World of Warcraft Cooking Power leveling Guide

Cooking Guide

Cooking is not a particular profitable profession, but it can be very fun for those that get into it. There are dozens of different recipes with the ability to do everything from turn you into a ninja or pirate to boosting all of your stats before a fight. Look for recipes and either learn how to make things like Savory Deviate Delight (sells for up to 5 gold per serving) or resell the recipes for large profits.

Basic Information
Use the following information as a basis for your decision whether to choose Cooking as a secondary profession. While Cooking may not make you a lot of gold throughout the game, it does offer you the chance to make a good number of food items that will offer an increasing number of useful buffs as you proceed into the game. Cooking is also among the easiest and quickest secondary skills to level up in the game, making it an absolute must for any players looking for their next task.

Recommended Profession to Pair With:

• Fishing (materials)

You can get a lot of what you need to level up your cooking skill by having fishing as another secondary profession. This allows you to do a lot of things, including save time and money.

Trainers

• Apprentice/Journeyman Alliance Trainers (1 - 150)
• Mumman – The Exodar
• Cookie McWeaksauce – Azuremyst Isle
• Cook Ghilm – Dun Morogh
• Crystal Boughman – Redridge Mountains
• Daryl Rinussun – Ironforge
• Gremlock Pilsnor – Dun Morogh
• Stephen Ryback – Stormwind

Expert Alliance Trainers (150 - 225)

• Talk to Shandrina in Ashenvale – Purchase “Expert Cookbook”

Artisan Alliance Trainers (225 - 300)

• Talk to Dirge Quickcleave in Tanaris – Complete “Clamlette Surprise”

Master Alliance Trainer (300 - 375)

• Talk to Gaston in Hellfire Peninsula – Purchase “Master Cookbook”

Grand Master Alliance Trainer (375 - 450)

• Rollick MacKreel – Borean Tundra
• Brom Brewbaster – Howling Fjord
• Katherine Lee - Dalaran

Apprentice/Journeyman Horde Trainers (1 - 150)

• Master Chef Mouldier – Ghostlands
• Quarelestra – Silvermoon City
• Aska Mistrunner – Thunder Bluff
• Eunice Burch – Undericty
• Zamja – Orgrimmar

Expert Horde Trainers (150 - 225)

• Talk to Wulan in Desolace – Purchase “Expert Cookbook”

Artisan Horde Trainers (225 - 300)

• Talk to Dirge Quickcleave in Tanaris – Complete “Clamlette Surprise”

Master Horde Trainer (300 - 375)

• Talk to Baxter in Hellfire Peninsula – Purchase “Master Cookbook”

Grand Master Horde Trainer (375 - 450)

• Orn Tenderhoof – Borean Tundra
• Thomas Kolichio – Howling Fjord
• Awilo Lon’gomba - Dalaran

Leveling Up Cooking from 1 - 450

When you level up your cooking skill, you need a few simple things. You’re going to need a fire to cook any fish or meat, meaning you will need to find and purchase Simple Wood and Flint and Tinder. You can find these in Orgrimmar with Asoran or in Ironforge with Bryllia. Another important thing to keep in mind is that you will need to have a great deal of recipes set aside to level up your cooking skill. Many of these recipes might be limited supply, so if you cannot find them, look at the Auction House (they are much more expensive there, but if you start looking early, you can try to find a good deal). Also notice that this walkthrough assumes you are doing fishing as well. If not, you can still buy these fish at the Auction House, but it is much easier and cheaper to just catch them yourself and level both skills up in tandem.

Recipes Needed:

• Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish
• Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper
  Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish
• Recipe: Mithril Head Trout
• Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail Gikkix
• Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon
• Recipe: Mightfish Steak
• Recipe: Feltail Delight
• Recipe: Blackened Sporefish
• Recipe: Golden Fish Sticks
• Recipe: Spicy Crawdad Rungor
• Recipe: Grilled Bonescale
• Recipe: Pickled Fangtooth
• Recipe: Smoke Salmon
• Recipe: Snapper Extreme
• Recipe: Gigantic Feast Recipe: Small Feast

Ingredients Needed:

• 50 – Raw Brilliant Smallfish
• 50 – Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
• 75 – Bristle Whisker Catfish
• 50 – Raw Mithril Head Trout
• 25 – Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 25 – Raw Sunscale Salmon
• 25 – Large Raw Mightfish
• 25 – Hot Spices
• 25 – Soothing Spices
• 30 – Spotted Feltail
• 10 – Zangarian Sporefish
• 15 – Golden Darter
• 20 – Furious Crawdad
• 400 – Bonescale Snapper
• 200 – Fangtooth Herring200 – Glacial Salmon NA – Northern Spice

Level 1 - 75
After training as an Apprentice Cook, start cooking Brilliant Smallfish until you reach Level 50. After this, cook Longjaw Mud Snappers until you reach Level 75

Level 75 - 150

Train your Journeyman Cooking skill and then start cooking Longjaw Mud Snappers until you reach Level 100. Next, cook Bristle Whisker Catfish until you reach level 150.

Level 150 - 225

Next, find and buy your Expert Cookbook to become an Expert Cook. You can find this cookbook with Wulan in Desolace (for Horde) and with Shandrina in Ashenvale (for Alliance).

Next, cook Bristle Whisker Catfish until you reach Level 175. Then cook Mithril Head Trout until you reach skill Level 225.

Level 225 - 300

To reach your Artisan Level, you need t complete a qest that starts with Dirge Quickcleave in Gadgetzan. Find him and accept “Clamlette Surprise”. He will request that you gather the following materials:

• Giant Egg x12 – Drop from Owlbeasts (Hinterlands)
• Zestly Clam Meat x10 – Drop from Saltwater Snapjaws (Hinterlands)
• Alterac Swiss x20 – Sold by Galgrom in Caverns of Time

After getting all of these materials, return to Dirge Quickcleave and turn in the quest. You can now start cooking Spotted Yellowtails until you reach skill Level 250.

Next, cook Poached Sunscale Salmon until you are at skill Level 275. To reach 300 before you leave for Outland, cook Mightfish Steaks.

Level 300 - 375

To train as a Master Cook, you need to buy your Master Cookbook, which can be found with Baxter (Horde) or Gaston (Alliance) in Hellfire Peninsula.

Cook Feltail Delights to reach skill Level 330.

Cook Blackened Sporefish to reach skill Level 340.

Cook Golden Fish Sticks to reach skill Level 355.

Cook Spicy Crawdads to reach skill Level 375 and finalize your cooking skills. As you can see, if you are also training in fishing, cooking can be an incredibly quick skill to level up, and a fun one to play with when you finally reach Level 375.

Level 375 – 450

When you reach Grand Master, you will need to start making Grilled Bonescale until you reach level 375.

To reach level 415, start cooking Pickled Fangtooth and Glacial Salmon. You will need Northern Spices for every dish from here on out so have a good number of them on hand.

Now, you need to visit Dalaran to get your higher level, rare recipes. These will require you to go to the faction part of town and to get dalaran cooking awards. Now, cook Snapper Extreme until you reach level 425.

To complete your run to Level 450, you will need to create feasts. Each recipe costs 3 Cooking Awards and will include a number of different items to make. You will need things like nettlefish, Rhio Meat and Glacial salmon for small feasts and Deep Sea Monsterbelly, Chunk o Mammoth, and Rockfin Grouper for the Gigantic Feast. If you want the Deep Sea Monsterbelly, you will need to go to the Frozen Sea and have a fishing skill as high as 575.

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Easy 500-1000gold for plate users in minutes!

Hey guys - here is my latest offering in how Deathknight, Paladins, and perhaps feral druids can SOLO Burning Crusade bosses for large amounts of gold.


The Boss



This is the boss that is to be solo'd - Doomwalker located in Shadowmoon Valley, at location 71,43.

So, why do you suggest this boss?

Doomwalker drops anything from 470 to 550 RAW GOLD ALONE. Not only this, he also drops 2 BoE epics that can be sold on the auction house (I've had the Ethereum Nexus-Reaver sell for another 500gold) , disenchanted for void crystals, or simply vendored (most of the items fetch a 10-20gold vendor price)

Ok, now that we have established that you can make anywhere from 500 to potentially thousands from epic sales, you are probably asking yourselves - "I can make this amount of gold from dailies in a couple of hours, or from a good farming spot even less."

Doomwalker takes approximately 20-25 minutes to solo, meaning that you will be getting all this gold for minimum time effort. This is what makes soloing Doomwalker so attractive.

Ok, I like it - So how do I do it?

Well, there are various strategies for different classes on how to do this - and I'll run through the most commonly use strat for each class.

Deathknight - The best spec for doing this is no doubt Blood, wearing tanking gear. Keep Horn of Winter up at all times. The two abilities to that are of most concern is Crush Armor and his melee swings. When Crush Armor reaches 10stacks - it will leave you with 0 armor, so the idea is to avoid it stacking up. To do this, when he casts Earthquake, pop IBF and run away from him - this gives you 8 seconds of no stack application, as well as the few seconds it takes him to get back to you.

Use Deathstrike to keep youself healed, obviously. When he casts enrage - use Army of the Dead. Save IBF when needed the most. Make sure you have no more than 4stacks of crush armor on you during enrage. Pet sacrifice when low. Just use defensive cooldowns during enrage, basically.

Paladin - The spec to use as a Paladin is Prot. Just try and use as much Block gear as possible, if he enrages with 4 or more stacks on you, bubble. Use JoL, SoL to keep yourself topped. Divine Plea up at all times, Blessing of Sanctuary, and keep holy shield up.

Druid - Although no one has done it yet, maybe this is do-able as feral. Try it - be the first feral druid in the world to solo Doomwalker.

Warrior - Again, no one as done it yet - but try it. Perhaps with enough avoidence you can keep yourself up with self heals.

Final


Here are some Youtube videos illustrating what I wrote for extra help if needed. These are simply taken from Youtube and I take no credit for making them.

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4000-20k Gold / Hour - Parrot Farming

I just sold my latest Parrot on the Auctionhouse and I figured that it was time to share my best goldmakeing secret with all of you here.

What will we be doing? - Farming a very rare Vanity pet



What is needed to do this?
A high lvl character, 40 + but preferably higher.
As we will be swimming quite a bit aswell its highly recomended to get some [Elixir of Water Walking] unless you are a Deathknight or shaman.

Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw).
This pet quite possibly has the smallest drop rate in the game, at approximately 0.0007 = 0.07% (about 1/1400 kills) CONFIRMED ON WOWWIKI
and so takes an incredible amount of patience and determination in order to get one.

Due to the difficulty of obtaining one, and thus their rarity, they can sell for huge amounts of gold on the Auction House.

Because of the extremely low droprate - This pet is a status symbol. Every Goblin sitting on to much money / Every Pet-collector / Really hardcore player wants one of these.

World of Warcraft has always been about having the most gold, achivements, pets, mounts, having the highest ratings and best gear. Simply being the best player.
Depending on which server you are on, Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw) will sell from anywhere between 9000 gold upto 60 000 gold.

I have seen on many occasions diffrent people makeing serverforum posts about wanting to buy this item or spamming the trade channel.

To be noted is that Blizzard in patch 3.2.2 made this drop EPIC because previously it dropped for some low levels and they would go on ah and sell it for like 3 gold or something stupid. But that never happens now!

I especially avoided the Booty Bay quests because I don't want to loose reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers, What should I do?

My recommendation for you is very simple.

You know that Death Knight you leveled to 58 and then forgot about? Finish leveling it to 61 so you get Path of Frost, and then run willy-nilly between the ships killing pirates.

It makes the whole experience much easier and even a little fun.

Don't forget that you will get lots of Booty Bay reputation, If you do it enough you will get Exalted with BB very quickly.

How to farm it?
Simply head down to the Wild Shore just south of Booty Bay, Pop your waterwalking and start farming.

I recomend putting on some good music in the background or you will get very boored very quickly, but I guess that goes for all farming.

Follow the arrows on the map, start on the beach clearing the packs of mobs then run south down to the 2 boats there.

Clear those and head over east to the third boat and then up to the beach again.

I timed my killings for an hour and managed to kill amost 10 mobs / minute,

and that was includeing the low lvls who occationally come around killing mobs for their own quests.


Additionally I would like to add that I understand that this is a pretty "Unsafe" method considering the low droprate.

But just do the math. The droprate is 1 in 1400. You can kill about 10 mobs / Minute (That includes Run and loot time). So you will on average get 1 Pet every 140 minutes or 2.33 Hours,
which you will prolly sell pretty quickly for 20 000 gold (Ofc if there is one on the Ah you just wait a little while). 20 000 / 2.33 = [color=black]8 583.69099 Gold / Hour!





Good Luck

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Level 75-76 Instant respawns, no quests required!

Stumbled upon this spot accidentally while questing today. Right after you kill the Bonescythe Ravager mobs that are stationed here, more will instantly respawn and either run toward you, or spawn right on top of you. For a class that can support this non-stop grinding, such as a blood DK for example, this would be some sick XP!

The mobs are standard 75-76 mobs, regular health bars, regular drops, regular 2k rested xp.

It wasn't too great on my rogue because I don't really have a way to regenerate health from the mobs aside from eating or bandaging but that's difficult with instant respawns. I'm sure someone can find a good use for this.

Location/example in pictures below. Good luck!

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Dual boxing guide

What is Dual Boxing?
Dual boxing is playing two or more characters at one time. You've probably seen characters running around in World of Warcraft following each other and you maybe had the hunch that one person was playing both of them.

Here's another example. You've probably taken your higher level character into a low level zone and saw a high level character just following around a low level character while it does quests maybe helping or healing him when in trouble. It looks like a high level player is helping a low level player and you are jealous that you don't have someone helping you, but you won't be surprised to learn that it's not a someone, it's the same guy he's helping playing both.

Or yet another example, how about the time you got into some PvP action with your level 80 or any character really and you beat 2 or as many as 4 players really easily, and you went off to celebrate thinking you are a really good player. Well, I don't mean to spoil your fun but you probably just killed one person playing 2-4 characters at a time which then makes it really easy for you to pick all four of them off. Don't feel so hot now hey?

People use dual boxing for a ton of different reasons, from making gold doing quests and farming, to soloing old world raid bosses or doing instances, to just plain old using them to protect their low level alts. Either way, you'll be surprised to learn that a large portion of the World of Warcraft player base is already dual boxing and that you are missing out.

So Blizzard recently claimed they had over 11.5 million subscribers, while it may be true that there are 11.5 million accounts, I would say the player base is somewhere from half of that to maybe 75%. At one point all by myself I had 5 accounts!

Why Should I Dual Box?

So why should you dual box?

The better question is why shouldn't you dual box. Yeah it costs extra money every month and you may need a better computer than you currently have, but things can literally go 2x as fast for you in WoW and enable you to do things that you wouldn't be able to do by yourself.

Ever heard of the dragon called Onyxia? Well if you haven't, its a 40 man raid boss from the original World of Warcraft. It used to take 40 or so level 60's to do it, but now with Wrath of the Lich King guess how many you need to beat her? Well, it's been done by just 1 character, usually a Death Knight, but it does take awhile.

What I'm getting at is if you were playing 2 80s you could easily duo her, especially if one was a healer. She drops a decent amount of gold and a bunch of epics and other things you could sell, but it's mostly just for fun. Even better yet, play a third character that IS level 60 and let them get all the loot and use them as a twink in Battlegrounds or something. There are no limits because you become your own group.

How about that alt you started that is having a hard time leveling up? Why not dual box and power level yourself through instances. I often times take my level 80 and group with my other characters and level them in Scarlet Monastery, Zul'Farrak, and more. The experience is less per kill but the speed you're killing at makes the experience you get unobtainable through a regular group.

You can also use your high level to just follow you around and protect you that way you won't get corpse camped as easily. Sometimes I use my other 4 accounts that have level 80s on them and follow around just one of my low level character's in the 30s. Sure I've been attacked before but most of the time I have enough characters to go through to win and think of how many people are staying away from me compared to if I were just there with only a level 30?

Here's an option that's popular too. Bring multiple characters with to do daily quests together. Think of all the quests that require you to kill some enemies that count for the entire group or that require you just to loot a few things. You could finish a daily quest across 2 or more characters without much more effort but still get all the gold for doing dailies

What Do I Need To Dual Box?.
Depending on how high you like your graphics settings will determine what type of computer you need to dual box. Most likely though, if you have a computer that is running WoW fine already then you can just turn off most of the graphics and run a second copy. To run 2 copies of World of Warcraft with any amount of graphics on will require you to have a much better computer.

My computer's specs that I've used to 4 box before are, 6GB of Ram DDR2 800mhz, 512MB Geforce 8600GTS, and an AMD Dual Core Processor 4600+ @ 2.41GHZ.

Now if you don't know what all that means I will translate it for you. My computer is 2 years old and it's kind of okay, but its by far not the best computer out there, there are already 9000 series graphics cards and even newer than that they've made it into the 100 series and 200 series at the time of this writing. So my graphics card is not even close to the best, my processor is old it's only a dual core, and my ram is also not as fast as it could be, although I have a lot, I usually dual box from a 32bit operating system so all of my ram doesn't even get used. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say...

Anyone with 2GB of ram, a graphics card similar to mine, and a processor similar to mine will be able to dual box, but like I said, no guarantees.

The other important factor is, you need at least 2 accounts, or as many accounts as you want, but you need an account for each copy of WoW that you are going to open up. You can't run 2 characters off the same account, that's not what this is about doing. So that's another $15/mo subscription, but you'll be getting the most out of the time you spend on WoW.

I prefer to run dual monitors too but it is perfectly acceptable to run it off one, I did it for many years. I explain optimal setups below.

You will also want to be running WoW in Windowed Mode. See the next section if you don't know what that means.

Windowed Mode
To dual box efficiently you'll want to run World of Warcraft in Windowed Mode, you can do it in full screen but switching between screens can take longer and sometimes even a second delay can get you killed depending on what you are doing. So keep WoW running in Windowed Mode while you dual box and the switch will be almost instantly when you want to switch between screens. Here is how you can put it into Windowed Mode.







Optimal Setups for Dual Boxing
As I said above, I play on dual monitors because I can actively monitor what is going on at all times for each character and easily access each of the characters' screens. When you start 4 boxing will probably really want dual monitors, unless you have a super huge LCD because you will probably want to keep all 4 screens up at the same time which means you'll have to make each one smaller. So I do 2 on each screen or sometimes 1 big one on the left and 3 smaller ones on the right. Below are some screenshots to show you how you can setup your configurations.

This is the best configuration for dual or multi-boxing.



This is probably the second best setup if you don't have two screens.
All you do here is grab any corner of your WoW window and shrink it down just like any window on your computer. Then you slightly overlay or you don't even have to do that you can make them small enough so both of them are able to be seen at the same time. It might be hard to see if you have a smaller monitor but this is a good way to make sure you have quick access to both accounts at the same time.



This is the alternate way if you can't do or don't like any of the two above.

This way isn't bad to do with two full screen windows on top of each other, you just lose visibility on one screen at all times but it's doable.



Dual Boxing Macros
This isn't a macro guide, but I want to give you a basic understanding of what type of acros are efficient in this setup and give you an idea of how to create your own custom macros. These are going to be basic things.

How to Create a Macro
Some people who read this guide aren't going to be able to create macros. If you know how to do this then skip this section.







Basic Maneuverability Macros
The first macro you want goes on the character you aren't going to be playing the most and it is.

/target whatevercharacter
/follow whatevercharacter

Let's say I have two characters, Fred and Bill. Fred is the character I'm going to be playing the most, so on Bill's hotbar I'm going to create a macro called follow and type this into the macro box: /follow Fred. When you're dual boxing your characters will come off of follow for random things and it's very convenient and easy to make a macro so all you have to do to get Bill to follow Fred again is to switch screens and press the number on your hotbar, say 1 for example, and it will put him back on follow.

Basic Action Macros

Remember the following commands because they will be useful when creating macros to help automate your play.

/target
/cast
/assist

Most of your macros will use these type of commands. For example, let's say the character you are boxing is a mage, so you want to create a macro that will assist your main character and cast a nuke.

The command would look like this:

/assist charactername
/cast whateverspell

Let's say that you are boxing a healer, it can be easy to lose targets so you may be casting heals on the wrong character and not realizing it. The way to solve this is to do something like this.

/target characteryouwanttoheal
/cast healspellofyourchoice

Also if you have any macros you like to spam all you have to do is add /assist maincharacter to the top of any of these macros to make them target the same enemy before they begin doing whatever it is you're telling them to do in the macro.

Keyclone
Keyclone is a piece of software that you can buy that will link applications together. For example, you could configure Keyclone so that when you press 1 on your hotbar it sends it to all your wow screens. So all your wow screens will hit 1 when you hit 1.

I'm not entirely sure it's legal to use in World of Warcraft. It's not a hack or cheat and you're not modifying the game. All it's doing is emulating your keystrokes to go across multiple copies of WoW, but use this program at your own risk.

This is a common tool that multi-boxers use, it was designed just for them, so it wouldn't really be a good Dual Boxing Guide if I didn't mention it.

However, I am not affiliated in anyway with Keyclone, so use at your own risk.

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Conclusion
Dual boxing can be very beneficial for a variety of reasons that were listed above. It may be hard at first but if you setup your macros, characters, and computer properly it will come as easy as playing one character. Below are some resources that can hep you further your dual boxing career

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Get behind the lake behind northshire

1. First fly to Morgan's vigil in the burning steppes
2. Go to the far southwestern corner of burning steppes
3. You sould find some rocks that you can climb up, climb them and if you see green grass you're almost there.
4. Jump down, i would suggest using using noggenfogger elixir, from the thirsty goblin questline that you get from marin noggenfogger in gadgetzan. just keep drinking them and once you get the "you feel lighter" buff jump down, because it doesn't last long
5. Now you are in the water behind norhtshire.
6. If you go all the way to the west you will find a place where the water just stops. you can do all sorts of fun little tricks with this, like swimming in the air if you go on the ledge and then swim. or you can fall through water if you swim of of the ledge( you should have your hearthstone ready if you do this because so far I haven't found a way to get out).

Thanks for reading about this and i hope you amaze all your friends!

ok the pointer on the map is where the rocks are

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Bind on Account Items guide

What are Bind on Account Items?
For those of you who don't know bind on account items have existed for awhile but they have been mainly from events and redemptions for attending things like Blizzcon.

In Wrath of the Lich King they took a new approach to bind on account (Heirloom) items. They created an array of weapons, shoulders, and trinkets that are bind on account. You've probably seen them before throughout the game, they work from level 1 to 80 and the stats adjust according to your character level.

The stats scale is based off what stats a blue (rare) item would have for that level. So if you are level 19 and you have a bind on account weapon you can expect it to be very similar to the best rare weapon that exists for a level 19.

It also has built in expansion scaling. Every expansion they have dramatically increased the stats of all items so that people were forced into buying the new expansion because gear in the old one would become basically worthless.

Here's an example. Some of the best 1H (one-handed) weapons in the game were around 50-60 DPS in the original World of Warcraft. Once the Burning Crusade was released, rare items in the expansion for the new level cap were as high as 71 DPS. Epics and PvP 1H weapons went as high as 100 and some DPS. Almost a double increase in DPS from the best 1H weapons in game from the original to the best 1H weapons in game to the expansion.

When you can replace your legendary and epic items from a previous expansion with greens in a new expansion, I'd say that's a bit overdoing it. But back to my point.

When you hit levels for the expansion you will notice a substantial increase in your items stats, especially weapons. The key levels are 58 and 68. At 58 your bind on account items will automatically scale to the Burning Crusade scaling and at 68 they will again scale to the Wrath of the Lich King scaling. Now let me explain a bit more about each of the items.

How Do I Get Bind on Account Items (Heirloom)?
Unfortunately, the only way to get a bind on account item is through a higher level character. They come from two different places, Lake Wintergrasp Vendors and Emblem of Heroism Vendors in Dalaran. They are purchased with Stone Keeper's Shards in Lake Wintergrasp and Emblems of Heroism in Dalaran.

Emblems of Heroism
Emblems of Heroism are a new currency that was added in Wrath of the Lich King. They are like the Badge of Justice from the Burning Crusade in the sense that you only get them off of bosses in heroics or 10 man raids in Wrath of the Lich King.

In order to obtain Emblems of Heroism you must be level 80 and be in a heroic instance group or be in a 10 man raid. There is a daily quest you can get these from too but they all go to a heroic dungeon and have you do an extra task of some sort in there, like kill a certain boss perhaps, but the daily is a good way to get extra Emblems.

Here is a list of approximately how many Emblems of Heroism the bind on account items cost.

• Any Shoulders - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Any 1 Handed Melee Weapon - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Ranged Weapon or 2 Handed Weapons - 65 Emblems of Heroism
• Any Trinket and the 1 Handed Caster Weapon - 50 Emblems of Heroism

Stone Keeper's Shards
Stone Keeper's Shards are easier to obtain but you will still need a higher level character (68+). It also takes a decent amount of Stone Keeper's Shards to buy items. These are used to buy the PvP stat (resilience) gear in Lake Wintergrasp. They can be obtained in a few different ways. In Lake Wintergrasp are PvP dailies that you can do and the reward will contain some of these (usually about 3 per quest).

The other way to get these is to do any Wrath of the Lich King 5 man instance when your faction controls Lake Wintergrasp. If you are Alliance on your server, then the Alliance must control Lake Wintergrasp in order for you to get the buff Essence of Wintergrasp.

When you have this buff, every boss in normal and heroic Wrath of the Lich King 5 man instances will drop Stone Keeper's Shards for you. You get about 4x as many per boss on Heroic Mode as Regular Mode but you can get them from both so you don't have to be level 80 to obtain these like the Emblems of Heroism.

Here is a list of approximately how many Stone Keeper's Shards the bind on account items cost.

Any Shoulders or 1 Handed Melee Weapon - 200 Stone Keeper's Shards
Any Ranged or 2 Handed Weapon - 325 Stone Keeper's Shards
1 Handed Caster Weapon or Trinket - 250 Stone Keeper's Shards

How Do I give My Bind on Account Items to Another Character?
Once you have your bind on account items they can be mailed to any character that is on the same account and realm as the character you purchased them with.

As of the writing of this guide bind on account items are not transferable to other servers, accounts, or factions. This means if you are Alliance on a server and you buy these with your higher level character, you can only send them to Alliance characters on that same account and server.

To get your bind on account items to another character, simply use the mailbox system in World of Warcraft. Open the Mailbox, send a new letter, put the name of the character on your account you wish to send it to, place the item in the item slot of that mail, and click send.

It will be instantly transferred to your other character on your same account, just log in to them and check their mail.

How to get the Bind on Account Items to Another Server (costs money)?
Currently Blizzard doesn't allow bind on account items to be transferred cross faction, cross server, and/or cross accounts but I can tell you how I've gotten around this before but please note you still will not be able to transfer cross faction.

What you do is purchase the bind on account item with your high level character, then you give the item to another character above level 10 on that account that you don't really care about. Once that character has received the item and it's in their inventory you can then transfer that character to any server / account that you want.

So use any character on your account above level 10 to transfer him to a different account, a different server, or different account and server. Once he is there, he will have taken any bind on account items with him. Then all you have to do is mail the bind on account items to the new character you were bringing them to.

Bind on Account Shoulders
The bind on account shoulders are the most popular and a must have for anyone that is still leveling or even for those who are twinking a lower level they can be quite good. At the very least they look pretty cool. All of the shoulders come with a 10% experience bonus which works for experience you get while killing mobs and for experience you get from quests. The 10% boost is nice to speed up leveling. There are PvP stat and PvE stat shoulders for every class and talent combination. The PvP stat shoulders come with resilience on them instead of another stat like critical strike rating for example, it varies by shoulders you choose.

Here are links to the different bind on account shoulders that you can get, take note of the source, it will say Wintergrasp or Dalaran in the table.

• Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle
• Tattered Dreadmist Mantle
• Exceptional Stormshroud Shoulders
• Lasting Feralheart Spaulders
• Preened Ironfeather Shoulders
• Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders
• Aged Pauldrons of The Five Thunders
• Champion Herod's Shoulder
• Mystical Pauldrons of Elements
• Prized Beastmaster's Mantle
• Polished Spaulders of Valor
• Pristine Lightforge Spaulders
• Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons

Bind on Account Weapons
The next most popular thing you will see is the bind on account weapons. These things are heavily desired because they scale as you level and since most classes do most of their damage based off of their weapon setup, this prevents players who are leveling from continuously upgrading their weapons. These things will work from level 1-80 and you won't have to change out your weapons at all.

• Charmed Ancient Bone Bow
• Balanced Heartseeker
• Sharpened Scarlet Kris
• Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon
• Devout Aurastone Hammer
• The Blessed Hammer of Grace
• Battleworn Thrash Blade
• Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge
• Dignified Headmaster's Charge
• Grand Staff of Jordan
• Bloodied Arcanite Reaper
• Reforged Truesilver Champion

Bind on Account Trinkets
This is one of the least common things you will see on players leveling because there are too many other important things to get if you are going to be leveling. I'm not saying you won't see this at all or these aren't good to have, quite the contrary. The PvE trinkets in this list are very very good for continual grinding because they restore health or mana per kill depending on which one you get.

The PvP trinkets you will see very commonly because they are loaded with resilience. You just won't see them out in the PvE field often.

• Discerning Eye of the Beast
• Swift Hand of Justice 1
• Inherited Insignia of the Alliance
• Inherited Insignia of the Horde

Conclusion
Bind on account items are very useful, I always use them for every character. I have a set of shoulders on all 4 of my accounts that I rotate between my characters. The weapons remove a lot of hassle and allow you to keep DPS'ing at full capacity while leveling which is a bonus.

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Win the Stranglethorn Fishing contest!

First off, this isn't a 'set your hearth to BB' exploit. This is an actual exploit.
Second off, it does require a GM. But I've tested it and it's completely foolproof.

You have to plan this a week in advance to the week you want to win. Here's what you do:

1. Fish up 38 Tastyfish during the contest.
2. Split them up into 2 stacks of 19.
3. Delete them.
4. Ticket a GM, say you accidentally deleted them and wanted to turn them in for gold.
5. DO NOT retrieve them yet.
6. The next week, fish up 2 tastyfish, and seperate them into 2 stacks of 1.
7. Take the 2 stacks out of the mailbox, they will merge with your current stacks (if you did not do step 6 they will simply disappear from the duration timer.).
8. Hand them in.

enjoy the achievement and reward!

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World of Warcraft Herbalism Power leveling Guide

The final gathering profession in World of Warcraft I will make a Power leveling guide for is herbalism. This profession is another highly popular choice with beginning players. There are dozens of herbs to farm from and players can often find them just about anywhere. The only problem of course is that the nodes can be just about anywhere, meaning that defining a clear path to get them is hard. While mining nodes tend to hug the mountains and thus the outside edges of most zones, herbalism nodes can appear anywhere you find grass, and sometimes not even that much.

Getting started with Herbalism is even easier than mining and skinning as well. All you need to do is find an herbalism trainer and start gathering. You don’t need a special knife or pick to do it and you will be given a “find herbs” ability to use in the field (though I recommend you download a more advanced GUI to uncover your nodes).

Basic Information
Use the following information in this Herbalism Power leveling Guide as a basis for your decision whether to choose Herbalism as your primary profession. Additional money making tips for this profession are available below as well.

Recommended Profession to Pair With:

• Alchemy (for materials)
• Skinning (for gold)

Herbalism has much fewer options in terms of your second profession. It is generally agreed that if you choose Herbalism you will also select Alchemy down the line. However, for those only seeking to make gold, you can pair your Herbalism up with Skinning or even Mining to collect even more materials even faster.

Trainers
Alliance Trainers (1 - 300, Including Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan)

• Alma Jainrose – Redrige Mountains
• Brant Jasperbloom – Dustwallow Marsh
• Cemorrhan – The Exodar
• Cylania Rootstalker – Ashenvale
• Firoden Mooncaller – Darnassus
• Flora SIlverwind – Stranglethorn Vale
• Herbalist Pomeroy – Elwynn Forest
• Heur – Azuremyst Isle
• Kali Healtouch – Loch Modan
• Malorne Bladeleaf - Teldrassil
• Malvor - Moonglade
• Morae – Bloodmyst Isle
• Reyna Stonebranch – Ironforge
• Shylamir - Stormwind
• Tannysa – Stormwind
• Telurinon Moonshadow – Wetlands
• Uma Bartulm – Dustwallow Marsh

Master Trainer (300 - 375)

• Rorelein – Hellfire Peninsula

Grand Master Trainer (375 - 450)

• Kirea Moondancer
• Fayin Whisperleaf
• Dorothy Egan

Horde Trainers (1 - 300, including Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan)

• Angrun – Stranglethorn Vale
• Aranae Venomblood – Hillsbrad Foothills
• Botanist Nethera – Silvermoon City
• Botanist Tynarriel – Eversong Woods
• Faruza – Trisfal Glades
• Flora Silverwind – Stranglethorn Vale
• Jandi – Orgrimmar
• Komin Winterhoof – Thunder Bluff
• Malvor – Moonglade
• Martha Alliestar – Undercity
• Mishiki – Durotar
• Ruw – Feralas

Master Trainer (300 - 375)

• Ruak Stronghorn – Hellfire Peninsula

Grand Master Trainer (375 - 450)

• Tansy Wildmane
• Marjory Kains

Good Locations
Peaceblooms and the like are the earliest plants you can harvest (there is a complete list at mmOverload) but you will start making the real money when you get higher in level and can start harvesting more advanced plants such as the Plagueblooms that grow in Eastern and Western Plaguelands. In addition, you can find Plagueblooms in Felwood. You can sell these for as much as 8 gold per stack, making them a great choice for farming in this Herbalism Power leveling Guide.

Another great farming plant is Ghost Mushrooms. These will sell for as much as 25 gold a stack and are only located in select locations within the Hinterlands, but they are well worth your while if you can get to them alone without anyone else in the area.

In addition to hunting for Plagueblooms in Felwood, you can find Gromsblood and Dreamfoil which sell for 12 gold per stack – if you hunt all three of these together, you can net large sums of gold from Herbalism in Felwood.

When you reach Outland, your best bet will be the rare herbs in the end of the zone that can drop Fel Lotuses and Mana thistle. In Northrend, you are going to want to look out for the frozen herbs in places like Dragonblight – these will almost always allow you to boost your gold up as well as giving you an automatic skill up.

The Drawback of Herbalism
The only real problem with Herbalism is that while mining and skinning allow players to sell their goods to three separate professions each, Herbalists can only sell their wares to Alchemists. The plus side though is that most alchemists are upper level characters with plenty of gold to spare who will simply buy all of their ingredients directly, making it easier for you to make large sums of gold quickly without needing to worry about a drop off in demand.

Speed Leveling Herbalism from 1 - 450
To get started in Herbalism, you need only to visit your trainer and get your Apprentice Herbalism training completed. Once you have done this, you can travel to your starting locations, according to faction and race and start collecting.

Level 1 - 75
The first 75 Levels will be spent picking Silverleaf, Peacebloom and Earthroot in the following locations according to Race and Class:

• Alliance: Elwynn Forest and Teldrassil
• Horde: Mulgore, Durotar, and Trisfal Glades

You can also find these starting herbs in any of the other starting zones, such as Loch Modan, Westfall, and The Barrens, but you will find them in much smaller numbers in all of those zones. I recommend staying in these five zones to ensure you get your herbs as fast as possible.

Level 75 - 150
When you reach skill Level 75, return to your Herbalism Trainer and become a Journeyman Herbalist. You can now collect the intermediate level herbs and will travel to Westfall (for Alliance) or the Barrens (for Horde). Continue to collect the same herbs as above (Earthroot, Silverleaf, and Peacebloom), but also look for Mageroyal now.

When you reach skill Level 100, travel to Redridge Moutains (for Alliance) or Stonetalon Mountains (for Horde) and start collecting Bruiseweed until you reach skill Level 115. You will then travel to either Duskwood or the Northern Stonetalon mountains (either faction) and start looking for Kingsblood and Wild Steelbloom. Kingsblood will not be available until you reach Level 125, so make sure you do not miss a good opportunity because you think your level is too low.

Continue to look in this area for these two herbs until you reach Level 150.

Level 150 - 200
Now, return to your Herbalism trainer and become an Expert Herbalist. You can now go to the Swamp of Sorrows and start collecting new herbs. Continue farming Kingsblood and Wild Steelbloom until you are Level 160, then start looking for Fadeleaf. Harvest Fadeleaf until you reach level 180, then add Khadgar’s Whisker to your search patterns and continue in the Swamp of Sorrows until you are at Level 200 (205 is good too).

Level 200 - 250
At Level 205, you can start collecting Firebloom, which will appear in Tanaris and the Blasted Lands. Stay in Tanaris for now and look for this and then at Level 215, look for Purple Lotus. Continue here until you reach Level 225 when you should return to your trainer and become an Artisan Herbalist. At Level 230, start harvesting Sungrass in Feralas; continue this course until you reach skill Level 250.

Level 250 - 300
You cannot train your Master Herbalist ability until you reach level 300, so continue harvesting Sungrass in Ferala as well as Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, and Mountain Silversage in Un’Goro Crater and Azshara until you reach Level 300. This grind might take a little longer as these herbs are harder to find, but are your only solid bet for making it to Level 300 without picking too many. Alternately, you can stick with lower level herbs for a while to make things easier in terms of hunting.

Level 300 - 375
When you reach Level 300, head for Outland and find the Master Trainers in Thrallmar for Horde and Honor Hold for Alliance. Train your final Herbalism level and then return to Azeroth for a little while. Travel to Felwood and collect Gromsblood and Dreamfoil for a good long while until you reach Level 340.

When you reach Level 340, you can return to Outland and start harvesting in Zangarmarsh. In Zangarmarsh, You can start harvesting your herbs and leveling up your skill from killing mobs, much the same way you would with skinning, which will make the hunting process much easier. To do so, look for the following mobs:

• Withered Giants
• Starving Bog Lords
• Withered Bog Lords
• Starving Fungal Giants
• Bog Lords
• Fungal Giants
• Bog Giants
• Underbog Lords
• Bog Overlords
• Hungarfen
• Underbog Colossus

These mobs will drop Dreamfoil, Felweed, Ancient Lichen, Dreaming Glory, and Terocone, as well as the occasional Motes of Life, making your job that much easier. Just look for the gather herb icon to appear on their corpses after they are dead.




To start, visit the Dead Mire where Withered Giants and Bog Lords are located. Kill these and harvest them to get the needed herbs and skill points.It is possible that you may have trouble reaching 375 here, especially if it is being over harvested. In this case, travel to the Spawning Glens, and grind on the mobs there instead. Generally though, the Zangarmarsh plant mobs should be more than enough to get you to the top levels and ready for the next expansion levels.



Level 375 - 450
In Northrend, you are going to encounter a whole lot of new herbs that will make it seemingly easy (but not very) to reach level 450. To get started, you will be picking Goldclover and Firethorn. Goldclover can be found in any non - snowy area of the game and is fairly plentiful in Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord. Firethorn can be found in Borean Tundra as well near the Geyser Field – it is a good herb for level ups. You should get to Level 385 by picking these herbs. At 385, if you are not yet Level 75, continue picking Goldclover. However, if you are a higher level, travel to Zul’Drak and start picking Taldra’s Rose. There is a great deal of it throughout the temples here. At level 400, go back to the lakes in Borean tundra and look for Tiger Lily. There are great amounts of it near the DEHTA camp and it will allow you to get to Level 410 - 415.



In dragonblight, you can start finding Frozen herbs. These nodes will drop either Goldclover, Talandra’s Rose or Tiger Lily and will almost always give a skill up before Level 425. They are harder to find, but well worth the search.

At 425, start searching fro Lichbloom and Adder’s Tongue in Storm Peaks and Sholazar. You will get to 435 and can then start picking Icethorn, also in Storm Peaks and in Icecrown. To finish off, you will need to do some serious searching for Icethorn and push to level 450 in this Herbalism Power leveling Guide.

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preview the upcoming Cataclysm race/class additions BEFORE they come out

You can NOW preview the upcoming Cataclysm race/class additions BEFORE they come out!

This exploit shows you how to change your model to any race or sex that is available for a character at this moment, below is a video showing exactly how to do this.


THIS WORKS ON ALL COMPUTERS. If you can't get it to work, you're not doing it right. Try the method below.


AutoIt script: Download
AutoIt software: Download



How To:

• Log in on alt.
• Log off.
• SELECT Main (or w/e toon you're going to play on)
• Mouse-over alt you just logged off.
• At the SAME TIME: Hit Enter and Left Click
• OR
• Hold down left click then:
• At the SAME TIME: Hit Enter and Release Left Click

• No need to make a new toon every time you want to do this model edit method.
• It DOES work with PREEXISTING toons.

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• Druid Shapeshifting reset the model.
• It seems that this DOES reset from death in arena, but I'm not 100% sure.
• Priest Dispersion DOES reset the model.
• Any Costume (Halloween, Savory, Pygmy, etc) DOES reset the model.
• All Rings of the Kirin Tor that can teleport the user to Dalaran DO reset the model.
• VISITING A BARBER SHOP WILL RESET IN A FATAL CRASH.
• EQUIPPED gear on the MODEL USED will transfer over to the CHARACTER USED.
• Some emotes will not be heard properly by others/yourself.
• Some animations (such as Cannibalize) will not properly work (usually you would get the nearest animation (in this case it would be as if you were looting a corpse)
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• As such, unequip all gear before logging off, then you will get a blank character model (+undergarments) on your main toon so it will look normal.
• Unequipping your gear and then re-equipping it will fix the gear model edit bug also
• Whatever model is SWAPPED IN, size is kept. No resizing is done.
• Race/Sex does not matter when model changing
• Class/Race composition DOES NOT MATTER.
• PERSISTS THROUGH ZONING!
• Death Does NOT model
• Stealth Does NOT reset model

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Model Swaps:
Tauren Rogue:----------Draenei Rogue:--------Tauren Mage:--------BE Druid---------------Human Hunter-------Undead Hunter

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Human Rogue[W/shield]---NE Mage--------------Orc Mage------------Tauren Priest------------NE Lock-------------Human Shaman


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