Looks like it's been a while since I've made a new post. =]

I've been busy in the Cataclysm Beta and RL, learning about new ways of making gold for when retail hits. There sure are a ton of exploits and bugs available, and I hope they don't make it to retail. Recipes and pets are pretty much the same, and mobs have only moved and not been removed - meaning that there's no point to collecting rare recipes or pets before Cataclysm hits.

I've also been thinking about creating a Dummies Guide to Quick Auctions. It's heavily utilized on many servers though, and can easily be exploited. =] So maybe I'll do both: how to use Auctioneer and Quick Auctions 3 and how to exploit them. There are a lot of ways of doing it, so I'll do some experimentation.

Civ 5 is coming out tomorrow too.. but I'll try to make the time.

The new Troll event is broken on most realms, and more are following.

The Operation Gnomeregan event on the Alliance side is also bugged on most realms in a very similar fashion. All it really takes is a player to aggro the mob and lure it outside of it's "comfort zone" - so you don't have to kite it far. (Right outside the village walls on Horde side for example)

This was a huge issue on the Beta/Testing Realms, but Blizzard decided to release it to the Live Realms anyways.. go figure.

"Jun'Do The Traitor" becomes immune to all forms of attacks around 50% HP. What's nice about this, though, is that you can just stand there and level up all of your weapon skills on an 80 Elite with no risk of damage. =]


You can get your [Master of Arms] and [Did Somebody Order a Knuckle Sandwich] achievements on this boss right now. Every once in a while, melee players will get thrown back by his AOE attack, but just move forwards a bit and continue attacking. Wand casters and other long range attackers can just sit back and leave their PC idle to skill up.

Blizzard Support's official solution to this bug is to "simply drag him back through the burning village." Well, that's all and good.. except for the fact that he's aggroing the NPCs and he's immune to all attacks/taunts/spells/etc. Some great QA work was done on these quests.

Below is where his approximate location is (silver arrow) by the way. I noticed that a lot of players were still hanging around the landing zone waiting for the event to start. =]


To increase skill levels more quickly, put Auto-Attack as a button, generate a little lag, and keep clicking (macros don't work unfortunately). You'll attack about 20-40% faster depending on your lag.

Also, throw on all of your haste gear, bring fast weapon types, and stock up on plenty of ammo for your guns/crossbows/etc. Shaman support is also nice for increasing melee haste.

You can get the [Knuckle Sandwich] achievement by reaching 400/400 Unarmed, and with only 3 other weapon types reaching 400/400, you'll also receive the [Master of Arms] achievement.

Get it while it's hot! Blizzard will be fixing it soon.

Take Two has just filed for a new trademark officially called R*. It's going to be an online music store featuring "music and digital music downloadable from the Internet and wireless devices." It will also be offering ringtones for cellphones, MP3 downloads, other audiovisual and entertainment content.

Rockstar Games currently has a partnership with Amazon.com and iTunes, and right now you can only order their music through those other stores. But it looks like they want to cut out the middle-man and start selling the music directly to the consumers themselves. (I wonder if Apple and Amazon know about this yet? Their partnerships only started a couple years ago actually.) =]

Soon, you'll be able to purchase music CDs, such as "The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV", Red Dead Redemption, and other greatest hits from most (if not all) of their games directly from Rockstar's new online music store.

Here's a link to the Trademark registration if you're interested.

And here's a photo of an "example" Music CD used in the registration:


Yeah, I know.. it's kind of boring news, but hey I'm the first to announce it. =]

I'm actually shocked that they didn't already HAVE an online music store.. I didn't even know they didn't have one until I saw the new trademark registration.