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So I’ve been harping on about how the new redesigned zones are so cool, so well designed and promote easy leveling and progression. Check out the new Ashenvale, with the visual aid of this gorgeous new Ashenvale map: The new Ashenvale, post Cataclysm, may look like the old Ashenvale, with notable differences. For starters, there is a large volcano in the middle of the map, dominated by Lord Magmathar, a level-24 Elite Fire Elemental that needs killing – at least if you play Alliance... Read Full Story

At the risk of repeating myself, I think that the whole Worgen levelling and progression in Kalimdor is excellent and superbly designed. Confus, my little Worgen warrior, is level 52 now and has not left Kalimdor for a moment (except for a quest teleportation, but this hardly counts). After Gilneas, my Worgen completed the following zones, in order: Darkshore Ashenvale Stonetalon Mountains Southern Barrens Dustwallow Marsh Thousand Needles Tanaris Un’Goro Crater In... Read Full Story

Ok, so I’m back. Actually, I only took an extended break from World of Warcraft, and now I am returned, ready for more exciting adventures! I’ve been running around the newly redesigned zones of Azeroth in the last few days, and I must say that I am quite impressed. I have been leveling my Worgen Warrior in Darkshore and Ashenvale, and the new quest system is really cool. Just to be clear, the quest system is just the same as the old one, but they seem to have given us a lot more of what we... Read Full Story

When it was time to do my twice weekly Northrend Alchemy Reserch – a 3-day cooldown affair – I realized that like a moron, I had not kept enough Adder’s Tongue. No idea where it went. So of course I had two choices. Either bite the bullet, and buy the Adder’s Tongue at the Auction House or, Option B, act like the Herbalist that I am, go to Sholazar Basin and farm it myself. Since I’m writing this, you know that I opted for the less embarassing of options. Farming, that is. Here is the map... Read Full Story

Because I don’t have a huge network of WoW gamers from whom I can aggregate data, I have to calculate my percentage drops in a different way. I go on my farming run, and at the end of the run, see what percentage of total drops what I was farming represents against the overall total. For example, this morning, I went farming for Frost Lotus in Storm Peaks . As you may know, the principal herb nodes in Storm Peaks are Lichbloom and Icethorn, each of which have a chance of dropping one or... Read Full Story

I’ve reached the end of my rope, as far as my patience for farming the same spot goes. I know I was supposed to go to Storm Peaks this morning and look for Icethorn and Lichbloom and whatnot, but I was in Zul’Drak and I figured, how about a little run around for old times’ sake? Once around the park and home for tea, James! Anyways. I stayed in the Talandra’s Rose area of Zul’Drak – the western part (or ‘Left’, for the geographically challenged, you know who you are) and flew around in... Read Full Story

The Feral DPS rotation has been called the most complicated in World of Warcraft… and that’s the way we like it. Although calling it a rotation could be misleading as there is no set rotation to use, but rather an order of priority. Here it is in order of priority : Or at least that’s the one I use (usually.) So what does this mean ? First make sure Savage Roar never ever drops. Try to keep Mangle up all the time. Refresh Rip as soon as it comes off with 5 combo points. Use Shred to... Read Full Story

In my ongoing efforts to gather some Frost Lotus, this morning I farmed the Frozen Herbs of Zul’Drak. If you’ll please refer to yesterday’s map that showed the entire Zul’Drap Herb Map, the frozen herbs are in the eastern, frozen part of the map. I must admit that I was somewhat hopeful that this would prove a little better than yesterday’s farming of Talandra’s Rose. I was dissapointed for two reasons. Obviously, the first reason is that I did not get ANY Frost Lotus drop. Not even one. I... Read Full Story

I’m trying to figure out from which Herb nodes Frost Lotus drop the most often. They seem to drop from all Northrend herb nodes, however there has to be one that’s better, right? Right. So this morning I made my merry way to Zul’Drak, home of the never-ending supply of Talandra’s  Rose. Just a small problem: some other Hordie was also farming herbs and seemed to be stealing all my nodes! Besides bitching him out, there is little that I could do, so I figure I’d just shut up and farm... Read Full Story

I have finally discovered the reason why Frost Lotus are ever so profitable to sell on the Auction House. There is a little recipe that you learn, as an Alchemist, at still level 425. It is called the Flask of the North. Sounds cool, eh? The Flask of the North is a Bind on Pickup item that has the following effect: Increases your Spell Power by 47, Increases your Attack Power by 80, or Increases your Strength by 40 for 1 Hour. It has the clear disadvantage of counting as both a Battle... Read Full Story