Mage guide

Introduction:
A long time ago, Mages lived only in Dalaran. But after the Burning
Leagion's attack, magic spread all along the Eastern Kingdoms and
Kalimdor. A Mage controls Frost, Fire and Arcane magic. His ability
to sheep oponents makes him a must-have when beating more than 1
oponent. Besides that, Mages can conjure water and food. They can
also teleport to major cities at lvl 20 (30 for capitals with less
majority-Darnassus,Thunder Bluff) and make portals at lvl 40 (50 for
DS and TB).

Available races:

1. alliance:
   Human
   Gnome
   
2. Horde:
   Troll
   Undead
   

Armor and weapons:

1. Armor-Cloth
   
2. Weapons-Staves,Wands,Daggers,One-handed swords
   

Primary and secondary
attributes:

1. Primary-Intellect
   
2. Secondary-Stamina;Spirt
   

As int is your primary attribute, you should get as much int as
possible from items. The clothes (by animal types) you should wear
are Eagle and Owl. Both give int and a secondary attribute. Also,you
should be aiming for at least 6000 mana at lvl 60, so the more
intellect you get, the better (At lvl 57, we got ~5800 mana/~2000 hp
without buffs). Other type of armor you need is items, which give
+dmg. The more the better. For example if you have to decide
between +12 int or +11 int+10dmg with spells, you should get the
+11int+10dmg with spells one. Actually, 1 int=~25 mana, which is not
a lot but can be priceless when oom against Ragnaros, let's say.

Suitable professions:

1. Tailoring/Enchanting
   
2. Herbalism/Alchemy
   

Soloing:
When soloing, questing is the better choice for Mages. We are no good
grinders for sure. After nearly every battle, Mages need to
drink/eat. In order to avoid this for at least two or three breaks,
you need a lot of int gear. Fire Mages do really nice amounts of
daMage but the control,which frost offers is priceless. My personal
opinion, that is. There is a really nice trick, which you can do with
Ice Barrier+Frost Nova+Blizzard+Cone of Cold. But you need to be lvl
40 in order to get the barrier, which absorbs daMage. Cast it, then
aggro the group of mobs and after you colected all, frost nova all
and go around 20 yards from them. Blizzard them. If you have the
improved blizzard talent, then they will nearly be move-less. That's
when you cone of cold them. With the right talents, you will crit all
of them. If they are not dead, frost nova them again and blizzard
again. My personal record with that is 20 skeletons in Sorrow Hill,
WP(50-52) at lvl 52.

Grouping:
In instances, Mages are a must-have in most of the seups. As a
caster-type class,you should always be at a good range away from the
mobs having the tanks get hit. Remember,!!!MAGES SHOULD NEVER BE
TOUCHED!!!. Your job is to deal daMage. Don't bother about the
tanks or the healers. Concentrate on nuking. Most of times, you'll
die from two hits from boss mobs and that's not good. A dead dmg
dealer deals the same dmg a healer deals. If you get aggro, don't run
away. Best way to get aggro off is the Ice Block spell but it's a
talent-only spell (frost). Other option is not to get aggro at
all-BoS, Taunt. Also,when you're away from the mobs, the group is
attacking, try not to go too far and get out of range or accidentally
pull ads.

Talents:
The three possible trees for Mages are arcane/fire/frost. For fast
grinding mobs 1 by 1, we suggest a fire or fire/arcane
build:
Fire(there are only 48 talent points in fire
but you'll probably respec at lvl 60,so it doesn't matter where
you'll put the other points)
Fire/Arcane(21/30/0)

Another possibility is AoE grinding. For this type, the best Mage
is the fire/frost Mage:
Fire/Frost(0/21/30)

For PVP you should use a frost/arcane build as your survivability
will increase significantly with it.

When you start doing MC and BWL, even BRD, you'll need to respec
as the the mobs there are immune to fire (only the elementals are
immune in BRD). We recommend the build we use:
Frost/Arcane(18/0/33)

Class quests:
You can see all the Mage-only quests and everything about them here.
We advise you to do the first quest. Get the staff from it - Ley
Staff (Human,Undead) / Arcane Staff (Gnome,Troll), as you won't find
a better one till you finish Deadmines.

Also,Tabetha's quests
- a wand and a staff/orb (the staff is better) + she'll give you a
Zul'Farrak, Scarlet Monastery and Uldaman quest. The quest in
ST/Temple of Atal'Hakkar is boring (the pre-quests anyway) and the
prices are not worth it. Better skip the quests we didn't mention.
Especially, the pristine spider's silk quest. Try to get the
Arcanist's Cookbook at lvl 54.The quest is in DM and will give
you a trinket which gives you +10 fire res and decent dmg with spells
and healing (^^) increase.

This is a guide to leveling as a hunter. I will discuss leveling methods, gear and talent specs.

The class
The hunter is a ranged DPS class, so don't try to play it any other way (NO, you can't be a melee hunter. Roll a rogue instead). A well played hunter is a asset to any group, since they can DPS all out and wipe all their agro with feign death and repeat. Furthermore their pets are excellent to keep on standby as bodyguards for the healers. Also pets, when solo, can get you out of most sticky situations; just leave it to die and run away and feign death.

Leveling methods
Hunters are one of the easiest, if not the easiest, class to level. Due to their pet they can distract mobs around quest items or simply get clean away and FD without fear of getting resisted. As other classes, you can either quest or grind your levels. I prefer to mix it up and grind when I am short on time or couldn't be arsed to travel to an area and find my way around.
Whichever you choose, I highly suggest doing nothing but instances from 58-60 to gear up and get all your key quests done. Not doing so, means missing out on a huge amount of XP.

The traditional ways are:

Grinding:
Not much to say about this. You kill mobs, they give XP, you lvl. If you don't have a comprehensive knowledge of where quests take you and which order is best, grinding is pretty fast for leveling.
It can be pretty boring, but listening to music or being on Vent/TS helps a lot. Get a rhytm going and stay in it. Take breaks when you mana up to not go completely blind

The following is pretty good list of where to grind which mobs. It is however from a Horde perspective and you need to scroll down a bit to get to the guide If you read the whole bit, there are some suggestions for alternatives, which work just as well…if not better.
http://www.mpsgames.com/ms/index.cfm?page=…&forumid=63

And the following lists some nice alliance spots for grinding. Also are some suggestions on questing.
http://www.wow-pro.com/Knowledge_Base/op=show/kid=515.html

Questing:
If you know your way around the world, this is the fastest way to level up. This is also known as gresting to some. Decent horde guides are few and far between (there are some on this site), alliance have it a lot better.

Horde - if you are horde, use Joana's guide. That will take you from 1-60 in 5 days /played. It's written from a hunter perspective, so my suggestion is staggering your progress in the guide by a lvl or two. Other than that, there are some (admittedly with holes in them) guides here in the strat section. An idea is to try and modify the following alliance guide.
http://forums.blizzhackers.com/viewtopic.php?t=309717 is the text guide (thanks Bay_Cassius
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=wow+…warcraft+levels are links to all the videos (thanks sQren)

alliance - if you are alliance, you got it made! The following guide will quickly and easily take you from 30-60. Reason it's 30, is because of the quests pre that are in and around the starter areas, so just level quickly to 30 and you are set.
http://www.wow-pro.com/Knowledge_Base/cat=135.html

Talent specs
For leveling I recommend Beastmastery (BM) and then Marksman(MM) up to 60. If you decide doing 58-60 in instances, consider re-speccing to Marksman/survival (link to endgame guide: hunter later).
Reason for BM, is that it really makes a difference in your pet and your pet isn't gear dependent (unlike you). With full BM, your pet has about the same DPS as you autoshooting.

This is the spec I suggest for leveling:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=mi0h0xgRttVohx
31 BM / 20 MM

Go BM until 40, then MM up to Aimed shot and then fill out the rest of MM. With BM, your pet holds agro like a champ and you won't be able to peel it off of it.

Method of pulling: pull with a serpent sting, send in pet, auto shoot it until dead. If it runs, concussive shot it and maybe fire off an Arcane shot. The most important thing when grinding/questing is to stack your mana use, so you get long periods of mana-regen (eg. hunter mark mob, sting it, wait until mob starts to run, then conc shot+arcan shot it. This way you have 20 or so secs of mana regen). This way you don't need drinks at all.

Gear
Hunters get mail at 40 and a nice set for that is the 'tough scorpid' set.http://www.thottbot.com/?s=tough+scorpid It's all AGI and SPI, so you hit hard and regen mana fast. It can be a bit tricky to get the set, so feel free to mix in any kind of AGI gear. AP-gear can often be had as well, so if you get some cheap AP gear toss that in the mix. The endgame guide: hunter has a bit more on gear, so check that out for gear at 58-60.

PETS!
A good site for pet info is this one:
http://www.goodintentionsguild.info/hunters.html

It's a bit outdated, but the lay out is really good and it has a lot of info.

Getting a pet is a question of doing a quest at lvl 10 (get it from your trainer), then go tame a pet. As you progress your career, you can put down a freezing trap, use aspect of monkey and tame it. This way you won't get hit much.

Pet choice up to 37-38 is optional, but cats are always good. Alternatively get a boar, since they have some nice specials (a root). At 37/38 go to Badlands and get Broken Tooth. He is a rare spawn with a 1.00 attack speed, which almost guarantees he will get a frenzy proc early in the fight, so he is worth the wait.
Here is some info about him:
http://www.thottbot.com/?n=657251

And here are his spawn points:
http://www.thottbot.com/?m=657251

You will have to camp the spots for him, since he is rare, but if you stand in the middle of the map up on a ledge you can 'Eagle eye' all 3 spawn points. He spawns around the ridge stalkers in the area, but he is NOT stealthed, so if you see a sand-coloured cat, it's most likely Broken Tooth.

Keep and use Broken Tooth until 60. At 60, get a boar as well (From EPL) and get a wolf from LBRS (since they have the highest rank dash and bite, and they also have furious howl, which is a pretty decent raid damage adder).
The boar is easy enough to get, but the wolf can be tricky to get without a group. You can however easily duo it with another hunter (the easiest wolf to get is in a patrol with 2 wolfs and one humanoid after the ogres and the small insects) and 2-3 pots of invis and liberal use of FD+pet distraction. PLEASE bring a pet you don't mind getting rid of when you attempt to get the wolf
Here is a walk-through to getting it. Soloing takes very good gear, so I recommend bringing a friend or being willing to use a lot of pots and elixirs.
http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/tameLBRSworgsolo.html

Life after 60
I wrote an Endgame guide: hunter, which you should read if you plan on PVE-raiding
http://www.mpsgames.com/ms/index.cfm?page=…&forumid=62

Other than that, enjoy your hunter. It's a rewarding class, and people will love grouping with you…if you are a good player. There are however a lot of sucky hunters, so be ready to take some prejudice But it's still by far the best farmer and in PVE it's a very good DPS'er.

I have come to understand that this is not common knowledge to all rogues and I have yet to see it on any site upon performing multiple searches.

This can be soloed for about 200G per hour or done with 2 rogues for about 1000G.

I do this solo but in fairness I have exceptional gear. I'm sure it could be done with good blue gear. If you have problems with this, get a partner to help you. Frankly, as much money as this can make you, it wouldn't be a horrible crime to complely stock up on greater fire protection pots, elixir of mongoose, giant potions, etc. A death will cost you about 6 minutes and time is money.

You will also need improved sap. 100G worth of respeccing is a small price to pay for a weekend of making thousands.

On to the solo strategy:

In Lower Blackrock Spire you want to stealth to the right in the same manner as you would normally clear the dungeon. You'll come around to the left after dropping off the first ledge and work your way to two doors (one after the other) that are very close to each other and have roaming mobs going through them. After you pass the second door, stop. To your right you should see a ledge. Across from that ledge is another ledge where you will see a bunch of ogres. If you move towards that ledge and look down you will see a platform that you can jump onto. Jump to it. Now move forward and you will see another platform. Jump to it. Lastly you will jump to the ground floor where you will see several tents. When you jump down, fall, don't jump or it will break your stealth. Watch out for roaming mobs. You don't want to fall on them.

Continue on until you get to the hill where the spiders are. As soon as you reach this hill you will come to a nook on your right that most groups that do LBRS skip. In that nook you will see three groups of mobs. To the left are 3 mobs, to the right are 3 mobs and in the back right corner are 2 mobs. The two groups of 3 are not linked but all 6 will aggro if you pull one because the two groups are too close together.

Behold my brilliant artwork!: http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2…rrico/LBRS.jpg

What you want is one of the two mobs in the back. One of these mobs is a Blackrock Pyromancer. He is what you will want to kill, so sap the other guy and go up the little hill behind you. Ranged pull the pyromancer. Just before he gets in range hit evasion and kill him as quickly as possible. He will flee just before he dies, so crippling poison is your friend. You could use kidney shot just before he gets to 20% life but why waste it on a fleeing mob?

As soon as you kill him, loot him and vanish.

Duo Strategy

Kill the group in the back in the same manner but don't waste your vanish. Two rogues shouls make extremely short work of both mobs. Heal up, wait for your curses and such to fade and get ready for some big packs.

The problem with the next pull is that you have 6 mobs to deal with. If the two 'inside mobs' are both Pyromancers, dump this pull and reset. The only way you can continue is to reset, fight 4 elits at the same time or kill a couple, die and come back to an easier pull. In any other case, you want to sap 'inside mob1' or inside mob2'. If one of them is a pyromancer, don't sap it, sap the other one and have your partner sap one of the other mobs in sapped mob's group. See this diagram: http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h2…o/th_LBRS2.jpg

Kill the unsapped pyromancer and vanish.

The duo strat is complicated. You will find that there are several configurations to deal with. I prefer to solo but I make a ton of money if I duo all of the mobs.

Your prize is this: http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=28217

It is one of the best robes that a mage can find if he doesn't raid and that is more than 99% of the mage population. Even raiding mages have bought these from me as gaining archanist or something similar isn't necessarily an overnight process for a new raider. The best part of this robe is that it's bind on pickup. The pattern is bind on use but the robe binds when you make it, so the crafter can only make it for himself.

Yes the downside is that the mage has to be a 300 tailor. I have sold this pattern to 100 people that picked up tailoring just to make this robe. Many dumped tailoring after making it.

These patterns sell for about 200 gold on my server. I've found and sold as many as 5 in a day.

Even better is this http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=16100

They sell for 300-400 gold on my server. They don't drop nearly as often as the robe pattern does but it's a nice payday when they do. I also find a ton of blues (shadowcraft, valor, etc). Those always sell pretty nicely.

My worst one hour session was about 70 gold. My best was 1000 gold (3 patterns, 1 fire recipie and 2 blues).

Again, if you're having trouble with the solo strat, get a partner. Two rogues in green gear can easily handle the solo strat.

Happy hunting!

Lordaeron Area "Easter Eggs"

Here are some intended, and sometimes unintended tricks and "fun" tips for World of Warcraft. These may not make you richer, but they WILL enrich your overall gaming experience!

Have fun. These tricks have been reposted with permission from the original author.

Undercity Easter Eggs

Name: Shapeshifting Prisoner
Location: Undercity - Apothecary
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: There's a room with a bunch of prisoners in it near the Apothecary.
Next to one of the cages is a alchemist who hands a potion to one of the
prisoners. The man gets turned into a frog, squirrel, rabbit and a sheep. When
he turns him into a sheep, he pokes it and the sheep explodes.
Note: N/A

Name: Still Moving Eye
Location: Undercity - Apothecary
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: Look at any of the Abomination heads and you'll notice that the eye
is still moving.
Note: N/A

Name: Ophelia & Montague
Location: Undercity - Trade District
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: One of the bankers bears the name Ophelia Montague, Ophelia was a
character from "Hamlet" and Montague was the name of one of the families in
"Romeo & Juliet", both supposedly written by Shakespear. One of them is also
name "William Montague" which is most likely a reference to William Shakespere.
Note: N/A

Name: Unseen In The Undercity
Location: Undercity
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: If you use Detect Invisiblity(Warlock Ability) you can see ghosts
or other such things in the undercity.
Note: N/A

Name: Fight Club
Location: Undercity - Warrior Quarter
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In the Warrior quarter of Undercity there's a bunch of undead who
fight various Scourge, with names similar to that of "Fight Club".
Note:N/A

Name: Demon Demonstration
Location: Undercity - Magic Quarter
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: There's a circle there where you can watch a Warlock summon all
of the Warlock's sumons except the Infernal.
Note: N/A

Name: The Death of The King
Location: Undercity - Throne Room
Coordinates: 63,39
Easter Egg: In The Throne Room, if you turn up your volume you can hear the
entire cinematic soundtrack of Arthas killing his Father. This was seen in
warcraft 3.
Note: N/A

Name: Algernon
Location: Undercity
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In the story "Flowers for Algernon" a man has a mental handicap
that makes him behave like a child. Algernon was a mouse that underwent
testing that this man eventually underwent. I never read this book and I've
gotten about a million differnt e-mails about it. I really don't give a ****
if the above is wrong, Algernon is the name of the Alchemy vendor in the
undercity and the zombie vendor, is supposedly holding flowers.
Note: N/A

Name: Probable but Not Possible
Location: Ogrimmar/Undercity
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The Rouge poison quest is titled "Mission: Possible, But Not
Probable." An obvious reference to Mission Impossible.

Name: Charles Dexter Ward
Location: Undercity - Rogue's Quarter
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: The rogue trainers have last names that allude to "The Case of
Charles Dexter Ward", a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft is best known
for his so-called "cosmic" horror tales such as "The Call of Cthulhu," upon
which a pen-and-paper RPG is based. Chaosium's "Mythos" collectible card game
is also based on his works.
Note: N/A

Trisfall Glades Easter Eggs

Name: Cheesy Link
Location: Trisfal Glades - Deathknell
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: The rouge trainer in the newbie Undead zone Deathknell is the son
Ellis Trias. Ellis Trias is the owner of the cheese shop in Stormwind.
Note: N/A

Name: Atkins Diet
Location: Trisfal Glades - Brill
Coordinates: Brill's Coordinates 58/53
Easter Egg: There's a guy named Hamlin Atkins and he sells Mushrooms. The
Atkins Diet focusing around low carbs and Mushroom being low in carbs. He walks
up and down the road near Brill.
Note: N/A

Name: Hindenburg Zeppelin
Location: Trisfal Glades
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: There's a goblin Zeppelin master named Hinden Burg.
Note: N/A

Name: Harold Raims
Location: Tirisfal Glades
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: One of the NPCs (blacksmith? Can't remember) in the Undead starting
area is called Harold Raims. A Refrence to harold Ramis, co-writer of
Ghostbusters.
Note: N/A

Name: Dan & Stern
Location: Tirisfal Glades
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: There's an enemy named Daniel Ulfman, similar to Danny Elfman, a
composer who's done various soundtracks for many movies, specially Tim
Burton's. There's also an NPC called Dannal Stern, an actor known for Home
Alone and City Slickers.
Note: N/A

Silverpine Forest

Name: Norman Bates
Location: Undercity & Sepulcher
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: The Innkeeper in Undercity is named Norman and the one in Sepulcher
is named Bates. A refrence to the psycho killer Norman Bates.
Note: N/A

Name: Pastime Characters
Location: Silverpine Forest
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: You can find Dalar Dawnweaver, a possible random name of an
archmage in warcraft 3.
Note: N/A

Hillsbrad Foothills

Name: Stable Boy
Location: Hillsbrad Foothills - Southshore
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The Stablemaster "Wesley" in Southshore is a refrence to The
Princess Bride. In the movie, Wesley was the stable boy for Buttercup's
parents.
Note: N/A

Alterac Mountains

Name: Caged Gnome
Location: Alterac Mountains
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Outside the Ogre Cave you can find a Gnome Merchant who is inside
a cage, a prisoner of the ogres.
Note: N/A

Western Plaugelands

Name: Fetch
Location: Plaugelands
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: An Undead NPC plays fetch with his plaugehound.
Note: N/A

Name: Head Toss
Location: Western Plaugelands
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: When idle for a while, undead flayers will take off their head toss
it into the air, catch it and put it back on.
Note: N/A

Name: All Along The Watchtowers
Location: Western Plaugelands
Coordinates: Brill's Coordinates 58/53
Easter Egg: A quest obtainable at level 50 that's title is exactly the same as
A Bob Dylon/Jimi Hendrix track.
Note: http://www.thottbot.com/?q=2956

Eastern Plaugelands

Name: Poor Timmy
Location: Strathlome
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: In warcraft 3 you could buy items from Timmy which could summon
Ice Revenants and other things. There was some side quest I remember where
you had to save Timmy or some other matter, either that or you got to kill him.
Here he is now in Strathlome. Crumsnatcher tells me that you can find Lil
Timmy's Peashooter/Golashes and The Cruel Hand of Timmy.
Note: N/A

Name: People of Strathlome
Location: Strathlome
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: The people will react to your emotes.
Note: N/A

Name: Men A Sunder
Location: Plaugewood
Coordinates: ?
Easter Egg: There's an NPC that says the line, "I come from a land down under
where women scourge and men sunder." A twist on the line, Land Down Under by
Men at Work, the original line being," I come from a land down under, where
women glow and men plunder."
Note: N/A

…. A Warriors Leveling guide (1-60)

I've been reading all the threads here on (in the wow forums that is) for the last 6 months. Not many leveling guides or help for warriors and in fact a few threads asking for them. Well I tend to be a masochist in picking classes that I love but don't have any ups (faster traveling, free mounts, healing, etc) thats why I tend to play a warrior or a priest.

Now for those rolling a warrior from scratch, hopefully this guild will help. I will give you the Horde point of view ( I hate alliance though I have played alliance chars up to 20 a few time but the basis is usually the same). Now I wrote this with the PVP player in mind so for PVE servers it will be much easier for you to level. In this guide you will also see a talent build to take what points to put in at what levels and when to respec for maximum efficiency.

When picking your race, it does not matter. It truly doesn't, in the end (PVP or PVE content) it comes down to skills. I will tell you I tend to pick an Orc, but any class has its ups and downs. Just pick what race you like.

Levels 1-6: Do all your quests in your starting zone. Its useful for rep and xp. When your done you should be level 5 so grind 6 away so you are more than prepared for the next zone.

Before you start your second zone go to the third, they tend to put quests in this zone for the second zone, so pick them all up and head to your second zone.

Level 7-11: Pick up all the quests and do them all. Not much thinking involved.

Levels 12-14: Third zone same thing here.

15-25: For Horde you will be doing Silverpine, Crossroads then finish up in Stonetalon do quests. Stay away from grinding. Levels 19-23 do a couple of Wailing Caverns runs for some xp, quests and loot and if you want SFK and BFD.

Big keys: Always do chain quests. They always end (well, the majority of the time) with a great reward. Also if you are a solo type, stay away from orange quests or quests that you can't do fairly easily. Wait until they are yellow or green. Always dump a grey quest. Also don't spend your gold, save for your mount. And go into cooking and first aid and fishing get those and keep those as high as you can because its basically free healling and minimizes your down time.

Levels 26-37: Thousand Needles and Shimmering Flats. Stay away from the quests that tell you to go to another zone. Finish as many quests you want. Also run Gnomeragan and SM up to Cath.

38-44: Everyones favorite…..STV, hahaha. Pick up quests in Booty Bay then head to Grom'Gol, don't forget to pick up the FP at the top of the build to the far right. Pick up all the quests in Grom'gol and try to do them all. Do SM runs for some no brainer xp and good loot. YOU WILL GET GANKED (on a pvp server) SO LIVE WITH IT.

45-50: Tanaris and Felwood are your friends. Do all the quests there and run ZF a few times for loot and xp.

50-54: Finish up your Tanaris and Felwood quests and if you havent and do Un'Goro. Pick up all the quests there and do them. There are a lot of alliance/horde, however they tend to leave you alone because they are either doing quests themselves or farming mats. I do suggest to take a buddy though. Start running Sunken Temple. Great loot and xp and if you are a skinner plenty dragons to skin.

55-57: I put off WPL till you are a higher level because on PVP servers this is gank central for high levels. Do quests there and in Wintersprings and don't forget to equip your argent dawn trinket when in the plaguelands. Don't turn in the scourge stones till after you get honored with argent dawn. Try to run BRD to get attuned to molten core and make sure you pick up the quest from the dead dwarve which you can only pick up when you are dead yourself to get the shadow forge key. BRD is your first taste of end game instancing. Very good loot and xp as well (if you are in a good group).

58-60: EPL and Silithus questing. If you want grind away but make sure you are rested if not just quest away.

There you have it. The key to level is knowing the quests and doing them. Thottbot or allakhazam is your friend. Plus questing doesn't make you go insane like mindless grinding does.

Now for the talent choices…..

Levels 10-14: Cruelty (Crit is always good)
Levels 15-19: Unbridled Wrath (Gets you a lot of rage fast)
Levels 20-24: Improved Battle Shout (Ups your DPS)
Levels 25-29: Duel Wield Specialization (Ups your DPS again
Levels 30-32: Improved Rend (More damage)
Levels 33-34: Improved Heroic Stike (This will be your version of mortal strike or bloodthirst for the mean time use this and sunder armor always on mobs)
Levels 35-36: Improved Charge (Gets you more rage now)
Level 37: Improved Heroic Strike
Levels 38-39: Deflection (Not taking damage is always good)
Levels 40-42: Deep Wounds (More damge=execellent)
Levels 43-44: Improved Overpower (Critting on a rogue especially a night elf is fun)

When you hit level 45 you are going to respec.

Now what to respec at 45 to…..

Your will put 31 points into Fury:
5 in Cruelty
5 in Unbridled Wrath
5 in Improved Battle Shout
5 in Duel Wield Specialization
5 in Enrage
4 in Flurry
1 in Deathwish
and 1 in Bloodthirst

That leaves 5pts left what to put them in?

Put 5 in Anticipation from the defense tree….

wtf? why?

1pt of defense, and correct me if I am wrong or leaving out something gives you 0.4% chance to block, parry and dodge. With 5pts in anticipation it gives you 10 defense which in turn gives you 4% extra chance to block, parry and dodge.

Now I will suggest what else to put in up until level 59 so when you hit 60 you can put that last point in or respec.

Levels 46-47: Improved Beserker Rage
Levels 48-49: Improved Bloodrage
Levels 50-54: Deflection
Levels 55-59: Toughness
Level 60 if you wish: Piercing Howl, its great in BG

I recently just duped about a 1000 gold, and this is how you do it, I'm warning you now though, its not easy and only do it once..
Ok what you do is on your account you vendor all your gear, and send all your gold to your friend, then log off and delete your character. Then maybe about one hour later you go on a level 1 character and page a GM saying that you got in a fight with your brother, and he went on your character and deleted it. Give them about 8 hours, and they will restore your character back with all your gold, funny thing is they don t take away the gold you sent to your friend

VENDOR PETS

Cats
Varieties: Orange Tabby, Silver Tabby, Bombay, Cornish Rex
Location: Elwynn Forest, Northshire
Vendor: Donni Anthania
Cost: 40s
Directions: Follow the road southwest out of Northshire Abbey (the human
starting area) and look for a house off the road on your right. You'll know
it's the right house when you see a large number of cats running around inside and outside.

Kittens
Varieties: White?
Location: Stormwind
Vendor: Lil Timmy
Cost: 60s
Directions: It is rumored that Lil Timmy is a rare spawn that walks around the canal in Stormwind who sells white kittens. They are half the size of the regular cats.

Rabbits
Varieties: Snowshoe
Location: Dun Morogh, Amberstill Ranch
Vendor: Yarlyn Amberstill
Cost: 20s
Directions: The Amberstill Ranch is northwest of the Gol'bolar Quarry. There will be a corral with rams in it, and a young girl running around chasing a rabbit. Catch the young girl and talk to her to purchase your own rabbit. This is also where you get the "Protecting the Herd" quest.

Owls
Varieties: Hawk Owl, Great Horned Owl
Location: Teldrassil, Darnassus
Vendor: Shylenai
Cost: 50s
Directions: Enter Darnassus from the road from Dolanaar and look for the owl vendor on your left next to a food vendor.

Parrots
Varieties: Cockatiel, Senegal
Location: Booty Bay
Vendor: Narkk

Cost: 40-50s
Directions: Coming off the dock from the boat from Ratchet, look for the parrot vendor in the first building to your left.

Snakes
Varieties: Black Kingsnake, Brown Snake, Crimson Snake
Location: Durotar, Orgrimmar
Vendor: Xan'tish
Cost: 45-50s
Directions: The snake vendor should be wandering around in the Valley of Spirit.

Prairie Dogs
Varieties: Prairie Dog
Location: Thunder Bluff
Vendor: Halpa
Cost: 50s
Directions: Near the bridge to Hunter Rise. He's on the side of the inn in a
small teepee facing away from the inn, overlooking the valley. You have to run around the inn and/or under the bridge to find him. He's on the southwest edge of the main bluff.

Cockroaches
Varieties: Cockroach
Location: Undercity
Vendor: Jeremiah Payson
Cost: 50s
Directions: Look for the vendor in the Trade Quarter under the stair leading up to Bank.

Chickens
Varieties: Ancona Chicken
Location: Thousand Needles
Vendor: Magus Tirth
Cost: 1g
Directions: Sold at the racetrack in Shimmering Flats.

QUEST PETS

Worg
Quest: Kibler's Exotic Pets
Quest Giver: Kibler
Level: 55-59
Location: Burning Steppes
Note: Gives a passive party buff to stealth detection?

Spider
Quest: En-Ay-Es-Tee-Why
Quest Giver: Kibler
Level: 55-59
Location: Burning Steppes
Note: Gives a passive party buff to nature resistance?

Mechanical Chicken
Quest: An OOX of Your Own?
Quest Giver: ???
Level: ???
Location: Booty Bay

Sprite Darter
Quest: Becoming a Parent
Quest Giver: Agnar Beastamer
Level: 44-48
Location: Hinterlands
Note: This quest is the third part of a series.

LOOTED PETS

Parrot, Green Wing Macaw
Drops From: Defias Pirate
Location: Deadmines

Parrot, Hyacinth Macaw
Drops From: Bloodsail Deckhand/Raider/Sea Dog/Swashbuckler
Location: Stranglethorn Vale

Dragon, Tiny Black Whelpling
Drops From: Scalding/Searing Whelp, Black Dragon Whelp (lvl 40-?)
Location: Badlands, (southern) Duskwallow Marsh

Dragon, Tiny Emerald Whelpling
Drops From: Dreaming/Green Whelp (lvl 34-36)
Location: Swamp of Sorrows

Dragon, Tiny Crimson Whelpling
Drops From: Red/Crimson/Flamesnorting Whelp (lvl 24-27)
Location: (eastern) Wetlands

Cat, Siamese
Drops From: Cookie (Murloc Boss)
Location: Deadmines

Cat, Maine Coon
Drops From: Dalaran Spellscribe, Dalaran Shield Guard/Summoner/Theurgist
Location: Silverpine Forest, Alterac Mountains

Rat, Unconscious Dig Rat
Drops From: Dig Rat
Location: The Barrens (south end)
Note: This is a one time use item.

CRAFTED BY PLAYER

Mechanical Squirrel
Requires Skill: Engineering 75
Components: Copper Modulator, Handful of Copper Bolts, Copper Bar, Malachite x2
Note: The recipe for this item is fairly rare drop.
(http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=682)

Pet Bombling
Requires Skill: (Goblin) Engineering 205
Components: Big Iron Bomb, Heart of Fire, Fused Wiring, Mithril Bar x6
Note: Thottbot listing: http://www.thottbot.com/beta.cgi?i=22867

Lil' Smokey
Requires Skill: (Gnome) Engineering 205
Components: ?

Lifelike Mechanical Toad
Requires Skill: Engineering 265
Components: Living Essence, Thorium Widget x4, gold Power Core, Rugged Leather
Notes: Thottbot listing: http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=17446

CRAFTED BY PLAYER (Combat)

Compact Harvest Reaper
Requires Skill: Engineering 175
Components: Bronze Framework, Iron Strut x2, Gyrochronatom x2, Heavy Leather x4
Note: Thottbot listing: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=10636

Mechanical Dragonling
Requires Skill: Engineering 200
Components: Bronze Framework, Iron Strut x4, Cyrochronatom x4, Citrine x2,Fused Wiring
Note: The recipe for this item is vendor limited supply.
(http://www.thottbot.com/?i=13279)

Mithril Mechanical Dragonling
Requires Skill: Engineering 250
Components: Mithril Bar x14, Heart of Fire x4, Truesilver Bar x4, Inlaid
Mithril Cylander x2, Goblin Rocket Fuel x2, Star Ruby x2
Note: The recipe for this item is vendor limited supply.
(http://www.thottbot.com/?i=15912)

Gnomish Battle Chicken
Requires Skill: (Gnome) Engineering 230
Components: Mithril Casing, gold Power Core, Truesilver Bar x6, Mithril Bar x6,Inlaid Mithril Cylinder x2, Jade x2
Note: Thottbot listing: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3815

OTHER

Panda Bear
One of three pets Collector's Edition owners can turn in a voucher for.

Zergling
One of three pets Collector's Edition owners can turn in a voucher for.

Mini-Diablo
One of three pets Collector's Edition owners can turn in a voucher for.

How to Get a Cross-Faction Pet
Many vendored pets are available only in factioned cities or towns from factioned NPCs, leaving those not of that faction unable to purchase one by normal means. Since trades and mail are not allowed between members of the opposite faction, the only way to get yourself a cross-faction pet is through the Auction House in Gadgetzan.

…. A Warriors Leveling guide (1-60)

I've been reading all the threads here on (in the wow forums that is) for the last 6 months. Not many leveling guides or help for warriors and in fact a few threads asking for them. Well I tend to be a masochist in picking classes that I love but don't have any ups (faster traveling, free mounts, healing, etc) thats why I tend to play a warrior or a priest.

Now for those rolling a warrior from scratch, hopefully this guild will help. I will give you the Horde point of view ( I hate alliance though I have played alliance chars up to 20 a few time but the basis is usually the same). Now I wrote this with the PVP player in mind so for PVE servers it will be much easier for you to level. In this guide you will also see a talent build to take what points to put in at what levels and when to respec for maximum efficiency.

When picking your race, it does not matter. It truly doesn't, in the end (PVP or PVE content) it comes down to skills. I will tell you I tend to pick an Orc, but any class has its ups and downs. Just pick what race you like.

Levels 1-6: Do all your quests in your starting zone. Its useful for rep and xp. When your done you should be level 5 so grind 6 away so you are more than prepared for the next zone.

Before you start your second zone go to the third, they tend to put quests in this zone for the second zone, so pick them all up and head to your second zone.

Level 7-11: Pick up all the quests and do them all. Not much thinking involved.

Levels 12-14: Third zone same thing here.

15-25: For Horde you will be doing Silverpine, Crossroads then finish up in Stonetalon do quests. Stay away from grinding. Levels 19-23 do a couple of Wailing Caverns runs for some xp, quests and loot and if you want SFK and BFD.

Big keys: Always do chain quests. They always end (well, the majority of the time) with a great reward. Also if you are a solo type, stay away from orange quests or quests that you can't do fairly easily. Wait until they are yellow or green. Always dump a grey quest. Also don't spend your gold, save for your mount. And go into cooking and first aid and fishing get those and keep those as high as you can because its basically free healling and minimizes your down time.

Levels 26-37: Thousand Needles and Shimmering Flats. Stay away from the quests that tell you to go to another zone. Finish as many quests you want. Also run Gnomeragan and SM up to Cath.

38-44: Everyones favorite…..STV, hahaha. Pick up quests in Booty Bay then head to Grom'Gol, don't forget to pick up the FP at the top of the build to the far right. Pick up all the quests in Grom'gol and try to do them all. Do SM runs for some no brainer xp and good loot. YOU WILL GET GANKED (on a pvp server) SO LIVE WITH IT.

45-50: Tanaris and Felwood are your friends. Do all the quests there and run ZF a few times for loot and xp.

50-54: Finish up your Tanaris and Felwood quests and if you havent and do Un'Goro. Pick up all the quests there and do them. There are a lot of alliance/horde, however they tend to leave you alone because they are either doing quests themselves or farming mats. I do suggest to take a buddy though. Start running Sunken Temple. Great loot and xp and if you are a skinner plenty dragons to skin.

55-57: I put off WPL till you are a higher level because on PVP servers this is gank central for high levels. Do quests there and in Wintersprings and don't forget to equip your argent dawn trinket when in the plaguelands. Don't turn in the scourge stones till after you get honored with argent dawn. Try to run BRD to get attuned to molten core and make sure you pick up the quest from the dead dwarve which you can only pick up when you are dead yourself to get the shadow forge key. BRD is your first taste of end game instancing. Very good loot and xp as well (if you are in a good group).

58-60: EPL and Silithus questing. If you want grind away but make sure you are rested if not just quest away.

There you have it. The key to level is knowing the quests and doing them. Thottbot or allakhazam is your friend. Plus questing doesn't make you go insane like mindless grinding does.

Now for the talent choices…..

Levels 10-14: Cruelty (Crit is always good)
Levels 15-19: Unbridled Wrath (Gets you a lot of rage fast)
Levels 20-24: Improved Battle Shout (Ups your DPS)
Levels 25-29: Duel Wield Specialization (Ups your DPS again
Levels 30-32: Improved Rend (More damage)
Levels 33-34: Improved Heroic Stike (This will be your version of mortal strike or bloodthirst for the mean time use this and sunder armor always on mobs)
Levels 35-36: Improved Charge (Gets you more rage now)
Level 37: Improved Heroic Strike
Levels 38-39: Deflection (Not taking damage is always good)
Levels 40-42: Deep Wounds (More damge=execellent)
Levels 43-44: Improved Overpower (Critting on a rogue especially a night elf is fun)

When you hit level 45 you are going to respec.

Now what to respec at 45 to…..

Your will put 31 points into Fury:
5 in Cruelty
5 in Unbridled Wrath
5 in Improved Battle Shout
5 in Duel Wield Specialization
5 in Enrage
4 in Flurry
1 in Deathwish
and 1 in Bloodthirst

That leaves 5pts left what to put them in?

Put 5 in Anticipation from the defense tree….

wtf? why?

1pt of defense, and correct me if I am wrong or leaving out something gives you 0.4% chance to block, parry and dodge. With 5pts in anticipation it gives you 10 defense which in turn gives you 4% extra chance to block, parry and dodge.

Now I will suggest what else to put in up until level 59 so when you hit 60 you can put that last point in or respec.

Levels 46-47: Improved Beserker Rage
Levels 48-49: Improved Bloodrage
Levels 50-54: Deflection
Levels 55-59: Toughness
Level 60 if you wish: Piercing Howl, its great in BG

Right as your team is about to lose, have a priest (or enginner with MC cap) cast MC on the opposing faction. When the other team wins, your MC'd pet will be considered as your team and only receive one point.

I found this out in the Hinterlands, a horde raid (which was forming in Seradane to raid Emeriss) attacked me, so i came back and found a way to ruin their raid.

First, Mount up and run to firing range of Emeriss. Fire a shot and run like hell towards the enemy raid, try to get right in the middle of them. Once you're there, let him kill you. (Make sure it's him that kills you, not a player. A mushroom will grow on your corpse and deal damage to all players around you. When I did this it caused a chain reaction which killed about 1/4 of their Raid. Needless to say, you'll get camped for doing this, so have an escape route.