Cataclysm Mining Guide 1-525 Leveling Fast & Easy!

This is a video from Tarou (link to his site is in my Blogroll), and in it he outlines the best way to level Mining from 1 to 525.  For an added element of danger and excitement, he does it on a level 80 druid on a PVP server.  What a showman!

When Good Guildies Go Bad

This was a Shared Topic over at Blog Azeroth:

“What do you do when a normally good guildmate performs poorly or behaves badly?”

Most people join guilds because World of Warcraft is a social game, and guilds are big gooey melting pots of personalities.  Slapping that tag underneath a character’s name unites him or her with others wearing the same tag, joining them into one big family.  But every family has that asshole uncle who gets drunk at holiday gatherings and pisses in the punchbowl.  The one that Grandma Edna wishes she could punch in the head.

Guild miscreants are generally easy to sniff out.  Turds, much like cream, tends to float to the top.  Guilds have a size limit now, which means there’s only so many people to hind behind.  Maybe that’s why I’ve only met a couple of prizewinning spaz monkeys in my guild – they have a few thousand bodies to act as their own “Operation: Human Shield”.

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