There are many aspects of World of Warcraft that make it incredibly addictive. It has the effect of making players want to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. Tier gear, rare mounts, and achievements are just a few of the addictive traps Blizzard has built into WoW.
One of the newest ingame status symbols is the coveted Crusader title. Obtaining this title proves to everyone who sees you that have put in the work and you know what you’re doing. It’s a title that carries prestige and most people want it so they can also become a highly toted elite player in World of Warcraft. Not to mention earning the Crusader title also grants you access to purchase items only available to this group of elite players.
Living Among the Elite
There’s no question that players look at other players who have earned their Crusader title with respect. It has the same effect of a player who is decked out in many hard-to-get items. They’ve put in the work and time to aquire those things, and many people wish they could do the same. Besides the status of becoming a respected player in WoW, there are other benefits of earning your Crusader title and living among the elite.
Once you earn your Crusader title, you will have access to purchase items that are only available for sale the those who have earned the Crusader title. One of these items is the Argent Pony Bridle. Once you become a Champion at the Argent Tournament, you will receive a companion who you can summon to follow you around. That companion is essentially useless, until you purchase the Argent Pony Bridle.
The Argent Pony Bridle, when used, allows your companion to serve as a Bank, Vendor, or Mailbox, allowing you to access those things anywhere, without the need to go to a main city first. It’s a very nice item to be able to purchase, as it makes your companion incredibly useful, and can only be acquired once you have earned your Crusader title. Another major benefit of earning your Crusader title is it opens up the option to purchase Heirloom items by doing dailies alone, so they are much easier to acquire.
Earning Your Crusader Title
By now, you’re probably begging to know how you can earn the Crusader title for yourself. The requirements to earn the Crusader title are that you must earn the achievement Exalted Champion of the Alliance or Exalted Champion of the Horde. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, earning those achievements will prove to be difficult, tedious, and extremely time consuming.
You can try to brave the trenches and figure out for yourself how exactly to earn your Crusader title. However, myself, I would prefer to have guidance with someone walking me step-by-step through the entire process, making it a breeze. That’s why I set out in search for a guide that would help me earn my Crusader title quickly and easily. Zygor’s Dailies & Events Guide is the guide I finally chose to help me. It proved to be a much needed breath of fresh air, compared to other guides I tried during my search.
With Zygor’s guide, not only do they walk you step-by-step through the entire process of earning your Crusader title, but they show you how to get Hairlooms and make gold with dailies quickly and easily, as well. So, if you are in the same boat I was in, knowing what you want, but no idea how to go about obtaining it, I highly recommend Zygor’s Dailies & Events Guide to help you. Like me, you will not be disappointed with the results, I promise you. Want to get your own copy of Zygor’s guides? Click Here!
]]>As World of Warcraft continues to expand larger and larger, with the level cap increasing over time, it’s becoming more and more difficult for people to have multiple characters at max level. Everyone would like to have characters of all classes at level cap, but it is terribly time consuming to be able to do that.
Luckily, Blizzard has introduced, with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, a new type of item to help players level their alts quicker and easier than ever before. They are called Bind on Account items, or Heirlooms. In order to have access to get Heirlooms, you must already have at least one level 80 character, for the most part.
Power and Extra Experience
There are 2 awesome benefits of getting and using Heirloom items. The first benefit is they scale to your level. So, as you gain levels, the Heirloom item stats (armor, damage, etc) increase as well. This is really cool because it makes it unnecessary to upgrade most of your gear. Heirlooms have good stats, armor, and damage for your current level, so they keep you powerful and able to do quests quickly, which is a huge plus when trying to level up some alt characters.
The second, and probably most important, benefit is that some Heirlooms increase the experience points you gain from killing mobs and turning in quests by 10%. If you have 3 Heirloom pieces that give a 10% experience boost each, that’s a total of a 30% experience boost for your character while leveling to level 80. So, if it usually takes you 6 months total, real time, to level your alts, you could level that same character in about 4 months total. Just having Heirlooms could save you 2 months of your time! That’s pretty amazing, if you ask me.
Getting Your Own Heirlooms
The most popular way of getting Heirlooms, hands down, is by doing dailies. Getting a full set of heirlooms can be done pretty quickly by doing dailies, if you know what you’re doing. The whole point of heirloom items is to save you time. So, not only do you want to save time after you get your Heirlooms, but you should also look into saving time while in the process of getting Heirloom items.
The way to do that is with an optimized route of all the dailies you need to do in order to get the items to trade in for Heirlooms. Obviously, you can figure out your own path for doing this, but if you’re like me, you’ll want a guide written by professional gamers for the sole purpose of getting dailies done quickly.
There is a certain guide I use for all my dailies needs. It’s called Zygor’s Dailies & Events Guide. In their guide, they show you step-by-step how to get Heirloom items. As a bonus, they walk you through speed runs for making gold with dailies, as well as getting your Crusader title, which is needed to buy Heirlooms if you want to be able to buy them by doing dailies alone. If you want to get Heirlooms, gold, and your Crusader title fast, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Zygor’s guide.Click Here! Good luck!
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May is a month of true mayhem in AIKA Global, as T3fun and Redbana reveal a staggering amount of in-game activities taking place this month. Four major events are lined up for May: “Nation Wars II,” “Legionnaires of May,” “Friend in Need” and “The Auction House”. Along with these events, exciting new game and website updates will be revealed. Get your arms and armor ready for the incredible and wild month of May!
Events:
“Nation Wars II”
For the entire month of May, nations become war zones during the “Nation Wars II” event, which will challenge nations to defend their name and territory. Each nation shall pick four (4) leaders to take part in The Lord Marshall Alliance. After a signal given by GMs, invading armies will have 2 hours to march into their subject territory, attack, and reach their goal.
“Legionnaires of May”
From May 2nd to 8th, Legions can register to be part of the “Legionnaires of May” event. To participate, Legions need to register ten (10) newly-created accounts with level 10 characters. Participants will need to send in screenshots of each character at level 10. Characters will then need to grow as swiftly as possible and reach Level 50 within the event time period. The first five (5) legions to complete the requirements before May 31 will win a special prize bundle.
“A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed” and “Auction House”
During the entire month of May, watch out for two other major in-game events where players will need to make use of their wide network of friends. By inviting them to play along in-game, players will receive prizes from the “A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed” event. Participants may also wage a bidding war by readying rare and precious items to sell in the “Auction House” event, where fortunes will be made.
Game and Site Updates:
Nation Merge
In a shift sure to rock the foundations of Arcan, AIKA Global will be moving from five (5) to two (2) competing nations in-game. In the following weeks, Elters will be exiled from their current nations and will have to choose between two newly-created nations. Alliance features will also be removed but fear not, level 5 and up Legions will be given the compensation they have earned and deserve.
Mailing System
Players will now be able to send mail messages to fellow players even when they are offline! With the new mailing system, messages can now contain items and gold and be sent through email.
The AIKA Global masses are surely in for unique thrills this month. It’s May, it’s mayhem, and it’s fun jam-packed together! To learn more about these special events and updates visit www.t3fun.com.
Download the game today at http://AIKA.t3fun.com/Download/Client.aspx or visit T3fun’s portal for more information athttp://www.t3fun.com/
*AIKA Global is available to countries around the world with the exception of Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Russia.
About AIKA Global
AIKA Global is a free-to-play fantasy massive multiplayer online role playing game specifically optimized for massive nation warfare. The games 1,000 vs. 1,000 player battles offer a unique and innovative experience that is a first to online gaming. AIKA Global has received numerous awards and recognitions by the 2009 Korean Game Awards, including Best of Show: Prime Minister Award, Player’s Choice: Best Online Game, and Best Game Design and Scenario. Gamers have lauded the title since its release, directly pitting it against other popular massive multiplayer online games including World of Warcraft (WoW) and Aion in Korea. AIKA Global is being maintained directly by its developers to ensure a fun and hassle-free game experience with the best in game customer support.
About T3 Entertainment
T3 Entertainment is a major Korean MMO developer and publisher of online games with branches in Korea, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, and Japan. Its name was established in the Asian market with the blockbuster hit ‘Audition’ and has been quickly expanding since, with over 300 million current users in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. With a large work-force and skill in the development of online games, T3 Entertainment has won a “Best Game of the Year” award on numerous occasions for its various titles. In conjunction with Hanbitsoft, the company operates an online games portal consolidating its latest and most popular Free-to-Play MMO titles, found at www.T3Fun.com. For more information about T3 Entertainment, please visit: www.t3.co.kr.
About Redbana
Formed in April 2008, Redbana Corporation is the North American publishing arm of Korea’s leading videogame developer and publisher, T3 Entertainment. With the considerable support of its parent company, Redbana ultimately aims to take a place among the elite interactive entertainment studios in the North American market by offering the most high-quality and entertaining online games in the world that appeal to a wide audience of consumers. The company has released Audition Online, a rhythm-based online dance game with more than 300 million registered players worldwide, and most recently launched CardMon Hero, a popular Korean card-summoning MMORPG, while continuing development on the fast-paced hack-and-slash MMORPG Mythos. For more information about Redbana, please visit www.redbana.com.
About HanbitSoft Inc.
HanbitSoft Inc. is one of the largest online game publishers in Korea as well as in Asia. HanbitSoft has continuously invested in developing and publishing excellent and promising online games. HanbitSoft has broad portfolio of online games ranging from casual games to high-end MMORPG’s, either developed in-house or by external development studios such as Joy Impact (WYD and MMORPG AIKA) IMC Games (Granado Espada), etc. HanbitSoft games have reached out to more than 40 countries including Europe and Brazil and it is focusing on pioneering overseas online game markets in an effort to be a “global leading publisher.” For more information, visit www.hanbitsoft.com.
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There are more and more people joining the ranks of World of Warcraft every day. Nobody can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In WoW, you can escape the realities of everyday life. Just relax, do a few dailies to make a little gold, and just have fun with friends – not a bad way to spend an evening. And as you do this, you’ll naturally make gold over time.
However, there may come a time when you want to get a little more out of the time you spend in the game. There are items that cost 20,000 gold, and surely you want those items. This means that in order to get the most out of your WoW experience, you’ll have to make gold as quickly as possible.
The Basics
But how do you do this? There are several things to keep in mind when trying to make gold quickly in WoW by doing dailies. You probably already know that daily quests award you with gold for completing them. And initially, in WoW, items do not cost that much gold to purchase. But eventually, the items become very expensive, especially the best of the best items you’ll want to get when you hit level cap. So, you need a game plan to be able to afford all the items you want, if you want them before the end of time.
Focus on Gold
When you want to build up a stockpile of gold quickly in WoW, you have to supplement your regular activites with activities designed specifically to make you a lot of gold. Doing dailies is a great way to make a lot of gold quickly. All daily quests pay out gold when you complete them. The key is to pay attention to the amount of gold each daily rewards you with when you complete them. You should also take time into consideration when trying to make gold fast in WoW using dailies. If you can make 200 gold, but it takes you 5 hours to do it, that’s not very much gold per hour. There are good ways to make a lot of gold per hour, such as optimized speed gold dailies runs.
There are guides available that will lead you step-by-step through completing speed gold dailies runs, among other cool things. Zygor’s Dailies & Events Guide is one of those guides. Save up your gold from completing speed gold dailies runs every day and you’ll be well on your way to making gold fast in WoW and buying those expensive items you want. Want to get your copy of Zygor’s guides? Click Here!
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“It was great fun to see that the game’s end boss was taken down this Era, it’s no small task,” said Tom Söderlund, Project Lead for Paradox Connect. “With thousands of new players joining the game, now is the time to get into Dreamlords and band together with friends to conquer the server.”
Dreamlords: Resurrection is powered by Paradox Connect, a platform that adds community features, achievements and other features that enhance the gameplay experience, replayability and connection to the game.
About Dreamlords: Resurrection
Dreamlords: Resurrection, developed by MMO studio Lockpick Entertainment, is a unique mix of two genres – the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and the Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) – where the player takes on the role of a Dreamlord. Through a combination of both long -term strategic planning as well as intense real-time battles, Dreamlords must inspire and unite a small group of followers into a battle-ready army ready to conquer land, defend the populace against the Nightmares that roam the world, and band together with other newly awakened Dreamlords.
The inclusion of Cooperative Player-vs-Environment (PvE) play, allows for even greater intensity as players team up with a friend to launch an assault on the nightmares that haunt your people or attempt to slay one of the world bosses.
Features:
• Free to play
• Fast paced RTS action
• Long term character progression and specialization
• Advanced Empire management
• Achievements and rewards
• Clan based co-operation (Convergence)
• Intense Player vs Player combat
• Research new troops and technology
• Pay Tribute to the gods in order to receive blessings and gifts from them
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Dreamlordsgame
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Dreamlords
Official Forums: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?503864-Welcome-to-the-Dreamlords-Forums
About Paradox Connect
Paradox Connect is the umbrella brand for all Paradox Interactive’s online activities and aims to give every Paradox player a stronger online identity. Building on their large community, Paradox Connect will include Paradox Achievements, integrate social media, downloadable content in various formats and more. Paradox will also start publishing online games as part of the Paradox Connect initiative.
About Paradox Interactive
Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Mount&Blade series, The Kings’ Crusade, Majesty 2, Cities in Motion and Magicka. Paradox made an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visit www.paradoxplaza.com and follow www.facebook.com/ParadoxInteractive andwww.twitter.com/pdxinteractive
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Raid is a new mode in which players will be able to bring along all of their created characters to attempt to conquer groups of increasingly difficult monsters. The higher the challenge, the greater the reward, as victorious players can win special new items. Players can start leveling and choose to bring along the two new characters, Skully and Toxy, to increase their chances for survival. Skully is a female pirate wielding two pistols, while Toxy uses poison-laced daggers to defeat her opponents.
The new characters and over 43 new costumes for existing characters are now available to play throughout the game, in addition to the new chapter, Kanbucay, a beach-themed map that features high-level content appropriate for the new level cap of 72.
To play Buddy Rush, visit the game on Facebook or download to your iOS device from the iTunes App Store.
For more information on Buddy Rush, please visit the official website athttp://buddyrush.sollmo.com.
About Team Sollmo
Team Sollmo is the game development arm of leading iOS games and app publisher Company100, based in South Korea. Developers of inventive mobile apps, Company100’s ultimate goal is to improve the quality of human life by enabling rich, easy and fast mobile internet. Team Sollmo is committed to continuing Company100’s tradition of innovative design and technical expertise, and was formed in March 2010 to build on their personal passions for gaming. The team’s first game is Buddy Rush, a cross-platform, casual RPG.
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The company also announced that it will be discounting Tribute (the in-game currency in Dreamlords: Resurrection) from April 29-May 1, 2011 at Midnight PST. Players can purchase virtual goods that enhance and accelerate the gameplay to help finish the Era’s content, or get a boost in the next Era. There are no fees to download or play the game, which can be found at: www.dreamlords.com
“Unlike persistent MMORTS games, Dreamlords: Resurrection uses a mechanic where the game begins and ends over a certain period of time,” said Tom Söderlund, Project Lead for Paradox Connect. “This provides players with the ability to gain fame and glory on the leaderboards forever and offers new opportunities for players to join the game more often.”
Dreamlords: Resurrection is powered by Paradox Connect, a platform that adds community features, achievements and other features that enhance the gameplay experience, replayability and connection to the game.
About Dreamlords: Resurrection
Dreamlords: Resurrection, developed by MMO studio Lockpick Entertainment, is a unique mix of two genres – the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and the Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) – where the player takes on the role of a Dreamlord. Through a combination of both long -term strategic planning as well as intense real-time battles, Dreamlords must inspire and unite a small group of followers into a battle-ready army ready to conquer land, defend the populace against the Nightmares that roam the world, and band together with other newly awakened Dreamlords.
The inclusion of Cooperative Player-vs-Environment (PvE) play, allows for even greater intensity as players team up with a friend to launch an assault on the nightmares that haunt your people or attempt to slay one of the world bosses.
Features:
• Free to play
• Fast paced RTS action
• Long term character progression and specialization
• Advanced Empire management
• Achievements and rewards
• Clan based co-operation (Convergence)
• Intense Player vs Player combat
• Research new troops and technology
• Pay Tribute to the gods in order to receive blessings and gifts from them
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Dreamlordsgame
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Dreamlords
Official Forums: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?503864-Welcome-to-the-Dreamlords-Forums
About Paradox Connect
Paradox Connect is the umbrella brand for all Paradox Interactive’s online activities and aims to give every Paradox player a stronger online identity. Building on their large community, Paradox Connect will include Paradox Achievements, integrate social media, downloadable content in various formats and more. Paradox will also start publishing online games as part of the Paradox Connect initiative.
About Paradox Interactive
Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Mount&Blade series, The Kings’ Crusade, Majesty 2, Cities in Motion and Magicka. Paradox made an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visit www.paradoxplaza.com and follow www.facebook.com/ParadoxInteractive and www.twitter.com/pdxinteractive
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burda:ic, a leading publisher of online games worldwide, is challenging players of maritime fantasy MMORPG Florensia to a contest of tailoring and tinkering, with $500 in Amazon.com gift credit waiting for the winner. The FLO Cosplay Event, now underway, encourages Florensia fans to undertake some real-world crafting, putting together their best game-inspired dress, headgear, or head-mount. All contest participants will be awarded a batch of in-game items, and one top cosplayer will win a $500 gift card for Amazon.com. For full contest rules and to submit an entry, visit the official site at: http://florensia.en.alaplaya.net/teasers/34545-flo-cosplay-event.
To start adventuring in the vibrant, oceanic world of Florensia today, visithttp://florensia.en.alaplaya.net/.
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Frogster’s successful fantasy MMORPG, Runes of Magic, will be entirely playable in a browser window and on Facebook starting in Q2/2011. The international publisher has signed an agreement with technology partner Kalydo. The Dutch middleware provider will realize the browser integration with a browser plug-in and a scalable server architecture running on a cloud computing platform that they have developed. Using the so-called Kalydo Player, the originally client-based MMORPG can then be enjoyed through any browser on practically every Windows PC without any constraints.
The initial focus of the partnership will be Facebook integration. For registration, the partners will use the social network’s user-friendly single-opt-in function, allowing every Facebook user to dive straight into the virtual world without having to complete any additional registration procedures. Once inside the social network, Runes of Magic can be played in either full screen or windowed mode without limiting any of the game’s functionality. The Kalydo team has already started with the technical implementation of the browser version. Frogster will show a first test version to selected media partners at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco from February 28th to March 4th. The publisher can be found in a shared booth with its parent company Gameforge in the North Hall of the Moscone Center, booth No. 702.
“We are expecting to see a marked increase in the numbers of players for Runes of Magic through this cooperation with Kalydo. Powered by the impressive Kalydo technology the browser version will enable us to attract new target groups who previously have found the download, installation and registration process too complicated”, commented Andreas Weidenhaupt, Chief Licensing Officer of Frogster Interactive Pictures AG on the signing of the contract.
Doki Tops, CEO of Kalydo agrees with him, “This is the future of gaming. Players enter the game with a single click of the mouse instead of spending hours on a download and installation and get the exact same experience. We praise Frogster for recognizing this potential and taking a leading role with us in pioneering this massive new style of gaming.”
Kalydo has already successfully incorporated the 3D role-playing game GodsWar into Facebook, which has gone from strength to strength.
About Kalydo
Developed by Eximion, Kalydo is a leading browser game middleware solution which enables embedding games, based on any game technology, directly into every browser and social network. Kalydo’s innovative and scalable way of deploying games takes away traditional barriers, such as the need to download and install software. Kalydo decreases distribution costs while increasing visitor-to-player conversion and revenues. Games can now be offered in a “click & play” fashion, bringing consumers a fantastic gaming experience from anywhere in the world. Based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Kalydo launched their public beta in 2008 before going commercially live in 2009.
Frogster – We take you to a new world!
The Frogster group is a Berlin-based, listed publisher of online games. Frogster focuses on the marketing and operation of virtual worlds, so-called massively multiplayer online games – one of the strongest growing sectors in the entertainment industry. With its top titles ‘Runes of Magic’ and ‘Bounty Bay Online’ Frogster has already gathered over 5 million registered players worldwide. For a release in 2011 Frogster has just recently announced the two highly ambitious MMO games ‘TERA’ and ‘Mythos’. Frogster also intends to enter into the rapidly growing market of browser games with ‘Bounty Bay Live’ and ‘Throne of Fire’ shortly. Currently the Frogster group employs more than 200 staff members in the fields of game development, licensing, IT, web design and web development, product management, marketing, PR, web publishing, community management, support, sales, hosting, billing and finance/administration. Frogster’s subsidiaries Frogster Online Gaming, Frogster America and Frogster Pacific market and operate their games in Europe, America and Oceania respectively. The shares of the Frogster Interactive Pictures AG have been listed in the Entry Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange since February 2006. Internet: www.frogster.de
SG Interactive today unveiled details of the next planned Grand Chaseupdate, which includes a hotly anticipated new character and a fiery new Hero Dungeon. The new character, Zero, offers a new playing style with two distinct fighting stances that offer different benefits, one a defensive stance and the other an offensive stance that utilizes a giant, living sword. The new Hero Dungeon is called The Crucible and will challenge players to make it through a hellish furnace and defeat the new boss Hellstrom. Zero will be released March 8 and will be available for presale, with special bonus items, on March 1. The Crucible Hero Dungeon is available in-game now.
For more information about Grand Chase and Zero please visit the official website at http://grandchase.ntreev.net/
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