Gold Trading Exposed: The Sellers 2009-10-20Page 1 of 4.
Page 2 <br />Last week, we kicked off our four-part weekly feature series on gold trading - the grey market for in-game currencies, services and items in MMOs - with an introduction to a shady business that's outwardly condemned by players whilst being supported by 30 per cent of them.<br />Future instalments will look at real-money trading from the perspectives of MMO players and developers, but this week, Nick Ryan talks to the the farmers, spammers and website entrepreneurs who fuel this trade. Are they evil hackers and credit card fraudsters, downtrodden workers, or neither? And what do they have to say for themselves?<br />What do "gold sellers" actually do? Sit in a den somewhere, plotting crimes and flogging victims' credit card details, in order to fund their drugs and prostitution empires ... or is the picture of the hard-pressed Chinese worker on the edge of starvation wages more accurate? The truth is, probably, a mixture of both, with many "legitimate" gold farming and selling businesses keen to distance themselves from the criminal element in the industry. No-one knows for sure, because that industry is so fragmented and located in distant cultures like China.Money makers<br />Gold sellers, or real money traders (RMT), make their cash in three main ways:<br />One: selling in-game currency. This is similar to buying foreign currency in the "real world". You buy via a gold seller's...
really that amazing of a single2009-06-04ramera wrote:Sheath of light isn't really that amazing of a single target healing spell. It isn't very predtable. You might get a huge HoT from a holy lightrit, but any flash of lightrit will overwrite it. Youan go from a 300hs spell down to 30 in the blink of an eye. ooo....I didn't even think of that. I just assumed youould stk it like a druid HoT. Well, there go my delusions of grandeur. cry Your numbers are exaggerated, but the point is st...
on the main board a few days ago? 2009-05-26Didn't you something like this on the main board a few days ago? ... Edit: Thought so wow.allakhazamomforum?forum=21;mid=1185123988301367704;num=18;page=1 My opinion remains the same. If you like to dps, stay shadow. If you l...
hainfearing, pet tanking, and2009-05-23Affl lks are a bit different. hainfearing, pet tanking, and you didn't tually have 11 mobs on you at oe (or if you did, they were probably quite a ways below your levelgear). DoT's also help. I didn't say it was impossible, but risky, and affl lks are one of those few thatan reliably take on large numbers of mobs without too mh fear of dying.<br>Plus if your lk used netherweave bandages he is obviously not level 29 so your whole story is irrelevant anyway :-) <br>Your gear seems ok, you have the right...
