So it's been 11 days since I started my One Month, One Toon Challenge and it's time to report back on how it's going, what I'm learning and what I'm missing. (If you're confused by my Nelf'ish figure above, it was a teleporter malfunction. A horrible, disfiguring malfunction!) Read on past the jump for my experiences so far.

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Here is a 2:22 long livestream recording I did that goes over an alpha feature that will be available in future versions of TSM. Specifically I explore the "Add Items by ItemID" Group Override that should be a boon to those selling mogging items. I also go over how to import and search for mogging items usingTSM Shopping and  Faid's lists.

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Today we have a question from a reader that I am going to let you answer. The question relates to realm population size and its effects on gold-making. Please help this reader by giving us your answer in the comments section below. Head past the jump for the question.

Many of us love using _NPCScan to hunt rare spawns for fun and profit (Collidus the Warp Watcher anyone?). Problem is, once you find a rare spawn _NPCScan won't alert you if you see them again unless you delete your creaturecache.wdb file outside the game.

This short video goes over how to delete the proper file as well as a shortcut to make it faster the next time you need to delete it.

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Keelhaul (@DEazeroth) was at is again tonight. He hosted a Transmog Fashion Show with 100k gold in prizes on the Proudmoore-US (A) realm. Keel asked me to livestream it and the 1 hour recording of the event is above. You can also watch it on the recording's page on twitch.tv.

If you ever wonder who in the world would buy your transmog items for the prices we charge, just watch the video above. I know I saw some of the sets I'm selling being sported by the mogging players. Congrats to all the winners! I took care to read off the transmog items for the sets I thought were especially great.

To catch all my livestreams be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/jimyounkin.

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I'm what you might call an "alt-aholic". I love toons. Toons, toons and more toons. I have ten level 85 characters on my main server. I have far more than ten alts of various levels scattered over various servers. IN gold-making it is often very advantageous to have such a set up. Having multiple toons with multiple professions is a very solid strategy.

There is something, however, that I think I may have lost in my race to "have all the toons" and that is focus. Perhaps it is all the time I've been spending in Outlands reminiscing about "the good old days". Perhaps it is seeing people struggle to make gold with just one or two characters.

Mainly I just want to feel the way I did about a singular character the way I did in The Burning Crusade. Whatever the reason, I've decided to create what I am calling the "One Month, One Toon" Challenge. Read on past the jump to see how I'll be spending my next 30 days in World of Warcraft.

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I finally decided to set up TradeSkillMaster (TSM) to post my transmogrification items. I've finally been able to settle into a pricing structure I'm comfortable automating and decided to do a livestream of the process. This is my first instructional livestream and, as is the nature of livestreams, it is interactive and unedited.

The livestream ended up taking around 1 hour but I think the knowledge to be gained from it will more than make up for the length. Special thanks to Faid, Gimp, Alto and all the other people who joined me in the chat room and helped me work out some kinks. If you have any questions about the livestream or setting up TSM let me know in the comments below.

Also be sure to subscribe to my livestream channel at twitch.tv/jimyounkin. If you can't always make it live be sure to check my other recorded livestreams for lots of wackiness with April, Faid, Gimp and more.

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Episode 029 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Keelhaul bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss transmogrification tips, tiers, techniques and more. And now on with the show!

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This weekend I finally put some of the hard-earned PayPal dollars we've earned selling our guide to use and purchased a full version of XSplit Premium. We've been using the free beta version for a while now to do those cool multi-screen section videos the last month or so. (Download XSplit beta at XSplit.com).

Over this weekend we went ahead and created a proper twitch.tv account (http://www.twitch.tv/jimyounkin/) and started livestreaming. Over the weekend we did 20+ hours of livestreaming. We had a blast. Livestreams are far different than YouTube videos in that there is live interaction between myself and the audience. Head past the jump for a list of all the livestreams we did this weekend.

In this Quick Tip video I go over how to one-pull almost the entire Hellfire Ramparts instance in order to quickly farm mogging items as well as Runecloth. I originally learned about this technique from Gimp (Gimps Gold) in this video.

Any class with a targetable AOE attack such as Hunter's Explosive Trap, Druid's Hurricane, Warlock's Rain of Fire, Mage's Blizzard, etc will be able to pull this off by targeting it as shown in the video. If you aren't one of these classes you can aggro them with a well-timed EZ-Throw Dynamite (Thanks Ruls). I also collected over 200 Runecloth in just 3 resets each taking about 5 minutes each including looting.

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