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Getshanked is a Blood Elf Rogue that joined our guild to run battlegrounds in the 20-29 bracket. While leveling in Ashenvale, I decided to see what sort of ambush he would get prior to his weapons. Granted, its only a 364, but, with rather bad main hand weapon, [item]5279[/item] and not having filled in ambush, it was still relatively decent.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

Welcome back to Ask a Beta Tester, where we answer your questions about the Wrath of the Lich King beta! We had quite a few questions regarding the multi-passenger mounts coming in Wrath, so we’ll mostly focus on those. That’s not all we have today, but most of it. Our first question is from JPN…

What does the tooltip mean for the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth where it says it carries vendors?

It means just that! It comes with two vendors. One sells reagents (including poisons) and the other sell trade supplies, like thread and parchment. The trade supplies vendor also sells some statless fashion clothing.

If you’re not using the vendors and want to let your buddies hop on, there will be an Eject button to throw the vendors off and make room for your friends. And yes, only people in your party or raid can get on your vehicles. No random strangers will be jumping on your mammoth or motorcycle.

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While leveling an alt the other day, I landed at the Wind Rider in Ogrimmar and saw a guy still mounted on the wind rider walking around.

If you have a 70, farming items for income is quite easy and quite boring. Doing the 25 dailies a day will result in about 250g a day. On our realm, Primal Airs and Primal Fires sell for quite a bit, so, they are heavily farmed. But, you will always find players that will need items from the gathering skills because they have two trade skills. In the end game, you’ll see a lot of PVPers with Engineering, Spellcasters with Tailoring and perhaps Jewelcrafting or Enchanting — each having requirements for materials for their profession that they must buy. Finding those items and selling them on the Auction House can be profitable if you know how.

But, when you start a toon on a new realm, you’re at a disadvantage because you don’t have that higher level toon to finance your alt. When creating my shaman twink on Cho’gall, I used up all 9 toon slots and realized that I really didn’t have a lot of combat experience with my shaman. So, I took a Tauren Shaman I created on another realm and leveled him to 29 so I could run a few battlegrounds as a non-twink, but, could get the feel of the game, set up my bar and learn the basics of combat. While he’s not a twink, it does allow me to learn how a Shaman plays when somewhat undergeared which makes survival alongside twinks a bit difficult at times.

But, at level 29, on a realm where I have no toon financing me, I earned over 150 gold in the 51 hours of playtime that it took for me to level and start playing battlegrounds. The first thing you want to do when you get to any new realm is load a module called Auctioneer and another called LootFilter. I prefer the Auctioneer Classic interface and for Lootfilter, I prefer version 1.93 over the newer one. My 29 has 6 Netherweave bags, 150 gold with minimal effort. You’ll also want something like Cartographer or Gatherer or a module that keeps track of mining/herbing nodes.

Its tough getting started out, but, once you have those two modules, you’re on your way. For Lootfilter, you want to set up the Quality screen so that Grey items are deleted. Set up Loot Caching and tell it that you want 2 slots free. The way LootFilter works is that when your bag is almost full, and you loot something, it’ll get rid of the grey items that are worth the least money — keeping as many of the grey items that can be vendored when you talk with a merchant. When you talk with a vendor NPC, loot filter will automatically open and present you with all of the items in your bags that should be sold and will tell you the value at the bottom. You click Sell Now, Confirm it, and it will automatically empty your bags of the grey items. Granted, at this level, grey items are not worth a lot, but, it saves you time while questing because you don’t have to decide what to get rid of.

Once you hit level 8 or so on your toon, head to a major city and go to the Auction House. By this time, you probably have enough money to buy a silk pack or two. You also can pick trade or gathering skills at level 5, but, until you get to the auction house you probably will want to wait. From the few realms I’ve been on, Mining is by far the easiest and most profitable gathering skill at low levels. You could also get Herbalism, but, it seems like most of the lower level herbs don’t sell as easily or as profitably as bars do. With Mining, Copper Bars, Tin Bars and Bronze Bars sell quite quickly to a number of different professions. Jewelcrafters, Blacksmiths and Engineers all need these as they level their skills. If you are on a realm where people have mains, they will often buy the mats for their alts to level them up — allowing you to make money. As a secondary skill, pick up skinning. Leather sells reasonably well and you’re not going to have to switch your minimap tracking from Find Minerals to Find Herbs while running around. Until you start hitting the 40s on your toon, Herbalism just doesn’t seem to pack the punch for profits. Fadeleaf used to be quite expensive until Rogues didn’t require it as a reagent and you could collect that fairly easily in your low 30s. There will always be a need for Liferoot, Wild Steelbloom and Goldthorn which require you to be in areas where you need to be in the low 30s to survive, but, I still think Mining packs the early punch in terms of easy money.

The reason you want to pick a major city early, is that the Auctioneer Addon can scan the Auction house and gather pricing so that when you mouse over an item, you can see how well it will sell in the tooltip. It’ll tell you how many times it was seen at auction, average pricing, etc. If you skip the scan, you’ll have to do some guesswork at what is worth keeping. While you are there, look for silk packs. On most realms these 10 slot bags are incredibly cheap since tailors have to make a lot of them while they are leveling Tailoring. Remember supply and demand? High supply, low demand means better prices for you. Don’t forget to check the bag vendors in your major city. Sometimes they are actually cheaper than the auction house depending on the day.

So, once you’ve picked mining (or herbalism) and skinning, get that skinning knife and mining pick and make sure that pack is empty. While you quest, you’ll inevitably run across mining or herb nodes that you should take the time to gather. Until you hit level 18 or so, you’re not going to make any actual loops, but, will just gather things as you run across them in your normal questing. You’ve got your bags, you’ve got loot filter configured, so, get questing.

Once you hit level 18 or so, you can more easily defend yourself against the mobs that will likely be around the nodes you’re trying to collect. A loop around your questing area near the mountains will almost always give you 40 or so copper ore, some tin, and if you’re lucky some silver. Make bars and head for the Auction House. For herbalism, your real money maker is [item]2452[/item] at this point. Briarthorn and Swiftthistle are used to make Swiftness Potions and Thistle Tea (for Rogues) which are used quite a bit. Swiftthistle isn’t quite the easiest thing to farm as it doesn’t drop every time you gather Briarthorn or Mageroyal, so, to get a stack of 20, it’ll take a little time.

So, once you have your first full stack of bars or herbs, head to the Auction House. When you talk with the Auctioneer, you’ll be presented with a slightly different interface. Click the ‘Post Auctions’ tab, put your 20 bars in there and hit the UI Refresh Button. UI Refresh will rescan just the items that match what you put in there to find the right price. While its price isn’t always reasonable, you can use it as a guideline and see what the current listings are for that item. Copper and Tin are usually bought in stacks of 20. Silver bars you will want to list individually. Check your pricing, but, Bronze Bars usually sell for a little more than Copper and Tin, but, they don’t seem to sell as quickly. When you post items is as important as the price you choose. Since more people play on weekends, posting an auction on Friday is more likely to get a quicker sale, but, there’s going to be more competition. For me, I usually list Copper and Tin bars at 2g 75s bid, 3g buyout. Tin, depending on your realm, might be able to be priced at 4g 75s bid, 5g buyout. Let Auctioneer do some of that work for you. When pricing an item, it will price it 5% under the average price which means when someone scans the auction house to buy an item, your item will show up first. For now, you want to sell those items and look for the Netherweave Bag. On most realms, you’ll see prices between 6g and 8g for the Netherweave Bag. As soon as you can afford one or two, get them. You’ll save a lot of time without having to head to the bank to drop off items. If you can’t really afford them, create a bank alt to park in a major city next to an auction house and mailbox and just mail the items to the alt. The more time you spend questing and gathering, the more gold you’ll make. The Netherweave bag is the cheapest bag you can get in terms of price per slots. Runecloth, Mageweave and Mooncloth bags are nice since they don’t bind on pickup, you really want as much bag space as possible. I’ve done a few mining loops and come back with over 180 bars, ores, gems and a green or two from a mob that I had to kill to get to the node and it just makes it easier than having to vendor items frequently. Don’t forget that the stone that you get from mining is also valuable to Engineers and Jewelcrafters. While I vendor Rough Stone, I do auction off the rest of the gathered stone. Rough Stone just doesn’t sell well on the realms I’m on.

Now, as you quest and kill mobs, you’ll get some white items. With the addons, as you mouse over them, it’ll tell you what those items are used for. Some of the items are somewhat worthless, but, you need to figure out what sells and what doesn’t. If you quest in Stonetalon mountains, you get a lot of spider ichor, spider legs, spider meat with the occasional [item]3182[/item]. If you are not going to level cooking (and you should as it provides cheap buff food from drops you get), then you’ll want to open up LootFilter by typing /lf in the chat screen, and open up your backpacks. (A mod called onebag makes your backpack a little easier to manage) Click the Name tab, click in the box under ‘Items to Delete’ and doubleclick the item in your backpack that you want to get rid of. Remember, LootFilter will now automatically get rid of these (with confirmation) when you talk with a vendor. Keeping them until then makes a little extra money. When you hit 70, grey drops can easily surpass 20g when doing the dailies and it just makes sense to not have to deal with it. Tradeskill item drops like pearls, spider silk, gems, etc will all get auctioned.

While you are running around questing, you’ll run across green items that are Bind on Equip. This is when you need a good eye to figure out what items are valuable enough to price perfectly. Items for twinks are always in high demand and while you might not easily be able to figure out what those items are, there are some guidelines.

The closer the item is to a battleground’s top level bracket, the more likely it is a BoE item that will fit the need for a twink while they find the right item. In the lower battleground brackets, cloth gear ‘of the Eagle’, mail armor ‘of the bear’ or ‘of power’ or ‘of strength’ will be popular. Paladins will prefer mail ‘of the Eagle’ gear as well. Rogues will prefer leather ‘of the Monkey’ or ‘of Agility’ while other classes might prefer the other items. Its not always that simple, but, you will be able to figure it out quickly as long as one of those other items is on the auction house. You might want to run the Auctioneer scan multiple times during the first week just to make sure it sees enough items to get a general idea. If you run across an item and you aren’t sure, check wowhead.com and read the comments to see what they suggest. If the item is usable by a level 22, and its ‘of the Eagle’, its probably not as valuable as something like the “Elder’s Pants of the Eagle” which require level 29. All is not lost if you didn’t get that twink green item — they will always sell for more than the vendor price on the Auction House as lower level Enchanters need to Disenchant a bunch of items to get the mats to level up.

If you are getting started out, consider First aid. It seems like a somewhat worthless skill at the beginning, but, humanoid mobs drop the mats, and you can raise your first aid while you’re questing and you’ll need a bandage once in a while rather than eating food. If you’re low on health and a mob is running away, using a bandage rather than a potion can sometimes save a corpse walk. Once you’ve leveled First Aid past Wool, Wool sells quite well on the auction house. When you quest, the mobs that drop Wool are in a narrow bracket and you start getting silk when you hit the 20s. Wool sells well because it is rare. If you’re not going to level First Aid, here’s some added cash. During questing, I probably ended up with 4 stacks of wool to vendor prior to 29 even with leveling first aid past silk.

Fishing isn’t really that profitable until you hit the higher levels, but, it is a skill that you should consider. Its incredibly cheap to fish, and, you can raise cooking at the same time. With cooking, some of the mobs drop meat that can be made into buff foods. That buff food can give you an additional +4 or +6 stamina at the low levels, which can keep you alive just a tiny bit longer — making questing a little easier. If you’re Horde, fishing [item]6522[/item] is a decent money maker. While the Cooking recipe is a little rare, the fish still sell fairly well for a stack to the people that can cook them.

As for Leather, Ruined Scraps should be vendored. Unless you know a leatherworker, I’ve not found these to sell very well. Leather on a few of the realms I’ve been on I usually put as 80s bid, 1g buyout and it sells most of the time. Medium Leather is a reagent for Engineering and a few Tailoring recipes and you can usually get 2g out of a stack. Once you start getting Heavy Leather, you start getting into much more profitable Leather. Don’t be put off by the low price of leather — while questing, you will get a lot of it.

Don’t be afraid to have two gathering skills and drop one later on. With the amount of money you can make while leveling up, you can always buy the materials from someone else to level up your tradeskill. Or, pick a complementary skill later on. Mining and Jewelcrafting are good, though, Jewelcrafting is very expensive to level. If you want to solo the lower instances after you hit 70, Enchanting is a pretty good skill. A run of Sunken Temple or Uldaman results in a number of Small Brilliant Shards from the BoP drops. Farming Scarlet Monastery results in a number of twink drops. The other nice thing about enchanting is that listing the mats from Disenchanting costs nothing. So, you list the items, if they don’t sell, it didn’t cost you anything. Most of the time, the DE items sell for more than the green or blue item, so, when you get into the 40s, you might consider taking up Enchanting if you’re going to solo farm instances.

Another feature from Auctioneer is BottomScanner. While I don’t use it much, it allows you to look for items that are priced below where they should be and gives you the option to buy it and then you would relist it at the better price, allowing you to profit on the resale. If you decide to become an Enchanter, you can set it up to look for items that have a good chance to drop Radiant Shards (provided you run Enchantrix along with it) and it’ll search the auction house for the items most likely to buy them that are inexpensive. With Enchantrix, you can easily buy mats at the Auction House, disenchant them, and list the DE mats and make a profit without ever having to leave the city. Now you know why all those people stand around the mailbox Disenchanting items. Even if you don’t farm the rare recipes, being able to DE items and sell those mats is good. When you instance, if noone wants a particular BoP item, you can disenchant it on the spot and they can roll for the results.

If you’re Horde, and you take up mining, you’ll want to do loops of the Barrens. If you picked up Herbalism, the southern part of Silverpine Forest south of the river looping around to Dalaran and almost over to Hillsbrad Foothills, and back around to Shadowfang Keep up past Sepulcher and around again will net you Briarthorn, Mageroyal and Swiftthistle.

For Alliance, Darkshore’s mountains on the edges are where you’ll find the mining. A loop around the outside should give you plenty of copper and tin. For Swiftthistle, Darkshore or Stonetalon Mountains are your best bets. In Stonetalon, you’ll also have the ability for Wild Steelbloom which is quite profitable.

Once you get into the mid 20s, with mining you’ll want to head to Thousand Needles where you will find more Iron, some Gold and the occasional Mithril. Iron on most servers sells for 7-8g a stack and it doesn’t take too long to get a stack or two.

By doing the above, you should be able to easily afford your mount at 30. Even just doing quests, most of my toons were able to buy their mount at 40 and their flying mount at 70 without auctioning off items, and, having had enough money to buy bags, bank slots and the occasional piece of armor along the way.

Don’t buy armor at the auction house every chance you can. While the quest gear isn’t great, the time you spend at any level is not worth spending the cash. My recently leveled hunter had the [item]11859[/item] at level 70 and I had no problem with mobs or farming. That toon got to 70 so quickly that buying anything but ammo and a quiver along the way would have been a waste. In the early 20s, about the only things you can really buy that you don’t get from a drop or quest are a head piece and shoulder pieces. You might try to justify purchasing that blue item for yourself, but, if you’re intent on leveling, that gear might be replaced by quest gear within a few levels.

I’ve seen people talk about buying ‘sets’ for the set bonus. Except for twinking, WoW is all about the end game and everything prior to that is just to get you involved with learning your character, interacting with groups in instances, raids and battlegrounds. I’ve seen so many toons spend time at the Auction House buying the best armor they can get and spending every bit of gold they have only to get a replacement item 3 levels later. Save your money for your mount so you can farm more quickly, quest more quickly, and get to level 70.

Once in a while World of Warcraft will get the animation wrong for another player and sometimes you get some strange results seen by multiple people like the taxi windrider staying on your player as you walk around Thunder Bluff, or once in a while, your riding mount doesn’t show up when you mount, yet, you have the mount speed as you run around Crossroads.

Qwaitxseven, one of Qwait’s alts was going to Netherwing Ledge to do his dailies to get his flying mount and I was there to skin the Netherwing Rays which drop the Netherwing Crystals for Qwait’s dailies.

He did move at the 280% but without any of the walking animation.

While questing in Thousand Needles and raising my mining, both of us arrived at an Iron node at roughly the same time. I had just finished mining it as he stood and stared at me, I waved, he then changed to battle stance telling me that there was an impending charge about to occur. I figured, well, I’m dead, but, I’ll put up the good fight since I was a 24 at the time and couldn’t see his level, it wasn’t until I pulled up the armory after the screenshot that I found out what level he was.

So, he charges, I drop a Stoneclaw totem and an Earthbind totem, cast Instant Ghost Wolf to get a little distance, turn around and see him attack the Stoneclaw totem (yes, he got stunned). I pulled away a little and he decided to pursue. He aggroed the quest giver at Whitereach Post, killed him without much difficulty as I spun around and healed Kanati Greyclound (another questgiver NPC) and tossed a few Lightning Bolts and a Frost Shock in there for good measure and watched him drop. I guess he took offense to this as he called in Oxian a 44 Dranei Hunter to ambush me when I came back to return the quest. It just happened that a 70 rogue from our side was escorting one of his guildies through to Feralas when he saw me die and he decided to kill Oxian a few times.

I ran into Llak one more time in Thousand Needles and again, he tried to gank me. I ended up kiting him around through some mobs and he died again. His third attempt resulted in me running.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, AddOns, Features, AddOn Spotlight, Guides

The new Recruit-A-Friend program has taken the World of Warcraft community by storm, perhaps more so in the dual- and multi-boxing circles. I’ll admit that while I advocate enjoying the leveling process and experiencing the lore through quests and in-game events, once you’ve hit 70 a couple of times, the magic tends to wane. With the coming of Wrath of the Lich King, we’ve had some time to re-evaluate our WoW experience. For many of us, finishing up some alts has become a way to prepare for the expansion. I’ve had a number of alts since I started playing, but have only managed to ding two paladins and a rogue. Each time I play in a battleground I see a member of another class do something crazy cool and ponder rolling whatever class it is.

With the RAF program in full effect, I decided that dual-boxing with the 300% XP and Summon Friend ability would be the most efficient way to get my alts Wrath-ready. This How-To is specifically for players using Macs, but in essence many of the principles remain true for PC users.

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Filed under: Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements

Like most Wrath beta patches, build 8962 comes packing new achievements. This patch doesn’t have a massive list like some previous builds, but what it does have is pretty cool:

• Leading the Cavalry – Obtain 75 mounts, be rewarded with an Albino Drake.
• For the Alliance! – Slay the leaders of the Horde, be rewarded with a Black War Bear.
• For the Horde! – Slay the leaders of the Alliance, be rewarded with a Black War Bear.
• Glory of the Hero – Complete all of the Heroic Dungeon achievements, be rewarded with a Red Proto-Drake.
• Glory of the Raider – Complete the Normal Difficulty raid achievements, be rewarded with a Plagued Proto-Drake.
• Heroic: Glory of the Raider – Complete the Heroic Difficulty raid achievements, be rewarded wtih a Black Proto-Drake.
• What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been – Complete the World Event achievements, be rewarded with a Violet Proto-Drake. (Note: World events means holidays here, like Brewfest, not things like the Ahn’qiraj gate event.)

The rewards are definitely the most noteworthy part of this. Wrath of the Lich King is introducing a ton of new mounts, so it won’t surprise me to see massive diversity in what people are using after the expansion has been out for awhile. There are plenty that come from things other than Achievements as well, but we’ll get to those later.

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If you want to make a bit of cash and grind rep with the Shattered Sun for some rather cool items, here’s the order of the quests that you want to do:

Go to Shattrath and grab the following quests

The Multiphase Survey
Sunfury Attack Plans
Gaining the Advantage (Requires a gathering skill, Skinning, Mining or Herbalism)
Maintaining the Sunwell Portal

Travel to Isle of Quel’Danas using the portal in Shattrath or your Faction’s Flight Path.

From the portal, grab the following quests from the building you zone in.

Know Your Ley Lines
The Air Strikes Must Continue
The Battle Must go On

Walk east and get, Your Continued Support (costs 10G, you’ll make this back with 1 quest, 250 rep)

Go East to the next building and grab the following quests in the next building.

Keeping the Enemy at Bay
Crush the Dawnblade
Don’t Stop Now…
Ata’mal Armaments

Go North to the Inn and grab the following quests.

Rediscovering Your Roots
Open For Business

Go out of the Inn to the East on the boat and grab:

Disrupt the Greengill Coast

Go west to the last building and grab the following quests:

Further Conversions
Arm the Wards

Once you obtained all of the quests, go to the boat/flight path. The first quest you’ll want to do is the Airstrike. Talk with Ayren Cloudbreaker and take “I’ve been ordered to undertake an airstrike.” Make sure you have the ‘Starshards’ icon on your bar for quick bombing. Make sure you’re not mounted when you talk with him or it will prevent you from flying.

Talk with him again and take “I need to intercept the Dawnblade Reinforcements.” Have the ‘Elemental Fire’ icon on your bar and aim for the sails of the ships. After you have done that, it will drop you on one of the boats to kill 6 Reservists. Talk to the Dragonhawk on the boat you landed on for a ride back.

Head to the beach on the right after you land, kill the Erratic Sentries, loot them, then use the Attuned Crystal Core on it to convert 5 of them. While in that area kill the Wretched Fiends for the Mana Remnants and look around for the Bloodberry Bushes. When you walk past a Crystal Ward, click the 4 Remnants to get credit for that quest.

After that, head back a little west and get your Summoners, Blood Knights and Marksmen. As you get the Summoners, fight your way into the building to take the ley line reading ‘using’ the crystal. Clear out the Knights and continue heading east.

After the Knights, Summoners and Marksmen, head a little more east and get your six Demons, make sure you take the ley line reading off the portal, and plant the banner in the ‘Emisary of Hate’. You don’t need to be the one that actually killed him to plant the banner.

Now, its time to head to The Greengill Coast to finish up the quests on the Isle.

Kill Darkspine Siren’s which drop the Orb of Murlock Control. You’ll need three or four of them. Use the Orbs of Murlock control to free the murlocks, kill Darkspine Myrmadon’s to get the darkspine keys to unlock the chests to get the three Darkspine Iron Ore.

Turn in the following quests:
Disrupt the Greengill Coast (Boat), Open For Business (Inn), Don’t Stop Now (anvil outside eastern building), Keeping the Enemy at Bay and Crush the Dawnblade (building next to anvil), Know your Ley Lines, The Air Strikes must Continue, The Battle must go on (central building south of Inn), Arm the Wards and Further Conversions (westernmost building)

At this point its time, hearth back to Shattrath City. If you have the gathering quest, turn it in just west of the Flightmaster for Shattrath. Mount up and fly East to Hellfire Peninsula’s border of Terrokar Forest just North of Razorthorn Shelf to Razorthorn Rise. After this, fly to Falcon Watch or your Alliance Flight Path and up to Thrallmar or the Alliance Flight path near the Throne of Kil’Jaeden for the next quest.

Grab Blood for Blood and Blast the Gateway from Magistrix Seyla. Do those two quests and turn them in.

Now, take the Flight Path to Area 52, Netherstorm and kill the Sunfury Blood Elves for the Sunfury attack Plans. You might want to figure out which ones to kill based on some of the recipes that drop for various professions as there are some specific, tradeskill-only loot drops for some ‘rare’ patterns.

After you’ve obtained the plans, head back to Area 52 and fly to Evergrove, Blades Edge Mountains. Mount up and head to Bash’ir Landing, kill the Unbound Etherials until you get your Bash’ir Phasing Device. Use it, then, loot the Smuggled Mana Cells. Collect 10, mount up and fly back to Evergrove.

Now, fly to Nagrand and down to Oshu’gun. Equip your Multiphase Spectrographic Goggles and collect the samples.

Take the flight path to Altar of Shatar or Sanctum of the Stars and head to the Black Temple to get the 5 Ata’mal Armaments. After you’ve gotten these, fly to Shattrath City and turn in Sunfury Attack Plans, Maintaining the Sunwell Portal and The Multiphase Survey.

Go through the Sunwell Portal, go to the anvil and cleanse the Armaments, and turn that quest in. Use the scroll that was given earlier as a reward to return to Shattrath City.

Quest Rewards:

Open For Business – 11g 99s – Bloodberry Elixir – 250 rep
Disrupt the Greengill Coast – 11g 99s – 250 rep
Don’t Stop Now… – 11g 99s – 250 rep
Keeping the Enemy at Bay – 7g 59s – 250 rep
Crush the Dawnblade – 11g 99s – 250 rep
Know your Ley Lines – 11g 99s – 250 rep – Scroll of Teleportation to Shattrath City
The Air Strikes Must Continue – 9g 10s – 150 rep
The Battle Must Go On – 10g 10s – 250 rep
Arm the Wards – 9g 10s – 150 rep
Further Conversions – 9g 10s – 150 rep
Blood for Blood – 11g 99s – 250 rep – 5 signets of your choice
Blast the Gateway – 10g 50s – 250 rep – Shattered Sun Supplies
Sunfury Attack Plans – 10g 10s – 250 rep – Shattered Sun Supplies
Maintaining the Sunwell Portal – 10g 10s – 250 rep – Shattered Sun Supplies
The Multiphase Survey – 9g 10s – 150 rep
Ata’mal Armaments – 18g 28s – 350 rep – Blessed or Righteous Weapon Coating
Rediscovering Your Roots – 13g 88s – 350 rep – Shattered Sun Supplies

Gathering Quest:
Gaining the Advantage – 16g 39s – 250 rep – Major Rejuvenation Potion

Without considering the Gathering quest, you’ll bring in 188g 89s minus the 10 gold you spent on the first quest and 4200 rep for the round of dailies. If you did the gathering quest as well, you’re able to earn 4450 rep per day.

All in all, as far as a rep grind goes, its not as bad as you might think. The 85g spent on [item]29193[/item] is a bargain for the stamina and resilience. Some of the other reward items are obtained at Exalted which are also quite nice. The necklaces are a pretty good deal by the time you hit exalted. The 4-5 days it will take to get through Revered to Exalted make these rewards easy to obtain. All of your reputation can be gathered without having to do any instances — which means that you can obtain some relatively good gear without having to PUG or be involved in a guild.

Filed under: News items, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King

As much as some Blizzard reps might have wanted to play coy on the official forums, the official World of Warcraft site leaked a link to Pre-order Wrath of the Lich King which will — according to the page — indeed come out on November 13, 2008. So while there has mysteriously been no big announcement on the Blizzard websites, this Pre-order page pretty much confirms what Wowhead and Thottbot unveiled earlier today.

Participating retailers include Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, and GameStop. Interestingly enough, all the official links except for Best Buy peg the official release at November 3, a date leaked out in earlier reports. GameStop words it as “ships in 11/03/08” which could mean that the games will reach retailers over a week before the official release date. [EDIT: Or yeah, it could be that they haven’t updated their sites yet. Good morning!] The details include both normal and Collector’s Edition versions of the game. The official Blizzard site has, as of this writing, now been updated to reflect the official release date with a splash page.

[UPDATE: GameStop has revised their release date to match the announced date of 11/13/08]

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