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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Gold Capped[/hide], in which Basil «[hide]Euripides[/hide]» Berntsen aims to show you how to make money on the auction house. [hide]Email Basil[/hide] with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

When was the last time you saw trade chat used to actually trade more than Chuck Norris jokes? Interestingly, it can actually be used for making gold! This might be a bit of a paradigm shift, so bear with me here.

Trade chat is simultaneously one of the most overused and underused tools in our toolbox. Non-auctioneers sometimes use it almost exclusively because the addon-free auction house is [hide]intimidatingly badly designed[/hide]. Gold-making pros sometimes get so wrapped up in their own business that we miss out potentially profitable chats.

So how can you use trade chat to profit?[hide]Continue reading Gold Capped: How to use trade chat to make gold[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Economy[/hide], [hide]Gold Capped[/hide][hide]Gold Capped: How to use trade chat to make gold[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:00:00 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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[hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide] spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction and more. Sample the whole spectrum on our [hide]Arts and Crafts in [/hide][hide]WoW[/hide] page.

Longtime readers may remember an article that came out two years ago, [hide]an interview[/hide] with [hide]Ashram[/hide] of Darksorrow (EU-H). Ashram was attempting to do something incredibly unique; he was rebuilding the entire soundtrack of World of Warcraft from scratch. Every sound effect, every song, every bit of voice work was meticulously redone in a video that detailed a journey through Stratholme — a Stratholme that sounded completely different from anything seen in game to date.

But Ashram isn’t done with his audio journeys or his success, and he recently released a part two of sorts to the original Stratholme experiment. Titled Lament of Vaia, his second work features more voice acting, a coherent story, and an ending that had me clamoring for part two. Ashram sat down with us to chat about audio work, Lament of Vaia, and just what the heck he’s been up to in the two years since we last spoke.[hide]Continue reading World of WarCrafts: Sounds like a whole new Warcraft[/hide]Filed under: [hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide][hide]World of WarCrafts: Sounds like a whole new Warcraft[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 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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The [hide]Blizzard pet store[/hide] was introduced nearly two years ago, giving players the opportunity to drop a handful of dollars on fun, interesting in-game pets. Yet the pet store has always been fairly controversial. Paying for in-game content, no matter how little effect that content might have on gameplay itself, simply runs counter to the beliefs of many long-time WoW players.

To me, however, the pet store seems like a exciting new opportunity for gift giving. After all, noncombat pets are only $10, and even [hide]mounts[/hide] are only $25. That’s a perfect price range for a «thinking of you» gift, making pets and mounts wonderful little nothings to give to a loved one.

If you’ve not given a gift from the Blizzard Store before, the process can seem a little intimidating. Here’s a simple guide on how to buy someone a gift from the pet store.[hide]Continue reading WoW Rookie: How to buy someone a gift from the pet store[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide][hide]WoW Rookie: How to buy someone a gift from the pet store[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:00:00 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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Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Scattered Shots[/hide] for [hide]beast mastery[/hide], [hide]marksmanship[/hide] and [hide]survival[/hide] hunters. Frostheim of [hide]Warcraft Hunters Union[/hide] uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to [hide]Frostheim[/hide].

The problem with skill is that there’s no number on our character pane or armory to measure it. Everyone will swiftly agree that skill is the most important thing — more important than this talent or that reforge — but without having a number right there to look at, everyone ends up ignoring it and instead focuses in on this talent or that reforge.

«Your DPS is low? Well you should really reforge your boots to haste,» or «Why aren’t you gemming for agility u noob!»

Let me assure you something: If you’re underperforming by thousands of DPS and can’t make it to the top of the meters, 95% of the time it’s a skill issue. Even if your talents/gems/glyphs/reforging aren’t very optimized, odds are you aren’t really seeing that difference. But if you have even a moderate slip on skill issues, it’s immediately apparent.

So let’s today step back a moment and consider hunter skill once again. We’re all used to obsessing over every tiny part of character optimization, so we’re going to put skill into terms that correlate to that: DPS.[hide]Continue reading Scattered Shots: The DPS value of skill[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Hunter[/hide], [hide](Hunter) Scattered Shots[/hide][hide]Scattered Shots: The DPS value of skill[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:00:00 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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Blizzard’s Bashiok has posted a time frame for the [hide]previously announced[/hide] 4,000-honor point compensation package for players who spent honor on old gear during the week between the PVP Season 9 and Season 10. Any player who spent honor on ilevel 365 gear during the transition week will be awarded a free 4,000 honor points, which can go over the point cap and can be spent on the new, higher tier of Vicious PVP gear. This free honor will be awarded to players during maintenance on July 19 (this coming Tuesday).

I think this is a pretty good compensation package for players who were not informed of the change in how PVP gear would be handled this season. The biggest issue from the debacle was that players spent a huge amount of time and effort grinding out honor for ilevel 365 gear during the off-week, then spent it, only to see the gear became useless just days later. Now that work has essentially been restored in the form of new, shiny, over-the-cap honor points. You will not be able to earn more honor points until you dip below the cap again, however.[hide]Continue reading Honor compensation date announced for recent PVP gear debacle[/hide]Filed under: [hide]PvP[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Honor compensation date announced for recent PVP gear debacle[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 Jul 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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Опубликован [hide]список срочных исправлений[/hide] патча 4.2 к MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm от 12 июля 2011 года, сообщает компания Blizzard Entertainment. Этот вид обновлений устанавливается на стороне разработчиков и не требует скачивания дополнительных даанных. Некоторые из исправлений появятся в игре сразу, другие – после перезагрузки игрового мира. Перевод будет опубликован позднее.

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Classes

Pet Defensive stance will no longer cause the pet to assist the player while a vanity pet is active.
Druids

Rake should again be able to trigger Primal Fury.

Dungeons & Raids

Firelands

Characters who make for a good Dinner Time should no longer be ported to Ancient Core Hounds they are not in combat with when the ability’s effects end.
Fire Scorpion and Flamewaker corpses no longer provide loot or reputation when they’re eaten by Hell Hounds and Fire Turtles.
Unstable Magmas are now gaining energy properly from the Flamewaker Animators.

Alysrazor

Voracious Hatchlings will now Imprint on a new target if their current target dies.

Majordomo Fandral Staghelm

Flame Scythe now properly hits pets.
Fandral can now cast Searing Seeds and Burning Orbs while moving.

Ragnaros

Several locations which could be used to avoid damage from Engulfing Flames have been adjusted so they’re no longer safe spots.
Combustible will always be reapplied to Living Meteors, even if the attacking character dies as a Meteor Impact occurs.
Living Meteors will now become frozen by Cenarius under all conditions when transitioning into phase 4 on Heroic difficulty.
If a Living Meteor is frozen in the lava pool during the transition into phase 4 on Heroic difficulty, it will teleport on a player after the stun ends, but will no longer explode immediately. Players now have a 2-second window to escape the meteor’s melee range.
Living Meteors will gain the Living Meteor Transform buff once frozen in the Breadth of Frost trap, even if a meteor is knocked into it.
If a Living Meteor’s fixated target drops aggro via Feign Death, the meteor will target the pet, and then select a new non-pet target upon which to fixate.
Ragnaros now enrages after 18 minutes in all raid difficulties and sizes, up from 15 minutes.

Quests & Creatures

Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front

Wounded Hyjal Defenders should no longer sometimes spawn in with full health and in a standing position when players are on the quest Burn Victims.
Molten Lords no longer become tapped by the first player who attacks them with any of the Trained Fire Hawk’s abilities while on the quest Fire in the Skies, allowing for any player who dealt damage to the Molten Lord to gain quest credit upon its death.
Windcallers now respawn within 1 minute on average for the quest Into the Fire when both are rendered inactive. Additionally, players will only experience a maximum of approximately 75 seconds of a delay before they are able to initiate the escort event.

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This [hide]Breakfast Topic[/hide] has been brought to you by [hide]Seed[/hide], the AOL guest writer program that brings [hide]your words[/hide] to WoW Insider’s pages.

[hide]That’s a Lot of Bait[/hide]. It had been teasing us for weeks. I had the achievement tracker enabled for it, slowly watching the number creep upwards. The guild had spent one memorable evening (about three hours!) in Borean Tundra, half the group assigned to kill creatures and drop into the lake, thus creating blood pools, and the other half fishing out of them, racking up the numbers. We joked and chatted on Vent and in general had a wonderful time working together.

After that, people worked on their own to raise the numbers. Finally, sitting at about 9,500, the guild leader called together another raid group to get our butts back out to Borean and get the rest of the fish. With about 15 of us working together, we blasted out the remaining 500 fish in about 20 minutes.

We all know that fishing is notorious for being a mindnumbing profession (although archaeology may have knocked it into second place), but I loved the nights spent fishing with my guild — great people who are funny and kind, working together to knock out that achievement and earn the recipe. It really felt like a team effort, and I was proud to have been a part of it.

Is there an achievement that really brought your guild together as a team?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What’s your favorite guild achievement[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 13 Jul 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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About the Bloggers introduces you to the people behind WoW Insider. Meet other staffers, both past-day and present, in [hide]earlier About the Bloggers entries[/hide].

What do you do for WoW Insider?

Oh, dear. As far as writing goes, I currently write [hide]WoW Archivist[/hide], [hide]Two Bosses Enter[/hide], and [hide]The Queue[/hide] (Mondays and Wednesdays), and I handle [hide]MMO Roundup[/hide] to bring you stories from the larger MMO universe that you may be interested in from our sister site [hide]Massively[/hide]. In the past, I’ve contributed to Hybrid Theory (long deceased, good riddance), [hide]Know Your Lore[/hide], [hide]Ask a Lore Nerd[/hide] (since folded back into Know Your Lore and The Queue), and [hide]Spiritual Guidance[/hide]. I’ve also played temporary fill-in for [hide]The Light and How to Swing It[/hide] (retribution), [hide]Lichborne[/hide], and … you know what, I’ll stop now, because that list is way too long.

Behind the scenes, my role is largely the same as the other senior editors — we make sure WoW Insider keeps chugging on as it should. We make sure assignments are being turned in, we make sure stories are being written up and posted in a timely fashion, we handle our social media outlets, and a whole load of other backend administrative stuff that, if we’re doing our jobs well, you guys will never even need to think about. I like to think that one of my best talents is my ability to find the talent in other people and pull it to the surface, by force if necessary. Being a senior editor, I get to utilize that every day.

Essentially, we’re the guys who let [hide]Fox Van Allen[/hide] be the beautiful shining star that he is. You really don’t want the fine details on all of that.[hide]Continue reading About the Bloggers: Alex Ziebart[/hide]Filed under: [hide]About the Bloggers[/hide][hide]About the Bloggers: Alex Ziebart[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:00:00 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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Did you think that [hide]garish pink songbird[/hide] hanging around Tempest Keep was the best phoenix that Warcraft could create? This giant firebird laughs at your presumption. Then it incinerates your Google Map printout of the directions to its lair. (Thanks to [hide]Nubeushagrid[/hide] of [hide]TokEez[/hide] on Scilla [US-A] for the screenshot.)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Phoenix down[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:00:00 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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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]Alex Ziebart[/hide] will be your host today.

Today is a very special treat. We have your standard-length Queue, plus I answer a very exciting bonus trivia question that has nothing at all to do with World of Warcraft! But you will love it, my gamer pals. You will.

Camero asked:

In the past week, I’ve recieved four emails from «Blizzard» all asking me to do something in order to get a Winged Guardian License. I just wanted to confirm that’s not true.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: The one with goombas[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: The one with goombas[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]