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One of the great things about a new expansion pack is that it gives the savvy player a chance to cash in on their professions early on and make some serious gold. If you have been playing smart in the last few months and using the down time to stock your bank account, you are probably in good shape. But, if you are like most players you want to know how to make gold from the Cataclysm professions as you can never have too much of it.

Whenever an expansion comes out you will notice that on the average, the race is to see who can hit the level caps first. While there is nothing wrong with this, it is not the way to make money. Oh sure you are going to make some gold for leveling and completing quests, but not any real money. If you want to make serious gold, you need to forget about leveling your character as quickly as possible and concentrate on your professions instead.

Since the vast majority of players are heavily engaged in the race to cap out their levels, this leaves the crafting fields relatively untouched. Those who take the initiative and concentrate on herbing and mining everything in sight will dominate the auction house. Personally I saw this with Wrath as one of the first miners to hit Sholazzar Basin. I hit every Saronite mine and then had Titanium to myself for the first two days. This allowed me to set the prices in the auction house and clean up, it took several days before the prices started to drop even a little bit.

Of course if you are a jewelcrafter or a blacksmith you can hold on to your raw materials and be the first one to max out your skills, once again you can take control of the prices in the auction house. The only profession that does not seem to be paying very well at the moment in Archeology, but rumor has it that this profession is a little more like Engineering in that you get some really cool stuff that really isn’t worth much money.

From what I have seen so far with the changes in gear stats, both Tailoring and Blacksmithing show great promise as a way to make serious gold from Cataclysm professions once players start to level up. One thing to remember is that all of the quests and raids in Cataclysm aren’t going anywhere, the same cannot be said for the gold to be made from professions. You are only going to get one chance to make extreme gold and that is in the first few days until more people stop leveling and start working on their professions, play smart and don’t miss your opportunity.

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Blizzard completely changed World of Warcraft by adding the dungeon finder.  Dungeon leveling is now the fastest way to get to the top level, and it can leave some WoW players wondering exactly how to do it in the most effective way.  On the surface, dungeon leveling seems to be pretty cut and dry.  Just queue up for a dungeon and run through it with the party selected for you by the dungeon finder.  However, there are several tips and tricks to maximizing your leveling experience that you can only find in a dungeon leveling guide.  Dugi’s Dungeon Leveling Guide is one of the first leveling guides to utilize the dungeon method, and here are a few of the tips you’ll find explained more detail in it.

The Basic Technique of Dungeon Leveling

As with anything on World of Warcraft, there is a certain technique required to use the dungeon finder effectively.  DPS classes will want to make sure they still travel around the map and complete solo quests while they are waiting for their dungeon group.  This will ensure that they continue to level while waiting for the dungeon group because the wait for a DPS member is often quite long.

Tanks and healers may be able to get away with doing few, if any, solo quests.  The wait time for tanks and healers is much shorter than it is for DPS because fewer players want to choose the responsibility of healing or tanking for a group.  For every nine DPS players, you may only have one or two tanks, which is why the line for DPS players is so long.

Complete Maps for all the Lower Level Dungeons

When Blizzard first created World of Warcraft, they didn’t see fit to include maps of all the lower level dungeons.  This is especially annoying because those dungeons are a lot longer and more winding than most of the level 80 dungeons.  You really have to know where you’re going in these lower level dungeons, which is a major problem because most players have never played them.  However, thanks to Dugi’s Dungeon Leveling Guide, you’ll be able to find your way through with the in-game maps.  Leveling with the dungeon finder is a lot easier when you have maps to help you find your way.

Locations of all the Dungeon Quests

 Another important feature of a dungeon leveling guide is the listing of all the dungeon quests.  The best way to maximize the amount of experience you earn from every single instance run is by completing the quests for them, but sometimes it can be very difficult trying to figure out where to pick up the quests.  In fact, some of these dungeon quests have prerequisite quests which much be completed on your own before you can be eligible to even accept the quests for the dungeons.  A dungeon leveling guide will help you figure out where you need to go and what solo quests you need to complete before you can accept the dungeon quests

There is no doubt that the Rogue can be one of the most fun classes to play in World of Warcraft, especially in PvP.  Fighting against other players in the Battlegrounds is truly the one place that playing a Rogue gives you a distinct advantage. Each player is going to develop his own Rogue PvP strategy over time, but a few extra tips can help you to dominate the BGs or the Arena on your Rogue instead of surviving by sheer luck.

One of the biggest problems I have seen with many Rogues in PvP is that for some reason they seem to think that they are tanks. You see them all the time rushing into a fight like a warrior only to get wasted in seconds. This kind of Rogue PvP strategy just doesn’t make any sense; as one of the least armored classes why would anyone want to do that. As a Rogue you have one advantage that no other class has; stealth. Not only can you stand still and not be seen; you can sneak up behind your enemy.

This is your biggest strength and one that you should use to your advantage whenever you are involved in PvP combat. Keep in mind that even though you are stealthed, there are those who understand your tactics and can still find you. Be aware of this and keep your eyes peeled so that you see them first. This will always give you the advantage and allow you to stun your opponent and get the first strike advantage.

Herein lies another situation that far too many Rogues fail to drive their class advantages home and score their honorable kills. The Rogue has Sap and Kick, both of which are designed to stun an opponent stopping them in their tracks, this means no spell casting, no melee attacks and even more importantly, no bandaging or healing of any kind including using potions. Instead of hitting your opponent until they are low on health that and then giving them a chance to heal, keep kicking them.

This takes away any chance they have to heal and gives your Rogue the opening he needs to finish the job in style and comfort. The best Rogue PvP strategy is using a strong offense to keep your opponent off guard giving you the chance to take them down at your own pace and score the victory instead of getting yourself killed.

If you want to be a successful Hunter in a PvP environment, you need to behave in much the same way as a real hunter would in the real world. You have to be able to identify your targets, understand how it is likely to behave, and anticipate what your target is likely to do. At the same time you have to know your own capabilities, be comfortable with using them and have the right gear to protect you from taking too much damage.

Knowing all of this, you need to be capable of moving yourself into a good enough position to take on your target and eliminate it without ending up as a target yourself. This sounds just like any other role that the Hunter is likely to take on including any type of PvE combat. You are equipped with traps and nowhere is that more important than in the PvP arena, including battlegrounds. By using your traps as crowd control you can put enough distance between you and your enemy to use your DPS abilities to do as much damage as possible.

Your best Hunter PvP strategy is to study the PvP strategy of the other classes and the tactics needed to kill them. This will allow you to stay one step ahead of them, which can be very important as they are trying to kill you at the same time. If you want to develop a good PvP strategy, the best way to do so is spend as much time as you can in the battlegrounds and the Arenas. You are going to spend a lot of time dying as you learn, but over time you will find that you will learn the tactics of all the other toons.

One thing you need to make sure of is that you have the best gear you can get and upgrade every chance you get. Getting your PvP gear has never been easy and in between seasons it is even harder. The one last tip is to choose your pet carefully; there are no wrong or right pets. Choose the one that suits your style of play and make good use of it. This does not mean letting it run loose. Rather, use your pet to protect yourself and add damage when you are under attack. If used properly, your pet can hold the aggro while you gain a little range and finish the enemy off.

If you are considering buying a leveling guide for World of Warcraft, Zygor’s Guides is a very solid choice. It is the best selling guide on the market, which is not a surprise considering that they do everything possible to keep the guide and included addons compliant with Blizzards policies. This alone will keep you out of trouble.

With the release of Cataclysm, the whole face of the game has changed. The leveling paths that have been tried and true for years simply do not exist anymore. Some quests were removed as they no longer make sense in the current storyline, while others were added in to explain the back history  to the arrival of Deathwing. You can fumble with trying to find the fastest path on your own, or you can give a leveling guide a shot.

The guide is set up to level purely with questing from level 1 all the way to 85. There are also  multiple paths listed for those of you who prefer certain zones over others. I know that I prefer to do most of my leveling in the Eastern Kingdoms, but those of you who like Kalimdor are not left out.

Zygor incorporates what they call the “Smart Injection System” that is set up to detect your character’s status compared to where they should be in the guide and will take steps to get you in the right place. It knows if you are wearing heirloom gear, are set up with as a recruit a friend account, or if you have done the quests before. This is a sticking point with some of the guides in that they do not account for things you may have done before.

Best of all, it gives you a talent advisor that will assist you in picking the proper talents for your class. This is important as the proper talents can mean the difference between quick or long kills. There is no reason to do research on the best spec, then fumbling to find the order to get the talents in.

There are also a few notable bonuses that don’t directly help with leveling a character, but they are nice additions to the product. These range from profession guides on Inscription and Archaeology to a guide on the Death Knight class. If you are serious about buying a leveling guide, or even plan to level up multiple characters in the coming months, you will not go wrong with Zygor’s Guides.