World of Warcraft Gold Guide

State of Inscription (me being max level) Northrend Inscription Research – buggy. Discoverable recipes not available on vendors are either fail to appear in the inscription panel or they appear in the general tab of your ability book, rendering them useless. Also, the cooldown resets itself upon zoning; this, during beta, is preferred as it allows what few inscriptionists there are to try to make as many glyphs as possible; however, due to bug #1, this is not happening. Glyphs – Several are not applying themselves correctly. Some glyphs aren’t worded clearly, so there’s ambiguity as to their effect. There are missing glyphs for staple class abilities. Some have been removed due to design decisions that affected the functionality of the named ability, rendering the glyph useless; no replacements were offered. Levelling – Was exceedingly time consuming in the past. For long stretches, green recipes with rare mats were the only means of raising oneself to the next stage of the profession. Current build is reportedly better for number of levelling craftables, but material requirements were increased in return. Net effect – apparently a similar

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BoP Weapons for blacksmithing?  Weaponsmith BoP Weapon Plans: (Requires Weaponsmith to craft and to equip) Corroded Saronite Edge [415] 1H Sword (208-388) 114.4 dps, Speed 2.6, +50 Agility, +21 Stamina, +28 Expertise, +14 Hit, +60 Attack Power, Requires Weaponsmith, Level 78 (Rare, BoP) Materials: 16 Saronite Bars, 1 Crystalline Fire Corroded Saronite Woundbringer [415] 1H Sword (144-269) 114.4 dps, Speed 1.8, +28 Agility, +21 Stamina, +14 Expertise, +50 Hit, +60 Attack Power, Requires Weaponsmith, Level 78 (Rare, BoP) Materials: 14 Saronite Bars, 1 Crystalline Fire Saronite Mindcrusher [415] 2H mace (428-644) 148.8 dps, +88 Strength, +57 Stamina, +38 Critical Strike, +25 Hit, Requires Weaponsmith, Level 78 (Rare, BoP) Materials: 20 Saronite Bars, 2 Crystalline Fire

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 World of Warcraft as a teaching tool Most of us were kids at one point. A portion of us probably played computer or video games even as kids. Thus, I’m sure that at least a good handful of us, when told by our parents to turn off the computer and go do homework, eat dinner, or get some fresh air, tried to counter with something like this: “But Mom, games are educational! They give you hand-eye coordination and map reading skills!” Now, all these years later, it seems we may finally be getting some backup from teachers and educators. recently highlighted some educators who are using World of Warcraft or lauding it for its educational values.Educator Constance Steinkuehler of the University of Wisconsin-Madison started an after school WoW playing group for young boys. She’s found that these 8th and 9th graders, who had no interesting in reading or writing, now get into detailed and lengthy discussions on raid strategy and gearing up and the like on their message boards. They also meet one Saturday a month for more involved projects such as maintaining the guild website or putting together graphic novels based on their Warcraft adventures, which provides

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Scattered Shots: On Roleplaying a Hunter Welcome to Scattered Shots, a weekly column on all things Hunter related, now written by Daniel Whitcomb. I may have mentioned this before elsewhere, but often times it’s hard to speak authoritatively on any class in Beta, because no matter what the changes and the new imba combos and whatnot are right now, they will likely change drastically the next time a new build comes into play. This isn’t to say that it’s impossible to write about them, but often times whatever words you write will be obsolete, or at least inaccurate, by the time you sit down to write next week’s column. For example, last week I wrote about traps. I mentioned that Freezing Traps no longer break immediately on damage. Well, now they do again. As Ghostcrawler tells it, they couldn’t find a way to make pets automatically ignore a frozen target, so they called the whole thing off. Now, honestly, that seems a bit like chopping off your hand to take care of a mosquito bite on your pinky finger, but hey. On the plus side, she also said that they’ll put it back in once they figure out how to reign in pets (I recommend using the passive

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Key items and tabards out of the bags soon, says Tigole Tigole has gotten over his little weekend rampage on the forums and gotten back to business: he’s got two tidbits about a popular subject among most players: making more bag space available. First up is tabards — he says that there are no plans to move tabards from the bags to the UI (as with the pet and mount changes), but that players shouldn’t worry too much, because Blizzard is making it easier for players to get lost and destroyed tabards back if necessary. Since the Championing mechanic means we won’t have to wait till Exalted to get tabards, there’ll be a tabard vendor in Dalaran that’ll have most of the tabards you need at a relatively cheap price. And “keys” that aren’t keys are also mentioned — by this, we mean things like the Scepter of Celebras or the Mallet of Zul’Farrak; attunement items, in other words. Tigole says there’s a plan for these also (another “keychain” tab, maybe?), but that we won’t see it in time for the expansion. Good news on both ends for people short on bag space, even if we have to wait a while.

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Arcane Brilliance: How long will my gear last me?   Each week, Arcane Brilliance emerges from the sewers beneath Dalaran, weary from dueling (and winning!) over and over in the Circle of Wills, to deliver to you a column about Mages. What’s that you say? What good are sewers in a floating city? Where does all the sewage go? Does the city drift over the countryside, forever trailing a series of sewage waterfalls? Ah, but you forget: Dalaran is a city of Mages! Even our poo is magical. After reading our own Adam Holisky’s excellent post on upgrading tanking shields in Wrath, I decided I wanted to know how long my Mage’s gear would last in the frozen north. It’s a fair question, and I suspect a common concern. We’ve worked hard for our shiny epics–either by raiding like crazy or grinding for honor or Arena points, and often a bit of both–and the thought of leaving them behind in one of the expansion’s first zones for some green quality item that drops off a random mob is a little bit depressing. We want to feel–in these last months before Wrath arrives–as if our efforts have not been in vain. If we’re still

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Addon Spotlight: Mac Dual-boxing 2 Macros Here is where you start laying the foundation for the slave’s interaction with the master. I spent time writing macros that enabled the slave to assist the master. Each combat and healing ability I use regularly on my slave (a Balance Druid) has an associated macro to assist the focus target. (Which I designate at the beginning of gameplay as my master.) Here are a couple of examples of macros I am using. /assist focus /startattack I use this when I don’t really need much help and want to regen mana via /target focus /cast Regrowth One of the healing spells cast on the master /target Self /cast Regrowth Slave heals himself   /follow focus Used to facilitate both toons moving together /assist focus /cast Starfire A basic macro to cast a variety of offensive spells (Starfire in this case) /drink /eat /dance A few basic administrative-type abilities plus the Moonkin dance for laughs. (Note that these three are different macros.) Once you’ve written macros to correspond to the abilities and/or actions for your slave, you’ll want to lay them out in the slave’s UI and bind them to bindings not used by your

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