WoW Gold Facts

I met a noob in the game who admitted to me that he bought his WoW account from his college buddy who was forced to stop playing because he was failing all his classes. Noob was on an 80 prot warrior - in the sickest warrior gear imaginable - and get this: it was his first time to play WoW.

So picture this: he responds to a PUG invite to an ICC rep run. I was on my alt - a ret pally. When I clapped eyes on him I told myself, ah we are in good hands. This should be a smooth rep run.

I was effing wrong.

Noob charged this way and that. Pulled this and that. Activated two traps at the same time. Trash mobs and the Deathbound Wards were all over us like a bad rash.

Yeah, a bad rash that kills.

"Dude, wtf was that?" I whispered.

"I’m sorry, my first time to play."

/gasp

Later in the day I learned about him buying the account and that he was so excited about having a ready-made leet 80 warrior that he accepted the first invite he got and was thrilled when he got summoned into ICC.

Ah the perils of noobness married with a purchased WoW account.

Cletus, still smarting from a massive repair bill, thinks there ought to be a special law for account trading: buyer must pass a rigorous test to weed out the clueless, the reckless and the trigger-happy, if only to spare their future raid party members.

"Too many button-smashing kids on this server with ready-made 80s!" he declared hotly. "I wanna kill all of them!"

I agree with the first part. Killing all of them is a little harsh, methinks.

Hmm, this latest incident has got me thinking: time to create a new poll.

Later, kiddies.

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Here are some of the reasons:

1. Buying a pre-owned WoW account, even one with uber-geared 80s, is not guaranteed to make you an uber player. Nothing beats knowing your toon, your spec, your class from the day he or she was "born".

2. You run the risk of bumping into former and current guildies/friends of the original owner who, for sure, will ask you questions you don’t know the answers to. They’d know in a heartbeat that it’s not the original owner they’re talking to, and a few might even report you for hacking into their buddy’s account.

3. Historically, most of the original owners find themselves breaking into a cold sweat, needing their WoW fix, regretting they ever sold their accounts (but won’t return the money)….so they tell Blizz they’ve been hacked into. And well, you know what follows after they cry wolf.

4. I know some people who bought accounts only to discover that the uber-leet main toons on the accounts are known on their respective  servers as Azeroth’s biggest ninja looters /Trade chat jackasses/guild hoppers….and no raid party wants them in. Trouble is, how does one check a toon’s reputation before purchasing an account?

5. Well, if your toon does manage to get into a raid, erm, there’s that little problem with Vent. Especially if the original owner was of the opposite sex.

Would YOU buy a pre-owned WoW account?

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Apart from the usual excuses - not enough time for dailies, gear upgrades that require an assload of new gems and enchants, etc. - here are more reasons (or temptations?) behind the need to purchase WoW gold even in this day and age of generous quest rewards, the Dungeon Finder and phat lootz.

1. The greedy SOB who’s hawking The Battered Hilt for 10K on Trade chat.

2. The Mechano-hog. The Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth. Everyone wants one. Because we are all achievement whores.

3. That plus the other mounts that cost a lot of money…and because we are all achievement whores nothing will stop us from getting the gold so we can get brag about having Mountain o’ Mounts .

4. You never know what other cool stuff Cataclysm will bring us..and it’s best to have a fat (virtual) bank account so we can afford dem cool stuff.

5. 2 Frosties a day, plus another 4 if you do VoA 10 and 25 and another 5 if you do the weekly…..eh, not enough frosties in a week and you need more Primordial Saronite like RIGHT NOW AND YOU MEAN IT. Unfortunately, Primordial Saronite is going for at least 1.2K gold at the AH (at least on my realm). And you happen to need like 6 Primordial Saronites to buy the recipes from the dude inside ICC who wouldn’t take Mastercard.

6. Your significant other needs Primordial Saronite too.

7. You don’t have the ICC patterns and recipes yet..and you’re forced to tip that greedy SOB sitting in Dalaran at least 300 gold to make you those Rock-Steady Treads (which require 5 primordial saronites to make).

8. Because we need Primordial Saronite.

Not our fault Primordial Saronite is so effing expensive.

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Seriously…



Entire guild got it. So did 5,000 other people. We got a good laugh out of it. Then reported the idiot.

Over a billion Chinese, a good percentage of them I’m sure with enough creative juices to come up with something better than this crap, but I guess the good ones chose not to work for the RMT industry, so only the quasi-bots whose sole talent is copying-and-pasting are left to generate this laughable excuse of content.

Well, you know the drill, kiddies. Don’t buy from the above seller. Visiting their website might give you the keylogging booboo-jeebies.

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This isn’t about any particular gold-selling site.  It’s about a common denominator - a complaint that’s cause for concern - in the several emails I received from different readers who have ordered WoW gold from different sites. In fact, it’s a scary pattern that I think all legitimate and professional gold sellers should address; otherwise their reputation could be ruined.

Here’s what’s been happening:

1. Customer buys gold from seller.

2. Seller delivers. Customer gets the goodies.

3. Minutes later, customer gets a tell in-game to return the gold. Why? The reasons vary, ranging from "Blizzard has seen the transaction and you better give us back the gold so your account won’t be banned" to "Sorry I gave the gold to the wrong person, you are not my customer, please give me back the gold or else I will tell Blizzard you bought from us" (probably the lamest excuse in the book).

What’s scary is that the toon name of the scammer telling the player to return the gold bears a near-resemblance to the delivery toon. Example: genuine delivery toon is named Justin…and scammer toon sending the tell happens to be a Jüstin - with an umlaut accent. Pretty tricky and difficult for the player to spot the difference.

I’m just wondering how the hell the scammer could know about the transaction quick enough to create a character mimicking the name of the delivery toon and in a matter of minutes, launch their attack on the poor buyer. Have those scam artists started planting spies in the usual meeting places like Ratchet and the banks of Org and Stormwind?

Gold sellers, you better do something about this sh*t.

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My girlfriend continues to punish me for being "neglectful".

Recently she got me this:



And I am forced by her to ride it everywhere I go (’cause she knows it would humiliate me).

I play a mean, ugly beast of a troll hunter with the title "The Kingslayer".

I am decked in obscene Tier 10.

Pwning gnomes is my third profession.

I have murdered a bazillion of them in Wintergrasp.

And I’m riding the gayest mount that ever gayed in Azeroth.

Cletus calls it karmic comeuppance after years of making fun of male blood elves and their chicken mounts.

Okay, Cletus, so I’m sorry I called your pretty boy belf DK a gay manwhore like 10 million times. I just couldn’t stand that effing Napoleon Dynamite dance you do after each boss kill. (It also bugs me to see you riding that pink Hawkstrider. Like seriously? WTF.)

However, I’m not gonna apologize for making fun of DK tanks. I still say leave the tanking to the prot pallies and warriors. Um, and bears too.

I also can’t believe you want the same mount. I’d give it to you if it wasn’t effing soulbound. I’d buy you one if I wasn’t so cheap (or broke). But hey, you might win one. I heard EpicToon joined the Star Pony bandwagon by offering its customers a chance to win the mount if you buy from them. Go check out the gayness, I mean, the details here .

If you do win, do me a favor: don’t stand next to me in Dalaran please.

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Thanks to reader Denny for this screenshot. Hope no one fell for this piece of garbage.



Guys, I just can’t stress enough how important it is to NOT visit the scam sites, even out of curiosity. My guildie Hank’s account got hacked no thanks to a keylogging program. Guy was foolish enough to visit one site just for shits and giggles. Viewing the home page alone was enough to turn his world upside down. To protect my own accounts (and to keep my comps clean), I’ve stopped going to those sites to take the usual screenshots. As much as I’d like to continue such detailed investigation, I can’t afford the loss of my accounts.

Especially now that I have a lot of uber toons on each account. To my best estimate, I could easily sell each account for no less than $1000.

If I choose to, that is.

But I digress.

Continue reporting the scammy whispers, don’t don’t DON’T visit their sites and you’ll be fine.

Take care y’all.

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