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The Ultimate Level 19 Rogue Twinking Guide?

 Rogues  4 Responses »
Aug 172008
 

Twinking is the fine art of taking your character to levels far beyond what he/she should be able to do at any given level. For example, a Rogue twink, at 19, with 2,000 HP? It’s been done.

The [tag-tec]Warsong Gulch[/tag-tec] Battleground (Capture the Flag) has a level 10-19 bracket. Naturally one wants to be level 19, otherwise rapid doom will happen. Then one needs that little edge over the other 19s…

AzerothNow.com has a killer twinking guide for those level 19 Rogues bent on mayhem and slaughter in Warrsong Gulch (and maybe a duel or three.)

So you’ve done your dailies - everyday, you’ve cleared Heroics and Karazhan for Badges until your eyes bleed, maybe you’re even utterly tired of farming Illidan every week or wiping on Kil’Jaeden. But what now? Level another character? Cancel your subscription until Wrath?

Well, I have your solution: why not create a lvl 19 Twink Rogue? But what is a lvl 19 twink Rogue, you may ask. The simple explanation is that they are characters with the best possible gear for their level (including enchants), whose purpose is PvP, and their playground is the 10-19 bracket of Warsong Gulch Battlegrounds.

Here’s the rest: The Ultimate Guide to Lvl 19 Rogue Twinking

edit: A commenter points us to his twinking guides and I may just make use of his level 39 Warlock guide. Very cool. WoW Twink Guide: 39 Affliction Warlock

Wrath of the Lich King Patch Notes

 Classes, wrath of the lich king  1 Response »
Aug 162008
 

There’s an extensive list of WotLK patch notes here. Lots of info on what sort of tweaks might happen to your favorite class(es.)

Of course, since this is the beta test everything will probably change between now and the release date.

So look at it as what they’re playng with now, not what the final version will be.

Wrath patch notes.

Wrath of the Kitchen King is in the Oven

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Aug 152008
 

We actually have a [tag-tec]World of Warcraft[/tag-tec] product of our own. It’s not a leveling guide, or a gold guide, or a PvP guide… It’s a cookbook. A real world cookbook taking, primarily, WoW recipes (from the WoW cooking system) and making real word dishes.

So yeah, this means you can really eat your Aterac Manna Biscuits while hacking down the opposition in the AV battlegrounds.

It’s the Tauren Chef Cookbook. Check it out if you like to cook or know someone, somewhere, who does. By the way, we have lots of recipes in that book for people who have not yet worked up their cooking skills.

Now, if you hop over to that site you’ll be able to grab a free mini-cookbook that will finally give you something to do with those Murloc eyes that you’ve been collecting and unable to sell on the Auction House.

Now, in honor of the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion, due in November, Gwynne is baking up the expansion to the [tag-del]Tauren Chef Cookbook[/tag-del], Wrath of the Kitchen King.

Now, since Blizzard will probably miss the Early November release date for Wrath, we’re not going to hold ourselves to an exact release date for Kitchen King. Still, we’ll probably release it right around the time that Bliz releases WotLK.

Now, if you like the smell of Beer Basted Boar Ribs in the morning you should probably look into our other blog, The WoW Cookbook every now and then, most of the updates to the book will happen over there.

The Wrath Beta Key

 Miscellaneous, wrath of the lich king  Comments Off on The Wrath Beta Key
Aug 112008
 

D’oh! My wife got the beta key!

Now the rest of us are in negotiations with her to access the beta account and start fussing with all the new content.

Maybe ours will arrive soon…

And our lips are sealed.

edit: Blizzard’s Official Wrath of the Lich King page is here.

Wrath of the Lich King on Amazon

 wrath of the lich king  Comments Off on Wrath of the Lich King on Amazon
Aug 102008
 

Amazon has Wrath of the Lich King available for pre-order. Release date is November 3, 2008. $39.00 and it’s yours (in November.)

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack

Edit: Just as a reminder, Wrath of the Lich King is bringing:

  • the [tag-tec]Death Knight[/tag-tec] – World of Warcraft’s first Hero class.
  • Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way (and the new talents are on the WotLK Talent Calculator.)
  • Learn the craft of spell augmentation with the new Inscription profession
  • Brave the harsh new continent of Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King.
  • Engage in epic siege warfare, deploying mighty siege engines to lay waste to destructible buildings in your path. The new battlegound uses siege engines.
  • Transform your hero’s look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances. About damn time.
  • Explore perilous new dungeons filled with some of the deadliest creatures – and greatest treasures – on Azeroth. And within 6 months those lovely paired warglaives, that the few and the proud worked so hard to get, will be nothing special.
  • And the inevitable: much, much more…

Ok, I can’t wait.

Believe it or not, I’am actually most looking forward to the character customization. Silly, I know.

Leveling to 80 and exporing the new PvP areas is a close 2nd. Who knows? Enough practice at this stuff and I might be able to get my arena rating above 1000! Well, maybe. 😉

So what’s the one thing that you are most looking forward to in WotLK?

Killer Blog Contest

 Miscellaneous  Comments Off on Killer Blog Contest
Aug 072008
 

If any of you have a blog then you might want to check this out. Jason Henderson at BigMarketingOnline.com is running a blogging contest with, at last glance, over 30k in prizes. All of these prizes should be of interest to anyone running a blog and he has lots of prizes, so I think the chances of winning aren’t bad.

He also has a task list, at the end of the post, where you can get additional entries into the contest. Check it out here: Over 30 Thousand Dollars in Cash and Prizes in Largest Blog Contest Ever

Five Really Funny World of Warcraft Videos

 Videos  7 Responses »
Aug 052008
 

Some of our favorite WoW videos. There are a lot of funny, silly, and weird World of Warcraft videos out there, these are some of the best.

You may have to give the videos a moment to load.

You’ve seen the WoW Commercials, right? Such as the one with William Shatner or Mr. T?: In the World of Warcraft I’m a…

Weird Al Yankovich is well know for his “covers” of various songs. Here’s Hardware Store:

Pwnage. Good ol’ time story telling, The Ballad of the Noob and the 60:

A classic. Leroy Jenkins defining the term Epic Fail. The group is trying to put together a plan to survive the next encounter, and…

And the funniest: The World of Wifecraft. The kids might not get it, but those of us out of our teens certainly will!

What are you choices? If they make me laugh I’ll post them.

Update 9/9/10 – comments closed due to spam.

Arathi Basin Premade, for the Lose!

 Battlegrounds  Comments Off on Arathi Basin Premade, for the Lose!
Aug 052008
 

Played a few [tag-tec]Arathi Basin[/tag-tec] Battleground games last night. Won a couple, lost a couple, and won one in about 2 minutes.

It seems that the Ally side had come in with a premade group, looking to lose! This was a new one to me, though I’m sure you’ve seen it before. (A premade is a team formed before the game starts, generally running Ventrilo, and with an addon that allows them to join as a team.)

The idea is to get in, lose as quickly as possible, get the mark and get out. Rinse and repeat. I was told that they could get maybe 12 marks an hour that way. 2.5 hours or so and you have enough for a piece of gear. Horde side won that game in two minutes.

As for me, I find honor points harder to come by than marks. Only need 30 marks for that chest piece, but 14,500 honor points. 483.3 honor per mark. Hmmm…

I’ll also take that two minute win!

Banking In WoW, AKA Being Muleheaded

 Get the Gold  Comments Off on Banking In WoW, AKA Being Muleheaded
Jul 312008
 

Banker, mule, or Auction House Alt, the idea is the same. The [tag-tec]World of Warcraft[/tag-tec] has made it easy for us to make many different characters so lets take advantage of this.

The Banker/Mule/AH Alt is a character who stores, buys, and sells stuff for your toons. All of them.

Gather up some collectibles, hit the nearest mailbox, and send them all to your banker. Log into the banker at some point and post your auctions, collect your successful sales, buy stuff and ship to the appropriate other character, etc.

The major share of all your gold will stay with the banker. Partly for convenience, partly to stifle impulse spending if your main is careless with her gold.

Start Here

Roll up a toon and run to the nearest auction house, at level 1. Level it to 5 if you want to make use of skills such as disenchanting, tailoring, etc.

I like Stormwind on the Ally side, but Ironforge and The Exodar are fine. Darnassus’ AH and mailbox are too far apart and I’m lazy. 😉

Horde side I like the west AH in Slivermoon since the mailbox is about 5′ from the AH, but go where ever works for you.

Never see the Ah again

Rather, your mains won’t. Anytime they get stuff, they send it to the mule. Anytime they need stuff they send a purchase order to the mule, who then buys it, packages it, and sends it off.

One trap here is forgetting exactly what gear your main has. It might be worthwhile to send some cash from your banker to your main and have your main buy it directly. She’ll have to do that with Enchants anyway, so what the heck.

Need some extra short term storage space? You main sends the stuff that needs to be stored to the banker, who then returns it. It’ll sit in the mail box for up to 30 days and you can pick it up as needed. The mail system will hold far more stuff than your bank and it’s more convenient, it just won’t hold it forever.

About that level 5…

If you level your banker to 5 you can pick up the enchanting skill and level it to 75 if you like. You can then disenchant all those worthless low level green items you pick up.

If you grab tailoring then you can add a minor health enchant to the low level chest items you can make. This might allow you to sell those items for a bit more on the AH.

You can also make up some of the basic green items, disenchant them, and sell the parts.

So save yourself some time and effort in the future and roll that banker now.

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