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28th February 2009

The Quality World of Warcraft Gold Guide: An Indispensable Tool for Gold Farming Success

Gold is one of the most important resources in the World of Warcraft. Without enough gold, you’re hopelessly crippled and doomed to falling farther and farther behind your better-financed competitors. That just won’t cut it, which is why you need to invest in a quality World of Warcraft Gold Guide. With the assistance of a top-notch guide, you could soon be bringing in 100 to 200 gold per hour of gold farming. How would your life in WoW change if you had that kind of gold available to you?

So if you’re going to use a gold guide, how do you pick the right one? In the end, it’s always a personal and emotional decision, but if you’re serious about gold farming, here are 5 things to look for in any gold guide.

1. It shows you more than one way to skin a cat.

Things are always changing in the World of Warcraft. Last week’s great farming spot is this week’s waste of time. Servers get crowded and you can’t get to your favorite farming area. To succeed as a gold farmer in the long run, you need to have multiple effective ways to get the job done. A quality World of Warcraft gold guide will give you workable alternatives, instead of one single right answer that leaves you out of luck if anything changes.

2. It shows you how to build wealth from the very beginning.

The best World of Warcraft Gold Guides show you the best ways to get gold even when your character is weak and nearly helpless. Many guides concentrate on instructions for farming gold in higher level areas, without giving much thought to how you’re going to make it to the higher levels without any gold! You need a large reserve of gold right from the start if you’re going to rise fast in this world, and a good gold guide will show you how to gather that gold reserve right away.

3. It helps you to be take a flexible and creative approach to gold farming.

This is related to item 1. To really do well as a gold farmer, you need to be flexible and creative enough to deal with the unexpected and to come up with unique approaches to getting gold. Too many things could possibly happen that leave the tried and true approaches to farming unprofitable. You’ll never get ahead of the pack if you always follow the same path as everyone else.

4. It shows you how to get to the good parts of the game fast.

Learning to farm large quantities of gold quickly not only builds up your reserves quickly, it gets you to the best parts of the game faster. Without enough gold early on, you’ll have trouble affording the gear and mounts you need to even get to the best parts of the game. Just as in real life, having access to lots of money makes many things easier.

5. It makes farming fun.

I know WoW is a game, but it is possible to get bored while playing. If you follow one set routine. If you do, you’re eventually going to get bored and stop playing. Because a quality gold guide will teach you many different ways to get gold, you can change your routine frequently to keep from getting bored by the monotony of running the same routine over and over.

Can you see why World of Warcraft gold guides are so popular? And with the way things change, can you see why there’s an unending supply of new guides coming out? It’s too bad there wasn’t a guide that kept you constantly stay up to date…

If you’re interested in a quality World of Warcraft Gold Guide that has all of the attributes described in this article, while never going obsolete, you need to check out the Warcraft Formula (http://TheWarcraftFormula.com) right now.

 

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27th February 2009

World of Warcraft Leveling Secrets – How To Level A Healer

If you’re considering rolling a healing class in World of Warcraft, but you’re just not sure which class is right for you, then this guide will help you make your decision. Specifically, we’re going to cover druids, priests and shamans. We will also talk about how healers can be hard to level, and how this will become easier with “dual specs”. When you have finished reading this article, you will be able to pick the right healing class for your playstyle.

First, there are many different healing classes in World of Warcraft, each with their own pros and cons. Your main choices are between a priest, druid or shaman. The druid’s strengths are mainly HOT’s (heal over time’s). The Priest has a mixture of HOT’s and direct heals. The shaman doesn’t have any heal over time abilities, but more than makes up for this with strong direct heal spells and area of effect heals (such as chain heal). The shaman in particular is a master of raid healing.

However, something you need to remember before you roll a healer, is they can be harder to level, if you’re levelling in a healing spec. If you’re a druid, consider using a druid leveling guide, and using the feral talents for quicker leveling speeds.

If you’re a priest, you can follow a specific priest leveling guide, and spec shadow. The shadow talent tree can give you unrivalled damage, and also offers several mana regeneration skills and talents.

Finally, if you want to try the shaman, you can follow a shaman leveling guide. Instead of trying to level in a weaker healing spec, you should try the powerful enhancement or elemental talent trees.

Luckily, Blizzard are finally correcting their mistakes, and in the next patch will be allowing players to have “dual” specs. This is great new if you’re a healer, because now you can solo level and farm for mats, and still heal instances for your guild. When you want to do some solo grinding, farming or leveling, you can simply switch to your DPS spec. This will make it much easier to level healers for most players.

To summarize, this article has talked about some of the pros and cons you’re going to experience if you’re leveling a healer in WoW. Specifically, we covered the main healing classes, why healers can be difficult to level, and the benefits you’re soon going to receive by using a duel spec. Now that you have finished reading this article, you should have plenty of information to help you decide which healing class is for you.

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27th February 2009

What Can I Do With The Xbox 360 Live Arcade?

Of all the things that can be done with Xbox 360 live arcade , getting the games cheap is perhaps the best advantage. Microsoft Xbox live arcade is a membership that is used to administer games to your Xbox system. Microsoft Xbox 360 Live account will include Live Arcade. Currently 146 game titles are available to download.

How can I aquire the Xbox Live Arcade Video Games?

All the games can be purchased with Microsoft points.Video games will be priced anywhere between 400 and 1600 points, although are less than 800.These games are games that most players are familiar with.Generally speaking Xbox is not designed for hard core gamers, but rather for casual players.There are lots of games that are available at Xbox live arcade, but I will only mention of few of my favorite ones.

First up on my list is Doom.On September 27th 06 Doom became available for Xbox live arcade.This is one of my personal favorites and it is just as fun to play today as when it was first introduced.  Blast demons and go on a killing spree in the classic multi player first person shooter.A generation of games have been defined by Xbox.It is still very challenging and very high on the replay value.

Cooperative play Defender is next up on my memory list.  This with Dig Dug, Double Dragon, and really any of the Coin-Op classics bring me back to my early gamer days.This side scroller spaceship game is seriously addictive now as it was then.  I find myself flying and shooting for hours when the challenges and complexities of the modern games get to be too much.

Buku Sudoku is the last one up.  This game offers 360 variations of the traditional Sudoku puzzle and gives me hours of puzzle fun.  A true thinking man’s game this one will again keep me busy for hours on end as I try to get through the different maze of puzzles. 

Check out these games. All of them are alot of fun and will give you hours of enjoyment.

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27th February 2009

Some of the best driving games

There are several ways you can buy a car whether it’s from a retailer or contract hire. The same goes for ways in which driving games are made, whether they are realistic, pc based, console based or just there for a laugh what is the best driving game out there?

The first one that springs to mind isn’t what you’d expect from a driving game. Has to be the most unrealistic driving game on the market ever. It is of course the amazing Mario Kart. Gaming is not about realism it is about how much fun you have when playing the game and Mario Kart is a great example of this. You can take your pick from loads of different bikes, karts and characters. Nothing in all my years of playing games is more satisfying on a driving game than to see someone get blown up by a cartoon bomb or struck by lightening.

Another favourite of mine is the brilliant Forza 2 on Xbox 360. This game is brilliant as it not only looks very realistic you can play it online as well as choose every single part of the car from the paint to the engine. You take realistic damage if you crash as well as having to make pit stops to take in fuel and change the tires. The great thing is that it isn’t just brilliant cars; it ranges from the Golf GT to the Lotus Elise. If you are using a wheel then the handling of the game becomes even more realistic. For example if you are going to go at 100mph round a corner then yoou have to expect the consequences just as you would in reality.

The Grand Turismo games really do look brilliant. They have always been known for their abilty to show realistic gameplay and number five certainly does not steer from this. The game truly represents the cars in the form you would see them in reality.

This is exactly the same in a real life situation. Some of the cars you can get are at quite affordable prices. You can get car contracting on pretty much any model nowadays ranging from mini’s right the way to Mercedes contract hire. For prices as little as £279 a month you cant argue that car contract hire is a great way to beat the recession.

Even though games show us all these brilliant cars and even though every car manufacturer is having huge sales, it is still expensive to buy a new car.

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26th February 2009

The Casual Gaming Trend in World of Warcraft and What it Means for the Future

If you’ve been playing WoW at all consistently over the last two years, you’ve seen the way the game has been moving toward a more casual play style. By this, I mean that there are interesting and fun things for players of all levels to do, without the need to spend many hours or days to achieve anything. The idea seems to be to attract and retain more casual players, people who can’t or won’t put in the amount of time and energy a hard-core player will. Given the number of players in the game, this strategy has clearly worked to get people involved. But some people are wondering if having lots of casual players is good for the game itself, as well as for the hard-core players. Here’s a breakdown of the situation.

The Pros of the Casual Trend

Casual style play adds a lot of fun things to the game.. Changes like Achievements, lower level requirements for mounts, less XP to gain access to the higher level content, along with the large number of special events scheduled year round, all add a great deal of depth and detail to the WoW universe. For hardcore players who end up playing through the same content over and over trying to get a new epic shield, pair of spaulder, it is a welcome distraction and a great way to add depth to their current play style. After all, life isn’t one dimensional. Why should your game be?

The Negative Side of Casual Style Play

The biggest problem with including so much stuff for casual gamers is resources. Since Blizzard is pumping so many resources into Achievement and the like, they have fewer resources to work on things like raiding content for the hard-core players. Raiding sizes have been reduced to 10 and 25 men and the highest level raid at Level 80 is considerably easier than anything atop the Level 70 ladder. The top-end Players who reached Level 80 days after the expansion came out have been reduced to waiting around for the higher end raids that are eventually coming. In the meantime, these players are stuck grinding Achievement or spending all their time in PvP while they wait..

What Casual Play Style Means for the Game

While there are drawbacks as well as benefits, I think attracting casual gamers to World of Warcraft is good for the players, the game, and Blizzard in the end. Remember that Blizzard needs to make money to stay in business, and more players means more income. With increased income Blizzard also has the resources to keep developing new content for all levels of player. It might seem like the faithful are getting shortchanged, but it is the price we have to pay to give the company the resources to develop new content in the future that might not otherwise get the go ahead.

Do you feel a need to stay with the current trends in World of Warcraft, whether toward casual gaming or anything else? If so, you will be interested in the Warcraft Formula, a continuously updated guide to all things WoW. This Warcraft Formula review gives you all the details.

 

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26th February 2009

A Summary of World PvP Today: What Wintergrasp Means to You

Before Wrath of the Lich King, World PvP was a pretty simple aspect of World of Warcraft. Outland had a few basic objectives available, where you could do basic stuff like capturing Haala or the towers and beacons in Hellfire, Terrokar Forest, and Zangarmarsh. While completing these missions was easy enough, few people actually bothered with them. There were a couple of reasons for that. Firstly, the reward for completing the missions wasn’t very large. Secondly, completing many of them gave off results zone-wide. That meant that all you had to do was be in the zone to get the reward. Why put a lot of effort (or any effort at all) into completing these if the odds were good that some group or another would come along and complete them without your help before too long, and you would still get credit for it .

But that all changed when WotLK hit and the game started emphasizing more advanced, real time battles in World PvP with their first real time PvP battle zone in Lake Wintergrasp. In this new zone, you’ll find players facing off in epic battles on the live server and in doing so, earning points that allow them to buy a wide variety of rare and valuable items such as the new Heirloom items that any character in their account regardless of that character’s level can use.

There are other areas where World PvP has been enhanced, such as the Grizzly Hills. That said, clearly the place most people think of when they talk about World PvP is Lake Wintergrasp. There you’ll find the most new content, the most opportunity to get involved, and the biggest opportunities to advance your character’s PvP skill.

It’s clear that World PvP is immensely popular. All you have to do is check out how much people are talking about Lake Wintergrasp and how much time their characters are spending there to see it’s true. And that means we’re likely to see many more new World PvP options in future expansions and patches. Building up your skills now will pay huge dividends in the future, particularly if you have any dreams of earning top rewards and other achievements.

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26th February 2009

Can the Warcraft Formula be the Last Guide You’ll Ever Need to Get?

In World of Warcraft there are two kinds of players: the elite, and all the rest. If you’ve been playing WoW for a while, you know I’m not kidding you. Every now and then you run into one of those people who seem to eat, drink, and breathe WoW. They obliterate each expansion as soon as it comes out. They crush anything that gets in their way. They dominate whatever situation they’re in. Then there’s everyone else. We’re talking about casual gamers who love to play and be successful without investing thousands of hours in the game. What we need is accurate, timely guides that can show us how to move through the game more like elite players.

The Warcraft Formula will always be the newest guide because it isn’t a single guide. It’s an entire series of guides. There’s a new guide created and delivered to you every month. This is really an ingenious solution when you think about it. You pay an upfront fee to get something called the Fast Track Action Plan, along with all the currently available guides. The Fast Track Action Plan includes everything from an outline of how to build a character, modify your UI, the right class and professions to go for, to how to get to join a guild, get your start in PvP with the least pain possible, and get invited on raids. Then each month the Warcraft Formula team will create and send you a new guide with the latest game information in it.

I’ve seen the initial materials. They were full of high-quality content. Each of the guides holds about 30 pages of material and included three features, top news from the month, questions from readers, an action plan and a preview of the next month. Each feature was full of useful content on all sorts of important topics, from building up the most effective strategy for dominating with your Death Knight to the art of weaving together a 10-person raid. They don’t lay out every minute detail for you (what fun would that be?), they still give you plenty of useful information and you still will learn far more than from the general strategies found in most of the WoW guides already on the market. And of course you get tons of extras, like the Fast Action Plan you get when you sign up.

To wrap up this review, let me say that this is a great idea that fills a real need that many of us gamers have: continually updated game information from real experts. You get a new ebook every month, chock full of information you actually want and need, that isn’t already obsolete or nerfed to uselessness for a affordable monthly fee, covering every aspect of the game. Grab this fast to pull yourself ahead of the competition and move toward the ranks of the Warcraft elite. Click here to make your move.

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26th February 2009

Little Known Facts About WoW DPS Classes

If you’re thinking about leveling a DPS class in World of Warcraft, then this article will give you some useful tips and advice to help you decide which one to level. In particular, we are going to talk about the rogue class, the druid class, and the hunter class. When you have finished reading this article, you’re going to have a better understanding of how these classes work.

Let’s start with some rogue leveling tips. First, you need to make sure you have the optimal spec for leveling. Most WoW players agree that the best talent build for a leveling rogue is combat. This will increase your damage considerably, plus talents such as Blade Furry give you the power to attack mutliple enemies with a single attack, which can really speed things up.

Another tip is to follow a rogue leveling guide. This will give you the optimal leveling routes to take, and also make sure you aren’t spending your time completed worthless low level quests. A last tip for leveling your rogue is to not go everywhere in stealth. When you are leveling, you will notice that its much faster to play it like a warrior, and lure the mobs closer to you with a ranged weapon and start attacking without stealth.

Now it’s time to take a look at the druid class. The druid class has many options while leveling, but the majority of players will tell you to spec feral. This particular spec is the best one to level with, because it has virtually no “down time”, and it’s very efficient at killing mobs with speed. You should also follow a druid leveling guide to show you the quickest leveling route for a druid to follow.

Also remember to get the “mangle” talent as soon as possible, because your damage will almost double. This ultimately mans you are going to be dispatching enemies far quicker, and this means you’ll get your level faster.

Finally, let’s talk about hunters. One of the most popular leveling specs for a hunter is beastmastery. This spec lets your pet tank for you, and it will do most of your damage, leaving you free to attack from range. Remember to follow a hunter leveling guide to level quickly. The best ones come with “in-game” addons which show you exactly where to go and what to do.

A final tip for leveling a hunter, is to always make sure you’re fully stocked up with arrows and food for your pet. Otherwise you will have to make constant trips back to a faction city, which can be very time consuming if you’re trying to level.

To summarize, this guide has shown you some valuable tips and advice on leveling either a hunter, a rogue or a druid.

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25th February 2009

Can You Skin Your Way to Gold Farming Riches

What would you say to the idea that there’s a way to make massive amounts of gold fast, while you attend to your other business in the game? You might say I’m lying, but you would be wrong to do so. One great way to grind out massive gold farming profits is through skinning. Yes, boring old skinning. Believe it or not, when it comes to earning gold, skinning is the most efficient profession in the game.

Skinning is a great way to make lots of gold because you can complete it during the course of your travels without having to return to any zones or anything. Most World of Warcraft gold guides don’t have any special directions or zones to visit because you don’t need them. You can skin as you kill regular mobs. What’s even better is that anyone who is not a skinner will leave their kills just lying there for the first skinner that comes along. That means you can make significant gold easily without risking your own skin killing the mobs.

Which Places are the Prime Spots for Skinning?

While you can make serious coin just skinning wherever you happen to be, if you really want to rack up the gold, a good guide should be able to point you to some locations where you should spend more time searching for creatures and carcasses to skin. At lower levels, these areas are the ones like Stranglethorn Vale, where everyone and their brother is doing hunting quests. The expedition mastery quests, which combine to make up 60 separate kills for each player, mean that there will be bodies lying around all over the zone for you to skin at will.

What Kind of to Skin

If you’re just starting out in the game, the answer to the question of what to skin is simple: anything you can get your hands on. If it’s skinnable, you should go for it. Taking this approach will help you to build up an early war chest. That said, there will be instances where focusing most of your energy on particular types of mobs can really pay off. After all, you can only skin so many carcasses per hour, so you will want to focus your efforts a little more concertedly toward certain mobs than others, especially when there’s a good chance that you’ll end up with rare leather drops.

Here’s one example. In Outland you can earn lots of gold from mobs that drop Knothide Leather, and even more from drops of Heavy Knothide Leather. For this reason, Nagrand is obviously a very popular hangout for skinners. Most World of Warcraft gold guides specifically direct players to hang out in Nagrand and pick off any of the 180 different kills each player must complete for the Nagrand mastery quests. There are a lot of mobs out here that are skinnable and they respawn constantly. With a good World of Warcraft gold guide in hand you will make a fortune in no time.

The keys to skinning for gold are in knowing where to be, when to be there and how long to spend there skinning. If you can get efficient at every step of skinning and hunting for gold, you can make up to 150-200 gold an hour at the highest level of the game.

If you’re interested in always having the latest gold farming information and advice at your fingertips, you’ll want to check out the Warcraft Formula, the new subscription World of Warcraft guide that covers gold farming, PvP combat, and everything else there is to know about WoW.

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25th February 2009

WoW PvP Gear for Season 5 and Beyond

World of Warcraft Season 5 kicked off in December of 2008. And it was more than a little crazy. That’s no knock on Blizzard. It was more a matter of players having to start from scratch, trying to figure out what to do about their gear, their character levels, their strategies and their class specs. Everything was different and nobody had any real experience with the new stuff. So, gear for Season 5 is just now settling down and starting to think about Season 6.

Where We Started

To start with, everyone had to wear their PvE gear into the Arena. There was no choice. There wasn’t any Level 80 PvP beginner-level gear available! You couldn’t wear your Season 4 gear in because it was from Level 70 and even crafted Level 70 gear didn’t measure up for beginners in PvP. So there was a lot of mid-level dungeon gear in there.

After a little time went by, and players got the chance to grind for honor, they they were able to get pieces of the Savage Gladiator rare gear set. This was available for honor points and emblems of heroism at Level 80 without having to fight in the Arena. The next level (out of three levels) of Gladiator Gear was made available through honor points off of Archavon in Lake Wintergrasp and in the Arena.

The last level of gear, the Hateful Gladiator gear that caps out Season 5 sets was only available after you reached a 2150 (now 2050) Arena rating. You can get this gear through Archavon on 25 man and through a combination of Honor and Arena points and will take a major portion of Season 5 to gather together.

So far, Season 5 PvP has been very successful. But it has been so only for players who are flexible and know what gear to use and when to use it. If you want to keep up with this quickly-changing situation, you need to visit TheWarcraftFormula.com today to get the latest information on Season 5 PvP gear, and learn how to improve your standings.

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