14th September 2009

WoW Tips for Leveling Your Priest

Level Up Your Priest Quicker by Going down the Best Talent Tree

How many times have you been running around Storm Wind when you looked down at your chat that was filled up with lots of requests from your fellow players?

It is common to see things such as: “Need Healers for the Instance – We Will Pay You.”

The Beginning of World of Warcraft

As soon as you start to play the game, it would be nice to be able to run with the big dogs, bun unfortunately, you have to level up that character first. In order to level up that priest you have just started on, we highly recommend you turning to one of the best leveling guides, like Dugi’s guide. There are a number of different Leveling Guides, but Duigi’s would be the best bet for you.

Get a Level up Guide to Speed Up Your Levels

For that average player, without one of those guides, it could take months before they are running with the high-level players. Do you really want to wait months on end before you reach that high level? Take note: Those at Higher levels are the ones that have more fun..

The Priest Leveling up guide will help you with the problem you have. You should also pay attention to the talent build you have. Believe it or not, how fast you level up your Priest or any other class you have all depends on the talent tree you go down.

On a side note, you are going to want to be making gold since not having it makes this game rather frustrating. I was personally stunned when I watched this video of a “girl” player who made 25k in a week! Check out the short video on Hayden Hawkes Gold Guide and her very wicked ride.

When You Reach Level Ten

Upon reaching level ten in the game, you will start receiving your first talent point which can be used to follow either the holy, shadow or discipline tree build.You will have the option to change your choice of tree should you dislike it. Alternatively, you can also change your talents while playing the game for 1000 gold; this is known as duel talents.

Visit http://wowhacked.com and get more tallent build guide info.

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14th September 2009

The Rise of the Wii

The Nintendo Wii arrived in late 2006 in a cloud of excitement. The much waited for 7th generation hardware from Nintendo was the biggest of the best new arrivals in the gadget market that autumn, and consequently was incredibly difficult to find for the 12 months after launch.

The new Nintendo console most importantly included bluetooth, motion sensitive controllers, also known as wii-motes. So far, more than fifty two million consoles have been sold globally, approximately half of those were in The Americas. The system includes the Wii Sports game, comprising Baseball, Bowling, Tennis, Golf and Boxing software.

Gamers can choose from 2 different options for choosing more titles, the traditional method of purchasing new software in high street stores is the main, and secondly electronically are available through the online Wii shop, split into three groups. The Virtual Console(or VC) provides software from earlier Nintendo machines to be purchased, delivered electronically and used on the Nintendo Wii, as well as software from the Sega Master System and Sega Megdrive, the NeoGeo and HudsonSoft software. There is also the WiiWare subgroup, where 3rd party suppliers can supply Nintendo console games for purchase which utilise the Wii Remotes and more parts of the Nintendo console’s hardware. Finally the Channel section allows for more applications such as the Internet browser to be added to the new Nintendo console for web browsing.

Win a New Nintendo console

The Wii console features wireless integrated support, supplying the web access for the online shop and networked gaming. It is also possible to attach a rj45 socket (sold independantly of the console) for a wired connection, which some believe overcomes lagging problems in gameplay.

In terms of memory, the new Nintendo console includes half a gigabyte of built in memory, backed up by memory card and old style Game Cube flash card slots. To finalise the Game Cube support, there are also 4 Game Cube joypad sockets, so that Gamecube fans can make use of their games on the console itself.

big software already available are led by Wii Sports, Wii Play (which came with an extra movement sensitive wiimote), and the Nintendo mascot’s most recent outing, Super Mario Galaxy.

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14th September 2009

WoW Leveling Guide Alliance

The World of Warcraft is played in an engaging and creative world where millions of things are possible. It is not a requisite that you must advance through all the levels, but there are certain ways that will help you boost your the rate at which your level improves.

Killing Monsters, with your alliance members, is just one of such ways. For most players, advancing through the first 20 levels is a simple affair.Leveling changes after that. The process becomes more difficult, particularly when you do not have proper knowledge of what it is you should be doing.

Before I continue I just wanted to let you know about this site with tons of information on World of Warcraft Alliance leveling, gold farming, and more, visit: Wow Alliance Leveling Guide.

 

Things To Know About The Alliance Characters:

The World of Warcraft compises of several Alliance characters. The following are some of these characters:

1.      Human Rogue: A Rogue may be somewhat delicate and easy to take down. It is considered a versatile fighter, highly damaging, and equipped with a wide array of skills.

2.     Gnomes: As a result of their small size, Gnomes stay hidden for long stretches of time. Thanks to their size, gnomes are able to fit themselves into tiny areas.

3.     Dwarves: Dwarves are less likely to be seen in the open because of their defensive nature and small size. They are resilient alliance characters. Playing with Dwarves increases the joy experienced during the game.

 

Leveling an alliance character to level 60 is not easy. Nevertheless, with the help of a leveling guide you can surely do that. By paying attention to the following, you will increase the speed at which your Alliance Character levels to 60:

1.    Leveling is the basic thing in World of Warcraft Alliance. Consider adapting First Aid into a proffesion. Choosing First Aid will provide you with speedy relief after each battle. You would simply have to make some bandages and then be on your way.

2.    Try to use Auto Run whenever possible. You can play amazingly by using the Auto Run feature. you can make the important decision to to finally change your clothes, trim your toe nails or chat with another online player. It is important that you employ the use of this this feature wisely.

3.    Before you venture out of town ensure that you are well stocked in ammo. For instance, if potions is your weapon of choice, then ensure that you have enough of these.

4.    Fully repairing your weapons should be done before you venture out of town.This will prevent you from the wasting valuable hours you would have later had to spend in returning to have them fixed. A stitch in time saves nine—get your weapons stitched.

5.    Demolish inventory items to save trips to town. Also as important, avoid destroying alternative options.

 

If you would like some free World of Warcraft leveling information visit Wow Alliance Leveling Guide.

Reaching level 60 might be difficult but it certainly is not impossible. Using Level guides are a great way of improving the speed of your game progress.

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14th September 2009

Wow Leveling Guide Horde

One of the many characters that a player will encounter in the World of Warcraft, or WOW, is the horde. Of like importance are the four races that fall under the Horde which are the Taurrens, Orc, Trolls and the undead. The race of Undead starts from the Eastern province near the north, whereas the remaining three are found mostly on the western front.

It is recommended for players to play all the instances that they can at a particular level, as it is a good tool that helps in individual leveling.

One way of achieving this is by proceeding with the task of questing as well as some form of grinding. A quick browse through popular strategy sites will equip you with the details you need in order to progress with your Horde character’s level to as much as 60 within 7 days.

If you are looking for more Wow leveling or gold information, I highly recommend you visit: Horde Wow Leveling Guide.

 

Horde Characters and More:

In the World of Warcraft you will encounter some of the following Horde individuals:

 

1.    Mage: There are various roles which the Mage can be put to but by far the most effective is its ability to control the crowd. Unsurprisingly in Player vs Player encounters the Mage is remarkably adroit. When it comes to front line killing, there is very few that can beat.

 

2.    Warlock: The Warlocks are very good against tanks in PvP.

 

3.    Paladin: With his multi-prong attack through the options of physical or magical means, the Paladin is an amazing character.One of their many magical abilities is their ability to heal. They are able to heal a person as well as persons. Finally, Paladins prove most resilient in combat situations and do not die as easily as your average character.

 

For the most efficient way of reaching level 60, follow the following tips:

 

1.    If your target is to get to the top level in the quickest way possible, then do not waste your time in difficult professions. On the other hand, if you are a casual gamer, then go for it, as it will be fun.

 

2.    Don’t allow your food and water levels to drop too much.Food and water is available in different levels. Lower level of food will leave you with less amount of health, while higher level will provide you a greater amount of health. Upgrade levels of 15, 25 35 and 45 are available to you.

 

3.    Planning is very important before you go for questing.Don’t develop your time online.Log out and save it instead.

 

4.    If you intention is to maximize the use of your time, then ignore the call of the Auction house and battlegrounds. With these two removed from your flight plan, you will accelerate the rate at which you advance to the top.

 

5.    Try to avoid grinding for as long as you can. Questing will provide you with a much faster rate of leveling progress. Do not go for one quest at a time. Try to take on multiple quests at a time by picking them from the same region.

 

In case you are interested, if you are looking for comprehensive site on World Of Warcraft strategies, check out WoW Leveling Guide Horde.

By employing these important guides there is every reason why you will quickly find yourself at Level 60.

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14th September 2009

Poptropica Guide to Super Power Island

Getting Started

Here is a guide to Poptropica Super Power Island. If you want the guide with screenshots, please visit my Poptropica site. OK so first you want to go to Super Power island. Once you are there, jwalk to the right and enter the Comic Shop. There you will see a nerdy looking guy on the right side of the shop with pimples and wearing big black-rim glasses. Talk to him and find out if he has anything other than comic books. He will give you a book called The Superhero’s Hanbook that he is the author of. You keep the book in your inventory and can read it.

Walk out of the comic shop and walk to the next store on the right, called the Masks and Capes shop. Walk to the left and find the guy with the scissors and talk to him. He hands you a Super Hero ID card which makes you a superhero and shows all the villains that you have defeated. On the other side of the shop is a row of mannequins that have different costumes on them. Click on them to pick your costume. You can use different parts from all the many costumes on display.

The next thing to do is to go out of the Masks and Capes shop and head to the left. Swim through the water and you will arrive on an island with a jail that has a space meteorite that smashed into it. Talk to the guard. Speak with him about the escaped prisoners and he will give you an item called the, Super Villain Files. You can look through these files to view all the super-villains that you need to apprehend. Then talk to the lady wearing the white lab coat and she will give you anti-power handcuffs, which allow you to capture super-villains. When you get those items, it’s time to capture some super-villains! Walk all the way to the right until you get to a sign that says Downtown. Click the sign to move to the next room. It’s a short one. Walk to the right and then click on the next sign and you will arrive at Main Street. Talk to the police officers standing outside of the bank and they will tell you that Copy Cat, one of the super-villains who escaped the prison, is inside the bank.

Capturing Copy Cat

Enter the bank and walk left, where Copy Cat is standing. She will make many copies of herself and each of those copies will hide in a different location in the bank. She will also drop a smoke grenade on the ground and you will only have about a minute until there’s too much smoke in the bank for you to breathe. You have to capture all the copies of her before there’s too much smoke in the bank. Just walk over each copy of her to make it go poof and disappear. You’ll have to jump up a little to capture all of the copies. Use the elevator on the far right to get to the upper level.

When you get to the last copy cat, you will capture her and you’ll see a newspaper announcing her capture. You’ll be sent back to the prison and you’ll see her back behind bars. If you look at your Super Hero ID card in your inventory, you’ll see that you have one sticker in your villains defeated section. Now it’s time to catch some more!

Capturing Speeding Spike

Go back to Main Street and then go all the way to the right till you can a train sign. Click the steps to go down into the subway Station. Talk to the police officers in the subway Station and they’re going to tell you they require help catching Speeding Spike. Go in the train and then walk all of the way to the right, where you will see Speeding Spike holding a bag of money. Catching him is simple. Just keep leaping over him when he attempts to hit you with the bag of money. He’ll keep moving to the left to different train autos and if you can keep getting him to miss you he’ll get so tired out that he sits down on the floor. When he does that, walk up to him to put on the handcuffs and send him back to jail.

Capturing Sir Rebral

Go back all the way to the right and this time go past the train Station stairs to get to the town Park. When you arrive, you’ll see that Sir Rebral is standing on top of a broken statue. When you go near him, you find out that he’s's controlling rocks that fly up from the ground and follow you till they hit you. You must position yourself so that you can jump to avoid them ( they will still follow you ) and then get yourself on the opposite side of Sir Rebral so the rocks hit him instead. This will make him indignant and then parts of the ground will start turning up. The very next step is to find the light gray rock that you can push. Move this rock on top of one of the places where the ground pops up so that the rock will fly up into the air and hit Sir Rebral. This will knock him down and stun him so that you can walk up to him and capture him with the cuffs. You will go back to the prison where you can see him safely behind bars.

Capturing Ratman

Return to the city Park and go in the general public washroom. There’s a hole next to one of the toilets. Go down the hole to get into the sewers. Walk over to the left and you’ll see a brown wheel. Click on it while standing on the platform underneath and the water will drain so that you move downwards. When it stops, go to the right until you can some platforms. Jump up those and you’ll find another wheel. Turn it to make the water rise again partway. Swim to the left till you find another wheel and the water will rise again. Go to the left one more time and you will find a door that you can enter. Go thru the door and Ratman will be within. Jump up to the top right corner of the Sewer Room while avoiding the rats, and you’ll see a red wheel. Click it to turn it, and it’ll sprinkle water over the Ratman and his flies. Ratman will be knocked out and the flies that are buzzing around him will start following you. If they touch you, you will get stung so you want to try to get to Ratman awfully fast. Click on him to handcuff him and send him back to jail.

Capturing Crusher

Head back to town Park and go all the way to the right. You will see a sign for the Junkyard. Follow that sign to go inside. When you arrive, you’ll see Crusher standing on top of a pile of junk. Talk to the police there and they will tell you they are unable to capture him. Good thing you’re a mega Hero here to save the day again. To conquer Crusher, you’re going to sneak to sneak past him twice. Head all the way to the right and get up on top of the oil barrels then leap onto the platform where he’s standing and run right past him. You’ll get to a crane. Jump up the crane till you get to the cab at the top and click on it. Then drag the magnet control lever. The crane will release a heavy refrigirator that will fall on Crusher. But he lifts it off and throws it at you, knocking you back down. And now he’s's really mad. You’ve got to sneak past Crusher one more time, but now he’s hurling empty oil barrels at you and they will knock you down if you get hit. Try to get back to the crane one more time without getting hit by the oil barrels as you go. When you get all of the way back to the cab of the crane, click and drag the magnet lever again to turn it back on. The magnet will pick up Crusher and then crush him flat! You can then safely go down to where he is and put the handcuffs back on him. Crusher is going back to jail!

Capture Betty Jetty

Head back to the main place and go over to the telephone booth The phone will ring. Answer it and you will be given a new superpower. It is the ability to fly! Click on the flght icon in the lower-left corner to fly up into the air.

Head to the Downtown area and fly up to the very top of the Skyscraper and then go up. You’ll see Betty Jetty standing on top of an antenna. She will taunt you and fly away. Make sure your flight power is activated and chase after her. She will throw green energy balls at you. Each time you dodge them, you’ll get a little closer to her and eventually you will be close enough to capture her. You can easily dodge the green energy balls she throws by moving off screen each time they come near you.

After you catch her, she will taunt you again, and then Ned Noodlehead will appear and knock her over. Next you can place the handcuffs on her and she is captured and returned to prison.

Claim Your Reward

When you talk to the warden, he will say that he gave the island medallion to Ned Noodlehead for capturing Betty Jetty. You can convince Ned to give it to you by first going to the hot dog vendor in City Pary. Talk to the vendor and he will give you a hot dog. Next go back to the comic book shop and talk to Ned Noodlehead. He will offer to trade you the medallion for a hot dog. Do the trade and you will complete this adventure. Hooray!

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14th September 2009

Why Paladins are so Popular in WoW

Probabaly the most popular class in WoW is the Paladin. Paladins are powerful healers combined with very powerful fighters. And because of their healing magic they are the strongest and most durable class in the game. If you’re new to WoW, you should go for a Paladin – they are just so hard to kill.

The fastest way to build the best Paladin is with good guidance. Read my review of the best Paladin leveling guide here: Zygor Guide Review

Paladins do have a very strict code which you will have to roleplay if you decide to play one – a stict morale code. If a Paladin ever deliberately commits a wrongful act they lose their Holy Light abilities – which is all your magic. But this can actually be a lot of fun, playing a class that has a strong roleplaying rule – and because of it you are respected and feared by other characters.

You may well be able to develop your Paladin into one of the most dangerous and powerful warriors in WoW if you level him or her with care. People who play Paladins have 2 choices, they can create a defensive tank, how cannot be harmed, or of going a bit more down the route of a damage-dealer wielding a 2-handed sword of destruction.

Whichever one you go for, you will also build up your magic that enhances your skills and heals you. When properly buffered by their own magic spells, Paladins are extremely hard – a Paladin’s healing spells are the best in WoW for mana efficiency. They do have a weakness on thei magic side, in that it is not very hard to silence them, dispell their spells or interrupt their casting. But even temprarily without magic, a Paladin is very dangerous.

For some tips on how to level your Palaind fast, check out this guide: Paladin Leveling Guide

When you are choosing how to grow your Paladin, you willhave a choice of three talent trees to focus on: Holy, Retribution and Protection. the one tree you should definitely focus on to some degree is the Holy tree-  the healing spell tree.

Whereas then you can choose between the Protection tree and the retribution tree: retribution is to focus on dealing heavy damage. With some defensive abilities too – like parry. These Paladins wield 2-handed swords and wreak terrible damage on their enemies.

The Protection tree is the most popular for Paladins who are building up for questing with PvP groups. They build up so many defensive capabilities that they are hard to damage, let alone kill. They make the perfect tank in a party – occupying all the enemies in close combat while the others attack from afar.

to continue with this Paladin article, go here: World of Warcraft Paladins

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14th September 2009

Rampaging WoW Warriors!

Warriors are perhaps the best class to chose if you are just starting out in WoW. They are relatively simple and much easier to keep alive than say a Mage or Warlock. They may be easier than other classes to get to grips with playing well, but Warriors are not boring and have many sides to them, especially if you want to play them to their maximum potential.

This is brief intro to Warriors in WoW, for a more indepth article check out: Click Here

They are the true combatants of WoW. A powerful Warrior can be a juggernaut of destruction. They are skillful and knowledgeable in the ways of war. They have a true figher’s spirit and can shout out a battle cry to rally the morale of everyone in the group. In the Arena, in PvP at the end game, Warriors are the masters and often make the centre-piece of a team.

The strengths of Warriors is the high hit points they have, the tough defenses as they can wear any armour, and the fact that they can use any weapon they like. The main weak point of a Warriors is their lack of healing abilities, which is not great for someone that gets hit so much, so you have to learn First Aid and carry lots of healing potions. Their primary weakness is probably their lack of healing ability, but First Aid and lots of healing potions make up for it. Also, as a Warrior you get hit so much that you need to constantly get your armor repaired, which can be costly so get a good money-earning profession.

The racial abilities of each race can help to boost your Warrior right from the start. Dwarves have the powerful stoneform ability, which defends against bleeding and poison. Orcs are great Warriors too with resistance to stun and Blood Fury. While the Trollish ability to regenerate is awesome for a Warrior, plus the Berserk ability. If you want to play a slightly different kind of Warrior go for night Elves who can Shadowmeld – becoming Rogues in plate armor!

The very best way to build a perfect Warrior is to follow a good guide. I have written a review of one here: Click Here

Warriors have some abilities that enhance their combat skills and damage – these abilities are based on Rage. Rage can be boosted by potions or when they are actually fighting. And this is what makes Warrios so powerul against many enemies at once – the more they get hit, the more their Rage builds up and the more damage they deal out!

When you decide how to specifically develop yor Warrior, consider if you want to be more of a serious damage-dealer. An all out offensive machine that can destroy anything. The other option is to become very defensive – a battle tank that can absorb huge amounts of damage without falling over. The perfect tank.

Check out my more indepth articles on Warriors in WoW here: Click Here

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14th September 2009

Who’s Best: Horde or Alliance?

When you begin World of Warcraft the most important choice you have is who to join: the goodies or the baddies. The World of Warcraft World is split asunder by the two warring sides: Horde and Alliance (the baddies and the goodies). So why do people pick Horde or Alliance? What do the two sides represent and consist of? What sort of people choose either side? And the biggest question: Who is better? Discover which side could be for you in this article.

Now while you can find bad guys in Alliance and good guys in Horde. However, overall The Alliance definitely represents Good and most characters and NPCs in The Horde are evil. You can see this clearly reflected in the races of each side. The races of The Alliance are Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and the wierd but noble Draenei. And on the side of The Horde are the Orcs, The Trolls, Tauren, Undead and the beautiful but evil Blood Elves.

You will want to consider 3 main things when choosing your side: First and foremost, what class you are going to play – each class is limited to certain races, but each class can be played by a race of either alignment. Next you will want to go for a race that interestes you: because of the racial abilities they get, but also the roleplaying side of things. And lastly, do you want to represent the goodies or the baddies?

You can read a free guide to the first levels of any Horde race here: How to Play Horde

And the first Alliance levels for each race here: WoW Alliance Leveling Guide

The demographics of exactly who plays Horde or Alliance out of the 11 million players of WoW are actually quite the same. A few more people tend to chose Alliance over Horde when getting started. Maybe to be aligned to the good side, maybe other reasons. There is an even number of men and women playing either side. A small but interesting difference is the age difference: Alliance players are generally a bit older than Horde players.

Can we see any reasons for players to pick one side or the other? Taking a look at what’s important for the players, it turns out that Horde players have a lot higher score when it comes to Advancement, Mechanics and Competition as motivations in the game than Alliance players. They are driven more by achievement and the prospect of competition and victory. And they are more aggressive – they like provoking conflict and challenging others, just as the Horde races are characteristically themselves.

But in The Alliance, players want to enjoy the Roleplay side of WoW, and are more motivated by customization: they want to build and create their characters and things, and have fun interacting with others – which we tend to see as good things.

And so it seems that players choose sides based on whether they actualy want to act more evil and aggressive, or peaceful and creative. Which sde is for you?

You can read a review of the best guide to both Horde and Alliance character leveling here: Review of Best Leveling Guide

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14th September 2009

Get Your Horde Character to 80 in Under a Week in World of Warcraft

Leveling in World of Warcraft can be time-consuming, unless you know where to go, what to do and how to do it. Questing is surely the way to go, but you’ll consistently have some amount of grinding to do. There are leveling guides on the net that show you how to power level your Horde character but none compares to Joana’s WoW Horde Leveling Guide. You can level your character from 1 to 80 in under a week!

Joana (or Mancow, the male character he uses) has gotten to level 80 in under five days played time and has been the first to level a character to 80 on six different servers now. Because of this, he was invited to play in the Burning Crusade beta. This means his new guide will be out soon after the expansion is released! What’s even better is that you get the expansion guide for free when you purchase the his leveling guide, as well as any updates to the guides.

This WoW Horde leveling guide shows you exactly where to go and what to do. Using this guide you will be doing about 90% questing and 10% grinding, which is excellent since you don’t have to mindlessly kill monsters all day long. Questing is also a lot faster than grinding alone. Joana captured on video the whole leveling experience from 1 to 80, which took him a little under five days playing time.

The actual video runrunsran time is 115 hours but even when speed up, the combined time of these videos is 35 hours! This amazing feat caught the attention of The Escapist Magazine, which wrote about it in their speedrunning article. Fortunately, these videos are divided nicely into levels and zones and are integrated into the guide.

You also get pictures and maps showing you exactly where to find the quests that are listed in the guide. The guide lists the UI mods he uses and also tricks for playing a hunter and the order in which he uses his talent points. No exploits were used to get to 80 in this World of Warcraft Horde leveling guide and everything is completely legitimate.

The Horde side has more quests to do so you won’t even need to bother with instances unless you want to grab the occasional piece of armor. This guide is intended around soloing so time won’t be wasted finding a good group, which is nice since you’ll almost certainly be leveling up quicker than your buddies anyway.

There is no doubt that if you want to level your character up faster than you ever imagined was possible, this WoW Horde Leveling Guide and the accompanying videos are all you will ever need. Just don’t be surprised when your friends become jealous and/or blown away!

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