The new Level 100 build of the Warlords of Draenor Beta is all about Garrisons with Blizzard giving you all sorts of tricks and shortcuts that allow beta testers to build all sorts of Garrison goodness.

I was very interested in all the different Garrison buildings along with all the different levels of those buildings and what benefits they offer. Read on past the jump for details on all twenty building you can build in the current beta.

Episode 066 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Erogroth discuss the maximizing professions in Patch 5.4, what players spend gold on, gold-making for casual players and much more. And now on with the show!

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Kaliope recently wrote about the mechanics of Leatherworking cooldowns on the Patch 5.4 Public Test Realm. Based on their observations it seems the act of daily cooldowns teaching new PVP and PVE recipied will continue in 5.4.

I just wanted to give a few tips to people looking to make gold from these recipes. Head past the jump for my advice.

MMO Champion has posted new data-mined information from the Patch 5.4 PTR. Read on past the jump for some new profession information Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring and Enchanting.

Kaliope wrote a wonderful post talking about pricing for the new Reborn Blacksmithing weapons introduced in Patch 5.2.

Now that many players have enough Lightning Steel Ingots to craft the top item level 502 weapons the question becomes should they? Head past the jump for more.

One of the most common questions people as me in my livestreams is "What do you spend all that gold on?".

While it seems they envision someone buying Spectral Tigers or spending gold-cap on Mimiron's Head from the Black Market Auction house the reality is much less glamorous.

Has past the jump for what I actually spend my gold on.

Episode 061 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Erogroth discuss many of the upcoming Patch 5.3 changes, Children's Week, XP reduction, upcoming changes to Mining and Herbalism and much more. And now on with the show!

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Today we have a quick gold-making tip for any Blacksmiths who are looking for a way to squeeze a bit more gold out of there profession. (This tip was also mentioned on Episode 58 of the Power Word: Gold Podcast.)

I've been making and selling the Hardened Obsidium Set (level 80 plate tanking items) since Cataclysm and to this day it still sells very well. I sell the items for right around 395g each and they often sell out quickly.

In Mists of Pandaria I've noticed that ore and bar prices for the Obsidium and Elementium used to craft these has gone up so keep an eye on the auction house for cheap ore or mine it yourself.

Bonus Content: If you' re looking for some new gold-making blogs be sure to check out The Drunken Mogul (by GoblinRaset), GetRichWoW (by Erogroth) and Thairus' Creative Accounting (by Thairus).

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In this livestream we discuss how to get Pandaria Jewelcrafting patterns, discuss obtaining new Blacksmithing patterns from Itoka, pricing for 77-80 and 83-84 items and much more.

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Episode 058 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin and guest Erogroth discuss what they've been doing in gold-making, daily cooldowns to do in Patch 5.2, the Crafted Dreadful Blacksmithing market, the importance of proper thresholds and fallbacks and much more. And now on with the show!

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Episode 057 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin and guest WowProfitz discuss what they've been doing in gold-making, Patch 5.2 Blacksmithing cooldowns, hardcore vs. casual gold-making and much more. And now on with the show!

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Episode 053 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin discusses the anniversary of Power Word: Gold Guide, 83-84 MoP Items, Uber Blues, new 5.2 Engineering and Blacksmithing items and much more. And now on with the show!

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Episode 046 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss what they've been doing in gold-making recently, finding Mists recipes, making gold after 90 and much more. And now on with the show!

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One of the most commonly asked questions on my livestreams is "what professions should I take". I've given this a lot of thought and today I'll be going over my "perfect world" list of professions based on how many characters you have to work with. Read on past the jump for the list.

Today I wanted to share a mogging item I've been having good success selling: The Huge Throium Battleaxe. This item can be crafted by almost any Blacksmith in the game but I doubt if anyone on your server is selling it. Head past the jump for my experience selling the Huge Throium Battleaxe.

Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul (Twitter: @DEazeroth). If you would like your guest post included on Power Word: Gold feel free to contact us at [email protected].

When transmogrification was announced I was really intrigued.  Obviously. Right? I mean I ended up starting a blog and noodled on the subject for about six weeks.  It's just a fantastic topic and one that is going to remain a stable area of interest and intrigue for a lot of players.

While I'm no longer able to maintain the blog (due to time constraints with our newborn son who's not sleeping more than 2 hrs at a time btw - ugh) I am still in and out of WoW as I try to complete various transmog sets for my 8 toons.

I'll tell you what. Sitting there on a chair from 2-4 in the morning with a baby on your shoulder offers plenty of time to sit and watch the market from the mobile armory on my iPhone.  I've begun a little project in this way and I mentioned it to flux and he asked me to write a post about it.  So here goes. (After the jump of course.)

Recent news from the Patch 4.2 Public Test Realm (PTR) that the vendor price for uncut uncommon Cataclysm gems has being reduced from 5 gold each to 50 silver (See "Patch 4.2 PTR: Uncut green gems vendor price reduced") has lead many to wonder: "What is the new vendor "price floor" of a 20 stack of Obsidium Ore?"

The answer to that question as well as some advice on what to do to prepare after the jump.

We're proud to bring you The Power Word Gold Podcast - Episode 004. Your hosts flux and Jokine bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from this last week.

In this week's episode we discuss the recent changes data-mined from the upcoming 4.1 patch (vendor prices for Cataclysm uncommon gems will be dropped dropping from 9 gold to 75 silver).

We go over what we have been doing in gold-making this week, how to make gold with limited time and much more. And now, on with the show!

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A while back I posted about selling Obsidium Skeleton Keys on the auction house. (See "Obsidium Skeleton Keys: Gold Hiding Right On Our Keyring?") Since then I had been curious of it was economically viable to use a 29 gold Obsidium Skeleton Key to open an Elementium Lockbox.

We had about 12 Elementium Lockboxes sitting in our guild bank so I decided to open them up and calculate the average gold value of their contents.

We meet again.

According to this new-fangled Analyst addon I've been using in the last seven days I've grossed around 27k with a net profit of just over 14k.

In this weeks recap I'll be going over what worked, what didn't and what's new. I'll talk about how the gem market is treating me, some unexpected cooking recipe sales and watching prices yo-yo.