Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest Winner!

Congratulations to this year’s best haircut of Azeroth….Cream! Cream’s stylish night elf chick clearly WoW’d..pun intended, the Zug Gaming voters and after a close race Cream came away with 25% of the total votes! For his entry Cream is receiving a free 60-day World of Warcraft game card in addition to his own copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide.

Not only will he have a few extra IRL gold, but he’ll now have more in-game gold than he knows what to do with!

Additionally, congratulations to our 2 runners up. In 2nd place, we have Kostas aka Korasidis, with his pink haired Mohawk. And last, but certainly not least, we have Chir Sung with his unique looking undead stylings. For their accomplishments and excellent hair stylings both Kostas and Chir Sung will also be receiving a free copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide, including free updates for life!

Thanks everyone who participated in this year’s Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest. While the weekend down time was certainly an unexpected hitch in the road, I don’t think it derailed this year’s contest too much. Once again, congratulations to our winners and to all the players who submitted their haircut screenshots…you’re all winners in my book!

Note to winners: I’ll be sending out emails tomorrow afternoon regarding your prizes.

Cream - Victor and Esteemed Zug Gaming Champion

Kostas - 2nd Place

Chir Sung - 3rd Place

Final Voting Results

Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest Update!

Just a quick reminder to everyone that Zug Gaming’s Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest is still going on! Check out this post for more details and see how you can enter. Friday, 11/21/08, is the deadline for entry.

Prizes include a 60-day WoW subscription game card and free copies of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide for winners!

Enter now!

WotLK Launch Extravaganza - Mega Sale on Gold Mastery Guide & More!

As I write this we are just a few short hours from the official launch of the Wrath of the Lich King in north america. Soon we’ll all be on our way to Northrend and level 80…but until then, it’s time to celebrate!

In celebration of the Wrath of the Lich King’s launch I’m holding a special on my book, Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide. If you purchase now you’ll receive an instant $12.00 off the regular price! Your purchase will help support Zug Gaming as we move forward to the WotLK beyond. Just my way of saying thanks for helping Zug Gaming become such an amazing site and community.

What’s in Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide?

• The secrets to 300g+ an hour!
• An investment for the future, free updates for life! (including WotLK)
• Auction House Domination, including advanced tutorial and secret market niches
• Secret grinding locations
• Professions gold mastery
• Entry to the Zug Gaming Total Access Club
• Invitation to Total Access Club Events
• Free and unlimited one on one email support
• a 100% unconditional money back guarantee, if it doesn’t work for you I don’t want to keep you money

Heard enough?…Find out how you can get your copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide now!

This sale will last all the way through Sunday (11/16).

More Launch Night News

Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest!

In addition the the huge sale on my gold mastery guide I’d also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest is still open for entry! Now is your chance to show the world your best hair styles using the new WoW barber shop feature. Check out this post for full contest details and see how you can win a free 60 day game card and a copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide!

Site News for WotLK

Just a few final notes regarding upcoming guides and stratgies on Zug Gaming. First off, thanks for all the concerned emails regarding the talent spec guides. WoWhead made a few changes to their code and as a result left 100% of my linked talent builds broken. I’ll be creating new level 80 talent builds for all classes in the coming weeks, at which point these will be fixed.

While we’re on the topic of talent specs I’d like to go ahead and announce the rebirth of the Zug Gaming Talent Calculator. It’s fairly close, but my limited coding knowlege is slowing my progress. I’m currently looking for a programmer fluent in javascript to assist me in the final steps of completion of this project.

Additionally, I’ve got big plans for a host of new guides and strategies. I’ll be covering everything from arena to dungeons, professions to gold farming, if it’s in the WotLK you’ll find it here!

Relaunch of Zug Gaming Newsletter Club

I started the Zug Gaming Club several months ago, and while it got off to a solid start obligations with school and work kept me from really spending as much attention on it as I would have liked. With most of those obligations under relative control I’ve decided to start the Zug Gaming Club back up!

You can sign up for free using the form to the right in the side bar. After signing up you’ll receive a confirmation email, make sure you click this to start receiving members updates, announcments, tips, and more!

Join the Team!

I’m always looking for strong, personable writers to join the Team Zug Gaming writers staff. If you’re interested in the opportunity to help Zug Gaming continue to grow and have your guides read by hundreds of thousands of WoW gamers every month please don’t hesitate to send me an email at support(at)zuggaming(dot)com or click the contact link above.

Spread the Word

Want to help Zug Gaming grow even faster? …Spread the word!

• Tell your friends and guild mates
• Link to posts and the home page on forums, emails, in-game, etc.

Hotlinks:

1. Zug Gaming
2. Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide
3. Zug Gaming - World of Warcraft Forums

Special WotLK Launch Contest - Best Haircut of Azeroth!

In celebration of the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion I’d like to officially announce the first ever Zug Gaming contest!

Best Haircut of Azeroth

This contest will pit the best barbers and stylists against each other in a battle of sheer wills…in the battle for the best haircut of Azeroth! To enter you simply must create and showcase your best hair haircut utilizing the new WoW barbarshop.

Make them crazy…ugly…beautiful…stylish, what ever, we want to see your most unique and awesome haircuts!

How many characters can I enter?

You may enter a maximum of 2 characters.

How many haircuts can I enter per character?

You may enter a maximum of 2 haircuts per character.

How do I participate in this contest?

To participate simply take screenshots of your best haircut styles using the new WoW barbershop feature. Send your screenshots to support(at)zuggaming(dot)com. Images must be in image format: .jpg / .gif / .png etc… I will not accept .zip or .rar files. Please crop your image files down, DO NOT send me full resolution images.

Please include your real name and your avatar’s name in the email with the image files attached.

How will the winner be determined?

Winners will be chosen in a 2 part process.

Part 1 - Zug Gaming readers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite hair cut. These votes will be considered in the final determination of a winner.

Part 2 - The top haircuts as voted on by the Zug Gaming readers will advance to the final round of judging. The Zug Gaming admin panel will then choose the winners based on the following:

1. Number of votes received in the reader’s poll
2. Overall uniqueness…as determined by the Zug Gaming admin panel.

This contest is purely subjective, so make them ugly..crazy…pretty…tame…wild, but above all make them unique!

Prizes:

1st Place:

• One 2-Month World of Warcraft Game Card
• Free copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide
• Glory beyond imagination

Note: Due to shipping concerns winners outside of the US will receive $30.00 USD via paypal

2nd / 3rd Place:

• Free copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide
• Glory, slightly within your limits of imagination

Entry Date: November 7th - November 21th

Voting Dates: November 22th - November 28th

Winners Announced: November 29th

Update: I’ve decided to push the entry date back another week to allow for more entries.

Happy Patch 3.0.2 & Mega Special for Gold Domination!

Hey everyone and happy patch 3.0.2! In honor of the biggest patch to hit World of Warcraft since Naxx it’s time to celebrate!

For today and today only I’m offering a one day special on my gold mastery guide. If you purchase today you’ll receive my special discount price of $12.00 off! No coupon code, just an instant discount and a big thank you for your continued support of ZugGaming.com.

With Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide you get it all!

• The secrets to 300g+ an hour!
• An investment for the future, free updates for life! (including WotLK)
• Auction House Domination, including advanced tutorial and secret market niches
• Secret grinding locations
• Professions gold mastery
• Entry to the ZugGaming Total Access Club
• Free and unlimited one on one email support
• a 100% unconditional money back guarantee, if it doesn’t work for you I don’t want to keep you money

Don’t be left behind again at the expansion, start discovering how Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide can take your game…and more importantly gold to the next level!

…heard enough? Click here to get your discount!

Thanks again for supporting ZugGaming.com and have a wonderful patch 3.0.2!

Update: Due to the overwhelmning response yesterday I’ve decided to extend my one day mega sale for an additional 18 hours! So don’t worry if you didn’t see this post yesterday, you can still get the $12.00 until 12:00 a.m. CST 10/16/08!

Gold Making Tip #5 - Mining and Jewelcrafting

This weeks gold farming tip is really more of a preview of a major concept I’d like to setup with my next video. Which details how we can use mining and jewelcrafting together to make a lot of gold through the process of auction house speculation, prospecting, crafting and ore farming.

In my opinion mining is the one of the most profitable professions currently out there. Granted, it has to be used and I really think is where most players just miss the boat. There’s a common misconception that to farm crazy gold per hour you just go wave a magic wand and poof…gold. In the immortal words of President George W. Bush…

if there was a magic wand, I’d wave it…(lawl bushisms)

But back to the topic at hand. Mining is pretty crazy as far as gold farming is concerned, in my experience just an hour worth of ore farming per day could yield 300-400g. It’s an excellent source of income I’ve used for years now and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a pretty easy profession you can use to bring in constitent and repeated profits.

Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide 2.0 Coming Soon!

Hey guys, just wanted to take a brief moment to let everyone know that I am working on a major update for my gold guide. It’s been a while since my last update and it’s well over due. I’ll be completely revamping and adding new strategies to virtually every aspect of the guide.

• Full and detailed Auction House Domination Guide
• Updated Grinding Guide, new locations, new items
• Enhanced Professions Section with easier ways to make quick profits
• 2 New Secret Guides that I don’t want to reveal yet, but trust me…a few tips from each of them and you’ll really be living it up

I expect to have all of these new guides released within a week. So all new customers and customers who have previously purchased my book will be getting these updates.

This major update is in preparation for the WotLK expansion, which when it goes live I’ll be doing another major update to reflect all the new information that becomes available. Which in turn will be made sent out free to all members.