April 5, 2011 New Win one-year of WoW game time from WoW Insider
WoW Insider is giving away a year’s worth of WoW game time through its Twitter promotion.
What you need to do:
retweet WoW insider’s twitter message
follow WoW Insider on Twitter by April 11
Read the announcement and official rules on WoW Insider.
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March 31, 2011 Patch 4.1 Update: New Guild Challenges
In Patch 4.1, Guild Challenges can be found in the guild information pane and involve completing weekly objectives in dungeons, rated battlegrounds and raids.
Q: How can I complete the challenges?
A: Form a group with at least 3 guildies for 5-man dungeons, 8 for 10-man raids and rated battlegrounds or 20 for 25-man raids and choose your own adventure. There is a weekly cap for the challenges completed.
Q: What’s in it for me?
A: Gold and guild xp are some of the cool rewards promised by Blizzard. Stay tuned for more
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March 27, 2011 Cataclysm Market Watch: Easy gold from Infinite Dust
Cataclysm Hot Market Tip#1: Infinite Dust
The price of Infinite Dust has more than tripled post-Cataclysm. It sells from 3g to 8g each depending on the server, according to recent data from The Undermine Journal. There is a consistent demand for this enchanting material so it is a safe bet for flipping; buying whenever the price drops under 70% and reposting at 120% can yield quick profits.
How to stockpile Infinite Dust:
(If you are not an enchanter, just tip an enchanter to DE stuff for you)
disenchant Northrend greens (level 67+, ilvl 130 to 182)
finish all NR quests, run NR dungeons or buy cheap AH greens
buy Abyss Crystal and cast Abyssal Shatter to obtain dust and essences
Tags: auction house, cataclysm, gold tip
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March 18, 2011 WoW Gold Tip #1: Use time-saving macros
Any Auction House goblin will tell you that time is money. Save those precious seconds when buying, posting and managing your gold empire by using the right macros.
A macro is a series of commands that you can bind to a key. For a painless introduction to writing macros, head to the WoW Stratics page. If you are not sure what a specific macro does, Fitzcairn’s Macro Explain-o-matic can, well, explain it to you.
Bid and Confirm Bid on an Item
/click BrowseBidButton
/click StaticPopup1Button1
Buyout and Confirm Buyout on an item
/click BrowseBuyoutButton
/click StaticPopup1Button1
Cancel and Confirm Cancellation of an Auction
/click AuctionsCancelAuctionButton
/click StaticPopup1Button1
Collect gold from your open mailbox (skips all other mails)
/script CheckInbox() for m = GetInboxNumItems(), 1, -1 do TakeInboxMoney( m ) end (source: worldofmacros.org)
Prospecting (insert your ore of choice)
/cast Prospect
/use titanium ore
/use saronite oe
Milling (insert your herbs of choice)
/cast Milling
/use mageroyal
/use dreamfoil
More useful macros can be found here at Norganna’s Addons’ Wiki page.
Tags: auction house, gold tip, macro
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March 13, 2011 No more hunting for corpses
Great news rezzers can look forward to in Patch 4.1:
A dead player can now be resurrected by targeting them using the Party or Raid Frame even if they have released. No more hunting for corpses.
Head to the WoW forums for the official Cataclysm Patch 4.1 PTR notes and check WoW Insider for a full coverage of the changes in the incoming patch.
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March 12, 2011 No more fighting over DPS dungeon loot but…
Blizzard’s idea for world peace: Soon, no DPS will ever have to share his random dungeon candy.
Patch 4.1 PTR note: The Dungeon Finder now attempts to avoid putting damage-dealing classes with the same armor type in a group.
But will this mean even longer LFD waiting times for certain classes? According to Warcraft Realms (based on data collected by Warcraft CensusPlus UI mod), the distribution of level 85 characters that wear similar armor types look like this:
Out of 2,374,344 total characters surveyed:
35% wear plate armor: DK (11%), warrior (10%) and paladin (14%)
20% wear mail armor: hunter (11%) and shaman (9%)
18% wear leather armor: druid 12% and rogue 6%
28% wear cloth armor: priest 10%, mage 11% and warlock 7%.
Tags: dungeon
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- Posted under classes, dungeon, heroic, patch notes
March 12, 2011 Blizzard anniversary retrospective video now on YouTube
Walk down memory lane with your favorite game developers on the planet, from Rock ‘n Roll racing, Blackthorne, Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft and World of Warcraft .
Oh, and there is a quiz afterward.
Q1. Blizzard Entertainment was originally founded under the name:
a) Caverns and Drakes b) Thundersnow c) Silicon and Synapse
Q2. Where did Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham, founders of Blizzard Entertainment first meet?
a) in a Harvard dorm room b) at a UCLA computer lab c) next to a copier at Kinkos
Q3 . What Blizzard game first started as “Orcs in Space”?
a) Blackthorne b) Diablo c) Starcraft
Q4. What loot did the Furbog, the first mob ever created, drop?
a) nipple ring b) pearl comb c) thick-cut bacon
Answers: 1.c 2.b 3. 4.a
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