It has been three decades since the first home video game systems started to appear on store shelves and in living rooms. In the passing years those games have become increasingly more sophisticated. Long gone are the rough hewn square graphics and the clumsy sound modulation that many of us remember fondly. In their place are sound and graphics that can imitate life, and games that move quickly and perform much like reality. Up until now, the realistic game performances were reserved for the action on the screen, but with the introduction of the Nintendo Wii, the action has leapt into our living rooms as we become part of the Nintendo Wii game experience.

The Nintendo Wii lets us become part of the game in a way never before seen. Instead of the joystick and buttons that have been a staple of video game play since the days of Atari, the Nintendo Wii uses infrared technology to communicate with a wireless remote control, and it is the remote control of the Nintendo Wii that separates it from the pack.

The Nintendo Wii remote – known officially as Wiimote – is a wireless, handheld, remote control that features conventional buttons and one unconventional and revolutionary feature; it senses movement. The Wiimote has the capability of sensing its position in three dimensional space. This allows the player to interact with the Nintendo Wii in a way that no other game system allows. Move your arm up and the character in the game moves up. Rotate your hand and the same happens in the game. The Nintendo Wii makes you part of the action. Now you can move, jump, swing, and act along with the game characters as if you were one of them.

The Nintendo Wii also has the capability of traditional game play as well. Different controllers can be plugged into the Wiimote, and that allows you to sit down and play games the way you are probably used to playing them, with buttons and joystick. The Wiimote can also be adapted for use with the Wii Zapper – a soon to be released gun-like shell that houses the Wiimote and allows it to be used like a handgun. Or how about the Wii Steering Wheel; a self explanatory device that is perfect with driving games like Monster 4×4 World Circuit.

What we are seeing with the Nintendo Wii is just the tip of the iceberg. In the short time since its release it has taken the gaming world by storm, and it is likely that the innovation will continue to come at a fast and furious pace. The Nintendo Wii platform is truly a technological innovation that will change the way we play games forever.

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I still remember the first time I saw the sun shine over Westfall’s mountains, the first level I gained, and getting ganked by 12 mobs for the first time… Good times!

But as I advanced in WoW, I found myself having to farm a large portion of my playing time so I can afford to buy consumables for raiding, get my epic mount, some new gear or enchants and the list goes on.

At some point, I realized that playing WoW isn’t a job, but a hobby; it should be fun! That was why I started developing ways to get an income in WoW, without spending too much time or breaking the rules. Since I’m no longer playing, I’m revealing my secrets in this Gold Farming Guide.

So here they are:

1. Predict the Market. You can keep your crystal ball in the closet: All you need for this is a bit of creative thinking and an affinity for patch notes. For instance, if the notesclaim that a new instance is about to open, and you suspect it’s going to require Arcane Resistance, stocking on Arcane Resistance Potions, Trinkets, Materials and Items would be a very wise thing to do. Chances are their prices will rocket at some point, even if not immediately.
2. Be Patient Buying. Often, greedy players place items for anywhere between 200%-1000% of what they normally go for. Buying these is a bad choice. Set the maximum price you’re willing to pay and wait patiently for the price to return to normal.
3. Be Patient Selling. So you found an epic you’re dying to sell for some shiny gold. That’s great! Just don’t jump on the first offer you get. The fact is, the more time you advertise, the more offers you get and the higher the sell price will be. If you get reasonable offers, ask them nicely to wait while you check other options.
4. Bargain. Much has been said and written about this skill; fortunately, most players aren’t shrewd businessmen. The best way to lower prices would be to act like you don’t care. Many times I’ve said no to offers, and got desperate whispers 2 minutes later with a half price offer. Impatient sellers will sell at a low price.
5. Use Auctioneer. This is probably the most important tip. Auctioneer scans all the items in the auction house, allowing you to know the market price of items, find bargains and sell them for twice the price and what not. I could write a book on this one, but we need to keep it short and to the point. Get Auctioneer here.
6. Stock. Anything that you suspect might have any value in the future should be kept. Don’t skimp out on storage, you can have many storage alts with tons of bags and bank space on each.
7. Know Prices. When selling an item, players will sometimes offer you only a portion of what it’s worth, hoping you don’t know the actual price. This goes for buying as well. If auctioneer can’t tell you, use online databases.
8. Get Skills. Exclusive skills are goldmines. Patterns that no one else has will make you rich, but not only those. Check the auction house regularly for differences between raw materials and usable items. For instance, the materials for a Mooncloth bag can cost 5g, while the bags go for 8g. That’s 3g for the click of a button. Be sure not to put up too many, or you will lower the prices.
9. Don’t spend it till you’re “wealthy”. This might be hard for some, but the big money comes from “investing” money. Say you find a great pattern in AH for 3000g. It might be worth 5 times that in future earnings, but you won’t have the money to buy it. The point is that with more money you have more options to capitalize.

And a few words before we finish. Be sure to further develop these methods and learn from your personal experience. They may take minutes to implement but a long time to hone and perfect, so be patient. Good luck, and remember: WoW should be fun!

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You know one thing that has always put me off buying lots of console games that I have really wanted to play? The price. It has to be one of the most contributing factors of any gamers choice whether to purchase a certain computer or console game or not. $100 AUD or more for a new console game is a lot of money, especially when the people who play the games usually either don’t have jobs, or are part time workers (reffering to teenagers). We may have to keep buying these games at this high price, but there is one way to stretch out our money significantly longer. Game Trading.

People around the world have walked into second hand book shops, bought and traded books after they have read them haven’t they? Well the future has come, and i think it is time that Console game trading is the way of the future! Don’t get me wrong, people have been doing this since the first nintendo or sega ever game out, but, it doesn’t seem that popular. Not from where i live anyway.

The only people i can see taking advantage of this situation is company’s like electronics boutique. Trade in a console game that is a week old, get $30 back, but you paid $110? That doesn’t seem too fair. Game Trading with people, REAL people, not company’s is the way to go. Straight swaps, or two for one, whatever you want to negotiate at the time, will be a better deal than any store will give you!

I have recently setup a website http://www.ozgamelounge.com, to bring people from around Australia together to trade their games in a safe environment. There are game trade sites around, I’m sure there is at least one in your country!

I hope this little article has inspired someone out there to get out there and swap, trade, barter your console games with people, and stretch that hard earned cash out!

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Now that you have your PSP, dont you wish you could change up your music files while on the go? Wouldnt you love to be able to access your iTunes library from anywhere, at any time without having to rely on a dedicated computer set-up.

Well, for a minimal cost (just under $25 USD) and a little tweaking, you will be well on your way to attaining the freedom of listening to whatever music you choose anywhere, anytime via your PSP WiFi internet connection.

These instructions are for MAC users and require the following three components:

1. A MAC using a minimum OS X 10.3,
2. Software (shareware) called Dot Tunes,
3. A PSP with the 2.0 firmware upgrade on board.

The simplicity and innovativeness of Dot Tunes provides you with the capability to peruse your own iTunes library where you can then generate a webpage that shows listings by album and/or artist and then access them over an internet connection. After generation, this webpage can be bookmarked and synced to the web browser on your PSP. Utilizing the Dot Tunes web-based interface, you can then simply browse to your desired song on the PSP screen and finally, download your choice to the Music directory on your PSP.

One thing that should be noted here is that the PSP is very particular about where various media is located and in which directories it can be placed. In order to listen to the song you are downloading, it must first be saved in the MUSIC directory, in a play list folder that already exists. To accommodate this restriction, you need to scroll through your music folder, go into an existing play list folder and save your selection there. Incidentally, you must also re-name the file extension (.m4u) to MP4 before your PSP will recognize it as a legitimate file.

Once you have accomplished the above, you are now ready to add/delete songs to your hearts content, anywhere there may be WiFi access (Increasingly WiFi connections are being made more readily available in coffee shops and other areas), and provided you have a WiFi connection on your PSP.

Because your MAC will be effectively acting as a web-server, it is essential that you set it up so that it will wake up for Ethernet network admin access in the Energy saving preferences on your computer.

Additionally, the port that the Dot Tunes page being served is accessible through must be an open port and not blocked by your Internet Service Provider. Plus, your router or computer firewall must not be engaged.

It is also a good idea to add password protection to the PSP connection so that you have the security in place that prevents others from accessing any iTunes libraries not DRM protected.

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Now that you have purchased you new PSP you will want to use it to its full capabilities. Watching movies on your portable play station is not difficult; but there are a few hardware considerations that must be in place before you can actually watch your favorite flick on the fly.

The first requirement is a device that will contain your MP4 (movie) files called a Pro Duo Stick. 512 MB is the norm and quite sufficient for this purpose.

Of course, you will want to have a DVD player installed on your system along with a DVD ripper as this will allow you to download the movie from a particular DVD onto your computer.

And, you will need to have a USB cable so you can connect the PSP to your computer.

The last, and some would say, the most important part is a conversion software program that will allow conversion of movie and video files to MP4 format so you can watch them on your PSP. However, technology has advanced to the stage that some DVD software includes the converter files as part of their bundled software package.

Once you have all the necessary components and software applications on hand, preparing your PSP to play movies can be accomplished with a few simple steps.

1. If you do not have the movie you want already installed on your computer, place the selected movie in your DVD player and activate your DVD maker. Click on extract (or rip, depending on your manufacturers specs). Provide location of where you would like to have the file saved. And save it.
2. If you are trying to load a movie already on the hard drive of your computer to your PSP, you only have to click on add on your DVD ripper, then designate where you would like the file to be saved to.
3. Once the file is saved to your hard drive, click on extract and/or encode located in the PSP video converter and then save that file. (If your DVD ripper/PSP video converter software contains the combined application as stated above, steps a,b and c can be combined.)

The Files are on my Computer, Now what do I do? The correct format (MP4) for PSP movie viewing should now be listed on your computer. So now you have to complete the last steps.

1. All you have to do is connect your PSP to your computer via the USB cable, create a new folder on the Memory Stick (name it MP_Root), then make a sub-folder (100MNV01) inside the Root folder. This is where you will copy your selected MP4 files.
2. Launch the memory stick on your PSP and enjoy your flick.

Enjoy your movie!

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So, you have purchased a brand new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) and are a little confused as to how to listen to your favorite tunes. With the latest audio technology, your PSP can read and play all familiar music files such as MP3, MP4 and others. All you need to do is make sure the file format you use is compatible with the PSP.

This article will give you a step-by-step process to get you going and to allow you to enjoy your music wherever you go.

Downloading music to your PSP is a relatively simple matter. The following steps will make your task a little easier.

How to download music files from your PC to a PSP:

1. Ensure that your PSP has a Memory Stick Duo. Format by going to Home/ Settings/System Settings/Select option (X button)/format memory stick/select. This is a one-time only procedure.
2. Attach USB cable into PSP on top middle edge and in available slot on PC.
3. On Settings menu, select USB Connect. This allows your PC to recognize the PSP as a removable drive.
4. Reboot system after drivers have loaded.
5. After reboot, PSP will show up as Removable disk.
6. Double click on this drive; highlight folder called PSP, double click and you will see four individual folders already set up: Game, Music, Photos & Save Data.
7. Drag your MP3 files into MUSIC folder.

What if I Need to Convert my music files?

1. If conversion is necessary, you may need to use an audio conversion program. Check out the internet for an abundant supply of various programs designed for this regardless of whether you operate in a MAC or a WINDOWS environment.
2. When you begin the Switch Program, it will take you to a blank window.
3. Click Add Folder, search My documents and then My Music, select your music files.
4. Select the output format you want.
5. Now you can copy all the files you want to the relative folders.
6. When finished, scroll list to Devices with removable storage, click on PSP removable disk and select Eject.
7. If you get an error message from windows regarding ejection failure, you can just ignore it. Once you unplug the PSP, the message will go away and everything will work fine.

How Do I Listen to my Music? Listening to your downloaded songs is as simple as going to your Music folder, search until you see the list of MP3 files, click and enjoy.

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Chaos Warrior is a new Web-based game that is currently undergoing testing. However the people it has gathered already are very competitive and basically enjoying pummelling the heck out of each other. This constant change of acres makes it quite easy to build a strategy that involves **sneaking** into the top 10.

Many people think Chaos Warrior, and similar games, are military based games. This is simply not true. They are economy based games. The goal is to grow, and you need to build a province capable of maintaining and supporting your growth. You can’t usually get away with neglecting the military side, but if you concerntrate on economy you will understand the game and it’s workings faster.

There’s basically 3 aspects to take care of - growth, building and Defense. Growth is easy, anyone can gain land, it’s keeping land that is the long term challenge. In this strategy we are going to look at those issues in reverse order.

Defense should be based on elites if at all possible. but elites are expensive, so you need lots of cash. There is another form of defense though - and that is called ‘being a bad target’. To know a what a bad target is you need to know what a good target is, and the simple answer is - it’s anyone you can hit who can’t hit you back. But if people don’t KNOW they can hit you, they usually won’t bother to try. Enter thieves and wizards. With high enough thieves and wizards nobody can get your intel, and without your intel, most people won’t attack. So, all you need is high enough defense in these areas and you are fine.

To get the necessary thief defense - multiply your land by 4 - and train that many thieves. To get the necessary wizard defense - build lots of guilds(Guilds train wizards). Your draft rate should be above 55% - so you train 4 thieves for every acre you have and the remainder as whatever defense you can afford(Remember - elites are best).

Your thieves can also be used to finance your income, because there’s a heap of people with rubbish thieves who log in once a day.

Now your build. We’ve already touched on guilds. You want about 30% of your land as guilds. You need 10% to get simple spells, and the more you add the faster your wizards grow. To cast spells you need runes, and to get runes you need towers(you can also steal them). 15% of your land as towers is a good start. 20-30% is even better. You’ll find the level that supports your spell use quickly. You also need 10% farms unless you are undead or plan to steal all your food(Easy enough to do, but could backfire in war times). The rest of your land goes into training your military so you need either gold prodcing buildings(mines and banks) or cost reducing buildings(Training halls).

My build strat looks like this, and at the time of writing I am #2 in the world.
10% farms
20% training Halls
30% Guilds
20% towers
10% Houses
10% Mines

Finally there is acquiring land. You could comfortably explore for it, but the kingdom explore pool is limited, and I prefer to leave it to my kingdom-mates. The answer is the ‘Create land’ spell. It will bring you between 1 and 9 acres per cast. With all the runes you are producing and stealing, you can easily cast all your mana away with this spell(Saving your last cast for protection). This way you can grow 50-100 acres safely and unchallenged per day.
Good Luck.

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1.0 Introduction

2.0 General Stategy

3.0 GDI tips

4.0 NOD tips

5.0 Scrin tips

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The purpose of this guide is to provide some general and race specific
strategies for Command & Conquer 3. This guide assumes you have a basic
understanding of the game. The first thing you should do before playing online
is to go through a few missions in the campaign and try a few games vs the
computer in skirmish mode. You can find the latest version of this guide at
this address:

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There are a few basic things every player should be aware of if they expect
to be competitive in multiplayer matches.

-Keep in mind that it costs the same to build a refinery and sell it
to keep the harvester as it does to build a harvester from a factory. Most
good players use this to their advantage early in the game. Sell your first
factory and replace it with another one. Do the same at your expansion if you
expand early.

-Blue tiberium is worth twice as much as green, so ALWAYS expand first if
there is blue tiberium on the map

-Counter infantry rushes easily with your anti infantry turret

-First of all, memorize as many hotkeys as possible,
hotkeys save a lot of time and make a huge difference.

-Learn to use control groups if you dont already, you can find out how in the
manual

-Keep in mind which units detect stealth, when you are faced with stealth units
such as NOD Shadow Teams, you need to be aware of your races stealth detection
units.
For example With GDI you can use a Pitbull.

-Build at least two harvesters for each refinery and build at least two
refineries early of the game

-Dont forget to use your special abilities

-Build your structures so that you are moving towards tiberium patches so you
can set up a refinery there when your build radius reaches far enough

-It is generally always a good idea to build a crane first before anything else

-Learn how to power down buildings using “x” hotkey

-Dont lose unnecessary units, remember you can heal tanks at the factory

-Use reverse move “D” to move your tanks back when you are retreating so their
stronger front armor is facing the enemy

-What a lot of people forget is that if you have units that leave husks on the
battlefield like the Avatar Walker with the Scrin, an engineer can enter the
dead husk and revive the unit with half health, always use this to your
advantage

-If you are outnumbered pull your units back and queue up defense structures to
cover your retreat if you think the enemy will follow

-If your opponent is not attacking and is giving you too much time, spam some
harvesters and refineries, you will be able to tech up and pump out your late
game units much sooner

-Build Order tips: there are many different build orders, but my build orders
generally consist of something like this:

1. crane (and surveyor if there is blue tiberuim)
(set rally point of base to expansion spot)

2. (build queue 1)refinery, (build queue 2)power plant,

3. place power plant, queue another refinery, place first

4. refinery, sell the refinery I just placed, then queue a factory

5. place the second refinery in the spot where I sold the first refinery

6. queue refinery

now you have two harvesters 1 refinery, 1 factory building and a refinery
building from here you should build another refinery at your expansion and
sell the first one, or you could just send a harvester from your factory
as soon as it is built to meet up with your new refinery. Dont forget
about power plants as well. But no matter what, start pumping out some
units. Use your newly built units to harass the enemy, preferably
destroying his expansion.

From here you can build another factory, refinery, or barracks depending
on your opponent and your play style.

If you feel confident in your ability to defend yourself against a rush
with few units you can build more refineries early and spam a few harvesters
to give your economy a huge boost. Remember economy is key.

With scrin you could have built a barracks instead of a factory first and
produced some disintegrators to go harass the enemy. Or used disintegrators
as cheap defense while you build up your economy.

With NOD you could have built a barracks and a secret shrine early to go
for a Shadow Team
rush.

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Here are some general tips when using GDI:

When using GDI you should focus on building predator tanks. Infantry is ok,
but is easily countered. Your best bet if you expect to encounter mainly tank
type units is to spam predator tanks and maybe mix in rocket troopers. Once you
have a decent size group of predator tanks use them to harass the enemy, focus
on disrupting the economy. Rocket troopers are great against air units as well,
especially with the composite armor upgrade.

Predators are your bread and butter, but you should be teching up to mammoths
as soon as possible while you are still spamming predators. The railgun upgrade
for tanks is essential to gaining the edge.

Orcas are good as a mobile support unit, but dont rely on them to be your main
attack force, they are easily countered.

If you are against a good NOD opponent, expect some Shadow Teams, which in
groups are stealthed and can destroy buildings easily. You can counter these
easily if you build a pitbull to detect stealth and an APC to help finish them.

Against scrin, you may be faced with an early disintegrator rush which you can
easily counter with anti infantry turrets and APCs. Counter Scrin air
superiority with rocket infantry with composite armor upgrade, they will rip
through any air units.

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Here are some general tips when using NOD:

NOD relies more on harassment than direct attacks, use their strengths to your
advantage. Use your fast scorpion tanks to do hit and run attacks on the
opponent. You should also use your shadow teams to blow up your enemies
structures. Try to avoid units that detect stealth.

NOD excels at the early game, try to prevent GDI and Scrin from getting to
their elite units by destroying the prerequisite buildings as you see them.
If GDI gets mammoths with railguns you will have a hard time surviving.

The laser upgrade for the scorpions is very important to gain an early edge.

Against Scrin, like with GDI, your rocket infantry is very effective.

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Here are some general tips when using Scrin:

The Scrin are most effective with a mix of units. Early on, Disintegrators
and Seekers are effective against tanks. Once you get a nerve center, your
Devourer tanks will be your main unit. They have a special ability that allows
them to absorb tiberium from the field giving them much stronger weapons for a
limited number of shots, always use this ability.

Scrin’s air units are very strong when mixed into the army. Do not rely
entirely on air units, as they are easily countered by units such as armor
upgraded rocket infantry. Avatar walkers are great late game units but use
them wisely as they can be taken over by enemy engineers after they fall. The
shield upgrade is very useful, get it as soon as possible.

Use your lightning spike ability if you go for an early attack, you
can place this turret type structure anywhere on the map.

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With the Burning Crusade expansion, World of Warcraft players have the ability to use Jewelcrafting to create rings, necklaces, crowns, and other items which were previously only available as quest rewards or loot drops. You can also use item socketing in much the same way as it is used in Diablo II to create new armor. Members of the Jewelcrafting profession, or Jewelcrafters, carve gems to prepare them for insertion into socketed items. The addition of these jewels creates bonus enhancements to armor, based on the type of jewel used. While Jewelcrafters are the primary source of usable jewels in these items, some dangerous monsters also drop gems that can be used in this way.

Socketed items can have gems installed by any character, but they cannot be altered aside from putting the gems into them. Sockets cannot be added to, changed, or removed from any item. Once a jewel has been obtained from a Jewelcrafter, it can be socketed by shift-right-clicking the desired item and dropping the jewel into the socket in the window that pops up. After placing the jewel, simply click the “Socket Gems” button to create the new item. While you can replace an old jewel with a new one, this destroys the old jewel completely.

Jewelcrafters should pair their primary profession of Jewelcrafting with Mining to enable them to acquire raw materials more easily. With these materials, such as metal ores, a Jewelcrafter can create rings and other jewelry for sale. At low levels, these are simply Copper Rings, but other items are quickly available. A Jeweler’s Kit is also required initially, but this can be acquired for 8 silver at the Jewelcrafting supply vendor. Making items available to your Jewelcrafting characters will improve their skills by a point per item as well as earning experience. Items that are displayed in green test in the Jewelcrafting menu are worth less experience and you may have to make several of them to acquire a skill point. Yellow or orange text items are more difficult and worth correspondingly more in skill development. At a certain level, particular items will stop bringing experience when made, and more difficult items will have to be created to produce the same effect. A common strategy is to find an item which uses a small amount of readily available materials and grind up skills by making many of it. This way, you can stockpile component items such as Delicate Copper Wire and Bronze Settings for later use while improving your skill. Until the higher levels, Jewelcrafting is mostly about creating jewelry and small trinkets.

At skill level 20, you can learn Prospecting from the Jewelcrafting trainer. In addition to your Mining skill, this will allow you to extract gems from the ore you have mined. This is advantageous, since other Miners don’t have this ability. It also increases the chance of obtaining gems for jewelry. Prospecting can be taken without having the Mining skill, but your Jewelcrafting skill must be the same as the minimum skill level for mining particular piece of ore in order to prospect it. You will need 5 of any type of ore in order to use Prospecting on it. After reaching skill level 300 in Jewelcrafting, you will be able to cut special gems found in the Outland. This requires the use of a Simple Grinder, again purchased from the Jewelcrafting supplies vendor. The Grinder costs 2 gold and fifty silver. Cutting these gems permits them to be used in socketed armor. Anyone can socket already cut gems, so if you don’t need them for your personal gear, you can sell them to other players.

Each type of gem in World of Warcraft is categorized by color. Different colors of gem provide different abilities when used in socketed items. Any colored gem will fit into any colored socket, but if you match the colors of the gem and socket, a bonus is activated. Primary colored gems, such as red, yellow, and blue will only match the socket for their specific color. Secondary colored gems – green, orange, and purple – will match either of the two colored sockets that make up their color. A purple gem would thus be matchable with a red or blue colored socket. Meta gems come with an additional bonus, but have special color requirements for activation, so players may choose to forfeit a socket bonus in order to obtain the meta bonus instead.

The cut of a gem affects what bonus it gives. Cutting a Blood Garnet into a Teardrop Blood Garnet gives +13 to Healing Spells, whereas creating a Bright Blood Garnet gives +12 to Attack Power. Each color of gem has uncommon and rare forms that can be cut according to different patterns learned from vendors. Uncommon patterns can be learned at Jewelcrafting skill level 300 to 325, and rare patterns are learnable at skill level 350. Cuts for meta gems are learnable at a higher skill level than those for regular gems, around skill level 365. They will only fit into meta sockets that are available only on high level items. Some meta gems will also be dropped by bosses or created by alchemists. Boss drop meta slot jewels can’t be crafted.

For many Jewelcrafters, the goal is to grind their skill up to 300 as quickly as possible. This is best done by creating many of the items made from easy, readily available materials. What path you use to reach this goal will depend on what materials you have on hand, and how much space you have in your inventory. In many cases, making more of an item with yellow text will provide “free” skill points since it is a required component for other items. Doing these early in the game allows you to use them later as well as to get the skill points for making them.

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Experiencing exponential growth and refinement, hand in hand with the popularity and prevalence of Internet and computers all over the world - free online games present themselves as a happening industry, which is tempting, exciting and addictive at the user end.

The free online games are either flash or shockwave based, to allow instant play access to a user online. The user can also choose to download the games at his / her discretion, to suit his / her convenience and preference. These free games are equally enjoyable online at a click’s instance, as they are after being downloaded on the hard disk of a user’s system.

The industry, offering free flash and shockwave online games on multitude of websites, has evolved to an extent that the variety and themes of the games are almost exhaustive. The superior quality of bright and colorful graphics, in combination with matching sound effects, renders the game mind-boggling and thrilling.

A first time visitor feels so enthralled to witness the wide expanse of these games, closing in at many of his/ her choicest of themes. So much so that he/ she cannot resist going through an absorbing experience of trying at least one of the games, and an eventual promise to return back many more times, in the faithful pursuit of passion for interactive entertainment.

Most of the people find these free of cost online flash and shockwave games so engrossing that they deliberately end up locking themselves within the lazy confines of their home or internet café to play these games without disturbance for hours together, eyes glued to their computer screens and hands undetachable from the keyboard/ mouse.

What’s more, the widespread appeal of these games touches all age groups, right from the budding toddlers to the well-groomed adults. Many players tend to spend days and nights hooked-on to these flash and shockwave games, as these avail an unparalleled opportunity to play all the regular parlor games plus some new ones, sitting at home, costing only the Internet connection and electricity bill.

The wide variety of free online flash and shockwave games available on net may be broadly classified into action and adventure games, arcade games, board games, card games, casino games, puzzle games, word games, strategy games, sports games, detective theme based games, shooting games et al.

Though shooting games can be clubbed with action and adventure games, their distinct popularity commands them specific mention. Further, while all types of online games have their own share of patrons and fans, the most popular are the board games, which are basically online versions of certain traditional board games, including Chess, Literati, Dominoes and Monopoly. What is more, a surfeit of websites specializes in casino-based games to constitute a separate commercial entity, popularly termed as the ‘Online Casino Industry’.

These games have a magical influence on the players, as the realistic graphics and sound stimuli absorb the players in their own world, be it a Hollywood show or a casino in Las Vegas or a deck of the sunken Titanic. Most of these online games boast of being multi-player games that add a taste of virtual competition to the entire ambiance of the game in question. The competition element renders the playing experience much more exciting and enjoyable.

The online flash and shockwave games are also believed to be beneficial for the players, as these enhance competitive spirit, sportsmanship and inculcate some indispensable qualities, like ability to work hard, patience and perseverance. Certain games also improve the reflexes of the player. Strategy games help in developing thinking.

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