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Free Download World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade

Sat, 5 Oct 2008 06:26:00 GMT

posted by mangjaya

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion pack for the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. The release date is set as January 16, 2007 in Europe and North America.[1] It will be available in a similar time frame in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore as well, and availability for mainland China and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau will be announced in the near future.

* New content will be accessible to players without the expansion, such as items crafted with the Jewelcrafting profession and any tradable items found in Outland.[3]
* On July 21, 2006, it was announced that Blood Elves will be able to play as Paladins, which were previously unavailable to the Horde. Similarly, the Draenei will be able to play as Shaman, previously unavailable to the Alliance.
* New endgame instance raids are capped at 25 members (previous instances had a limit of 40 players).
* New dungeons will have two difficulty levels: normal and Heroic. Once a player reaches level 70, they may choose to run a lower-level instance at the Heroic difficulty. While the harder difficulty will present a much greater challenge to the group, it will also yield better rewards. Blizzard is considering adding this feature to currently existing dungeons but has no plans to implement them yet.
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is currently undergoing a closed beta test in Korea. As with the World of Warcraft closed-beta test that occurred in Korea in 2004, participants can acquire beta keys from various fansites.
* During a conference from September 26, 2006 to September 30, 2006, GameStop store managers signed up for the Burning Crusade beta test. These managers were also high-priority recipients for the betas for World of Warcraft when it first came out. [citation needed]
* Invitations for the United States Closed Beta were sent via email on October 11, 2006 to those who had gone to BlizzCon 2005, and the beta test is currently taking place.
* On December 13 2006, the opening cinematic of The Burning Crusade was shown on Spike TV and subsequently made available on the official World of Warcraft web site [1].
* A midnight release and signing will be held at the Fry's Electronics in Anaheim, CA. Doors will open at 12:00am January 16th, 2007; the programmers, artists, and other people in Blizzard will be there giving their autographs.

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World of Warcraft Battlechest $30 at BestBuy.com

Sat, 12 Oct 2008 22:18:55 GMT

posted by webtrix28

BestBuy.com has the World of Warcraft Battlechest for $30 + shipping. The battlechest includes World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade, official strategy guides, and a free 14-day online trial. There are about 11 million players, each paying tribute $10 a month, making WoW the biggest cash cow in the history of gaming. [BizRate]

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GAMES / PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT / BURNING CRUSADE FOR FREE

Tue, 5 Mar 2008 11:11:00 GMT

posted by thastoner

This is a guide for you to play World Of Warcraft for free with download links for WoW / Burning Crusade and the latest patch

Open a account at this private server site uber-wow.com (this is to make it easy for you to get started once you are set up there are 1000's of free WoW servers for you to join)

To start you will need to download WoW and Burning Crusade at the links below

DOWNLOAD

WORLD OF WARCRAFT CLICK ME

BURNING CRUSADE CLICK ME

Install both of them after download

Next we need to make WOW connect to the private server not the offical server

1. Go to C:/program files/world of warcraft (or were ever you installed it)

2. In the folder open realmlist.wtf in notepad and change it to say

set realmlist 67.228.99.241:37241

set patchlist 67.228.99.241:37241

Make sure you update WoW with the latest patch here CLICK ME

When you are up and running visit this site CLICK ME for all the servers you will ever need

HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THIS AMAZING GAME FOR FREE

Howto: Get Banned From World of Warcraft Selling Gold

Thu, 1 Feb 2008 21:47:55 GMT

posted by Xight

No I didn’t get banned from World of Warcraft for selling WoW gold. My gold is still stuck at around 14k since the beginning of the month due to me not being able to log in due to a corrupted patch. I need to do a full reinstall since the repair didn’t seem to work either. Now to get back on topic. A while ago Blizzard filed a federal lawsuit against a virtual goods selling company known by the name of Peons4Hire. Remember them? Yea they were the annoying as hell in game tells or random group invites to spam you their gold selling services.

Well the lawsuit between Peons 4 Hire (In Game Dollar), has finally settled. The end result was that the company can now no longer:

Making any use of the World of Warcraft® in-game communication or chat system to advertise any website, business, or commercial endeavor, including any business associated with In Game Dollar, LLC or www.peons4hire.com.

Sending messages to the World of Warcraft® servers, the World of Warcraft® in-game communication or chat system or any other computer used by Blizzard in connection with the World of Warcraft® game, if such messages mention or advertise the website www.peons4hire.com, In Game Dollar LLC or any other commercial endeavor.

Making any unauthorized use, or obtaining any unauthorized access to Blizzard’s computer systems or network.

Also noted in the article from Virtually Blind, is that the company can’t create new companies to do the same thing, or even sell the gold/power leveled character inventory they have. That’s a bummer now, I guess they have to donate them to other gold farmers around the world.

The Peons4Hire site is also noted to be out of commission at the moment. I wonder if the domain will drop so I can pick it up for myself =). The WoW Gold selling market though is still rather healthy, and it seems like the reason why Peons4Hire received such a major ban from Blizzard was the fact that they spammed, via private tells, everyone in the game about their services. So the surefire way to get banned from Blizzard, and receive a Federal lawsuit against you? Spam the trade chat about selling gold.

While I guess its marketing nonetheless, its not very smart marketing. I mean you join the server to message a bunch of people while the game logs down the ip addresses of where you logged in from.

On the plus side though, the price per 1000 gold now is up if you check the Wow gold market prices. I wonder if it has any correlation to this lawsuit result or just a seasonal thing. Usually prices get driven up after a massive banning of gold farming accounts.

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How to Recruit the Right People for Raiding

Thu, 24 Oct 2008 16:07:34 GMT

posted by inwowgold

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How to Recruit the Right People for Raiding?When The Burning Crusade was released, it had a large impact on raiding guilds. Some guilds remained unchanged, others splintered off and some disbanded completely. While a lot of old players who had quit playing WoW came back once the expansion was released, some quit altogether. So to say that The Burning Crusade shook up the raiding scene is something of an understatement.
While the transition from 40-man raid dungeons to 25-man dungeons was more drastic than the transition will be to WotLK raiding, there will still be enough of a difference to also have an effect on raiding guilds. Old players becoming active again, the option of running the 25-man instances as 10-man instances, the addition of a new class, and the new race to the new level 80 cap will be enough for some guilds to break up and new ones to form. You may find yourself in a situation where you are in charge of recruiting new members when you've never had such a responsibility before, so this guide is meant to help you in weeding out the bad recruits from the good ones.
First of all, you need to know how often your guild plans on raiding: will your guild be a hardcore, nightly raiding guild or a guild that only raids a few nights a week? This is important because it will have an effect on what sort of players will be applying. Hardcore guilds tend to attract people who are more obsessed with loot, so it's more important to weed out the players who are the world of warcraft gold diggers. Casual guilds tend to attract players that are more on the laid back side, so it's more important to weed out the players that are too lazy to learn how to play.
Recruit the wrong players and you'll be seeing a lot of loading screens.
There are many types of undesirable players, and not everyone knows what to look for. Not everything will be covered by this guide, but most of the big things will be, so your results may vary.
One type of player that you want to look out for is the Epic Digger, the kind of player who is only raiding for the epics and doesn't give a damn about his fellow guildies. The Epic Digger isn't always easy to weed out because he will often come across as someone who just wants to help his guild eat through content, when in fact the only reason he's trying so hard is because he wants to get his hands on the epic loot. Now, it's not a bad thing to want better gear and loot, but the Epic Digger takes it to the next level by actively screwing over anyone he can in order to get loot first. They are often rude and can have a bad effect on morale with their selfish attitudes.
One way to weed Epic Diggers out is to pay close attention to what questions a new recruit may ask. Does he seem to ask more questions about loot, looting policies, and how soon he will be able to roll or spend DKP on gear? Another thing to look for is if the recruit ever passes on loot so someone else can have a chance at it before he does. If he's told he can't roll on something because it will benefit someone else more than him, does he get overly upset? If he exhibits all of the attributes above, then he is most likely an Epic Digger and it might be best to kick him from the guild when you have a chance.
A second type of undesirable player you want to look out for is the Lazy Slacker. This is the type of player that hangs out in the background, barely doing more than what is absolutely required of him. He will frequently show up for a raid unprepared, and rarely reads strategy guides on whatever content your guild is currently working on. No matter what class he plays, he will usually only spam one or two abilities and as a result perform poorly in whatever role he plays. He may try and use his "busyness in real life" as an excuse to not try hard or make an attempt at being prepared, even though you will frequently see him playing on his alts when not raiding. Lazy Slackers are dead weight at best, and hindrances to progression at worst when they show up unprepared.
A Lazy Slacker is the type of player most likely blow up his fellow players when he has debuffs such as "Living Bomb" (from WoW Classic), "Mark of Kaz'Rogal" (from WoW TBC) or "Polarize" (from upcoming WoW WotLK) simply because he didn't read the strategy for the boss and doesn't know what to do. He will be relatively easy to spot once he begins raiding, and once you have identified a player as a Lazy Slacker, the best way to deal with it is to simply stop inviting him to raids.

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A third type of undesirable player is the Vindictive Jerk. While this type of player isn't necessarily harmful to your raiding effort in a direct way, he can nevertheless hold your guild's efforts back because he simply makes life hell for anyone he's around. He's frequently rude and insulting to his fellow players and he will often openly mock players that he encounters from other guilds, either in game or on the official online forums. He is bad for your guild's reputation and will hamper recruiting efforts or your guild's relationship with other guilds.
The Vindictive Jerk isn't always a bad player, in fact a good majority of them are good players, but his boorish personality will make the game unenjoyable to those he plays with.
It's not always easy to decide if someone is a Vindictive Jerk, and if he is, then what to do with him because everyone has bad days. Some Vindictive Jerks toe the line, being rude infrequently, but frequently enough that his name comes up often as a problem that needs to be smoothed over. Some simply aren't aware of their effect on other people and can be rehabilitated once they are made aware of it, but if someone is a problem and an embarrassment rather frequently, it's usually best to remove him from the guild.
A fourth type of player is specific to DPS roles – the Blood Luster. The Blood Luster is the type of player who lives for damage-dealing. He will often bring as many consumables as he possibly can in order to maximize his DPS output, and in a raid setting, is blind to anything except where he places on the damage meter. This can be a big problem because the Blood Luster will almost always ignore where he stands on the threat meter. At best, he will pull aggro from the main tank and merely get himself killed. At worst, he will pull aggro and wipe the entire raid.
Unfortunately, the Blood Luster isn't necessarily a type of player that is easy to detect and weed out, because it's not something you can pick up on until you start to raid with said player. However, most Blood Lusters can be rehabilitated into good players when properly coached into paying more attention to threat and don't necessarily have to be removed from the raid. But if one is a constant problem, even after being confronted several times, then it is best to remove him from the raid permanently.
These were just a few of the types of players to keep an eye out for when recruiting. Perhaps the best way to check up on a player is first to ask what guilds he has been in and then to check in with that guild to see what kind of person he was when he played with them. While anything that you are told should be taken with a grain of salt, it is a good way to get an early warning as to what sort of person you are recruiting.
Wrath of the Lich King brings with it a new raiding landscape. If you are reforming a guild, or starting a new one, be sure you are bringing in not just good players, but players with good character. Recruit the right people and your wow power leveling guild will go far.
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