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5/15/10

If you’ve already mastered the art of obtaining massive amounts of gold in the World of Warcraft, you may have come to a point when you’re thinking “What the hell am I going to do with all these gold?” If only there is a Las Vegas Strip somewhere in Azeroth, that would be a good way to shell out your money betting on dwarf boxing, Arthas Slot Machines and Blood Elf lap dancing (woot). Unfortunately, gambling is still illegal in the World of Warcraft and those who try and build a casino empire using the trade channel to promote their business get hit by the Ban Hammer. So here are 5 things to do with your gold:

1) Buy BOEs: It’s really tiring to farm emblems to buy gear for your alts. Instead, search for high ilvl BOEs in Wowhead and scan the auction house for good deals. Now, you don’t have to farm as much emblems anymore, and you’ll be quickly geared to test out your toon on the Lich King’s ass.

2) Join GDKPS: How much does a gear cost in GDKPS? Depends on the item of course but how will others compete with a high roller like you? 3000 gold bid for an ICC drop? No problem; you have  a hundred thousand more and you can earn that back within the day.

3) Get Achievements: Buy the expensive mounts, buy all pets, get a spot in a 25 man Ulduar for Glory of the Ulduar Raider, pay a druid to run you in Setthek Halls for the Raven Lord mount, etc.

4) Powerlevel Professions: If you don’t have all the professions yet and you have alts that are just waiting to have one, GET THEM ALL NOW. The prices of the materials might spike up when Cataclysm comes out. Better take advantage of cheap prices as of the moment.

5) Powerlevel your alts: Tired of leveling for the nth time? Just find a friend or someone from your guild to run your alts through dungeons in trade for gold. I don’t know how much a run costs, but even if it costs me 10,000 gold to get my toon from 1-70, I’d say it’s worth it compared to questing by myself.

6) SAVE UP FOR CATACLYSM: Archaeology is the new profession in Cataclysm. You might want to save up gold to level this up as items will cost a fortune. But if you’re one of the first people to max level Archaeology, you can earn big profit in a the long run too.

A very underestimated market is food. Fishing used to have its golden days which was before they made Wintergrasp fish-able. You can’t deny it, Blizzard made fishing too easy when they made all of the materials needed for a fish feast fish-able in Wintergrasp. However, one thing that is still hard to farm are animal meats. This post will be focusing on the rhino meat and the chilled meat.
These meats are used by cooking daily quests and those leveling their cooking profession. Just because of the cooking daily quests, you have a nice market to sell your meats to. Prices of these meat depends greatly upon a server’s economy, and which cooking daily quest is available for that day. For instance, if the quest for the day is Mustard Dogs!, expect it to be in demand and will cost a lot more than chilled meat.

X marks the spot

In my opinion, the best place to farm these meats are from the rhinos in Borean Tundra. Rarely does anyone go there anymore. Who would want to reminisce in Borean Tundra, right? The best part is these rhinos drop both Rhino Meat and Chilled meat, hitting two birds with one stone. If you’re a skinner, your profit increases even more as you can skin the dead rhinos and sell the leather or use it for something else. That’s already hitting 3 birds with one stone. If you can pull multiple packs, the better. Just don’t die or your gold goes to your repairs.

A stack of rhino meat goes for around 35 g a stack and a stack of chilled meat goes for 20g (server dependent). I tried cooking the rhino meat into rhino dogs but no one even bothered to buy them. Just sell the raw meat.

As you all know my site was attacked 2 days ago by a Zattapetta. I’ve already cleaned up the malware using a .php code which became available once the attack became widespread around the internet. I still contacted my host and asked to scan the site just to double check if there are any malicious code left. Gladly, there are none left and wowstability.com is safe to browse once again. Cheers!

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Below is a video showing an alternative way for crafting glyphs besides using Quick Auctions . I believe it is a much faster way just because as in Quick Auctions, you won’t have to click the name of the glyphs to determine how many you want to craft for the day. Repeating that task everyday becomes a chore which eventually pushes you hate the profession.You wouldn’t want to hate a cash cow profession!

With KTQ, you will be able to set the maximum number of glyphs you’d want to create – say, 5. So every time you want to refill your glyphs, KTQ will check how many you have left (altoholic is useful here to check your bank toon) and will put into queue how many it will craft. Also, one of the most fun things in this addon is the ability to purchase all the reagents for your glyphs with 1 click. That alone is a huge time saver.However, just like Quick Auctions, you have to click every time you want a certain glyph crafted; there is NO ADDON that allows you to craft everything in the queue with one click.

For a more detailed information how to use KTQ, watch the video below by ah-whoring.com

You can download all the addons needed from this link

With posting the huge amount of glyphs, I still prefer using Quick Auctions.

5/7/10
I’m sorry for those who visited my site during the past 12 hours. Apparently , wordpress was attacked by Zattapetta. A lot of websites using wordpress and being in a shared host were affected. What it does is it redirects you to another webpage and tries to install a trojan on your computer. (Read more on Zattapetta here http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/exploit-on-wordpress-returns-go-daddy-responds/ http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/breaking-news-wordpress-hacked-with-zettapetta-on-dreamhost/). Good thing I have Avast! Antivirus so the Trojan got blocked right away. I hope all of you have antivirus softwares installed in your computer as well. If you don’t have one, I suggest getting Avast! forfFree.
I already used a .php script to remove the stuff Sattapetta put in my .php files. (read more on the fix here http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/simple-cleanup-solution-for-latest.html )I’m still contacting my host to check if there are any problems left. For now, trying to add a new post is really hard: I can’t see what I’m typing unless I highlight the text and I can’t add links, pictures, change font size, etc. Hopefully my host will check out the site and update me within the day.
With a day off at work, I’m supposed to be updating content in this blog. But then again, wordpress got hacked instead. I promise to update soon. Sorry to all!

This one I thank wowconfidential for the information for. I wouldn’t have known about this if not for that site. It’s one of those addons that I wished existed a long time ago – an addon that allows you to see trade channel from anywhere in the World of Warcraft!

No more asking guildmates and waiting for friends to enter a city and asking them to spot good deals in the trade channel for you. If you’re like me who’s addicted to earning gold, you feel like awesome deals are passing you by if you’re not in a city. Watching the trade channel is one addiction goblins have and it’s not a healthy one. Now, with TradeForwarder, you will get your WoW social life back.

It kinda works like the Wintergrasp timer addon before; the addon depends on other users who have the addon enabled and are receiving information (in this case, information from the trade channel). This information is then sent to other users using the same addon. Hence, the name TradeForwarder. It depends on how much people are using the addon, and how many of them are currently in a city. If no one with TradeForwarder is in the city, you get no trade chat information.

One thing you cannot do with TradeForwarder is to chat in the trade channel. No problem with that, really. Seeing the trade channel from anywhere is already a big help. Finally, you can watch out for those good deals while you bust out a boss’ ass. (See more on Trade Channel Spying)