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Leveling Your Alt Toon

September 9, 2011 1 Comment

nabbey 300x176 Leveling Your Alt ToonSo, you decided to make an alt toon but are dreading the leveling you will have to face? No worries anymore. WOW has made it quite simple to level your toons a bit faster.  If you have a main toon that is 85, you can always send mats, gold etc to your alt toon to help it along with professions as well.  Mining and Herbalism do grant you extra experience if you choose to learn these specific professions.

Guild Perks

First of all, if your toon is an alt, you may already be part of a guild which has guild perks. One great guild perk is achieved at Guild Level 2.  This guild perk gives your toon an extra 5% increase when completing quests and killing monsters.  If you are part of a guild whose level is already 6, you get a 10% increase when completing quests and killing monsters.

Blue Bar, Blue Bar!

No matter which starting area you start at or which faction you choose, questing is easy.  I went up to level 5 easily within 30 minutes of playing my alt toon.  One thing you want to make sure of before you turn in any quests is that your experience bar (which is located above  your ability/user interface bar) is blue and not purple.  When you turn in a quest and your bar is blue, you get 200% of the experience instead of 100%.  You will turn purple if you fight or kill something but if you are simply turning in quests, your bar can remain blue as long as you rest at an inn or major city.  This means you must stay there until your bar turns blue or leave your toon and log off for a bit.

Quests

Questing is a great way to level up your toon as well.  I usually take quests which are orange (coloring of the quest title) and yellow.  If a quest turns green on me, I will abandon it.  Keep in mind as you are completing quests, you are also killing monsters, beasts, etc.  So you are getting experience from killing things as well as completing the quests.  Don’t forget to rest at an inn or any major city before you turn in your completed quests.

Battlegrounds

Once you reach level 10, you unlock two battlegrounds: Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin.  The interesting thing about battlegrounds is that if you enter while your experience bar is blue, it will not turn purple when you are playing a battleground.  Of course, you can earn honor points and experience in these battlegrounds.  You can receive double experience and honor points if one of the battlegrounds happens to be Call To Arms as well.  Your honor points can be stored (cap is 4000) until you are ready to purchase something with them.

Dungeons

When you reach level 15, you are eligible to enter random dungeons.  Dungeons are another great way to level your toon quick.  Not to mention, you will get gold, extra experience and a bag of goodies which usually contain a rare piece of gear.

Questing, battles and random dungeons are all great ways for you to level up your alt toon.  Chances are you may know the quests from previous toons as well as the dungeons.  I have seen some of my guild mates level up 10 levels very quickly.  Hopefully these basic tips can help you when you are ready to make an alternate toon.  Good luck!

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Are Dungeon Bugs Eating Your Warcraft Epics?

June 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

bug 300x180 Are Dungeon Bugs Eating Your Warcraft Epics?

Today I want to go over a problem that has been plaguing me multiple times while running the new heroic dungeons.  Maybe the same issue is also happening to you.  Hope I can be of assistance so that you aren’t losing out on your epic gear and other items that come from running dungeons in World of Warcraft. 

The Dungeon Bug

You’ve probably seen it happen in a dungeon group.  You kill a mob or a boss in a heroic dungeon and a nice shiny purple epic item drops.  You roll need or greed, then another player drops the group or disconnects without ever choosing their option for the item.  They leave the group and never hit Need, Greed, or Disenchant.  The roll is supposed to finish when that person’s loot window option time’s out.  Problem is it doesn’t always work properly.  About once a week while farming Chaos Orbs in heroic dungeons, I have an issue with not getting my loot.  It’s always when someone drops or disconnects from the group during the rolling process.

This dang dungeon bug has eaten both a Spiritguard Drape and a pair or Skullcrusher Warboots.  When the Spiritguard Drape incedent happened, it never gave me the item at all, but did show my greed roll was the highest of all party members.  I just never got the item in my bags.  With the Skullcrusher Warboots bug incedent I never got my item, but it also never showed in my log that I won the item.  Others in the party were telling me I was the winner (and complaining), but again I never even got the item or even knew that I won.  Yeah, there was a plate wearer complaining that I won the DPS boots as a tank, but they were a huge upgrade over the blue junk boots I had at the time.  And being a DK Tank, the nice +mastery boost was great, the stats were all higher than the junk I had, and the hit just got reforged to more dodge.  Perfectly legit upgrade, but the other guy still whined.  Oh well.  At least I’m not a warlock wearing a strength ring to get my item level up.  (Right, Rewt?  lol)

So pay attention to your log.  You may even be the winner of the item and it can bug out and never end up in your bags at all.  If you aren’t aware and watching, you could be losing out on valuable gold pieces, especially if the dungeon bug is eating your Bind-on-Equip epics.

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How To Get Your Items Back

To get what is rightfully yours, all you need to do is open a support ticket and a GM can assist you in retrieving your items that were eating by the dungeon bug.  When reporting the issue to a GM make it easier and faster for them and have some of the information included into your GM Ticket Submission.  Here’s what I like to include to assist the GM.

  • The Item Name
  • The Boss, Mob, or Chest It Dropped From
  • The Instance or Raid
  • The Time of Occurance (Roughly)
  • Brief Description of the Incedent
  • Name of Character Involved

I like to go ahead and open the ticket right then and there once I realize I’ve been shorted by loot.  I tend to use the in game UI to open the ticket with the Blizzard GMs.  Usually it takes me less than a day to get my item restored.  You will get an email from a GM (like the one above in the pic) that will tell you to check your in game mailbox for your restored item.  If you prefer to use the web based ticket submission system, then take a look at his Guide To Online Blizzard Ticket Submission written by Alto of Alto’s Goldish Advise.  Alto is another staff writer here at Goldgrub’s Goblin Academy who also puts out great content over on his main site.

I hope this information is of assistance to you young goblins.  I sure am glad I found out how easy it is to get these items back, as before I would just roll with it.  That was costing me items and gold in the end.  For example, that Spiritguard Drape I had restored, sold for 700g the same day I got it out of my mailbox. 

Don’t let those dungeon bugs each your epics! 

Happy Hunting!

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Placing Value On An Item | Tanking Shields and Random Dungeons

June 6, 2011 1 Comment

df header 580 Placing Value On An Item | Tanking Shields and Random Dungeons

One of the first things to start learning about when becoming a successful gold making goblin in World of Warcraft is the Value of an item. 

  • How do you place value on an item? 
  • How do you know what can be sold for a nice profit? 
  • How do you know what will sell and what will not sell on the Auction House? 
  • How much should you sell it for?

Learning to place value on items within the game is a very complex lesson, but one of the major contributors to the value (or worth) of an item is the Demand for that item.

  • Is the item needed by certain Professions?
  • Is the item rare and hard to collect?
  • Is the item required for a quest?
  • Is the item used for leveling characters?
  • Is the item required in a crafting recipe?

There are many factors that will contribute to the demand for that item.  Without any demand, an item surely will not sell.  Let’s look at a specific example of an item that has a demand and will sell on the Auction House in World of Warcraft.

Low Level Tanking Shields and Random Dungeons

Level 15 is the earliest that a new character can start to use the Random Dungeon Finder tool.  This in game tool allows characters to join for dungeon groups without having to form a party first.  This was an excellent addition to the game that allows for quicker running of dungeons, especially at the lower levels.  To be even faster at getting queued, many players will have their character sign up as the tank role for the group.  These low level warriors and paladins will head to the auction house to buy a shield to start off their dungeon tanking career.  For this reason, you can sell many of the level 14, 15, 16 green shields that you find off of mobs while leveling and questing in Azeroth.  If they have stamina and strength bonuses they can sell very well.  These green tanking shields will sell for far more on the auction house than they will to the vendors.  Even healing stat shields can sell to Shaman and Paladin Healears that are joining up in the Healer role for the Random Dungeon Finder. 

So make sure not to trash or vendor any of the level 14-16 green shields.  Post them on the auction house.

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