Wrath of the Lich King Wrap Up Post
November 12, 2008 by Zuggy · Leave a Comment
The time has finally come, we are now just a few short hours away from the greatest expansion World of Warcraft has ever seen. I know I can’t hit all the changes in this wrap up, but I’ll do my best to hit all the major additions, changes, and other note worthy points regarding the WotLK.
WotLK Preparations
General
- WotLK Mounts
- Flying Mounts in Northrend
- Profession Bonuses and Perks
- Dual Specs Feature
- New WotLK Enchants
- Updated Horde and Alliance Racials
- WotLK Titles
- Profession Daily Quests Token System
- WotLK Spellpower Change
Classes
Patch Information
Achievements
- Achievement System Details
- PvP Achievements - Part 1
- PvP Achievements - Part 2
Videos
PvE
PvP
- WotLK Honor Gear Prices
- WotLK PvP Changes
- Wintergrasp Boss Drops
- Season 5 Honor Gear
- Season 5 Arena Armor
Guides
- Knights of the Ebon Blade Reputation Guide
- Jewelcrafting: Gem Perfection
- WotLK Enchanting Guide
- WotLK Enchanting Scrolls
- WotLK Alchemy Items
- Inscription Shoulder Enchants
- Inscription: Glyphs Compiled
note: more to come later
Gold Making Tip #5 - Mining and Jewelcrafting
September 17, 2008 by Zuggy · 2 Comments
This weeks gold farming tip is really more of a preview of a major concept I’d like to setup with my next video. Which details how we can use mining and jewelcrafting together to make a lot of gold through the process of auction house speculation, prospecting, crafting and ore farming.
In my opinion mining is the one of the most profitable professions currently out there. Granted, it has to be used and I really think is where most players just miss the boat. There’s a common misconception that to farm crazy gold per hour you just go wave a magic wand and poof…gold. In the immortal words of President George W. Bush…
if there was a magic wand, I’d wave it…(lawl bushisms)
But back to the topic at hand. Mining is pretty crazy as far as gold farming is concerned, in my experience just an hour worth of ore farming per day could yield 300-400g. It’s an excellent source of income I’ve used for years now and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a pretty easy profession you can use to bring in constitent and repeated profits.
Aldor Reputation Guide
June 21, 2008 by Zuggy · 2 Comments
The aldor is the second of the main factions you’ll encounter in the Burning Crusade. But, as I mentioned in my Scryer reputation guide, you can only choose one of these.
How do I choose Aldor?
To choose the aldor as your faction you’ll have to first complete the Shattrath City introduction quest. Once you’ve had the grand tour of the place simply talk to Khadgar, he will allow you to choose either the scryers or aldor at this point.
Make sure you don’t choose the wrong one because it is incredibly difficult, time consuming, and expensive to change your reputation later.
How do you gain reputation with the Aldor?
Gaining reputation with the aldor is fairly straight forward. You have a few basic avenues to increase your reputation. The first one you’ll encounter is obviously questing.
There are aldor quests located in nearly every zone after you first make it to Shattrath City. I’m not going to list all of them out, but generally speaking keep an eye out for any NPC quest givers that have an “Aldor” tag under their name, or are Draenie.
Farming Mark of Kil’Jaeden
The first place you can farm for your reputation is in Terokkar forest. You’ll be seeking out Mark of Kil’Jaeden. These items drop off nearly all of the Cabal soldiers located in central Terokkar forest.
Farming Mark of Sargeras
This will be one of your primary avenues for gaining reputation. Mark of Sargeras drop off mobs over level 67 and are generally located in Shadowmoon Valley, Netherstorm, and some 5-man instances.
The mobs they drop off of are easy to kill, but you’ll want to be at least level 67 before attempting to venture to the zones where they are located. Generally speaking any mob classified as a “demon” will drop these marks.
Farming Fel Armaments
Finally, the last method of gaining reputation is through fel armaments. Quite honestly, this is your best bet for gaining reputation. Not only do you gain the most reputation (350 per), but you will also receive a holy dust
You can use this dust to purchase the aldor shoulder enchants. Since you’ll probably be changing your shoulder from time to time you’ll always need new enchants. So it’s best if you can purchase or farm enough fel armaments to not only gain reputation, but also to plan for your future shoulders.
To the left you ca see my favorite place to farm for fel armaments
Note: All of the above reputation items are turned in on the Aldor’s tier in Shattrath City
Aldor Shoulder Enchant Rewards
Inscription of Warding - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Vengeance - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Faith - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Discipline - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Greater Inscription of Warding - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Vengeance - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Faith - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Discipline - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Aldor Item Rewards
Anchorite’s Robes - Requires Honored
Vindicator’s Hauberk - Requires Revered
Lightwarden’s Band - Requires Revered
Auchenai Staff - Requires Revered
Medallion of the Lightbearer - Requires Exalted
Vindicator’s Brand - Requires Exalted
Aldor Tabard - Requires Exalted
Aldor Blacksmithing Plans Rewards
Flamebane Bracers - Requires Friendly
Flamebane Gloves - Requires Honored
Flamebane Breastplate - Requires Revered
Flamebane Helm - Required Exalted
Aldor Jewelcrafting Design Rewards
Gleaming Golden Draenite - Requires Friendly
Royal Shadow Draenite - Requires Honored
Pendant of Shadow’s End - Requires Exalted
Aldor Leatherworking Pattern Reawrds
Blastguard Belt - Requires Honored
Flamescale Belt - Requires Honored
Blastguard Boost - Requires Revered
Flamescale Boots - Requires Revered
Vindicator’s Armor Kit - Requires Revered
Blastguard Pants - Requires Exalted
Flamescale Leggings - Requires Exalted
Aldor Tailoring Pattern Rewards
Flameheart Bracers - Requires Friendly
Flameheart Gloves - Requires Honored
Silver Spellthread - Requires Honored
Flameheart Vest - Requires Exalted
Golden Spellthread - Requires Exalted
Sunwell Island Dailies Questing Guide
Personally I’ve never been much of a fan daily quests. Up to patch 2.4 all the quests were simply too time consuming and too far spread apart to really justify the time investment they took to complete them. If you’ve read my gold farming guide then you already know I don’t even mention daily questing as a legitimate method to farming gold quickly.
However, this really changed with the addition of Sunwell Island. Unlike previous daily quests all of these quests are located fairly close together, and are very quick to complete. Allowing you to quickly gain reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive (Sunwell Faction).
Here are the 8 repeatable daily quests you’ll want to pick up on this farming run.
- The Battle Must Go On
- Taking The Harbor
- Arm The Wards
- Further Conversions
- Intercept The Reinforcements
- The Air Strikes Must Continue
- Don’t Stop Now
- Know Your Ley Lines
*Note: Many of these quest names are not exact as they are 2nd level quests after you’ve completed the initial quest / phases of the realm event. Though they original names should be similar.
Now, you can complete these quest in any order you choose to, but being the power farmer that I am I’m always searching for the absolute fastest way to accomplish something. So far, here’s the best route I’ve come up with.
- Pick up all 8 quests from locations A, B, and C. Starting with A and heading south and southwest to C
- Kill your 6 demons and stick the banner in the Emissary of Hate at location 1
- Before moving on, make sure you use your Astromancer’s Crystal to take the ley line reading at the portal.
- Next, head northwest to location 2 and kill summoners, marksman, and blood knights. It’s a good idea to kill mobs for the quest near the Bloodcrystal (it’s in the building directly southeast of location A) so you can do your next ley line reading.
- Once you’ve completed this quest head west again to location 3. Here you need to kill Erratic Sentries, Wretched Devourers, and Wretched Fiends.
- After you kill the sentries use the Attuned Crystal Cores to convert them for the quest, also, make sure you are looting your mana remnants for the wretched fiend / devourer quest
- After you’ve completed these 2 head Northeast to the flight master (location 4), hop on the flight to intercept the reinforcements.
- Bomb the 3 ships, kill the 6 mobs, then fly back to the flight master via the boat you started on
- Next, take the flight to undertake an air strike. It might take you two tries you first time around, but once you get the hang of it you can kill all the mobs on the first pass with your bombs
- Once you’ve landed go to one of the large red crystals between locations A and B, here click on the mana remnants to turn complete the quest.
- Now, head far east to location 5, here you need to kill Naga Myrmidons for their keys, use these to unlock the chests located around the shore. Note, only Myrmidons drop the keys.
- The final ley line reading location is a decent distance down the coast, so it’s a good idea to clear to it while your killing nagas anyway.
- Finally, return to town to turn in all your quests!
Primal Air and Fire Farming Guide
June 20, 2008 by Zuggy · Leave a Comment
I’m not sure how cluttered this might be depending on server, but undeniably my favorite place to farm is Shadowmoon Valley. In Zul’jin’s server economy primal fire goes for easily 30-40g a piece and Primal air about 20-25.
Primal Air Farming
Check out the Netherwing Fields(on your map should be the place with crystals) and pretty much check every turn and crevice and you’ll be sure to find plenty of Enraged Air Spirits. Drop-rate wise it is usually good and I can’t complain and it’s doubtful you’ll go for more than 2 minutes without an elemental to kill.
Primal Fire Farming
Check out the fel pits, these are the pools of lava on your map. Around here you will find many wandering Enraged Fire Spirits, and drop rates here for me are decent so it doesn’t sway too far from the Primal Air.
If you spend even just 45-60 min solidly farming these two locations you easily already have 2-4 Primal air and 3-5 Primal fire. For me this is amazing as I don’t really save up my gold very much and burn through it with repairs, sockets, enchants and respecs. Hope this helps everyone and best of luck.
Strategy courtesy of S-Scythe
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