One of the hardest things to do in World of Warcraft is complete heroic instances and raids. Available only after you reach the level cap, heroics and raids allow you to show off your skills with your guild. They require you to have high-level gear, usually rare or epic, a team of players who know how to play their roles and classes, and a whole lot of time to practice each and every possible strategy. So what do you need before you go on a heroic run? Let's take a closer look.
The Right Gear
First on the list is gear. Despite what Blizzard has said in the past, gear is still a very important part of raiding and running instances. However the exact definition of what’s required has changed quite a bit over the years. For example, when Cataclysm was released, a lot of the new stats that had been added over the last five years were either removed or simplified. Things like armor penetration, spell power, and the overly complicated mana system were changed or removed to make it easier for new players to get into the game.
So what do you need before you can run a heroic instance? To start with you should have a full set of blue gear. Usually you will get this gear by completing all of the normal instances between level 80 and 85. However, if this is too much, you can also pay for them in the auction house or look for people in trade chat to buy them from. Either way, you need to make sure you have enough blue gear on hand before you step foot into a heroic instance, otherwise you’ll just cause problems for your guild.
A Guild with Skill
The next major step in preparing for heroics in World of Warcraft is to find a good guild with players who'll spend a lot of time practicing and preparing before going into these instances. Using the dungeon finder is one thing when you're running normal instances at level 81, but when you reach level 85 and want to run heroic instances, you need people who know how to play their role successfully for an entire instance. This is especially true when you start running raids at level 85.
You probably won't find a high-level guild right away, but if you find a good guild and practice a lot, eventually you’ll get into a guild that will help you combat some of the hardest bosses and newest instances in the game as they are released.
Heroic instances are one of the most fun aspects of WoW, but they aren't easy. It takes time, preparation, and a good team before you'll be ready to take on these high-level bosses. So start practicing now so you can eventually enjoy all the great things that World of Warcraft has to offer when you reach the end of the game. Read more...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Building | a Truly Epic | Gold Stash | in World of Warcraft
If you ask 100 players in World of Warcraft what thing they would like to do most, most of them would say make more gold. What is it about this shiny little metal that gets so many players excited? Likely it’s all the amazing things you can buy with it – from the epic mounts to the high-level gear and consumables needed to run the highest level raids.
So what exactly do you need to build your own truly epic gold stash? There are a few tricks you can use but mostly you just need to be smart about how you spend your gold and more importantly how you spend your time.
Using the Auction House
First on the list is the auction house. The auction house is by far the best way to make gold in World of Warcraft. It may seem boring at first, but if you think about it the auction house is very similar to the stock market in the real world. If you know what you're doing, have enough gold to get started, and are willing to spend a lot of time researching and learning about different items in the game you can make a ton of gold in very little time.
Now compare that to how most people make gold. They spend hours running around, farming on everything from herbs to ore to skins and beyond. In reality there is a cap on how much gold you can make using these methods. If you try to make gold solely from farming, you can make anywhere from 400 to 1000 gold per hour. But why stop there?
With the auction house you can actually make thousands of gold per hour and not actually spend any extra time playing the game. For sure time is needed to set it up and even more time will be spent checking in on your investments and reading up on the most recent news in the game, but after two or three weeks you can spend as little as 20 or 30 minutes in the auction house and make thousands of gold a day.
Getting the Right Tools
To use the auction house successfully, you need the right tools. This means getting add-ons for your World of Warcraft UI including Auctioneer, Market Watcher, Postal, and a couple other tools that may be useful to you. Exactly how you set up your auction house UI depends largely on what you prefer, but regardless of your preference you'll find that there are a lot of ways to make gold that don't require you to spend hundreds of hours each week farming.
In fact you can even pay other people to farm for you and make money off their work. The bottom line is this – if you're a smart player and invest time now you'll eventually be able to do pretty much anything you want in World of Warcraft with a big stash of gold.
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So what exactly do you need to build your own truly epic gold stash? There are a few tricks you can use but mostly you just need to be smart about how you spend your gold and more importantly how you spend your time.
Using the Auction House
First on the list is the auction house. The auction house is by far the best way to make gold in World of Warcraft. It may seem boring at first, but if you think about it the auction house is very similar to the stock market in the real world. If you know what you're doing, have enough gold to get started, and are willing to spend a lot of time researching and learning about different items in the game you can make a ton of gold in very little time.
Now compare that to how most people make gold. They spend hours running around, farming on everything from herbs to ore to skins and beyond. In reality there is a cap on how much gold you can make using these methods. If you try to make gold solely from farming, you can make anywhere from 400 to 1000 gold per hour. But why stop there?
With the auction house you can actually make thousands of gold per hour and not actually spend any extra time playing the game. For sure time is needed to set it up and even more time will be spent checking in on your investments and reading up on the most recent news in the game, but after two or three weeks you can spend as little as 20 or 30 minutes in the auction house and make thousands of gold a day.
Getting the Right Tools
To use the auction house successfully, you need the right tools. This means getting add-ons for your World of Warcraft UI including Auctioneer, Market Watcher, Postal, and a couple other tools that may be useful to you. Exactly how you set up your auction house UI depends largely on what you prefer, but regardless of your preference you'll find that there are a lot of ways to make gold that don't require you to spend hundreds of hours each week farming.
In fact you can even pay other people to farm for you and make money off their work. The bottom line is this – if you're a smart player and invest time now you'll eventually be able to do pretty much anything you want in World of Warcraft with a big stash of gold.
Read more...
World of Warcraft | The Straight Dope | Straight From The Shoulder
Since the launch of World of Warcraft, the Manaview team has worked hard to create quality addons that provide immense value to the community. In the last year alone they’ve developed three new addons: Tycoon, Edge, and Impulse. That’s along with the first ever ingame leveling guide, Booster.
Priced separately, these products are a great value. You can level a character to 85 in a little over 4 days played, make up to 30,000g a day, learn the absolute best strategies for your class, and become a pro keybinder from the ground up.
Normally you’d buy these addons one at a time for a total price of $168. But right now you can get one comprehensive product – the Manaview WoW Addon Suite – for $127, a savings of $41 (almost 3 months of WoW!) and 25%.
As a special experiment since my guild is pretty much done with Firelands content and I’ve got some time on my hands, I thought I’d start a completely new character on a new server to conduct a real test of the Manaview Suite.
Here’s the rules I set for myself: I’d play a class I didn’t know very well (Mage – what can I say, I like melee!), started at level 1 on a new server with no heirlooms, no guild, no gold – nothing to help me along whatsoever.
Basically I wanted to answer these questions:
- How long does it take to get to 85 with Booster and no XP boost?
- How much gold can I make along the way with Tycoon?
- Can I really learn to play (and maybe enjoy…) a mage in dungeons and PVP with Edge?
- And can I learn the optimal keybinds for that mage with Impulse?
That was a couple months ago, and I’m happy to say I’ve completed the experiment. So how did it go?
Booster (Can you really get to 85 in 4 days played with no heirlooms?)
My final time ended up being 5 days, 3 hours, and 53 minutes played since I started the character. That wasn’t just spent leveling, so keep that in mind. I also had some time in the Auction House and in dungeons and battlegrounds as I leveled up.
Booster is still pretty flawless at leading you through the best possible quests, though I do kinda wish there was a way to automatically jump forward a bit in the guide if I gained a couple levels from a dungeon or something. Still, I’m almost certain I could cut that down to 4 days played or even less if all I did was quest according to the guide.
Tycoon (Can you really make 30,000g in one day?)
I lucked out in randomly choosing a server, because I got one with a pretty crazy economy. I made a ton of gold off of Copper Ore right off the bat. I took Mining and Herbalism and used the Gathering module in Tycoon so I could see any close node spawns while I was leveling. I think by the time I was level 20 I already had 5,000 gold.
It took me a while to get up to where I was making gold consistently every day. At least more than 1,000g per day. Once you get into Outlands, those materials sell pretty well. High-end Azeroth stuff, too. I almost wish I’d taken Enchanting so I could cash in on the disenchant mats, but I think I would’ve wasted some gold leveling it.
Did I make 30,000g in one day? No. The most I made in one day was about 7k. But I was also leveling and learning a new class while I did it. I didn’t want to skew the Booster numbers, so I didn’t spent too much time actively gathering. So for what little I was able to put in? I’d say the 45k I’ve got on my mage in total right now is pretty damn good.
Edge (Can a caster noob actually learn to play a mage well?)
Yeah, yeah. I know. I’m a melee player at heart and I probably always will be. Casting just doesn’t feel as… visceral for me. But with this mage, I knew I wanted to give it a good, honest try. I wanted to be able to top DPS meters in dungeons and hold my own in PVP.
Quite frankly, I couldn’t have done that without Edge. That addon was a godsend, seriously. It handed me the specs I needed for dungeons (arcane) and PVP (frost) and told me how to play them. It took me some time to get the hang of it, and I know in PVP especially I screwed up the strategy at the beginning, but I’m confident in saying I’m not a complete noob anymore.
I’ve only taken my mage into one raid, and unfortunately we didn’t get too far since people had to leave. But I was up in the top 5 for DPS in a 25 man, and my gear isn’t all that great. As for heroics, I’ve gotten to where I can pretty much bust up any chart unless there’s a heroic raid geared hunter or another mage in there. I can’t say I’m a PVP superstar yet, but I think that’s a me problem, not an Edge problem.
Impulse (Can the right keybinds make a dramatic difference in gameplay?)
This one is hard to document because I used Impulse from the very beginning to learn the “right way.” If I try to go back to clicking now, I just can’t do it. I feel like I am faster because of it. I don’t think I’d stand a chance in PVP if I was trying to click abilities that weren’t familiar to me.
I mean, imagine me standing there reading the tooltip on something while some rogue comes up and shivs me from behind.
I started playing on an arena team with a couple friends I made on the server. I don’t have a lot of resilience yet, so I admit I can die pretty quick. But when there’s a clicker on the other team? It doesn’t seem to matter how crappy my gear is. I can outclass them and maneuver a hell of a lot faster than they can.
So all in all? I think my experiment was a HUGE success. I still love melee, but I’m pretty happy with my shiny new mage, considering I started at such a disadvantage. All of that was made up in no time using the Manaview products.
Here’s the kicker, too: I bought all of these addons separately. I think I even paid a little more for Booster, since it’s currently a pretty low price on its own. Can you imagine saving 25% on all of these products? It’s a serious steal.
I mean, for a little over $100 you can load up your account with powerhouse characters and tons of gold. You just can’t beat that. If you’re serious about improving your WoW experience, you NEED to pick up the Manaview WoW Addon Suite today before this offer is gone.
Read more...
Priced separately, these products are a great value. You can level a character to 85 in a little over 4 days played, make up to 30,000g a day, learn the absolute best strategies for your class, and become a pro keybinder from the ground up.
Normally you’d buy these addons one at a time for a total price of $168. But right now you can get one comprehensive product – the Manaview WoW Addon Suite – for $127, a savings of $41 (almost 3 months of WoW!) and 25%.
As a special experiment since my guild is pretty much done with Firelands content and I’ve got some time on my hands, I thought I’d start a completely new character on a new server to conduct a real test of the Manaview Suite.
Here’s the rules I set for myself: I’d play a class I didn’t know very well (Mage – what can I say, I like melee!), started at level 1 on a new server with no heirlooms, no guild, no gold – nothing to help me along whatsoever.
Basically I wanted to answer these questions:
- How long does it take to get to 85 with Booster and no XP boost?
- How much gold can I make along the way with Tycoon?
- Can I really learn to play (and maybe enjoy…) a mage in dungeons and PVP with Edge?
- And can I learn the optimal keybinds for that mage with Impulse?
That was a couple months ago, and I’m happy to say I’ve completed the experiment. So how did it go?
Booster (Can you really get to 85 in 4 days played with no heirlooms?)
My final time ended up being 5 days, 3 hours, and 53 minutes played since I started the character. That wasn’t just spent leveling, so keep that in mind. I also had some time in the Auction House and in dungeons and battlegrounds as I leveled up.
Booster is still pretty flawless at leading you through the best possible quests, though I do kinda wish there was a way to automatically jump forward a bit in the guide if I gained a couple levels from a dungeon or something. Still, I’m almost certain I could cut that down to 4 days played or even less if all I did was quest according to the guide.
Tycoon (Can you really make 30,000g in one day?)
I lucked out in randomly choosing a server, because I got one with a pretty crazy economy. I made a ton of gold off of Copper Ore right off the bat. I took Mining and Herbalism and used the Gathering module in Tycoon so I could see any close node spawns while I was leveling. I think by the time I was level 20 I already had 5,000 gold.
It took me a while to get up to where I was making gold consistently every day. At least more than 1,000g per day. Once you get into Outlands, those materials sell pretty well. High-end Azeroth stuff, too. I almost wish I’d taken Enchanting so I could cash in on the disenchant mats, but I think I would’ve wasted some gold leveling it.
Did I make 30,000g in one day? No. The most I made in one day was about 7k. But I was also leveling and learning a new class while I did it. I didn’t want to skew the Booster numbers, so I didn’t spent too much time actively gathering. So for what little I was able to put in? I’d say the 45k I’ve got on my mage in total right now is pretty damn good.
Edge (Can a caster noob actually learn to play a mage well?)
Yeah, yeah. I know. I’m a melee player at heart and I probably always will be. Casting just doesn’t feel as… visceral for me. But with this mage, I knew I wanted to give it a good, honest try. I wanted to be able to top DPS meters in dungeons and hold my own in PVP.
Quite frankly, I couldn’t have done that without Edge. That addon was a godsend, seriously. It handed me the specs I needed for dungeons (arcane) and PVP (frost) and told me how to play them. It took me some time to get the hang of it, and I know in PVP especially I screwed up the strategy at the beginning, but I’m confident in saying I’m not a complete noob anymore.
I’ve only taken my mage into one raid, and unfortunately we didn’t get too far since people had to leave. But I was up in the top 5 for DPS in a 25 man, and my gear isn’t all that great. As for heroics, I’ve gotten to where I can pretty much bust up any chart unless there’s a heroic raid geared hunter or another mage in there. I can’t say I’m a PVP superstar yet, but I think that’s a me problem, not an Edge problem.
Impulse (Can the right keybinds make a dramatic difference in gameplay?)
This one is hard to document because I used Impulse from the very beginning to learn the “right way.” If I try to go back to clicking now, I just can’t do it. I feel like I am faster because of it. I don’t think I’d stand a chance in PVP if I was trying to click abilities that weren’t familiar to me.
I mean, imagine me standing there reading the tooltip on something while some rogue comes up and shivs me from behind.
I started playing on an arena team with a couple friends I made on the server. I don’t have a lot of resilience yet, so I admit I can die pretty quick. But when there’s a clicker on the other team? It doesn’t seem to matter how crappy my gear is. I can outclass them and maneuver a hell of a lot faster than they can.
So all in all? I think my experiment was a HUGE success. I still love melee, but I’m pretty happy with my shiny new mage, considering I started at such a disadvantage. All of that was made up in no time using the Manaview products.
Here’s the kicker, too: I bought all of these addons separately. I think I even paid a little more for Booster, since it’s currently a pretty low price on its own. Can you imagine saving 25% on all of these products? It’s a serious steal.
I mean, for a little over $100 you can load up your account with powerhouse characters and tons of gold. You just can’t beat that. If you’re serious about improving your WoW experience, you NEED to pick up the Manaview WoW Addon Suite today before this offer is gone.
Read more...
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