WoW Confidential

Analysis and Discussion of Making Gold in World of Warcraft

Archive for September, 2009

Posted by wowconfidential 1 COMMENT

There has been a lot of talk going around stating that Inscription is one of the best gold making professions you can pick up. Greedy Goblin uses it as his main source of income.
Since the purpose of this site is to research and analyze the best gold making methods, I’ve taken it upon myself to [...]

Categories: Inscription, Making Gold
Posted by Karch 50 COMMENTS

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Well, patch 3.2 is here, and all mages should be familiar with the significant changes that have been made.  Depending on what you believe, Arcane now theorycrafts equal or better than deep fire, and you’ll be seeing a whole lot more arcane mages in raid groups.
As evidenced by many, many [...]

Categories: Mage
Posted by wowconfidential 44 COMMENTS

Rogues have 3 talent trees, the first is assassination, the second is combat, and the third is not subtlety, its “utility”. And, since “utility” doesn’t show up on the meters, you are left with 2 choices for DPS.
 Table of Contents:
1 – Stats.
2 – Gems & Enchants.
3 – Specs and Glyphs.
            3.1 – Combat.
            3.2 – [...]

Categories: Raiding, Rogue
Posted by wowconfidential 4 COMMENTS

Patch 3.2.2, while being a small patch, brings about a few class changes, but one big change in regards to the wow economy.
Being aware of patch changes and their effect on the economy can provide a lot of profit if you act faster than the majority of the server. It is one of my main ways [...]

Categories: Making Gold, Market Watch
Posted by wowconfidential 3 COMMENTS

One of the main reasons I enjoy MMORPG’s and WoW is the fact that your effort and time spent in the game builds on your previous days, weeks and months of achievements. You are constantly improving in different areas of the game such as your gear, gold amount, achievements, reputations and so forth. With other [...]

Categories: WOTLK
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(Written by Sudhee) (Write for us!)

“DK’s can tank in all 3 specs.” Tired of hearing that without knowing why? Well, read on…

Starter DK tanking gear for heroics.
Tanking stats.
Blood tanking spec.
Frost 2h tanking spec.
Frost [...]

Categories: Death Knight, Raiding
Posted by Jason Cox 9 COMMENTS

This guide covers the basic information you will need

Categories: Addons, Raiding, Shaman
Posted by David DeBalm 1 COMMENT

Addons
Specific paladin addons, in my experience, are not really a necessity until your reach 80.
For the purposes of leveling a paladin, one addon I do recommend if you are aiming to level quickly, is Carbonite Quest, also check out Zygor’s leveling guide for in-game step by step level walkthrough for the most efficient questing. This [...]

Categories: Addons, Paladin
Posted by wowconfidential 2 COMMENTS

In this video I go through 8 of the Argent Tournament Daily Quests to see how fast they are at making gold, which require you to be a champion of at least one of the factions.
So far we’ve done the following Daily Routes:
8 Grizzly Hills Dailies (video here) done in 23 minutes = 208g/hr
5 Zul’Drak [...]

Categories: Dailies, Making Gold, Videos, WOTLK
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(Written by Nicholas) (Write for us!)

Herbalism, like mining, has changed in terms of value as a profession. In my opinion as money making professions they do not have the same potential for income generation they once did. For example in the Burning Crusade I could farm Nightmare Vine from Shadowmoon valley and generate around 40-60g [...]

Categories: Herbalism, Making Gold