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Secret Warcraft Podcast Episode 1

January 3, 2009 by azeroth 6 Comments

New Podcast with tips, strategies and answers to your questions

In this first episode of the Secret Warcraft podcast (running time 53:40), I introduce a full roster of features that will be in each week’s episode:

Tip of the Week: Auction House Warriors – playing to win the auction house game (and dealing with auction house morons!)
Power Gaming News: final thoughts on Feast of Winter Veil… stocking up for profits all year long (“Stolen Treats” recipes, holiday pets, Preserved Holly and more) – plus, coping with account theft and key loggers
Gold Making Calendar: Darkmoon Faire and the frog explosion
Hot or Not: Radiant Shards are hot, Large Brilliants are not
Catch of the Week: Northrend herbs in the spotlight as Catch of the Week
Question Time: how to work the glyph market, either as an Inscription scribe, or as an auction house player

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Small Eggs and Crazy Gold for Winter Veil

December 15, 2008 by azeroth 9 Comments

Small Eggs are mad money makers during the first days of Winter Veil Festival

Small Eggs are always a big Winter Veil gold maker for players who stock up ahead of time. Most of the year, you can buy Small Eggs for 1 silver each or less. During the Festival of Winter Veil, which has just begun today, they go for 3g – 5g in huge quantities. This is because they are needed for the simplest Winter Veil quest (Treats for Great-Father Winter), which every player and toon will want to complete. It takes 5 Small Eggs (which you make up into Gingerbread Cookies) to complete the quest.

This year, the Small Egg action seems hotter than ever. Even if you didn’t take my advice, and lay in a big supply of eggs before Winter Veil arrived, you can make a huge windfall profit of gold if you act fast and decisively 🙂

Watch this short video to see exactly what to do. Target profits: 500g ++ per hour!

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Darkmoon Faire Gold, Lich King Style

December 7, 2008 by azeroth 8 Comments

WotLK Has Changed the Economy, but Darkmoon Faire is Still a Goldmine

Even with the changes in the World of Warcraft economy since the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, you can still make a lot of gold – fast – at the Darkmoon Faire.

As I detailed in my original walkthrough of the Darkmoon Faire gold making strategy, it’s possible to make a huge amount of gold by camping the Exotic Goods vendors (Lhara, and Professor Thaddeus Paleo) in a booth at the back of the Darkmoon Faire. Buy all the limited supply items you can, following my re-spawn timing technique, and sell for massive profits in the auction house.

With the changed economy in Wrath of the Lich King, the Darkmoon Faire isn’t quite such a jackpot, but it’s still worth spending some time, if only for the herbs. Pre WotLK, you could rake in 600g – 1,000g in a day. Now the high end is more like 500g.

Click the video link above to for complete updated details for making extreme amounts of gold at the Darkmoon Faire in the Wrath of the Lich King era (runs 20’11”).

What to buy:

almost all of the available herbs, including Black Lotus (40s), Netherbloom (40s), Terocone (20s), Mountain Silversage (6s), Golden Sansam (4s), Dreamfoil (4s), Ghost Mushroom (15s), Khadgar’s Whisker (7s), Wild Steelbloom (2s), Kingsblood (1s20), Liferoot (3s), Bruiseweed (1s), Mageroyal (80c), and Earthroot (80c)
some of the leathers, including Enchanted Leather (20s), Thick Clefthoof Leather (30s), and possibly Knothide Leather (50s) and Rugged Leather (20s) depending on your server’s prices
some of the Motes, especially Mote of Fire (16s) and Mote of Air (16s)

What to avoid:

all of the gems, including Living Ruby, Nightseye, Noble Topaz, Dawnstone, Star of Elune, Talasite… all selling for 12g each, and worth about half that on most auction houses
all of the scrolls, which are now much cheaper than before, due to Inscription

And the saving grace:

Frogs… FTW! Pick up plenty of Wood Frogs and Tree Frogs from Flik while you’re at the Faire, and sell them off gradually through the month for a nice profit.

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