Wednesday, January 14, 2009, posted by WoW Fan at 1:26 AM
Basically, there is a cave where worms are in Storm Peaks. (coords 47,55)

Well there are Worgs there that killed by the Worms, this is important because they spawn in a pair.

Once you kill the worms the spawn rate of the Worgs is totally insane. After a couple of minutes, it becomes an instant respawn between the four spots.

So you just run around the begging of the cave (as shown in the screenshot) and never run out of mobs, and besides Borean Leather, they do drop Artic Fur as well.

Here are the 4 locations:


I guess it would also be an awesome place for grinding too since you will experience no downtime between mobs.

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Friday, January 9, 2009, posted by WoW Fan at 1:18 AM
While I was at Zul'Drak leveling an alt of mine, I got that quest called "The Storm King's Vengeance" whereby you need ride Gymer (the king of storm giants) and kill 100 scourges and 3 elites for completion.

All the undeads you kill on the way with Gymer gives no EXP but there is a specific area in Zul'Drak with something very interesting indeed.

If you haven't done the quest-chain which leads to "Altar of Quetz'Lun", you will notice that if you go there with your giant, you will see all the mobs from the "dead" area (a fading layer).

There you can pretty much kill them with just 2-3 hits and earn EXP by killing using Gymer the giant. Only thing is you just can't loot the mobs but basically you get no downtime at all and 2-3 shotting mobs. The best way i found out was to zoom in and just run around tabbing and hitting since his size is so big you cant see them. So either zoom in or get a zoom out mod.

Yes, this is a exploit. Maybe not a great exploit, but definitely worth 1 level per 30mins rested for me. That area mentioned isn't intended to be visible unless you are doing a quest-chain to get access. While you ride Gymer, everything despawns to another "fading layer", but that area is on the same layer!

Just run around killing everything you see (2300xp each kill if rested) as quick as you can. Enjoy your easy free kills!

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Saturday, January 3, 2009, posted by WoW Fan at 6:15 PM
In naxx, in the Death Knight Wing there's mobs called Death Knight Cavaliers and they have a spell called Bone Armor.

Effect: Apply Aura: School Absorb (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 1200000

So, that is a massive 1.2 million damage absorbed. They also cast it quite often too ( every 10 sec or so) and best of all it is spellstealable. Now you must be wondering what the exploit is in spellstealing a spell from a mob... Well, here it is:

Arcane Talent: Incanter's Absorption Rank 3

When you absorb damage your spell damage is increased by 15% of the amount absorbed for 10 sec.

How it works is very simple, every time you get hit it adds a buff on you for 10 sec, with 15% of the damage that the attack was absorbed. You can have as many as those buffs as you want, but bear in mind that each buff will fade after 10 sec.

So, lets make a quick calculation here... You get the buff... get a couple hunters to MD to you and you pull Razuvious. He hits you for 80k (as a mage) 4 times, that is +12,000 spell damage to you each hit.

Since that buff absorbs damage, you do not have to worry about pulling aggro at all, we've had our mage tanking all the death knight wing, 3 shotting mobs, running around with 50k to 100k spell power tonight. The important thing is to keep all the 3 cavaliers on you, so you always have a bone shield to spellsteal.

Do note that this works in 10 man version too, but sadly the 10 man version of the bone shield only absorbs 50k and not 1200k.

Here is the video that inspired this exploit:


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Friday, January 2, 2009, posted by WoW Fan at 5:30 AM
Eternal Fires are far more expensive on the AH than any other eternals because they aren't as easily obtained just by merely mob farming. As a result of this, they normally go for 40-50g on the AH. The map below is going to assist engineers in making their farming of steam clouds a little bit easier by following the path shown.

What your going to be doing is farming Crystallized Fire and Crystallized Water off the Steam Clouds in Sholazar Basin. Your map of Sholazar should look like this if you did it properly:

Eternal Fire Farming


I personally followed the path shown above over a 1 hour period and I managed to obtain 108 Crystallized Fire and 37 Crystallized Water. So in total 10 Eternal Fire and 3 Eternal Water which netted me 486g all together after selling them on the AH while selling them at a slight price reduction compared to the competition. Happy Eternal Fire farming folks!

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