http://www.hisgoldsender.com WoW Gold Guide Reviews Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:33:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 6 - 60-day game time card by Dan O'Halloran Nov 7th, 2008   The Countdown to Wrath Giveaways continue with a 60-day pre-paid game card. To enter, leave a comment on this post before Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 6pm ET. One winner will be chosen randomly and will receive ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/countdown-to-wrath-giveaway-day-6-60-day-game-time-card/ WoW: Gold Farmers Arrested According to a tersely worded article, Chinese WoW gold farmers were arrested: Chengdu's Shuangliu county has arrested two virtual item and currency traders, surnamed Li and Zhang, focused on tapping out The9's (Nasdaq: NCTY) licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW), reports Chengdu Evening News. Police arrested the pair ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/wow-gold-farmers-arrested/ A plea on behalf of frustrated tanks everywhere Several classes and specs have gotten "knockback" abilities as part of patch 3.02 and the game's transition to Wrath of the Lich King, and I've had fun watching these skills be deployed in battlegrounds to extensive and quite possibly evil use. It's pretty ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/a-plea-on-behalf-of-frustrated-tanks-everywhere/ The Riding Crop   I am well aware that the riding crop is undergoing a lot of changes, so I'll spare the usual tripe I might be tempted to dispense along the lines of "riding crops are broke baaaaw!"   Here's what I've gathered. The crop will be used as a consumable ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/the-riding-crop/ Mage Trainers in Dalaran? I know it's a main city for the expansion. I know that it's against blizzard's design philosophy to add class trainers to a main city.   However, I cannot help but feel Dalaran is incomplete if mages can't learn magic there. Sure, they can learn to teleport ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/mage-trainers-in-dalaran/ The Ivory Tower   High above the Deadwing pass, Medivh conducted his research in his secluded tower. The village of Darkshire sat far to the east as the closest civilized place to Karazhan, but none from the village dare enter the cursed place, even Medivhs two servants feared the power the ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/the-ivory-tower/ Ability to dye armor   The main issue in this case is mechanical.   Blizzard uses a static texture map system. That is, each individual "look" of armor is an individual texture file, even the ones that look very close in color, like the Arena gear and the Tier gear.   The current ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/ability-to-dye-armor/  Patch 3.0.2 primer for Holy Paladins This was supposed to go up before the servers did, but as you probably already know, Patch 3.0.2 wasn't quite what we all expected. Now that servers are starting to go back up online, I can better write up this handy guide for the brave ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/patch-302-primer-for-holy-paladins/ Phat Loot Phriday: Swiftsteel Bludgeon Haven't done a Mace in a while, and there are surprisingly few melee maces floating around nowadays. Since Shamans can't wield swords, most of the really high end maces have spellpower on them. But here's one that's meant for cracking heads. Name: Swiftsteel Bludgeon (Wowhead, Thottbot, WoWDigger) Type: ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/phat-loot-phriday-swiftsteel-bludgeon/ potion sickness   saying something CANNOT go live when you havne't expereinced it yet is not really what testing is about.   Sometimes, Blizzard makes bad decisions. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.   I very rarely get mad about something. However, after potion-chugging for the entire time I've played this game, being ... http://www.hisgoldsender.com/potion-sickness/