Gaming Guides Banner

Gaming Guides | Elyxir

WoW Retail Season 2 Prep Guide: What to Do First in Patch 12.1
World of Warcraft Retail Season 2 Patch 12.1
Aug 13, 2026 • Victor Black

WoW Retail Season 2 Prep Guide: What to Do First in Patch 12.1

What You'll LearnThis guide breaks down the most important launch-week priorities in World of Warcraft Retail Patch 12.1 so you can enter Season 2 with better gear, stronger renown progress, and fewer...

Read Article
Path of Exile 1 Eight-Mod Nightmare Map Farming Guide for Massive Map Sustain
Path of Exile 1 Atlas Strategy Farming Guide
Aug 13, 2026 • Frank Lipton

Path of Exile 1 Eight-Mod Nightmare Map Farming Guide for Massive Map Sustain

What You'll LearnThis guide explains how to run a high-return Nightmare mapping setup built around producing large amounts of corrupted eight-mod maps while also generating valuable boss fragments and...

Read Article
ARC Raiders Betina PvP Guide: Is the Kinetic Converter Build Actually Worth Using?
Weapons Arc Raiders PvP Guide
Aug 13, 2026 • Alicia Mendez

ARC Raiders Betina PvP Guide: Is the Kinetic Converter Build Actually Worth Using?

The Betina has a strange reputation in ARC Raiders. Many players respect its damage against ARC targets, but far fewer trust it in player fights. That hesitation makes sense. It fires slowly, kicks ha...

Read Article
RS3 Economy During Leagues: Two Tested Money-Making Methods and What the Market Is Telling You
Money Making Grand Exchange RuneScape 3
Aug 13, 2026 • Matt Parker

RS3 Economy During Leagues: Two Tested Money-Making Methods and What the Market Is Telling You

When a major seasonal event pulls players onto separate worlds, the main RuneScape 3 economy does not simply stop. It changes shape. Fewer active traders can reduce both supply and demand at the same...

Read Article
SWTOR Progression Guide: Leveling, Gearing, Credits, and Endgame Priorities
Endgame Progression Guide SWTOR
Aug 13, 2026 • Frank Lipton

SWTOR Progression Guide: Leveling, Gearing, Credits, and Endgame Priorities

Star Wars: The Old Republic offers one of the more varied MMO progression loops because story, group content, gearing, cosmetics, and economy all overlap. A player can focus on class story, Heroics, F...

Read Article
Path of Exile 2 Doryani Omen Farming Guide: Best Tablet Setup, Waystones, and Ritual Flow
Path of Exile 2 Farming Guide Ritual
Aug 13, 2026 • Frank Lipton

Path of Exile 2 Doryani Omen Farming Guide: Best Tablet Setup, Waystones, and Ritual Flow

This guide explains a consistent Ritual farming setup built around Doryani in Path of Exile 2, with a focus on omen generation, tablet selection, waystone quality, and practical map flow. If you want...

Read Article
SWTOR PvP Matchmaking Problems Explained: Queue Syncing, Declines, and Dead Warzones
PvP SWTOR Warzones
Aug 12, 2026 • Frank Lipton

SWTOR PvP Matchmaking Problems Explained: Queue Syncing, Declines, and Dead Warzones

What You’ll LearnThis guide breaks down a specific problem in SWTOR PvP: players using coordinated queue behavior to influence who ends up on each Warzone team. You’ll learn how queue syncing, repeate...

Read Article
ARC Raiders Bird City Bird Nest Route on Buried City
Arc Raiders Buried City Trials
Aug 12, 2026 • Matt Parker

ARC Raiders Bird City Bird Nest Route on Buried City

Bird City on Buried City is one of the cleaner trial-style farming activities in ARC Raiders once the route is understood. The objective is simple on paper: move across the district, search bird nests...

Read Article
Final Fantasy XIV for New Players: Free Trial, Core Systems, and Whether It’s Worth Starting
Beginner Guide Final Fantasy XIV Free Trial
Aug 12, 2026 • Alicia Mendez

Final Fantasy XIV for New Players: Free Trial, Core Systems, and Whether It’s Worth Starting

What you’ll learn: This guide explains what Final Fantasy XIV offers to new and returning players, how the free trial compares to the subscription version, what the early game actually feels like, and...

Read Article