[Fishing] Volatile Fire in Hyjal

This amazing new fishing location was shown to me by one of my guildies, and it is an excellent place to farm Volatile Fire. The location is Sulfuron Spire in Mount Hyjal. You will be fishing from Pools of Fire that spawn in any of the lava pools in this area. This area is beginning to be competetive on my realm at least, so farm there while you can!

While you are waiting for the pools to respawn, kill all the level 81 Elites in the area because they also drop greys, greens, and Volatile Fire. They only have 110k hitpoints and are easily killable at level 85.

Finally, if you can't be bothered to kill mobs while you are fishing, by simply fishing into the lava where it is deep enough, you will still find Volatile Fire at a slightly lower drop-rate. 

Happy farming!

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Cataclysm Green Thumb!

Many people view BoE green items as trash and don't see them as anything more than something to sell to the vendor. This paradigm cannot be further from the truth! Greens are one of the greatest ways to make gold while leveling a new character. Every single BoE green item you find can be sold on the Auction House, or disenchanted into more useful materials that you can sell. Either of these methods for getting rid of greens will net you at least double what you would have received from selling the item to a vendor.

In addition, most players won't think twice about accepting an item reward for a quest if there are no items that they can use being rewarded. The price difference between the cheapest item, and the most expensive item that the quest giver is rewarding can be truly staggering. By simply opting for the most expensive vendor priced item that the quest giver is rewarding, you can often quadruple your profits while questing. As a general rule, Plate items usually sell for the most, with mail coming next and then leather items, with two-handed weapons selling for the most out of any item reward.

I hope you find these tips helpful as we draw nearer to Cataclysm, where millions of players will jump into the long quest grind to 85!

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Making gold without even knowing it.

Many players aren't gung-ho about gold making and would rather do things that they actually enjoy in the game. I don't always feel like making gold, but in this game it's often something you cannot help but do. Whether you like it or not, you can be making gold while completely unaware. In essence, you can be doing something completely different, with another goal in mind, and still be making a ton of gold in the process. Reputation grinding is one of the many ways that players can do this and you will be surprised at the amount of gold that you can bring in while grinding reputation.

The Burning Crusader, for example, is an achievement that will require you to raise five Outland instance reputations to Exalted. Most of these reputations will require you to do a great deal of Outland instance farming where you will pick up items that still sell for extremely competetive prices on the Auction House.

A few of these items include:

Netherweave Cloth
Outland Greens
Outland Blues

If you have a profession such as Herbalism or Mining, you can also gather all the Ancient Lichen, Felweed, and various Mining Veins you see throughout the instances to net even more gold in the end with negligible losses in time spent grinding. If you add all of the grey items, weapons, feathers, armor, and other junk you vendor, you are left with a formidible gold making method that will net amazing gold per hour without you even knowing it!

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Farming Scholomance Pre-Insane Removal

This information is no longer valid and is for archival uses only.

Description: Fast and efficient way to farm the popular seller [Pristine Black Diamond] while they are still worth something!

Method: Kill the first 4 mobs where they stand, then start on the left side and AoE pull the entire room back to the corpses of the first 4 guards. Take the door to the left, I killed each summoner individually, because they remain stationary and only summon skeletons from where they stand. In the next room aggro gather all the mobs similar to the first AoE pull, circling the entire room. Continue down to the next room with the whelps. When you enter this room, tag the whelp(s) to your left, then drop down the hole on the left side and begin killing the mobs beneath as quick as you can. In about 10-15 seconds you will have the entire top floor coming to meet you at the bottom where you will AoE them all. Loot the boss and backtrack, open the doors that lead to the seven bosses at the end. Start with the top floor, clearing each room and its respective boss, and then drop down to the floor and finish the bottom three bosses before engaging the final boss. Happy farming and GL on the PBD!

Note: After killing the last boss I find it fast enough to just backtrack out of the instance, it only takes about a minute to run out.

Time: 00:20:56

Raw gold: = 24g

Items:

Greys/Soulbound Blues: = 25g

Pristine Black Diamond: 1 * 748g = 839g

Runecloth: 7.75 Stacks * 4.98g = 38.6g

D/E: = 6g

Crypt Fiend Parts: = 5.58g

Dark Rune: = 3.67g

Total Gold: = 941.85g

Important Note: Although this calculates to 2748.6 GPH this is a very situational farming spot because of the recent changes to the Insane in the Membrane Achievement. This is only 2748.6 GPH on US-Mal'Ganis(H) during the month of November, 2010. 

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