Gold Capped: How the heck do you price a Chaos Orb?

Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Gold Capped[/hide], in which [hide]Fox Van Allen[/hide] and Basil «[hide]Euripides[/hide]» Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the auction house. Feed Fox’s ego by [hide]emailing him[/hide] or tweeting him at [hide]@foxvanallen[/hide].

We’re eight months deep into the current expansion, and still, [hide]Chaos Orbs[/hide] remain bind on pickup items available only by running dailies. You can’t buy them with valor points. You can’t buy them on the auction house. You can’t hand them from one player to another.

That creates a challenge for someone who’s using a trade skill to make an epic piece of gear for someone else. There’s no quick and simple way to find the value of a Chaos Orb, but for sure, they do have a definite value. And to get the most money out of your profession, you need to know exactly what that value is.[hide]Continue reading Gold Capped: How the heck do you price a Chaos Orb[/hide]?Filed under: [hide]Economy[/hide], [hide]Gold Capped[/hide][hide]Gold Capped: How the heck do you price a Chaos Orb[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Spiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priest


Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Spiritual Guidance[/hide] for [hide]discipline[/hide], [hide]holy[/hide] and [hide]shadow[/hide] priests. [hide]Dawn Moore[/hide] isn’t here this week, and [hide]Fox Van Allen[/hide] is just being his usual shadowy stuff. Instead, you’re stuck with [hide]Matt «Matticus» Low[/hide] of [hide]World of Matticus[/hide] and [hide]Plus Heal[/hide]!

Playing a discipline priest is all the rage these days, it seems, especially now that many raiders are busy messing around in Firelands. There is a small selection of discipline priests who exercise the Atonement and Evangelism style of healing to great effect. In the past, I wasn’t really a fan of it at all because I felt that there were better options. The buffs Blizzard made to [hide]Atonement[/hide] [hide]back in patch 4.1 involving Holy Fire[/hide] made it increasingly more attractive. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance.

So the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to master this style of play. It isn’t easy, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend it for a priest who is new to the game or new to raiding. This week, I’ll share with you a few tricks about what I learned and picked up.[hide]Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priest[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Priest[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide](Priest) Spiritual Guidance[/hide][hide]Spiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priest[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Today in WoW: Monday, Aug. 1, 2011


Welcome to a new daily column here on WoW Insider — well, sorta new. We previously had [hide]The Daily Blues[/hide], back when the blues actually posted newsworthy stuff all the time (the [hide]Ghostcrawler[/hide] era). But when that content dried up, so did the column.

What we’re going to do with [hide]Today in WoW[/hide] is bring you what’s going on in the WoW universe via a roundup of relevant posts on WoW Insider, posts on other major sites, and posts by Blizzard’s blues. We’ll also be covering some of our other favorite games via our sister sites, [hide]Joystiq[/hide] and [hide]Massively[/hide].

Today in WoW will be evolving, too, so don’t be surprised if you see some different things in the next few weeks. We’ll eventually settle into a format that works for us and you. One thing to note is that we’re not discontinuing [hide]The Daily Quest[/hide] or our [hide]Weekly Podcast Roundup[/hide]. Those columns focus more on the community, and we love to showcase those aspects of the WoW universe. This column will trend toward news and current events.

[hide]Blue posts and WoW news from other sites[/hide]

[hide]News and features from WoW Insider[/hide]

[hide]Miscellaneous links from around the web[/hide]
[hide]Continue reading Today in WoW: Monday, Aug. 1, 2011[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Today in WoW[/hide][hide]Today in WoW: Monday, Aug. 1, 2011[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Обновление галереи карточной игры WoW TCG: rogues do it from behind

Обновлена [hide]галерея карточной игры[/hide] World of Warcraft Traging Card Game (WoW TCG), [hide]сообщает[/hide] официальный сайт этого проекта от компании Blizzard Entertainment. Сегодняшний выпуск, в основном, посвящен игровому классу «разбойник». Среди размещенных изображений, взятых с игральных карт, есть и такие примечательные как «Expose Armor», «Coup de Grace», «Sever the Cord», «Fa’tafi» и «Mezzik Darkspark».

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Tuesday Morning Post: Stay awhile and farm Edition


Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. So. I’m thinking I quit the day job, write freelance articles by night, and spend all day [hide]farming the loot mines of Tristram[/hide], pulling out bountiful harvests of Tarnhelms and Stones of Jordan to sell in the great markets. Ok, seriously, I wouldn’t personally quit my day job to farm uniques, but it’s still sort of an awesome feeling to know the option is out there. Also, given Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson’s insistence that PvE will never be balanced on the back of PvP and PvP can just deal with it if a PvE ability imbalances PvP, I am officially in love with the man and wish he would come work on WoW too.

Anyway, that’s enough Diablo fanboying for one article, let’s get on with the rest of the news. With [hide]rolling restarts[/hide] coming at 5 a.m. PDT, you should have at least a little time to get caught up.[hide]Continue reading Tuesday Morning Post: Stay awhile and farm Edition[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Realm Status[/hide], [hide]News items[/hide][hide]Tuesday Morning Post: Stay awhile and farm Edition[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Sunday Morning Funnies: Waiding


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Sunday Morning Funnies[/hide] is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

[hide] Safe Passage[/hide] is, as you may have heard, coming to a close soon. Be sure not to miss out! In other news, Coffin Comics and What’s Shakin’ are up and running again, after a lot of technological kerfuffle.

Azarizotza has been under the weather and has made [hide]an announcement[/hide]; we all wish you well!

Congratulations to [hide]rodmin[/hide], who most correctly answered last week’s trivia questions. You win an imaginary pair of ’60s bell bottoms and disco ball fuzzy slippers!

This week’s trivia question is a bit different than usual! Name as many webcomics as you can that often appear on this list but are on hiatus, and let everyone know why. Bonus marks for anyone who suggests a new comic![hide]Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Waiding[/hide][hide]Sunday Morning Funnies: Waiding[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide] | Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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The Queue: Food so good, you can eat it

Welcome back to [hide]The Queue[/hide], the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. [hide]Anne Stickney[/hide] is still holding this column hostage.

This episode of The Queue has been sponsored in part by Anubis Markets, a division of Osiris Foods. So shop at the sign of the jackal-headed man for food so good, you can eat it.

And now, on with The Queue:

Jack Spicer asked:

After doing Throne of Tides for the umpteenth time, I finally noticed that at the end of the fight Ozumat appears to eat Neptulon before fleeing. I guess I was too busy worrying about loot to notice. (Sorry guy!) Am I imagining things, or is that actually what happens? And if so, what the heck? Please explain.

Well, Jack, there’s actually a really simple and logical explana — hey look, over there, it’s a three-headed monkey![hide]Continue reading The Queue: Food so good, you can eat it[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Food so good, you can eat it[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying groups, government and organizations

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, [hide]Anne Stickney[/hide] brings you [hide]All the World’s a Stage[/hide] with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the art of roleplay in WoW.

We’re going to take a break (just a little one, I promise!) from the plot point series this week, because I’ve had something else on my mind that I wanted to chat about. Roleplaying isn’t really a solo activity. You can roleplay by yourself, but that’s hardly any fun at all, unless you’re writing fan fiction or something along those lines. It’s a social activity — and generally speaking, the more people you have involved, the more fun it has the potential of creating.

Roleplay guilds are one way to guarantee you’ve got a group of like-minded roleplayers, whether your guild is a themed guild centered on a particular plot or simply a handy collection of players who would like to RP. But sometimes you don’t want to join a guild for one reason or another, yet you’d still like the camaraderie that roleplay has to offer. What do you do at that point? How can you be social without the hassle of being in a guild? The answer is organized activity — the sort that doesn’t require a guild tag to participate.[hide]Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying groups, government and organizations[/hide]Filed under: [hide]All the World’s a Stage (Roleplaying)[/hide][hide]All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying groups, government and organizations[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Know Your Lore: The Wyrmrest Accord and the order of the world


The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, [hide]Matthew Rossi [/hide]and [hide]Anne Stickney[/hide] make sure you [hide]Know Your Lore[/hide] by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

The dragonflights may have been created at the same time, but for the thousands of years they’ve existed on Azeroth, they’ve hardly been friendly with one another. It started with the Black Dragonflight and Neltharion’s betrayal during the [hide]War of the Ancients[/hide]. In the moment that Neltharion took the name Deathwing, in the moments thereafter during which he destroyed nearly all of the Blue Dragonflight with the Demon Soul — in those moments, the dragonflights were introduced to a new concept: deception. It was unthinkable that any dragon would deliberately seek to harm another, and yet it happened.

The fallout was immediate. Malygos, driven mad by the betrayal of one of his closest friends and the loss of his flight, fled to Northrend. In his madness, he split the Nexus from the rest of the land, separating Coldarra from the rest of the Borean Tundra. And then he stayed there, alone in his despair and insanity, refusing all visitors in his grief. The Blue Dragonflight crumpled, held up only by those who stood and tried their best to hold together the shattered remnants of the flight.[hide]Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Wyrmrest Accord and the order of the world[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Lore[/hide], [hide]Know your Lore[/hide][hide]Know Your Lore: The Wyrmrest Accord and the order of the world[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Breakfast Topic: What do you collect in game?

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There are a lot of [hide]people who collect things[/hide] in game. Pets and mounts are often favorites, although there are often other items that people covet. People still charge into Black Temple hoping that they’ll get the elusive [hide]Warglaive[/hide] that will complete their set. Some have been farming Molten Core since release looking for a [hide]binding[/hide] to drop. Recipes are also sought-after. [hide]Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaerok Chops[/hide] remains the only epic cooking recipe in the game, and now limited edition copies have been seen selling on the AH for upwards of 20k; something tells me it’s not for the 25 stamina well fed buff.

I collect shields. My main is a protection paladin, and I have a bag in my bank devoted to the shields that got me through my raiding career in style and safety. While my collection is not as extensive as Blockade’s, who got a shield named after him during this tier, I do have 15 shields ranging from the [hide]Aegis of the Scarlet Commander[/hide], to [hide]Akmin-Kurai, Dominion’s Shield[/hide]. I only add a shield to my collection if I actually used it for an extended duration, so each shield has memories of dragons and liches held at bay in instances, from taking the [hide]Royal Crest of Lordaeron[/hide] into Naxxramas, facing down Algalon with [hide]The Boreal Guard[/hide], striking down the Lich King with [hide]Neverending Winter[/hide], to stepping to Cataclysm raiding with the [hide]Elementium Earthguard[/hide]. When a shield has done well for me, I don’t cast it aside to some vendor when a superior shield is coughed up by a boss; I set it in a place of honor. I collect shields — and more so than that, I collect memories.

What do you collect? Or do you hold only onto those things you need at this moment?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What do you collect in game[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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