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July 2, 2009

QJ Giveaway: Get yer Free Realms beta keys here! (Wow)

PC beta keys we have in our possession so that you can go and explore the game's extremely open world before anyone else.

But wait! What is Free Realms anyway? It's a new highly-anticipated free-to-play MMORPG from Sony Online Entertainment that lets you do pretty much whatever you want to. Wanna race? Go. Wanna hang out somewhere like the beach? No problem. Wanna go around fighting stuff? Why not?

Excited? Keep an eye here and on the QJ.NET forums for further instructions. The giveaway will officially start tomorrow, and we have plenty of keys to give out. Premium members will get first dibs on the beta keys, so sign up now if you wanna make sure you get one.

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Drink and be merry in World of Warcraft's Brewfest event
Blizard's World of Warcraft Brewfest event - Image 1

Bring out those beer steins and get ready to join in one of the most festive events in Blizzard's World of Warcraft. This year's Brewfest promises to be yet another fun-filled time to enjoy all the fermented fruits of the harvest - all without the hangover.

The main Brewfest festivals will begin this September 20 and will run all the way until October 4. The venues for the Horde and Alliance factions will be held at Orgrimmar and Ironforge respectively. You also can expect smaller beer gardens to be set up in all the other main cities across the game world.

Classic events such as Ram Racing and the Barkers Quest will be making a comeback, although veteran drinkers can also expect a few new events to pop up during this time. Belbi Quikswitch and Blix Fixwidget will also be offering a new set of Brewfest prizes for any tokens you win during these special events.

Whether you choose Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, or the Ogres as the poison of you choice, it's all good clean fun during the upcoming Brewfest event. Keep an eye on this spot for more updates regarding the World of Warcraft event.


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July 1, 2009

Ways To Make Money From Upcoming Expansion (World of warcraft)

More people will see this coming the sooner we get to the release date, and some items might not get sold.

As all know on alliance side "nature +damage gear" suck pretty much only druids can use them, they are sold for a low price on my (and most) servers.

However what if you buy all these cheap items and enchant them and put all of them on a nice buy out price yelling "now good enchanted shammy gear on ah" on the first day of the expansion.

Same goes for horde plate with spir+int (not as easy but still good ) buy/make enchant and wait.

All know many people (including me) spend loads of money on twinking. and you can bet some might already have the gear enchanted in an alts bank slot. (i have been planing on it but im lazy thus far)

However that takes time. and stats = less chance of dying, faster kills, less downtime.

To put it simply the expansion will bring the following.
LAG (as some old players will likely join in us again)

queue to get in on servers

A Load of new shammys/pallys created, some for guilds powergrinding, some for the fun of it.
some are lv slow 1-4h a day some grind 8+h a day.

All want low lv gear at start, then climb up as time goes. Remember not all have 2+ accounts like maniacs. Therefore they have to get help from a friend to trade gear from an alt they make, then find an enchanter, and perhaps get mats for it. = about 2-5 min if "pre-planned with friend"

AH takes like 30s run

"But mail boxes…well there is a delay usually i receive a mail in 30min-1h that, unless its gold."

Players are lazy…really lazy they will happly play loads to get good special class gear.
(im not talking about the powerful 30+spell damage on a lv 15 item and demand 200g, fast but still)
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Alchemist, you might also make some gold arcane elixir, armor pot, anything to help with dps and prevent dying. just try and up server prices for a few days/ weeks from release.
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Blacksmith, some sharpening stones, fresh weapons on ah
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Leather working, very nice with gear for shammys the first 39 lvs
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Engineering….sell loads of bombs but that might be a bit expensive
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Any gathering may experience a new flux in the AH on all mats as some/alot will whant to lv up there new profession (unless every single person takes jewelcrafting.)

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June 30, 2009

Drink and be merry in World of Warcraft's Brewfest event (Warcraft)

's World of Warcraft. This year's Brewfest promises to be yet another fun-filled time to enjoy all the fermented fruits of the harvest - all without the hangover.

The main Brewfest festivals will begin this September 20 and will run all the way until October 4. The venues for the Horde and Alliance factions will be held at Orgrimmar and Ironforge respectively. You also can expect smaller beer gardens to be set up in all the other main cities across the game world.

Classic events such as Ram Racing and the Barkers Quest will be making a comeback, although veteran drinkers can also expect a few new events to pop up during this time. Belbi Quikswitch and Blix Fixwidget will also be offering a new set of Brewfest prizes for any tokens you win during these special events.

Whether you choose Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, or the Ogres as the poison of you choice, it's all good clean fun during the upcoming Brewfest event. Keep an eye on this spot for more updates regarding the World of Warcraft event.


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June 29, 2009

Leveling Being An Anything From 50-60 (Take 2) (World of warcraft)

Once again my login times out while writing and the post is blank so would appreciate it if one of you admin folks could delete the original ;)

Here's the guide

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Welcome back fellow MPSers.

Been thinking this one over for a while now and finally decided that it would not be right to leave the guide series unfinished so without further ado, here's my guide for levelling any character to 60.

The Choice

Well, first of all you're faced with that age old question, do i grind or quest?

You're probably gonna need to do both to rack up the tremendous amounts of xp needed to hit 60. The last level alone is well over 200k xp. That said, there's smart quests and down right stupid quests. These are in short summarised as:

Smart

Kill Quests:
Always best for the xp you're going to need there's nothing more efficient than getting an xp bonus for grinding. The best ones are based near cities on mobs nearby in part of a series.

Instance Quests:
From 50-60 You will be visiting Maraudon, Sunken Temple, Black Rock Depths and maybe as ou get to the upper scale, LBRS. You're unlikely to get a group for Strat, Scholo or UBRS before level 60 unless you have a nice guild that will take you.

There's enough good loot to justify a few trips to all of the dungeons listed. The experience is good but as always, secondary to grinding.

Stupid

Any quest that involves an awful lot of travelling. You don't get xp for flying about on a gryphon so don't do these if you can avoid them.

Elite mobs quests outside dungeons. You'll know what I mean, if you have to kill same level elite mobs you're going to need a group, your xp will vanish and if the reward isn't bloody good, you wasted your time.

(For the purists out there, I'm well aware some if not all clases can solo an elite mob 3 or more levels above them, I've done it myself, but for levelling, it's totally counter productive.)

With that general premise under your belt you should also take the time to prepare a grinders toolkit ;)

Grinding Toolkit

This is different for every class but the ones that are generic are:

Quality Cooked Food - Don't waste too much time looking for it but if you can get it, great.
Bandages - The best possible bandages you can use on yourself, and plenty spare.
Potions - All manner of potions are available to increase your key stats, get some.
Healing Pots - Should never be used as a substitute for bandaging or eating, but can get you out of a death situation
Mana Pots - Same as above, for emergencies.
Swiftness Pots - A get out of jail free card, keep one handy wherever possible and dont be afraid to use them
Free Action potions - The same, if a mob roots or freezes you in some places, it can be game over, these prevent that so are a worthy addition, though you should never grind on mobs that can do this to you.
Sharpening Stones/Weight Stones - A must for any melee class, get the best ones you can, they stack with enchantments, but wont stack with Rogue Poison.

Enchantments.

These are a god send, you'll last a lot longer if you have enchants all over buffing every item, if you're not enchanted/modified from head to toe, put it on your "to do" list.

Weapon enchants are always a bone of contempt. At lvl 50 it's not worth going for Icy Chill, Crusader or anything fancy as the weapon will be gone soon and you wasted your money.

A good solid enchant for grinding is beastslayer, impact. Yep, the cheap ol red and blue glow stuff that goes cheap in AH. If you go beastslayer, your grind needs to be on animals, the other alternative is to have a Blacksmith enchant on your weapon, the only one really worth a damn is the weapon chain which is a bonus when fighting mobs that disarm, (remember those wastewander pirates do we?… annoying wasn't it?)

In any case, you see where I'm going, all of this stuff is relatively inexpensive at this level, you don't have to buy the best stuff you can get but anything that speeds your progress during a grind is a good thing. Get lots of it and use it as needed.

Early Fifties

Should be spent smashing up 47-50 mobs. A good spot for them is the Western Plaguelands. The area south of Andorhal is full of skeletons and zombies that are relatively easy to solo for all classes.

What's better, they drop Major Healing potions. Handy if you're a melee character. Furthermore, you can start working on your Argent Dawn faction here and get yourself up to a point where they vendor at Chillwind Camp will sell you "Enriched Manna Biscuits", these are one of the best sources of mana regeneration in the game. A nice addition to your kit ;)

You can go from 50-53 here if you're in the mood, if you're not good at taking even level mobs fast then another good spot is Tanaris where there is still a ton of 46-49 mobs floating around the South West part of the zone. The Ogres in the camps there are probably best as they dont run at low heatlh and the respawns are a good speed.

Some Quest Series to start on when your early Fifties should be:

Un Goro, every quest in this zone is relatively straight forward and worth doing for some good xp. The only exception is the Monkey quest with the robot which requires an inlaid mithril cylinder, theyre usually on the AH but the quest rewards are nothing special in any case.

UnGoro is a good spot and the power crystals you collect have a value to your kit later on when you use the pylons to turn them into Crystals that enhance you for 30 mins or so. These can be exceptionally handy.

The ChillWind Camp line is good and there's a lot of quests around which are easy to complete. The one to be careful of is the Cauldron series. The first one is not too challenging but the follow up Cauldron Quests are truly difficult to solo, even at high fifties and are not worth the effort.

Felwood has a series of quests that again are worth your time as they involve killing, especially the Jaedenar Satyr line of quests.

Once you're done with these quests you should hang around a while and grind the mobs for xp, when you get bored of it, go hand in the quest and move onto something else.

Mid fifties

This is where it stars to get mroe than a little tedious.

Blackrock Depths is doable and a good source of experience through the various related quests. Aside from this you'll be looking for 52-54 mobs to grind on some more.

The Skeletons and Zombies near Chillwind Camp were my favourite as they would go down easily and not cause too many problems with their diseases etc.

Close second were the Satyrs up North of Felwood, in the most North West point. If you have dual wield, get your weaps demonslay enchanted (odds are you have already cos it looks cool) and you will tear through these as your enchant often goes off in the fight, stunning and damaging the satyrs.

Another is the Firegut Ogres in Burning Steppes (A good spot for Miners) lots of closely packed low fifties ogres.

NOTE:

Some mobs have abilities that make them a real waste of time for grinding. A prime example would be the Pterrodax monsters in UnGoro, sure theyre the right level, they dont hit too hard but they have a surprise. They scream and fear you. Fear=not hitting, adds, hurt, more down time… bad.

If you come across a mob in your level range have a go, but if they pull a stunt on you that makes them bad news, don't stick about killing more, go and find something else.

Satyrs and Ghouls and Skeletons will take you to 55-56 pretty easily. At this point you should consider some of the end grind spots. Winterspring is a very popular one and contains a lot of kill quests.

You'll need to complete a furbolg kill quest to get faction to pass through the tunel at the northern end of felwood to get into WS but it's not too taxing.

If you're a warrior as I was, you can just say bollocks to them and run through with shield wall up toward the end. Might take you one death but its a lot quicker than working your faction.

Back to WS kill quests:

Personally I would skip the Chimera quests as they do a lot of damage before they go down making them impractical for grinding.

The best line is the Yeti line and the yeti caves are commonly found full of would-be grinders. If you can get the quests line and get in there, you'll find them good fun to kill and relatively easy for the level.

Furthermore there's a line of quests involving the nearby furbolg tribes. They're always fun to kill, it's a pity you can't stuff one and keep it.

If you like to grind, there's a sweet little spot south of Everlook down the path, as you go down there's a hill path to the left that leads to a little Moonkin/Owlkin patch tha'ts nicely populated. Theyre a dead easy kill and again, good xp.

An alternative to WS is Eastern Plaguelands where the Fordring quest line "Demon Dogs" etc is a very useful kill line that starts up the east bank of the river as you zone into EP.

In Summary:

50-53:
Tanaris if you want to be safe, Ogres in the South West range from 46-47
Jadefire Satyrs in Felwood 49-50
Western Plaguelands - Mobs range from 50-52
54-56:
Western Plaguelands again, the 50-52 mobs are so easy to kill that the xp flies…a bit.
Jadefire Hellcallers and co up in Norther Felwood - mobs range from 53-54
57-60!
Winterspring - Yetis, Wildkin/Moonkin whatever they are, Furbolgs, Sabers(If youre a leatherworker)
Blasted Lands - Ogres
Deadwind Pass - Ogres, a nice spot if you're looking for somewhere quiet.

Thats it.

Some Generic Tips

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Pull!. Proper pulling will make the whle process much easier, lure mobs one by one wherever possible and fight them solo, if you get adds, conside whether it would be a better use of time to turn and run with a swiftness pot than stay and fight and suffer the downtime.

Pay attention!

When fighting use your left mouse button and mouse look all around you, if you're not in a safe spot, move the mob. Safe fighting is qucik and happy fighting.

Use your abilities!

Speaking from a warrior point of view - Retaliation is often forgotten in grinding but makes a nice boost once every 30 mins. Use it every time it pops, go for 3-4 mobs and stick it on with your 2h weap out.

For rogues you have all manner of abilities that serve a similar purpose.

Hunters should use Rapid Shot every time it's up

Mages - Evocation

Druids - Innervate

It's all bog standard stuff but some people forget to use it as their grind pattern does not need it. Build it in, saving these skills for an emergency is a waste of time, use them and escape the emergency with your toolkit.

Celebrating in Style

Once you get close, get ready to take a screen pic of the ding, take that last mob on bare fist and naked, do whatever ya like but praise the gods that your grind is over.

Now it's time to become a major loot whore and spend every night in Strat/Scholo/BRS trying to find all your tiered armour set drops. Good luck with that!

Thanks for reading, I hope the guides were useful in giving you some ideas on where to go and what to try.

I can go and have a rest knowing my bit for MPS is done ;)

Happy hunting, questing and grinding.

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June 28, 2009

PvP Enable Other Faction (Wow)

Ok here's a way to pvp enable the opposite faction if you want. Click on the person you want to enable, then type /duel. While you're dueling type /concede or /forfeit right before they hit you and they'll be pvp enabled and you can kill them.

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June 27, 2009

Woot Gold!, Great Gold Making Guide! (Warcraft)

This is a great gold making guide called Woot Gold. Inside is an explanation of how to make money using the AH. It is very in depth and helpful, especially those who suffer from empty pockets smile.gif

If you feel like supporting the writers and buying it, you may at WootGold.com

Download Link!

http://rapidshare.com/files/975785/Woot_Gold.zip

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June 26, 2009

Wrath of the Lich King: video preview of Calendar System (Warcraft)

's Wrath of the Lich King expansion is finally going to come out in a few weeks. bet you're looking forward to the pre-release patch that's going to come real soon.

One of the biggest changes in the Wrath of the Lich King is the new Calendar System, which will be offered in the pre-release patch. Here are the features we can expect when the Calendar System gets released:

  • Pre-existing events, like holidays and raid lockouts, will be on there by default. You can select what sort of events you want to see on your own calendar.
  • Any user can create events viewable to their guild and/or to a user-selectable list of invitees. Events can be of various categories, like "PvP" or "Raid."
  • If you send someone an invite, their calendar icon (on the minimap) will flash. They will then be able to RSVP to the event with whether or not they're coming.
  • Events to which people have RSVPed show the total number and number of each class; very handy for raids. You can invite people to a party or raid straight from the calendar interface if they're online.

Of course, words just aren't enough sometimes, so here's a video of the calendar system in action. Check back for more updates on World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King.


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Horde Alliance Communication (World of warcraft)

Horde to alliance communication:

101 101…………………………………Zug Zug

UO UO……………………………………..HA HA

27 11 11………………………………..mu ha ha

D F Z………………………………………..L A G

U G U……………………………………….L O L

As As As………………………………Ha Ha Ha

aw……………………………………………….no

d e d…………………………………………….l o l

Making your own phrase using the below chart only works if you put a space between each letter.

Orcish: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Common: g g o l o a o o l n l n a o l n g n n l l l a n o g

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(Alliance to Horde)



h i………………………………………….y o………..

ss ee oo p…………………………..Me love u…….

D a p Ee bb………………………….You Lose…….

b ppp…………………………………..evil…………

zz fff………………………………….never…………

Fff d Ss pp………………………..Very Mean…….

Ss B ppp……………………………Me Evil…………

D a p aa B ppp……………………Youre Evil……..

D a p aa Ss pp……………………Youre Mean……

Making your own phrase using the below chart only works if you put a space between each letter.
Common: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Orcish: o e o y y e o y o e o o o o y u e y y y y y y y o e

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June 25, 2009

Blizzard: aerial combat wasn't polished enough for Wrath of the Lich King, Diablo III UI influenced by WoW (World of warcraft)

right now lies in the physics. As in, it wasn't polished enough. That's what WoW's Tom Chilton revealed in the latest Blizzard podcast.

If you look at a lot of games that have done flight simulation, there is a lot of care that goes into giving you that sensation of flying by having the world tilt and stuff like that so it feels a little less mechanical, feels a little bit more alive or more natural.

So one of the things that we have kind of tasked ourselves with doing is figuring out how to polish that, how to improve on our vehicle physics, there s still a lot of vehicle physics tech that we want to get in that didn t make it into the first pass of Lich King.

Even though it may have been cut, aerial combat may still find its way into WoW someday, as Chilton also said that it's currently on Blizzard's to do list.

The same podcast also featured senior Diablo III artist Mike Nicholson, who admitted that the new UI for Diablo 3 drew a lot of inspiration from WoW's UI. Oh really? I hadn't noticed and am now so overcome with surprise at this unexpected revelation!

Diablo 3 - Image 1 Diablo 3 - Image 2

Seriously though, the UI still retains popular elements from the Diablo series while throwing in some WoW staples into the mix. One thing that will definitely catch fans' eyes - for better or worse - is the inclusion of WoW's colorful icons. Here's Nicholson:

I love the WoW icons. And y know what we re trying to do is see, OK, what works about the WoW icons? They re illustrative; is there a way to try to maybe bridge the gap? You know what worked about the more symbolic DII icons, and what works with the WoW icons, and trying to find a way to put the two together.

Another new thing is the addition of expandable bags. This reminds me more of the D&D staple Bags of Holding which appeared in Neverwinter Nights than anything in WoW really. Nicholson again:

You'll get bags and they will expand, you know kind of like in WoW, except you're not going to open up separate windows. You'll start off your inventory with say you know, eight slots, right, and then you'll get a new bag and that has ten, so two more slots will open up within that tab, but you'll never have multiple tabs. Like you won't have two or three 'large' tabs.

It might sound like I've been taking a few jabs at Diablo III, but make no mistake - this is a day one purchase for me. Now if only I had some idea of when they'll release it. Keep checking back for more updates.


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June 24, 2009

Conservative Christian Investment Firm flags gay content in games (Warcraft)

If the Gay-dar rings, don't buy it. This is what the conservative Christian investment firm, The Timothy Plan, warns for parents planning to get games for their kids. Apart from the usual gaming no-no's, such as sex, violence, and substance abuse, the investment firm also flags games with homosexual content as inappropriate and unsafe for minors.

For this, The Timothy Plan hands out a list of the 30 "most offensive" games on the market. They maintain a "Do Not Buy List" for morally responsible consumers, against publishers that trade in abortion, porno, anti-family entertainment, and vices. They evaluate games on these eight categories: Sex, Nudity, Gay & Lesbian, Violence, Language, Drugs, Alcohol, and Game Addiction. They also specified if games have "demonic" content.

The usual suspects are all here: Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) and Saint's Row 2 (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) (both of which have a check mark on seven of eight categories - even gay content), Fallout 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC), and Age of Conan and World of Warcraft to name a few. If they're such phobes about gay content, I'm surprised they didn't tag Manhunt 2 with a gay title.

They made a lot of comments that made me laugh, here are a few of my favorites:

  • God of War II: "This game has a sex mini-game. During the "game," you press one of the four main PS2 buttons when indicated, which causes the women to moan louder, helping them reach climax." Now that's a detailed review!
  • Saints Row 2: "Homosexual Encounters: …Characters like Randy the Tranny were used in marketing the game."
  • BioShock: "Strong Language: Strong profanity including the f-word , as well as numerous others we prefer to not include in this report." Wow, that's some hardcore swearing! Not to self: Get BioShock.
  • Manhunt 2: "Strong Language: Strong Language: The game's first two words are "Holy F k."
  • Blitz: The League II: "Suggestive Themes: Females appear in miniskirts with thong underwear only to be spanked by players during touchdown celebrations."
  • Bully: Scholarship Edition: "Homosexual Encounters: Gay achievements such as over the rainbow can be reached on the Xbox 360 when you kiss 20 boys."
  • Army of Two: Homosexual Encounters: (not mentioned): Somewhat homo-erotic undertones between the two main characters are present.

Well, I guess they're not looking forward to joining FLAG, but hey, this was worth a few laughs. If you wanna see the full pdf, just click on the source link below


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