Tonight I thought I would talk a little about my favorite memories about playing World of Warcraft "back in the day" as they like to say. Although WoW Classic only includes Vanilla content I will also include some Burning Crusade memories as that really was my formative years playing WoW. Read on for some of my thoughts on my fondest WoW memories.

The other day I read that the Classic testing was going to be going on again and I got excited and told April. I was anticipating coming home and being able to log back onto Classic before it's release on August 27th. When I got home and wasn't able to log into the Classic server I was sad.

Turns out that they were opening the game back up to closed beta testers who were going to be able to play level 40 toons and be able to test out level 40-45 content. I was a sad panda. Read on for some of my thoughts as I wait for the Classic release.

World of Warcraft: Classic

Who knew that nostalgia could be such a strong thing? Who would have thought that the thing that could get me back interested in World of Warcraft would be playing the game like it was 2004? Apparently Blizzard did because I played the World of Warcraft Classic stress test and I have to admit I'm kind of in love.

Read on for my initial thoughts after 7 hours of Classic and a bit about what I've been up to over the last few years.

Just a quick note to let you know that the as of December 2017 the blog address will change from the "powerwordgold.net" to "powerwordgold.blogspot.com".

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Thanks.

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If you're a hunter farming herbs and ore in northern Highmountain (watch Faid's great video on this technique) you may find yourself casting your Water Strider pet's Surface Trot ability a lot. (This ability allows you to walk on water.)

Unfortunately Surface Trot can't be cast while you are on your mount. The macro I wrote below does two things: If you are mounted it dismounts you and it casts Surface Trot.

(While you can't drag hunter pet abilities to your bar you can write them into macros.)

The macro:

/dismount [mounted]
/cast Surface Trot

Now if you're a bit to antsy (like I often am) to get to the next node and you mount before you need to cast Surface Tror this macro will dismount you and cast the spell.

It's a little quality-of-life thing but if you're casting Surface Trot a lot it helps.

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Episode 100 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin and special guest Faid (Twitter, YouTube) discuss coming back to WoW after 2 years, yhe launch of Legion, making gold with gathering, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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As you may have read in my previous post (Can You Make Gold At Low Levels? My Results From Level 1-49) I've been leveling a Warrior from level 1 to 60 in as close a "Vanilla" style as possible. Today I finally finished leveling her to 60 and I wanted to share a few additional thoughts on the process.

In preparation for the launch of Legion I've been working on a project to build the character I'm planning to give my free level 100 boost to.

I already have 14 level 100s so it wasn't necessarily an easy choice as to who to give the boost to. I already have a level 100 of every class and an extra 100 Hunter, Paladin, and Warlock (invasion XP was too much to resist leveling a few extra 90s I had laying around).

I settled on making a human female Warrior and leveling her to 60 and giving her professions so that when she was boosted to level 100 her professions would be leveled up automatically as well.

Sometimes I like to give my characters unique constraints (remember my "One Month, One Toon" Challenge?). For this Warrior I decided to level her "old school"-style. No Heirlooms, no mount until level 40, and no addons. As a fun side-project I wanted to know how much gold could a character like this make. Read on for more.

Thanks to all who came out to our first Facebook Live livestream. Catch the VOD here.

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The Gold Queen has a good guide to farming the Pocket Fel Spreader. It had instructions on adding map points for the Doomsayers using the addon TomTom.

I liked the guide but adding the waypoints involved either adding one by one or making multiple macros.

Paste Addon To The Rescue

I found an addon called Paste that allows you to add all the coordinates in one shot.




In order to add all the way points to TomTom using Paste you have to have TomTom and Paste installed and then open Paste via the Minimap Button or /paste.

Once open copy the coordinate text for your city below, paste it into Paste, and click "Paste". This will add all the waypoints to TomTom.

Disable TomTom Waypoint Auto Clearing

Coordinates

The coordinates below were taken from The Gold Queen's Pocket Fel Spreader Farming post (with a few corrections by me). If you find any inaccuracies or corrections to the coordinates below please let me know.

Stormwind Doomsayers

/way Stormwind City 78.6 37.3 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 68.6 42.7 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 72.7 47.8 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 67.6 58.0 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 77.0 63.6 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 66.5 76.5 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 61.3 75.0 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 55.6 68.5 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 59.0 53.0 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 53.9 52.9 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 47.4 49.6 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 51.2 70.6 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 44.0 81.2 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 50.2 86.7 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 62.2 32.7 Doomsayer
/way Stormwind City 66.2 71.3 Doomsayer

Orgrimmar Doomsayers

/way Orgrimmar 33.85 67.93 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 40.16 63.88 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 40.66 46.85 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 45.86 51.44 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 39.88 77.98 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 44.20 69.00 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 44.22 63.84 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 48.75 57.09 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 52.66 63.93 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 52.16 74.96 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 51.83 85.04 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 57.70 52.79 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 65.30 47.71 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 71.75 45.08 Doomsayer
/way Orgrimmar 69.17 32.86 Doomsayer

Happy Hunting!

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

Also, as I was writing this post my wife's been looking for Doomsayers and has found three. On the third one I got the Pocket Fel Spreader!

Big thanks again to The Gold Queen for her original guide.

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