by Basil Berntsen

Blacksmithing is a crafting profession that has made me a lot of money. Today, we’ll talk about how you can use blacksmithing as something more than a couple of extra gem slots for your main, and actually make gold! Many people with crafting skills invariably have tried linking their profession in trade and saying “tips appreciated.” Has that worked for you? Me either. If you want to make money with any crafting skill, the true profits are from acquiring the mats yourself, crafting, and selling your wares over the long term. As I mentioned in my previous post, the default UI won’t cut it for our purposes, so let’s get cracking and set you up with a proper crafting UI.

Tools of the trade

To start with, you absolutely must have auctioneer installed. There are other addons that would work, but auctioneer is what I use, and it’s widely supported with other addons we’ll need. I’m not going to go into too much detail on how to use it for now, but you should download and install it. Once it’s working, go to an auction house and click the blue fast forward arrow at the top of your screen. Note: that button really is blue in game
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by Basil Berntsen

I have sold so many auctions that the counter in the statistics section for my auction alts has rolled over into negative numbers. I am currently worth about 150,000g, and that’s after I bought myself a Quel’Delar and a pair of BoE boots the first couple of days after the patch launched. I suspect the reason I was picked to write this instead of someone who is already at or over the gold cap is that I’ve been able to accomplish this with extremely limited play time. I do most of my work in half an hour every weekday morning, leaving the rest of my time free for raiding with my hunter, writing about it at outdps.com, arguing with Frostheim about it on the Hunting Party Podcast, and taking care of my other show (Call to Auction).

When you decide you want to make ridiculous sums of imaginary money, where do you start? Well, that all depends on what you have. If you have been playing for a while, chances are you have a level 80. All characters have two primary profession slots, and maybe, if you’re really lucky, you’ll have some professions already trained! The higher, the better.

There are two ways to make gold in WoW. Grinding and everything else. If you are literally starting from nothing, I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but unless you have a friend willing to loan you money, you’re going to have to grind. You need gold to make gold in the auction house.

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by caleb @ Ensidia

When people whisper me in-game and I don’t answer there is usually a good reason for it. Please take no offense if it happens to you. I’m probably afk, or just busy with something else. I’ll try to answer questions on the forums (at least the ones that haven’t been answered already).

Some parts of this guide are taken from the previous guides, obviously the ones that apply for marksman as well in Icecrown Citadel. These are in italic, so you can just skip over it if you read the previous guide and got a general understanding of the appropriate section. This should make it easier if you are only interested in marksman specific information for the Icecrown Citadel dungeon. .

Hunter Guide for Icecrown Citadel

Introduction:

Welcome to the Hunter guide of Icecrown Citadel’s pre heroic mode stage. The guide will only cover raiding related concepts, such as:

-{ I } stats
-{ II } gems, enchants
-{ III } talents, glyphs
-{ IV } shot rotations
• { IV/1 } Kill Shot
• { IV/2 } Serpent Sting
• { IV/3 } Chimera Shot
• { IV/4 } Aimed Shot
• { IV/5 } Silencing Shot
• { IV/6 } Steady Shot
-{ V } a bit of gear selection
-{ VI } buffs, debuffs, consumables
-{ VII } macros
-{ VII } addon recommendation

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?by Chase Christian

Holy paladins have come a long way since our days in vanilla WoW. Back then, we were a three button class: Cleanse, Flash of Light, Holy Light. The infamous addon Decursive even did all the dispelling for us, leave the human user simply casting Flash or HL for hours on end. Seals and Judgments were for retribution and protection: we were standing 40 yards away filling up life bars. Things didn’t improve much in TBC either: while Holy Shock was fun to finally use, we ended up being purely FoL bots in most raid situations.

Blizzard took a new approach to healing in Wrath, including completely revamping each existing healing tree to make sure each one was balanced, viable, and most importantly, enjoyable. Holy paladins now enjoy a complexity that is multiple times more entertaining to play than anything that we’ve seen in the past. However, with this added functionality comes added complexity. To help us lighten the load, we can use a few amazing addons and macros manage our “holy 3.0″ paladins; this allows us to focus on keeping people alive.

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By Matticus @ nostockui

The recent patch 3.3 broke arguably one of the most functional and widely-used world map addons, Cartographer; but according to Cartographer’s page at curse.com there are no plans to update the addon for patch 3.3 as it is based on an out-of-date framework that would require a complete rewrite. No single addon has stepped up to take the place of Cartographer as yet; but with a few addons, most of the major functionality can be replaced.

Base Map: Mapster

Nevcairiel’s WoWAce-based Mapster is a lightweight world-map only addon intended to be compatible with other map and navigation addons and it works well for replacing many of the major features of Cartographer, such as:

• resizing and repositioning of the world map
• displaying character and cursor coordinates
• fog of war colouring and removal
• the ability to steer and stop with the world map open
• improved party and raid icons
• support for individual character profiles

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by Gregg Reece

As a dungeon runner, you don’t have the high requirements usually associated with raids, but there are a couple things you’ll want to keep an eye on. You’ll want to keep reasonably buffed, have some useful macros to fall back on, and have some addons to help organize some of the more procedural steps. Let’s take a look after the break.

Consumables:
For leveling up, generally you’ll just want to keep a good stash of food and water. I recommend learning to cook so that your food will at least boost your stamina up a little bit. Most low level food is primarily stamina and spirit buffs and a lot of them are rather lacking. There are exceptions to that rule, but generally that’s what you’ll see. A lot of holiday food items are pretty good as they will usually scale with your stats. Some holiday food items even have unique buffs to things like hit and defense.

Fishing is helpful for getting something to put over the cooking fire especially if you’re a die-hard dungeon runner and is pretty easy (if not boring) to skill up in and will keep you up to date with cooking supplies.

For secondary buffs on higher end food, if you need more hit, go with hit foods. If you need more threat, go with strength or attack power foods. Otherwise, use whatever consumables you have at your disposal. If you happen to be an alchemist, then try to make some potions, elixirs, or flasks that are useful to you. If you’re an engineer, then lob some dynamite during pulls. Blacksmiths, use those Sharpening Stones and get a little extra threat. Scribes can use the scrolls that they made for skill ups. For leveling dungeons, use what you have available to you. For raiding, you’ll probably want to be a little more precise about your choices.

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i will learn you how to create a route with many nodes in just a couple of minutes with three addons. Also, some people may alredy use this, but i know lot of people is not. *I’m sorry if my english isn’t the best*

We will need 3 addons for this:
Routes – Routes – Addons – Curse
GatherMate – GatherMate – Addons – Curse
Gathermate_Data – GatherMate_Data – Addons – Curse

Check so that these three addons are enabled when you login into the game.

Now it’s time for us to setup Gathermate and import some data.
Type “/gathermate” in the gamechat.

Since this is the first time we are using Gathermate, we will need to import some data.

Press “GatherMateData” and this this will apear:

Choose wich data you want to import. I did only import Mining in this example since i just want to include ore’s in my route. When you’ve choosed what data you want to import press the “Import GatherMateData” button.
If you did do everything right, you should see this in your chatlog:

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by Eliah Hecht

Deadly Boss Mods

Boss mods are very helpful for all raiders, of course, but particularly crucial for raid leaders, who need to call out when raiders need to do things. If you’re not familiar with boss mods, they basically aim to tell you any information about boss abilities that you might need to know during a fight. For instance, on XT-002, boss mods will tell you if anyone has a bomb debuff, when XT is about to throw a Tantrum, how long the heart has left, and so on.

Up until last night I used BigWigs, an alternative to DBM, but DBM shows you so much more information that I don’t think I’ll be going back to BigWigs any time soon. One especially key point in DBM’s favor is that it will show you health bars for mobs that need to die at the same time, like Stalagg and Feugen or the trio of elementals on Freya. Still, BigWigs is almost as good if you want an Ace version or if you just hate DBM for whatever reason.

Download Deadly Boss Mods at Curse/WoWInterface (I’m not linking to their official site because it has gold ads)

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By Brajana

Professions can often be overlooked when discussing addons.  Many people focus on getting their raiding mods to function and look just right, but rarely think about the many ways you can use addons to ease and improve the efficiency of your day-to-day crafting!
 

Tradeskill Window Replacement Addons

The following four addons act as a total replacement for your profession windows, everything from First Aid to Enchanting.  They’ve all got strengths and weaknesses and slightly different features, so I’ve outlined what I found most useful and most disenchanting (*giggle*) about each of them.

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