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Fill Up Your Mug With Some XP and Brew

September 23, 2011 1 Comment

brewfest 300x187 Fill Up Your Mug With Some XP and Brew

Brewfest is here again and there is more to fill up with than the brew.  Brewfest is a great time to fill up your mug with some extra xp and gold.   All levels can participate in the fun events being offered.  Brewfest is located outside Ironforge (Alliance) and Orgrimmar (Horde).  This year’s brewfest has many new rewards  for those lucky enough to face off against Coren Direbrew.

Coren Direbrew Rewards

Doing this daily boss/dungeon will get you a special keg which can drop an epic item and/or even a mount!  Not to mention Coren himself drops different trinkets which are now item level 365.  For a list of all the trinkets click here.  There is also a chance to get two awesome looking mounts: Swift Brewfest Ram and/or the Great Brewfest Kodo.  These will only drop in your Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest which is a daily reward you will receive if you defeat Coren Direbrew.  There are two epic weapons that can drop in the daily keg as well: Direbrew’s Bloody Shanker (BOP) or Tremendous Tankard O’ Terror (BOE).  Direbrew’s Remote is a nice item that can drop as well.  This item allows for the teleportation of you and/or your party members straight to the Grim Guzzler located in Blackrock Depths.

Brewfest Daily Quests

Every day until October 5, you can do daily Brewfest quests.  For most of the quests you complete you will collect experience, silver/gold and Brewfest Prize tokens which can be used to purchase other goodies from a token redeemer.  You can also obtain two different vanity pets/companions as well.  The Wolpertinger is part of a daily quest and the Pint-Sized Pink Pacheyderm can be purchase with 100 tokens.  You can also get many achievements that are funny and crazy.  For a list of all the achievements, click here.

Brewfest is a joyous celebration of beer, food and XP.  Take all your toons and join in on the festivities before the kegs run dry!

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Here Fishy Fishy…

August 26, 2011 2 Comments

fishing 300x167 Here Fishy Fishy...

Every time I see a yellow dot indicating a fishing pool, I fish.  I do enjoy fishing even though most dread it.  The one thing I have noticed on my realm is the lack of fish available for sale in the auction house. I decided to farm for any fish I could find in the areas I was questing. You must obtain a Weather-Beaten Journal to track these pools in your map. The Weather-Beaten Journal can be obtained in: daily fishing bags or any crate/box you pull up from fishing pools. This journal can only be learned when you have obtained a fishing skill of 100.

My Fishing Trip

I was out leveling up my mining skill on one of my toons when I decided to level up her fishing as well.  Anytime I saw a specific pool on my map, I would plop down, turn on my music and fish in serenity.  I probably did about 30 minutes of fishing in an area that was abundant with Oily Blackmouth and Firefin Snapper fishing pools.  I obtained close to 30 Oily Blackmouth and about 20 Firefin Snapper.  Since I had no use for the fish at that time, I decided to check the auction house and see what they were going for.  One person had 1 Oily Blackmouth up for 10 gold.  I ended up putting the Oily Blackmouth up for 30-35 gold buyout per stack of 5.  Oily Blackmouth are used to make Blackmouth Oil for Alchemists. I checked the Firefin Snapper and saw that there were none for sale.  I put the Firefin Snapper up for 45-50gold  per stack of 5 just to see if they sold.  Firefin Snapper is used to make Fire Oil which is also used for Alchemists.  Within the day, all of my fish had sold.  I checked my realm for different fish that I could fish for and ended up reaping in nice benefits.  I farmed for fish for the next week and even had a guild mate make me a Lure Master Tackle Box to hold all my fish.

My Results

I gathered many stacks of different fishes for various professions.  I sold 80-85% of all the fish I farmed for within 3 days totaling almost 1000 gold!  Please note that every realm is different but nevertheless, a little research on which fish are selling great on your realm’s auction house is encouraged.  You can check out The Undermine Journal for what fish are selling well on your realm.  Even though fishing can be boring and tedious to some, don’t underestimate the profit you can get from farming these fish.  I will also add that the Deepsea Sagefish sells for close to 175 per stack of 20 on my realm. This fish is used to create a delicacy which most healers and casters hunger for in 85 dungeons and raids.  Even the two created foods:  Delicious Sagefish Tail and Severed Sagefish Head sell for a nice profit on my realm.  All you need to do is check out what is selling, grab your strong fishing pole and turn up the music.  Oh, one more thing…it doesn’t hurt to say “Here Fishy, Fishy” as the pupils in your eyes turn into gold coins.

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Call To Arms: Support your faction and get awesome benefits!

July 22, 2011 Leave a Comment

wsg Call To Arms: Support your faction and get awesome benefits!

Semper Fi! This shortened term means “always faithful” and is often used as the motto for the U.S. Marine Corps. Whether your Alliance or Horde, most of us are loyal to our faction. There is a weekly event which happens on every server and faction that tests our loyalty. This special event is called Call To Arms.  Every Friday through Monday, there is a designated battleground which hosts Call To Arms.

Benefits

Call To Arms is a great way to level and/or farm honor points.  It is also a great way to learn how to play your character better.  You may enter battlegrounds at level 10.  There are 2 battlegrounds you can enter at this level: Warsong Gulch (one of my personal favorites) and Arathi Basin.   Check your game calendar by right-clicking the calendar icon located at the far right corner on top of your mini-map.  Make sure your filter is set to Battleground Call To Arms.  I power leveled my alternate character from 10-30 on a Call To Arms: Warsong Gulch weekend.  I also obtained so many honor points that I capped at 4000 by the time all was said and done.  Honor points can be exchanged for PVP items at your faction’s PVP vendors located mainly in Stormwind’s Champion’s Hall (Alliance) and Orgrimmar’s Hall of Legends (Horde).  There are a few other locations which sell PVP items for lower levels as well.  Here is a list for Alliance and Horde on where to purchase lower level PVP items.  One can check which battleground is Call To Arms during that specific weekend by clicking on their PVP icon located at the bottom of their user interface.  You can join by yourself or get a party of 5 and join as a group.

Alliance:

Horde:

  • Arathi Highlands – Hammerfall (Rutherford Twing) Items for level 28-60
  • Northern Barrens – Mor’shan Base Camp (Kelm Hargunth) Items for level 18-60
  • Hillsbrad Foothills – Alterac Mountains (Jekyll Flandring) Items for level 55-60

 

eos 300x181 Call To Arms: Support your faction and get awesome benefits!

You want to make certain that your experience bar is blue which means when you get experience in these specific battlegrounds, you will never turn purple.  You will get 200% experience when your experience bar is blue as opposed to 100% when purple.  Did I mention that if you do engage in a Call To Arms battleground, your honor points and experience will be doubled?  This is great news for anyone trying to power level their character.

 

What If I Am Level 85?

Benefits for a level 85 when you can  no longer get experience is pleasant as well.  You will still obtain double the honor points and be able to purchase some nice epic PVP gear and weapons.  Not to mention, you will be able to get achievements and reputation with some of the PVP factions.

So make sure you check your Call To Arms weekly battlegrounds and support your faction.  Whether you are power leveling or just farming honor points, Call To Arms is sure to benefit your character.  Oorah!

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