No one likes to lose all their hard work due to addons going haywire or other unfortunate events. We've been getting a lot of reports from reader and livestream viewers of TradeSkillMaster losing/destroying their carefully built TSM settings, groups, etc.

This video explains how to find your TradeSkillMaster setting files as well as how to backup and restore them if needed. The information on where to find these files was taken from the FAQ over at TradeSkillMaster.com.

File Path:
'World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/YOURACCOUNTNAME/SavedVariables/'

While we all know we should backup our data, we often procrastinate. I've been trying to make a habit of using the TSM Application to backup my TSM files before I launch the Curse Client to update my addons.

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Episode 046 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss what they've been doing in gold-making recently, finding Mists recipes, making gold after 90 and much more. And now on with the show!

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If you're like me you have more than a few level 85 alts that may not be level 90 but they are farming their little 4-plot Tiller farm at Halfhill in Valley of the Four Winds. (Talk to Farmer Yoon to get your quests to get your farm opened up.)

How do you decide what crops to grow each day? Head past the jump for my quick technique for maximizing the profit you can gain from these farms.

Episode 045 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss what they've been doing in gold-making recently, discuss MoP material prices, professions, Tiller's faction and much more. And now on with the show!

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I made this Living Steel price calculator for myself but at the request of the livestream viewers I've made a version available for downloading/copying for everyone to use. Yay!

I use this daily to calculate which method is the cheapest for making Living Steel (Ghost Iron Ore v. Tillium smelting, etc). Read on past the jump for instructions on how to download/copy it for your own use.

Every once in a while you run across something so awesome that you just have to share it. I came across this illustrated guide to the Tiller faction reputation on the /r/wow subreddit and had to share it.

Seems I wasn't the only one who enjoyed it. It was by far the most retweeted tweet we've ever put out. So that this knowledge (and awesome artwork) aren't lost I thought I would be sure to post it here so that myself and others can always have it handy.

The illustration was made by "Nessa" for the redditor Zephyrion who stated when posting it "Told my friend I didn't understand the Tillers. A couple hours later she sent me this.". Head past the jump for the full illustrated guide.

I'll bet many players (myself included) are feeling just a bit overwhelmed since the launch of Mists of Pandaria. Whereas in Cataclysm I felt like a master of the universe, in Mists I'm feeling like quite the noob.

Why is this? For one thing I think Blizzard packed much more content into this expansion than any of us were expecting. On top of that, we have all these characters and professions to level. All these new areas to explore. All of these new gold-making techniques to work out.

So how do we deal with the overwhelming-ness of it all? Head past the jump for a few of my own ideas about the topic of how to adjust to Pandaria.

As I've discussed previously (and also recently mentioned by Phat) the new market for selling low level current-expansion items to players stuck in previous expansions while leveling, previously held by level 77-80 Cataclysm items, is likely to now be 83-84 Mists of Pandaria items.

Read on past the jump for my early-expansion plans for these potentially valuable items and also tips on how I'm finding them.

It's hard to believe it's only been two days since the launch of Mists of Pandaria. Seems more like a week with all the playing I've been doing.

Read on past the jump for my initial gold-making impressions of Mists of Pandaria along with some thoughts on lore and what others have found as far as gold-making in MoP.

Episode 044 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Gimp bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Gimp discuss what they've been doing in gold-making recently, look back on Cataclysm, look ahead to Mists of Pandaria and much more. And now on with the show!

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