to the Grand Masters. These Grand Masters will deal with the matter personally and then judge the matter accordingly.

If a gamer is ever caught using World of Warcraft Cheats then he will be banned and removed from the game forever. It is against Blizzard’s Terms of Service agreements to use cheats.

It is not very difficult to find World of Warcraft cheats on the Internet because these World of Warcraft cheats are free. Little wonder so many succumb to the temptation so easily. Especially in a game where gold is rarely available until a player has reached a particular higher level. All gamers wish to get rich as soon as possible and it sure feels nice to be one of the richest characters of the game. The World of Warcraft cheat websites are becoming very popular and this shows that though not all gamers use them, at some point who knows? They might just be tempted to use them.

Nothing can be done about people visiting these websites and using these cheats. Basically these sites can put up whatever they want. People will continue using these cheats to level faster in the game and this will not stop until the gamers that cheat are caught by Blizzard.

Who would have thought that people would cheat in something as insignificant as a video game? But they do and that is sad. People should play the game for the sake of playing it and not win thanks to using cheats. One of the best things a gamer can opt for is to stay away from websites where you’ll find the World of Warcraft cheats. Of course finally, the choice is yours.

World of Warcraft Quest Guides - Do We Really Need Them?

By: Marco Polytzo
Do you own a World of Warcraft quest guide or strategy guide? If you are just getting started in the World of Warcraft, chances are that you have one or spend lots of time online searching for them.

For many World of Warcraft gamers, life does not really begin until your character reaches level 30. In terms of leveling your character, there are generally two methods. They are to do quests or to grind your heart out. The most practical method is to combine the two, doing the quests that have you kill specific amounts of creatures or collect the dropped items from the creatures that you are grinding.

If you want your World of Warcraft character to level up quickly then, in the long run, questing is the most effective choice. This is because it allows not only your character to gain experience but it is also a good opportunity for you, as a player, to gain in-game experience and improve upon your technique while honing your gaming strategies. In World of Warcraft questing allows for faster character leveling than you can get from relentless grinding. Questing has the added value of immersing your character in the actual storyline of World of Warcraft. After countless hours of the mindless tedium that is grinding, questing can be a refreshing change of pace. And let’s face it, while grinding can be fun for a while, it does become tiresome. World of Warcraft is a game that is supposed to be a fun escape from the humdrum of everyday life. It shouldn’t feel like a factory job. Where’s the fun in that? Quests are the very heart of the overall World of Warcraft gaming experience. They are short missions that can be quite rewarding and provide a sense of accomplishment that just isn’t achieved through grinding. If mindless monster slaying is your thing, then you could always play any of the many free MMORPGs that are available online.

In World of Warcraft completing the correct quest at the right time is the key secret to leveling up fast while questing. By no means is it necessary to complete every single quest that is available. Many FAQs and guides will tell you to skip over certain ones due to inconvenient locations or the length of time it takes to complete them. The majority of power levelers keep their gaming time at a ratio of twenty to thirty percent of their time spent grinding while seventy to eighty percent of their time is spent questing.

Questing is a great way to spice up the World of Warcraft gaming experience. It keeps things feeling fresh and alive while providing much more in terms of game experience in a shorter amount of time for both the character and their human counter-part. And, while it can sometimes be fun to level up by repetitively fighting the same hordes of respawning enemies over and over again, nothing beats the overall fun and feeling of accomplishment that comes with completing a quest in World of Warcraft.

So if you have the need to level up quickly in WoW, feel free to mix things up a little and try questing. Also be sure to check out one of the many other online resources for WoW quest help and guides. You will be glad that you did.

By now it should be pretty clear that at one point or another you will benefit from having a World of Warcraft quest guide. There are many free quest guides available on the Internet and they are also available in stores where the game is sold.

Make Gold In World of Warcraft quick And Easily

By: Johny Rider
If you're reading this, you need Gold for World of Warcraft (WoW) and you need it bad. You need to buy your character his mount, his skills, his armor and his weapons; not to mention the occasional potion. And you need to do it all as fast as possible without buying any World of Warcraft gold, either! Why do you need to do all this? Because without Gold World of Wacraft is no FUN! Don't you PAY every MONTH to have FUN? Where is the fun if you can't kick everyones butt with great armor and weapons? So, you need to get WoW gold and you need to get it now!

So, you want to make Gold in World of Warcraft, do you?

Well, I don't blame you.

Making gold in World of Warcraft is easy if you have a strategy. The better the strategy, the more gold you will be making. In this article I have put together 7 quick tips that can form a simple but effective strategy for making gold in World of Warcraft

Gold is without question the most valuable resource in the game that literally can control how much fun you have while playing.

If you don't have gold, you cannot buy anything. That means you are not able to upgrade your spells, your armor or your weapons. Even worse, you are not able to buy a mount, or any of the simply outstandingly fun epic mounts!

Without gold, World of Warcraft is effectively turned into nothing but a virtual space where you pay to kill the same monsters over and over and over and over and over again, fighting for scraps so you can try in hopes to buy what you want eventually.

Fortunately, this is not always the case.

Getting gold can actually be very, very easy and very, very fun!

Contrary to popular believe, earning World of Warcraft Gold is not that challenging at all. For starters, you should be ashamed if you ever have purchased gold. Come on guys. Don't support Chinese farmers when you can do it yourself just as easily. Just follow some of the tips below and you'll be overflowing with gold before you know it! In fact, I have a level 22 right now that has over 300 gold and my characters under level 10 usually have over 8g!

How much gold are you looking for? 5000 gold for an epic flying mount? Maybe just a regular flying mount? Just some cash for late-game equipment? Decide how much gold you want to make and play accordingly. Tape it to your monitor if you have to. Starting out with an attainable goal is key to accomplishing anything in life, not just making gold in World of Warcraft.

Even though crafting professions (Leatherworking, jewelcrafting, tailoring and blacksmithing) are temping to pick up, avoid them like the plague! If you want to drown in your own gold, pick up two gathering professions! For example, get herbalism and skinning or skinning and mining or mining and herbalism. Then, SELL THE LOOT YOU GET! The Auction House is always alive with activity and buyers trying to get their hands on leather, ore and herbs. People are LAZY, or they simply don't have the profession required by their trade skill! So, you're the hero they needed to deliver the goods to them, and you pull a hefty profit at the same time!

*The above alone is one of the greatest techniques there is to massive gold earning! Seriously... try it.

For your third profession, fish once in a while. Some stacks of fish can net a lot of money on the Auction House. If you are waiting for a group to enter an instance, waiting to PvP, or just bored with questing, fish for a profitable way to kill time.

Even when you enter World of Warcraft as a level 1, get bags. All that you can carry. If you have a high level character already, buy the biggest bags you can and send them to your new character. This is a simple and easy to understand step that most people fail to use! If you have all 4 bag slots filled up right away, you can A) Continue questing without having to return to sell off items so you will level faster B) More importantly, be able to make much more gold as you will not have to delete items to make room for others. You can sell all your loot when you return for maximum profit even from the very beginning!

Always look to sell drops at the Auction House. Always sell your gathered leathers, herbs, or metals here as well. You will get more money than vendors almost every time. Check out the prices that other similar items are going for, so that you know how to price your item. You should also always use a buy-it-now price.

When you are choosing which professions you want, do not go with a crafting profession and a gathering profession (I.E. Leatherworking and Skinning.)

Instead, choose two gathering professions. You will use the Auction House to make all your hundreds and hundreds of gold with this effective technique.

Pick up two of any of the following: mining, skinning, herbalism or enchanting (to disenchant)

These simple tips will really get you making a lot of gold in World of Warcraft.

World Of Warcraft Online - Millions Of Players Online

By: Paul Zayer
I remember years ago when I felt like playing a game I had to ask my best friends. We then sat down either at the kitchen table or occasionally in the living room. These days it is different. Do not get me wrong I still like to play a good game of Monopoly once in a while but who wants to play with me if I have the urge of playing at 2:00 am?. This problem is gone, now I just have to fire up my trusty computer and connect with a gaming universe. It can be night or day, any days of the week, there is always people ready for playing. No more waiting to get my friends to play with me. I guess you have heard about World of Warcraft online? If not well, you might have been living under a rock or you are certainly not interested in online games. Let me tell you about this great game.

Azeroth is a world in which long and tumultuous past is forged in the fires of unremitting conflict. It has been four years since chaos reigned over this burned world and King Arthas of Lord Aeron was getting mad by recurring visions of the Frozen Thrown of Icecrown. As it was expected, past now repeats itself as armies of the Horde and the Alliance prove their mettle on battlegrounds and clash weapons and magic in colossal, organized territorial wars. Be careful your time has come.

Choose an alliance, hone your abilities, and print your mark on Azeroth history. World of Warcraft is the first MMOG in the four part Warcraft series, with previous Warcraft titles being RTS games. Players, like a lot of MMOs may find adventure in fighting different monsters and in accomplishing missions given by many NPCs throughout Azeroth.

In World of Warcraft, victory in these endeavors yield rewards in the form of money, items and experience. Players may also take part in PvP battles in the forms of dueling and fights with gamers of opposing factions. Most monsters and quests can be handled solo in the early to middle stages of exploration around Azeroth. Past that point, nonetheless, more and more gameplay will require a good team of gamers, generally two to five in number. Large-scale raids can call up to 40 gamers to succeed. At level 40, gamers are able to get a mount based on their character's race and reputation, which may appear at will. These are not cheap to buy and train, but add to the player's status and significantly increase their speed of travel.

Unfortunately, gamers may not engage in battle while on a mount. The level cap in World of Warcraft is now 70 with the new expansion, with rewards for victorious raids at this level being in the form of excellent loot. Since the first day back in November 2004, I have played World of Warcraft, and I can say that this online game is a blast to play!

Just a little advice regarding online gaming. It is sure a lot of fun but do not lose too much sleep over it or your best friends for that matter. There will be new games coming out for years to come. What is new today will be old in a couple of years. But a good friend is worth a lot more to me and last a lot longer.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

How World of Warcraft Have Becomed this Unstoppable Addictive Game?

By: Johny Rider
A massive massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft is by far the most popular Massively Multiplayer Online Game game ever created. Millions log in every day to quest in the gigantic world of Azeroth to slay dragons, other epic foes, and possibly most importantly, each other. What makes these games so compelling?

Though massively multiplayer online role-playing games have been around for years, it has taken this long for the genre's breakthrough hit to finally emerge. Here is the online role-playing game you should play, no matter who you are. Simply because the graphics and landscapes are breathtaking and there is no other game like in the world to date.

The World of Warcraft to put it quite simply, is a game. It’s a very large game with a very large player base but it is nevertheless still a game, and when you get right down to it, it spans continents, races, ages and even worlds.

For starters, it's huge, and growing. With new expansions all the time and a massive world to begin with, there is much to explore in Azeroth. From beautiful forests to dark graveyars and everything in between, there is a vast landscape with lots of variety to adventure in. Blizzard has a talent for crafting worlds that bend to the fictional societies that inhabit them, and the world of Azeroth feels very alive despite the cartoonish appearance.

In World of Warcraft, you create your alter ego by choosing from a variety of colorful races and powerful classes, and then you begin exploring, questing, and battling in Azeroth. World of Warcraft came after Warcraft III, another fun role playing computer game. The game is a perfect depiction of the term fantasy, the landscapes are beautiful, the characters and animals are not of this world, and the structures are massive.

There is nothing quite like it anywhere else although many others have tried. They haven’t failed, but they can’t exactly live up to the standards set by the World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft is a fantasy game where players can take on the guise of different characters in the world known to all as Azeroth, the place where World of Warcraft is set.

After countless hours spent playing, the great first impression does not wear off. This style of gaming is notorious for being a time sink and for effectively forcing players to engage in repetitive, monotonous gameplay for hours on end in order to make progress. But in contrast, World of Warcraft will keep throwing variety at you, and the combat system at the heart of it features fast, visceral, action-packed battles that are fun and intense, whether you are fighting alone or in a group. Furthermore, World of Warcraft finally achieves that long-sought-after goal of many massively multiplayer games, which is to make the player feel rewarded regardless of how much time he or she invests in a single sitting.

If you’re a gaming addict then this game is one of the better MMORPG’s which you should try if you get the chance to. It’s not a free game and to play it you will have to pay for it.

All this would be nothing, however, if it wasn't for the online play. There is the fun of playing with friends and banding together to accomplish epic feats of heroism, and the thrill of smack-talking opponents who dare challenge your guild's dominance. Human opponents tend to be much more exciting than robotically-controlled computer players; for the luddites reading this, would you rather play poker or cribbage against a computer or against real people that you know? Therein lies the appeal of World of Warcraft.

In World of Warcraft you never run out of things to do since much of the game is structured around questing. Whenever you enter a major new location for the first time, you will feel almost overwhelmed by the number of quests available, which you will be able to clearly spot since quest-giving characters helpfully stand there with a big, noticeable exclamation mark over their heads. Luckily, the game's more-than-a-thousand quests are made quite manageable by only being offered to you when you are qualified to complete them, and you can have no more than 20 quests pending at a time. Eventually you will have to come back and complete a quest so you can get to the next.Johny Rider is an expert player of the revolutionary world of warcraft mmorpg. Have access to the latest {anchors} by visiting the previous link.

World of Warcraft Karazhan Walkthrough Part 1: Attumen the Huntsman

By: Adam Fox

If you're looking for a World of Warcraft Karazhan walkthrough for Attumen the Huntsman then you've found the best on the net.

Go into Karazhan through the front door and go to the left. Kill the undead and horses. In the stables at the end sits the undead horse Midnight. This is the first boss of Karazhan.

Attumen the Huntsman (and Midnight, his trusty steed) is perhaps one of, if not the easiest raid boss in all the World of Warcraft. You hopefully shouldn't have that much trouble with him. He was one of the few raid bosses in Burning Crusade that I remember us downing on our first attempt with no wipes. He's really rather simple and if you have the gear to progress in Karazhan, you should be able to down him in 2-3 attempts as he's just a gear check more than anything.

Make sure that everyone has proper consumables, including food, elixirs, health pots and mana pots. Deadly Boss Mods is also highly useful, and can be found online easily. Everyone should ideally have both Deadly Boss Mods and Omen (or another appropriate threatmeter) before they make their first journey into Karazhan.

Optimal Group Composition:
1 Warrior Tank (any epic'd tank is fine, too)
1 Offtank Tank (warrior, druid or paladin works)
3 Healers (doesn't matter)
5 DPS (doesn't matter)

Most of the raid should have level 70 blues if not a few crafted and PvP epics. A few greens are alright here and there, but don't let the guy in level 65 quest greens come.

Have your offtank to go in to tank Midnight. He should be tanked in the middle of the stables, and when the tank has sufficient aggro, DPS starts on the horse. When you beat Midnight down to 95%, his master Attumen will spawn. The main tank should grab Attumen as he spawns and tank him next to Midnight. A timely misdirect is useful here, if you have a good hunter in the raid. The Attumen tank should spam Disarm and Spell Reflection on Attumen to lower his DPS and reflect the curse Attumen casts. Druids and mages need to dispel this curse when they can. Melee classes need to avoid the front of Attumen because he uses a nasty Shadow Cleave.

DPS down Midnight until he gets to 25%, then Attumen will mount up. Aggro wipes when he transitions, so all DPS needs to halt for the main tank to pick up Attumen. He'll start using a charge ability, but he won't charge people who are closer than 8 yards away, so everyone needs to group up behind Attumen and right next to him, which both avoids his charge and nerfs his cleave. Once the main tank has good aggro on Attumen, start DPS again as normal until he drops dead. Congratulations, you've beaten your first boss in Karazhan!

If your raid is having trouble with Attumen the Huntsman, then you are having aggro problems and your DPS is dying when he switches, your tanks are dropping because they need better gear (tanks must have appropriate defense to be crit immune), or your tanks are dying because your healers are running out of mana. Make sure the raid has mana potions, health potions, and good buff foods. Also make sure that everyone has threatmeters installed and working and make them watch it! I'll soon be back with another guide on Moroes in Karazhan, then the rest of Karazhan, and after that gold and powerlevelling guides.

How To Get Free Gold In World Of Warcraft

It may sound incredible that video games can establish an effective economy, with its own currency and value. This is what it’s happening with World of Warcraft. This is a so called MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.

In role-playing games, you create a character -- one that's not necessarily like you, but one that suits your style. This character can be one of many different races, and it can be many different things -- a wizard or mage, a thief or rogue, or just a plain fighter. The goal of the game is to go on adventures with groups of friends, finding treasure and gaining experience that makes your character more powerful as he attains new levels. All the while acting like this character -- and not necessarily you -- would act.

Massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have their own vocabulary and etiquette. There are very specific, unwritten rules around almost every aspect of player interaction. It's tough to know what they are, but other players will let you know if you've violated them.
World of Warcraft is the best online roleplaying game to date. It's a pleasure to be immersed in this deep, beautiful and ever-changing world. Now, other games seem rather flat without human interaction.

A large part of role-playing games requires calculations, and that presume the person out of the role. When you say, "I attack the tiger" -- you then have to roll a die, and then put calculations as to whether you essentially hit the beast, and how powerful.

Computers were a natural put in to replace the deadly aspects of RPGs. The dice rolling and calculations still occur, but behind the background so that you're never taken out of the action. The very first outcome of this marriage of computers, multiple-players and RPGs were text-only online games called MUDs. or Multi-User-Dungeons. These MUDs dominated college mainframes in the late 80's and early nineties. Then came EverQuest -- which still hold all of the dice rolling, but added a 3-D graphical interface that showed the outcomes of the calculations. You still are able to see text in the window that says, "You hit the tiger for 35 damage," however you are able to also see your sword bashing into its face, and hear him tear out in pain. EverQuest was extremely successful in its time, and I attempted to like it, but it was unbelievably clunky, and boring. You used up the first 10 hours slaying rats and snakes and beasts to grow experience.

This does not happen with World of Warcraft (WoW). As with nearly every single Blizzard title, the game is extremely polished, has a user-friendly interface, and is basically beautiful to look at and listen to. A group of over 30 artists committed on the game's visuals, and it shows. The art is extremely stylized -- the world doesn't look totally realistic, and that's the objective, as I found out during the behind the scenes DVD that came with the collector's edition of the game. EverQuest II, the sequel to the pioneering EverQuest, tries to look realistic, and for that reason you notice the flaws a lot more when it fails. The stylized visuals of WoW somehow make it easier to suspend your disbelief, and immerse you in the world.
And immerse you it does. Let me warn you -- this game is highly addictive. In the two months I've been at it, I've logged over five days of playing time. And I've stopped watching TV altogether.
Of all the online role-playing games out there, this is the best. All of the others, especially EverQuest II, pale in comparison. EverQuest II's interface is clunky, and there's a lot of grinding -- the act of killing the same type of monster over and over again to gain experience. In contrast, WoW's quest system starts you off right away with purposeful missions. There are multiple story lines that advance as you complete quests.
There's also the overarching battle between factions of players. When you create a character, the race you choose decides which side you're on -- Alliance or Horde. Players of both factions exist in the same worlds and can battle each other.

The interface just feels right. It lets you get down to the business of role playing, and doesn't get in the way.
In WoW, interaction with other players is essential. There are certain quests that cannot be finished solo. The human element adds a lot of spice to the game. These are the shining moments of the game, when you're deep inside a dungeon with four other real people, and the unexpected or the heroic occurs.
It's easy to take on your role in the game, because other players can't see or hear you, they only see what you make your character do.

It is a virtual world in which various characters interact each other, everyone representing a player. In order to buy items, services and various goods the player needs virtual gold, that is the currency of the World of Warcraft world.

The World of Warcraft phenomenon might be affecting people in a more subtle way than we think. Yes, there have been some cases of dearth (allegedly) caused by over-exposure to World of Warcraft, but what's even more disturbing is that people are beginning to spend important amounts of money for this game.

Actually, the main source to earn World of Warcraft gold is undertaking quests and interacting with the other characters (human and non human). Anyway, on the Internet there are many sellers of World of Warcraft gold, willing to give a player the desired amount in exchange of real money. For instance, there are online auctions or websites devoted to gold trading such as http://www.igxp.com

It's tempting to buy gold, however. I have a lower-level character in World of Warcraft that is about to reach level 40 -- which required four days of playing time to reach--and I'll be able to purchase a horse that will let me move 60 percent faster in the world. The trouble is, it costs around 90 gold pieces total to train and buy it. My character has only three gold now. It will take me MANY hours to save that amount of gold... or I could pay the $30 and have it now. Is $30 worth hours of my time?

Real World of Warcraft addicts love those kind of transactions, because they want to improve their character, equipping it with new weapons, buying skills and more.

Friday, April 18, 2008

World of Warcraft Gold Farming Tips

By: Nickolie
World of Warcraft Gold Farming is one of the harder aspects of the game and it always a little bit annoying to have to resort to World of Warcraft Gold Farming to be able to get your own mount, or a special enchant!

Of course if you know how to implement World of Warcraft Gold Farming properly then you will find that you enjoy the game much more! Today I am going to tell you a few spots that are the best in the game for World of Warcraft Gold Farming so you can stop worrying about being broke!

Here s a quick list of some of the places that are the best for World of Warcraft Gold Farming:

There a few ways you can do this one if you do not want to take risks and are quite happy doing hours of World of Warcraft Gold Farming then you should kill as many blood elves here as you can. They will drop cash and rune cloth that you can always sell to the auction house or a vendor for a tidy profit.

If you don t mind taking a risk with your World of Warcraft Gold Farming then you should grind the demons as they will drop more gold then the elves but are harder to kill. Some of these demons are the best in the game for World of Warcraft Gold Farming and drop epic items occasionally!

The next spot that is good for World of Warcraft Gold Farming is the Eastern Plaguelands Here you should go to the undercroft and you will find plenty of zombies for World of Warcraft Gold Farming they are not that tough and also drop a fair amount of rare items and gold.
Another good spot for World of Warcraft Gold Farming is Dire Maul Tribute You will probably need a group with you for this one because it is tough. You can always find guides on the web for doing tribute runs in DM. You shouldn’t t have to much trouble if there is a group of you and will find it an excellent World of Warcraft Gold Farming Spot!

Yet another good World of Warcraft Gold Farming Spot is in Stratholme and for this one you will need a group of you as well. The good thing is if you have a group of you this one can be done in about 30 minutes and you can make loads of gold here. There are also ways on this World of Warcraft Gold Farming spot that you don t have to fight all the mobs and can just concentrate on World of Warcraft Gold Farming.
The last World of Warcraft Gold Farming Spot I am going to tell you is Uldaman and for this you will be able to disenchant items. All you do is head into Uldamann and make your way to Dig Three. There you should find Galgann Firehammer defeat him and he drops a couple of items you can disenchant easily!

World of Warcraft Mining Profession

By: Ruibo Chen
Mining in World of Warcraft is one of the best gold makers. Just be sure to sell your stuff in the Auction House in smelted stacks. The Buy out option is one of your best advantages when you sell so make sure you use it. It's usually best to smelt copper and tin into bronze or vice Versa. Be sure to check the going price and figure out if selling the bases or the product will sell for more.

Lower level mining skill of course wouldn't make you as much as being on top of the chart and we know it may be a little difficult or frustrating to level. It may take about 1 hour to get to tin level so its not too bad. However tin is a little more aggravating. Near ashenvale there is a place with harpies that has a few nice spots. From there stick to the wall and go south, head over to South Barrens. go around Scorpid, Bristleback and Razormane and you should be able to level your tin in no time.

Mithril is the key to making the most World of Warcraft gold. Engineering and Blacksmiths both need massive amounts to produce the items with their skills. Mithril usually sells off extremely fast a nice price in the auction house.

In southern Kalimdor you'll find Tanaris, a level 40-50 zone. There are many mineral ores that will make you filthy rich. You can start at Gadgetzan and cut across the desert to start. Be sure to check all the rocks and croppings along the way. The place is dangerous with alot of spawns. Travel along the edge, and then back along the outter boundary circling the map. Thistleshrub valley also has a few hot spots along with Un'Goro crater, Zul'Farrak and the areas close to Gadgetzan. Mining mithril may be a bit hard at low level, but the having the copper and tin will help you get some extra gold to spare until higher level. If you're level 50 you should be able to farm mithril fine.

This is a simple tip on how to make money at low level. Would be easier if you were an Orc or Troll because of their starting location. Orcs and Troll starts in durotar, for other races you will need to travel a bit further but it should all work pretty well.

You will need to become a Journeyman miner to begin. Durotar has the highest number of copper veins so would be the most ideal place. Once you've collected a good amount of copper ore, return to the forge and smelt them. Once your copper ore is turned in bars, follow the path from Razor Hill north to Ogrimmar and then head to the auction house. Talk to one of the auctioneers and set price to 40 silver for buyout and make the price 45-60 silver per 20 copper bars. I've seen stacks of copper bars go for 4 gold but average seems more around 80 silver pieces to 1 gold piece. Be sure to check the prices in the auction house first before listing. This is an ideal way to make money at low level.

10 Basic WoW Gold Farming Tips

By: Ruibo Chen
1. Its really easy and should be done right from the start of the game. Grab the 2 primary professions, mining and skinning. While you're out leveling yourself you can easily skin the animals. You're bound to eventually enter a mine which will have many minerals. Be sure to mine those ores. You can easily sell off the extra items to merchants or players.

2. Make sure you grab quests every chance you get. You can easily gain additional exp, gold, items and faction while you're leveling. You may even complete some of your quests with out even knowing because they normally require you to kill off mobs or require you to travel/speak to other NPCs. The quests of World of Warcraft are more player friendly than other MMORPGs.

3. Don't spend any money buying World of Warcraft items, equipments and other accessories early in the game. Low level characters from 1-40 are not gear dependent. Along with that fact, you'll get a nice load of items from just completing quests.

4. While you're out leveling, there are certain monsters that has better drops than others. An example would be humanoids. They tend to drop more gold and items than any other creatures in the World of Azeroth.

5. This is the advice I give to friends. When setting up your character, be sure first to read about the characters plus, and minuses; then set up for the strong and weak points. Take in consideration how the character supports himself and how the character can keep going and keep on track to level without losses.

6. Don't spend money on items at the auction during the first 10 levels of your character. Almost everything you will need will drop to you from the quests. Keep your activities balance in the amount time of questing and making products. Then, as you gain money from making and questing you will see your pocket grow.

7. The usual, your character does by the skills he has, whether it is mining, leather, or tailoring. You make and sell your products. This is how you gain, the more you practice your trade, the more gold you have in your pocket, when you sell the items. The higher the level your character is the higher the prices in the prices of your products.

8. Resale, this happened during the holidays. I know of a character that went out and bought snowballs and after collecting many, was selling them at a higher price to others. Later, bragging about the profit. Take advantage of this.

9. Once you level some you can charge others to guide them through lower quests that you can whiz threw. There are many ways to make money, for example you can protect and kill for lower characters.

10. In the group playing, be sure to express your wants and needs, to keep the character going. Drink and food on hand before; so your character can keep going till the quest is completed.

Farming World of Warcraft Arcanist Doan

By: Ruibo Chen
Arcanist Doan in Scarlet Monastery is a well rewarding boss. He drops some very nice loot that you can probably use or sell if you prefer. Hypnotic Blade sells for 1 gold 27 silver, Illusionary Rod for 1 gold 59 silver, Robe of Doan for 40 silver and Mantle of Doan for 30s. Arcanist Doan is a level 37 boss located in the far right SM instance. Would be an ideal mob if you are level 40 rogue, thus you can just stealth your way in.

Arcanist Doan is immune to cheat, you can start by using Ambush or Garrote. He castes Arcane Explosion often which hits for about 200 damage. Be sure to have alot of hit points. When his hit point reaches 50% he'll put up a blue barrier and charges up Detonation. It hits for a whooping 800 damage, be sure to run to the other side of the room otherwise you're going to get hit hard. To avoid this, engage the fight while he walks to a corner of the room. You will have around 5 seconds to jet to the other side before getting hit. An important part during this portion is to use first aid while he's busy casting Detonation. Once he's done casting run around for your first aid to finish up healing before charging at him again. Now just charge back at him and finish up until he dies, use a potion if needed. He will drop 2 of the 4 items mentioned above. It’s 2 gold per around which takes about 5 minutes. That's 24 gold per hour.

Now just hack at him, use a potion if needed, until he dies. He'll drop 2 items: a Hypnotic Blade/Illusionary Rod And Mantle of Doan/Robe of Doan. Goes for about 2 gold pieces per kill. It takes about 5 minutes for this whole sequence. So now we wait an hour for the instance to repop? NO! Here's a neat trick. Make sure you have a bot or a friend in group with you. He can be anywhere on the other continent if he wants. After you kill Doan and come out of the instance, have him make you party leader, then he leaves group and invites you again. The instance is reset with a new Arcanist Doan. I can easily average about 20 gold per hour.

Who Plays World Of Warcraft

By: Hunter Crowell
World of Warcraft has developed an enormous following since its release in November 2004. It has built upon its initial success to become an enduring and hugely popular title. The demand for the game has been stronger than its creators might have expected, and it is now a fully-fledged social phenomenon, attracting all kinds of people to its world.

World of Warcraft has enjoyed global success and acclaim. It seemed natural that it would do well in America, where there was anticipation for a new Warcraft title. The truth though is that it has taken off everywhere it has been released. It has been a massive hit in Asia, Australia, Canada, and Europe, and has many international fans and subscribers. The game has a simple, universal appeal that transcends language barriers and geography.

One of World of Warcraft’s strengths is that it appeals to both casual gamers and more experienced players. The game has made the online multiplayer genre more accessible to people who might not normally play it. A lot of people who try the game may have regarded the genre as too complex or may not have played a role-playing game before. It is the quality of World of Warcraft and the buzz surrounding it that has drawn people’s attention towards it.

World of Warcraft has a huge following on the Internet. There is an official site that is busy and informative and contains forums for the game’s subscribers. There are many other fan sites as well. It has a keen fan base made up of a broad cross section of society. People enjoy the game for all sorts of reasons, with fans citing the gorgeous graphics, addictive gameplay and unique characters as elements they find appealing.

Although World of Warcraft has the visual style of a cartoon, it is a game that people of any age can enjoy. All age groups play it, from children to seniors. This leads to an interesting online environment, as younger players interact with older gamers. It is a real mix of people, as children and teenagers share the game’s world with twenty year olds and more mature, middle-aged players and older. It is a friendly, lively environment and tends to be good-natured and welcoming.

The World of Warcraft universe is a happy, thriving community. There is a strong social aspect to it and players can become friends with each other. The game’s world of Azeroth follows the real world’s calendar and so they mark holidays and seasonal events in the game. On New Year’s Eve in 2005 there were parties and celebrations in Azeroth that all players could attend. It is features like this that make its world much more vivid, colourful and convincing.

There is a fan convention for World of Warcraft. The game’s developer Blizzard held an event in October 2005 named BlizzCon, for fans of Warcraft and their other titles. World of Warcraft was a major part of this event, and one of the main attractions was a preview of the game’s expansion, The Burning Crusade. Some 8,000 people attended the event, which is expected to become an annual occurrence. Families went together and fans dressed up in costume as their favourite characters from the game.

World of Warcraft has caught people’s imagination and this has led to a variety of creative offshoots. One key sign of the game’s popularity is the existence of Warcraft fan fiction. Players like to write fictional stories about the characters and events of the game. Fan art is also popular. People draw and paint images inspired by the game and post them in galleries online. Blizzard run their own Fan Art Program that fans can submit their art to for display. There is great creativity and beauty there.

The broad appeal of World of Warcraft is such that it has infiltrated popular culture. The game has been used as an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy. It also has celebrity admirers. The comedian Dave Chappelle is a fan. Chappelle talked about the game during a stand-up performance in San Francisco in 2005. “You know what I’ve been playing a lot of?” the comedian reportedly asked the audience, “World of Warcraft!” He praised the game and expressed his delight with it.

World of Warcraft then is a game that has broken new ground to appeal to a great number of people in society. With more than five million subscribers, it is now the most popular online role-playing game and has grown far beyond its cult origins. Its wide appeal speaks of the brilliance of the game itself.

World of Warcraft Gold Buying Reviewed

There is a culture of players in World of Warcraft that play the game not for fun, but for profit. To the citizens of Azeroth, these players are known as Farmers. Farmers spend their time killing monsters in out of the way places for the items they drop. A farmer hopes to get rare and valuable items for the hours spent mindlessly killing. They then hock all the items gathered to vendors or to other players via the Auction House. A majority of the gold farmers active in World of Warcraft are Chinese, and often speak little to no English. Though they are often the focus of ridicule by American players, and playing video games for money is something that most American kids would dream of, their lives are not easy as it may sound.

In near sweat-shop conditions, the accounts are manned in twelve to fourteen hour shifts, without holidays or vacations. It is rare for a gold farming account to spend much time offline, as each account has two or three players assigned to it in these shifts. In tightly packed rooms, between ten to thirty computers can be running the game simultaneously. Each account has a quota, most commonly twenty gold an hour. The average price for an American player to purchase gold is $70 for one thousand gold. Using these figures, each hour of game play earns approximately $3.50. A pittance is paid to the farmer, between 45 to 55 cents an hour is the normal wage. With World of Warcraft’s subscription cost of $15 a month, the first 5 hours of the farmers first shift pays for that, everything else is profit for the company.

The American players who are up in arms at the gold farming epidemic are not lobbying for more fair work conditions, or attempting to help farmers unionize. The plight of the Chinese gold farmer isn’t even a consideration. They are worried that it has an adverse effect on the game’s economy. A farmer grinding for gold initiates a perpetual cycle. They sell the items to players for gold to give to their company, who in turn sells their gold back to the players. People buy the gold from the farming services so they can afford the things they want for their character. The purists in World of Warcraft believe that it should be hard work on the player’s behalf that earns them the best gear, not real world currency.

Blizzard takes the side of these purists, but they do not necessarily hold the same moral convictions. All items, gold, characters, likenesses… everything in World of Warcraft is intellectual property of Blizzard Entertainment. The players pay their subscription fees each month to “rent” their character. Selling items or gold is strictly forbidden by the Terms of Service Blizzard has written. According to blizzard the only thing a player owns is their log on ID and their password, even sharing that is a terminable offense. A player or account proved to be engaged in the sale of items or gold and the account selling and buying can be suspended. With the long days spent farming, and the vigilant-in-text regulations set in World of Warcraft, Blizzard has still done little to stop the farmers or the buyers.

Buying World Of Warcraft Levels VS Power Leveling Yourself

By: Nickolie
Leveling in World of Warcraft can be very time come summing and at sometimes difficult. Spending hours playing the game just of for a couple levels a day may be getting you frustrated. So you may consider just buying your levels from a power leveling service. But lets see if buying your way to level 70 is really wroth it.

First let s take a look at buying your way to level 70 in World of Warcraft. So you load up Google at do a search for world of warcraft leveling service or some other relative keyword. After search around for the cheapest power leveling service you select one that you like. The next step would be to make sure that the wow leveling service is real; after all you don t want to pay for a service that s just going to take your money. After researching the company and you feel comfortable with there service. You decide to place and order. And that s that, so what are some pros and cons of buying power leveling service.

Some pros are that you don t have to work for the level; you hired someone to level for you, also the person that is leveling your character is a professional game. The pro gamer may know more tricks and secrets about World of Warcraft they you. Another pro is you could order at night then go to sleep and wake up 15+ more levels higher. It s like having your cake and eating it to.


But there are some cons that go with buying your Warcraft levels. Since you are not the one actually doing the leveling your not getting the game experience, so when your are level 70 and your in a party, you may not be a effective party member do to your lack of game experience. The biggest reason that you really shouldn t buy your levels is, you have to give out your login in name and password and what server you re on. I never recommend give out this personal information do to the fact that its link to a credit or debit card. The last disadvantage of buying a warcraft leveling service is that there not all are legit. There are a lot of so called leveling services that are just out to steal credit card numbers and/or warcraft login accounts. That s why if your considering buying from a leveling service, you have to do your research on that company.

So is there a way to quickly wow power level yourself, so you don t have to worry about some of the cons that I listed above. Well the answer in short is yes, you can learn the secrets that the professional gamers use when you buy a wow leveling service. After all if it works for the people that are leveling your character then it has to work for you. There are several World of Warcraft power leveling guides. But the top one has to be Brains Kopps 1-60, 60-70 power leveling guide. In this guide it teaches you the secrets of power leveling in warcraft, the ones that the pro gamers use. By power leveling this way you are not only are you getting the gaming experience you are quickly leveling your wow character. Also, since you are not giving out your account information you don t have to worry about credit card fraud or someone stealing your account. This is a big plus for me.

So in closing, what I m saying is if you want something done right, then you re going to have to do it yourself. Power leveling guides gives you all of the benefits of a leveling service with none of the disadvantages.

The World of Warcraft Gold Mine

By: Jack Lee..
Everyone wants gold, presumably because it is shiny and yellow, and people like shiny things. However, virtual gold is not shiny, but is still much in demand. In World of Warcraft, gold is needed to buy a wide variety of useful items so you need to get as much of it as possible.

The first way to get gold that everyone figures out is to kill something. When you kill a creature, it will drop gold or an item or both, which you can then pick up and use. This is in addition to the usual experience gained from fighting. While with experience you grow gradually more powerful, with enough gold you can buy an immediate upgrade through improved equipment.

Sometimes you can get gold as a reward for completing quests for various non-player characters (NPCs). Talk to everyone you meet, and some of them will ask you to do things, like collecting a number of items or killing a monster. If you do this, you will be rewarded, often with gold or a useful or valuabe item. Sometimes you will only revcieve experience, but this is good as well, as the experience gained allows you to level up and so become stronger for your next battle or quest.

Quests are not always fast or easy, like killling, and so you may want to find another way to profit. In this case you need to find someone willing to give you gold. Nobody will just hand it to you, so you need to find a way to convince people to give it to you. The best way to do this is to act as a merchant, buying and selling goods, either direct to people or through an auction house.

If you aren't much good as a merchant, you might find work as a mercenary, offering to help people out on difficult quests in exchange for gold. This is extremely unlikely though, as people play the game for fun, and it is always easy to find someone willing to quest with you just for the experience of the quest. Otherwise, why would they be playing?

While mercenary work is so unrealistic it is hardly worth considering, what might be worth it is production. People often need special items made or materials mined that they don't have the skill to do themselves, and you might be able to make money producing items for sale to other players.

If you have already thought about all the ways you could earn WoW Gold in game, and are stil looking for an easier way, you might want to consider getting the gold from outside World of Warcraft. There are many places to buy gold, such as www.wowgold4you.com, which offer good rates and an easy way to build up your gold.

If you search on google for 'wow gold' you will easily be able to find a site selling it, although you need to make sure you go somewhere safe and reliable. You also need to be sure that they are well stocked, as you don't want to be waiting a long time for your gold.

www.wowgold4you.com keeps a good stock of gold available, as well as a number of other items that you can buy from them for use in the game. This will enable you to advance more quickly, and keep ahead of your opposition. But don't take my advice. Go online, and have a look yourself.

World of Warcraft Powerleveling Guide – How To

By: Nickolie
Common to most MMORPGs,World of Warcraft powerleveling guide is a means of quickly gaining experience and getting your character to the higher levels in a very short span of time. In World of Warcraft there are many techniques that can help you to reach your leveling goals. The few that are listed here work great and if you get into the habit of using them over time you will begin to level very quickly.

One of the easiest ways to level your character is to get in with a group of higher level players. You will receive more experience as they will be fighting higher level monsters than you would be able to handle on your own. Simply befriend a player who is at a higher level than you and get invited into their group. This is one of the easiest and most common ways of leveling up quickly.

Sometimes a balanced group of two or three is much more efficient than soloing. This is particularly true when a Quest requires killing a certain number of monsters. Simply quest with groups when you feel it is necessary and fight solo whenever you feel you may be held back or hindered by them. In other words, use your intuitive sense to decide which is most efficient for you at any given time.

There is some confusion as to whether questing or grinding is best forWorld of Warcraft powerleveling guide. I feel that this is a matter of personal preference. Some people actually enjoy the mindless tedium of spending countless hours grinding away at mobs of monsters for experience. While others prefer to mix things up with the excitement of faster leveling and story telling that comes with Questing. You will earn more experience and level quicker in a shorter amount of gameplay time through Questing. It all depends upon how you like spending your time while playing World of Warcraft. However, if you are wanting to Power Levelin then Questing is the definitely the quicker route.

Never be afraid to drop Quests that are overly long. Quests that require a ridiculous amount of traveling or time to complete are useless to players that are trying to Power Leveling. If you are taking Quests in order to level up more quickly the last thing you will want to do is waste a ridiculous amount of time on an overly long and complicated Quest. There are quite literally thousands of Quests to choose from in World of Warcraft so move on to those that are finished quickly and require little traveling. Brian Kopp has aWorld of Warcraft powerleveling guidethat will help you decide if what queast will be the most rewarding.

Power leveling is an excellent way of preventing yourself from becoming stuck in the middle levels as many players tend to do later on in World of Warcraft. Getting stuck like this can cause the game to become monotonous and boring for some. For players who want to avoid this problem,World of Warcraft powerleveling guideis the obvious choice. If you require more information or help, there are many online resources available that can provide you with more detailed strategies concerningWorld of Warcraft powerleveling guide.