There's another Olypmics happening apart from the one in Beijing, and this one's much closer to home. WoW Insider is reporting that WoWwiki is holding their very own WoWlympics (wow, that's a lot of wows right there), a scavenger hunt-type contest.

Blizzard will be in cooperation for the event, and so you can win five Wrath of the Lich King US Beta keys, 20 WorldWide Invitational cards containing codes for EU Beta keys and the Tyrael vanity pet. Both beta keys can be converted for use between regions as necessary.

The WoWlympicks kicked off with Clopper Wizbang asking players to search the site for five missing items. Each are located on a WoWwiki page and clues are provided along the way. Now, each of these missing items you have to locate is worth one entry to the WoWlympics sweepstakes, with a bonus three entries if you find all five. This adds up to a total of eight entries eligible for the grand draw.

The event runs until August 25. To join, just follow the source link provided below. That should lead you to the official WoWlypmics page. Good luck!

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• Blizzard confirms showcase on Leipzig Games Convention 2008
• Blizzard to show off Lich King opening cinematic at Leipzig Games Convention
• Blizzard selling 3,000 additional BlizzCon tickets
  

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Serious hunters in World of Warcraft have probably heard of Cheeky, Lactose, and the amazing Hunter spreadsheet developed to help hunters in itemization and analysis of their existing DPS. Suffice it to say that around a week ago, Cheeky and Lactose retired from World of Warcraft, leaving their Hunter spreadsheet open for people to pick up, use, and possibly continue.

Well, it seems that one intrepid hunter has taken up the cause of informative spreadsheets! The Hunting Lodge reports that Wertez has decided to pursue further development of the spreadsheet for the hunter-playing public.

It also appears as if a new version is also up for people to download, though the title of the file still remains version 1. That said, we invite folks to check out the latest version of the Hunter Spreadsheet and compare it to the one they have to see if anything has changed.

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1) Travel to Terokkar Forest
2) Go to 22.10 and look for a subzone. (The Barrier Hills)
3) Use your flying mount to get there.
4) You will easily find 3-4 mana thistles w/ a fast respawn.

Soloing BRD (sorry if someone else has posted this, I have not seen it) Also, this is my first post, so it may be hard to read, just post questions and I will try and keep an eye on this to answer them.

The best run I have had I got the Fiery Enchant (35g), and the Ace of Elementals (300g+) for about 10 minutes time in the instance. Those prices are on my server.

My main is a rogue so this is written from a rogue point of view, but maybe you could do it with a druid?

Follow the steps to solo Plugger for the Barman Shanker. I am new to this site, but I sure it is posted somewhere here. If not, try www.worldofroguecraft.com it is a decent but limited site (I plan on a couple contributions to them, but posting here first for you guys)

The only variation on a Plugger (barman shanker) run is right after the Shadowforge lock. Go up the ramp and then go straight up the second ramp and cross the Ring of Law. You can pickpocket these guys for about 3-4s each if you feel like it. Free money. After crossing, go immediately to your right and see if Pyromancer Loregrain is there.

If he is, kill him. You need to kill him first, if you kill his adds and vanish, they spawn right back. I sap one, then ambush Pyromancer. I eviscerate immediately so that I don’t waste combo points. Then I blind the second add. It will depend on your set up, but I can blade flurry to do them both if I need to. I generally have to use evasion for this fight. I use Instant poison and Mind Numbing. I vanish after the boss and then the two adds are simple by themselves with a sap. I often need a single heal potion for this one.

He has been spawning pretty frequently for me (1 in 3?), and he drops the Fiery Enchant about 30% of the time. Thottbot probably says different, but those are my estimates based on my running it.

Go back through the Ring of Law and continue with the Plugger run. May as well kill him since he is easy, and then the door will open for you to get to Lord Incendius. I recommend killing the little gnomes in the room with the golems too (can't recall name of the room, manufactory?). The gnomes have been known to drop Black Diamonds.

After killing plugger, go out the door and drop down to Incendius’ level. Avoid the elementals with him.

Poisons don’t work so I use Dense Sharpening stones. I have to drink a greater fire resist potion and put on all of my fire resist gear (I am at 127fr). I am far from “epic’d out”. He kicks you, and the lava is death so line up well and go for it. I open with distract and ambush. I have to use my prep for this fight, and both evasions. I have not had to use thistle tea (I trashed the recipe, just got it back) but I am going to start using it. I also end up using my lifestone, whipper root tubers, and a heal potion. I recently added crystal restores, and night dragon’s breath so I am hoping it gets easier.

No lie…it is a tough fight. With the new items I added I think it will go easier but it can be done. The Ace is a pretty rare drop, but a damn nice prize:)

It is fun as hell and gives a nice feeling of accomplishment…and “it’s a rogue thing” which rocks.

Variations…

A short cut to Incendius does not require you to open the shadowforge lock. You jump out the window right before it, drop to the walkway, and can go straight to him.

You can also solo the rock lord in the first area. Time the dogs as they are death to stealthers. He hasn’t dropped much worthwhile for me though:(

The bad news…

Getting out alive is a PAIN, so I usually hearth from there. The damn dogs are just a nightmare on the way out.

In an attempt to share my experiences and maybe help some others level a bit faster I will share what I done to get to level 50 in about 2 weeks real life. I couldn’t tell you how much played time it is cause I leave my character logged on for hours while Im afk. But I do know that I was gaining levels very fast when playing. At 40+ I had gotten at least 2 levels a day.

Keep in mind this is for Alliance as I have never played a horde so some of these areas you will be able to grind with both some you will not.

First and foremost Iv said this before and ill say it again GET FAMILIAR WITH www.thottbot.com and use it constantly, it is your best friend for grinding. Learn how to use the quest finder to your advantage. When you walk into a new area go to thottbot.com and select find>> quest then check quest starts in and check your zone and your side. If you like you can check your level. Now browse through these quest and soon as you find one you will be doing click on it and it shows a name of the npc giving that quest, check the map button beside him and it shows his spawn location. This will make it easy to find him. Browse through the quest seeing which ones you will be grabbing and go get them all. Now determine where you need to go to finish those and do them at same time while your heading out. If you don’t know where an item of objective is located for a quest don’t worry thottbot.com shows you that also. For example we will take a look at Buzzbox 411 [url}http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=447. Now you can see that you need 3 thresher eyes so click on the blue text that says thresher eyes http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=447 . Now your looking at all the creatures that drop this quest item but pay attention to the drop rate. Notice the higher level ones do not drop this item because it is intended to be done at lower levels so find the level range that has the highest drop rate and then click on the blue text map beside the name and now you have spawn points of the creatures you need to kill to get this quest item. If your quest objective is say to find something like Washed ashore http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=238 no sweat because you use the same technique to find out where the bones are located. Click on the blue text “Sea Creature Bones:” now it will bring up a list of things keep in mind some of these are from the beta and are no longer in the game so look at kills , this signifies which one is being used the most lately this push. Now click on map beside it and you have the location of this item. I know some of you already know this but I just wanted to explain to those who didn’t. Please learn to use this because its very important if your trying to fly through quest fast.

 

Levels 1-10: Ok this is a no brainer and should only take you 4 hours to get level 10. Start out by doing the “Kill this # of creatures then come back” kind of quest. No matter what just do those grinding quick quest until level 5 and head out to next town. Don’t stick around to finish those other grinding quest at the starting locatin because your only getting minimal exp for doing it and mob level is so low its not worth the time past level 5. At the 2nd town grab your next set of missions and start grinding them, it should go pretty fast and you should be 10 in no time. Make sure to use thottbot,com ahead of time to make sure you get all the quest you can in the area to make it go faster.

Level 11-17 Ok you have many options to zones and where to level but I like to go to auberdine. Auberdine has some great quest here that can be done fast by doing many at the same time while grinding through mobs. You will basicly make a big circle around a few times getting you to level 17 fairly quickly and getting you some decent items and money.

Here goes… Grab these missions first in auberdine.

10 Return to Nessa Alliance – this one is the 2nd in a line of quest you actually get that in Rutheran village in darnassus so head there first get it fly here turn in get this one fly back and finish for easy 2000k exp.

10 Buzzbox 827 Alliance
12 Bashal'Aran Alliance
12 Tools of the Highborne Alliance
12 Easy Strider Living Alliance - believe you need to be cook to get this, easy 1000k exp

12 The Red Crystal
13 Washed Ashore Alliance
14 How Big a Threat? Alliance
14 Plagued Lands
16 For Love Eternal Alliance
16 Beached Sea Creature Alliance
17 Cave Mushrooms Alliance

Ok this should be all the quest available in town upon landing there. Grab them all and you can start doing them all at once while making your rounds grinding on mobs. Check thottbot and get an idea where each quest requires you to go. The first one you will do is Buzzbox 827 and Beached Sea Creature Alliance cause they are both little south of auberdine. Finish those 2 and head out on dock , face west and run off the dock that heads to Menethil harbor and swim straight forward and grab the bones for the 2nd quest in the Beached Sea Creature series. Now turn that in and head north you can finish the next buzzbox quest , Bashal'Aran at the same time. And before coming home grab a rabid thistle bear and turn that quest in. Now go ahead and finish The Red Crystal quest series as its very easy to do quickly, its located directly east of Auberdine , check thottbot.com for locations. Great now head south a bit and do the first quest in series of How Big a Threat? There is a furlbolg camp directly south of Auberdine. After doing that head on south till you reach Ameth Aran. Grab the 12 The Fall of Ameth'Aran quest and head on in and finish these quest while you’re here… The Fall of Ameth'Aran , For Love Eternal, Tools of the Highborne, Bashal'Aran(burn the ancient moonseal while you’re here). Now head back to Auberdine and turn those in. Now grab 15 The Cliffspring River if you don’t have it yet and head out north. While your going start doing the next buzzbox quest by killing collecting Moonstalker teeth and kill rabid bears on the way to complete that quest. After doing the buzzbox quest and getting all the bears killed and water head back to Auberdine. Now get the quest 18 The Tower of Althalaxx and 18 The Blackwood Corrupted , fill up the bowl with moonwater and head up north to the river. Just north of the river is the tower , you can now talk to they buy by the big rock by the road and finish that quest, head south a bit afterwards and east along the river you will find a cave, finish the 17 Cave Mushrooms quest. Now head out and south a bit further you will be at the furlbolg camp and you can finish The Blackwood Corrupted quest. After doing that quest you can now head south just a abit behind one of the camps to the east is a cave up on the mountain where you can finish the quest 18 Tharnariun's Hope and kill the Den mother. Great now you have got all those done head back to Auberdine , turn them in and grab the Quest 17 Onu and head down south to the Grove of the Ancients. Speak to Onu and grab the quest for Twilight Camp, this is by the way one of the easiest quest iv ever done, and you get a huge chunk of exp for this. Head south west a bit start killing grizzled bears on the way to finish the last of the buzzbox quest series and head on south west until you reach Twilight camp, run down by the table place the scrying bowl ,finish that quest and then grab a page from the book on the right and head out around the building you will see a dryad hiding in the bushes, help you escape for another easy quest and once your back on the road finish buzzbox on the way north its located right south of bridge near Grove of Ancients. Turn in the page to Onu and he will give you another quest which you will not be able to do until 20. At this point you will have done most quest you have and should be around level 17-18 and you want be able to do any more quest around here because they are all around 20.

17-20 For the next part in our leveling we will head on over to Loch Modan so head to Auberdine, catch ship to Menethil harbor and fly to Loch Modan or Iron forge and walk there. Once your there head to Thelsanaar. Once there grab 15 Excavation Progress Report Alliance and head over to the Excavation site. This site is a great place to grind it out until 20. Go ahead and finish that series of quest there and just camp that place and grind it out till 20 or Head south east to the lodge and do those hunting quest for some nice experience. Either way this will get you to 20 fairly quickly and we are ready for the next set of quests.

Ok for now this is all I will do, ill try to get a 20-30 up soon but I hope this helps for now. Using just this techinique you can do this in any zone really, just remember to use thottbot.com if your in hurry to do quest fast.

One of the most important things you need to remember is don’t be in such a hurry to do quest that you dodge mobs on the way. Take your time walking through quest and kill everything on the way. Make efficient use of your time, if your walking to a quest make sure you getting experience for it. Get experience while getting the quest done by grinding out mobs and then bonus experience for turning it in. After you have done all the quest in an area , don’t be afraid to grind out a few levels so you can get the next series of quest started. Some people walk for hours looking for quest to do when they could have leveled by then grinding on mobs, and getting some good money at same time.

So until next time I hope you all enjoy this tutorial and hopefull it helps out some people. I will be doing a series of these all the way to 60.

We all know that World of Warcraft''s Wrath of the Lich King expansion is coming with some killer stuff, and that includes the game's brand new Achievement system. What we don't know yet is what happened behind the scenes and how it all came to be. Fortunately, lead game designer Jeffrey Kaplan had a conversation with MTV Multiplayer recently and told us all a little something about it.

Kaplan says that originally, the people over at Blizzard didn't want to call the system Achievements because Xbox 360 and Steam were already using the name. They came up with all sorts of alternatives like Goals, Accomplishments, and other titles, but at the end of it all, it came back down to Achievements.

We sort of came around to the conclusion that all players call them Achievements," He added. That realization made them settle on the name finally.

Next was brainstorming on how to go about it. Kaplan recounts that the core concept of designing their Achievements was we wanted to focus on getting the user interface in a good presentable form and things that other Achievement systems haven t done a good job of.

In terms of execution, Kaplan believes that their edge lies not only in well thought-out Achievements, but a nice interface that will be pleasing to the community's eyes. He said Blizzard welcomed mods of the interface and are fully expecting people to take advantage of it.

Our [user interface] guys went out of their way to build the Achievement system so that the mod community can completely rip it apart and do whatever they wanted with it the look and how the information is presented to you," he added.

Kaplan concluded by saying "we fully expect that people will come up with their own Achievement browsers and comparison systems.

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30-40 can be a real pain in the ass, as quests dry up pretty quickly, and then you're forced to migrate to another area, which may be near or far.

30-32 -
Finish up your Tarren Mill quests, then grab the Rod of Heracular quest from the undead apprentice in the graveyard beside the ruined church. Then head over

to the Darrow Cave and grind the living crap out of those yetis. Before I got the rod, I was level 33 and the Yeti's still yielded good exp. Turn the rod

quest in for a suitable 2100-3000 exp and continue the chain if you want.

32-34 -
I fluctuated between STV and Arathi for these. Start the Mok'Thardin quest chain in Grom'gol, as you'll be working towards it for the next 6 levels. In

Arathi, do the Guile of the Raptor quests. 37 raptors should be no problem for you if you handle them right.

34-36 -
I was mainly in STV here, grinding away at the STV bloodscalp quests. I had 4 which required me to kill, kill and kill. From those 4 and the 2 hours of

grinding it took to get the items, I was 36. Fastest two levels for a long time.

36-38 -
Continue expaning on with the Nesingwary hunting quests, dont bother with the Green Hills quests, the rewards arent worth nearly as much as the time and

effort you put into it. However, if you're really interested, go grind the goblin geologists over near Lake Nazerfeti (or something like that). I had two 16

slot bags full just with pages, sold majority for around 1g each while I did a quest i picked up in the BB tavern near the FP.

38-40 -
38 wasnt so bad, as I finished the Mok'Thardin and the Nesingwary chains, getting a decent set from the reward. I mainly just grinded on ogres for the 6 or

so bubbles which remained afterwards. 39, however, is one of the longest grinds (or so it felt) i've had for a long time. I tried jungle stalkers and SM

runs. Jungle stalkers were okay, but without rest the grind is a long one, and you'll often find yourself at the wrong side of a claw/blade. I got ganked a

total number of 89 while I grinded this level, and it took me 7h and 15m to finish it.

A few quick notes about grinding:

When moving to these areas, make sure you pick up the migration quests (such as the Desolace one who gives you a horn to take to Nesingwary, which starts

that chain effectively) as they yield anywhere from 200 exp to a whopping 3000 exp (nearly 2 whole bubbles at 34).

Also, invest in enhancement potions. Elixirs of Greater <insert skill here>> are a great way to add DPS and reduce downtime. 5g for 5 EoGA knocked about 2 hours off my grinding with the quite decent 7dps buff it gave.

Everytime you visit a town, refill your ammo/knives, whatever. It isnt worth breaking the rhythm of a good grind because something broke or you're out of ammo.

Only ever pick up kill or gather from kill quests. Migration are okay, but take them just as you're done with that area.

Dustwallow Marsh is a waste of time.

has recently updated their official World of Warcraft site's Guide section with the respective region levels for each of Northrend's areas. Here is a screenshot of the new list:

Blizzard's site also offers links to a thorough description of each of the Northrend regions, though they're only up to Grizzly Hills for the moment. Those interested in reading further regarding Wrath of the Lich King's regions will want to visit Blizzard's site via the source link below, though you'll want to check back in case we run into any further updates.

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World of Warcraft Europe: Free migration to Russian realms now available

Thundgot has announced that another round of free character migrations are now available for Europe's World of Warcraft realms. Rather than a move to another Europe realm though, players are being invited to transfer their toons to the newly formed Russian Realms.

The move will be one-way only, from a European to Russian realm. Those with a European account wishing to move from a Russian to European realm will have to use Blizzard's standard Paid Character Transfer method. Here are the other details regarding this free transfer Thundgot elaborated on at the WoW Europe forums:

There are no restrictions on which accounts may migrate characters, and the migration is not affected by any Paid Character Transfer cooldown your characters might have. There are however some restrictions:

• Minimum character level: 10
• No active auctions or mail in the in-game mail box
• You can t migrate from a PvE realm to a PvP realm
• You can t migrate a character to a PvP realm if you already have a character of the opposite faction on that PvP realm
• You can t migrate a character to a realm if you already have 10 characters on that realm
• You can t migrate as long as you are the leader of your guild

Please note:

• If you are a member of a guild, your membership will be removed when you migrate.
• You will need to rename your character when you migrate, to give it a Cyrillic name and add declension.
• Hunter pets will have their names reset to their creature type.
• Warlock pets will get new random names, in Cyrillic.

Those interested in moving to WoW's new Russian realms have until September 9 of this year. Further details on how to make the move are available at Thundgot's WoW Europe forums post, via the source link below.

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I've made a ton of gold doing this - thought it was about time I shared some tips and tricks.

The Basic Idea

Buy cheap armour and weapons, disenchant them, and sell the resulting crystals/shards/essences/dusts for a profit. Easy!

Addons

I use three:

Auctioneer (http://www.auctioneeraddon.com)
Tracks Auction House prices, adds improved searching/sorting capabilities, suggests prices when creating your own auctions, and automates the posting of multiple auctions. This is a must-have addon for anybody using the auction house.

Enchantrix (http://www.auctioneeraddon.com) - included with Auctioneer
Comes with a database of disenchantable items, and what they disenchant to - helps you choose which items to buy. (If you want to sell enchants as well, it will help you calculate what to charge for them based on Auctioneer's prices for the reagents).

(As of this writing, the release versions of Auctioneer and friends are not WoW 2.x compatible, but the Beta version at http://www.auctioneeraddon.com/dl/AuctioneerComplete/ seems to be pretty solid now).

CT_MailMod (http://www.ctmod.net) - part of the CTMod package
Automates the sending/receiving of mail - open up to 50 mails with one click. You will be dealing with a lot of mail if you start doing this seriously.

Preparation

* Use Auctioneer to scan the Auction House. If you haven't used it before you should run scans regularly for a week or so, so that it can build up a good database of prices. Prices vary through the week - usually higher at weekends - and to a lesser extent through the day, so it is important to scan regularly over an extended period. To speed up the scans you can configure Auctioneer to scan only in the Trade Goods category, unless you are interested in prospecting in other areas.

* Train up your enchanting. As of patch 2.x, the maximum level of items you can disenchant depends on your enchanting skill. To disenchant items up to level 60, you need skill 225. You can train up to skill 60 with disenchanting alone which is a start; consult one of the 'powerskilling' guides in this forum for details on how to skill up efficiently from there.

* Learn how disenchanting works. When you disenchant an item, it may disenchant to several types of reagent - perhaps more than one reagent of a given type, but never to more than one type. For example, a level 41 green armour piece may disenchant to 1-2 Dream Dust OR (less frequently) 1-2 Greater Nether Essence OR (even less frequently) a Large Radiant Shard.

Weapons and armour disenchant to different items depending on their level requirement:

Levels 1-10: may disenchant to Strange Dust, Lesser Magic Essence or Small Glimmering Shard
11-15: Strange Dust, Lesser Magic Essence, Greater Magic Essence, Small Glimmering Shard
16-20: Strange Dust, Lesser Astral Essence, Greater Magic Essence, Large Glimmering Shard
21-25: Soul Dust, Greater Astral Essence, Large Glimmering Shard
26-30: Soul Dust, Lesser Mystic Essence, Small Glowing Shard
31-35: Vision Dust, Greater Mystic Essence, Large Glowing Shard
36-40: Vision Dust, Lesser Nether Essence, Small Radiant Shard
41-45: Dream Dust, Greater Nether Essence, Large Radiant Shard
46-50: Dream Dust, Lesser Eternal Essence, Small Brilliant Shard
51-55: Illusion Dust, Greater Eternal Essence, Large Brilliant Shard
56-60: Illusion Dust, Greater Eternal Essence, Large Brilliant Shard
50-60: Nexus Crystal from Epics, and very rarely (<1%) from Rares

Notes:

* Dusts drop most often from armour; essences from weapons. The only exception is Astral Essence, which drops exclusively from level 16-25 armour, never from weapons.

* Dusts and essences drop in larger quantities in higher level brackets (if they appear in more than one), e.g. a level 36 item may drop 3-5 Vision Dust, while a level 35 item may yield only 1-2.

* Blue items (nearly?) always yield a shard; greens yield one 4-5% of the time.

* Some green weapons/armour are not disenchantable at all, so be careful when bidding. Prominent examples are enchanter-crafted wands and the Twilight Trappings items (Twilight Cultist's Cowl etc.).

Buying

With Auctioneer and Enchantrix installed, when you mouse-over an item in the auction house a tooltip pops up telling you what it could disenchant to, with probabilities, and an expected value based on Auctioneer's price database. Because disenchanting is somewhat random, this is only a statistical estimate, but a good guide if you are disenchanting on a large scale. The simple rule is, if the item is 'cheaper enough' than its expected disenchant value, buy it!

You can look for good buys in any way you like, but I generally do the following:

1) Pick a level bracket (say, 46-50), item type (weapon or armour) and quality (uncommon or rare) and Search.

2) Look at a match and note its disenchant value in the tooltip. The value should be the same for all items of the same quality in the search results.

3) Figure out a maximum bid price. I usually bid up to 80-85% of disenchant value, but you may want to be more conservative. Remember that when you sell an item, the auction house takes a cut of 5% of the final sale price, so bidding much above 90% is a bad idea unless you have good reason to believe the estimate is too low.

4) Sort the list by current bid

5) Work through the list bidding on everything until you hit your bid limit. Remember to check all the pages.

Tips:

* If an item has a low buyout, or a buyout very close to its current bid, you may want to buy it outright instead of bidding

* If an item has a very low bid, consider bidding higher than the default to discourage others from outbidding you - better a smaller profit than none at all.

* Supply, demand and prices change, so don't be rigid in choosing your bid limit. If a reagent looks particularly rare at the moment, consider raising your limit. If there's an oversupply of a reagent, or you have a ton of it yourself already, you don't need to be so aggressive.

* Concentrate on level brackets which provide items you need, or think you'll need. Don't bid blindly on everything, or you'll end up with a huge surplus of certain reagents and fill up all your bags.

Disenchanting

Not much to say here. Grab your winnings from the mailbox and disenchant them.

Don't be disheartened if you make a loss on an item. So you paid 2g50 for something that yielded one lousy Illusion Dust; but next time you may get two Greater Eternal Essence from the same item - instant 10g profit. It's a gamble, but if you bid sensibly, the odds are in your favour in the long run.

Selling

It's mostly the same as selling any other type of item - know your market and set your prices accordingly. However, a few tricks:

* Lower level dusts and essence (up to level 40) are mostly bought by people who are skilling up enchanting themselves, and are buying in large quantities. You can save yourself some time by selling only full stacks of these reagents. Lower level shards (glowing and below) tend to be hard to sell - learning enchanters usually go for the dusts and essences because they're cheaper.

* At higher levels, there are still people skilling up, but also non-enchanters buying ingredients for individual enchants. I usually sell singly and in stacks of 5, 10 and 20 to cover all bases.

* Check prices for different quantities individually - single items and small stacks are often more in demand than full stacks, and can be sold for proportionally more.

* Keep your bid price close to or even the same as your buyout, to avoid people bidding, winning, and undercutting you. There is no deposit on enchanting reagent auctions, so no penalty for them expiring. I have mine set at 95% of buyout, but I sometimes go a little lower if I want to undercut someone.

* Watch for disparities in the prices and supply of lesser and greater essences: lesser essences often sell for more than a third of the price of greater ones. (I guess many people don't know that you can split/combine them).

* Don't flood the market. You may have 20 stacks of Vision Dust itching to be sold, but it's very unlikely that you'll get rid of all of it in 24 hours, and oversupply drives prices down. I usually limit myself to 4 stacks of dusts, 2 of essences, and 1 of shards, sometimes more for the lower level reagents that tend to sell in large quantities if they sell at all. You can always replenish your auctions if some of them sell.

* If you find you are running low on a particular reagent, jack your prices while you restock. Far better for your auctions to expire than to run out of a reagent when there's a shortage, and see people selling it for twice its normal price.

* Adjust your prices to track the market, but don't lower them too far. Floods never last forever, and after a while you should get a feeling for a baseline price where things will always sell eventually. Enchantrix includes some built-in baseline prices, used in the tooltip, but they may not match your server's economy; you can adjust them by editing the .lua files if you like.

* Use Auctioneer's 'Post Auctions' pane rather than the default UI. If you have scanned recently (always a good idea before posting auctions) it displays a list of other auctions for the same item to help you choose a price (or buyout cheap auctions). It can also automate the posting of multiple auctions - e.g. 10 auctions of Illusion Dust@1g20.

* In recent versions of Auctioneer, manually searching for an item using the regular 'Browse' UI - and viewing every page of matches - updates Auctioneer's prices for that item, so you don't need to do a full scan if you are only posting a few different types of item.

And that's it

informed the residents of Wrath of the Lich King beta that their realms would be going down for some routine maintenance. The realms are back online, and now carry some pretty interesting changes that weren't around in the previous build.

Hunters in particular received two more stable slots, boosting their total capacity to five. The two additional slots won't come cheap though, costing 50 and 100 gold respectively. Here are the rest of the change notes to World of Warcraft's WotLK beta build 8719:

• Interface
• You can now compare your achievements with other players. Screenshot
• It seems that the action icon now appears when you mouseover the target frame of a NPC. It doesn't look like it's implemented yet but we can assume that in the future, we will be able to left click the frame of the NPC instead of his model to prevent all the issues caused by players blocking NPCs.
• The Death Knight starting area now have its own loading screen.
• The first features of the threat meter have been added to the game.
• Your of threat (based on the member of the party with the highest threat on the monster) is now displayed in the scrolling combat text.
• Your of threat is now displayed in the tooltips of monsters.
• According to the first reports, the threat is just sent to the client without any encoding now, it will be very easy to build mods to display the exact threat of each member of the raid in the future.
• Hunter
• Two new stable slots are available for your pets ! The respective price for the 4th and 5th slots is 50 and 150 gold.
• Warlock
• Howl of Terror (Demon Form) cooldown has been increased from 40 seconds to 3 minutes.
• Professions
• Alchemy Alchemical Blood has been renamed to Mixology.
• World
• The lighting bug affecting most of the indoor zones is now fixed.
• A new "battleground room" is available in Dalaran !

Visibly missing from the notes are the planned changes to the Death Knight's disease mechanics, implying that they might be taking effect at a later date. Check back with us again in case we receive any more news regarding this matter.

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• Morhaime: Wrath of the Lich King coming Q4 2008

Source: wow.qj.net