New kalimdor loadingscreen

These were datamined a few months ago. I guess they only just now got implemented. My comment now is the same as it was then: I don't like how they're mixing several art styles on a single screen.

Generally speaking, if you look at all the World of Warcraft in-game art and box art, it all tends to be very close in style. This makes the game feel very cohesive, like it all belongs together. But on these loading screen they've undone all of that. We have at least 3 different comic book art styles all next to each other and it looks really weird and out of place. It looks like a fan art loading screen. That's not to say fan art looks "bad", but it just makes the screens look unprofessional.

Easy Chessgame in Karazhan [DRUID]

First you need the talent Ysera's Gift and something to lag yourself

1. Place a Darkmoontiger near the warchief
2. Open the warchief window and lag yourself
3. While lagging, click on the button to control the warchief and then on the darkmoontiger
4. If it worked correctly, then your character should be on the darkmoontiger and you can control the warchief.
5. Now just afk or fight, your Ysera's gift talent will heal the warchief.

Transmogrification: Uh... which way to Stormwind? (Hunter Xmog)

Hello fellow Alliance, sure is a nice day isn't it? Say, what were the plans for the invasion and takeover of Orgrimmar again? I forgot.

Your looking a little green soldier, you should see a priest. City is a little complex so here have map of the city, I've even marked all the important locations and defenses in case you feel threatened while your there

Items:

• Helm: Savage Gladiator Helm
• Shoulders: Ornate Pauldrons
• Chest: Chestpiece of Returning Strength
• Waist: Corpsepump Belt
• Legs: Sea Legs
• Feet: Boots of Explosive Dancing
• Gloves: Swamp Gas Gauntlets
• Bow: Bow of Kargath

How to get "easy" 3000g.

Well, i guess you heared about CATA Gold runs. Usually you do 25hc PSA - BOT - Td4w - FL - DS.

Well those give you 3000-4000g. You can find a grp on the LF section in wow. (This is not what the topic is about).

Each boss gives you around 125. And a Boss usually dropps 3000g.

Well in throne of the 4 winds, there are only two bosses and the last boss dropps a chest. What you do, is open the chest at first and you dont loot the gold. Nobody else can loot the gold.

You wait until everybody left the instance and goes to FL. (this happens in 1-2min)

If you're alone in the instance, you will get the entire 3000g. This should also work with some chest in DS.

You basically get 3000-4000g through the run and the option of free 3000g multiple times, depending on group.

Lockouts reset on Draenor, Darkmoon and Argent Dawn

This isn't really an exploit, but I wasn't sure where to post it, feel free to move! Three realms were taken down last night for some extended maintenance after a large amount of people were experiencing problems logging in. Due to this reset they've also broken a great many things for these realms, including the armory.

One thing I've noticed is on these three realms, 80% of raid lockouts have been reset before the weekly reset, which happens tonight. Not sure if they're skipping the weekly maintenance but they've showed no signs of it and as some raid lockouts still exist, I don't think this is intended.

If you're on those realms, go take advantage of the fact most of your lockouts may have reset!

Why Blizzard rocks

I have to say, Blizzard customer support really are pretty spectacular... I admit, I do not deal with them very often, but on the few occasions I have? They have been beyond helpful.

I always make it a point to tell them that whenever I deal with them. I first played WoW in like 2007 or something, partway into Burning Crusade. Since then I've had like 4 times I've had to contact a GM or customer support, and every time they responded fairly quick, were very nice, and got it fixed in one or two back-and-forth messages.

Best way to use elixir of Ancient Knowledge

I went from 57 to 75 with 1 Elixir of Ancient Knowledge today and couldn't find any posts about this method so i figured I'd share.

What you need is an Elixir of Ancient Knowledge and either a second account or a nice friend.
Basically the point is the buff does not drain the time when you logout.

Get your leveling character to the outside of an instance that your friend or 2nd account can pull the entire place in 1 pull, but also near your level.

For example from 57-64 I did ramparts. 67-74 i did utgarde.

Now you either go inside or wait outside until your buddy pulls the entire instance and is standing close enough to the entrance that you will get exp from walking in or logging on.

Then log in and tell him to kill them all, should take like 30 seconds or less to down the group.
Go out of the instance and log out, friend resets, rinse and repeat.

I can explain in more detail if people don't understand or want tips.

Professions in a nutshell

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing, And hang around in bars. Mage [Herbalist] [Tailor] LFW

On my Warlock, Tailoring and Herbalism. I spend my days burning shit down with demonic power. I spend my nights embroidering pants and picking flowers.


Anyone else wish they'd have a proper look at profs before WoD?

So many profs it's a simple case of grind to 600, then maybe be able to make something useful/profitable.

With tailoring there's bags, and with engineering there's mounts/pets/Jeeves/Moll-E etc, but it does seem lacking in many other profs. Just wish they could be more useful before 600.

Robin Williams WOW Tribute Discovered

A couple of weeks ago, we ran a piece about the tribute Blizzard had planned to honor the late comedian Robin Williams. Well, it now looks like the rumors surrounding the said in-game tribute were true, as the genie NPC created in reference to one of the late actor’s iconic roles, has been officially uncovered.

The tribute was discovered in the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor expansion beta, by a player named “Haldhur”.

Apparently, Haldhur came upon a special-looking item within one of the new areas introduced by the expansion. The location of the item known as the “Ever-burning Lamp” is on an island near Talador, and once players interact with it, a genie is summoned.

The genie then says “infinite cosmic power/itty-bitty living space” in clear reference to one of Robin Williams’ lines from Aladdin. The lamp isn’t the only tribute-item apparently. Next to it, there’s a broken egg-shell, which could be a reference to Mork and Mindy, as well as a bunch of other, smaller bits of paraphernalia possibly referring to some of the other roles the actor had had over his career.

Apparently, there are two more character models included in the expansion which could also end up as Robin Williams-inspired NPCs, but the presence of these characters – unlike that of the genie – has not been confirmed yet. That of course does not mean they aren’t in fact in the game already.

There’s also been another discovery made within the game data, that of the title “Comedian” which will probably be used in association with these new characters. Once the WOW: Warlords of Draenor expansion pack is released on November 13, we’re quite certain all the characters and tribute-elements shall be discovered on short notice by the community.

Philip Thalberg is a GosuGamer. He has been working for the Heroes of the Storm section of the site since 2009. 

NO I'M NOT!!!

Makes me think of the recent insurance commercial where they talk about Pinocchio being a bad motivational speaker. Lol

TLPD CRZ Farming ALMOST without noodle carts.

This is not a guide on how to block CRZ for TLPD! Check out Boku's simplified version if you need help.

This is simply at tip for everyone who is farming TLPD using the CRZ method. Noodle carts are kinda expensive on some servers and some people can't afford them. Using this trick you can cover 2 out of 4 TLPD Routes without noodle carts, but please note that you still need noodle carts to kill and loot TLPD.

This trick uses the elevators in Storm peaks. While standing on these elevators you can see all mobs around you, and you will be able to spot TLPD/Vyragosa if it flies by.

Location:

The 2 other routes needs be covered using noodle carts but this trick will certainly help you save some noodle carts.

Transmogrification: Gelbin Mekkatorque tanking set.

Now all he need is some growth hormones to match in size!

• Helmet: Reinforced Bio-Optic Killshades
• Shoulders: Forgotten Peacekeeper Shoulders
• Chest: Forgotten Peacekeeper Breastplate
• Shirt: Gnomeregan Doublet
• Tabard: Gnomeregan Tabard
• Bracers: Forgotten Peacekeeper Armguards
• Gloves: Forgotten Peacekeeper Gauntlets
• Belt: Forgotten Peacekeeper Belt
• Legs: Eldritch Reinforced Legplates
• Boots: Golden Cenarion Greaves
• Weapon: Argent Resolve
• Shield: Force Reactive Disk

For a Two-Handed Weapon he use Scepter of Sha'tar to simulate the "official" two-handed wrench.

Fairly Private Spot to Kill Huolon? (Timeless Isle -- sigh)

Well, I had a horrible time tonight trying to kill Huolon solo with a 510ish Shadowpriest.
But there was useful stuff learned.

When Huolon spawn on my server tonight, he bugged out and became caught in terrain between the small round mountains where the wire-walkers go to open chests.
I was able to levitate over to him by jumping from an adjacent mountain (near the spawn point of the Riverspeakers Trident on the path toward the Ordos Temple), but was not able to hit him with any spells. Assumed I had disconnected from the server when the mob started giving me "too far away" messages -- so I decided to go around and take the trail up the hill (long way up lol).

Anyway, he did finally get out of the terrain, although I am not sure how (doesn't he only have the 1 spawn point?) -- and was flying slow over the east end of zone as normal.
I tried the stupid albatross thing and the timing was wrong. So I rode up there again and he was pathing on the extreme Eastern side of the Ordos hills, and I had the idea to just tag him, jump off the hill and levitate down to the water.

The Ordos shitheads leashed back to the trees but the dragon followed me down to the water.
In fact I had him close to 35% health when I ****ed it up and got caught in the lightning breath.

After the third time of that and realizing this isn't a thing to do while tired, I wanted to at least share my stupid spot where Huolon can be dragged down by a character with Levitate (OR the Hozen diving helmet thing I guess! with 200% swim).



You could also do it with Potions of Water Walking, a shaman, or a death knight's path of frost (I think).

But the point of this spot is, if you're on a busy server where this mount/mob is truly camped/farmed 24/7, he does not reset aggro like most other mobs just because you passed a certain point on the terrain. You do have to keep some damage up on him but chances are he isn't gonna just leave you alone.

If you use the priest method without the diving helm make sure to avoid the patches of lightning that Huolon will lay on the ground/water in between lightning breaths.

BTW for most players the lightning breath is fatal, a one shot -- unlike the crimsonscales who hit for about 250k or less, Huolon can not only take a bite off your ass but swallow the whole thing.

Another method of getting this annoying mob killed is a skillful use of the stupid Albatrosses.
If you whack your Highwind Albatross w/ your autoattack while flying, the mob will usually pause and hover for a moment.
More whacks = longer hover but eventually he will start flying again.

You can time whacks to slow down the bird while also DPSing Huolon but I haven't perfected this method myself.

Transmogrification: Diablo Inspired Monk

This doesn't even look like it's from WoW. Well done; Warlord models are going to make so many beautiful mogs (like this one!).Straight from the Monasteries of Ivgorod comes this Diablo inspired Monk. A lot of credit goes to those great new human male models!

Item List:

• Fist Weapons: Gargoyle Shredder Talons http://www.wowhead.com/item=13399
• Head: Crown of Seven Sacred Seals http://www.wowhead.com/item=99607
• Shoulders: Misthide Shoulders http://www.wowhead.com/item=90490
• Chest: Red Crane Vest http://www.wowhead.com/item=85392
• Hands: Gloves of the Hollow http://www.wowhead.com/item=72805
• Belt: Peroth'arn's Belt http://www.wowhead.com/item=72830
• Legs: Leggings of Seven Sacred Seals http://www.wowhead.com/item=99145
• Feet: Storm Rider's Boots http://www.wowhead.com/item=65144
• Tabard: Tabard of Summer Flames http://www.wowhead.com/item=35280

New quest that leaves a black powder trail behind your character. (beta)

The amount of dicks that will be drawn during this quest will be staggering. Someone call the people over at Guinness' book of World Records right now. But when you turn in the quest the quest text says "Now don't you go doing anything inappropriate with that powder."

I'm sure Blizz knew exactly what they were doing.

WoW Transmog Guide: Water Jetpack

This is a relatively unknown little animated transmog item called the I-Scream Cryocannon and it looks like it might be unobtainable come Warlords of Draenor. To get it you need to complete a quest chain ending in thousand needles. Te quest you need is called Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp and to keep the jetpack you leave it in your log indefinitely so long as the quest item is in your bags you will keep the visual jetpack.

You can skip to the video below where Bryan walks you through the quest chain necessary to unlock the Water Jetpack or follow the written instructions..

1. Start in Ferelas with the quest: The Grimtotem are Coming 
2. Accept the next quest and start the worlds longest boat ride. 
3. Complete the quest Down in the Deeps 
4. Accept the quest Bar Fight! & head downstairs to the Innkeeper buy a Bottle of Grog & use it on any goblin. 
5. The next quests are self explanatory, bang them out then head to the boat and accept Special Delivery for Brivelthwerp from Mazzer Stripscrew. 
6. Keep the quest in your quest log and as long as the item is in your bags it will appear on your back. 
7. Simply stick it in your bank if you want to take a break from it.