WotLK Launch Extravaganza – Mega Sale on Gold Mastery Guide & More!

As I write this we are just a few short hours from the official launch of the Wrath of the Lich King in north america. Soon we’ll all be on our way to Northrend and level 80…but until then, it’s time to celebrate!

In celebration of the Wrath of the Lich King’s launch I’m holding a special on my book, Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide. If you purchase now you’ll receive an instant $12.00 off the regular price! Your purchase will help support Zug Gaming as we move forward to the WotLK beyond. Just my way of saying thanks for helping Zug Gaming become such an amazing site and community.

What’s in Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide?

• The secrets to 300g+ an hour!
• An investment for the future, free updates for life! (including WotLK)
• Auction House Domination, including advanced tutorial and secret market niches
• Secret grinding locations
• Professions gold mastery
• Entry to the Zug Gaming Total Access Club
• Invitation to Total Access Club Events
• Free and unlimited one on one email support
• a 100% unconditional money back guarantee, if it doesn’t work for you I don’t want to keep you money

Heard enough?…Find out how you can get your copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide now!

This sale will last all the way through Sunday (11/16).

More Launch Night News

Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest!

In addition the the huge sale on my gold mastery guide I’d also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the Best Haircut of Azeroth Contest is still open for entry! Now is your chance to show the world your best hair styles using the new WoW barber shop feature. Check out this post for full contest details and see how you can win a free 60 day game card and a copy of Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide!

Site News for WotLK

Just a few final notes regarding upcoming guides and stratgies on Zug Gaming. First off, thanks for all the concerned emails regarding the talent spec guides. WoWhead made a few changes to their code and as a result left 100% of my linked talent builds broken. I’ll be creating new level 80 talent builds for all classes in the coming weeks, at which point these will be fixed.

While we’re on the topic of talent specs I’d like to go ahead and announce the rebirth of the Zug Gaming Talent Calculator. It’s fairly close, but my limited coding knowlege is slowing my progress. I’m currently looking for a programmer fluent in javascript to assist me in the final steps of completion of this project.

Additionally, I’ve got big plans for a host of new guides and strategies. I’ll be covering everything from arena to dungeons, professions to gold farming, if it’s in the WotLK you’ll find it here!

Relaunch of Zug Gaming Newsletter Club

I started the Zug Gaming Club several months ago, and while it got off to a solid start obligations with school and work kept me from really spending as much attention on it as I would have liked. With most of those obligations under relative control I’ve decided to start the Zug Gaming Club back up!

You can sign up for free using the form to the right in the side bar. After signing up you’ll receive a confirmation email, make sure you click this to start receiving members updates, announcments, tips, and more!

Join the Team!

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Wrath of the Lich King Wrap Up Post

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

• What should I do get ready?
• Make the Most Gold in WotLK

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

• Death Knight abilities
• Death Knight FAQ

Patch Information

• Patch 3.0.3 Info
• Upcoming WotLK Patches

Achievements

• Achievement System Details
• PvP Achievements – Part 1
• PvP Achievements – Part 2

Videos

• WotLK Cinematic Intro
• Engineering Motorcycle Mount Video
• WotLK Exploration Video

PvE

• Heroic Dungeon Loot List

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

Class Forums Scrapped in Place of Role Discussions

Well, I don’t think I’m alone when I say I didn’t see this coming. As of November 6th Blizzard will completely do away with each of the class discussion forums in place of 3 “role” discussion boards. These 3 boards will include:

• Tanking
• Healing
• Damage Dealing

I’ll be honest, I’m not all that happy about this change. I really have enjoyed the rogue forum community discussions, even as short sighted and rant-like as they could degenerate into…they were exciting never the less. It’s quite sad to see them go.

Here’s the Nethaera official announcement.

With the upcoming release of Wrath of the Lich King and the many changes the expansion brings to classes and mechanics, we have decided to update our forums to make it easier for players to hold constructive discussions. To that end, we have created three role-based forums — Tanking, Damage Dealing, and Healing. Why?

Common ground for common roles. The new structure provides central places for players of diverse classes and specs to discuss their common roles. Until now, there was no one obvious forum for a holy paladin to discuss Arena healing tactics with a restoration shaman, or for a protection warrior to talk tanking mechanics with a feral druid. This often led to splintered, fractured, and redundant discussions. In addition, the original class forum structure never properly took the impact of talents into account, lumping together a shadow priest and a holy priest (for example) when that didn’t necessarily make sense.

Celebrate diversity! While a tank tanks and a healer heals, the specific ways each class and talent build go about these roles are very distinct — and the addition of new abilities in Wrath of the Lich King will continue to add even more ways to play. The new forum structure will still be a place for a frost mage (for example) to discuss tricks of the trade with other frost mages, while at the same time facilitating an understanding of the unique tools that rogues or other damage-dealers have to perform similar functions.

Help us help you. The new forums will also allow the community team and developers to follow discussions and gather feedback more effectively as the game continues to evolve — which, ultimately, translates to a better World of Warcraft for you.

The current individual class forums will remain active for now, but this may change. You will be able to use the new role forums tomorrow via the links below:

Tanking:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?forumId=7287131

Healing:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?forumId=7287130

Damage Dealing:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?forumId=7287129

WotLK Pre-Launch Event Begins!

The new Wrath of the Lich King pre-launch event has begun on all US servers. Zombies are spawning throughout the world and are infecting the citizens of Azeroth!

Currently we are in Phase 1 of the zombie invasion.  You can become infected by getting attacked by another person who is a zombie, zombie NPCs that spawn, or conspicuous crates.  Once you are infected you will gain 5 zombie abilities and become a member of a special zombie faction.  You can now attack members of either horde or alliance and you become friendly to all other zombies.  You will lose the zombie effect if you die or if you get cured.

Here is what is known so far:

• Caution, NPCs can become infected too, and they will transform into a ghoul of the same level.  This is especially dangerous for areas with elite guards in the cities.
  
• While as a ghoul, there is a constant DoT effect killing you; you must attack other players or NPCs to proc the “Bite” spell, which will heal you.  If you die to an NPC while a ghoul, you will lose durability.
• While infected, even going near an Argent Healer will cause them to cure you.
• From all accounts thus far, you become a zombie of your level, so low level players will have lower health and overall stats as a zombie than level 70 players.

Here is an official mini-FAQ posted by Bornakk:

FAQ

Q: How do I become a zombie?
A: Disease-infected crates are scattered throughout the cities of Azeroth, spreading a sickness that transforms its sufferers into zombies. And of course, when zombies attack, their victims can be afflicted by the disease as well.

Q: How do you stop being a zombie?
A: The disease can be cured by other players who can cast ‘Cure Disease’ or by special healer NPCs in the cities. Once the disease has run its course and a character has become a zombie, the only cure is death.

Q: Can I become a zombie again?
A: Yes.

Q: As a zombie, what are some things I can/cannot do?
A: You can no longer cast the spells/abilities that you had as a normal character, and formerly friendly NPCs now consider you an enemy. You can, however, cast new, unique zombie spells.

Q: Anything else I should know while being a zombie?
A: As a zombie, you are part of a special faction that is friendly with all zombies and can converse with them, regardless of whether they were part of the Horde or Alliance in their mortal existences.

Stay tuned to Zuggaming.com to see how the event unfolds.  As details surface, we will keep you updated!

World of WarHammer?

Taking queues from the recent success of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, Tigole has posted about some upcoming ideas for the future of WoW PvP, many of which mirror the PvP style that Warhammer has implemented.  Source

Actually, we have been discussing new battlegrounds quite a bit lately. Wrath of the Lich King will feature Strand of the Ancients (attack/defend) as well as Wintergrasp (non-instanced, world PvP).

But past that, we are exploring ideas that would involve expanding our Battleground content in future patches and beyond. We believe we have some strong ideas for improving Battlegrounds and PvP as a whole in the game and we’re definitely going to focus on improvements in the future. Now, it’s very early to be talking about some of this stuff but I think it’s important for the community to know that it’s on our minds.

Our general thought is that we could provide more BG content over time. The BG content that we could provide could be of higher quality with a higher degree of accessibility. Overall, we’d like to have more content and variety. We also want the gameplay experience in the BGs to be better directed. We’re also exploring the concept of a complimentary “competitive” bg system as well. Over time, we’d like the focus of PvP to shift back to being more BG-centric and more focused on Horde versus Alliance — the core of our game.

We’re also planning on improving some Battleground and PvP features in general. For example, we want to give you the ability to queue for Battlegrounds from anywhere in the world. We’re also going to explore EXP gain through the PvP system as well as low level itemization to support that.

Please don’t take this post as a promise. This won’t be an overnight process. Not all of these things are set in stone and guaranteed to happen. It would take us a while to shift in this direction. But these are some of the current thoughts on the development team. I think it’s important for you guys to know some of our thought process in regards to PvP.

In my opinion, everybody wins here.  Even though I didn’t enjoy my time in the Warhammer beta, I always root for its success.  If Warhammer stays successful, fans of WoW will be getting content sooner rather than later and the same goes for Warhammer players.  As Borat would say, “Great Success”.

WotLK Enchanting Scrolls

Enchanting has always been a great profession, and it’s getting even better in the wrath of the lich king. Enchanting scrolls are the newest addition to the profession and will allow enchanters to put any enchant onto a scroll. This scroll can then be traded or sold to another player, who can simply apply the enchant themselves, allowing enchanters the ability to put items on the auction house.

The scrolls are easy to make, you just need the regular enchant materials and a special parchment created by inscribers.

Make sure you check out the complete list of WotLK enchants.

Boots Scroll of Enchant Boots – Agility Scroll of Enchant Boots – Boar’s Speed Scroll of Enchant Boots – Cat’s Swiftness Scroll of Enchant Boots – Dexterity Scroll of Enchant Boots – Fortitude Scroll of Enchant Boots – Greater Agility Scroll of Enchant Boots – Greater Fortitude Scroll of Enchant Boots – Greater Spirit Scroll of Enchant Boots – Greater Stamina Scroll of Enchant Boots – Greater Vitality Scroll of Enchant Boots – Lesser Agility Scroll of Enchant Boots – Lesser Spirit Scroll of Enchant Boots – Lesser Stamina Scroll of Enchant Boots – Minor Agility Scroll of Enchant Boots – Minor Speed Scroll of Enchant Boots – Minor Stamina Scroll of Enchant Boots – Spirit Scroll of Enchant Boots – Stamina Scroll of Enchant Boots – Surefooted Scroll of Enchant Boots – Vitality Bracers Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Assault Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Brawn Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Deflection Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Fortitude Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Greater Intellect Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Greater Spirit Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Greater Strength Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Healing Power Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Intellect Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Lesser Deflection Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Lesser Intellect Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Lesser Spirit Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Lesser Stamina Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Major Defense Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Major Intellect Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Mana Regeneration Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Agility Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Deflection Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Health Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Spirit Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Stamina Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Minor Strength Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Restore Mana Prime Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Spellpower Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Spirit Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Stamina Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Stats Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Strength Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Superior Healing Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Superior Spirit Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Superior Stamina Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Superior Strength Scroll of Enchant Bracers – Exceptional Intellect Chest Scroll of Enchant Chest – Defense Scroll of Enchant Chest – Exceptional Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Exceptional Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Exceptional Stats Scroll of Enchant Chest – Greater Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Greater Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Greater Mana Restoration Scroll of Enchant Chest – Greater Stats Scroll of Enchant Chest – Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Lesser Absorption Scroll of Enchant Chest – Lesser Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Lesser Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Lesser Stats Scroll of Enchant Chest – Major Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Major Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Major Resilience Scroll of Enchant Chest – Major Spirit Scroll of Enchant Chest – Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Minor Absorption Scroll of Enchant Chest – Minor Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Minor Mana Scroll of Enchant Chest – Minor Stats Scroll of Enchant Chest – Restore Mana Prime Scroll of Enchant Chest – Stats Scroll of Enchant Chest – Superior Health Scroll of Enchant Chest – Superior Mana Cloak Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Defense Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Dodge Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Fire Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Agility Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Arcane Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Fire Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Nature Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Greater Shadow Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Lesser Agility Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Lesser Fire Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Lesser Protection Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Lesser Shadow Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Major Armor Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Major Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Minor Protection Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Minor Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Resistance Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Spell Penetration Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Spell Piercing Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Stealth Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Steelweave Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Subtlety Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense

2H Weapon Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Agility Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Greater Impact Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Impact Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Lesser Impact Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Lesser Intellect Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Lesser Spirit Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Major Agility Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Major Intellect Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Major Spirit Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Minor Impact Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Savagery Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Superior Impact Weapon Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Agility Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Battlemaster Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Crusader Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Deathfrost Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Demonslaying Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Executioner Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Fiery Weapon Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Greater Agility Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Greater Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Healing Power Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Icy Chill Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Lesser Beastslayer Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Lesser Elemental Slayer Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Lesser Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Lifestealing Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Major Healing Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Major Intellect Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Major Spellpower Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Major Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Mighty Intellect Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Mighty Spirit Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Minor Beastslayer Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Minor Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Potency Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Soulfrost Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Spell Power Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Spellsurge Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Strength Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Sunfire Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Superior Striking Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Unholy Weapon Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Winter’s Might Shield Scroll of Enchant Shield – Frost Resistance Scroll of Enchant Shield – Greater Spirit Scroll of Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina Scroll of Enchant Shield – Intellect Scroll of Enchant Shield – Lesser Block Scroll of Enchant Shield – Lesser Protection Scroll of Enchant Shield – Lesser Spirit Scroll of Enchant Shield – Lesser Stamina Scroll of Enchant Shield – Major Stamina Scroll of Enchant Shield – Minor Stamina Scroll of Enchant Shield – Resilience Scroll of Enchant Shield – Resistance Scroll of Enchant Shield – Shield Block Scroll of Enchant Shield – Spirit Scroll of Enchant Shield – Stamina Scroll of Enchant Shield – Superior Spirit Scroll of Enchant Shield – Tough Shield Gloves Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Advanced Herbalism Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Advanced Mining Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Agility Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Assault Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Blasting Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Expertise Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Fire Power Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Fishing Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Frost Power Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Gatherer Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Greater Agility Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Greater Spell Strike Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Greater Strength Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Healing Power Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Herbalism Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Major Healing Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Major Spellpower Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Major Strength Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Mining Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Minor Haste Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Riding Skill Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Shadow Power Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Skinning Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Spell Strike Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Strength Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Superior Agility Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Threat

Season 4 End Date Announced!

This afternoon Tigole calmed the fears of many players who thought they were going to lose their Brutal Gladiator titles to triple Retribution Paladin teams by announcing that the end of Season 4 would happen on the day that the 3.0 Patch hits live servers.

We’ve reevaluated certain aspects of how the arena system and current arena season will be affected during both the next content patch, and the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. For starters, the current arena season will end in respect to the ladder upon the release of our next major patch. What this means is, we’ll be taking a snapshot of the current season’s ladder just before the realms are taken down for patch maintenance, and our normal process will commence to determine who is eligible for the end-of-season rewards.

Teams and ratings will not be wiped at that time, and will carry forward allowing players to earn points each week (and buy gear) until the launch of the expansion on November 13th. Almost immediately before Wrath of the Lich King releases, all arena teams as well as ratings will be wiped and arena charter NPCs disabled.

So there you have it, no need to worry.

Shadow Priest Buffs Coming

Unless I’m mistaken this is the first time we’ve really seen confirmation that the idea of the “utility” class is going away. Personally I say good riddance. Utility class for always just seemed like a subtle word for “bad”. More from a design perspective than actually being a waste of space during a raid.

Assuming you are a Shadow priest, the answer is you are a dps class. We’re trying to back off the whole utility class thing, which is absolutely what you were in BC. While the mana battery functionality is still something every group is going to want, there are more ways to provide it now. The tradeoff for losing that unique niche is your dps going up.

Why are shadow priests being out performed by other classes who, in terms of functionality at this point in time, fit into the same niche as shadow priests do?
Because we’re not done.

A few weeks ago Blizzard announced vampiric touch is being reduced from 5% to 2.5%. A change which at the time left me wondering just what Blizz was thinking. Though, based upon this recent post it looks like there are still some major buffs imminent for the shadow priest.

The general feeling I get from all these changes is a complete shift in what a DPS class is. More and more these changes seem to lean towards a “leveling of the playing field“, so to speak, in the way that each PvE DPS spec seems like they are all going to do around the same damage. Prior to the Burning Crusade there was this notion that rogues always had to be the highest DPS class no matter what, since they brought zero utility to the raid. This type of thought process was still present in BC, note Sunwell geared rogues doing close to 2700 DPS while equally geared shadow priests were lucky to break the 1500 mark.

Overall I think these changes are going to make for a very interesting raiding dynamic in the Wrath of the Lich King. Each class will bring a certain degree of utility, but more than that each archtype (tank, healer, DPS) should be very similar in overall effectiveness.

WotLK Tanking Change – Major AoE Buffs

There’s been a lot of discussion recently regarding tanking, specifically how each tank in the WotLK will be able to effectively handle AoE pulls. Druids in particular are probably the worst off in this respect, but a major change to druid’s swipe ability should help quell some of these concerns.

Swipe Limit Removed – Ghostcrawler

We are going to remove the target limit on Swipe.

Swipe should not be limited by targets. This goes for Thunderclap too.

Any LK encounter really. We know the BC encounters were not designed to be tanked by any tank.

Top 7 Kick Ass WotLK Achievements

7. The Explorer

Tired of the generic pick up 5 of X, kill 10 of Y? Yeah…me too, which is why I’m pretty excited for the challenge of The Explorer! Those who think they are up to the challenge will become a regular Magellan as they sail the seas and explore every zone, every nook and cranny of all 4 continents. For accomplishing this feat you’ll be awarded with a new title, The Explorer.

6. Make Love, Not Warcraft

Even blizzard has a pretty good sense of humor every once and a while. All you have to do to complete this achievement is shoot off a quick /hug on a player you’ve just killed. Personally I think this will be one of the easiest achievements I’ll have to do, especially considering all the /gloat and /spit practice I’ve got in over the years.

5. Leading the Calvary

This achievement isn’t for the casual gamer, not by any stretch. To Lead the Calvary and ride above mere mortals on your Albino Drake you’ll have to acquire a staggering 50 mounts. That’s, right…50! Don’t worry though, you can use 60% ground mounts, 100% ground mounts, 60% flying mounts, and 100% flying mounts to reach that total. If you try to complete this in patch 3.0 you’ll be in for a tough grind, there’s only around 85 total mounts available for TBC, and this includes all rare / trading card mounts / arena drakes / other things you probably won’t have.

Once the Wrath of the Lich King is released there will be a host of new ground and flying mounts, making this achievement much easier.

4. Leroy Jenkins

What would this top list by without a mention of the legendary Leroy Jenkins. The video made popular shortly after WoW’s release and launched the legend of Leroy is now its own achievement! Succeed where Leroy failed and slay 50 dragon whelps in under 15 seconds in Upper Black Rock Spire.

If you haven’t seen the video make sure you check it out! Leroy Jenkins Video

3. Grand Caravan Mammoth

Nothing too complicated here…Obtain a Grand Caravan Mammoth from Mei Francis in Dalaran. No problem right? Or so you thought! Only professional Chinese farmers and Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide users will have any hope of completing this achievement (if they want to still have a life that is!).

The Grand Caravan Mammoth costs a mammoth…pun intended, 15,000g! Though it’s well worth the costs, you can carry up to 3 passengers on your mount, including vendors should you choose to invite them to hop on! I love this achievement because it’s the first true money sink that says nothing more than…

HEY LOOK AT ME! Anyone else ready for Mammoth trains in Orgrimmar?

2. Avast Ye, Admiral!

At long last all us bloodsail scallywags are getting our just deserves! This achievement isn’t one to be taken lightly, and for this reason it’s making my list. To complete this achievement and gain the title of Bloodsail Admiral you must get to friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. Sounds easy enough, right? Not exactly, in order to get to friendly you’ll be killing thousands of booty bay goblins to increase your reputation, in doing so you’ll not only be tanking your booty bay reputation, but all Steamweedle Cartel factions. All the way to 0/36,000 hated with every faction of the Steamweedle Cartel.

This will prevent you from doing anything associated with goblins until you get your reputation back up. So, do ye think ye are up to thy challenge, matey!?

1. For the Horde! / For the Alliance!

Whether it’s raiding, battlegrounds or arena I love anything that brings people together for the purposes for domination, and domination is what these achievements are all about. In order to complete this achievement you must kill all 4 opposing faction leaders, a feat easier said than done. Most of these faction leaders will require a raid of at least 40 members.

Those who accept and complete this daunting challenge will be rewarded with a black war bear mount.

You’ve heard my top 7 now I want to hear yours! What achievements do you think should make the list?

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