Hey everyone, I’ve been away for a while and wanted to give you a quick update.

I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 along with World of Warcraft ever since the Beta of SC2 came out. It has come to a point though where I am enjoying starcraft 2 more now and will be taking a break from WoW for the time being.

However I still really enjoy creating content and videos, so if you’ve enjoyed the content on WoWConfidential and you are a fan of Starcraft 2 or just want to check out what I’m up to then come over and subscribe to the Starcraft2Collective youtube channel.

See you there, and I am in the process of finding another gold guru to share some of their secrets on the blog here so stay tuned for new content.

Have you ever needed help with gold making and wish you had a community of experienced gold makers to get advice from? Right when you need it?

WoWConfidential is proud to announce the launch of our WoW Gold forums and community where you can get advice and tips from players who have hit the gold cap multiple times and even hit a million gold.

The best part about it is this advice is tailored to your specific gold making situation and gold goals.

- New player trying to afford an epic mount?

- Need help setting up add-ons, macros and a gold making system?

- Making a decent amount of gold but need that extra edge to hit the gold cap?

- Saving up gold for Cataclysm?

Benefits of a Community

As the author of this blog I get lots of emails from readers, I wish I could answer them all but it has come to a point where I wouldn’t get anything done if I did.

With the launch of the forum, this provides a place where I can offer 1 on 1 advice and help.

Back when I began my gold making journey I was lucky enough to get invited to a private gold making chat channel. Through this chat channel I met some amazing people who had hundreds of thousands of gold when I could barely keep 1k in my pocket. The simple act of just being around these players and hearing how they play the markets gave me insight into what I was doing wrong and after a few months I hit the gold cap myself.

The other benefit was I found this community as a fun place to “hang out” while I was doing something boring like milling, crafting or just had down time. It’s great to have a community of like minded people with similar goals as you to discuss strategies and share stories.

It is this community I invite you to take part in at our WoW Gold Making Forum.

Why A Paid Forum?

1. Private information and ability to act on strategies before they are released to the public

I will continue to post in-depth gold making articles for free on the site, however a forum is a natural place to discuss and fine tune any new gold making strategies and to talk about speculation of an upcoming patch and how that could effect markets. Having the forum as a paid area ensures that the gold making discussions we share there are kept between members only and isn’t broadcasted around to the WoW community. This gives us time to react to markets and exploit gold making opportunities much faster than other players.

2. I will have much more time to spend 1 on 1 with people

I appreciate every email I receive and all the fans of the site, but with so many projects on the go I just can’t devote the time I’d like to helping every person or else I’d get no work done which = no money. In a paid forum community I can spend much more time to give advice and help out the members.

3. It provides real value

Gold guides on the market provide information, but getting advice tailored to your situation and server economy can help you along much faster. Reading a gold guide made by someone is much different than having a discussion with them where you can ask questions or more depth on the points you need further understanding on.

4. Well Moderated and Not Spammy

When people pay for a service it tends to draw more serious conversations and it’ll be much easier to keep the forum clean, to the point and helpful. I will be able to spend the time to make sure each players questions are answered while reducing redundant or frequently asked questions to specific threads.

5. Ad Free

I will not have any banners or ads on the forums.

How Much Does it Cost?

The forum has launched today (July 27, 2010) and will be offered at a reduced rate of $6.95 a month until Sunday August 1st, 2010. At which point the price will go up to regular price. Any members who sign up at the discounted rate can keep the reduced rate for as long as they are signed up members.

You can cancel your subscription at any time.

How To Join

1. You can register over at our forums here.

2. After you register, there will be a link that says “Complete Registration – Click Here to Pay for Forum Access” click that to upgrade your account for full access.

3. Click from the drop down box Monthly $6.95 US, this will bring you through paypal to make your payment, which can also accept credit card transactions.

4. After your paypal transaction goes through you’ll have instant access to start posting and reading the forums.

Hope to See You There

I look forward to getting to know each of you, there is an area to ask for advice, to post your own gold making “journal” and various other areas for us to discuss gold making in WoW.

Hey Everyone, I’m going to be in Cuba for the week so no new posts will be up for a few days.

Just wanted to let you know so you didn’t think i quit or something.

In the meantime, you can  check out my previous post which provided a list of gold making sites i read regularly and get your gold making fix there.

Good luck with your profits this week and i have ssome exciting posts and videos planned for my return.

As I get closer and closer to the gold cap (Already at above 220,000g in “worth” just need items to sell) I am mapping out my future goals and the next things I want to accomplish in the game.

Hitting 214,000g was the big milestone I set for myself in October 2009 when I picked up Inscription, not having made any gold from professions previously.

I was introduced to a whole other world of gold making after taking this step into professions and my gold making per hour has gone up exponentially with this new knowledge.

Where to go from here?

I still have the DK 10K side project going on. He is currently sitting at 7,600g worth and I expect that he will hit the 10K liquid gold mark in the next few days, especially after picking up the Solid Sky Sapphire cut that has been selling like crazy!

I just love gold making in the game and I don’t have any plans to stop it from being the 1st priority of my playing.

I want to get realm firsts in professions when Cataclysm comes out, I want to be the richest player in WoW and just keep learning and fine tuning every gold making method in the game. I really enjoy passing on this knowledge to my readers.

Obviously the next step after hitting 214k would be to do it again, but faster, or to go for a Million.

I plan on going for a million gold for sure, but after I hit the gold cap I figure instead of the normal “reward” that other capped players give to themselves like buying a chopper or spending tons of gold on high lvl BOE’s, I’d rather have some other kind of fun and do some cool stuff with this valuable asset.

Giving Away 200,000g – Contests, Custom Quests, Events!

What better way to celebrate hitting gold cap than to give back to the community of players on my server who have been buying my glyphs, gems and being customers of mine.

Players want gold and don’t want to spend time getting it, but there are other fun things they like to do in the game and if you can reward them handsomely for it they’ll not only want to participate but will have fun doing so! (much more fun than a daily they’ve done multiple times)

So I need your help.. I need to brainstorm some creative ideas on how to give away 200,000g which I am going to record in videos and probably cast live on XFire.

Here are the current suggestions I’ve had

I made a forum post on the WoW official forums, you can read it here. From that post a lot of players gave me some very good suggestions. You can either vote on these suggestions in the comment below or suggest something of your own!

1. Create a low level toon and act like you are new to the game and give gold to those that help you out and don’t make fun of you.

2. Over pay for regular requests such as LF Enchant chest or Mage Ports.. Give them a HUGE tip. (This will reward normal players in the game who work off tips which can be hard at times as players are usually low tippers)

3. World event hide and seek, can keep it within one contienent, have a friend hide and give out clues to his location

4. Gurubashi Arena Death Match Battle Royale

5. I liked hiding in ally capitals and saying first person to open up trade gets 1000g.

- I LOVE this idea because so much commotion would insue from alliance wondering why all these Horde players are coming into the cityon a PvP server… but unfortunately Rogues and Druids would have the advantage here with stealth.

6. Buy choppers. Find Lv. 40 lowbies without BOA gear. Give motorcycles to lowbies.
It would be the gift that keeps on giving.

7. Do a fishing tournament. Select some rare fish and have a bunch of people go after it. You’d probably need screenshots of the participants bags before-hand to prevent cheating. Or have them all in a raid group so you can see what they’re looting, I suppose.

8. You could always advertise that your giving away 200k. then once people come to you, tell them the last person to leave gets the gold, or until you get bored, keep moving around to weed out AFKers, see how badly people want gold ;p

Get people to follow you around, walk around durotar, get on some boats/zepplins, walk through some dangerous areas, last person remaining at the end of the journey gets the gold.

9. randomly /who people and mail them 5000gold.

10. Ask players to get 6 random items of a specific variety, like 6 random and hard to get toys, or drinks, or weapons, etc

Maybe a scavenger hunt? Track down a list of 10-20 objects that are only found in out-of-the-way areas or from specific vendors, etc. e.g.:
The first person to come to you and trade you a full trade window of objects from the list wins! Since everyone doesn’t need to get every object, that allows for people to be spread out so they’re not all camping the same mobs and vendors.

11. Try to do the Running of the Tauren (or any other race you prefer)

Here is how it works for Taurens levels 1-5 Gather at Starting zone you then tell them to run to a point now since it is for 200kg you want it to be a very far and a very hard place to get to so probably Exodar or Darn.

Now how would this work well you will have 39 people running to you from Point A-B.

Now you can Follow them with a friend’s account or if you have another use it so you can record them running and of course dieing.

Rules people usually use:
Must be levels 1-5
Must be a <class>(you decide)
Must run to Body and not spirit rez ( You don’t have to enforce this)
Can not use BoAs or any greens
Can not use Potions, elixirs
Can not be buffed in any way
Can not be helped by higher levels (IE: level 80 staying by the level 1 to make sure he doesn’t die)
Can not use wind riders Zepplins Boats or other transportations to get to you (well except for the Boat at Astrannar of course)

12. Trivia Game – A question game in a custom channel (so we aren’t spamming trade chat) and award winners with the gold amount. Would be WoW questions related.

Please post your suggestions or vote on one in the comments!

I would like to do something along the lines of a custom made quest as it is an event and something people would have fun doing and “working” for rather than just getting the gold for nothing. If this is successful I would want to do this on a regular basis and maybe partner up with players from other servers to run player generated quests for gold rewards!

I just finished creating a new fan page for WoWConfidential on Facebook.

This will give people from the site and users on Facebook a place to interact with each other and the site as I know a lot of World of Warcraft players spend a lot of time on facebook.

So if you use facebook come by and join the WoWConfidential Facebook page and say hi! We’ll have tons of discussions and we can all share the latest gold making links, videos and news there.