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Using two good professions can make you some sick amounts of gold. But typically people use either Herb/Skinning or Mining/Skinning because of the lack of ability to track both Herbs and Minerals at the same time. However, in combination with Cartographer, Herb/Mining becomes more viable.

Aside from the super-nice routing feature (see the other post on that!), it also displays spawn points on your mini-map. You can filter which spawn points you want to see, and you can scale how big they appear on the mini-map. The way it works is that when they are outside of the range that you could detect it, the mini-map displays an icon that represents the specific herb/ore. Once it’s in range, it turns into an empty circle, IF you are detecting that type of spawn…in other words if you have Find Herbs on, ore spawn points will always display the ore pictures, but herb pictures will turn into empty circles when you’re in range to detect the yellow dot. If you see empty circles, and they stay empty for a split second, then you know that nothing is there and you can move on.

So here’s what to do:

Pick up and Level Your Herbalism / Mining proffessions
Create a macro:
/castsequence Find Herbs, Find Minerals
Bind the Macro to a key. Clicking that key will toggle tracking herbs and ore every time clicked on. (There is a global cooldown of 1 second, but that’s ok.)

Next, setup a route to track the most-valuable herb and the most-valuable ore in a given zone. For example, in Shadowmoon Valley, make a route for Nightmare Vine and Adamantite Ore. This path will cover most of the map. Maybe You’ll miss a few spawnpoints of Felweed or Fel Iron Ore, but that’s no problem. The route will go near enough of them anyway.
As You’re flying around following the route, look on the minimap to see what kind of spawn points are around. Then hit the macro key to switch the tracking back and forth between ore and herbs. But because of Cartographer you know WHICH one you should be tracking. For example, if there’s a stretch of route that has herbs and no ore, you can tell because of what is being displayed in the minimap, you don’t need to switch. If you’re coming to a cluster of spawn points that has both, you keep one on (Herbs, for example), and when you enter that cluster, the herbs turn to circles…THEN you click the macro and switch to Ore, and check those empty circles.

Hope this description is understandable. Just try it out using Cartographer and you’ll figure it out in notime.

  

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The success of World of Warcraft doesn’t seem to stop. More and more people are still discovering the joy and addiction of questing in Azeroth. For the third year in a row it has now been the best selling PC game and Blizzard are now expanding
even more with a localized version for the russian crowd. No other game has ever got such a impact on players around the globe and Blizzard just reached a incredible 10 Million subscribers.

Here’s the official Blizzard pressrelease:

WORLD OF WARCRAFT® REACHES NEW MILESTONE: 10 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS

*Based on industry sell-through data, internal records, and reports from key distribution partners around the world.

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Yet no official release date to the Wrath of the leach king. Some people speculate September 2008 but that’s just unqualified guesses. The expectations are high and Blizzard always delivers quality, so even if I would like to play it NOOW, I guess it’s better they release a expension that gives the players enough new and fresh content than rush it out.

While we wait, let’s just rest our eyes on the trailer:

According to Jeff “Tigole” Kaplan of Blizzard, Northrend will feature a cool enormous PvP zone, the size of Westfall. The zone will be all-PVP and not for PVE players with lots of quest objectives, siege weapons and destructible buildings.

Sounds like great fun and I can’t wait to be a part of it.

Further Jeff Kaplan also promises players a epic feeling upon entering Northrend, even more grandious than in Burning crusade.

In his own words:
“We absolutely need to make the entry to Northrend epic”, he said. “…we originally had the entry to Burning Crusade’s Dark Portal as a bunch of cohorts waling around, and people reacted badly. This really hammered home the fact that we needed to raise expectations on entering the expansions”.

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If you are level 70 and possess a flying mount, one of the easiest ways to gain some cash is to do Daily Quests. Daily quests are quests that Blizzard has built in that offer reputation and a gold reward, and they can be repeated, but only once per day.

There are 2 in Terrokar Forest (in Skettis), and 4 in Blade’s Edge Mountains (Ogri’La) that each have a 12g reward. Generally You can do the 4 in Ogri’La in about 20 minutes. These CAN be completed in groups…that helps you rack up the kill count faster. The ones in Skettis have no pre-requisite. The ones in Ogri’La do have pre-requisites. They start by talking to the ogre questgiver up on a tower just outside the Circle of Blood in Blade’s Edge. There are also some daily quests in Shadowmoon Valley for the Netherwing faction…but they require you to have 300 riding skill (Artisan – ie: epic flying for 5000g), and they aren’t as easy as the Skettis and Ogri’La quests.

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Hello fellow WoW:ers,

Back from a long vacation I hope You all had as great Christmas & New Year holiday as I had.

We all eagerly await the next WoW Expansion Wrath of the Lich king, sadly Blizzard has still not given an official release date which mean that it’s probably months away. My guess would be summer 2008.

Anyway the 2.3 patch offered great additions to the game as:

Mudsprocket – The new goblin town located in Dustwallow Marsh offers an abundance of new quests. This town is a member of the Steamwheedle Cartel, and offers many conveniences including a flight master, an inn, a graveyard, an anvil and forge, and a mailbox. This is a different leveling experience for characters in their 40′s who want to change things up a bit.

Zul ‘Aman – This 10 man instance located in the Ghostlands requires no attunement, so it’s great for those players on a tight time budget. It is designed to be more difficult than Karazhan and also includes better loot! The thing we like most about this area is the availability of the new Hatchet Hills flight path. This flight path is the first of it’s kind as it is the only one to connect “classic” Warcraft zones to the zones of the Burning Crusade!

Leveling – As we know, the time to level a character from 20-60 has been significantly decreased since the release of the 2.3 patch. The speed of leveling through those slow low levels is now bearable especially with a leveling guide. The fact that Blizzard are planning to increase the leveling speed of pets in the 2.3.2 patch also sound really great.

Leveling guides which now are up to date for patch 2.3:
Valkor’s Gold Making Guide
Joana’s 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide
Brian Kopp’s 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide
Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide
Zygor’s 1-70 Horde and Alliance Leveling Guides – Try this new great 300 page guide with beautiful ingame functions for a limited discount price.

Here’s some of the upcomming 2.4 patch features:

Sunwell Isle

* Sunwell Isle will be located off the coast, north of Silvermoon

* Sunwell Isle will be a major questing hub with a 5-man Normal and Heroic Instance (Magister’s Terrace) and a 25-man raid (Sunwell Plateau). The goal with Sunwell Isle is to close the Burning Crusade storyline before the release of the next expansion.

* There are still a few scenarios left that could be released to provide the players with more content if WotLK gets delayed for any reason.

* At the release of the patch, players will access a small expedition camp where they can start questing. However as the questing progresses, players will expand the camp and make it grow to a small town by retaking building to the enemies (running daily quests mostly). You can consider it as a AQ Gates opening event, the more daily quests that gets done, the faster the whole server will progress.

* The quests will end the Tempest Keep story arc.

* “The Shattered Sun Offensive” will be the new faction of this quest hub. It also seems that Aldor and Scryers will finally start fighting together against the new threat.

* Both 5-man and 25-man dungeons will be accessible from the start, but some bosses will have to be unlocked by running the daily quests (server-wide) and/or leveling your reputation. The 5-man instance will most likely requires Honored reputation with The Shattered Sun Offensive, the first three bosses of the 25-man instance will be accessible from the start, while the three last ones will have to be unlocked through questing.

Sunwell Plateau

* Kael’thas will be one of the boss of the 5-man dungeon, he’s still alive and he’s now got a huge green crystal etched to his chest.

* Kil’jaeden will be the final boss of the 25-man instance. The other bosses include Brutalicus, a giant Pit Lord who has lost his wings, Kalecgos, a blue dragon enslaved by Kil’jaeden, a Fel Dragon, the female Eredar Twins, and a Dark Naaru.

* The 25-man instance will be slightly harder than Black Temple, and is tuned for Tier 6 geared players.

* There will not be any “real” Tier 7 set, but some of the drops will be set pieces (not necessarily class specific). The drops quality will be above T6.

Daily quests

* Patch 2.4 will raise the cap of Daily quests allowed in a day from 10 to 25.

PvP

* Balancing actions will be taken in regard to PvP for certain classes.* Blizzard have large plans for, and they will be aiming to bring it closer to e-sport acceptance.

With this I want to thank you all for being readers of this humble blog and wish you all a happy and prosperous 2008!

/Patrik

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