Week 9: October 26, 2008
I am a level 10 priest after almost 9 weeks of playing. Granted, I don’t get to spend a lot of time on the game, so it amounts to less than a 40 hour work week (maybe), however, I can see why people buy guides and spend real money to skip some of the tedium or “work” of playing such MMORPGs. It also makes sense that having time consuming parts (running, building skills, leveling) all help MMO companies build revenue through monthly subscriptions.
With the large number of players and a high player dedication, there are other ways of making revenue also.
There is an amazing amount of places to purchase gold and level characters. The first kind of website I cam across was the people who are trying to sell their own guides to WoW. They boast of being able to quicken game time instead of drawing it out like the company (Blizzard) may prefer. Brian Kopp’s guide is one of them:
http://www.briankopp.com/?hop=shtmlssl
From there, I found other gold making guides claiming to be legitimate and game-play legal. People claim to be able to make 100 gold (in game) per hour by knowing some tricks and of course, they are for sale:
This is Luke Brown’s website where he has a video to show you that he has a character that has a lot of money, weapons, and armor in minimal playing time:
http://gold-secrets.my-guide.ws/
Wayne Williams:
http://www.wealthofwarcraft.com/?gclid=CNCYteP8xZYCFRlRagod1RGbyA
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Professions
Week 8: October 20, 2008
This last week I got online to play solo again. This was only my second time that I got online without meeting up with another player or friend. Someone immediately offered to duel me. No one talked to me seeking out groups. I thought I might work on some boring tasks while I was soloing so that when I got online with others we could go to the meat of things like quests and raids.
I had just chosen cooking as a skill. This is considered one of the three secondary professionals. Although characters can only have two primary professions, they can do all three secondary: cooking, first aid, and fishing. Professions, according to the WoW Battle Chest guide, “are a way to improve your character”. You can chose professions that might help your character or you might chose a profession that generates extra cash flow. For example, as a Priest, I might find alchemy useful to make defense, agility, and even invisibility potions.
“Spell casting classes can use alchemy to create mana potions and related buffs. You can create potions for yourself, sell them to others, or give them to your party members and friends. Alchemists are well loved when they hand out potions.”
WoWwiki
As a secondary, I might do herbalism since I could pick the ingredients I needed for alchemy without paying the high price on the open market.
I planned on working on a cooking quest I had acquired- gather 7 small spider legs and return to Zarrin, a cook, in Dolanaar. My reward would be experience and the recipe for spider kabobs. I ran around the area of Dolanaar but only found 1 spider who gave up the small spider leg as loot upon death. I thought I might be hunting in the wrong area, so I ran back to my starting city, Shadowglen.
I had completed a quest there that required entering a spider lair. I ran over there to hunt but was disappointed to find that those spiders were giving loot like “snapped spider legs”. I needed help to understand where I should find specific types of loot. I looked up guides to WoW and found a few:
WoW wiki
WoW Database
Allakhazam
WoW thottbot
However, I did not find what I was looking for, which is a map of loot items. I might have been able to find it another way, such as under the quest name. I ended up returning to the area in Dolanaar where I had found a few wandering spiders and camping them until I got enough small spider legs. (Camping here means that I stayed after I killed the spiders until they reappeared so I could kill them again and get the amount of loot I wanted,) I took the required quest items to the cook and gained experience and the recipe for kabobs.
While I had been looking for an answer to how to find these small spider legs, I came across a guide online that told me how to gain skill level 40 without ever leaving the trainer:
“Quick Start Guide (Alliance up to 225)
• Find a cooking trainer and spend the 9 copper to learn the cooking skill. This will most likely be in Goldshire, Dolanaar, Kharanos, or the Exodar.
• Start with making as much [Spice Bread] as you can. It will cost you 30 (copper pieces) per 5 bread and this will get you up to skill 40 without ever leaving the trainer.
WoWwiki
Although one can find this next information in the Battle Chest guide book that comes with the game, I found on WoWwiki what the colors of the recipes mean (this is the same for any profession):
Red = Cannot create yet; you need a higher skill level in Cooking before you can create this recipe.
Orange = Will always receive a Cooking skill point when you create that item.
Yellow = Likely to receive a Cooking skill point.
Green = Unlikely to receive a Cooking skill point.
Gray = No skill increase.
Without the guides, online help, and my friends, I surely would have spent a lot more time trying to inch my way up the experience level.
While I was in the area, I signed up for my second primary profession (you can only have two and I had previously picked tailoring). My second profession became herbalism. My goal was to pair it with alchemy and get rid of tailoring, but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
This last week I got online to play solo again. This was only my second time that I got online without meeting up with another player or friend. Someone immediately offered to duel me. No one talked to me seeking out groups. I thought I might work on some boring tasks while I was soloing so that when I got online with others we could go to the meat of things like quests and raids.
I had just chosen cooking as a skill. This is considered one of the three secondary professionals. Although characters can only have two primary professions, they can do all three secondary: cooking, first aid, and fishing. Professions, according to the WoW Battle Chest guide, “are a way to improve your character”. You can chose professions that might help your character or you might chose a profession that generates extra cash flow. For example, as a Priest, I might find alchemy useful to make defense, agility, and even invisibility potions.
“Spell casting classes can use alchemy to create mana potions and related buffs. You can create potions for yourself, sell them to others, or give them to your party members and friends. Alchemists are well loved when they hand out potions.”
WoWwiki
As a secondary, I might do herbalism since I could pick the ingredients I needed for alchemy without paying the high price on the open market.
I planned on working on a cooking quest I had acquired- gather 7 small spider legs and return to Zarrin, a cook, in Dolanaar. My reward would be experience and the recipe for spider kabobs. I ran around the area of Dolanaar but only found 1 spider who gave up the small spider leg as loot upon death. I thought I might be hunting in the wrong area, so I ran back to my starting city, Shadowglen.
I had completed a quest there that required entering a spider lair. I ran over there to hunt but was disappointed to find that those spiders were giving loot like “snapped spider legs”. I needed help to understand where I should find specific types of loot. I looked up guides to WoW and found a few:
WoW wiki
WoW Database
Allakhazam
WoW thottbot
However, I did not find what I was looking for, which is a map of loot items. I might have been able to find it another way, such as under the quest name. I ended up returning to the area in Dolanaar where I had found a few wandering spiders and camping them until I got enough small spider legs. (Camping here means that I stayed after I killed the spiders until they reappeared so I could kill them again and get the amount of loot I wanted,) I took the required quest items to the cook and gained experience and the recipe for kabobs.
While I had been looking for an answer to how to find these small spider legs, I came across a guide online that told me how to gain skill level 40 without ever leaving the trainer:
“Quick Start Guide (Alliance up to 225)
• Find a cooking trainer and spend the 9 copper to learn the cooking skill. This will most likely be in Goldshire, Dolanaar, Kharanos, or the Exodar.
• Start with making as much [Spice Bread] as you can. It will cost you 30 (copper pieces) per 5 bread and this will get you up to skill 40 without ever leaving the trainer.
WoWwiki
Although one can find this next information in the Battle Chest guide book that comes with the game, I found on WoWwiki what the colors of the recipes mean (this is the same for any profession):
Red = Cannot create yet; you need a higher skill level in Cooking before you can create this recipe.
Orange = Will always receive a Cooking skill point when you create that item.
Yellow = Likely to receive a Cooking skill point.
Green = Unlikely to receive a Cooking skill point.
Gray = No skill increase.
Without the guides, online help, and my friends, I surely would have spent a lot more time trying to inch my way up the experience level.
While I was in the area, I signed up for my second primary profession (you can only have two and I had previously picked tailoring). My second profession became herbalism. My goal was to pair it with alchemy and get rid of tailoring, but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
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