Whispers from Azeroth

New site

2008-07-25T06:53:00.000-07:00

I've decided to take my act on the road. You can now catch me blogging on the "Yet Another Warlock Nerf" blog. The lead blogger over there, Horns, runs a great site. I look forward to contributing to that sites already great WoW coverage.

Don't worry, I'll still be keeping this site up to date and linking to my posts over there.

Leveling rate from 60-70 increased

2008-07-23T09:14:00.001-07:00

Breaking news out of the Wrath of the Lich King beta test is this post by Blizzard lead designer Jeff Kaplan. Leveling from 60-70 will be increased much like it was for 20-60. This is good news for those of us that have alts that haven't made it to Outlands yet, and good news for all those numerous death knights that will appear on launch day. I can see Hellfire Peninsula being very crowded come launch week, much like it was back on launch day for the Burning Crusade.

So if you have an alt that is approaching 60, you might have an interesting decision on your hands. Do you wait for the expansion to get through Outlands quicker or finish leveling to 70 the old fashioned way? If you wait, you can level a few more alts to 60 prior to the new expansion. On the other hand, if you level your alts all to 70 anyway, then you can switch main characters when WotLK comes out. Either way, you win in my opinion.

At least Blizzard is trying to speed up the pain that will come from leveling along side every other new death knight. Dueling another death knight for zeppelin debris is hardly worth it.

Remember your Cooldowns

2008-07-22T11:25:00.001-07:00

One of the many common topics I see while perusing the official forums is the question of how to make gold in game. Gold is easy to come by these days with all of the daily quests available to all Level 70s. But dailies are time consuming and very boring once you've completed them dozens of times. I'm guilty of this as well, once I had my gold for my epic mount, I became less and less interested with doing dailies every day. And who can blame us? Doing the same quests over and over is repetitive and feels like a job more than a game. Thus, I gave up on doing dailies every day and searched for ways to make easy gold without much time or effort.

One of the easy ways I've found to make some gold once every 4 days or so, is to never let your trade skill cool downs stay up for very long. On my Warlock main, I'm currently a 375 Shadoweave Tailor. This allows me to create 2 Shadowcloth for the mats of one. On my server, the main two ingredients, Primal fire and Primal shadow go for around 30-35g a piece for a total investment of 60-70g. With Shadowcloth going for around 70g a piece, that allows for a total profit of 70g every 4 days. Thats 70g for about 10 mins of time invested in game. This same idea can be applied to making Primal Mooncloth and Spellcloth with usually much better results with profits of up to 100g due to the vary costs of ingredients. Another tip to consider is to buy your mats on the weekends, as prices are usually much lower then due to the influx of players using the Auction house on the weekends. You can sometimes get your mats at a much reduced cost. Also make sure to check the trade channel as sometimes primals are advertised at reduced rates via trade.

Welcome!!

2008-07-09T16:00:00.000-07:00

Hello Readers!

Welcome to my site. Whispers from Azeroth, quite an interesting name isn't it? Well, what is this site going to be about? Well, this site is going to provide some helpful tips for getting around in the World of Warcraft. If you're a new comer to WoW or have multiple Level 70's, you'll find content here to help you get along better. So stay tuned, I think you'll like what you find here.