Specializing and You!

Why should you specialize?

Because you don’t have time to do everything! I could end the article here, but you might be disappointed.  Specializing in WoW is quite possibly the only chance a “casual” player has at accomplishing anything other than some Halloween candy and maybe holiday fruity cake. The point is there are two main ways to go here, three if you enjoy wreeking havoc on the in game economy.  However, I intend on briefly discussing PVP and PVE here and then will later write guides to help all the students, married to someone who doesn’t play wow, works five jobs, and has twenty-seven kids person(small exaggeration).

PvP

Player vs Player, Pwnzor vs Pwnzee, Nub vs n00b, call it what you will, but it is all we gamers have in the way of excising some sort of force and power over another person. In WoW PvP comes in the form of Battlegrounds, World PvP(ganking until WOTLK), and the amazing Arena.  The beautiful thing about BG’s and Arena is that each helps the other.  A player needs gear from both, experience from both, and bragging rights from both so play both.  The PvP forums will become your closest ally other than maybe your fellow teammate or energy drink.  After memorizing every forum post about your preferred class, a player must practice!

Practicing is where every PvPer casual or hardcore gets his edge and his ability to pwn nubs. However, it’s never enough to just play and play and play, a player must learn, observe, and understand why they lose a match and even why they win matches.  It’s true a person may lose since their gear is lame and Mr and Mrs Season 4 just slapped the *#%! out of them, but most of the time it’s because they had no idea what to do against the combo they faced and just assume it was a fluke or the other classes are OP.  ….STOP….BREATHE….Start recording your games, start doing Arena and BG’s when you would normally waste time playing on the AH.  Lastly unless some other portion of the game is requires your attention PRACTICE! You are a casual gamer and an hour to you is a month to the hardcore.

PvE

Player vs Environment, or Player vs WORLD, OK I don’t have fun titles for this, but just the same READ THE FORUMS! Yet again gear from PvE is made for PvE, so if a player wants to raid then raid.  No One logged into to BC one day and went to Black Temple with level 70 greens and lived. Blizzard has made phenomenal improvements on game progression.  Please do 5-Mans, Then Heroics, Then 10’s and then the 25 MAN RAID! Oddly enough they increase in difficulty as the gear gets better.

Final Note

In case you didn’t notice the same steps apply on each area, practice, do the events/games, and read the forums.  However, you may have not noticed the part where I discussed wasting your time and gold on Epics in the AH, reading about nerfs and who is OP, jumping around IF or UC spamming trade chat, or even trying to be amazing at everything.  THATS BECAUSE I DIDN”T MENTION IT SO DON’T DO IT!

Thank You

Bill Tripod(aka Kohrin 70 Warrior-Uther)

WoW Gold Making Strategy #3 - Changing Markets and WotLK Speculation

For those of you who have been up with all of wrath of the lich king changes then you may already be up on this, but if not you should be! The expansion is right around the corner, and with it is coming a complete overhaul of the World of Warcraft economy. Bringing with it massive changes, market shifts and new product niches.

The only question…will you change with it? or go the way of the dodo?

In my most recent installment of my newest feature here on ZugGaming I detail a bit about some of these changes and how you can prepare yourself for the expansion. Take a quick look at the video below and get yourself prepared for the biggest gold making bonanza in WoW history!

WotLK Inscription and Enchanting Update

Professional inscription makers and enchanters rejoice!

For quite some time now Blizzard has been telling us their working on a way for enchanters to sell their craft on the auction house. And it looks like that will finally happen in the expansion. While we don’t know a whole lot about what inscription actually will be like in the expansion here is what we do know on it’s relationship with enchanting.

• Inscriptionists will be able to save an enchant to a piece of blank parchment
• This parchment can then be sold on the auction house
• Another player purchases this and then applies it to their armor or weapons, just like the leather working and tailoring leg armors

It’s so simple I’m really surprised they haven’t implemented something like this until now. I love to see improvements like this to professions and the economy as a whole. There is so much the devs could do improve the in-game economy with just minor tweaks to professions and this is certainly a step in the right direction.

Primal Air and Fire Farming Guide

I’m not sure how cluttered this might be depending on server, but undeniably my favorite place to farm is Shadowmoon Valley. In Zul’jin’s server economy primal fire goes for easily 30-40g a piece and Primal air about 20-25.
Primal Air Farming
Check out the Netherwing Fields(on your map should be the place with crystals) and pretty much check every turn and crevice and you’ll be sure to find plenty of Enraged Air Spirits. Drop-rate wise it is usually good and I can’t complain and it’s doubtful you’ll go for more than 2 minutes without an elemental to kill.

Primal Fire Farming
Check out the fel pits, these are the pools of lava on your map. Around here you will find many wandering Enraged Fire Spirits, and drop rates here for me are decent so it doesn’t sway too far from the Primal Air.

If you spend even just 45-60 min solidly farming these two locations you easily already have 2-4 Primal air and 3-5 Primal fire. For me this is amazing as I don’t really save up my gold very much and burn through it with repairs, sockets, enchants and respecs. Hope this helps everyone and best of luck.

Strategy courtesy of S-Scythe