by Basil Berntsen
This expansion is the first one where “perfect” cuts (which are about a 10% proc rate when you’re cutting a green quality gem) are blue quality, and even though they have different names, they have identical stats as blue quality gems. People still don’t generally know this, and will sometimes skip over the perfect cuts when they’re gemming new gear, but over time it will become more commonly known that there’s no difference between socketing, for example, a Perfect Delicate Pandarian Garnet or a Delicate Primordial Ruby.
If you’re an enchanter, you may have noticed that the price for the common materials has gone way down, and if you’re a jewelcrafter, you’re probably wondering what to do with all the green quality gems you get from prospecting, as well as potentially looking wistfully at the profit margins on some of the really desirable research blue cuts.
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by Daniel Whitcomb
Archaeology on Pandaria starts out much like you’d expect. At around 525 archaeology, you’ll start seeing dig sites appear on Pandaria, 4 of them spread out over the continent. You’ll head to each one, start surveying, and get some archaeology fragments. Sometimes, you will get a Pandaren Pottery Shard or Mogu Statue Piece, which serve as the keystone for those race’s projects and can be used to solve a piece faster.
Things change a little bit when your digging digs up an Ancient Haunt. This is a Sha mob that sometimes spawns when you successfully dig up some fragments. If you kill it, you’ll be able to loot more fragments.
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by Matt Walsh
The entire continent of Pandaria seems to ravaged by war, doubt, and uncertainty, but you wouldn’t know it by visiting the Angler’s Wharf. There you’ll find a crew of light-hearted folks that are too busy sitting on a dock by Krasarang Bay with a fishing line tied to their toe. The humble fishers there have a variety of dailies and rewards that make it a breeze to level fishing — and worthwhile to boot. If you’re like me and actually enjoy the quiet solitude of casting a line in some far-off corner of WoW then this faction is just icing on the cake.
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by Daniel Whitcomb
This week, we’ll cover the personal benefits of the primary professions for death knights at level 90. Many of the perks and benefits are the same as they’ve been at levels 85 and 90, but there’s stronger versions, of course, and a couple other changes that are worth covering. This guide will focus primarily on the self-buffs and bind on pickup rewards, though many professions will, of course, have its own BoE things that all death knights will want to make use of, so consider that when you pick your professions.
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by Megan O’Neill
There are a few purposes for fish in Mists of Pandaria. You can cook them to eat for a Well Fed buff or to give to a Tillers NPC for personal reputation. There’s a fish for alchemy oils and even the “vendor fish” this expansion is pretty useful. You can bag extra stacks of fish together for a currency.
The catch is (pun intended) that many raiders aren’t used to fishing their own Well Fed buffs. This leads to many questions on where to find which fish. Jump behind the cut and I’ll summarize for you the pools and catch rates of open water fishing in Pandaria.
There’s only thing the casual fishertoon needs to remember about fishing skill. Ever sinceUlduar, open water requires a certain skill to never catch any junk, but pools can be fished with a skill of 1.
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by Megan O’Neill
One of the complaints about the new cooking Ways is regarding Ironpaw Tokens. Ironpaw Tokens are the currency for many things, from required cooking materials to fun vanity items.
I think that if you try for Master of the Ways right off the bat, you will run into problems getting enough Ironpaw Tokens to complete everything at once. There’s a rush of tokens that you get at the start for completing the initial Way quests, but it soon drops off to a daily quest reward and whatever you can pile together as extra groceries. It’s clearly meant to be completed at a gradual pace, in line with the pandaren’s greeting, “Slow down!”
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by Megan O’Neill
At first, I thought it was just a beta feature – a way to get everyone’s cooking up to the level where the new Ways could be tested. But as time went on and news appeared of updates to the leveling processes for inscription and cooking, I grew happy at the prospect of not having to wait until November to level every alt’s cooking skill.
Sungshin Ironpaw stands at Halfhill Market, right across from the Halfhill flightpoint, in the Valley of the Four Winds on Pandaria’s continent. A toon must be 85 or higher to start the quest for Zen Master cooking skill (525-600 skill).
Sungshin has a full set from 1 to 525 skill of pandaren dishes, most of which use ingredients sold by her. You will have to bring some fish and couple pieces of meat yourself, but by and large you can buy and cook your way to 525 without moving, since Sungshin is standing next to a cooking pot!
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by Basil Berntsen
What’s my favorite part of the expansion so far? The way that Blizzard has reworked the Jewelcrafting, Enchanting, and Alchemy professions to more efficiently support the “shuffle”. That’s a cute little name we auctioneers give to a fairly complicated business that takes ore and turns it into cut gems and enchanting scrolls. In every expansion where this has been possible, there’s been a ton of waste. It’s great to be able to make gold by combining profession synergy, but vendoring stacks of, for example, green quality gems feels like a waste.
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by Megan O’Neill
You are not alone. The new branches of cooking in Pandaria are overwhelming for a lot of people. But remember the advice of various pandaren NPCs — “Slow down” — and don’t try to rush everything at once. You will be Master of the Ways, someday. Just take it one punch at a time.
Know that you’ve already done a lot. You’ve leveled your cooking to 525. You’ve learned how the Ways work and perhaps you’ve chosen a Way already. It’s now time to gather the ingredients until you master those Ways.
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by Dawn Moore
When Mists of Pandaria was first announced at BlizzCon 2011, the developers stated that players would be able to grow cooking mats and herbs on their very own farm in the next expansion. Immediately, players began to speculate on what exactly the words “your own farm” meant in World of Warcraft. Would we be getting our own version of FarmVille in WoW? Or maybe something more like Harvest Moon? Could this mean player housing? No one knew, and the general shortage of information over the months led some of us to wonder whether we’d be seeing the new feature at launch or have to wait for it in a future patch.
Now, almost a year after the original announcement for Mists of Pandaria, we can finally put a lot of our questions to rest. Over the weekend, Blizzard implemented The Tillers quests on beta servers, and with them, the new farm feature. So is it FarmVille? Let’s take a look.
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