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Basic Crafting Guide

By Jon Wood on Sep 03, 2008

New MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent James Jackson pens this basic crafting guide for World of Warcraft, giving tips on some of the best ways to go about making your character the best damned tailor or jeweler or anything else thayt they can be!

Crafting is an often overlooked element of Blizzard‘s World of Warcraft. Some people feel that crafting is too much like work and that items crafted are not any better than items found or earned via battlegrounds and/or Arena PVP (Player vs Player). Though there are many items that are superior to crafted gear, not everyone wishes to play in battlegrounds for days on end for each piece of gear. Additionally, gear found throughout the world is rare andoften BoP (Bind on Pick up) and or expensive when looking at BoE (Bind on Equip) items via the auction house. Crafting your own items as you level your ‘toon’ provides an edge over those that wait for items to drop from beasts. This is helpful both in PVP and PVE (Player vs Environment). When studying the different sets of gear you will see that PVP gear, though it will help you defeat enemy players, is not so well suited for end game instances where you face a myriad of challenges.

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