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The OverAchiever: 5 lucrative achievements
by WoW.com on Jan.21, 2010, under 1000-fish, 100000-honorable-kills, 40-exalted-reputations, achievement-guide, achievements, achievements-guide, argent-dawn-rep, argent-dawn-reputation, belt-of-the-archmage, dire-maul, els-anglin, els-extreme-anglin, featured, fish-feast, fishing, fishing-achievements, frostbitten, glacial-salmon, gold, guide, hero-of-the-zandalar-tribe, making-gold, making-gold-from-achievements, making-gold-with-achievements, making-money, musselback-sculpin, nettlefish, rare-mobs, rare-spawn, rare-spawns, steamwheedle-cartel, steamwheedle-cartel-reputation, the-argent-dawn, world-of-warcraft-achievement-points, world-of-warcraft-achievements, wow-achievement, wow-achievement-guide, wow-achievement-points, wow-achievements, wow-gold, wow-gold-making, wow-guide, wow-money, wow-money-guide, wow-money-making-guide, wow-points, zg, zul-gurub, zulgurub
Last week we discussed a set of achievements likely to drive the average player to the poorhouse. This week, in the spirit of consoling people who may not necessarily have a Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth in their immediate future, I’d like to present a series of 5 achievements where at least one of the following is true:
- They’re an unusual means of making gold in a way people wouldn’t necessarily expect, or:
- It would be almost impossible not to make a pile of gold while doing them.
Now, a disclaimer; the most obvious picks here would be achievements like Got My Mind On My Money or The Bread Winner, but they’re more a record of your previous looting and questing rather than being something you really have to go for consciously. I’m on the lookout for slightly more interesting ways to grow rich from achievements that are not so directly concerned with moneymaking:
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The OverAchiever: 5 lucrative achievements originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Cashing in at the Darkmoon Faire
by Alex Ziebart on Oct.16, 2009, under benefits, camping, darkmoon-faire, df, flik, frogs, heavy-leather-ball, herbs, making-money, pets, professions, profits, vendors, wowgrrl
I just posted a little while back that the Darkmoon Faire needed a change, but apparently there’s still some benefit to be had over there — Valdesta of WoWGrrl has found at least one way to keep the Faire interesting. She’s been keeping a character over there, apparently, and periodically checking in on what the vendors have. They sell not only little pets and miscellaneous items like the Heavy Leather Ball (which often sell for a tidy profit on the AH, since people aren’t always aware that the Faire vendors sell them), but there are also vendors there who sell profession items like herbs, motes, eternals, leathers, and so on.
And as anyone who’s ever levelled a profession knows, those are often worth their weight in gold, not just on the AH, but in terms of leveling up your own alt professions as well. As Valdesta says, it’s worth camping an alt over there just to check in during raiding downtime or on a flight path with your other character, for the same reason you should always check and see just what other vendors around the world might have for sale — sure, you won’t make much with just one buy, but over time, picking up cheap crafting mats from the DF can lead to some solid profits on the AH.
Filed under: Herbalism, Alchemy, Leatherworking, Items, Tips, How-tos, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Making money
Cashing in at the Darkmoon Faire originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki
by Alex Ziebart on Sep.11, 2009, under 70000, cooking-wiki, making-money, money, pages, profit, reports, twilight, user-generated-content, wall-street-journal, wiki, wikia, world-of-warcraft, wowwiki
Wikia has been doing a little bit of press lately — they’re the for-profit company that has spun off of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation that runs the huge Wikipedia website. Wikia has announced, as reported in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, that they’ve hit profit early. While they didn’t expect to actually make any money running ads next to user-generated content until next year, they’ve actually made some money this year already. They credit the growth of all of their miniwiki sites, which has expanded greatly over the last year.
So why are we reporting all of this here? You may have already guessed: one of their largest sites, if not the largest, is the World of Warcraft-related wiki, WoWWiki (which we definitely read and use here at WoW.com all the time). WoWWiki is mentioned in a few reports as having 70,000 pages (almost 1/3 more than the next-biggest site in the network, a cooking wiki). In fact, at least one reports credits WoWWiki, along with the Twilight-related wiki, for the growth entirely. We’re not sure how much of a part they actually played in the new reported profits, but they are definitely growing, and are a terrific resource for those of us in the WoW community.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Lore, NPCs, Making money
Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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