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HearthCast Episode 8: How to Practically Guarantee You Might Get Selected To Maybe Join A Raid (Or Something)Ever wondered exactly what it would take to not waste your time sitting around in the LFG channel? Our main content this week covers 10 essential steps you need to take to ensure your time isn't wasted online!

Welcome to Episode #7 Of HearthCast - a podcast for the average world of warcraft player, with you hosts, Rewt - the gnome warlock with no free time on his hands, and Freckleface,  the gnome rogue with too  much free time on her handsWhat's Up In Game, out of game, & with BlizzardGreetings and salutationsWebsite UpdatesThis week's email questionsProfessions and their usefulness as a wholeRewt's Auction Houte TipFreckleFace's World of Warcraft Game TipFishin' for WishesGame DevelopmentsAddon Of The WeekFreckleFace's Guide to Proper PronounciationAnecdotes - Funny WoW StoriesDon't forget to call the ACN HearthCast Hotline with you qestions, comments or suggestions - 321-558-7637!

This week's full length podcast is all about the Actioneer Addon What's Up In Game, out of game, & with BlizzardGreetings and Salutations to our listenersWebsite Update ReportsThis week's email questionsAll About AuctioneerTips of the weekRewt's AH tip : Avoid Undercutters!FF's Game Tip : AH "Quests"Fishin' for WishesPatch Notes - Or Rants! Addon Of The Week (Auctioneer!)Our Word Of The WeekAnecdotes - Funny WoW Stories Also - Our ACN HearthCast Hotline is LIVE!! 321 - 558 - 7637

Today I finally got my Reeking Pet Carrier as a reward for obtaining 50 pets. Which naturally opened up a new achievement for getting 75, but anyways... What really kind of irked me is looking at the auction house and seeing that the White Kitten goes for 150 gold. The pet is a limited sell from the rare spawn vendor Lil Timmy who runs around in Stormwind. The thing is, I know I had that kitten before Wrath of the Lich King came out.I didn't have the bag space and it took me three attempts to sell it for 5 gold.Of course at the time I didn't know that there would be a day when I woudln't need bag space for pets, mounts, or tokens. OR that people just as myself would get so carried away over achievements that many low level items would balloon in price.But that just shows you the usefulness of the WOW community. And if you're listening to this you know how helpful it is to stay on top of new developments in the game. So I shouldn't have to tell you now is a really good time to fish for Borean Man o' War, since in 3.1 and it will be used to make the best buff food in the game. Make sure you do tune in this Tuesday with Freckleface and Rewt, and we'll have a full lenght episode jam packed with helpful content.

Have you ever been in a situation where someone was trying to use their abilities to manipulate the group? I was in a raid the other day when a warlock started with some bad behavior. At the time we were forming a raid to attack a capital city, and every new person who joined would ask for a summon. However, there was only one warlock in the group, and it took him a bit to get to the location. In the meantime, every request infuriated him and he started lashing out at people asking. When it was time to move onto the next city and some players had dropped out, the warlock refused to summon newcomers until we had a full raid.   Now of course I wanted to tell that lock a few things. That he was being immature and selfish. That if everyone acted like that - healers refusing to heal, tanks not tanking, etcetera - nothing would ever get done. That if he didn't want to help the group, he needed to leave so we could find someone else to fill their spot.     But I didn't. And if I was the raid leader, I would have taken a proactive approach with by telling him nicely that we needed the summons and that we appreciated him for helping us out. Because although the lock was in the wrong, maybe a few encouraging words would have calmed him down and the raid would have been more successful. Just goes to show you that having people skills and being a team player is as important in World of Warcraft as being geared. So mind your manners and play nice.

Welcome to Episode 5 of our full length podcast here at HearthCast.com! In this Episode:What's Up?Site UpdatesListener EmailThe Symbionic Relations of ProfessionsRewt's AH Tip Of The WeekFreckleface's Game Tip Of The WeekFishin' For WishesFreckleface's Pronouciation GuideA Special Competition AnnouncedAnd More!

Hello there, Rewt here from HearthCast.com - today's topic is: Daily Quests!Daily Quests, or "dailies", are quests that you can do over again eachday, and are marked by a blue exclimation point over the quest giver.While the task can get to be routine after about the 3rd time, Blizzard has been kind enough to makes the Daily Quest Rewards substantial. With a limit of 25 dailies a day, and some of them paying upwards of 20gold a pop, it's easy to see that doing dailies for the gold alone is a smart thing.However, you also get a reputation bonus for whatever faction has thequest you're doing -  and that reputation bonus typically leads to somenice rewards! Opening up a vendor, quartermaster, additional quests, andeven discounted rates from other vendors in the area.The best advice I can give you is to schedule yourself and a friend towork on the same daily quests together. It makes the time go by faster, and you don't get bored.Hey, each and every Tuesday, Freckleface and I publish our full length podcast at HearthCast.com, full of insights, tips, information, and answers about the World of Warcraft. You can be part of our show byvisiting HearthCast.com and clicking on the "Be Part Of The Show" link.

Just the other day I was talking with Freckleface about WoW Apparel. T-Shirts... hats... I am in the market for something to display my love of the game with...The problem was that everything I saw was just  too... I dunno... geekish.  I don't mind my geek pride... If I did, I wouldn't want any WoW Apparelright now... but nothing I saw out there appealed to me.Until I saw what SwagDog is doing. They're letting you print your own custom shirt! You get your own shirt, with your guild's tabbard on it, yourserver name and your toon name... That, my friends, is very cool. When you visit their site (I put a link up on HearthCast.com), you'll just enter your realm name and your toons name... from there, it does the rest.Heck, it's fun just to play with the builder they have online... So, if you're in the market for a nice quality shirt or hat, or other apparel, and you want it to be something that is uniquely yours, then head overto HearthCast.com and click on the SwagDog link on the right hand side... tell them Rewt from HearthCast.com sent you.

This tip takes time, patience, gold, and the stomach to muster it.I've said before that the Auction House typically runs on a "supply and demand" rule set. This tip shows how to take advantage of that, and potentially crash the market.Let's take as an example, Heavy Borean Leather. Let's say it's selling for 40 gold for a full stack of 20, and you've got a bank full of them. List your first stack at market price - 40 gold. Your next stack, drop the price by a couple a gold or so. Same with your next stack... keep dropping the price by a gold or so for each listing. Now, the market price will be dropping each of your listings... it could potentially lose over 50% of it's actual market value. As the market price falls, people will be doing one of two things - listing their own Heavy Borean Leather, or buying yours. Either way, it's fine, as it will continue to keep the market price down.When it seems the price has hit a low enough range (you'll know because people will stop posting them for auction), buy out the remaining stock (which now should be around 50% under valued), and relist with it's normalmarket value.If you can plan this with a couple of friends who also have a bank full of the items, it's quite possible to completely crash the market for that item.

If you've been to Dalaran, you've probably noticed that there's almost always people elbow to elbow with their fishing pole at the fountain. And while it might seem a little odd at the outset, from the fountain comes little nuggets of lore.You see, when you have your fishing skill high enough you can retrieve copper, silver, or gold coins from the fountain. Each of them have a wish from a character in World of Warcraft. Sure you can get them just for the achievement Coin Master - but if you take a moment to look at the coins you can get a little insight into the hopes and dreams of people who make up the story.  Beginning this Tuesday, each week our full length podcast will feature a segment in which we will examine a coin and see if the wish came true.Now if you're ready to fish these up yourself, patch 3.1 will make raising this secondary skill a whole lot easier. The cast time will be shorter, and you will be able to level from any location. Be sure to tune in this Tuesday for our Fishing for Wishes with Freckleface at hearthcast.com!