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“Wow,” Lolegolas said. “Another sword, huh?”

Throgg looked up from where he’d been busily grooming his monobrow with his tongue. “What you mean, little belfling?”

“You have a different sword again,” Lolegolas said. He tossed his flowing locks over his shoulder, revealing the glittering perfection of his chest. “You just had Kliklak’s and now … this.”

“Ah, yes,” Throgg grunted. “It is sword with Mastery on it, as stat. Since it no longer part of talents, I thought it must be very important to have on sword. The Poisonfire Greatsword has much Mastery! Make Throgg strong!”

“Hm, of course,” Lolegolas said. “I will say that this sword seems rather magnificent. It appeals to my more savage aesthetic. It’s all rough and course and manly.”

“Right,” Throgg said. “I got it for infiltrating a camp in the beta. Throgg is very clever, and was given the Poisonfire Greatsword as a reward.”

“Do you remember anything about the lore of the quest?” Lolegolas asked. The roleplayer in him was coming out, and the blood elf was getting very excited.

Throgg’s unibrow furrowed in confusion. “Lore? What? “

“You know,” the blonde replied. “The lore. The story.”

“Story is,” Throgg answered with finality, “I got this awesome sword.”

Name Poisonfire Greatsword
Type Two-hand sword
Damage 738 – 1108; Speed 3.30; ; DPS 279.6
Attributes

• 152 Strength
• 228 Stamina
• Increase your Mastery rating by 152

How to get it It’s a quest item in Cataclysm. You must handle the Flames from Above.
How to get rid of it It sells for 7 gold, 80 silver. Not sure on the disenchants yet.

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“Little elf,” Throgg asked. “What do you think of these?” Throgg held his massive forearms aloft, showing them off to his diminuitive companion.

“Wow,” Lolegolas said. His face lit up in an eager smile. “Those are awesome. What are they?”

“They are,” Throgg said with a steady cadence, “The Best. Bracers. Ever.“

“I can believe it!” Lolegolas replied. He shuffled his shoulder so that a flowing cascade of hair rippled over his shoulder like homespun gold. “What are they called?”

“The Best. Bracers. Ever.”

“But … the name, Throgg.” Lolegolas’s face grew a little dark as he frowned. “I need the name. Otherwise, I’ll never be able to look them up on a reputable website like WoW.com, and find out how to get them for my-elf.”

“They are the Best. Bracers. Ever. Me not know how to tell you no more than that! Best. Bracers. Ever. come from Cataclysm!“

“You make my head hurt, you know that, right?” Lolegolas asked.

“That would make that the Best. Headache. Ever!”

Name Best. Bracers. Ever.
Type Bracers
Armor 20
Attributes

• 1 Stamina

How to get it It’s a quest item in Cataclysm. You must involve yourself with the Biggest Egg Ever.
How to get rid of it It sells for 34 copper. Not sure on the disenchants yet.

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Phat Loot Phriday: Best. Bracers. Ever. originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Insider Trader is a column about professions, occasionally written by Gold Capped columnist, Basil Berntsen. Basil can’t really tell the difference between the columns, sometimes, although ideally Gold Capped should be more focused on the Auction House, and Insider Trader should be focused on the professions. Well, as long as nobody calls him on it, he’s going to keep choosing where he’s putting his next piece by flipping a coin. Today was tails. Tomorrow, Gold capped is due. What does that make Time Is Money? Judging by the frequency, an edge roll. By the way; email Basil questions so he can start answering them in a “Ask an Auctioneer” post.

I’ve said before that farming professions are usually a waste of time. The opportunity cost of a farming profession is another crafting profession, which could make you so much more money per hour that you can always afford to buy the mats you need. The exception to this rule is mining.

All the gathering professions are simple and no risk. You pay nothing but time to level them, and you are able to make money by using them without risking anything but, again, time. The difference between your average player and an auctioneer, however, is that the auctioneer is always measuring his success in gold per hour. Extremely good farmers can do better than extremely bad auctioneers, however if you’re capable of being an extremely good farmer, you’re probably capable of being at least a good auctioneer, and are spending those hours doing a more repetitive, less interesting task for less money.

Mining is the exception to this rule because it opens up the ability to perform several very important transformations:

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Insider Trader: Mining, the tradesman’s multi-tool originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“So, uh, Throgg?” Lolegolas asked in a quiet tone of voice. “I’m not exactly sure how to ask this, but I thought I’d put it right out there. You know, pick it up, toss it back, whatever, but I wanted to ask.”

“What up, little belfling?” Throgg encouraged. The orc death knight flexed mightily, wielding his massive sword like other men held limp noodles. “I am busy using my immense weapon as weight for better curls.”

“Yeah, that’s kind of what it’s about, man,” Lolegolas said. “What happened to Shadowmourne, exactly? You got the last shard over me, and I’d kind of like to know where the bloody axe went.”

Throgg laughed. “Oh, that old thing? I replaced it with this baby from the beta. This is Kliklak’s Fearsome Greatsword. Isn’t it fierce? Isn’t it great?”

Lolegolas took a deep breath. “Shadowmourne, man. What happened to it?”

“Oh, that old thing? I vendored it for 50 gold. This quest drop has more damage and stamina.”

“But … but … the proc!” Lolegolas gasped in shock, as if someone had just told him that hair product could decrease the size of your pecs. “The proc was gorgeous! And the sockets!”

“Hard to manage,” Throgg said. “This way, I can spam Mortal Strike all day long and not worry.”

“You understand,” Lolegolas said. “I’m going to kill you now.”

“I understand,” Throgg replied.

Name Kliklak’s Fearsome Greatsword
Type Two-Handed Sword; Speed 3.50
Damage 1007 – 1511 Damage, 359.7 damage per second
Attributes

• 171 Strength
• 257 Stamina
• Improve critical strike rating by 114

How to get it It’s a quest item in Cataclysm. Pretty awesome, huh?
How to get rid of it It sells for 22 gold, 60 silver and 79 copper. Not sure on the disenchants yet.

Update: Stats fixed. Sorry about that!

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Want to get Gold Capped? Every week, Basil “Euripides” Berntsen takes a short break from building a raiding guild on Drenden (US-A) (we’re recruiting!) to write up a guide that will help you make gold. Check out the Call to Auction podcast, and feel free to email Basil any comments, questions or hate mail.

Every profession has some way of making money. You have different types of markets available and a limit of the number of professions you can have per character. This means that whether you’re just getting started on the auction house or trying to plan your next milestone, you need to make choices and plan your professions.

Road maps

In order to make intelligent choices about your professions, you need a few vital pieces of information. First, a plan. What’s your tolerance for risk, time invested and money invested? Second, you need to take stock of your characters. How many of them are capable of getting two professions maxed out? Are there any professions you don’t need maxed out for your plan? Last, you need to know what you can accomplish with the resources you have.

Once you have all this, you are able to make intelligent decisions.

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Gold Capped: Plan out your professions originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re about a week away from the 4th of July. On this day, our U.S. tradition involves firing copious amounts of explosives into the sky to celebrate our nation. We also barbecue, drink beer and do our best to keep whoever had the most beer away from the explosives. It’s generally a lot of fun. There’s just something magical about looking up in the sky and seeing fireworks.

The good news is that the holiday has an analog inside the World of Warcraft. The goblins gather across the world and totally rock out with an awesome display of pyrotechnic skill. Sounds pretty cool. But I’m a do-it-yourselfer. Accessing the vast legions of crafters under my command, I put together a list of my favorite celebratory recipes in the game. Here are some crafted items that can help you hold your own in-game 4th of July bash.

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Insider Trader: Celebrating with crafted items originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last week, I spent some time discussing how crafting has saved WoW for me in the past. More than a few folks echoed that statement, which was pretty heartening. Just as importantly, though, I had a couple readers drop me a line and ask for tips on how to go down the same path. They wanted any advice I might have on how to start one’s own crafting empire. How do you get from “I have no professions” to “I am a master of all, a rival to the goblin kingdom” in a few easy steps?

The basic idea behind building your own crafting empire would be that every profession is covered. You have it all. But it’s actually a little bit deeper than that. You not only have to have characters with the requisite recipes, you also must have characters with the requisite gathering progressions who can then perform the gathering for you. It gets a little deep depending on how you design your empire. And it all boils down to one thing.

Your ability to build and conduct your own crafting empire will revolve around your willingness to level alts. The actual class of your alts won’t matter directly but you’ll need at least a few. It is impossible to cover all the professions with fewer than four alts anyway, so you’ll be doing the grind from level 1 to 80 at least three times. (Not four, because you can use a death knight for at least one of these crafters.)

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“Dude, that’s women’s underwear,” Throgg said. The orc rolled his massive shoulders and furrowed his ungroomed, thick unibrow. Lolegolas couldn’t imagine a more perfect look for the death knight. Unibrow, drooling, and hunched over. If it weren’t for the gloves Throgg wore, his knuckles would constantly bleed from scraping the ground. “That’s for girls.”

Lolegolas sighed. “No, Throgg. I’m sorry, I used too many syllables on you at once. I have a brazier. The Brazier of Dancing Flames, actually. It is in no way related to underwear.”

“Then, if you’re so smart, what does it do?”

“It’s actually quite nice,” Lolegolas said. “It summons a tiny elemental spirit which will perform the dance of midsummer. If you mimic that behavior, you will momentarily be transformed into a similar — but larger! — spirit, to join it in its revelry. It will also bow in return to you, if you bow to it. Things like that.”

“What you look like when changed, little blood elf?” Throgg questioned.

“Well,” sighed Lolegolas. “A flaming draenei woman, actually.”

“Why do you want to look like space goat?”

“Look!” Lolegolas. “It’s perfectly okay if someone just wants to feel pretty before entering a raid. And, besides, it’s about celebrating Midsummer Fire Festival!”

Name: Brazier of Dancing Flame
Type: Inventory item
Attributes: Place a brazier upon the ground, where the little burning spirit will show up.
How to get it: Complete sufficient Midsummer Fire Festival activities to buy one for 350 Burning Blossoms.
How to get rid of it: You could delete it; but after all that work, you probably won’t want to do so.

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In case you didn’t hear, there was a rather large press event over the weekend. All at once, a seeming floodgate of information spewed forth with Cataclysm goodness onto our waiting ears. Of particularly exciting note for us, the hammer-and-apron crafting crowd, we finally got some hints about what we’re going to see — and, painfully, some definites about what we’re not going to see.

First, Path of the Titans is out. And while that does mean that Blizzard is going to focus on making other content as high quality as possible, that means that Archaeology is being ditched as a true profession. It will be focused on providing lore benefit instead, which I’ll acknowledge is a pretty cool idea. I was hoping to have a Bones-like character ready to to engage in forensic archaeology and absolutely make a killing on the auction house with my squinty goods.

Continue reading Insider Trader: Profession hints from the press event; no pony, no moose

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Insider Trader: Profession hints from the press event; no pony, no moose originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With Cataclysm lurking around the corner like a cat eager for tuna, it’s time to take a gentle stroll back to loots of yesteryear. The loots you got in the first raids, even before Karazhan. Loots that drop from elder gods, who you slayed with nothing but your determination, your wits and a faint desire to chase night elves around Stormwind. And so, gentle reader, I introduce to you the Vanquished Tentacle of C’thun.

There were probably combat applications for the Vanquished Tentacle back in the day. Like, it summoned a tentacle that would fight for you and stuff. But nowadays, I mostly see it used by blood elves in Silvermoon for roleplay. (Look, I’m not judging, I’m just saying.) The tentacle that is summoned is large and green and longer than your average tentacle. The truth is that if you’re looking to play a warlock in touch with insane elder gods, you could do worse than to use the Vanquished Tentacle as a roleplay prop.

Or you could drape yourself in the blood of Yogg-Saron, but who would be dumb enough to do that?

Name Vanquished Tentacle of C’Thun
Type Trinket
Attributes Summons a Vanquished Tentacle to your aid for 30 sec. (3 Min Cooldown)
How to get it Kill an Elder God. It used to take about 40 people, but you can do it with a handful nowadays. I’ve not yet heard of anyone soloing it, though.
How to get rid of it It sells to 10 gold. I’d have thought one’s sanity worth more than that.

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Phat Loot Phriday: Vanquished Tentacle of C’Thun originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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