Series: Achievement Objectives You Can Buy/Sell on the Auction House Pt. 1: Vanity Pets [Market Watch]
Written by wowconfidential.
In this article I introducing a segment new to wowconfidential.com called “Market Watch” where I provide precise details on an area of the Auction House where I see potential profit and pass the news to my visitors. You won’t find this information on any other site!
While most players are still on their way to level 80 in WOTLK, it is wise to think ahead of anticipated demand.
Achievements were introduced by blizzard as a time-sink and reason to complete other facets of the game that don’t offer gear upgrades.
Players priorities rest in leveling, gearing up - both pve(raids, instances, reputation) and pvp(arena, BG), professions and lastly achievements. With some top guilds already reporting they have cleared out everything WOTLK has to offer so far, the market for achievement items that can be bought on the AH will slowly start to rise.
A noticeable spike occurred in all these prices before wotlk came out, obviously because no one had anything to do but try and get those cool titles and have a more “complete” character. The prices have lowered now since everyone is focused on leveling but I expect those prices to return to that higher price and even more since players will have more cash via dailies and quests.
Continue reading for the most profitable items to buy/sell and produce Read more
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Best FREE Wrath of the Lich King (WOTLK) Leveling Guide
Written by wowconfidential.
OH I’m so excited! Jame has just released his new free leveling guide for WOTLK.
How does the idea of getting 500k - 600k exp an hour sound to you? Level every 2-3 hours!
Jame’s leveling guides are a step by step quest walk-through which uses “optimized quest circuits” focused on one thing only - getting to level 80 the fastest.
While Zygor’s Guide and Joana’s guide is the best if you have a little money to spend, since they have an in-game interface and Jame’s is website based, you get what you pay for.
What do I mean by optimized quest circuits? Here is how Jame’s leveling guide has a lot of value: Read more
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Fastest Way to Level in Wrath of the Lich King 70-80
Written by wowconfidential.
It has been a long time since a lot of us have been in leveling mode, and even those who have gone back and leveled alts up to 70 will notice that leveling 70+ is tougher without all those nice twink items to give you the upper hand.
Following the advice in this guide will ensure you are doing everything available to you to increase your efficiency and level the fastest possible on your way to level 80, and make it a little more fun as well. Read more
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WoW Economics: How to Make Gold in Wrath of the Lich King
Written by wowconfidential.
Wrath of the Lich King is finally here! and all the servers are buzzing with activity. Everyone is making the mad dash to level 80 to gear up, experience the raids and PVP. While everyone is focused on leveling; a lot of people have gold in the back of their minds (got my mind on my gold, gold on my mind?) and I don’t blame them with the new goodies that are now available in the professions as well as those who want to flock their gold making abilities with the new 20,000g Reins of the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth, its like the BMW of WoW! … or SUV of WoW since you can carry 2 passengers/vendors.
However a lot of things have changed in the game, the World of Warcraft economy has been turned up on its head and old ways of making gold such as BC daily quests, professions, and playing the auction house have all turned sour. I’ve still made great gold/hour following Luke’s Guide
Continue reading while I share with you the best ways to profit from the first couple of months of Wrath of the Lich King utilizing current supply/demand needs and exploiting them. Read more
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Hardest Class to Level in World of Warcraft
Written by wowconfidential.
It’s unusual for people to look for the hard way to do things, especially when great guides are available showing you the fastest way to level. However WoW has turned into a game that is playable for a wide age group and made relatively easy to progress.
There is no way to raise the difficulty level unless you impose restrictions or attempt to go about things the hardest way.
Adding this difficulty to the game makes things challenging for those up to the task and brings a sense of pride of having leveled up the hardest class in the game.
You want hard? here it is:
The hardest class to level would be a Mage, but wait, you can only use fists, in all +str gear. Now there’s a challenge!
OK, now onto the real part of the article.
To determine the hardest class to level we have to come up with a definition of what we mean by “hardest”
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Top 6 Scams to Avoid in World of Warcraft
Written by wowconfidential.
Given the high demand for gold in World of Warcraft and the anonymous nature of the internet there is a high chance you will encounter someone attempting to scam you either in or out of game to get access to your account or scam gold from you.
I want to share with you the most used and popular scams and how to protect yourself so that your hard earned account and gold stay with you.
1. Keylogging - This is where a script is hidden into a link found on a forum, website, in-game mail or email which installs keylogging software to record your keyboard input. The most common type of link will end in .jpg or .src. Once this software is on your computer it will be easy to spot someone typing in their account name, followed by their password. A remote user will then log onto your account, change the password and sell all your valuables.
Protection
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Best FREE World of Warcraft Leveling Guide
Written by wowconfidential.
[UPDATE: Jame has just released a new WOTLK leveling guide, check my review here]
Earlier I posted my tips on the fastest way to level in world of warcraft and many people asked for a step to step guide on the fastest way to level.
While Joana’s guide is currently the most recognized and thorough guide available on how to reach level 70 the fastest, some are looking for a guide which is free.
Well, look no further. The best free leveling guide available is….
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Free World of Warcraft Outland Mining Routes Guide!
Written by wowconfidential.
After much positive feedback from my Nagrand Adamantite Route I shared a few months ago, I have been in the process of working on updated routes that encompass all of the Outlands.
I am excited to announce that they are now available!
Scroll below to find Nagrand, Netherstorm, Blade’s Edge Mountains and Shadowmoon Valley.
Other than Luke’s gold making guide this is the fastest way to make gold that I know of.
The routes are calculated based on node spawn rate and spawn time after gathering data for 4 months.
Nagrand
Netherstorm
Blade’s Edge Mountains
Shadowmoon Valley
Why pay for gold when you can follow these routes and make an average of 250g-300g an hour!
No one will share this information with you because they don’t want you to know their personal routes, but here at wowconfidential we strive to research the most efficient methods of gold making.
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Increase Framerate Performance in World of Warcraft
Written by wowconfidential.
Lets face it, it can get pretty frustrating trying to participate in a raid when just as the action starts your framerate dips down to 10-15 fps or lower. This has a huge impact on your ability to play your character and play at your best.
Most peoples advice is to go out and spend tons of cash on memory, graphics cards etc, but if you have at least 1 gig of memory and a “decent” graphics card you should be getting higher than 15fps. I will share with you a few ways you can definately increase your frames per second without spending money.
- Background Programs - You may not think about it, but programs like internet explorer, firefox, itunes and anti-virus running while you play is killing your memory, turn these off before you enter the game. Something I like to do is go to the task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and I go down the list ending all the processes and keeping only; explorer.exe, system, system idle process, services.exe, svchost.exe, and whatever my audio device is (oh yea and Wow.exe!)
- Start Up Programs - Go to run and type in msconfig. The first window that comes up you can choose to run only necessary system programs at start up. Another option is going to the last tab “startup” and deselect the programs you know and this will prevent them from automatically starting by themselves.
- Add-ons - If you are a fan of custom UI’s and addons this is most likely the number one culprit, each add-on chews up so much memory while it collects data and processes while you are doing things in the game (like participating in a boss encounter) if you are about to go in an instance or raid, log out>disable all mods that aren’t required for the raid. You should notice a huge jump in performance. *Tip - Download PerformanceFu or AddonManager to see exactly which add-ons are taking the most memory.
- Torrents - Plain and simple, torrents chew up your bandwidth and unless you have set upload/download caps, turn this off or make sure someone else on the same connection isn’t running it.
- Ad-Aware and Spybot - These are two very useful programs which go through your computer and show you all the junk that gets installed without your knowledge that run in the background. Things like data trackers. After a scan is complete you can delete them all, use both programs as spybot picks up a lot of what ad-aware misses, do this bi-weekly.
- Reformat - If all else fails, a simple reformat may be in order if you haven’t done so in a long time, our computers have a way of collecting internal “dust” which can really only be taken care of by a complete wipe.
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What Do You Do While Playing World of Warcraft?
Written by wowconfidential.
While World of Warcraft is a very immersive game, there are times when it doesn’t need our full attention:
- Running an instance you are so used to (and you aren’t the main puller/tank/Healer)
- Grinding levels
- Raiding
What do you do during these times and how do you make it more entertaining?
Here are a few that I’ve heard of or done myself:
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