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Are you ready for Diablo III? Do you have all the resources you need to help you with the game?

I've been waiting a looong time for Diablo III — over a decade, in fact. Blizzard announced the game in 2008. That's four years since the announcement alone! Needless to say, I'm excited.

But I'm also prepared. When I start playing tonight, I'll have a bevy of online resources available to help me out, and I've compiled them for you! Well, for me. But for you, too.

• D3DB is the ZAM Network's answer to Wowhead for Diablo III — an exhaustive database of items, abilities, bad guys, and more.

• DiabloFans is the Curse Network's answer to MMO-Champion for Diablo III. Lots of datamining, blue posts, and all that jazz.

• The official Diablo III site has the fantastic Game Guide, which has everything from talent calculators to skill videos. Blizzard knocked it out of the park.

• BlizzPlanet will keep you abreast of all the latest Blizzard news, going beyond blue posts.

• ForceStrategy has you covered for Diablo video, which might become pretty necessary once you roll into higher difficulties!

• Our sister site Massively will be covering Diablo III as part of its daily online gaming coverage.

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• Diablo III Midnight Launch: Irvine Livestream & NYC Plans
• Learn to Play World of Warcraft PVP Well

Diablo 3 is the third installment in the Diablo franchise by Blizzard Entertainment. It is full of dark fantasy themed action role playing game that everyone will surely love and enjoy. But, what to expect from this new installment?

Evil is returning in just a few days, and if you want to be ready for all the death and destruction that's out there, you'll want to be sure to read up on what the blues are saying. We've collected some of the more important posts over the last week to share with you.

Keep in mind that when Diablo 3 does finally release this Tuesday, all WoW Annual Pass subscribers will get instant access. You can upgrade your account later to the Collector's Edition if you've ordered that. Also remember that you can download the client files now so you won't have to wait around much on release night.

We're also planning on having some Diablo 3 lore material for you to enjoy on Monday, so stay tuned for that.

Hit the jump to learn about special beta titles, known issues in the D3 release, and why feeling like a total overpowered badass is a good thing.

Vasadan — 1.0.1 KNOWN ISSUES LIST – UPDATED 5/11/12

Hello everyone, and welcome to Sanctuary! Below you will find the Known Issues list for our 1.0.1 patch. Please do not report bugs that you see on this list as we already know about them, and help out other players reporting bugs by referring them to this list. Thank you!

SPOILER WARNING: If you have not yet completed Diablo III on Normal, some issues described in this list may include spoilers.

Achievements

• The description of the Feat of Strength for “One of the Chosen” does not specifically state that it was granted to Closed Beta players, not all Beta players.
• The description of the achievement “Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?” is misleading.
• The description of the achievement “Crispy Critters” implies that all critters are found in one zone, but they are not. Good luck finding them!

Auction House

• You cannot list equipped items that have been bought from a vendor.

Battle.net

• It is possible to get ERROR 37 (The servers are busy, please try again) when logging in if the servers are under heavy stress. This error literally means that the servers are busy and that you should try again, so please try again in a minute or so!
• Very quickly entering, leaving, and switching chat channels over and over can cause a player from getting locked out of chat channels.
• It is possible for a friend to be on your friend's list with no name if that friend has a BattleTag but has never logged into Diablo III and is offline.
• Changing your account's Parental Controls while you are in Diablo III can disconnect you from Diablo III. Workaround: Exit Diablo III before changing Parental Controls.

Combat

• Damage over time debuffs are not benefiting from items that grant crit chance.
• The resurrection animation speed is being calculated by the player's attack speed. It actually should be a set amount across all players.

Environment

• Act 2 – Players who cast Town Portal while standing in a tar pit will cause the tar pit slowing debuff to stay on your character until you leave the game or manually walk into and out of a tar pit.

Monsters

• The gold dropped from Treasure Goblins can be picked up by all members of the party. Items dropped by the Treasure Goblins are still individual player drops.
• It is possible for Champion-class monsters with the Waller affix to cast their walls at their location rather than at the player's location.

Followers

• The total life for Followers is rounding incorrectly and is off by 1.

Quests

• Act 1 – The Scoundrel can fail to appear if monsters are present at his spawn location at the start of the quest “The Broken Blade : Go to the Drowned Temple”.
• Workaround: Leave the game and create a new one, or don't kite monsters to Scoundrel' spawning area.

Starter Edition

• When a Starter Edition character hits level 13, the experience bar will read 0/0. If the player upgrades, they will start a 0 experience towards level 14.

Tools

• If the user has any connections configured in “Dial-up and Virtual Private Network settings” and they're set to “Dial whenever a network connection is not present,” the install won't proceed past 10%.
• It is possible for your cinematics to stutter and not play well if you begin playing Diablo III immediately when reaching Yellow Data. Workaround: Exit Diablo III and fully patch your game. Your cinematics should play fine then.

Compatibility

• Running programs that put an overlay over Diablo III (such as Mumble, Xfire, and MSI Afterburner) can cause Diablo III to crash. Use these overlays at your own risk.

Mac

• The Restore Hero button does not become available after deleting a hero until leaving and returning to the Select Hero page.
• Game client window becomes unresponsive when a dialog box is opened in the background.

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Bashiok — Choose your correct region

As Global Play will be disabled until after the game launches in all regions, it's important that you choose your account's correct region when attempting to play the game. If you do not select your correct region, your login attempt will be denied, and you will not be able to connect.

To choose your correct region:

• At the log in screen click on Options
• Choose the Account tab
• Select your correct region in the Region drop down

Ensuring your correct region is selected, attempt logging in again, and watch the breaking news window for additional service information.

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Bashiok — Feeling like a total overpowered badass

A big part of what makes Diablo for us, or maybe more specifically Diablo III, is feeling like a total overpowered badass. It's entirely possible that what makes you feel overpowered is… in fact overpowered. We're not so dumb as to think there won't be someone that will find a build or co-op comp that we just didn't expect, and is able to take down Inferno due to an oversight, bug, 'creative use of game mechanics', or just a downright overpowered set of abilities. There are just too many skills, too many builds, too many possible comps, and too many players to believe we've been able to catch everything.

Some of that is cool. Some of what makes a Diablo game is the idea (and fact) that you can kind of outsmart the game and break its mechanics. Unlike a game like World of Warcraft where the core design of the game is to create a balanced experience and every change funnels into that, Diablo III just doesn't take the same approach. We don't mind if there are some inconsistencies and emergent favorites, we'd rather have tons of customization than boil it all down for the sake of balance. With a purely co-op (and eventually non-competitive PvP environment) we have that luxury, whereas World of Warcraft does not.

What we don't want to happen, and what we will absolutely work to patch and fix as quickly as possible, are the situations we simply can't predict that could trivialize parts of the game. There could be some build we never thought of that is super effective against a specific boss in Inferno, and we'll likely want to rein those situations in.

I'm not personally worried about Inferno being too hard. People can complain all they want about that. I'm more worried about people focusing too specifically on clearing Inferno, someone beating it too quickly through cheesy tactics or bugs or broken OP builds, and everyone going nuts saying Inferno is clearly too easy (although they themselves will probably still be in Nightmare). People naturally want to focus on a competition of who can beat what first, or speed runs, or other time-based achievements, which is at odds with what the game is really all about (the item hunt).

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Lylirra — How to claim a sigil

Here's how to claim a sigil:

• Step 1: Go to the Diablo III launch site
• Step 2: Click on the Claim Your Sigil button (far right)
• Step 3: Click on CREATE BANNER
• Step 4: Select a class to create your banner, click “Next”
• Step 5: Select your background, customize your banner, and then customize your sigil
• Step 6: Once your selections are made, click “Next”
• Step 7: Enter a nickname (any nickname will work, doesn't have to be your BattleTag), your Battle.net email address, toggle the “I agree” option, and then click “Finish”

If your submission was successful, you'll see the “You've successfully redeemed your sigil!” message and should receive a confirmation email at the address entered. To earn all five hero sigils, repeat steps 3 – 7 for each class.

Hope that helps! If the process is still kind of confusing, let me know. You may also want to check out this thread for some additional details and tips.

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Lylirra — “One of the Chose” Feat of Strength

In celebration of a successful beta test, all players who were invited to participate in the Diablo III closed beta will receive the commemorative Feat of Strength, “One of the Chosen.” For eligible players, this feat will appear automatically in the Feat of Strength list after logging in for the first time as well as unlock a unique sigil that can be used on character banners.

In order to be eligible for “One of the Chosen,” you must have had a Diablo III closed beta license attached to your Battle.net account (it isn't necessary to have downloaded or logged into the beta itself). Please note that players who participated only in the Open Beta Weekend, but were not invited to the closed beta, will not receive this Feat of Strength.

Thank you once again to all of our beta participants. We look forward to seeing you in Sanctuary!

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Bashiok — ATI 12.4 Catalyst – Graphic Issue

We've recently become aware that playing Diablo III with the latest Catalyst 12.4 drivers for ATI cards may cause some visual artifacts for specific hardware configurations. This issue affects users of ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cards under Windows Vista and Windows 7. ATI Radeon HD 4600, 4700, 4800, 5000, 6000 and 7000 series products are unaffected, as is Windows XP.

ATI is aware and investigating. Until a solution can be provided we recommend those affected use the Catalyst 12.3 drivers.

Update
This issue has now been resolved in the AMD Catalyst 12.4a hotfix driver. Users of the ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cards are the only AMD customers who need to download this hotfix driver.

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Imagine this. Same time next week, you’re already rolling in a max cap Diablo 3 character, pimped out with the best gear, swimming in an avalanche of gold and dominating in the auction houses.

Sounds far fetched? I think not.

Jonathan Bradley Smith has been MIA in the last few days, I just found out he’s holed up and in hibernation until Diablo 3 is launched on the 15th May at

12.01 am. He’s going to be well rested, he’s going to jump at it like a rabid dog and he’s going to level like his life depends on it. 

For the last few days, in the few hours he’s awake, he’s been going through all the possible skill builds he’s going to use and how he’s going to work with it (depending on how the game is compared to the final beta version) to achieve optimum leveling speed. It’s like a scene from “A Beautiful Mind!”

And judging from his past results in other games, I’m confident that he’s going to knock the socks of Diablo himself in record time. Look, I’m usually not a betting man but if there were bets on, I’d say he’d be done in 4 daysminutes (I think that should be a world record of some sort!)…

Level 99 in Diablo 2 in 5 days or less!

 Imagine, someone finishing Super Mario 3 in 11 

 Level 60 in WoW in 8 days.

Yeah, you get the drift, Jon’s pretty close to being god like! 

The thing is this, I never could understand how he leveled so quick until it finally dawned upon me. This guy’s like some computer genius-whiz kid-hardcore gamer all rolled into one. The way his mind works to sort out the best builds for whichever character, depending on style of play is just amazing. 

He just stares at all the skills available, then sits down to work out which skills are best suited for different styles of play such as tanking, healing, etc and then mentally works out when they need to be swapped with the new skills made available.

And because with so many active and passive skills available and with the runes in play, there are 1000 combinations at Level 20 alone. And at 60, there are literally a million possible builds you could have in the game. Problem now is what do you equip and when?

That’s when Jon’s expertise comes in. With his Diablo 3 Speed guide, all the builds are going to be there, so that no matter what level you’re at, you’ll find the best build for you depending on the style of your play. 

Want to check it out for yourself? Head on over to:

==> Diablo 3 Speed Guide

But yes, he knows Diablo 3 isn’t launched yet. So he’s going to have to offer a sweet deal on whatever he’s proposing right?

Hence, he’s decided to have a special offer for his guide for a limited time only whereby you can get it at a heavily discounted price (63% discount to be exact) from $97 to only $37.

When the game is live, you’ll see the guide updated before your very eyes, from text content to pictures and even HD videos. So you’ll be a ble to do everything he does, when he does it. And be at level 60 just as he hits it (perhaps a few minutes later than him but hey, that’s still pretty darned good!)

And if you decide you don’t like the guide for whatever the reason, you’re covered by his “Money Back Guarantee” whereby you’ll get a complete refund should you feel that Diablo 3 Speed isn’t the most amazing Diablo 3 guide you’ve ever set your eyes on so long as you let him know within 60 days. Not 60 minutes or 60 hours… but

60 DAYS.

Yup, you’ll never see an offer as good as this. And leveling to 60 in Diablo 3 isn’t going to get any easier than this. Don’t you think you finally deserve the chance to dominate in the game from the get go? 

I know I’m not going let my chance of Diablo 3 domination sneak past me. Shouldn’t you do the same? Head on over to: 

==> Diablo 3 Speed Guide

Note: The guide is only going to be on offer until the 15th May (3 days) and after that it’s back to $97.

Are you ready for it? Diablo 3 is finally going to be launched after 12 long years! 

Guide makers are already busy doing excellent leveling and gold guides for this game. Tony Sanders’ Diablo 3 Gold Secrets is one of the first pure gold guide for Diablo 3.

Check out what all the hype is about here:

==>Click here to read more about the Diablo 3 Gold Guide

I already know of Zygor from their kick ass World of Warcraft guides which were a lifesaver and totally changed the way I played that game. These new Diablo III guides look to be just as awesome. You get a complete walkthrough of the whole game from Act I to Act IV, guides for all five classes which tell you how to set your spells and make your characters as powerful as can be, how to optimize your followers to maximize damage and healing, and loads more – including a guide for obtaining all the achievements in the game.

Click here to check out Zygor’s Diablo III guide on the official website here!

See you in Hell! Talk soon.

More info on Diablo III:
Blizzard Entertainment:Diablo III

Twenty years have passed since the Prime Evils were defeated and banished from the world of Sanctuar …

WoW gold making will teach you some basics about the gold making journey in the World of Warcraft. 

Getting Started

The hardest step in your gold-making journey is going to be your first few steps. If you're continually low on cash, can't pay repairs, can't afford enchants and gems, or are just scraping by, you need to invest some time and effort into making gold. Generally speaking, gold-capped is reached through discipline and doing small tasks consistently over time. There are very few “get rich quick” schemes in life and there are very few in the World of Warcraft also. Every gold-making empire is built on doing small tasks consistently over time.

I'll be assuming you're starting from scratch with no gold and no level-capped characters. If you have some character assets to start with, great! You're ahead of the game! But what if you don't? Well, the first step is to create some. Their race and class don't matter at this point. The point is that we need something to work with on our way to gold-cap.

The Bank Alt

One of your characters is going to function as the banker for your gold-making empire. While race and class don't matter a lot, you might consider races/classes that have speed-boosting abilities. Worgen have the racial Darkflight, which grants a running speed boost. Rogues, druids, shaman and mages all have some sort of speed boost. This will help save you some time while you run around the city. It's a minor advantage, however, so don't get too caught up on it.

You'll want to level this character to at least level 5, then head to the capital city for your faction. Horde should ultimately end up in Orgrimmar, Alliance should end up in Stormwind. This will give you access to face-to-face deals with people in the future. There are also some low-level gold-making opportunities in these cities for this character to take advantage of.

The Adventurer

The second character is the one you're going to be using to adventure and make money out in the world. This might be an existing character, or it might be a new one. You'll use this character to complete quests, farm materials, level professions and generally be your “main” character. Pick a class and race that you enjoy playing. While there are some advantages for different races with different professions, they aren't so overwhelming that you need to worry about them now.

Your First Steps to Gold Cap

Now begins your journey to the gold-cap. Here are some things you should be doing with each character:

Adventurer

• Your first priority is getting to max level. A mix of dungeons and questing will probably be the fastest, though questing will generally provide you with more gold along the way, which should be useful for you in the future. 
• Don't buy upgrades. Nothing is so difficult while leveling that you'll need upgraded gear from the Auction House to overcome it. Questing and dungeon drops provide all the power you need. Don't buy enchants or gems (levels 60+). If your class has a glyph that will help you level faster, buy it if they are reasonably priced. However, you can always come back to this later when you have more gold.
• Buy upgraded bags. Every rule has an exception. The one upgrade you should purchase is bigger bags. Netherweave are a great bang for the buck at around 10 gold on many servers. If you don't have that, there are faction bags available from the capital cities (There are 6 bags in all for each faction, from each of the playable races). These bags are 2 gold once you reach revered, which you should do in no time while questing in their zones.
• Sell everything you get. Back when I was a guest writer for this blog, I wrote an article about how to optimize the gold-making process while leveling. You should read it. Most of that still applies today. One thing that's new since then, however, is Transmogrification (or mogging for short). Mogging allows people to change the look of their armor/weapons while keeping the stats of their high-level gear. So gear for a level 85 character can be made to look like a level 30 player if you wanted to. (Note: Control-Click gear to see what it looks like on your character to evaluate if it's worth selling) There's a big market for this gear, especially:
  • Head, Shoulders, Chests, Legs, Hands, Feet, Cloaks and Waist slots. These are the visible pieces of armor.
  • Weapons, especially if it has a more unique look to it.
  • Anything black. Black boots might be worth 3-4 times as much as green boots with the same model.
  • Headpieces that show the face while active. 
• Learn a gathering profession. You can learn professions at level 5 from trainers in the capital cities or other locations around the world. I'd suggest mining and skinning, mostly because I find herbalism to be the most difficult to keep up with my level. Farm as you level and you can make some good gold. 
• Pick up recipes from vendors as you find them. Generally speaking, if a vendor sells a recipe and it's not bind-on-pickup, you can sell it for a profit on the auction house. Send them to your banker for sale. WoW Confidential has a pretty comprehensive list of what's out there, though the page requires Internet Explorer to see it correctly. You can download the spreadsheet version of  the list directly here.

Banker

• Scan the Auction House. Get an addon like Auctioneer, Auctionator, or Trade Skill Master (I prefer Trade Skill Master with the automatic updates. Faid at Clockwork Riot has some great videos that go over how to use Trade Skill Master if you've never used it before. Your goal here is to look for good deals on items that are low-priced to purchase and resell for a higher profit. Much of my early gold-making success was built on flipping a small variety of items like low-level gems (Malachite, Citrine, etc.) for profit. The way to tell if something is underpriced is to have good auction data to work from, so scanning the auction house regularly (if you don't use the auto-update feature) is critical.
• Buy Low, Sell Normal. This post from 2009 is still applicable today and goes over the strategies to make this successful. As you look at the markets, you'll start to notice trends and get pretty good at flipping items. Snatch lists are going to be your friend here.
• Systematically sell your drops. Did you read that article I linked earlier? Read the part about using Trade Skill Master again. There's some work involved setting up the initial groups and systems, but once you do, you can re-use it for your next character that you level, and the one after that, and the one after that. You can easily make 10,000 gold on the way from level 1 to level 85 (or 90 in Mists of Pandaria) by just selling your drops. If it's green, blue or purple, chances are it has some value on the auction house.
• Check the capital city for goods to resell. The Gold Queen has a good overview of items and why this works. Again, if it's a recipe, or it has a limited quantity available (it's limited if there is a number in the bottom right corner of the icon), it's worth something on the Auction House. Find out which ones sell well on your server and focus on those things. These aren't big profit makers, but as you get started, they can help get you going quickly.

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The WoW 20K Leveling was put together by a veteran World of Warcraft player – Gladiator Markco, which has been playing this game since the release. Investing all his WoW experience, he built quite a complete WoW gold guide. Currently, he works along with a team of pros at maintaining and updating this WoW gold guide.

I know that 20K Leveling sounds like a leveling guide, but it’s a WoW gold making guide. The author had his reasons to name it like that, probably because he have a method to make 20K gold while you level your character. Anyway, I had to make this aspect clear, so I repeat – 20K Leveling is a WoW gold guide.

Most of this guide is online, so once you complete a purchase, you will receive instant membership. However, some sections of the guide are downloadable PDFs, which you can even print if you want.

This WoW gold guide is, as I said, a complete guide. It covers all the gold making aspects of the game and it is fully updated for Cataclysm. So, here are its main features:

• It covers 50 economic and Auction House money making strategies, starting with the Auction House basics to advance trading techniques. Two important addons will become your main tools while applying all the AH gold making methods;
• It teaches you how to take advantage of every opportunity to make gold while leveling up. Knowing all this, by the time you reach the level cap with your character, you will already have a at least 20-25k gold, being ready to gear up with the best epics for sale;
• It explains in-depth and shows how to work with 17 addons to make gold and to play your character at maximum efficiency in any situation;
• Covers the pure farming part, revealing 39 best farming spots in the game, for players that like the old fashioned way of making gold;
• It provides an excellent daily quests routine, which takes roughly 15 minutes per day to make a couple of hundred gold in cash;
• The crafting part also has a section reserved in the 20K Leveling Guide. This section shows the best combinations of professions, revealing multiple, very profitable gold making strategies, possible via gathering and crafting. 300 items and materials are discussed here, and their importance for the game supply and demand put into view;
• 20K Leveling contains 2.5 hours of videos that will make every bit of information so much easier to understand and apply;
• It comes with FREE lifetime membership. You will never be asked to pay any monthly fees;
• This WoW gold guide is updated very often and all the updates are FREE. Regardless if there was a new patch or expansion, updates will never be late;
• It’s risk free – it comes with a 60-days money-back guarantee.

After learning all the gold making lessons package and applying all the resources to make gold, you will be able to:

• Supply your whole raid with consumables and even expensive enchants like Landslide or Windwalk;
• Buy all the expensive mounts and get the Master flying skill for every alt;
• Gear up your characters with all the epic equipment that you can find at the Auction House;
• Maximize any crafting profession without even moving from a main city to farm any resource, in the shortest time possible;
• Complete dailies following the easiest route, but with the highest gold earnings;
• Buy raid or instance boosts from top guilds or arena boosts from gladiators, in case you don’t want to join a guild.

What I like the most at this Cataclysm gold guide is the fact that it covers pretty much every aspect of gold making in the game. Farming, AH trading, daily quests, making gold while leveling, making gold with professions, it’s all there. This makes 20K Leveling a complete and solid gold making guide.

Also, it stands out of the crowd with the 2,5 hours of video guides, which not many other gold guides provide. These will make everything more clear and easy to apply. Another aspect I really like is the fact that you will get free updates for life for any patch and even whole expansions. For example, the Cataclysm update was completely free to current owners. This is really cool!

There aren’t many downsides regarding 20K Leveling since it’s a complete guide and covers all the gold making aspects of the game. The one I have to mention is that it relies on quite a few addons. If you’re one of the players that don’t like to use addons at all, you might not like it. But nowadays, World of Warcraft can’t be played efficient without addons.

To conclude, I can say that 20K Leveling is a complete WoW gold guide. Its main gold making methods focus on Auction House trading, but it also covers farming, daily quests and gold making with professions. Provides videos and explains addons which will maximize your gold farming. More than that, it covers methods that fit to any class and any level. Combining all the gold making methods covered by this guide, any players will become a redutable gold farming machine.

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In the World of Warcraft, fortunes are made on patches and new expansions. Each new expansion and patch brings the opportunity for you to get gold-capped. Will you be the next in Mists of Pandaria?

Now is the time to prepare! This series is about preparing for the next great gold rush in WoW: Mists of Pandaria!

So we've talked about building up a stable of Alts to use in our gold-making enterprise and what sorts of professions (part 1, part 2) we might want to use on those Alts to maximize our gold production.

This week, we look at what to stockpile and how much starting capital to keep on hand for the early expansion push.

Stockpiling and Inflation

The purpose of stockpiling is really to fight inflation. Inflation works like this: over time, products and materials become more expensive. This process is accelerated as more money enters the Warcraft economy from non-player sources such as Bind-on-Equip loot drops, daily quests, vendor buy-backs and plain old questing rewards.

In other words, a stack of Elementium Ore might cost 50 gold. In Mists of Pandaria, that same stack of Elementium Ore might cost 70 gold. Or put another way, it takes 50 gold to buy a stack now, but 70 gold after Mists launches. Your gold is now worth “less” relative to the amount of Ore you can purchase.

Stockpiling is a way to hedge our bets against inflation. If we convert 50 gold into a stack of Elementium Ore now, we can hold that ore and sell it for 70 gold later. If Elementium Ore rises in price, as in our example, we've increased the “value” of our gold.

Of course, some items won't actually increase in value, but rather decrease. Consumables for Cataclysm Content (current flasks/potions) are likely to decrease in value, especially at the start of Mists.

While some items will return to a profitable state, it will be at a much lower demand, meaning you'll sell some, but not as much as you do now.

So what should we stockpile? Well, what's going to be more profitable in Mists than it currently is? Here are some thoughts:

Wrath and Burning Crusade era enchanting mats and raw materials (ore, herbs, leather) are also safe bets initially, tho prices may drop a bit as the monk-leveling crowd moves through those zones.

Pets

With the addition of Pet Battles, and nearly all pets becoming tradeable, pets will see a surge in value. This is perhaps the safest of all the investments, especially if you can secure some of the rarer pets, because people will want to use them for their pet battle teams. Watching for deals on these now and reselling post-launch should net you a nice profit.

Starting Capital

Of course, you don't want to spend all of your liquid gold on stockpiles. Materials for leveling your professions in the first few weeks will be expensive. If you have enough gold to be able to afford the early leveling process, you'll have a head start on selling the new enchants, gems, glyphs, etc.

Without enough capital, you'll be caught on the outside looking in, watching as others make sales at obscene prices to the launch-rush crowd.

It wouldn't be surprising to me if it cost 40,000 – 50,000 gold to level a profession like Jewelcrafting at launch. Any profession that relies on farmed materials (Jewelcrafting [Ore], Alchemy/Inscription [Herbs], Leatherworking [Leather]) will have higher starting costs than say Enchanting or Tailoring as gear drops and cloth can be farmed by everyone in dungeons and while questing. You'll be better off saving enough gold to level one profession to max than multiple professions to the halfway point.

This could be the largest gold-sink we've seen to date in Warcraft, as players will be able to convert some of their fortunes into gear and other power upgrades, but instead of giving that money to another player, it will leave the economy completely. As money leaves the economy, our gold will actually become worth more. Watch in the coming weeks for more information from the Beta about this feature.