by Zuggy
Leveling first aid is easy and can be done in under an hour if all the cloths you need are available on the auction house. You’ve just got to know exactly when to move on to the next type of bandage to get your levels quickly.
Here’s a quick 1-450 first aid leveling guide to get you there efficiently.
First Aid Leveling Guide: Levels 1-50
- Go to the first aid trainer and learn Apprentice First Aid.
- Levels 1-50: Linen Bandage (Linen Cloth)
- Go back to the trainer and learn Journeyman First Aid.
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by Chase Christian
If I were choosing one word to describe the Mutilate playstyle, I’d have to go with the easy answer: Assassin. Keeping the tradition of the tree’s namesake, Mutilate rogues are experts of the quick and efficient kill. Not designed for toe-to-toe combat or lengthy encounters, the last dagger-wielding rogue spec prefers a more vicious approach. You give your enemy no quarter, and expect none in return.
Specializing in single-target damage, a Mutilate rogue performs at peak efficiency when there’s only a solo target. The assassination tree grants us a complete mastery over all things poisonous, and in this, gives us strength against highly armored opponents that our siblings of the shadow can only envy. A properly played Mutilate rogue on an advantageous fight can be rivaled by no other DPS class in the game, and why should there be any competition? Killing is what an assassination rogue was born to do.
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by Gregg Reece
Retribution. This is what every paladin begins as. No shield to hide behind. Just a big two-handed weapon slung on your back and grim determination as your guide. And, sadly, the spec that took the longest to become completely viable.
It’s been a hard road for the retribution paladin. In classic era, you only used retribution to level up and then you were expected to heal or play blessing-bot for raids. In the days of Burning Crusade, retribution was a little better and could be okay if you stacked your raid the right way. However, they’d rather you be the adds tank or heal. Then Wrath hit and retribution came into its own… or should I say ‘pwn’ (bad joke, but absolutely true if you remember early Wrath). After some balancing, retuning, and all of those other euphamisms for ‘nerf,’ we’re a still a fairly decent force along with the rest of the pack. Let’s take a deeper look into the good, the bad, and the ugly of the ret pally.
1. What is Retribution?
Retribution is the damage dealing and main leveling spec for the paladin class. Being a paladin you have some utility as well, but your main purpose is to beat things over the head with a big stick and you do that quite well.
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by Zuggy
Leveling fishing is one of the simplest things to do on World of Warcraft. All you need is any pool of water in the game, and leveling fishing is as simple as having a fishing pole. I suggest you start leveling fishing in any of the capital cities that have bodies of water. This is because all bodies of water have a minimum “no junk” fishing level. This means in order to get progress in leveling fishing in a given body of water, you have to be at least a certain level of fishing in order to not catch any junk. A guide to the “no-junk” fishing levels is included further down in this fishing leveling guide.
Here’s my quick 1-450 fishing leveling guide to take you there in no time.
Fishing Leveling Guide: Levels 1-50
- Visit the fishing trainer to learn Apprentice fishing.
- You get one level for every fish you land, so just equip your fishing pole, stand near a body of water, and start fishing. Right click your bobber when you see a splash to reel your fish in.
- When you reach fishing level 50, go back to the trainer and learn Journeyman Fishing.
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by Basil Berntsen
As we all read, miners will be able to smelt Titansteel after patch 3.3.3 with no cooldown. What will this mean for you, and how can you make money from this change? Let’s start by quickly evaluating the Titansteel production chain.
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?by Basil Berntsen
Pets from almost any source are a lucrative market to be in, and this will provide another way engineers can make a bit of cash from their horrible gold sink of a profession. Hunter ammo was a step in the right direction, and this is too.
First up, you need the schematics
Unless you happened to have them already, you will probably need to go farm the schematics. These were formerly unfarmable and tied to one of the two branches of engineering, but now both goblin and gnomish engineers can get them as a random drop.
- Schematic: Lil’ Smokey is dropped by the Arcane Nullifier X-21, among other mobs. The drop rate in Wowhead says 2%, however that includes all the non-engineers who kill these and don’t see the schematic. In reality, it should be much much higher.
- Schematic: Pet Bombling is dropped by Mekgineer Thermaplugg, and again, while it shows a low drop rate, that includes all the non-engineers who kill him and can’t see the drop. I read comments saying that it’s a very high drop rate for engineers. If you kill him, are eligible to get the schematic, and don’t see this, let me know in the comments.
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by Zuggy
Leveling cooking is simple to do if you haven’t already done so while you were leveling your character. Cooking is a secondary profession, which means you won’t have to give up one of your other professions to learn it. There are plenty of reasons to power-level cooking later on. Of course it means you’ll always have access to food if you’ve got the supplies to make it, but the more important reason to level cooking is the buffs you get from it, like increased stamina, agility, mana regeneration, or a whole host of other helpful ones.
Check out this simple 1-450 cooking leveling guide to find out how to get there quickly.
Cooking Leveling Guide: Levels 1-50
- Learn Apprentice Cooking from your trainer
- Levels 1 – 50: Spice Bread— This recipe is made with supplies from the cooking vendor right next to the trainer. All you need are 50 Simple Flour and 50 Mild Spices
- Go back to the trainer and learn Journeyman Cooking
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by Joe Perez
The restoration talent tree is very strong and versatile, filled with a lot of the talents focused on augmenting your existing ability to heal. It is also very lean in the fact that it does not have many talents that you need to absolutely avoid, and they all have a very distinct role in the shaman toolbox. These talents also provide you with key spells essential to your success as a healer as well as our most iconic spells. While we may not have as many healing spells as a holy priest, our toolbox is still very versatile and it does the job quite well.
Talent Overview
Restoration talents that are struck out are considered expendable. These points can be moved around as you see fit. Talents that are in italics are ones that are more PvP centric and have limited application in PvE. From the enhancement tree we will only talk about the talents that further augment the restoration specialization
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by Dominic Hobbs
Unlike almost all the other minions there is no quest to gain the ability to summon the felguard — you simply pop a point into the talent and this demonic knowledge is dropped into your brain. The talent is currently on the ninth tier of the demonology tree, so you will need to be level 50 before you can learn it. Even at level 80 you will need to invest almost 60% of your talent points into demonology just to reach it, leaving little room for anything in the other trees. Because of this the felguard is pretty much only seen with demonology-build warlocks. Hybrid builds were popular at the start of Wrath, but changes to spell mechanics have meant that they are rarely used these days.
So, if you have one of these meatbags, what are you supposed to do with them? It’s hard to say what the original intent of the developers was when they decided to add this guy to our arsenal. We can do this with most of the others — the imp is a ranged damage dealer, the succubus is for melee and CC, the void for tanking and the puppy for annoying mages. The felguard joins the show and not only deals a whole load of damage he can also take a huge amount as well. As such he pretty much makes your voidwalker and succubus obsolete.
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by Zach Yonzon
Priests are an interesting study for this series, primarily because out of all the game’s ten classes, they are the only ones with two talent trees devoted to healing. This means that two out of three times, you’ll be encountering a healing priest. That’s not exact math, but you know what I mean. Shadow, the class’ DPS tree, has had an interesting history with viability and acceptance, having been known as a PvP tree in the game’s early years, later gaining raid viability and losing PvP luster. In the current environment, shadow remains a popular PvP tree but it is far easier to find success in Arenas and Battlegrounds with a healing spec. In this regard, discipline, the mitigation tree formerly considered to be complementary and gimmicky has shone.
Naturally, most fights against priests, particularly discipline-specced ones, will be long and difficult for most classes. That said, let’s take a moment to examine the various abilities used by priests on the battlefield. A priest’s repertoire of common spells is rather limited, and most of their key abilities will depend on their spec. A rundown of stuff to expect from them after the break.
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