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9.16.2016

Hunter Surface Trot Helper Macro


If you're a hunter farming herbs and ore in northern Highmountain (watch Faid's great video on this technique) you may find yourself casting your Water Strider pet's Surface Trot ability a lot. (This ability allows you to walk on water.)

Unfortunately Surface Trot can't be cast while you are on your mount. The macro I wrote below does two things: If you are mounted it dismounts you and it casts Surface Trot.

(While you can't drag hunter pet abilities to your bar you can write them into macros.)

The macro:

/dismount [mounted]
/cast Surface Trot

Now if you're a bit to antsy (like I often am) to get to the next node and you mount before you need to cast Surface Tror this macro will dismount you and cast the spell.

It's a little quality-of-life thing but if you're casting Surface Trot a lot it helps.

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9.15.2016

Episode 100: Faiding Back In


Episode 100 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin and special guest Faid (Twitter, YouTube) discuss coming back to WoW after 2 years, yhe launch of Legion, making gold with gathering, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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9.03.2016

Thoughts on Leveling From 1-60 "Vanilla" Style



As you may have read in my previous post (Can You Make Gold At Low Levels? My Results From Level 1-49) I've been leveling a Warrior from level 1 to 60 in as close a "Vanilla" style as possible. Today I finally finished leveling her to 60 and I wanted to share a few additional thoughts on the process.
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8.30.2016

Can You Make Gold At Low Levels? My Results From Level 1-49


In preparation for the launch of Legion I've been working on a project to build the character I'm planning to give my free level 100 boost to.

I already have 14 level 100s so it wasn't necessarily an easy choice as to who to give the boost to. I already have a level 100 of every class and an extra 100 Hunter, Paladin, and Warlock (invasion XP was too much to resist leveling a few extra 90s I had laying around).

I settled on making a human female Warrior and leveling her to 60 and giving her professions so that when she was boosted to level 100 her professions would be leveled up automatically as well.

Sometimes I like to give my characters unique constraints (remember my "One Month, One Toon" Challenge?). For this Warrior I decided to level her "old school"-style. No Heirlooms, no mount until level 40, and no addons. As a fun side-project I wanted to know how much gold could a character like this make. Read on for more.
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12.13.2014

Episode 093: Garrisons and Gathering and Gold-Making…Oh My!


Episode 093 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses how gold-making has changed in Warlords, Blizzard fighting botters, gold-making with garrisons, passive vs. active play and much more. And now… on with the show!

Episode 093:

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11.29.2014

To Stockpile Ore or Not To Stockpile Ore


As was updated in our recent post on material prices since launch:

@CM_Lore: "@dopplegager @TheCrafticus The Garrison was giving too much ore. That was hotfixed yesterday. Will take some time to see the effects." 2:31 PM - 26 Nov 2014

With "yesterday" in that tweet being November 25th, as of this writing the garrison mining nodes have been nerfed for about 4 days. To determine whether it would be worth buying up some of the "cheap" ore now in preparation for an eventual theoretical price increase due to a lowering supply I thought I'd check the numbers.
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11.27.2014

Warlords Pricing Trends for Ore, Herbs, Enchanting, Leather, and Cloth Since Launch


Tonight I am going to record the pricing trends for the various crafting materials introduced in Warlords of Draenor.

Since it's been about 2 weeks since launch the very beginning data will soon not be shown in The Undermine Journal charts. This is my chance to record it for posterity.

I'll be showing the charts and giving some light commentary after the break.
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7.24.2014

New Garrison & Profession Information Via BlizzPro

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In the post "Build 18566: Garrison and Profession Shifts" BlizzPro's Crow (@unlimitedBLACK) gives us some further observations and insights on how garrisons and professions are coming together (and working together) in the Warlords of Draenor beta.

Read on past the jump for a few excerpts and my thoughts on the changes.
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7.19.2014

Profession Training Scrolls In Warlords of Draenor Beta



While killing Shadowmoon Voidmancers in (the surprisingly lush) Shadowmoon Valley in the Warlords of Draenor Beta I received three profession learning scrolls within a few drops of each other.

These particular scrolls (A Guide to Skinning in Draenor, A Compendium of the Herbs of Draenor, and A Treatise on Mining in Draenor) taught players how to skin, mine and gather herbs in Draenor.

Funny enough I was able to mine without reading this scroll but I didn't gain any skill over 600.





Reading the scroll I received a profession skill called [Mining] that allowed me to "mine ores in the old lands of Draenor" and gives a "potential mining skill of 700".

It would then seem these scrolls may replace learning a new mining skill from a trainer. I didn't however seem to learn new smelting techniques so that might still be coming. I checked with my Mining trainer and he didn't have anything new for me.

While this might seem like a small thing but I was just happy to find something new in the Beta related to professions.

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4.03.2014

Warlords of Draenor: No Prof Benefits, Easy-Mode Mining & Herbing



From Blizzard's Warlords of Draenor: Alpha Patch Notes: (Emphasis ours.)

"Professions  
Some of our goals with Professions in Warlords of Draenor are to make them more of a personal choice, and less of a mandatory “min/max” selection. To that end, we're removing the direct combat benefits of Professions. Additionally, we've made it easier to level Mining and Herbalism. Healing Potions have gone mostly unused lately, compared to combat stat potions. We chose to solve that problem, along with a problem with Warlock utility, by having Healing Potions and Healthstones share cooldowns. 
Herbalists can now harvest herbs throughout the game world without hard skill requirements. The yield an Herbalist will be able to harvest from each node is now determined by skill level. 
Miners can now harvest mineral nodes in outdoor areas of the game world without hard skill requirements. The yield a Miner will be able to harvest from each node is now determined by skill level. 
Healing Potions no longer share a cooldown with other potions, but instead share a 60-second cooldown with Healthstones. The cooldown will not reset until the player leaves combat."

The gathering changes seem like a continuation of the gathering changes introduced in Mists of Pandaria that allowed you level gathering completely inside of Pandaria.

This should make leveling a gathering professions while leveling your character much easier. I'm sure we've all had the experience of out-leveling the level of mining and herbalism while leveling and having to either go back and waste time catching up or stop leveling gathering until after you've hit max level.

Since I don't raid or PVP the removal of the stat bonuses won't really affect me although I'm sure some players will enjoy not having to take a professions they don't want to simply because it has the best stat bonus.


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4.25.2013

A Little Farming Never Hurt Anyone


In this livestream we do a bit of ore farming, skinning, and good old fashioned auction house flipping. We also go over TSM Common Search Terms and much more.

Watch Part 1 and Part 2 directly on YouTube or head past the jump for the embedded versions.
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3.24.2013

Wealth, RSS Readers and Reindeer Trains



In this livestream we fly camera-less, answer questions about mining, discuss (complain) about recent tech news, spot dual King's Defenders, reminisce about holiday hijinks and much more.

You can watch the video on YouTube here: WoW Gold-Making! 3.16.13 Evening Routine by Jim Younkin or head past the jump for the embedded version.
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2.12.2013

Around The Faceless Merry-Go-Round


In this livestream we go camera-less (crazy, I know!), post our saved Darkmoon Faire items, do some of our monthly Darkmoon Faire quests, give profession leveling advice, work on BankStack macros and much more.

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10.12.2012

The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 045


Episode 045 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, discuss MoP material prices, professions, Tiller's faction and much more. And now on with the show!

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5.10.2012

Breaking: Multiple Copies of MoP Zones Will Impact Ore/Herb Prices


Breaking News: Mists of Pandaria zones might have multiple copies per server if there are a high number of players. This has huge implications on the amount of materials that miners, herbalists and skinners will be bringing into the game and may have huge impact on those of us who were planning on farming to make gold at the beginning of Mists of Pandaria

Read on for a few excerpts from the official blog post by Blizzard as well as my thoughts on it.
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6.27.2011

The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 013

Episode 013 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine along with guest Nev bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, what we might expect from Patch 4.2, how to get started selling cross-faction, how to best use a new Jewelcrafter and much more. And now, on with the show!

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6.24.2011

Final Countdown to Patch 4.2



Picking up a piece off of Khalior's Tentacular Junkpile (See "Not a Patch Speculation Post (But it's as boring)") I wanted to talk about what I'll be doing in the last few days until Patch 4.2 drops (assuming it comes on June 28, 2011).

Get a peek into my preparation after the jump.
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6.22.2011

Make Cheap Inferno Rubies Before 4.2





One of the things I was most happy about Patch 4.1 was that I had a large stockpile of Inferno Rubies I was able to sell right after the patch for extortionate prices.

Even my whole stockpile wasn't enough to sate the demand players had for Inferno Rubies to gem the new gear they were getting out of the new Heroic Zul'Aman/Zul'Gurub. I made a killing. I was smiling all the way to the bank.

One thing I promised myself was that I would make sure I had a good stockpile of Inferno Rubies for Patch 4.2 so I could supply the new-patch demand for gear gemming.

Once Patch 4.2 comes along the cost to produce Inferno Rubies will go up. After the jump I'm going to teach you how to produce cheap Inferno Rubies in the last few days before patch 4.2.
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5.25.2011

16g New 4.2 Obsidium Shuffle Floor Price And Here's Why



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.
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5.18.2011

The "Treasure Potion Trash Dash" Challenges You!


We here at Power Word: Gold are always looking for new and interesting ways to compare ourselves to other gold makers. The struggle to see who has the largest gold epeen is never ending. Like the Highlander said "There can be only one master of gold".

With that in mind we've devised a fool-proof strategy for seeing who has the biggest sack...of gold. Introducing the "Treasure Potion Trash Dash"! The last server-independent gold-making contest you'll ever need. We'll go over the rules and our initial (and massive) results after the jump
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