Hallow's End Posted in Helpful-In-Game-Info, Dungeons
Hallow’s End was a blast this year. We all kept very busy trying to complete our list of achievements. I’m happy to say that most of us completed all but A Mask for All Occasions which, rumor has it, is going to be removed anyway.
We killed the Headless Horseman many times. He’s a pretty easy fight. Kill him, kill his head, kill him, kill his head and so on. And they changed it so that this year you no longer have to run out and reset the instance between summons.
He dropped the same rings as last year so all of our alts got upgrades. The Horseman’s Helm dropped again this year, so Sokka finally got it. The only new loot was The Horseman’s Blade. A very nice one handed sword.
He also had a chance to drop his mount but none of us ever saw it.
Update: As of the patch released 4 Nov 2008 A Mask for All Occasions has been removed from the achievement list.
WoW 3.0.2 Patch Update Posted in Tips-of-the-Trade, Helpful-In-Game-Info
Blizzard News
Blizzard has announced that the regular Tuesday maintenance will be over 12 hours tomorrow in anticipation of the 3.0.2 patch dubbed Echoes of Doom. We will have New 51 Talent Tree, Barber Shops, new Inscription profession, new Harbor area in Stormwind, new Guild Calendar, and many other changes to classes and game play. The patch is at 1.17Gig as of last night, so get that patch downloading tonight before the new patch goes live. Patch Notes Here
Tip: You can go to your WorldofWarcraft Dir and double click on BackgroundDownloaded.exe to start the download manually.
A cool change in 3.0.2 patch is going to be how vanity pets and mounts are going to be stored. There will be a new tab in your character screen called pets. In that screen you can choose between mounts or companions – non-combat pets are now called companions – when you fist summon your companion or mount it will disappear in your bag and reappear in this new tab. Freeing up bag space. Now you can summon your companions or mount like a spell.
Herbalism
Now is the time to make big bucks on all those herbs you have been storing in anticipation for the new Inscription Profession.
Add-On
As always we will keep an eye on all the add-ons we use as a guild and post updates when available. If we miss any you use and have found the new version of it, post it in the comments and I will get it in this list. For now, make sure to check your use outdated add-ons box in the add-on screen just in case. We are not sure if there will be a new UI interface or not making all add-ons useless.
- updated Atlas
- updated Rating Buster
- updated Omen Threat Meter
- updated CT Mod
- updated Gatherer
- updated Auctioneer
- updated Deadly Boss Mod
- not updated Mob Info 2
- updated Fishing Buddy
- updated Totem Timers
- updated Extended Quest Log
- not updated LilSparkysWorkshop
- updated Recount
- not updated Natur EnemyCastBar
Inscription and Glyphs
Glyphs are the new feature of Inscription. I plan to level Inscription on Isabel when the 3.0.2 patch goes live. I refuse to pay the high prices of Glyphs when they come out and it’ll be good for the guild to have a high level Inscriptor. So let me know what you need and I will see what I can do.
See what is available for your class
click on database > Items > Glyphs > then your class to see what is available
Note: Wowhead has a new Item Comparison Tool, it’s a lot like the Rating Buster WoW add-on but out of game and you can compare any items, not just what you have on. I Compared 2 daggers I have with a Shaman Enhancement build and it gave me a score saying which one was better for that build Click Here To See. You can also compare item sets against breaking up your set with an new piece. Or your staff vs main hand and and off hand. Its pretty cool.
Brewfest Posted in Helpful-In-Game-Info, Tips-of-the-Trade
Another Brewfest celebration has come and gone and we had a lot of fun joining in the revelry. We killed Coren Direbrew enough times that everyone got almost everything they wanted.
Coren Direbrew is actually a pretty tough fight. I don’t know about the post on Wowwiki that says you can 3 man him. Must be players decked out in all S4 gear. Coren himself is a basic tank and spank fight. He has a whole lot of hit points but hits like a sissy (at least for any decently geared tank). He does have one big attack, the Direbrew Disarm. It does a lot of damage to anyone within range. It about took out Sonaris and Isabel a couple times. It’s all the adds that are the problem. If you don’t take care of them they’ll just overwhelm you. We did pretty well, only wiped a couple times. Mostly due to either Shazuku (tank) or Katrysta (healer) getting “Barreled” by the add Ursula Direbrew. Getting Barreled not only causes damage, it disorients you. Which basically causes you to wander around with a barrel on you head for 8 seconds. It also causes a complete aggro wipe, usually ending up with the mage getting killed…. sorry Zarint.
We got 2 of the Direbrew’s Remote on our first run so that made it very easy to port to BRD over and over changing our group with alts for more runs. Congratulations go out to both Sonaris and Isabel for receiving Direbrew’s Shanker. I know that many people on our server were trying to get it and have not, as yet succeeded. Most of us got all the trinkets we were after (and a few we weren’t). Shazuku got the Swift Brewfest Ram.
I wasted my Brewfest Tokens wisely with Shazuku and got Belbi’s Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles. They are pretty funny. Gives you a buff called Beer Goggles that makes everyone look a male gnome (even the NPCs, opposing faction and humanoid mobs). I have to admit that I’ve been running around with them on all week and laughing pretty hard.
Part 5 of 7: Farming Primal Mana
The 5th of the seven primals that I’m going to cover will be Primal Mana. I’ve found 2 great locations to farm Motes of Mana. Both places are very good and have regular drop rates. One of these spots has a higher drop rate and is farmed more, but if you manage to get it to yourself it’s the best area I’ve found in Outland.
Farming Locations
The best spot I’ve found for happens to have the highest drop rate for the Motes of Mana (10 Mote of Mana = 1 Primal Mana). It’s Bash’ir Landing located in the northern part of Blade’s Edge Mountains near coordinates 54,18. The mobs you will be farming are the Unbound Etherael and the Phase Wyrm (level 70-71). You do have to have a flying mount to reach this area.
The Unbound Ethereal have a 33% drop rate and are easy to kill whether you are a melee or caster class. They roam around the area and can be single pulled in most cases. The Phase Wyrms are a bit trickier. You must be “phased” to see them. You need to kill the Unbound Ethereals until a Bash’ir Phasing Device drops off of one of them. You click on the phasing device and the Unbound Ethereals become invisible, but you can now see the Phase Wyrms. There is no time limit on the phasing, but if you are killed (by the Opposite faction or a Phase Wyrm ) or leave the Bash’ir Landing area – you lose the buff, and must get another device. I generally kill between 1-5 mobs to get my Bash’ir Phasing Device The Phase Wyrms have a 33% drop rate but are equipped with electric skin that hits for 36 nature damage in addition to their regular damage. This makes them much easier to farm if you use a class that does ranged damage.
A Note about Blade’s Edge
Something to remember: The Blade’s Edge Mountains location does have the best overall drop rate for the Motes of Mana, but is heavily farmed. If you are planning on hunting the Phase Wyrms you must first accept the daily quest: Intercepting the Mana Cells. It starts from Exarch Nasuun of The Shattered Sun Offensive in Shattrath. The Bash’ir Phasing Device you will need in order to see the Phase Wyrms will only drop if you are on the quest. Completing the quest gives you: Shattered Sun Supplies (I’ve always gotten a green item and even a Badge of Justice here and there), 10g 10s and 250 reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive. I have always left the area with 3-8 motes of mana just doing the quest. It just depends on how many Phase Wyrms I had to kill to complete the quest.
Easy Killing
Netherstorm is another good location to farm Motes of Mana. The area that I have found to be the best is just north of area 52 along the edge of the zone from coordinates 34, 49 to 24, 53. You will be farming the Phase Hunters and Nether Rays (level 67-68) to get Mote of Mana (10 Mote of Mana = 1 Primal Mana).
These mobs are famed less, are lower levels and are easier to kill than the ones in Blade’s Edge Mountains but the drop rates are lower. Both the Phase Hunters and Nether Rays have a 25%-26% drop rate. These mobs are much easier for melee but are very annoying for mana users due to the Mana Burn, Spell Reflect, and Arcane Immunity abilities on the Phase Hunters.
PriceIn the AH on our server Primal Mana is going for 20-24 gold each right now.
Make sure to watch for more strategies about farming primals under Tips of the Trade. I hope that I have helped.
Happy Hunting and Be Safe,
Farming Guides
Midsummer Fire Festival Posted in Helpful-In-Game-Info, Character-Development
The Midsummer Fire Festival is here again. The Festival runs from June 21 – July 4, and has several new events/quests.
This year the Burning Blossoms are not only used to receive a useful buff when tossed into your faction’s fire, you can also use them to reignite fires that have been extinguished by enemy players. The Burning Blossoms are also used as currency to purchase fun seasonal items from the Midsummer Suppliers and Merchants. You get the Burning Blossoms by completing the quests and daily quests.
Dancing Around the Ribbon Pole is back again this year. There is a pole in each camp. You click on the top to dance around with a colored ribbon. When you dance around the pole you get a nice buff that gives you 10% bonus to experience from killing monsters. The longer you dance the longer the buff will last.
Torch Tossing is pretty easy. The quest giver will give you a torch. You click on the torch and it brings up a green target. You have to position the target over the brazier while the red mark is over it (similar to the hunter’s mark) and throw the torch. You only get credit if you hit the brazier while the target is over it (you will know because it will shoot a column of fire straight up) You must stand near the Festival Bonfire.
Torch Catching is a bit more difficult. You stand near the Festival Bonfire and click on the provided unlit torch. After you throw the torch you chase it down and try to catch it by following the small (and often hard to see) shadow on the ground. If you catch it you immediately throw it again and again (usually behind you) until you catch it the necessary number of times. If you miss, the torch blows up and you take fire damage. It does get easier after you do it a few times.
The Torch Tossing and Torch Catching become daily quests after you complete them both the first time.
The Unusual Activity quest is a short chain that sends you to The Zoram Strand in Ashenvale to investigate the Twilight Cult activity. Head to The Zoram Strand just south of Blackfathom Deeps and start killing the Twilight Cult mobs. I got the Twilight Correspondence quest item pretty quickly (the 1st kill with my shammy and the 3rd kill with my warrior) the mobs seem to be between lvl 20-23. After you get the quest item you click on the totamic becon you were provided to summon an NPC that will give you another part of the quest chain. An Innocent Disguise sends you up the beach north west of Blackfathom Deeps. Once you reach the spot where there are 3-4 Twilight mobs standing together in a semi-circle click on the orb you received to put on your crab disguise and listen to their conversation. Then use your Totamic Becon again to summon the NPC again. The last part, Inform the Elder, sends you back to any capitol city for the turn in (the same guy you picked up Unusual Activity from).
Completing this chain unlocks 2 more quests:
Striking Back, which sends to kill an enemy NPC. This is a daily quest and may send you to a different place every day, I’m not sure. The one I did sent me to kill the Glacial Templar on the Hellfire side of the Dark Portal. You summon the Glacial Templar by clicking on the Ice Stone located at 85,53 (alliance). He was a very easy kill, just be sure to clear out a few of the trash mobs before you summon.
Ahune, the Frost Lord sends you to the Slave Pens in Zangarmarsh to talk to Numa Cloudsister. Ahune is a summonable boss, similar to the Headless Horseman during the Hallow’s End celebration last fall, he is only available during the Fire Festival. Numa Cloudsister is just inside the Salve Pens instance. She gives you another quest, Ahune is Here! and tells you to search the Slave pens for the Earthen Ring Shamans and their leader Luma Skymother and help them defeat Ahune. Ahune is available on normal and heroic modes and has loot for each.
The quests are pretty easy and the amount of experience makes them worth doing, even at 69 I made a few bars. All of them award plenty of money too (more if you are 70).
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