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Mists of Pandaria Beta: First impressions of monk leveling
Joystiq Going with something I've already done tons of times in the past seemed to make sense, and the fact that tauren are still my favorite race in WoW was just icing on the cake. For this same reason, I eschewed heirlooms; I wanted to give myself a holistic … |
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Know Your Lore: The curious dissonance of Alliance leveling
Joystiq by Anne Stickney Apr 1st 2012 at 6:00PM The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your … |
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Finally, a leveling guild worth calling home
Joystiq Why would an experienced WoW player keep coming back to a level 54 character to spend a massive slice of her time and energy leading a guild full of players who are toddling through content most players are more than happy to speed-jump? |
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.
Leveling in Northrend was made easier with patch 4.3′s reducing the experience necessary by 33%. In addition, many quests in Outland and Northrend were retuned from group quests to soloable, and the major quest givers for instance quests were moved inside the instances in most cases so that players using Dungeon Finder to level through them could turn them in more easily.
These changes make leveling through the oldest content in the game (with the Cataclysm revamps, Outland and Northrend are in fact older content than the 1-to-60 game) easier than it has ever been. That makes now the perfect time to talk about how to level through these 19 levels and get ready for the 80-to-85 content. Since we talked about 1 to 60 two weeks ago, we’ll follow much the same format.
Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Leveling from 61 to 80
Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Cataclysm
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Leveling from 61 to 80 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Totem Talk for elemental, enhancement and restoration shaman. This week, Josh Myers, the dean of DPS shaman, and Joe Perez, the Robespierre of restoration, do a Dragonball-Z style fusion dance and combine their class knowledge to bring you a concise shaman leveling guide.
So, young padawan, you want to play a shaman. You’re following in the footsteps of some of the greatest characters in World of Warcraft lore — Nobundo Farseer, Thrall, and yours truly. Just know that you have the full support of myself and Mr. Joe Perez, and we’ll only judge you a very small amount for not choosing shaman sooner.
The shaman class has three distinct specs that each fulfill very different roles. Enhancement, which we’ll talk about first, is a melee DPS class, which means standing very close to bosses and whacking them repeatedly with blades or maces imbued with flame and wind. Elemental is a ranged caster DPS class, preferring to stand at a safe distance while hurling balls of lava and electrocuting enemies. Restoration, the last spec we’ll talk about, is a healing spec, revitalizing friends by creating super-soothing puddles for them to stand in. Seriously.
Continue reading Totem Talk: Leveling a shaman in the Cataclysm era
Filed under: Shaman, (Shaman) Totem Talk, Cataclysm
Totem Talk: Leveling a shaman in the Cataclysm era originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Totem Talk: Leveling a shaman in the Cataclysm era
Joystiq You're following in the footsteps of some of the greatest characters in World of Warcraft lore — Nobundo Farseer, Thrall, and yours truly. Just know that you have the full support of myself and Mr. Joe Perez, and we'll only judge you a very small … |
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Fox Van Allen and Basil “Euripides” Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Feed Fox’s ego by emailing him, tweeting him at @foxvanallen, or sacrificing your first-born to him. And be sure to catch the return of Basil and Fox’s podcast, Call to Auction!
Here at WoW Insider, we’ve been on a beginners’ class guide kick. But after taking the time to put together my shadow priest leveling guide (and after reading the warlock leveling guide written by my less talented coworker), I realized that we didn’t have any kind of leveling guides for professions. Time to fix that! After all, you need professions to make money.
But first, the most important question: What professions should your character choose? The best answer is always going to be “whatever appeals to you most” — but if you’re a magic-using, cloth-wearing class, I’d recommend you at least take a look at tailoring. By leveling it, you get access to Lightweave Embroidery, one of the best level 85 buffs in the game for casters.
Of course, you can level tailoring on any character, and a lot of the craftables you make can be sold at a profit. But if that character can’t use the buffs from the profession, you’re missing one the key benefits to max leveling a profession.
Continue reading Gold Capped: A tailoring leveling guide
Filed under: Economy, Cataclysm, Gold Capped
Gold Capped: A tailoring leveling guide originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Gold Capped: A tailoring leveling guide
Joystiq The one item that has consistently sold well throughout World of Warcraft history are bags. Everyone needs them. But not all bags sell. The only bags that sell to any reliable extent are those that contain a minimum of 16 slots. … |
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let’s show the other classes how a hero class gets things done.
So the news that pandarens can’t be death knights in the new expansion is a bit of a bummer, but it does mean you can start a new death knight right now without worrying about missing out on a new race choice. If you’ve read my guide to death knight racial abilities, you probably have a good idea of what race to roll, too. With that done, you’ve already taken the first step into a larger world.
Death knights, of course, start at level 55 and have that starting experience, which for the most part is pretty intuitive. You’ll get more talent points as you finish quests, which can be fun in that you get your goodies a lot faster than other classes, but frustrating in that you don’t have as much time to get used to everything. Luckily, we’re here to help.
This guide isn’t about maximizing your DPS at the raiding level or even the dungeon level; it’s about getting you to level 85 as smoothly as possible. With that in mind, let’s look at each talent spec and what they have to offer, starting with my favorite leveling spec, frost.
Frost is a great leveling tree (if there’s a best leveling tree, this is it) because not only does it have On A Pale Horse, which allows you to move between mobs and quest objectives faster, but it has Lichborne for emergency heals and Howling Blast for superior AoE capability.
Continue reading Lichborne: A guide to leveling your death knight in the Cataclysm era
Filed under: Death Knight, (Death Knight) Lichborne
Lichborne: A guide to leveling your death knight in the Cataclysm era originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. this week, we seek to aid those of you who have made or will make the noble decision to level a mage in the coming months.
In the past, we’ve done our leveling guides here at WoW Insider as sprawling, multi-post epics, spanning ten or twenty levels a week over the course of a month, covering every aspect of every facet of everything you could ever want to know about leveling each class in the game. The problem with that approach is that you could probably just go in blind and level your mage from 1 to 85 faster than I could tell you how to do it. The simple fact of the matter is that the leveling game just isn’t terribly difficult. The process has been streamlined over the years to the point that I don’t believe such detailed leveling guides are really necessary anymore. Most of this game is intuitive and user friendly now, and the part of the game that really requires in-depth strategy doesn’t really start until after the experience-gaining part of it has stopped.
Knowing this, I won’t be filling this guide with talent analysis, ways to optimize your level 45 boss fight rotation, or a detailed travelogue of every quest hub you’ll be traipsing through along the way. This will be a more stripped-down endeavor, focusing on the parts of leveling that I think are important: not the spell coefficients and spreadsheets, but the basic concepts your mage needs to learn while leveling, not only to make the process easier and more enjoyable, but also to help them step from mage adolescence into mage adulthood so they can shoot Deathwing in the face with a Fireball of wisdom and maturity.
Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: Guide to leveling a mage in Cataclysm
Filed under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance
Arcane Brilliance: Guide to leveling a mage in Cataclysm originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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