General Guides

Guides about general aspects of the game, like guilds, reputations, long quest chains, attunements, pvp, etc.

Guide Writing

Guides on how to improve the quality of your guides!

Jame's Guide Writing Guide

Many guides get submited on wow-pro everyday, but very few are actually good enough to be published. Here are a few guidelines you should follow before you write a guide, I've tried to keep it as short as possible.

Table of Contents

  1. Choosing a Topic - Step 1
  2. Choosing a Topic - Step 2
  3. Creating your Guide
  4. Spellchecking
  5. Text Formatting
  6. Images
  7. Seperate your Guide into Parts
  8. Wowhead Tooltips
  9. Creating a Table of Content

1. Choose the topic of your guide very carefully, ask yourself these questions:

a) Do I have superior knowledge about this topic?

For example, do you think it's a good idea to write a mage guide if you've only played a mage up to level 42 or something?

b) Will my information be helpful to other players?

Don't state the obvious. For example, don't make a 5-liner guide stating "If you want to make gold, go kill mobs and sell what you find. Try to sell things at the AH at the highest possible price". Seriously, who needs such a guide? Sticking out tongue
In short, try to write a guide about something most people don't already know.


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2. Once you've chosen the topic of your guide, don't start writing yet, check the following things first:

a) Did someone already write a guide on this topic? Browse the Guides library to find out.
b) Is someone currently working on a similar project? Check the Needed Guides list to find out.
c) If someone already wrote a guide on this topic, ask yourself this question:

  • Will my guide be better than this one? Significantly better? If yes, then go to the next paragraph
  • If not, then go back to paragraph 1. and choose a different topic for your guide


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3. Create your guide, put it in the right category and start working on it:

You don't have to write and publish your guide in one day, nobody actually cares for an unfinished guide. So if your guide is not finished, don't publish it, choose the "Work in Progress" option before you submit it.

Only you and the admins will be able to see your guide then, until you decide to publish it. Your draft will be easily accessible on the right side of the page. This is how it looks for me:

As you can see, I have a lot of projects going on at the same time and I'm not publishing any of them until they are finished.

Once you're done writing your guide, there are still things you should do to make it worth being published. Please read on.


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4. Spell Checking

Run your whole guide through a spell checker. It's easy, just copy the whole text into a word document or in your e-mail program and use the "Check Spelling" option, correct everything and then put the corrected text back in your guide.

==Note== Please do an effort with this. Use proper capitalization, spell the words entirely, nobody likes to read guides full of "ur" "u" "kthx", etc. It doesn't take that much time to write "you", "your" or "you're", and your guide will be of much higher quality if you do this effort.


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5. Text formatting

This is the most important part. Nobody likes to read a big wall of text. You need to add paragraphs, colors, titles, bold text, italic.

For that, you need to use BBcode. It's actually very easy and quick, thanks to a nice little tool I use. It's a Firefox addon called "Text Formatting Toolbar". Here is the link to download it:

Text Formatting Toolbar

If you don't have Firefox, I suggest you download it and install it anyway. It's free and it's better than Internet Explorer. You can still use Internet Explorer as your main browser, even after you install Firefox. Just type "Firefox" in Google, it will be the first search result.

Once you have installed it, you'll have the following toolbar on top of your browser:

As you can see, I'm using it right now as I'm writing this guide. It's extremely easy to use, just like a normal text editing program, you just have to select the text you want to format and then click on the icon.

Now tell me, would you rather have this version of my guide:

Or the one you're currently reading?

I think the answer is clear and it shows how much of an improvement a little bit of text formatting can bring to a guide.


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6. Images

Images are also a nice addition to any guide. Of course, you must not add images for the sake of adding images. They must have a purpose, they must illustrate your content and if possible, make it easier to understand your guide.

Simply go to "File Attachments" and attach the image of your choice:

Once the image is uploaded, copy the link to it:

Then paste the link in your guide, add the following BBCode tags around it:

  • [ img ] your.link.here [ / img ] (without the spaces of course)

You can also add the img tag with one click thanks to the text formatting toolbar:

And there you go.

If you are STILL having troubles to upload images, please check this short guide: Nilz' Image Uploading Guide .

==Note== Images must be saved in .JPEG format before you upload them on wow-pro and they must not be too big. The max width of an image should not exceed 600 pixels and if possible, you should try to keep them below 400 pixels. Try to keep the images as small as possible. Images that are too big take a long time to load, take too much space and actually make your guide harder to follow and to print.


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7. Seperate your guide into parts

It's quite easy, simply enter the following code and it will add an horizontal ruler. It's great to split your guide into different parts. Here's the code:

  • [ hr ] (without the spaces)


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8. Links to Wowhead tooltips

First, find the item on wowhead. Copy the URL.

Then simply write down the name of the item in your guide (it doesn't even have to be the name of the item, it can be anything really).

Select that text and click on the "Add code to format text as link" button on the text formatting toolbar (assuming that you have it).

Then simply paste the wowhead URL in the window that pops up.

Example:

Super Cool Weapon

If you don't have the text formatting toolbar, the code is:

[url = http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39769] Super Cool Weapon [ /url ]

(without the spaces of course)


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9. Creating a Table of Content

Jiyambi wrote a very nice guide on how to create a Table of Content. You can't go wrong with it (I used it for this guide Sticking out tongue). Here is the link:

Creating a Table of Contents

And that's it!

Once you feel that your guide is ready to be published, change the Guide Status to "Finished"!

I've covered this topic in details in one of my blog articles as well, I encourage you to read it if you want to know why it is important to follow these guidelines.

If you have any other questions or suggestions regarding guide writing, please read our FAQ. If you don't find an answer there, please leave a comment here and I'm sure someone will answer you quickly.


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Colour Guide

Colour Guide

This guide was originally started by me to allow me to try and keep some consistency in the colours of my reputation levels.

I stole a few colours from people (by eye) if they fitted my system and I liked them and now I've decided to publish it, I hope those people don't mind. Credit in the guide.

This system is far from perfect, and there are a few near clashes. I hope it will help people with picking colours, though.

PS, if you haven't already, have a browse of Jame's Guide Writing Guide, and download the firefox formatting toolbar!



    If anyone thinks they have a better shade of any of the colours listed below, please comment Smiling

    And also if you think you have something that matches the colours shown here better than mine.

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    I can't say I would recommend using ALL these codes in one guide. A reputation guide would probably want the reputation colours. A class guide would want skills and talents. A levelling guide would want Jame's formatting, and possible Manovan's Profession and the class colours.

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    Reputation Formatting:

    Hated color=#cc0000 + bold
    Hostile color=#ff0000 + bold
    Unfriendly color=#f26000 + bold
    Neutral color=#e4e400 + bold
    Friendly color=#33ff33 + bold
    Honoured color=#5fe65d + bold
    Revered color=#53e9bc + bold
    Exalted color=#2ee6e6 + bold

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    Jame's Levelling Guide Formatting:
    Quests color=#cc9933 + bold
    Items (and objects) color=#993300
    Locations color=#33cc00
    Quest objectives to kill bold
    NPCs color=#4169e1
    Locs italics

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    Other Colours:
    Achievements color=#cc66cc
    Professions color=#663300(Manovan's)
    Talents color=#000099 (Jiyambi's)
    Skills color=#006600 (Jiyambi's)
    Addons and Macros color=#ff0000(Jiyambi's)

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    Raid UI Class Colours:
    WARLOCK color=#6600cc + bold + caps
    MAGE color=#33ccff + bold + caps
    PRIEST color=#999999 + bold + caps
    SHAMAN color=#000099 + bold + caps
    DEATH KNIGHT color=#c30000 + bold + caps
    HUNTER color=#7dd17d + bold + caps
    DRUID color=#ff6600 + bold + caps
    WARRIOR color=#cc9933 + bold + caps
    ROGUE color=#d7d700 + bold + caps
    PALADIN color=#f392f3 + bold + caps

    (While the Priest colour is white, I decided to use grey as white would not show up well on WoW-Pro)

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    Jiyambi's Item Quality Colours:
    [Legendary] color=#f0940a + brackets
    [Epic] color=#8c02cd + brackets
    [Rare] color=#2d2de1 + brackets
    [Uncommon] color=#26c426 + brackets
    [Common] color=#cccccc + brackets
    [Heirloom] color=#ccb896 + brackets
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    If you want to add a colour table (or just one colour) copy the code here and stick it in the top of your guide, so people can see what you're using.

    Reputation: 

    <ul>
<li><span style="color:#cc0000"><b>Hated</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000"><b>Hostile</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#f26000"><b>Unfriendly</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#e4e400"><b>Neutral</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#33ff33"><b>Friendly</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#5fe65d"><b>Honoured</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#53e9bc"><b>Revered</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#2ee6e6"><b>Exalted</b></span></li>
</ul>
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    Jame's Levelling Formatting:

    <ul>
<li><span style="color:#cc9933"><b>Quests</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#993300">Items</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#33cc00">Locations</span></li>
<li><b>Quest objectives to kill</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#4169e1">NPCs</span></li>
<li><i>Coordinates</i></span></li>
</ul>
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    Other Colours:

    <ul>
<li><span style="color:#cc66cc"><b>Achievements</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#663300"><b>Professions</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000099"><b>Skills</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#006600"><b>Talents</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000"><b>Addons/macros</b></span></li></span></li>
</ul>

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    Raid UI Class Colours:

    <ul>
<li><span style="color:#6600cc"><b>WARLOCK</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#33ccff"><b>MAGE</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#999999"><b>PRIEST</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000099"><b>SHAMAN</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#c30000"><b>DEATH KNIGHT</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#7dd17d"><b>HUNTER</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ff6600"><b>DRUID</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#cc9933"><b>WARRIOR</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#d7d700"><b>ROGUE</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#f392f3"><b>PALADIN</b></span></li>
</ul>

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    Jiyambi's Item Quality Colours

    <ul>
<a name="itemcod"> </a>
<li><span style="color:#f0940a"><b>[Legendary]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#8c02cd"><b>[Epic]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#2d2de1"><b>[Rare]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#26c426"><b>[Uncommon]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#cccccc"><b>[Common]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#ccb896"><b>[Heirloom]</b></span></li>
</ul>

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Creating a Table of Contents

I'm sure some of you have seen guides which have a table of contents with links in them. Some examples include my Tree Healing Guide and Shikamaru's Eternal Farming Guide. For long guides with multiple parts, these tables of contents (or ToCs, for short) are extremely useful for quickly navigating between sections of the guide. They can also be used to navigate between guides split up into separate chapters. This guide will show you how to create interactive ToCs for your guides.

A quick note: in the code shown in this guide, some parts need to be replaced by code specific to your guide. These parts will appear in green.

Let's start off with an example - the ToC for this guide!


Table of Contents

  1. Choosing a type of code
  2. Using Mediawiki to create a ToC
  3. Using HTML and BBCode to create a ToC
  4. Tips and Tricks for HTML ToCs
  5. Comments


Choosing a type of code

There are actually two ways to make a ToC for your guide. One uses Mediawiki, the other uses HTML. The Mediawiki way is the easiest, but unfortunately requires that your guide be done entirely in Mediawiki with zero HTML or BBCode. That means limited customization, and additionally many people on WoW-Pro don't know how to use Mediawiki at all. Using HTML to make the ToC is more complicated, but lets you use both HTML and BBCode throughout the guide.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Either of these methods will work for BOTH a "wiki" (group) page OR a "guide" (single editor) - you can use the wiki formatting even if it is a solo editor page, and you can choose not to use it on a group page.


BBCode


BBCode is the default option for WoW-Pro's input format. It is a type of code used on many online forums. Through BBCode, you can use many common HTML tags, but it keeps users from seriously messing up page layouts with bad HTML. You can get a lot of custamizability out of pure BBCode (for example, the only non-BBCode things in my Tree Healing Guide are the ToC links), but this input format is even better because WoW-Pro lets you use HTML as well - but only when BBCode is the input format, NOT when you use Mediawiki.

Essentially: A large amount of custamizability and the ability to use HTML, with the drawback of somewhat complicated and ugly code and the potential to mess up page layouts with bad HTML.


Mediawiki


Mediawiki is the code language used on most wikis, such as Wikipedia and Wowwiki. However, the Mediawiki available on WoW-Pro is a little more limited than on many wiki sites, since WoW-Pro is not a full wiki. In addition, you cannot use HTML if you chose Mediawiki as your input format.

Essentially: Sacrifices custamizability for easy to read and easy to write code.


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Using Mediawiki to create a ToC

Using Mediawiki to make a ToC is very easy, so we'll cover it quickly in this section. For an example guide with a wiki ToC, see the Loot Distribution Systems guide. For a cheat sheet of common Mediawiki code, see this page.


  1. Input format

    First, you must have your input format set to Mediawiki. The input format options are found just below your guide's main content textbox when you edit your guide. It is minimized by default - click the arrow to maximize it.


  2. Place ToC

    Next, you need to tell your guide where you want the ToC. Simply place the following code wherever you want the ToC in your guide:

      [[toc]]


  3. Add sections

    Finally, you need to tell the ToC what to list. You do this by using equal signs around your section headings throughout your guide:

      ==Highest Level heading==

      ===Subheading===

      ====Sub-sub heading====

    4. Each of these will be added to your ToC automatically, and it will also automatically format your section headings.


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Using HTML and BBCode to create a ToC

As mentioned above, BBCode and HTML allow a lot more customization at the expense of ease of use. See this page for some basic BBCode formatting information to help with the rest of your guide.


  1. Input format

    First, you must have your input format set to BBCode. The input format options are found just below your guide's main content textbox when you edit your guide. It is minimized by default - click the arrow to maximize it.


  2. Make the ToC list

    Next, you need to make the ToC itself. This is significantly more complicated than in Mediawiki. But, you can also make it look however you want!

    I'll teach you how to make a simple ToC, but you can modify the formatting to suit your style. Please note that to format text that is a link, you need to put the formatting tags inside the link tags.

    To make your ToC, start by making a numbered list. Use the following tag to start and end your list:

      [list=1]

      You'll put all your list content in between these two tags. Feel free to separate them from the content with line breaks as shown, it can help when reading your code.

      [/list]

    This is how you start and end your list. To put a numbered item on your list, simply use the following tag at the start of the line you want to add:

      [*]

    3. This should be all you need to create a list like the one at the top of this guide. However, it won't have any links in it yet.


  3. Create anchors

    Next, we need to make the anchors that will let you link to parts of your guide. Time for a little HTML vocabulary.

    An anchor tag always starts with a, for anchor. An anchor tag is usually used to make a link - it's used to reference an anchor, usually another page. In this guide, we'll learn to add anchors inside our page, and then reference those anchors.

    First you will learn to add the anchors. In your guide, find a section you would like to link to. Right above that section, you will add an anchor:

      <a name="sectionname"> </a>

    4. Choose a shortened name for the section - no users will see it, so don't worry about it being perfect. Make sure it is all lower case with no spaces. Also, make sure you add the closing </a> tag, otherwise the code won't work and may mess up your page.


  4. Link to anchors

    Now that you have your anchors created, you can link to them from your ToC. Simply add <a href> tags to your already-created list as follows:

      [list=1]

      [*] <a href="#sectionname">Your Section's Full Name</a>

      [/list]

    5. Make sure you include the # at the beginning of your anchor's name - this tells the browser that the anchor is in this page.

That's all you need to know to make a basic list!


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Tips and Tricks for HTML ToCs

  1. How to link to other pages from a ToC

    This can be useful if your guide is broken into several chapters. Linking to other pages is very easy - you don't even have to use HTML, just the basic BBCode. Here is the code to link:

      [url=yoururlhere]Text you want to be the link here[/url]

  2. How to link within other pages from a ToC

    Also useful if your guide is in multiple chapters, this lets you link to specific anchors in other pages. First, make sure you have the anchors set up in the other page. Then, simply use the same type of link as for anchors within your main guide, except instead of just the #, use the other page's url:

      [list=1]

      [*] <a href="yourguidesurl#sectionname">Your Section's Full Name</a>

      [/list]


  3. Create "Back to top" links

    For large guides, it is really nice to be able to click a quick link to return to the ToC at the top of the guide. You can very easily do this by creating an anchor above your ToC, then add a simple link referencing that anchor at the end of each section.

    Example anchor:

      <a name="top"></a>

    Example end of section link:

      <a href="#top">Back to the top</a>

    You can even add a little up arrow as a link to the top, along with the words (or without them if you like).

    1. First, you'll need to upload the arrow - use the file attachments option at the bottom of your guide's edit page. Once it is uploaded, it will show you the picture's url, copy that.

    2. Add an image tag inside the anchor reference tag. You can use BBCode for this part. You can leave the words as well, or delete them depending on your preference.

      Example with words:

        <a href="#top">[img]http://yourimagesurl[/img]Back to the top</a>


    4. Back to the top



Now you should know enough to make ToCs for your guides! Feel free to leave a comment with suggestions for improvements, questions, or corrections.

Creating Maps and Graphics with GIMP

This guide is designed to teach you to create maps (and any other graphic) using the free image editor, GIMP. GIMP is a lot like Photoshop, though not as smooth or polished, but it is free. It allows you to do many nifty things like transparency, shadow, and outlines.

The GIMP page is a wiki. Feel free to add any useful tips!

Click here to read the guide!

Creating Tables


Well, as promised to Jame I'll be posting how to make those snazzy tables for your guides. For this you're going to need to know a little HTML coding. Thankfully CSS will still work within your HTML codes but you have to be extra careful because if you miss a tag you will botch the entire thing. Trust me, I made a serious error on my last guide and the whole page went funky. Took me an hour to find that missing tag! That said, lets begin.

For those unfamiliar with HTML a good site to check out is www.w3schools.com, there is a link that says Learn HTML on the top left.

First things first! Tags! Tags! TAGS! Pay close attention to your tags. You need an opening tag and a closing tag. Your tags will be surrounded by Angle Brackets < and >. Now you could just drop a table right into your guide but CSS has issues with doing that, or at least it does here. I'm still a novice when it comes to XML and CSS coding so bear with me. Its safer to start AND end your table with an html tag.

Example: < HTML > and < /HTML >

NOTE: When you create your tags there will be no spaces inside the tag, I have to do that here so you can actually see them. Please look at the whiteboard on w3schools.com for a proper representation.

Our opening tag is < HTML > and our closing tag is < /HTML >. The tags are identical except for the forward slash in the ending tag. So your tags will always have a mate, be sure you always have a closing tag! Next comes the BODY tag. The body is what it is, the meat and potatoes or your document.

Example:

<HTML>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Everything will go inside your HTML tags and your displayed material will be inside your BODY tags.

Example: 

<HTML>
<BODY>
HI! This is my website. What do you think?
</BODY>
</HTML>

Now try not to get discouraged here, coding is a simple thing. These will be the only HTML tags you will need while building your table. The next set of tags will be a little more complicated but fairly simple. These will be your TABLE tags.

Example: 

<HTML>
<BODY>

HI! This is my website. What do you think? Here is a table.<BR>
<TABLE>

</TABLE>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Now, here is where CSS and HTML start to disagree. You'll note that I've added in a tag that I haven't talked about, < BR > is a line break tag and is similar to you hitting Enter on the keyboard. So why not just hit enter? HTML does not recognize word processing line breaks so you have to use the line break tag < BR >. I already have several of these tags listed here but you won't see them at work.

Back to our table. As you create your table you will have to define several things. First are borders. If you do not define the border size you will have a nice neat table but no dividing lines.

Example:

Col1,Row1 Col2,Row1 Col3,Row1
Col1,Row2 Col2,Row2 Col3,Row2

If you wish to create dividing lines you will need to define the border size in your opening TABLE tag.

Example:

< TABLE BORDER="1" >

Col1,Row1 Col2,Row1 Col3,Row1
Col1,Row2 Col2,Row2 Col3,Row2

Now I know I said to never put spaces in your tags, but there will be a few exceptions. Make sure to leave a space between each definition in your tag, such as the one between TABLE and BORDER in the opening table tag.

The BORDER definition tells the browser to load a table border width of 1, a single pixel line usually. You can certainly go higher and you can do some pretty fancy things with your table borders that I will not go in depth here.

Now if you've seen my blacksmithing guide you'll note there is a light gray underline at the top of my table and the text is in bold. This is done by adding a HEADER tag.

Example:

Header1,Col1 Header2,Col2 Header3,Col3
Col1,Row1 Col2,Row1 Col3,Row1
Col1,Row2 Col2,Row2 Col3,Row2

By now you're probably like WHOA NOW! How did you even create the Columns and Rows, you're talking headers and such, I'm so lost! Fret not. Your ROW tags are like BODY tags, everything in that row will be contained within the ROW tag. A ROW tag looks like this: < TR > and a closing tag of < /TR >

Example:

< HTML ><br>
< BODY ><br>

HI! This is my website. What do you think? Here is a table.< BR ><br>
<TABLE BORDER="1">
<TR>
<TD> I'm ROW 1!</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

</BODY>
</HTML>

I'm ROW 1!

You're probably wondering what's up with that < TD > tag? That is essentially how we create columns. The < TD > is a Table Data tag. Each time you ad a new < TD > tag you create a new cell of data. You want to make sure that you keep a static number of DATA tags or you will end up with blank cells.

Example:

Col1,Row1 Col2,Row1 Col3,Row1
Col1,Row2 Col2,Row2 Col3,Row2 Col4,Row2
Col1,Row3 Col2,Row3 Col3,Row3

Blank cells aren't the end of the world, but at least your columns are still even. And that is nearly everything.

All we need now are some headers and you're golden. Header tags are simple: < TH > just means Table Header. You can use these to define a bold text and a different shaded underline.

Example:

Header1,Col1 Header2,Col2 Header3,Col3
Col1,Row1 Col2,Row1 Col3,Row1
Col1,Row2 Col2,Row2 Col3,Row2

And you're done! Hopefully I've made this easy enough. If you have any questions please feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them in a timely manner as always.


Size is a major factor in life and a factor that I seemed to have missed when creating this guide. Here is an example of how you can use the page width to determine the width of your table. This will assign a maximum width based on the current page width.

Example:

I'm huge! 


<html>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>I'm huge!</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Example:

I'm tiny! 


<html>
<body>
<table border="1" width="10%">
<tr>
<td>I'm tiny!</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Nilz' Image Uploading Guide

Introduction

As I was looking at Jame's Guide Writing Guide I noticed a lot of questions about images and why they weren't working and such. To me, it seemed that Jame was doing his best to answer all the questions but it looked very frustrating to keep answering the same question over and over again So, I have decided to write a focused guide on images only, to help those you are having trouble (just like I did, as a matter a fact) Smiling.

Guide

So you've decided to write a guide that will be awesome ...at least it would have been if you get those GOD-BEEPIN IMAGES TO JUST UPLOAD ON THE BEEPIN BEEPIN WEBSITE. Well first things first, you need a picture, once you have that go down to the bottom of the screen and click File attachments then click browse and find your picture. After you have done this you have to copy the html code that is under your picture. Once this is done you click the icon for adding pictures on your text formatting toolbar or you type in [ img] your.link.goes.here [/ img] (without the spaces). and click preview. But then something happens. This shows up instead of your picture:

[img]http://wow-pro.com/files/Image'Guide.JPG[/img]

In order to fix this you need to go back to your picture file and rename it without any special characters or spaces. So it looks more like this:

[img]http://wow-pro.com/files/ImageGuide.JPG[/ img] (without the space).

Then once that is done you have to Submit your guide (still as work in progress) first then go back to your draft and hit Preview and your picture should be up.

Image Editing

Now you may want to edit a picture to make it better or add lists, etc. there several different image editing programs out there and couple would be GIMP (just google the download) or Microsoft paint, however my favourite is Picnik.com which is completely free and is really easy to use and can do some pretty cool things. However it is all up to you.

Screenshots

Sometimes, in your guide, you will want to add screenshots which is just a shot of your screen as you see it. You can take screenshots by simply pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard. it may also be called PrtSc so just press this button and then open up your picture using any picture editor. If you use this while not on WoW then while on your picture editing program just paste (either CTRL - V {command - V for you mac users}or [edit - paste]). If you took the screenshot on WoW then just find it in your screenshot folder (i couldn't find the folder Eye ) or just paste into the picture editor. After you have gotten the picture into your picture editor ten just crop out the unimportant stuff and viola! Save as a JPEG and then upload it into wow-pro.

That is really all there is to it Sticking out tongue!

P.S if you want to not show the links to your pictures at the bottom of your guide then simply uncheck the list box in your file attachments.

P.P.S sometimes the file attachments box will be minimized which can make it hard to find but this is where it found when minimized (I.e. right above the preview and submit buttons)

Another frequent mistake I see is that your image will NOT SHOW UP if you just click "preview" when you first upload it. The image doesn't actually upload until you click "Save" the first time. So if your image doesn't show up at first, that could very well be the reason. *Jiyambi*

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Guides on how to complete Achievements, written by the wow-pro community.

Complete Guide to Brewfest

Brewfest is a WoW holiday that takes place in late September. It is somewhat similar to the Earthly Oktoberfest, celebrating beer, food, and good times.

In WoW, the Brewfest event includes some silly games, lots of special beer and food, vanity pets, mounts, and a seasonal boss. There is also an hourly event outside the main capital cities for both factions, in which players must defend the Brewfest festivities from the Dark Iron dwarves. In addition, you may be able to get your hands on a special item that will transport you directly to the bar in Blackrock Depths, allowing for all sorts of old world fun.

This guide aims to take you through the events, items, and achievements associated with this fun holiday. Read on for your full Brewfest coverage!

Note: This guide is based on information from Brewfest 2008. It will be updated as information for Brewfest 2009 becomes available. Please leave a comment if you notice any discrepancies.


Table of Contents

  1. Quests
  2. Buff - Brewfest Enthusiast
  3. Mini-Game - Ram Racing
  4. Mini-Game - Barking
  5. Event - Dark Iron Attack
  6. Seasonal Boss - Coren Direbrew
  7. Seasonal Items
  8. Achievements
  9. Comments


Quests

There are several different quests involved in this holiday, many of which are part of mini games or other events. They will be listed here, but the main description of how to complete them may be further down.


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Buff - Brewfest Enthusiast

At 6:15 AM and 6:15 PM server time, a short ceremony takes place on the Brewfest grounds. Anyone in the area will receive the Brewfest Enthusiast buff, granting a 10% XP increase for 2 hours. While not as easy to aquire as the Midsummer XP boost, this could still be useful for those leveling alts.


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Mini-Game - Ram Racing

One of the main goals of this holiday is to accumulate [Brewfest Prize Tokens]. This is primarily accomplished through the ram racing mini game. These tokens will be used to purchase most of the fun Brewfest gear that are needed for the holiday's achievements.

Since the ram racing mini game is different for the two different factions, I will be discussing the specific routes and quests separately. However, I'll go over the mechanics of the game here.

Overall goal:

    The goal of the mini game is to make as many trips as you can between the questgiver and another NPC some distance away, delivering a keg of beer with each trip, in a time limit of 4 minutes. For each trip you make, the quest time will increase a little bit (30 seconds). Each trip takes around 45 seconds. And each barrel will reward you with two [Brewfest Prize Tokens].

How to do this:

    You'll be riding a ram, using the [Ram Racing Reins] to increase the ram's speed. Additionally, every delivery you make puts more time on the clock. But the ram will get tired, so you'll need to pick up apples for it from the apple baskets along the way. The idea is to maximize your speed vs. the amount of time you spend getting apples to maintain that speed. This guide will teach you the best way to do that.

Using the [Ram Racing Reins]:

    Set the reins to a hotkey, or make a macro like this: 
    /use Ram Racing Reins

    Put this macro somewhere easily clickable. You use the reins to increase the ram's speed. Since the route we will be using allows you to keep the ram at top speed at all times, you'll want to spam this hotkey from the very beginning and keep spamming it until the quest timer is up.

Ram speeds and their effects:

    The ram has four speeds: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. It can also enter a fifth state, exhausted. You can increase the speed by using the [Ram Racing Reins]. The ram's speed will gradually decrease over time, so keep spamming the reins to keep the speed high.

    • ...... Walk - Moves at 43% run speed, recovers 4 fatigue per tic.
    • Trot - Moves at 125% run speed, recovers 2 fatigue per tic.
    • Canter - Moves at 200% run speed, costs 1 fatigue per tic.
    • Gallop - Moves at 285% run speed, costs 5 fatigue per tic.
    • Exhausted - Moves at 16% run speed, lasts for 15 seconds.

Ram fatigue, exhaustion, and how to avoid it:

    Rams become fatigued based on their speed, as shown in the ram speed section above. During the Ram Racing mini game, you'll be keeping your ram at the Gallup speed pretty much the whole time. That means your ram's fatigue will be going up very quickly. If you fatigue reaches 100, your ram becomes exhausted, making it quite slow for 15 second. This is where the apple buckets come in.

    Apple buckets will be sprinkled along the path of your delivery. The faction specific guides below will show where these buckets are and which ones you should hit for maximum delivery efficiency.

What's so important about being efficient in ram racing?

    Ram racing is really the only adjustable factor in determining how many prize tokens you can get per day. All the other daily quests are straight numbers. By maximizing the number of times per day you do this quest and the amount of deliveries you make, hence the amount of tokens you receive, you make it easier to buy the expensive items needed to get the brewfest achievements and get one step closer to the coveted violet proto-drake.

    Of course, if you don't care about all that, just relax and have fun with the ram racing!

General efficiency tips:

    • Turn with the mouse, not the keyboard. Really this applies to all of WoW, but *especially* something like this. A specific trick to try: once you get your ram running in the direction you want, you can change your view to the next direction you'll need using the left mouse button. Then, when you are ready to turn, just hit the right mouse button and you'll be instantly turned in the correct direction. You can practice this using auto-run - check your keybindings to find out how to use this.
    • Strafing. Strafing can be useful to avoid objects and complete the course more efficiently. I wouldn't suggest trying to use it here for the first time, though - practice ahead of time. Like mouse-turning as opposed to keyboard-turning, strafing is a useful skill for general WoW as well as events like these, so learning to use it has lots of benefits.
    • Make sure you got the apple/barrel. Before you get too far away from the apple, barrel, or turn-in NPC, make sure whatever effect you were hoping for happened. It's worth it to run back for apples if you miss one - an exhausted ram drastically reduces the amount of runs you can make.
    • Jumping helps. You can jump if you are about to switch from Gallop to Canter and get a few more seconds out of Gallop. More importantly, keep your thumb on the space bar and be ready to jump over any obstructing scenery.
    • Seconds count. Any tiny bit of time you can shave off your runs can and will help you.
    • Don't sweat it. You are going to screw up, especially if you are just now learning. It's okay, just keep trying to get as many tickets as you can.

    For more tips and strategy, check out WoWiki's Ram Racing Tips.

Alliance

    Opening up the ram racing quests:

      To open up the repeatable ram racing quest, you first need to complete Now This is Ram Racing... Almost.. Talk to Neill Ramstein outside Ironforge to get this. He'll also give you There and Back Again, which is the first actual race, and you only need to deliver 3 barrels during this. Then he will offer you a gossip option to race again afterward and every 12 or 18 hours after that, the repeatable version of the quest. There is no way to know how long you have before the reset - you just need to check with the guy after 12 hours have passed. If he doesn't offer the gossip option, you got an 18 hour reset.

      The opening quest is very simple and simply requires that you use the [Ram Racing Reins] to get your ram to move at each of the different speeds for a few seconds each.

    Alliance players should be able to get around 16 deliveries, for a total of 32 extra tokens each race.

    Based on comments on Wowhead and WoWWiki, the best route for Alliance players appears to be as follows:

    Route and strategy:

      Keep the ram at a full gallop at all times. You will be skipping the first and last barrels, using only the two middle ones.

      From the start, head directly to the barrel by the west side of the road by the small house. Go straight through here and run directly up the hill behind it.

      At the top of the hill aim for the base of the barrel thrower. He has a huge range, so be ready to use the camera tricks described above to reverse directions fast. Head back to the house on the west side of the road and the barrel there.

      After you are refreshed by that barrel, turn northeast. Aim for the left side of the sign post for the barrel on the east side of the road. Once refreshed, head towards the barrel catcher. Use the camera tricks to quickly reverse directions once you have delivered the barrel, which should happen right as you pass the tall flag in front of the tent.

      You won't be heading back to the signpost barrel, instead continue just like you did at the beginning and head to the barrel by the house. After that, simply repeat the course.

    For more detailed information and other possible strategies, check out WoWiki's Ram Racing Tips.

Horde

    Opening up the ram racing quests:
      To open up the repeatable ram racing quest, you first need to complete Now This is Ram Racing... Almost.. Talk to Ram Master Ray outside Orgrimmar to get this. He'll also give you There and Back Again, which is the first actual race, and you only need to deliver 3 barrels during this. Then he will offer you a gossip option to race again afterward and every 12 or 18 hours after that, the repeatable version of the quest. There is no way to know how long you have before the reset - you just need to check with the guy after 12 hours have passed. If he doesn't offer the gossip option, you got an 18 hour reset.

      The opening quest is very simple and simply requires that you use the [Ram Racing Reins] to get your ram to move at each of the different speeds for a few seconds each.

    Horde players should be able to get 10-12 deliveries, for a total of 20-24 extra tokens each race.

    Based on comments on Wowhead and WoWWiki, the best route for Horde players appears to be as follows:

    Route and strategy:

      First of all, ignore the road. You are going to head straight for the second apple basket, which is located right at the entrance to the ravine between a tall rock and the ravine wall. You'll travel between the tree and the graveyard to get there.

      After you hit that basket, keep going until you get the keg thrown to you (you'll see the chat message when he throws it, rely on this if there are multiple people running the race since you can't always tell who he throws to). Use the camera tricks described above to turn quickly (IGNORE the basket behind the thrower). Run back to the basket between the rock and wall.

      Once you're fatigue resets, continue on off-road to the keg thrower. I usually have to run right on top of him to get the keg to throw - you'll know when it throws because you'll receive two tokens. Take a sharp right turn, head straight through the tent and hit the apple barrel right behind it. Turn right again and jump over the fence (not always necessary but it doesn't hurt to do it and it keeps you from getting hung up on a post).

      You should now be back where you began, just repeat this and you can easily get 10 and possibly as many as 12 or 13 runs.

    For more detailed information and other possible strategies, check out WoWiki's Ram Racing Tips.


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Mini-Game - Barking

The second mini-game for the Brewfest holiday also involves rams, but it's significantly easier than the ram racing game. For the barking daily quest, you need to ride your ram around the capitol city and visit each of four different specific areas. When you enter that area, your character will automatically yell advertisements for the brewery you are barking for.

Each completion of this daily quest will reward 15 , which can be turned in for prizes. See the Seasonal Items section below to see what you can buy.

Ram Mechanics:

Strategy:

    The areas that you need to visit are pointed out on the maps below. Try to keep you ram at a canter the whole time. If your ram reaches 85 fatigue, allow it to slow to a trot until the fatigue is down to 75. This should allow you to complete the quest within the time limit. Once you complete the fourth barking objective, you can dismiss your ram and mount your normal mount to get back to the questgivers quickly.


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Event - Dark Iron Attack

Every half hour, Dark Iron dwarves will show up and attack the festivities outside Orgrimmar and Ironforge. Successfully defending against these attacks (by throwing beer mugs) will allow you to pick up (and turn in) a daily quest which awards 10 . This is also the objective of the Down With The Dark Iron achievement.

Group Event:

    The waves of Dark Irons is too high and the rate of drinking beer too slow for one player to complete this by himself. Get help, make it a guild event, or advertise in trade when you want to complete this. Since the tokens are needed for achievements, there will probably be many people completing this daily at peak hours.

Preparations:

    Pick up a complimentary mug off the table and set it to a hotkey.

How to damage the Dark Irons:

    You damage the Dark Irons by throwing downing the beer and throwing the empty mug at them. Simply select a Dark Iron and hit your hotkey. The mug will randomly hit or miss, and this does not seem to be based on level or gear or anything else. Once you throw the mug, just pick one up off a table. You can stand right next to the table to do this, no need to run around.

Super Brew Steins:

    Occasionally during the even, the NPCs will place one of these giant mugs on the ground. Drink from it to gain a whirlwind buff that damages Dark Irons near you.

Completing the Event:

    Once the Dark Irons stop coming, you should be able to click on the gear they came in on to complete a daily quest and receive your tokens.

Tip! Turning off the "Full Screen Glow" effect in your video options should stave off the blurriness from being drunk, allowing you to see and navigate much better.


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Seasonal Boss - Coren Direbrew

IMPORTANT NOTE: You do NOT have to do the pre-quest in order to summon Coren, and you also don't have to do it to pick up the keg he drops.

Coren Direbrew has been upgraded and tuned for level 80 players for the 2009 Brewfest. The items he drops have also been improved, and those will be added here when they become known. In addition to dropping some useful gear, he also drops two fun trinkets involving brewmaidens, a remote control that will take you to the Blackrock Depths bar at any time, any where, and two seasonal mounts, the Brewfest Kodo and the Brewfest Ram.

Like most seasonal bosses, Coren Direbrew can be summoned once per day by each person in the party. The quest chain to summon him is as follows:

Getting there:

    Fly to Thorium Point in the Eastern Kingdoms and head southwest to Blackrock Mountain. Once inside, head along the path to where some rubble has fallen and a chain is stretched across the chasm. Run along the chain. There is a summoning stone here that works for level 80s since it is a raid stone. Descend down through the tomb and around the path. You will come to another chain, follow it across the lava. You'll now be close to the level of the lava. Enter the cave and head north, and go through the portal into Blackrock Depths. Directly to your right will be some rubbly ground and some Mole Machine Consoles. Click on the console to be transported the Grim Guzzler, where Coren awaits.

Difficulty:

    Coren is no harder than other level 80 non-heroic bosses. For fresh 80s he may be challenging, but for anyone who has gone through Naxx, he should be dead in only a few seconds with a full group. He can reportedly be duo'd with a tank and a healer, though at least one DPS is of course preferable. My guild does not use a healer at all for this boss, since he does zero damage to our tanks and only rarely damages the DPS. We are ToC ten-man geared, for reference.

Abilities

  • Disarm: 4 second cast. 7 yard range. Deals 300% of his normal melee damage. Similar to whirlwind, disarms all players in range for 4 seconds.
  • Tauntable: Coren is tauntable.
  • Adds - Brewmaidens: Two special adds appear occasionally - Ilsa Direbrew and Ursula Direbrew.
    • Ilsa Direbrew - throws [Dark Brewmaiden's Brew] into a players inventory. If not throw immediately, the brew will stun the player.
    • Ursula Direbrew - occasionally "barrels" the highest player on her threat list. Barreled players are blinded and cannot do anything.
  • Adds - Minions: Occassionally, Coren will summon a wave of weak minions which can be AoE'd down.
  • Mole Machines: These machines will pop up periodically and more adds will come out.

Strategy

    First, before starting the fight, have everyone make and hotkey the following macro: 
    /use Dark Brewmaiden's Brew

    This will allow people to quickly get rid of the brew when one of the Brewmaidens uses it on them, preventing them from being stunned.

    Focus on Coren, for the most part. Make sure everyone stays out of his melee range to avoid the disarm effect.

    As long as everyone is careful about removing the brew when they get it, Isla and be safely ignored when she pops up.

    Ursula needs to be dealt with in one of two ways. The easiest way is to have the DPS burn her down rapidly. Alternatively, a hunter or warlock pet can off tank her. Since she will only barrel the highest thing on her threat list, this will keep the tank from getting barreled. Regardless, the tank should not touch Ursula.

    The smaller adds should be AoEd down when they appear, until Coren is below 30%. After that they spawn fast enough that it is more effective just to burn Coren and ignore the adds.

Drops


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Seasonal Items

Brewfest has lots of special seasonal items. Many are just consumables in the spirit of the holiday, such as beer or sausage. Others are more valuable and long-lasting, such as the vanity pet or mount. This section contains a list of all seasonal items and how to get them.

Collecting [Brewfest Prize Tokens]

    Brewfest Tokens are needed to buy many of the special items for this holiday. These tokens may be obtained in several ways.

    Note: If you want to complete all the achievements associated with this holiday in one year, you'll need to collect a total of 350 tokens, or 550 if you plan on keeping the clothes.

    You can receive tokens in the following ways:

    • 40 - Seasonal Boss - Coren Direbrew - For killing Diren Corebrew and handing in the quest. (Once only)
    • 40 - Pink Elekks On Parade - (Once only)
    • 10 - Chug and Chuck! - (Once only)
    • 10 - There and Back Again - (Once only)
    • 20-30 - Mini-Game - Ram Racing - 2 Tokens per delivery (up to twice daily, around 10 runs for Horde, 16 for Alliance, 12-18 hour cooldown since you started your last race.)
    • 15 - Mini-Game - Barking - Tokens for barking either brew within the city on the ram (daily, ride ram to 4 areas.)
    • 10 - Event - Dark Iron Attack - For defending against the Dark Iron attacks (daily, every 30 minutes the Dark Iron appear with their machines and attempt to steal the booze, you pick up the mugs on the tables and chuck it at them, if you successfully defend the beer, an item spawns in the middle that looks like a gear and you take the quest.)

    All of these are described in more detail in their specific sections above.

Item List


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Achievements

Like all world events, Brewfest has quite a few achievements associated with it. The meta achievement, Brewmaster, is part of the overall world event achievement, What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, which awards a 310% speed violet proto drake. Consequently, completing these achievements is something many players are looking to do.

Note on Brewfest Tokens: To complete all Brewfest achievements from scratch, you will need to earn 350 , or 550 if you plan on keeping the clothes. Theoretically you can earn up to and over 1000, so this shouldn't be too difficult, as long as you log on regularly to complete the dailies and do decently well with the ram racing. 100 are earned through initial quests. For Horde, around 65 are likely per day if you ram race twice and are pretty good at it. Alliance might earn 105 a day based on the same criteria.

Strange Brew

The Brewfest Diet

Brew of the Month

    Requirements:
      Join the Brew of the Month club.

    How To:

      To join the Brew of the Month club, you need to buy the ["Brew of the Month" Club Membership Form] for 200 - the Seasonal Items about explains the different ways to earn these. You can then accept and turn in the quest which will activate this achievement. Each month from now on, you will receive a special drink in the mail that could do all sorts of fun things.

Drunken Stupor

    Requirements:
      Fall 65 yards without dying while completely smashed during the Brewfest Holiday.

    How To:

      This is identical to the Going Down?, only you need to be completely smashed. Good places to jump off include the Scryer terrace in Shattrath and the lift for Thunder Bluff. You can also use potions of slow fall, paladin bubbles, and similar things.

Direbrewfest

Down With The Dark Iron

    Requirements:
      Defend the Brewfest camp from the Dark Iron attack and complete the quest, "This One Time, When I Was Drunk..."

    How To:

Disturbing the Peace

    Requirements:
      While wearing 3 pieces of Brewfest clothing, get completely smashed and dance in Dalaran.

    How To:

      First, you'll need 350 - the Seasonal Items about explains the different ways to earn these. Once you have them, head to the Brewfest token exchanger and purchase a hat, chest-piece, and footwear of your liking. Equip them, head to Dalaran, and /dance!

      IMPORTANT NOTE: you can sell the clothes back to the vendor within 2 hours for a full refund. So as long as you don't care about keeping the clothes, you can spend these tokens on other items such as the Brew of the Month Club, pet, or keg.

Does Your Wolpertinger Linger?

Have Keg, Will Travel

    Requirements:
      Obtain a Brewfest mount, or transform yours into one using Brewfest Hops.

    How To:

      For this achievement, I recommend farming Coren Direbrew for as long as you have patience (see Seasonal Boss - Coren Direbrew for details), since he drops the two epic mounts. However, keep 2 handy in order to buy some hops if, at the end of the holiday, you've been unable to obtain a permanent mount. Just make sure to use them before they expire!

Brew of the Year

    PLEASE NOTE: This achievement is NOT required for the Brewmaster meta achievement.
    Requirements:
      Sample 12 beers featured in the Brew of the Month club.

    How To:

      Become a member of the Brew of the Month Club as described in the Brew of the Month achievement above. Then, each month, log on and check your mailbox to receive your brew. Drink each brew to complete this achievement. That's right, it takes a whole year!

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Critters and Books

This guide is designed to be able to be completed solo, though you may need help in Scholomance, depending on your class. (requires Skeleton Key)
This guide Covers the following Achievements, and assumes you can fly in Northrend.
The guide is divided by continent.
I highly recommend the Overachiever mod, check it out.
Tourguide version available here.


Friend or Fowl?


Pest Control


To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before


To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life


Well Read

Optional



Northrend Angler




Outland Angler



The Scavenger

Also would be a good idea to keep an eye on the following:


Northern Exposure - macro


Medium Rare - macro



Table of Contents

1. Map Legend and Macros
2. Northrend takes about 1 hour including fishing nodes.
3. Outland takes about 30 minutes including fishing nodes.
4. Kalimdor takes about 45 minutes including fishing nodes.
5. Eastern Kingdoms takes about 1.5 hours including fishing nodes. (& Scarlet Monastery & Scholomance)
6. Scarlet Monastery Library
7. Scholomance


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Map Legend
Critters in Red
Books in Blue
Fish in Purple

Northrend Macro
/tar Arctic H
/tar Faw
/tar Roac
/tar Snake
/tar Spid
/tar Chic
/tar Crab
/tar Sheep
/tar Fjord R
/tar Skunk
/tar Huge
/tar Zul
/tar Sholazar T
/tar Steam F
/tar Borean F
/tar Borean M
/stopmacro [noexists]
/tell YOURNAMEHERE Found %t!
/stopmacro [dead]

Outland, Kalimdor, and Eastern Kingdoms Macro
/tar Scorpion
/tar Frog
/tar Toad
/tar Prairie Dog
/tar Adder
/tar Parrot
/tar Hare
/tar Swine
/tar Gazelle
/tar Moccasin
/tar Cat
/tar Cow
/tar Lava Crab
/tar Fire Beetle
/tar Ram
/tar Maggot
/tar Larva
/stopmacro [noexists]
/tell YOURNAMEHERE Found %t!
/stopmacro [dead]


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Northrend takes about 1 hour including fishing nodes.

Dalaran
/love Rabbit and Squirrel (not in macro, should be easy enough to find)
kill Rat Outside of Violet Hold
kill Underbelly Rat in the sewers
Horde read The Guardians of Tirisfal on the top floor of the horde inn











Crystalsong Forest
Fishing Fly down from Dalaran to the river below.
Glassfin Minnow School













Dragonblight (find one while traveling through the zone)
/love Arctic Hare

Fishing
Dragonfin Angelfish School Lake Indu'le
Imperial Manta Ray School along the shores









Grizzly Hills (all of them are at the same place, you should see an area of tree stumps)
/love Fawn
/love Deer, Grizzly Squirrel, and Mountain Skunk (not in macro)
kill Mouse (not in macro)

Fishing
Glacial Salmon School in the rivers









Howling Fjord
(1) kill Roach, Snake, and Spider
(2) /love Chicken
(3) /love Fjord Penguin (not in macro)
(4) /love Crab and Sheep
(4) /love Scalawag Frog (not in macro, at pirate camp)
(5) kill Fjord Rat
(5) kill Devouring Maggot in Utgarde Keep Catacombs, (56,49) (not in macro)
Go down the ramp, down the stairs on your right, 2 flights down.
(6) /love Skunk and Fjord Turkey
(6) Slay 15 Fjord Turkey in 3 minutes.

Fishing
Fangtooth Herring School in the rivers
Deep Sea Monsterbelly School
Zul'Drak (both of them are at the same place)
/love Huge Toad
kill Zul'Drak Rat













Storm Peaks - Halls of Stone (just inside the instance)
kill Gold Beetle (not in macro)













Icecrown
/love Glacier Penguin (not in macro)













Sholazar Basin
/love Sholazar Tickbird

Fishing
Nettlefish School











Borean Tundra
(1) /love Tundra Penguin (not in macro)
(2) The Nexus (inside instance, go straight towards Keristrasza)
kill Crystal Spider (not in macro)
(3) /love Steam Frog, Borean Frog, and Borean Marmot

Fishing
Musselback Sculpin School
Moonglow Cuttlefish School







Return to Dalaran and take portal to Shattrath City


Outland - Back to Table of Contents
Outland takes about 30 minutes including fishing nodes.

Shattrath City
/love Ewe













Terokkar Forest
Fishing
School of Darter in the rivers
Highland Mixed School in the highlands like Skettis











Hellfire Peninsula
kill Scorpion













Zangarmarsh
/love Frog

Fishing
Brackish Mixed School
Sporefish School
Steam Pump Flotsam









Nagrand
/love Toad, and Prairie Dog
kill Adder

Fishing
Mudfish School
Bluefish School









Return to Shattrath City and take portal:
To Caverns of Time (if you are revered with Keepers of Time) or to Kalimdor


Kalimdor - Back to Table of Contents
Kalimdor takes about 45 minutes including fishing nodes.

Alliance
If you ported to Darnassus read The Betrayer Ascendant













Tanaris
read The Kaldorei and the Well of Eternity in Caverns of Time
read Old Hatreds - The Colonization of Kalimdor in Gadgetzan

Fishing
Floating Wreckage









Un'Goro Crater
/love Parrot













Mulgore - Horde only
read The Battle of Grim Batol













Durotar
/love Hare and Swine













The Barrens
/love Gazelle
read Charge of the Dragonflights in Ratchet by Gazlowe
read Exile of the High Elves in Jazzik's General Goods
read Sargeras and the Betrayal in the Ratchet Inn
read Mount Hyjal and Illidan's Gift in the Ratchet Inn









Alliance fly to Darnassus if you still need to read The Betrayer Ascendant
and fly back to Ratchet













Take the Boat to Booty Bay


Eastern Kingdoms - Back to Table of Contents
Eastern Kingdoms takes about 1.5 hours including fishing nodes. (& Scarlet Monastery & Scholomance)

Stranglethorn Vale
Booty Bay
read Sunwell - The Fall of Quel'Thalas Second floor of The Salt Sailor Tavern
In the basement of "Sea Wolf" MacKinley's building read Empires' Fall, The Twin Empires, Wrath of Soulflayer
read The Sentinels and the Long Vigil outside and up to the top floor of "Sea Wolf" MacKinley's building

Fishing
Bloodsail Wreckage
Schooner Wreckage
Waterlogged Wreckage





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Elwynn Forest
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Flying High Over Skettis - Exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Begin questing
  3. Let's do the dailies
  4. I see dead Skettis
  5. Now the fun starts
  6. Continuing the first time through
  7. After the one time quests
  8. Blade's Edge Mountains
  9. Other Interesting Things
  10. To Do List




Introduction

The goal is to see the "Flying High Over Skettis" achievement appear on your screen. As well as the announcement, the reward for exalted status with the Sha'tari Skyguard gives you access to fast flying mounts, a pet, a tabard, two trinkets and other rewards.

Rewards sold by Grella 64,66 Terokkar:
at Friendly:
    Enriched Terocone Juice

at Honoured:
    Skyguard Rations

at Revered:
    Skyguard's Drape
    Skywitch's Drape

at Exalted:
    Blue Riding Nether Ray
    Green Riding Nether Ray
    Purple Riding Nether Ray
    Red Riding Nether Ray
    Silver Riding Nether Ray
    Airman's Ribbon of Gallantry
    Skyguard Silver Cross
    Nether Ray Fry
    Skyguard Tabard

Pre-requisites:
    Level 70
    Flying mount
    To use the above mounts you must have riding (300)




Begin Questing

During the quests, lightly kill as many Skettis Kaliri, Skettis Arakkoa, Monstrous Kaliri and Talonsworn Forest-Rangers who give 5, 10, 10 and 30 reputation respectively, as you can.

Go to Shattrath City.
Find Yuula 63, 42 next to the Flight Master. She has a nether ray mount near her. Get Threat From Above:250rep
Go to Terokkar 19,13 and kill 20 Gordunni Ogres (any one). Watch out for wandering elites, and Slaag is a 139k lvl 70 elite if you are thinking of engaging him.

Return to Yuula. Turn in Threat From Above, get To Skettis!:10rep


Fly to Skettis,
specifically Sky Sergeant Doryn 64.5,66.0. Turn in To Skettis! and get Fire over Skettis:350 rep.

Go to Severin 64.1, 66.8, and get World of Shadows:250rep.
Go to Skyguard Handler Deesak 63.1, 65.3 and get Hungry Nether Rays:250rep.
Head south, open the cage near warp monsters (hunters, stalkers et al) and kill warp monsters until the Nether Ray has eaten 10, and meanwhile kill Skettis until you have 6 Shadow Dust.

Back to Severin and turn in World of Shadows and receive Elixir of Shadows. KEEP ELIXIR. From now on, collect the Shadow Dust to turn in for the quest More Shadow Dust:150rep repeatable. It is a turn-in quest, so you do not have it in your log.
Find Deesak and turn in Hungry Nether Rays.





Let's do the Dailies

Fly to the tops of the Skettis platforms and you will see eggs.. use your bombs (AoE targetting) and destroy 20 eggs, but try and do them around these locations: (60,75), (75,86), (68,71) until you see a quest on the mini-map. Land and clear the platform, take the quest Escape from Skettis:150rep from the prisoner. Escort from one platform to another, then to the ground. There is one ambush in addition to the regulars in the area.

NOTA BENE: Starting with these quests, you will be annoyed by Monstrous Kaliri. They will try and knock you off your mount, and/or pick a fight. Land ASAP or go over water to assure you are not killed. Some people recommend skimming low then vertically to the upper platforms, bomb and then descend vertically. Its a good way to avoid being killed if you are just level 70 and attracting mobs.

Return to Doryn to turn in To Skettis! and Escape from Skettis


I see dead Skettis


Go to Sky Commander Adaris 63.9, 66.8 and get Secrets of the Talonpriests:250rep. You are going to use the elixir you received earlier. The effect, which lasts 20 minutes, allows you to see and gank Time-Lost Skettis. Kill the usual Skettis and the Time-Lost Skettis anywhere you come up against them. Save the Time-Lost Scrolls dropped by the Time-Lost and the dust dropped by the regular Skettis as you will need many of these on your way to exalted. If you only have one elixir then concentrate on killing the priests and their adds in three locations in this order. South and east from the Skyguard base: Zellek 69.3, 75.1 on the platform in the tree, then Ishaal (**Nota Bene: see below) 69.0,78.6 on the platform in the tree, and lastly Skizzik 69.8, 81.9 in the hut. All three are solo-able but can be very tough for some classes. Try to get rid of all the priest adds so they do not heal the priest you are trying to kill. Clear as much as possible before engaging the special priest. If you need more time in the time-lost take 6 Shadow Dust to Severin for another elixir.

** Ishaal should drop a book, right click it to begin Ishaal's Almanac:75rep.

When all three talon priests are dead, go to Sky Commander Adaris, turn in Secrets of the Talon Priests, and Ishaal's Almanac, then get An Ally in Lower City:75rep.

Cash in More Shadow Dust to Severin for every 6 more you have. Start piling up the elixir.

Off to Shattrath. This is just a junket without any meaning. Seek Rilak the Redeemed about 51,20. Cash in An Ally in Lower City, and get Countdown to Doom:75rep.

Back to Skettis and Sky Commander Adaris to cash in Countdown to Doom.

The prisoner Hazzik 64.2,66.9 will call you over and you can get the next quest, Hazzik's Bargain:75rep.

Find the box in his hut 75,80 and return to Hazzik. Turn in Hazzik's Bargain and get A Shabby Disguise:150rep.
Go near the vendor's hut at 67,79 and don the disguise. Buy the item, Adversarial Bloodlines, from the vendor.
(Hint: Have 3g with you to purchase it.)
Return to Hazzik, turn in A Shabby Disguise, and get Adversarial Blood:350rep.




Now the Fun Begins

There are, in fact, two quests Adversarial Blood. You have the first one that requires you kill four summoned nasties. They each drop a saleable quest item (as well as other drops, usually a blue each): DO NOT sell or throw away the item. To be specific they are: Akkarai's Talons, Karrog's Spine, Gezzarak's Claws, Vakkiz's Scale. The second quest is a turn-in of all four of the items, and gives the same 350rep. The quest name at the turn-in, Hazzik's cage, is now called Tokens of the Descendants. If you look these quests up in wowhead you will find both names, which may seem confusing but is historically accurate.
Both quests reward you with an "Offering" that can summon Terokk, more on that later.

To summon each of the four nasties, you need 10 Time-lost Scrolls (You have been saving them, right?), that only drop from Time-lost Skettis, that you can only see when under the influence of the Elixir, that you can only get from turning in Shadow Dust. (whew)

After the first time through this, it will get easy. The next part is similar to the Talon Priest quest. Head south from the Skyguard Base and take out the two guards at the bottom of the ramp, then pop an elixir. Clear the area around the summoning circle, then up the ramp, do the platform, cross the bridge to to the next platform. You will kill about 11 Skettis and 10 Time-Lost Skettis, for 210rep and about ~3 Shadow Dust and ~4 Time-Lost Scrolls. Go to the next set of platforms and repeat. You can keep moving down the valley or go back to the first, depending on the number of other people doing these quests.

Aside: It has been written that you only need 40 Time-Lost Scrolls, complete the quests and put any extra scrolls on the AH. These people either did not get to Exalted or did it the hard way.




Continuing the first time through

Turn in Shadow Dust for more elixir. Pop the elixir and kill all until you have 40 scrolls. Go to a pile of bones in a summoning circle, and summon one of the 4 descendants. You may need a group depending on your level. Form your group according to your needs. If you summon one and fail, you will lose the scrolls. Much has been written about the descendants, and here is a favourite from Kalaka on wowhead.


Karrog: Approx. 73,000 hp. Hits for about 1900-2500 on cloth. 'Fixates' on a target, drastically reducing his move speed and increasing his damage to about 5500 on cloth. When he fixates, just kite and damage him, no healing should be needed if you just run (he walks REALLY slow).
Gezzarak the Huntress: Approx. 59,000 hp. Hits for about 1500 on cloth. Casts 'warped armor' debuff, reduces armor to 0. Will 'focus' on a target, then warp to them, dropping aggro.
Darkscreecher Akkarai: Approx 47,000 hp. Does a frostbolt attack, 2.5 second cast, for around 1000 frost damage. Every few frostbolts, he will do a fire blast for around 1600 fire damage. Will also summon adds around every 20 seconds. They come 3 at a time, they are birds that don’t hit for much, have about 5000 hp.
Vakkiz the Windrager: Approx. 59,000 hp. Hits for about 1500 on cloth. Does a chain lightning with around 2000 initial damage for the first 50%. At 50% hp he switches to a bone form, and begins to cast 'Bone Spray'. Initially hits cloth for around 500. Each time he attacks, it adds a stack to a debuff he puts on you which increases damage taken by 5% per stack. He casts this around every 2 seconds. Save all your cooldowns for 50%.

Each descendant will get you 100rep. When you have completed all four, you are ready to turn in Adversarial Blood. But with the 4 dropped items mentioned above you can turn in the quest a 2nd time for another 350rep.

In this quest you will kill 100 regular skettis and an equal number of ghost skettis to get the 40 scrolls. That is 2000rep. You turn in 4 (maybe more) sets of Shadow dust for another 600rep. You kill 4 descendants for 400rep. You turn in 2 quests for 700rep. All for a total of 2700 rep for this quest.

After turning in Adversarial Blood and Tokens of the Descendants, you will receive a "Time-Lost Offering" for each, get Terokk's Downfall:1000rep from Sky Commander Adaris. You need to go to the island in the middle of the lake, Terokk's Rest. From inside the circle use the Offering, and Terokk will appear. This guy is tough and the most important piece of info is that he becomes immune to damage at around 25%, but, also, around that time the Skyguard will drop flares and bombs. The flares mark the positions the bombs will drop. Pull Terokk to the blue flares until a bomb drops. The blue explosions will remove his shield. There is an announcement of the shield removal, so then "have at him". (A 75 warlock, and an 80 Holy Pally had to work a bit to kill him, so create your group depending on your level and abilities). He gives 500rep when killed.

Turn in Terokk's Downfall with Sky Commander Adaris, and reap your quest rewards.




After the one time quests

To get to exalted without leaving Skettis, you need to do the dailies, and repeatables. Most guides talk about how many days you will need when you do the 2 daily quests at a total of 500rep. But what about the repeatables?


Each day you can do the 2 dailies, but you can also do the Tokens of the Descendants quest as many times as you want. And you can kill Terokk as many times as you have summoning jars. As well, you are turning in the Shadow Dust. All are repeatable and give rep.


The Flow:
1. Get Fire over Skettis daily
2. Bomb 20 eggs and get Escape from Skettis
3. Escort prisoner
4. Turn in the dailies
5. Repeat: {pop an elixir; kill all skettis;} until you have 40 scrolls
6. Turn in shadow dust whenever necessary for elixir
7. Defeat each of the descendants until you have the 4 quest items
8. Turn in Tokens of the Descendants and receive the "offering"
9. Summon and defeat Terokk: go to 5.


The Math:
Assuming you are able to kill the nasties, you can do Tokens of the Descendants and reap about 2350rep by: killing the skettis, turning in the Shadow Dust, and killing the descendants. Then summon and kill Terokk for 500rep. This should be accomplished in about 80 minutes. If you spent 4 hours a day, then you could feasibly get 500rep + 7550rep = 8050 per day (dailies + 3*(A. Blood as described above + Terokk)).
You can turbo-boost your reputation gains by getting into a group. Each kill gives each member of the group the reputation for the kill. You must stay fairly close together to do this. If two people are trying to achieve the same goals and they each do the kills and turn-ins, they each would earn in 4 hours about 13000 rep. Each would receive all the rep the other gets except for the dust and tokens turn-ins. You only get your own rep for those. Yes, you get the full descendant and Terokk kill rep! Hint: Kill the skettis individually but close enough together enough to earn rep, then take turns on the descendants as you have the scrolls.


The Time:
How long does it take? That is really up to the amount of time you can spend. Here is the breakdown.


You are close to or already friendly before Adversarial Blood (including dailies), and with the first time through Adversarial Blood and Terokk's Downfall at 4,200, it leaves 33,800 to exalted. Assuming the 4 hours a day (above) you can get to exalted in just over 4 additional days. If you only did the 2 skettis dailies it would take just over 69 days. So find a balance that suits you.


Testimonial: 75 DK Tank with 80 Healadin killed both types of Skettis, did 8 descendants, turned in 4 elixirs, and killed Terokk twice for about 5000rep total in 70 minutes. There were no quest turn-ins other than Tokens of the Descendants and More Shadow Dust. Both toons get the rep for the kills but only one got the turn-in rep. Thus, the 2nd toon received 1300 less rep. You can save on elixir use by having one toon spank the regulars whilst the other pops the elixir and takes out the time-lost. Both scroll and dust are tradeable and saleable.




Blade's Edge Mountains

From Mekhami on wowhead: "In order to unlock this quest, you must complete ALL the Ogri'la quests up until Relic's Emanation. You also must complete the quests, 'Our Boy Wants to be a Skyguard Ranger' and 'A Father's Duty'.
When you finish that quest line, the Bombing Run quest will open up."

You get some Skyguard rep from some of the Ogri'la quests, but not much until you can get the bombing run. But first, you need the The Mog'dorg questline and it is very tough requiring a good 5 person group for most of the quests. Remember Slaag at the top of the article... he is one of the mobs that needs killing.

If your sole aim is to be exalted with the Skyguard, do not go to Blade's edge. It takes far too much time to start getting Skyguard rep. But if you want to get the Ogri'la rep as well allowing you access to the bombing run and one of the Winter's Veil achievements... by all means, have a go.

Other Interesting Things

There is an achievement for doing the bombing run in less than 2 minutes 15 seconds, Bombs Away. Perhaps it is doable with a regular flying mount, but save your frustration and do it with a fast flyer.

There is an outland cooking daily, Revenge is Tasty, that has all its requirements in Skettis. Check the daily with Rokk in the Lower City 61,15 each day before going to Skettis. You get a little more cash, and possibly a cooking recipe.


To Do List

Blade's Edge quests and dailies.

For the Alliance! Achievement Guide

This guide strives towards the most efficient completion of the For the Alliance! achievements. This guide tries to cover as many bases as possible, from organizing the raid to actually downing the city bosses. If you would like to see additions, have questions or find any errors, please leave them in a comment below.


Overview
It must be said firstly that organizing a "For The Alliance" raid is time consuming and difficult. Everything from organizing the raid itself, directing your troops, coordinating movement between cities, and fending of PVP attacks is up to you. Do not take the organization of this achievement lightly, badly organized runs are frustrating and can become the laughing stock of the server forums. Even perfectly run raids can be stymied by any combination of city defense and server lag. But nonetheless, this achievement can be very fun and worth every bit of work put into it.

What is the achievement and why do it? For the Alliance consists of downing 4 of the 5 Horde race leaders in their respective capitals: Thrall of Orgrimmar, Lady Sylvanas Windrunner of the Undercity, Cairne Bloodhoof of Thunder Bluff, and Lor'themar Theron of Silvermoon City. Note that the Troll racial leader, Vol'jin, is not needed for the achievement. The reward for doing all of this work is 5 different achievements and a Black War Bear mount that will be mailed to you immediately upon completion.


Organization
A crucial decision for the raid is actually determining when to have it. Organizing during high population times can lead to disaster. While it may be easier to find players for your raid, the opposition is much more likely to defend their cities. In addition, because of the high number of players online, server strain becomes an issue and heavy lag can take effect, limiting your raid's effectiveness. It is not impossible to succeed during high playtime hours, but it requires much higher coordination and demands more individual skill from your raid.

For these reasons, it is better to organize during off peak hours such as on weekdays, specifically in the morning or afternoon, for your raid.

For class composition you can play fairly loose. Having a very well geared main tank can make the whole endeavor much easier. The tank should not wear PVP gear but the standard PVE tank gear. Have tank lean for a survivability/stamina set versus a high threat set. Your tank needs to survive the city boss, an onslaught of adds and defending players. It is also crucial to have multiple tanks who are ready to take aggro at a moment's notice. The opposition will target your main tank since this is the easiest way to dismantle a raid. It can also be helpful for Sylvanas who often aggro dumps.

You can toy with the number of healers you bring. I've done it with as few as three, but its smarter to bring 4-6. This will lower your overall DPS, but the more healers you have the more leniency you give yourself against lag and PVP. Make sure they're actual healing assignments, preferably with at least two healers on the tank and everybody else on the raid. Holy Paladins and Discipline Priests are excellent tank healers, but any healer can do the job effectively. Likewise Holy Priests, Resto Shamans and Resto Druids make effective raid healers, but again any healer can do the job effectively. Healers need to watch for aggro, not only will players target them to dismantle the raid, but NPCs will also aggro because of the healing threat. It is hard for tanks to see everything that goes on in the chaos, so communicate when you have aggro and do your best to get it off of you if you can. Paladins and can for the most part getaway with PVE gear due to their high innate survivability, but other classes should wear their PVP gear.

For DPS the main goal is to take down the bosses as fast as possible, but priority number one is to protect tanks and healers. Failure contain the city defenders will wipe your raid every time. In particular, look for casters who attempt to hide from a distance and kill off your members. Area Effect attacks are excellent weapons for both you and your enemy. High AE damage classes can help clear out spawning guards and players on the raid. However, enemy players can do the same and put a large strain on your healers. If you see somebody attacking your raid, whether it be a tank, healer or DPS, stop attacking the boss and immediately deal with the threat by killing or crowd controlling them. A Priest's Psychic Scream is especially effective since it requires no targeting and hits multiple enemies at the same time. DPSers do not necessarily need PVP gear since they are not usually focused. If you can survive a few seconds of a player's attack then you should be fine.


The Order of the Kills
Their can never be a hard fast rule for downing the bosses. Which strategy you take and what order you kill them in will depend on the opposition's city defense. This varies from the time of day and server. In general some bosses are more protected than others. Thrall in Orgrimmar is by far the most protected as he is the Horde leader and nestled deep within the Horde capital. I always recommend taking him first so that you can take the opposition by surprise. If you can take him down you have the hardest part complete.

The next choice is between Thunder Bluff and Undercity. Thunder Bluff is closer, but also the obvious choice. Thunder Bluff is easy to get to for the Horde, and with Patch 3.2 a portal from Orgrimmar to Undercity was added, making it much easier for Horde to change cities. However, I still recommend going to UC next because it is unpredictable and most people will not go that far out of their way. The choice is ultimately yours but buying yourself even a little bit of time goes a long ways when the heat is on you. It is also optimal because after you down Sylvannas in UC, its a tossup for Horde as to what city you go to next, Thunder Bluff or Silvermoon.

But ultimately, Silvermoon will be saved for last. This is because Silvermoon is as dead as a city can possibly be and in fact, many Horde probably don't know even know who the Blood Elf racial leader is.

This is a good strategy but by no means necessarily the best for your raid. Use your own intuition and knowledge of your server to customize your plan of attack. Be willing to improvise as you go and make changes as needed.

Getting to the Bosses and Killing Them
Thrall

  • Getting to Him: Have your raid assemble in Astrannar, Ashenvale and then ride the road east and then south into the Barrens. From there ride east along the northern Barrens until you reach Orgrimmar's side entrance. The goal is to take the significantly less guarded side entrance that leads directly to Thrall's room.

  • Killing Him: Thrall himself is actually a fairly simple fight. He is a tank and spank fight with the occasional chain lightning so spread out. Most likely, Vol'jin will be pulled as well. Just off tank him while your DPS deals with the guards. Keep the opposition bottlenecked at the entrance to Thrall's room.

Sylvanas

  • Getting To Her: Undercity can be reached by taking the zeppelin in front of Orgrimmar or by flying to Southshore and traveling through Hillsbrad Foothills, Silverpine Forest and Tirisfal Glades until you reach the Undercity.
  • Killing Her: Sylvanas is the hardest Horde boss to kill, but was made easier by the fact that Varimathras seems to no longer attack Alliance members. The main strategy is that Sylvanas occasionally vanishes and then reappears to attack somebody from range. This causes everyone in the raid to untarget her. As a result, have your raid focus target Sylvanas so that you can quickly pick her up again. Again, bottleneck city defenders at the boss's entrance and be very careful to not aggro any of the battlemasters along the room's edges.

Cairne

  • Getting to Him: Have your raid use a Mage's portal to Dustwallow Marsh. From there exit the zone west and go through the Barrens, through Mulgore and up to Thunder Bluff. The main trick to getting there is surviving the elevators. Smart Boomkins, Elemental Shamans and Fire Mages will stand at the top of the elevator and use their knockback abilities on your whole raid to plunge you all to your deaths. Immediately crowd control and kill and anyone who is standing at the elevator's entrance. Secure the elevators with an initial group and then bring the rest of your raid into Thunder Bluff proper.



  • Killing Him: Cairne is a simple tank and spank with one important twist. Cairne will reset if he is pulled out of his tent. The main tank must immediately get face aggro, turn Cairne around and tank him with their backs to the wall. Cairne has a tank knockback so its important to be on the wall to maintain aggro and to not get plunted out of the tent.

Theron

  • Getting to Him: The only way to get to him is by having your raid fly to Light's Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands. From there, ride north through the Ghostlands and Eversong Woods to Silvermoon City.



  • Killing Him: Wear your PVP trinket for this fight if you have it. Theron is actually a group fight. Rummath and Halduror will aggro as well, but both are pushovers. Kill Halduror first and then Rummath. Make sure all healers and casters stand 30 yards away from Theron to avoid his Mana Burn. Theron also has a Mass Charm spell that will you will have to PVP trinket or Human Racial out of.

Horde Guide to Lunar Festival Coins of Ancestry and Achievements

Horde Coins of Ancestry Guide

Hello all, and welcome to my Coins of Ancestry guide for the Lunar Festival. The purpose of this guide is to give detailed instructions on the location of every Elder required for the Lunar Festival achievements, while also trying to keep the maximum distance traveled and time spent traveling at a minimum. The guide will be split up into three parts: Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Northrend.
In each section the elders found on that particular continent will be included, as well as the elders found in dungeons on that continent, and elders found in capital cities on that continent. Note that this guide is written for Horde players as I do not have an extensive knowledge of Alliance flight paths and such. An Alliance player could theoretically follow this if they simply substituted their own flight paths in place of the Horde ones.
All elders are friendly to all players. This means that horde players will be entering alliance territory and vice versa. Obviously, this means that it will be easier to complete these achievements on a PvE server, but it is possible on a PvP server. Because it is required to enter alliance towns/cities, I recommend anyone who follows this guide to be level 80. I wrote the guide as if a level 80 were doing it, and some of the elders might be impossible to get to at other levels. I have tried to include the coordinates and general geographic location of every elder in the guide, but at times it is not possible to include both.
I HIGHLY recommend installing a coordinate addon if you do not have one already as it will make your life easier. My personal favorite is “Koordinator” and can be downloaded at wow-curse.com
I use a color code during the guide, which is as follows:
• Cities/Towns are in Red
• Elders are in Dark Blue
• Coordinates are in Teal
Anyways, enough talk. On with the guide!

***The Northrend section of the guide has been released!***

Kalimdor

1. Start in Orgrimmar and set your Hearthstone here. Find Elder Darkhorn in the Valley of Wisdom, to the right of the building Thrall is in.

2. Take the flight path to Valormok, Azshara. Find Elder Skygleam near the Ravencrest Monument. (72,85)

3. Ride back to Valormok and fly to Everlook, Winterspring. Elder Stonespire will be located outside the bank.(61,37)

4. Mount up and take a ride to the Ruins of Kel’Teril. Find Elder Brightspear at 55,43.

5. Ride back to Everlook and fly to Bloodvenom Post, Felwood. Mount up and ride south to Jaedenar. Elder Nightwind is located at 37,52.

6. Ride back to Bloodvenom Post and fly to Zoram’Gar Outpost, Ashenvale. Ride east to the Alliance town of Astranaar, and find Elder Riversong in a gazebo in the center of town. (35,48)

7. Head west then north, following the path, until you enter Darkshore. Continue heading north until you find Auberdine. Locate Elder Starweave south of the gryphon master at 36,46. (He is on the beach, not in the town proper.)

8. When you’re ready, enter Auberdine. Yes, it is an alliance town, but it is also the only way to reach Teldrassil. Go to the docks of Auberdine, and go to the pier that is to your right as you are running down the docks. You will be attacked by guards, but they are low level and you should be fine. Wait for the boat (it usually takes forever) and board it. DO NOT attack the guards on the boat, as they will not attack you unless you attack them. If you are lucky, there won’t be any alliance on the boat and, if you’re even luckier, they won’t attack.

9. Take the boat until it drops you off in Rut’Theran Village. Make a mad dash to the purple portal on the rise. You should make it through without dying, and you will be in Darnassus. Head north, while trying to stay in the water, to the Cenarion Enclave. Find Elder Bladeswift at 33,14. If you die, it’s ok. Just rez right near your body and run to the elder. See following map.


10. Head east until you exit the city, trying to avoid the elite guards and giants. You will now be in Teldrassil proper. Head east down the road until you reach Dolanaar. Find Elder Bladeleaf at 56,60. If you are trying to get the explorer achievements, I would recommend exploring the rest of Teldrassil now to prevent the hassle of returning again.

11. Hearthstone to Orgrimmar. Exit Orgrimmar and head south to Razor Hill. Find Elder Runetotem at 54,44.

12. Go west from Razor Hill, entering The Barrens (enjoy Barrens chat during your stay!), and keep going west until you reach The Crossroads. Find Elder Moonwarden near the flight path at 51,30.

13. Fly to Ratchet, The Barrens. Find Elder Windtotem at 63,37.

14. Fly to Camp Taurajo, The Barrens. Find Elder High Mountain across from the Inn, at 45,57.

15. Mount up and ride west to Bloodhoof Village, Mulgore. You will find Elder Bloodhoof at 48,53 right next to Ahab Wheathoof and the bridge.

16. Ride north to Thunderbluff. Go to Elder Rise and find Elder Proudhorn.

17. Take the flight path to Shadowprey Village, Desolace. Set your hearthstone here. Head north to the Valley of Spears, and enter Maraudon. FindElder Splitrock using the map below. Hearth to Shadowprey Village when you are done.




18. Fly to Camp Mojache, Feralas. Head north to the Lariss Pavilion and find Elder Grimtotem at 76,37.

19. Go south back to Camp Mojache and then head west to Dire Maul. Go inside the building (not the instance) to the Dire Maul Arena. Find Elder Mistwalker at 43,67.

20. Ride east back to Camp Mojache and fly to Cenarion Hold, Silithus. Go to the moonwell right near the flight path and find Elder Bladesing. Go north west of Cenarion Hold to The Crystal Vale, and find Elder Primestone at 23,11.

21. Go back to Cenarion Hold, and fly to Marshal’s Refuge, Un’goro Crater. Ride south to the Slithering Scar and find Elder Thunderhorn at 50,76.

22. Ride east until you find the slope going up to Tanaris. Ride further east to The Valley of Watchers near Uldum. Find Elder Ragetotem at 36,80.

23. Ride north to Gadgetzan, Tanaris[/]. Find Elder Dreamseer in Gadgetzan.

24. Ride west to Zul’Farrak. Zone into Zul’Farrak and head to the pool where Ghaz’rilla spawns. Find Elder Wildmane there. See following map.



25. Exit Zul’Farrak and ride back to Gadgetzan. Head north from Gadgetzan and enter Shimmering Flats, Thousand Needles. Go to the Mirage Raceway and find Elder Morningdew at 79,77 near the start/finish line.

26. Ride west to Freewind Post and find Elder Skyseer at 45,48.

27. Congratulations on Elders of Kalimdor! Fly to Orgrimmar and take the zeppelin to The Undercity.

Eastern Kingdoms

1. In The Undercity, find Elder Darkcore at 66,38. Fly to The Sepulchur, Silverpine Forest. Find Elder Obsidian at 45,41. Fly back to The Undercity.

2. Exit The Undcercity, and ride north to Brill. Find Elder Graveborn near the Inn, at 61,53.

3. Ride east and enter Western Plaguelands. Continue following the road east until you see Darrowmere Lake to the south. Cross the lake to Caer Darrow (the island) and continue up the path to Scholomance. Stand in front of the door that leads to the instance portal, and turn around. Go through that entry way, and continue all the way to the roof where you will find Elder Moonstike. (52,26)

4. Cross back over Darrowmere Lake, and continue north until The Weeping Cave. At 65,47 you will find Elder Meadowrun.

5. Continue heading east along the road until you reach Crow Guard Tower. There you will find Elder Windrun. (39,75)

6. Head even further east until you reach Light’s Hope Chapel. There you will find Elder Snowcrown. (81,60)

7. Go north from Light’s Hope Chapel, then west until you reach Stratholme. Enter Live Stratholme, head to King’s Square, then east. You should be in Festival Lane, and you should see Elder Farwhisper. See following map. If you do not have The Key to the City, you will not be able to go through the gate on the below map. head west instead, and around the path, careful to not enter the area of Stratholme with scarlet crusade mobs.


8. Exit Stratholme, using the Service Gate (if you have The Key to the City; if not, kill Magistrate Barthilas located at point B on the above map. He will drop the key that you can use at the service gate, marked A on the above map.) ride back to Light’s Hope Chapel, and fly to Revantusk Village, The Hinterlands. Head north from the village, until you find the path leading up. Head west across The Hinterlands and slightly south to get to The Creeping Ruins. Find Elder Highspeak at 50,48.

9. Ride back to Revantusk Village, and fly to Kragath, Badlands. Set your hearthstone here.

10. Mount up and ride east, then north until you enter Loch Modan. Head north, staying on the west side of the loch, until you reach Thelsamar. Find Elder Silvervein on the hill overlooking the graveyard. (33,46)

11. Head west from Thelsamar, and go through The Northern Gate Outpost to enter Dun Morough. Head west, then south until you reach Kharanos. Find Elder Goldwell at 46,51.

12. Head north from Kharanos until you reach Ironforge. Now, this part will be difficult. You are going to need to enter Ironforge and run to the Mystic Ward to find Elder Bronzebeard at 29,17. I would recommend taking off all your gear, then making a series of suicide runs into the city. See following map. Hearthstone to Kargath. If your hearthstone is not up, walk back to Kargath.

13. Fly to Thorium Point, Searing Gorge. Ride south until you find Blackrock Mountain, then west and up into the mountains. Find Elder Ironband in Blackchar Cave (you can see the cave icon on your map) at 21,78.

14. Ride east back to Blackrock Mountain, and enter it. Climb onto the chain to your left, and follow it to the large suspended rock in the center. Follow the stairs downward and out onto a ledge. Follow the ramp down some more, down another chain, and through an archway near a blood elf. Follow this path as it zigzags a bit and you will be in a large open area. Traverse this and enter Blackrock Depths. (I will be adding a map here shortly.)

15. Proceed east then north to the Ring of Law and find Elder Morndeep. Talking to him will start the Ring of Law event, so get ready to run out. See following map.

16. Exit Blackrock Depths the way you came. Go back to the chain we used to come down (the first one), and climb back up it. At the top, jump down. Head right from where you are and you should be going up an incline. At the top of the incline, you will see a balcony that you can jump on. Find the instance portal to Blackrock Spire in here. After you enter the instance, proceed forward, up the ramp. Head across the room until you encounter two small stairways. Take the one on your right, as you are facing the stairs. Make an immediate right at the top of the stairs, and jump down off the ledge. Hug the wall to the left and enter a passage which zigzags until you enter Hordemar City. Hug this left wall until you see a wooden bridge. Cross it to find Elder Stonefort.

17. Exit Blackrock Spire, go back down the chain, and proceed down the ramps of Blackrock Mountain to enter The Burning Steppes.

18. Head east to Dreadmaul Rock and find Elder Rumblerock at 82,46.

19. Head to Flame Crest (65,24) and find Elder Dawnstrider. Fly to Stonard, Swamp of Sorrows. Set your hearthstone here.

20. Ride west of Stonard, then south to enter The Blasted Lands. Follow the road south to The Dark Portal and find Elder Bellowrage at 57,54.

21. Ride back to The Swamp of Sorrows. Time for a bit of traveling. Mount up and ride west, through Deadwind Pass and Duskwood (avoiding the alliance town of Darkshire.) Enter Westfall and head south west to Sentinel Hill. Enter the large tower, and walk to the top to find Elder Skychaser at 56,47.

22. Jump down from the tower (or walk back down if don’t like your chances) and head north east to enter Elwynn Forest. Head east and enter the town of Goldshire. Find Elder Stormbrow at 40,63 behind the blacksmith shop.

23. Head north until you come upon Stormwind. You will need to go to the section of Stormwind called The Park. There, at 35,65, you will find Elder Hammershout. Once again, I recommend a series of corpse runs. See following map. Once you have talked to the elder, hearthstone to Stonard.


24. Head east of Stonard until you reach the lake, then swim across it until you reach The Temple of Atal’Hakkar. Proceed through it to get to the instance portal. Once in Sunken Temple, head left up the spiral staircase and go left around the circle to the first alcove on your left. Find Elder Starsong there. Proceed back to Stonard. Fly to Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale.

25. Jump off the balcony where the horde flight path is onto the roof of the bank. There you will find Elder Winterhoof at 27,74.

26. Exit Booty Bay, and proceed north until you reach Zul’Gurub. Proceed up the stair to the instance portal. At 53,18 you should find Elder Starglade.

27. Head west to Grom’Gol Base Camp, and take the zeppelin to The Undercity.

28. Once in The Undercity, take the zeppelin to Howling Fjord in Northrend.

At this point you should have the following Lunar Festival Achievements:
• A Coin of Ancestry
• 10 Coins of Ancestry
• 25 Coins of Ancestry
• Elders of the Eastern Kingdoms
• Elders of Kalimdor
• Elders of the Alliance
• Elders of the Horde

Northrend

There are still some Elders remaining in Northrend dungeons. I would recommend trying to find some people in your guild to hit up each dungeon with an elder in it, or look in general channel for a group for the dungeon when we are in the zone the dungeon is located. All the elders can be found in normal versions of their dungeons except Elder Ohanzee in Gundrak. I will remind when we are in a zone with a dungeon elder. Also since this is Northrend, and you can use your flying mount, we will be flying everywhere on our mounts as opposed to taking flight paths. If you do not have epic flying, or are just too lazy to manually fly everywhere, simply use flight paths instead. One more thing; none of the elders that are located in alliance/horde towns are actually in the towns…they are standing on a cliff overlooking the town or standing just outside the perimeter of the town.

1. Look for a group for Elder Jarten in Utgarde Keep and Elder Chogan’gada in Utgarde Pinnacle. To get to Elder Jarten, go through the tunnel in Utgarde Keep with the undead in it (past Prince Kelseth’s room) and up the staircase. He should be in an alcove on your left. Elder Chogan’gada is in the room after Skadi, at the bottom of the stairs. He is hiding behind a wooden wall, but you should be able to see his moon beam light through the floor above.

2. Fly north to Grizzly Hills. Keep flying north until you reach Camp Oneqwah and find Elder Whurain. (65,46)

While you’re in Grizzly Hills, try to find a group for Drak’Tharon keep. You will find Elder Kilias inside the same pen as the third boss of the instance, King Dred.

3. Fly east to The Ruins of Telthys, a few islands on the ocean, and find Elder Lunaro at 78,35.

4. Fly west and slightly north to Westfall Brigade Encampment and find Elder Beldak at 60,27.

5. Fly north and enter Zul’Drak. Fly to Zim’Torga and find Elder Tauros at 59,56.

While you’re in Zul’Drak, find a group for Gundrak. Elder Ohanzee can only be accessed in heroic mode, meaning that you MUST be 80 to obtain this elder. That being said, find Elder Ohanzee in the same chamber as Eck, the frog boss who is located behind the secret door that opens after Moorabi is defeated.

6. Fly slightly north west and enter The Storm Peaks. Fly north east to Camp Taunka’lo and find Elder Muraco at 64,51.

While in The Storm Peaks, find a group for Halls of Stone. Find Elder Yurauk on the path heading towards Krystallus.

7. Head far west, to the other side of the zone, and find Elder Stonebeard inside Bouldercrag’s Refuge. (31,37)

8. Fly south to Frosthold and find Elder Fargal at 28,73.

9. Fly south to K3 and find Elder Greymane at 41,84.

10. Fly south through Crystalsong Forest, stop at Dalaran and set your hearthstone here, (I forgot to do this, went to hearth after an instance, and found myself in Stonard Smiling and then fly south to Dragonblight.

11. Fly south all the way to the ocean and Moa’ki Harbor. Find Elder Thoim at 48,79 right behind the dockmaster.

While in Dragonblight, find a group for Azjol’Nerub. Find Elder Nurgen at the bottom of the pit you fall into after the second boss. He will be standing on the rim of the pool.

12. Fly north west to Agmar’s Hammer and find Elder Skywarden at 35,48.

13. Fly west to Star’s Rest and find Elder Morthi at 29,55.

14. Fly west, entering Boring (oh, sorry, Borean) Tundra. Keep flying west until you reach the DEHTA Camp and Elder Arp at 57,43.

While in Borean Tundra, find a group for The Nexus. You will find Elder Igasho in the area right near Ormorock.

15. Fly south to Valiance Keep and find Elder Sardis standing on a rocky outcrop on the outside of the keep. (59,65)

16. Fly slightly north west to Warsong Hold and find Elder Pamuya standing on a ledge above the quarry. (42,49)

17. Head further north west and find the Transistus Shield and Elder Northal at 33,34.

18. Fly north east and enter Sholazar Basin. Keep flying north east to River’s Heart and find Elder Sandrine at Lakeside Landing. (49,63)

19. Keep flying north east to Rainspeaker Rapids and find Elder Wanikaya standing behind the Avatar of Freya. (63,49)

20. Hearth to Dalaran. If you’re lucky, Horde will have control of Wintergrasp and you can take the portal there and find Elder Bluehoof in the fortress. If Horde does not have Wintergrasp, log off and bake cookies or something until they do. Maybe Read War and Peace. Your choice.

***Thanks for reading the guide everyone! This was the first time I've written a guide, and I hoped it helped a few of you out. I would LOVE comments/suggestions...anything to help me improve the guide. If you think I need to add more maps, remove some of the color coded words (ahhhh, my eyes!), or just give more detailed instructions...simply add a comment. Also, if you find that some of the coordinates or locations are wrong, leave a comment. I'll be following my own guide when The Lunar Festival commences, and will of course be checking for mistakes, but I am only human and I might miss some.***

Special thanks to Jame for his awesome leveling guides and his even more awesome "How to write a guide" guide.

~Tenebrosity

Love Is In The Air - wowhead comment collection

This is a very quickly put together guide for the holiday event "Love is in the air".
It is simply a collection of all the best bits of info from Wowhead.com
and 90% of it should be credited to Hunterios as if it wasn't for his hard work i would have had nothing to copy!
Hope its of some use, and like i say its a very rushed guide as we only have a little amount of time until the event is over!

EDIT - Much much Much more indept guide wowhead guide - Probably should have found that first!!

Hope its of some help

Anti...

Midsummer Fire Festival - Tour Guide - Horde Only

The Midsummer Fire Festival is a great time for both leveling players and those at the level cap. Not only are the achievements fun and great for completists, these quests also provide a ton of gold. This guide for Horde players will get you every fire honor/desecration available. A paper version of the guide may be forthcoming, but for now you can download the guide in addon form.

Here is the full link:

http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/WoW-Pro_TourGuide_Midsummer_Horde.rar?attredirects=0

As with other WoW-Pro Tour Guide files, you will need Tour Guide and TomTom or Cartographer to run this addon. The addon itself is self-contained and does not require the other WoW-Pro addons to run.

For more information about our addons, check out the Main Info Page for the addon. You can also find links to the supporting addons there.

Please post feedback here. The Northrend section in particular has not been playtested, so if you notice any mistakes, please post a comment.

Midsummer Fire Festival - Alliance Walkthrough - Part 1 - Kalimdor

One thing to remember while doing this is that, if you're desecrating a Horde fire, you will get flagged PvP. Just thought I'd warn you before you start.

Mages: you need alter some parts of this guide, after you've got the fire at Blood Watch, teleport to Darnassus, then get the Dolanaar fire, teleport back to Darnassus again, then go to Auberdine and on to Winterspring. Towards the end of the guide, if you know it, rather than flying from Thalanaar to Theramore, teleport instead.

Druids: i don't have a high enough level druid to test this, but Teleport Moonglade might speed up to travel from Blood Watch to Darnassus, then after Dolanaar, the time to get to Auberdine and Winterspring.

Ok. Lets start in Dalaran, portal to Exodar and head up the ramp and out of the city, then follow the path east until you find the fire just west of Azure Watch (44,53) now head back towards Exodar, and fly to Blood Watch, then head south out of town to the fire (55,69) go back to Blood Watch and fly back to Exodar, then head west and follow path to dock and hop on a boat to Auberdine.

When you get to Auberdine, head along the dock and through the inn. The fire is next to the platform that the flightmaster is on (37,46). Grab it then fly to Ruthe'ran Village and head into Darnassus. From the portal head east through the city and out into Teldrassil.

The easiest route is to follow path (or cut across country for those adventurous types ) to Dolanaar. The fire can be seen from the road, next to the inn (55,60). Get it then head back to the flightpath at Ruthe'ran Village and fly to Winterspring.

The 2 Winterspring fires are just north of the flightmasters, one for Alliance (northeast of town 62,35) one for Horde (northwest of town 59,35). With those 2 done, jump on a flight down to Forest Song, then head westwards towards Astranaar.

As you go past the Horde camp at Splintertree Post, desecrate their fire, it's right next to the path (70,69) then carry on to Astranaar. Just before you get to town you find the fire (37,54) again right next to the road. Head into Astranaar and fly to Stonetalon Peak.

Ok the next bit is quite time consuming due to the amount of running you now have to do, so mount up and head south, go around lake and continue south to Sun Rock Retreat. The fire is on the path between the hills before you get to the town (50,60) now go back north to the lake and take the path west and then southwards through Charred Vale and into Desolace then head east towards Nijel's Point, the fire is near base of ramp up to town (65,17). Turn and go southwest to the coast in the southwest corner of the map, southwest of the area where Maruadon is, is the Horde town of Shadowprey Village, and south of there, on the waters edge is the fire (26,76). Mount up again and this time go southeast, around the big crater and into Feralas.

Keep going south, on path and then head for dock and take boat (or swim, waterwalk etc) to Feathermoon Stronghold, the fire here is west of the town (28,43). Grab a flight to Cenarion Hold in Silithus, once there follow the paths east and west out of town to grab both the fires, again Alliance one to the east (57,34), Horde to the west (46,44). Once done fly to Gadgetzan, and get your walking boots on again as we now only have one flight left to take. Go east of town to the Alliance fire (52,29) then to the Horde fire to the west of town (49,27). Then go north into Shimmering Flats and onto 1000 Needles. Follow the path towards Freewind Post. Ok now look at picture below, go under this bridge, just before you get to Freewind Post lifts (you can see them to the right of picture) then turn right and grab the fire (42,53). Continue heading northwest through 1000 Needles, until you get to Feralas again.

Once you get to the border of the 2 areas, look left, there's the little camp of Thalanaar, you'll be coming back to there shortly, but 1st carry on into Feralas and follow the path to Camp Mojache. Now depending on your level, you can either charge through town, or go around it to the north, the guards are level 65. The fire is on the west side of town (72,47). If your a mage, teleport to Theramore from here.

Now head back to Thalanaar and fly to Theramore and head northwards along the path out of town, the fire is again right next to the path (62,40) and congratulations you've now done all the Alliance fires in Kalimdor, and have 6 Horde ones left including Thunder Bluff and Orgrimmar, now you have no choice but to run.

Continue to follow the path as it heads north, when it turns and heads south you'll come over a bridge, followed by 2 tents on your left, at the 2nd of these tents, turn and go directly west through the marshes, until you find Brackenwall Village, again level 65 guards here, so go around/through, the fire is just west of town (33,30). Then follow the path south and head out of Dustwallow Marsh and into The Barrens.

Once in the Barrens go north along path until you find one that goes west, then follow that into Mulgore, and on to Bloodhoof Village, again the fire is right next to the path (51,60), so can't be missed, get that one and carry on following the path, we are now going to Thunder Bluff.

The next part is easier to explain with pictures, so look at those below. Once you get to Thunder Bluff lifts, take the second one as you come up to them, then jump from lift platform, behind tents to the left You can see lift platform on the right, and the building we need to go through, with the guards (level 75) outside to the left of the picture, inside this building, there's a ramp on the left side, up to the bridge (seen in the second picture) across to Spirit Rise, if you aggro any guards they will lose interest by the time you get across this bridge. The fire is just up the top of the ramp from other end (20,26) as you can see in the 2nd picture, on the left side.

Now you need to get back to The Barrens, for speed, just jump off, yes you will die, that's the idea! (Hey! I am a suicidal 'lock after all!) res at Bloodhoof GY (it's about 1000yds away) then follow same path you came into Mulgore, back into The Barrens and go north again to Crossroads, the fire is on north side of town (52,28). Then carry on going north, and take the next path you see that goes east. Follow it across river to Razor Hill, the fire is south of the town (52,47). Ok that leaves us just one fire in Kalimdor - Orgrimmar.

Orgrimmar is the busiest of the Horde cities so, that's why, as you are more likely to die here more than anywhere else, mainly due to how far into the city the fire is, I've left it until last. From where you'll be going in, it's about 600yds, in a straight line, but we can't go straight, our path to it is "S" shaped.

From Razor Hill head northwest across country, until you find the river again, cross it, then follow it north, you'll soon see a bridge over the river into Orgrimmar, this is where you're going in, ok, you are going to aggro guards (again lvl75) here, unless you can stealth past them, what you don't want is to be stopping and fighting them, just run, get them off you as much as possible and try to steer away from collecting many more as dying here is annoying due to the corpse run being best part of 2000yds.

There might be a point where the path turns to the left, that you can get out of combat, heal as fast as possible and carry on following this path, past a bridge on your right, at the 2nd fire you come to on your left, there's a path around the back of a building opposite, go up it (there is a guard that patrols this path) the fire is in front of the building your behind (47,38) next to it is a tent.

Is this good? You ask. Well, you can jump onto this tent from the path behind the building, without aggro'ing anything around the fire. The only things you need to worry about from here are ranged killing you, or Deathkinghts pulling you off before you loot the fire. They say pictures paint a 1000 words, so to better explain some of these locations look at the following pictures.

Once you've got the flame, HS back to Dalaran (if you got killed, res at GY, then HS), well done you've got all the fires done in Kalimdor including the 2 Horde city ones...wasn't too bad was it

Midsummer Fire Festival - Alliance Walkthrough - Part 2 - Eastern Kingdoms

I've split this guide into 3 parts at the end of each you'll hearthstone to Dalaran, these parts can be done in any order you like

Mages: Remember to use your teleports to your advantage, and adjust the guide as required

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Part 1: From Dalaran, portal yourself to Stormwind, and head out of the city south to Goldshire, the fire is next to the inn (43,65), then head back to Stormwind and take a flight to Nethergarde Keep. Go out of town and head towards Swamp of Sorrows, the Nethergarde fire is just outside the town (58,17). Carry on north into Swamp and then head east, the fire at Stonard is just north of the town (47,47) Now run back to Nethergarde again, and fly to Duskwood. Once there take the road southwards out of town to find fire (74,51) then return to the flightmaster, and fly to Westfall.

The Westfall fire is right next to you when you land (56,54) grab it then fly on to Booty Bay. The 2 fires here are on the beach to the east of Booty Bay (behind the town). When you land, head out of town and turn right and head towards the beach, you’ll find them both next to each other (34,75) (33,75). Now go back into Booty Bay and fly to Redridge. The Lakeshire fire is just west of the flightmaster (24,59) get it then fly to Burning Steppes, head down the ramp out of town, the fire is at the bottom (80,62) then carry on heading northwest (about 1 minute run on epic ground mount) until you see the northern mountains of the area, the Horde fire is at the base of these mountains (62,29) in the area of Flame Crest. Once done go back to Morgan’s Vigil and take a flight to Thorium Point.

From where you land follow the mountains east, until you get to here.

Then turn south, and go along path until you find these 3 trees.

Turn east again up the path into Badlands, then north to the fire, which is just on the southern side of Kargath (4,49) and now hearthstone to Dalaran.

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Part 2: From Dalaran portal to Ironforge and head out of the city down to Kharanos, you’ll see the fire just before you get to town (46,46) return to Ironforge and fly to Thelsamar in Loch Modan, the fire is just north along the path (32,40) now take another flight to Wetlands. Run out of town northeast across the bridge, the fire is just the other side (13,47) then head back and fly to Refuge Point in Arathi Highlands.

Take the northern path out of town, the fire is next to it (50,44) from here go east, across country until you find a path, follow this east to the Hammerfall fire (74,41) then go back to Refuge Point, and fly to Aerie Peak. Hinterlands is annoying due to how far you have to run, and at this point make sure your hearthstone is off cooldown or under 5 minutes, as you’ll be using soon, from the flight path run down the ramp and keep going in that direction to the fire (14,50) then head east and south to Jintha’alor, go past this area on the east side and down the ramp to the coast (Overlook Cliffs). Once at the bottom go south until you find the Revantusk Village fire (76,74) now hearthstone to Dalaran.

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Part 3: From Dalaran portal to Ironforge, then fly to Hillsbrad, and head north for the Southshore fire (50,46) and further north following the paths for the Tarren Mill fire (58,25). Now you need to do a big loop through Hillsbrad, Silverpine Forest, Tirisfal Glades, ending up at Chillwind Camp in Western Plaguelands. Start by going west through Hillsbrad, following the path into Silverpine, past where Dalaran used to be. In Silverpine the path goes north, just stay on it, go past Shadowfang Keep, and Ambermill, then start looking for the fire on a path heading east from the main one you’re on towards The Sepulcher (49,38). Continue north into Tirisfal Glades and around to the front of Undercity.

Now you can do the Brill and Undercity fires in either order as both will flag you PvP. For the Brill fire head north, the fire is just to the west of the town. To get Undercity’s fire, go up the path leading into the city, the fire is just to your left as you enter the courtyard, there are no guards to worry about either. Once both of those are done follow the main path east until you get to Western Plaguelands, then head southeast to Chillwind Camp and the last Alliance fire (44,82).

From Chillwind Camp take a flight to Zul’Aman and go west on the path just to the north of where you land. Follow this path until you get to a T junction where you can go north or south, pick north. This path leads you to Tranquillen, and the fire is just north of the town (46,26) once you have it, carry on going north along the path. Keep following this path going north at any junctions you come to, in the end you’ll find the Northern Sanctum fire right next it (46,50). Congratulations you’ve now extinguished all the Horde fires in the Eastern Kingdoms. From here go east to the entrance to Silvermoon City.

As you enter Silvermoon go straight up the road in front of you and turn right at the end, any guards you have aggro’d will reset by the time you get there, and then go through Murder Row to the archway at the end. The fire is just through this archway on the left, as well as 4 guards (circled in the 3rd picture). If you need to lose them, run up and around the upper level of the fountain, then come back, grab the flame and hearthstone to Dalaran.

Some general achievements (for alliance)

If you're here as horde, I must ask you to turn back, because i haven't done your guide yet, but don't fear, it will come in the future!

This is a guide for 5 Achievements combined (Tastes like chicken, To all the squirrels I've loved before, Friend or Fowl?, Old Crafty, The fishing diplomat)

1 Great proposal for those following the whole guide is to explore everything at the places I tell you to go! It will make it easier for you later when doing the exploration achievements!

For those of you who are leveling cooking or have finished the first Achievement already, just continue to the parts where the critters are.

I'm sorry to say there is no pictures because I couldn't get it to work, but it's no problem.

First of all, I wanna recommend an addon to make this easier, and that is mapcoords.

This guide actually requires level 65+ because some of the food requires 65 to eat (if you're doing the food part only, otherwise its 70+ because you will be entering Wotlk zones)
A quick teleport to Shattrath (HearthStone or Portal) will make things go smoother.
It will be much easier to finish though when you're level 80 because a lot more food will be available.
In this guide you will spend approximately 10~13g (if I counted wrong and you pay less/more, please tell me).
I will also tell you to start the secondary skill "Cooking" because it's very easy to get some easy food at start.

But now for the guide:

Start of by going to Stormwind. Depending on where in Stormwind you are, you can buy your cheese.
These are available to buy in the listed areas below:

Elaine Trias [Cheese seller] (SW harbor)
Ben Trias [Cheese seller] (66.5, 73.6 SW Trade district)

Alterac Swiss 40s
Dalaran Sharp 1,25s
Darnassian Bleu 25c
Dwarven Mild 5s
Fine Aged Cheddar 20s
Stormwind Brie 10s

/6 Pieces of food and you should have payed 76,5s in total.

Now make your way to the Trade district in SW if you didn't buy your cheese there.
You should find Thomas Miller walking around in the district. NOTE: He's a baker.
Thomas Miller [Baker] (walking around in SW trade district)

Freshly Baked Bread 1,25s
Homemade Cherry Pie 40s
Moist Cornbread 5s
Mulgore Spice Bread 10s
Soft Banana Bread 20s
Tough Hunk of Bread 25c

/6 Pieces of food available and you should have payed 76,5s (12 food and 1,53g spent in total)

Before making our way to the next city, we will visit a nice little inn, in a nice little village. YES! We're making our way to Goldshire.
Go straight to the trade supplies seller outside the inn Tharynn Bouden and get yourself some Flour and Mild Spices.
Then go slay some Boars and Wolves until you got at least 1 "Chunk of Boar Meat" and 10 "Stringy Wolf meat".
Now go into the inn and in the room behind the bar. There you will find Tomas.
He will teach you cooking and how to make Spice Bread, Charred Wolf Meat and Roasted Boar Meat.
Stand next to the fire and open up your profession book for cooking, and if you're level 65+ you should know how to do 1 Spice bread, 1 Roasted Boar meat and 9 Charred wolf meat.
After that talk to Tomas again and learn Spiced Wolf Meat. You should have the ingredients to make this now.
Now we're done with cooking.

Make sure you targeted and said /love to the critters listed below before leaving Elwynn Forest
- Cat (They can be found at the house where you buy cats on the way between Goldshire and Stormwind)
- Chicken (Found close to the blacksmithing house in Goldshire)
- Cow
- Deer
- Fawn
- Rabbit
- Sheep

Those with no specific location can be found all over Elwynn forest.

Now make your way to the deeprun tram in the Dwarven district and get on one of the trams.
Now, as the tram stops in IronForge, look around you for a gnome named Nipsy. He should be selling Deeprun rat kabob.
If not, just take his 2 (or 3) quests, which take about 5~10 min to finish, and you will get the kabob in reward.
And don't forget to /love a rat before leaving.

OK. As we're done in the Deeprun tram, we make our way into Ironforge.
Your first stop will be in the Military ward, looking for Sognar Cliffbeard

Sognar Cliffbeard [Meat vendor] (Walking around in The Military Ward in IF)

Cured Ham Steak 20s
Haunch of Meat 1,25s
Mutton Chop 5s
Roasted Quail 40s
Tough Jerky 25c
Wild Hog Shank 10s

/6 Pieces available and fee of 76,5s (23 food and 2,3g in total)

Alright, now make your way all the way up to the mystic ward.
Now look for the next gnome! Her name is Bimble Longberry, and guess what she's selling? Of course, it's fruit!

Bimble Longberry [Fruit vendor] (walking around Mystic Ward in IF)

Deep Fried Plantains 40s
Goldenbark Apple 10s
Moon Harvest Pumpkin 20s
Shiny Red Apple 25c
Snapvine Watermelon 5s
Tel'Abim Banana 1,25c

/6 Pieces of food available and a fee of 76,5s (29 food and 3,07g in total)

Now make your way out of IF and into the cold world of Dun Morogh
Go to Khanaros south of IF and talk to Ragnar Thunderbrew and get the quest Beer Basted Boar Ribs.
After that, make your way to the east and enter Loch Modan and /love the critters listed below
- Ram
- Squirrel
- Sheep (If you missed it in Elwynn forest)

Now teleport to Shattrath City.
The first thing you should do in Shattrath is walking straight to 57.2, 22.0 and /love the Ewe you find there (it can't be found in another place).
Now make your way to the vendors listed below, just follow coords. Be aware that some of the coords lead up to either Scryer or Aldor, so make sure to go to the other coord.

- Brendan Turner (43.8, 67.9); (59.0, 68,6)
- Granny Smith (32.9, 29.7); (44.0, 67.9) ; (63.6, 68.4)
- Oloraak (56.7, 15.4); (89.0, 44.7)

Brendan Turner (Just below scryer tier and on Scryer Tier, might bug so relog to buy)

Clefthoof Ribs 80s
Smoked Talbuk Venison 56s

/2 pieces of food and 1,36g in fee (32 food and ~4,5g)

Granny Smith (aldor rise, scryer tier below scryer)

Skethyl Berries 56s
Telaari Grapes 80s

/2 pieces of food and 1,36g in fee (34 food and ~5,9g spent)

Oloraak (56.7, 15.4 in Shattrath)

Bristle Whisker Catfish 5s
LongJaw Mud Snapper 20c
Rockscale Cod 10s
Slitherskin Mackerel 25c
Spinefin Halibut 40s
Striped Yellowtail 20s
Sunspring Carp 56s
Zangar trout 80s

/8 pieces of food and 2,15g (42 food ~8,2g spent)

Ask a mage to conjure each of his ranks for you, unless you are mage yourself (8 ranks pre-wotlk)

Conjured Bread
Conjured Cinnamon Roll
Conjured Croissant
Conjured Muffin
Conjured Pumpernickel
Conjured Rye
Conjured Sourdough
Conjured Sweet Roll
(And of course you can eat from table, not sure it counts though)

/8 0~5g depending on the person you ask (50 food done and 8~13g spent)

Ok, now we're done with the Taste of Chicken Achievement. Now we're gonna get the rest of the Critters.
You should have these so far:
- Cat
- Chicken
- Cow
- Deer
- Ewe
- Fawn
- Rabbit
- Ram
- Sheep
- Squirrel

10 done, 11 to go.

Remaining are:

- Hare (Durotar)
- Prairie dog (Nagrand, Mulgore, The barrens, Arathi highlands and Westfall)
- Steam frog (Borean Thundra)
- Parrot (Un'Goro Crater)
- Skunk (Terokkar Forest, Bloodmyst Isle, Azuremyst Isle)
- Borean Frog (Borean Thundra)
- Crab (Borean Thundra, Dragonblight, Ghostlands, Howling Fjord)
- Frog (Zangarmarsh, Eversong Woods, Ghostlands)
- Swine (The Barrens, Durotar)
- Gazelle (The Barrens)
- Toad (Nagrand, Darnassus, Wetlands, Eversong Woods, Teldrassil)

The best places to go to finish this quickly are:

Durotar (2 possible)
The Barrens (3 possible)
Zangarmarsh (1 possible)
Nagrand (2 possible)
Borean Thundra (3 possible)
Un'Goro Crater (1 possible)
Terokkar Forest (1 possible)

More info than this is useless, since critters are running all over the zones. All that's needed is some logical thinking like for an example Toad belongs to water, etc.

For the Achivement [Friend or Fowl?], Howling fjord is the place to do this. I'm not sure if there is turkeys in another place to be honest.
When you take the boat from menethil harbor, you will end up at vangarde keep. along the shore, there is a guy that can take you to explorers league by flight if you have done some certain quests. If you haven't just follow the road out of vangarde, and just head south until you reach the horde town New Agamand. From there just head east, cross the bridge and follow the road until you stand at a split road (69.0, 64.0). You should now see several Fjord Turkeys. Make sure you locate as many as possible before you start to make sure you finish the achievement Smiling Good Luck Smiling

Now for the fishing achievements:
Old Crafty and The fishing diplomat are 2 special cases and requires at least level 72+ (to do it my way and to do it the easiest Smiling)
Requirements to do it my way: Done with Veteran of the Wrathgate and not turned in and (not) finished Fate, Up Against Your Will. And according to some reliable fishing sources, a plus would be if you had the daily Crocolisk in the City.
Ok, here we go:
After obtaining the quest Reborn From The Ashes and just before you turn it in, I suggest you go make sure you got bait, fishing pole and the daily Crocolisk in the City with you.
Go turn in the quest at king wrynn and get the follow up Fate, Up Against Your Will.
Talk to the Lady next to king Wrynn and ask her to teleport you to Ogrimmar. When at Ogrimmar DON'T turn in the quest by talking to Thrall, instead go east and up to the Valley of Honor.

IMPORTANT INFO: Don't loot the baby crocolisk (quest item for the daily) if you should fish him up, then it doesnt matter that you brought the quest.
Now you should know what to do Sticking out tongue! Just fish! And since you have (not necessary) Crocolisk in the City you should've finished both in 10 casts Sticking out tongue maybe 20 or 30 or more, but just be patient. If you didn't bring the daily, you can stand there for lots of hours. What I know, it had taken at most 1300 casts to get the fish Old Crafty for the achievement Old Crafty.
You can always hs out of Ogrimmar and come back by talking to the same lady again.

IMPORTANT INFO: Don't loot the baby crocolisk (quest item for the daily) if you should fish him up, then it doesnt matter that you brought the quest.

OK, that's all.
I must apologize for the typos i probably have done in city names and item names, so I really appreciate all feedback on spelling and things in guide, that makes it better!
Horde guide for the cooking will be up sometime in the future.

Guide author: Boxxeraj (finished some text formatting to)
Text formatting: Kalya (Thanks! Great thanks! /boxxeraj))

The Snows of Northrend - In 20 steps

The Snows of Northrend

Introduction
This guide is an guide on how to complete "The Snows of Northrend" Achievement,
it lists all quests and explains how to do them, I have also tried to use the same color coding and formatting as Jame uses in his leveling guide because people find it’s easier to do it the way people are familiar with.

Okay then we are almost ready to start, just one last thing:
Credit to those who deserves it.
-Brune For helping me with spelling corrections and formating of the guide.
- Jame For making this guide possible at all;) and for the help.
- All who post feedback/comments here:)

"Note: Last bits of formatiing of headlines etc. will come within the next few days, I have set the guide back to finished so it should be readable"

And here we go!Smiling

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Color Code:
* Quests
* Items
* Locations
* Quest objectives to kill
* NPCs
* (Locs)/(xx,xx)
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The Guide

1. Where in the World is Hemet Nesingwary?
Archmage Pentarus in Krasus’ Landing in Dalaran offers this quest at level 76.
Once you’ve got the quest, and are ready to leave Dalaran, talk to Archmage Pentarus and he will teleport you to Scholar Basin close to a guy named Monte Muzzleshot (39,58), Deliver the quest to him and get the follow up [Welcome to Sholazar Basin].

2. Welcome to Sholazar Basin
Travel east to Nessingwary Base Camp and deliver the quest to Hemet Nesingwary(27,58)

3. The Camp
There are three quests in the camp, get all of them:
[It Could Be Anywhere!] From Chad.
[Venture Co. Misadventure] from Debaar.
[Need an Engine, Take an Engine] from Weslex Quickwrench to the east of the camp.

Note: The ring for [It Could Be Anywhere!] the ring can drop from ANY mob in the zone so just keep the quest and hand it in when you get it.

4.Need an Engine, Take an Engine
Travel back towards where the guy in the parachute was, in the same area you should see a crashed plane, and in front of it is the [Flying Machine Engine] (38,56) loot it and return to Weslex Quickwrench
turn in the quest and get the follow-up [Have a Part, Give a Part]

5. Have a Part, Give a Part
Go to Swindlegrin's Dig(32,47) to the north/northeast, it's right on the north side of The Suntouched Pillar.
Go around here and kill Venture Co. Ruffians and Excavators and pick up [Venture Co. Spare Parts] from the ground,while looking for Engineer Helice(35,47) standing in the middle of the digsite, she gives the quest [Engineering a Disaster]
If she’s not here it means someone else is escorting her, she’ll probably be back in a few minutes. Take her quest and escort her to safety, after that go back to the digsite and do what you need to complete the two quests, then return to the Nesingwary Base Camp.
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6. Back in Camp
Deliver [Engineering a Disaster].
Deliver [Venture Co. Misadventure] get the follow-up [Wipe That Grin Off His Face].
Deliver [Have a Part, Give a Part]. Now Weslex will repair/rebuild his flying machine and it becomes a Flight Master. Get the new Flight path.

Optional: Right next to Weslex is Professor Calvert, talk to her and get the quest [Aerial Surveillance], we will go to where it's delivered later so you can just pick it up now if you want to.

7. Wipe That Grin Off His Face
Go back to Swindlegrin's Dig(32,47)
Meatpie is a big blue guy, patrolling a Wooden ramp (35,49)
Foreman Swindlegrin is a Goblin inside a shredder machine, he’s located atop of the same ramp as Meatpie is patrolling. Kill them both and return to Nesingwary Base Camp.

8. Shoot The Apple!!!
Deliver [Wipe That Grin Off His Face] to Debaar, this will make 3 new quests available, go to Drostan first and get the quest [Kick, What Kick?]. Equip the RJR Rifle and target Lucky Wilhelm and click it to complete the quest.
Deliver the quest and get the follow-up [The Great Hunter's Challenge].
Also get [Rhino Mastery: The Test] & [Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator].

9.Let the Killing Begin!
Okay now we are going to kill Dreadsabers and Shardhorn Rhinos until you have got 15 kills of each.
I recommend killing them in this area marked by blue/light blue.

When you are done return to Nesingwary Base Camp.

10. Quests, quests and more quests
Deliver [Rhino Mastery: The Test] and get [Rhino Mastery: The Chase].
Deliver [Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predatorv] and get [Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey].

Three new quests should be available, they are:
[Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor].
[Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial].
[A Steak Fit for a Hunter].

Get the 3 quests.
From now on kill all Longneck Grazers you see until you complete [A Steak Fit for a Hunter].
Kill all Mangal Crocolisks until you have completed [Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial]
Do this while following the next few steps.
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11: To the Oracle
Walk south from the Nesingwary Base Camp across a wood "bridge"
and continue south, on the left side you should see Oracle Soo-rahm(25,66).
He should be easy to spot by the yellow “?” on the mini map.
Deliver [Rhino Mastery: The Chase] and get [An Offering for Soo-rahm].

12. Crock's and Ropes
Go North into the river, and follow the river's north side eastwards while killing all crocs you find.
When you get to the river’s end then keep going east/north east towards where we found the Flying Engine and the man in the parachute earlier(39,58), while killing all crocs and Cobras you see. Now in this area walk around looking for "Sturdy Vines" they look like this:


Picture posted by: "menace" on www.wowhead.com

Right click a vine to make a random fruit drop down, loot it, keep running around killing cobras and crocs while using vines to get fruit. Also sometimes there might spawn an NPC instead of a piece of fruit, talk to him/her to get a fruit of your choice:)

Do this until you got the following quests completed:
[An Offering for Soo-rahm]
[Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial]
[Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor]

Go south east to River's Heart(50,61)
If you don't have the Flight path there, get it now.
Optional: turn in the quest [Aerial Survillance].

Fly back to Nesingwary Base Camp.

13. Distillation
Deliver [Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial] and get the follow-up [Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan]
Deliver [Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor] get the follow-up [Still At It]
Okay we are now going to do the quest [Still At It].

We need to click things,
There are 5 things to click on. There are 3 barrels: Papayas, Bananas & Oranges. Also there is a Brazier and a Pressure Valve.
Take a look around so you learn what’s where, then find a place where you can click all of them easily, I did it in front of the bananas. When you are ready talk to "Tipsy" McManus to start the event. When you are done, a barrel will spawn. Loot it, and then deliver the quest.

Get the follow-up [The Taste Test].
Go to Hemet Nesingwary and right click the [Jungle Punch Sample].
Turn around and look in the same direction as Hemet.
Haldarius is the Stable master he’s in front of you to the left, use the [Jungle Punch Sample] on him.
So then where is Tamara? She’s at River's Heart.[/] The place we were just before we flew back to the Camp.
Fly back there, when you land she’s to the right of you standing in front of a tent.
Use the [Jungle Punch Sample] on her. Fly back to Nesingwary Base Camp.
Deliver the [The Taste Test].

14. Grazer & Oracle steaks... Hey Wait a sec!
Then return to Oracle Soo-rahm(25,66).
When you pass the river look for Sandfern, green bushes that you can loot for the quest [Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan].
Remember to kill Longneck Grazers for [A Steak Fit for a Hunter].
Deliver [An Offering for Soo-rahm], get the follow-up [The Bones of Nozronn].
Go south to The Bones of Nozron, in front of the big skeleton there’s an Offering Bowl,
stand next to it and use the [Soo-rahm's Incense].
Wait for the event to end and the quest to complete.
Travel back to the River, look for Sandfern, go back to the Nesingwary Base Camp.
Deliver [The Bones of Nozronn] and get [Rhino Mastery: The Kill].

15. Tracking & Killing
Go North/Northeast to Bittertide Lake(36,41).
At the beach there, you should see "Dreadsaber Tracks" in the sand.
Right click them, and looking Sandfern plants to loot.
Walk around in the area and the beach until you complete both [Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan] & [Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey].
If you have trouble with the footsteps/finding the place this video might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yJJ0MJNrQ

Anyways when you are done, travel east to the eastern end of the lake, there you should find Farunn, kill him and loot him, then return to Nesingwary Base Camp.
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16. Ready for more Kills?
Deliver [Rhino Mastery: The Kill].
Deliver [Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan] get [Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush].
Deliver [Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey] get [Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce].
Go to the flight master and fly to River's heart.
Right across the lake from where u land(west from landing area) there’s a hug Log(46,63)
Go to it, stand on the middle of the upper part of it and use the [Sandfern Disguise] this will make
Bushwacker appear, Kill and loot him. go back to River's Heart and fly back to the Nesingwary Base Camp.
Note: If you have trouble finding the log or the spot to sue the disguise this video might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marpgKd4EbI

Go North/Northeast to Bittertide Lake(36,41) the place where we found the "Dreadsaber Tracks" in the sand
North West of that beach on the top of the cliffs there before the waterfall(32,35)
There you will find a Dreadsaber called Shango kill him and loot him.
And then return to Nesingwary Base Camp.

17. The Drakestalker
Deliver [Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush]
Deliver [Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce]
A new quest should now be available from Hemet Nesingway
get the quest [In Search of Bigger Game] from Hemet.
If you are not done with [A Steak Fit for a Hunter] yet
you might want to go south of the river and kill Longneck Grazer
until you got all 5 steaks, then go deliver the quest.
Travel northeast to Dorian's Outpost(42,28)
Marked on the map below by a red circle:



Talk to Dorian Drakestalker and
Deliver the quest [In Search of Bigger Game]
and get the two quests from Dorian Drakestalker[/]:
[Sharpening Your Talons]
[Securing the Bait]

18. Drake Hunting
Go straight West from Dorian into The Savage Thicket
Kill Primodial Drake's and look for Big eggs, Kill the eggs and a Hatchling will spawn, pick it up.
Walk around in this area until you have killed 6 drakes and picked up 6 hatchlings.
then return to Dorian and Deliver:
[Sharpening Your Talons]
[Securing the Bait]
New quests will be available, pick up [A Mammoth Undertaking] from Zootfizzle.

19. A Mammoth Undertaking
Okay go south of Dorian's Outpost
and find a Shattertusk Mammoth, walk close to it and use Mammoth Harness on it, then ride it
back to Dorian's Outpost, use ability #1 to deliver it and then talk to Zootfizzle. and deliver
[A Mammoth Undertaking]
Note: It's the neutral Mammoth's u need NOT the Bulls they are aggressive.
also there is reported some bugs in this quest so if one Mammoth don't work, just try another.

20.Snows of Northrend - The final hunt!
Now we are going to kill the Real beast, along with Hemet himself, while riding a mammoth!
Go to Dorian take his quest
You will mount/enter a mammoth along with Hemet,
we are going to kill Broodmother Slivina
She's at the red dot(47,20):

Here is how to use the abilities
#1 Standard Melee Attack ability.
#4 Target for Hemet, Makes Hemet attack that target, use it on her often.
#5 Charge, gain some distance, charge her to stun her for a few seconds.
#6 Gore - Spam use it on the dragon.

Tactics:
Go find the dragon. use charge to stun her then gore + run away, use #4 to make Hemet attack her and lead her to his traps, lead her to Dorian's Outpost and use charge+gore and run away + make her run into traps until she dies.
Should be easy.
When she’s dead, ride to Dorian and Leave the mammoth
Deliver [=#cc9933][Post-partum Aggression] to Dorian Drakestalker.

And there you go Snows of Nothrend achievement Completed.

- Congratulations! -

The Well Read Achievement

Since this is live now, I'm going to make sure everyone is aware that this is a work in progress, and when completed will be complete, have more detail, images and videos. At time of writing, I am 9 books short of the achievement. The alliance only parts have been completed, although much of the guide is still full of placeholders. The order used in the guide however is final.

I have written the guide with both Alliance and Horde in mind, and so the guide will split in two on occasion. The alliance should follow the blue parts of the guide, and the horde should follow the red parts of the guide.

This achievement is no walk in the park. Not everyone will have the patience to do this achievement, which makes it all the more desirable to have, so here's how to do it. Please note that all of this information was found in the Books Database of Wowhead. If anything is ever unclear or becomes inaccurate over time, everything can be found there.

These books are the lifeblood of the lore of World of Warcraft. If you are simply looking for more achievement points, then just open the book and close it. But if you are interested in knowing more about the game and the world contained within it, then go ahead and read the books! You might be surprised to know some of the "history" behind the everyday things you see in WoW. Give it a try!

What you will need..

Scholomance Key (The Skeleton Key)
Scarlet Monastery Key (The Scarlet Key)
Karazhan Key (The Master's Key)
Level 70
A Partner (Not 100% necessary, but it helps!)

Having a clear Karazhan instance for the week will simplify this greatly. If you don't have a clear karazhan instance of your own, you can ask a friend of guild member if they will allow you to use theirs. Here's a brief description of how that's done.

You need at least two people. You, unsaved to any Karazhan instance for that week, and your friend, who has cleared Karazhan in that week at least as far as Shade of Aran.

The player who is saved to the instance must invite the person who is NOT saved to a party. Note that the party MUST be started by the player who IS saved to the instance. Then, the saved player must turn the group into a raid group.

Once the raid has been created, the raid leader must walk into the instance first. Then you're free to use the instance to gather your books!

Part 1 - Scarlet Monastary [Video Here]

Head into the Library and follow the instance through, past the courtyard. Keep going until you find the first corridor with a red carpet. Along this corridor, enter the first room on your left.

  • Aegwynn and the Dragon Hunt On a table in this room, red cover, guarded by 3 mobs. Red Cover.
Exit this room and follow the corridor forward again, entering the second room on the left.
  • War of the Three Hammers On a table to the right side of this room. Can be opened without aggro'ing the mobs in the room. Brown Cover.
Exit this room and continue along the corridor until it opens out into a large room with pillars.
  • Aftermath of the Second War In this room and to the left, on the floor under a window. Next to the quest objective for [38] Mythology of the Titans if you have done that quest. Blue cover.

  • War of the Spider On the floor in the back right side of the same room where we found Aftermath of the Second War. Blue Cover.
Move forard through the instance to the next room, which is basically identical to the last room.
  • Arathor and the Troll Wars At the rear of this room and to the left, near the rear door. Green Cover.

  • The World Tree and the Emerald Dream At the rear of the room and to the right, also a Green Cover.
Proceed through the door and into the last corridor of the instance.
  • Archimonde's Return and the Flight to Kalimdor As soon as you walk through this door, turn to the left. It is on the floor tucked into a corner, and can be difficult to find if you're not looking for it. Brown Cover.

  • The War of the Ancients Directly in front of the door you just entered, on a table. Green Cover.

  • Beyond the Dark Portal Further along the corridor, on a table on the right. Green cover.

  • The Scourge of Lordaeron Next table along the corridor, Black cover.
Proceed to the end of the instance, where Arcanist Doan can be found.
  • Civil War in the Plaguelands In Arcanist Doan's room, to the right as you enter, on a table. Green cover.

  • Kel’thuzad and the Forming of the Scourge Also in Doan’s room, to the left this time, on the second table moving anti-clockwise around the room. Black cover.

  • Icecrown and the Frozen Throne The final book in Doan’s room, on another table to the left side, moving clockwise around the room. Green cover.

Part 2 – Scholomance (Video Coming Soon)

NOTE: From this point onwards, we will occasionally trip over books that we already read in previous parts.

Get yourself a group. (Either 5 level 60's, or as few as 2 level 70's) It is entirely possible to solo the entirety of Scholomance at level 70, regardless of class or spec. While you're in here, you may as well use your Argent Dawn Commission and grab some Corruptor's Scourgestones to help boost your Argent Dawn reputation, helping towards the much covetted Argent Champion title.

Once you get the door open, using either your Skeleton Key or a rogue's lockpick ability, we begin!

  • The Lich King Triumphant Walk in, turn left, downstairs, first table. Brown cover.

  • The Birth of the Lich King 2nd table moving anti-clockwise around the room. Black Cover.

  • Sargeras and the Betrayal Back left corner, next book around, kinda hard to see. FAR in the back corner. Black Cover.

  • The Dark Portal and the Fall of Stormwind On a ledge, next to the wall, moving anti-clockwise around the room. Green Cover.

  • The Seven Kingdoms Front Left corner, on a table. The last book in the room. Brown Cover.
From here, go through the set of iron gates into the room with the Summoners. Carry on straight through this room, and out the Iron Gates on the other side.
  • The Old Gods and the Ordering of Azeroth After walking through the Summoner room and walking through the gate at the far side, this book is on a table immediately to your left. Blue cover.
After gathering this book, turn around and face into the room. Walk forward until the room opens out, and seek out the back right corner of the room where you will find..
  • Old Hatreds - The Colonization of Kalimdor On a table, immediately to the left of the door leading downstairs to Jandice Barov. Brown cover.

  • Kil'jaeden and the Shadow Pact Far back left of this room on a table. Black cover.

  • Rise of the Blood Elves Near Kil'jaeden and the Shadow Pact on another table to the left. Red cover.
There is no need to go downstairs to kill Jandice Barov as there are no books down there. The next boss on your list is Rattlegore, who you must kill to gain the Viewing Room Key for a door we will come to later on. So head to Rattlegore and kill him. When he's dead, go back upstairs, past the dragon whelp room and into the main chamber. On the left is an Iron Gate, behind which are stairs that will take you down to a square-shaped room with the Viewing Room Door in the back left.
  • Exile of the High Elves As you enter this room, turn left and follow the wall. You will find this book on a ledge next to the wall, Blue Cover.

  • The Invasion of Draenor In the back left of this room, also on a ledge next to the wall. Red Cover.
Head into the Viewing Room.
  • The Founding of Quel'Thalas As you enter the Viewing Room, turn right, and jump up onto the platform. This book is on a table behind Marduk Blackpool. Red cover.
And you're done with Scholomance!

Alliance Part 3 - Ironforge and Stormwind [Video Here]

Head to Ironforge, and look for the library behind the Hall of Explorers.

  • The Battle of Grim Batol On the large table in the middle of the library, Brown cover.

  • Ironforge - The Awakening of the Dwarves To the left of the library as you enter, on a table. Blue cover.

  • Rise of the Horde To the right of the library as you enter. There are three books on this table, you want the one with the Brown Cover.

  • The Alliance of Lordaeron Same table as Rise of the Horde, to the right side of the library. Blue cover.
Once you have read these four books, make your way to the Deeprun Tram and ride through to Stormwind. When you reach Stormwind, head to the Keep, and to the Library.
  • The New Horde As you enter the library, turn left. The book is on a ledge, on one of the pillars that forms the doorway of the Library, behind a guard's head. It can be tricky to spot, so take your time looking. It has a Green cover.

  • The Kaldorei and the Well of Eternity Also on the ledge of a pillar, near the western corner of the library. It is directly to the right of the NPC Donyal Tovald's head. It has a brown cover.
When this is done, get out of the keep, mount up, and ride to Eastvale Logging Camp. Find the large house to the southeast of the camp. It is the only house that has stairs. Find the house and go upstairs..
  • Lethargy of the Orcs As you walk upstairs you will see a table directly in front of you. The book is on this table. Red cover.

Horde Part 3 - Stonard(Video Soon)

Find the largest building in Stonard. It is a tower-like structure, with a Blood Elf NPC named Cersei Dusksinger standing just beyond the doorway. There is a large circular staircase in this building. Walk up it. At the top of the staircase is a room. Both of the books we want are in this room.

  • The New Horde Sitting on a table to the left side of the room. It has a green cover.

  • Rise of the Horde Sitting on a table to the right side of the room. It has a brown cover.

Part 4 - Karazhan(Coming Soon)
Unfortunately, this section of the guide will have to wait until I have done Karazhan this week. This will happen Friday at the earliest. This section of the guide may in fact be changed in WotLK, since few people will be running Karazhan then. One of these books can be found in Westfall for the Alliance, and Thelsamar, an Alliance town in Loch Modan, for the horde. (The horde can also go to Westfall but I suspect I will add this to the Wetlands route in part 8 of the guide for Horde.)

Both of these books can be find in the library after The Curator, and will be clear of mobs once the Shade of Aran has been killed. Exact locations and fraps to follow.

  • The Last Guardian
  • The Guardians of Tirisfal

Part 5 - Booty Bay (Video Coming Soon)

Booty Bay is notoriously difficult to navigate for people unfamiliar with the town, so I strongly recommend using the video along with the directions here to find where you are going. Here come the directions, please read them carefully!

Step 1. Find the Big Shark (27,77) hanging upside down, outside the inn. It's probably the most noticable landmark in the town, so we'll start there!

Step 2. Face East. You will see a ramp going up to the top level of the town. Walk up this ramp.

Step 3. As soon as you reach the top of the ramp, you will see a bridge to your right. Walk across it.

Step 4. Once you have crossed the bridge, turn right. About 5 yards in front of you, there will be another right turn, to a ramp leading down slightly. Walk down this ramp, to where the stationary Booty Bay Bruiser is standing.

Step 5. Turn left and walk across the short bridge in front of you, then enter the building on your left.

  • The Sentinels and the Long Vigil On one of the two bedside table in the building you just entered. It has a brown cover.
Step 6. Exit the building, and jump over the fence ahead of you. Turn around 180 degrees.

Step 7. Enter the building in front of you. If you can see "Sea Wolf" MacKinley, then you are in the right place.

Step 8. Find the flight of stairs at the back of the room and follow them down.

Step 9. You will be in a room full of boxes with a stove. There is another flight of stairs going down at the opposite end of the room, find it and go down.

  • Empire's Fall At the bottom of the stairs and directly in front of you, you will find a bookcase with 3 books. This one has a Blue cover.

  • The Twin Empires This book is on the shelf above Empire's Fall and has a Green cover.

  • Wrath of the Soulflayer The last book of the three in the bookcase. Red cover.
Step 10. Turn left and you will see an exit. Take that exit and turn left.

Step 11. As you walk out onto the main walkway, turn right and you will find a ramp leading upwards. Walk up the ramp.

Step 12. Turn around 180 degrees, and take the second ramp going up. You will find yourself back at the shark.

Step 13. Behind the shark as you look at it, you will see the Inn. Walk in a straight line as far as you can, under the Salty Sailor Tavern sign, and walk through the entrance on the right.

Step 14. You are now in the inn. Go upstairs and..

  • Sunwell - The Fall of Quel'Thalas As you walk upstairs, this book is on the table directly in front of you. It has a green cover.

Part 6 - The Barrens (Work In Progress)

Once you're done in Booty Bay, get onto the boat to Ratchet. <

  • Charge of the Dragon Flights Somewhere in Ratchet, near the Engineering Trainer.

  • Mount Hyjal and Illidan's Gift As you enter the inn, turn left and walk to the table at the very back of the room. The book has a green cover.
At this point, Alliance players can begin making their way to Darnassus as they should be one book away from finishing. (Assuming they completed the Karazhan section of the guide.) Horde players need to do a little bit more in The Barrens.

  • Lethargy of the Orcs Barrens for horde

  • Ironforge - The Awakening of the Dwarves Bael'modan

Alliance Part 7 - Darnassus [Video Here]

Make your way to Darnassus, and to the Tradesmen's Terrace. At around (65,75) you will find a house with a white lamp post and a purple vase outside. Enter this building and..

  • The Betrayer Ascendant To the left as you enter, on top of a small cabinet. Black cover.

And that's it for the Alliance! Congratulations on your new achievement!

Horde Part 7 - Silvermoon

The first place you must find is Velaani's Arcane Goods shop, on the Walk of Elders at around (71,67). Once you're here, walk in and..

  • The Betrayer Ascendant Turn right. The book is on top of a crate, tucked away in the back corner of the room, near a small braizer. It has a black cover.
When you've read this book, leave the shop and move south towards the Wayfarer's Rest Inn. Walk in, turn right and you will see a stairway going up in the back of the room. Go up these stairs and you will see three beds.
  • The Alliance of Lordaeron Walk over to the red bed on the right. Just to the right of this bed is the book. It has a Blue cover.

Horde Part 8 - Wetlands

Yes, Hordies, I know. It's been a much longer, much more difficult trek for us, compared to the alliance, who barely had to leave the comfort of their major cities. But unfortunately Thrall didn't see fit to add a comprehensive library to Orgrimmar. It just didn't seem important enough. And so, we head off on our final trek, the longest one yet, and the most dangerous by far! We're heading into enemy territory!

Fly to Hammerfall in Arathi Highlands. When you land, mount up. We are riding down to Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands.

When you arrive, stop at the bridge and work out your options. We need to get into the Inn of Menethil Harbor. This inn is full of civilians who will summon Level 65 guards to attack you. You will end up with 2 or 3 of these on you, and there isn't a great deal you can do about it. So let's think about what we can do.

  • If your class can stealth, then by all means, stealth. Reading the books will not break stealth, so as long as you don't aggro any guards, you will be safe.
  • If you are a healing class, heal yourself through whatever they throw at you. There is no need to kill the guards, since as soon as they die, they will respawn and attack you again. Merely living long enough to read the books and escape is enough.
  • Use any damage reduction abilities that your class has. Warriors, use tank gear, Shaman might want to try an earth elemental totem, and so on.
  • If you play a pet class, use your pet to tank the guards while you read.
  • If you get lost, use the video. If you're still unsure of where to go, log onto an alliance alt if you have one and scout out for the books, so you don't waste valuable time when you're doing it for real.
  • If all else fails, call in some help! Remember that no matter what happens, you'll be reading the books with guards beating on you. Improvise if you have to.

This map shows what I believe to be the sneakiest route into the inn. You should use this room to enter, and then to exit.

As soon as you enter the inn, walk upstairs. As soon as you reach the top of the stairs, look to your left.

  • The Kaldorei and the Well of Eternity This book is on a small table in between two chairs. It has a brown cover.
Once you have read this book, turn around so that your back is facing the wall. There should be three doors, one immediately to your left, one in front of you and to the left, and one in front of you and to the right. Enter the door in front of you and to the right. (Note that in the video, I took a wrong turn and entered the room on the left first. There is no need to do this.)
  • The Battle of Grim Batol As you enter the room, there will be a table directly in front of you with this book sitting on top of it. It has a brown cover.
As soon as you're done, get out as quickly as you can, using the same route as you used to get in. The guards will stop chasing you if you run far enough away. I don't recommend swimming, you can avoid all the guards by running with your feet slightly underwater.

And for those of you who think there must be an easier way of getting these two books.. it was either here or Stormwind. Your choice!

And Congratulations to the Horde on their MUCH more difficult achievement!

Tsmith's Achievement Guides-How to Unlock Alliance Achievements

I am currently finishing my Quests guide, then I will start the exploration guide.

Guides

  • General Completed (3.2.0.10192)
  • Quests In Progress (3.2.0.10192)
  • Winter Veil Completed (3.2.0.10192)

Tsmith's Achievement Guides-How to Unlock (General)

Intro:

It is recommended that you are a level 80 before you do this and that you have Cartographer installed.

I will cover unlocking every achievement in the game on my character and I will write them in my guide as I add them.

Color Code: Achievement Subcategory, How to Unlock, Rewards

Guide:

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 10.

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 20.

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 30.

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 40.

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 50.

-Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 60.

-(Requires Burning Crusade) Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 70.

-(Requires Wrath Of The Lich King)Find a leveling guide on this site and get to level 80.

-(Requires Level 80) Go to a weapon trainer and learn until you know 4 weapon types, train them on low levels and go higher up in levels you kill as your skill goes up.

-(Requires level 80) Remove all weapons from your character, fight low level stuff and kill higher levels as your skill goes up, do this until your unarmed skill hits 400.

-Get around 101.1g and go to the bank and buy all the bag slots.

-Run high level instances until you have looted the required amount of money, make sure the instance's creatures are humanoids because they drop cash, not beasts/elemenals...

-Run high level instances until you have looted the required amount of money, make sure the instance's creatures are humanoids because they drop cash, not beasts/elemenals...

-Run high level instances until you have looted the required amount of money, make sure the instance's creatures are humanoids because they drop cash, not beasts/elemenals...

-Run high level instances until you have looted the required amount of money, make sure the instance's creatures are humanoids because they drop cash, not beasts/elemenals...

-Run high level instances until you have looted the required amount of money, make sure the instance's creatures are humanoids because they drop cash, not beasts/elemenals...

-(Requires Level 30)Save money based on reputation with the town that trainer is closest to: Neutral=35g, Friendly=33.25g, Honored=31.5g, Revered=29.75g, Exalted=28g.

-(Requires Level 60)Save money based on reputation with the town that trainer is closest to: Neutral=600g, Friendly=570g, Honored=540g, Revered=510g, Exalted=480g.

-(Requires Level 70)Save 800g, reputation does not give discounts for this.

-(Requires Level 70)Save 5000g, reputation does not give discounts for this.

-(Requires Level 70 for my way)Purchase a flying mount and the training for it. Go to Northrend or Outlands and keep trying a higher fall from your flying mount (You must be at full health every try for it to work).

-Save 5g then go to the barber to the very northern part of Trade District, Stormwind.

-Save around 1.5g, go to the AH and purchase companion. If you do not know any go the drop down menu: Miscellaneous/Pets and search with the search bar blank.

-Save around 25-30g and purchase pets from the AH.

-Save around 40-50g and purchase pets from the AH.

-Save around 75-100g and purchase pets from the AH.

-Save around 150-200g and purchase pets from the AH.

-Purchase a Guild Tabard from Stormwind Visitor's Center at the front entrance. Maximum price based on reputation is 1g.

-See list of tabards at this WoWhead page.

-See list of tabards at this WoWhead page. Item: [Tabard of the Achiever]

-(Requires Level 80) So far at what I've looked at, the 80 PVP gear meets the requirements. I will submit more details when I learn more.

-(Requires Level 80) I will submit gear when I am 80 and can look at the gear choices better.

-Run some high level dungeons over and over and hit greed when a superior, epic, or legendary item pops up.

-Run some high level dungeons over and over and hit need when you need a superior, epic, or legendary item.

-Save 1200g and go to World's End Tavern, Lower City, Shattrath. Speak to Haris Pilton in the tavern and buy the bag.

-Click on picture for links to a good idea of where each key is.

-(Requires Access to Northrend) Use "/love" to all the critters listed in the achievement. Note: If you use /love to a critters corpse it still tracks it.

-(Requires Access to Northrend) I will find the best location for this once I am 80 and can browse all of Northrend with ease.

-Click the picture to get a page with link for the locations of every book.

-(Requires Access to Northrend) Unsure of all the location but click the image for a general idea. Item: [The Schools of Arcane Magic-Mastery]

-Keep going to inns and food vendors until you have drank 25 different types of beverages.

-Keep going to inns and food vendors until you have eaten 50 different types of food.

-57.5, 41.6 Dalaran. From Mei Francis for 750g(Neutral Rep).

-57.5, 41.6 Dalaran. From Mei Francis for 200 [Emblem of Heroism] (The new badge of justice). I don't think there are any reputation discounts on this.

-57.5, 41.6 Dalaran. From Mei Francis for 20 000g (Neutral Rep).

-Find an enginner who has 450 engineering and has the schematic for Mekgineer's Chopper and buy it from them.

-(Requires Northrend Access) In Dalaran, price based on Kirin Tor rep. Neutral=8400g, Friendly=7980g, Honored=7560g, Revered=7140g, Exalted=6720g.

-Buy all mounts from your race's home mount vendor. Now keep getting lvl 60 BG mounts until you are done.

-Follow the steps in previous achievement then get the other cities mounts after exalted with other cities.

-Follow the steps for the previous achievement. Get all BG mounts and mounts from Mei Francis. Item: [Albino Drake]

-Follow the steps for the previous achievement. Also get all the flying mounts. Item: [Blue Dragonhawk Mount]

-While you are questing kill the critters when you come across them, its easiest to track the achievement so you can easily see what you need to slay.

-Just type /love when one of the animals you need is targeted.

-Get to level 40 and then go to your class trainer and purchase Dual Talent Specialization (I don't know if the price is level-based but on my 77 warrior the price is 1000g).

Tsmith's Achievement Guides-How to Unlock (Quests)

Intro:

It is recommended that you are a level 80 before you do this and that you have Cartographer installed.

I will cover unlocking every achievement in the game on my character and I will write them in my guide as I add them.

Color Code: Achievement Subcategory, How to Unlock, Rewards

Guide:

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this, easily done by low levels if you follow the guides on this site.

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this.

-Keep questing until you complete this. Title: The Seeker

-Requires Burning Crusade (Lich King works, too). Daily quests are marked by a blue "!".

-Requires Burning Crusade (Lich King works, too). Daily quests are marked by a blue "!".

-Requires Burning Crusade (Lich King works, too). Daily quests are marked by a blue "!".

-Requires Burning Crusade (Lich King works, too). Daily quests are marked by a blue "!".

-Requires Burning Crusade (Lich King works, too). Daily quests are marked by a blue "!".

-You should get this if you go to Isle of Quel'Danas five days straight and follow the same quest rotation every time.

-You should come across the three locations he is in while leveling, complete every quest there. For the quest where you get the pages of the chapter, all the pages can probably be found in your AH depending on your population.

-Complete the Ring of Blood and Amphitheater of Anguish quest chains, both start from Gurgthock in Zul'Drak, Northrend. NOTE: For the Amphitheater chain you will probably need the help it wants but you should be able to solo the Ring of Blood chain at 80.

-Turn tracking on to "Low Level Quests" and complete every quest you find as LEVEL 80. It is important you are 80 because you will get money for a reward, not experience.

-Follow this link and browse to the zones that you haven't completed, keep doing the quests on the list until you are done. If you don't like the site's quest info search the quest names in Wowhead. Title: Loremaster...Item: [Loremaster's Colors]

Classic:

-Complete all the quests at Nesingwary's Expedition in Stranglethorn Vale. Expedition is at 36, 10.5.

-Go to zones you didn't quest in and turn tracking to low level quests. Go to all quests that show up on the minimap.

-Go to zones you didn't quest in and turn tracking to low level quests. Go to all quests that show up on the minimap.

Burning Crusade:

-Complete all quests in Hemets camp in Nagrand (Outlands). The camp is located at 71.46, 41.02.

-Complete 80 quests in Hellfire Peninsula (Outlands).

-Complete 54 quests in Zangarmarsh (Outlands).

-Complete 63 quests in Terokkar Forest (Outlands).

-Complete 75 quests in Nagrand (Outlands).

-Complete 86 quests in Blade's Edge Mountains (Outlands).

-Complete 120 quests in Netherstorm (Outlands).

-Complete 90 quests in Shadowmoon Valley (Outlands).

-This quest starts at Sky Sergeant Doryn in Terokkar Forest at 64.5, 66.0.

-This quests starts at Sky Sergeant Vanderlip in Blade's Edge Mountains at 27.5, 52.7.

-Complete alll the Burning Crusade achievements above except Hills Like White Elekk, Bombs Away, and Blade's Edge Bomberman.

Wrath Of The Lich King:

-If you play through Jame's leveling guide for Borean Tundra you will earn this achievement.

-Play through Jame's leveling guide for Grizzly Hills until you get this achievement.

Start one chain at Drakuru in Grizlly Hills. Start the other chain by killing trolls near Ebon Watch on the west side of Zul'Drak.

-Click on the picture for a site with links to all the quests, it will tell you where to get the quests and where to turn them in. When on a quest's page click on the start or finish NPC's name to see a map with their location. Also, if the quests want you to kill somebody or obtain an item click the link of the name to see how to obtain or the location.

-Follow Jame's leveling guide for Howling Fjord until you unlock this achievement.

-Go to Wowhead and open the quests tab to see all the quests in Icecrown. Click on the name of the quest to see the details.

-Go to Wowhead and open the quests tab to see all the quests in Sholazar Basin. Click on the name of the quest to see the details.

-Follow Jame's leveling guide for Dragonblight until you unlock this achievement.

-Coming Soon!

-Follow Jame's leveling guide for Borean Tundra until you unlock this achievement.

Tsmith's Achievement Guides-How To Unlock (Winter Veil)

Intro:

It is recommended that you are a level 80 before you do this and that you have Cartographer installed.

I will cover unlocking every achievement in the game on my character and I will write them in my guide as I add them.

Color Code: Achievement Subcategory, How to Unlock, Rewards

Guide:

-Head to Ironforge and speak to Wulmort Jinglepocket at a stand at 33, 67. Get Metzen the Reindeer, he is located around 68, 34 in Searing Gorge. Open the Smokywood Satchel and get the two items, talk to Metzen then click on the text.

-Head to Ironforge, just outside you will see a machine called PX-238 Winter Wondervolt walk into it and you will become a gnome for 30 minutes. Get 50 honorable kills in that form (Try BGs). NOTE: If you die the costume is removed.

-Head to Ironforge and speak to Wulmort Jinglepocket at a stand at 33, 67. Browse his wares and buy the stack of Snowball. Head to the king at 39.5, 56, target him an use the Snowball.

-Follow the first achievement (On Metzen) and keep the reward. Get Bomb Them Again! from Sky Sergeant Vanderlip at 27.5, 52.5 in Blade's Edge Mountains. Now use the Preserved Holly while on your flying mount, complete the quest on the reindeer.

-To get the costume pieces find a tailor and buy the Winter Clothes, find a letherworker and buy the Winter Boots, and run instances until the Winter Hat drops.

-The racer is under the trees in Ironforge, from the 25th to the 2nd keep opening the gifts until you get one. It hasn't released yet but I'm assuming you just drive it into a wall or something.

-Get Stolen Winter Veil Treats from Wulmort Jinglepocket at a stand at 33, 67 in Ironforge. Turn it in to Strange Snowman at 35, 72 in Alterac Mountains. Get the followup and kill The Abominable Greench for the treats. Turn it in back at Wulmort, the followup turns in to the guy standing near him ("?" on minimap).

-Whenever you do not have the "Mistletoe" debuff go to an inn and use "/kiss" on a reveler. The snowflakes randomly are given to you for this (might be something else). When you have snowflakes go to Dalaran or Shattrath and use it on all of the race/class combos required.

-Click on the image to see a list of all the people you need to use mistletoe on.

-Click here for location of Ironforge vendor that sells recipes.

-The tree can be found at 33.5, 66.0 in Ironforge.

-Start Stolen Winter Treats at Macey Jinglepocket and finish the chain. You should then get the costume in the mail 1 day later, do /dance while it is active.

Winter Veil Achievements!

Winter Veil Achievements

Colors:
Blue=Quest
Red=Item
Green=Achievement
Winter Veil, its the holiday event in December. Hallows End (Halloween) comes before it in October. The Lunar Festival comes after it in January. Doing all the below achievements gives you the title Merrymaker. Doing ALL of the world event achivement's rewards you with a Violet Proto-Drake. The achievement's for this event is not nearly as bad as stuff like Hallows end, which require many, many rare drops and lots of luck. So here we go!


On Metzen: These quests start with the smokeywood pastures goblins in Ironforge or Orgirmmar. You can either rescue this guy in a stable located in Lost rigger Cove (Tanaris). He can also be found in Searing gorge near the Loch Modan entrance.

With a little helper from my Friends: This one was much easier then I expected. You need to get 50 Honorable kills while your transformed into a gnome from the winter wondervolt machines outside of IF,Org, UC, Gadgetzan, and other places. The disguise fades upon death, so you need to be really cautious and stay with the biggest group of your faction to ensure survival. I reccomend this to be done in Battlegrounds, particularly strand of the ancients.

Scrooge (Alliance Version) *Inspected by Professor Earl Z. Mode* You need to throw a Snowball at the Tauren faction leader (Horde), or Dwarf faction leader (Alliance). Buy the snowballs for 5 copper from the smokeywood pastures vendors.

Tis the season One of 3 of the more difficult achievement. You need to eat a fruitcake while wearing full winter garb. You can the fruitcake from the mail after you do the quest treats for great father winter. You need to bake gingerbread cookies(Cooking level one), you need 5 small eggs and 5 holiday spices. Farm the eggs outside of Silvermoon or Westfall. Silvermoon is much better for droprates. Now you need to be able to find a friendly tailor and friendly leatherworker. You need the tailors to make you Green winter clothes(Horde) or Red winter clothes(Alliance). You can get the recipies for the other faction but they are very difficult to acquire. The leather workers need to make Winter boots (Both factions). This gives you two out of three then right? So now you need a red or green winter hat. It does not matter what color hat you have!

The simplest way to get the hat is to do normal Nexus. You simply need to get in, do a couple blue dragonflight pulls, and keep going right. After that you will notice that there is a giant corridor of frozen soldiers of the opposite faction as you. Make sure that you sneak you take the largest space between soldiers as possible! They only unfreeze and agro if you get close to melee range. Now after you get through them there will be a sorceer chick with two of the mage hound things. Kill those, and then you have breathing room. The four mobs lined up facing the wall can be sneaked past. Just face the wall and slowly inch your way across. Now you have four mob pull to the mage herself. This is a tough pull, and if you do it, you should be able to do the boss no problem. The boss then. Burn her down really fast, but try to pop your cooldowns after the first gravity well (It throws you around and damages your a little bit). Then burn down the three adds, frost first, then arcane, then fire. Afterwards she turns normal, burn her down and loot! The hat is a uncommon and drops 100% of the time. I did this with a 75 Restoration Shamman and level 80 Death Knight. It was really easy, and I think it could easily be duo'd by a tank and a healer. We had the Druid stealth past the more stealthy parts because of his lower level.

Crashin' and Thrashin' and He Knows if You've Been Naughty
Both of these are quite easy. Go to your factions Capitol city (Stormwind or Ironforge). Then find huge tree that great father winter is right next to. Open all of the presents, all of them are quests. When you open the first one you get He knows if You've been naughty.

Now the second one takes a tad more time. One of the presents you will get is a Crashin' Thrashin' Racer Controller. Right click it and your actionbars are swapped with one that has one button on it. When you use it it rams into another targeted racer. Now you need to hit another one 25 times. You cannot let another person blow up yours, it does not count if you do. Now the easiest way to find another person is just to look around the tree. Plenty of people will be trying to get this thing just like you.

Simply Abomidable So for this you need to recover some stolen treats. Get the quest from the Smokeywood pasture Goblin's at your Major Capitol. Now head to Arathi highlands, this length of time this takes varies by faction. Its a quick trip for Hordies from Undercity to Tauren mill and longer for alliance going from Southshore. Once there find the yellow ?, its the yellow dot on the map.

Turn the quest in and get the follow up, then use the following macro to find and tag the Abomidable Grench (Found on Wowhead):
/cleartarget
/tar The A
/stopmacro [noexists] , [dead]
/cast Arcane shot(Rank 1)
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo["RAID_WARNING"])
This macro clears your target, targets the greench, but not if he is dead, then casts a spell (Arcane shot in this case) Then in raid warning says THERE IT IS! KILL IT! Its a fun macro, for you non hunters just replace arcane shot with another ability, but be sure to put the rank in too.

A Frosty Shake So after you turn in the quest, around 24 hours after that you get a snowman disguise kit. It requires a snowball that you can buy for 5 copper. You need to /dance with another snowman in Dalaran. Just find another one with the disguise kit and /dance. You can even do this with someone of another faction


The Winter Veil Gourmet: Another of the three more difficult achivements. For this one you need to cook three different recipes. The three are Gingerbread cookie, egg nog, and hot apple Cider. This seems pretty easy, until you realize that you need 325 cooking for the hot apple cider! Luckily a guide requiring no fishing was just put on wow pro! I personally got to 325 by only fishing when I was on a step of a cooking guide where the drops were crappy. I used the wowwiki guide however, instead of the one on this site. Wowwiki guide. Now then everything but the small eggs you require can be found from the smokeywood pastures vendors. The locations of small eggs are described above. All three recipes are bought from the Smokeywood pastures vendors.

Fa-la-la-la-Ogri'la The final of the three most difficult achievement's of winter veil. You need to complete the quest Bomb Them Again while mounted on a flying reindeer. This means you need A.) A flying mount and B.) The Ogri'la quests unlocked. Most people should have flying mounts at this point, and since this is in Blades Edge mountains, you done even need to have cold weather flying. Start the chain a little east of the ring of blood. You need to kill 5 elite sons of Gruul. This is rather difficult, though people have reported being able to solo most of them. It is impossible to solo the 4th one. You need 3 at the very least to summon him. To summon him you all need to stand in a Pentagram, Pictured below.

(Image from a Thottbot screenshot)
Now it shows them using five people. However you do not need five, I have done it with four, and some report doing it with three. You see when you stand in the Penagram, and someone else is to, a red beam comes between you and the other person. The more people you have, the more crisscrosy the beam's are. When you leave one of the circles, the beam of red stays there for a short time. You need to have everyone stand still, except the one or two people who are going to move. Both the people need to be on Epic ground. Once the others are assembled, you need to quickly move to the open circle next to you. If you do it quick enough, then he will be summoned. After killing all five sons of Gruul, you need to go to Ogri'la.

Then find 5 Apexis shards. For some reason these drop the most from etherals and elementals in Bash'ir Landing, which is at the top of the zone. After you find five shards head back in turn in. Don't get the follow up, get Our Boy Wants To Be A Skyguard Ranger. Find 10 more shards, then go to the Northern Forge camp. Find the evil forge thing, buy one Unstable Flask of the Beast from it. Turn in, and get The Skyguard Outpost. Turn in, get the Bombing run, just drop bombs on the marked objects. Turn in, use some Preserved or Fresh Holly (Get from saving Saving Metzen or a method below) on your flyer, and get the daily bomb them again. Do it as normal, but on the Reindeer. Turn in and you are all set!


Let it SnowYou need to throw a Handful of Snowflakes at a:
Orc Death Knight
Tauren Shaman
Undead Rogue
Gnome Mage
Blood Elf Warlock
Human Warrior
Night Elf Druid
Troll Hunter
Dwarf Paladin
Draenei Priest
This takes ten Handful's of Snowflakes. You can only get these by targeting a winter reveler's and /kissing them. You can only do this once per hour per character. Level 30 and above characters usually dont get these, they get some type of Holly. Because of this I think you should get on some of your characters under level 30 near a city. The snowflakes are not Bind on Pickup so you can mail them to your main character easily.

For actually finding these people, all of them that are horde can probably be found in Orgrimmar while the Alliance ones can be found in Stormwind or Ironforge. Now then since you may have trouble getting in to the opposing factions cities, you should go to Dalaran or the battlegrounds. Wintergrasp is also a good option.


Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's(Horde) This difficulty of this varies by faction. First of you need mistletoe, you can find it from /kiss on winter revelers (Still). Sadly this is bind on pickup so you need a healthy dose of luck to get it. I think that it comes from some of the other holiday quests as well. The alliance has a great guide to get all of the brothers, get to it by clicking on the link of the achievement above. The horde, on the other hand has a easier time in terms of people, but a harder time in terms of locations. First go to Undercity and find Brother Malach. He is standing near the "Fight Club" in the war quarter. Then take the Zepplin to Orgrimmar, then take the zepplin to Warsong hold. Once there find Durkot Wolfsbrother. He is the stable master of Warsong hold. Then you need to go to a Icecrown airship. You need to be level 77 to fly to the airship, and can't be summoned to it, but clever Wowhead users have figured out a way anyways. Click on the Horde link, and look at the comments. Note that this brother is a Blood elf, and he patrols around the airship.

Enjoy your new title, Merrymaker!

Image from Thotbott
On Metzen information from wowinsider
All links from wowhead or wowwiki
Thanks to Wowhead commentors for the awsome macro!

WoWkings Guide to Midsummer Festival and Title(ALLIANCE ONLY)

WoWkings Guide to Midsummer Festival
***(ALLIANCE ONLY)***

THIS is alot of walking so i recommend that you have your Mount and are
at least lvl 75+ because is you are lvl 75+ you can just go into a Cap
and run to the flame if you are a Rogue you can just Stealth through
the Cities and get the flame easily providing you dont aggro the guards

WoWking

*******************ALLIANCE MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL GUIDE*******************

Start in Darnassus. Go to Dolanaar in Teldrassil and Honor the Flame.
Travel to Auberdine in Darkshore and Honor the Flame.
Take the boat to Azuremyst and enter the Exodar.
Get The Master of Summer Lore from any commoner and go turn in.
Get Incense for the Summer Scorchlings.
Get, complete and turn in Torch Tossing. To do this, you must stand close enough to the bonfire so that your torches will light properly. Hotkey your torch then hit it to get the targeting circle. Throw the torch at the braziers that have a hunter’s mark showing above them. Note: You can do this in any major city.
Get, complete and turn in Torch Catching. To do this, you must stand close enough to the bonfire so that your torches will light properly. Use your torch to toss it in the air then attempt to catch it. I recommend looking at the shadow of the torch on the ground and standing on it to catch it. If you miss, be careful because you’ll get a DoT. Note: You can do this in any major city.
Get, complete and turn in More Torch Tossing and More Torch Catching. Note: These quests are dailies that you can do for more Burning Blossoms.
Speak with the Earthen Ring Elder and get the quest Unusual Activity.
Purchase at least 20 Juggling Torches from the Midsummer Supplier. Get a few more if you’re not confident in your ability to juggle. Save these for later.
Travel to Azure Watch in Azuremyst and Honor the Flame.
In the area of 44,52 you’ll find a Scorchling to complete and turn in Incense for the Summer Scorchlings.
Honor the Flame at Blood Watch in Bloodmyst.
Fly to Everlook in Winterspring. Honor the Alliance’s Flame and Desecrate the Horde’s Fire.
Fly to Forest Song in Ashenvale and go to Splintertree Post to Desecrate the Fire.
Travel to Astranaar and Honor the Flame.
Go to Blackfathom Depths in the area of 15,17.
Kill Twilight mobs there until you complete Unusual Activity. Use your Totemic Beacon to summon the NPC you need to turn in to.
Get An Innocent Disguise. Go to the beach northwest of BFD, use the orb to turn into a crab and wait for the naga to finish speaking to get your quest completion.
Use your Totemic Beacon to turn in An Innocent Disguise. Get Inform the Elder.
Fly to Stonetalon Peak in Stonetalon Mountains then go southward to Sunrock Retreat and Desecrate the Fire.
Travel to Nijel’s Point to Honor the Flame.
Go southward to Shadowprey Village to Desecrate the Fire.
Go to Feathermoon Stronghold and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Thalanaar and then travel to Camp Mojache in Feralas to Desecrate the Fire.
Travel to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles and Desecrate the Fire.
Return to Thalanaar then fly to Cenarion Hold in Silithus. Honor the Alliance’s Flame and Desecrate the Horde’s Fire.
Fly to Gadgetzan in Tanaris. Honor the Alliance’s Flame and Desecrate the Horde’s Fire.
Fly to Theramore and Honor the Flame. ***
Travel to Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh and Desecrate the Fire.
Travel to Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore and Desecrate the Fire.
Enter Thunder Bluff and Steal the Flame on Spirit Rise.
Return to the Barrens and head north to Desecrate the Fire at the Crossroads.
Travel to Razor Hill and Desecrate the Fire. ***
Enter Orgrimmar to Steal the Flame in the Valley of Wisdom.
Return to Ratchet and take the boat to Booty Bay. Desecrate the Horde’s Fire and Honor the Alliance’s Flame.
Fly to Nethergarde Keep in the Blasted Lands and Honor the Flame.
Desecrate the Fire in Stonard in Swamp of Sorrows.
Travel to Darkshire in Duskwood and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Lakeshire in Redridge Mountains and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Morgan’s Vigil and Honor the Flame.
Travel to Flame Crest in Burning Steppes and Desecrate the Fire.
Go back to Morgan’s Vigil then fly to Sentinel Hill in Westfall and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Stormwind and turn in Inform the Elder.
Get Striking Back. This quest is different depending on your level. Complete it and turn it in at your convenience.
Get Ahune, the Frost Lord.
Go south to Goldshire in Elwynn Forest and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Thorium Point in Searing Gorge then go east to the Badlands. Desecrate the Fire at Kargath.
Travel to Thelsamar in Loch Modan and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Ironforge then go southward to Kharanos in Dun Morogh and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Refuge Pointe in Arathi and Honor the Flame.
Go to Hammerfall and Desecrate the Fire.
Head back to Refuge Pointe and fly to Southshore to Honor the Flame.
Go to Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad and Desecrate the Fire.
Hoof it to the Sepulcher in Silverpine to Desecrate the Fire.
Go northward to Brill in Tirisfal Glades and Desecrate the Fire.
Enter The Undercity to Steal the Flame in the Ruins of Lordaeron.
Travel to Chillwind Camp in Western Plaguelands and Honor the Flame.
Fly to Aerie Peak in the Hinterlands and Honor the Flame.
Go to Revantusk Village and Desecrate the Fire.
Return to Aerie Peak and fly to Zul’Aman in the Ghostlands. From there, travel to Tranquillien and Desecrate the Fire.
Travel to North Sanctum in Eversong Woods and Desecrate the Fire.
Enter Silvermoon City and Steal the Flame from the Court of the Sun.
Travel to Dalaran and complete The Torch Juggler. To do this, use the Juggling Torches that you purchased earlier in the guide. Find a quiet corner in Dalaran where you have open space and have the least amount of lag. Tips: Bind your Torches to a hotkey (1 for this example). Press 1 to get the targeting circle and aim directly beneath yourself. Throwing them at yourself this way will allow you to catch them as fast as you can throw them. There is no global cooldown on the torches so you can spam away until you complete this achievement.
If you want to do the Northrend fires now would be a good time to do it. It is not currently part of the achievement. See the Northrend section for directions.
Take the portal to Shattrath. Fly Telaar in Nagrand and Honor the Flame.
Go to Garadar in Nagrand and Desecrate the Fire.
Go to Telredor and Honor the Flame.
Get yourself a group, enter the Slave Pens(Normal or Heroic) and turn in Ahune, the Frost Lord.
Get and turn in Ahune is Here!
Get, complete and turn in Summon Ahune. Tatics: Everyone in your party can summon Ahune once per day. So you will be able to fight him 5 times if you wish. Ahune is a two-phase fight. Ahune does not need to be tanked. During the first phase, have your tank pick up the largest add and have most of your DPS focus on it. One DPS should be designated to picking up and killing the other little adds. Mainly to keep them off the healer. Phase two will begin when you get a raid warning that says something like ‘Ahune has retreated’. He will change forms and become vulnerable to damage so all DPS needs to focus on him until phase 1 begins again. Note that Ahune will drop different loot depending on if the instance is normal or heroic.
Loot Ahune’s Ice Chest to get the Shards of Ahune item. Use it to get the quest Shards of Ahune. Turn it in to Luma in the Slave Pens. ***
Go to Zabra’jin in Zangarmarsh and Desecrate the Fire.
Head north to Orebor Harborage then fly to Sylvannar in Blade’s Edge Mountains to Honor the Flame.
Travel to Thunderlord Stronghold and Desecrate the Fire.
Go to Toshley’s Station and then fly to Area 52 in Netherstorm. Honor the Alliance’s Flame and Desecrate the Horde’s Fire.
Travel to Thrallamar in Hellfire Peninsula to Desecrate the Fire.
Honor the Flame at Honor Hold.
Desecrate the Fire at Shadowmoon Village in Shadowmoon Valley.
Go to Wildhammer Stronghold to Honor the Flame.
Fly to Allerian Stronghold and Honor the Flame. ***
Travel to Stonebreaker Hold and Desecrate the Fire. ***
Return to Shattrath and take the portal to any major city.
Turn in Stealing Silvermoon’s Flame, Stealing the Undercity’s Flame, Stealing Orgrimmar’s Flame and Stealing Thunder Bluff’s Flame.
Complete and turn in A Thief’s Reward. ***
Visit the Midsummer Supplier and purchase a Mantle of the Fire Festival, Vestment of Summer and Sandals of Summer.
Equip your recently acquired summer garb and use a Ribbon Pole to dance for at least 60 seconds. ***
Congratulations! You’re now a Flame Warden!

WoWkings Guide to the Midsummer Festival and Title(HORDE ONLY)

WoWkings Guide to Midsummer Festival
***(HORDE ONLY)***

THIS is alot of walking so i recommend that you have your Mount and are
at least lvl 75+ because is you are lvl 75+ you can just go into a Cap
and run to the flame if you are a Rogue you can just Stealth through
the Cities and get the flame easily providing you dont aggro the guards

WoWking

********************HORDE MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL GUIDE********************

1. Start in Silvermoon City. Exit the city and head west to the North Sanctum and Honor the Flame.
2. Go to Tranquillien in the Ghostlands and Honor the Flame.
3. Travel to the Undercity.
4. Get The Spinner of Summer Tales from any commoner.
5. Turn in to the Festival Talespinner.
6. Get Incense for the Festival Scorchlings.
7. Go to Brill and head just a little west of town (57, 51). Use your incense on the scorchling to complete and turn in your quest.
8. Honor the Flame in Brill.
9. Get, complete and turn in Torch Tossing. To do this, you must stand close enough to the bonfire so that your torches will light properly. Hotkey your torch then hit it to get the targeting circle. Throw the torch at the braziers that have a hunter’s mark showing above them. Note: You can do this in any major city.
10. Get, complete and turn in Torch Catching. To do this, you must stand close enough to the bonfire so that your torches will light properly. Use your torch to toss it in the air then attempt to catch it. I recommend looking at the shadow of the torch on the ground and standing on it to catch it. If you miss, be careful because you’ll get a DoT. Note: You can do this in any major city.
11. Get, complete and turn in More Torch Tossing and More Torch Catching. Note: These quests are dailies that you can do for more Burning Blossoms.
12. Speak with the Earthen Ring Elder and get the quest Unusual Activity.
13. Purchase at least 20 Juggling Torches from the Midsummer Merchant. Get a few more if you’re not confident in your ability to juggle. Save these for later.
14. Fly to the Sepulcher in Silverpine and Honor the Flame east of town.
15. Fly to Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad and Honor the Flame.
16. Travel to Southshore and Desecrate the Fire.
17. Head north to Chillwind Camp in Western Plaguelands and Desecrate the Fire.
18. Go east through Sorrow Hill. As you get close to Caer Darrow, look southward for the pass through the mountains to the Hinterlands called Plaguemist Ravine.
19. Desecrate the Fire at Aerie Peak.
20. Go to Revantusk Village and Honor the Flame.
21. Fly to Hammerfall in Arathai and Honor the Flame.
22. Hoof it to Refuge Pointe and Desecrate the Fire.
23. Travel to Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands and Desecrate the Fire.
24. Go to Thelsamar in Loch Modan and Desecrate the Fire.
25. Travel to Kharanos in Dun Morogh and Desecrate the Fire.
26. Enter Ironforge and Steal the Flame in the Hall of Explorers.
27. Travel to Kargath in Badlands and Honor the Flame.
28. Fly to Flame Crest in Burning Steppes and Honor the Flame.
29. Go down to Morgan’s Vigil and Desecrate the Fire.
30. Travel to Lakeshire in Redridge Mountains and Desecrate the Fire.
31. Desecrate the Flame in Goldshire in Elwynn Forest.
32. Enter Stormwind City and Steal the Flame in the Canal District between Trade, Mage and the Park near the Stockades.
33. Go to Sentinel Hill in Westfall and Desecrate the Fire.
34. Travel to Darkshire in Duskwood and Desecrate the Fire.
35. Honor the Flame in Stonard in Swamp of Sorrows.
36. Desecrate the Fire in Nethergarde Keep in the Blasted Lands.
37. Return to Stonard and Fly to Booty Bay. Desecrate the Alliance’s Fire and Honor the Horde’s Flame. ***
38. Fly to Grom’gol then take the Zepp to Orgrimmar.
39. Travel south to Razor Hill and Honor the Flame.
40. Honor the Flame at the Crossroads in the Barrens.
41. Fly to Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh and Honor the Flame.
42. Travel to Theramore and Desecrate the Fire.
43. Return to Brackenwall and fly to Thunder Bluff.
44. Travel south to Bloodhoof Village and Honor the Flame.
45. Fly to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles and Honor the Flame.
46. Fly to Gadgetzan in Tanaris. Honor the Horde’s Flame and Desecrate the Alliance’s Fire.
47. Fly to Cenarion Hold in Silithus. Honor the Horde’s Flame and Desecrate the Alliance’s Fire.
48. Fly to Camp Mojache in Feralas and Honor the Flame.
49. Travel to Feathermoon Stronghold and Desecrate the Fire.
50. Travel to Shadowprey Village to Honor the Flame.
51. Go northward to Nijel’s Point to Desecrate the Fire.
52. Fly to Sunrock Retreat and Honor the Flame.
53. Fly to Splintertree Post in Ashenvale and Honor the Flame.
54. Travel to Astranaar and Desecrate the Fire.
55. Go to Blackfathom Depths in the area of 15,17.
56. Kill Twilight mobs there until you complete Unusual Activity. Use your Totemic Beacon to summon the NPC you need to turn in to.
57. Get An Innocent Disguise. Go to the beach northwest of BFD, use the orb to turn into a crab and wait for the naga to finish speaking to get your quest completion.
58. Use your Totemic Beacon to turn in An Innocent Disguise. Get Inform the Elder.
59. Go to Zoram’gar and fly to Orgrimmar. Turn in Inform the Elder.
60. Get Striking Back. This quest is different depending on your level. Complete it and turn it in at your convenience.
61. Get Ahune, the Frost Lord.
62. Fly to Everlook in Winterspring. Honor the Horde’s Flame and Desecrate the Alliance’s Fire. ***
63. Travel to Auberdine in Darkshore and Desecrate the Fire.
64. Sneak aboard the boat to Ruth’Theran Village and Steal the Flame.
65. Go to Dolanaar in Teldrassil and Desecrate the Fire.
66. Go back Auberdine and take the boat to Azuremyst. Enter the Exodar and Steal the Flame in the Crystal Hall.
67. Travel to Azure Watch in Azuremyst and Desecrate the Fire.
68. Desecrate the Fire at Blood Watch in Bloodmyst. ***
69. Travel to Dalaran and complete The Torch Juggler. To do this, use the Juggling Torches that you purchased earlier in the guide. Find a quiet corner in Dalaran where you have open space and have the least amount of lag. Tips: Bind your Torches to a hotkey (1 for this example). Press 1 to get the targeting circle and aim directly beneath yourself. Throwing them at yourself this way will allow you to catch them as fast as you can throw them. There is no global cooldown on the torches so you can spam away until you complete this achievement.
70. If you want to do the Northrend fires now would be a good time to do it. It is not currently part of the achievement. See the Northrend section for directions.
71. Take the portal to Shattrath. Go to Telaar in Nagrand and Desecrate the Fire.
72. Fly to Garadar in Nagrand and Honor the Flame.
73. Fly to Zabra’jin in Zangarmarsh and Honor the Flame.
74. Get yourself a group, enter the Slave Pens and turn in Ahune, the Frost Lord.
75. Get and turn in Ahune is Here!
76. Get, complete and turn in Summon Ahune. Tatics: Everyone in your party can summon Ahune once per day. So you will be able to fight him 5 times if you wish. Ahune is a two-phase fight. Ahune does not need to be tanked. During the first phase, have your tank pick up the largest add and have most of your DPS focus on it. One DPS should be designated to picking up and killing the other little adds. Mainly to keep them off the healer. Phase two will begin when you get a raid warning that says something like ‘Ahune has retreated’. He will change forms and become vulnerable to damage so all DPS needs to focus on him until phase 1 begins again. Note that Ahune will drop different loot depending on if the instance is normal or heroic.
77. Loot Ahune’s Ice Chest to get the Shards of Ahune item. Use it to get the quest Shards of Ahune. Turn it in to Luma in the Slave Pens. ***
78. Go to Telredor and Desecrate the Fire.
79. Travel to Swamprat Post then fly to Thunderlord Stronghold and Honor the Flame.
80. Go to Sylvannar in Blade’s Edge Mountains and Desecrate the Fire.
81. Return to Thunderlord Stronghold and then fly to Area 52 in Netherstorm. Honor the Horde’s Flame and Desecrate the Alliance’s Fire.
82. Travel to Thrallamar in Hellfire Peninsula to Honor the Flame.
83. Desecrate the Fire at Honor Hold.
84. Honor the Flame at Shadowmoon Village in Shadowmoon Valley.
85. Go to Wildhammer Stronghold to Desecrate the Fire.
86. Travel to Allerian Stronghold and Desecrate the Fire. ***
87. Fly to Stonebreaker Hold and Honor the Flame. ***
88. Return to Shattrath and take the portal to any major city.
89. Turn in Stealing the Exodar’s Flame, Stealing Ironforge’s Flame, Stealing Stormwind’s Flame and Stealing Darnassus’ Flame.
90. Complete and turn in A Thief’s Reward. ***
91. Visit the Midsummer Merchant and purchase a Mantle of the Fire Festival, Vestment of Summer and Sandals of Summer.
92. Equip your recently acquired summer garb and use a Ribbon Pole to dance for at least 60 seconds.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE GOTTEN THE TITLE FLAME KEEPER!!!!!

WoWkings Northrend Fire Festival Guide(Alliance and Horde)

WOWkings Northerend Fire Festival Guide
***HORDE AND ALLIANCE***

Note: There is no Flame in Dalaran

From Dalaran, fly to K3 in Storm Peaks. Honor/Desecrate the Horde and Alliance flames.
Travel southwest to Sunreaver's Command to Honor/Desecrate the Horde flame.
Go south to Windrunner's Overlook to Honor/Desecrate the Alliance flame.
Fly to the Argent Stand in Zul'Drak. Honor/Desecrate the Horde and Alliance flames.
Travel to Fort Wildervar in Howling Fjord to Honor/Desecrate the Alliance flame.
Go west to Camp Winterhoof to Honor/Desecrate the Horde flame.
Travel to Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills to Honor/Desecrate the Alliance flame.
Go west to Conquest Hold to Honor/Desecrate the Horde flame.
Travel west to Wintergarde Keep in Dragonblight to Honor/Desecrate the Alliance flame.
Continue westward to Agmar's Hammer to Honor/Desecrate the Horde flame.
Travel to Fizzcrank's Airstrip in Borean Tundra to to Honor/Desecrate the Alliance flame.
Go northwest to Bo'gorok Outpost to Honor/Desecrate the Horde flame.
Fly to River's Heart in Sholazar Basin. Honor/Desecrate the Horde and Alliance flames.

Attunements and Keys

Guides on how to obtain keys and attunements for certain areas of the game such as Onyxia's Lair or Naxxramas.

Blackwing Lair Attunement

Step 1:

First, find yourself a group to UBRS that will do the whole place. Travel to Blackrock Mountain and run up along the chain that leads to BRD and jump down there, turn right and run towards some kind of place, jump on to it and your just outside the entrance to BRS. Get some guy who can help you kill the Scarshield Quartermaster. Start killing the mobs to the right and fight them until you reach the Scarshield Quartermaster, kill him and loot the letter he drops. Rightclick the letter and start the quest, Blackhand's Command.

Step 2:

Now go along with your group until you reach General Drakkisath, kill him and then touch the orb behind him.

Gratz, now you can raid Blackwing Lair!

To enter Blackwing Lair just go and kill that Scarshield Quartermaster again and touch the orb that he is guarding, that will teleport you into Blackwing Lair.

Happy hunting!

Deea's Karazhan Attunement Guide

Author's Notes

This is a step-by-step guide on how to obtain The Master's Key, which is needed to gain access to Karazhan, a 10-man Raid Instance in Deadwind Pass. My guide also covers pre-questing and attunements for all dungeons needed to complete the Karazhan attunement questline. It does not, however, cover Karazhan tactics and raid content, it is just a tool to prepare you for this instance.

I strongly advise you to have a coordinates add-on installed, as I will use coordinates throughout the guide.

I will be using the following color code: quests, NPCs, locations and quest items.

This is also my first guide, so please leave as much feedback as possible.



The Guide

Pre-questing

1. Travel to the Deadwind Pass and find Archmage Alrturus standing just outside the entrance to the instance (47,75). Get the quests Arcane Disturbances and Restless Activity.

2. At (48,78) go down one of the two entrances leading down into an underground cave. Clear your way to the pond and use the Violet Scrying Crystal next to the water. Go back up and this time go down the other entrance, the one leading down into a cellar. Clear the way to the well and use the Violet Scrying Crystal next to it. By now you should be done gathering Ghostly Essences for the other quest as well. If not, kill some more ghosts. When done with both quests return to Archmage Alrturus and turn in the two quests. Get the follow-up Contact from Dalaran.

3. Travel to the Alterac Mountains. Go to Archmage Cedric, who can be found on the outskirts of Dalaran (15,54). Turn in Contact from Dalaran and get the follow-up Khadgar.

4. Go to Khadgar in Shattrath City (54,44). Turn in Khadgar and get the follow-up Entry into Karazhan.

We are done with the pre-questing, now it's instance time!

Instances

1. If you are attuned for The Shadow Labyrinth (or if you know you will group up with someone who can open this instance), skip this step. Get a group together and go to the Sethekk Halls in Auchindoun, Terokkar Forest. Kill the boss Talon King Ikiss and loot the Shadow Labyrinth Key.

2. Next we are going to get the First Key Fragment of the Karazhan key. Get a group together and go do the Shadow Labyrinth instance in Auchindoun, Terokkar Forest. At the end of the instance, in the room where you killed the last boss (Murmur) look for an Arcane Container, which looks like this. Make sure your group is ready, because when you open the container an elite First Fragment Guardian will spawn (looks like an elemental). Kill it and loot the First Key Fragment

3. Return to Khadgar in Shattrath City, turn in Entry into Karazhan and get the follow up The Second and Third Fragments.

4. Now we are going to obtain the Second Key Fragment. Get a group together and go to The Steamvault instance of the Coilfang Reservoir in Zangarmarsh. You don't have to do the whole instance, as the Arcane Container is located in the pool of water to the right of the first boss (Hydromancer Thespia). Same thing - open the container, kill the Second Fragment Guardian and loot the Second Key Fragment.

The next part will be completed inside The Arcatraz. To access it you need a flying mount and the Key to the Arcatraz, which is obtained by completing a quest chain in Netherstorm. However, only one person in your group must have the key and the whole party can enter the instance. Additionally, a rogue with maxed out Lockpicking skill can open the entrance. If one of your party members has the key or can lockpick, then skip the following step and go directly to step 6.

5. Attunement for The Arcatraz

  1. Travel to Netherstorm and go find Nether-Stalker Khay'ji (32,64). Get the quest Consortium Crystal Collection from him.

  2. Go to (42,72), kill Pentatharon and loot the Arklon Crystal Artifact. Go back to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji, turn in Consortium Crystal Collection and get the follow-up A Heap of Ethereals.

  3. At (30,74) kill Ethereals until you have 10 Zaxxis Insignias. Go back to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji, turn in A Heap of Ethereals and get the follow-up Warp-Raider Nesaad.

  4. Kill Warp-Raider Nesaad (28,79), he can be soloed. Go back to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji, turn in Warp-Raider Nesaad and get the follow-up Request for Assistance.

  5. Go talk to Gahruj (47,57), turn in Request for Assistance and get the follow-up Rightful Repossession.

  6. Collect 10 Boxes of Surveying Equipment, which can be found at Manaforge Duro (56,64). Go back to Gahruj, turn in Rightful Repossession and get the follow-up An Audience with the Prince.

  7. Find the Image of Nexus-Prince Haramad in the Stormspire (46,36). Turn in An Audience with the Prince and get the follow-up Triangulation Point One.

  8. Go to (67,34) and right-click the Triangulation Device from your inventory. Follow the red arrow until you see something looking like a Hunter's Mark pointing towards the ground. Stand on that spot and you should get the (quest complete) message.

  9. Go find Dealer Hazzin, located at (58,31). Turn in Triangulation Point One and get the follow up Triangulation Point Two.

  10. Again, use the Triangulation Device, this time at (28,41). Find the arrow that looks like the Hunter's Mark and stand beneath it so you get the (quest complete) message.

  11. Go to Wind Trader Tuluman (34,37), turn in Triangulation Point Two and get the follow up Full Triangle.

  12. The next step is a bit harder, but certain classes might be able to solo it. If you want to try your luck solo, go to (53,20), where you will find Culuthas. Kill him and loot the Ata'mal Crystal from him. If you don't manage to solo him, better find a group for this part.

  13. Go to the Image of Nexus-Prince Haramad inside The Stormspire (46,36). Turn in Full Triangle and get the follow up Special Delivery to Shattrath City.

  14. Travel to Shattrath City and talk to A'dal (54,44). Turn in Special Delivery to Shattrath City and get the follow up How to Break Into the Arcatraz.

  15. Time to do some instances! Get a group together and go do The Mechanar in Tempest Keep, Netherstorm. The Top Shard of the Arcatraz Key is looted from Pathaleon the Calculator. He is the last boss, so you will have to go through the whole instance. Also, a flying mount is required to reach this instance.

  16. For the Bottom Shard of the Arcatraz Key you must get a group together and go do The Botanica in Tempest Keep, Netherstorm. Again, do the whole instance, as the shard is looted from the last boss Warp Splinter. This instance also requires a flying mount to access.

  17. Once you have both key shards, return to A'dal in Shattrath (54,44) and turn in How to Break Into the Arcatraz to get the Key to the Arcatraz

6. Now get a group together for The Arcatraz in Tempest Keep, Netherstorm. The Arcane Container is found after the boss Zereketh the Unbound. You don't have to kill him, just pass by him and go up the ramp. Pass the corridor and then in a room full of voidwalkers you have the container to the right as you enter the room. Open it, kill the Third Fragment Guardian that spawns and loot the Third Key Fragment. You don't have to finish the rest of the instance.

7. Return to Khadgar in Shattrath City (54,44), turn in The Second and Third Fragments and get the follow up The Master's Touch.

For the next part, you will need to be attuned for The Black Morass, so if you already are attuned skip the following step and go directly to step 9.

8. Attunement for The Black Morass
If you are attuned to The Old Hillsbrad, skip directly to point 4.

  1. To enter Black Morass you must first complete the Old Hillsbrad Foothills dungeon in the Caverns of Time. First, go to the Caverns of Time in Tanaris and find the Steward of Time (58,54). Dismount and get the quest To The Master's Lair (you must be dismounted or you will get an error message and will have to abandon the quest and get it again).

  2. You will be taken to Andormu, turn To The Master's Lair and get the follow-up The Caverns of Time.

  3. Follow the Custodian of Time around until you get the (quest complete) message. Go back to Andormu, turn in the quest and get the follow-up Old Hillsbrad.

  4. Time to do the Old Hillsbrad instance! Get a group together and go inside the instance, which is located in the Caverns of Time, Tanaris. Find Erozion at the end of the tunnel. Turn in Old Hillsbrad and get the follow up Taretha's Diversion.

  5. Talk to the dragon next to you and ask him to take you to Durnholde Keep. After landing, clear your way to the lodges and use the Pack of Incendiary Bombs from your inventory on the barrels in each of the lodges.

  6. Clear the way to the prison to speak to Thrall, turn in Taretha's Diversion and get the follow up Escape from Durnholde. This is an escort quest, and unlike other escort quests, this one will not prompt a dialog to all other party members to accept the quest. Instead, each party member has to accept the quest, then one of you must talk to Thrall again and confirm that the group is ready. If one party member doesn't take the quest, you will have to redo the instance.

  7. Escort Thrall to Taretha, found inside the inn in Tarren Mill (the one inside the instance, of course). Once you reach her, the Epoch Hunter will spawn ouside the inn. Help Thrall kill him. WARNING: Don't let Thrall die, or the quest will fail!

  8. Go back to Erozion at the entrance of the instance. Turn in Escape from Durnholde and get the follow up Return to Andormu.

  9. Exit the instance and go to Andormu in the Caverns of Time (58,54). Turn in Return to Andormu and get the follow-up The Black Morass. You are now attuned for The Black Morass.

9. Finally, form a group to go through The Black Morass in the Caverns of Time, Tanaris. Make sure your entire group has done the Black Morass attunement first. Turn in The Black Morass to Sa'at inside the instance and get the follow-up The Opening of the Dark Portal.

10. Complete opening the Dark Portal to be able to talk to Medivh in the instance, turn in The Master's Touch and get the follow up Return to Khadgar. And while you're here, go back to Sa'at, turn in The Opening of the Dark Portal and get the follow-up Hero of the Brood, if you haven't done this already (Hero of the Brood is turned in at Andormu outside the instance).

11. Travel back to Shattrath City. Turn in Return to Khadgar at Khadgar and you will receive The Master's Key.

Congratulations, you are now attunned to Karazhan!

You can take the quest The Violet Eye from Khadgar to continue the Karazhan quest line, but we won't be doing it in the guide.

Molten Core Attunement

Introcution:
When your guild starts doing MC, noone will want to go through BRD. The only way to avoid the long journey is to do the quest [60]Attunement to the Core. You get it from a blood elf near the entrance to BRD. After you get on the platform after the second chain you just can't miss him. You can get the quest only if you're lvl 55+. When you take it, don't leave. Turn around the place where he is and you'll see an orange crystal. You're going to teleport to MC after you finish the attunement. Now, let's get inside.

Inside:
When you get inside there's nothing special to do. Follow Jame's guide(click here) untll you get outside the room with the seven dwarves.You'll see a bridge with 6 elementals on it.Kill them and continue. You'll be in a room with an orange crystal on the floor. Take it and either continue with BRD or go back to the elf.

Grats, now your guildmates have someone to ask for the quest. Smiling))

Onyxia Key (Alliance)

To get your key to Onyxia, you must go to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes. That is where the chain starts.

Step 1:

  • Quest name: Dragonkin Menace
  • Start: Helendis Riverhorn
  • Location: Burning Steppes
  • Level: 54 elite
  • Notes: The NPC asks you to kill a number of different types of dragons in Burning Steppes. If you do this at level 54, I would advise taking more than two people. Some of the dragons have rather high HP and do a pretty decent amount of damage.

Step 2:

  • Quest Name: The True Masters
  • Start: Helendis Riverhorn
  • Location: Burning Steppes
  • Level: 54
  • Notes: The NPC asks you to deliver a letter to Magistrate Solomon in Lakeshire.

Step 3:

  • Quest Name: The True Masters
  • Start: Magistrate Soloman
  • Location: Lakeshire Town Hall
  • Level: 54
  • Notes: You are asked to deliver another letter to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon in Stormwind Keep.

Step 4:

  • Quest Name: The True Masters
  • Start: Highlord Bolvar Fordragon
  • Location: Stormwind Keep
  • Level: 54
  • Notes: You are asked to take another letter back to Magistrate Solomon in the Lakeshire Town Hall.

Step 5:

  • Quest Name: The True Masters
  • Start: Magistrate Solomon
  • Location: Lakeshire Town Hall
  • Level: 54
  • Notes: Magistrate Solomon tells you to return to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes and to talk to Marshal Maxwell.

Step 6:

  • Quest Name: The True Masters
  • Start: Marshal Maxwell
  • Location: Burning Steppes
  • Level: 54
  • Notes: Marshal Maxwell tells you to find and speak to someone named Ragged John in the Burning Steppes. He is located almost directly North of Morgan's Vigil near a cave at the top of the map.

Step 7:

  • Quest Name: Marshal Windsor
  • Start: Ragged John
  • Location: Cave in Burning Steppes
  • Level: 54 elite
  • Notes: This is where things start to get harder. You can start this at level 54, but I would not advise it until closer to level 60. Take a full group. You will be heading into Blackrock Depths for this. Marshal Windsor is located in one of the cells towards the right side of the entrance to the instance.

Step 8:

  • Quest Name: Abandoned Hope
  • Start: Marshal Windsor
  • Location: Blackrock Depths
  • Level: 54 elite
  • Notes: Again, take a full group of five. The more level 60's you have the easier this will be. Once you talk to Marshal Windsor, he tells you to leave him and talk to Marshal Maxwell again. So it's back to the Burning Steppes for you.

Step 9:

  • Quest Name: A Crumpled Up Note
  • Start: Crumpled Up Note
  • Location: Blackrock Depths
  • Level: 54 elite
  • Notes: After you talk to Marshal Maxwell, the chain seems to end. You must go back to Blackrock Depths and kill enemies until one of them drops the crumpled note. It is a random drop, but luckily does not seem to take long to get. When you do find it, you must take it to Marshal Windsor, who is still sitting in his jail cell in Blackrock Depths.

Step 10:

  • Quest Name: A Shred of Hope
  • Start: Marshal Windsor
  • Location: Blackrock Depths
  • Level: 58 elite
  • Notes: Marshal Windsor asks you to find his lost information. There are two pieces, they are dropped by General Angerforge and Golem Lord Argelmach.

Step 11:

  • Quest Name: Jail Break!
  • Start: Marshal Windsor
  • Location: Blackrock Depths
  • Level: 58 elite
  • Notes: This is the infamous escort quest that you have probably heard about at some point in guild chat or in your travels. This quest is actually extremely easy to do, provided you take the right precautions. Before ANYONE accepts the Jail Break! quest from Marshal Windsor, you must clear the path that he will be walking to retrieve his gear. There are two main areas you must clear, the first being the ring in which his cell is located, the other being the Ring of the Law. Make sure you clear out the cells along the way as well. Even if you clear out the path, there will still be enemies that spawn to attack you. Make sure your tanks are on their toes, you don't want Marshal Windsor dying and he is a pretty weak guy at this point in time. And no you cannot heal him during the fights, he will refill by himself after each one is over. After you are done, go back to Morgan's Vigil in the Burning Steppes and talk to Marshal Maxwell.

Step 12:

  • Quest Name: Stormwind Rendezvous (Raid)
  • Start: Marshal Maxwell
  • Location: Burning Steppes
  • Level: 63 elite
  • Notes: Head to the gates of Stormwind. You may have to wait a few seconds for Marshal Windsor to spawn at the gates, once he does, talk to him to continue the quest chain.

Step 13:

  • Quest Name: The Great Masquerade (raid)
  • Start: Marshal Windsor
  • Location: Stormwind gates
  • Level: 63 elite
  • Notes: You will now have to follow Marshal Windsor through Stormwind, talk to him to start the quest. He will stop to talk to General Marcus Johnathan, just let him yap and eventually you will be told to follow him to the keep. When you get to the gates of the keep, he will stop and tell you to give him the signal when you are ready. Just click him again and you will have to follow him into the keep. When you get to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, you listen to some arguement and then Lady Onyxia will spawn. At this point, if you are melee get the hell out of the way and DO NOT try and help Bolvar. He will be fighting a bunch of level 62 elites. When I did it, a crit of 1300 damage didn't even budge one of their HP bars. Bolvar will be taking them down, you can do this with just one ranged class helping.

Step 14:

  • Quest Name: The Dragons Eye
  • Start: Highlord Bolvar Fordragon
  • Location: Stormwind Keep
  • Level: 63 elite
  • Notes: Bolvar will give you a medallion, take it to Winterspring. You must find an NPC named Haleh. He is in a cave to the south/middle of the Winterspring map. The cave is full of elite drgaons and dragonkin. So either take a group, or get naked and start corpse running. At the back of the cave is a blue glowy thing on the ground. Step on it to get teleported to Haleh.

Step 15:

  • Quest Name: Drakefire Amulet
  • Start: Haleh
  • Location: Winterspring
  • Level: 63 elite
  • Notes: Haleh tells you to retreive the Blood of the Black Dragon champion from General Drakkisath. This means you have to go to Upper Blackrock Spire. This will take a raid group of 10-15 people. General Drakkistah only drops a few blood each time. Return to Haleh and he will give you your key to Onyxia. Congratulations! Now you can join other players in attempting to kill her!

Onyxia Key (Horde)

This might not be of any use, but I see it as a try for me to write and practise Sticking out tongue

Step 1:

First you have to travel to Kargath in Badlands and go to a tower not long away from where you landed if you flew. In this tower there is a guy called Warlord Goretooth. Talk to him and go trough his conversation you will then receive a letter. Warlord Goretooth's Command. (I think it was a letter) Right-click on the letter and you will receive a quest, Warlord's Command.

Step 2:

In this quest you have to travel to Lower Blackrock Spire. As Jame has written a wonderful guide to this place, why not use it? http://www.wow-pro.com/node/593
When you have completed Warlord's Command you will receive the quest, Eitrigg's Wisdom.

Step 3:

Travel to Orgrimmar and go to Thrall's Chamber and talk to his adviser, Eitrigg (a speech bubble) and then complete the quest at Thrall, he will give you the quest, For the Horde!.

Now you have to travel to Upper Blackrock Spire and kill Warchief Rend Blackhand. Just jump on to a normal UBRS raid, as Rend is not able to bypass. When you complete the quest, everyone in Orgrimmar will receive a buff.

Step 4:

Thrall asks you to seek out Rexxar who roams from north Feralas, through Desolace, and into southern Stonetalon Mountains. Rexxar will give you the quest, The Testament of Rexxar.

Now you have to deliver Rexxar's Testament to Myranda the Hag in Western Plaguelands. Myranda the Hag is located near Uther's tomb, south of Andorhal, standing on a tree stump. She will give you the quest, Oculus Illusions.

Step 5:

Once again you have to go to UBRS and get some Black Dragonspawn Eyes from the dragnkins inside. They drop 1-2 at a time and are common. It should be enough with one run Sticking out tongue When you turn in the quest you will get an Amulet of Draconic Subversion and the quest, Emberstrife.

Step 6:

Travel to Emberstrife's Den in Dustwallow Marsh, it´s the cave at the cliff to the very south. The Amulet of Draconic Subversion will transform you into a Black Scalebane once inside Emberstrife's Den. While disguised, speak to Emberstrife. He will behave as an NPC. He will give you three quests called The Test of Skulls, Skryer/Somnus/Chronalis.

  • Go to Winterspring with a group of five people and enter the caves of Maztoril, south of Everlook, work your way in and kill Scryer.

  • Somnus can be found in the Swamp of Sorrows, wandering in an arch up and down the zone between the Pool of Tears and the beach.

  • Chronalis can be found in Tanaris along the east edge of the zone is a mountain, Enter the area and you will find two low level dragons and then, Chronalis. Kill him and return to Emberstrife and get the quest, The Test of Skulls, Axtroz.

Step 7:

Axtroz can be found in Wetlands, at the Dragonmaw Gates region, the curved valley area in the east side of the zone. Travel down the valley and you will find Axtroz. Kill him and return to Emberstrife to receive the quest, Ascension...

Step 8:

Now you have to find Rexxar again. He will give you the quest, Blood of the Black Dragon Champion.

Now you have to travel to UBRS again and this time kill General Drakkisath. Kill him, and get the blood of him.

NOTE: General Drakkisath only drops 2-3 bloods each kill.

Step 9:

Return to Rexxar and you will receive the Drakefire Amulet, a necklace.

Keep the Drakefire Amulet in your inventory to be allowed access into Onyxia's Lair.

You are now eligible to raid Onyxia, Brood Mother of the Black Dragonflight!

Permanent NPC portals to Dalaran (non-mage)

This guide shows you how to take advantage of the level 74 quest "The Magical Kingdom of Dalaran". The quest has no XP or rep and its follow up will only get you 2100-2310 XP and +10 Kirin Tor rep. Following this guide you will save many hours of flight time and gold.

Step 1: Get the quest from one of the following NPC's:

Alliance:
Baron Ulrik von Stromhearth (Valgarde, Howling Fjord)
Archmage Modera (Star's Rest, Dragonblight)
Vas the Unstable (Wintergarde, Dragonblight)
Magister Dath'omere (Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra)
Magistrix Haelenai (Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly Hills)
Horde:
Image of Archmage Aethas Sunreaver (Agmar's Hammer, Dragonblight)
Magistrix Kaelana (Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra)
Magister Varenthas (Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord)
Magistrix Phaelista (Conquest Hold, Grizzly Hills)
Magister Tyr'ganal (Venomspite, Dragonblight).

Step 2: Keep the item "Kirin Tor Signet" in your inventory. If you destroy it or put it in your bank, the NPC's will not port you.

Step 3: NEVER complete the quest. As long as you have the quest, you will always have an instant port to Dalaran from Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills. Once you complete this quest, you no longer get to take advantage of it.

Scholomance Key (Alliance & Horde)

Step 1:

Travel to Tirisfal Glade and go to the Bulwark in the west edge just before Western Plaguelands and talk to High Executor Derrington. Get the quest All Along the Watchtowers, it's marked as elite but it's very easy to do solo as the elites inside the towers won't aggro. Mark all four towers and return to High Executor Derrington and turn in the quest.

Step 2:

Now you get the quest, Scholomance. Talk to Apothecary Dithers and get the next quest, Skeletal Fragments.

Go back to Andorhal and kill the skeletons inside, you need 15 Skeletal Fragments to complete it. Get the fragments and turn in the quest and get the next one, Mold Rhymes With...

Step 3:

Make sure you have 15 gold and then travel to Gadgetzan in Tanaris. Talk to Krinkle Goodsteel and get the next quest, Fire Plume Forged.

Get two thoium bars from the Auction House if your not an miner or ask someone for them. Travel to Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater. Go to the lava lake at the mountain and rightclick the Skeleton Key Mold there. Go back to the Bulwark and turn in the quest at Apothecary Dithers and get the last quest in the chain, Araj's Scarab.

Step 4:

Get some more people to help and go to Andorhal and kill Araj the Summoner, return to Apothecary Dithers to get your key to Scholomance.

Gratz, now you'll never have to be in a group without the key!

The Alliance one (As I read about it) Is exactly the same except guys are at another spot, Chillwind Point.

Shortcut to Gnomeregan for Horde

Well...going to Gnomeregan is really not so hard, but you need to know how, if you don't want to run all the way to Ironforge.

If you want a easier way, follow these instructions:

1) Go to Orgrimmar
2) Find a guard and ask for the engeniering trainer
3) Talk to the engeniering supplier Sovik and get [35] Chief Engineer Scooty
4) Fly to Ratchet and take a boat to Booty Bay
5) Speak to Scooty
6) Wait few moments to get attuned and then go into the teleport machine you see in front of you

This is very useful at any level, if you want to travel fast to ironforge.
I'm thinking of druids and rogues in particular, as they can even go into ironforge and reach the heart of Stormwind throught the subway that connects the two cities.

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The Burning Crusade Keys and Attunements

Eastern Kingdoms Instances

Karazhan (10 Man Raid)

A key is needed not only to open the door to the instance but also to enter the instance portal. The masters key can be obtained through a series of quests starting outside the instance. The instance is at the southern most part of deadwind pass at the end of the river.

1. Arcane Disturbances (Deadwind Pass)
(47, 75) Speak with Archmage Alrturus outside the instance, who will give you the quest Arcane Disturbances. Its best to pick up the quest Restless Activity also while your there.

(48, 78) Go down one of the two enterences leading down into the ground. One of these leads to the pond whilst the other leads to the well. When you get to the pond/well use the Violet Scrying Crystal.

(47, 75) When you return to Archmage Alrturus you should have enough ghostly essenses to be able to hand in Restless Activity along with Arcane Disturbances.

Get the follow up quest Contact from dalaran

2. Contact from Dalaran (Alterec Mountains)
From Ironforge fly to southshore in the hillsbrad foothills, go north into the alterec mountains. (15, 54) Speak with Archmage Cedric, and complete the quest. Get the follow up quest Khadgar

3. Khadgar (Shattrath)
(54,44) Speak with Khadgar in the terrace of light

Get the follow up quest Entry into Karazhan

4. Entry into Karazhan (Auchindoun - Shadow Labyrinth)
Form a group to go through the 5 man instance shadow labyrinth in Terokkar Forest. At the end of the instance BEFORE you kill the boss Murmur, go to the left hand side of the boss. Here against the wall, you will find an arcane container. When you open the container an elite mob will spawn, so make sure your group is there to help you. The mob holds the key not the container.
(54,44) Return to Khadgar in the terrace of light, hand in the quest and get the follow up The Second and Third Fragments.

5. The Second and Third Fragments (coilfang reservoir and tempest keep)
The second fragment: Form a group to go through the 5 man instance steamvaut of coilfang reservoir in zangermarsh. It would be best if the group only needed to do the first boss, or were also on the same quest as you, otherwise you may end up needlessly going through the whole instance. The arcane container can be found passed the first enterance in the water. There is no need to kill the first boss if you dont want to.
The third fragment: Form a group to group to go through the Arcatraz of tempest keep, a 5 man instance in netherstorm. Either one person in the group must have the arcatraz key, or you need a rogue with maxed out lockpicking to open the door. The arcane container can be found just before the first boss Zereketh the Unbound, to the right as you enter the room.

(54,44) Return to Khadgar in the terrace of light, hand in the quest and get the follow up The Master's Touch.

6. The Master's Touch (The caverns of time - Black Morass)
Form a group to go through the 5 man instance black morass in the caverns of time. Make sure all of your group have done the black morass attunement first. Complete opening the dark portal to speak to Medivh in the instance, he will then give you the masters key.

Get the follow up Return to Khadgar

7. Return to Khadgar (Deadwind Pass)
(47, 75) Speak with Archmage Alrturus and complete the quest.

You are now attunned to kharazan.

Zul'Aman (10 Man Raid)
No attunement or key needed


Kalimdor Instances

Old Hillsbrad Foothills (5 Man Group)

A quest chain has to be completed to enter the Old Hillsbrad Foothills.

1. To The Master's Lair (The Caverns of Time)
(58, 54) Speak with the Steward of Time in the caverns of time and get the follow up quest The Caverns of Time

2. The Caverns of Time (The Caverns of Time)
(58, 54) Speak with Andormu in the caverns of time and follow her around untill she finishes talking.

You are now attuned to the Old Hillsbrad Foothills.

Black Morass (5 Man Group)

No key or item is needed to enter the black morass, however a series of quests starting in the Old Hillsbrad Foothills do need to be completed in order to enter.

1. Old Hillsbrad (The Caverns of Time)
(58, 54) Speak with Andormu in the caverns of time, and get the quest Old hillsbrad. Then go into the Old Hillsbrad instance and get the follow up Taretha's Diversion from Erozion just inside.

2. Taretha's Diversion (The Caverns of Time - The Old Hillsbrad)
Form a 5 man group and travel into the Old Hillsbrad, use the dragon to fly outside durnholde keep. Make your way to the lodges, and set charges on the barrels in each of the lodges. Make your way to the prison to speak to Thrall, get the follow up quest Escape from Durnholde.

3. Escape from Durnholde (The Caverns of Time - The Old Hillsbrad)
Escort Thrall to Taretha, speak to Taretha and then kill the boss outside the building. Speak to Thrall and get the follow up Return to Andormu.

4. Return to Andormu (The Caverns of Time)
(58, 54) Complete the quest by speaking to Andormu in the caverns of time.

You are now attuned to the Black Morass.

Battle of Mount Hyjal (25 Man Raid)

No attunement or key needed, required attunement was removed as of patch 2.4 however the quest line remains for those who wish to complete it.

First you must complete the Black Morass attunement, then you must get the quest The Opening of the Dark Portal from Sa'at just inside the instance.

1. The Opening of the Dark Portal (The Caverns of Time - The Black Morass)
Form a group to go through the 5 man instance black morass in the caverns of time,and complete opening the dark portal. Go back to Sa'at and complete the quest.
(58, 54) Speak with Soridormi at the caverns of time and get the follow up quest The Vials of Eternity.

2. The Vials of Eternity (The Caverns of Time)
Tempest Keep - The Eye You first must be attuned to this instance, once attuned loot Vashj's Vial Remnant from Kael'Thas.
Coilfang Reservoir - The Serpentshrine Cavern You first must be attuned to this instance, once attuned loot Kael's Vial Remnant from Lady Vashj.

(58, 54) Return to Soridormi in the caverns of time and complete the quest.

You have completed the attunement questline, however this is not required to enter the instance

Outland Instances

Hellfire Ramparts (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

Blood Furnace (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

The Shattered Halls (5 Man Group)

A key is required to enter the shattered halls, the key is obtained through a series of quests.

(67,36) Goto shadowmoon valley to the black temple and kill Smith Gorlunk, he will drop a Primed Key Mold that begins the quest Entry Into the Citadel.

1. Entry Into the Citadel (Hellfire Peninsula)
(56, 66) Speak with Force Commander Danath at Honor Hold and get the follow up quest Grand Master Dumphry.

2. Grand Master Dumphry (Hellfire Peninsula)
(51,60) Speak with Grand Master Dumphry in Honor Hold, and get the follow up Dumphry's Request.

3. Dumphry's Request (Hellfire Peninsula)
(51,60) From the auction house (or however you prefer) buy: 4x Fel Iron Bars, 2x Arcane Dust, and 4x Mote of Fire. Return to Dumphry turn in the quest, and get the follow up Hotter than Hell.

4. Hotter than Hell (Hellfire Peninsula)
Assemble a 5 man group to kill a fel reaver, thats wondering around the Hellfire Peninsula. Use the Unfired Key Mold on the fel reavers corpse to make the Charred Key Mold. (51, 60) Return to Dumphry to complete the quest.

You now have the key to The Shattered Halls

Magtheridon's Lair (25 Man Raid)
No attunement or key is needed to get into this instance, however you are required to be in a raid group.

The Slave Pens (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

The Underbog (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

The Steamvault (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.


Serpentshrine Cavern (25 Man Raid)

No attunement is needed to enter this instance, however the quest line remains and can be completed. Enter the Slave Pens of Coilfang reservior in Heroic mode. After the first boss speak with Skar'this the Heretic in a cage to recieve the quest The Cudgel of Kar'desh.

1. The Cudgel of Kar'desh
Blade's Edge Mountains - Gruul's Lair Assemble a 25 man raid to enter Gruul's Lair, kill Gruul the Dragonkiller to recieve the Earthen Signet.
Deadwind Pass - Karazhan Make sure you are attuned to karazhan, then assemble a 10 man raid to kill Nightbane so that you recieve the Blazing Signet.
Return to Skar'this in the Heroic slave pens and turn in the quest.

The quest line is completed however this is no longer required to enter Serpentshrine Cavern.

Mana Tombs (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

Auchenai Crypts (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

Sethekk Halls (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

Shadow Labyrinth (5 Man Group)

Kill Talon King Ikiss in the Sethekk Halls and loot the Shadow Labyrinth key.

You now have the key to Shadow Labyrinth

The Mechanar (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

The Botanica (5 Man Group)
No attunement or key needed.

The Arcatraz (5 Man Group)

A key is needed to get into the Arcatraz, this is obtained by following a series of quests.

(32, 64) Speak with Nether-Stalker Khay'ji in the Netherstorm and get the quest Consortium Crystal Collection

1. Consortium Crystal Collection (Netherstorm)
(42, 72) Kill Pentatharon and loot the Arklon Crystal Artifact, return to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji and get the follow up A Heap of Ethereals.

2. A Heap of Ethereals (Netherstorm)
(30, 74) Kill Ethereals to collect 10 Zaxxis Insignias, return to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji and get the follow up Warp-Raider Nesaad.

3. Warp-Raider Nesaad (Netherstorm)
(28,79) Kill Warp-Raider Nesaad (soloable just), and return to Nether-Stalker Khay'ji to get the follow up quest Request for Assistance.

4. Request for Assistance (Netherstorm)
(47, 57) Speak with Gahruj and get the follow up quest Rightful Repossession.

5. Rightful Repossession (Netherstorm)
(56,64) Collect 10 boxes near the walls in manaforge Duro, return to Gahruj and get the follow up quest An Audience with the Prince.

6. An Audience with the Prince (Netherstorm)
(46,36) Speak with Nexus-Prince Haramad and get the follow up quest Triangulation Point One.

7. Triangulation Point One (Netherstorm)
(66,34) Use the Triangulation Device and walk into the light. Complete the quest with Dealer Hazzin at (58, 31) and get the follow up Triangulation Point Two.

8. Triangulation Point Two (Netherstorm)
(28,41) Use the Triangulation Device and walk into the light. Complete the quest with Wind Trader Tuluman at (34, 37) and get the follow up Full Triangle.

9. Full Triangle (Netherstorm)
(53, 20) Kill Culuthas (you may need a group to do this) and return the Ata'mal crystal to the Image of Nexus-Prince Haramad and get the follow up Special Delivery to Shattrath City.

10. Special Delivery to Shattrath City (Shattrath City)
(54, 44) Speak with A'dal and get the follow up How to Break Into the Arcatraz.

11. How to Break Into the Arcatraz (Netherstorm - Tempest Keep)
Tempest Keep - The Mechanar Loot the top shard of the arcatraz key from the last boss Warp Splinter.
Tempest Keep - The Botanica Loot the bottom shard of the arcatraz key fromt he last boss Pathaleon the Calculator.
(54, 44) Return to A'dal in Shattrath to hand in the quest.

You now have the key to the Arcatraz.

The Eye (25 Man Raid)

You no longer need to do this questline to get into the eye, however the eye questline is still available for those who want complete it.

(36, 57) Speak to Earthmender Sophurus in shadowmoon valley and get the quest The Hand of Gul'dan.

1. The Hand of Gul'dan (Shadowmoon Valley)
(42, 55) Speak with Earthmender Torlok and get the follow up quest Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth.

2. Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth (Shadowmoon Valley)
(45,45) Place the totem of spirits and kill enraged fire and earth spirits, until you have 8 Earthen Souls and 8 Fiery Souls. Return to Earthmender Torlok and get the follow up Enraged Spirits of Water.

3. Enraged Spirits of Water (Shadowmoon Valley)
(47, 22) Place the totem of spirits and kill enraged water spirits, until you have 5 watery souls. Return to Earthmender Torlok and get the follow up Enraged Spirits of Air.

4. Enraged Spirits of Air (Shadowmoon Valley)
(62, 55) Place the totem of spirits and kill Enraged air spirirs, until you have 10 Airy souls. Return to Earthmender Torlok and get the follow up Oronok Torn-heart.

5. Oronok Torn-heart (Shadowmoon Valley)
(53, 23) Speak with Oronok Torn-heart and get the follow up I Was A Lot Of Things...

6. I Was A Lot Of Things... (Shadowmoon Valley)
(52.15) Find small plants in the ground that look a bit like golden sansam, use the whistle to lure a Boar so it can uncover some Tuber (the more boars around the plant the more is uncovered when you blow the whistle. Return to Oronok Torn-heart and get the follow up A Lesson Learned.

7. A Lesson Learned (Shadowmoon Valley)
(57.20) Destroy 10 Ravenous Flayer Eggs and return to Oronok Torn-heart to get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History.

8. The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History (Shadowmoon Valley)
(53, 23) Speak with Oronok Torn-heart, listen to his story and get the three follow up quests; Ar'tor, Son of Oronok, Borak, Son of Oronok, and Grom'tor, Son of Oronok.

9. Ar'tor, Son of Oronok (Shadowmoon Valley)
(30,50) Find Ar'tor, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest Demonic Crystal Prisons.

10. Demonic Crystal Prisons (Shadowmoon Valley)
(28,47) Kill Painmistress Gabrissa and loot the crystalline key. Return to Ar'tor and get the followup quest Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart.

11. Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart (Shadowmoon Valley)
(30,50) Kill demons in the area until you get Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart. Return to Ar'tor and get the followup quest The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge.

12. The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge (Shadowmoon Valley)
(30,57) Kill Venaratus when he spawns and loot Second Fragment of the Cipher of Damnation return to Ar'tor and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered.

13. The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered (Shadowmoon Valley)
(53, 23) Return to Oronok Torn-heart and complete the quest.

14. Borak, Son of Oronok (Shadowmoon Valley)
(48,57) Speak with Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest Of Thistleheads and Eggs...

15. Of Thistleheads and Eggs... (Shadowmoon Valley)
(43,61) Open Rotten eggs until you recieve the Rotten Arakkoa Egg. Travel to Shattrath city and hand in the quest to Tobias the Filth Gorger at (63,69), get the follow up quest The Bundle of Bloodthistle.

16. The Bundle of Bloodthistle (Shadowmoon Valley)
(48, 57) Speak with Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest To Catch A Thistlehead.

17. To Catch A Thistlehead (Shadowmoon Valley)
(48, 57) Place the Bundle of Bloodthistle at the other end of the bridge, and wait for the envoy to be alone before killing him and looting the Stormrage missive. Return to Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest The Shadowmoon Shuffle.

17. The Shadowmoon Shuffle (Shadowmoon Valley)
(44, 65) Kill bood elves until you have 6 Eclipsion Armor. Return to Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets...

18. What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... (Shadowmoon Valley)
(46, 72) Put on the blood elf disguise and speak with Grand Commander Ruusk. Return to Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge.

19. The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge (Shadowmoon Valley)
(62 57) Assemble a 5 (not 3) man group and kill Ruul the Darkener (continue to part 21 until you get the 5 man group, loot the Third Fragment of the Cipher of Damnation. Return to Borak, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered.

20. The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered (Shadowmoon Valley)
(53, 23) Return to Oronok Torn-heart and complete the quest.

21. Grom'tor, Son of Oronok (Shadowmoon Valley)
(44,23) Speak with Grom'tor, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge.

22. The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge (Shadowmoon Valley)
(45,27) Kill the Nagas to get keys in order to open the chests lying around the area, eventually you will find a chest containing the First Fragment of the Cipher of Damnation. Return to Grom'tor, Son of Oronok and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered.

23. The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered (Shadowmoon Valley)
(53, 23) Return to Oronok Torn-heart and get the follow up quest The Cipher of Damnation (requires that you have Son of Oronok quest lines).

24. The Cipher of Damnation (Shadowmoon Valley)
(42, 55) Use the cipher of damnation and kill Cyrukh the Firelord, return to Earthmender Torlok to complete the quest. Later on you will recieve a letter in the mail from Khadgar, read the letter and start the quest The Tempest Key.

25. The Tempest Key (Shattrath City)
(54, 44) Speak with A'dal and get the follow up quests: Trial of the Naaru: Mercy, Trial of the Naaru: Strength, and Trial of the Naaru: Tenacity.

26. Trial of the Naaru: Mercy (Hellfire Peninsula - Shattered Halls)
Form a 5 man group all of which must have the Flamewrought Key (requires Honour Hold revered) to go through the shattered halls instance in heroic mode. Complete the instance in 55 minutes to prevent any prisoners being killed, and loot the Unused Axe of the Executioner from. Return to A'dal in shattrath city and complete the quest.

27. Trial of the Naaru: Strength (Shadow Labyrinth and Steamvault)
Form a 5 man group all of which must have the Auchenai Key (requires Lower City revered) to go through the Shadow Labyrinth. Kill the end boss Murmur to loot Murmur's Essence.
Form a 5 man group all of which must have the Reservoir Key (requires Cenarion Expedition revered) to go through the Steamvault. Kill the end boss Warlord Kalithresh to loot Kalithresh's Trident. Return to A'dal in Shattrath city and complete the quest.

28. Trial of the Naaru: Tenacity (Tempest Keep - The Arcatraz)
Form a 5 man group all of which must have the Warpforged Key (requires The Sha'Tar revered) to go through the Arcatraz. Kill the end boss to rescue Millhouse Manastorm. Return to A'dal in Shattarath city and get the follow up quest Trial of the Naaru: Magtheridon (requires that you have done all previous Trial of the Naaru quests).

29. Trial of the Naaru: Magtheridon (Hellfire Peninsula - Magtheridon's Lair)
Form a 25 man raid group and kill Magtheridon, return to A'dal in Shattarath to complete the quest.

You are now have the key to the eye however it is no longer required to enter.

Gruul's Lair (25 Man Raid)
No attunement or key needed.


The Black Temple (25 Man Raid)
No attunement or key needed (wowwiki is wrong, the attunement was removed as of patch 2.4)

Updated 6th March 08
Minor Update 4th November 08

Guild & Raid Guides

Guides on how to generally organise Guilds and Raiding.

Jiyambi's Guide to a Successful Guild

Being in a good guild is one of the most rewarding and fun aspects of World of Warcraft. Running a good guild is like being the captain of a winning sports team - everyone loves you for it and you have a blast. Unfortunately running a guild successfully is also fairly difficult. Most new guilds never get off the ground, and those that do will always have occasional problem members, activity problems, and other upsets. This guide will help you make sure your guild is a place everyone wants to be, and help it stay active for a long time.


Table of Contents

  1. Before Creating a Guild
  2. Starting Your Guild
  3. Guild Features
  4. Growing Your Guild
  5. Keeping it Going
  6. Troubleshooting


Abbreviations

GL - Guild Leader/Master (so as not to confuse with GM/Game Master)

RL - Real Life (as opposed to in WoW)

alt - Alternate character, sometimes lower level