's World of Warcraft. This year's Brewfest promises to be yet another fun-filled time to enjoy all the fermented fruits of the harvest - all without the hangover.

The main Brewfest festivals will begin this September 20 and will run all the way until October 4. The venues for the horde and alliance factions will be held at Orgrimmar and Ironforge respectively. You also can expect smaller beer gardens to be set up in all the other main cities across the game world.

Classic events such as Ram Racing and the Barkers Quest will be making a comeback, although veteran drinkers can also expect a few new events to pop up during this time. Belbi Quikswitch and Blix Fixwidget will also be offering a new set of Brewfest prizes for any tokens you win during these special events.

Whether you choose Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, or the Ogres as the poison of you choice, it's all good clean fun during the upcoming Brewfest event. Keep an eye on this spot for more updates regarding the World of Warcraft event.

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right now lies in the physics. As in, it wasn't polished enough. That's what wow's Tom Chilton revealed in the latest Blizzard podcast.

If you look at a lot of games that have done flight simulation, there is a lot of care that goes into giving you that sensation of flying by having the world tilt and stuff like that so it feels a little less mechanical, feels a little bit more alive or more natural.

So one of the things that we have kind of tasked ourselves with doing is figuring out how to polish that, how to improve on our vehicle physics, there s still a lot of vehicle physics tech that we want to get in that didn t make it into the first pass of Lich King.

Even though it may have been cut, aerial combat may still find its way into WoW someday, as Chilton also said that it's currently on Blizzard's to do list.

The same podcast also featured senior Diablo III artist Mike Nicholson, who admitted that the new UI for Diablo 3 drew a lot of inspiration from WoW's UI. Oh really? I hadn't noticed and am now so overcome with surprise at this unexpected revelation!

Seriously though, the UI still retains popular elements from the Diablo series while throwing in some WoW staples into the mix. One thing that will definitely catch fans' eyes - for better or worse - is the inclusion of WoW's colorful icons. Here's Nicholson:

I love the WoW icons. And y know what we re trying to do is see, OK, what works about the WoW icons? They re illustrative; is there a way to try to maybe bridge the gap? You know what worked about the more symbolic DII icons, and what works with the WoW icons, and trying to find a way to put the two together.

Another new thing is the addition of expandable bags. This reminds me more of the D&D staple Bags of Holding which appeared in Neverwinter Nights than anything in WoW really. Nicholson again:

You'll get bags and they will expand, you know kind of like in WoW, except you're not going to open up separate windows. You'll start off your inventory with say you know, eight slots, right, and then you'll get a new bag and that has ten, so two more slots will open up within that tab, but you'll never have multiple tabs. Like you won't have two or three 'large' tabs.

It might sound like I've been taking a few jabs at Diablo III, but make no mistake - this is a day one purchase for me. Now if only I had some idea of when they'll release it. Keep checking back for more updates.

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has set May 19 as the deadline for any add-on devs to comply with the company's new add-on development policy. Here's Nethaera's post on the US World of Warcraft forums:

On March 20, we released the new add-on development policy to the public as an ongoing effort to help ensure add-on integrity, safety, and quality for the community. Since that time we have been in touch with many UI development communities on what the policy means to them and the continuing development of these add-ons.

We would like to announce further that we are providing a sixty-day grace period beginning at the time of the initial release of the policy for UI developers to comply with the new policy. After May 19th, Blizzard Entertainment will begin to enforce the Add-on Development policy, and developers found to be in violation of this policy will be contacted directly.

We can probably guess what being "contacted directly" entails.

The new add-on policy prohibits add-on authors from charging for their add-ons and from soliciting for any donations in-game. A policy against in-game advertising was also added in.

Since its announcement back in March 20, several popular mod authors have already stated their intent to cease development, while others have switched to models that reflect the new policy's restrictions.

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Drink and be merry in World of Warcraft's Brewfest event
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Bring out those beer steins and get ready to join in one of the most festive events in Blizzard's World of Warcraft. This year's Brewfest promises to be yet another fun-filled time to enjoy all the fermented fruits of the harvest - all without the hangover.

The main Brewfest festivals will begin this September 20 and will run all the way until October 4. The venues for the horde and alliance factions will be held at Orgrimmar and Ironforge respectively. You also can expect smaller beer gardens to be set up in all the other main cities across the game world.

Classic events such as Ram Racing and the Barkers Quest will be making a comeback, although veteran drinkers can also expect a few new events to pop up during this time. Belbi Quikswitch and Blix Fixwidget will also be offering a new set of Brewfest prizes for any tokens you win during these special events.

Whether you choose Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, or the Ogres as the poison of you choice, it's all good clean fun during the upcoming Brewfest event. Keep an eye on this spot for more updates regarding the World of Warcraft event.

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This guide will show you how to get your enchanting skill up from 0 to 300. The guide will only use recipe's available at a trainer until 265 and vendor available recipe's from 265 to 300.

This guide only uses recipes that require components aquired through disenchanting. Shards will be avoided as much as possible, since they are difficult to get.

This guide does not tell you how to get all the different recipe's from quests, vendors or drops. What you do once you hit 300 is entirely up to you.

This guide is primarily aimed at those who want to switch profession at high level or have high level alts, friends or guildmembers.

Preparation
You are going to need a lot of dust, essences and some shards. Create two alt storage characters, level one of the storage characters up to 5, so she can become an enchanter and send green items to her for disenchanting. Send green items to the other storage character. Since disenchanting will also give a skill point, these green items will be used to disenchant later. Use the ingame mail system to send everything to the storage characters. Don't forget to send some gold to the storage characters, so they can send everything back.

Ofcourse you want to know at which level a green item gives what. Below is a list taken from Jaywu's Enchanting FAQ.

Dust and Essence:
Generally the dust is from armor and the essence is from weapons, though it can randomly be anything.

Level 01-10: A little strange dust/lesser magic essence.
Level 11-15: Much strange dust/greater magic essence.
Level 16-20: Much strange dust/lesser astral essence.
Level 21-25: Little soul dust/greater astral essence.
Level 26-30: Much soul dust/lesser mystic essence.
Level 31-35: Little vision dust/greater mystic essence.
Level 36-40: Much vision dust/lesser nether essence.
Level 41-45: Little dream dust/greater nether essence.
Level 46-50: Much dream dust/lesser eternal essence.
Level 51-55: Little illusion dust/greater eternal essence.
Level 56-60: Much illusion dust/greater eternal essence.

Shards:
Shards come from blue or purple items (they can come from greens, but don't count on it).

Level 01-20: Small glimmering.
Level 21-25: Large glimmering.
Level 26-30: Small glowing.
Level 31-35: Large glowing.
Level 36-40: Small radiant.
Level 41-45: Large radiant.
Level 46-50: Small brilliant.
Level 51-60: Large brilliant.

Once you have all the components collected everything has to be send back to your main character. The mailbox only shows the first 50 items you have in the mail. It also puts the last item send to you on top. So to avoid complications send the components you need first last: i.e. the green items to disenchant are needed first, so these are the last to be send back to your main, after strange dust and magic essences, which are needed next, and the other dusts and essences.

To learn recipe's from a trainer costs gold. The amount of gold needed is aproximately 20 to 25 gold if you disenchant all of the dust, essences and shards. If you want to buy everything you need from the auction house expect to spend upwards to 1000 gold (including the arcanite rod). This does not include gold for recipe's from vendors or the auction house.

To enchant something requires runed rods, such as a runed silver rod. To make those runed rods you need normal rods. For example; to make a runed silver rod you need a silver rod. The following rods are needed; copper rod, silver rod, golden rod, truesilver rod and arcanite rod. The copper rod is sold by vendors and the other rods are made by blacksmiths. Find a blacksmith who can make the rods for you or check the auction house and get them. The arcanite rod is expensive. Making a runed arcanite rod is also expensive. Since it is not needed for this guide, but only for the highlevel enchants, you may want to postpone getting one if you are strapped for gold.

Below is a table that shows the amount of dust, essences and shards needed. The minimum amount column shows the minimum amount needed if you would get a skill point every time you enchant something. However at some point a recipe will be yellow or even green when you enchant something so you won't allways get a skill point. The estimated amount column deals with this, so try to get the estimated amount of dust, essences and shards on your storage character. The numbers in the estimated amount column are rounded up to full stacks of whatever the component stacks up to. The numbers in the table do not take into account the disenchanting of items to get the first skill points. If you buy everything you need from the auction house i suggest getting the minimum amount and only buy more when needed.

Component Minimum Amount Estimated Amount
Strange Dust 153 (16 stacks) 180 (18 stacks)
Soul Dust 75 (8 stacks) 90 (9 stacks)
Vision Dust 156 (16 stacks) 170 (17 stacks)
Dream Dust 290 (29 stacks) 320 (32 stacks)
Illusion Dust 82 (9 stacks) 90 (12 stacks)
Lesser Magic Essence 11 (2 stacks) 15 (2 stacks)
Greater Magic Essence 18 (2 stacks) 25 (3 stacks)
Lesser Astral Essence 10 (1 stacks) 15 (2 stacks)
Greater Astral Essence 2 (1 stacks) 2 (1 stacks)
Lesser Mystic Essence 20 (2 stacks) 25 (3 stacks)
Greater Mystic Essence 2 (1 stacks) 2 (1 stacks)
Lesser Nether Essence 10 (1 stacks) 15 (2 stacks)
Greater Nether Essence 20 (2 stacks) 25 (3 stacks)
Lesser Eternal Essence 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Greater Eternal Essence 4 (1 stacks) 4 (1 stacks)
Small Glimmering Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Large Glimmering Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Small Glowing Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Large Glowing Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Small Radiant Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Large Radiant Shard 0 (0 stacks) 0 (0 stacks)
Small Brilliant Shard 4 (1 stacks) 4 (1 stacks)
Large Brilliant Shard 2 (1 stacks) 2 (2 stacks)
Shadowgem 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Iridescent Pearl 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Black Pearl 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Golden Pearl 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Copper Rod 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Silver Rod 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Golden Rod 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Truesilver Rod 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)
Arcanite Rod 1 (1 stacks) 1 (1 stacks)

Getting from 1 to 50
Earlier I wrote that you need runed rods to enchant something. The first rod needed is the runed copper rod. So make a runed copper rod to get your first skill point.

Disenchanting items will get you a skill point. Send the green items you stored on a storage character to your main and disenchant them.

If you were not able to reach 50 with disenchanting, enchant a bracer with minor health to get to skill 50. You can enchant the same bracer over and over again. An annoying window will pop up each time asking if you are sure to overwrite the existing enchant. Just click yes to do so.

Once you hit 50 talk to the appropriate trainer to become Journeyman Enchanter. You have to be level 10 to become Journeyman Enchanter.

This table shows the different recipes used to get from 0 to 50.

Skill Yellow Grey Item Components From - To Components needed
1 5 10 Runed Copper Rod 1x Copper Rod,
1x Strange Dust,
1x Lesser Magic Essence 0 - 1 (1) 1x Copper Rod,
1x Strange Dust,
1x Lesser Magic Essence
1 70 110 Enchant Bracer - Minor Health 1x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 2 - 50 (49) 49x Strange Dust

Getting from 50 to 125
Enchant the bracer some more with minor health to get to 75. Now enchant the bracer with minor deflection to get to 85.

Enchant a bracer with minor stamina to get to 100.

At 100 you can make a runed silver rod, which you need later on, so make one now and get a skill point.

Enchant the bracer some more with minor stamina to get to 105, a bracer with minor agility to get to 120 and a shield with minor stamina to get to 125.

Once you hit 125 talk to the appropriate trainer to become Expert Enchanter. You have to be level 20 to become Expert Enchanter.

This table shows the different recipes used to get from 50 to 125.

Skill Yellow Grey Item Components From - To Components needed
1 70 110 Enchant Bracer - Minor Health 1x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 50 - 75 (25) 25x Strange Dust
20 80 120 Enchant Bracer - Minor Deflection 1x Lesser Magic Essence,
1x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 75 - 85 (10) 10x Lesser Magic Essence,
10x Strange Dust
50 100 140 Enchant Bracer - Minor Stamina 3x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 85 - 100 (15)
101 - 105 (4) 45x Strange Dust
12x Strange Dust
80 115 155 Enchant Bracer - Minor Agility 2x Strange Dust,
1x Greater Magic Essence
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 105 - 120 (15) 30x Strange Dust,
15x Greater Magic Essence
100 130 170 Runed Silver Rod 1x Silver Rod,
6x Strange Dust,
3x Greater Magic Essence,
1x Shadowgem 100 - 101 (1) 1x Silver Rod,
6x Strange Dust,
3x Greater Magic Essence,
1x Shadowgem
105 130 170 Enchant Shield - Minor Stamina 1x Lesser Astral Essence,
2x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 120 - 125 (5) 5x Lesser Astral Essence,
10x Strange Dust

Getting from 125 to 225
Enchant the shield some more with minor stamina to get to 130. Enchant a bracer with lesser stamina to get to 150.

At 150 you can make a runed golden rod, which you need later on, so make one now and get a skill point.

Enchant a bracer with lesser stamina to get to 160. Enchant a shield with lesser stamina or boots with lesser agility to get to 165. Enchant a bracer with spirit to get to 185 and a bracer with strength to get to 200.

Allthough you can become artisan enchanter once you hit 200 it is better to max to 225 first, since the trainer for artisan enchanter is inside an instance. I will get back on this in the next chapter. You have to be level 35 to become Artisan Enchanter.

At 200 you can make a runed truesilver rod, which you need later on, so make one now and get a skill point.

Enchant a bracer with strength some more to get to 205 and a cloak with greater defense to get to 225.

This table shows the different recipes used to get from 125 to 225.

Skill Yellow Grey Item Components From - To Components needed
105 130 170 Enchant Shield - Minor Stamina 1x Lesser Astral Essence,
2x Strange Dust
Required:
Runed Copper Rod 125 - 130 (5) 5x Lesser Astral Essence,
10x Strange Dust
130 155 195 Enchant Bracer - Lesser Stamina 2x Soul Dust
Required:
Runed Silver Rod 130 - 150 (25)
151 - 160 (9) 50x Soul Dust
18x Soul Dust
150 175 215 Runed Golden Rod 1x Golden Rod,
1x Iridescent Pearl,
2x Greater Astral Essence,
2x Soul Dust 150 - 151 (1) 1x Golden Rod,
1x Iridescent Pearl,
2x Greater Astral Essence,
2x Soul Dust
155 175 215 Enchant Shield - Lesser Stamina 1x Lesser Mystic Essence,
1x Soul Dust
Required:
Runed Golden Rod 160 - 165 (5) 5x Lesser Mystic Essence,
5x Soul Dust
160 180 220 Enchant Boots - Lesser Agility 1x Soul Dust,
1x Lesser Mystic Essence
Required:
Runed Golden Rod 160 - 165 (5) 5x Soul Dust,
5x Lesser Mystic Essence
165 185 225 Enchant Bracer - Spirit 1x Lesser Mystic Essence
Required:
Runed Golden Rod 165 - 180 (15) 15x Lesser Mystic Essence
180 200 240 Enchant Bracer - Strength 1x Vision Dust
Required:
Runed Golden Rod 180 - 200 (20)
201 - 205 (4) 20x Vision Dust
4x Vision Dust
200 220 260 Runed Truesilver Rod 1x Truesilver Rod,
1x Black Pearl,
2x Greater Mystic Essence,
2x Vision Dust 200 - 201 (1) 1x Truesilver Rod,
1x Black Pearl,
2x Greater Mystic Essence,
2x Vision Dust
205 225 265 Enchant Cloak - Greater Defense 3x Vision Dust
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 205 - 225 (20) 60x Vision Dust

Getting from 225 to 265
At 225 you have to become artisan enchanter to get any further. The master enchanter that teaches artisan enchanting is inside Uldaman. The highest level recipe she trains needs 250 skill, so you want to bring enough material to get to 250.

The table below shows the components needed to get from 225 to 250, so bring these with you when going the the master enchanter in Uldaman. You will need the runed truesilver rod made earlier as well. You will also need gloves, bracers and a chest item to enchant, but you are probably wearing those, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Component Minimum Amount Estimated Amount
Vision Dust 70 (7 stacks) 90 (9 stacks)
Dream Dust 10 (1 stacks) 20 (2 stacks)
Lesser Nether Essence 10 (1 stacks) 20 (2 stacks)
Greater Nether Essence 5 (1 stacks) 10 (1 stacks)
Runed Truesilver Rod 1 1

Once you reach the trainer talk to her to become artisan enchanter. Once you're artisan enchanter enchant gloves with agility to get to 235, a chest item with superior health to get to 245 and a bracer with greater strength to get to 250. Once you have trained all the recipe's she can train you, you can leave the instance.

Enchant the bracer some more with greater strength to get to 265.

Allthough you can get to 270 before the last recipe you train from a trainer becomes yellow, I am not going to use that recipe since it requires wildvine. Wildvine is a herb and can not be aquired through disenchanting. The recipe also uses shards and i want to minimize the use of shards as much as possible. Vendor available recipe's are going to be used to get to 300.

This table shows the different recipes used to get from 225 to 265.

Skill Yellow Grey Item Components From - To Components needed
210 230 270 Enchant Gloves - Agility 1x Lesser Nether Essence,
1x Vision Dust
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 225 - 235 (10) 10x Lesser Nether Essence,
10x Vision Dust
220 240 280 Enchant Chest - Superior Health 6x Vision Dust
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 235 - 245 (10) 60x Vision Dust
240 260 300 Enchant Bracer - Greater Strength 2x Dream Dust,
1x Greater Nether Essence
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 245 - 265 (20) 40x Dream Dust,
20x Greater Nether Essence

Getting from 265 to 300
Get the enchant shield - greater stamina recipe from Mythrin'dir in Darnassus or Daniel Bartlett in Undercity and enchant a shield with greater stamina to get to 290. The recipe is bind on pickup when bought so make sure you buy it yourself and not an alt, friend or guildmember.

At 290 you can make a runed arcanite rod, allthough you don't need one to get to 300, you are going to need one in your enchanting career anyway, so make one now and get a skill point. You can get the runed arcanite rod recipe from Lorelae Wintersong in Moonglade.

Get the enchant cloak - superior defense from Lorelae Wintersong in Moonglade and enchant a cloak with superior defense to get to 300.

Congratulations, you now have 300 skill in enchanting.

This table shows the different recipes used to get from 265 to 300.

Skill Yellow Grey Item Components From - To Components needed
265 285 325 Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina 10x Dream Dust
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 265 - 290 (25) 250x Dream Dust
285 305 345 Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense 8x Illusion Dust
Required:
Runed Truesilver Rod 291 - 300 (9) 72x Illusion Dust
290 310 350 Runed Arcanite Rod 1x Arcanite Rod,
1x Golden Pearl,
10x Illusion Dust,
4x Greater Eternal Essence,
4x Small Brilliant Shard,
2x Large Brilliant Shard 290 - 291 (1) 1x Arcanite Rod,
1x Golden Pearl,
10x Illusion Dust,
4x Greater Eternal Essence,
4x Small Brilliant Shard,
2x Large Brilliant Shard

This table shows who and where the different vendors are for the previously mentioned recipe's.

What Who Where
Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina (BoP) Mythrin'dir (alliance Faction)
Daniel Bartlett (horde Faction) Darnassus
Undercity
Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense Lorelae Wintersong (Neutral) Moonglade
Runed Arcanite Rod Lorelae Wintersong (Neutral) Moonglade

you wont like this if you dont like scamming!

make 500 gold in 5 minutes, 5 minutes!!!
Elemental mage staff
Maature Sinew and
Dwarf hand cannon

how?

1. First of all you should have a high lvl Character with atleast 500 gold (works if you dont have that much too)

2. Make an 'alt' account, lvl 1.. find a good name for it, so people see that you have cash there. My lvl 1 is called ' noxbank ' ' wwbank ' and ' mulee '

3. Send all your cash from your high lvl over to your lvl 1 ' alt '

4. Now log on your ' alt ' char and pick up the gold you sent to him.

5. Go to the auction house, and do ' search ' ' epic '

6. Then you will find for example ' krol blade '

7. ' krol blade ' sold by ' martin ' ' 500 gold bid 550 gold buyout '

8. Write /w martin Hi, do you want to see Krol blade for 500 Gold?

9. Martin whisper: Sure, i come to ironforge now.

10. /w martin Ok, meet me on ironforge bridge.

11. When you meet ' martin ' put in 500gold in the trade window

12. YOU MUST PUT IN 500 GOLD BEFORE HE PUT IN HES KROL BLADE

13. When you have 500 gold in the trade window, be ready to remove some of your cash

14. if you have in 500 gold in the trade window, be ready to remove ' 50(0) ' so you just pay 50 gold.

15. So when you have putted in 500 gold, and exactly when he put in the krol blade, the hit ACCEPT! then hit BACKSPACE, and hit ACCEPT FAST!

16. Martin will hit accept when he see your wwindow green, so he makes ready, but you remove 50(0) gold and he does not see that!

16. Now you just pay 50 gold for the krol blade!!! omg =O

This works 100% Enjoy!


when someone report it to a game master the gamemaster said:
'sorry we cant do anything about this, we ask you to be more careful while trading other players

This came out of a response to another thread and ended up being a detailed grinding guide. I hope this helps you struggling LWs out there. I know I wish I had it when I was wallowing in the mid 200s.

200-220(ish) Thick armor kits http://www.thottbot.com/?i=4617

215-230 Big Voodoo Robe http://www.thottbot.com/?i=4064
Youre going to have to buy the pattern but it really shouldn't be that expenisve. A few stacks of armor kits will cover it easily. To make these, you need flasks of mojo. Back in the days of grinding LW I was stupid and didn't know where to get these. Well, Hinterlands trolls GIVE these things away like Halloween candy. The beauty of this is that you can grind on the turtles at the shore line (and collect scales too) then for a switch you can beat on trolls for awhile and get mojo all without changing zones.

ALTERNATE OPTION

220-235 Tough Scorpid Bracers http://www.thottbot.com/?i=7601
If youre not into the whole mountains and oceans theme but would rather climb sand dunes and bake in the sun, these are for you. Tanaris and Burning Steppes scorpions drop these at a decent rate and are plentiful. Burning Steppes has a better drop rate but you need to be in your mid 50s to get them.

Life gets MUCH easier from here…for awhile

230-245 Nightscape Pants http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3149
The great thing about these are they don't have any ridiculous secondary mats like turtle scales or scorpion scales and are available from your trainer. They are however, leather hogs. The plus is though, they DE into Dream Dust and Greater Nether Essence which sell very well. You do have level 5 AH whore that can DE don't you???

235-250 Nightscape Boots http://www.thottbot.com/?i=6735
(see above)

250-265 Rugged Armor Kits http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5749

260-275 Wicked Leather Bracershttp://www.thottbot.com/?i=14890
260-300 is the return of the suck. All the patterns are either drops or specialization patterns. Youre just gonna have to fork over the coin. If you have a good guild, see if someone has a few of these patterns gathering dust in the bank. These bracers (along with all wicked items) are great to skill up on and rogues will buy them. If you don't want to or have trouble selling them, they DE into Dream Dust and lesser eternal essence.

280-300 Wicked Leather Headband http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5404
If you can limp your way up to 280 Then these will take you all the way to the promised land. They sell well (as long as the AH isnt flooded) and they DE into Dream Dust and Greater Eternal Essence. I still make these from time to time JUST to get the GEE.

Make no mistake, LW SUCKS to max out because of the INSANE amount of leather you need to do it. If you have the money, buying stacks off the AH from time to time really helps keep your sanity on the way to 300. If not, just keep killing and skinning. You'll get there eventually.

GOOD LUCK!!!

I have been fishing going on four days now. It was a pain at first, but got easier as I went along. Here is a list of progression. Even though I only did the horde side, I researched all the alliance crap too. Paladins cry enough as it is, I didn't want them to feel left out. I am working on cooking skill at the same time. Cooking and fishing, as most of you know, go very well together.

Starting out: Getting your fishing skill.

horde Fishing (1-150)

Apprentice Fishing(1-75)

Armand Cromwell: In the Undercity. Outer circle, magic quarter, northeast.
Kah Mistrunner: Thunderbluff . Middle plateau, east section.
Lumak: Orgrimmar. Valley of Honor, at the pond.

Now you are set to get to a skill level of 75. You need to buy a fishing pole. Really cheap. If you want, you can buy bobber, lures, and other stuff that will allow you to artificially raise your fishing skill. So take that brand new fishing pole and go find a pond, lake, or ocean. No, your neighbor's swimming pool won't work, redneck.

NOTE: You can't fish in all bodies of water at a low skill. You will have to work your way up to them. If you try and fish in a body of water that is too high level for you, you will get a message saying something to the effect of "Goaway, you suck at fishing. Come back when you don't suck anymore". The best way of guaging whether you can fish or not is by looking around to see what kind of mobs are in the vicinity.

So you have fished your way up in skill. Time to go get that Journeyman rank. Not sure what the minimum skill required is (not too high, like 50), but skill level of 75 is sure to work. You can't go any higher than that anyway until you talk to a trainer.

Armand Cromwell: In the Undercity. Outer circle, magic quarter, northeast.
Kah Mistrunner: Thunderbluff . Middle plateau, east section.
Lumak: Orgrimmar. Valley of Honor, at the pond.

Yes, the same people you went to for your initial skill.

alliance Fishing (1-150)

Apprentice (1-75)

Arnold Leland: Stormwind
Astaia: Darnassus
Grimnur Stonebrand: Ironforge
Harold Riggs: Wetlands
Matthew Hooper: Redridge Mountains

You goody goodies make me sick. You get 5 trainers. Anyway, get your fishing pole in hand, grab some beer and Cheetos, and lets go fishing. If you want, you can buy bobber, lures, and other stuff that will allow you to artificially raise your fishing skill. This will get you to a skill level of 75.

NOTE: You can't fish in all bodies of water at a low skill. You will have to work your way up to them. If you try and fish in a body of water that is too high level for you, you will get a message saying something to the effect of "Goaway, you suck at fishing. Come back when you don't suck anymore". The best way of guaging whether you can fish or not is by looking around to see what kind of mobs are in the vicinity.

So, ready for Journeyman yet? No? Then why are you reading this? Get back to fishing!!

Journeyman Fishing (75-150)

Ready now? Ok great. Head back to one of the NPC's listed above. Get your Journeyman title. You can get it at a skill level lower than 75 if you wish, 50 or so. Once you have Journeyman you are set to make it to a skill level of 150.

alliance/horde Expert Fishing (150-225)

So you think you have reached Ahab status, eh? Think again.

Once you get high enough in skill, you need to head to Booty Bay and buy a book to get your skill cap raised from 150 to 225.

***EDIT: As stated by Ty in reply, you have to be level 20 and be willing to part with 1g to buy the book.

Go see Old Man Hemming. From him you will buy a copy of "Expert Fishing: The Bass and You". You can buy it whenever you want, but you won't be able to learn it until you have reached the appropriate skill level. It costs around 1 gold 35 silver, depending on your faction arrangement with Booty Bay.

alliance/horde Artisan Fishing (>225)

You mad mad slayer of fish you!!! You have managed to get up to skill level 225. Now what? Well now you need to boogy on down to Dustwallow Marsh. There you will find Nat Pagle (Tidefury Cove, on a rock in the bay, a Nat's ass SE of map dead center, HAHA I crack myself up. Nat's ass. Get it?). You must be LEVEL 40 to get the quest.

UPDATE: Nat can be found at 58,59 Tidefury Cove

Pat is going to send you on a quest. He wants you to catch some fish for him. Yes, you have to catch them. No, you can't buy them, you lazy bastard.

Nat says:
Can't say I really enjoy fishin' much. Figure I been at it for a good 20 or 30 years now. I reckon people are driven to do what they do for different reasons. Now, I'm not saying you need to fish for 30 years or catch every fish in the sea to become a master fisherman. I reckon you just need to be determined - determined enough to sit on your duff for hours at a time, doin' nothin'. I'll tell you what, catch me a few rare fish and I'll teach you a thing or two. Here's a list:
Misty Reed Mahi Mahi from the Misty Reed Strand in the Swamp of Sorrows.

A Sar'theris Striker from the Sar'theris Strand in Desolace.

Feralas Ahi from the Verdantis River of Feralas.

Savage Coast Blue Sailfin from the Savage Coast of Stranglethorn Vale.

Go get all that stuff, take it back to Nat, and POOF!!!, you are uber. Now go catch some fish.

The red Dafias mask is a rouge only headgear, its red bandana that covers your characters nose and mouth like you would see on a bandit or something.


If you want one you will need to kill the Dafias in Westfall. Westfall is alliance territoy and is a bit tricky to get to as a low level horde (you should be at least level 15).

To get there take a zeplin from Undercity or Orgrimmar to Grom'gol Base Camp.

Then swim north up the coast of Straglethorn Vale, keep far away from land to avoid pulling agg.


Once in Westfall get on land (off the beach) and stealth your way further north. Just north of Gold Coast Quarry on the beach cliff there is a shed and a windmill surrounded by some level 12 - 13 Defias, its an out of the way place so you shouldnt see alot of alliance there. Just keep killing them it might take awhile for a mask to drop (about half an hour to an hour).


Once you've got it just hearthstone back to town.

Doing this in the morning will help reduce your chances of running into alliance (people tend to stop playing and go to sleep around that time of day).

This is the gold mine right here. Literally. The wow Gold Pig blog is running a contest for 500,000 wow Gold. We ve gotten wind of it, thanks to tips (and tweets) from the community, and so went further to fish out more info about it.

Apparently, the contest goes like this: you register, you enter a name for their wow Gold Pig Twitter mascot and, if your entry is chosen, you win 500,000 in-game gold for World of Warcraft. Easy as pie, yes?

We got in touch with their representative Nick Gardner, and here's the lowdown on this contest.

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QJ: Hi Nick. First things first, who are you and what do you do?

Nick: I m your friendly neighborhood blogger at wowGoldPig.blogspot.com. When I'm not doing that, I'm usually raiding or otherwise lounging around somewhere in Azeroth…

QJ: Can you walk us through the contest?

Nick: Sure. The contest you are referring to is called Name Twitter Pig . To join, just visit our blog site, enter a winning name for Twitter Pig and walk away with half a million wow Gold. It couldn't be easier.

QJ: That sounds pretty simple. However, the maximum amount of gold a World of Warcraft character can hold is 214,748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper. How is the winner supposed to collect it all?

Nick: That's the best part of the contest! Initially we struggled with that limitation as well, and almost settled for a measly 50,000g giveaway. But we really wanted the community to have some fun with this promotion.

And since community is such a big part of online gaming, we decided it to let the winner nominate ten (10) WoW characters. Each character will receive 50,000g. So the winner will be in a position to gift gold to guild mates, friends, family, or simply store it on alts.

QJ: Do contestants have to buy anything?

Nick: There s no purchase necessary. Just good old fun for everyone!

QJ: How did the Twitter connection come about?

Nick: We are all active members in multiple online communities and games. And we particularly like the real time aspect of Twitter. It's fun to participate and it's different than a blog site, which feels more like a turn based form of community. Twitter's WoW community is large and robust and we want to be part of it. This contest is just one example of how we try to contribute to the community. It's fun!

QJ: I guess fun is the operating word on WoW Gold Pig?

Nick: You betcha.

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And so went our little chat. If you re a World of Warcraft gamer, don t miss this chance and join the contest today. For more on the contest details, just head to the source linked below.
Good Luck!

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World of Warcraft client patch 3.1.3 released
A new patch for Blizzard's ever popular MMO game World of Warcraft is now available. WoW Client Patch 3.1.3 is mostly a class balancing patch with some more bug fixes. Below are the list of changes.

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.1.3

Death Knights

• Frost Presence: Armor bonus is now 60 down from 80 .

Druids

• Improved Barkskin: This talent now also grants 80/160 additional armor while in Travel Form or not shapeshifted.
• Improved Tree of Life: The armor bonus to Tree of Life Form from this talent has been reduced to 67/133/200 bonus armor.

Hunters

• Hunter's Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has been increased from 300 to 500.
• Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25 .

Paladins

• Eye For An Eye: This talent now deals 5/10 of the critical strike damage taken by the paladin back at the attacker.
• Hand of Freedom: The base duration of this buff has been reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

Rogues

• Overkill: Talent redesigned. Now increases energy regeneration by 30 while stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth.

Warlocks

• Chaos Bolt: This spell no longer ignores damage reduction effects of the target.

Warriors

• Blood Frenzy: This talent now provides 5/10 haste instead of 3/6 .
• Bloodthirst: Cooldown reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds, and rage cost reduced from 30 rage to 20 rage.
• Juggernaut: This talent now also increases the cooldown on Charge by 5 seconds.

Items

• Death Knight PvP Gauntlets: The chance to refresh a Frost Rune when casting Chains of Ice has been removed. When equipped, these gloves now generate 5 additional runic power whenever Chains of Ice is used.

Dungeons

• Ulduar
• Mimiron
• The flight time of Rocket Strikes has been increased, and Rocket Strikes will try to prefer players at range.
• The Leviathan Mk II component of the V-07-TR-0N will become stunned during Phase 4 when the VX-001 component begins to cast the P3Wx2 Laser Barrage ability.
• Proximity mines now deal less damage and have a lower duration. A small arming time has also been added so proximity mines will not immediately detonate on creation.

Bug Fixes

• Druid Tier 8 Balance Set: The 4-piece bonus no longer has its effect consumed by Starfire casts in progress when it triggers. The chance for the effect to be triggered has been reduced down to 8 , as it was originally inflated to compensate.
• Ice Layered Barrier: Upgraded to item level 232. In addition, the stats in the tooltip have been correctly adjusted to 78 spell power, 48 haste rating, 16 mana per 5 seconds, 52 Intellect, and 50 Stamina.
• Pulsing Spellshield: The stats listed in the tooltip for this item were incorrect and have been adjusted. This item provides 69 spell power, 34 haste rating, 42 critical strike rating, 45 intellect, and 45 stamina.

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's Wrath of the Lich King expansion is finally going to come out in a few weeks. bet you're looking forward to the pre-release patch that's going to come real soon.

One of the biggest changes in the Wrath of the Lich King is the new Calendar System, which will be offered in the pre-release patch. Here are the features we can expect when the Calendar System gets released:

• Pre-existing events, like holidays and raid lockouts, will be on there by default. You can select what sort of events you want to see on your own calendar.
• Any user can create events viewable to their guild and/or to a user-selectable list of invitees. Events can be of various categories, like "PvP" or "Raid."
• If you send someone an invite, their calendar icon (on the minimap) will flash. They will then be able to RSVP to the event with whether or not they're coming.
• Events to which people have RSVPed show the total number and number of each class; very handy for raids. You can invite people to a party or raid straight from the calendar interface if they're online.

Of course, words just aren't enough sometimes, so here's a video of the calendar system in action. Check back for more updates on World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King.

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QJ Giveaway update: Free Realms beta keys start rolling out today!

Yes folks, the QJ Giveaway spree is well underway now! Sony Online Entertainment gave us a couple of beta keys so that people can try out their upcoming Free Realms MMORPG, and already, we've been able to roll out the first batch of keys to our lucky QJ.NET readers - congrats guys, you know who you are!

There are more beta keys strung up on our belts and chains, so if you guys missed the announcement yesterday, don't sweat. Everyone's still more than welcome to join in on the fun. We're giving you a chance to take Free Realms out for a spin and get a headstart on this baby before it gets released for the PC.

To give you guys a bit of a primer, here's a full 10-minute developer walkthrough of the free-to-play MMO to get you started:

For all you guys who still want to join in the party, you can head to the QJ.NET forums for more info on how to grab hold of a beta key. Before you know it, you'll probably have your own key by the end of the day! Keep it right here for more updates and announcements about this beta key giveaway!

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