Mo-Moments #7: Blog Etiquette

Hello all and hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend.

I wanted to write about blogging etiquette, more for my sake I will say and my nooberness in the blog world. I do not know of any rules in blogging and as far as I see blogging is stating your opinion, perhaps your knowledge but more your opinion and views on a topic or even perhaps your own material on a new topic/subject.

So, well, what is the etiquette for blogging and bloggers?

I have no doubt in the WoW community, a few people are bound to write the same thing perhaps and of course have the same opinions. We know as well that people will have differences and different opinions which at times start some friction between some people(s). What happens when someone does appear to copy your opinion and make it their own?

What do you do? Who do you report them to? And can you?

As I think we agree blogging is opinion based so what now?

I ask this basically because I would like to know and I have to believe other would like to know too.

Please email us or comment, have you ever wondered? If you are a new person in any blog atmosphere, how would you learn the "etiquette"?

I will have to state that if someone profits by stealing your blog/thoughts and makes it their own than yes something can be done.

I would like to know, have you ever been in this situation, on either side? Have you ever taken someones idea and blogged it as your own or vise versa?

Is the blogging community like baseball and there are some unwritten rules? Well what happens when someone takes "steroids" (the blog version)?

So please let us know or pass this to a blogger you know and please have them send us their thoughts.

Inquiring Mominds would like to know!



(Xan here - I just wanted to add to what Mo has mentioned here in this week's edition of MoMoments.)

I have not found anyone who has copied my ideas for a blog, but I have come across people who have blogged about thoughts I have had to blog about. I haven't blogged about those ideas as I respect those people who have blogged about them already. However, I have spoken to fellow bloggers about ideas they have given me and have commented to them about me possibly blogging about a similar topic at another time and they have encouraged me to blog about that idea and given my two cents.

If you ask the blogger if you may blog about a similar topic, I believe, you are better off.

But as Mo has mentioned, please post your thoughts here as well.)

Thanks to All Things Azeroth!

I wanted to talk a little bit about a great podcast out there. All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast.

Medros and Graece were wonderful enough to provide Ol' Xan a replacement authenticator after Ol' Xan lost his iPhone when he lost his job IRL. They have held contests a time or two and they are currently having a contest similar to ours here at The Experienced Noob.

Ol' Xan is trying to win their contest as the awards will be announced on my birthday. So this blog post is not only promoting All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast but a contest entry as well.

As a matter of fact, as Ol' Xan is thinking about this contest and All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast I do beleive they were the first podcast I listened to and the one that influenced Ol' Xan to think about starting his own.

Thanks Medros & Graece and keep up the great work!

Diamonds and Pearls

Who said that "Diamonds are a girls best friend?"



Oh yes, thank you Mr. YouTube embedder guy, that would be Marilyn Monroe.

Yes, Ol' Xan is all about the rings, gems, and trinkets that can be made from the salt of the... er... I mean... from the treasures of the earth. I am talking Jewelcrafting!

Now don't be calling Ol' Xan a material girl or anything but jewelcrafting has become quite a treasure for me. Being able to make your own trinkets and rings at a low level? Who wouldn't want that small buff when you are first starting out?

More importantly, let's talk money. If you wanna play the Auction House you can make quite a bit of money. Everyone needs new gems for their socketed items they pull out of instances and raids. Along with that, think of the money you save by prospecting and cutting your own gems.

Couple your ability to make your own neck pieces, rings, trinkets, etc. With the profession to mine your own ore and materials, Mining! Now you can seek and find ore veins to harvest rock and precious ore that can be smelted into ore bars, or prospected into various gems. This can also bring you a fairly good amount of gold on the Auction House as well. Also as a miner you can Smelt Titansteel which is in GREAT demand to everyone.

So next time you think that jewelcrafting is woman's work remember that you can make some great new friends with all the "Material Girls!"

The treasury… (“There is a fine line between coincidence and fate”)

Philomar, with a wide smile, stood up from his seat, “Ah yes, if it is agreeable, you three please follow me to my treasury.”

“It is VERY agreeable,” said Beasley licking his lips and rubbing his hands greedily.

“I must warn you, if you take what is not given to you. It will let me know. And the consequences will be dire.” Philomar directed the statement toward the halfling, and then gave him a smile and a wink.

“I don’t know what you are talking about.” Beasley huffed. “Just because my people are known to have sticky fingers that does NOT make me a thief!”
The four of them step toward the treasury. Solcloud rolls his eyes impatiently. Huffing, he flops back into his chair. He was starting to feel impatient and had to wait, yet again to crush evil.

They reach a large anteroom before a set of ornate doors without handles. The doors are moldy, old, battered doors. To the average thief or observer, these would be the doors to the stables, not the treasury. With a wave of his hand, Philomar opens the doors to reveal another long hallway with doors along either side.

Tailoring Take 2

Hello all,

I wanted to pick up where I left off talking about tailoring a few weeks ago.
As I mention before you can use the power of google to find the hundreds of sites that have tailoring guides (of course the more popular wow sites will come up in your search).

And dont forget the wow website itself as they have great under rated material and guides.

As you level and loot higher level cloth, you will also need to use it for bandages, so you may need to as what some people call it farm for the cloth.

That means go to a particular area (perhaps an area you have already been too) so you can loot more cloth.

To get to the meat of tailoring, once you have leveled up to skill level 300 you will be able to start making some very decent gear, even some purples!

You will need to choose what specialty you want to be and depending and which class you are will help you or you may not even want to bother as the quest loot gear in Northrend will be better.

Another key point to make is how dependent you may be for some items you need to make on other professions or if you have made enough gold, on the Auction House (AH).

For higher level items and to level to the max 450 tailoring skill you will need some skinning, mining, and even alchemy materials. If you are in a guild you can ask your guild mates and if you are not you can perhaps have one of your other characters make it if they have one of the other professions. In regards to buying the items from the AH, you will need to make sure you are not spending more gold than you will make or the item is worth. Even if you have enough gold and you don't care about wasting gold, I say don't! Listen to me now believe me later, you will also need to be vigilant in your gold spending.

In addition to bigger and BIGGER BAGS, up to 22 slot bags (as of right now) which is very cool!

You can make other very useful item when you are all maxed out, such as:

Sapphire Spellthread and Brilliant Spellthread which will increase your spellpower on you pant; it will pretty much make you a tailor-enchanter! how cool is that!

Flying Carpet well do I need to explain this!? Ok well it is a mount that is 60% speed, so you will go sllllooooowwwww. But if you dont have or dont want to buy the epic flying mount training for 5000 gold than this will work for you.

Magnificent Flying Carpet and this is the 280% speed or as it is called epic flyer and is very cool!

And if you really want to challenge yourself you can try to go for:

Deathchill Cloak which requires - Loremaster of Northrend which involves completing some quests, which, well deal with the lore, go figure! :) Once you complete the quests you can learn to make this from the tailor trainer.

Wispcloak which requires Northrend Dungeonmaster which you complete and achieve by go through all the Northrend instances and completing them, meaning successfully downing the final boss.

Well that is the 3 cents from me, MO about tailoring. You will be able to learn so much more about tailoring but you first need to figure out what you want to make. Perhaps you want tailoring just to make bags. Also remember to visit all the different factions and rep rewards. There are tailoring recipes all over the world of WOW.

Take care all