Patch 5.3 - New Scenario Steps

Blood in the Snow

• The Mountaineers - Contact the Dark Iron Mountaineers atop Shimmer Ridge and find a way to stop the storm.
• Save Scout Stonebeard - Slay the trolls cooking Scout Stonebeard and free him.
• Save Scout Boldbrew - Slay the trolls trying to cook Scout Boldbrew.
• Save Scout Forgefellow - Slay the trolls about to sacrifice Scout Forgefellow.
• The Cold Cave - Slay the elemental spirit in the ice cave to end the snowstorm.
• Victory or Death - Join Moira's forces, slay the Zandalari leader, and captures the Frostmane village.

Dark Heart of Pandaria

• Talk to the Boss - Speak with Grizzle Gearslip.
• Rock Grinding - Destroy the greater elemental ravaging the Big Blossom Mine.
• Time is Money - Finish gathering the archaeology fragments from the dig site.
• End of the Mine - Travel deep into Big Blossom Mine and blast open the wall.
• Heartbreak - Destroy the Echo of Y'Sharrj.

The Secrets of Emberdeep

• Infiltration - Breach the main chamber and stop the mongrel forces.
• Reconnaissance - Investigate the main chamber.
• The Sealed Gate - Help Ticker build a device to open the next gate.
• Holdout - Defend the Gob Squad while Patch establishes an escape route.
• Egress - Escape with the Gob Squad.

Battle on the High Seas

• Boarding Party! - Protect the Ship! Defeat the Horde Boarding party.
• Explosives Acquisition - Steal Explosives from enemy Demolitionists.
• To Smithereens! - Plant explosives on the Alliance Ship to destroy it!
• Defeat the Admiral! - Defeat Admiral Hodgson.

[Guide] How to become invincible as a mage in Mist of Pandaria

You will need to be a mage which has Spellsteal.
There are mobs at the Dusklight Bridge in Townlong Steppes called Kor'think Timerhusk.
They have a magic buff called Timberhusk that reduces damage by 80% and the buff stacks.
If you go there as a mage and spell steal as many stacks as you can you will take next to no damage. Spell steal caps at 2 minutes so you only have 2 minutes after stealing the first stack though you should only need 4-5 stacks to reduce any damage to single digit numbers.

[Guide] Quick Golden Lotus Dailies - Finish two without fighting

This requires having flying in Pandaria.
They are for the daily quests:

Acts of Cruelty
Rescue 5 Golden Lotus Guards or Mistfall Villagers.
Torture victims rescued (5)
and
Free Spirits
Enter Spirit Vortexes and free 15 pandaren spirits inside.
Free Captive Pandaren Spirits (15)
Provided item:
Shao-Tien Spirit Dagger

Make sure you are mounted up, and for Acts of Cruelty, just aggro the Mogu that is strangling the Golden Lotus guard. The minute he aggro's you will gain credit for saving the golden lotus guard, and can simply fly up and away to the next one. Easy way to get the daily done.

The same can be done for Free Spirits, when you enter that spirit realm, mount up. Fly to the captive spirits, and when a hostile npc aggro's you, just fly up. The mob will actually despawn, allowing you to continue freeing the spirits. Best part is you can free the spirits while mounted to make it even faste

Warrior Patch 5.2.0 Tier Set 15 Preview Image + Video!

Warrior Tier Set 15 in Patch 5.2.0 in World of Warcraft: Mist of Pandaria

gold/yellow one looks like shit, blue like submarine - ironman, only black is cool, sorta looks like the headless horseman


source, as guessed: mmo-champion.

[Guide] Become exalted with all factions in MoP - detailed

Note that this will cover only the newly introduced factions in MoP!
This includes, but does not limits to: The Anglers, The August Celestials, Golden Lotus, The Klaxxi, The Lorewalkers, Order of the Cloud Serpent, Shado-Pan, and The Tillers

The idea is to farm as many Hozen Peace Pipes as possible. There is a small bug - you can click the item a few more times before the cooldown activates.
Create a macro with several
/use Hozen Peace Pipe

in it, grab like 30 pipes and click the macro. It helps also if you manage to lag your client (for instance by downloading/uploading/streaming data).
 
Hozen Peace Pipe
Drops from Scritch (rare elite in Kun-Lai).
Impressive item, does exactly what it describes.
Gives 1000 rep with all the new pandaren factions other than the Black Prince
The Anglers, The August Celestials, Golden Lotus, The Klaxxi, The Lorewalkers, Order of the Cloud Serpent, Shado-Pan, and The Tillers

It is affected by +rep gains (human, guilded), doesn't get affected by battle standard, (but then, why would it).

It is consumed on use, and continues to give the full amount of reputation all the way to exalted.

This item is not bound when picked up, so as others have suggested, expect plenty of people camping his spawn.

The item now has a 7 day cooldown before you can use another.

For more info on rare elites go to Guide - Rare Elites of Pandaria.

[Preview] Rogue Tier Set 15 male & female looks

Male Rogue Tier Set 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Female Rogue Tier Set 15

[Guide] Incredibly fast leveling with mob tagging!

Also known as 'Sha Leveling - Furious Sprites - Mob Tagging'

What You Need:

- Char Level 85 - 90
- Sha Spawn Location
- Group of friends, Pref level 90!

When sha spawns, he spawns adds called Furious Sprite's that have 814k HP. So what you wanna do is tag them and get your friends to kill them. Upon their death, providing you tagged them you will get 88k Exp per kill rested. They respawn stupidly fast, they drop Jewelcrafting patterns, Motes of harmony and Windwool cloth.

Now, from 85 - 90 is 97.5 million exp.. so..

97500000/88000 = 1108 Kills.. (If rested. 2216 if not) The time it takes is down to you.

Notes:
Furious Sprites (FS) spawn only when the Sha of Anger is near the gate to Valley of Eternal Blossom (coord 51.2 - 87.6). Every Sha's spawn point has a different type of creatures that spawn with Sha. Don't try it on another location, other creatures kill you in a blink of an eye, even if you are 90's.
You can recognize 4 minor FS spawn points around the Sha area, try to stay between two of these, better the two behind SoA (more distance from SoA = avoid unintentional pull).
FS melee hit is really hard even for those who wear plates (if you're tank you can take a bunch of them without problem past lvl85 with 410+ gear) but they continuously cast Rage Bolt. The damage is ridiculous so don't interrupt them.
Use Battle Standard of Coordination every 10 minutes and don't go too far away from it. Exp output is insane.
They drop a good amount of green, JC recipe and Mote of Harmony. Make space in your bags before you start grinding, they spawn quickly after dying and the risk is an endless combat.

EXP Gain per kill: I don't remember how much experience give @85 but i'm sure that...

88k+ @86 (Rested/Standard)
100k+ @87 (Rested/Standard)
120k+ @88 (Rested/Standard)
150k+ @89 (Rested/Standard)

[Guide] RBG: Wintrade Boosting

An exploit on how to Win Trade effectively.

Group A = Booster Team. (team with player(s) your boosting)
Group B = Loosing Team.

Group A + B : Form teams (Group A gets player(s) into group that they are boosting)
Group A + B : 1 player from each team logs off.
Group A + B : Leader from each group (must be dead + in spirit form) joins the QUE.

Wait 5 mins or so...

Both offline players log on at the same time. Queue pop and there you go!
You will be matched together, now you simply let the players who want boosted join the game with some team mates and win it!

This works because both teams will be in the queue for a long time, because they cant join (as logged out players) and then as you both log in, it matches because you have both been in the que a long time.

To clear thing up for people, this is a method to get the team you are win trading, what ever other tactics you use are up to you, this is just how to 100% win trade effectively.

Warsong Gulch 5.1.0 Flag Carrier Trick - Keep the flag safe!

With this trick you can keep the enemy flag safe for as long as you want. Simply stay hidden under/behind texture.

[Detailed Guide] How to be "Realm First! level 90"

Today im gonna give you a "Wall-of-text guide" on how to increase your chances to get you the FoS achievement 

Or if you are really setting your goal for it, maybe even get you it!


Disclaimer: This is not for noobs, you must be very experienced with your class, World of Warcraft, fast leveling in general, and you must have the time! This will not work if you are not ready at LAUNCH time, you can not excpect to get realm first if you go to sleep early and then go to school before starting the journey to 90!


Preparing for MoP Realm First:

Things you will need :

#1 Reliable network

You must be 100% sure that you have your network ready for the launch day. One Disconnect and you risk your realm first achievement right there!
Having 1000ms won't help you very much aswell, make sure you have closed every download / porn sites / YouTube or whatever that might cause you to lagg more than wanted.

#2 Food, Energy (Drinks / bars etc)

Even tho you are going for realm first, you need to stay hydrated and not starve This is pretty self explanitory but you cant spend 30 minutes at level 87 cooking food because you get hungry. What I like to do is to make some awesome taco before launch and eat me full and then wrap some more so I can eat whenever I get hungry, just put it in the microwave for one minute when you have any idle* time on WoW.

*Idle time is a time where there is some cinematic. You probably remember the first time you went to Vasj'ir and had to sit on the boat for 3 minutes doing nothing. This is a good time to go to the bathroom and get your food heated up in the microwave.

Originally Posted by Found

After having played wow for 7 years I can assure you, caffeinated beverages and snack foods are the absolute WORST choices. Here is my suggestion(s).

NOTE: Before and after every gaming session, do yourself a favor and do 5-10 push ups and or crunches to get your dopamine levels up and ultimately make yourself more productive, as well as over time increasing strength and metabolism. That said, lets continue.

Beverages: Herbal teas (decaffeinated), water. That's it.. Statistically speaking, if you're tired, you're more than likely dehydrated, and the best way to stay hydrated is to drink water. General rule of thumb is: If you're thirsty, you're already in the early stages of dehydration. Which is not only bad for your health, but also bad for your gaming. If you get tired, you're dehydrated, as Par said, don't drink coffee or energy drinks or anything, as it'll make you more tired and cause you to have to use the bathroom more frequently.*

Foods: Now this can be set into two categories. One if you do happen to preform mini workouts every time you leave the chair, and if you don't (which I don't recommend).*

If you do - Eat foods with carbs, i.e., pastas, and so forth. Also, I'd recommend protein bars, as they can be potentially delicious and healthy as well.*
If you don't - Eat foods with little to no carbs, and or calories as you'll get more from it. Choose items such as, celery, apples, carrots (notice: all of these foods make you burn calories as you eat them). Fruits, vegetables, and protein bars. Good choices.

Let's look at the bad choices:

Cheese its, cheetos, chips, candy, fried chicken, chili, pizza, anything with gravy (although it is delicious, get over it), and don't ever eat anything with a lot of sugar, which is a given.

SLEEP: Do yourself a favor and sleep, and do *it properly. Don't stay awake until 5 am, and sleep til 5 pm. That's so unhealthy it isn't even funny. Know when you have to be up, and plan accordingly. If you have to be up at, say 8:30. You'll want to sleep at 2:30 as to provide yourself 2 complete sleep cycles, waking up between them causes fatigue and groginess. Make sure you're sleeping properly and everything should be fine. If you happen to have more questions ask me! or Parrky as he seems to know what he's talking about as well.

-Found.

Originally Posted by Parrky

Here's some proper advice, make sure you're preordered and preloaded the expansion and get to bed at a time that ensures you'll wake up near midnight of launch.

Give yourself two hours to fully wake up, prepare your breakfast, lunch and dinner plus any snacks and drinks. Here are my personal recommendations:

Breakfast: Something with a high amount of fibre, my favourite is museli - weetabix is also popular along with shreddies and porridge oats. Fibre does two things, it slows the processing of carbohydrates and makes them a more efficient long term energy provider and it also fills you up. Whatever you do do not miss breakfast.

Lunch: Something along the lines of a chicken sandwich would be great, pasta is another option here but I'm saving that for my dinner.

Dinner: Pasta (with chicken cuz chicken is darn tasty)! Can be served cold and is still tasty!

Snacks: Fruit is good, yoghurt can help digestion and anything sugary is a no no.

Drinks: Water, water and more water. If you're feeling tired after a while, DO NOT DRINK ANYTHING WITH CAFFEINE. I can't stress this enough, caffeine will have you taking pissbreaks every 5 minutes. If you're feeling tired, take a glucose tablet or some sugary sweets like Haribo and energy bars are fine too.


One final piece of advice, take heed of your mortality. You are only human, make sure you rest appropriately when you need it.

#3 Privacy

Tell your wife / friends / your dog or whoever you may live with, what you are doing. You dont want your girlfriend charging into your room dragging you to shopping or your boyfriend begging you for le sexy time. So make sure they know, you don't want ANY downtime!

#4 Have the client downloaded!

Make sure you have downloaded the game before the launch! Open the launcher and it will start download (They have allready made the game available for download)

#5 (Optional) Some good music!

What I like to do when playing games is to turn on my kick ass surround sound system and fire up some awesome music! This makes the gametime more fun and less boring



Spotify is a great way to setup music for your gameplay, just make an account on Download Spotify - Spotify (I highly reccomend getting premium so you wont have any commercials between the music which is really annoying trust me.) Make your playlist and put it as "Available Offline" so it wont use any uneccesarry net.


In-game Preperations :

#1 Keybindings

Make sure you have keybindings for targetting and interracting with friendly NPCs, this will make it much easier if there are alot of people blocking the quest givers etc.



#2 Addons

You dont want to spend alot of time clicking accept and and complete and all that, Turn In lets you skip all that and makes you a couple of seconds ahead.
Turn In - Quests & Leveling - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse

You dont wanna stop for 10 second figuring out where to go looking at you map. Mapster gives you the ability to have the map open while running around questing.
Mapster - Map & Minimap - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse

Make sure all your addons WORK on the Beta, you don't want your addons to crash your client while playing the game.

#3 Daily Quests

Make sure you have 25 daily quests and preferrably normal quests besides that.

I will have the comment below reserved for full guide on all the quests you can get and deliver when MoP hits.

#4 85 Heirloom gear *Note: this is not tested, but it worked at Cata launch!

In Cataclysm only 2 new heirlooms was implemented, the head and the cloak (80-85) Im 99% sure this will work in MoP. Basically since its 80-85 it means you can use it in 85 aswell to gain more exp untill level 86.

#5 Flasks / Potions / Food and inventory

This is pretty much self-explanitory. Clear your bags of trash, put useless stuff in your bank and buy alot of potions, flasks and buff food.
The more buffs you have, the faster you will level!

Originally Posted by Thaadevil

Also, stack up gold, have 1 account/character camping AH that will buy gear for you since this will increase your xp/hour with the new gear. Else, nice guide +rep!

#6 Level 25 guild
Make sure to have a level 25 guild for the extra experience points and to setup dungeon groups before launch.

Beta preperations :

If you don't have beta access, buy it from someone on the forums, get it from a friend, just make sure you have it! If you don't...well then you could pretty much give up allready.

#1 Talents and gear

Figure out the best possible spec you can have. Get BiS gear, the better gear you have, the more damage you will do and the faster you will level up.

#2 Read up on your class

MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Mmo champion have all the updates on every class, I won't teach you how to play, so go read up on that site if you are not 100% sure of what changes gonna hit in MoP and how you will handle that.

#3 90s everywhere!

Go to Battle.net -> Summary -> WoW Beta -> Beta Character Copy -> and copy your char.

Now what? Level it up, level it up 10 times, level it up 100 times. Level it up enough times so you are 100% sure your method is the fastest!
Ask other 90s their /played time and if they did it faster then you? Well guess what, level your char more!


Optimizing your strategies :

#1 Figure out the fastest way to travel

Where should you put your HS? Figure out the best times to change zones. There are many items in-game that lets you teleport to different places around Azeroth!

#2 Enchants and Gems

Keep enchants and gems in your inventory to enchant your new gear. Every oppertunity to gain more dps is an oppertunity to level faster!

#3 Don't kill uneccesarry stuff!

Don't stay around to finish that 1 extra mob you pulled after completing the neccesarry stuff for your quest! Are you a rogue? Vanish. Are you a hunter? Feign Death. Are you a druid? Dash away. Effectivity ftw!

#4 Practice!

Don't stop with the Beta playing until you are fully satisfied with the speed and effincency of your leveling method and you are sure you will get Realm First with that exacy method!

Bonus:

MONKS ONLY!

If you plan on getting realm first level 90 Monk, you HAVE to do the RAF to get your monk to level 81 ASAP!

Basically, just kill a couple of mobs at level 1 and then grant to level 80. And after you have granted that last level. You will be level 80 and have 99% exp for level 81

Originally Posted by nessB

RaF and Monks - Forums - World of Warcraft

All credits go to: Falkeid

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