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[treemonster]

How the hell do you guys reach this much gold, i am trying to save up 6100G for artisan flying, a mount and cold weather flying.

I've just hit 72 so am in Northrend but mining is quite scarce where i'm grinding, i'll be finished before i ever reach that much i've got just over 2000G

i'm in the same boat as you when i play. i've never been rich in wow and despite doing a fair amount of questing per week in tbc never made enough to do more than buy enough pots for world pvp and pay repair costs from suicide PKing in towns.

when i leveled up my old main at the beginning of wotlk it seemed like i was making alot of money just from quests, but then cold weather flying came around and i spent most of it. now that toon has like 1.5k gold bu ti think alot o fit came from the RMT spammer that hacked my account.

Crafting / Gathering.

gathering is what my bro does when he plays besides playing the market(an extension of his gathering) and farming dungeons for exp. he makes about 10k a month from mining alone it seems and he'll usually only play like 2 weeks per month he does play.

me personally i hate node gathering(except for in aoc for some reason), but this is an easy way to make money in wow.

i honestly don't know ho wi am going to pay for the necessary money sinks when i try out cataclysm like the dual spec. forget about epic flying.i also failed to level my tailoring when i did play wotlk, so i still have tbc bags, and very few frostweave cloth stacks(seems like they hada terrible drop rate in wotlk for some reason, at least when i played- although my bro says they drop alot in dungeons which figures because i try to avoid dungeons and look for mobs with high drop rates of cloth int he world instead; which worked in tbc but never noticed any promising mobs for this purpose in wotlk)

[DrunkenBeard]

I don't like Herbalism/Mining, I have always found them to be too time consuming and it's quite boring to farm the same gathering route for hours (if you're serious about making money). My favorite profession to make gold ? Skinning. I make 1000g per day if I put my mind to it just farming leather and selling it with the occasional arctic furs (80g/piece on my realm), the advantage over Herba/Mining is that skinning is actually fun and can be done while leveling/raiding/puging, Violet Hold is every skinner's heaven in that matter :D You also don't have to learn 10000 resource name with its market price and carry around stacks of different things, Skinning makes everything come down to Arctic Fur and Borean Leather. These 2 are more than enough to make good gold and buy whatever you want without feeling poor.

Of course don't count on skinning alone to buy you a Tundra Mammoth unless you have a lot of free time to spend farming HCs and AOEing packs of mobs in Northrend. But if you just want to stay around 5000/6000g at any given time, it's the ideal profession IMO.

In another subject, anyone could suggest some 251 (or even 232/219) leather wrist and feet pieces ? Preferably something that can be bought for JP/gold or that drops in a 5-men.

[the evn show]

In another subject, anyone could suggest some 251 (or even 232/219) leather wrist and feet pieces ? Preferably something that can be bought for JP/gold or that drops in a 5-men.

If you're willing to take 251 then you're not going for Herald/Dedicated achievements so you may as well get either:

Boots of Impending Death or Blessed Cenarian Boots and Bracers of Swift Death or Moonshadow Armguards

[+SOOPRcow MVC]

Three years later... finally got [A Mask for All Occasions]

[j0sh]

Three years later... finally got [A Mask for All Occasions]

I'm two masks away from having it completed myself, after three years.

[HellboundIRL]

I notice still that some of the gear in the beta pictures is still very wotlk-like, those shields similar to the one out of AN and spikey shoulders....is it going to have pretty much the same style in the questing gear as wotlk did? I've heard there were place holders up to now for the gear, but I'm still seeing pictures and videos of the same stuff.

[Sky Black]

Elemental Invasion http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2054-Cataclysm-Prologue-Elemental-Invasions-Started

Been playing Cata beta since my sub ran out...time to sign up? :p

[Minifig]

Hear ye, hear ye, listen and read the sign on the gnome who is forecasting your doom! For years, we've been punted.. but the master Chogall has promised us swift justice! Repent now or forever face his wrath.. the cataclysm is nigh! Join the cult today! :laugh:

[Shaun N.]

Elemental Invasion http://www.mmo-champ...vasions-Started

Been playing Cata beta since my sub ran out...time to sign up? :p

Same, I resubbed at 4.01 to get my mage to 80 (now done) and now I'm just farming pets on my hunter :D

[Sky Black]

Same, I resubbed at 4.01 to get my mage to 80 (now done) and now I'm just farming pets on my hunter :D

Ended up buying 6 months, with Cata soon I might as well. If anyones been tempted to sign up but not sure there's a feat of strength for a limited time at the moment :) just check out MMO Champ

[Noveed]

I am absolutely Livid, its absolutely rediculous, Virgin Media is being run by monkeys.

World of Warcraft Latency Issues

on 28-10-2010 12:09

Since the latest World of Warcraft update we have seen that the type of packets used by Blizzard to deliver the on-line gaming has changed significantly. This means that Virgin Media's National (ADSL) traffic management system is unable to recognise the packets as gaming traffic and assumes that they are peer to peer traffic. Due to this the traffic management system does not place the packets within the gaming queue which has the highest priority and lowest latency within the VM network, instead they fall into the peer to peer class which gets a low level of priority within our network and by default a higher level of latency.

We are working to try and rectify this as soon as we can with our traffic management supplier however it will take us a few weeks to upgrade the traffic manage solution so that is can recognise the new traffic class and correctly classify it as gaming. Unfortunately due to the nature of most traffic management solutions we can not manually move these packets into the gaming queue as the solution can not work out which ones to move.

We appreciate that some customers will have noticed a similar issue with the previous World of Warcraft update. The reason behind this is because gaming companies are not prepared to share the updates with Virgin Media or traffic management suppliers prior to its release and so the first time we see the new packets is when people start to use the new updates. We are trying to change this view point of the gaming companies however at present they are un-willing to work with us.

We apologise for the affect that this has on your gaming experience and we will update you when we have a confirmed fix date for this.

I have got a refund for the month but quite frankly this kinda stinks!

The issue is affecting loads of customers. Traffic management solutions fail badly!

[Tharp Daddy]

Just bought a new graphics card, and unlike my current Gfx card which does not have DX11 support, my new one will. Is there any noticeable difference (Besides framerate) when using direct X 11 in WoW?

[Slane]

Just bought a new graphics card, and unlike my current Gfx card which does not have DX11 support, my new one will. Is there any noticeable difference (Besides framerate) when using direct X 11 in WoW?

Not really.

[Minifig]

Not really.

Not.. yet.

DX11 is experimental, there should be some significant changes in the pipeline for those using it, but.. so far.. ? No.. nothing huge.

[draelas]

Just bought a new graphics card, and unlike my current Gfx card which does not have DX11 support, my new one will. Is there any noticeable difference (Besides framerate) when using direct X 11 in WoW?

i could be wrong here, but i think i remember reading in the 4.0.1 patch notes that you can enable some dx11 stuff if you add a line to your config.wtf . but its experimental.

so by default dx11 support doesnt seem to exist yet. so no it wont help you. maybe in the future

[Argi]

Hasn't given me any issues - it was only really buggy in during beta. They may have started adding visual improvements but otherwise it just speeds up performance.

SET gxapi "d3d11"

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

Heroic Raids are now available on the Beta and a HILLARIOUS troll bug.

[Elliott]

Heroic Raids are now available on the Beta and a HILLARIOUS troll bug.

That is epic. :laugh:

[the evn show]

The new armory is excellent.

fast, pretty, and easier to use.

For example OMG It's me!

[_neutrino Veteran]

For some reason my main character is not showing properly in the armory.

GalenHawke

It appears as though it is all of my characters for some reason.

[Shadrack]

• Buy cheap crap on the AH and sell it high. Right now glyphs are still pretty viable: buy up anything with <5 on the market selling for less than 30g and repost it. "good" glyphs (read every classes 'how to play in 4.0 guide') can be resold for 100g+. Don't waste your time farming for herbs or making glyphs unless it is substantially cheaper than just buying finished glyphs and reposting.
  
• Selling mounts and titles. An ICC achievements drake will net me around 10k for about 5 hours of work. An Ulduar drake brings down half as much gold but takes about half as long too. Titles (kingslayer typically) will turn up 2k for about 10 minutes of work so I sell those when I can.
  
• If I'm just chatting in town I might make up some of the old enchants: mongoose, 30 spellpower, crusader, etc. using materials from the AH. If the difference in mats vs average sell price is > 100g then it's worth the effort.
  
• Gem buying/cutting/relisting worked but the profits are way down from where they used to be. I rely on friends to do the cutting for me now so I almost never bother with it these days. It's probably the easiest market to get into because you can farm justice points for your first 10 gems and after that it's entirely self sustaining
  
• Selling rare items at a markup. 8 months ago I'd hop in trade chat and try to buy things like Battered hilts or primordial saronite for 6k or 1k respectively from anybody offering, then I'd just take them to the AH and list them for 8k or 1.5k respectively (about 5% under AH price). Profit rolled in pretty fast. Some BOE items (necks, wand, chest from ICC) sold very well but I try to avoid dealing in items I can't use myself.
  

When I'm actively trying to make gold I'll spend around 30 minutes a day with the auction house and then my normal activities (basically I just raiding) was bringing down about 2k per week from boss drops and stuff I could shard or sell.

Once you've got dual spec, all the heirlooms, and your tier sets for all of your specs there's no cost in the game. I make it a rule to stay above 50k at all times and average around 75-90k on a typical day. Sometimes I'm way up or down from gambling, but over time you'll break even on that. Past 20k there's really no change in 'quality of life' so it's hard to be motivated to earn gold past that point.

I'm not a mount or achievement ###### and the best gear is from raiding so I don't buy anything other than flasks/food/potions (and even those I buy in lots of 100+ so the price is very cheap, ie 10 stacks of fish-feasts for 1k instead of buying them individually for 180g per stack)

Thanks for this post, evn!

[Shaun N.]

For some reason my main character is not showing properly in the armory.

GalenHawke

It appears as though it is all of my characters for some reason.

Nice!

[_neutrino Veteran]

White box is my name.

[Shaun N.]

White box is my name.

Isn't "Doompony" your main? Your also missing an eternal belt buckle for Galenhawke

[the evn show]

We have a gambling poilcy in guild that you keep rolls to under 5k and you must offer double or nothing on every roll

It's a way to make sure that your losses don't get too crazy and that you always have a chance to win back (on average you'll break even on a 50/50 roll provided you don't go broke before that happens). Unfortunately we also have a game called "new new thing".

• Someone offers a bet "Ryan, new new thing for 1g?"
  
• Ryan accepts and rolls 1-100 (gets say 75)
  
• Challenger can roll either 1-75 - in that case first person to 1 wins, or they can roll 75-100 in which case first person to 100 wins. Ryan rolls 88
  
• The first guy rolls from the challengers roll to 100 (getting say 95). Repeat back and forth until someone rolls 100
  
• Every roll doubles the pot. So the value would go 1g, 2g, 4g, 8g, 16g, 32g,.... Winner takes all. To calculate winnings it's (initial bet)*(2^number of rolls).
  

We did a 10g new thing waiting to pull LK on our alt run. First roll was 77 going to 100. We crammed in 13 rolls total somehow.

Double or nothing first to roll a prime? Okay.

http://img.skitch.com/20101106-f82ygnh923cqi178th7jr7us3g.jpg

Sadly I'm not capped due to them bumping it to 1m gold in 4.0 :(