Blizzard has just recently announced the release of their new expansion, Cataclysm at Blizzcon 2009. This expansion is loaded with new features and Blizzard has been quite good at disclosing us with some information about it. Here’s what you can expect from the new expansion which is said to be released sometime in 2010.

- Two new playable races: Worgan for the Alliance and Goblins for the Horde.
- Original zones updated: Zones like the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor have been updated with new content and scenery. Also, the Badlands and Barrens have been altered and broken in two.
- Higher level cap: The level cap for all characters and classes has been increased to 85.
- New zones: New zones have been added for high level characters. Uldum, Grim Batol, and the sunken city of Vashj’ir.
- New Raid Content: More raids have been added than ever before and players have the option of playing current raids on more challenging difficulties.
- Guild Advancement: Now you can progress as a Guild and earn new achievements.
- Race/Class combinations: New race and class combinations have been added such as blood elf warrior, gnome priest, and many more!
- New PvP zones
- New Profession: A new profession, Archaeology has been added as a secondary profession.
- Flying mounts: New flying mounts have been added in Azeroth.

Overall, this expansion promises to be the best yet & has never been paced with so much content! Its no wonder why millions of avid world of warcraft fans are anxiously awaiting its arrival.

Hi,

I thought i might share my method of gaining gold in WoW. I’ve been broke for quite a while till i “used” a friends account to get some money out of jewelcrafting. I made quite a bit of money so i made jewelcrafting my main profession.

I made 40k Gold in 1 week with this strategy (playing about 2-3 hours a day)
–> i got up to 75k gold total until i started to spend everything on huge investments
–> i bought: Travelers Thundra (18k), 2x Darkmooncard: Greatness (2x10k), 1x Chopper (17k) + a Chopper for my friend (17k) and still got about 15k left.

Here’s a screenshot to post some “proof”:

So what do you need for this to work:

- 2 Professions: Jewelcrafting(390) / Enchanting (325)
- 500-1000g starting money

What you gonna do?

1. Buy saronite ore in the AH (around 20-28g per stack – depends on each server) there are probably a lot of chinafarmers selling their saronite, so just put them on your friends list and ask them if they sell all their saronite each day directly to you for a cheaper price. I had 2-3 chinafarmers “working” for me at the end.

2. Prospect all the saronite – you’ll get the rare gems (craft them in something usefull – check which stones go for a lot of gold in the auctionhouse) – you’ll also get some uncommon gems (keep the blue/yellow/orange/red gems – you will not need the green/purple stones)

Edit: Some asked which gems are usefull: It highly depends on your server and what the demand is for that gem at the moment. Sometimes Vivid Forest Emeralds sell for 35g+ and sometimes an Enduring Forest Emerald is worth more. If you just started this method or you don’t do a high mass of prospecting then you only wanna make the highest priced gems. Otherwise you just make every gem that goes for 15g+ (around 5-8 at the time) and put it in the AH. The color matters too, on my server Red > Yellow > Purple > Orange > Blue > Green. Of course you need to do the JC-Daily or buy the damaged necklace for new recipes. Usually i just go to the AH a couple of times and see which gems are selling the highest, then i know which recipe i’ll buy next.

3. Buy a lot of eternal earth at the AH (3-8g depending on servers) and turn those into crystalized earth.

4. Use the gems + crystalized earth for the following recipes:
Bloodstone Band – Item – World of Warcraft
Crystal Chalcedony Amulet – Item – World of Warcraft
Crystal Citrine Necklace – Item – World of Warcraft
Sun Rock Ring – Item – World of Warcraft

Yes it will take a bit of time – but those are the most efficient items to make.

You’ll get a lot of infinite dust and lesser cosmic essences (make greater cosmic essences out of them) – you can sell those mats for a pretty high price at the AH

Tip:
- Check around twice a day if you’ve been outbid and either make new gems and put them in cheaper or take them out and put those in again
- Use the addon auctioneer (found in wowmatrix or at curse)
- Use the addon getmail or any other mailaddon to get your money/gems out of the mailbox faster
- Use this easy to use Spreadsheet made from n0skillS: http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu…ing-combo.html ([Spreadsheet] JCing/Enchanting Combo)

How much you’ll make is always dependend on the raiding situation (on my server on sundays i can sell a lot of raiding gems and on wednesday when servers come up and after archavon has been slain i can sell a lot of pvp gems)

You might ask why i don’t have more money if i could make 40k a week – simple answer: there is nothing to buy anymore and i rather do pvp or raid, since i still got 15k left.

Thats pretty much it!

The following guide is step by step easy to follow directions on how to get an ArcEmu 3.0.9 WoW Server up and running with directions to getting it public.

First Off, Getting The Server Running
I would first off like to give thanks to Opast for providing the links to the sites where these downloads can be found.

The first thing you need to do is download the ArcEmu repac. Which you do need to sign up to the website first. No worries, all these downloads ARE completly virus free. I was sketchy at first but went with my will for a server and trusted.
Johved’s Private Server Talk • Login

When you go to pick a Folder Install Destanation, I along with alot, prefer the Idea of installing it to the Desktop, and finish the download.

You will also need .NET Framework 3.5 which enables your server to work.
Download details: .NET Framework 3.5

The ArcEmu folder that you installed (the one that may be on your desktop), Inside is a folder labled “TOOLS”, Copy and paste the “Ad.exe” file into your actuall World Of Warcraft Programs Folder and run it. What this file does is copies all the maps from the wow folder.
When its done, which may take a few minutes, recopy that “Ad.exe” file and repaste it into the “TOOLS” folder, replacing the former one.

Inside the ArcEmu folder, is a file “Johved UserControlPanel.exe” this will be your new best friend with the private server. You will use this file alot so I recomend makeing a shortcut of it onto your desktop. But with that to the side, Run it. This allows you to start all the programs for your private server.
To now start it:
You will first need to create an Account for yourself. This would be the account Username and Password you would use to loging into Wow.
Click the big button that says “Account Management”
Click “Create Account”
Pick A Username/ Password
Considering your are most likely the Innitial creater of your server its only right to choose Admin as your level.
GM’s are like management with your server. They have commands as well but some are not available.
Player’s would be your regular people who play on your server.
The last part would be which version you of WoW you have. When creating other peoples accounts, you would choose what Expansion of WoW they have.
The Finally click “Create Account”
Press the ok for the confirmation screen and the click the button that says “Back”, the one more time.
You should be at the Main Screen of the Control Panel
I will explain the “Realms Config” and “World Settings” a little bit later…

Now to START YOUR SERVER!!!
Click “Start MySQL” then “Start World” followed by “Start LogonServer”

Now for a little modifing and Backing Up.
Find the “realmlist.wtf” file in your WorldOfWarcraft Directory.
For Me its C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft\Data\enUS.
On your desktop make a folder named “WoW Servers” or whatever you want. But inside make two separate folders. One With “WoW Backup” and the second… I used the name of my server. But copy and paste the “realmlist.wtf” into both folders. The one in the WoW Backup would be to use when you play retail. And the second would be the one you would copy into the world of warcraft…enus folder to play on your Private Server.
(I’m sorry that last part got confuzing. It you want me to re-explain just leave a comment)

KK, now to set up the realmlist for your server.
Go into the folder you set up for your realmlist.wtf for your server. Right click it, and open with Notepad or any other word documents you use. you may see…

set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist us.version.worldofwarcraft.com
set realmlistbn “”
set portal us

you need to change the first line to…
set realmlist 127.0.0.1

and the second line to….
set patchlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com

Ive seen different people with different things on line 3 and 4 so i recomend not messing with those.
and save it. (making sure this is the realmlist.wtf inside YOUR SERVER FOLDER. and not the backup)

You should now have…

set realmlist 127.0.0.1
set patchlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set realmlistbn “”
set portal us

Now copy the realmlist.wtf and paste it into the worldofwarcraft…enUS folder, replacing the former one. Start WoW as if you were playing retail, but Use your new account username and password and there you go. YOUR SERVER!!!

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NOW FOR MAKING IT PUBLIC

Download “HeidiSQL” this is the database that your server will run on.
http://www.heidisql.com/download.php?
Look under the spot that says “Download HeidiSQL” and select the Installer for the recommended one.
Run the file and download. I havn’t read any other “Oh this is something you should do” but i did also download this file to my desktop to keep it in the same area with ArcEmu.
This programs gives you all the data for your server. Such as ID Numbers of weapons and items, account info, which you can modify to you can modify to your enjoyment (such as setting your char level to 255 =) )

You now need a program that can connect your server to your friends computers so that they can play on your Private Server. Hamachi (so ive read and expierenced) is one of the best and simplest.
Make sure to note when it ask you what kind of server you want to setup, want to have a commercial license, just choose the free option. It really is all you need.
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/list.asp
Before installing it, I made a folder on the desktop labled “Hamachi” and used that as the download destination
When Running for the first time it gives you step by step directions on how to set up.

This is where I explain about the “Realms Config” button
Now go to the Johved UserControlPanel.exe
Click “Realms Config”
A notepad window should pop up.
Take note that the info inside the #-#-#- are info about the different variables.
That to the side at the moment, Scroll all the way down to where it starts with
<Realm1 Name….
I dont have the default but ill use my info to guide you.
You should have something similar to

<Realm1 Name = “Top Flight XXXL”
Address = “127.0.0.1:8129″
Icon = “PVP”
Population = “1.0″
TimeZone = “1″>

Change (“Top Flight XXXL”) to your server name, keeping the parenthesis
and change (“127.0.0.1:8129″) to the IP that Hamachi gives you, keeping :8129
Keep the info at the top the way it is.
Save it and exit

Now open up HeidiSQL
It will try to connect. Click the “New” button and make connection Name, what ever you want. I used the server name.
HOSTNAME/IP: localhost
USER: root
PASSWORD: root
PORT 3306
And click “Save+Connect”

Now at the menu on the left.
Click the + on Characters, the click accounts. Look at the page to the right and look under the “NAME” tab for “FLAGS”, follow it to the “DEFAULT” section and change the variable (double click the number) and change the DEFAULT to 24 and Click Update Field

After this, close everything (such as your logonserver and world) and be sure to “Stop MySQL” from the UserControlPanel. Then Exit, Run Your UserControlPanel, Start MySQL, Start World, Start Logonserver.
And your PUBLIC!

NOTES FOR YOUR FRIENDS. They will also need to download Hamachi. Where you created a network, they need to join yours.
On their realmlist.wtf, it needs to have YOUR hamachi IP rather than the 127.0.0.1 and make sure they changed the word version on the second line, to logon.
Create their account and password (From the Account Management Button in the UserControlPanel)
And everything is up to go!

I have been asked by hundreds of WoW players what the easiest and most effective way to make gold is. I was asked so often that I decided to write an entire guide off of it! Now you can start reading this guide and learn how you too can make 188k gold as quickly and easily as I did! I am here to teach you about the methods I used to make thousands of gold in World of Warcraft!

As a seasoned WoW veteran I use the Auction house several times a day. This gains me around 500 gold in profit. What is great about it is it only takes about 30 minutes a day but generates a TON of profit! What’s also great about this method is it leaves plenty of time for gold making using other methods as well. After using this simple method I logon to WoW and start making real gold using the method I describe in the pages to follow.

When making gold in WoW it is best to focus on rare mobs as they tend to drop the best loot compared to other mobs. I will get into the aspect of rare mobs and let you know the best ones to farm later in this guide. But for now, keep this in mind during your daily travels in the game. Additionally, I will also show you the best rare monsters to farm loot and gold from and where to locate them.

Also, it is best not to forget that professions are the cornerstone to making gold in World of Warcraft. I have covered this aspect for you guys later in the guide so that you can get a good idea of some of the most lucrative professions and practices that will have you making thousands of gold in World of Warcraft!
Another great location that I hit frequently to make gold is the Outlands. This location is perhaps one of the most lucrative in the entire game! Rest assured, I will show you some of the best and most profitable recipes and items to gather from there as well as the best instances and quests which will have you making more gold than you could ever imagine!
These are some of the methods I’ve been performing in the past months and I now have over 188k gold total and I have no idea what to do with all that gold!

I want to start first by offering some general tips and tricks which will allow you to make gold more efficiently, easily, and effectively. This section will outline some small steps you can take right from the start, to get your World of Warcraft character out on the right foot. While you don’t need to follow all of these steps it is recommended that you at least take them into consideration and in mind when you are playing the game.

- Get the Auctioneer addon! This program is great and will help maximize your returns at the auction house if you learn how to use it (visit the forums on their webpage).
- Learn how to use macros. Not only do they make the game easier for you but they allow you to be more efficient in your activities. This means that you can quest, farm, level, and grind faster!
- If you want to gain lots of money starting from the beginning, you should choose mining and skinning as your professions. If you want to make money later in the game fishing is your best bet as you won’t make much use out of it until you have around 150+ fishing skill. While fishing may be boring it pays!
- Do every possible quest you can. Questing is not only the best way to level, but it is also a good way to make money and gain items. Especially early in the game.
- Learn to use the auction house. The AH can make you some serious gold regardless of if you are dealing in potions, epic weapons, or reagents. Learning to use it can be tricky and take some time but it pays off well when a hot item comes into demand!
- Do not buy any items/equips for your character until you are over level 15. You don’t need them and quests will provide you with good enough items to survive off of early in the game. Don’t waste your time and money!
- Buy your backpacks as early as possible! And remember, the biggest is the best! The more items you can hold the more money you stand to make.
- Consider having multiple characters on the same server (an alternative character). Create a character that you don’t play much and station him/her in a capital city. This can be helpful if you have extra materials that can be processed and resold. Simply send them to your ALT to process and then send them back to your main character.
- Do not take Engineering or Blacksmithing as your professions.
- Pick up every single item you find. Sell grey items to vendors and sell white trade goods, greens, and blues in the auction house.
- Buy and find limited recipes. Most recipes can be bought from a specific vendor however some can only be bought once or maybe twice from a vendor in a certain time frame. These recipes with limited availability usually sell very well.
- If you hold shift button while looting, you save a few seconds. It all adds up!
- When you sell stuff in the auction house always put a buyout price on your items. This will help you sell them faster. Also, make sure to set the buyout price slightly lower than what others are selling it for.
- Fight mobs that are 1-4 levels below you. The faster you kill mobs, the more money you will gain and the more items you will get!
- Get a mount as soon as possible. This should be your main focus. The faster you can travel, the more money you can make.
- If possible, try to level your character by killing beasts and humanoids. If you are a skinner, you can skin the beasts you have slain. And humanoids will drop coins every time.
- Look out for neutral auction houses. With a little patience you can make good money selling recipes, pets, and items through them.
- Get WoW addons. There are programs out there that can interact with your World of Warcraft game and assist you in various tasks ranging from quests, coordinates, item locations, and much more! Visit Curse.com to browse some!
- True money making starts after level 10! So do not waste your time by farming things when you are below 10. You want to level up to 10 as soon as possible. However, you will also gain lots of money even at level 1 if you choose mining and skinning as a profession.

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Alright well I just wanted to make a guide on how to make a successful guild so that I can help people, because I use to be an experience guild leader, tell I had to leave for another guild. And btw if someone already made a thread like this, please send me the link and I will discard this thread =)

Ok so firstly it all depends on what kind of guild you want to make, a Serious PVP guild, a Raiding guild, a PVP guild, or just some random FUN guild. I would say this guide is more into the random FUN guild aspect from the types of guilds I just listed.

1) Guild Names

This is one of the most important things on how to make a good guild! Usually.. if your making some random fun guild the guild names are funny, but they don’t have to be, my opinion I would choose a funny guild name.

Heres a list of some guild names that I got off a website called Sherdog Link: Best of Wow Guild names. – Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums

Lazer Guided Taco

SHARKSWITHLAZERSPEWPEW

gnomestaycrunchyinmilk

snakes on a planestrider

Hangin wit my Gnomies

OMG KITTENS MEW MEW MEW

Sapped girls can’t say no

Gnomeland Security

Razorfen Downs Syndrome

I pissed in the moonwell

Tony Extravadanza

GIANT ENEMY CRAB

Raiders of the Lost Orc

Sectual Choclate

Dingo Stole me Nublet

IHAVECANDYGETINTHEVAN

Dude Wheres My Mount!

The horde who cried nerf

OMG ITS RUSSEL CROWE

Clan of Redundancy clan

Naga Please!

I Got a Horde On

Pizzabell

Tacohut

PWNTATOES

Vagitarians

The ORLY Factor

OH EM GEE RUN

Me So Hordey

NuKkAz wit ChRoMe WhEeLz

Ill Tempered Seabass

Gnomemercy

The riders of Alba

Thrallstars

Spaceballs the Guild

The Spears of Britney

You No take Candle

Operation Arathi Freedom

Hardcore Pwnography

Mavis Beacon Teaches PVP

Jesus Ate My Doritos

Ourserva Bin Laggin

IfyoucanreadthisIjustgankedyou

Naga Gave Me Harpies

BeepBop Im a Robot

Oprah Windfury

Leetsauce In Your Mouth

My Little Pwnies

Noob Kids on The Block

Two Dollar Hordes

Totally Not Horde Spies

Pretentious Latin Name

Order of Fries

Peon This

Roflicer of teh lawl

Your Moms an Epic Mount

Right Clique

Mushroom Vendor

Bob Ross Painting Squad

Losers in a basement

Horde dOeuvres

Member FDIC

Huge PVPness

Is A Chinese Gold Farmer

Kentucky Fried Gnome

I would recommend picking a guild name out of this list, if you dont really like them then try to come up with a funny guild name (reason being if you make a serious guild name like “Irontree” or “Cadia” (some guild names i took off my old server lightinghoof) people will think your a level 80 hardcore serious guild, so they won’t bother asking if they can join.

2) Ventrilo server

Now… I know some people have an issue with ventrilo servers because you have to pay to rent the servers, but MANY people are picky about if your guild as a VENT server! If you don’t feel like renting a vent server, try looking on google for free vent servers that people share, or an other option is just to use the In-Game voice chat (which is decent), just make a channel for your guild and place a password so no random people can join the channel and talk.

3) Activities

Ok!!! This is probally one of the most important things for a guild, other than the guild name :P is KEEPING YOUR GUILD ACTIVE!!!! IT is important that your guild is active, and you host contests or some activitiy where people would ACTUALLY partcipate in.. not some old boring activity.

Some things to do are:

Guild Lottery
Contests
A level one raid (example make a bunch of level ones and go raid that level 10 Elite in Elywnn forest called Hog or something.. forgot his name)
Guild Dungeon Runs
Go gank some Alliance/Horde in STV
Premade PVP GROUP

Whatever you can think of !!! DO IT because if your guild is boring and nobody talks on the guild channel, everybody is going to eventually leave …

Even guild meetings or gatherings are helpful! Also make sure to use the In-Game WoW Calandar (replaced the Sun or Moon on the minimap) to record these special days

[COLOR="rgb(0, 100, 0)"]4) Tips:

Always recruit members over level 20+ so that you dont get some trial accounts in your guild
Never keep the guild chat empty !!!
Do not keep on doing the same activities.. because eventually they will get boring
Offer people promotions once in a while to keep them interested (Tell them if you recruit members or donate to guild bank, or guild Tab I will promote you)
Also make sure that your guild has a guild bank, a NICE looking Tabard, Some type of teamspeak channel, guild bank, and GUILD TABS!!!

Thanks And good luck

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10 TIPS AND TRICKS THAT CAN MAKE YOUR WOW LIFE EASIER

Warning: if you are an advanced player some of them may be common sense for you, but please don’t flame and say “Common sense!” or “Epic fail!”. I just want to help beginners and intermediate players as many people do (this section is full of beginners guide).

1) Finding more players for a group quest can be REALLY hard sometimes. How many times you spent hours looking for a healer and/or a tank for a 5-man quest? Well, instead of spamming “LF tank and healer for ** quest name **” every 5 minutes, just say “Any tank or healer here that wants to earn 10 gold fast?”. You will immediately get tons of whispers like “How?”, “Sure!”, and so on. Just say that you need help for the quest and they will usually accept. After it’s done you can pay them if you want, 10 gold are nothing (if the quest is a Northrend one you will get your 10 gold back when you deliver it). But remember: sometimes they just leave group and forget about the gold! Don’t pay them unless they ask you.

2) I’m sure that you hate people that ignore you. I’m not talking about the /ignore system, but about, for example, Mages and Rogues that don’t answer to your Portal or Lockpicking request even if they are near you walking (so you know that they are not AFK). Well, if they don’t answer and you are sure that they are not AFK, just say “Oh, sorry, I thought you were a real player… should I report you for botting? “. 100% guaranteed reply. Make sure to add a “” or “” or “” at the end or they can take your sentence serious and simply put you on ignore.

3) Don’t spend hours looking for boosts spamming “WTB boost Maraudon 10 gold!”. High level players can make 500+ gold per hour, so no one will help you. In addition you will look like a noob begger and, you know, people tend to ignore this kind of players. Just try to find a group or simply ask your guild. A bored guild mate will usually say yes, especially if you tell him “You will get the achievement if you don’t have it, and if you want you can keep BOE blues.”.

4) Another group quest trick. So, you are alone near the mob you have to kill for a group quest and you see enemy players coming to kill him. The worst thing to do is pulling the mob to steal their kill. I suggest to let them pull him and HELP them. Then, when they are done, try to let them know that you need help. For example begin to jump near the mob or /point him. They will usually help you. Worked for me 5/5 times on a PvE server, but it can work also on a PvP one: not all enemies are going to kill you, especially if you help them.

5) If you happen to obtain a non-soulbond item related to an event (for example Jingling Bell – Item – World of Warcraft) that you don’t need, DON’T sell it during the event! Wait a few months and you will be able to sell it for 10 times more. The item provided in my example was usually sold for 20-30 gold on my server during the Winter Veil event, but I’m sure that you can sell it for 300+ gold on Summer.

6) ALWAYS read the patch notes for upcoming patches (you can find them on WoWWiki, WoWHead and even on the official site). If you know what’s going to happen, not only you can make a lot of money, but you can even know what classes/specs are going to be nerfed and stuffs like that. This can help you and influence your playing.

7) There is a small trick that nearly no one knows. How many dungeon difficulty there are? Normal and Heroic? Wrong. If you type “/script SetDungeonDifficulty(3);” the difficulty will be set to a third level called Epic. This is NOT implemented yet (you will get an error message if you try to enter an Instance), but it’s not completely useless. You can use it to amaze people in your party and, why not, make money. For example you can say “This is a secret difficulty, I will tell you how to set it for 10 gold.” or even make a YouTube scam video saying that you have discovered this difficulty with imba epics… use your imagination.

8) If you scam someone, don’t waste time deleting the character and remaking it with the same name several times. This will NOT fool Blizzard logs, because characters are saved by a unique ID (if you know how private server works, well, it’s something like the GUID) and not by name. I know that I have said this at least 10 times, but people still continue to say “Delete your character and remake it.” in several scam methods. Oh, and the same is for WTF and Cache folder… GMs are NOT able to see them, so don’t waste time deleting.

9) If you have low FPS and you don’t know which settings affect them, I have a few suggestions:

- Turn OFF Vertical Sync, Full-Screen Glow Effect and Windowed mode.
- Set Resolution exactly like your desktop.
- Set Refresh exactly like your monitor.
- Set Shadow Quality to 1 (it goes from 1 to 4).

You will have higher FPS (then higher performance) and still good quality. If you want you can also lower View Distance and Weather Intensity.

10) Remember that WoW is a GAME. This seems obvious, but many people tend to forget it… I have lost several real life friends because of WoW. Be nice, calm and don’t take it too seriously.

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