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!

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 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

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:

Quote:
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 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

This is my Wintergrasp mining and gas cloud route. It's still good even without engineering, but engineering makes it even more amazing. Wintergrasp is such a fantastic zone because there are so few people that go there due to being wary of PVP. When used at night, I can easily get a stack of Titanium or more, mixed with the Saronite and Eternal Fire which adds up to a lot of gold per hour. (On my server it can be anywhere between 500g and 800g/hour)

I usually start off at the Fortress if my faction controls Wintergrasp and if we don't, then I fly in on my mount to the fire Revenant area. I find it best to follow the path counter clockwise, because some of the nodes are on hills and looping back is a waste of time.


The map is self explanatory except there are a few spots that can be a little tricky. If you look closely at the northwest corner there's a line that goes around, only go that way if there's a node that seems out of reach on your minimap then you jump down onto it. Once you get to the big river/lake in the middle, you can run on either side (or right down the middle with waterwalking).

Once you get to the southeast corner, this is where engineering comes in handy. I marked 4 red dots on the map where clouds usually spawn. NOTE: If your faction controls wintergrasp, I would suggest killing the Flame Revenants as it will give you a decent amount of Crystallized Fire. After the fire area after going north you'll come to a cliff, just jump off the waterfall so you don't die.

There are some notes at the south which I didn't highlight because by the time you get back to where you started on the map, it's respawned already anyway. So going to the south area for me is wasting precious farming time.

Well versed Alchemist are always treasured in any serious raiding guilds for their valuable potions, elixirs and flasks and more so with the latest WotLK expansion. As regularly mentioned, Herbalism profession would be the perfect companion to lower the cost of powerleveling Alchemy.

Once again, let's have a look at where the trainers are located:

Alliance:
Lanolis Dewdrop - 58,62 in Valgarde, Howling Fjord.
Falorn Nightwhisper - 57,71 in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra.

Horde:
Arthur Henslowe - 41,54 in Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra.
Wilhelmina Renel - 78,28 in Vengence Landing, Howling Fjord.

Neutral:
Linzy Blackbolt - 42,32 in Dalaran.


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

375-380
Pigmy Oil - 1 Pygmy Suckerfish

380-385
Potion of Nigthmares - 1 Goldcloves, 2 Taladra´s Rose, Imbued Vial

385-390
Elixir of Spirit - 2 Taladra´s Rose, Imbued Vial

385-395
Elixir of Mighty Strength - 2 Tiger Lily, 1 Imbued Vial

395-405
Elixir of Mighty Agility - 2 Goldclover, 2 Adder´s Tongue, 1 Imbued Vial

395-415
Indestructible Potion - 2 Icethorn, 1 Lifebloom, 1 Imbued Vial

410-415-422
Runic Mana Potion - 2 Lichbloom, 1 GoldCloves, 1 Imbued Vial

400-420-425
Migthy Alchemist Stone – 20 Adder´s Togue, 15 Tiger Lily, Frost Lotus
Mercurial Alchemist Stone – 20 Goldclover, 2 Eternal Life, Frost Lotus
Indestructible Alchemist Stone – 20 Deadnettle, 12 Pygmy Oil, 1 Frost Lotus

425-435
Earthsiege Diamond – 1 Darkjade, 1 Huge Citrine, 1 Eternal Fire

430-440
Skyflare Diamond – 1 Bloodstone, 1 Chalcedony, 1 Eternal Air

435-450
Flask of Endless Rage - 7 Lichbloom, 3 Fire Leaf, 1 Frost Lotus, 1 Enchanted Vial
Flask of Pure Mojo - 7 Icethorn, 3 Pigmy Oil 1 Frost Lotus, 1 Enchanted Vial
Flask of Stoneblood - 7 Lichbloom, 3 Cristallized Life, 1 Frost Lotus, 1 Enchanted Vial
Flask of the Frost Wyrm – 5 Icethorn, 5 Lichbloom, 1 Frost Lotus, 1 Enchanted Vial

This is a guide on how to get the Raven Lord mount SOLO and EASILY. Just to set the record straight... this is both an Exploit and a Guide.

First of all, you MUST be 80.. a Druid, and have Swift Flight Form (To Summon Anzu) but do note that this method is slow and requires lots of patience.

Getting to Anzu's Room:
To get here, you must Stealth all the way through. Note, the first boss has Stealth Detect, so go around the room as far from him as possible.

First of all, stealth into the room, clear a few packs in Anzu's room - you need to clear enough so you don't pull any while fighting Anzu, and you need to clear the trash in one corner. Clear the Pack on the LEFT HAND SIDE of Anzu's Room. LoS them behind the Crypt and NUKE them down, use all CC possible.

When you're ready, summon Anzu, stand next to the Crypt on the South West side of the room, just in range of the Eagle Spirit, but out of range of Anzu - he is the bird on the East.

STRAIGHT AWAY, you MUST keep HoTs on the Eagle Spirit, if you don't, the Eagle Spirit will turn to stone and Anzu will start Regaining Stealth.

Heres a macro:
/target Eagle Spirit
/cast Lifebloom
/cast Rejuvenation
/cast Lifebloom
/Cast Lifebloom

Spam that Macro. The Eagle Spirit MUST NEVER AT ANY CIRCUMSTANCES NOT HAVE HOTS.

Keeping these Hots up on the Eagle Spirit and being Out of Range from Anzu keeps you out of Combat - yes, that's why, he was on 105K HP earlier and I went out of Combat, that is why he doesn't summon any adds.

YOU MUST NOT AT ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE ANY SPELL ON ANZU, JUST DON'T EVEN TARGET HIM (Unless to check HP)

So you must be thinking 'If we're out of combat, and we haven't actually tagged him, how does he die?'. Simple, the Eagle Spirit does 300~ damage a second. Oh yes ladies and gents, 300! And Anzu has 236K HP... so it takes a while.

'Okay, fair enough, the Eagle Spirit kills him.. but surely then we must not get loot right?'

You may think that, but this is how you counter that pickle:
When Anzu has 2% or under. YOU. MUST. KILL. HIM. WITH 1 SPELL.

Starfire, Wrath, Moonfire, ANYTHING to kill him with ONE SPELL. If you do not kill him with one spell, poof - immune, adds inc, etc. Hope you guys enjoy this and good luck!

Blacksmithing becomes even more exciting with the introduction of socketting at 400. More importantly, it now has even more impactful crafted epics for warriors and paladins irrespective of their talent specs.

To begin this Blacksmithing 375-450 guide proper, let's check out the respective trainers location:

Alliance:
Rosina Rivet - 59,63 in Valgarde, Howling Fjord.
Argo Strongstout - 57,66 in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra.
Brandig - 28,74 in Frosthold, The Storm Peaks.


Horde:
Kristen Smythe - 58,28 in Vengence Landing, Howling Fjord.
Josric Fame - 59,63 in Venomspite, Dragonblight.
Borus Ironbender - 36,47 in Agmar's Hammer, Dragonblight.


Neutral:
Alard Schmied - 44,27 in Dalaran.


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

# Kindly view my earlier post to get Blacksmithing from 375-425 with just one recipe.

375-380
Cobalt Gauntlets – 5 Cobalt Bar

380-385
Spiked Cobalt Boots – 7 Cobalt Bar

385-390
Sure-Fire Shuriken – 7 Cobalt Bar
Spiked Cobalt Shoulders – 7 Cobalt Bar
Spiked Cobalt Chestpiece – 7 Cobalt Bar

390-395
Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets – 8 Cobalt Bar

395-400
Spiked Cobalt Belt – 8 Cobalt Bar
Spiked Cobalt Legplates – 8 Cobalt Bar

400-405
Spiked Cobalt Bracer – 8 Cobalt Bar
Horned Cobalt Helm – 8 Cobalt Bar

405-410
Tempered Saropnite Shoulder – 12 Saronite Bar
Brilliant Saronite Boots – 12 Saronite Bar

410-415
Tempered Saronite Bracers – 13 Saronite Bar

415-420
Tempered Saronite Gauntlets – 14 Saronite Bar

420-425
Titanium Weapon Chain – 2 Saronite Bar, 1 Titanium Bar
Titanium Shield Spike - 2 Saronite Bar, 1 Titanium Bar

420-430
Daunting Handguard – 12 Saronite, 1 Eternal earth

425- 435
Savage Saronite Hauberk – 14 Saronite Bar, 1 Eternal Earth
Ornate Saronite Hauberk – 14 Saronite Bar, 1 Eternal Earth
Daunting Legplates – 14 Saronite Bar, 1 Eternal Earth

440-450
Spiked Titansteel Treads - 4 Saronite Bar, 3 Titansteel Bar, 1 Frozen orb
Brilliant Titansteel Treads - 4 Saronite Bar, 3 Titansteel Bar, 1 Frozen orb
Tempered Titansteel Treads - 4 Saronite Bar, 3 Titansteel Bar, 1 Frozen orb


Last but not least... here is a guide for material conversions:
- 1 Cobalt ore equals 1 cobalt bar
- 2 Saronite ore equals 1 saronite bar
- 2 Titanium ore equals 1 titanium bar
- 3 Titanium bar, 1 Eternal Fire, 1 Eternal Earth, 1 Eternal Shadow equals 1 Titansteel
- 9 Crystallized earth faz um eternal earth
- 9 Crystallized water faz um eternal water
- 9 Crystallized fire equals 1 Eternal Fire
- 9 Crystallized air equals 1 Eternal Air
- 9 Crystallized shadow equals 1 Eternal Shadow
- Frozen Orb can be purchased with 10 Emblem of Heroism

Firstly in order to do this, you need to be Horde (sorry to my treasured alliance readers). Then preferably you have a Healer and a couple of AOE'ers along if you are not level 80.

There's a quest in storm peaks called Sniffing out the Perpetrators.

Start this quest, then mount the tiger next to Khaliisi, but immediately dismount. Do this rapidly for about 10-20 times or more if you can handle them. This will spawn a massive stream of these Stormforged Pursuers.

After spawning, they will start chasing the stream of cats that you are spawning, then turn around and go for the person who spawned them (which is you).



Basically, they're super easy to kill, deal almost no damage, drop 20 silver each, Frostweave Cloth, occasional greens and even epics and also some experience as well. So if you are a level 80 and planning to farm here, bring along a non-level 80 friend for some free exp. Then all you have to do is to just pick them all up and aoe them down, you'll probably need a healer and an AOE'er for this, but depending on your spec you may be able to solo grind them.

The gold per hour you can make using this is totally insane, I hope it's useful to someone.