By Steelydave

Gold is one of the ma- jor driving forces be-hind every player'sexperience in WoW.Almost everything wedo requires spendinggold, and there justnever seems to beenough available for us. At level 80, themajority of Dark-friends guild membersare involved in endgame raiding content,either in a 10 man or 25 man heroic group.While it would be niceto 1 shot every bosswe encounter, that just doesn't happenand sometimes wehave to spend a littlemoney at the repair shop.I utilize various waysof farming that work inconjunction with mynormal schedule of rep grinding, dailies,and materials farming.The process takes alittle longer but yieldstwo or three timesmore gold that I canset aside to offset re-pair costs or consum-ables purchases be-fore raid time. For thisissue, I've providedthree of my favoritemethods of the proc-ess. The most impor-tant tip I can give youconcerning the proc-ess is to spread it outover the week in be-tween raid times.Don't attempt to crameverything into oneday of grinding. Try toinstead accomplish alittle bit each day soyou aren't burningyourself out, butyou're still makingmoney.

Sons Of Hodir

: Per-forming the dailiesand acquiring a largequantity of Relics of Ulduar are the key toobtaining exaltedstatus with the sons.After gaining exaltedstatus, the dailies arestill open to you andyou can still acquire

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Money, Money, Money!Raid Progression

By BlondiWhile many other guilds are boastingtheir complete defeatof the latest raid con-tent, Ulduar, Dark-friends is steadily at-tempting to make their way through withoutcompletely limiting thenumber of guild mem-bers who get to seethe content. Cur-rently, 25 man raidsare working diligentlyat getting into Ulduar,having recently ex-perienced some set-backs as membersenjoy the free time

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Spring / Summer 2009

Without gold, there isn’t muchyou can do in WoW.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:Special pointsof interest:

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Steelydave givesus some greatmoney makingtips!

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Blondi highlightsraid progres-sion.

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Meet the newslet-ter editor andguild secretary,Blondi, in our guild member highlight.\

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Guild announce-ments can befound on theback page.

relics. I like to take thetwo dailies, Hot andCold and BlowingHodir’s Horn. While I'maccomplishing these, Ikeep track of my reliccount. Both types of mobs involved withthese quests drop therelics, and you shouldbe able to loot about25 by the time you'vefinished them. Don'tstop at 25. Take anextra half hour or 45minutes and grind out25 more.You'll not only gainseveral green itemdrops, but you'll lootabout 10 gold and vari-ous stacks of trash thatcan be sold for up-wards of 3 gold in theprocess. The 50 relicsof Ulduar you've lootedcan be sold in the auc-tion house for about 90-120g depending oninflation at the time. If you're really crazy, youcan go for 50 more andnot only gain more ven-dor trash, but doubleyour profit. You'll earn

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around 200-250 for 100 relics of Ulduar.

Fishing/Cooking:

Morespecifically the deviatefish and savory deviatedelight combo. If you'relucky enough to lootthe rec-ipe for the sa-vory de-viatedelights,you canauction itfor around300g,but I'drecom-mend keeping it andlearning it.Stacks of Savory Devi-ate delights can beauctioned for around30-40g a stack, anddeviate fish are ex-tremely easy to farm. Ican usually farmaround 100 fish withinan hour. The bestplace to farm them arein the barrens, in the 3pools locations near the crossroads. If youfish them in the earlymorning or late night,you shouldn't have aproblem with competi-tion and can easilygrind out severalstacks.

Mining:

One of my fa-vorites, mining can netyou some huge cash.There are several ave-nues to explore, oneeasy and one risky (butpossibly worth moremoney in the end). Thefirst and easiest is togrind out stacks of sa-ronite ore. I'd chooseSholazar Basin, in theearly morning. thereare few players in thisarea during the morn-ing, and there is a largequantity of Saronite tofarm.If you spend just 1 hour patrolling the border of the basin (where sa-ronite seems to bemost commonly found),you should be able toloot 5 stacks fairly eas-ily. It's all competitiondependant, so setaside an extra half hour and be prepared toswitch up your course if you find yourself flyingalong the same path asanother player.The ore you've minedcan either be sold inthe auction house or prospected. Saronitesells for a very profit-able amount, at around

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When eaten Savory Deviate De- lights have a chance at making you a pirate or ninja.

“Gold is one of themajor driving forcesbehind every player'sexperience in WoW.”

The Sons of Hodir quest line awards Relics of Ulduar and often leads to mobs that drop them aswell.

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20g a stack. If youprospect instead, youmight be lucky enoughto loot several bluequality gems that canin turn be sold in theauction house for the

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same amount, if notdouble what you'd earnfor a stack of 100 ore.It's a very risky deci-sion, since there's noguarantee at all thatyou'll get any bluequality gems. Whileyou're there, you canquickly accomplishyour oracle or Frenzy-heart dailies and earnan extra 40g.Also, while you mine,save your crystallizedearth/shadow. You canstack them up into eter-nals later, which sell for 70-160g per stack(Eternal earth is by far the most profitable).Those methods are myfavorite and I've foundthem to yield the mostprofit of any I've tried.They're VERY simple,and take very little timeto accomplish. Justremember to spreadthe process out over the course of a weekso you can still earnsome money and cover your consumable/flasksand repair costs, butplay the game as well.contact, Blondi hasbeen a member sincelevel 1 on her first char-acter, her mageBloddwyn.Blondi’s nickname andensuing naming pat-tern first started whenBelal, our guild leader decided that Bloddwynwas to awkward to pro-Having been intro-duced to Darkfriendsby former member andofficer, Aeryanna,Blondi is now one of our most well knownmembers in the guild.Well known for admin-istrating the forums,publishing the newslet-ter and overall member record keeping andnounce. He thenpromptly decided thatfrom that point forwardshe was Blondi. Thereare times she canseem to live up to thename as well.She currently has an80 pally, a mage thatwill soon ding 80 and

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Guild Member Highlight: Blondi

Blondi and Ravenshield inFebruary 2009.

head.Groups 1 and 2 haveboth made it nearly asfar as Mimeron when itcomes to 10 man raid-ing. Group 3, however,is pushing its waythrough, boasting thedefeat of Mimeron after 4 hours of beating their heads against this trou-blesome boss. As aguild, we welcome theexperience that Group2 members will bring to25 man raiding oncewe make it that far.that summer oftenbrings. 10 man groupsare also experiencingsome setbacks as thealways rare commodityof healers is onceagain rearing its ugly

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Darkfriends issteadily attempting tomake their way through current 10 and 25 man content.