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Insider Trader: Enchanting, the final stretch
Enchanting, as a profession, can be an extremely expensive thing to level, although some people manage profits even while working on their skills. It all depends on which recipes you can get and how you got them, how often you're in the right place at the right time, and your connections in the community.
This week, Insider Trader will be walking you through the cheapest method of reaching 375 enchanting from a skill of 300, as well as providing tips for making some money while you're at it.
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This is absolute bias on my part, and one of the few times I'll cop to preferring Horde over Alliance or favoring them. 99% of the time, I love both equally and play both equally, but I have to state this honestly and let the chips fall where they may: the Horde PvP gear at level 60 (with one exception) looked much better than the Alliance gear, and it deserves a return in some fashion or another.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
Community Manager Bornakk has announced that the developers from Blizzard will have to perform emergency maintenance on multiple realms in World of Warcraft in an effort to fix a hardware issue.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
Is WoW really player friendly? Tobold doesn't seem to think so. Says he, there's a lot of things that it doesn't tell you or you can miss the first time around, such as spending talent points, and that at the end game, he constantly has to check outside sites to figure out what he needs to grind to get certain drops and recipes. WoW does things better than most other MMORPGs, he says, but it is far from perfect.
But, me, I'm not sure he has it quite right.
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What happens when you get three of the head honchos responsible for Blizzard's World of Warcraft to sit down and have a discussion about Wrath of the Lich King? You're going to get a lot of information about where the game will be going.Eurogamer recently had an interview with World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack, and lead designers Tom Chilton and Jeff Kaplan, where they spoke about a possible graphic update for the game as well as allowing both 10- and 25-player teams in all raid instances.
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Heads up, World of Warcraft fans! Now that M'uru has been made easier to take down, courtesy of some tweaking from Blizzard, more people have been able to capitalize on this by taking down the baddie and earning more loot. Some new loot have been recently uncovered by intrepid adventurers, and we're taking the time to discuss those two new treasures here.
First off, we have the Aegis of Angelic Fortune. It's a paladin-type shield that confers 6459 armor, 178 Block, 33 Stamina, 21 Intellect, and increases the effect of healing magic by 73, and damage of other spells and effects by 25. Furthermore, the Aegis of Angelic Fortune also confers a mana regeneration bonus of 13 mana per five seconds.
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BlizzCon was announced on Monday, and ever since, there's been a question bouncing around the back of my mind: just what is it for? Blizzard doesn't just host an event because they love us or because they feel like it -- they host events to release news. WWI last year was where Starcraft II was announced, and Wrath of the Lich King got announced at the previous BlizzCon.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
The Care and Feeding of Warriors waxes philosophical this week. Matthew Rossi has been switching between a tank and a DPS warrior all week and it's gotten him all misty eyed.I think it's fair to say now that the shockwaves from the oncoming expansion are being felt. Guilds are disbanding, new ones are being formed, you see people reporting that they've burned out on the existing content while others try and get groups together so they can see it before it is essentially 'gone'. Some guilds are rerolling on the opposite faction, or taking a more casual approach.
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It's been three months since a new episode for BlizzCast, the official podcast for Blizzard's World of Warcraft, has come out. Since a lot of people enjoyed the first two episodes of the podcast, we can't help but wonder when the next one will be coming out - especially since we were promised more podcasts in the future.
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The fine folks at Eurogamer noted that, during their interview with the recently ubiquitous Kaplan and Brack, some tantalizing hints were dropped about an update to the WoW graphics engine. It's not coming in Wrath, for better or for worse.
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For tomorrow's WoW Insider Show (which you can hear live at 3:30pm EST on WoW Radio), the lunatics have taken over the asylum!
Mike Scramm is on vacation, and he has left the show in the hands of John Patricelli (the Big Bear Butt) this one time. Since one chance is likely all I'm getting for this, we're pulling out all the stops by having the Turpster, Matt Rossi, AND Dan Whitcomb on hand to talk about all things hot in the news of WoW Insider from the last week.
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[1.Local] serves up a smattering of reader comments from the past week, from the sublime to the ridiculous.The excitement of the all the new Wrath of the Lich King buzz this week must have gone to some readers' heads, making them testier than usual. This week saw several squabbles in post comments, from mild differences of opinion to outright controversial debate. News about the shape of raid instances to come brought out plenty of opinions both for and against the new raid sizes. Should Arthas be 10-mannable? With even well known raiding guilds such as Death and Taxes burning out and moving on, are raiding applications still necessary in this day and age?
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Bakasavant Productions has been working on this series for ages now, but I feel like it never gets any closer to a resolution. They've improved their editing skills immensely and have better voice actors these days, but those that are new to the series are forced to watch from the beginning to even understand what's going on. What is the ultimate goal at this point?
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Well Fed Buff serves up tasty dishes to boost your HP, stats and appetite – with that special WoW twist, of course.
Those Trolls from Yojamba Isle were on to something. Before The Burning crusade, one of the cool foods that players could get were Essence Mangoes, a quest reward that could be obtained by handing in a Zandalar Honor Token. These weren't actually any better than Alterac Manna Biscuits, and back when Zul'gurub was still in vogue, the tokens weren't quite worth turning in for an average food that didn't give any buffs. But the quest describes mangoes as luscious fruits from the South Seas, and it couldn't be more true.
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That's progress! Truxilo of Spinebreaker was revisiting his roots (and leveling herbalism) in Mulgore when he stumbled upon an ancient cave drawing -- a crude horse and some hoofprints. He was so moved, he had to kneel in deference to his ancestors. It's hard to believe that a species that was little more than wall-painting, nomadic outcasts a few short years ago built that marvelous triumph of engineering in the background. Come on, there's no way Thunder Bluff exists without some major structural support. How many cows do you think run across those flimsy little bridges every day?
Do you have any unusual World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see it on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!
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If you listen to me (or anyone else around here, it seems), the major consensus seems to be to head to Outlands right at 58, period. The leveling is faster, the quests are more interesting, and the money is plentiful, as are the drops. But cyanrose over on WoW LJ makes an amazing case for exactly the opposite: staying in old Azeroth from levels 58-60.[View Remaining 2 Paragraphs]
Another day, another loot. SK-Gaming dropped the Aegis of Angelic Fortune on their latest kill.
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At this point, the thread that inspired today's breakfast topic is, itself, pretty old-school, but anyway, here's the question: What is the most obscure old-school thing you remember? The OP's contribution is when he looted a BoP axe in his first instance, thinking he could give it to a friend, but he is quickly trumped by the second poster: dwarf mages.[View Remaining 1 Paragraphs]
Something strange is afoot in the wee ours of the morning here, as Nihilum is reporting that the Death and Taxes guild on the Korgath US PvP server has disbanded. This guild has long been considered perhaps the premiere raiding guild of the US Servers. As of this writing, there is no further word on why they have disbanded, only that they have and that some of them will reroll Horde.
The front page of the official Death and Taxes site does not have any sort of news post on the issue, but does have a banner that reads "Rest In Peace Death and Taxes, Beta 2004-May 2008," and has a list of their world and US first kills. The forum's name has been changed to "Death and Taxes - Keep in Touch," though there does not appear to be a forum post accessible by a basic account that gives any insight or information as to the disbanding. Hopefully more information is revealed soon.
Death and Taxes has been hot on the raiding scene for some time, gaining US and world firsts starting in AQ40 and Naxxramas, and continuing into the Burning Crusade, including their most recent US first kill of Illidan Stormrage and a few key PTR kills in the Sunwell Plateau as well.
For now, we'll watch and see if more information comes forth. Perhaps they may be like Risen, believing the end-game progression is worthless but possibly reappearing in WoTLK. Either way, their achievements were many, and they will be missed.
Thanks to Liam for tipping us off on this.
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The Guild ends its first season as all good raids usually end: with a big boss fight. Zaboo's mom appeared in the last seconds of the previous episode, and in this one, the Guild pulls and... well, you'll just have to watch and find out whether it's a wipe or whether the loot drops. I have to say, it is pretty classic -- I officially renounce my complaint before that they've never shown ingame action. Out-of-game action like this is much more fun to watch.
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