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Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2 Installer

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:55:00 +0000

Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2 Installer

Mist of Pandaria Downloader is the fastest way to get the MoP client

This is a continuation of the Cataclysm installer saga.

Download v3.07 Last updated 21/06/2014

v3.07: Added itIT, fixed two crash errors.

v3.06: Added Molten shortcuts.

v3.05: Changed file hosting.

v3.04: False virus warning fixed.

v3.03: Design.

v3.02: Correction to all known issues.

If the download process worked successfully, you should see the following after you login your Molten username and password:

Additional notes:

-It is a direct downloader (not a P2P).

-Missing content is downloaded from Blizzard servers while playing in-game.

-When loading the game for the first time it may take up to 10 minutes.

-This application is not needed anymore after a successful Game installation. Feel free to delete it afterwards.

FAQ:

Can I still use your application if having the latest Retail Mist of Pandaria version (> 5.4.2)?

Yes, you can, and Xanaria has made a very detailed graphical guide about it. Read how to.

Unable to recover data from the network

People who having this issue "Unable to recover using data from the network. Please check your Internet connection and try again." is because their network is unable to contact Blizzard servers to download missing data.

Check that no programs are blocking the connection, such as Firewall, Antivirus or Hamachi.

Thanks for using my application!

Furthermore, thanks to all who have left me feedback! If you left me a suggestion, I will consider adding it in future versions.

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[MOP] Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2 Mac Installer

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:10:00 +0000

[MOP] Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2 Mac Installer

Download

I am happy to bring you a Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2 launcher that works on Mac. Now before you get too excited and start jumping up and down, this is a port. This means that depending on the specs of your imac or macbook, this launcher may run with fewer frames per second than you are accustomed to.

Worry not, this downloader is only a temporary solution until a patched Mac launcher is released. When that happens, I will push out the necessary updates for all you Apple fan boys to enjoy Mist of Pandaria 5.4.2.

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Cataclysm 4.3.4 Installer

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:22:00 +0000

Cataclysm 4.3.4 Installer

Known as the fastest way to get a working Cataclysm client

Download v2.03 Last updated 19/06/2014

Additional notes:

-It is a direct downloader (not a P2P).

-Missing content is downloaded from Blizzard servers while playing in-game.

-When loading the game for the first time it may take up to 10 minutes.

-This application is not needed anymore after a successful Game installation. Feel free to delete it afterwards.

FAQ:

Unable to recover data from the network

Check that no programs are blocking the connection, such as Firewall, Antivirus or Hamachi.

Thanks for using my application!
And special thanks to all who have left me feedback.

This post is not original. This is a copied post from Molten Wow Forum.

Credits to: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=201017

Illustrated Guide to "Installing" Cataclysm 4.3.4

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:35:00 +0000

Illustrated Guide to "Installing" Cataclysm 4.3.4

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[CATA] Cataclysm 4.3.4 Mac Installer (2 min installation)

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:45:00 +0000

[CATA] Cataclysm 4.3.4 Mac Installer (2 min installation)

Download

I am happy to bring you a Cataclysm 4.3.4 launcher for Macs.

Instructions

1. Download the World of Warcraft - Cataclysm installer

2. Unzip the file

3. Open the World of Warcraft - Cataclysm folder

4. Do not click on the launcher. Instead, right click the World of Warcraft icon

5. Select "Show Package Contents"

6. Navigation into Contents/MacOS

7. Click on the World of Warcraft file inside that folder and wait for the game to launch

Notes

If you are on Apple's latest OS, you might have some issues running the launcher by just clicking the launcher icon. If this is the case, unzip a fresh copy of the folder and follow the directions above to navigate to the Unix file inside the Package Contents.

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[After-Transfers] How to Get your AddOns Settings Back

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:00:00 +0000

[After-Transfers] How to Get your AddOns Settings Back

I know that is disgusting to log in a new character, and see that your AddOns just turned into a Chaos for the whole screen So i tried this, and worked for me... So i decided to make this guide, i hope it can be helpful for you.

I will assume that:

You know how to read, watch, play videos on YouTube, copy / paste in Windows.
You already know what "WoW Installation Directory" means, and how to get there.
You have the ability of read (and watch, in this case) twice, thrice and all the times you need to understand

Now let's get it fast First I'll show you a video I just did. In this video you can see the whole process to be performed.

NOTE: To understand the example, suppose you have transferred the character called FRONDOR, which is within the account "GAMON", from Frostwolf x3 realm to Lordaeron x1.

Now let's explain step by step:

Open your WoW Installation Folder
Open "WTF" folder
Open "Account" folder
Open the folder named with your current account name. (GAMON in my example)
Select and Open the folder of your PREVIOUS realm. (Frostwolf x3 in my example)
Once there, copy the folder named with the character's name transferred. (Frondor in my example)
Go back to the folder named with your current Account Name. (GAMON in my example)
Now chose your NEW realm directory and open it. (Lordaeron x1 in my example)
If there is a folder with the name of the character that you transferred (maybe because you've reserved your name before the transfer), Delete it, and paste the one you just copied from your PREVIOUS realm
Now you got all your AddOns settings from your previous realm into the new one

Enjoy!

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[Comprehensive Guide] Horde Leveling 1 - 85 (x20 Realms)

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:17:00 +0000

[Comprehensive Guide] Horde Leveling 1 - 85 (x20 Realms)

Reminder: Since all realm rates have reduced to maximum rates of x10 this guide is no longer that much useful.

[Comprehensive Guide] Horde Leveling 1 - 85 (x20 Realms)

- Horde Leveling only.

- About 160 working quests that get character from 1 to 85.

- Starting zones covered so far: [Mulgore] - Tauren.

- If you are starting guide from the middle, start doing quests that are 5 levels below yours.

- Last update on 12 April 2014

- Legend:

[Recommended Minimum Level] - You should still do the quests even if you are 5 levels above.

Link to (Start Coordinates)

[Links to Quests]

Quest Chain Number

Helping clues, Comments

Recommendations/Instructions between quests

Major Bugs

Important information

Recommendations before you begin

+ Download Carbonite v4.301 Add-on for WoW 4.3.4 from Curse.

- It can show you where to go and what to do to complete quests.

+ Download Quest Completist v0.99.7 Add-on for WoW 4.3.4 from Curse.

- Enables you to see what quests you have completed. Can query Server for the quests you have completed.

- To open interface type /qc > Categories > Settings > Perform Server Query...

Starting Zones

[Mulgore] - Tauren Starting Zone 1 - 10

- [1] (45,75) [The First Step] #1

- [2] (48,78) [Rite of Strength] #2

- [2] (48,78) [Our Tribe, Imprisoned] #3

- [2] (48,78) [Go to Adana] #4

- [3] (46,82) [Rite of Courage]

- [3] (46,82) [Stop the Thorncallers]

- [3] (46,82) [The Battleboars] #1

- [4] (46,82) [Feed of Evil]

- [5] (46,82) [Rite of Honor] #2

- [5] (45,75) [Last Rites, First Rites] #3

- [5] (45,75) [Rites of the Earthmother] #4

- [5] (41,76) [Rite of the Winds] #5 Just hand in the quest. It's automatically "completed".

- [6] (47,59) [Sharing the Land] #1

- [8] (47,61) [Dangers of the Windfury]

- [8] (47,59) [Morin Cloudstalker] #1

- To continue further you have to go to [Orgrimmar].

- Head North West up to Mulgore (37,32) or Thunder Bluff (34,74)

- Take elevator up

- Head left to the bridge that starts inside the building at Thunder Bluff (34,47)

- Cross the bridge and turn right to the cave entrance at Thunder Bluff (30,30)

- Walk inside the cave and all the way to the back wall at Thunder Bluff (23,13)

- Take portal to [Blasted Lands]

- When you are in [Blasted Lands] go to Blasted Lands (55,54) and take the Dark Portal

- When you are in [Hellfire Peninsula] go right to Hellfire Peninsula (88,47)

- Take portal to [Orgrimmar]

- Its is strongly recommended at this stage to set your home at Orgrimmar so you can [Hearth] back here later from [Un'Goro Crater]

General Quests - Start in any zone that is 5 levels blelow yours.

- Exit [Orgrimmar] city at Orgrimmar (55,54) where there is a connection to [Northern Barrens]

[Northern Barrens] - Zone 10 -20

- [16] (62,16) [Hyena Extermination]

- [16] (62,17) [Miner's Fortune]

- [16] (62,16) [Sludge Investigation] #1

- [16] (62,17) [Wenikee Boltbucket]

- [16] (44,25) [A Burning Threat]

- [21] (42,15) [Find Gorat!] #1

- [21] (42,15) [Gorat's Vengeance]

[Ashenvale] - Zone 20 -25

- [21] (64,84) [Final Report] Cont. #2

- [21] (42,15) [To Dinah, at Once!] Cont. #3 Back at [Northern Barrens]

- To go to the next quests go to the end of the Great Divide at Southern Barrens (36,5)

- Go to the beginning of the path in the mountains at Southern Barrens (31,11)

- Take this path all the way to Hunter's Hill at Southern Barrens (39,20)

[Southern Barrens] - Zone 30 -35

- [30] (39,20) [Raptor Scraps]

- [31] (39,19) [Put the Fear in Them]

- [31] (39,20) [Signals in the Sky]

- [31] (44,33) [Keeping the Dogs at Bay]

- [31] (44,33) [When Plants Attack]

- [32] (44,33) [A Family Divided] #1 Part two is probably bugged or not worth the time.

- [33] (41,47) [Lion's Pride]

[Dustwallow Marsh] - Zone 35 - 40

- [35] (35,30) [Theramore Spies] #1

- [36] (37,31) [SMASH BROODQUEEN]

- [37] (36,31) [Talk to Ogron]

- [39] (36,31) [Challenge Overlord Mok'Morokk]

- [39] (36,31) [Overlord Mok'Morokk's Concern]

- [39] (37,33) [The Brood of Onyxia] #1 This npc's name is "Blizzard" spelled backwards.

- [39] (36,31) [The Brood of Onyxia] #2

- [39] (37,33) [The Brood of Onyxia] #3

- [41] (37,31) [Army of the Black Dragon]

- To exit [Dustwallow Marsh] go to Dustwallow Marsh (42,77) and take this path

- Continue on this path and jump into the water

- Get out of the water at Thousand Needles (56,56) and take this path to [Tanaris]

[Tanaris] - Zone 45 - 50

- [47] (55,60) [A Few Good Goblins]

- [47] (55,60) [Cutting Losses] #1

- [47] (55,60) [Chicken of the Desert] #2

- [47] (55,60) [Gazer Tag]

- [47] (55,60) [Returning a Favor]

- [48] (44,52) [Get The Centipaarty Started]

- [48] (33,77) [Laying Claim] #1

- [48] (33,77) [The Secrets of Uldum] #1

[Un'Goro Crater] - Zone 50 - 55

- [52] (54,63) [Peculiar Delicacies] #1

- [52] (54,63) [Mossy Pile] #2

- [52] (55,62) [Volcanic Activity] #1

- [53] (55,62) [Blazerunner] #2 This [Blazerunner] mob is actually pretty tough. May skip.

- [53] (55,62) [The Fledgling Colossus] Group recommended. He is located unside cave. Take right path.

- Make sure you are level 61. If you are not just grind some mobs or do few more quests that you can find.

- [Hearth] back to [Orgrimmar]

- Take path down the elevator and go to the entrance of Cleft of Shadows at Orgrimmar (56,51)

- Go inside Cleft of Shadows (cave) and take portal to [Blasted Lands] located at Orgrimmar (47,61)

- Go to Blasted Lands (55,54) and take the Dark Portal to [Hellfire Peninsula]

[Hellfire Peninsula] - Zone 58 - 70

- [61] (28,60) [Report to Zurai] Pick up but do not do it yet. Finish it when you get to [Zangarmarsh]

- [62] (26,60) [Arelion's Journal] #1 The journal is in a tree at Hellfire Peninsula (40,37).

- [62] (26,60) [Arelion's Secret] #2

- [62] (29,50) [The Mistress Revealed] #3 You can /tar Magister Aledis and look at minimap.

- [63] (27,60) [Trueflight Arrows]

- [63] (28,60) [Wanted: Blacktalon the Savage] Quest from Wanted Poster. Mob is inside the cave.

- [61] (27,60) [Helping the Cenarion Post] #1

- [63] (15,52) [Demonic Contamination] #2

- [63] (15,52) [Testing the Antidote] #3 Don't "observe" the result. Just KILL the boar.

- [63] (15,52) [Colossal Menace] Can be tough. Find a buddy!

- [63] (15,52) [Keep Thornfang Hill Clear!]

- [62] (16,52) [The Cenarion Expedition] Finish in the next zone.

- Now you can go to Zangarmarsh (85,54) and hand in [Report to Zurai]

[Zangarmarsh] - Zone 60 - 63

- [62] (80,64) [The Umbrafen Tribe] On top of the tall tower.

- [64] (78,62) [Warden Hamoot]

- [64] (80,64) [Blessings of the Ancients] Just talk to two Ancients (big trees) at (81,64) and (79,67).

- [64] (78,62) [Warden Hamoot]

- Now go to Shattrath City (52,52) and take portal to [Undercity]

- Now go to Zeppelin located at Tirisfal Glades (59,59) and take it to [Howling Fjord]

[Howling Fjord] - Zone 68 - 72

- [71] (79,31) [Let Them Eat Crow] Do NOT complete. "Cheat" by spawning Hounds for the next quest.

- [71] (83,43) [Trail of Fire] Rather difficult escort quest. Clear mobs before doing it or use "cheat" above.

- [71] (78,31) [War is Hell] #1

- [71] (78,29) [New Agamand] #1

- [71] (53,66) [A Tailor-Made Formula] #2

- [71] (53,66) [Apply Heat and Stir] #3

- [71] (53,66) [Field Test] #4 You do not need to spray them. Just kill 10 mobs.

- [71] (53,66) [Time for Cleanup] #5 I skipped last two quests because they take way too long to grind.

- [71] (53,67) [Green Eggs and Whelps] #1

- [71] (53,65) [Shield Hill]

- [72] (53,66) [Give it a Name] #1

- [72] (52,67) [To Venomspite!] #2 Unlocks [Imbeciles Abound!].

[Dragonblight] - Zone 71 - 80

- [72] (77,62) [The Forsaken Blight and You: How Not to Die] Cont. - #3 I have skipped next quest.

- [72] (77,62) [Blighted Last Rites]

- [72] (77,62) [Let Them Not Rise!]

- [72] (77,62) [Wanted: The Scarlet Onslaught]

- [72] (36,48) [Imbeciles Abound!] Pick up this quest but do not do it yet.

- [74] (36,46) [The High Executor Needs You] #1 Pick up this quest but do not do it yet.

- [72] (36,46) [The Taunka and the Tauren] Does not need chain of quests before it.

- [72] (38,46) [Victory Nears...] #1 Next quest in chain is bugged.

- [73] (38,46) [The Kor'kron Vanguard!] #2

- [74] (40,18) [Audience With The Dragon Queen] #3

- [74] (59,54) [Seeds of the Lashers] #1

- [74] (64,75) [Cycle of Life] #1 Next quest in chain is bugged.

- [74] (59,54) [That Which Creates Can Also Destroy] #2

- Now go to Venomspite Base at Dragonblight (77,62)

- Hand in [The High Executor Needs You] at (76,63) and [Imbeciles Abound!] at (77,62)

- [74] (76,63) [To Conquest Hold, But Be Careful!] #2

[Grizzly Hills] - Zone 73 - 75

- [74] (20,64) [The Conqueror's Task] Cont. #3

- [74] (21,64) [A Show of Strength] Cont. #4

- [75] (20,64) [My Enemy's Friend] #1

- [74] (20,64) [Attack on Silverbrook] #2

- [74] (22,65) [Gray Worg Hides] #1 These are a pain to gather. Good bunch of wolves at Grizzly Hills (24,50).

- [74] (22,65) [A Minor Substitution] #2

- [74] (22,65) [Jun'ik's Coverup] #3

- [74] (22,65) [Delivery to Krenna] #4

- [74] (21,64) [Onward to Camp Oneqwah] Helps to have fast flying mount speed.

- [74] (21,64) [The Flamebinders' Secrets]

- [74] (21,64) [The Thane of Voldrune] Just go on top of tower and kill [Thane Torvald Eriksson] at Grizzly Hills (27,73).

- [74] (22,64) [Good Troll Hunting] #1 Good Will Hunting.

- [74] (16,47) [Filling the Cages] #2

- [73] (16,47) [Truce?] #1 You can continue on this chain but I could not be bothered collecting stuff.

- Next two quests will teleport you to Dalaran

[Dalaran] - Zone 1 - 85

- [74] (20,64) [The Magical Kingdom of Dalaran] #1 From NPC [Magistrix Phaelista]

- [74] (57,46) [Learning to Leave and Return: the Magical Way] #2

- You can set home in Dalaran and teleport to Orgrimmar

- In Orgrimmar you can use portals at Orgrimmar (50,37) to teleport to the next Cata zones

[Vashj'ir!] - Zone 80 -82

- To start questing in Vashj'ir! you must complete the following:

- [80] (49,76) [Warchief's Command: Vashj'ir!] Prerequisite - #3 Can be done without 2 previous questst in line.

- [81] (58,12) [Call of Duty] Prerequisite - #4 Can take ship near here to travel to Kelp'thar Forest.

- Now you can start these:

- [81] (38,31) [Sea Legs] Underwater inside capsized boat.

I could not do the rest of the quests such as [Pay It Forward] so just went to the next zone.

[Mount Hyjal] - Zone 80 - 82

- To start questing in Mount Hyjal you must complete the following:

- [80] (49,76) [Warchief's Command: Mount Hyjal!] Prerequisite - #1

- [81] (45,44) [As Hyjal Burns] Prerequisite - #2 You will be teleported here from previous quests.

- [81] (62,24) [Protect the World Tree] Prerequisite - #3

- [81] (47,35) [War on the Twilight's Hammer] Prerequisite - #4

- Now you can start these:

- [81] (64,22) [Inciting the Elements] #1 Optional quest line but good experience none the less. DO IT.

- [81] (64,22) [Flames from Above] #2

- [81] (64,22) [The Earth Rises] Optional quest. Just do it.

- [81] (62,24) [The Last Living Lorekeeper] #1 [Nordu] is at Mount Hyjal (27,55)

- [81] (27,55) [Firefight] #2

- [81] (27,55) [Aessina's Miracle] #3 Enables optional [Lost Wardens] and [Pressing the Advantage] down the list.

- [81] (19,37) [Good News... and Bad News] Squeeze this in. It is very quick quest.

- [81] (19,37) [Tortolla's Revenge] #1 She is located at Mount Hyjal (42,60). Enables optional [Breakthrough].

- [81] (42,60) [The Hammer and the Key] #2

- [81] (42,60) [The Third Flamegate] #3 Hint: Enter Portal located at Mount Hyjal (64,53).

- [81] (64,53) [The Time for Mercy has Passed] #4 Still inside the portal. Mobs are all around the cave but take long to spawn.

- [81] (42,60) [Breakthrough] He is under same huge tortoise and can be hard to click.

- [81] (42,60) [Lost Wardens] #1

- [81] (57,55) [Pressing the Advantage] #2

- [81] (28,29) [From the Mouth of Madness] #1

- [81] (28,36) [Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows] #2

- [81] (28,29) [Sweeping the Shelf]

- You will now be Exalted with [Guardians of Hyjal] Faction

[Deepholm] - Zone 82 - 83

- To start questing in Deepholm you must complete the following:

- [82] (49,76) [Warchief's Command: Deepholm!] Prerequisite - #1 Maybe not required?

- [82] (56,37) [The Maelstrom] Prerequisite - #2

- [82] (33,50) [Deepholm, Realm of Earth] Prerequisite - #3 The ride is not working so just [Hearth] back.

- Now you can start these:

- [82] (49,53) [Gunship Down] Cont. - #3

- [82] (49,53) [Diplomacy First] Cont. - #4

- [82] (49,53) [The Earth Claims All]

- [82] (49,53) [Elemental Energy]

- [82] (62,53) [All Our Friends Are Dead] #1 Fly up high. This NPC is on top of a scripted plying gunship that keeps moving.

- [82] (62,53) [The Admiral's Cabin] #1 He is inside the cabin. Next Quest Line [Without a Captain or Crew] is bugged.

The rest of quests are bugged. It is not even possible to quest for reputation with [Therazane] Faction.

[Orgrimmar] - Zone 1 - 85

- [84] (48,70) [Sauranok Will Point the Way] #1 Do this when you reach level 84. Easy experience.

- [84] (48,71) [Unfamiliar Waters] #1

[Uldum] - Zone 83 - 84

- To start questing in Uldum you must complete the following:

- [84] (49,76) [Warchief's Command: Uldum!] Prerequisite

- Now you can start these:

Ironically there are no quests available here yet. Just go to the next zone.

[Twilight Highlands] - Zone 84 - 85

- To start questing in Twilight Highlands you must complete the following:

- [84] (49,76) [Warchief's Command: Twilight Highlands!] Prerequisite - #1

- [84] (48,76) [Machines of War] #2 Not required but good experience. The rest of the quest line is bugged.

- Now you can start these:

- [84] (37,88) [Spirit of the Loch] #1 Npc [Countess Verrall] is underwater!

- [84] (27,63) [Fire the Cannon] #2

- [85] (21,57) [Enter the Dragon Queen]

Enjoy your Level 85!

Feedback is welcome.

This guide isn't made originally from us this is just copied from Molten Wow Forum.

Credits to: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=236494

Unique Alliance Leveling Guide 1-85

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:58:00 +0000

Unique Alliance Leveling Guide 1-85

(100% Working Quests List)

Guide released: 26.2.2012.

Guide updated: 28.10.2012.

PDF file last updated: 13.5.2012.

Alliance leveling for x5 rates server (Cata 4.0.6)

Molten-WoW/Greymane/Dementorion

Please, before saying that quest doesnt work or u cant pick quest, make sure u done all quests before that one, make sure that drop percentage isnt problem, make sure that you saw npc alive which you need to kill, dont just come there and go away, spawn time can be up to even 30min for those q.

If you are 100% sure that quest is bugged, use bug tracker and report it. Thanks.

You can also report UNLISTED working quests by clicking HERE. Thanks for helping other players!

I can see there is no this kind of guide for leveling alliance chars, and I have decided to make one...

This is more like a list of quests done on way to 85, so, all you need is addon that can provide you coordinates (mapster, titan panel), and you can level WITHOUT WORRIES WHERE ARE QUEST GIVERS AND DOES QUEST WORKS. I did them all, they are all working. Say thanks if this helped you, and I will know that all this was worth it.

If you are like “why I would use the same quests like you? maybe you picked hard quests etc…” well, you don’t have to follow this list do whatever you want, I made this to help newbies, and I believe that this is not list only for specific class/race, every class can do it alone, with help from others, only faster.

I recommend to go straight to quest givers, no “run all the time, kill everything on your way” tactic.

Since there are chain quests, you will need to visit one quest giver more than once, since you cant take all quests at once. If you encounter any horde ganking you, logoff and continue another time, or do other quests. Quests are just for leveling, there are no class specific quests (except paladins), to “test” some spell etc... Starting area is for human race. Try to get 240g to 60th lvl for fly mount.

Do not skip quests like “Report to that person”, just because they have low xp, they are needed to get quests which are following that one. Even if you reach certain lvl, and there are more q on the list, do them all, you need all exp. Do not proceed to next area without getting certain level, if you do all the quests from list, but you arent desired level, do some quests and inform me about this, it may happed due to different number of killed mobs = different exp points. “Area” is what you can see from world map, minimap text will not always match with area text, but just make sure you are on right coordinates.

You can also print this whole text and read from paper, to avoid Alt-Tab all the time.

If you have problem with some quest:

1. Search it on wowhead.com, search for quest name or quest giver and CHECK COMMENTS, it will help you 99%

2. When activating quest item or killing npc for q, if it wont work, move couple yards in each direction, try to pull him above water or to another spot or whatever, or do 1.,

3. Call on global, local or guild for help to kill some npc, or try using health potions/some techniques…

4. Spawn time is long, at the moment. You will need to wait for quest item or npc to spawn up to 10-30min I think. Be sure you are there on right time.

>>> You can download the guide in PDF file HERE. <<<

(Spaces / tabulating isnt shown here on forum, check pdf.)

There are 455 working quests and you can check it out here.

Halls of Origination - Exp grinding

Under this text is unsusable part since February 27th, 2012 (Yep, its fixed a day after releasing this guide) To be honest, I still dont understand why this npc have 50-60k hp, when that is heroic value, normal value is 13k and it still would be possible to grind this with no problem.

84 (~70% experience fulfilled) LVL – 85 LVL

At this point you should need ~30% of experience or ~2.9 million points

You can get those points in 30min’s grinding this npc

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=39444

In Uldum / Halls Of Origination

To get to mobs, you will need 2-3 invisibility potions per run. If you die, you will need 2-3 potions again. Buy them on auction house. Once you are in instance, go to mobs but don’t pull them. Use potion and run to 48.34 / 73.70 coordinates, you will need to wait CD 10minutes, then, to 43.3/59.8 or go right if you have time, use another potion and run to snakes which are in sand downstairs. Use strongest AoE and kill snakes, spawn time is arount 2-3 minutes. You will get ~350k exp points per run. Once you kill all snakes go to some corner where you wont pull any mob and wait there for respawn.

http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=494...13599652483737

Update:

Since the last part isnt possible now, you will need to get 2.9 million points on your own.

There are Northrend areas which I havent visited, so you will need to do it, in order to get to 85th lvl with quests which are on the list. You need to get to LVL 82 ~ 45% experience fulfilled, before heading to Hyjal and continuing to use my list. Im sorry for all those complications but simply, there isnt enough working quests atm for leveling 80 - 85 in Cata areas only.

Source: http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:XP_To_Level

(LVL 81 ~50% experience fulfilled + 2.9 million points = LVL 82 ~45% experience fulfilled)

Suggestion for Exp grinding:

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=42523

Location: Deepholm

Level: 83

Health: 5,368

Kill them while rested, to get more Exp.

I would like to thank to following players for making whole leveling experience easier and more interesting:

Molten-WoW/Greymane/

1. Eritea

2. Ashbriinger

3. Ardor

4. Gti

5. Holymoon

6. Kcuff

7. Poonai

8. Saizoo

9. Steltdosmrti

10. Uncer

11. Zarkhan

This guide isn't made originally from us this is just copied from Molten Wow Forum.

Credits to: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=134775

[Guide] PvE Protection Warrior 4.3.4

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:46:00 +0000

[Guide] PvE Protection Warrior 4.3.4

Hello friends! My name is Noobert or as some of you may know me, Incarael, from the guild <Care> on Sargeras. I have decided to make a guide showing you the potential of the forever underestimated tank on Molten -- a Protection Warrior. I have been tanking with a Warrior since The Burning Crusade on retail, to Molten's WotLK on Ragnaros and then into Cataclysm on Sargeras and I can tell it is one of my most favorite and exciting classes to play because of how mobile it is at tanking, surviving, and throw out damage. Many other tanks specialize in one aspect, but we specialize in all aspects.

This guide will show you the potential of a Warrior as well as the versatility, abilities, mobility, and power it can bring to a raid. I consider this Tank to be one of the best available in World of Warcraft, but as I have said -- due to bugs on Molten this class, is forever underplayed and underestimated. Hopefully this guide will show you otherwise and maybe create a few more Protection Warriors out there who share my love for this class.

Talent Tree
Glyphs
Stat Priority
Gemming and Enchanting
Reforging
Rotation
Combat Table Coverage (CTC)
BiS List - Non-Donor, Donor, and End Game
Professions
Macros
Skill Knowledge
Credits

This is the talent tree I currently use. I will explain everything below.

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Due to the recent fixes Molten implemented for the MiT Tournament, they have fixed a few talents enabling the use of them again.

Incite 3/3 was taken to enable faster killing of Alysrazor Hatchlings in Heroic mode.

Shield Specialization 3/3 was taken after the fix to obtain maximized rage generation.

Blood and Thunder 2/2 in combination with Thunderstruck 2/2 was taken for Ragnaros' Molten Elementals.

Impending Victory 2/2 dropped for maximizing of Incite and Shield Specialization in Heroic encounters.

Deep Wounds 1/3 taken over Blood Craze 1/3 for a bit of extra damage on Voracious Hatchlings.

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The only difference from the above and here is Deep Wounds 1/3 was dropped for Blood Craze 1/3 for an extra boost of health regeneration. You can rotate more talents from Incite (dropping to 2/3) and War Academy (2/3) if you do not need damage, to other talents such as Blood Craze 3/3.

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As you can see I have chosen to take more damage output but you can maximize damage output or rotate in the health regeneration from Blood Craze. This is a talent specialization based around regeneration and kiting. An example would be on the Spine of Deathwing, Madness of Deathwing and Ragnaros, where you can slow the Corrupted Bloods as well as the Molten Elementals making the kiting and slowing process much smoother.

Prime Glyphs:

Major Glyphs:

Minor Glyphs:

Glyph of Demoralizing Shout

This section will explain and show you the stat priority you will aim for as a Protection Warrior.

Mastery > Parry > Dodge > Stamina > Hit/Expertise

The reason you wish for this priority is so your damage intake is smooth with no spiking and you can mitigate as much damage as possible, since stamina soaking is not as effective in 4.3 -- it will be explained further in the Combat Table Coverage section below. Protection Warrior Guide Cataclysm

Meta Gem:

Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond (81 Stamina and 1% Shield Block Value)

Other Possibilities:

Effulgent Shadowspirit Diamond (81 Stamina and Reduce Spell Damage Taken by 2%) - I highly recommend this for heavy magic damage fights like Alysrazor.

Austere Shadowspirit Diamond (81 Stamina and 2% Increased Armor Value from Items)

Pre-Dragon Soul Gems:

Red - Fine Ember Topaz (20 Parry Rating and 20 Mastery Rating)

Yellow - Fractured Amberjewel (40 Mastery Rating)

Blue - Puissant Dream Emerald (20 Mastery Rating and 30 Stamina)

Other Possibilities:

Red - Defender's Demonseye (20 Parry Rating and 30 Stamina)

Yellow - Regal Dream Emerald (20 Dodge Rating and 37 Stamina)

Blue - Defender's Demonseye (20 Parry Rating and 30 Stamina)

Dragon Soul Gems:

Red - Fine Lava Coral (25 Parry Rating and 25 Mastery Rating)

Yellow - Fractured Lightstone (50 Mastery Rating)

Blue - Puissant Elven Peridot (25 Mastery Rating and 37 Stamina)

Other Possibilities:

Red - Stalwart Lava Coral (25 Parry Rating and 25 Dodge Rating) ** NOTE: The lesser version was removed from the game **

Yellow - Regal Elven Peridot (25 Dodge Rating and 37 Stamina)

Blue - Defender's Shadow Spinel (25 Parry Rating and 37 Stamina)

Enchants:

Head - Arcanum of the Earthen Ring (90 Stamina and 35 Dodge Rating)

Shoulders - Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz (75 Stamina and 25 Dodge Rating)

Chest - Enchant Chest - Peerless Stats (20 Stats)

Back - Enchant Cloak - Protection (250 Armor)

Wrist - Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina (40 Stamina)

Gloves - Enchant Gloves - Greater Mastery (65 Mastery Rating)

Belt - Ebonsteel Belt Buckle (Extra Socket)

Legs - Drakehide Leg Armor (145 Stamina and 55 Dodge Rating)

Feet - Enchant Boots - Lavawalker (35 Mastery and Movement Speed Increase) OR Enchant Boots - Mastery (50 Mastery) OR Enchant Boots - Earthen Vitality (30 Stamina and Movement Speed Increase)

Weapon - Enchant Weapon - Windwalk (Sometimes increase Dodge Rating and Movement Speed)

Shield - Enchant Shield - Mastery (50 Mastery Rating)

There are two possibilities of your reforging, Mastery or balancing out your Parry/Dodge Rating. Mastery is more valuable to you and should always be chosen first as it gives more CTC to you as a tank than Parry or Dodge ever will. Mastery helps smooth over the damage you will take from each hit so you do not take spike damage like Death Knights or Feral Druids.

This topic will discuss the skill priority for rotations, enabling you to maintain the highest level of threat. One point of advice I can give you though is - learn the capabilities of your tank and learn how many cooldowns you will need to survive. Do not EVER use all of your cooldowns at once as it leaves you completely unable to survive should the time arise where you need it most.

Single Target Threat Generation:

Heroic Leap/Charge > Shield Slam > Devastate x3 > Revenge > Shockwave > Thunderclap/Demoralizing Shout.

Queue up Heroic Strike if you are not rage starved.

Area of Effect Threat Generation:

Heroic Leap/Charge > Rend one target > Thunderclap > Shockwave > Demoralizing Shout.

Queue up Cleave if you are not rage starved.

** IMPORTANT NOTE ** If you having trouble with threat, use Vigilance on the highest damaging player in your raid or the opposing tank as it will enable you to refresh your taunt with each hit he or she takes. Another way to use Vigilance is if your taunt is down, a newly spawned mob is running to a player - you can throw Vigilance on that target, taunt it off, and put it back onto another target if required.

Combat Table Coverage, otherwise known as CTC, is how close a tank is to becoming unhittable. The goal is to make sure every hit is either an inherent dodge (every character has 5% dodge chance, regardless of class or spec), dodge, parry, and block. After everything is taken into account, armor comes last further mitigating the overall damage you will take.

All tanks in Cataclysm should aim for 102.4% CTC because with each level ahead of you the bosses are they gain 0.8% chance to hit you. All raid bosses have three levels on you meaning they will have a total of (0.8 x 3) 2.4% hit chance on you. 100% + 2.4% = 102.4% total CTC needed to become almost completely unhittable.

CTC = 5 [5% Inherent Dodge] + (Your Dodge Rating) + (Your Parry Rating) + (Your Block Rating)

Credit goes to Wolololol for the CTC breakdown.

Non-Donor BiS List:

Head - Baleroc Heroic - Helm of Blazing Glory

Neck - Crystallized Firestone - Firebound Gorget

Shoulders - Majordomo Staghelm Heroic - Shoulderguards of the Molten Giant

Chest - Alysrazor Heroic - Chestguard of the Molten Giant

Back - Avengers of Hyjal Reputation - Durable Flamewrath Greatcloak

Wrist - Majordomo Staghelm Heroic - Bracers of the Fiery Path

Gloves - Baleroc - Handguards of the Molten Giant

Belt - Shannox Heroic - Uncrushable Belt of Fury

Legs - Shannox Heroic - Legguards of the Molten Giant

Feet - Blacksmith Crafted - Mirrored Boots

Weapon - Beth'tilac Heroic - Mandible of Beth'tilac

Shield - Baleroc Heroic - Shard of Torment

Ranged Weapon - Crystallized Firestone - Deflecting Star

Ring #1 - Avengers of Hyjal Reputation - Adamantine Signet of the Avengers

Ring #2 - Justice Point Vendor - Deflecting Brimstone Band

Trinket #1 - Beth'tilac Heroic - Spidersilk Spindle

Trinket #2 - Crystallized Firestone - Scales of Life

** If you are looking for a Normal Mode BiS - All of the items above are currently best-in-slot normal but there are other variants that can be just as good or better depending on the stats you need.

Trinkets are based off of your own preference, the current best ones available in normal mode are:

Spidersilk Spindle from Beth'tilac.

Stay of Execution from Avengers of Hyjal reputation.

Scales of Life from Firelands Trash.

Donor BiS List:

Head - Colossal Dragonplate Faceguard

Neck - Guardspike Choker *

Shoulders - Colossal Dragonplate Shoulderguards

Chest - Colossal Dragonplate Chestguard

Back - Indefatigable Greatcloak *

Wrist - Graveheart Bracers

Gloves - Colossal Dragonplate Handguards

Belt - Goriona's Collar

Legs - Colossal Dragonplate Legguards

Feet - Stillheart Warboots

Weapon - Mandible of Beth'tilac ** NOTE: This can only be obtained from Beth'tilac **

Shield - Blackhorn's Mighty Bulwark

Ranged Weapon - Unexpected Backup

Ring #1 - Hardheart Ring

Ring #2 - Signet of the Resolute *

Trinket #1 - Soulshifter Vortex

Trinket #2 - Indomitable Pride

* These items linked from WoWHead are the normal level of stats as there are no raid finder levels listed, check the coin shop for the correct stats.

End-Game BiS List:

Head - Colossal Dragonplate Faceguard

Neck - Guardspike Choker *

Shoulders - Colossal Dragonplate Shoulderguards

Chest - Colossal Dragonplate Chestguard

Back - Indefatigable Greatcloak *

Wrist - Graveheart Bracers

Gloves - Colossal Dragonplate Handguards

Belt - Goriona's Collar

Legs - Foundations of Courage * OR Colossal Dragonplate Legguards

Feet - Stillheart Warboots

Weapon - Souldrinker

Shield - Blackhorn's Mighty Bulwark

Ranged Weapon - Unexpected Backup

Ring #1 - Hardheart Ring

Ring #2 - Signet of the Resolute *

Trinket #1 - Soulshifter Vortex

Trinket #2 - Resolve of Undying

On a high magic damage fight you can use the trinkets:

Soulshifter Vortex and the Indomitable Pride.

** Note ** All of the above items are Heroic quality except the noted above with a * above.

* These items linked from WoWHead are the normal level of stats as there are no Heroic levels listed.

These are the benefits to our class, choose which one you think is the most beneficial to you.

Alchemy - 80 Strength but this is not very useful to us.

Blacksmithing - Two extra gem sockets.

Enchanting - Two ring enchants equalling a total of 120 stamina.

Engineering - Grounded Plasma Shield (Absorbs 16200 to 19800 Damage - 5 Minute Cooldown), Quickflip Deflection Plates (1500 armor for 12 seconds - 1 Minute Cooldown), Spinal Healing Injector (27K to 30K Healing to Yourself - Shares Cooldown with Potions), or Synapse Springs (480 of your highest priority stat - 1 Minute Cooldown).

Herbalism - 480 Haste for 20 seconds, 2 Minute Cooldown.

Inscription - 195 Stamina, 25 Dodge Rating

Jewelcrafting - 27 (or 41 Stamina) stats per gem, maximum of three gems, which equals 81 bonus stats or 123 Stamina.

Leatherworking - 192 Stamina to Bracers.

Mining - 120 Stamina.

Skinning - 80 Critical Strike Rating.

Tailoring - 800 Attack Power for 15 seconds.

Personally, I would choose hard stat bonuses such as Jewelcrafting, and Blacksmithing. Since Shoulder Enchants are currently bugged on Molten, you can even take Inscription to cover the loss of the enchant that most people suffer.

These are just some macros I have developed to help increase my ability as a tank. There are many more out there, but these are just the ones I use.

#showtooltip

/cast [@mouseover] Vigilance

If you mouse over a player in-game or on raid frames and hit this macro, it will put Vigilance on that target.

#showtooltip

/cast [@targetoftarget] Intervene

This macro will Intervene the target of the player, or the mob you are targeting.

#showtooltip

/cast [target=focus] Intervene

This enables you to have more Intervene macros.

/script SetCVar ("cameraDistancemax" ,50)

This is the max camera distance macro and it will help you be more aware of what is going on around you as well as help position the boss correctly.

/script RepopMe()

If you ever get stuck falling the world or unable to release - use this macro. It will save your unstuck on the website to enable you to hunt more pets efficiently.

Every skill in the Warrior spellbook is useful, even right down to the most unused talents. Do not forget to go through your book and read the use of every skill as it will improve your ability to play a Protection Warrior ten fold.

Concussion Blow - 5 Second Stun with high damage output. It can be used to stun mobs that need to be delayed from casting (if stunnable) as well as stopping mobs like Alysrazor's Initiates from igniting her.

Devastate - High threat attack, applies or refreshes Sunder Armor and a low rage cost.

Revenge - Usable after a successful block, parry, or dodge costing only 5 Rage and hitting two targets (if specced).

Shield Block - Shield Block increases the chance to block by 25% for 10 seconds, and if specced into - reduces the magic damage taken by 20% for 6 seconds.

Intervene - Friendly version of charge and if used on somebody, it will reduce their total threat by 10% as well as allow you to take one attack for them.

Shield Slam - Huge threat generation ability as well as dispels one magic effect on the target.

Last Stand - This will increase your health pool by 30% for 20 seconds.

Shield Wall - This skill reduces the damage you take by 40% for 12 seconds. Once you obtain Tier 13, this will also effect the entire raid.

Shockwave - Frontal Area of Effect stun for 4 seconds.

Rallying Cry - Increases the raid members health by 20% for 10 seconds.

Victory Rush - Heals 24% of your current health (or if specced into with a proc 10% of your total health).

Pummel - This is our only hard interrupt, use it wisely.

Inner Rage - Many people forget about this skill, but it helps with area of effect tanking as well as single target tanking if used on cooldown.

Enraged Regeneration - Heals 36% of your total health over 10 seconds. Combine this with Last Stand or Rallying Cry for an even greater effect.

Thunderclap - The highest Area of Effect generation skill and in Dragon Soul it will save your life on Spine/Madness of Deathwing as it reduces time between attacks by 20% for all mobs under its effect.

This completes the guide. Thank you for reading and I hope you will learn as much as I did while making this guide.

If you are going to learn anything from this guide, remember that a tank is only as good as the player controlling it. If you want to tank, you have to strive to be the best available because you control the raid and if you are unable to maneuver, adapt, etc. you will be unable to progress.

I hope you enjoyed the guide and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did typing it. If you have any questions, comments, etc. I will happily answer them as I see them.

Noobert

Originally, Wolololol refused to create my banners and this is what I had come up with. I feel I am an amazing artist.

Credit goes to..

Wolololol for taking pity on me and making the Banners and Headers again and my guildies on <Care> for the support and dedication to make me a better player and person.

Check out the other guides written by myself, and members of Care!

[Guide] 4.3 Protection Paladin

[Guide] 4.3 Holy Priest

[Guide] 4.3 Elemental Shaman

[Guide] 4.3 Shadow Priest

[Guide] 4.3 Survival Hunter

This guide isn't made originally from us this is just copied from Molten Wow Forum.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=234870

[Guide] Elemental Shaman PvE 4.3.4

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:20:00 +0000

[Guide] Elemental Shaman PvE 4.3.4

My shaman's name is Speed and I play on Sargeras. What peaked my interest in elemental shaman is the concept of a nature mage that summons totems and guardians for an overall unique expirence. I have gone to great lengths and even though I may not be the best, I'm better than most of i've came across.

The infomation I provide are the results of reading countless guides, running tons of simulations, and a boatload of field tests which include raids, dungeons, and test dummies. My current progression is 5/6 bwd normal, 2/6 bwd herioc, 4/4 bot, 6/7 fl normal.

The elemental shaman is able to provide high dps and provides a good ammount of utility. Any mistakes you make such as letting flameshock or searing totem expire, stacking lightning shield past 9 charges, delaying lava burst, letting even a half second go by without casting, or improper cooldown usage will severely harm your dps. You have to be on your A game, reflex and focus are key along with a well setup spec and gear build. Don't let all of that intimadate you though as it becomes quite enjoyable and even has a certain rythme to it.

These are the core talents required for all aspects of the PvE environment. You only have 3 leftover to play with. However those spare point can be used for survivability, utility, crowd control, or even a fun aoe cc.

Elemental Warding-Reduces magic damage taken by 4/8/12%. This is always on and most raid damage is magic damage.

Earth's Grasp-Earthbind Totem has a 50/100% chance to root nearby targets for 5 seconds. I have personally been in situations where rooting mobs prevented a wipe, however this is highly situational.

Earthquake-Deals physical damage every second to enemies in an 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance to knockdown and lasts 10 seconds. In pretty much any aoe situation, you will spam chain lightning but it's still viable to drop one of these before you do.

Totemic Reach-Increases the range of your totems' effects by 15/30%. Normally you would take this to extend the range of searing totem but with molten's ai bugs, it will increase the chance of it ninja pulling.

Ancestral Resolve-Reduces any damage takenwhile casting by 5/10%. As an elemental shaman, you should always be casting which makes this a bit heavier than elemental warding.

Prime

Flame Shock-Increases Flame Shock duration by 50%. Flame Shock is weak in general but this glyph allows you to refresh it less while spending more global cooldowns on harder hitting abilities.

Lava Burst-Increases the damage of Lava Burst by 10%. Makes one of your best spells better.

Lightning Bolt-Increases damage of Lightning Bolt by 4%. Lightning Bolt will makes up a huge chunk of our damage and is probably our most casted spell.

Unleashed Lightning-Allows you to cast Lightning Bolt while moving. Gives elemental shamans the ability to be so much mobile which is very important for fights such as alysrazor, shannox, omnitron, atramedes, halfus, and ascendant council. Replace with Lava Burst glyph if you know you will be missing it on cooldown.

Major

Lightning Shield-Lightning Shield can no longer drop below 3 charges. Means you never need to recast it. Always use.

Chain Lightning-Hits 2 additional targets but deals 10% less initial damage. Gives Chain Lightning the ability to hit 5 targets instead of 3. On 4+ mobs, its a dps gain. 2-3 and you can swap this out.

Healing Stream Totem-Your Healing Stream Totem will give 195 frost, fire, and nature resist to all members in range. Best choice for 3rd glyph but swap out if a restoration shaman wants you to drop mana spring or tranquil mind.

Stoneclaw Totem-Stoneclaw totem will give a 16k shield with a 20 second cooldown. Since we don't need earth totems to help with dps, this is completely viable choice for 3rd gylph.

Minor

Thunderstorm-Increases mana gained from Thunderstorm by 2% but will no longer knockback or reduce movement speed. Unless your required to knockback during an encounter, glyph this. Not for the mana regen but for the sake that you don't knock mobs into a wall. Don't be that guy.

All other minor glyphs provide utility or cosmetics which will contribute nothing in a raid environment.

Intellect>Spirit/Hit 17%>Haste>Mastery>Critical Strike

Intellect-Highest ranking stat. It's our main source of spellpower, increases mana pool size, and provides critical strike.

Spirit-With elemental precision 3/3 which is a mandatory talent converts ever point of spirit into hit rating. Learn to see spirit as hit rating since its almost identical.

Hit Rating-Along with spirit should be your number 1 priority until you're at or slightly below hit cap. A single missed attack can knock your dps down a few pegs. Any point above is considered wasted. !7% for all races at this current time.

Haste-Faster spell casting and shorter global cooldowns. There all no haste breakpoints for elemental. The dps gain is linear and for this current tier gear, more is better.

Mastery-Our mastery gives us a chance to for lightning bolt, lava burst, and chain lightning to trigger itself and cast another version that does 75% normal damage and no threat. Its a nice stat to aim for on gear but it should be reforged for spirit if under hitcap or haste.

Critical Strike-Your best spell has a 100% crit chance which makes critical strike garbage for elemental shamans. This should be the first stat reforged and avoided if possible.

This is the result of a simulation ran 10,000 times using a helter skelter fight mode using bis tier 12 gear.

Meta-Burning Shadowspirit Diamond +54 intellect and 3% increased critical effect.

Red-Brilliant Inferno Ruby +40 intellect

Blue-Purified Demonseye +20 intellect and +20 spirit

Yellow-Reckless Ember Topaz +20 intellect and +20 haste

Head-Arcanum of Hyjal +60 intellect and +35 crtitcal strike

Shoulders-Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone +50 intellect and +25 haste.

Cloak-Greater Intellect +50 intellect

Chest-Peerless Stats +20 All Stats

Wrist-Mighty Intellect +50 intellect

Gloves-Greater Mastery +65 Mastery

Legs-Powerful Ghostly Spellthread +95 intellect and +55 spirit

Feet-Haste +50 haste

Shield-Superior Intellect +40 intellect

Weapon-Power Torrent 500 intellect for 12 sec when dealing damage or healing with spells

Reforging Priority as follows: Spirit/Hit to 17%>Haste>Mastery>Critical Strike.

If you don't have 17% hit, reforge lowest ranking stat Hit Rating or Spirit

If you're over 17% hit, reforge some Hit or Spirit to Haste or Mastery.

Reforge any leftover Crit to Haste or Mastery.

Alchemy: +80 intellect from flasks through Mixology

Blacksmithing: +80 bonus from two bonus sockets on bracers and gloves.

Enchanting: +80 intellect from two ring enchants.

Engineering: Synapse Springs which average out to +80 intellect. 450 int for 10 seconds with a 60 second cooldown.

Inscription: +80 intellect from shoulder enchant.

Jewelcrafting: +81 intellect from 3 intellect gems. When epic gems are released, the value will go down to +51 intellect.

Leatherworking: +80 intellect from fur lining.

Tailoring: cloak enchant that procs 580 intellect for 15 seconds.

Herbalism: 480 haste for 20 seconds every 2 minutes.

Mining: +120 stamina.

Skinning: +80 critical strike rating.

These really are the only choices that make any significant boost in your dps and are pretty easy to acquire.

Elixer:Flask of Draconic Mind +300 intellect

Food:Severed Sagefish Head +90 intellect and +90 stamina

Potion: Volcanic Potion +1200 intellect for 25 seconds

Scroll: Intellect IX +100 intellect.

Always make sure lightning shield and flametongue weapon are active. I seen people mess that up.

Single Target

1) Searing Totem. Fire Elemental totem if have all spellpower procs/cooldowns ready and you can drop it on the boss.

2) Flame shock and refresh with 3 seconds left on duration.

3) Lava burst on cooldown when flame shock is up.

4) Earth shock when you have 7-9 stacks of lightning shield and flame shock has 6+ seconds remaining.

5) Lightning Bolt when all other priorities have been taken care of and while moving.

Unleash elementals was removed from our rotation completely since it uses a gcd and was only used while moving. We have glyph of unleased lightning to thank for that.

Multiple Target

Spam chain lightning.

Earth shock at 7-9 stacks of lightning shield.

Earthquake is optional but if you're specced into it, use it when there's 5 or more targets.

Earth

Stoneskin Increases armor by 4076. Stacks with paladin's devotion aura.

Strength of Earth +549 strength and agility. The same buff is apply by but does not stack with death knights Horn of Winter, warrior's Battle Shout, and hunter's Roar of Courage.

Tremor Totem Breaks fears, charms, and sleep effects for 6 seconds with a 1 minute cooldown.

Stoneclaw 16k personal bubble with a 20 second cooldown.

Fire

Flametongue 6% spellpower increase. Does not benefit from totemic wrath(+10% spellpower increase). Useless.

Searing Shoots bolts of fire at single enemy and benefits from totemic wrath which will increase all party/raid members' spellpower by 10%. Always use. This spellpower increase is also provided by warlock's Demonic Pact.

Magma- Deals fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Also benefits from totemic wrath. Very situational. I only really use it when I fear searing totem will ninja pull.

Fire Elemental Much better than searing totem and is a dps increase especially when used with intellect procs and cooldowns. Also benefits from totemic wrath. However it is severely broken and unpredictable. Lately I have been testing and it is scaling better with spellpower/intellect procs and is a very nice dps boost if it runs in right away. I dropped this on Ragnaros and it took 30 seconds before it finally started attacking.

Water

Healing Steam Heals all party members in range. Also stacks with other healing steam totems and benefits from spellpower/intellect procs. Also provides 195 frost, fire, and nature resistence when glyphed.

Mana Spring Increases mana regen by 326 per 5 seconds. Currently stacking with paladin's Blessing of Might.

Tranquil Mind Reduces pushback when casting by 30%. Does not stack with paladin's concentration aura.

Air

Wrath of Air +5% spell haste. Does not stack with shadow priest's Mind Quickening or balance druid's Moonkin Aura.

Windfury+10% melee and ranged attack speed. Does not stack with death knight's Improved Icy Talons or hunter's Hunting Party.

The totems you should have queued generally as an elemental shaman are Stoneskin, Searing, Healing Stream, and Wrath of Air. Assess the needs of the group and place totems accordingly.

Special thank you to Wolololol for the images and to <Care> for giving me to opportunity to flourish as an elemental shaman. Also Noobert for teaching me how to make colored text.

Guides written by other <Care> members.

[Guide] 4.3 Protection Paladin

[Guide] 4.3 Holy Priest

[Guide] 4.3 Shadow Priest

[Guide] 4.3 Survival Hunter

[Guide] 4.3 Protection Warrior

And [Guide] Firelands Normal which is the highest tier of raiding at the moment.

I plan to add a bis list and expand on the rotation with cooldown usage at a later time.

Bugs

Lava Burst elemental overload proc should have a 100% crit chance when hitting a target afflicted with flame shock but it doesn't.

Searing Totem not prioritizing targets with flame shock.

Flametongue Weapon not benefiting from elemental weapons talent.

Fire Elemental Totem is a major dps cooldown but refuses to join the fight or just slaps the enemy when he does.

Earth Elemental Totem is also severely broken but not that high of a priority. Contributes roughly 500 dps if fixed and really run to use.

Dreanei's Heroic Presence is supposed to give 1% hit but doesn't work at all.

This guide isn't made originally from us this is just copied from Molten Wow Forum.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=231144

[Guide] 4.3.4 Holy Priest PvE

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:13:00 +0000

[Guide] 4.3.4 Holy Priest PvE

This guide will contain information that may be helpful to you as a Priest Healer in the Cataclysm dungeon and raid environment, which is exclusively designed for Molten. You will know which stats are important, key talents and spell, the rotation/healing method, and much more. This guide will be updated and improved regularly as new updates happen on our server.

Problems Faced by a Holy Priest
Talent Overview
Glyphs
Stats
Chakra
Rotation
Consumables
Gems & Enchants
Professions
Credits

Mana Issue

Unless you get the end-game gears, you will get several mana issues whenever healing a dungeon/raid. Something seems to be costly, everything seem to be costly, thus forcing you to reserve your mana a lot and prevent yourself from pulling out the best healing performance you can do. Shadowfiend, Hymn of Hope, and 50% combat mana regeneration from Spirit are the 3 main sources of your mana gain during combat.

Transitioning from a Dungeon Healer to a Raid Healer

For Priests who finished their dungeon healing duty and start to working on raid healing, they have tendency to feel nervous and casting unneeded healing spell, fearing a raid member will die and he will get removed from raid because of that. Remember that you are not the only healer in your raid group, and judged from the spells you have, people prefer to see you as a raid healer doing AoE heal when it’s the time. Start forgetting your Flash Heal spam habit and work on group healing spells.

Outperformed

Once you become a raid healer, sometimes you feel disappointed when you had performed the best healing performance for your raid group but in the Recount statistic you never get into the peak of Healing Done (people judge healers’ performance in an encounter based on Recount sadly). Plus the mana status you have compared with other classes clearly shows that they provide more Healing Done than your own with less mana spent.

Dungeon Healing Talent

Key talents:

Surge of Light: the rates you will use Flash Heal on dungeons is high. You will use Flash Heal to heal almost all the time. An extra FH, no mana cost and instant, helps your healing duty

Veiled Shadows: the cooldown reduction of your Fade helps avoid mobs which are chasing on you due to your healing agro. The Shadowfiend cooldown reduction also helps you regain mana faster without drinking, even when you are in combat bug (CB)

Blessed Resilience: since decades ago many players even on retail keep mentioning this talent as PvP talent, but if you review again this talent description and the actual situation happen in Cataclysm dungeons, you will prefer to have this so you will be easier to be healed fully. Combined by Binding Heal, you will feel comfortable healing people without worrying your own HP (check Rotation section)

Note: this talent sometimes doesn't work with non-player damage

Raid Healing Talent

Talents circled with purple are OPTIONAL

Key talents:

Circle of Healing: heals up to 6 members (when glyphed) instantly. Use this whenever off cooldown. Check Rotation section how to utilize it properly for maximum result

Heavenly Voice: when specced this one, your Divine Hymn will provide around a total of 300k-500k Healing Done within 8 seconds duration every 3 minutes, and increasing the healing received for your raid members by 10% everytime the healing tick received, which becomes the key spell for Holy Priest in raid

Lightwell: only smart players will use Lightwell, so make sure people around you will truly have commitment to use it before you spec this one. It’s already become an ancient issue around Priest healers that raid members often ignore Lightwell. They are busy DPSing and have no time to move their mouse cursor to click it. Blizzard improves the Lightwell in Cataclysm by making it clickable from distances (40 yards) but still it won’t change the fact that people (especially pugs) rarely use it and sometimes abuse it when out of combat

Optional talents:

Surge of Light: useful for single target healing while in raid, (Shannox, Baleroc, etc.)

Blessed Resilience: this talent should be good but if you want to maximize your capability in raid, you may unpick this talent and pick other optional talents

Note: this talent sometimes doesn't work with non-player damage

Divine Touch + Rapid Renewal: many Priests don't use Renew a lot since mana cost is too high. If you use Renew for tank only, you don't really need these talents. If you spam Renew a lot to many members, these are good additions

Body and Soul: useful when you are needed to move faster for small moment (Ragnaros, Alysrazor, Chimaeron, Atramedes, etc.)

Prime

Glyph of Prayer of Healing: spamming PoH to as many groups as possible will grant this HoT to each members which is really good

Glyph of Renew: if you use Renew a lot, you will use this glyph. Check Rotation section to know the appropriate time to use Renew

Glyph of Flash Heal: useful for dungeon healing, as well as raid healing. Unlike WotLK, Cataclysm dungeons bring party members into difficult and critical situation on mobs and boss encounters which requires you to use Flash Heal a lot. On raids when you have to do triage healing during critical moment, this glyph helps you handle the situation

Glyph of Guardian Spirit: rarely happen when you need to use GS more than one time during a boss encounter (mostly used at the last phase of most boss encounters) but just in case you will need to use Guardian Spirit more than one time, this glyph is a wise choice

Glyph of Lightwell: when you take Lightwell talent, you will prefer this talent compared to Glyph of Renew / Glyph of Guardian Spirit to maximize the usage of your Lightwell

Major

Glyph of Circle of Healing: as a raid healer you will use CoH almost all the time whenever it’s available. This is not a good glyph for dungeon healer

Glyph of Prayer of Mending: make your PoM heals larger on initial target

Glyph of Holy Nova: useful for healing on the move situation. Check Rotation section for more information

Glyph of Mass Dispel: some encounters require you to cast Mass Dispel, especially in dungeon instances. This glyph helps you cast the spell faster so you can continue doing important things

Glyph of Fade: useful for dungeon healing to avoid healing agro on mobs

Minor

Glyph of Levitate: the reagent for Levitate without the glyph requires you to farm some mobs in specific zones. So better use this glyph without wasting your time farming the reagent or wasting your bag slots.

Glyph of Fortitude: when you are in combat, sometimes you are asked to rebuff in case someone miss the buff, or suddenly combat resurrected and need rebuff. Reducing the mana cost of this buff will save your mana.

Glyph of Shadowfiend: rarely happen to see Shadowfiend dies from something, but nothing is impossible so instead of regretting later while in combat for seeing your Shadowfiend dies unexpectedly and not giving full mana potential for you, better glyph this one.

Intellect > Spell Power > Spirit > *Haste/Mastery > Critical Strike

Intellect: This stat gives spell power, mana pool, and small critical chance. This is the most important stat for you, so you will want to have Flask/Scroll/Well Feed buff related to this stat.

Spell Power: This stat usually found in trinket and PvP gear. As you already know, SP increases the amount of all your healing done.

Spirit: Spirit helps mana regenerations while/while not in combat. During a combat, 50% of your spirits work and actively generates mana. It helps you for long duration fight. Always focus on this stat if you are a dungeon healer with mana issue.

Haste: This stat makes some usefulness. The casting speed of all healing spells will be faster, your Renew will tick faster, Divine Hymn will tick faster (rumored to be not working in Molten), so do Hymn of Hope. 12.5% haste is the cap to get an additional Renew tick so you should aim on this number IF you truly care about Renew healing (check Rotation to see how useful Renew is for you to use in raid environment).

Also take a note that in raids with Heroic difficulty, Haste is somewhat better than other stats as you need to give a fast heal to raid member since they are most likely brought into critical health frequently.

If you are a raid healer and want to get the best possible stats benefit, you can let your passive/unbuffed Haste sitting at low percentage and get the Haste stats from raid buffs, combined with Darkness talent to achieve 12.5% (even more) pretty easily so you can allocate your Haste to other useful stats like Mastery, Spirit, etc. if possible.

If you have Atonement/AA Discipline off-spec and share the same gears with your Holy spec, you can focus more on this stat.

Mastery: Most people prefer Haste than Mastery, but actually Mastery gives real-time healing (called Echo of Light) if you know how to utilize it properly (check Rotation section to know how Mastery take part on healing showdown). Unlike Haste, you can’t get this stat from anywhere else other than your gears (the gear stat, enchants, and gems). If you sometimes get lag in-game (commonly happen in Molten) or having bad latency due to ISP/geographic issue, Mastery helps your healing as the healing done per tick happens on server-side.

If you have Shield/non-AA Discipline off-spec and share the same gears with your Holy spec, you can focus more on this stat.

Critical Strike: Increase the chance your healing spell critted, good for direct healing (specifically tank healing) but Priest is preferred to be a raid healer. Check Rotation for more explanation.

Don’t forget to activate your Chakra state upon entering an instance, because it keeps resetting upon changing zone

Serenity

This mode is designed for single target and direct healing. You can read the description in-game for more information. Enabling this mode will grant you a new healing spell: Holy Word: Serenity which heals almost as same as Flash Heal (a bit lower) instantly with around 1% mana cost. Use this as a filler of your Flash/Binding/Greater Healer whenever the casting finished to increase EoL heal amount per tick. Or you can just spam it whenever it's off cooldown to small heal players during regular mob fights.

Sanctuary

This mode is designed for AoE healing. You can read the description in-game for more information. Enabling this mode will grant you a new healing spell: Holy Word: Sanctuary which heals quite a lot if people can manage to stack inside the heal area together. Mana cost is too high and going to be a waste if not used properly. The only important part of this Chakra mode is the cooldown reduction of CoH and 15% more healing done with AoE healing spells like CoH, PoH.

Experience and Expectations

First of all, you have to understand the situation and what will happen to your party/raid members. It means that you need past experience on the instances where you are going to heal the group at. With the experience you have, you will understand what rotation you should use effective and efficient. You will not always become the healer who need to heal at new places. Being used to similar situation happened in your previous run can help you determine the most effective and efficient method of healing.

Think what should be casted next when channeling a spell

You shouldn’t let your character remain idle and sit like an AFKer even just for 1-2 seconds, and thinking what spell you should cast. Keep casting spell and while the channeling bar is moving, start thinking what spell you should cast next by watching the HP condition of all of your group members, the buffs you have, the encounter events, etc.

Dungeon Environment

General

Spells focus: Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Holy Word: Serenity, Greater Heal, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Circle of Healing, Fade

Enable Inner Fire and a desired Chakra state based on situation, Serenity is recommended due to the single target healing effectiveness. Always put Renew on tank (don’t do it if you have mana issue), refresh it with Flash/Binding Heal or HW: Serenity (Chakra: Serenity state). Shoot Prayer of Mending on a player and refresh it whenever it’s charge is empty/running out, or when your Divine Fire (mana buff from Tier 12 2p set bonus) buff duration is about to end.

When healing a dungeon, ALL of your party members (including tank and yourself) will be your own responsibility alone. You will use Flash Heal to heal tank and DPSers, but when you know you are getting some damage as well (or know you will get a damage from your past experience at the same situation), you should use Binding Heal. Why?

Flash Heal and Binding Heal uses the same mana amount and casting time. Flash Heal does larger healing done to one target for sure, but Binding Heal does 60-80% of the Flash Heal amount to your target, and to yourself as well (not split/shared). Binding Heal creates 2 EoLs effect (stacking Mastery will give a better result) on 2 targets (you and your target) which again increase the healing done and effectiveness. Letting EoLs ticks will give time for Spirit to fill your mana slightly for some moments, or when you have to heal other player(s) after dealt with the previous healed target.
Binding Heal prevents you to get confused and panicked when you suddenly get an unexpected damage. Combined with Blessed Resilience you can heal up yourself without having to cast Flash/Greater Heal on yourself and letting others not getting healed (in case other members are injured).
Binding Heal saves your mana so you will not spend another mana to heal yourself with Flash Heal.

Casting Flash Heal or Binding Heal will give you Serendipity buff. This buff decrease the mana cost and casting time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing. To be a wise healer, don’t always think you have to spend this buff immediately like DK’s Killing Machine. Just reserve this buff for later use and when bad things finally happen:

Use Greater Heal on someone who badly injured/suddenly get a lot of damages and about to die
Use Prayer of Healing when groups (3-5 players) need your heals

When you are casting PoH, immediately cast CoH as soon as the casting of PoH finished, reason is to increase EoLs heal amount per tick (stacking Mastery will give a better result). This EoL with Glyph of PoH will become a very strong HoT for your party group, cheaper and more effective than Renew.

As you are going to utilize Flash/Binding/Greater Heal to perform single-target healing, use Serenity Chakra and cast Holy Word: Serenity whenever it’s off cooldown.

Fade spell takes very important role when healing a 5-man party (dungeon) as you will have 1:5 chances of agroing mobs with your healing activity.

Raid Environment

The Basic

Spells focus: Circle of Healing, Prayer of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Divine Hymn, Holy Word: Sanctuary

Enable Inner Fire and a desired Chakra state based on situation, Sanctuary is recommended because of CoH+PoH healing amount increase by 15%. Also, HW: Serenity from Serenity mode will turn overheal easily when casted periodically, while other healers can handle direct heal better in general.

When you are healing a raid, you can give less focus on taking care the tank (as explained in the very first part of Rotation section) so you will not blindly spend your mana, trinket, and enchant procs. Remember that other healing classes can perform better on handling tank healing. To be not so ignorant, you can put Renew on tank, even I guarantee it will turn to be overheal against other healers’ spell like Earth Shield, Beacon of Light, Lifebloom, etc. during normal tanking situation.

You will cast Circle of Healing whenever its available and off cooldown, but for sure don’t spam it blindly when actually raid members don’t need any heal at all. Use Prayer of Healing while waiting for the availability of your CoH. Do not build Serendipity in order to perform PoH, this talent isn’t truly designed as a ritual to perform PoH/GH, rather than as compensation when you have to use Flash/Binding Heal on badly injured raid member.

If possible, use CoH immediately after PoH without delay to enhance Echo of Light heal ticks.

Shoot Prayer of Mending to a raid member that is likely to get a damage later, and when you know other members around him/her will get some damages as well (example: Melee group on Lord Rhyolith). Some guides say you should cast it on tank, but healing amount potential for this spell benefits more to non-tank players.

Put Holy Word: Sanctuary on the ground when you know a group of raid members are going to get damage and capable to stack altogether into one place. The appearance of this spell is catchy so they will surely move to the spot.

Use Divine Hymn when things are really uncontrollable. Example when 2/3 of the raid members are dying and none of the healers are capable to control the situation, you can be the one who step forward and cast this spell. You can use Divine Hymn when a great number of players get damaged at the start of the encounter and you know you will be able to use DH again 3 minutes later (example: Ascendant Council). Do not try to reserve this spell and sacrifice the life of many people. Use it when you have to, the cooldown is only 3 minutes if you have the correct talent.

Advanced: PoH Healing Technique

Spells focus: Prayer of Healing, Circle of Healing

As your raid getting AoE damage, spam casting PoH on each group (G1 > G2> GX > …) and don’t give your next PoH cast to the same group unless needed. The reason:

We will utilize EoL and Glyph of PoH as the HoTs for group member, so when you cast the next PoH to other group, the previously healed group will get the shower of your HoT. The moment their HoTs expired, that time you can fire PoH again to the group.
Do not afraid the group will die if you just cast PoH one time to that group, since you are not the only healer in the raid.
If indeed the group need more PoH from you and can’t be left with the HoTs (mostly 10-man raid) then feel free to cast PoH again to that group.

You don’t have to aim for Serendipity buff when healing raid or doing PoH spam. The triage healing mechanism requires you to prioritize your heal on someone who truly need a focused heal, instead of just spamming AoE heals and letting someone dies. Use Flash Heal to heal someone who badly injured, but don’t spam it blindly because other healer’s spell will eventually arrive before/after the moment your Flash Heal arrives. By doing this, you will get Serendipity buff which counts as “compensation” for the Flash Heal you made. Usually when other healers are busy AoE healing and you have to do Flash Heal on most injured raid member alone, aim Serendipity by casting Flash Heal 2 times, and then finish it with Greater Heal. Else, continue spamming PoH + CoH.

Remember to use CoH immediately after PoH to increase EoL heal amount per tick.

Optional: Renew Healing Technique

Spells focus: Renew, Circle of Healing, Inner Will

Recently I found some Priests do Renew spam on raids (just like Druid’s Rejuvenation spam in WotLK expansion) which mostly dominates the Healing Done statistic in raid. This is a blind healing method because you will just give Renew HoT to as many players as you want without realizing if the raid truly need the tick. It’s nothing wrong to do Renew spam but make sure you use this method properly in correct situation.

If you have less than 300-500 ms latency to utilize Rapid Renewal at maximum rate
If you know encounter will get finished before all your potential mana amount get rinsed
If you know Triage healing won’t be needed, or someone else going to do it (means someone will not get injured badly and frequently, which requires your attention)
If you have large intellect/mana pool (means quite decent gears will be needed)
If the encounter truly create raid wide damage towards your member all the time/most of the time, and you have to keep moving (example: Atramedes)

You will need to use Inner Will and pick Mental Agility talent to reduce Renew mana cost, but still your mana will get burned hard.

Other: Direct Healing Focus in Raid

Rarely happen when a Priest is asked to focus on direct heal in raid environment (mostly for tank healing) but it will happen for sure. We can take example about Shannox encounter in Firelands. Raid members will not get any damage together at the same time during the encounter, but most damages happen to single target (damage from Shannox towards tank, and damage from Rageface towards random members every around 20-30 seconds) which requires a very serious large direct heal.

Same like Dungeon Healing, use Flash Heal on the target 2 times, then finish it with Greater Heal, and then repeat when needed. Remember to avoid any overhealing done so stop the heal when the target is at full HP or about to get full HP from other healing sources. Use Guardian Spirit when the victim will be guaranteed to be dying critically, and keep healing the target.

Remember Holy Priest is a raid healer, so try remove the habit of doing Dungeon Healing method when you are in a raid group.

Situational: Healing on the Move

Spells focus: Holy Nova, Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Renew

Sometimes, both in dungeon and raid environments, even on PvP situation as well, you are put into a situation where you have to keep moving and provide healing output, not even allowed to stand still for just 1 second. The fact is that most of our spells require us to stand still and channel them. Unlike Resto Shaman, Holy Priest doesn't have the spell which gives you the ability to cast non-instant healing spells while moving.

Use Circle of Healing whenever it’s off cooldown, and when needed of course.

When 3-5 players need immediate heal, make sure to get closer with them for at least 10 yards, then begin to pop Holy Nova. It’s spammable but be careful with your mana. Combine it with CoH to finish the job, recommended at the end of spam to increase EoL healing amount per tick.

Shoot Prayer of Mending to a party/raid member which is not alone (have other player(s) around him/her for at least 20 yards range). No need to spam it so your mana will be safe. You can cast it as well on the tank, combine it with Power Word: Shield to maximize the usage.

Use Renew when someone start getting some damage, or when they are far from PoM range, alone, and/or requires regular HoT ticks. Usually a tank requires it on this situation.

It’s highly recommended to use Inner Will to reduce the mana usage of all those spells, as well as to increase your movement speed.

Foods

Severed Sagefish Head: 90 Int 90 Stamina

Delicious Sagefish Tail: 90 Spirit 90 Stamina

Flasks

Flask of the Draconic Mind: 300 Int

Flask of Flowing Water: 300 Spirit

Scrolls

Scroll of Intellect IX: 100 Int

Scroll of Spirit IX: 100 Spirit

Potions

Mythical Mana Potion: instant 10,000 mana restoration

Potion of Concentration: 22,000 mana over 10 seconds, interrupted by damage taken/spell casting

Gems

Meta: Ember Shadowspirit Diamond (54 Int + 2% maximum mana) / Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (54 Int + 3% increased critical effect)

Red/Prismatic socket: Brilliant Queen's Garnet (50 Int)

Blue socket: Purified Shadow Spinel (25 Int 20 Spirit)

Yellow socket: rtful Lava Coral (25 Int 25 Mastery) / Reckless Lava Coral (25 Int 25 Haste)

Enchants

Head: Arcanum of Hyjal (60 Int + 35 Crit)

Shoulder: Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone (50 Int + 25 Haste)

Back: Lightweave Embroidery (proc 580 Int) / Greater Intellect (50 Int)

Chest: Peerless Stats (20 all stats) / Exceptional Spirit (40 Spirit)

Wrist: Mighty Intellect (50 Int)

Hands: Synapse Springs (480 Int/minute) / Greater Mastery (65 Mastery) / Haste (50 Haste)

Waist: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle (1 Prismatic socket)

Legs: Powerful Ghostly Spellthread (95 Int, 55 spirit)

Feet: Mastery (50 Mastery) / Haste (50 Haste)

Weapon: Power Torrent (proc 500 Int) / Heartsong (proc 500 Spirit)

Off-hand: Superior Intellect (40 Int)

Alchemy: +80 bonus on flask (Int/Spirit)

Blacksmith: +80 bonus from two extra sockets

Enchanting: +80 Int from ring enchants

Inscription: +80 Int from shoulder enchant

Leatherworking: +130 Int on Wrist enchant (in place of 50 Int enchant)

Tailoring: cloak enchants proc 580 Int / 580 Spirit

Engineering: Synapse Springs gives 480 Int on use, 1 min cooldown

Jewelcrafting: +80 Int

Herbalism: Haste cooldown from Lifeblood

Mining/Skinning: Stamina and Crit are on lowest priority

Epic: creator of the guide

Wolololol: banner picture and headers

My guildies on <Care> for the support

This guide isn't owned by us this is just a copy from the Molten Wow Forum.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=227448

[Guide] 4.3 Protection Paladin

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:37:00 +0000

[Guide] 4.3 Protection Paladin

Index:

Introduction
Pros and Cons
Race Selection
Talent Specs
Glyphs
Stats
Gems and Enchants
Reforging
Combat Table Coverage (CTC)
The Protection Toolkit
Tanking
Raiding Tips
Credits

To start off with, let me make it plainly known that I am nowhere near the best paladin tank out there. In fact, I don't even main this class. However, I find it to be the most fun tank I have played, with a good combination of survivability and utility, as well as a nice set of tricks to keep you going. I am writing this guide because when I first made my Paladin with the intention of tanking on Cataclysm on Molten, I found almost nothing to get me started. They're easily one of the most underrated tanks in the game, so I hope to get more people interested in them with this guide. Also, if you are new to tanking, I will always recommend starting out with a paladin. They are very easy to pick up and difficult to do badly with.

Pros:

Large number of cooldowns that you can rotate
A good balance of magic and physical defensive abilities
Easy to pick up and learn, and difficult to get wrong
Always loved in a raid, because of your auras, buffs, HoP, Divine Guardian, etc.
Acceptable self-healing if you spec into it, very good survivability even if you don't.
You get the shiniest tanking skills

Cons:

Compared to DKs, you have very little self-healing
Compared to Warriors, your mobility is quite bad and you are mostly just a pillar that will not die.
You have a ridiculous number of skills that you can use effectively, so you need to know what to use for each occasion, which only comes with time. Paladins are not 3 button tanks.

Alliance:

Dwarf: In my opinion, this is by far the best race to tank with. Stoneform reduces ALL DAMAGE TAKEN (not just physical) by 10% for 8 seconds, and also removes all poison, disease, and bleed effects. If you combine this with a trinket such as Stay of Execution, you effectively have an added defensive cooldown. Note that the racial will only remove all the current debuffs once, and not make you immune to them.

Human: Their racial can get you out of a stun or fear that might drop on you, which is very handy for preventing wipes. Also, if you plan on PvPing a lot in another spec, this is probably the best race for you.

Draenei: Your extra racial heal is nice to have, but subpar compared to the Dwarf racial from a purely tanking perspective in current gear. However, keep in mind that with Dragon Soul level gear, your larger health pool will make this heal more viable. The 1% hit would be quite big, but I have found this to be a very minor problem on Molten. I don't know of any tanks that actually worry about hit.

Horde:

Tauren: Increased health AND an AoE stomp stun. Also, you get to be big and beefy, and also get in built nature resist. What's to think about? This is the best pick, in my opinion.

Blood Elf: The AoE silence and resistance to arcane damage is not worth looking like a gaylord.

1. Base build: http://wowtal.com/#k=-kfFec6V.bqj.paladin.

In this build, I have included the talents that I think are compulsory for any kind of protection tanking. I will attempt to explain the logic behind making your own build by going into the talent choices you have to fix up your own personalized spec.

Protection Tree

Judgment of the Just: Note that even though I included this talent in all my specs, it does not affect bosses. I take it because switching talents around for mob packs and bosses is too much of a hassle.

Hallowed Ground: I left this at 1/2 in all three talent specs because you tend to use it mostly just to "catch" mobs in your damage as they spawn, to prevent them from running to a healer or AoEing melee right away. In all honesty, the mana reduction from this talent is what you want. Hammer of the Righteous is a much better AoE threat ability, so don't worry too much about falling short there.

Reckoning: Keeping this at 1/2 is also fine, since it will proc almost all the time even at level 1. However, if it's a choice between Hallowed Ground, Reckoning, and Improved Hammer of Justice, I'd take an extra point in Reckoning any day.

Eternal Glory & Guarded by the Light: The reason I list these two talents together is because they form the basis of the self-healing Protection Paladin. Do not take one without the other. My advice is this; if you decide to go for self-healing, go all out or nothing. Word of Glory is on a pretty long cooldown, so when you cast it, you want it to count.

Retribution Tree

Pursuit of Justice: Paladins have such horrible mobility compared to most other tanks (Bears and Warriors can charge, DKs can just grip to them), that I find this talent a must. However, note that this does not stack with the speed boost that you get from boot enchants. If you intend on getting that enchant, do not take this talent. I prefer to take it, though, since that gives me the ability to use the 50 mastery enchant on my boots. Every bit of ctc helps.

Rule of Law: What else are you going to put your points in? Got spares and need a talent to dump your points in? This is it. Extra threat is always nice, although you should not be having problems in that area at all.

2. Standard Raiding Build: http://wowtal.com/#k=-kfXr8_Vb.bqj.paladin.

If you are a new tank, and would feel more comfortable with that extra self-healing, or even if you just prefer this play style, this is the spec you would use. However, to be entirely honest, I don't think that going for Word of Glory is worth it, since it requires 4 talent points and a glyph to be viable.

Prime

Glyph of Shield of Righteousness: Your #1 threat ability. Glyph it, no questions asked.

Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your #1 AoE threat ability, and also part of your regular rotation. This skill makes me cry with happiness. Glyph it.

Glyph of Seal of Truth: This is the best tanking glyph in the game. It gives you straight up 10 expertise - not expertise rating - but base expertise. It's that amazing. Take it.

Glyph of Judgement: 10% extra damage is alright, if you can't get hold of one of the above 3 glyphs.

Glyph of Crusader Strike: Increases critical chance by 5%. Since it's part of your single target rotation you could consider taking this.

Glyph of Word of Glory: If you are going for the self-healing build, pick up this glyph. You can give up Hammer of the Righteous for it.

Glyph of Seal of Insight: Acceptable if you're self-healing a lot or trying to Rambo through dungeons alone.

Major

Glyph of Divine Protection: It depends on the boss fight, but in most cases I prefer to have this glyphed only because I have a reasonable amount of physical damage reduction inherently, and 40% magic reduction on a cooldown of 1 minute is godly to have. It's basically 20% reduction from all damage vs 40% from magical, and I find that it is easier to handle physical damage most of the time. Also, many boss channeled abilities are magical (dragon breath, etc) so having this ready to cast right before it hits helps mitigate a lot of it.

Glyph of Lay on Hands: This is great in dungeons, where the gap between boss fights is shorter than in raids, and having a big cooldown like LoH is good to have.

Glyph of Holy Wrath: Your AoE stun is suddenly useful in dungeons outside Deadmines! Take it if you know it will be useful in the encounter you're doing.

Glyph of Consecration: It's an alright glyph if you want it. You can replace Holy Wrath with this when you're doing dungeons where the AoE stun won't be useful. I would not recommend it, though.

Glyph of Focused Shield: In 80% cases, this is most likely going to be a bad thing to have. However, if you want that edge in a boss fight with no adds, consider taking this. You will be casting quite a few Avenger's Shields whenever you get your Grand Crusader procs, since it will give you holy power if you cast it with a proc.

Minor

Glyph of Blessing of Kings: Useful if you have to rebuff a player that got combat resurrected.

Glyph of Blessing of Might: See above.

Base Stats:

Stamina: This is obviously something that every tank wants in decent amounts. If you tanked WOTLK and moved to Cataclysm, keep in

mind that tanks are more focused on blocking and avoiding damage, rather than stacking the amounts of stamina that we did on WOTLK. Do not disregard this stat, however. A larger health pool is never a bad thing, as long as it does not cost us too much avoidance. Do not forget about Vengeance, which is a passive ability of ours. Each time you take damage, you gain 2% of the unmitigated damage taken as attack power for 20 sec. In this way, stamina is actually a threat increase for us.

Strength: Strength is our source of attack power for us, and it also gives us parry rating. 27% of our Strength is converted into parry rating.

Secondary Stats:

Mastery: For Protection Paladins, Mastery provides block rating via Divine Bulwark. Currently for every point of Mastery the Paladin will receive 2.25% increased chance to block. Tanking gear (to date) has only had dodge/parry for secondary defensive stats. Paladins will want a lot of Mastery. Mastery is the best defensive stat for Protection Paladins for two reasons. First, up to full Combat Table Coverage (CTC) of 102.4% (sometimes referred to as “Block Cap”), Mastery provides more damage reduction per itemization point than any other stat. Second, in addition to reducing damage taken, Mastery also smooth-ens out the incoming damage a tank faces, making them easier for healers to heal.

Parry: A successful parry will let you avoid all damage from an attack. This is one of our two avoidance stats. Our main sources of parry will be from gear as a secondary stat, and also from our strength.

Dodge: A successful dodge will let you avoid all damage from an attack. It's a nice stat to have on your equipment. Every character has a 5% chance to dodge an attack, regardless of gear.

Expertise: This is actually a wonderful threat stat for us, but it doesn't seem to be working entirely on Molten. I have the Seal of Truth glyph, and safely disregard expertise with no ill effect. Note that Humans get +3 expertise with One or Two-Handed Swords and Maces, and Dwarves get +3 expertise with One and Two-Handed Maces.

Hit: Makes you not miss. It's less valuable than expertise for us.

Gems:

Meta Gem

Austere Shadowspirit Diamond: +81 Stamina and 2% increased armor from items (Requires 2 Yellow gems)

Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond: +81 Stamina and +1% shield block value (Requires 3 Blue gems)

Note: At 35% total avoidance and 50% block, the block meta and armor meta are roughly equal. At lower avoidance/block, the armor meta is up to 25% more effective than the block meta.

Single Stats:

Solid Ocean Sapphire: +60 Stamina (Counts as a Blue gem)

Fractured AMberjewel: +40 Mastery (Counts as a Yellow gem)

Combination with Stamina:

Puissant Dream Emerald: +20 Mastery Rating and +30 Stamina (Counts as a Yellow or Blue gem)

Defender's Demonseye: +20 Parry Rating and +30 Stamina (Counts as a Red or Blue gem)

Guardian's Demonseye: +20 Expertise Rating and +30 Stamina (Counts as a Red or Blue gem)

Enchants:

Head: Arcanum of the Earthen Ring (Currently unavailable due to bugged reputation quests. Use the PvP head enchant instead.)

Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz (Currently unavailable due to bugged reputation quests. Use the PvP shoulder enchant instead.)

Back: Enchant Cloak - Protection

Chest: Enchant Chest - Greater Stamina

Wrist: Enchant Bracer - Dodge OR Enchant Bracer - Greater Expertise

Hands: Enchant Gloves - Greater Mastery

Finger: Enchant Ring - Greater Stamina (Enchanters Only)

Legs: Drakehide Leg Armor

Feet: Enchant Boots - Earthen Vitality (if you do not have Pursuit of Justice) OR Enchant Boots -Mastery

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Windwalk OR Enchant Weapon Mending (it's a cheaper alternative, if you don't have a good weapon yet)

Shield: Enchant Shield Blocking

Reforging will let you convert 40% of a secondary stat on your gear to another secondary stat. Hit, Crit, Haste, Parry, Dodge, etc. are examples of secondary stats that can be converted, while primary stats like Stamina are not affected by reforging. Keep in mind that even though it is a secondary stat, resilience cannot be reforged. When reforging, keep your stat priority in mind:

Mastery (to avoidance cap of 102.4%) > Parry = Dodge >> Expertise > Hit

Always try to balance your parry, dodge, and block for maximum avoidance. Never favor any single stat mindlessly.

CTC, short for Combat Table Coverage, is how close a tank is to being unhittable. The goal is to make sure that every hit is either an inherent evade dodge (every character has 5% dodge chance, regardless of class or spec), dodge (affected by dodge rating), parry (affected by parry rating), or failing that, block (amount and chance is affected by your block rating and skills) in that order. Lastly, armor is calculated. For example, I have around 40k armor, so any hit I take after applying the previous modifiers is reduced by a further 60% or so. Remember that these effects are applied multiplicatively, not additively, which is why you can never take 0 damage from a boss unless you do something crazy like bubble. After that your cooldowns come into play, such as Holy Shield (extra block value of 20%, meaning a 51% damage reduction upon a successful block), Divine Protection (basic 20% damage reduction if not glyphed) and so on. It's at this stage absorbs like Power Word: Shield etc. are also accounted for.

You see, bosses are always considered to be +3 levels above maximum level players, in end game content. So for every level above you, a boss (or other mob) has a bonus extra 0.8% chance to hit you successfully, getting past your dodge, parries and shield blocks. That results in them having an extra 2.4% (0.8 x 3) chance to hit you over and above your already 100% mitigation. That means tanks have to have 102.4% avoidance (technically not avoidance, more mitigation, but that's the common parlance) in order to remove unmitigated hits from the aforementioned Combat Table. To make it simple, this is how you would calculate your total mitigation in the ctc table:

ctc = 5 [5% inherent dodge] + (your dodge rating) + (your parry rating) + (your block rating)

With current gear available on Sargeras, it is very difficult to go above 85% ctc without buffs.

Alternatively, you could use this macro to check your ctc.

Code:

/run ChatFrame1:AddMessage(format("Unhittable at 102.4%% - you have %.2f%%", GetDodgeChance() + GetBlockChance() + GetParryChance() + 5 + 1/(0.0625 + 0.956/(GetCombatRating(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)/4.91850*0.04))))

Holy Power

Holy Power is our "combo point" gauge. You can have a maximum of 3 Holy Power. Using certain skills will give you holy power, while some skills require holy power to use, and some are enhanced depending on how much holy power you currently have.

The following abilities/talents relevant to Protection Paladins use Holy Power:

Inquisition
Shield of the Righteous
Word of Glory

The following abilities relevant to Protection Paladins generate Holy Power:

Crusader Strike
Hammer of the Righteous
Divine Plea (3 Holy Power if talented)
Avenger's Shield (If casted when Grand Crusader procs)

Seals and Utility: Seals are buffs that usually last for 30 minutes or so. You ALWAYS want to have a seal active.

Seal of Truth: What was once known as Seal of Vengeance is now known as this. It applies a stacking DoT called Censure on each hit, which stacks up to 5 times. Additional hits after 5 stacks provide a burst of additional damage. This is your main tanking seal. If you have this glyphed, it also gives you 10 expertise.

Seal of Insight: It has a chance of healing the Paladin for each swing. Usually, you will not be using this seal unless **** really hits the fan and your healers die, and it's pure survival mode.

Auras

Devotion Aura: There are very few exception when a Protection Paladin would not be using this aura while tanking. The aura confers the benefit of providing additional armor to the Paladin and all party/raid members affected by the aura.

Resistance Aura: Gives 195 additional Fire, Frost, and Shadow resistance to your entire party or raid. If there is another paladin with Devotion Aura on, you could use this to make the healer's life easier. Note that if you have a druid buff on with Resistance Aura, it does not additively stack but it overrides the resistance gained from druid buffs, and will give you 195. Similarly, it does not stack with a Shaman's totems.

Key Abilities

Righteous Fury: Increases your threat generation while active. This should always be on when you are tanking, or mobs will laugh in your face and walk away to sit on your DPSers. If you happen to notice that your threat is really weird after a wipe, right click on this buff to remove it and re-apply it. I don't know why, but it tends to mess up sometimes.

Avenging Wrath: Increases all damage and healing by 20% for 20 seconds. Wings are good if combined with Inquisition for maximizing threat on your first pull. It make stabilizing aggro when all your DPS throw out their initial burst.

Divine Plea: Grants you one holy power. If you have the protection talent Shield of the Templar, it will give you 3 holy power. This is a good skill to use to cast your first Inquisition before the first pull.

Inquisition: Consumes all your holy power to increase your holy damage by 30%. This is an amazing threat generating skill that is one of the reasons paladins are such amazing AoE tanks. If you combine this with Hammer of the Righteous, you will rarely lose aggro on a pack of adds, while other tanks will struggle to hold on to them with DPSers going crazy. If you Divine Plea and cast Inquisition right before a pull, it helps solidify initial aggro.

Cleanse: Removes one poison and one disease effect, but does not cure curses. Seriously, hotkey this. Use it on yourself. You are not a DK or a Warrior, you don't have to wait around taking extra damage from DoT ticks for no reason. Cleanse yourself.

Hand of Freedom: Grants immunity to movement impairing effects such as slows and snares, but NOT stuns or fears. Use it if you happen to walk in something bad and adds are charging at your healer at breakneck speed.

Hand of Protection: Hand of Protection allows you to target yourself or party/raid member to protect them from physical attacks only for 10 seconds. This ability will cause for Forbearance for 1 minute. It is a very useful way of getting adds off a healer or caster DPS. Keep in mind that if you HoP melee DPS or hunters, they will probably hate you because they won't be able to attack.

Hand of Sacrifice: There are some clever ways to use this - you can HoS your offtank on fights that require taunt rotations and then bubble to receive no damage, but reduce the damage your offtank takes. Keep in mind that this will cause forbearance on you.

Hand of Salvation: Reduces total threat on the target by 2% every 1 second for 10 seconds. Very useful, keep it ready to save an overzealous mage.

Crusader Strike: Single target strike that gives you one holy power. Note that shares a cooldown with Hammer of the Righteous, and seems to generate about as much threat as Hammer on Molten. However, it does more single target damage, so if you are in a boss fight use this to generate holy power.

Hammer of the Righteous: Your AoE damage ability. It will hit your primary target hard, and anything else within 8 yards for holy damage. Unlike WOTLK, this ability no longer has a limit to how many targets it can affect. It also grants you one holy power on use. This is an amazing skill, and part of your priority queue.

Judgment: Deals holy damage, and has respectable range with Improved Judgment. If you happen to run out of taunts and your Avenger's Shield is on cooldown, throw a Judgment out.

Shield of the Righteous: Our principle single target attack. This ability is powered using Holy Power and as such will not activate unless you have at least 1 Holy Power charged on your gauge. Best used when you have 3 Holy Power.

Avenger's Shield: Your Captain America shield toss is your best opening move, esspecially on caster adds. It has an added bonus of silencing the target, so if you toss it on a caster at the back of a pack of mobs, it will be silenced and automatically start walking to you, which makes it easier to pack mobs together in a group for your DPSers to AoE down. If casted with Grand Crusader proc, it will give you 3 Holy Power.

Taunts:

Hand of Reckoning: It no longer does damage, and works the same as any other tank's taunt. It will force the mob to attack you for 3 seconds regardless of the threat table. This will never miss.

Righteous Defense: Use it on a party/raid member to direct up to 3 enemies to attack you instead. If you use it with the below macro, it effectively works as an extra taunt that affects 3 targets instead of one.

Code:

#showtooltip

/cast [@targettarget] Righteous Defense

Interrupts:

Rebuke: Now a baseline ability, this allows you to interrupt spell casting, and like all non-damaging interrupts it cannot miss, but does anyway on Molten occasionally.

Hammer of Justice: A dedicated stunning ability with a 1 minute cooldown. Will not interrupt stun immune targets, like raid bosses.

Holy Wrath: An AoE stun that affects all Undead within 10 yards for 3 seconds. If glyphed, this will also affect Elementals and Dragonkin. Needless to say, it also interrupts spell casting.

Cooldowns:

These abilities help you survive situations where your risk of death is elevated. These situations range from the obvious - a special attack on a predictable

timer - to the more subtle but no less deadly, like a debuff that disables or distracts your healers. Here are a couple guidelines for using cooldowns effectively:

Use cooldowns before you take damage. If you use Guardian of Ancient Kings at half health, 90k HP, the cooldown is effectively adding 90k more HP before you die. If you wait until you reach 20k HP, it only adds an effective 20k HP. Waiting to use your cooldowns until you’re at low HP is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You get the most mileage out of consciously using them in dangerous situations, but the more you use them, the more value you get. It’s a balancing act.
Match the cooldown to the level of threat by planning your cooldown usage before the fight.

Ardent Defender: Activate this right before you expect a deadly hit. When activated the ability provides a 10 second buff window. During that window if a Paladin is struck by an attack that would kill them they are instead healed for 15% of max health. During the 10 second window when the ability is activated Paladins will also benefit from a fixed 20% reduction to all incoming damage. If this ability successfully saves you from a fatal hit, it will put you in Forbearance for 1 minute. If the 10 seconds wear off without a fatal hit, you won't be affected by Forbearance.

Divine Protection: This should be used to manage damage in non-emergency situations. I prefer it glyphed, which removes its ability to reduce physical damage, instead reducing magic damage by 40%.

Divine Guardian: If you pick up this talent you receive a new cooldown that reduces damage by 20% to all members of your party/raid within 20 yards for 6 seconds; you do not benefit from the damage reduction of this ability. This is still very handy to use for the benefit of your offtank, or when the raid expects a lot of sudden AoE damage.

Divine Shield: This ability is available to all Paladins but should be used carefully by tanks since it effectively removes you from combat and thus the threat table temporarily. Enemies on you will immediately go toward the next party/raid members on the threat table. This ability also

causes Forbearance. However, it removes almost all debuffs in game and can be a game changer (for example, it removes the debuff that Halfus will put on you, which makes you capable of tanking up to 40 stacks by yourself. No other tank can do this). Use the below macro to cast bubble and then immediately remove it. Don't forget to taunt the boss to keep it on you.

Code:

#showtooltip

/cancelaura Divine Shield

/cast Divine Shield

Guardian of Ancient Kings: Will reduce damage to the tanking Paladin by 50% through the Ancient Guardian ability for 12 seconds. Cooldown on this ability is 5 minutes; or 3 minutes if spec'ed into all ranks of [Shield of the Templar]. This is your best damage reduction cooldown.

Holy Shield: It is an activate-able ability which provides 10 seconds of +20% to amount blocked on a 1 minute cooldown. It is typically used nearly on cooldown during fights, though it may be delayed briefly if a period of high blockable damage is expected to come soon. Note that it inreases the amount of damage blocked, not your block rating.

Lay on Hands: Casting it will heal the target equal to the maximum health of the casting Paladin. It is off the global cooldown, cannot crit heal, is not effected by many healing boosting effects, and will cause Forbearance for 1 minute on whomever it's cast. Note that it persists through debuffs, such as Chimaeron's healing reduction in the last phase. It will ALWAYS heal you to full health, no matter how many healing reduction debuffs you are affected by.

Word of Glory: An instant Holy Power powered heal with a 20 second cooldown and no mana cost. Additionally the base spec (via Guarded by the Light) also provides the additional benefit of converting any over healing into a temporary bubble. Sometimes underestimated, it can crit and easily heal for 30+K, making it a powerful survival tool. You can glyph it for more healing, but it is not recommended unless you are going for pure self-healing.

Before you start, make sure that Righteous Fury is on, and that you have a Seal and an Aura active.

The Pull: Divine Plea -> Inquisition -> Avenging Wrath -> Avenger's Shield -> Priority Queue

Priority Queue: Crusader Strike (use to build holy power) -> Judgment -> Avenger's Shield (if Grand Crusader procs) -> Shield of the Righteous (with full Holy Power) -> Hammer of Wrath (below 20% hp)

Use Holy Shield, Divine Protection, and Word of Glory on cooldown or when required.

AoE Rotation: Consecration (Only to "catch" adds as they spawn. Do not use it actively- it is a massive mana hog and not very effective as a threat generator), Hammer of the Righteous, Avenger's Shield.

Build up 3 stacks of Holy Power and keep Inquisition active as much as possible.

Bastion of Twilight (BoT)

Halfus Wyrmbreaker

Use bubble and cancel it with the cancelaura macro to remove the healing debuff Halfus puts on you.
Interrupt Halfus' Shadow Nova ability with Rebuke
Cast Consecration on the floor outside the whelps before you release them, and then Hammer of the Righteous right away to keep aggro on them

Valiona and Theralion

If you have Engulfing Magic on you, hit escape and stop attacking the boss. You won't lose aggro instantly, but it will save the lives of your melee pile.
Move the boss out of Dazzling Destruction, which is the purple ground ability.

Ascendant Council

Interrupt Hydro Lance, it will murder clothies.
Run away from Feludius when he is casting Glaciate because the closer you are, the more damage you take.
In the third phase, make sure you don't get hit by Lava Seeds.

Blackwing Descent (BWD)

Magmaw

Use a cooldown whenever you get eaten. Rotate Holy Shield, Guardian of Ancient Kings, Lay on Hands, and even bubble if required.
Do not click on him when the time comes to chain him! This is a job for DPSers. If he isn't chained correctly, he will sometimes throw whoever is on his head down into the lava below, and it will be a sure wipe if your tank falls down.
Stay away from worms.

Omnotron Defense System

Pay attention to which machine is going to activate and be ready to taunt it.
Don't stand in anything bad, and move bosses out of the blue Power Generator that Arcanotron casts on the ground.
Hit escape and stop hitting Electron when he has Unstable Shield on.
Pay attention to what the bosses are casting (esspecially Electron and Arcanotron), and be ready to interrupt their cast skills with Rebuke. If you miss key interrupts, your raid members could get one shot.

Maloriak

Interrupt Arcane Storm
Face Maloriak to the raid when the red cauldron is active.
Make sure you are 6 yards away from everyone else during the blue cauldron phase.
Pay attention to when the boss is releasing aberrations if you are on add duty.

Atramedes

Don't get hit by too many bad things that increase your sound.

Nefarion

If you hit him hard enough he drops gold.

Firelands (FL)

Beth'tilac

Do not face Drones towards your raid.
Taunt Spinners down so they stop hitting your DPS and healers.
If you see Spiderlings coming towards the Drone you are tanking, kite it away from them while making sure to not face them to the raid.
In the last phase, stand at least 6 yards away from the other tank to prevent taking unnecessary damage.
Taunt Beth'tilac off your other tank when he/she has 2 stacks of Killing Kiss. Focus target your OT to make sure you know when to taunt.
She hits harder the longer the fight progresses, so be sure to use your cooldowns wisely.

Lord Rhyolith

Pick up adds as they spawn, esspecially the Sparks of Rhyolith, and make sure they are not in range of any raid members. Once it is safely away from the raid, stun and use glyphed divine protection to reduce the damage you take.
Don't forget to help out using Divine Guardian before a particularly bad concussive stomp
Once you get to the last phase, Rhyolith hits about as hard as Beth'tilac, so don't forget to use your cooldowns.

Shannox

If you are tanking the boss, face him away from the raid to prevent getting cleaved.
Save your cooldowns for when the dogs die.
If you are tanking the dog, make sure to keep an eye out for crystal traps and try and trap the dog as often as possible.
Don't stand in fire, it's really bad for you.

Alysrazor

Make sure you are the only person standing next to your egg before the hatchlings spawn. They are not tauntable, and if you don't do this the person they imprint on will have to either alt+f4 or die or kill them to get rid of them.
Focus on DPSing the Hatchling down, and run them over worms as soon as possible. The worms do a LOT of AoE damage, so run straight through as fast as possible. Pop glyphed Divine Protection to soften the blow.
NEVER point Alysrazor towards the raid. She does a massive cleave that will oneshot any non tank. Even the other tank shouldn't be standing around to take it.
Rotate cooldowns and keep switching at around 15 stacks, or whatever is comfortable for you. Watch your hp and see how much you can take.

Baleroc

You can either two tank, or single tank this boss on Molten. Single tanking is by far easier if you can handle it. Just stand and take damage, and pop a cooldown before Decimation Blade if your healers can't keep up.
Make sure you are not taking damage from the crystal, that is the fastest way to the graveyard.
If you are two tanking, the offtank needs to start the fight and gain enough stacks so that his health pool is at least over 250k. 350k is safer. Then the main tank will take the boss and stack up the fire debuff. Whenever the boss casts Decimation Blade (his shadow ability), the OT needs to taunt and soak up this damage, and the MT has to taunt off again right after.

Majordomo Staghelm

In Scorpion form, point the boss towards your raid. You must be stacked for this fight to share raid damage. If your healers are good and the dps can push it, you can kill the boss by staying in this phase entirely. (rotate tranquility, spirit link totem, bloodlust, etc)
If you must spread, then be sure to taunt the cats that spawn and try and dps them down if you have steady boss aggro. They have almost no health and tend to jump around on your DPS. Don't forget to keep taunting them.
If you happen to be standing in a pool of fire, move.

A note on the Pre-Majordomo Staghelm adds:

These wiped us more cleanly than any other boss in the instance the first time we encountered them, and they can still pose a challenge in our 6th-7th run of the week where healers are not very geared. The DPS has to be VERY careful about their debuff on this fight. The more you attack, the more stacks of a fire dot you get on you. This does massive damage and is unhealable above 3 stacks, so don't push it over 1 if your health is low.

Also, kill the humanoid add first, since he does the "sunfire" AoE. Once he is dead, it makes things much easier.

The cats will also jump and AoE stun anyone in the area that they land, so having a priest with glyph of mass dispel or anyone that can do the job is very handy.

Kite these adds, do not tank them in one place. Even auto attacks will build stacks.

Ragnaros

Set focus on the other tank, and make sure to taunt switch at 4 stacks of the debuff.
In the transition phases use your stuns- you will have nothing to do in the first one so stun and dps as many Sons of Flame as you possibly can. Make sure you have Holy Wrath glyphed for this fight.
In the second transition phase, if you are not tanking the boss then make sure you pick up the Scions that spawn a second or two before the Sons of Flame do, and drag them away from the raid but not too far, not out of range of your healers.
When you're stacking in the molten seeds phase, make sure you get a hit or two with your hammer of the righteous and drop a consecration, because people underestimate the damage 20 of those adds can do to one squishy hunter, and you don't want their death to be on your conscience.

Blacksmithing & Jewelcrafting seem to be the best possible combination for a Paladin tank (or for that matter, any tank), however- Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Inscription, Leatherworking and Enchanting are very similar in the stat bonuses you gain. If you absolutely must get a gathering profession, then take Mining. Mining+Jewelcrafting is a good alternative, since you can pre-mine the mats and then abandon it for Blacksmithing.

Blacksmithing: You gain two additional gemming slots. When epic gems come out, the stat value will be around 100, vs the 80ish you gain from other professions.

Jewelcrafting: Apart from being a useful profession to have (which only gets better with time), it's going to provide around 81 stat points with the jewelcrafter only gems.

Enchanting: Provides +60 stamina to each ring, for a total of 120 stamina.

Inscription: Provides a shoulder enchant which provides the same bonus as enchanting. This is an alternative to the Therazane rep reward, but not optimal.

Leatherworking: Draconic Embossment for bracers give you 195 stamina, which is a huge improvement over the alternative, which is the 50 dodge enchant.

Alchemy: The crafted trinket (Lifebound Alchemist Stone) is quite good early on, and it gives you Mixology which increases the duration of your flasks to 2 hours instead of 1.

Engineering: This is mostly a utility profession, which should only be considered for the helm and cogwheel enchants, which are currently not very attractive.

Mining: 80 stamina and the ability to mine, this is by far the best gathering profession for us.

Herbalism: A small self heal and a haste boost. The haste buff is okay for Retribution, but terrible for tanks. Unless you plan to heavily use your offspec, this is a bad idea.

Skinning: It gives you critical strike rating, which us basically useless for a paladin tank.

Tailoring: None of the enchants are optimal for tanks.

Most consumables are optional, but I recommend always having a stamina scroll on, and a flask for difficult instances (such as Firelands). Scrolls are really cheap, and even easier to get if you ask a scribe friend to make you a big batch.

Flasks:

Flask of Steelskin +450 Stamina for 1 hour.

Scrolls:

Scroll of Stamina IX +150 Stamina (Guardian Elixir)

Runescroll of Fortitude II +468 Stamina to the whole raid, stacks with Priest's fortitude buff.

Food:

Seafood Magnifique Feast: +90 Dodge and +90 Stamina

Lavascale Minestrone: +90 Mastery rating and +90 Stamina

Mushroom Sauce Mudfish: +90 Dodge rating and +90 Stamina

Blackbelly Sushi: +90 Parry rating and +90 Stamina

Potions:

Earthen Potion: +4800 armor for 25 seconds

Elixirs:

Elixir of Deep Earth: +900 Armor (Guardian Elixir)

Prismatic Elixir: +90 to all Resistances (Guardian Elixir)

Elixir of the Master: +225 Mastery rating (Battle Elixir)

My guild Care for being awesome and providing a great learning environment where everyone strives to be better.

Noobert: For looking over it in its earliest stages and helping me proof read and improve it.

Schakall: A tank supremist that looked over this guide and gave me some very useful tips.

Chea: Another guildie, for mentioning a few things I missed out and providing the ctc macro.

Epic: For managing to be more picky than I am about the little details, and help fix a lot of minor issues.

Lynea: Random forum fairy that did the links in the glyph section for me!

Resources:

http://www.wowpedia.org

http://elitistjerks.com/

Changelog:

Monday, July 08 2013 - Added a few improvements to the section about Consecration, and also added links to the glyphs.

Tuesday, July 09 2013 - Fixed the section about Glyph of Divine Protection. It's on a 60 second cooldown, not 30. Also added information about racial passive expertise gain.

Monday, July 29 2013 - Updated to include sections on professions and consumables, and also included boss tips for Alysrazor, Baleroc, and Majordomo Staghelm.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - Added a video to go with the guide.

Monday, September 16, 2013: A long overdue section on handling Ragnaros as a paladin tank has been added.

If you would like to check the newest changelog of this guide you can visit it here.

This is not owned by us this was just copied from molten wow official list of guides.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=227749

[Guide] PvE Survival Hunter 4.3.4

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:04:00 +0000

[Guide] PvE Survival Hunter 4.3.4

Let me first start off by saying I am not the best Hunter or player in the world. I have just recently come from Ragnaros with my guild <Care> to join Sargeras and progress into Cataclysm as we had cleared all content on Ragnaros and it posed no fun for our guild anymore. I am learning Survival just as everyone else, but I thought I could be of help with my current knowledge to Hunter's who are learning just as I am. The reason I am writing this guide is because I remember when I started Cataclysm on Sargeras, I came looking for a guide and found nothing with great detail so I decided that it was time this section for such an amazing class had one.This guide will contain information that may help any new Hunter's on the path to enjoying one of the most fun classes in the game. Currently Survival is the best tree available to Hunter's for most encounters inside of Cataclysm 4.3.4 but each is viable to be played and maintain high damage per second output with the current available gear. I will test each specialization as more content is released and update accordingly.

Talent Tree
Glyphs
Stat Priority (w/ enchants)
Gemming
Rotation
Pet Choices
Pet Talents
BiS List - Non-Donor, Donor, and End Game
Professions
Macros
Skill Knowledge
Ending

The talent tree I am currently using is this. I will explain why below.

http://db.mmo-champion.com/utils/talents/#k=pwgq-BZ8.bqj.hunter

The reason I chose to take Point of No Escape over Survival Tactics is because you encounter more instances where you will need to be using Multi-Shot as well as Frost Trap to help the tank as well as nuking the adds that spawn not to mention trash clearing. Another reason is because you do not receive resists on Molten, for some reason.

Encounters where this may occur are, in instance order:

Blackwing Descent - Magmaw, Omnitron Defense System, Maloriak, and Nefarian.

Bastion of Twilight - Halfus Wyrmbreaker, Cho'gall and Sinestra.

Firelands - Beth'tilac, Lord Rhyolith and Ragnaros.

Dragon Soul - Yor'sahj, Hagara Stormbinder, Warmaster Blackhorn, Spine of Deathwing and Madness of Deathwing.

**Note: This is only if you fire/drop the Ice or Freezing Trap, otherwise it is a useless talent and you should take Survival Tactics.

The reason I took a point in Sic Em' and maximized Serpent Spread over taking two points in Careful Aim is based off personal preference because the overall damage in most fights will be much higher due to the opening ten percent health being shaved off fairly quickly currently with the available progression content (Firelands being only 10-man). I will more than likely change this on bosses with insanely large healthpools like Ragnaros and Deathwing. However, if you want to take the higher opening burst build rather than lengthy DPS - take this one below.

http://db.mmo-champion.com/utils/talents/#k=pwA9Zc_N.bqj.hunter

The glyphs you will want will change as content is released, but I will again explain that below after I have listed what glyphs you want.

Prime Glyphs:

Glyph of Explosive Shot

Glyph of Kill Shot

Glyph of Serpent Sting

Major Glyphs:

Glyph of Ice Trap

Glyph of Mending

Glyph of Trap Launcher

Minor Glyphs:

Glyph of Feign Death

Glyph of Aspect of the Pack

Glyph of Revive Pet

These are currently the best glyphs available to a Survival Hunter Guide. However, with the release of Dragon Soul gear you will obtain the Haste soft cap with your T13 fairly easily and it will cause you to remove the Glyph of Serpent Sting and replace it with Glyph of Arcane Shot due to the amount of focus you generate.

Glyph of Mending is to help sustain your pet in fights where you will be required to heal him since Molten is bugged on certain aspects of pet damage. This is also the reason for the Glyph of Revive Pet as if you do not have a pet, you will lose an insane amount of damage.

Stat Priority is tricky. Personally, I currently maintain a balance between Haste and Critical Strike rating due to being unable to hit the Haste cap which is 2665 but at the same time I aim for Haste before Critical Strike. I will be adding enchant selection within this sub-section as well.

Agility > 8% Ranged Hit > Haste Cap > Critical Strike > Mastery > Haste

The reason you want to be hitting the Haste Cap is to make sure you can fit in 3 Cobra Shots between each Explosive Shot cooldown. However, once Tier 13 becomes available you will want to drop that Haste down to 757 total Haste once you obtain 4 Pieces of T13. Sadly, it will be impossible to go that low but still try to minimize the total Haste at this point by reforging to Critical Strike and then Mastery.

The haste you want is 29.17% (1794 Haste Rating - This is the lowest I got it to without breaking the 1.5 to 1.6 barrier) total Haste to obtain a 1.5 second cast on your Cobra Shot. Once you hit this percentage, it is more profitable to stack Critical Strike or Mastery. Credit to Skiploom for finding out what percentage of Haste you want.

Enchants:

Head - Arcanum of the Ramkahen

Shoulders - Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal OR Greater Inscription of Vicious Agility

Chest - Enchant Chest - Peerless Stats

Back - Enchant Cloak - Greater Critical Strike

Wrist - Enchant Bracer - Agility

Gloves - Enchant Gloves - Haste

Belt - Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

Legs - Dragonscale Leg Armor

Feet - Enchant Boots - Major Agility OR Enchant Boots - Assassin's Step

Weapon - Enchant 2H Weapon - Mighty Agility

Ranged Weapon - Gnomish X-Ray Scope

Gemming is very easy and straight forward, I will list both the current available gems and the ones you will want in the future once Dragon Soul gems become available.

Meta Gem:

Agile Shadowspirit Diamond - 54 Agility and 3% Increased Critical Effect.

Pre-Dragon Soul Gems:

Red Socket - Delicate Inferno Ruby - 40 Agility.

Yellow Socket - Deft Ember Topaz/Deadly Ember Topaz - 20 Agility and 20 Haste/Critical Strike Rating.

Blue Socket - Delicate Inferno Ruby/Glinting Demonseye - 40 Agility/20 Agility and 20 Hit Rating.

You can socket determining on what you require most. Remember to look for beneficial socket bonuses that will give you that increase in agility as well as another stat for free.

Dragon Soul Gems:

Red Socket - Delicate Queen's Garnet - 50 Agility

Yellow Socket - Deft Lava Coral/Deadly Lava Coral - 25 Agility and 25 Haste/Critical Strike Rating.

Blue Socket - Delicate Queen's Garnet/Glinting Shadow Spinel - 50 Agility/25 Agility and 25 Hit Rating.

Same rules apply from the above gemming.

The rotation is a fairly simple one but I will start with the priority and work from there.

1) Explosive Shot

2) Kill Shot

3) Black Arrow

4) Serpent Sting

5) Cobra Shot

6) Arcane Shot

Explosive is the highest priority in the rotation because it will be your number one damage output. You want to keep this always on cooldown. You will be using Arcane Shot, Killshot, and Cobra Shot as fillers between Lock and Loads procs to minimize dot clipping.

The opening rotation I use is Serpent Sting -> Hunter cooldowns (listed below) -> Explosive Shot -> Black Arrow -> Cobra Shot <Lock and Load Proc> Explosive Shot -> Arcane Shot -> Explosive Shot -> Cobra Shot -> Explosive Shot -> Cobra Shot <Lock and Load Proc> Repeat Prior.

The standard rotation for me is Explosive Shot -> Black Arrow -> Cobra Shot <Lock and Load Proc> Explosive Shot -> Arcane Shot -> Explosive Shot -> Cobra Shot -> Explosive Shot -> Cobra Shot <Lock and Load Proc> Repeat Prior -> Cobra Shot -> Cobra Shot -> Cobra Shot -> Black Arrow -> Explosive Shot -> Repeat Prior.

The AoE rotation is Misdirection -> Trap Launcher -> Explosive Trap -> Multi-Shot until out of focus -> Cobra Shot -> Explosive Shot -> Cobra Shot -> Multi-Shot -> Rinse and repeat.

**Note** If you do not misdirect, you will more than likely strip aggro from the tank unless they are very aware as to what they are doing.

The Hunter ability you should use before the fight begins is Hunter's Mark. Make sure it is always on the target you plan on DPSing.

The Hunter cooldowns you should use at the beginning of the fight are Rapid Fire, Call of the Wild, Engineering Abilities, Trinkets, Potion of the Tol'vir, etc. to maximize how many times you may use these during the entire encounters duration. Be sure to use them each time they are available to maximize your damage per second!

Pet choices will come down to raid composition and players within the raid, as well as what is stackable on Molten itself as well as the base overall damage.

Using a Cat is only beneficial to the raid if you do not have a Warrior, Death Knight or Shaman within the raid.

Using a Wolf is only beneficial to the raid if you do not have a Subtlety Rogue, Fury Warrior, Elemental Shaman, or a Feral Druid within the raid.

Using a Dragonhawk or Wind Serpent is only beneficial to the raid if you do not have a Warlock or Unholy Death Knight within the raid.

Using a Raptor is only beneficial to the raid if you do not have a Protection Warrior or Arms Warrior within the raid.

What pet do you choose when all of the above are within your raid? Make your decision based off the raid members and who is most likely to die, or if you just want straight damage - either a Cat or a Wolf is fine.

Cat provides - Roar of Courage - 549 Agility and Strength.

Wolf provides - Furious Howl - 5% Critical Strike.

Wind Serpent provides - Lightning Breath - 8% Increased Magical Damage.

Raptor provides - Tear Armor - 12% Reduced Armor.

There are other various abilities that are the same as the listed above but these are the most common you will see on Hunter's as they are currently the best available abilities out there.

These are just my personal preferences which I will explain below.

Cat:

The reason I choose Wild Hunt over Shark Attack is that your pet will maintain high focus due to Sic 'Em! proccing often.

Wolf:

The same talent tree and reason as the Cat's tree.

Wind Serpent:

These talents I chose to maximize damage output, sadly though, Wolverine Bite is bugged and does not always cast making it a pet that does less damage overall but still offers the 8% Spell Damage increase when your raid lacks a Warlock or an Unholy Death Knight.

Raptor:

The same talent tree and reason as the Cat's tree.

Non-Donor BiS List:

Head - Ragnaros - Helm of the Fiery Protector turns into Flamewaker's Headguard ** BELOW

Neck - Justice Points - Necklace of Smoke Signals

Shoulders - Majordomo Staghelm - Flickering Shoulders ** BELOW

Chest - Justice Points - Flamewaker's Tunic

Back - Lord Rhyolith/Avengers of Hyjal - Dreadfire Drape/Sleek Flamewrath Cloak

Wrist - Justice Points or Firelands Trash - Bracers of Forked Lightning OR Hide-Bound Chains

Gloves - Justice Points - Flamewaker's Gloves

Belt - Avengers of Hyjal - Firearrow Belt

Legs - Justice Points - Flamewaker's Legguards

Feet - Fireland's Leatherworking Pattern - Earthen Scale Sabatons

Weapon - Firelands Trash Drop or Majordomo Staghelm - Ranseur of Hatred OR Fandral's Flamescythe

Ranged Weapon - Ragnaros - Arathar, the Eye of Flame

Ring #1 - Avengers of Hyjal - Viridian Signet of the Avengers

Ring #2 - Justice Points or Beth'tilac- Splintered Brimstone Seal OR Widow's Kiss

** You have a choice, based off the Haste or Critical Strike Rating you need. However, my suggestion is to take the Tier Helmet as well as Flickering Shoulders with 192 Haste, Critical, or Mastery (depending on your luck or desire) but you can take Tier Shoulders and Shannox's Helmet.

Trinkets are based off of your own preference, the current best ones available are:

Matrix Stabilizer from Ragnaros.

The Hungerer from Majordomo Staghelm.

Ancient Petrified Seed from the Avengers of Hyjal.

Essence of the Cyclone from Halfus Wyrmbreaker.

Fluid Death from Justice Points.

Key to the Endless Chamber from Corborus in Stonecore Heroic mode.

Current Donor BiS:

Head - Wyrmstalker's Headguard

Neck - Cameo of Terrible Memories

Shoulders - Wyrmstalker's Spaulders

Chest - Wyrmstalker's Tunic

Back - Dreadfire Drape/Sleek Flamewrath Cloak ** These can be obtained in-game **

Wrist - Bracers of Looming Darkness

Gloves - Sporebeard Gauntlets

Belt - Belt of the Beloved Companion

Legs - Wyrmstalker's Legguards

Feet - Treads of Dormant Dreams

Weapon - Spire of Coagulated Globules

Ranged Weapon - Horrifying Horn Arbalest ** Read Below ** OR Arathar, The Eye of Flame

Ring #1 - Signet of Grasping Mouths/Emergency Descent Loop

Ring #2 - Viridian Signet of the Avengers ** You can farm this reputation **

Trinket #1 - Vial of Shadows

Trinket #2 - Wrath of Unchaining

The Horrifying Horn Arbalest currently is showing 583.6 damage per second on the coin shop which is wrong, even for Raid Finder gear so be warned when purchasing this that it may not be correct.

End Game BiS List:

Head - Warmaster Blackhorn - Wyrmstalker's Headguard

Neck - Valor Points - Cameo of Terrible Memories

Shoulders - Hagara the Stormbinder - Wyrmstalker's Spaulders

Chest - Ultraxion - Wyrmstalker's Tunic

Back - Lord Rhyolith - Dreadfire Drape

Wrist - Ultraxion - Bracers of Looming Darkness ** Below **

Gloves - Morchok - Sporebeard Gauntlets

Belt - Warmaster Blackhorn - Belt of the Beloved Companion

Legs - Yor'sahj - Wyrmstalker's Legguards

Feet - Hagara the Stormbinder - Treads of Dormant Dreams

Weapon - Madness of Deathwing - Kiril, Fury of Beasts

Ranged Weapon - Madness of Deathwing - Vishanka, Jaws of the Earth

Ring #1 - Hagara the Stormbinder - Signet of Grasping Mouths

Ring #2 - Valor Points - Emergency Descent Loop ** No Heroic Available*

Trinket #1 - Shared Boss Loot - Vial of Shadows

Trinket #2 - Spine of Deathwing - Wrath of Unchaining

** NOTE **

This is different from Molten's server, this is comparative to retail. I compared a planned setup and my current setup has more damage output than what this planner would say. This has only the two buffs shown on the screen, just like in-game as well.

** Note ** All of the above items except the marked one are Heroic quality.

* Bracers are difficult to weigh up as the crafted bracers have more agility, yet Bracers of Looming Darkness from Ultraxion have more secondary stats leading to easier reforging optimization (no haste so it gets you closer to the ~758 cap).

These are the benefits to our class, choose which one you think is the most beneficial to you.

Alchemy - 80 Agility with the use of the flask.

Blacksmithing - 80 or100 Agility based on the gems you use.

Enchanting - 40 Agility per ring.

Engineering - 480 Agility for 10 seconds on a one minute cooldown.

Inscription - 130 Agility and 25 Mastery to shoulders.

Jewelcrafting - 27 stats per gem, maximum of three gems, which equals 81 bonus stats.

Leatherworking - 130 Agility to Bracers.

Tailoring - 1000 Attack Power for 15 seconds.

Herbalism - 480 Haste for 20 seconds, two minute cooldown.

Mining - 120 base stamina.

Skinning - 80 base Critical Strike rating.

Personally, I would use Tailoring and Engineering just for the extra burst damage over the fight when it is needed most. Even then, most of the professions come out to be equal at 80 bonus stats so it is not a huge loss to take any of the professions (except Mining and Skinning).

In this section, I will go through some macros that I use with the explanation as to why. I do not use many macros yet but I will update as the need arises for them.

#showtooltip

/cast [target=focus] Misdirection

This macro will help enable you to have an easier time Misdirecting your target.

#showtooltip

/cast [@targettarget] Misdirection

This macro will Misdirect the target of the person or mob you are currently targeting, allowing you to have two quick Misdirection macros available if you have to swap tanks.

/petfollow [@pettarget,exists]

/petattack [@pettarget,noexists]

This macro will either make your pet attack the current target you are attacking, or pull him back to you.

#showtooltip Rapid Fire

/cast Call of the Wild

/use Potion of the Tol'vir

/cast Rapid Fire

This is the macro to use your cooldowns, as well as a Potion of the Tol'vir that gives you 1200 Agility for 20 seconds.

/script SetCVar ("cameraDistancemax" ,50)

This is the max camera distance macro and it will help you be more aware of what is going on around you.

/script RepopMe();

If you ever get stuck falling the world or unable to release - use this macro. It will save your unstuck on the website to enable you to hunt more pets efficiently.

Every skill in the Hunter spellbook is useful, even right down to the most unused talents. Do not forget to go through your book and read the use of every skill as it will improve your ability to play a Hunter ten fold.

Disengage - Currently one of the best gap closes, and gap making ability in the game. This ability will save you countless times during your Hunter career.

Deterrence - The best avoidance skill, in my mind, currently available to classes as it allows you to take next to no damage from almost any skill in the game if you use the ability at the right time.

Feign Death - You will use this if you happen to pull aggro or a mob randomly targets you. It will save you almost as much as the above two skills will.

Camouflage - This is the best addition to Hunter's in Cataclysm. You can Feign Death and Camouflage right away, enabling you to remain out of combat for a fair duration until you are Healed or until an AoE ability hits you.

Trap Launcher - Ever since The Burning Crusade I have wished for this, and finally it is given to us. This makes our lives as Hunter's so much easier without having to get into a bad position to place a trap.

Scatter Shot - This is useful even in raid content, especially on mobs that need to be interrupted like on the Alysrazor. It may not always work though.

Wyvern Sting - Same as Scatter Shot, it helps you disable a mob that needs to be interrupted when you lack the ability. It may not always work though.

Explosive Trap - This trap, in combination with Serpent Spread and Multi-Shot makes Hunter's the best AoE damage available in the game currently.

Ice Trap - This skill is simply beautiful. Who does not want a massive AoE slow for an encounter where mobs must be kited or killed?

Distracting Shot - Tank is about to die? Save him for a few seconds with this skill and Deterrence by taunting the boss, or a mob off him. Feign Death drops aggro and the mob will run to a random raid member, not the tank like it normally would had the effect of the skill wore off.

Tranquilizing Shot - You will not use this skill that much in 4.3.4 but it is still a good skill to have on your bars for moments where you wish to dispel a buff that a mob or the boss has that is dispellable.

Master's Call - During encounters like Hagara Stormbinder, you can use this skill during the Frost Phase to clear your slowing debuff. It is just an amazing skill, it even removes daze effects.

Widow Venom - This is a useful thing to have on a boss like Maloriak where he will heal if it not dispelled by Tranquilizing Shot or a Mage's Spellsteal.

This completes the guide. Thank you for reading and I hope you will learn as much as I did while making this guide.

Skiploom and I went out to investigate and make certain that all of what I wrote here was correct and I was not leading anyone on or making them purchase an item incorrectly. Currently everything I have wrote is correct and in working condition unless specified.

I hope it teaches you a lot and you enjoy reading it as much as I did typing it.

If you have any questions, comments, etc. I will happily answer them as I see them.

Noobert

Credit goes to..

Wolololol for the Banners and Headers design and my guildies on <Care> for the support and dedication to make me a better player and person.

This is not owned by us this was just copied from molten wow official list of guides.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=226553&highlight=cataclysm+guide

Tailoring Guide 1 - 450

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:10:00 +0000

Tailoring Guide 1 - 450

This WoW Tailoring guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to get your Tailoring skill up from 1 to 450. Updated for WoW patch 3.3

If you want to level your Tailoring, you will need thousands of cloths and cloths are not cheap. You can farm them or buy them from the auction house, if you buy the Cloths you will need a lot of gold. Tailoring is the best combined with Enchanting, because you will be able to disenchant most of the items you make, however an Enchanter friend can do it for you too. Check out my Enchanting guide if you are interested in leveling Enchanting.

Keep in mind, this WoW Tailoring guide is made to level your profession as fast as possible, so sometimes the cloths you will make might not be the best items for your level or they won't be really profitable if you want to sell them.

Tailoring guide sections:

Tailoring Apprentice 1 - 75

Tailoring Journeyman 75 - 125

Tailoring Expert 125 - 200

Tailoring Artisan 200 - 300

Tailoring Master 300 - 350

Tailoring Grand Master 350 - 450

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:

* 250 Linen Cloth

* 50 Coarse Thread

* 135 Wool Cloth

* 90 Fine thread

* 760 Silk Cloth

* 30 Blue Dye

* 396 Mageweave Cloth

* 45 Silken Thread

* 60 Red Dye

* 106 Heavy Silken Thread

* 780 Runecloth

* 131 Rune Thread

* 725 Netherweave Cloth

* 30 Arcane Dust

* 20 Knothide Leather

* 2975 Frostweave Cloth - You shouldn't buy all of these at once

* 240 Infinite Dust

* 96 Eternium Thread

* 440-450 is not included, due the insane amount of gold and materials needed for it

Related Guides:

WoW Enchanting Guide 1-450

WoW Tailoring Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Tailoring.

* 1 - 45

130 x [Bolt of Linen Cloth] - 260 Linen Cloth

Stop making these if you reach Tailoring 45, and make more only if you need it.

* 45 - 70

35 x [Heavy Linen Gloves] - 70 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 35 Coarse Thread

* 70 - 75

5 x [Reinforced Linen Cape] - 10 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 15 Coarse Thread

75 - 125

Learn Tailoring Journeyman.

* 75 - 100

45 x [Bolt of Woolen Cloth] - 135 Wool Cloth

* 100 - 110

13 x [Simple Kilt] - 52 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 13 Fine Thread

* 110 - 125

15 x [Double-stitched Woolen Shoulders] - 45 Bolt of Woolen Cloth, 30 Fine Thread

125 - 200

Learn Tailoring Expert.

* 125 - 145

190 x [Bolt of Silk Cloth] - 760 Silk Cloth

* 145 - 160

15 x [Azure Silk Hood] - 30 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 30 Blue Dye, 15 Fine Thread

* 160 - 170

10 x [Silk Headband] - 30 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 20 Fine Thread

* 170 - 175

5 x [Formal White Shirt] - 15 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 10 Bleach, 5 Fine Thread

* 175 - 185

99 x [Bolt of Mageweave] - 396 Mageweave Cloth

* 185 - 200

15 x [Crimson Silk Vest] - 60 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 30 Fine Thread, 30 Red Dye

200 - 300

Learn Tailoring Artisan.

* 200 - 215

15 x [Crimson Silk Pantaloons] - 60 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 30 Red Dye, 30 Silken Thread

* 215 - 220

5 x [Black Mageweave Leggings] - 10 Bolt of Mageweave, 15 Silken Thread

* 220 - 230

10 x [Black Mageweave Gloves] - 20 Bolt of Mageweave, 20 Heavy Silken Thread

* 230 - 250

23 x [Black Mageweave Headband] - 69 Bolt of Mageweave, 46 Heavy Silken Thread

* 250 - 260

195 x [Bolt of Runecloth] - 780 Runecloth

* 260 - 280

25 x [Runecloth Belt] - 75 Bolt of Runecloth, 25 Rune Thread

* 280 - 295

18 x [Runecloth Gloves] - 90 Bolt of Runecloth, 36 Rune Thread

Recipe goes yellow at 290, get enough materials for 18.

* 295 - 300

5 x [Runecloth Headband] - 30 Bolt of Runecloth, 10 Rune Thread

300 - 350

Go to Outland or Northrend and learn Tailoring Master.

* 300 - 325

145 x [Bolts of Netherweave] - 725 Netherweave Cloth

* 325 - 335

If you are Enchanter or you know someone who can disenchant items, make [Netherweave Gloves] instead of [Bolts of Imbued Netherweave].

15 x [Bolts of Imbued Netherweave] - 45 Bolts of Netherweave, 30 Arcane Dust

Pattern location

* 335 - 345

10 x [Netherweave Boots] - 60 Bolts of Netherweave, 20 Knothide Leather, 10 Rune Thread

* 345 - 350

5 x [Netherweave Tunic] - 40 Bolts of Netherweave, 10 Rune Thread

Pattern location

Tailoring specializations

Tailors of lvl 60 or higher with a skill of 350 or greater now can choose a Tailoring Specialization. Each of these three specializations allow the tailor access to a number of self only recipes and will allow the tailor to make twice as much of one kind of new cloth as a tailor without this Specialization. Each specialization also provides recipes specific bind-on-pickup cloth gear.

* Mooncloth tailoring (Healing): Allows the tailor access to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Primal Mooncloth Set, and to create an additional primal mooncloth at a moonwell.

* Shadoweave tailoring (Shadow / Frost): Allows the tailor to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Shadow's Embrace set, and to create an additional shadowcloth at the Altar of Shadows.

* Spellfire tailoring (Fire / Arcane): Allows the tailor to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Wrath of Spellfire set, and to create an additional spellcloth in Netherstorm.

(source: wowwiki)

350 - 450

Go to Northrend and learn Tailoring Grand Master.

* 350 - 375

595 x [Bolt of Frostweave] - 2975 Frostweave Cloth

* 375 - 380

5 x [Frostwoven Belt] - 15 Bolt of Frostweave, 5 Eternium Thread

* 380 - 385

5 x [Frostwoven Boots] - 20 Bolt of Frostweave, 5 Eternium Thread

* 385 - 395

13 x [Frostwoven Cowl] - 65 Bolt of Frostweave, 13 Eternium Thread

* 395 - 400

5 x [Duskweave Belt] - 35 Bolt of Frostweave, 5 Eternium Thread

* 400 - 405

120 x [Bolt of Imbued Frostweave] - 240 Bolt of Frostweave, 240 Infinite Dust

* 405 - 410

5 x [Duskweave Wristwraps] - 40 Bolt of Frostweave, 5 Eternium Thread

* 410 - 415

5 x [Duskweave Gloves] - 45 Bolt of Frostweave, 5 Eternium Thread

* 415 - 425

13 x [Duskweave Boots] - 130 Bolt of Frostweave, 13 Eternium Thread

* 425 - 440

20 x [Frostweave Bag] - 120 Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 40 Eternium Thread

You should make around 20 of these, it depends on your luck. The recipe goes yellow at 430 and green at 440, but you should make these because you will sell them at AH anyway, so you will get most of your gold back. Don't flood the AH, only put in a few bags at once. It might take weeks or even months before you sell all of them. Try to make Bags for your friends, tell them to bring the materials for it.

Per Frostweave Bag:

60 x Frostweave Cloth

12 x Infinite Dust

2 x Eternium Thread

* 440 - 450

When you reach 440 you will be able to make new epic recipes, try to find players who need those epic items and craft the items for them if they bring the materials. You can also continue to make [Frostweave Bags].

I hope you liked this Tailoring Guide, GZ to 450!

Information Acquired From: http://www.wow-professions.com

How to get out of Worgen Starting Zone

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:56:00 +0000

How to get out of Worgen Starting Zone

So, after seeing a lot of people get stuck I thought I would make a little guide to show you how to leave Gilneas after completing all the quests.

This image shows two things: one the red circle showing where you will probably be when you have finished all the quests. The last quests as I remember are within Emberstone Mill circled with the orange, and the quest givers are where the red circle are. So, if you get no other quests they are done!

So, after you finish them you are going to be confused.

The next thing you should do is head back into the city and towards Cathedral Quarter (This is the part where you blew the Worgens up earlier). The bridge to get into Merchant Square is to the left from where the red circle is in the first image.

The image also shows the bridge as if you were looking at it (it is locked here but won't be when you go to it).

Then head across the bridge north of Cathedral Quarter.

This image shows the path that you will take from the Cathedral Quarter bridge. The blue line is where you have to swim across due to the bridge being broken.

You are heading towards Keel Harbour, the purple blob represents the purple boat which is situated there. (It is a Night Elf boat).

This is a screenshot of Keel Harbour that I grabbed from the internet. The path which is closest is where you will be walking up and the boat you see is the one you will board. The two red blobs are where two NPC's the closest is a complete quest (***) and the one on the boat is Admiral Nightwind, who gives you a quest which teleports you to Rut'theran Village.

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Additional Information:

When you are in Rut'theran Village go to the most southern dock to get the boat to Stormwind. When there, set your Hearthstone in the Trade District.

- Do NOT use your Hearthstone before setting it somewhere like in Stormwind, this can cause problems are require you to restart your character.

*** I am taking knowledge from my time on Greymane realm and when I levelled my Worgen Rogue. If there is something incorrect within this guide please post so I can fix.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=169340

How to - Getting Exalted With Therazane Without Having To Grind Reputation

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:51:00 +0000

How to - Getting Exalted With Therazane Without Having To Grind Reputation

As for now, this guide will be halted so please don't say "OMG WHY IS THE CHAIN QUEST BUGGED UR GUIDE SARKS!" until I can get a hold of how to trigger the chain quest as stated below.

Hello there! For this guide, I will be sharing on how to get Exalted status with Therazane, one of the factions in Cataclysm. This guide is created for new people who are not sure on how to do as title above.

1. What is the Therazane?

According, to Wowhead, The faction Therazane, named after its leader Therazane the Stonemother, consists of all the earth elementals "living" in Deepholm. The story players can witness starts off with Therazane and her elementals being hostile towards all creatures, including the Earthen Ring and their attempts to restore the World Pillar. As time passes, Therazane's lieutenants and ultimately the Stonemother herself will start looking more favorably at the group of shamans and their chosen champions. At the end, a few selected members of the Earthen Ring and their allies will be allowed to remain in Deepholm and continue their effort to bring balance to the domain of earth.

2. So, how does the rep works?

As said above, you will initially be "Hated" with Therazane. It works pretty much like the Sons of Hodir in the WotLK expansion. You will need to do a chain quest in order to soften the hearts of Therazane's lieutenants, and eventually, the Stonemother herself.

In retail, after completing a rather long chain quest, you can actually do dailies in order to gain their trust. In here, you'll just need 3-4 quests and you're done! Awesome right?

3. What are the possible rewards from Therazane?

Upon getting Friendly, you can buy a Tabard to raise your reputation with them whenever you are doing any HC dungeons.

Upon getting Honored, you can buy a variety of shoulder enchants:

- Lesser Inscription of Charged Lodestone - Caster DPS/healer

- Lesser Inscription of Jagged Stone - Plate DPS

- Lesser Inscription of Shattered Crystal - Non-Plate DPS

- Lesser Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz - Tank

Upon getting Revered, you can buy iLevel 346 rings:

- Diamant's Ring of Temperance - Caster DPS/healer

- Felsen's Ring of Resolve - Tank

- Gorsik's Band of Shattering - Plate DPS

- Terrath's Signet of Balance - Non-Plate DPS

Upon getting Exalted, you can buy the improved shoulder enchants. They are the same name (with Lesser changed to Greater), so I won't list them down here.

NOTE: Please MAKE SURE that you have unchecked "At War" with Therazane at your reputation bar. (At least Neutral standing required) Otherwise, you cannot buy the great stuffs from the quartermaster even when you are Exalted with them. This box will always be "checked" everytime you log in, so get used to uncheck that box.

4. How to start?

UPDATE: I have a suspicion that you need to be up to a certain point of time where you spend your time in Deepholm (A.K.A phased quests) where you can finally go to Earthmender Norsala to take up the start of Therazane chain quest. Until I can get a hold of it, this paragraph will stay.

First, do this Imposing Confrontation. You can find the troll lady at the outer edges (Please please read this part! Not inside the temple!)of the temple (try going northwest). NOTE: Please take note that she will appear at 2 different locations, however only one of the clones will have the quest.

Then, simply head to where Gorsik is, dismount and use the quest item. You will have a short chat with him, before you are getting knocked back at a random location. Don't worry, you won't get killed by it. Go back to the troll lady and turn in the quest.

She'll give you Rocky Relations quest next. This is just simply finding Diamat who will help you gain the trust of the Stonelords. He will give you the following 2 quests:

- Hatred Runs Deep. The mobs are a plenty. As for Dragul, you can find him in the middle tent.

- Unsolid Ground. The crystals are again a plenty. Once you collect 6 of them, combine them to craft an item, then head to one of the towers just a little north within the Lorthuna's Gate. Then, use the item. It might not work sometimes, so you need to scout around that particular area until you can get it.

After completing 2 quests, Diamat will give you another quest called Violent Gale. At this point, you should be Neutral with Therazane. (That was at least in Frostwolf. For Neltharion and Sargares, you are one step further to getting exalted with Therazane!) Previously, this quest doesn't work, however there is an apparent loophole that allows you to auto-complete the quest. Head northwest and look for Felsen. (Don't go up to Therazane's Throne! Although he is there as well, you will not complete your quest there.) He is hostile, but supposingly if you can fly around somewhere west of him, an auto-complete quest will pop out. About 40-60 yards from him should do the trick. Try not to fly too far up or you will not be able to tell the distance. Accept the autocomplete, and head back to Diamat.

Your last quest is Depth of the Depths. Simply go to where the quest ender is, dismount and talk to the crystal. Please take note that the crystal is outside the cave, NOT inside!

And you're done! You are now Exalted with Therazane, without even needing to grind rep. Congratulations!

If you are around level 82/83 though, there is an optional quest that you can take, Wayward Child. You can take this from the Stonemother at Therazane's Throne (make sure you have unchecked "At War" with Therazane first), head into The Stonecore dungeon and kill Ozruk. Then, just turn in the quest. It doesn't gain a lot of rep, but it certainly helps when it comes to Dungeon quests.

Also, if you are still at the process of levelling to 85, this is a good chance to continue the chain quest even when you don't need anymore rep with them. Be aware that you can skip some of the quests and still continue with the chain since there are a few side quests that are bugged. Also, it works up to the area where there are bog spores. (Yes, dem bog spores from Zangarmarsh has somehow migrated there. Kidding.) It is the part where another stonelord will refer you to a nearby Draenei ER member that gives a bugged quest.

5. If I'm an inscriber, I can always get my own shoulder enchant that is much better than Therazane! What is the point of getting Exalted with Therazane then?

This will be the question that many inscribers will ask. To answer this question, it is true that Inscribers can enchant their own shoulders. They are better than the ones that Therazane has to offer. But, you should consider the fact that they give iLevel 346 rings to help boost your gear. Also, if you are looking for reputation achievement, this is one of them that you will want to do, even when you are an Inscriber.

Conclusion? While you do not need to be exalted with Therazane, you must get to at least Revered in order to buy their rings.

6. Credits

- Wowhead, where all of the quests and items are linked here.

- angelfire, for giving the exact coordinates for Norsala, where you can start the chain quest.

- OriginalDarkway, for giving the exact coordinates for the quest ender of Depth of the Depths

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=172295

Newbie Molten-WoW Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:23:00 +0000

Newbie Molten-WoW Guide

I noticed a lot of people in the community forums, including myself just last week, asking questions about gear and what plans should be made when leveling on this Server. So I will suggest a few tips which has gotten all of my toons to near-top gear as soon as they hit level 80, allowing my guys to run the instances and enjoy endgame immediately, without having to worry with dead time and depression of not being allowed in runs due to 'Gear Score'.

This is written for Horde namely, as I don't know the issues or zones for Alliance. And for any other case, I play only on Deathwing.

Contents:

I - VotePoints

II - Your UI

III - Levels, Gold, and You

IV - Gear

V - Guild

VI - Reroll

Instance I - Vote Points

Vote points can make and break you. A lot of newer players will spend their Vote Points as they get them, maybe saving up to 20-30 to get some purple item at some random level (often, 20, 40, 60's). Don't do this. Your gear has no real matter. If anything, just buy the cheap stuff on the AH (note that due to the intense economy, cheap rides on the lines of 1-20 gold). The gear you need to be at all effective to get to 80 will be provided through quests, random drops, and the AH (or a friendly donation).

You can technically get to level 80 Naked. This has been done many times, although it can slow you down a bit and many people like to look pretty while they fight. Whatever your persuasion is, DON'T SPEND YOUR VOTE POINTS!!! SAVE THEM FOR LEVEL 80.

### - You can vote every 12 hours. Make sure you take advantage of this if you're serious about playing. This can net you 10 VP a day, this will be very useful to you end game. You'll want AT LEAST 90 VP by the time you hit Endgame. That or be super friggin rich (which isn't too difficult to do)

Exceptions to spend VP on: Frostweave Bags. These cost 2 points each. And can be a worthy buy as soon as you make your toon. This gives you 40 more slots to put items. More items to place, more to sell. Even junk has a price.

Another good spend is Insignia of the Horde (or Alliance). This is a nice little starter trinket for 1 VP that can break any Stun/Fear/Polymorph/Rooting/Snaring effects on you with a 5 minute cooldown. Only needed if you plan on avoiding ganks. This is really 95% PvP.

Instance II - Your UI

When I see screenshots and videos of people who don't use a UI, it blows my mind. Because they usually have maybe HALF of their screen visible, at the most. I myself like to have as much of my screen visible as possible, so I use UI Mods. Or better known as AddOns. You can make your life a lot easier by using AddOns, you can make it even easier by downloading and installing the Curse Client v4 auto-installer. This will allow you to just click a button and the Curse Client will install everything for you, so you don't have to go through the steps of 'installing' your AddOns.

If you don't want AddOns, then that is your loss. If you're afraid of them due to their technical uses, calm down. They're not that difficult to get. Curse.com has a wide assortment of very useful addons that not only help you see what you're doing, but they can help you macromanage your common issues and boost your gold big time. (I have made around 100k Gold [in about 2 weeks of casual gaming] due to a few AddOns helping me out).

Some suggested AddOns?

-Bartender v4 (Allows full customization of your action-bars/menubar/petbar actionbar/totems/stances/vehicle/etc. This includes, size, padding, placement, and disabling certain bars)

-Prat 3.0 (A very simple Chat-Addon that colors posts in chat to identify class, and can do much more if messed around with)

-Auctioneer (Got some gold you're not gonna spend anytime soon? Play the AH. This will determine what items are selling high or low. You can sort things by not only their buyout cost, but their fluctuation of prices and by 'per item' instead of stacks. This is how I make a lot of my gold.)

-Talented (This gives you a massive overview of your Talents, showing all three talent trees at once, and allows you to create templates. A great thing to play with when bored since you can create any 'talent build' in it's fake-talent-tree creator)

-TipTac (A tooltip editor, it allows you to move where your tool tip is and makes it look a lot sleeker. I love my tooltips. A tooltip is what pops up when you hoverover objects in the game, including items and spells)

-Omen3 (This is the most used Threat Meter, it tells you how much Threat Per Second you've developing, along with everyone else in the party, so you know if you can crank up your pace, or slow it down a bit.)

-XLoot (Gives you a much sleeker looking loot bar, along with strong color identifiers to rarity of items)

-Carbonite (If you want to breeze through quests, know what enemies are around, and have a great companion for your navigation, Carbonite does it all. It has a navigation system to tell you what quests are close by, their 'area' and common quest givers and returns. It also will alert you when any PvP players are running amuck. A MUST HAVE!!!)

-ArkInventory (If you want a very organized bag-mod, this is the one. It allows you to set up your bags the way you want. It first makes it so your bags appear as one window. You can then set rules to certain 'areas' of the inventory, so you can keep your Quest Items away from the main bag, or seperate trade-skill items from other items. Everything!

Instance III - Leveling, Gold, and You

The three most important things in WoW, right? Level, Gold, and NUMERO UNO. Well it is important if you want to get what you want, FAST. Heck, you doing this could even help out your party/raid. It may even make you a better person. It will definitely make you a better WoWer, that's for sure, if you continue reading.

If you want to Level fast, you can make 80 in just a few days of casual playing. But if you want Gold too? Well, you may have to enjoy the other parts of WoW to really capitalize. Now note, I am setting the following standards of this guid with Auctioneer and Carbonite addons. Please get these as my techniques can only really work with them.

Zones to Level:

Stop what you're doing, if you're not a Humany-Fellow, get out of Eastern Kingdoms. It's slow leveling. Anyone who argues this is simply boasting. There is a reason why it's called Eastern Kingdoms. Because Ally's play there. So once you get to level 10-20 (you may want to level to 20 if you're Undead or Blood Elf, so you can save yourself the trip to get your Mount. But meh, you can get to 20 a lot faster in Kalimdor). Besides, if you want your Flying Mount discounts, you need Exalted with Ogrimmar. You're not gonna do that by helping out the fleshies on Eastern Kingdoms. So do whatever easy quests are over in EK and get to Kalimdor and begin questing in Crossroads (XRs).

Now if you want to chop the head off the snake of the worry of having enough gold for a Flying Mount and an Epic Mount (you can save about 1k gold doing this), you need Exalted with Ogrimmar, so please, complete the bulk of the quests in the starting areas in Kalimdor. Or, OR! you can come back and probably finish them super fast. You should be exalted by level 40-50 with Ogrimmar if you've done at least 10 quests in the starting area. (When I say starting area, I mean STARTING AREA. Go get those apples, kill boars, wake up Peons with a club, and moar!

10-20 :: Barrens/Ratchet

21-25(28) :: Southern Barrens

25(28)-35 :: 1k Needles/Salt Flats

36 - 40 :: Salt Flats/STV/Booty Bay

(Optional, Badlands, SUPER SUGGESTED FOR MINERS)

41-50 :: STV/Booty Bay/Hinterlands(Great for Herbalists)

(Optional Searing Gorge, MINERS AGAIN!)

51-60 :: Gadgetzan/Wintersprings/Felwood

Now, that guide ain't great, but you should just know to collect all the quests you can and just do them smartly. When I say smartly? Quests are bugged, have slow spawns, and other people are doing them too. So let's say you have a collection quest with a slow spawn? Go do a quest somewhere else in the same zone!

Example: 1k Needles, you get the Wyvern Eggs collection quest along with a quest to collect reeds in the small oasis. You can also get another quest that requires you kill an Elite Panther. Rotate these if people are doing those quests while you're trying to. Knockout those quests, they supply a generous amount of EXP.

Need more help with leveling? Many many walkthrus are supplied. I may make one for Molten-WoW a little later if enough people like my explanations.

GOLD!!!

We all want Gold, even though, wth are you gonna spend it on? You spend it on enchantments! And Slotted jewels! That's right. Well they are costly. You can find yourself pumping out hundreds and often times thousands of gold to get what you want. Right now I have about 10k Gold on my toon, and I feel poor. Wanna feel like me? Well, you may have to be devious.

There is no wrecked Economy on Deathwing! Everything levels out. Sometimes prices spike, but so do things in the real world. I was selling Knothide Leather for 2k one day and the next day it was 500g a stack! That's just how it works. So don't be depressed, get a job! Get a profession. What are the best jobs? To be honest, the best money maker to me is between: Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting. MAYBE TAILORING. All I know is Tanks NEED good gear and you can give them great armor at end game that they really really need. Is it hard? Yes. Jewelcrafting is the same way. I hate JC'ers, you rip us off. But whatever. Give me your gems.

DO NOT GO INTO A PROFESSION THINKING YOU WILL GEAR YOURSELF AS YOU LEVEL!!! THIS RARELY WORKS OUT. Your gear you can make is usually devastatingly lower than your level and your current gear. You may get lucky and get a piece of gear you can make that is of your level. But more often than not, the gear you wish to make is either too low level, or too high level of items you need to fetch. Like skinning and especially tailoring.

If you want a money maker toon with no intention of being a useful Samaritan (unless you donate your goods) you'll probably want Mining and Skinning. Why not Herbalism? Because I don't care about Herbalism. Sure, end game Veins for Titanium is rare, but trust me, it's worth it. Again, Tanks are the biggest gear whores because THEY NEED GEAR to be starter tanks. And guess who they come to? Blacksmiths who use your Bars of Metal. Skinning because you can kill stuff, get exp, and get their carcasses to sell or donate.

Now, for whatever you choose as your profession, this is where Auctioneer addon comes to use. Just open up the auction house, click the POST tab, drag and drop the item in the box, click refresh, and then it will show you the suggested price to sell something to undercut your competition, almost guaranteeing you a sale. "What if everyone starts using this?!"

A-They won't. B-Doesn't matter.

DON'T BUY BAGS NEWB!

YOU!!!

Alright, sorry, I feel long winded, but I hope I am of help. Finally to conclude this chapter, YOU. You have to understand your limitations and attitude to an MMO like WoW. But thankfully this WoW isn't Blizzlike aka 3rd Job. But an MMO is work, it's fun work though. If it wasn't work, it wouldn't take so long. And in this, you should understand that researching is your friend.

What tools? NOT THOTTBOT. Thottbot is dumb, horribly designed, slow, and has false information. WoWHead.com. Bookmark it, make it home page, donate, do whatever you gotta do to understand that's the place to go for information. Namely WoW based information. If you want classguides, just google it. But you will want to read class guides, even if you're not rolling that class.

Anyways, if you have played MMO's you should already know what you're looking at and what you want.

RDPS/DPS/Healer/Tank, (Ranged Damage, Melee Damage: respectively)

If you're new to WoW or MMO's for that matter, your personality will really develop what kind of player you are. What I have found, each class has a certain personality strapped on, but I won't go through stereotypes. Just know, each one requires a certain amount of perspective and intelligence. Especially in Raids. There is no best class. I can tell you the best aggro class is Hunter. So if you want to steal Aggro, be a hunter. Lol. Seriously. Hunters, stop clicking so fast and breathe.

There is nothing wrong with rerolling. This is a funserver, leveling is fast, so if you drop a toon at 40, don't feel bad. Just transfer over gold. And you still get to keep your VP, BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SPEND IT, RITE?!

Finally. Are you PvP or PvE? Me, I am PvE, because I like healing and Tanking, and that just doesn't happen in PvP. Tanks get burned down nearly as fast as your lower armored guys. And don't lie and say you don't get burned down. The only thing hard to burn down quicker than usual are feral-druids. Don't be an elitest. I've seen 5k+ GS Platies get served a pie in the face and bucket of urine over their head just as fast as leatherheads and clothies.

Can you do both? Sure, but don't start gearing up for both at the same time. I would strongly suggest PvE first, then jump into PvP. But if you have a ton of VP to spend, sure, start with PvP, hell, you may just stick with it. More power to you. I'll be the Tank getting burned down.

All in all, this will get you to end game with relative ease. (Except gankers, don't worry, you'll be ganking their lowbies soon enough, god knows I do. YEA, I'M THE GUY IN RED RIDGE MOUNTAINS KILLING YOUR PEOPLE! Call me a newb, w/e, it passes the time while I LFG).

Instance IV - Gear

There is nothing wrong with Blues! There is everything wrong with greens! I am speaking endgame of course. Don't walk to Endgame with green items. It's just bad edict. Am I being a GS whore? No, because I ran HC Chains with way lower GS than requested. But I knew better to get suitable gear for my class. And greens are drastically weak when compared to blues and of course purples. I say Blue ain't bad because you may be covered in blue when you start in your endgame pursuit. This is fine, you'll get your Purps soon enough.

What gear is most important? I'd generally say because of the Private Server, this would be constructed into two separate catagories. Gold and VP. VP should be used to get your most rare and difficult items to get. Please please please research the starter instances before deciding. (VH [blah], UK, UP, HoL, HoS, ToC, etc) It will tell you what drops there, so you can save your VP for that item slot. If you're too lazy, then I would say spend your VP on a weapon. I spent 18 VP on my weapon surprisingly enough. You may not be that lucky. Abuse WoWHead and it's filters to find a suitable weapon.

Another thing to think about is crafted items. More often than not, your crafted items cannot be VP'd for. This is to induce economical balance. And I agree with it. (It may not be for that reason, that reason just helps me sleep at night). So crafted items, you may have to shovel a few thousand gold for. But if you have followed my above guide, you should have plenty of Gold.

All in all, you want AT LEAST 2.2k GS by the time you're geared out. I was 2.9k when I geared myself out with AH, crafters, and VP.

IMPORTANCE OF GS: GearScore has mixed reviews, most people hate on it. But I find many of those people are the lazy people who just don't want to expand their gear with VP or what not. I was against GS and currently am slightly against it. I do believe GS helps us have an overview of your capacity. However, some people ask for ******ed GS requirements. Like 4k+ for Violet Hold. Come on now. The reasoning behind this is to get it done with fast. But people are acting like they have appointments. Get over yourself. Either way, have a decent GS to show off and get you into Pugs if nothing else.

(How can I see my GS? You need an addon called GearScore (imagine that).

So again, at endgame, only buy blue items on the AH, find a friendly crafter, bring mats if possible, it will make it a lot easier.

TIP: If you want your gear fast for endgame, find some standard crafted items. And start AHing it from level 50-60 (when you have gold to spend). Track the auction house for DROPS in prices and take advantage. Example? Titansteel was selling 1200g one day, the next day someone was selling 500g each. I bought them out. Put these in the bank so you're not tempted to resell. Do this till you get to endgame and you will save yourself gold, time, and tears.

Instance V - Guild

You don't need a Guild as soon as you enter the game. Hell, I'd suggest against it. Get your feel for the game before you worry about interacting with random personalities. However if you're desperate for help, then whore yourself out to a Guild. Myself, I have a strong issue with edict and when I choose a Guild, I generally don't leave it till it dies.

A guild provides you with a lot. Sometimes it can provide you nothing but a headache. I am currently in a FANTASTIC guild where generally the regulars help everyone out and has an open bank. And most people practice the take and donate policy. (I removed an iridescent pearl, I replaced with a few Saronite bars).

The Guild should be respectful to all players in their Guild, accepting the role they have chosen. At the same time, the player should understand that they should spec to help the Guild out. You a DPS Shammy but they need a healer? Hey mang, Dual Spec. Hell, a good guild will donate some gold to help with it and run you through some instances to get you geared. Help the Guild and the game becomes funner. Also, find a good Guild. This can be difficult. I got lucky.

What should you look for in a Guild? Activity, Population of 80's, and Leadership.

Activity: This really means is it active during the hours you play? There are a lot of foreigners playing. Choose the right Guild. If only 5 people or less are playing when you play, find a new Guild. You generally want AT LEAST 10 players active. A nice chatty Guild is generally a healthy Guild.

Population of 80's: You want 80's, because that means there are plenty of experienced players to get advice from. It also means they may have extra gold to help out. And even bigger than that, they should be 450 in their professions to offer you gear (so long as you supply mats) with no price. This is especially fruitful with JC'ers.

Leadership: If your leader or at least the officers doesn't maintain some welcoming demeanor, leave immediately. You want the higher ups to be offering help, suggestions, and good humor. Officers that treat you like garbage, well, the Guild is crap. /gleave immediately.

Instance VI - Reroll

Rerolling is fun, do it, it allows you to understand other classes. I went through all the classes to level 70 before I chose my Paladin to be my main. Just know, to be successful, you will need to reheat your VP's and have additional gold to support him/her. So what I did when I rerolled a new guy to hit 80, is I roll my Paladin for a while to stack up my VP and gold, and have it ready for when my alt-main hits 80.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=10561

Molten Wow Gold Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:15:00 +0000

Molten Wow Gold Guide

I see lot players on Molten Wow strugle to earn some gold. Gold is everywhere around you just waiting for you to pick it up

I made this guide for palyers who have around 2-3 hours free wow time.

Just 2-3 hours a day and for a week or two you can reach the gold cap.

Professions

My sugestion for choosing proffesion is on your main you should have Alchemy and Jewelcrafting, and then you should make an alt with gathering proffesions like Herbalism and Mining. These proffesions working great together because for alchemy u need herbs to make flasks and potions and for jc u need mining. Also with alchemy u can daily transmute 1 cardinal ruby or other gems wich u need for jc. And mining is usefull for alchemy because you can make saronite bars, and then later transmute them in titanium bars. Also u can mine lot of usefull things which u can use for alchemy (eternal fire,air,earth,chalcedony,bloodstone etc).

Imo these proffesions are easiest and best for fast gold and a nice proffesions bonus (like Flask of the north from alchemy and jewelrcrafter gems). Because on my main char i have alch/herb and a mining on my alt i wont be explaining the jc money making strategy.

Alchemy

The first thing you should do when u raise your Alchemy to 450 is to go to visit Alchemist Gribble in Honor hold and take the quest Master of transmutation. Then you should get 4 primal mights, you can get the mats for it and make them, or you can buy it from ah(i sugest to farm the mats it takes only 30 mins ). Then you should go to Zarevhi in Netherstorm to turn in quest, and then he will give you the quest where u need to get him 4 primal mights. Turn in that and you will become Transmutation master. This is a great money maker since u can now get better results when transmuting gems, saronite bars, or making meta.

How to make gold with alchemy?

Do your daily transmutes every day! It simple and easy and it gives you 1.5k+ gold every day (depends on transmutation master proc).

Another great money maker is Flasks. Flask of the endless rage and the Flask of the frost wyrm. Stack of these flask sells in ah for 8-9k gold depend on the market( i usualy sell those for 9k per stack).

Pygmy oil will also get u nice amount of money. To make this you need to get pygmy suckerfish, wich sometims u can find in ah for a very nice price like 100 gold per stack, and for a one stack of pygmy suckerfish you can get around 30 or more pygmy oil. Pygmy oil sells in ah for 500 gold stack sometimes even more! Thats a nice profit for around 10 mins of work.

Transmute meta. These transmutes dont have cooldown so you can make dozen of this per day. Skyflare diamond and Earthsiege diamond. If you have mining alt you you can mine eternal air, eternal fire, blodstone or chalcedony wich you need for this transmute. If you dont have mining alt ill show you later where is best place for farming eternals. Skyflare diamonds sells in ah for around 500 gold and Eartsiege for 700-800 for an awesome profit.

Transmute Saronite bars. Transmute 8 saronite bars into one (depends on trans master proc)titanium bar. Today i made around 50 titanium bars and sold them in ah for like 12k gold. For this you will need lot of farming because for 50 titanium bars u need like 200+ saronite bars But its a great money maker.

Primal might. This one sells in ah for around 1.3k gold and doesnt have cd. U can easily get the mats for this for about 30 min of farming. U need one primal mana,water,fire,earth and air(U can check on wowhead where u can farm them).

You can also earn money by selling potion of speed.

Herbalism

If you have alchemy herbalism is a must. You can earn lot of money by selling herbs that you find in northrend like goldclover, adders tongue, icethorn, lichbloom. But the great thing is that every herb in northrend drops Crystalized life. When you get ten of those u can then make 1 eternal life. And a stack of eternal life sells in ah for 3000k gold! You can farm a stack of these in 30 mins. Its great coz every herbs drops 1-3 crystalized life. Most important herb that you can find is Lichbloom. You can farm these and then sell it in ah for 1.5k-2k stack, but the best thing to do with these is to keep them and make flasks which sells for lot more.

Here are routes that i use when i farm icethorn and lichbloom.

These routes can be used for farming saronite and titanium veins as well.

Farming Eternals

Great and easy way to make lot of money. Stack of eternal fire sells in ah for 8-9k gold! Stack of eternal air is around 3k. Eternal earth and water doesnt have such a nice price like these two so they are not realy worth farming.

Ok here are the location where i farm them.

Eternal Air

Eternal fire

Addons

The addons that i recommend for you to use are:

Auctioneer - is a very detailed AH mod which lets you scan the AH for ongoing auctions, compare prices, then set up your own auctions ( if i get enough requests ill make separate guide how to proprely use auctioneer). This is imo by far best addon ever made. Most of money that i earn is because i use this addon. It has some nice features and it really makes your life easier.

Postal - offers enhanced mailbox support by providing the following features:

BlackBook: Adds a contact list next to the To: field. Tracks all your characters (as you log each one on) and list them if they are on the same realm/faction on an "Alts" list

Tracks the last 10 players you mailed on a "Recently Mailed" list.

Autocomplete names from Alts/Recently Mailed/Contacts/Friends/Guild list. You can choose which of these lists to use.

Option to autofill in the last person mailed to the To: field.

Option to disable Blizzard's name auto-completion popup.

You can download these on WowCurse.com

Auction House

As is said before if you guys like this guide and make reqests i will make a separate detailed guide how to use auctioneer and how to rule the market and auction house.

Auctioning items depends on couple of things:

Demand - How bad players want or need your item.

Rarity of the item - Items that are more rare will typically sell for more. Its very important to look over the auction house by using the scan button on your auctioneer mod.

Level of the item - Higher level items sell for more money.

Auction house availability - If there are a lot of the items in the auctionhouse, it may drive the price down.If the auction house is full with those items at the moment you want to sell them, take into consideration how their price varies and sell them another time.

Trade items - If the item requires rare or expensive components, the item will typically be sold for more money.

Level of the person who will be using the item (for example twink items

are sold for very high prices).

Vanity items – Items that have no real use other than showing off or whichare considered cute: Orb of Deception, Blood Elf Bandit Mask, various pets these sell for a high amount of gold.

Some Useful Tips

Always have some alts placed near the auction house. This will allow you to buy and sell while your character is far away from a capital city.

You can use an alt to store the gold on him, this will help you keep the money if you are the type who wastes it all a.s.a.p.

An alt can be used as a warehouse for your materials and items you want to keep and you dont have enough room for in your bank.

Dont buy mats from the ah to level up your profession, grind for them and sell the surplus.

Theres a one more nice trick that i use when i need fast money.

Theres a one place in Sholazar Basin where you can find lot of of frozentribe warriors. Now the thing is that they are easy to kill and there are lot of them (when i say a lot i really mean it) and they drop like 1 gold, but every one of them drops either runic mana potion or runic healing potion or even both. So in 10 mins of farming you can get like 60 runic mana potion and 60 runic healing potion. Mana potion sells in ah 1k per stack, and healing potion sells around 500 gold stack. Another nice way to make easy money.

You should always pay attention to global channel. Most of people use this channel for selling items. And there are loooooot of dumb people selling awesome items for low price. For example there was guy today selling 3x cardinal ruby's for 150 gold . So you should really pay attention to this and you need to be fast when you see nice offer.

With my main charr i got to the point where i dont need any gear that you can buy with emblem of triumph or emblem of frost. So now when i get around 50 eots i turn them in for dreadstone or amretine. Imo best gem to get with eots are these 2, because cardinal ruby cost 20 emblems of heroism and you can get 1600 gold for it, and dreadstone and amretine costs 10 eohs and you can get like 1.5k for them. With emblems of frost i get primordial saronite which cost 23 eofs and can be sold in ah for 18k gold.

Also you can get gems with honor. 1 gem = 10k honor. You can get gems in Stormwind or Ogrimmar for horde where you change honor for pvp gear.

If you like running the rdf the great thing to do is to need on all the boe blue items that mobs in dangeons. Most of people dont really pay attention on these items, but they can be sold for a nice price in ah.

I hope you liked this guide. I will probably add some more tips later.

Chilipepper.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=59630

Markmanship PvE Guide 3.3.5a

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:53:00 +0000

Markmanship PvE Guide 3.3.5a

Hey everyone! Here is Version 2! Now, along with the release of the guide, I am also revealing something else that I've made to assist me in presenting the hunter forum community with the most accurate, up-to-date , and useful hunter information possible.

I have made a separate hunter resource site run by myself so that I could pull large chunks of information about side topics that needed a more in-depth explanation that I couldn't include with my first attempt due to space and organization considerations.

I also plan to update the site every now and again with more hunter information that may not necessarily belong specifically to Marksman PvE. Eventually I plan to offer coverage on Cataclysm material. PvP material, and even some MoP related topics once Molten decides to make the change. While other servers are more than welcome to use these resources, all of this information is Molten-specific. I made this to help Molten's hunters. It will never be modified, or otherwise adapted to fit other Private Servers.

Donorbashed's Hunter Emporium

I have had the help of two hunters during my work on this release. Both of them have been good to me, and demonstrate exceptional skill with the hunter class. These two hunters are very cool people who deserve credit where it's due. A special thanks to Goony, and Vocaloids for assisting me start this project.

My Armory Link: http://armory.molten-wow.com/character-profile/Donorbashed/Lordaeron/

Table of Contents:

Foreword
What Is MM?
Movement Management
Talent Builds
Rotation/Shots
Armor Penetration and Hunters: Bad Marriage 101
Dropping Arcane Shot
AddOns
Glyphs
Stats
BiS Gear Listing
Gems
Professions
Macros
Bugs
Pets/Pet Talents

A. Foreword:

So I was thinking about what to say about my guide for the second revision. The one thing that I can say is “wow”. When I was originally writing this guide I had no idea that it would blow up as big as it did, nor did I realize how much of an effect it would have on my WoW experience, and on the Molten hunter community.

When I wrote the guide originally I was younger and less experienced with the hunter class and Molten in general. Through the almost 500 responses to my guide I’ve gained the information on how to fully complete this guide. With this version 2, I want to become the most accurate resource on Molten for MM PvE!

Thank you guys!

B. What is MM?

The hunter class has three specs. These are Beast Mastery, Survival, and Marksmanship. As of WotLK 3.3.5a, Marksman is your top spec for PvE, though Survival and BM are both very close in comparison to the point that really all three specs are completely viable. However what sets MM apart is that it is the easiest out the three.

Does this mean it’s bad? No, it doesn’t Infact the best hunters on Molten use MM in both PvE and PvP. Obviously I do, because I’m writing this guide. I play MM because I like the playstyle, and its challenging for me because I play one-handed, and it helps me improve my performance.

Among the three specs, Survival is about magic damage, Beast Mastery is about physical damage, and Marksmanship is about a mix of the two. When you’re MM 35-50% of all your DPS comes directly from Auto Shot.

This means two things: Marksman hghly dependent on physical damage, and is also very dependent on your standing still during the whole fight. To really get the full potential that MM has, minimization of movement is absolutely essential, and not everyone can do it effectively.

C. Movement Management

Everyone on Molten says “What is the best gear set for the MM hunter?” and “What is the best pet for me?” I’ll be the first to tell you that gear and pets are not nearly as important once you get into the endgame as movement management. Even if you have full heroic gear you can’t pull more than 14k DPS without efficient movement management.

Here are my tips for movement management: Whichever D-Pad you use to move, either WASD or the arrow keys, change the keys you use to turn left and right to strafe left, and strafe right. That way, when you need to move to the side, you’re not jumping over to scoot, or turning and running manually. Instead, you’re simply moving to the right.

Another thing you can do is make plans about every fight in ICC. For example, when I’m on LK, I stand in between the ranged and melee dps so I have a good focus view of the big guys, and LK which gives me an easier viewpoint so I can target switch with the least amount of interruption of the DPS.

D. Talent Builds

The talent builds listed here are pretty standard, but each are customized for different ingame uses.

The first talent build is for newly turned 80 hunters who want to begin farming for gear in instances such as FoS/PoS. This is also a decent 10Man build that can be used with instances like VoA, OS, and Onyxia. This build should be used as long as your passive ArP (ArP without gems) is below 400.

http://wotlk.openwow.com/?talent#cxbZ0eVsRhzGIoguqox00b

This second build is strictly an introductory 10-Man and beginning ICC build. This is to be used after you have above 400 ArP. You’ll notice that it drops Imp. Arcane Shot. I’ll explain this in the ArP Section. I’ve kept Rapid Recuperation because in this gear stage (If you’re using this when I’m telling you) hunters generally do not have enough of a mana pool to DPS to the end of any encounter without going OOM.

http://wotlk.openwow.com/?talent#cxbZzeVoRhzGIkguAox00b

This third build is my build for ICC-10 and 25, as well as any HC I might do. Any hunter in the know can see that it is just the normal endgame spec that drops RR in favor of Wild Quiver and Imp. Steady Shot.

http://wotlk.openwow.com/?talent#cxbZceVoRhzGIsxuAox00b

E. Rotation/Shot Priority/DPS System

The main abilities used as MM are:

Serpent Sting

Chimera Shot

Aimed Shot

Steady Shot

Auto Shot

Kill Shot

Readiness

Other guides tell you that MM is a shot-priority spec, where you shouldn’t fire in a set repetition of shots, but instead prioritize the highest damaging shots. Since I’ve come to Molten, I’ve realized that this isn’t exactly right. While it does have certain aspects of a shot-priority system, it is actually primarily a rotation spec.

Allow me to explain: MM does the highest DPS when you prioritize shots. This is true. But, because of the way the shot cooldowns line up, and the number of shots, MM really starts to take on properties of a Rotation. There are still rotation properties, where if Kill Shot is ready, then it takes priority over everything else, and if Serpent Sting isn’t on the target, but Chimera Shot is ready, Serpent Sting still takes priority.

That being said the general shot rotation goes something like this:

Rapid Fire > Serpent Sting > Chimera Shot > Aimed Shot > Arcane Shot(if below 400 ArP.) > Readiness > Refresh Rapid Fire (Don’t cut it off.) > Chimera Shot > Aimed Shot > Arcane > Steady Shotx4 > Repeat.

F. Armor Penetration and Hunters: Bad marriage 101

Hunters and ArP have had a bad marriage since ArP was released. Sometimes it’s good for us, sometimes it sucks, and sometimes it will give us 204573567345357564657 extra DPS(not really but you get the point).

The reason ArP is sometimes good for us, and yet sometimes bad is because unlike Warriors and Rogues who only have abilities that cause physical damage(poisons aside), us hunters have a mix of physical (Steady Shot, Auto Shot, Aimed Shot, Multi Shot, Volley, Wild Quiver) and magic-based damaged(MM’s magic based damage is primarily Nature and Arcane based – Chimera Shot, Arcane Shot, Serpent Sting). This means that we have to balance our two damage types – physical and magic based.

Before explaining any further, please read http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/01/3...ing-explained/

So that you understand exactly what ArP is, and so we are all on the same page. If you understood about the ArP, good job! You just became a better player than 50% of the Molten Community! ArP is a hard concept to understand, yet it is one that I personally believe is necessary to play this class effectively.

Because this guide is tailored towards new hunters, I will simplify the concept a little bit. Since we have two different damage types, that means we have a ratio of physical:magic damage. ArP will only increase our physical DPS. (Our physical DPS is about 55-60% of our DPS without ArP) so we can figure a ratio of about 60:40, or 6:4.

Since ArP benefits us more, and more as we get more of it(explained in the link above), that means we can’t get any real benefit over using Agility until we can get to about 800 passive(the ArP we have on our gear without using gems) ArP, after which point we start seeing more and more of a benefit from using ArP. So if you want to use ArP endgame, you need to focus on getting gear with ArP on it. I would recommend getting up to 950 passive ArP before you start to change over your gems because at 800 passive ArP exactly, the benefit from ArP and Agility is about the same.

CAUTION:

Since ArP only increases our physical DPS, and most of our physical DPS requires us to be standing still (Steady Shot, Auto Shot) Any amount of movement whatsoever will severely limit your DPS to about 30-40% of what it should be. You should only move when absolutely necessary.

G. Dropping Arcane Shot

Everyone seems to have an affinity for Arcane Shot. It was your buddy, and your protector while leveling. The amount of beasts, and nagas you’ve slain with it is innumerable. Sadly, and I know it sucks, everything has an end.

As you get more ArP, the damage from your Steady Shot increases, and at a point Steady Shot will begin to do more damage than Arcane Shot. Once this happens, Arcane’s viability as a damage shot goes to near 0. Zip. Gone. Once you get passed 400 passive ArP you need to stop using Arcane Shot unless you have to move, or for some reason can’t fire Steady Shot(Casting Speed Slows).

H. AddOns and Making an Effective UI

Here is the list of AddOns that I use in raids every day. Most of the them can be found on the AddOn list(http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=51521). If it’s not listed I’ve given an independent link.

Little Trouble - http://www.wowinterface.com/download%E2%80%A6uble.html#info Ignore the outdated warnings. This is the version I use. It works fine.

SimpleUnitFrames – These are the player frames I use. WoW vets may have noticed I have all kinds of things in the frame, percentages, and the like. It’s lightweight, minimalist, and functional. A+ Hunter addon.

Heatsink – I really only use this so that OmniCC can display my item’s internal CDs. It’s a pretty nifty feature I discovered when I first came here. http://www.wowinterface.com/download%E2%80%A60310&aid=46890

Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text – Excellent Addon for raiding. If you are savy with this addon already, create a new trigger called Exploit Weakness. This is the T10 2piece set bonus, and it will tell you know when it procs so you can refresh serpent sting.

Recount – Necessary if you want to track your progress.

TidyPlates – Helpful in add fights like LDW and Ony.

OmniCC – Shows the cooldown on the action bars. You can see it in my screenshot below.

Snowfall Key Express – Triggers your spells when you click the key, not when you release it. Useful with high latency.

NPCScan/NPCScan Overlay – Generally only for pet collectors. I like it because it shows me my tracking radius.

Bartender/Dominoes – An action bar addon really is essential for a hunter of any spec. Too many things to click, and not enough room. We operate best with a minimalistic UI.

Here is my AddOn and bartender set up:

I. Glyphs

Glyphs are an important part of being a hunter, as with any class. The glyphs that all MM hunters should have are Glyph of Steady Shot, Glyph of Serpent Sting, and Glyph of Kill Shot. I don’t think I really need to explain why exactly these are considered by me and the majority of the hunter community the best, but if there are a lot of questions about it later I will.

J. Stats

There is a lot to explain about stats, so I’ve put it here: http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/02/07/gems-and-stats-pve/

K. BiS Gear List

I decided to use Vocaloid's Ultimate Gear List instead. Thanks man!

http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/02/14/vocaloids-bis-hunter-gear-for-wotlk-special-edition/

L. Gems

Generally you go with one Nightmare Tear, and the rest are full Fractured Cardinal Rubies, or Delicate Cardinal Rubies depending on whether you are stacking one or the other. If you happen to go above 1400 ArP and are 10 or more ArP over the cap, simply replace an ArP gem with an agility gem. It’s better to be 10 under the cap, than 10 over.

More information on the hunter Gem choices can be found here http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/02/07/gems-and-stats-pve/

M. Professions

The best professions for an Endgame Geared MM Hunter are Jewelcrafting, and Engineering. I would recommend also using both the nitroboosts, and parachutes for raids. Both are extremely viable and can increase your DPS more than any other enchant, particularly in high movement fights, or fights with high AoE mitigation needed. Nitroboosts will mean the difference between a live hunter and a dead hunter. Obviously the parachute is a safety feature for when the boosts shoot you into the air, in addition to the +23 agi it gives ya.

For more in-depth information about my position on professions please view http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/02/02/professions-explained/

N. Macros

I have an arsenal of macros that I use in all my raids and encounters. I’ve also integrated a large amount of PvP functionality into a system that I really like. These are made personally for me, so please feel free to edit them to git you wherever you need. Also, if you adopt my system of macros as is, you must use most of the shot macros because they are designed to work together.

Rapid Fire:

#showtooltip Rapid Fire

/cast Prowl

/cast Rapid Fire

/cast !Kill Command

/cast Rabid

/cast Furious Howl

/cast Call of the Wild

/cast Serpent Sting

/petattack

This macro is a general opener macro, that uses all of your damaging CDs, and utilizes every little ability that your pet has to increase its damage. Most hunters overlook them.

Chimera Shot:

#showtooltip Chimera Shot

/cast !auto shot

/cast Chimera Shot

/cast !Kill Command

/cast !silencing shot

/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Aimed Shot:

#showtooltip Aimed Shot

/cast Aimed Shot

/cast !Auto Shot

/cast !silencing Shot

/cast !Kill Command

/petattack

/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Arcane Shot:

#showtooltip Arcane Shot

/cast !Kill Command

/cast !Silencing Shot

/cast Arcane Shot

/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Kill Shot(I added cancelaura lines in there for PvP ^^):

#showtooltip Kill Shot

/cancelaura Deterrence

/cancelaura Hand of Protection

/cast Kill Shot

/cast !Kill Command

/cast !Silencing Shot

/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Steady Shot:

#showtooltip Steady Shot

/cast !auto shot

/cast Steady Shot

/cast !Kill Command

/cast !Silencing Shot

/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Tranqulization Shambling Horror Macro(Used in the Lich king fight.):

#showtooltiip Tranquilizing Shot

/target Shambling Horror

/cast Tranquilizing Shot

Aspect Switch Macro w/ Trueshot Aura:

#showtooltip

/castsequence Aspect of the Dragonhawk, Aspect of the Viper

/cast Trueshot Aura

Misdirection:

#showtooltip Misdirection

/target focus

/cast Misdirection

/assist

Master’s Call:

#showtooltip Master’s Call

/target DonorBashed

/cast Master’s Call

/targetlasttarget

/target Donorbashed

/cast Roar of Sacrifice

/targetlasttarget

Set Tracking Type Macro:

/run for i=1,GetNumTrackingTypes() do local n, t, a, c = GetTrackingInfo(i); if string.find(n, UnitCreatureType(“target”)) then if t~=GetTrackingTexture(i) then SetTracking(i); end end end

I like to pair this with my hunter's mark macro.

O. Bugs

One of the more heated discussions on hunters are the bugs. Thankfully, most of this is PvP stuff. The only real bugs that affect the MM PvE hunter are the pet scaling, wild hunt, auto shot, and MD Bugs.

Pet Scaling: Pet scaling is the term for the transfer of stats from hunter to pet. Even though this has been bugged since Molten Day One, it’s not been fixed. The common sense of this issue is not for me to debate, but regardless it hurts us. Should pet scaling be fixed, hunters should expect about a 5-10% increase on their DPS. Pet scaling was partly fixed about 6+ months ago, but only for stamina. We still get no resilience, hit, and only a part of our attack power transferred to our pets.

Wild Hunt: Wild Hunt is the top tier pet talent of the ferocity pet tree. It should increase our pet’s attack power and stamina scaling by 15% and 20%, (1/2) and 30% and 40% (2/2) it gives us somewhere around 10% with 1/2.

Auto Shot: At times, our autoshots doesn’t stop firing once we switch targets, and though you still receive the damage, certain recount like addons don’t count the auto shots because they aren’t hitting the boss, and since auto shots make up generally 30-50% of your DPS depending on gear, this is a big hit.

P. Pets and their talents

Pets are a large and complex part of a hunter. There are large debates about which pet is the best to have as a DPS class, but the community consensus is the Ferocity Wolf (please see http://www.donorbashed.com/2013/02/01/the-ultimate-post-about-pets/.) Though you should really pick the pet that benefits your raid’s overall DPS over your own personal.

Here is the optimal Ferocity pet talent build:

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=199061

PVE Mage Guide 3.3.5

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:31:00 +0000

PVE Mage Guide 3.3.5

Well seeing that there had been a large number of threads opened about which spec to use, what gems, enchants and rotations i decided to make this guide to help new mages to better understand mage in PvE. This guide will include Specs/Gear/Rotation/Enchants/Glyphs and other important stuff that there is to know about mages in pve. Lets begin

1. Specs

There are three specs viable in patch 3.3.5, 2 fire specs and 1 arcane.

- Arcane - The reason i didnt pick Arcane Barrage is because it is a huge dps loss if you use it even when moving (You can blink first and then cast your arcane missiles). Can move 2 Ice Shards points to Frost Warding, and trade points between Arcane Stability and Arcane Focus depending on how much hit vs pushback prevention you need. This is a good raid compromise with 3/5 Arcane Stability giving 100% pushback prevention with Imp. Concentration Aura.
This spec is good for short fight and fight where there isnt much movement involved.

Stat priority for Arcane mages goes like this: SP>Haste>Intelect>Crit>Spirit

Rotation for this spec is: Arcane Blast x4 >>Arcane Missiles on Misslie Barrage proc, if you go low on mana lower the stacks of Arcane Blast to suit your needs.

Glyphs for this spec are: Glyph of Arcane Misslies, Glyph of Arcane Blast and Glyph of Molten Armor

Cooldowns: The best time to use Icy Veins is with Trinket proc or trinket on use and together with Mirror Images (if you have 4p t10)

- Fireball/TTW - Considered as the top raiding spec for 3.3.5. I noticed that TTW got fixed so this spec is on par if not better than FFB spec (still needs some testing to be done). Main nuke is Fireball.

Stat priority for Fireball/TTW spec is: Crit>SP>Haste>Spirit>Intelect
- Get around 50-60% crit self buffed then switch to haste and SP. Fireball spec requires more haste than FFB to actualy be effective (800-900 should be sufficient, if you can get more but dont sacrifice too much crit) so keep that in mind.

Rotation for Fire spec is: Scorch every 30 seconds to keep the 5% crit debuff up>>Spam Fireball untill hotstreak procs>>Pyroblast

Glyphs used for this spec are: Glyph of Fireball, Glyph of Living Bomb and Glyph of Molten Armor

Cooldowns: Fire mages dont have any cooldowns exept Combustion. This should be used whenever its off cooldown. Delay the usage of Combustion if the boss is near ~35% and use it when he drops below 35% for better crits and together with 4p t10 bonus. The 4p t10 bonus must ALWAYS be used when the boss is below 35% or with bloodlust up.

- FFB (Frostfire) - This spec is on par with the Fireball/TTW spec above. I made some changes when LB was not triggering Hot Streak and picked Cold Snap. Now when this is fixed i think the dps loss is not noticeable and u can use LB instead.
Only difference between fireball spec and this one is that in this spec your main nuke will be Frostfire Bolt instead of Fireball.

Stat priority is the same as Fireball spec above.
- Very crit dependat spec. You need crit as much as possible. Never gem for Haste...All the haste you need comes from gear.

Rotation for this spec is: Scorch every 30 secs>>Spam FFB untill hotstreak procs>Pyroblast

Glyphs for this spec are: Glyph of Frostfire, Glyph of Molten Armor and Glyph of Scorch/Living Bomb

Cooldowns: Icy Veins and Combustion and maybe Cold snap. Use Icy Veins whenever its Off cooldown, same with Combustion. Use Cold snap to refresh Icy Veins when the boss is ~35% together 4p t10 bonus to sky rocket your dps.

2. Gear

Gearing your mage mostly depends on your spec. If you are fire mage you get gear with more crit on it and if you are arcane you get gear with more haste. Below i will post a list of the BiS items for Fire/TTW, FFB and Arcane mage. Bear in mind that the gear for a specific slot can change depending on stats.

3. Enchants

Head: Arcanum of Burning Mysteries (Kirin Tor)

Shoulders: Greater Inscription of the Storm (Sons of Hodir exalted) or Master's Inscription of the Storm (only for Scribes)

Cloak: Lightweave Embrodiery (only for tailors) or Greated Speed

Chest: Powerfull Stats

Bracers: Superior Spellpower or Fur Lining - Spellpower (only for leatherworkers)

Hands: Exeptional Spellpower or Hyper speed accelerators (only for engineers)

Belt: Socket Bonus

Leggings: Brilliant Spellthread

Boots: Ice Walker

Ring 1/2: Spellpower (only for enchanters)

Main Hand: 63 spellpower or Black Magic

4. Gems

When it comes to gems you gem your mage according to your spec.

For arcane mage:

Red slots = Runed Cardinal Ruby or Runed Dragon's Eye if you are JC

Yellow slots = Quick King's Amber or Dragon's Eye if you are JC

Blue slots = Purified Dreadstone

For Fire mage:

Red slots = Runed Cardinal Ruby or Potent Ametrine

Yellow slots = Reckless or Potent Ametrine or Smooth King's Amber

Blue slots = Purified Dreadstone

Meta gem = Chaotic Skyflare Diamond ( For both specs ) OR Destructive Skyflare Diamond

5. Stats

45.91 Crit Rating = 1% Crit Chance - Critical is the most valuable stat for Fire/TTW and FFB mages. The more critical you have the more dps you will do, simple as that. But when you get around 48-50% critical, crit begins to lose its value and haste is preffered.

32.79 Haste Rating = 1% Spell Haste - Most important stat for Arcane mages. As arcane mage you need as much haste as possible.

166.6667 Intellect = 1% Crit Chance - Good stat to focus on as arcane mage since it gives you more mana and crit aswell.

26.232 Hit Rating = 1% Hit Chance - I think geting hit caped goes without saying and it should be priority number one for any mage. The hard cap is 17%. The soft cap varies and depends on your spec and race.

Draenei racial gives 1% Hit rating so you will need 16%.

If you have boomkin or spriest in raid they provide 3% hit rating so that will make 14% (13% if draenei)

As fire mage you will need 11% (10% as draenei) hit and as arcane you will need 8% (7% as draenei) because of precision and arcane focus.

Races and their usefull (for mages) racials

Horde side

Undead - Trinket like racial, good for pvp

Troll - 20% haste for 10 secs every 3 mins, best mage race imo

Blood Elf - Has silence and can restore mana, good for pvp and arcane mage too

Alliance side

Human - More spirit = more crit and trinket like racial, good for pve and pvp too

Gnome - More intelect = more mana/crit and racial that removes snares (doesnt share CD with pvp trinket), best class for mages on ally side imo

Draenei - 1% Hit rating, good if you want to lower the hit cap but i wouldnt roll draenei mage because 99% of the time you will have atleast 1 draenei in your raid.

Constructive Criticsm is always welcome.

Thank you for reading this i hope it helps you

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=68496

PVP Frost Death Knight Cataclysm Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:43:00 +0000

PVP Frost Death Knight Cataclysm Guide

By Turbolqk

Welcome to my guide. I will help all of you newbs or pros with some tips on everything a Frost death knight should know. Let us go now.

Some useful tips:

● Running with two weapons, one enchanted with Rune of the Fallen Crusader and and the other with Rune of Swordshattering, is always good. Switch weapons when you think you will get disarmed.

● Using Death Grip on a mage and casting Dark Simulacrum after that would probably get you a Blink. I rather wait them Blink and then Death Grip. Pro mages can waste your Dark Simulacrum.

● If you steal Deep Freeze from a mage, Chains of Ice/Hungering Cold him and enjoy the stun.

● Always watch you runic power and be sure to spend it if It's about to reach 130 runic power. And for newbs, Death Coil if you are getting kited.

● Necrotic Strike's casting increase debuff also causes warlock's DoTs to tick slower. QQ.

● Using Pillar of Frost when Lichborne + Death Coil healing will result in bigger heals due to the huge attack power increase. Almost as Unholy!

● Anti-Magic Shell can be used both to prevent a burst and to prevent ccs (Polymorph) when bursting someone. Hex and Cyclone are bugged and go through the spell. Watch out!

● Using Death & Decay wont break Hungering Cold.

● Priests hate when you Chains of Ice their Shadow Fiend.

● Howling Blast is a great CC breaker. Be careful not to screw up a cc chain.

● Death Pact works on Army of the Dead ghouls too. Too bad Army does not work in arena.

● Using Death Coil on a kiting foe will probably get you some runes refreshed for some more Howling Blast ownage.

● Just to note, Howling Blast generates additional runic power when striking more then one targets.

● Always keep Plague Strike bound. You can't rely on Outbreak if you need both diseases for Obliterate. Also, Cloack of Shadows + Plague Strike = CoS fail.

● Since Blood Presence makes you heal less due to Dark Succor working only in Unholy or Frost presence you will stay in Unholy. There is a good use for Blood presence thought: when waiting for this annoying stealth class to open on you. Switch back to Unholy ASAP! Forget about Frost presence.

Jigslol says some pro stuff:

I go blood sometimes, but it's only if I see trouble coming well ahead of time. Going blood when you are almost dead is too little too late. If we are playing something like rogue/feral and they are sitting on me all game. Once I cycle through some defensive CD's and know my healer is vulnerable i will go into blood presence and deathstrike for a bit while my CD's get a bit to catch up.Most of the time blood presence is pretty worthless.

● Lichborne can be used for many things other than just breaking fear. It also prevents:
- Seduce (Will also break this effect on use)
- Sap
- Polymorph
- Hex
- Any form of fear (Will also break this effect on use)
- Mind Control (Will also break this effect on use)
Note: Using Lichborne while bursting someone would probably save you from getting Poly/Hex/Feared or whatever. Also, using it while you are in a crowd effect might spare you a cc. Warstormp -> Hex etc.

● Death and Decay is a great ability to get drinking casters/healers in combat and so is Dark Command.

● Death Grip is also a great interrupt.

● Poisons and Nature's Grasp can't be applied through Anti-Magic Shell.

● Mind Freeze will remove Spell Reflection.

● Dark Command can proc Unholy Strength.

● Using Death Grip on a bladestorming warrior can still pull him next to you. That can help your partner survive.

● Glyph of Chains of Ice's damage portion works through hunter's Deterence.

● Very pro info:
-1 rune ability = 10 runic power;
-2 runes ability = 20 runic power;
-3 runes ability = 30 runic power;

● When kited by a pet class, use his pet to Death Strike on It if you need healing. The enemy will probably remove the pet from you after that. You can still Dark Command It and make it attack you again. Taunting pets on you might also break a cc.

● Macro Dark Command to most of your abilities to prevent casters from getting out of combat without actually pressing it. It's off GCD I beleve.

● If a dk have lots of Necrotic Strikes stacked simply immobilize the him with CoI and run away. The stacks will wear off. QQ.

● Use Outbreak before Obliterate for the bonus damage.

Runeblade

So, let's check out the weapon we can wear. Both two-hand and dual wield are pretty awsome imo, but which one is better theoretically?

● Dual wield does more melee damage. Not really like twice more but still a noticable amount.

● Dual wield has two runeforges. 10% more frost damage if you go with Razorice (like 5 points in mastery, tho it doesn't add up to the mastery itself. It increases the damage already increased by mastery).

● Dual wield goes mastery. Two-hand goes haste. It has been confirmed by gladiators and arena-junkies from posts by the time of patch 4.0.6. Both are very very close in this patch, so close that theyre almost personal choices. The reason two-hand goes haste is Might of the Frozen Wastes. Also, you will be Obliterating cloth/leather targets and mastery wont help in any way.

● Dual wield and two-hand have almost the same Killing Machine proc rate. Their weapon speed is close due to two-hand going for haste (faster hits) and dual wield for mastery (a little slower hits).

● Dual wield gets more mastery thanks to Nerves of Cold Steel. 3% hit allowes you to reforge quite the stats. The weapons themselves combined give less stats than a two-hander though.

● Two-hand gets more runic power. 50% chance pet hit but a fact. More Frost Strikes from time to time.

● Two-hand bursts a little more since the damage is one big hit instead of two small melee damages. Dual wield does more sustained.

● We can safely say that the bonus dual wield damage = the 12% strike damage from Might of the Frozen Wastes.

● Necrotic Strike as a two-hand hits twice the damage dual wield does. Reason is It's not in Treat of Thassarian.

● Dual wield is forced to drop some points for Nerves of Cold Steel. That means you ether lose Obliterate, Runic Power Mastery, Blade Barrier or anything else useful.

It's basically:
● The same KM procs;
● Around same damage;
● More runic power, harder Necrotic Strike and a little more burst as two-hand;
● More mastery, another runeforge and a little higher sustained damage as dual wield;

Runeforging
What kind of runeforges should you emblazon you blade with?

Two-hand
Rune of the Fallen Crusader. Always.

Dual wield
The offhand (or main hand, idk if it matters) should be Rune of the Fallen Crusader. As for the main hand:
● Rune of Razorice - Increases Frost damage by 10% and deals 2% weapon damage as Frost damage. Id choose that.
● Rune of Swordbreaking - Reduces disarms by 60% at all times and increases parry rating by 2%. Id keep another one-handed blade emblazoned with this runeforge for the disarms.

Talents

The talents. Ofcourse, you go deep in the Frost tree. Then you can choose between Blood and Frost subtrees. Lets check out the bonuses of speccing into Frost and It's talents.:

2H Desecration

More peels and control.

2H Hand of Doom

More CC due to the 1 min Strangulate.

DW Desecration w/o RPM

Leaves RPM because of the less runic power generated via dual wield.

DW with RPM w/o Annihilation

Drop Oblit from your bars.
Scent of Blood - Very good talent, especially for dual wield. Runic power will definetly increase.
Epidemic - Dropping Virulence for Epidemic is not a bad idea tbh. Our damage does not come from diseases like unholy, so we can increase our disease duration for more Obliterates rather then reapplying Blood Plague.

Glyphs
Go with these:

Prime Glyphs

● Glyph of Frost Strike - Reduces the cost of your Frost Strike by 8 Runic Power.
● Glyph of Howling Blast - Your Howling Blast ability now infects targets with Frost Fever.
● Glyph of Obliterate - Increases the damage of you Obliterate ability by 20%. Use only if specced into Annihilation.
● Glyph of Death Coil - Increases the damage and healing of your Death Coil by 15%. You could use this instead of Obliterate if you have no Annihilation.
● Glyph of Icy Touch - You Frost Fever disease deals 20% increased damage. Thats the other choice for Annihilationless spec.

Major Glyphs

● Glyph of Anti-Magic Shell - Increases the duration of your Anti-Magic Shell by 2 sec.
● Glyph of Hungering Cold - Your Hungering Cold ability no longer costs runic power.
● Glyph of Dark Succor - Your Death Strike now restores at least 15% while in Unholy or Frost Presence.

Minor Glyphs

● Glyph of Horn of Winter - Your Horn of Winter lasts 1 min longer.
● Glyph of Resilient Grip - When your Death Grip Ability fails because Its target is immune, Its cooldown is reset. (Broken)
● Glyph of Deaths Embrace - Your Death Coil refunds 20 Runic Power when used to heal
● Glyph of Blood Tap - Your Blood Tap no longer deals you damage. Use in place of Resilent Grip until It's fixed.

Stat Priority, Reforging, Gemming, Enchanting and Professions
How to set your gear.

Stat priority
2H
Code:

5% Hit rating -> 195 Spell Penetration -> Resilience/Strength -> Haste -> Mastery -> Crit -> Expertise

DW
Code:

2% Hit rating -> 195 Spell Penetration -> Resilience/Strength -> Mastery -> Haste -> Crit -> Expertise

● Hit rating - Hit rating prevents you from missing and you don't want to miss. Always reforge to hit rating, never gem for it.
● Spell penetration - The "resist" part is broken in Molten, but cap it for your Frost Strike and Howling Blast will do low damage.
● Resilience/Strength - I don't think I need to explain here. Be sure to have at least 3800 resi in full Vicious gear.
● Haste - Reduces your rune cooldown, increases your melee speed and your Killing Machine procs. Very close to Mastery for 2H, with It being better only because of Might of the Frozen Wastes.
● Mastery- Increases your Frost damage. Howling and Frost strike will pawn hard.
● Crit - We already have Killing Machine. I don't think It's that useful.

Reforging
If using a 2H you can reforge all mastery, critical strike and expertise to haste, or all haste, critical strike and expertise to mastery. TBH I tried both, both work and the difference is very small. Mastery gives you bigger crits/damage, haste gives you more melees/rp.
Dual wield reforges all haste, critical strike and expertise to mastery. The reason is that you don't have Might of the Frozen Wastes, which makes haste good for 2H anyway.

Gems
We have three types of gemming: offensively, balanced and defensively.

● Meta:
+54 Strength & 3% Increased Critical Damage;
+54 Critical Strike Rating and 1% Spell Reflect;
● Prismatic:
+40 Resilience - If you have less then 3800 resilience;
+40 Strength - If you need more strength;
● Balanced:
Red: 40 Strength (67 for Jewelcrafters);
Yellow: 40 Resilience;
Blue: 50 Spell penetration (84 for Jewelcrafters);

● Defensively
Red: 20 Strength and 20 Resilience;
Yellow: 40 Resilience (67 for Jewelcrafters);
Blue: 50 Spell penetration (84 for Jewelcrafters);

● Offensively
Red: 40 Strength (67 for Jewelcrafters);
Yellow: 20 Strength and 20 Resilience;
Blue: 50 Spell penetration (86 for Jewelcrafters);

Tip:Reaching the spell penetration cap can be achieved by 2x50 Spell Penetration gems, 20 Resilience & 20 Spell Penetration gem and Spell Piercing cloak enchant.
Tip 2:20 Strength and 20 Resilience gems don't have their recipes in the JC vendors atm. QQ.

Enchants
● Head: +60 Strength & +35 Resi
● Shoulders: +50 Strength & +25 Resi
● Cloak: +70 Spell Pen
● Chest: +40 Resil
● Bracers: +65 Haste/Major Strength
● Gloves: +50 Strength
● Belt: Eternium Belt Buckle (40 Strength in the bonus gem)
● Legs: Dragonscale Leg Armor
● Boots: +50 Hit

Professions
Jewelcrafting is quite good for death knights. All professions give good bonuses, simply choose one. The most common pair of professions is Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing.

Rotation, Priority
Frost has a very basic priority, rotation or whatever. The things you want to do are:

● Create Death runes - 2xBlood Strike is enough;
● Use Unholy runes - Necrotic Strike/Plague Strike or maybe a Death & Decay. Plague Strike should only be used on a CoS rogue or when you want to Obliterate;
● Use the Frost Runes - Howling Blast/Icy Touch/Pillar of Frost/whatever. Icy Touch can be used when you don't want to break a CC. Pillar of Frost is your "pawnage" cd;
● Use the Death Runes - They are a bit situational. Can be used for Necrotic Striking or Howling Blasting. That depends if your target is standing next to a healer/can heal himself or not. Id use Howling Blast if the target is warrior without Enraged Regeneration, a Mage, Feral in cat form without Barkskin.

When do I Obliterate?
It depends. Do you have Annihilation + Oblit glyph? If you do the strike can be used as a good finisher. To properly use Obliterate the target should have:
● 35% or less health;
● You have Killing Machine proc;
● The target isn't wearing plate;

Pillar of Frost:
It is good to cast PoF on a Frost rune. Death rune can be used for a Necrotic Strike. PoF has two types of uses:
Code:

Offensive - Use it to burst someonel. Higher Necrotic Strike absorbs and stronger Howling Blasts;
Defensive - Use it to increase the healing of Death Coil + Lichborne;

Macros
Using macros is a must. Focus macros are one of the most important ones. They allow a player to do things to two different players without changing targets. You must have such macros for Chains of Ice, Mind Freeze, Strangilate and Death Grip. Dark Simulacrum and Outbreak can be macroed too. This macro below is example of a focus macro.
Code:

#show Chains of Ice
/cast [target=focus] Chains of Ice

Lichborne selfheal macro:
Code:

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast !lichborne
/cast [@player] Death Coil

A macro to cancel Lichborne when you see a priest or a paladin casting anti-undead spell:
Code:

/cancelaura Lichborne

A macro to remove immunities stolen by Dark Simulacrum:
Code:

/cancelaura Divine Shield
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cancelaura Hand of Protection

A good thing is macroing focus cast Dark Command to your main strikes. It prevents your focus targets from leaving combat. It's good to write /startattack in any ability for easy switches. Here is one such macro:
Code:

#showtooltip obliterate
/startattack
/cast obliterate
/cast [@focus] dark command

A macro activating your vicious/bloodthursty trinket and your Pillar of Frost. 13 is the upper trinket slot, 14 is the second lower one. The macro:
Code:

#showtooltip Pillar of Frost
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast 13

Focus Chains of Ice + Death Grip by Skarthis
Code:

#showtooltip Death Grip
/castsequence [target=focus] reset=25 Death Grip, Chains of Ice

Here is one mouseover macro posted by RicardoMP:
Code:

/cast [@museover, harm, nodead] [@focus, harm , nodead] [@target, harm, nodead] Death Grip

Here is a simple version of it:
Code:

/cast [@museover, harm, nodead] Death Grip

It basicly Death Grips the target you are pointing with your mouse. Ricardos macro is a bit different.
Prime objective is your mouseover, but if dead or friendly, it cast it in your focus, it the focus isn´t a valid target, it cast it in your target.
I havent really tried such macros except mouseover pet attack when I was Unholy. Use them if you wish, change Death Grip to any other ability.

Dark Simulacrum
A very rolfpawnage spell. Both fun and useful. Dark Simulacrum stals all kind of spells except physical abilities (Crusader Strike). Pet abilities can be copied, but pet summons can't. The copied spells are always casted instantly and have cooldown. The most useful spells to copy are:

● Mage - Polymorph, Blink, Ice Block;
● Warlock - Fear, Death Coil, Howl of Terror;
● Shaman - Hex;
● Druid - Cyclone, Root;
● Priest - Fear, Psychic Horror;
● Paladin - Hammer of Justice, Avenging Wrath, Divine Shield, Hand of Freedom, Divine Protection;

You want to steal mainly cc abilities. Stealing some heals isn't bad if you or your partner really need them.

Addons
Addons improve your gameplay. Most of them are a preferrence. Gladius is a must imo.

● Gladius
What is Gladius? - Gladius adds enemy unit frames to arenas for easier targeting and focusing. It is highly configurable and you can disable most features of this addon.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gladius

● OmniCC
What is OmniCC? - OmniCC is an addon that adds text to items, spell and abilities that are on cooldown to indicate when they will be ready to use. In other words: it turns all the standard analogue cooldowns into digital ones.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/omni-cc

● Necrotic Track
What is Necrotic Track? - NecroticTrack tracks Necrotic Strike absorption amount and time on various units. This is not only useful for Death Knights since the Target module works for friendly units as well and the Player module tracks the amount on yourself.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/necrotictrack

● Engraved
What is Engraved? - Engraved is a compact rune display for Death Knights. Runes icons glow when they are ready to be used and partially glow when they are almost ready (less than one global cooldown away, for example). Rune display can be prioritized so that, for runes of the same type, the one with the shortest remaining cooldown is always shown in the same on-screen position. Runes are individually moveable and sizeable.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/engraved

● Dominos
What is Dominos? - Dominos is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/dominos

● Bartender4
What is Bartender4? - Bartender4 is an addon simular to Dominos. It customizes your action bar.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/bartender4

● Power Auras Classic
What is Power Auras Classic? - Power Auras Classic is an addon created to provide visual cues (auras) when you gain buffs, debuffs and many more. Very useful for shorts buffs or debuffs, it allows you to draw in the center of the screen, or around your character, very customizable visual effects, rather than having to look at or mouseover buff/debuff icons/actionbars.
URL: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/powerauras-classic

● Snowfall Keypress
What is Snowfall Keypress? - Snowfall Keypress is an addon that makes your abilities activate when you press the button instead of when you release it. The time difference is very very small, but any bonus time you can get is good. Use it! Btw, the 3.3.5 version works perfectly on Cataclysm.
URL: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...lKeyPress.html

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=167069%22

Mining Guide 1-450

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:32:00 +0000

Mining Guide 1 - 450

When we start out in this guide there's obviously going to be a difference in the beginning for Alliance and Horde for this guide because each faction starts in different areas until after a certain level when they freely roam through the same zones. I could tell you the best routes to choose but for this guide I think it better I show you some pics of the routes people made in pictures. Also don't forget to go back to your trainer as often as you can so you can keep advancing farther in [Mining].I strongly recommend that you [Smelt] through this step, even if you don't have the gold to buy the ore this guide makes it easy for you to get it. Cause who really want to go out and hunt for all those Veins I know I don't but if you have to here is the guide for you to use.

Note: This guide can be used though all the realms of Molten-WoW. It is just some realms my level your skill in [Mining] up fast those realms are Frostwolf/Deathwing/Neltharion/Sargeras/Ragnaros. So please follow this guide and you should have no issues.

Ore Skill Requirements

To help players out if they are new to [Mining] it is a list of all the ores and what level you can mine them on. Every ore in this part is used in this guide.

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Ore Required Level
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Copper Vein-1
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Tin Vein-65
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Bronze-65
Smelted, not mined
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Silver Vein-75
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Iron Deposit-125
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Gold Vein-155
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Steel-165
Smelted, not mined
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Mithril Deposit-175
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Truesilver Deposit-205
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Dark Iron Deposit-230
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Small Thorium Vein-230
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Rich Thorium Vein-255
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Fel Iron Deposit-275
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Adamantite Deposit-325
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Rich Adamantite Deposit-350
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Cobalt Deposit-350
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Khorium Vein-375
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Rich Cobalt Deposit-375
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Saronite Deposit-400
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Rich Saronite Deposit-425
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Titanium Vein-450
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Mining 1 to 65 - [Copper Veins]

First off go to any major city and train form any [Mining] trainer you find and learn the [Apprentice Mining] skill. This should cost you only 10 Copper.

Horde Part:

Undead - Tirisfal Glades: The Undead [Mining] route is fairly simple. You can just go and pick up a starting point any were on the route and then just follow the path around the map. If you are a low level you my want to watch out for areas in the map that are to high for you to go to yet. If that is the case then just skip that part of the map and pick up on the path in lower level areas. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route. Some in more spots in others.

Tauren - Mulgore: Mulgore is just one big oval so the [Mining] route for in here is fairly simple. On this map mob levels and aggro is not very impotent here since you will just be sticking to the outer edges of the map. You may want to skip the leveling in Venture Co. Mine if you are to low of a level and can't handle the mobs. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route..

Orc & Troll - Durotar: This [Mining] route is shorter then the route above but it dose the same good job for leveling. Durotar is full of mountains and if you wanted to you could probably spend some time developing your own [Mining] route if this one dose not work for you. As you will notice though the [Mining] routes in this guide are nice and simple to follow. If you don't follow this picture you will have to go running around all the map to find your way around. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route.

Blood Elves - Eversong Woods: This route is by far the easiest of all the [Mining] routes above. Just follow the outer circle on the map to get the most veins out of here. The Dead Scar however is loaded with veins so if you want to this pictures shows another path to take to get the most form the Dead Scar. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route.

Alliance Part:

Human - Elwynn Forest: This is another fairly simple [Mining] route. All you need to do is follow this route and go in both caves to get the most out of the route. Don't forget to not go past the river on the south side or you will go into a new zone. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route.

Night Elves - Darkshore: Darnassus doesn't have allot of veins in it so you will have to come to Darkshore to get the most out of it if your Night Elves. Now Darkshore is pretty huge so in this map it will show you two really good [Mining] routes you can take so you don't have to go though the whole map. Remember to go in the caves the most veins in there. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route.

Draenei - Azuremyst isle: There are two caves in this [Mining] route that you want to hit up. If you are low enough level to get experience form the cave to the north. Cause then you can kill mobs while you get ore so you can Grind/Mine at the same time. If nto then just follow the entire route around the map. There's kind of a dead spot transition while going to the next good area when you go passed the lakes but it's that or loop back the way you came, either is fine. You will find [Copper Ore] all along this route.

Note: At 50 you will want to go back to any Major City and learn [Journeyman Mining] if you haven't done so already.

Mining 66-125 - [Tin Veins] and [Silver Veins]:

Horde and Alliance:

The Barrens: Once again if you decided to not smelt through these beginning levels of the mining guide you can do these mining routes as horde or alliance. For this [Mining] route I want you to follow the path around the map. If you need to run to the southern ends of the barrens be prepared to have to attack level 25 easy. If you cant then just follow the path without going that far down. On this Path you will find allot of [Tin Ore] and some [Silver Ore].

Wetlands:The Wetlands [Mining] route is mainly focused in the two caves in wetlands. It is were you will find the most veins. Other then the caves follow the path around the map to find more veins. On this Path you will find allot of [Tin Ore] and some [Silver Ore].

Note: In addition to these mining routes above you could also perform full circuits of Wetlands, Ashenvale, and Redridge mountains for this part of the mining guide.

Mining 126-175 - [Iron Deposit] and [Gold Vein]:

Horde and Alliance:

Arathi Highlands: There are allot of caves you will want to go and explore on this map. If you are the right level to go in them. In this [Mining] route you can see it is fairly simple to follow that path lead out. If you are horde you can follow the path around Hammerfall if you wish. You will find [Iron Ore] and some [Gold Ore] on this path.

Thousand Needles: There are only two caves on this [Mining] route that you can go explore in. Alos as you can tell the path is kinda of large but just follow this path and you should have np on this [Mining] route. You will find [Iron Ore] and some [Gold Ore] on this path.

Stranglethorn Vale: On this [Mining] route there are three caves that you can go in to get the veins. This is a really fun [Mining] route though cause the mobs levels are so high you can pretty much go around and Grind/Mine at the same time unless you don't wish to do that then you my not want to go on this route. You will find [Iron Ore] and some [Gold Ore] on this path.

Note: When you hit 150 go back to any major city to learn [Expert Mining] if you haven't done that already.

Mining 176-230 - [Mithril Deposit] and [Truesilver Deposit]:

Horde and Alliance:

The Hinterlands: On this [Mining] route there is only one cave and the route seems kinda of small. I have heard this is a really good route though. You will find [Mithril Ore] and [Truesilver Ore] all along this route.

Badlands: On this [Mining] route you will want to spend most of your time in the eastern loop or in the cave in the south. It's not bad to alternate between the two spots but the eastern loop and southwestern cave are where you will level mining the fastest. You will find [Mithril Ore] and [Truesilver Ore] all along this route.

Tanaris: This [Mining] route is were your going to want to spend most your time though these levels. Now you should go explore the two caves in this [Mining] route they provide very good leveling. Yes this is a very big route but it is worth it for those levels you need.

Note: At level 200 go back to any major city and learn [Mining Artisan].

Mining 231-275 - [Thorium Veins]

Horde and Alliance:

UnGoro Crater: This [Mining] route is one of the most competitive in the game. It has one cave to it and I would suggest going down the Slithering Scar for some extra leveling. You will find [Thorium Ore] all along this [Mining] route.

Winterspring: This is one of the best zones for [Thorium Veins]. The caves to the north on the map go into a very large tunnel system and allot of [Thorium Veins] spawn there. The bottom of the map mark in green is full of level 60s Elite Mobs nothing but them there. There is a good amount of [Thorium Veins] down there but you must be high enough level to get to them. You will find [Thorium Ore] all along this [Mining] route.

Silithus: This is another very good location to mine [Thorium Ore]. On this [Mining] The areas you see mark in orange are hive areas. Hive areas are a complex system of tunnels going into the earth there is allot of [Thorium Veins] down in these. If you do not wish to go into the tunnels then you can still find a good amount of [Thorium Veins] along this route. You will find [Thorium Ore] all along this mining route.

Note: At 275 you want to go back to any major city and learn [Mining Master]

Mining 276-325 - [Fel Iron Deposit]

Horde and Alliance:

Hellfire Peninsula: This is the easiest [Mining] route to find [Fel Iron Deposit] on this map. You can just loop around the orcs near the citadel but if you do follow the whole route. It will be beneficial to your leveling. Look out for the Elite area in the northwest areas of the map. Remember Fel Iron can be skilled up all the way to 375+ if you wish and you can skip the other sections of this leveling guide. You will find [Fel Iron Ore all along this route.

Mining 326-350 - [Adamantite Deposit]

Horde and Alliance:

Nagrand: Form 326-350 continue [Mining] [Fel Iron Deposit] when it is possible but begin to look for [Adamantite Deposit] on this map. You can almost find [Adamantite Deposit] anywere on this route so look carefully and level fast. You will find [Adamantite Ore] on this route.

Mining 351-450 [Cobalt Deposit] / [Rich Cobalt Deposit]

Howling Fjord: You must be at least 350 to start [Mining] [Cobalt Ore]. The [Rich Cobalt Deposit] you must be 375 to mine form. You can mine [Rich Cobalt Deposit] all the way to 450 if you wish but there will be more zones posted. Just follow the route and go into the two caves on the map to look for the veins you need. You will find [Cobalt Ore] all along this route.

Alternative Smelting Guide 1-450

For leveling most of 1-375 in this guide you can Smelt your way to the top instead of actually having to go out and mine the ore yourself. If you wish to choose this method I have a little Alternative Smelting Guide for you to look at and smelt your way to the top. It will level you up allot faster.

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Level SmeltOrange/Yellow/Green/Grey

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1-70/Copper Bar x1,25,47,70

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65-75/Tin Bar x,65,70,75

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65-115/Bronze Bar x,65,90,115

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75-130/Silver Bar x75,115,122,130

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125-160/Iron Bar x125,130,145,160

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155-185/Gold Bar x155,170,177,185

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175-230/Mithril Bar x175,202,230

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230-290/Truesilver Bar x230,250,270,290

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230-290/Thorium Bar x230,250,270,290

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275-325/Fel Iron Bar x,275,300,325

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325-340/Adamantite Bar x,325,332,340

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350-375/Cobalt Bar x,350,362,375

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Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=103471

1-525 Minning Guide Cataclysm

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:50:00 +0000

1-525 Minning Guide Cataclysm

Mining is used to collect the ores you’ll need for Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, and Engineering…this means that the Auction House is usually LOADED with ALL the Mining supplies you’d ever need for leveling.

So instead of wasting the time running around leveling your Mining you may want to just BUY everything. If you don’t think you can afford it then you should read this guide now before you start.

This Mining Leveling Guide is updated for patch 4.3 and Cataclysm.

This guide will help you level Mining from 1 to 525 by both gathering ore and smelting it. You’ll be able to save time and gold reaching 525 as fast as possible. This guide also includes some of the best farming routes available for Mining.

* What’s in this Guide:

Horde 1-65

Alliance 1-65

66-125

126-175

176-230

231-275

276-325

326-350

351-375

376-400

401-450

450-475

475-525

Smelting 1-525

It is highly advised that if you get stuck on a Mining route in this guide, have problems finding nodes due to over crowding of zones, or want to be lazy, you should smelt as much as you can for parts of this Mining leveling guide.

* Ore Skill Requirements

Here is a list of what skill levels you will need to mine each type of ore found in this guide.

OreRequired Level

Copper Vein1

Tin Vein50

Bronze50Smelted, not mined

Silver Vein75

Iron Deposit125

Gold Vein155

Steel125Smelted, not mined

Mithril Deposit175

Truesilver Deposit205

Dark Iron Deposit230

Small Thorium Vein230

Rich Thorium Vein255

Fel Iron Deposit275

Adamantite Deposit325

Felsteel350Smelted, not mined

Rich Adamantite Deposit350

Cobalt Deposit350

Khorium Vein375

Rich Cobalt Deposit375

Saronite Deposit400

Rich Saronite Deposit425

Obsidium Deposit425

Pure Saronite Deposit450

Rich Obsidium Deposit450

Titanium Vein450

Elementium Vein475

Rich Elementium Vein500

Pyrite Deposit525

Rich Pyrite Deposit525

Don’t forget to go back to the mining trainer at the appropriate times so that you can advance your mining skill to each new maximum.

I strongly recommend that you smelt as much as you can for this guide, especially through the lower levels, if you don’t have the gold to buy the ore required to do this take a look at this Gold Making Guide.

The lower level ores you’ll be mining in the first several sections don’t have the best resale value and you can save a lot of time by simply buying them on the Auction House instead so skip to the smelting section if possible.

* Mining 1 to 65 – Copper

- Horde

Undead – Tirisfal Glades – The undead path for this mining leveling guide is fairly simple. You can pick a starting point anywhere on the line and just run the path mining along the way. If you are low level you may want to take into consideration areas on the map that might be too high for you to cross, if that is the case then just skip them and meet up with the path further down while leveling your mining.

Tauren – Mulgore – Mulgore is just a big oval so this mining route is really simple to run while leveling. Mob levels and aggro are not that important of a factor since you’ll be sticking to the outer edges of the map you should be fine following this part guide. You may want to skip leveling mining in the Venture Co Mine if you are too low of a level.

Orc & Troll – Durotar - Durotar is full of mountains and you could probably develop your own mining route if this one doesn’t work for you. I will let you know upfront that Durotar is a deformed piece of land and you would have to run all over the place to utilize a full mining circuit of it which can be tedious while leveling.

Blood Elves – Eversong Woods – This route is the simplest route to follow. There are other mines near West Sanctum and West of Sunsail Anchorage but if you’re looking for simplicity this is the route to take. The Deadscar is loaded with mines so if you get bored of going in circles I’ve added a point you can break off at halfway through.

Goblins – Azshara – Goblins have several options of where to go to mine, Azshara is one of them and can be done for some of the other Horde races as well by choice. The route stays up on the plateau and does a full loop around it. The red circle on the map is where you can make out like a bandit on copper ore as there are at least 7 nodes in that area that will spawn.

- Alliance

Human – Elwynn Forest – This mining path is for this part of the guide is kind of obvious since Elwynn forest isn’t surrounded by mountains on all 4 sides. There are two caves to go into and if you run the alternate dotted line from time to time there are more nodes down the river near the Tower of Azora.

Night Elves & Worgen – Darkshore – Darnassus isn’t great for mining so you have to come to Darkshore to level it up. Darkshore is a huge zone, there are nodes scattered all off to each side of this route. The southern half is higher level range so do half circles of the route if that is an issue.

Dwarves & Gnomes – Dun Morogh – This is a route I’ve used many times for leveling up my mining. You can literally make your own mining leveling route in this zone because it is so mountainous. Just stick to the mountain edges, caves, and rises in land and you’ll be set to mine in this zone as shown in the zone mining map guide below.

Draenei – Azuremyst Isle – There are two caves on this route that you’ll want to hit up. If you are low enough level to get experience in the cave to the north you could basically just sit in there and grind / mine at the same time. If not then follow the entire route. There’s kind of a dead spot transition while going to the next good area when you go passed the lakes but it’s that or loop back the way you came, either is fine.

* Mining 66-125 – Tin and Silver

- Horde and Alliance

Hillsbrad Foothills - This zone, which was combined with Alterac Mountains in Cataclysm, now has one of the densest areas of Tin Ore ever noted on any map. By staying in the red zone and going in the caves there are a very large supply of nodes. Take a trip out of the area and run around the outskirts of the mountains when bored.

Ashenvale - This route is more spread apart than the above Hillsbrad route, but still a viable option for Tin Ore. Stay away from the northeast section as it’s mostly Copper Ore up there. Stick to the internal ridges.

In addition to these mining routes above you could also perform full circuits of Wetlands and Redridge mountains for this part of the mining guide.

* Mining 126-175 – Iron and Gold

- Horde and Alliance

Don’t forget to go back to the mining trainer so that you can continue leveling up, there’s nothing worse than mining and mining only to realize you haven’t been getting skill ups because you didn’t train and were zoned out.

If you are starting to run low on gold or are getting tired of mining and would like to have enough gold to smelt as much as possible from this point on I highly recommend you look at these gold making tips.

Feralas - This zone is loaded with Iron Ore and is probably the best zone to get it now thanks to changes to the zone from Cataclysm. Do a loop in the north and run some of the outskirts in the southern regions west of Camp Mojache.

Western Plaguelands - In this zone you’ll find a relatively simple and easy route to follow. Just doing an outskirt circuit of the map without going too far north or doing anything internally should be a pretty sufficient route to net enough Iron Ore on each trip around.

The Cape of Stranglethorn – This is my least favorite spot of the three to mine Iron Ore but it’s likely one of the best to find this ore. There are a few nodes out on Jaguero Isle and then by coming back across to the gorilla area and naga area you will net some Iron Ore.

* Mining 176-230 – Mithril and Truesilver

You could still be smelting for this part and skipping the first half of this mining leveling guide, but it will start to cost a lot more gold and you should absolutely read this guide if you decide to smelt. Don’t forget to go back to the mining trainer at 225 so you can continue advancing your skill.

Felwood – This is probably the easiest route to follow as long as you don’t mind running through a lot of enemies while doing it. This route should net you the most Mithril Ore, and is almost a complete loop of the outskirts of the zone.

Badlands – Here you’ll probably want to spend most of your time in the eastern loop or in the cave in the southwest. It’s not bad to alternate between the two spots but the eastern loop and southwestern cave are where you will level mining the fastest.

Burning Steppes – Dreadmaul Rock is loaded with caves full of Mithril Ore, you could spend all day just going in and out of the caves on the red spot but you’ll have to be dismounted most of the time and fight your way through some of the enemies. For a more peaceful route take the outskirt arrows.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=167246

Engineering Leveling Guide 1 - 450

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:36:00 +0000

Engineering Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Engineering. Northrend trainers can also teach you every recipe from 1 to 450.

1 - 30
40 x [Rough Blasting Powder] - 40 Rough Stone
This recipe goes yellow at 20, so get enough materials to use this recipe 40 times.

30 - 50
34 x [Handful of Copper Bolts] - 34 Copper Bar
You will need 34 of these later.

50 - 125
Visit your trainer, and learn Journeyman Engineering.

50 - 51
1 x [Arclight Spanner] - 6 Copper Bar

51 - 75
24 x [Copper Tube] - 48 Copper bar, 24 Weak Flux

75 - 85
15 x [Coarse Blasting Powder] - 15 Coarse Stone
You will need 15 of these later.

85 - 90
5 x [Coarse Dynamite] - 15 Coarse Blasting Powder, 5 Linen Cloth

90 -100
12 x [Copper Modulator] - 24 Handful Copper Bolts, 12 Copper Bar, 24 Linen Cloth

100 -105
5 x [Practice Lock] - 10 Handful Copper Bolts, 5 Bronze Bar, 5 Weak flux

105 -120
17 x [Bronze Tubes] - 34 Bronze Bar, 17 Weak Flux

120 -125
5 x [Standard Scope] - 5 Bronze Tube, 5 Moss Agate

125 - 205
Visit your trainer, and learn Expert Engineering.

125 -150
40 x [Heavy Blasting Powder] - 40 Heavy Stone
and

20 x [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Wool Cloth

You will need 40 [Heavy Blasting Powder] and 20 [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] later, and if you make these you should reach 150 skill point.

150 - 155
20 x [Bronze Framework] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Medium Leather, 20 Wool Cloth
by making them now, you might get a lot further - probably towards 160, then stop making these and only make more when you'll need them.

155 -175
20 x [Explosive Sheep] - 40 Heavy Blasting Powder, 20 Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 20 Bronze Framework, 40 Wool Cloth

175 - 176
The recipe will be yellow, so you might not gain any skill up, but you will need this item later. You will have to make only one of this, don't make more if you don't gain skill up.

1 x [Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor] - 4 Steel Bar

176 - 195
90 x [Solid Blasting Powder] - 180 Solid Stone
Extremely cheap! On my realm it costs 1 gold/stack. Save some of these, because you will need it later.

195 - 200
7 x [Mithril Tubes] - 21 Mithril Bar

205 - 280
Visit your trainer and learn Artisan Engineering.

Engineering has the option at skill level 200 to specialize in Gnomish or Goblin Engineering. The main difference between both sides is the location of their respective teleporters and the ability of their trinkets. Some items require a specific specialization to use, while other items are crafted by one specialization but are usable by any engineer. Fortunately, most recipes that are crafted by one Specialization can be worn by both.

Gnomish Engineering

List of Recipes
Goblin Engineering

list of recipes

200 - 210
12 x [Unstable Triggers] 12 Mithril Bar, 12 Mageweave Cloth, 12 Solid Blasting Powder
Save these.

210 - 225
17 x [Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs] - 17 Mithril Bar, 17 Solid Blasting Powder

225 - 235
20 x [Mithril Casings] - 60 Mithril Bar
Save these.

235 - 245
10 x [Hi-Explosive Bomb] - 20 Mithril Casings, 10 Unstable Trigger, 20 Solid Blasting Powder

245 - 250
7 x [Mithril Gyro-Shot] - 14 Mithril Bar, 14 Solid Blasting Powder

250 - 260
20 x [Dense Blasting Powder] - 40 Dense Stone
Save these and if you don't reach 260 by making these, make a few more [Mithril Gyro-Shot].

260 - 280
20 x [Thorium Widget] - 60 Thorium Bar, 20 Runecloth

280 - 350
Go to Outland or Northrend,visit your trainer, and learn Master Engineering

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280 - 285
5 x [Thorium Tube] - 30 Thorium Bar

285 - 300
20 x [Thorium Shells] - 40 Thorium Bar, 20 Dense Blasting Powder

300 - 310
50 x [Handful of Fel Iron Bolts] - 50 Fel Iron Bar

310-320
If you don't reach 320 by making the recipes below, you should make [Fel Iron Bombs] until 320. But then you also need to make a few more Fel Iron Bolts and the other materials.
10 x [4 Elemental Blasting Powder] - 20 Mote of Earth, 10 Mote of Fire

Save these.

15 x [Fel Iron Casing] - 45 Fel Iron Bar

You will need around 15 of these later, but I suggest you to make these until it goes grey, then only make more when you'll need them.

320 - 325
5 x [Fel Iron Musket] - 5 Heavy Stock, 15 Fel Iron Casing, 30 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts

325 - 335
10 x [Adamantite Grenade] 40 Adamantite Bar, 10 Elemental Blasting Powder, 20 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts

335 - 350
30 x [White Smoke Flare] - 30 Netherweave Cloth, 30 Elemental Blasting Powder
Recipe location

350 - 450
Go to Northrend, visit your trainer and learn Grand Master Engineering.

350 - 370
You will need around 50 [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] and 36 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] later. Make these now, and you should reach 375 or probably more. Note that when you craft [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] you can get 1 or 3 bolts, and the same goes for [Volatile Blasting Trigger], you will get 2 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] each craft.

35 x [1-3 Handful of Cobalt Bolts] - 70 Cobalt Bar

370 - 377
Save these.
18 x [2 Volatile Blasting Trigger] - 54 Cobalt Bar, 18 Crystallized Water

377 - 385
Save these too, you will need them.
10 x [Overcharged Capacitor] - 40 Cobalt Bar, 10 Crystallized Earth

385 - 390
8 x [Explosive Decoy] - 8 Frostweave Cloth, 24 Volatile Blasting Trigger

390 - 400
Save these too, you will need them later.
You will probably reach more than 400, then stop making these and make more only if you need it.

15 x [Froststeel Tube] - 120 Cobalt Bar, 15 Crystallized Water

400 - 405
5 x [Diamond-cut Refractor Scope] - 5 Froststeel Tube, 10 Handful of Cobalt Bolts

405 - 410
5 x [Box of Bombs] - 25 Saronite Bar, 5 Volatile Blasting Trigge

410 - 415
15 x [Mammoth Cutters] - 15 Saronite Bar, 15 Volatile Blasting Trigger

415 - 425
25 x [Saronite Razorheads] - 50 Saronite Bar

425 - 430
Make [Global Thermal Sapper Charge] between 425-435, if you are a Goblin Engineer.

7 x [Mechanized Snow Goggles] - 56 Saronite Bar, 14 Borean Leather, 7 Eternal Shadow

430 - 435
5 x [Noise Machine] - 10 Froststeel Tube, 10 Overcharged Capacitor, 40 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
435 - 449
When you reach 435, you can make your [Wormhole Generator: Northrend] and your epic Engineering Helm at 440, however if you want to level your Engineering past 440, you should wait with both until 448, because there are only green recipes at that point, but the Goggles and the [Wormhole Generator: Northrend] are still orange.

You will probably need to make more than 25 of these.

25 x [Gnomish Army Knife] - 250 Saronite Bar, 25 Skinning Knife, 25 Minning Pick, 25 Blacksmithing Hammer

449 - 450
1 x [Wormhole Generator: Northrend] - 8 Titanium Bar, 2 Eternal Fire, 2 Eternal Shadow, 2 Eternal Water, 2 Eternal Air

I hope you liked this Engineering leveling guide, GZ to 450!

Source: http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=160512/wow-engineering-guide-1-450

Herbalism Guide 1 - 450

noreply@blogger.com (Site Admin) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:02:00 +0000

Herbalism Guide 1 - 450

Hello everyone and welcome to yet another one of my guides in this one we will help you so you know were to go to get herbing up the fastest. So in this guide we will tell you just about every place were to go hunting down herbs for your levels.

Well lets get started then. First you will need to get the Herbalism skill you my visit any city in Azeroth to go and obtain it. Once you have the skill you will get the Herbalism skill and the spell find Herbs you will need find Herbs spell on at all time mostly it will help you a lot once its on go to the locations I will put below at the skill level I told you to and you will level the skill up fast. Go to trainers when it says to go and it will be not long at all before your 450 Herbalism and getting mad money. Keep all the Herbs you collect to sale later to get money.

"From 1-75"

You must go out and collect Herbs these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realm of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

Durotar:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Dun Morogh:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Elwynn Forest:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Teldrassil:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Azuremyst Isle:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Tirisfal Glades:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Mulgore:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

Eversong Woods:[Peacebloom],[Silverleaf],[Earthroot]

"At 50"

Learn (Herbalism Journeyman).

"Form 75-125"

You must go out and collect form these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realms of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

The Barrens:[Mageroyal],[Briarthorn],[Stranglekelp]

Silverpine forest:[Mageroyal], [Briarthorn],[Stranglekelp]

Redridge Mountains:[Mageroyal], [Briarthorn],[Stranglekelp]

Loch Modan:[Mageroyal],[Briarthorn],[Stranglekelp]

"Form 125-210"

You must go out and collect form these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realms of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

Stonetalon Mountains:[Bruiseweed],[Wild Steelbloom],[Kingsblood],[Stranglekelp],[Liferoot]

Hillsbrad Foothills:[Bruiseweed],[Wild Steelbloom],[Kingsblood],[Stranglekelp],[Liferoot]

Wetlands:[Bruiseweed],[Wild Steelbloom],[Kingsblood],[Stranglekelp],[Liferoot]

When you reach 150, go to your trainer and learn(Herbalism Expert).

"At 170 go here"

Learn (Herbalism Artisan).

Stranglethorn Vale:[Kingsblood], [Liferoot],[Fadeleaf],[Khadgar's Whisker],[Goldthorn]

Arathi Higlands:[Kingsblood], [Liferoot],[Fadeleaf],[Khadgar's Whisker],[Goldthorn]

"Form 210-300"

You must go out and collect form these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realms of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

The Hinterlands:[Sungrass],[Purple Lotus]
After 245 you can pick up [Ghost Mushrooms] in the caves too.

"At 270 go here"

Azsahara:[Sungrass],[Gromsblood],[Golden Sansam],[Dreamfoil],[Mountain Silversage], [Plaguebloom]

Felwood:[Sungrass],[Gromsblood],[Golden Sansam],[Dreamfoil],[Mountain Silversage],[Plaguebloom]

"Form 300-400"

You must go out and collect form these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realms of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

Visit your trainer and learn (Herbalism Master).

Hellfire Penninsula:[Felweed],[Dreaming Glory]

"At 350 go here"

Visit your trainer and learn (Herbalism Grand Master).

Howling Fjord:[Goldclover]
Boren Tudra:[Goldclover]

"From 400-450"

You must go out and collect form these locations to get your Herbalism up. On the realms of Lordaeron it gose up on time each Herb collected. On Frostwolf it goes up by 2x each herb collected. On Deathwing/Nelthraion it goes up 3x each herb collected and on Sargeras/Ragornas. It goes up 5x each herb collected so if you follow those rates it should be pretty fast.

Sholazar Basin:[Goldclover],[Adder's Tongue]

The Storm Peaks:[Lichbloom],[Icethorn]

After that you will be the highest skill level you can get. So what you can do now is just kick back and sell those herbs you collected and then gather more or you can pick up another skill that reg Herbalism.

FAQ:

Q: My profession skills go up faster for some reason. Why is this.
A: It is because the realm you play on some realms of molten have higher rates therefore the professions rates level higher as well.

Q: I am not finding any herbs at a place you told me to go. Is there something wrong with the server.
A: No there is nothing wrong it just means that zone has no herbs left and you will need to wait for them to respawn. Other players can go and pick up the same herbs as you that is why.

Credits
Credits go to WoW Professions for info to make the guide.
Credits go to WoWHead for the links on the for the items.

Source: http://forum.molten-wow.com/showthread.php?t=44296