WoW Gold Facts

When there’s a new WoW expansion, people always ask me when’s the best time to buy Gold. They bring up the possibility of joining the launch day gold rush just because it would be fun to which I say: WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?

Launch days are the peak of the parabolas, the mega sale days of malls, the rush hour of traffic. It’s CHAOS personified.

Which is ironic because, what’s actually the best time to buy Gold is a week or two before launch day. Yes that would be NOW. You’ll enjoy the perfect storm of convenience: Prices are low (everyone’s giving away discounts), queues are short (the new players still don’t know they need Gold) and service is fast (no patch downtimes).

Of course, this only applies when you’ve chosen decent gold sellers. I’m shamelessly plugging the EGF medalists right there on my sidebar WoWGoldPig.com , IGE.com, and EpicToon.com just because I’m 100% they can deliver under pressure.

Sure you can choose crappy, spammy sellers from China but don’t blame me if you get monumentally screwed. Chinese suppliers are notorious for biting off more than they can chew and when their supply of hacked gold goes empty, expect idiotic replies like:

• "But we delivered already. No refund. You buy again though?"
• "We sorry Blizzard took it. 1,000 Gold replace your 10,000 Gold. Best we can do! >.<"
• *cricket, cricket*

Yup, remember Burning Crusade? I tried to be cavalier then and gave them "a chance" to redeem themselves but all they did was step on my heart with sh*t-covered boots.

SHADY SELLERS JUST DON’T CARE IF YOU GET THE GOLD OR NOT. Would you track them down? Or sue them? Or spend dollars calling overseas to complain when they can’t even understand half your curse words? A big freakin’ NO and boy do they know it.

Expansion launches are simply the most trying times for any Gold seller, and sadly only a select few really step up to the plate. So if you’re going to buy Gold, do it now before Cataclysm hits and with a standout seller. That’s the best advice I’ve given my friends on the matter, and they’ve been wise enough to take it.

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Bigger is better this Thanksgiving, whether it be parade floats, turkeys, or new zones in Cataclysm.

In the past few months, I’ve been keeping away from Cataclysm beta videos in the hopes of still feeling surprised when the expansion finally hits. But since it’s so close I can smell it like leftover meatloaf tomorrow, I figured why not take a sneak peek at one of the first zones we’ll be seeing: Vashj’ir.

Five minutes on YouTube later and I’m wet from the waist down.

Swaths of ocean landscapes, sprawling ruins, giant submarines and screen-filling creatures of the deep.

Oh, sign me up, baby!

Vashj’ir is far from the dark and depressing deeps I imagined it to be. Can’t wait to start leveling there from 78 to 82 (Whoever chooses to run tired old Northrend dungeons in favor of this is stupid). Now if only I can tame that whale, I can die a happy hunter.

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This Thanksgiving, the whole family will be staying in the city, which delights me because I can spend more time exploring the new content brought by The Shattering.

Unless you’ve been too busy stuffing the turkey or stitching armor for the Black Friday sales, you should know that the patch has made the 1-60 leveling experience feel so fresh. The gnome and troll starting zones are well made even in their brevity, and rolling that familiar human or orc toon will bring also you pleasant surprises along the way.

The past few days have been a blast, for sure, helped immensely by the pretty graphics. There’s even been some times when I’d be tempted to screenshot a beautiful new landscape like a freaking naturalist. That’s saying much since the only times I press Print Screen is when 1) I down a boss and 2) there’s an idiotic Gold spam on trade chat.

Even the universally unimpressed Remus–who, when a certified 10 girl passes by, refuses to follow her with ogling eyes–seemed to tip his hat off to Blizzard.

"You know there’s a lot of nice and shiny new things to play with now," Remus said to me at random a night ago.

"Uh huh, and you’re point is?"

"Nothing. It’s just cool and all."

Granted the guy was busy spending a ton of Gold on his brand-new troll druid so the "nice and shiny new things" could have been referring to gear, spells or quests.

It got me thinking as well about what I should be thankful for in The Shattering. Kinda emo-ish but hey I can’t really have hard-hitting Gold take downs everyday, you know. So here’s the quick list of gush-worthy changes this newest patch:

• Horde owning the Alliance in the world skirmishes. Ashenvale is ours tree-hugging night elves, Lok’tar Ogar!
• Warlock DPS getting nerfed. Anything that sets back my top DPS competition is a win.
• Lots of guild peeps online. The lull is gone and everyone’s seems pumped for Cataclysm.
• New Orgrimmar. Two words: True. Grit.

I have the whole long weekend free so more leveling is in the books. Not later though–promised everyone we’d join the Macy’s Parade and be more than virtually social for once. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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You see what I did there?

Once you forgive me for my very bad attempt at alliteration, let me remind you to turn on your PC and log on to World of Warcraft because the single most amazing patch in years has gone live. The Shattering is here, hombres.

While everyone else has been blogging about awesome-Stormwind-redesign-this and freakin-cool-new-class-combos-that, I’m gonna write about my agonizing time in Dalaran.

Yes, I got stranded there after all the portals got shut down with the new patch. Of course, I could have flown all the way to the ships back to Stormwind, but I opted to dangle my WoW Gold and get the very best Mage taxi service in the server.

So I offered around 50 WoW Gold on the trade chat for the mage who would literally go to where I was sitting (near the emblem vendors) and proceed to port me to the great Alliance capital. In less than a minute, several mages whispered me and I picked the first one out of courtesy.

A minute later and I was ported to the familiar square where thousands of would-be Stormwind heroes pass on a daily basis. Then the game friggin’ crashed! Several repeated disconnections later and I’m pounding the keyboard in frustration. What’s the use of a great patch if I can’t even enjoy it for five minutes straight?

Remus and Cletus had better luck because the pair of them had agreed before hand to park in Ironforge, partly because they were curious to talk to the new Council of dwarf leaders. If you haven’t heard yet, the great Magni got cursed but instead of dying instantly just petrified, proving once and for all that dwarves just the toughest bastards in Azeroth.

Remus and Cletus suggested over IM that I better just give up now and get up in the early morning instead when the crowds may have thinned out. Here I am, sun’s not yet up, and I’m frolicking in lag-free Northshire Abbey with my new human hunter. All’s well in pew-pew land.

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Hey kiddies, just wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow’s patch maintenance just might bring us The Shattering.

Now don’t get your hopes up; until Blizzard officially announces it over at the forums, there’s still a chance Patch 4.0.3a might launch at a later date. But if we do get it tomorrow, then expect a full night of glorious gaming!

In other less pressing news, Remus, Cletus and the rest of the guild have been discussing the direction we’ll be taking once Cataclysm arrives. Of course I’ll still be tracking down Gold sellers around and their migration to the new expansion, but my more raiding-oriented brethren are deciding how to spend our WoW Gold stash.

Our guild has accumulated quite the Cataclysm fund–a mix of generous contributions from yours truly, residual income from participating in a couple of GDKP runs, and member fees. Some in the guild think we should spend it all on crafting mats and dominate the auction house, effectively growing the money. Others believe it should be spent on gearing our main raid team as fast as possible.

It’s the type of talk that’s always sure to get a lot of panties in a bunch. Like real life, in-game money is a big deal.

But all the WoW Gold talk doesn’t really concern me. I can easily buy WoW Gold for myself and get gear similar to raiding. There’s no immediate need for me to channel Adam Smith and game the auction house.  Life is great when you know you can just call on the peons and they deliver the Gold no questions asked.

I’ve gotten e-mails in the past asking me what it feels like to buy WoW Gold, like children asking a grown up what’s so good about beer, to which I say: It makes me feel f*cking good.

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So I was there sitting by my lonesome self in a Bountiful Table in Goldshire, partaking in the wondrous selection of pies and cranberries, when this lowbie toon sat beside me.

Eagerly, I passed the food in front of me in the kind tradition of Thanksgiving. Then I clicked on the toon to check what food he’s still missing to get the reputation buff. The name said it all: JjyKitl

POTENTIAL SPAMMER!

True enough, just a few seconds after, the pathetic toon started spamming me in whisper.

"Wow golds now saleing $1 for 1k. Get now ready instant cumon! Go ****gold.com."

"Wow golds now saleing $1 for 1k. Get now ready instant cumon! Go ****gold.com."

"Wow golds now saleing $1 for 1k. Get now ready instant cumon! Go ****gold.com."

"Wow golds now saleing $1 for 1k. Get now ready instant cumon! Go ****gold.com."

Reading the wall of bull above literally drained all the Thanksgiving kindness out of me. I reported the spammer, /spit on his face, and moved to the next table where maybe I could have five uninterrupted minutes of face-stuffing.

But when I transferred to the other table, there was ANOTHER incomprehensibly named spammer, probably the partner of the one before. That’s when the expletives came rolling out like that stream of consciousness exercise we used to do in English class.

No effect. The bastards didn’t budge and probably knew that only Blizzard GMs could remove them from the game. So I tried to wait for the actual GMs to do their bit but then it got so late that I decided to just sleep and check up on it tomorrow.

I logged on the morning after and saw that the two Thanksgiving crashers are gone. Hooray! But this serves as a reminder that holiday event locations are prime targets for spammers. Be on guard and armed with the report button!

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If my title wasn’t graphic enough, let me reiterate that this whole Patch 4.0.3-Patch 4.0.3a business is killing me with excitement. I mean, c’mon Blizzard, the data’s right here in my PC so stop teasing us already and launch The Shattering.

I can just imagine all the glorious new content just giggling in our hard drives, mocking us because even though we’re the ones who funded their existence with our hard-earned bucks, it’s Blizzard who’s their ultimate master. They won’t come out until the almighty Blue gives the go signal and by the looks of it, that seems to be two weeks from now–or basically forever .

The only comfort I have now are rumors that Patch 4.0.3a will be activated on December 1. There’s not much official evidence to confirm this date, but the case is stacking up real good:

• December 1 is a Wednesday, one day after the regular Tuesday maintenance. A Wednesday activation ensures all the log-in kinks have been ironed out.
• December 1 is a full week before the Cataclysm launch date. It gives just enough time for the existing subscribers to finish the final transition quests and populate the web with hype blog posts screaming "The Shattering IS AWESOME!"
• The days before December 1, from Nov. 25 Thanksgiving onwards, will be focused on family gatherings. And we all know our moms will just order us to turn off the PC and "bond with the real family.

So yeah, December 1 seems just about the perfect date for The Shattering to go live. The problem is that, in the meantime, I’m getting blue balls from all the waiting. Sure there’s the Elemental Invasion going on but after one round of gang-up-the-elemental, I’d rather do something that’s a little less laggy.

Maybe tear some Gold spammers a new one? Look forward to that in the coming days. It’s gonna be sweet!

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