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Feast of Winter Veil 2010 Guide

2010-12-16T16:04:00.000+08:00

The Feast of Winter Veil is the typical year end winter seasonal holiday with snow, gnomes in holiday gear, presents, cookies, and other seasonal themes in the wonderful world of warcraft. Unlike other holidays, there isn’t a huge focus on loot or character advancement. Instead the focus is on merriment, fun and just having a good time with your friends and guildies.

The following are the activities available during the holiday:

Type: Holiday Event

Date: December 15th – January 2nd

Location: Most Major Cities

Greatfather Winter

Greatfather Winter is visiting the great cities of Ironforge and Orgrimmar – courtesy of the fine folks of Smokywood Pastures and he’s spreading cheer in celebration for the Feast of Winter Veil. But, all the cheer-spreading is making Greatfather Winter hungry, and he’s looking for adventurers to get him his daily fix of milk and cookies.

Revelers

During the Feast of Winter Veil, the innkeepers bring out holiday decorations to provide a festive atmosphere for their patrons. Who knows what might happen if you /kiss a reveler standing near a sprig of mistletoe….

Smokeywood Pastures’ Missing Shipment

Smokeywood Pastures needs a few brave adventurers to investigate the disappearance of a shipment of holiday goods. Rumors are the shipment is in the possession of the Abominable Greench, found somewhere in the snowy regions of the Alterac Mountains.

Metzen the Reindeer

Disaster has struck! Metzen the Reindeer has been kidnapped! Metzen is one of Greatfather Winter’s eight reindeer – and property of Smokywood Pastures. The Jinglepocket Goblins have received two ransom letters from groups claiming to have Metzen. Concerned adventurers should visit Ironforge or Orgrimmar for more information.

Jinglepocket Goblins’ Fare Shops

The Jinglepocket Goblins have set up their seasonal fare shops in major cities. Adventurers can purchase many holiday favorites – including Greatfather’s Winter ale, candy canes, gingerbread cookie recipes, and mistletoes.

Snowballs

Whether you pick them up from your local vendor or ask a friendly engineer to craft them for you, no feast of Winter Veil is complete without some frozen projectile-weapons. Get your mitts on some snowballs and say, “Merry Feast of Winter Veil” the old-fashioned way!

Snowmen

Accompanying Greatfather Winter in his journeys across Azeroth are his loyal troops of snowmen. They can be found wandering around Ironforge and Orgrimmar, bringing with them the chill breath of winter into even the warmest climes.

Winter Veil Bosses

The denizens of the dungeons of Northrend are also getting into the holiday spirit, and some dungeon bosses even wear festive Winter Hats just like Greatfather Winter’s. Defeat a Winter Veil boss, and the boss’ hat is yours!

Winter Veil bosses of Northrend:

Grand Magus Telestra (The Nexus) – Red Winter Hat

Jedoga Shadowseeker (Ahn’Kahet: The Old Kingdom) – Red Winter Hat

Mage-Lord Urom (The Oculus) – Green Winter Hat

Cataclysm Winter Veil bosses

Deadmines (Heroic) – Admiral Ripsnarl

The Stone Core (Normal + Heroic) – High Priestess Azil

Blackrock Caverns (Normal + Heroic) – Corla, Herald of Twilight

Shadowfang Keep (Heroic) – Lord Godfrey

Grim Batol (Normal + Heroic) – Drahga Shadowburner

From December 25th to January 2nd only

Gift-Giving

In the quiet, early hours of the 25th of December, the industrious goblins of Smokywood Pastures are already awake. As a much-deserved reward for the noble adventurers throughout Azeroth, these generous harbingers of the holidays deposit gifts underneath the decorated trees in Orgrimmar and Ironforge. Keep a keen eye out for these presents, as they’re there for the taking!

Event History

The later seasons of Azeroth are marked as a time of change in many cultures. The Dwarves and the Tauren especially look to a legend of the coming Winter Veil – the blanketing of the land in snow, thus heralding a time of renewal – as a time for celebration.

The term “Winter Veil” is said to stem from a supernatural being referred in many cultures to as Greatfather Winter. As he would walk the land late in the seasons, winter itself would be his billowing cloak. In his wake was the blanketing of the land in snow, and thus it is said that Greatfather Winter would cast his wintry veil over the land. Though parts of Azeroth may lie in snow, it gives the land time for rebirth and renewal.

The idea of feasting during this time of year is one that traces its origins to the legend itself. As Greatfather Winter walked Azeroth, it is said he would provide a bounty for those who welcomed his presence. As such, the idea of feasting during the winter veil would bring together communities as they shared whatever they had. Typically, a single day of merriment and feasting welcomed the change, all in anticipation of the land’s renewal.

Other cultures have begun to recognize the Feast of Winter Veil as a time of great celebration, though not in the same traditions as the legend bases it in. Customs, often unrelated to anything other than a chance for celebration and gift exchange, have made their way into modern observation of the season. Even the image of Greatfather Winter is sometimes used, but more as a harbringer of commercial exploit rather than as a supernatural titan.

Grim Batol Instance Guide

2010-12-10T17:18:00.001+08:00

Grim Batol is a mountain fortress located in the eastern Wetlands. It has great walls and spires that reach toward a steel-gray sky, but the stronghold’s bulk is underground. Founded by Wildhammer dwarves and later captured by orcs, a flight of red dragons now command Grim Batol. The dragons guard a secret power within the fortress and let no one near.

ENTRANCE LOCATION

Notable Trash
After clearing two or three trash groups, you will notice a number of dragons that are tied down. Free them for the next stage.

It is now possible to ride these drakes. When you mount them, your action bar will change, like any other vehicle. You will only have one attack, the dragon’s breath.

Press 1 on your keyboard then click on the ground to shoot your flame breath. As you fly over the instance, use the breath to damage all of the trash between there and the final boss. It is possible, if planned perfectly, to kill all of the trash in the instance except those directly by the forge, and the last boss. Usually however, you’ll damage most groups to about half HP, possibly killing one or two. Either way, the more effectively you use the dragons, the faster the rest of the instance will be.

BOSS GUIDE

General Umbriss

Abilities:

Bleeding Wound – Deals weapon damage as well as an additional ~10,000 Physical damage every 2 seconds for 10 seconds or until the target is healed to at least 90% health.
Blitz – General Umbriss charges an enemy location, dealing physical damage and knocking them up if impacted!
Frenzy – General Umbriss goes into a frenzy, increasing his attack speed by 50% and his Physical damage by 50%.
Ground Siege – Inflicts 60,000 Physical damage to all players and stuns them for 4 seconds.

Notes:

1. Heal the Bleeding Wound targets quickly.
2. Spread out to avoid multiple players getting hit by Blitz.
3. One of the adds spawned will be larger than the others, and purple in colour. This add must be killed away from the boss, or it will cause him to frenzy. Do this by either having a DPS taunt it, stun it away from the boss, death grip, Distracting shot, whatever works to get that add away from the boss.
4. This is the key component of the fight, as when he frenzies, a blitz will one shot even a Tank.

Forgemaster Throngus

Abilities:

Disorienting Roar – The Disorienting Shout decreases cast and attack speed by 50% per charge, depleting a charge every time an ability is cast. Starts with 3 charges.
Impaling Slam – Charges an enemy, impaling it and inflicting 19500 to 20500 Fire damage every 1 sec for 5 sec.
Mighty Stomp – The Mighty Stomp creates a Cave In.
Pick Weapon – The Forgemaster ponders which weapon he wants to use to bludgeon his enemies.
- Mace - Throngus gains Encumbered, reducing his movement speed by 70%, but increasing his physical damage by 300%.
- Shield - Throngus gains Personal Phalanx, decreasing damage taken from the front by 99%. Also summons Twilight Archers that cannot be targeted, but attack with Flaming Arrows.
- Swords – Throngus gains Dual Blades, increasing his chance to hit by 20%, and giving each of his attack chance to gain 2 extra attacks.

Notes:

1. For Mace, have a hunter taunt, or simply kite the boss until the buff expires, dps will have to watch threat as the tank will get pounded trying to TPS.
2. For Shield, the boss will also breathe fire directed at a random party member, which will continue either until the shield buff expires, or no party members are standing in the flame. Constantly move from this ability as it hurts, a lot. Healer should switch to AoE heals as tank damage is minimal.
3. For swords, simply use a Tank or Healer cooldown to get through it. Tank and spank here.
4. Avoid the created cave ins, shown by the shower of rocks, much like the earth adds in VoA.
5. There are a pair of lone NPCs which patrol between certain mob groups. Pull them mid patrol, so they’re not next to any of the other groups. When agroed, they will summon a Twilight Drake to assist them, DPS it as per normal. Only thing to note here is the dragon spawns fire on the ground. Move out of it.

Drahga Shadowburner

Abilities:

Phase 1: 100% – 20%

Burning Shadowbolt – Inflicts 14625 to 15375 Shadowflame damage.
Invocation of Flame – Summons a Invoked Flaming Spirit that fixates on a target. When the Spirit reaches its target it causes a Supernova, inflicting 48750 to 51250 Fire damage in a 0 yard radius around the Spirit.
Twilight Protection – Protected by the aura of the Twilight, Drahga takes 90% less damage!

Phase 2: 20%

Devouring Flames – Devouring Flames inflicts 50000 Shadow damage every 1 sec, the damage is lower the further the target is from the origin of the Devouring Flames.
Shredding Swipe – The brutal Shredding Swipe inflicts 100% weapon damage and tears a rift to the Twilight Realm.
Twilight Shift – Valiona shifts into the twilight, allowing her to escape without harm!

Notes:

1. This is a two boss, two phase fight. The first boss is an NPC with less than a mil HP, he will die relatively quickly. Get him to 20% and he will spawn the 2nd boss with the usual expected HP. When this second boss is brought to 10%, it will fly away, and the first boss will return. The fight ends when his HP drops from the original 20%, to 0.
2. Throughout the entire fight, the highest priority of DPS will always be the adds. Large fire elementals will spawn randomly throughout the room, and after a moment, target a random play and move towards them, much like the PP gases in ICC. Like the gases, run away from the adds until they pick their target (shown by a beam of orange flame) then burn them as fast as possible.
3. These adds have no agro table, and are susceptible to every trick in the book. Stuns, slows, knock backs, the works. Use anything available to stop the add reaching its target, as if it makes contact, it will deal upwards of 120k damage; an almost guaranteed 1 shot. This damage is AoE.

In phase 2:

4. Fire will spawn randomly throughout the room, and simply must be avoided, not a huge issue.
5. For the Tank, the boss will spawn a large pool of magma beneath the tank’s feet, and they must move out of this quickly. Be careful when moving, as you don’t want to move towards an add that has you targeted.
6. Devouring Flames is a mana drain on the healer more-so than a raid wiper. The group members have two options here. If you’re near the boss’ pivot point in the room, simply move behind it when it turns to cast devouring flames, however if you cannot make it within a few steps, move as far away from the boss as you can, as it does less damage the further away you are. The Tank should never be hit by this ability.

Erudax

Abilities:

Binding Shadows – The Bindings Shadows drains 0 life every 5 sec and root players within 0 yards of the target for until cancelled.
Enfeebling Blow – The Enfeebling Blow inflicts 75% weapon damage as Shadow damage, knocking the target back and causing their mind to become feeble.
Shadow Gale – Channels a Gale of Shadows inflicting increasing Shadow damage over time to enemies that are not in the eye of the Shadow Gale.
Summon Faceless Corruptor – Summons 2 Faceless Corruptors at the entrance of the room. The Faceless will try to run to any egg an use Twilight Corruption on it. On successful cast, the egg will spawn two Twilight Hatchlings. The Corruptors will also try to use Umbral Mending on Erudax. And finally, they will cast Siphon Essence

Notes:

1. Enfeebling blow, when used on the tank, should be used as a period to kite the boss until the debuff expires.
2. The Faceless Corruptors’ healing spell that is cast on the boss can be interrupted.

These adds will only cast their spells when they reach their designated positions in the room and they have no agro table. They are immune to stuns, but slows are still effective. They should be burned quickly to avoid consequences, as the dps do not need to worry about pulling agro.

3. The eye of Shadow Gale is not definitively outlined; stand as close to the centre as you can to avoid excess ticks.
4. It is possible to DPS the boss while inside the gale, however threat may be an issue as the Tank may be unable to TPS the boss due to range issues.
5. Binding Shadows will root players with a magical debuff and drain their health. This lasts until the target is dispelled, or freed from the movement restriction by Hand of Freedom or equivalent. It is possible to avoid the transparent rotating cloud if you react fast enough.
6. The issue here will be two things, Healer mana, and boss HP. If the adds get their heals off, unless your DPS is insane, it’s almost a guaranteed wipe.

Blackrock Caverns Instance Guide

2010-12-10T17:05:00.002+08:00

Blackrock Caverns is the first of two new wings in Blackrock Spire introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. It is designed as a 5-man instance for players level 80 to 81. It is a series of tunnels created by Deathwing from the Twilight Highlands to Blackrock Mountain. Here the twisted Twilight's Hammer clan is transporting their supplies back and forth from the highlands and practicing the mysterious dark arts that transform the zealots into dragonspawn. The forces here are led by the Ascendant Lord Obsidius.

Players will need to be level 80 and find the entrance to Blackrock Caverns in order to use the Dungeon Finder for the instance. The entrance is just off of the main ring in Blackrock Mountain on the non-jumping path to Blackrock Spire. Head to the eastern side of the ring to see the summoning stone for Blackrock Spire and follow the path. As it turns north there is a blockade blocking the way. Look right to see the instance line.

ENTRANCE LOCATION

BOSS GUIDE

Rom’ogg Bonecrusher

Abilities:

Call for Help - Rom’ogg calls for nearby minions to assist him.
Quake – Inflicts 3,000 Physical damage every second to all players within 40 yards of Rom’ogg. Lasts 3 seconds.
Wounding Strike – Inflicts 125% weapon damage to the current target and reduces healing done by 25% for 10 seconds.
Chains of Woe - Summons Chains of Woe around all players, rendering them unable to move for 20 seconds or until the Chains are destroyed. Starts casting The Skullcracker immediately after.
The Skullcracker – Inflicts ~100,000 Shadow damage to all players within 10-15 yards of Rom’ogg. Begins casting immediately after Chains of Woe. Has 8 seconds cast time.

Notes:

1. It is recommended you clear all of the adds near Rom’ogg before you engage him, this should avoid unnecessary deaths to adds.

2. Number One DPS priority in this fight is the Chains of Woe. The Boss will pull the entire group in next to him, and shackle them with Chains of Woe. Like bosses such as Blood princes, the chains have a shared health pool, so DPS whichever is closest (or furthest, Hunters).

3. As soon as Chains of Woe is cast, the boss will begin to cast The Skullcracker, which at lower tiers of gear, and even at higher ones, is a guaranteed, immediate, group wipe.

4. Kill the Chains, and then move at least 20 yards from the boss. This includes the Tank. The boss will not move while casting The Skullcracker, so make use of your boot enchants or talents, and get a running.

5. The boss will periodically summon a number of adds, these should be picked up by the Tank, and DPSed down. Lower kill order priority than Chains of Woe. DPS, watch your cleaves, the Tank’s job is hard enough as is.

6. Note, it is also possible to kill the adds using the boss’ Skullcracker. Doing so will require a well timed Frost Nova or other such effect, or some skilled positioning from the Tank.
7. A Cooldown, either from the healer or the Tank, is recommended, for Wounding Strike, as when combined with adds, this can and will cause issues.
8. Unless you have some extreme range, you’re going to be hit by Quake. Defensive cooldowns from the DPS are never a bad thing, especially in lower levels of gear. Save a wipe, save Healer mana.
9. The really really big mobs here have an attack which -must- be interrupted.
10. They are patrols to careful not to aggro one when dealing with another pack.

Corla, Herald of Twilight

Abilities:

Aura of Acceleration – Increases the movement speed by 50% and attack speed by 100% of all Twilight Cultists within 50 yards of Corla.

Dark Command - Inflicts 7,500 Shadow damage every second to a random player, and causes them to flee in terror. Lasts 4 seconds.

Death Grip – Draws a random player to Corla.

Drain Essence – Corla channels nether energies in a beam from the nether dragon’s corpse by the ceiling to the three Twilight Zealots. The beams stack Evolution on their target every second.

Evolution - The target of the nether beams gains a stack of Evolution every second they stay in the beam. When Evolution reaches 100 stacks, players are affected by Twilight Evolution, and Zealots become Evolved Twilight Zealots.

Twilight Evolution – Brings a player under Corla’s control, increasing their health by 600%. Lasts 5 minutes.

Evolved Twilight Zealot – Twilight Zealots with 100 stacks of Evolution become Evolved. Evolved Zealots have Force Blast, Gravity Strike, Grievous Whirl, and Shadow Strike.

Notes:

1. The first thing you may notice is the Boss, accompanied by a trio of kneeling Zealots.

2. The aim with this fight is relatively simplistic, kill the boss and don’t let any of the adds evolve.

3. The Zealots are passive until they are evolved, and do not need to be Tanked.

4. It is recommended you eliminate the patrol that moves in front of the boss, down on the floor from the ramp before pulling the boss. If a fear gets off, you don’t want more mobs pulled.
5. For this fight you will need 3 volunteers, one for each Zealot.
6. What each person must do, is position themselves between the Zealots and the incoming purple beams. The beams will stack Evolution on the target closest to the origin. The aim here is to stop Evolution from reaching 100 stacks, on either the Zealots or players. Do this by moving in and out of the beam, resetting your stacks in between. The recommended number of stacks to look for is 75. Get to 75, and move out of the beam, let the Zealot take the stacks until yours reset, then re-enter the beam. Continue this until the boss is dead.
7. You will need to assign at least one person to watch for Dark Command. A 2 second cast, if this is not interrupted, it can spell almost instant disaster. Don’t let her complete the cast.
8. The Tank should attempt to hold the boss in front of the central Zealot, as this will allow any melee DPS who are controlling Evolution stacks, to also DPS the boss.

It is possible for a Healer to control stacks on a Zealot, and is recommended in situations where your group is heavy on Melee. It is also possible for the Tank to control the stacks on a Zealot; however this will take a lot of awareness and coordination and is only recommended as a last resort.

9. As a come all, end all; Iceblock and equivalents can be used to clear any Evolution stacks.
10. If an add transforms, or worse a team mate, it is almost a guaranteed wipe. Gravity Strike deals 60% of the target’s current HP as damage. It will never outright kill you, as with 1k HP it would do 600 damage, but combined with Shadow Strike, which deals 70,000 Shadow damage *from behind* the target… I think you get the picture.
11. If you get Death Gripped out of a beam you were interrupting, use this as a chance to reset your stacks. Do not immediately return to the add, as the timers on the Evolution stacks will differ, and you or the Zealot may well end up transforming.
12. You will notice here, a pair of roaming fire elementals and a vast number of silver ‘blobs’ all around the room.The two elementals must be killed, they are the ‘trash’. The blobs are Quicksilver.When an elemental is near a Quicksilver, the quicksilver will heat up, and form an NPC which acts as any other mobs and must be tanked.Pull the elementals back into the doorway, away from the majority of the Quicksilver. The the NPC, ignore the Quicksilver, as after a few seconds of the elemental being killed, the Quicksilver will re-harden back into a ‘blob’.

Karsh Steelbender

Abilities:

Quicksilver Armor – Reduces all damage taken by 99%.
Superheated Quicksilver Armor - Increases damage taken by 5% per stack. Melee attacks inflict 2,000 Fire damage per stack to everyone in the room. Lasts 12 seconds, refreshed with new applications. Stacks every second Karsh remains in the central pillar of molten metal.
Cleave - Inflicts 110% weapon damage to players in front of Karsh.

Notes:

1. When looking at the boss before the pull, he will have Quicksilver Armor activated at all times.

2. Begin the pull with the boss on the far side of the room from the group, as this will cause him to run through the central pillar of Lava to reach the group, and spend very little time in the beam itself.
3. The boss needs to be pulled through the lava beam in order for the Quicksilver Armor to become Superheated, and allow DPS to commence.
4. Once heated, the boss’ armour remains heated for 12 seconds, before he will need to be re-dunked in fire.
5. The longer the boss is kept in the Lava, the more damage he will deal and receive.

It is best to aim for something about 5 stacks. Too high and it becomes unhealable.

6. The boss cleaves. This is a responsibility of the DPS just as much as the Tank to make sure they’re not taking damage. Work with your Tank, not against them.
7. Whenever Superheated Quicksilver Armor drops off the boss, a wall of flame will erupt around the central circle of the encounter area. Be sure you’re not standing in it.
8. Pools of Lava will spawn beneath the feet of players. Much like Firefighter in Ulduar, simply stack the group up on one spot, and move in one direction whenever the lava spawns. This will stop it getting out of control.

The Pools of Lava also have the same effect as the Lava Pillar in the centre of the room. The longer the boss stands in one, the more damage he takes and gives. This can either be a blessing or a curse, either way; don’t let him stand in a puddle or a pillar too long.

9. During the fight, a number of Flame adds will spawn, Unless you’re a Hunter or a Rogue, I’d recommend leaving these be until the Tank has them under control, then burn them.
10. Directly after the previous boss, there are a pair of trash groups on either side of the path onwards into the instance. It is recommended you pull these back into the area where you fought the previous boss, as a pair of fire elementals patrol next to the trash groups, and will agro on sight.
11. These groups contain casters, so either have a Hunter MD with the Tank standing a good distance back, or simply silence, Death Grip, etc to get them all within a workable area.

Beauty

Abilities:

Berserker Charge – Charges a random player, inflicting ~17,000 Physical damage and knocking them back.
Flamebreak – Inflicts ~12,000 Fire damage to all players within 10 yards, knocking them back.
Magma Spit - Inflicts ~4,000 Fire damage to a random target, as well as another 4,000 every 3 seconds for 9 seconds. Explodes when removed.
Terrifying Roar – Causes all players to flee in fear for 5 sec.

Notes:

1. Boss + 3 ‘Puppies’

2. CC Puppy on the left, and Puppy on the right. Preferably by first pulling them to near the entrance to Beauty’s chamber so they’re out of the way.
3. Kill the central Pup’. Then Kill the boss, remembering to reapply CC to the other Puppies.
4. Spread out to avoid Magma Spit hitting multiple targets.
5. You may wish to Tank the boss against a wall, so Flamebreak will not cause unnecessary boss movement.
6. Pretty basic “Tank ‘n’ Spank” with some CC thrown in to boot.

Ascendant Lord Obsidius

Abilities:

Stone Blow – Inflicts 150% melee damage and knocks the target down.
Thunderclap – Inflicts ~12,000 Physical damage to all players around Obsidius. Also reduces movement speed of the affected targets by 50% for 8 seconds.
Twilight Corruption – Inflicts 8,000 Shadow damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds.

Notes:

1. The Boss comes with bonus adds that are required to be kited.

2. There are 3 adds in total, which, when in melee range of their target, reduce the healing received by that target.
3. These adds are unusual, as they posses a buff labelled only as ‘Twitchy’. In short, rather than attack the target with the highest threat, like most other NPCs, they will attack the *latest* target to generate threat.
4. A DoT is highly recommended here, or a multi target ability like Multi-Shot. The Adds can be Slowed, Rooted, Stunned, etc. Use this to your advantage.

5. Periodically the boss will switch places and posses one of the adds being kited. The Tank must immediately retrieve the boss, while simultaneously avoid adding threat to the ex-boss, turned add, that must be pulled away from the group and kited.

6. Be careful when kiting too close to the boss, Thunderclap will land you in trouble very quickly. Have a Hand of Freedom or equivalent ready just in case.
7. Twilight Corruption can be dispelled, and it is recommended to do so.

Archaeology 1-525 Powerleveling Guide

2010-12-08T14:04:00.000+08:00

Leveling Archaeology to 525 is very straight forward but brace yourself as it will take time and plenty of patience. So let's get started... here is a simple guide on how to powerlevel your Archaeology from 1 to 525 which will be updated as the game progresses.

Levels 1-100

To start off, head to your faction's Archaeology trainer in either Stormwind or Orgrimmar (there's also one in Dalaran). You will need to be at least level 20 to get started. Now you've gained two abilities, Survey and Archaeology. For the first 100 levels we'll only use Survey and avoid Archaeology. Let's start by heading to our first digsite. To find one, open up your map and look for shovel icons.

Once you arrive at a digsite, use your Survey ability and your character will survey the site and determine the location and distance the artifact is away from your current location. The scope will point in the direction of the artifact and the color of the light will tell you if it's very close (green), near by (yellow) or far away (red).

The moment you find and receive the artifact you will gain one level. You can survey each digsite 3 times and you will always have 4 digsites available per continent. Continue surveying until level 100. Try to avoid completing artifacts until you've reached level 100 since you will no longer be able to level up by surveying after level 100.

Levels 100-525

Once you're level 100, you're done leveling by finding artifacts (although you'll need finding artifacts). Now you should complete your artifacts by solving them. You can do this by using your Archaeology ability and selecting 'Solve' where you have enough artifacts to do so. This will give you 5 levels per completed artifact as well as a novelty item, often worth a few silver or gold to a vendor. As you reach higher levels and solve better artifacts there are novelty items, Bind on Equip and even Bind on Account items available from Archaeology.

Farming Embersilk Cloth & Greens at Deepholm

2010-12-08T11:40:00.000+08:00

Whilst leveling at Deepholm, I've come to the following quest - Undying Twilight

While killing the mobs, I noticed that they have an infinite respawn timer, frequently drop embersilk cloth and greens (as well as a few silver) and only have to be tagged to get the loot while you let the npc's kill them for you. Great farming location for Enchanters and Tailors but bear in mind they do not give any exp at all.

At the end of the day, it's not exactly an exploit but it sure will help me with my tailoring and enchanting nicely and I hope it might help you guys too.

WoW Cataclysm Expansion Unboxing

2010-12-07T00:29:00.001+08:00

Finally got my copy of WoW Cataclysm expansion box set... woot! Here some pics to share with all of you.

Here's looking forward to a brand new world tomorrow and sleepless nights for months to come.. lol!

A special THANKS to the peeps over at OffGamers.com for a speedy delivery and impeccable service. /bow & /respect

Farming Savage Leather & Target Mobs

2010-12-03T12:00:00.000+08:00

Savage Leather and Deepsea Scales, which are both very widely used mats for crafting Cataclysm's Leatherworking items. Well in Wetlands / Menethil Harbour, near the docks is several sharks named Harbor Shredfin of level 22 range which you can skin and apparently they have semi decent droprate while skinning for Savage Leather and Deepsea Scales.

Another even better spot if you bring along a skinner friend is in Eastern Plaguelands killing and skinning Landlocked Grouper. I went and tested out this spot with a friend, we noticed this spot has a forced spawn between the 2 sides of the bridge. So there is ALWAYS mobs to kill almost instantaneously.

As mentioned, this spot actually works a lot faster then the Menethil Harbour spot IF you have a skinner friend doing the other side of the bridge. You will Always have a mob in range to kill and few others to skin. Infact we were having problems managing to actually skin all the mobs we killed.

Other notable mobs that can be skinned for Savage Leather are:

Wetlands [Skinning Skill required: 105 - 115]

Harbor Shredfin

Ocean Shredfin

Thousand Needles [Skinning Skill required: 200 - 215]

Remora Scrounger

Barbed Gassgill

Pull Mobs Up to 150 Yards Away Exploit

2010-12-01T12:27:00.001+08:00

This is a very useful and new exploit whereby you can pull mobs or bosses from 10 yards to a massive 150 yards away. What is need is the quest item [Enohar's Explosive Arrow] provided for the newly created quest (sadly Alliance only) Curtail the Darktail from Enohar Thunderbrew in Blasted Lands can be used on any target, off the GCD.

- Has a .5 second cast time, so it cannot be used during other casts, but it can be used while moving. Has a minimum range of 15 yards, and maximum of 150.

- Provides no threat, or damage. Does not tag mobs.

- Places you and the target in combat.

- Does not require line of sight.

- Will flag you for pvp if using against a pvp target.

Some useful uses I have found after some testing:

- Pull anything from farther than the range of your skills. Does not tag the mob, however - you must still use a typical attack that will tag the mob for loot/credit. As it does not require line of site, I have pulled mobs and bosses from around corners in various dungeons.

- Keep players in combat, so they cannot stealth or use mounts.

- Kite mobs without damaging them.

Horde 80-82 Leveling Guide - Mount Hyjal

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Getting to Mount Hyjal

1. Find the Warchief’s Command Board. Click on it and take the quest Warchief’s Command: Mount Hyjal.

2. Find Cenarion Emissary Blackhoof in the Tauren District of Orgrimmar. Speak to him to be teleported to Moonglade.

3. Speak to Emissary Windsong. Turn in Warchief’s Command: Mount Hyjal and get the quest As Hyjal Burns.

4. Go over to Aronus, the green dragon hovering right next to where you are at and hop on. You will go through a scripted flyby of Mt Hyjal, and land under the World Tree.

Nordrassil - The World Tree

1. Enter the building in front of you and speak to Ysera to turn in As Hyjal Burns. Accept Protect the World Tree.

2. Speak to Sebelia right next to the door to set your hearthstone here.

3. Exit the building. Directly in front of you, accept The Earth Rises from Anren Shadowseeker. Also get Inciting the Elements from Tholo Whitehoof.

4. Head northeast up the road. Kill any Scalding Rock Elementls nearby. While doing that, collect 4 Juniper Berries from the small bushes in the area.

5. Find one of the Faerie Dragons in the same area as the elementals. Use one of the Juniper Berries you collected on the Faerie Dragon and it will lead you to a Twilight Inciter, who will attack you. Repeat this 3 more times to complete Inciting the Elements. Also continue to kill Scalding Rock Elementls until you complete The Earth Rises.

6. Return to Anren Shadowseeker and turn in The Earth Rises.

7. Turn in Inciting the Elements at Tholo Whitehoof right next to you. Accept the follow up Flames From Above. You will receive Tholo's Horn.

8. From the two NPCs, follow the road west to Fayran Elthas. Get the Flight Point.

9. Go to the Twilight Encampment northwest of the flight point. Use Tholo's Horn in the center of the encampment to complete Flames From Above.

Go back to Tholo Whitehoof and turn it in.

The Verdant Thicket

1. Get on your flying mount and fly southwest until you meet up with the road. If you prefer to use a ground mount, follow the road that heads east and curves around the Well of Eternity. Continue to follow this road to (?,?). Malfurion Stormrage and Windspeaker Tamila should be standing in a small shrine. Speak to Malfurion to turn in Protect the World Tree.

2. Get War on the Twilight's Hammer from Malfurion Stormrage.

3. Get both quest and The Flameseer's Staff from Windseeker Tamila .

4. Kill 4 Twilight Flamecallers and 10 Twilight Vanquishers for War on the Twilight's Hammer in the area just north. While doing this, pick up 8 Charred Staff Fragments for The Flameseer's Staff. Stay away from The Circle of Cinders for now.

5. Return to Malfurion Stormrage and turn in The Flameseer's Staff and War on the Twilight's Hammer. Accept the followup quest Flamebreaker.

6. Use the Flameseer's Staff on the Blazebound Elementals in the charred areas around The Verdant Thicket. This will break up the elementals into 8-10 smaller elementals. Kill these Unbound Flame Spirits.

Repeat until Flamebreaker is complete. Return to Malfurion Stormrage to turn in the quest.

7. Accept The Return of Baron Geddon.

8. Go The Circle of Cinders, where you will find Baron Geddon. You need to use the Flameseer's Staff on him. Every 10 seconds or so, he will begin to channel an AOE fire effect that will hurt you badly, forcing you to move away. When the fire dies down, run back in and use the staff again. Do this until The Return of Baron Geddon is complete.

As soon as the quest is complete, Baron Geddon will cast Living Bomb on you. After about 10 seconds, you will blow up, causing you to fly into the air (you will take some falling damage) and dealing damage to anyone around you. So get away from everyone until it goes off.

Mount up and return to Malfurion. Turn in The Return of Baron Geddon.

9. From WIndspeaker Tamila, accept Emerald Allies

10. Find Alysra at the Ruins of Lar’donir. Turn in Emerald Allies. Accept The Captured Scout.

11. Scout Larandia is located in a cage in the back of the Twilight Command Post. Speak to her to turn in The Captured Scout. Accept Twilight Captivity.

12. Find and kill a Twilight Overseer. They are the two-headed ogres inside the Twilight Command Post. Loot the key off of him to complete Twilight Captivity.

13. Return to Scout Larandia.

14. Turn in Twilight Captivity. Accept Return to Alysra

15. Do what the quest says and return to Alysra. Turn in Return to Alysra and accept A Prisoner of Interest.

16. Go to the Hyjal Barrow Dens northeast of the crater. Travel all the way to the bottom of the barrow dens, until you reach Captain Saynna Stormrunner. Turn in RA Prisoner of Interest.

17. Once you accept the follow up, Through the Dream, you will be moved into a separate phase. Fight your way out of the barrow dens. You will get the quest complete message when you reach the top.

18. Alysra should be right in front of you. Turn in Through the Dream and accept Return to Nordrassil.

Mount up and fly back to Ysera in the building under the World Tree.

Shrine of Goldrinn

1. Turn in Return to Nordrassil to Ysera. Accept The Return of the Ancients.

2. Mount up and fly to the road on the far side of The Verdant Thicket. You will see a small camp up on a ridge to the right of the road. Turn in The Return of the Ancients to Oomla Whitehorn. Accept Harrying the Hunters.

3. In the same camp, accept both quests from Jadi Falaryn - End of the Supply Line and In the Rear With the Gear.

4. Along the road just below the camp, kill 6 Twilight Hunters and 4 Twilight Proveditors. The hunters are the trolls off to each side of the road. The proveditors are the ogres with slaves following them.

5. There are Twilight Slavedrivers walking with the proveditors. When you kill them, the slaves following them will drop the packs they are carrying. Loot these packs to get Twilight Supplies. Keep killing slavedrivers and picking up packs until you complete In the Rear With the Gear.

6. Return to the camp and turn in Harrying the Hunters, End of the Suplly Line, and In the Rear With the Gear. Get the quest The Voice of Lo’Gosh.

7. Follow the road west until it branches. Take the fork to the right, down to a valley. If you are following the road down, continue straight, past the wolf statue, to get to Takrik Ragehowl. He is in a cage at the edge of the small pond. Turn in The Voice of Lo’Gosh and accept the follow up Howling Mad.

8. Kill Lycanthoth Vandals and loot 6 Polluted Incense from their corpses.

9. Return to Takrik Ragehowl and turn in Howling Mad. Accept the follow up Lycanthoth the Corruptor.

10. Go to the Maw of Lycanthoth in the southeast corner of the valley.

11. Use Lycanthoth's Incense near the altar inside the cave. This will summon Lycanthoth. Kill him to complete Lycanthoth the Corruptor. The Spirit of Lo’Gosh will appear.

12. Turn in Lycanthoth the Corruptor. You will automatically hop on his back and ride around as he cleans out the shrine. When he is finished and you have hopped off, speak to him and accept the follow up The Shrine Reclaimed.

13. You'll be in a new phase. Go to the shrine in the north area of the valley. Takrik Ragehowl has been released from his cage. Go to him and turn in The Shrine Reclaimed. Accept the quest Cleaning House.

14. In the same camp, from Rio Duran accept From the Mouth of Madness.

15. Find Royce Duskwhisper, who wanders around the camp, to get the quest The Eye of Twilight.

16. Gather 1 Bitterblossom from the plants around the edge of the pond.

17. Kill 8 Hovel Brutes for Cleaning House while completing the next steps.

18. The rest of the quests you just picked up are all done in the Twilight Hammer camp in the southwest area of the valley. Search around the base of the rock formations there to find a Stonebloom

19. Go to the brazier pictured below. Collect a Darkflame Ember from it.

20. Click on the cauldron just south of the brazier to turn in From the Mouth of Madness. Accept the followup quest Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows.

21. Turn in The Eye of Twilight at the orb outside the cave entrance. Take the followup Mastering Puppets.

22. Enter the cave. As you go through the cave, talk to 8 of the Twilight Servitors and select the dialog option available to complete Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows.

23. Stay to the left from the entrance to reach Kristoff Manheim. He'll be hanging from a meat hook in the back of the cave. Accept his quest, Gar'gol's Gotta Go.

24. Continue through the cave, hugging the wall on your left, until you reach a pedestal with a book on it. Turn in Mastering Puppets. Note the large stone In front of you.

25. Accept the quest from the book, Elementary!. This quest requires you to activate the four orb floating near the pedestal in a particular order. The correct order is as follows.

Crucible of Fire

Crucible of Earth

Crucible of Air

Crucible of Water

Be prepared to fight as soon as you click on the Crucible of Water. A Twilight Hammer cultist named The Manipulator will come out of the portal and attack. Kill him, then turn in the quest at the podium. Accept the followup Return to Duskwhisper. You will get a very useful 10 minute buff that will cause all of the ogres in the hovel to no longer be hostile unless you attack them.

26. Continue hugging the left wall until you reach the center of the cave. You will see Gar'gol, a large blue skinned ogre, sitting on a small rise. Loot a key from the chest on the rise where he is sitting to complete Gar'gol's Gotta Go. Because of the buff you received, you should not have to kill him.

27. Head back to Kristoff Manheim to turn in Gar'gol's Gotta Go. Accept Get Me Outta Here! and escort Kristoff out of the cave.

28. Once you get the quest complete message, head back to the Shrine and turn in all of your quests.

29. From Takrik Ragehowl accept Sweeping the Shelf and Lightning in a Bottle.

30. Follow the road west out of the valley, to Lightning Ledge. Kill 8 Twilight Stormcallers and 5 Howling Riftdwellers for Sweeping the Shelf.

31. Loot a Charged Condenser Jar from the lightning rods scattered around the area.

32. Use the Totem of Lo’Gosh to summon the wolf spirit. Turn in Lightning in a Bottle and accept Into the Maw!.

33. Finish killing everything Sweeping the Shelf.

34. Enter the portal in the center if the Twilight Cultists camp. You will be teleported to the Firelands Forgeworks.

35. Turn in Into the Maw!.

36. Pick up Forged of Shadow and Flame,Crushing the Cores and Rage of the Wolf Ancient.

37. Break 10 Twilight Arms Crates while completing the next step.

38. Kill 12 Dark Iron Laborers and 8 Searing Guardians. Be sure to loot the Smoldering Cores from the Guardians you kill.

39. Find a Twilight Anvil, which is usually around the edges of the cavern, and use the Smoldering Cores while standing next to it. Repeat 8 times to complete Crushing the Cores.

40. Return to the NPCs at the front of the cavern to turn in Forged of Shadow and Flame, Crushing the Cores, and Rage of the Wolf Ancient.

41. Accept Cindermaul, the Portal Master from Jordan Olafson.

42. Head west back to the center of the cavern. From the center, follow the path down to the right. In the first cavern to the left, you will find Cindermaul. Kill him, then loot the chest he leaves behind to complete Cindermaul, the Portal Master.

43. Go back to the front and turn in the quest. Pick up Forgemaster Pyrendius.

44. Forgemaster Pyrendius is a level 80 elite. He has 154k health, so don't try to fight him directly. He is standing in a circle of runes. To kill him, make sure you hit him at elast onec, then drag Pyrendius to one of those runes, click on it to activate the rune, then position Pyrendius so that he is standing on the rune. Repeat that, moving from rune to rune, until he dies.

45. Return to Jordan Olafson and turn in Forgemaster Pyrendius. Get Return from the Firelands.

46. Enter the portal behind you. This will return you the Shrine of Goldrinn. Fly back to the camp, to Ian Duran, and turn in both of the quests you have, Return from the Firelands and Sweeping the Shelf.

47. Yserra will appear in front of you. Accept in Aviana’s Legacy from her. Also accept The Fires of Mt. Hyjal from Rio Duran.

Shrine of Aviana

1. Mount up and fly Northeast to the Shrine of Aviana.

2. Stop at Dinorae Swiftfeather to get the flight point.

3. Enter the first floor of the building at the base of the tree. Head all the way to the back of the shrine to find Choluna.

4. Turn in Wings Over Mount Hyjal and accept An Offering for Aviana.

5. On the way out, speak with Thisalee Crow, who is sitting on a brazier by the entrance. Pick up both her quests, The Wormwing Problem and Scrambling for Eggs.

6. Go to the small circle of stones just outside the shrine. Use the Sacred Nectar while standing near the basin in the center of the stone circle. The Spirit of Aviana will appear. Turn in An Offering for Aviana and accept A Plea From Beyond.

7. While completing the next step, collect 8 Stolen Hyjal Eggs. They can be found around the base of the trees in the area west of the shrine.

8. Kill Wormwing Screechers and Wonrmwing Swifttalons until you complete The Wormwing Problem.

9. Return to the Shrine. At Thisalee Crow turn in The Wormwing Problem and Scrambling for Eggs. Accept A Bird in Hand.

10. In the back of the shrine, turn in A Plea From Beyond to Choluna. Accept A Prayer and a Wing.

11. Find the signal fire just west of the shrine. Use it to summon Marion Wormwing. Fight her until Thisalee Crow sneaks up behind her and captures her.

12. Once she is captured, talk to Marion Wormwing. Go through the dialogue options until you get the quest complete message for A Bird in Hand. The difference choices have no effect that I have found.

13. Get on your flying mount and fly up to the top of the ridge to the north. You will see several nests. Land in one and use the Enormous Bird Call to summon Blaithe. Kill him and loot the Ancient Feather from his corpse.

14. Return to the Shrine. Turn in A Bird in Hand to Thisalee Crow.

15. Go back to Choluna and turn in A Prayer and a Wing.

16. Go up the ramp at the front of the Shrine, and follow it up to the third tier. Pick up Fact-Finding Mission from Skylord Omnuron. We will be doing this quest later.

17. Mount up and head west, past the Shrine of Goldrinn and the Twilight Cultists camp. Follow the road until you reach the Grove of Aessina.

Grove of Aessina

1. Inside the Grove, get the quests Save the Wee Animals from Mylune and If You're Not Against Us... from Matoclaw.

2. Get the flight path from Elizil Wintermoth.

3. Leave the shrine and go slightly east up the road to a small tower. Find Tyrus Blackhorn at the base of the tower.

4. Speak to him, and go through the different conversation options to complete If You're Not Against Us....

5. Turn in the quest to Blackhorn and accept Seeds of Their Demise.

6. Kill Wailing Weeds in the area directly surrounding the tower until you get 8 Bileberry.

7. Return to Blackhorn and turn in Seeds of Their Demise. Accept A New Master.

8. Follow the road west to Laina Nightsky. Turn in The Fires of Mt. Hyjal. Accept Fighting Fire With...Anything and Disrupting the Rituals.

9. While completing the next steps, collect Panicked Bunnies and Terrified Squirrels until you complete Save the Wee Animals. Also, kill any Raging Firestorms and Twilight Inferno Lords you see.

10. Use the Bottled Bileberry Brew on one of the Twilight Inferno Lords you have killed to complete A New Master. Accept the follow up The Name Never Spoken.

11. Find the three firestones.

The Northern Firestone is located at (?,?)

The Central Firestone is located at (?,?)

The Southern Firestone is located at (?,?)

12. Finish killing Raging Firestorms and Twilight Inferno Lords until you have completed Fighting Fire With...Anything and Disrupting the Rituals. Also finish catching animals for Save the Wee Animals.

13. Return to Laina Nightsky and turn in Fighting Fire With...Anything and Disrupting the Rituals.

14. Inside the Grove, turn in Save the Wee Animals at Mylune. Accept Oh, Deer!.

15. Go back to Blackhorn's tower. Speak to Tyrus Blackhorn to turn in The Name Never Spoken.

16. Accept Black Heart of Flame.

17. Head back to the burning forest.

18. Clear an area of enemies, then use the Charred Branch to summon Thol'embar. Kill him and loot his heart to complete Black Heart of Flame.

19. Find 3 Injured Fawns. When you click on them, they will begin to follow you. Try to avoid combat if at all possible, as the Injured Fawns can be killed. Once you have 3 following you, return to Mylune to complete Oh, Deer!. Turn it in.

20. Return to Tyrus Blackhorn and turn in Black Heart of Flame.

21. Go to Laina Nightsky, just outside the Grove. Get the quest Last Stand at Whistling Grove.

22. Follow the ridge of mountains on your right, into the burning forest. They will curve around and lead you to the Whistling Grove. On the map above, it is the green area north of the burning forest.

23. Speak to Keeper Taldros to turn in Last Stand at Whistling Grove. Accept The Bears Up There.

24. Find one of the trees nearby that has small ladders around its base. Click on one of the ladders to climb into the tree. In the tree, Click on one of the bear cubs you are near to grab it. Then use the vehicle controls on your action bar to climb to the top of the tree.

Once you are at the top of the tree, you will get a new control: Chuck-a-Bear. Aim for the trampoline in front of Keeper Taldros and toss the bear cub onto it. Then climb to a lower part of the tree to get another bear cub. Repeat 6 times to complete The Bears Up There.

25. Turn in the quest to Keeper Taldros. Accept Smashing Through Ashes.

26. Head south through the burning forest until you meet up with the road. Follow the road south, making sure to kill 8 Charbringers along the way. Continue following the road until you reach the Sanctuary of Malorne.

Sanctuary of Malorne

1. At Arch Druid Hamuul Runetotem turn in Smashing Through Ashes. Accept Durable Seeds. Also accept Fresh Bait.

2. Get Firebreak from Rayne Feathersongwho is standing right behind Hamuul.

As you complete the next steps, watch out for Nemesis, a level 80 Elite giant turtle who patrols all over The Flamewake.

3. Go north into The Flamewake, killing Core Hounds along the way until you have 4 Core Houndr Entrails for Fresh Bait.

4. Look for small piles of dirt on the ground. Click on them to get a Hyjal Seedling. Continue to do this until you have 10 seedlings.

5. Kill 10 Lava Surgers for Firebreak.

6. Return to the Sanctuary of Malorne and turn in all your quests. Accept Hell's Shells from Hamuul and Prepping the Soil from Rayne.

7. Get on your flying mount and fly around The Flamewake until you find Nemesis. Land a safe distance away and place the Heap of Core Hound Innards on the ground so that Nemesis walks near them. Once Nemesis gets in range of the Innards, he will begin to eat them, allowing you to run up to him and collect the shell fragment by clicking on him. As soon as you have the fragment, quickly get on your mount to get away before he attacks you..

8. Head to a small area in the south part of The Flamewake, almost directly east of the Sanctuary of Malorne. You will be in front of a cave entrance. Find the Flameward at (?,?). Clear the area of any enemies that might attack you then right-click on the Flameward to activate it. Defend the Flameward from anything that comes out to attack it. After about a minute, the Flameward will be fully activated, which will kill any remaining enemies around it.

9. Enter the cave south of the Flameward. Go through the tunnel to find Thisalee Crow. Turn in Fact-Finding Mission. Accept Sethria's Brood and A Gap in Their Armor.

10. Follow the path south kill 12 of the Twilight Dragonkin. Avoid the Twilight Juggernauts for now.

While doing that, collect 8 8 Twilight Armor Plates.

11. In the center of the camp, you will find a pedestal with a book on it. Click on the book and accept the quest The Codex of Shadows.

12. Finish killing dragonkin for Sethria's Brood and collecting armor plates for and A Gap in Their Armor.

13. Return to Thisalee Crow and turn in Sthria's Brood, The Codex of Shadows and and A Gap in Their Armor.

14. Accept Egg Hunt and Disassembly.

15. Back into the camp. Find a Twilight Juggernaut. Use Thisalee's Shiv on him to break his armor, then kill him. You can use the Shiv multiple times to further decrease his armor. Repeat this two more times.

16. Find one of the Shadow Cloak Generators.

Click on it to deactivate it. Keep doing this until you find Aviana's egg. Once you find the egg, you must defend it until the druids come to collect it. So just kill anything that comes after the egg until you get the quest complete message for Egg Hunt.

17. Return to Thisalee and turn in Egg Hunt and Disassembly. Accept Sethria's Demise.

18. Get on your flying mount and fly far to the south (?,?), where you will find Sethria. Attack her until she changes into her dragon form. When she does, use Thisalee's Signal Rocket to summon the Druids of the Talon to help you defeat her. She will occasionally place a shadow fissure on the ground around. Move out of it as soon as you see it to avoid massive damage.

Once she has died, return to Thisalee Crow to turn in Sethria's Demise.

19. Accept Return to the Shrine.

20. Fly back to the Shrine of Malorne and turn in Prepping the Soil and Hell's Shells. Accept Tortolla Speaks.

21. Fly to Torolla, who is chained on the far side of the lake at (?,?). Turn in Tortolla Speaks.

22. Accept Breaking the Bonds and Children of Tortolla.

23. Jump into the lake and swim down. Kill the Deep Corruptors to rescue the eggs they are near. Do this 6 times to complete Children of Tortolla.

24. Go back to Tortolla. Use the giant rod to your left to break the chain holding Tortola and summon a Twilight Dominator. Kill him, then repeat on the other rod to the right to complete Breaking the Bonds.

25. Speak to Tortolla and turn in both quests.

26. Accept An Ancient Awakens. Fly back to the Sanctuary of Malorne.

27. Turn in An Ancient Awakens.

28. Fly back to the Shrine of Aviana. Find Choluna in the back. Turn in Return to the Shrine. Accept An Ancient Reborn.

29. Go up the ramp to your right, into a small room where you will find Aviana's Egg. Use the Herald's Incense near the egg to resurrect Aviana.

30. Turn in An Ancient Reborn to Aviana. Accept The Hatchery Must Burn.

31. Ysera will appear next to Aviana. Accept The Last Living Lorekeeper.

32. Fly back down into The Flamewake. Enter the large portal in the center to be teleported to the Firelands Hatchery.

33. Turn in The Hatchery Must Burn to Farden Talonshrike. Accept Flight in the Firelands.

34. Loot a Twilight Firelance from one of the weapon ranks behind Farden. Equip it and jump on one of the Aviana's Guardians nearby.

Flight does not work the normal way on these mounts. You must use the Flap ability to make them move forward AND stay in the air. You will move forward and gain altitude the more you use the ability.

Fly to one of the flags on any the ledges in the cavern, then fly back to complete the quest.

35. Turn in Flight in the Firelands. Accept Wave One.

36. Using the same controls, fly into the center of the cavern. You will see many Twilight Buzzards flying around. "Kill" them by running onto the buzzards with your mount. Do this 10 times to complete Wave One.

37. Fly back up to the ledge with Farden Talonshrike. Turn in the quest and accept the follow up Wave Two.

This quest is exactly the same as the last one, except now there are flaming boulders falling from the sky that you must dodge. If your mount gets killed, there are replacement mounts at the bottom of the cavern.

Once you have killed 10 Twilight Lancers, fly back up to Farden's ledge.

39. Turn in Wave Two. Accept Egg Wave.

This quest is much easier. Still using the same controls, fly over to the ledges around the room and run over the eggs that are on them. Return to Farden once you have smashed 40 eggs.

40. Turn in Egg Wave. Accept Return to Aviana. Make sure to re-equip your weapon. Use the portal across the bride to the east to teleport back to The Flamewake.

41. Find Nordu on a rise just north of the Sanctuary of Malorne. Turn in The Last Living Lorekeeper.

42. Accept Firefight.

43. Kill 5 Firey Tormentors nearby. Return to Nordu when you are finished.

44. Turn in Firefight. Accept Aessina's Miracle.

45. Return to Aviana at the Shrine of Aviana.

46. Turn in Return to Aviana.

47. Fly back to the Grove of Aessina. Speak to Arch Druid Hamuul to turn in Aessina's Miracle.

48. When the event finishes, accept Tortolla's Revenge from Arch Druid Hamuul.

49. Follow the road through the newly restored forest until you reach Tortolla. Turn in Tortolla's Revenge.

The Scorched Plain

1. Accept The Hammer and the Key from Tortolla. From Niden, a nightelf sitting on the ground next to Tortolla, accept Breakthrough and Lost Wardens.

2. Follow the road east into The Scorched Plain.

3. While completing the next steps, find and speak to 8 Lost Wardens to complete Lost Wardens.

4. Kill 10 Twilight Scorchlords

5.Continue to follow the road east until you reach a building with nightelves fighting around it. Go inside to find Captain Irontree.

6. Turn in Lost Wardens and Breakthrough. Accept Pressing the Advantage.

7. Speak to Logram up the ramp behind Captain Irontree. Accept Hyjal Recycling Program.

8. While completing the next step, collect 15 Warden's Arrows.

9. Kill 4 Twilight Field Captains. Be sure to loot a Glyph of Opening off one of them to complete The Hammer and the Key.

10. Return to Tortolla. Turn in The Hammer and the Key. Accept The Third Flamegate (even though it is the fourth one we are going in).

11. Fly back to Captain Irontree. Turn in Pressing the Advantage. At Logram, turn in Hyjal Recycling Program.

12. Go farther down the road, to the east, until you reach another flamegate. Enter it to be teleported to The Crucible of Flame.

13. Speak to Garunda Mountainpeak. Turn in The Third Flamegate. Accept The Time for Mercy has Passed and The Strength of Tortolla.

14. Make your way through the cavern, killing Molten Tormentors and Shadowflame Masters along the way, until you find a Nemesis Crystal. Move the Cild of Tortolla following you close to the crystal and he will automatically examine it.

Make sure you have killed 10 Molten Tormentors and 4 Shadowflame Masters before moving to the next step.

15. Return to the front of the cavern, and turn in The Time for Mercy has Passed and The Strength of Tortolla. Accept Finish Nemesis.

16. Time to fight the giant turtle we have been dodging all this time. Go all the way to the end of the cave, where you will find Nemesis. Attack him until you get the message "Nemesis is about to erupt!" When you see that, use the Totem of Tortolla to place a shield around yourself, protecting you from damage but also preventing any movement or attacks by you. Nemesis will erupt in flames, damaging himself and everything around him. Repeat this sequence of attacking and shielding until Nemesis is dead.

17. Return to Garunda Mountainpeak at the front of the cavern to turn in Finish Nemesis.

18. Accept Tortolla's Triumph. Use the portal nearby to teleport back to The Scorched Plain.

19. Follow the road, heading west, all the way back to Tortolla.

20. Turn in Tortolla's Triumph. Accept The Ancients are With Us.

21. Return to Ysera in the building under The World Tree.

22. Turn in The Ancients are With Us. Accept Commander Jarod Shadowsong.

Darkwhisper Gorge

1. Fly south and down from The World Tree, until you are back at the third flamegate. From there, follow the road east to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel you will find Elementalist Ortell.

2. Turn in Jarod Shadowsong and accept Signed in Blood.

3. Follow the road out of the cave until you reach a small group of Twilight Recruits. Speak to one of the recruits to get him to follow you.

4. Lead him out of sight of the rest of the group and use the Blackjack on the recruit. This will kill him. Loot the Twilight Recruitment Papers.

5. Return to Elementalist Ortell and turn in Signed in Blood. Accept Your New Identity. Congratulations, you are now a member of the Twilight's Hammer cult!

6. Head east down the road until it splits off to the north and south. There will be a small path continuing east. Follow it to a tent where you will find Condenna the Pitiless.

7. Speak to her to turn in Your New Identity. Accept Trial by Fire and In Bloom.

8. Right next to Conenna, speak to Instructor Cargall to get the quest Waste of Flesh.

During the next steps, watch out for a giant core hound named Smolderos the Carbonizer, a level 82 Elite that patrols through the area.

9. Enter the Twilight Gauntlet just to the east. In this area, you need to kill 8 Twilight Instructors, which are the fire elementals wandering around.

10. While doing this, you also need to collect 5 Flame Blossoms

11. Find an Immolated Supplicant that are running around covered in fire. Use the Frostgale Crystal on them to put out the flames.

12. Once all three quests are complete, return to Condeena the Pitiless and Instructor Cargall. Turn in all of the quests.

13. Accept the quest Twilight Training.

14. Head east to The Forge of Supplication. Find Instructor Mylva at the back of the camp.

15. Turn in Twilight Training. Accept Physical Training: Forced Labor.

16. Closer to the front of the camp, slightly to the east, find Instructor Devoran. Speak to him to accept the quest Walking the Dog.

17. Finally, go to the Outhouse Hideout on the west side of the camp. Elementalist Ortell is hiding inside. Click on the outhouse to get the quest Gather the Intelligence.

18. Search the camp until you find the Twilight Communique. It can be just about anywhere in the camp so just keep looking around until you find it. Try to grab it when none of the Twilight Guards are close by. If they see you take the communiqué they will attack.

19. Leave the camp. Head northeast, toward the other camp, Doom's Vigil. On the way, kill Spinescale Basilisks until you have 5 Charred Basilisk Meat and use the Twilight Pick on 5 Darkwhisper Lodestones.

20. Find the Hyjal Battleplans somewhere in the Doom's Vigil camp. Again, try to make sure no Twilight Guards are nearby, otherwise you will be attacked.

21. Once you have found the battleplans, head back toward The Forge of Supplication. Be sure to finish getting the 5 Charred Basilisk Meat and breaking 5 lodestones on the way, if you have not already done so.

22. Once back in the camp, use the Firey Leash to summon the Spawn of Smolderos. Feed him the 5 Charred Basilisk Meat you collected to complete Walking the Dog.

23. Go back to Instructor Devoran and turn in Walking the Dog. Accept A Champion's Collar.

24. Next, go back to the Outhouse Hideout and turn in Gather the Intelligence. Accept Seeds of Discord.

25. Finally, go back to Instructor Mylva to turn in Physical Training: Forced Labor.

Before you accept the follow up, let me explain what you will have to do. As soon as you accept the quest, Mylva will summon a Blazing Trainer. You need to run away from the trainer for 1 minute without leaving the camp. He does not move very fast, but if he catches you he can hit moderately hard. So be ready to start running when you accept the quest.

26. Accept Agility Training: Run Like Hell!. When you have completed the quest, return to Instructor Mylva and turn it in.

27. Accept Mental Training: Speaking the Truth to Power.

28. Use the Orb of Ascension. You will be asked 10 yes/no questions. The questions are simple and the answers are VERY obvious. Your action bar will be replaced with 3 abilities: Yes, No, and Dismiss Orb of Ascension. Use these to answer the questions within three seconds. If you answer a question wrong or fail to answer in time, you will take damage. Dismiss the Orb once you get the quest completed message.

29. Turn in Mental Training: Speaking the Truth to Power. Accept Spiritual Training: Mercy is for the Weak.

30. Go back to Doom's Vigil. To your left as you enter the camp, you will see a group of Failed Supplicants. At the back of the group, talk to Maurice and accept the quest The Defector.

31. Kill 5 Failed Supplicants to complete Spiritual Training: Mercy is for the Weak.

32. Leave the camp and follow the road when it turns north. You will find the Spinescale Matriarch at (?,?). Kill her and loot the Spiked Basilisk Hide for A Champion's Collar.

33. Return to Instructor Devoran at The Forge of Supplication. Turn in A Champion's Collar. Accept Grudge Match.

34. Leave the camp and go to the Seat of the Chosen. Go to the first building on your left as you enter the camp.

35. Speak to Gromm'ko to challenge him to a match. Once your core hound pup kills his raptor, Gromm'ko will attack you. Kill him to complete Grudge Match.

36. Go to the Ogre Outhouse on the right side of the large building. Use the Ogre Disguise near the outhouse to transform into an ogre. Enter the large building.

37. Speak to Karr'gonn to get him to leave the room. As soon as he is outside, kill High Cultist Azennios.

38. Head back to The Forge of Supplication. Turn in Grudge Match to Instructor Devoran.

39. At the Outhouse Hideout, turn in Seeds of Discord and The Defector.

40. Go to Instructor Mylva and turn in Spiritual Training: Mercy is for the Weak.

41. Accept The Greater of Two Evils and Twilight Territory.

42. Mount up and head east, past the Gates of Sothann, to about (?,?).

43. Kill 10 Horrorgurds while making your way back toward (?,?), where you will find Garnoth, Fist of the Legion

44. Use the Talisman of Flame Ascendancy and use the abilities you now have to kill Garnoth. Start off the fight by using Flame Shield to protect yourself, the use Ascendant Strike 3 times to attack Garnoth. Repeat this rotation until he is dead.

45. Finish killing Horrorgurds for Twilight Territory.

46. Return to the The Forge of Supplication. Speak to Instructor Mylva and turn in The Greater of Two Evils and Twilight Territory.

47. A new quest has opened up at the Outhouse Hideout behind you. Accept Speech Writing for Dummies.

48. Search around the roads leading to the Seat of the Chosen until you find Okrog. Kill him, then fly back to the Outhouse Hideout.

49. Turn in Speech Writing for Dummies and accept Head of the Class.

50. Turn in Head of the Class at Instructor Mylva. Accept Graduation Speech.

51. Fly over to Doom's Vigil. You will find a podium all the way at the back of the camp. Click on it to start the event.

During this event, you will have to use 3 abilities depending on the crowd's mood. These abilities are: Inspire, Incite, and Pander.

The members of the crowd will say different things depending on their mood. Wait until a random crowd member says something, then use the abilities as follows.

Use Inspire if the crowd says...

Yea... I don't know about this.

I'm not quite convinced.

yawn

Meh.

Use Incite if the crowd says

Kill!!!

Kill them all!

Blood!

Raaahhh!!!!

Death!

Crush!

Use Pander if the crowd says

It's like... it's like the void just touched my mind.

The end is nigh! The end is a new beginning!

Immalanath, yasoth nalarub!!!

I hear the voices!

Once you have made the correct choice 10 times, the crowd will riot, allowing you to rescue Jarod Shadowsong. Speak to him to turn in Graduation Speech. Accept Twilight Riot.

The Throne of Flame

1. Mount up and fly past the Gates of Sothann, to the island in the middle of the lake. Speak to the green dragon Althera to get the flight point.

2. Speak to Commander Jarod Shadowsong to turn in Twilight Riot. Accept Slash and Burn.

3. Get on one of the Emerald Drakes nearby. Fly east back into Darkwhisper Gorge. Use the Acid Blast ability on any ground units you see until you have killed 40 Twilight's Hammer units, and the Aerial Swipe ability on 5 of the Twilight Stormwakers, the twilight dragons flying around.

4. Fly back to the Gates of Sothann. Talk to Commander Jarod Shadowsong and turn in Slash and Burn.

5. Accept Might of the Firelord from Jarod Shadowsong and Secrets of the Flame from Cenarius.

6. Speak to the green dragon Althera to get the flight point.

7. Fly west to Ascendant's Circle. Kill 4 Flame Ascendants and 5 Twilight Subjugators.

8. You should have looted a Pure Twilight Egg from one of the Twilight Subjugators you killed. If you do not have it yet, keep killing Twilight Subjugators until you get it. Click on it to accept the quest The Twilight Egg.

Until I can get coordinates for the three items, the best I can tell you is look all over the camp. They are not terribly hard to find. I'll add the coodinates as soon as I can.

9. Go to (?,?) and get The Burning Litanies.

10. Go to (?,?) and get the Tome of Flame.

11. Go to (?,?) and get the Ascendant's Codex.

12. Fly back to the Gates of Sothann.

13. Turn in Might of the Firelord at Jarod Shadowsong. Accept The Sanctum of the Prophets

14. Turn in Secrets of the Flame to Cenarius. Accept The Gatekeeper.

15. Turn in The Twilight Egg to Aronus. Accept Brood of Evil.

16. Fly back to Ascendant's Circle. Kill a Young Twilight Drake and loot his skull for Brood of Evil.

17. Fly to the camp north of Ascendant's Circle. Kill everything you need for The Sanctum of the Prophets.

18. Find Azralon the Gatekeeper in the northwest end of the camp. Make sure you are at full health/mana. Attack him and immediately use the Horn of Cenarius to summon Goldrinn and a group of druids to help you kill him.

19. Once he is dear, click the “Quest Complete” notification to turn in The Gatekeeper. Accept The Firelord.

20. Return to Aronus and turn in Brood of Evil. Accept Death to the Broodmother. Also turn in The Sanctum of the Prophets and accept Magma Monarch.

21. Fly to the matriarch's feeding ground just southwest of Ascendant's Circle.

22. Use the Young Twilight Drake Skull to summon Desperiona. Kill her to complete Death to the Broodmother. Aronus and Aviana come to help so don't panic when she appears.

23. Fly to the charred area southwest of Sulferon Spire. Find King Moltron. Land near him and use the Drums of the Turtle God to summon Tortolla. Kill King Moltron to complete Magma Monarch.

Note: The next quest is, as of this writing, severely over-tuned, to the point that a 5-man group would have difficulty completing it even though it is not a group quest. I was able to get it done with a lot of help, but it should be adjusted by the time Cataclysm goes live. If not I will adjust the description of the quest to indicate that you need a group.

24. It's finally time to fight Ragnaros. Fly to the flamegate just past where you fought Azralon. Enter the portal and speak to Cenarius to start the battle. Malfurion Stormrage and Arch Druid Hamuul some to help out as well.

Once the battle starts, Cenarius will hold threat on Ragnaros, while Hamuul and Malfurion cast spells on him that cause Ragnaros to take 2000% increased magic and physical damage.

Every 30 secods or so, Ragnaros will submerge and summon a flame wave. Once the flame wave passes, Ragnaros will summon adds that attack Malfurion and Hamuul. Alternate between keeping the adds clear and DPS'ing Ragnaros until he dies.

Once he is finished off, go back through the portal to be teleported back to the Throne of Flame.

25. Fly back to the Gates of Sothann and turn in Death to the Broodmother, Magma Monarch and The Firelord . ]. Accept The Battle is Won, The War Goes On.

26. Take the flightpath to Orgrimmar

Flying in Azeroth Exploit with Patch 4.01

2010-11-16T15:13:00.000+08:00

A cool video showing and explaining how to fly over any parts of Azeroth as of patch 4.01

Take note that it's a lot of trial and error especially in knowing where to go and not to go. It seems you will get dismounted from various spot within Orgrimmar for example.

Enjoy!

WoW The Recruit-A-Friend Guide

2010-11-04T16:53:00.000+08:00

Getting Started with Recruit-A-Friend

* 1. Using the Veteran account, go to http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ and click on Account Management on the right side.

* 2. Log in to your account. Choose the Recruit a Friend option.

* 3. Fill out the Recruit-a-Friend form. Send the invite to your friend’s email or your own.

* 4. Have your friend check their email (or check your email if that’s where you sent it) and get the Authentication code.

* 5. Have your friend (or you if you’re going to make a second account) go to http://signup.worldofwarcraft.com/menu.html

* 6. Choose the Create New Account option.

* 7. Enter the Authentication key from the email in step 4.

* 8. Complete the Account Creation process.

You now have linked a new Trial Account with your Veteran Account! If you want to double check and make sure they are linked, log in to the Veteran account management again and look under the RAF section. That will show you what invites you have sent out and what accounts you have currently linked to yours.

Upgrade World of Warcraft

There are many things that a trial account cannot do that will become annoying and frustrating before too long. So I recommend one of three things.

* 1. If your Recruit is truly new to WoW or new to MMOs, wait the 10 days of the trial period or until you’re level 20. You don’t want to pay $20 for a game if your Recruit decides he/she doesn’t like the game.

* 2. If you plan to only get to level 60 and no further then upgrade to Vanilla from your Account Management page on WorldofWarcraft.com. You can always transfer the level 60 character from the Recruit to the Veteran if you’re just using it as a secondary account for quick level and/or the X-53 Touring Rocket Mount.

* 3. If the Recruit account is going to stay active all the way to level 80 then you will need to purchase Vanilla and both expansions. The most cost effective way to do this is to purchase a World of Warcraft Battlechest (Vanilla and BC) and WotLK from your games store.

Pros

As long as the Veteran and Recruit are within 4 levels, close proximity and in a group you will receive a 300% xp bonus from all sources. This includes mobs, quests and exploration.

Veteran and Recruit accounts can summon each other from anywhere once an hour. This is useful for things like if the Recruit wants to start a human and the Veteran wants to start a night elf.

The Recruit will earn a ‘gift level’ for every two levels they earn. Veterans do not earn ‘gift levels’. See the Official FAQ for more information.

After the Recruit account pays for a 60 day subscription, the Veteran account will be able to redeem one X-53 Touring Rocket via the Account Management page.

After the Recruit account upgrades to at least Vanilla, the Veteran account receives one month of free subscription time.

Cons

You can level three times as fast as anyone else! How can there be downsides to that? Well leveling three times as fast is the problem. You will out-level your professions, weapon skills, gear and spells so quickly you can’t keep up without high-level sponsorship. You simply will not be able to afford all the training, on your own income… let alone all the profession skill-ups and gear upgrades. So I strongly recommend a high-level sponsor from the Veteran account who will take care of your funding needs.

As far as weapon and defensive skills goes, that will just have to be something you work on as best you can while you move along. Your leveling speed will get quite a bit slower when you reach level 60 and that should give you plenty of time to play catch-up on your skills.

Leveling Tips!

* Create a macro on both accounts that will /follow the other.

* Have a friend with a Grand Mammoth passenger mount? Enlist their help to get all your flight paths!

* Supply your new characters with the biggest bags money can buy. The speed at which you level makes it hard to want to stop. The more junk you can carry means the fewer trips into town you will need.

* Plan ahead! Purchase all your new character's upgrades ahead of time and have them ready to mail as soon as your characters need them.

Where to Level?

There are two methods you can use to level (or a mixture of both). You can quest, or you can instance grind. Both methods can get you and your friend to 60 in under 2 days of /played time.

Questing – This method only requires the Veteran and Recruit to party together and do quests together. You can easily skip any group quests that require more than 2 people because the xp from all the other quests more than compensates for skipping. At times, this method can be a little slower than instances but other times it can be greatly faster.

ALLIANCE

* 1-20 – If both accounts have upgraded to BC then I recommend the Draenei lands of Azuremyst and Bloodmyst. These areas have the best concentration of quests with minimal traveling and by far the best leveling greens for a starting area. If one or both of the accounts do not have BC then the second best area would be the Human lands of Elwynn Forest and Westfall.

* 20-30 – Quest in Redridge Mountains then Duskwood.

* 30-40 – Stranglethorn Vale

* 40-50 – Swamp of Sorrows then Felwood

* 50-60 – Winterspring then Western Plaguelands then Eastern Plaguelands if needed.

HORDE

* 1-20 – If both accounts have upgraded to BC then I recommend the Blood Elf lands of Eversong Woods and Ghostlands. These areas have the best concentration of quests with minimal traveling and by far the best leveling greens for a starting area. If one or both of the accounts do not have BC then the second best area would be the Undead lands of Tirisfal Glades and Silverpine Forest.

* 20-30 – Quest in Hillsbrad Foothills then Arathi Highlands.

* 30-40 – Stranglethorn Vale

* 40-50 – Swamp of Sorrows then Felwood

* 50-60 – Winterspring then Western Plaguelands then Eastern Plaguelands if needed.

Instances – This method requires hours of clearing the same instance over and over until you’re high enough level for the next instance. This also requires having a high-level character willing to run the Recruit and Veteran accounts thru these instances. This is the fastest method of leveling but can also sometimes be very tedious and boring.

ALLIANCE

* 1-10 – Any starting zone will do just fine.

* 10-15 – Deadmines

* 15-25 – Stockades

* 25-35 – Scarlet Monastery

* 35-45 – Zul’Farrak

* 45-55 – Stratholme

* 55-60 – Blackrock Spire

HORDE

* 1-8 – Any starting zone will do just fine.

* 8-14 – Ragefire Chasm

* 14-20 – Wailing Caverns

* 20-25 – Razorfen Kraul

* 25-35 – Scarlet Monastery

* 35-45 – Zul’Farrak

* 45-55 – Stratholme

* 55-60 – Blackrock Spire

WoW Reforging Cataclysm Preview

2010-10-18T18:02:00.001+08:00

Reforging was added to the WoW Cataclysm to allow more gear options for players and to reduce the number of unpopular or common items dropped in instances that were left to rot or simply disenchanted and is not in any way intended to be use on all items. It should be with this in mind that players decide to use the reforging process. So for example if an item drops with Spirit instead of the Haste you need, you may still be able to use it as Haste can be added by reforging it. So the next time a piece of gear drops that doesn’t quite fit your ideal stats, don’t pass it up, take a moment to think it over and using the information provided above consider if reforging could make it the perfect piece of gear for you.

Reforgable Stats

* Critical Strike Rating
* Dodge Rating
* Expertise Rating
* Haste Rating
* Hit Rating
* Mastery Rating
* Parry Rating
* Spirit

Non Reforgable Stats

* Agility
* Intellect
* Stamina
* Strength
* You also may not use reforging to add to a stat that is already on the item.

The Reforging Process

Players must visit one of the Reforging NPCs that can be found near the Enchanting trainer. Before you make your way here though, be sure to have the piece of gear you wish to reforge in your bags. Once you arrive at the Arcane Reforger simply right click on the NPC to open the Reforging menu.

Once opened reforging an item is a rather easy process. Simply place the item you wish to reforge in the box in the top left hand corner (next to the text that says “Drag an item here to reforge it). Once an item is in place, two new drop down menus appear. The first allows the player to choose what stat from the item they wish to reduce in place of another. This menu will only list stats that are available for the process and will also display how much the chosen stat will be reduced.

Once the stat is chosen that the player wishes to reduce the next drop down menu will become active. This menu will allow the player to choose a stat to add to the item and will also display how much of that stat will be added. Once chosen players can view the current stats side by side with the pending stat changes just below the drop down menus. The price of the reforging process will also be displayed. Check to be sure the changes appear to be correct and then simply hit the reforge button at the bottom of the screen to complete the reforging process.

Un-Reforging

Since item stats can only be reforged one at a time there may come a point along the way where the player decides they would like to choose another stat to add or they may simply want to restore the item to it’s original state. In order to do this simply take the item back to the Arcane Reforger and once again place the item into the box in the top left corner of the Reforging screen. Once the item is placed all the player need do it simply click the Restore button located at the bottom of the screen next to the Reforge button.

WoW Archaeology Profession Walkthrough

2010-10-06T21:51:00.001+08:00

Update: Check my new guide on Archaeology 1 - 525 Powerleveling

There are 12 fields of research players can explore, each relating to a race in the game, ie. Troll, Night Elf, Dwarf, Tol’Vir. Using the Survey skill players need to gather Archaeology Fragments of one type, ie. Dwarf Archaeology Fragment, from Archaeology Finds of the same type. They can then Solve the current stage of this race’s research and will receive an item upon doing so.

Digsites

Once you train archaeology, you can see digsites on your map (not your minimap – your map). There are always 4 digsites per continent. These will not change until you dig one out. Most of the time, you’re probably only going to be concerned with the 4 sites on your current continent, but at higher character and archaeology skill levels, there will be 16 sites active at one time (4 each in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Outland and Northrend.)

You will only find sites in zones of your level or lower. A level 25 player will have all 4 sites per continent in level 25 zones. (This means Outland and Northrend will have no sites at this time.) A level 80 player will have all 4 sites in any zone. A low level Kalimdor player might have sites in Ashenvale and Stonetalon, while a level 82 might have Uldum, Ashenvale, Stonetalon and Silithus.

Sites are race specific. You can usually guess the race by the location. Kalimdor tends to have a lot of night elf ruins. Eastern Kingdoms tends to have a lot of dwarf ruins.

Some races are only available on some continents (such as orc and draenei on Outland). You need to have a minimum character level and a minimum archaeology level to use these. Currently you can see them if you are a certain character level but can’t gather from them until your archaeology skill is higher. For Outland, the skill is 300. While somewhat consistent with other gathering skills, we think this is confusing and we will change it so that you don’t even see the digsites until your archaeology skill is sufficiently high. Tol’vir artifacts are the most rewarding, but also require near max archaeology skill to recover.

Some players are reporting some issues with digsites not showing up correctly. We’ll look into these bugs.

Unlike other gathering skills, digsites are player-specific. Other players will be searching in different locations. There is no competition for digsites.

Fragments

Each digsite can be searched 3 times before it despawns and a new site spawns. If there is a digsite somewhere too far away from you or otherwise inconvenient, just ignore it and hit the closer ones. You won’t run out.

To search a digsite, use the Survey ability. The survey tool will spawn and point in the approximate direction of the artifact. Red means you’re far away. Yellow means you’re close. Green means you may be within 40 yards or so. When you discover your find, you’ll get fragments specific to a particular race.

There are two main strategies to surveying. You can attempt to triangulate by moving around the outer edge of a digsite. (Like quest blobs, the digsites are not necessarily circular.) Other players just keep surveying, heading in the direction the tool points until they strike paydirt.

Remember, the thing you uncover is yours. There is no competition with other players and nobody can gank your node.

Artifacts

Whenever you get a new fragment for a race, you’ll start a research project. You can only work on one artifact per race at a time. When you have enough fragments, click Solve to complete that artifact. You won’t waste excess fragments — they will just start the next project. You can be working on one project for each race at a time.

Most artifacts are common. These give you a little bit of lore or flavor text and an item you can sell for a small profit (presumably to a museum!) The profit increases as the value of the artifact increases. You can estimate this by the number of fragments needed to finish the artifact. You will only find cheaper artifacts at low level, but you can find cheap and valuable artifacts at higher level (the reason for this is we want players to be able to find all the artifacts if they want to). You won’t find a second copy of a common object until you have found all the artifacts of that race. If you get stuck at a certain skill level of archaeology or character level, you may find an artifact more than once until you reach the next tier.

Some artifacts are rare. These always make a blue or purple item. Many of these have no in-game power and are toys or for flavor. Some of them are actual weapons and armor. The latter items are all bound to account. They aren’t heirlooms in that they don’t scale, but you can pass them around. So if you are level 80 and you find a level 60 axe, you can always have another character use it when they are level 60. You will never get a rare artifact more than once.
The future of Archaeology

We designed archaeology to be easily expandable, so we plan to add much more content in future patches, including new races to research (though to be fair, there’s a sizable amount of content already). We also have a feature that is not available on beta yet, that allows you to use your archaeology skill for a slight (think Fish Feast-level) bonus in the Cataclysm dungeons.

Update: You can currently gather fragments that are higher than your level (e.g. orc or draenei for many of you at ~100 archaeology) but you can’t complete artifacts yet until your skill is at 300. This should be less confusing in an upcoming build.

Archaeology is a secondary profession that will be released in the upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Intended as a casual profession for players to enjoy in their “downtime”.
Focused on locating, piecing together, and appraising artifacts unearthed by the Cataclysm.
Interacting with an artifact you find is similar to other gathering professions. It has been specifically stated that you will be able to track both Artifacts and your regular “tracking” for gathering professions. Instead of tracking individual nodes, you will instead search marked regions on the world map (a shovel icon when viewing an entire continent, or a red enclosed region when viewing a single zone).
Artifacts will go into a new artifact journal instead of your inventory.
Placing an artifact in your journal will allow you to “study” it and progressively unlock new rewards.
Unlocks unique rewards such as vanity pets, mounts, and other “toys”, with occasional rare quality weapons or armor.
Players will be able to read ancient runes found amidst ruins and in dungeons to provide themselves and other players with buffs.
Some items and discoveries will be heavily geared towards expanding the game’s lore, filling in plot holes, and documenting the history of the world as it was before the Cataclysm. Players will reportedly be able to compile what amounts to a lore database.
A mock-up of the Archaeology interface is presented as a hand-written journal, with a listing of artifacts, relics, and related reagents and tasks, as well as artwork and a description for each relic. Artifacts are also given a “black market value”, indicating that they can perhaps be sold for profit. There has been an indication that your journal may come with some form of “mini-game” to study findings.

Archaeology trainers can be found in the capital cities. Horde players learn Archaeology from certain NPCs belonging to The Reliquary faction, Alliance players do so at Explorers’ League NPCs.

Alliance

Human male Harrison Jones (Stormwind)
Human female Darnella Winford

Horde

BloodElf male Belloc Brightblade (Orgrimmar)
Undead male Adam Hossackω τ α (Undercity)
BloodElf female Elynara

Another Revision of Justice Points Conversion

2010-09-30T18:19:00.000+08:00

Blizzard's have once again revised their Justice Point conversion as we draw closer to the release of Cataclysm, World of Warcraft's third expansion. The purpose it seems is to make it easier for players to take part in farming instances before the expansion's release. The new revised conversion rates go into effect in patch 4.0.1.

Emblems of Triumph = 11.58 justice points (up from 2.75)
Emblems of Frost = 11.58 justice points (up from 2.75)
Justice point cap = 4,000 points (around 345 emblems)
Justice points over cap = 47.5 silver each after patch 4.0.3 (down from 2 gold)

The official announcements were made by Blizzard on their site as follows:

"We've revised the Justice Points conversion rate for Emblems of Triumph and Emblems of Frost. When the upcoming 4.0.1 patch goes live, these emblems will be converted into 11.58 Justice Points (up from the previously planned 2.75 Justice Points per emblem). Justice Points accrued above the soft cap of 4,000 will be converted to gold at a rate of 47.5 silver per point (down from 2 gold per point) when patch 4.0.3 goes live."

"The previous conversion rate was intended to devalue Frost and Triumph a bit to discourage some amount of farming and hoarding of points before the conversion, but then we came to the conclusion that no matter what we do people would be farming well above the softcap, and we shouldn't try to make it more difficult for them to do so."

Cataclysm: How to Attain Seahorse Mount

2010-09-29T14:16:00.000+08:00

For the Beta Build 12604 (it’s the newest version out) there is a mount that makes me drool because if you are unaware, the level 80-82 zones coming out in Cataclysm, are underwater zones. So, here is a bit of eye candy for those who love collecting mounts as much as I do. Heck in fact I collect nearly everything.. lol!

As you can see this bad boy is called an Abyssal Seahorse and I am REALLY liking how it looks. It’s new, it’s exciting, and I must say it looks good with a player riding on it. It’s been reported that the swimming animation is a bit jerky and the mount itself sits too high off the surface of the water. Blizzard, I’m sure, will fix these concerns because I would really like to have one of these lovely little ‘sea ponies’. There are lot of different colors in the Beta Build and those with different colored tack but it’s unsure right now how to obtain the different colors (make sure you click on the image to the right to see the larger version). What is fun about these mounts is that, while after learning – via quest givers – how to walk and breathe underwater, you will be given a rather long chain quest to ‘catch and tame’ your very own Abyssal Seahorse Mount. I can’t begin to tell you how exciting that is cause WoW to me at times can be quite mundane and this brings back the good old days. I hope, due to the Huntress in me, that the mechanics of this idea is worked out well because I am still praying with all my heart that Hunters will be able to tame their own mounts. My list of “Want to Tame Mounts” just gets bigger each day.

Subdued Abyssal Seahorse is a quest reward from The Abyssal Ride.

Location

Erunak at Shallow's End

Quest progression

1. [81] Better Late Than Dead
2. [81] The Abyssal Ride

Objectives

Lure and subdue an Abyssal Seahorse.

* Tie off the Seahorse lure
* Subdue an Abyssal Seahorse

Rewards

You will receive: 15g 60s

Note:

After accepting the quest, go to the ledge near the rift and use the Braided Rope.

A stake has been driven into the rock, and a long length of rope draped around it. This must have some kind of purpose.

The abyssal lure will swim off into the fast-moving water, eventually getting itself snagged by a manta. Hold on to the rope as the manta takes a tour around the kelp forest by either swinging left, right, and holding on tight as prompted. Players start out at 100 grip and lose 20 grip each time they miss a prompted action.

A Quick Warcraft Formula Guide Review

2010-06-30T00:35:00.001+08:00

Every now and then a spanking new guide hits the market that captures a niche or void in information needs that no other guide has yet covered. Recently, I had a chance to go through with just such a guide. The incredibly accurate and overwhelmingly detailed new monthly guide being released by Warcraft Formula. So here is a quick review of what I think makes this guide stands out among the many in the market today.

Well firstly the idea is bloody simple. You pay a small upfront fee for full access to a past library of Warcraft Formula guides going back to the release of Wrath of the Lich King and every month after that, for $17 you get the newest guide in the series. Each guide comes with PvP strategies, recent news in the game, class strategies, recent gold making tips, action plans, and information that is as up to date as it comes, written as often as it is which is rare and refreshing. As they always say, knowledge is power right?

You also get a cool bonus in the form of an Action Plan that guides even the noobs among us to build an account from the ground up to be as effective as the pros out there. What Warcraft Formula does is nothing short of astonishing, creating a new product that allows users of all skill levels to start out with nothing and build their way up to pro status every month with sharp, pointed strategy guides that make perfect sense and easy to follow.

It’s not a select guide cause you don’t get a leveling guide or a gold guide or PvP guide alone. But, unlike the guys offering those guides, you get information that isn’t three months old, unusable, known by many in the case of tricks or mostly nerfed. You get info as it is added to the game and you get strategies that no one else has seen yet. I was amazed at how much information is included each month in these guides even for a so called seasoned WoW player like myself.

To top things off, the guide writers – Brad Johnson and T Dub Sanders – are the geniuses behind Warcraft Millionaire and PvP Bible respectively, making them the best possible sources for all the top new info in the game. You can’t get much better than the best around in PvP and the best around in gold making. If you’re looking for the next big thing in Warcraft guides, this is it folks! Don’t miss out on Warcraft Formula if budget permits.

Quel'Delar Chain Guide - Battered Hilt

2009-12-12T01:20:00.000+08:00

With the latest patch a new item was implented in the game known as Battered Hilt, this item starts the Quel'Delar questline which i assume ALOT of people will be doing.

Note: This ONLY drops in heroic mode from: Pit of Saron, Halls of Reflection and the Forge of Souls.

1] Get the battered hilt, random trash mob drop in Icecrown 5mans.

2] Turn it in to an npc in Icecrown, just south of the argent tournament grounds.

3] Starts quest "What The Dragons Know" - sends you to Krasus at the top of the Wyrmrest Temple, you have to talk to the npc at the top before the quest completes. Then you turn it in to Magister Hathorel inside your Horde/Alliance area in Dalaran.

4] NPC sends you to underbelly and find a Silver Covenant agent, and kill him and search the body for Orders. The underbelly is the Dalaran sewers. I located the agent standing in front of the sewers innkeeper. Upon leaving the sewers another agent ambushed me and netted me down.

5] Turned in orders back at the NPC you got this quest from; The next part you have to get a Borrowed Tabard from Shandy Glossgleam. He is located on the balcony above the Threads of Fate shop. The problem is only one person can use him at a time, you can talk to him when he is free and start a mini-event to help him do his laundry. Simply stand back and click the item he calls out, pants/shirt/unmentionables/water. When you do about 10 things for his laundry list, he will drop a bag next to the tub containing the tabard you need.

6] Return with the tabard to the npc in your horde/alliance inn. You now become disguised for 5 MINS from the time you accept the quest.

7] You have 5 minutes with the disguise (if it wears off, the npc can renew it). As a horde I had to go to the silver enclaive and talk to an npc, the tabard kept the guards from teleporting me out. Talk to the npc att the top and get the book you need, then get out before the disguise wears off. Sadly this is the most epic disguise you might ever wear as a horde, and its only for 5 minutes...

8] With the book of blades in hand, go back to your npc at the inn. Now the next pat has you deliver the book to Myraion Sunblade. He is at Quel'Delar's Rest, south of the Argent Tournament grounds where this all began.

9] Turn it in and enjoy the show! (make sure your sound is on!) - The Blood-Queen Lana'thel finally shows herself.

10] You are now on Reforging The Sword: You now must get 5 Infused Saronite Bars from the Pit of Saron 5man in Icecrown Citadel. You must gather bars and capture the forgemaster's hammer, then bring them to the forgemaster's anvil to reforge the sword. The bars are located all over near the slaves, there are enough of them around the entrance where even after you cleared the instance you can go back and grab them. The hammer drops off the giant forgemaster, and you can forge your sword at the anvils all around him. Go outside the instance and turnin the quest at the npc outside the icecrown 5mans, he is also there.

11] Next you go to the Forge of Souls, go to the very end at the last boss, kill him, and forge your sword. That simple. Exit forge of souls, turnin quest again at the npc outside the 5mans. Now into the halls of reflection.

12] This is it, the big shabang. Use your sword at the beginning of the instance, Uther The Lightbringer will be waiting and start screaming at you for the mistake your making. Defeat the essence of the sword when it attacks you, then loot it. Zone out and turn it in again.

13] Head to Sunwell aisle, talk to the npc at the entrance to the plateau. He will tell you to go get your blessing to use the weapon. Head to the south end of the Dead Scar on the isle of Quel'Danas, and then head up into the scar about 50 yards. Click the corpse, enjoy the speech, then DEFEND HIM. You must keep the npc alive. You CAN buff and heal him, even bandage him. Two waves of level 80 adds spawn, their easy to aoe and let him tank/aoe. Then a 3rd wave of three 18k hp spiders spawn, take them out. Finally the boss standing nearby watching, becomes attackable. Just blow all cooldowns and nuke him, hes an elite with 37k hp, easily soloed.

14] Follow your map, back to the npc at the entrance of the Sunwell Plateau and turn in the quest after you have the ghost's blessing.

15) Turn in your quest, then grab the next. Now your ready to win the game. Talk to the warden at the Sunwell entrance to have him personally enter and escort you in. You are now in one of the coolest rooms in any dungeon int he game! Travel down the hill through the Shrine of the Eclipse and to the bottom. Once you are at the bottom, stand next to the beam of the Sunwell, and use your blade. Your sword will be restored and will appear as a lootable item around one of the sides of the Sunwell. During the process, one of the guards might become a little.. scared.. and attack you, but you'll remain relatively unharmed.

(Note: Turn on your game music, it gets pretty epic).

16] Take the nearby portal in that room to dalaran with your newfound weapon. Well, you don't have to, but you need to go back to ice crown. Go back to the rest just south of the argent tournament grounds.

17] Your done! Grab the quest and head back to Dalaran and get your new found epic weapon!

Mad Exp Per Hour 73-80 At Grizzly Hills

2009-11-02T01:16:00.000+08:00

Well folks, in Grizzly Hills there is a quest where you have to escort Harrison Jones to safety. Before he runs to the exit, he enters a ceremonial chamber, frees some chicks and then a giant elite snake appears. Now, this snake spawns many trolls with about 1.5k hp all the time depending on your level of course.

The Exploit:

These trolls die in 2-3 hits since they got so low hp, but they give the same xp as any normal mob with the usual 10-12k. This allows you to grind xp quite fast. Of course you shouldn't dps the snake cause if he dies, you gotta reset the quest.

Just let Harrison jones fight the snake while you do the adds. After a while, Harrison will die, but you can just retake quest and do it all over (doesn't take all too long to get to the snake part again). If you have some kind of heal or dispell you can help Harrison a bit by healing/dispelling him to make the fight last longer which in return means more exp for you.

The actual quest: Dun-da-Dun-tah!
The NPC: Harrison Jones
The mobs you should kill all the time: Ancient Drakkari King

Buy & Sell Your WoW Stuff On Your Own

2009-09-28T04:18:00.001+08:00

Are you tired of searching for a suitable platform which allows you to sell your WoW account, currency, items, game cards or even TCG loot cards? Have you stumbled upon websites that charges you an arm and a leg for listing your offers? Well look no further as WoWBay.net has emerged to provide WoW players with a free platform to do just that.

To put it in a nutshell, WoWBay.net is a classified ads portal serving specifically World of Warcraft players. You can easily create an ad to offer say an extra 60days game card you received as a gift. Enter all the details a potential buyer should know and your email address. Once posted, buyers can reach you using the form on your ad which will then be forwarded to your email to protect your privacy. Negotiation then will commence between both parties and upon agreement, transaction can then be completed.

As you can see, it is a very clear-cut portal that leaves everything to the buyer and seller to decide without costing a single cent to participate in. All ads are valid for 60days and will automatically be purged upon expiry to keep the listing of ads fresh. You can even pause or delete your ad in the event you item has been sold.

WoWBay.net seems to cover all the servers from US, EU to even China, Taiwan and Korea. This is great especially when more players uses it for ease of finding specific things we would like to buy. A quick glance at the Help page will explain how things work even further such as your ad validity.

Hop on over to WoWBay.net and toy around for yourself.

BEWARE of Fake Emails on Account Closure

2009-09-25T22:19:00.002+08:00

I just received a shocking email supposedly from Blizzard Account Admin Team stating my account has been flagged for account selling. Honestly I was taken aback by the well written notice and was genuinely worried as I thought my account has been hacked.

Luckily I came to my senses when I recall my WoW account was not linked to this particular gmail account of mine. I admit I was nearly conned into this cause I have 5 gmail accounts and my WoW account is attached to one of them. Here is a screenshot of the email I received moments ago:

So to all of you my treasured readers, please take note of this recent development and be cautious not to send them your account details. Infact Blizzard will never ask for your account details to be emailed over the net anyways.

WoW Cataclysm New Worgen & Goblin Races And Zones

2009-08-24T05:12:00.000+08:00

The last segment we'll look at from the upcoming WoW Cataclysm expansion are the two new Worgen and Goblin races and preview of the new zones. The idea behind Worgen (originally were human) apparently is to add an aggressive element to the Alliance faction. The Goblin is a little more complicated since they were generally a neutral race manning zeps and neutral towns previously but the new race will not be associated with them.

Here is a video from Blizzcon which highlights the various racial abilities from both of these races:

This next 2 videos will highlight the starting zones of both Worgen and Goblin respectively in a trailer format:

Last but not least, here is a map of all the new zones from Cataclysm which are mainly extension of the present Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdom:

Cataclysm New Zones Map

New Cataclysm Guild Leveling System & Guild Changes

2009-08-24T03:32:00.000+08:00

Achievements can now be gained as a Guild in the upcoming Cataclysm expansion. They have given more motivation for guilds to progress and conquer goals together. Every guild member will have their role to play in leveling their respective guild and unlocking achievements.

Guilds can level up to Level 20 (not concrete yet though) which experience can be obtained via members leveling, reputation, BG wins, Arena wins, profession ranks and boss kills which requires 75% dungeon/raid member in the party or raid.

The whole idea to leveling your guild is to obtain Talent points for each level which can be spent on your Guild's talent tree. Each upgrade or points taken will effect every single Guild member such as cheaper repair costs which is very cool in my opinion.

Anyways take a look at the following video to learn more about the upcoming Guild leveling system and Guild talent tree:

Cataclysm New Item Stats Changes & Legendary Weapon

2009-08-24T02:01:00.000+08:00

This is yet another HUGE change coming to the Cataclysm expansion with a lot of stats being changed or totally omitted from the game. The main change which will reflect every single class would be Stamina.

Also they are introducing a new melee Legendary weapon named Shadowmourne. Back to the good old Molten Core days I guess.

Here is the video taken at the recent Blizzcon to guide you through each aspect of the item and stats changes coming to the expansion.

A Look At Archaeology From Cataclysm Expansion

2009-08-24T01:01:00.005+08:00

Now from all the new stuff from the new Cataclysm expansion, I am most excited at the brand new second profession called Archaeology which everyone can take up. This brings the game some Indiana Jones element where we will be able to unearth some cool lores, upgrades, mounts, instant port and recipes to name a few.

For a more indepth view of what Archaeology is all about, take a look at this video taken from the recent Blizzcon:

WoW Cataclysm New Raid Dungeons Preview

2009-08-24T00:53:00.003+08:00

The recently announced expansion Cataclysm will feature high-level raid dungeons. Here is a preview video consisting of the following dungeons:

Abyssal Maw
Halls of Origination
Blackrock Caverns
Icecrown Citadel
Icecrown Dungeons

WoW Cataclysm Expansion Unleashed By Blizzard

2009-08-23T23:00:00.003+08:00

Well the much rumored World of Warcraft expansion aptly names Cataclysm has finally been announced by Blizzard at the recent Blizzcon. Personally, I feel it would be a mouth watering expansion although not much new elements has been added to it. Perhaps the secondary profession called Archaeology and being able to fly in Azeroth is the most interesting aspect for me.

Anyhow without further ado, here is the awesome official video for those of you who missed it:

Farming Titanium Ore To 400g Per Hour

2009-08-10T01:17:00.004+08:00

As most of you are aware, Blizzard have enabled flying mounts to be used in Wintergrasp when the battle is not active. I have recently been using this to my advantage by mining all the ores there! Here are some requirements needed:

1. 450 Mining
2. Patience & Time
3. Flying Mount (preferably Epic Flying)

The Wintergrasp territory consists of three different types of rocks or nodes:

1. Saronite Deposit
2. Rich Saronite Deposit
3. Titanium Vein

They are listed in order of least rare to rare.

Saronite Ore is worth about 15g a stack on my server. Titanium Ore, due to the mass need of the new epic gems is worth around 230g a stack on my realm.

Knowing this, this is how I manage to pull in a crap load of gold every hour.

First, I would start at the WG alliance base (when not having control of WG) and fly (Epic Mount) over this nice little route I have made from my experience mining.

Just follow the route above and you should get around 1 Stack of Saronite and maybe 3-10 individual ores of Titanium. I personally just keep going around that path for an hour, or until WG starts, when it starts I get the hell out of there and put my goods on the AH. I usually come away with this:

Around 5 - 10 stacks of saronite (75g-150g)
Around 1 - 2 stacks of Titanium
So it comes to around 400g an hour from selling all these ores.

Note: THIS MAY VARY WITH WHAT TYPE OF MOUNT YOU USE

I don't think this is AH dependent due to all the prices going up on Titanium, either way you're still making a huge profit.

Trial of the Champion Instance Guide

2009-08-06T20:20:00.004+08:00

This is a basic guide of the new 3.2 patch 5-man instance called Trial of the Champion located at Icecrown. Firstly you need to setup your group in the standard manner of 1 tank, 1 heals and 3 dps. Everyone zone in, equip their lance, mount up and starts putting up 3 shields on themselves. Once the event has started 3 Champions with 3 adds will come out a gate but they don't attack until they are all grouped outside. When they are all outside in the circle the 3 group of adds will start attacking, kill them in whichever order your party prefers but mark them and focus on killing one at a time. After those adds are dead 3 more adds will come until all the adds are dead.

When all the adds are dead, there should be 3 champions standing and they will all charge at your group, you should mark them to kill in order once again. When one champion is down he will try to remount, so quickly run over to them and stun them for 15 secs. Phase one will end when all the champions are off there mounts. So make sure you stun them until you have defeated the other champions. When they are all on the ground, quickly re-equip you're weapons!

Phase 2
Everyone will be on the ground and you will start to kill the champions. It varys of what the classes are but it shouldn't be hard to figure out what to kill first. Once they are all dead there will be a chest in the middle loot it of course! In heroic it gives 1 [Epic] item, 1 conquest emblem and 1 champion seal.

Argent Crusade Fight
You will face either Eadric the Pure (Male Paladin), or Argent Confessor Paletress (Female Priest). You need to kill the adds and then the boss and very importantly to destroy the Lightwell that heals them. At 25% you will fight a "Memory" which is supposed to be mobs from the good old Vanilla WoW, TBC and etc.. When he or she is dead, there will be another chest in the middle of the room and it drops 2 epic items, 1 conquest emblem and 1 champion seal in heroic mode.

The Black Knight
For the final battle, the Black Knight will fly into the arena and will summon a ghoul, you have to kill him and his ghoul and after he is dead he will resurrect and cast "army of the dead" but watch out as the ghouls explode. After he dies he will resurrect once last time as a ghost form, in this form just kill him as fast as possible. The Black Knight also drops 2 epic items, 1 conquest emblem and 1 champion seal.

Patch 3.2 Gold Making Tips & Tradeskill Guide

2009-08-03T02:04:00.004+08:00

For those who would like to get an upper hand in the market when the upcoming patch 3.2 goes live, there are two major changes that will affect the game economy. The first is the introduction of epic gems; the second is that Emblems of Conquest are now obtainable in all pre-Crusader dungeons and raids. We will discuss mainly about epic gems for now.

Epic gems can be obtained in a few different ways:

• Alchemy Transmutes
• Icy Prism - You can save them by mailing them to your banker and leave it in the mailbox
• Prospecting Titanium Ore
• Buying with Honor or Emblems of Heroism

Buying them with Honor and Emblems will probably be very unpopular, as everything will be dropping Emblems of Conquest and players will be eager to grab new gear before they will grab new gems. The other three on the other hand will have a profound effect on the market.

Transmuting an epic gem usually requires a blue gem of the same color as the desired epic gem and a specific Eternal. The following is a list of transmutes as they are currently on the PTR:

• Transmute: Ametrine: Monarch Topaz and Eternal Shadow
• Transmute: Cardinal Ruby: Scarlet Ruby and Eternal Fire
• Transmute: Dreadstone: Twilight Opal and Eternal Shadow
• Transmute: Eye of Zul: 3 x Forest Emerald
• Transmute: King’s Amber: Autumn’s Glow and Eternal Life
• Transmute: Majestic Zircon: Sky Sapphire and Eternal Air

The first thing to note is that players will be getting epic gems from a few sources. Players will largely be consuming the same amount of gems overall, as they will have about the same number of sockets. Some of the new recipes require epic gems, but it won’t have a huge impact on the market. Since only some portion of the epic gems being consumed use current rare gems as a material means that consumption of rare gems is going to go way down. There will still be a market as the poor man’s gem and as reagents for transmutes, but the prices of uncut and cut rare gems should drop significantly. Get rid of any stock that you have. The exception may be Forest Emerald, which requires 3 gems for the transmute. Only time will tell relatively how valuable they will be, but blue gems are used a lot by tanks, so I’m predicting a good market for the epic blue gems and hence Forest Emerald. Also, expect Eternal consumption to go way up with lots of new recipes and the transmutes.

Titanium on the other hand is going to be the game changer. People are stockpiling Titanium now, which may or may not be a good idea. It might be way overvalued right now; it’s risky to do. However, with rare gems losing demand and rare gems being the result of Titanium prospects as often of epic gems, rare gems should lose a significant amount of value from this alone. The flipside to this is that the value of Saronite and Cobalt should crash, as they will no longer be valuable to prospect. This is going to be a huge window of opportunity for Blacksmiths, who can potentially make lots of BoE stuff and disenchant it. Expect Enchanting supplies to increase in supply in the long run and prices to drop.

Finally, note the materials for the new crafted items, including a new orb from the Argent Coliseum: Crusader’s Orb. This list was complied by the writers at WarcraftEcon:

• Titansteel Bar
• Saronite Bar
• Arctic Fur
• Heavy Borean Leather
• Icy Dragonscale
• Nerubian Chitin
• Moonshroud
• Spellweave
• Ebonweave
• Crusader Orb
• Various epic gems, Eternals, Enchanting materials
• Deadly Saronite Dirk
• Corroded Saronite Woundbringer

These will probably enjoy a small price boost in the first month or so of patch 3.2.

Remember, the first two weeks will be crazy, as everyone will want epic gems and consumption will be through the roof. Expect it to level off within about 6 weeks. Happy hunting!

Free Teleports To Various Cities And Locations

2009-07-15T02:10:00.000+08:00

I use these free teleports all the time to get my 80 somewhere fast. The simple trick is in keeping these quests in your log and not handing them in. That's all you have to do to enjoy free travels to various cities and locations.

Fate, Up Against Your Will
This quest or the follow-up will provide you with a free teleport from Stormwind to a phased version of Orgrimmar which is helpful if you wanna fish up Old Crafty, get RFC achievement or just a quick way into the Durotar area. There will also remain a portal back into Stormwind inside Thrall's room.
Location: Stormwind to Orgrimmar

The Killing Time
This quest requires the previous 2 completed and is the 4th in the quest chain. It will provide a portal into a phased Undercity. I prefer the Orgrimmar portal myself though as I find it more useful.
Location: Anywhere to Undercity

Where in the World is Hemet Nesingwary?
This quest starts at Krasus Landing in Dalaran and will teleport u in a few seconds to the very center of Sholazar Basin. I really don't think it's worth handing in this quest as its been saving me a lot of time going on my herbalist/miner for a quick area sweep. Besides, the rewards are peanuts anyways.
Location: Dalaran to Sholazar Basin

Preparations for War
This quest also starts at Krasus Landing in Dalaran and will teleport u in a few seconds to your factions zep in Icecrown. Helpful if you wanna go straight to doing the dailies on the ship instead of looking for the zep on the map etc.
Location: Dalaran to Icecrown

The Keeper's Favor
This quest grants you a teleport into Moonglade from Crusaders' Pinnacle in Icecrown which could be useful for.. grinding Timbermaw rep.. grinding the nearby oozeling.. grinding the Winterspring Frostsaber quest.. or even getting your Leatherworking skill up on the little critters there.
Location: Icecrown to Moonglade

The Boon of A'dal
This is the end of a long chain quest with some decent rewards for a starting character, but if you don't turn this quest in then it is essentially treated like a portal to Dalaran from Shattrath. Not very useful for most, but people doing, say, Old Man Barlo's fishing may want to simply not turn it in. Each time you pick up the quest you are ported to Dalaran.
Location: Shattrath to Dalaran

WotLK Alchemy Specialization Tips

2009-07-13T02:34:00.004+08:00

So if you happen to level a new alchemist on your new character and managed to get to 350 (and lvl 68), then you get to choose a specialization. I obviously wanted Elixir mastery since I understand that it is the most profitable one.

So I went to pick up the quest and as soon as I saw BM I died a little from the inside as I couldn't be bothered farming the rep so I dropped it. I then went to pick up Pot Mastery instead, I saw it involved BoT and dropped it also since no one seems to be running those instances anymore.

Hence I took up Transmutation Mastery and thought it might come in handy especially with the 3.2 patch for gems transmutations.

But it kinda saddened me that I wouldn't make any decent profit till 3.2 so I decided I'd drop the Transmutation Master specialization (which I had become) and do the Elixir quest with the help of a guild mate of mine.

So I went up to pick the quest and figured out that because I had become Transmute Master, I could become Elixir Master without doing the darn quest and thankfully I was right.

So, to summarized this all up:

1. Become Trans Master (4 Primal Mights like 50g on my server)
2. Drop It
3. Go to the Elixir Master in Shat or Pot Master in Zangarmash
4. Become one of the above with only 150g spend and no rep farming effort

This is for people leveling alts or stuck on a Mastery they do not want. I am pretty sure it is old and all, but sometimes the simplest of things can be overlooked.

As a side note, you need to go to your current mastery trainer to drop it before you can take up a new alchemy specialization of your choice.

Milling And Disenchanting Macro

2009-07-12T02:16:00.003+08:00

Select your preferred button or number that can be used in game to activate a macro, I personally use the 1 button so I can put the macro on the skill bar and not have to mess with my keybinds. But if you have a certain button you like, go ahead and use that as long as you are comfortable with it.

So now we have a macro slot selected, let us make the macro first. Choose an empty slot and go to Assign Macro > Create New Macro, This will open up a new box.

If you already have a macro there that's fine, just make a new one, doesn't matter what it is named although you might want to name it something you will recognize if you use multiple macros like I do. Then make sure Auto Loot is ON.

If you're milling type in the following in accordance to the pigment you're looking for:

Alabaster Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Bloodthistle
/use Peacebloom
/use Silverleaf
/use Earthroot
/use Mageroyal

Dusky Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Briarthorn
/use Swiftthistle
/use Bruiseweed
/use Stranglekelp

Golden Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Wild Steelbloom
/use Grave Moss
/use Kingsblood
/use Liferoot

Emerald Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Fadeleaf
/use Goldthorn
/use Khadgar's Whiskers
/use Wintersbite

Violet Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Firebloom
/use Purple Lotus
/use Arthas' Tears
/use Sungrass
/use Blindweed
/use Ghost Mushroom
/use Gromsblood

Silvery Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Golden Sansam
/use Dreamfoil
/use Mountain Silversage
/use Plaguebloom
/use Icecap

Nether Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Dreaming Glory
/use Felweed
/use Flame Cap
/use Mana Thistle
/use Netherbloom
/use Nightmare Vine
/use Ragveil
/use Terocone
/use Ancient Lichen

Azure Pigment
/cast Milling
/use Goldclover
/use Tiger Lily
/use Deadnettle
/use Adder's Tongue
/use Talandra's Rose
/use Peacebloom
/use Icethorn
/use Lichbloom

It's important that you will always have a stack of 5 of these herbs and if you have an uneven stack, just remove it from your bag. So just make sure you have stacks in multiples of 5, ie. 5,10,15,20 nothing like 11, or 14, or 19, to improve efficiency.

If you want to make a separate macro for each type of pigment that's fine, just switch them out when you want to mill those herbs. Again it is totally up to you.

This is pretty much it for the milling. After you are done milling then just make your ink or sell the pigment or whatever you want to do.

A good tip to keep in mind for Azure pigment is that Adder's Tongue, at least on my server goes for roughly 20-22g and sometimes less, and has a 50% chance to mill Icy Pigment, which turns into Snowfall Ink, which can be very profitable. So I try to buy as much Adder's Tongue as I can cheaply and mill that for cash.

Let us now move unto the enchanting or disenchanting macro section. There isn't much to this either. You just have to make a new WoW macro and type the following based on the most common item or items you use to disenchant with:

/cast disenchant
/use [item name]

You can also add multiple items to the macro too, just go to the next line and add like so:

/cast disenchant
/use [item name]
/use [item name]
/use [item name]
/use [item name]

Melee Hit and Spell Hit Rating Guide For Raiders

2009-07-11T06:53:00.004+08:00

Hit and Spell Hit rating is a crucial stat for any serious raider as it reduces the chance to miss with your attack. The following guide is to assist you in understanding the hit cap for both melee and spellcasters depending on class and talent specs:

Spell Hit

26.232 HR is worth 1% Hit
Initial spell hit is 17%, which is 446 HR.

This drops to 14% (368) with 3% talents, which most caster classes have, or 13% (342) for a Balance Druid with Balance of Power.
Mages: Arcane Focus, Precision
Warlocks: Suppression
Priests: Shadow Focus
Shamans: Elemental Precision

This drops again to 11% (289) with 3% hit raid buffs (Imp Faerie Fire from Balance Druids, and Misery from Shadow Priests).

This drops again to 10% (263) including the Draenei racial (Heroic Presence)

For Night Elf Balance Druids, who get a 4% talent instead of 3%, this means they only need 9% (236) to hit cap, if grouped with a Draenei, and specced into Imp FF.

Melee Hit

Melee's a little more complicated. It works out to be 32.79 HR per 1% of hit.

Standard (White damage) melee single wield hit is 8% (263) (So 1h and shield, 2h)
Standard (White damage) melee dual wield hit is 28% (886) (2 1h, or DW 2h with Titans Grip)

However special attacks (Yellow damage) with dual wield, have only an 8% cap.

So:
Initial melee hit is 8% (263), both single and dual wield, for yellow damage

That goes down to 5% (164) with specific talents below:
Death Knights: Nerves of Cold Steel
Hunters: Focused Aim
Warriors: Precision

That drops again to 4% (132) for all those classes with a Draenei in party.

With increased talents in other classes, we also have:
3% (99) for a Rogue with 5/5 Precision.
2% (66) For a Rogue with 5/5 Precision and a Draenei in party.
2% (66) For an Enhancement Shaman with 3/3 in Dual Wield Specialisation.
1% (33) for Enhancement Shaman with their own racial (Alliance only) and 3/3 Dual Wield Specialisation.

I've also been informed that a Rogues Poison's work from the spell cap. I've done a little research on this and it looks like Poisons need 14% (368HR), after accounting for 5/5 Precision, or 13% (342) after Heroic Presence. However similar to spellcasters, poisons will benefit from Misery/IFF, which will lower the poison cap to 11% (289) without Heroic Presence, and 10% (263) with a Draenei in party. Once a Rogue hits this, they'll be capped for both poisons and yellow damage, but white damage will still be uncapped, similar to most dual wield classes.
(Thanks to Dragaei, who let me know poisons used a separate amount.)

Hope this guide will come in handy for you raiders, and eliminate any confusion over hit caps.

Fishing Exploit For Sewer Rat & Dalaran Fountain Coins Achievement

2009-07-09T21:19:00.006+08:00

This is a fishing exploit to obtain the elusive Giant Sewer Rat and Dalaran Fountain Coins achievement from fishing at one particular spot at the Dalaran fountain. This method will no doubt save you bundle of time hunting for these achievements. In regards to the coin achievements, it comes in a variety of 3 which are:

- A Penny For Your Thoughts (copper coins)
- Silver in the City (silver coins)
- There's Gold In That There Fountain (gold coins)

To begin with, all you have to do is stand at this particular spot (red circle) as shown in the screenshot below:

Your cast will drop in the above 3 shown locations and you will alternate between fishing in the fountain and fishing in the sewer. Getting the coin achievement may come somewhat easy but be prepared to fish for countless hours to get that Giant Sewer Rat.

Enjoy!

Earning Gold From Running Molten Core and BWL

2009-07-08T01:08:00.003+08:00

One of my favorite things to do on off-days or just prior to the weekly server maintenance is to run Molten Core and BWL with a friend. Not only is it fun, but you can easily make a lot of gold while doing it! Here is what you will be farming or looking out for:

Molten Core

*Golemagg the Incinerator is a fairly simple boss that has a chance to drop 1-2 Sulfuron Ingot. On my server, these ingots go for around 900G as people still like to get the hand of ragnaros as a throphy. You and a friend should be able to get to him in a few minutes by timing your runs, swimming in some lava, and jumping off the bridge over him.

*Fiery Core has a pretty good chance of dropping off Firewalkers and other trash mobs is MC. On my server, these sell for about 70G each.

* Most of the bosses in MC can drop patterns and recipes for items/enchants which cannot be found anywhere else. Believe it or not, many of these are very rare and are worth quite a lot. In one run I got 2 enchanting recipes which I posted on the AH for 500G each or more. They sold within 2 hours. If you don't see the item in the AH, feel free to post it for a crazy price, there are always collectors that want it.

*Tier Collectors still exist in the game. In one full run, my friend and I got 6 BoE bracers/belts. Although these aren't worth as much as they were back at 60, I still manage to sell them for 80G each.

A Ret Paladin and Feral Druid should be able to clear every single boss in MC in 1-2 hours by self healing with JoL and SoL. Practically any class combos can do this and some well geared people can even solo the entire place.

Here are some basic strategies for 2 manning this thing:

Lucifron: Kill the adds then take down the boss
Magmadar: Tank and spank
Baron Geddon: Tank and spank, dispel mana drain and watch out for bombs.
Garr: Kill the adds and take down the boss
Gehennas: Kill adds then quickly burn boss down. If you cannot decurse, this will be hard, he reduces healing by 75%.
Golemagg the Incinerator: Tank adds while killing boss.
Shazzrah: Tank and spank
Sulfuron Harbinger: Nuke his healers, take out his adds, then burn boss.
Majordomo Executus: Kill his healers then the other adds. He will surrender after they die.
Ragnaros: Tank and spank, kill adds, tank and spank.

BlackWing Lair

For this, you will need a small group. I did it with 4 well geared people but you may need more. After you kill the first three bosses, you will face Firemaw. He can be a little tricky so you can leave him up if you want, just pull when he is on his patrol. Blackwing Technicians have a 12% chance to drop Elementium Ore. On my server, the ore sells for 250G a piece. If you pull a group of technicians, kill all of them but 1, and jump off the ledge and run out of the instance, the surviving technician will run back and the group will respawn. Simply run back and loot the ones you killed then repeat the process. The beauty of this is that you can 1-2 man depending on your class. I usually ask my party to skip them then return with a friend to farm them. You can sell a stack of Elementium Ore for 5000G on my server.

Although there are better ways of making money, I personally have a lot more fun running these old instances and the gold isn't bad either. Granted, a lot of it depends on your server and luck. Happy farming!

Ulduar Dwarfageddon Achievement - Solo

2009-05-19T02:18:00.000+08:00

This video is a guide to show exactly how to solo the Dwarfageddon achievement in Ulduar. The video recorded is on the 25 man version, with a warlock that is geared in 10 Naxx armor just to reinforce how even the most undergeared players can obtain this achievement easily. Obviously 10 man version will not be an issue at all.

Your vehicle will be a lot better with the more combined item level you have. If you have all best slotted, you'll be able to kill the Sentry's in about 6 hits, otherwise as for the warlock, it took probably 30. Same with the nuking, you will only have to nuke twice to kill everything if you are well geared.

You can bring as many friends as the instance will hold to do this as well. I advise to only have a maximum of 2 people run out on bikes and clump dwarves, the other should ride passenger or just stay close in other vehicles. Too many people might split the dwarves too much and make you take longer than 10 seconds.

Most importantly, doing this will not get you saved to Ulduar. You yourself would have to not be saved to Ulduar already though and go into a fresh instance that hasn't killed Flame Leviathan yet in order to do this event. You'll have to invite a friend and form a raid to get inside, but after that you can drop raid and it wont kick you out and you can confuse the heck out of your guildies when your achievement pops up in guild chat. Here is the video:

Eternal Farming Locations

2009-05-11T13:36:00.003+08:00

This is a work in progress guide to the various locations to farm eternals. I am going to focus on the best farming spots to farm all types of Eternals (Fire, Earth, Life, Shadow, Water) since they are high in demand:

Best Place to Farm Eternal Fire
If you want to farm Eternal Fire, the best place to do this is at 85,73 in Wintergrasp. Kill the Flame Revenants there. This is sometimes a heavy farming spot so you may want to come here during non-peak hours. There are also Raging Flames in this area...They don't drop crystallized fire as often as the Flame Revenants do but it's worth killing them while you are waiting for the flame revenants to respawn. Another good method is via Engineering cloud farming.

Best Place to Farm Eternal Life
The best place to farm Eternal Life is at 9,59 in Wintergrasp. Kill the Living Lashers there. If you use your tab key it will help you to farm these a lot easier.

Best Place to Farm Eternal Shadow
The best place to farm Eternal Shadow is at 17,50 in Wintergrasp. Kill the Shadow Revenants there as well as the Wandering Shadows. This can sometimes be a farely competitive farming spot so try to come here in non-peak hours. If you are a miner (which I highly recommend to make quick and easy gold), spend most of your time mining saronite...You will get TONS of eternal shadow this way.

Best Place to Farm Eternal Water
These are probably some of the easier eternals to farm as there are tons of mobs for these spread all over wintergrasp. The best place to farm Eternal Water is to patrol from 29,46 to 69,52. These mobs are in a huge C shape in Wintergrasp... Kill both the Glacial Spirits and the Water Revenants here.

Best Place to Farm Eternal Air
The best place to farm Eternal Air is in the southern region of Wintergrasp (patrolling from 22,63 to 68,73. Kill both the Tempest Revenants and Whispering Winds in this area.

Best Place to Farm Eternal Earth
The best place to farm Eternal Earth is at 71,58 in The Storm Peaks. Kill the Brittle Revenant there. This can sometimes be a competitive farming spot, if it is, go kill the Lifeblood Elementals in Scholazar Basin at 70,56. If you are a miner (which I highly recommend to make quick and easy gold), spend most of your time mining saronite...You will get TONS of eternal earth this way.

Deppending on your server, farming different Eternals can be better for you. For example, Eternal Fire is the best selling Eternal in AH at the moment on my server.

Have you found a spot that works well for you besides the above mentioned locations?

Fishing The Rare Sea Turtle Mount

2009-05-05T21:58:00.001+08:00

This rare Sea Turtle mount is the only mount obtained via fishing. Upon riding the Sea Turtle, it gives a 60% increase in your un-buffed swim speed. On land, sadly it runs only at your normal running speed. Nevertheless, this is still a much sought after mount.

The Requirements
- Minimum 480 Fishing Skill
- Riding 75
- Lots of Patience

Other Helpful Items and Tips
- Any Water Walking spell or Potions
- Fishing Buddy addon with the option "Easy catch" ticked (start fishing with just 2 clicks)
- Auto-loot On
- Find fish tracker

Fishing Spot Map

- Click To Enlarge Map -

This is one place with a lot of fishing schools, always have 3 or 4 ready to be fished continuously.

Easy Eggs At NobleGarden Event Guide

2009-04-26T07:08:00.000+08:00

So Noblegarden week has started and everyone is out hunting for their Easter eggs to complete the "Noble Gardener" achievement and attain the much sought after "the Noble' title. I have found the perfect spot in which you can stand in range of (6) SIX spawn points of Bright Colored Eggs (the ones you need to find in order to loot achievement items and also purchase event items). This is probably only for Horde cause you will definitely get ganked trying this as Alliance.

First of all you need to go to Falconwing Square in the Ruins of Silvermoon. At the north eastern side of the square there is a cart (35.5, 74.0). Position yourself as shown in the screenshot below so that you are standing on top of the middle fence post.

Refer to the screenshot below and the 'red circles' for the exact spot where the Bright Colored Eggs spawn. You can stand in this spot and never have to move at all and yet you are able to click (and pick up) all 6 egg spawns. It is much quicker to camp here than run around as the spawn rate is quite high.

There is a trick that you can also do while waiting for spawns. Mouseover the spawn points (as denoted by red circles in the screenshot) and often you can see the mouse icon change to the loot icon a second before you actually see an egg spawn. If it changes to this icon, click it immediately. This can be extremely helpful if there happen to be others camping/farming the same spot as you will be looting the eggs as they only just see them.

The Great Feast Farming Guide

2009-04-05T03:18:00.000+08:00

The Great Feast is an extremely effective and helpful way to provide food buffs to your raid, second only to Fish Feast as far as raid food quality is concerned. This guide is written mainly with Horde in mind but applies to Alliance as well but with different flight-paths.

Also, if you are a skinner you'll love getting the ingredients for this feast. I usually get between 60-100 Borean Leather each time I farm for 20 of these on my rogue.

Assumptions
• You are level 80
• You can do some form of AoE (this will only affect timing, not the mobs or locations)
• That you are farming for a full stack of feasts (i.e. 20 total feasts)

Ingredients
• Chunk o' Mammoth x20
• Shoveltusk Flank x20
• Worm Meat x20
• Chilled Meat x40

Guide

Obtain: Shoveltusk Flank
Starting from Dalaran, get on the flight plan to New Agamand. Once there, mount up and ride along the coast south of Westguard Keep (Alliance Town). Every 40-70 yards there will be 4-7 Shoveltusks.

The mobs you will be killing are:
• Shoveltusk Calf (lvl 63-68)
• Shoveltusk Stag (lvl 64-69)
• Shoveltusk (lvl 63-68)

They are very low level so you should have no trouble blowing through them. Expect to spend about 10 minutes or so of killing to get 20 flanks. Once you have all the flanks, turn around and go back to the Westguard flight point. From there, take a bird to either Dun Niffelem or K3 for the Worm Meat.

Obtain: Worm Meat

Make your way to the cave where you get the oil for the Helm quest at Hodir. There are a reasonable number of mobs here with a fairly consistent repop rate. This will take longer then the Shoveltusk or Mammoth, mostly because you are single killing targets a lot of the time. I would say 15-20 minutes depending on luck and whether others are farming.

The mob you will be killing is:
• Ravenous Jormungar

At this point you have two options: You can either head outside of the cave and kill the roaming mammoths or (and this is what I do) you can hearth to Dalaran and get on the flight path to Borean Tundra.

Obtain: Chunk o' Mammoth

I choose to go to the Tundra for three reasons. First, there are tons of Mammoth there. Second, I can blow through 40 Mammoths in the time it would take me to kill 10 in Storm Peaks and wait on the repops. Third, I can kill until I get my mammoth meat, walking North as I kill and then I get dumped right in the Basin for the Chilled Meat. Saves time.

The mobs you will be killing are:
• Mammoth Calf
• Wooly Mammoth
• Wooly Mammoth Bull

20 Chunks o' Mammoth should take approximately 5 minutes.

From here, walk right into the Basin and kill everything there. They all drop Chilled Meat and you'll get your 40 needed extremely quickly.

And there it is, you have the ingredients needed to food buff your raid. It takes me about 35-45 minutes including travel time to get all of these ingredients. In addition, you can make a handsome income once again if you are a skinner.

Farm ZG Tiger Mount Video

2009-03-22T16:49:00.002+08:00

This is a cool method to farm the elusive Zul'Gurub Swift Zulian Tiger mount even for cloth wearers. Here the video shows how a warlock does it.

Enjoy and happy farming!

Death Knight Tanking Gear Guide For Naxxramas

2009-02-01T22:07:00.003+08:00

I've scoured the wowhead databases to come up with the best compilation of preraid available DK gear that I can. First, let me explain my rationale in making these comparisons, because while I'm quite confident in my knowledge of the DK class mechanics, it never hurts to put anything up for peer review.

Let me start by saying that this is NOT a definitive list of raiding requirements. That will be up to guild leadership. What this is is an attempt to share the benefit of my research and experiences with other Death Knights who have raiding and tanking aspirations. Hopefully this will encourage a discussion, because it's really discussions where the best ideas come from.

This list is not intended to list the ultimate gear choices for all slots. It is intended instead to highlight some of the best items available before raid zones. The items on this list are intended to get a Death Knight tank ready for the entry level raids like Naxxramas. Thus the only criteria for inclusion in this list is that the item be obtainable without raiding; heroics, emblems of heroism, tradeskills (that don't require raid zone mats/recipes), and factions are all valid sources for the purpose of this guide. There's also a list of specific enchants to help get where you need to be.

The things you need to be thinking about are--

Uncritablity (540 Defense Skill == 689 Defense Rating): The Defense Rating is what you'll be sacrificing most other important stats for early on, but it's necessary. A tank taking a critical strike is a quick way to wipe a raid. Fortunately, crushing blows are no longer a concern, as a mob has to be 4 levels higher than the player to deliver one.

HP Pool: This is of obvious importance to any tank, but again, as you'll be focusing on obtaining uncritable, it's important to consider how best to maximize Sta/HP without sacrificing defense.

Strength: In addition to being your primary threat generation stat (EVERYTHING scales with AP) strength doubles as an avoidance stat for DKs thanks to the passive ability Forceful Deflection, which adds an amount equal to 25% of total strength to your parry rating.

To sum it up before I get into the actual list, the heirarchy weight I'm using to determine the list looks something like this:

Defense (Until Uncritable) > Sta/Str > Dodge Rating > Parry Rating

Strength is our biggest threat generation stat, but others to consider in making gear choices are Expertise, Haste, and Hit Rating.

Head:

Ground Tremor Helm
Binds when picked up
Head Plate
1760 Armor
+48 Strength
+93 Stamina
Meta Socket
Red Socket
Socket Bonus: +12 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 61 (12.4 @ L80).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 37 (1.13% @ L80).

Drops from Moorabi in (H)Gundrak

Enchant: Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector
Requires Argent Crusade - Revered
Use: Permanently adds 37 stamina and 20 defense rating to a head slot item. Does not stack with other enchantments for the selected equipment slot.

Neck:

Chained Military Gorget
Binds when picked up
Neck
+41 Strength
+75 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 33 (6.71 @ L80).
Equip: Increases your dodge rating by 32 (0.81% @ L80).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 21 (0.64% @ L80).

Costs 25 Emblems in Dalaran

Shoulder:

Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons
Binds when picked up
Shoulder Plate
1625 Armor
+58 Strength
+87 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 36 (7.32 @ L80).
Equip: Increases your parry rating by 40 (0.81% @ L80).

Drops from General Bjarngrim (H)Halls of Lightning

Enchant: Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle
Requires The Sons of Hodir - Exalted (Lesser Inscription will also suffice until you can get Exalted)
Use: Permanently adds 20 dodge rating and 15 defense rating to shoulder armor. Does not stack with other enchantments for the selected equipment slot.

Back:

Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions
Binds when picked up
Back
140 Armor
+31 Strength
+64 Stamina
Requires Level 78
Requires The Wyrmrest Accord - Honored
Equip: Increases defense rating by 43 (10.12 @ L78).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 25 (0.88% @ L78).

Purchased for approx. 20g from Wyrmrest Accord at Honored

Enchant: Enchant Cloak - Titanweave
Permanently enchant a cloak to increase defense rating by 16.

Chest:

Breastplate of the Solemn Council
Binds when picked up
Chest Plate
2166 Armor
+49 Strength
+117 Stamina
Requires The Wyrmrest Accord - Revered
Equip: Increases defense rating by 76 (15.45 @ L80).
Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 56 (6.83 @ L80).

Purchased for approx. 52g from Wyrmrest Accord at Revered

Enchant: Enchant Chest - Greater Defense
Permanently enchant chest armor to increase defense rating by 22.

Wrist:

Bindings of Dark Will
Binds when picked up
Wrist Plate
948 Armor
+42 Strength
+66 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 27 (5.49 @ L80).
Equip: Increases your parry rating by 30 (0.61% @ L80).

Drops from Salramm the Fleshcrafter in (H)CoT: Stratholme

Enchant: Enchant Bracer - Fortitude
Permanently enchant bracers to increase Stamina by 12.

Hands:

Gauntlets of Vigilance
Binds when picked up
Hands Plate
1308 Armor
+51 Strength
+34 Agility
+76 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 34 (8 @ L78).

Reward from The Reckoning in Storm Peaks

Enchant: Enchant Gloves - Armsman
Permanently enchant gloves to increase threat caused by 2% and increase parry rating by 10.

Waist:

Waistguard of the Risen Knight
Binds when equipped
Waist Plate
1218 Armor
+58 Strength
+87 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 42 (8.54 @ L80).
Equip: Increases your dodge rating by 33 (0.84% @ L80).

BoE drop in Drak'Tharon Keep

Legs:

Daunting Legplates
Binds when equipped
Legs Plate
1831 Armor
+54 Strength
+93 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 88 (20.71 @ L78).

Created by Blacksmithing

Enchant: Frosthide Leg Armor
Use: Permanently attach frosthide armor onto pants to increase Stamina by 55 and Agility by 22.

Feet:

Sabatons of Draconic Vigor
Binds when picked up
Feet Plate
1489 Armor
+44 Strength
+85 Stamina
Requires The Wyrmrest Accord - Revered
Equip: Increases defense rating by 58 (11.79 @ L80).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 29 (0.88% @ L80).

Purchased for approx. 37g from Wyrmrest Accord at Revered

Enchant: Enchant Boots - Greater Fortitude
Permanently enchant boots to increase Stamina by 22.

Ring Slot 1:

Gal'darah's Signet
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Finger
+26 Strength
+54 Stamina
Equip: Increases defense rating by 36 (9.81 @ L76).
Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 20 (3.27 @ L76).

Drops from Gal'darah in (N)Gundrak

Ring Slot 2:

Dragonflight Great-Ring
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Finger
+26 Strength
+58 Stamina
Requires Level 78
Equip: Increases defense rating by 38 (8.94 @ L78).
Equip: Improves hit rating by 24 (0.85% @ L78).

Drops from Cache of Eregos (N)The Oculus

Trinket Slot 1:

Essence of Gossamer
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Trinket
+111 Stamina
Equip: When struck in combat has a chance of shielding you in a protective barrier which will reduces damage from each attack by 140, up to a total of 4000 damage absorbed. Lasts 10 secs.

Drops from Hadronox in (H)Azjol-Nerub

Trinket Slot 2:

Seal of the Pantheon
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Trinket
Equip: Increases defense rating by 65 (15.3 @ L78).
Use: Increases armor by 3570 for 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown)

Drops from Loken in (N)Halls of Lightning

Weapon:

Titansteel Destroyer
Binds when equipped
Unique-Equipped
Two-Hand Mace
507 - 761 Damage Speed 3.40
(186.5 damage per second)
+124 Strength
+105 Stamina
Equip: Improves hit rating by 54 (1.65% @ L80).

Crafted by Blacksmithing

Relic:

Sigil of Haunted Dreams
Binds when picked up
Unique
Relic Sigil
Classes: Death Knight
Equip: Your Blood Strike and Heart Strikes have a chance to grant 173 haste rating for 10 sec.

Costs 15 Emblems in Dalaran

Summary: This set will get you to 705 total Defense Rating including enchants, or a total of 543 defense skill. 540 is the magic number for uncritable, so this gives a little leeway in terms of upgrading your gear as you progress through raid content.

As I start to build this set myself, and gain more experience, I'll update this guide in accordance with any new practical knowledge I pick up. I also reiterate my hope that other DKs will participate in this discussion.

Addenda

The sigil selection has been questioned by a few other DKs, and while the consensus seems to be that there isn't a "great" sigil available to DK tanks at this time, the Sigil of the Dark Rider (starter quest sigil) may well provide superior returns on threat for most tanking rotations.

Some suggested alternatives to the above items, superior in HP/Avoidance and also obtainable via pre-raid means. (Thanks Nyxia, Alysara, and Morocius for these suggestions)

Head
Tempered Titansteel Helm
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41387
Armored Titanium Goggles (requires Engineering)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42549

Neck
Titanium Earthguard Chain
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=56500

Hands
Fireproven Gauntlets
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44183

Rings
Titanium Earthguard Ring
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=56497

Another gear list
A general tank gear list posted on wowhead with links. It might be slightly less cumbersome than creating a weight scale and searching each slot individually.
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=55579&p=554981

Wowhead comparison tool set
This set nets significant defense through use of gems and enchants, but is obtainable via crafted items and rep items--no instance grinding required!(Thanks Lichna)
http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=4066...45:43248:44188

Written by Ragnarök - Source

Borean Leather & Artic Fur Farming Spot

2009-01-14T01:26:00.003+08:00

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.

Easy Exp For Level 74 With The Storm King's Vengeance Quest

2009-01-09T01:18:00.000+08:00

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!

Insane Mage Naxx Death Knight Wing Exploit

2009-01-03T18:15:00.003+08:00

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:

Eternal Fires By Farming Steam Clouds For Engineers

2009-01-02T05:30:00.003+08:00

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:

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!

Dalaran Cooking Dailies Guide

2008-12-22T22:18:00.000+08:00

There are a total of 5 daily cooking quests available and doing the daily cooking quests each day will give you 4-6 gold per quest, but more importantly, it will give you Northern Spices, which sell for about 8-10g each (and you can get 3-6 of them for each daily). So even if you don't do the cooking yourself, you can still make about 30-60g each day for doing a 5 minute quest. I think the longest I've spent personally doing one of these dailies is 15 minutes, only because so many others were doing it at the same time too.

Also one of the dailies is probably NOT worth it, but I'll get to that when I describe it below.

Prereqs: 375 cooking (to be able to make Northern Stew)
Backlog of Chilled Meat (a lot of the quests uses it)
Backlog of Rhino Meat (or Rhino Dogs) - needed for one of the quests - I believe you need to have a 375 cooking to be able to make these too.

The Quests

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf
For this quest, you need to combine 2 Chilled Meat with 4 infused mushrooms and turn it in to Orton Bennet in Curiosities & Moore (he's on the upper level of the building across the street from "A Hero's Welcome" Inn - entrance to building is at 48.74, 57.80 and go up the stairs).

To get the infused mushrooms: Go into the sewers; easiest way is to run around the circle of wills looking for the mushrooms to spawn around the outside. If you're a herbalist, you've got it made. They can also spawn in the two long hallways or the black market. I try to avoid near the tavern as they tend to spawn underwater. It shouldn't take you longer than about 3-4 minutes to find all 4. Then find a fire and combine with the 2 chilled meat and deliver to Orton.

Reward: 5.8g, Dalaran Cooking Award x1 and Small Spice Bag (3-6 Northern Spices, plus potentially "Baby Spice", "Old Spice" and/or another Dalaran Cooking Award.

Convention at the Legerdemain
This quest (in my opinion) is not worth it, as you need 12 chilled meat to complete it (and they could go for a lot of money, especially on the day of this quest. I recommend buying chilled meat only when it's cheap on the AH, or farming it yourself - more on that later). Although if you have the meat, this can be the fastest quest of them all.

Go to the Cheese Shop (One More Glass - Entrance at 52.83, 34.21) and look around for the Jug of wine. It can spawn on any of the three tables downstairs, or on one of the few spots upstairs. Generally if someone has just looted it, it takes about 10-15 seconds to respawn somewhere else.

Then Make 12 Northern Stew out of your chilled meat, and turn in these items to Arrille Azuregaze at the Legerdemain Lounge (entrance is right across the street from the cheese shop). He's behind the bar on the main floor.

Reward: 4.4g, Dalaran Cooking Award x1 and Small Spice Bag (3-6 Northern Spices, plus potentially "Baby Spice", "Old Spice" and/or another Dalaran Cooking Award.

Sewer Stew
This is the only Dalaran cooking daily where you have to leave the city, but it's still doable at 70, but you have to be careful. Go to the Violet Strand Teleport Crystal (located in the violet Gate, east side of runeweaver square. there are two entrances to the building with the crystal, one from the middle of the square (going east), and one opposite Krasus' Landing, loc of entrance is 57.61, 46.50. Note if you go in from the middle of the square, you need to go downstairs, as the crystal is at ground level). Note that if you haven't done it yet, there is a quest to use the crystal to go down to the violet stand and back again given by the woman upstairs in the Violet Gate.

Go down to the Violet Stand, then head due east from the crystal. Be on the look out for wolves if you're less than level 75 or so, as they are your only threat and are usually level 78 or so. Avoiding the wolves, you want to cross the river and you should have a very easy time finding 4 Crystalsong Carrots growing around there. I've always seen a ton, and usually only spent about a minute or two getting all 4. Again, herbalists have an advantage here as they can be tracked.

After you get the carrots, head back to the violet stand (again, being careful of the wolves) and teleport back up to Dalaran using the crystal at 15.85, 42.51). Combine the 4 carrots with 4 chilled meat by clicking on the cookpot when near a fire, and you've got your vegetable stew. Take the stew down to the sewers to Ajay Green in the "Cantrips & Crows" tavern (note there is a cooking stove just about 10 feet to his left while facing him).

Reward: 5.8 g, Dalaran Cooking Award x1 and Small Spice Bag (3-6 Northern Spices, plus potentially "Baby Spice", "Old Spice" and/or another Dalaran Cooking Award.

Cheese for Glowergold
I personally like this quest because it doesn't require any chilled meat or Rhino meat. It does usually take more time though because the spawn rate leaves a bit to be desired. I'll share my technique though.

Once you get this quest, look quickly at the tables in the tavern. No sparklies, check upstairs. You need 6 half filled glasses of wine which spawn randomly on any tables in Dalaran. In A Hero's Welcome, they can spawn on the bar, on the table near the entrance, the two tables upstairs above the bar, or the three tables in the room upstairs behind the bar.

Next head into the Legerdemain Lounge and check the tables and the bar there. Then head upstairs to check the two rooms. Then, if I have patience. I'll camp out in the room with the 4 beds (and two tables). Put myself in view of both tables, and just wait. Average respawn time is about 1-2 minutes. This means it can take about 10 minutes to get all 6 glasses, but they sometimes will spawn on both tables. I usually do something on my other computer at this point or read the morning paper.

After you obtain all 6 glasses, go to the cheese shop (One More Glass - Entrance at 52.83, 34.21) and look at the 3 tables inside on the main level, or the table just outside for the cheese. It will respawn within 30 seconds after someone else looted it.

Right click on the plate (looks like a shield) to create your wine and cheese party, and deliver it to Ranid Glowergold at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange (loc around 37.63, 32.80).

Reward: 5.8g, Dalaran Cooking Award x1 and Small Spice Bag (3-6 Northern Spices, plus potentially "Baby Spice", "Old Spice" and/or another Dalaran Cooking Award.

Mustard Dogs!
The benefit of this quest is that it is the only one which awards 2 Cooking awards plus the spice bag. It can get to be annoying, however, if you're not a herbalist. You've got to gather 4 wild mustard which grows in any of the grassy areas of Dalaran. Actually, there are only 4 areas where I've harvested it from:

1. In the middle of runeweaver square, there are 4 spawn points
2. In the grassy area between the violet Citadel and the Magus Commerce Exchange there are 2 spawn points, but one of them is bugged, and it spawns under a rock - don't bother unless you see the other spawn point.
3. To the left of the Violet Citadel, there are 3 spawn points, one of which is kind of hidden between the tree and the building itself.
4. There are three spawn points in Antonidas Memorial - one of them is behind the big tree on the North side.

After you get the mustard, click on the picnic basket to combine with 4 Rhino dogs, and deliver them to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He's about 10 feet from the Flight Path.

Reward: 5.8g, Dalaran Cooking Award x2 and Small Spice Bag (3-6 Northern Spices, plus potentially "Baby Spice", "Old Spice" and/or another Dalaran Cooking Award.

Best Place for Farm Chilled Meat
In Howling Fjord, just to the east of Camp Winterhoof (around loc 52,8) there are a tons of Rams. They drop the meat about 1/3 to 1/2 the time. They respawn relatively quickly, and there is a fair number of them there. I can get 20 meat in about just 10 minutes.

Hope this little guide helps! Get those cooking awards!

Obtaining White Polar Bear Mount Guide

2008-12-21T23:28:00.000+08:00

This is a simple guide on how to get the Reins of the White Polar Bear from the Hyldnir Spoils. The dailies can be picked up here (location map) after you complete the quest chain to unlock them, which is the same as the Sons of Hodir chain to unlock that.

This mount comes from 4 possible daily quests, Back to the Pit, Defending Your Title, Maintaining Discipline, and The Aberrations Must Die. All of these quests are fairly easy and do not take much time to complete, as you only receive two of these quests a day that are randomly picked, however it seems like The Aberrations Must Die is always there on my server somehow.

Back to the Pit
This quest requires you to mount the Reins of the Icemaw Matriarch which is provided to you for the quest and slay six Hyldsmeet Warbear, which are found battling in the pit in the center of town. Which can be seen on this location map. The easiest way to defeat them is to pick one within the health range to still give you kill credit due to the NPCs fighting them also. Hit 1 for the Auto attack, then use 4 (their maul like ability), 5 (Does a knock back ability), and 6 (A charge that also stuns). It is a good idea to use the knock back when the charge is off cool down so you can stun them and no longer take damage until the stun wears off.

Defending Your Title
This daily requires you to slay six Victorious Challenger, which are also found in town, they are the NPCs standing around observing the other NPCs dueling. They are fairly easy with only about 12.5k health, but they have a very annoying Shield Slam move which they tend to use quite a lot.

Maintaining Discipline
This quest requires you to hit the Exhausted Vrykul in the Forlorn Mine (found here - location map) with the Disciplining Rod that is provided for this quest. The Exhausted Vrykul are the ones that are sitting on the ground. Since this daily is usually grouped with The Aberrations Must Die, it is best to enter from the east and clear them to the west until you reach the outside of the mine again.

The Aberrations Must Die
This quest is done here (location map), and requires you to break 30 Plagued Proto-Drake Egg, which are broken by freezing them by throwing a Vial of Frost Oil on the ground on top of them. The eggs are found in small groups possibly 1 to up to 7. If you consistently hit groups of 6, which are generally the normal size groups, you only need to collect 5 of the Vial of Frost Oil, which drop from the Valkyrion Aspirant, these NPCs can be found guarding the buildings, two at each door, or patrolling the rode, they also only have about 12.5k health, and since they are grouped up so nicely, it is easy to AoE them down.

At the end of the day, you need to turn all the quests back from where you picked them up, open your spoils bag and hope you get the mount, it is a low drop chance and usually you will get some cheese, water or even some snowballs. Best of luck to all of you trying to get this elusive mount!

Jewelcrafting 375-450 Powerleveling Guide

2008-12-20T21:39:00.000+08:00

Jewelcrafting was introduced during the Burning Crusade expansion and now with the current WotLK expansion, it has grown in terms of the availability of epic rings, necklaces and self-use trinkets or figurines. In my opinion, Prospecting makes Jewelcrafting into a cash cow.

Without further ado, let's check out the location of the Jewelcrafting trainers:

Alliance:
Alestos - 57,72 in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra.
Ounhulo - 59,63 in Valgarde, Howling Fjord.

Horde:
Geba'li - 41,53 in Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra.
Carter Tiffens - 79,28 in Vengence Landing, Howling Fjord.

Neutral:
Timothy Jones - 40,35 in Dalaran

Here is the powerleveling guide for Engineering 375 to 450. Kindly note that some of the steps might be overlapping, so use the one which you have mats for or can be bought cheaply from the auction house:

370-380
Shadow Jade Focusing Lens – 1 Shadow Crystal, 1 Dark Jade

380-400
Jada Dagger Pendant – 1 Eternal Earth, 1 Huge Citrine, 1 Dark Jade

390-410
Dazzling Forest Emerald – 1 Forest Emerald

390-420
Stoneguard Band - 2 Eternal Earth

420-450
Powerfull Earthsiege Diamond – 1 Earthsiege Diamond
Persistent Earthsiege Diamond – 1 Earthsiege Diamond
Swift Skyflare Diamond - 1 Skyflare Diamond
Tireless Skyflare Diamond - 1 Skyflare Diamond

Glory Of The Hero Achievement Guide - Heroic Dungeon

2008-12-19T22:37:00.000+08:00

The Glory of the Hero achievement has 39 prerequisites spread across all 12 available heroic 5-man dungeons available in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

The range of difficulty required of the prerequisites vary. This is my attempt to alleviate some of the difficulty while you're on the grind for the 415 achievement points and a Red Proto-Drake. Do take note of the following difficulty rating:

* 5 -- Very Hard; requires a high level of coordination and gear
* 4 -- Hard; requires a high level of coordination or gear
* 3 -- Medium; requires class stacking or decent gear or decent coordination
* 2 -- Easy; a PUG could complete this achievement
* 1 -- Very Easy; only requires multiple runs or it is achievable without even knowing it's an achievement

Utgarde Keep

* On The Rocks
Defeat Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep on Heroic Difficulty without shattering any Frost Tombs.
Difficulty: 3
The difficulty in this achievement lies solely on your healer. The Frost Tomb ability incapacitates a random person in the group whom must be kept up throughout the encounter.
The use of a Frost Resistance totem or aura can increase your chances to resist the tomb however you can no longer use a PvP trinket or human racial to escape the Frost Tomb and still receive the achievement.
During the possibility of your healer being Ice Tombed, it is advisable for your tank to save his cooldowns for this scenario. Any person in your group capable of healing should do so at this moment.
Geared players that can do AoE damage (a warrior's whirlwind for example) should be careful not to accidentally break a close Frost Tomb.

The Nexus

* Split Personality
Defeat Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty after having killed her images within 5 seconds of each other during both splits.
Difficulty: 4
The achievement is somewhat self-described though there are a few tips that might assist you. If you have a class capable of multiple incapacitates (rogue for example), I advise you put them on the Frost image to reduce the amount of AoE damage the group is absorbing.
Once each mob is reduced to 40% do not reapply any DoT abilities. One "glitch" if you may call it to this achievement is that the Frost image is not capable of being killed while casting Blizzard.
If you have a class that can interrupt save it for when the Frost mage is below 5% health or wait out the Blizzard before calling out for all three images to be simultaneously killed.

* Chaos Theory
Defeat Anomalus in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty without destroying any Chaotic Rifts.
Difficulty: 2
This achievement once understood is one of the easiest to complete. The ramp right before the boss is where most of this encounter will take place.
Have the tank pick up Anomalus and brings him to the top of the ramp while the rest of the group stands at the lower platform within range of the boss. Melee can do their normal thing during this phase.
The encounter goes on as normal until the rifts spawn. The melee DPS need to join the rest of the group at the bottom platform while the tank stands still.
The damage from the rifts has a chain lightning effect and how the group is positioned makes it so only the tank is hit by this easing the amount of healing required exponentially.
After 45 seconds the boss will lose his damage immunity and the fight ensues. Multiple mobs do still spawn from the rifts but they can be handled by the now somewhat useless melee DPS.

* Intense Cold
Defeat Keristrasza in The Nexus on Heroic Difficulty without allowing Intense Cold to reach more than two stacks.
Difficulty: 2
Intense Cold is a debuff that increases based on your lack of mobility. The more you move, the better.
Casters need to move or jump after every cast while melee can keep jumping the entire time during this encounter.
Frost resistance is also useful to have here because of a group wide Frost Nova that happens infrequently during the encounter. Make sure to utilize magic dispels on someone going for this achievement as well as use a PvP trinket and/or a human racial in case of long stretch of no dispels.
Melee needs to stay away from tailswipe so as to avoid the RNG possibility of being knocked back, frost nova'd and out of range of a dispeller.

Azjol-Nerub

* Watch Him Die
Defeat Krik'thir the Gatewatcher in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty while Watcher Gashra, Watcher Narjil and Watcher Silthik are still alive.
Difficulty: 5
We're going to utilize some interesting game mechanics (MOB pathing) in order to buy more time for your group. This is probably one of the most DPS demanding achievements so make sure people utilize all their cooldowns.
If you look to your right as you enter the boss's room, you will see a ledge that runs all the way over to the right of the boss. Have your healer run all the way over when your group is ready before the pull.
Don't worry, he won't aggro any of the MOBs or start the encounter. Have the tank charge in to the boss and drag him to the right pillar (near the right side of the door).
The healer needs to spam heals in order to gain healing aggro on all the other MOBs in the room. They will turn around and run towards him following along the same path that your healer ran there.
Once they are close, the healer can jump down and the mobs will begin running back towards him. This buys your group around 15 seconds of extra DPS time.
If you have a priest(s) in your group, have them use shackle on Skirmishers as they have a charge ability that can sometimes cause this strategy to fail.
Keep at it, it is definitely doable without heroism with a geared group.

* Hadronox Denied
Defeat Hadronox in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty before he webs the top doors and prevents more creatures from spawning.
Difficulty: 2
Some things we are going to do with a bit of extra creativity. If anyone in your group is capable of dropping out of combat (rogue, hunter, Night Elf for example) they can make this a breeze!
Having your predetermined party member run in and attack a Crusher and then vanish. The mobs will despawn for a moment which buys your group enough time to run all the way down to the boss.
Complete the boss like normal and enjoy your practically free achievement.

* Gotta Go!
Defeat Anub'arak in Azjol-Nerub on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Difficulty: 5
This achievement is being fixed in the next content patch due to its extreme use of group stacking. If this is the only achievement holding you back, head on over to the discussion page on Wowhead.com to see what people are doing. Have hope: it IS possible but beyond the scope of this guide at the moment.

Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom

* The Party's Over
Defeat Prince Taldaram in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty with less than 5 people.
Difficulty: 4
This achievement is self explanatory but if you're having any difficulty, I would recommend losing a melee DPS in exchange for ranged due to Prince Taldaram's Flame Ball ability.

* Volazj's Quick Demise
Defeat Herald Volazj in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Difficulty: 2
The Insanity cast by this boss is probably one of the most frustrating (and fun) abilities of a boss but it definitely cuts into this timed achievement. So, let's skip it!
Take the boss over to either pillar in the room and DPS away. When he starts casting Insanity have everyone (including the tank) run behind the pillar.
As long as everyone is out of Line of Sight of the boss than he will run back and fight like normal again completely skipping the hardest part!

* Respect Your Elders
Defeat Elder Nadox in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty without killing any Ahn'kahar Guardians.
Difficulty: 4
Utilizing a class that can kite (druid, rogue or hunter for example), get aggro on the boss and move quickly to the the entrance of the zone where your group should be waiting.
The boss spawns Guardians at a certain percentage but they spawn in the boss' original room so you have ample time to kill the boss before the Guardians can cast damage immunity on the boss.

* Volunteer Work
Defeat Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn'kahet on Heroic Difficulty without killing any Twilight Volunteers.
Difficulty: 3
The difficulty in this encounter is another healing intense one. Once a Twilight Volunteer reaches Jedoga she will become enraged.
Melee needs to move out while she is enraged due to her high damage whirlwind like ability. Once enrage falls off, melee can get back in and do DPS.
Make sure to use some kind of disarm if you have it available but there is no serious strategy to this just use all your cooldowns to end the fight as quickly as possible.

Drak'Tharon Keep

* Consumption Junction
Defeat Trollgore in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty before Consume reaches ten stacks.
Difficulty: 3
I would love to take credit for this one but alas, I cannot. There is no better way to describe how to do this boss than what is said by Magekill from Wowhead.com:

Quote:
The Consume debuff increases based on how many players or npc's are in his LOS. This applies to the troll adds as well.

We tanked him to the left of the stairs, in that little pocket between the left pillar and the wall of the stairs.

The tank was standing to keep the boss in the pocket.
The healer was standing around the middle of the room, in LOS of the tank but out of LOS of the boss.
The ranged stayed on the stairs and took care of the adds, did not DPS the boss.
The melee DPS ran in and dps'd for 10 seconds, then ran around the corner onto the stairs for the consume.

Every time the boss consumed the tank and the consume debuff increased by 1, the tank would use this macro:

/sw 10
/script Stopwatch_Play();
/rw === Cast consume, safe for 10 secs! ===
/in 10 /rw === Back out now! ===

That would set a stopwatch for 10 seconds, start the stopwatch, tell the group to dps for 10 seconds, then tell the group when it was time to get out.

As long as the tank (or whoever) hits the macro right after the consume debuff increases, it works perfectly.

Good luck! -Awakened-Kilrogg_US

* Better Off Dred
Engage King Dred in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty and slay 6 Drakkari Gutrippers or Drakkari Scytheclaw during his defeat.
Difficulty: 4
A very geared group will find this to be very simple but not all of us have that luxury but there is an easy solution: utilize an offtank or a second healer.
There shouldn't be a need to switch out anyone for this achievement if one of the three DPS in the group can fill either role. There is no need to switch specs.
Utilize the offtank to pick up the incoming adds or have two healers keep up the sole tank while he tanks both.

* Oh Novos!
Defeat Novos the Summoner in Drak'Tharon Keep on Heroic Difficulty without allowing any undead minions to reach the floor.
Difficulty: 1
A lot of people have earned this achievement without knowing it was even one to begin with.
Keeping your tank, healer, and best DPS at the base of the steps send your other 2 DPS to the middle or higher on top of the stairs. Have them DPS everything they see except for the abominations.
Have them call out when they see one and just have the group run up and kill it then resume your normal positions. After a certain amount of time the boss will become attackable and the MOBs from the stairs will stop spawning.

The Violet Hold

* Defenseless
Defeat Cyanigosa in The Violet Hold without using Defense Control Crystals and with Prison Seal Integrity at 100% while in Heroic Difficulty.
Difficulty: 1
Not too much to say about a couple of achievements because they go beyond the point of being redundant.
But to be brief: make sure your tank is picking up all the MOBs as soon as they spawn to avoid the Prison Seal Integrity from dropping below 100%.

* Lockdown!
Defeat Xevozz, Lavanthor, Ichoron, Zuramat the Obliterator, Erekem, and Moragg in The Violet Hold on Heroic Difficulty.
Difficulty: 1
Just keep running Heroic Violet Hold every day until you can check this one off. It's just a "takes some time" kind of achievement.

* Dehydration
Defeat Ichoron in the Violet Hold on Heroic Difficulty without allowing any Ichor Globules to merge.
Difficulty: 2
During the entire fight with this boss, designate one of your DPS to stand right next to the Defense Control Crystal and be ready to click it as soon as Ichoron splits into Ichor Globules. Rinse and repeat until the boss is dead.

* A Void Dance
Defeat Zuramat the Obliterator in The Violet Hold without killing any void sentries.
Difficulty: 3
This is purely a DPS race. It is important to make use of all cooldowns while trying for this achievement. Do not neglect the use of any Shadow Resistance kind of group buffs.

Gundrak

* What the Eck?
Defeat Gal'darah in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty while under the effects of Eck Residue.
Difficulty: 1
During the heroic mode of Gundrak an extra boss is available named Eck the Ferocious. He occasionally uses a frontal cone effect that places the "Eck Residue" debuff on you.
The debuff has no side effects but it does go away on death which is the only challenging part to this achievement.
You need to kill the last boss without dying once after getting the buff or you'll be trying this one again another day.

* Share The Love
Defeat Gal'darah in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty and have 5 unique party members get impaled throughout the fight.
Difficulty: 3
This challenge practically demands an offtank and trying it without one might lead to a lot of headaches. Once your offtank has been impaled he can go ahead and get aggro from the boss and wait on your main tank to get impaled. Once everyone has been impaled, finish the boss off. Group makeup is a huge part of this achievement.

* Less-rabi
Defeat Moorabi in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty while preventing him from transforming into a mammoth at any point during the encounter.
Difficulty: 2
The easiest way to do this fight is to exploit it and that's exactly what we're going to do! By making use of someone who can either drop combat or kite this achievement becomes unnecessary to use interrupts. Have a DPS shoot the boss and run up the ramp in the next room as far as possible.
He should turn into a mammoth during this but it's okay! The person who is kiting can now go ahead and safely die. The boss will run back down to his starting room where he needs to be picked up by your tank.
He will still be in mammoth form but it is safe for your group to kill him. Assuming the original kiter did not release all five of you will receive this achievement.

* Snakes. Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?
Defeat Slad'ran in Gundrak on Heroic Difficulty without getting snake wrapped.
Difficulty: 2
Have your tank kite the boss up near the top of the ramp from the previous room while the DPS and healer are waiting on the very top. DPS the boss like normal and run out of LoS whenever he starts casting his big nuke.
The snakes spawn in the boss' original room so this buys you ample time to DPS the boss before snake wrap becomes an issue.

Halls of Stone

* Good Grief
Defeat the Maiden of Grief in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty in 1 minute or less.
Difficulty: 1
This is probably one of the easiest achievements for Glory of the Hero. If you have any kind of heroic gear in your group you might get this without even knowing it

* Brann Spankin' New
Defeat the Tribunal of Ages encounter in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty without allowing Brann Bronzebeard to take any damage.
Difficulty: 5
This difficulty of this achievement depends on the awareness and AoE abilities of your tank. Place the entire group at the steps entrance pick up every MOB you can.
The use of some kind of AoE slow (frost trap, piercing howl, earthbind totem for example) serves as an excellent means to buy your group time to catch MOBs that get away initially. If Brann Bronzebeard is hit, you can reset this encounter by running to the end of the hall.

* Abuse the Ooze
Defeat Sjonnir the Ironshaper in the Halls of Stone on Heroic Difficulty and kill 5 Iron Sludges during the encounter.
Difficulty: 4
Begin this boss encounter like normal by killing side MOBs and DPS the boss. Once the boss is below 50% health, stop DPS on him. Keep the DPS up on the side MOBs until Oozes start spawning. Allow only two to reach the center of the room while killing all other Oozes. The two will soon combine and turn into an Iron Sludge which can then be killed and the process can be completed.
It is important to not let the Oozes overflow because the Iron Sludge does an AoE poison volley which can get pretty nasty. This is just a long fight involving some coordination between two of your DPS classes.

Halls of Lightning

* Timely Death
Defeat Loken in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty in 2 minutes or less.
Difficulty: 4
This one is easy to get if your whole group stays alive but in reality, everyone staying alive is the real achievement. It's important for the entire group to stack up on your tank for almost the entire encounter while making sure to stay at max melee range to buy yourself a second or so during his AoE nuke.
Everyone needs to turn around (not walk backwards) and run when he starts casting. When he's done, immediately get back in melee range of him. If healing is low for your group, it is advisable for the person with the lightning debuff to separate from the group by about 5 yards (no more or his aura will probably kill them) to avoid spreading the debuff.

* Lightning Shock
Defeat General Bjarngrim in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty while he has a Temporary Electrical Charge.
Difficulty: 1
The Temporary Electrical Charge places a buff on the boss that increases his damage by 30%. There is nothing different to the boss fight except that he just hits that much harder.
Like most DPS race achievements (or healer/tank ones like this) utilize all cooldowns whenever they're up. It is advisable for your tank to save his cooldowns for when the boss is in Berserker Stance.

* Shatter Resistant
Defeat Volkhan in the Halls of Lightning on Heroic Difficulty without allowing him to shatter more than 4 Brittle Golems.
Difficulty: 2
This is one more of the DPS race achievements. Have your tank pick up the Golems that spawn while the DPS ignores them and zergs the boss. Nothing else to it.

The Culling of Stratholme

* The Culling of Time
Defeat the Infinite Corruptor in The Culling of Stratholme on Heroic Difficulty.
Difficulty: 5
The Infinite Corruptor is a boss that is only available if your group can clear to him in less than 25 minutes. This involves killing 10 separate groups, 3 trash pulls and 3 bosses, and another long hallway. Until you have a geared group, utilizing class composition is your best bet to get this boss (who also drops a guaranteed flying drake!)
The boss takes around 2 minutes to kill with an undergeared group to give yourself an idea of what time frame you're looking at. Utilize as many AoE classes as you can and make sure to bring someone capable of dispelling poisons as they are the biggest debuff during this zone.

* Zombiefest!
Kill 100 Risen Zombies in 1 minute in The Culling of Stratholme on Heroic Difficulty.
Difficulty: 4
There are 85 zombies in the first street area and more in the back. In order to snag Zombiefest! you need to kill the first boss, clear the spawning packs until the second boss spawns.
The second boss needs to be kited all the way to the Inn with the tank, healer, and your best AoE DPS. The other two DPS need to run to the front street while waiting on zombies to repop. When they do, everyone needs to AoE as much as possible. Both "groups" will get credit for the other groups kill so being spread out is okay here. Once the achievement is earned you can DPS down the second boss. It is important to note that once the second boss is killed that no more zombies will respawn.

Utgarde Pinnacle

* The Incredible Hulk
Force Svala Sorrowgrave to kill a Scourge Hulk on Heroic Difficulty in Utgarde Pinnacle.
Difficulty: 2
There is a Scourge Hulk in the same room that can be utilized for this achievement. While Svala Sorrowgrave talks to Arthas your group needs to DPS the Scourge Hulk down to less than 9,000 health (make sure not to kill it though).
Treat the boss like normal and during the sacrifice portion of the fight have your tank drag the Scourge Hulk to where he will be hit by the sword.

* Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi
Defeat Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty within 3 minutes of starting the gauntlet event.
Difficulty: 4
The method used for this achievement is the same one used for My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time. Harpooners spawn during the gauntlet event every other wave.
Your group can lazily kill wave after wave until each member loots one Harpoon. After they do, run out of the gauntlet room and the boss will reset.
Run back in quickly and get to the end of the hallway before the boss reappears. When you're ready, have someone run up to the boss to start the gauntlet.
AoE down all the mobs that spawn while everyone stands inside the room so as to avoid the boss' breath ability. Ignore the first time he passes but the second time it says he's within range of the harpoons have everyone run out and shoot so he lands. Finish up the rest of the MOBs and DPS the boss down. You will have a spare 45 seconds to a minute if done correctly. Two achievements all in one!

* My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time
Defeat Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty after having killed Grauf from 100% to dead in a single pass.
Difficulty: 4
The method used for this achievement is the same one used for Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi. Harpooners spawn during the gauntlet event every other wave.
Your group can lazily kill wave after wave until each member loots one Harpoon. After they do, run out of the gauntlet room and the boss will reset.
Run back in quickly and get to the end of the hallway before the boss reappears. When you're ready, have someone run up to the boss to start the gauntlet.
AoE down all the mobs that spawn while everyone stands inside the room so as to avoid the boss' breath ability. Ignore the first time he passes but the second time it says he's within range of the harpoons have everyone run out and shoot so he lands. Finish up the rest of the MOBs and DPS the boss down. You will have a spare 45 seconds to a minute if done correctly. Two achievements all in one!

* King's Bane
Defeat King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in the party triggering Bane.
Difficulty: 3
There are two ways to earn this achievement. One way is to treat it like a DPS race and get the boss down every 20% in under 20 seconds every time.
If you do this, he will never cast Bane. If the group does not have this kind of DPS they will need to watch for the boss' buff bar.
Whenever Bane comes up everyone needs to stop all attacks and wait for the buff to fall off. If it sounds simple, it's because it is.

The Oculus

* Experienced Drake Rider
On three different visits to The Oculus, get credit for defeating Ley-Guardian Eregos while riding an Amber, Emerald, and Ruby drake on Heroic Difficulty.
Difficulty: 1
This achievement is simply earned by utilizing a different drake while killing the last boss three times. Nothing really to it. Easy achievement!

* Make It Count
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty within 20 minutes of Drakos the Interrogator's death.
Difficulty: 4
There is no point in reinventing the wheel. jaxsonbateman from Wowhead posted an excellent guide to this achievement so all credit goes to him:

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1. As soon as the first boss dies, everyone grabs an amber drake. These are the dps mounts, and are all you need for the few azure drakes you'll need to kill.
2. To actually kill the azure drakes, open with a time shock, then time stop, then do a heavy time shock (due to the charges on the mob). Repeat on any subsequent mobs, with other drakes using time stop.
3. Kill as few drakes as possible - this is achieved by flying directly up at the start, and flying out and around.
4. Kill the eastern constructs, the western constructs, then travel around the inner circle from southwest to southeast. Use as little CC as possible, and kill the casters first. Move out of blizzards/flamestrikes.
5. Kill only the drakes near enough to the second boss' platform to aggro during battle, drop down and engage. Kill, quickly loot, fly to the third boss.
6. Fly between the four third boss positions, loot, fly back to the drake vendor and pick up two ambers, two emeralds and a ruby.
7. Kill Eregos as expediently as possible. One amber should constantly use temporal rift (except for when they have 7+ charges, at which time they should lance) and the other should be constantly lancing to build up the other amber's charges - it's very unlikely with the damage from the two greens and the red that both could channel temporal rift and get charges.

* Ruby Void
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using a Ruby Drake.
Difficulty: 4
The easiest way to do this achievement is to utilize 4 Emerald Drakes and 1 Amber Drake. The group needs to kite Ley-Guardian Eregos around the top for quite awhile while the Amber Drake keeps the 100% damage buff on the boss. The drakes that spawn move very slowly and are easily kiteable throughout the encounter.
It is vital that everyone stays together which will make this achievement rather simple.

* Emerald Void
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using an Emerald Drake.
Difficulty: 4
This achievement is considered one of the hardest though it can be made a lot simpler if you think out of the box. Your group should get 2 Ruby Drakes and 3 Amber Drakes.
Your healer needs to be one of the two Ruby Drakes. Have the entire group stack above the platform where the chest spawns and let the healer begin tanking while the group goes all out.
When the first Ruby Drake die, the healer will fall to the platform where he can begin healing the other 4 drakes and the other Ruby Drake can get aggro.

* Amber Void
Defeat Ley-Guardian Eregos in The Oculus on Heroic Difficulty without anyone in your party using an Amber Drake.
Difficulty: 4
Utilize 3 Emerald Drakes and 2 Ruby Drakes. Have the two tanks switch aggro back and forth while 2 Emerald Drakes heal the tank with aggro while the current offtank DPSs down MOBs.
Use the last Emerald Drake to heal the two tank healers.

Engineering 375-450 Powerleveling Guide

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Engineering is yet another primary crafting profession that can create many cool, useful and amazing items. The highlight of WotLK for Engineering is none other than the ultra expensive motorcycle land mount. Another personal favorite of mine is the Noise Machine for spell casters or in my case... my mage which helps a lot during AoE farming.

Alrighty, let us have a look at where the trainers are for Engineering:

Alliance:
Sock Brightbolt - 57,72 in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra.
Tisha Longbridge - 59,64 in Valgarde, Howling Fjord.

Horde:
Jamesina Watterly - 78,30 in Vengence Landing, Howling Fjord.

Neutral:
Justin Oshenko - 35,25 in Dalaran.
Findle Whistlesteam (Gnome Engineering) - 39,25 in Dalaran.
Didi the Wrench (Goblin Engineering) - 39,25 in Dalaran.

Here is the powerleveling guide for Engineering 375 to 450. Kindly note that some of the steps might be overlapping, so use the one which you have mats for or can be bought cheaply from the auction house:

375-385
Overcharged Capacitor - 4 Cobalt Bar, 1 Crystallized Earth.

385-390
Explosive Decoy – 1 Frostweave Cloth, 3 Volatile Blasting Trigger

390-400
Nitro Boots – 6 Volatile Blasting Trigger, 6 Handful of Cobalt Bolts

400-405
Diamond-Cut Refractor Scope – 2 Handful of Cobalt Bolts , 1 Froststell Tube

405-415
Saronite Bomb - 5 Saronite Bar, 1 Volatile Blasting Trigger

415-420
Mana Injector Kit - 12 Saronite Bar, 2 Crystallized Water

420-430
Mechanized Snow Googles - 8 Saronite bar, 2 Borean Leather, 1 Eternal shadow

430-435
Noise Machine - 2 Froststell Tube, 2 Overcharged Capacitor, 8 Handful of Cobalt Bolts

435-450
Gnomish Army Knife – 10 Saronite Bar, Skinning knife, Mining Pick, Blacksmith Hammer

440-450
Armored Titanium Googles – 8 Titanium Bar, 4 Heavy Borean Leather, 2 Sky Sapphire, 4 Eternal Earth, 1 Frozen Orb