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Mists of Pandaria: Cooking Specializations (Updated for 5.3)
This article takes a look at Cooking additions and changes in Mists of Pandaria.
Cooking Overview
To select a specialization, you must have 530 Cooking. Trainers are found in the
Halfhill Market
.
Jian Ironpaw
, Master of the Oven
Bobo Ironpaw
, Master of the Brew
Anthea Ironpaw
, Master of the Wok
Yan Ironpaw
, Master of the Steamer
Mei Mei Ironpaw
, Master of the Pot
Kol Ironpaw
, Master of the Grill
Sungshin Ironpaw
at the
Halfhill Market
has quests for each specialization. You gain
Ironpaw Token
for cooking food and completing these quests.
You can train as many specializations as you like--you aren't limited to just one.
Each specialization has its own skill bar. You will need to level each specialization individually to 600 if you want to learn every recipe in the game.
Skillups from daily Cooking quests increase all 6 specializations. Completing
Ready for Greatness
(cooking 5
Rice Pudding
) unlocks the new daily quests.
All trainers teach you interchangeable feasts at 575:
Pandaren Banquet
and
Great Pandaren Banquet
R
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15689 - Spell Changes, Items, Maps, and More
A new beta patch is hitting Mists of Pandaria sometime this weekend it looks like! We have datamined the spell differences for you to look at and tons of new items, achievements, and more.
The biggest thing this patch seems to be
Breath of the Black Prince
which is likely a way of upgrading items tremendously without class restrictions normally known with legendaries. This system exists in other MMORPGs so it would make sense. This is only speculation, of course.
Horde Bear Models
Like the armored cats we covered earlier in the week, we now have armored bears. The Alliance ones weren't done--these are the Horde versions.
Latest Additions
Check out the latest items here
.
Several legendary quality Sha artifacts:
Breath of the Black Prince
,
Sigil of Power
,
Chimera of Fear
,
Sigil of Wisdom
Secondary professions will scale accountwide:
Grand Master Cookbook
and so on
New hunter pet types:
Rest
(Porcupines) and
Surface Trot
(Water Striders)
You will be able to blacklist maps in PvP, though we're unsure of what this means withou
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Mists of Pandaria Spell Animations
Since we
last covered new spell animations
, there's been even more visual changes to class abilities! Minor glyphs on the beta have awesome cosmetic effects, new spells have distinctive looks, and classes like Monks and Warlocks continue to get a lot of flair.
We didn't want any class to feel left out, so we made sure to highlight cool visual effects for every class this time, as well as providing ability descriptions and level information so you'll know exactly how to spec to look good!
Big thanks to
Esoth
and
Binkenstein
for letting me take pictures of their beta characters.
Be sure to click the tabs to see your favorite classes' visual changes!
Death Knight
Charred Glyph
, minor glyph: When used outside of combat, your Horn of Winter ability causes a brief, localized snow flurry.
Glyph of the Geist
, minor glyph: Your Raise Dead spell summons a geist instead of a ghoul.
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[Discontinued] Introducing Wowhead for Diablo: D3DB
Note: this project was discontinued and is no longer affiliated with Wowhead/ZAM/Fanbyte.
Diablo III is in less than a week and we're getting
really
excited here at Wowhead. It's been a long time coming. Of course, as release date nears, we've been getting a lot of questions about Wowhead's plans for D3 since it's so closely linked to World of Warcraft.
We figured it's a good time to remind everyone that there is a Wowhead for Diablo III: Removed. A site built by Wowhead fans, it was acquired a few months ago by the Wowhead team and we've been thrilled to have these guys join our team. As launch day inches closer, their site keeps growing and there's loads of stuff to show everyone.
Some of Removed better known features are:
A really awesome character planner
A skill calculator
A database full of items, enemies, skills, and everything else you've come to expect from a site in the Wowhead family!
Brand new forums
A Diablo III bluetracker
Diablo III news coverage
And more!
We hope you join us in bookmarking Removed for your Diablo III needs and giving them a warm wel
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Cross-Realm Zones Introduced
With the latest beta patch, we’ve introduced Cross-Realm Zones for testing.
During the initial phase of testing we will be sharing the following zones between the available beta realms: Northern Barrens, Ashenvale, Azshara, Darkshore, Westfall, and Silithus. We are also able to split over-populated zones and will be testing this new technology on the Pandaren starting area (turtle zone).
For beta testing purposes, we will be matching up all realm types whether they are PvP or PvE. This is different than what we plan to do for the live realms, however. For the live realms we will be matching realm types: PvP with PvP, PvE with PvE, RP-PvP with RP-PvP, and RP-PvE with RP-PvE.
As always, we plan to keep an eye on constructive feedback while in testing of this new technology.
For more information on Cross-Realm sharing, please read the FAQ below:
F.A.Q.
Q. Why cross-realm zones?
For many years now, the significant majority of the player population online at any given time has consisted mostly of characters at or near the level cap. This has resulted in an environment where characters that are leveling up experience a world
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15677 - New Druid Cat Forms, Monk and Priest PvP Sets, and More
A new patch hit around 1AM PDT tonight and should be up on the beta later today! There are tons of new achievements, a couple new items, and more which we have datamined. We also have spell changes under the break.
Notable things we've found
in this patch
:
Two new titles: and
Players will be able to upgrade items using valor points
. Instead of buying new items, you will be able to increase its ilevel through valor points:
ITEM_UPGRADE = "Item Upgrade";
ITEM_UPGRADE_DESCRIPTION = "Use your valor points to upgrade a weapon or piece of armor that is level 375 or higher.";
Cooking specializations are in:
Way of the Brew
,
Way of the Steamer
,
Way of the Oven
,
Way of the Pot
Possible indication that secondary skills will be cross account; if you have 400 cooking, your alts could too:
Journeyman Cookbook
Dustwallow Marsh has a revised zone:
Tons of
new tailoring items
, including embroderies.
New monk spell (
Zen Flight
) and new mage spell (
)
New glyphs:
[
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Mists of Pandaria Zone Preview: Kun-Lai Summit
Kun-Lai Summit
is a vast area with Pandaria's highest mountains, autumnal plains, royal underground tombs, a lush coastal area, and the dungeon
Shado-Pan Monastery
. There's also the Temple of the White Tiger, and a monk-only area, Peak of Serenity. It's a zone intended for level 87+ players to quest in.
Kun-Lai is different from the other zones in that there's a ton of scenic variety between the quest hubs, from snowy mountains to forests. Lore-wise, there's something for everyone with the invasion of the Zandalari, Yaungol attacks, the return of the Mogu, Pandaren monasteries, and the threat of the Sha.
We also found the
Sha of Anger
, a new world boss, towering over a village.
We have a visual preview below as well as a Blizzard Q&A about the zone!
The Zandalari
Zouchin Village, North Wind Tavern, Isle of Reckoning, Thunder's Call
The Zandalari have attacked the Zouchin, an unarmed village located in the most fertile part of Kun-Lai Summit. As they have weak reinforcements, they need your help. Nobody has ever seen trolls before, so the Zandalari attacks are even more shocking.
To get to Zouchin Province, you ride a hot-air balloon wit
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Pandaren Dances and News Round Up
The new beta build we
datamined yesterday
is now live: players can quest in Townlong Steppes. The Pandaren dances were also unveiled in yesterday's patch, so we made a video of them!
In the aftermath of
Ghostcrawler's latest blog on account-wide achievements
, there's been some blue posts clarifying this announcement. There's also been more posts on warrior and paladin abilities in Mists, and if you like to PvP, the time to participate in the Arena Pass is
now
: it's entered the exclusive rewards phase.
Achievements in Mists
Let’s consider
Loremaster of Kalimdor
.
Character A completes
Ashenvale Quests
for a toast and 10 points.
If Character B then completes
Ashenvale Quests
, they will get the toast, but not 10 more points. (It is NOT a new achievement for the account.)
If Character B then completes [achievem
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Play Games? Answer This Survey to Win!
This giveaway is now closed, thanks!
A few months ago we had a research survey we did for advertising to help make Wowhead and the ZAM Network more relevant for our users. It was really successful thanks to you guys--so successful, in fact, that we've decided to do another one!
Just answer this
online survey
about your gaming preferences regarding the FPS genre and we'll pick seven lucky participants to win Amazon gift cards. All information is confidential and we will only use your email to contact you about the prize should you win.
One person will win $100 USD Amazon gift card
Two people will win a $50 USD Amazon gift card
Four people will win a $25 USD Amazon gift card
Make sure you act fast--we'll be closing it May 11th at noon!
Click here to take the survey!
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15668 - Monk Tier 14, Spell Changes, New Items
New beta build this afternoon--the new level 90 druid talent,
Nature's Vigil
is up, some changes to Spirit Shell and Rapture as promised by
Ghostcrawler
recently, as well as achievement and class changes in general.
Click here to see the latest additions to the beta!
Monk Tier 14
Cloth Armor Set
It's fairly open-ended, but it looks like t
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New Ghostcrawler Blog: Achievements in Mists of Pandaria
Ghostcrawler decided to tackle achievements in Mists of Pandaria, with some new information on account-wide ones.
<div xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
class="detail"><p>We recently added account-level changes to achievements in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and there’s still a lot of work left before we’re done. The plan here is to illustrate the intent behind our design, which should in turn help you figure out the answers to many of your questions.</p></br>
<p>Overall, we never want you to play Character A instead of Character B because of achievement concerns. If Character A had the Violet Proto-Drake, then you might not play Character B. If Character A was only one holiday away from the Violet Proto-Drake, then you may not play Character B. If Character A had completed most of the raid achievements from Dragon Soul, you may not want to bring Character B for one fight and miss out on the achievement. Having alts is cool and working on achievements is cool, but we don’t want the two systems to work against each other.</p></br>
<p>This goal is paramount and drives everyth
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News Round Up: Class Beta Feedback, PvP Gear, Leaders of Azeroth
Today's news round up has a ton of blue posts. First off, there's a lot of detailed beta feedback for
Druid
s,
Hunter
s,
Priest
s, and
Warrior
s, including discussions about Level 90 Druid talents and Rapture for priests. There's also discussion about PvP gear in Mists,
nerfs, Dungeon bugs on beta, and the recent completion of the Leaders of Azeroth short story series. Click the cut to see all the posts!
PvP Gear in Mists
You will have less resilience on your gear coming into beta. However, you will also have some base resilience and that base should offset the PvP power that everyone is getting. The net result should be that you take about the same damage you do today in a PvP setting, but will take less damage from someone not wearing PvP gear.
Currently on your beta build, I believe the ratio of power to resilience is off. You should have more resilience and less power than you do.
It is entirely possible that some new talents or spell changes will result in too much burst damage in isolated cases, but when giving feedback, it's useful for us if you distinguish between those and survivabili
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Introducing Tera Tome, ZAM's New TERA Database
Our network ZAM is growing again so please join the Wowhead team in welcoming
Tera Tome
to the ZAM database family!
Tera Tome is going to have the same database features you've come to love here at Wowhead and
Torhead
. Our developers and content creators are working with the developers at En Masse Entertainment to bring you the most accurate and up-to-date database for the North American version of TERA that we possibly can.
Anyone playing TERA will enjoy Tera Tome's
extensive recipe list
and a
complete Glyph Calculator
! Since this is a beta version of the site, new features will constantly be added and refined.
And if you love World of Warcraft, don't worry--Wowhead's focus hasn't changed and its staff is still committed to growing the site. We're right in the middle of beta and couldn't be happier covering WoW.
Check out Tera Tome now!
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15662 - 3D Models, Spell Changes, and More
Another small patch is coming to the beta shortly. It had a lot of the source recipes for profession recipes we'd already datamined, along with some other new stuff.
Plate Reputation Armor Set
Latest Additions
Click here to see the latest additions to the beta
!
Here's a breakdown of some of the cooler stuff we've found in this patch.
New Titles:
<The Beloved>. Reward from:
60 Exalted Reputations
Collector's Edition:
Collector's Edition: Imperial Quilen
Collector's Edition: Lucky Quilen Cub
Lucky Quilen Cub
Imperial Quilen
New Scenario:
Brewmoon Festival
New PvP Mounts:
Cataclysmic Gladiator's Twilight Drake
New Abilities:
[u
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Mists of Pandaria Zone Preview: Krasarang Wilds and The Veiled Stair
Krasarang Wilds
is a coastal jungle with tranquil beaches and dense rainforests. It used to be the center of the sinister Mogu Empire, but now it houses the sacred Temple of the Red Crane, revered as a place of wisdom.
Originally intended to be part of
Valley of the Four Winds
, the decision was recently made to turn this area into a full-fledged zone. While some of the quests do take players back into Valley, Krasarang has a distinctive look and unique quest sequences involving the spirituality of the Red Crane and destructive presence of the Sha. There are plans to develop the coastal area further in 5.1 with Alliance and Horde fortresses, and it is also currently home to
The Anglers
, a faction perfect for those who love to fish.
There are also
rare spawns with vanity gear drops
and
quirky quest rewards!
!
We have a visual preview below, as well as a Blizzard Q&A on the zone!
The Anglers
The Anglers
are a group of Panda
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15657 - 3D Models, Latest Additions, and More
Another day, another beta patch! This is a rather important one as it looks like the level cap will increase to 88 and there will be more zones to explore on the beta as well as dungeons!
Check out the latest additions to the beta
!
New Abilities
New Shadow Priest ability,
: You have a 20% chance when you deal periodic damage with your Vampiric Touch to instantly reset the cooldown of your Mind Blast and cause its next cast within 12 sec to be instant.
Shadow priest mastery was also reworked:
Mastery: Madness
.
New Monk Ability:
New Cooking Recipes:
Blanched Needle Mushrooms
Boiled Silkworm Pupa
Dried Needle Mushrooms
Dried Peaches
Green Curry Fish
Peach Pie
Pounded Rice Cake
Red Bean Bun
Skewered Peanut Chicken
Tangy Yogurt
Toasted Fish Jerky
Yak Cheese Curds
New Items
New Mounts:
Reins of the Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent
New Glyphs:
zzOLD Glyph of the Bear Cub
: Your Polymorph: Sheep spell polymorphs the target into a polar bear cub instead.
: If you use Demonic Leap while
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Children's Week (April 29th - May 5th) Guide
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 29th
at
12:01 AM
(server) and ends on
May 5th
at
12:00 AM
.
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed last year to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests.
It's also worth noting that in Mists of Pandaria, pets will be accountwide! This means you should get extra pets on your alts that you do not have so you can trade them to your main when the expansion hits.
If you already have all the pets, be sure to pick up
Magical Pet Biscuit
--the reward for repeating the holiday, even
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Challenge Mode and PvP Armor Set Previews and Tier 14 Set Bonuses
We have some more 3D models to share with you today, in particular a bunch of armor sets and NPCs.
Remember to click on the images to view them in full 3D in our brand new modelviewer!
3D Models
PvP Armor Sets
Death Knight PvP Armor
Warlock PvP Armor
Challenge Mode Armor Sets
Mage Challenge Mode Armor
[model itemset=1,1105
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Mists of Pandaria Build 15650 and Pet Battle Preview
A small build was deployed in the middle of the night, with some quirky things like reputation-based guild shirts and new cooking recipes! As usual, click the cut to see spell changes for all class abilities, talents, and glyphs.
Click here to see the latest additions
.
Pet Battles
In addition to the pet battle information we previewed yesterday covering
achievements, abilities, the UI, and new pets
, we were also able to get some video footage of the pet battles in action!
Build 15650 Highlights
New Mounts
Reins of the Golden Cloud Serpent
Reins of the Azure Cloud Serpent
New Vanity Pets
Feral Vermling
: Reward from
Master Pet Hunter
Tiny Goldfish
Glyphs
Glyph of Crimson Banish
: Your Banish spell is now red.
: Your spell will heal you for 4% of the damage dealt.
Leatherworking Armor Kits
Brutal Leg Armor
Sha-Touched Leg Armor
Toughened Leg Armor
Sha Armor Kit
Angerhide Leg Armor
Ironscale Leg Armor
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New Recruit-A-Friend Mount Coming
The
X-53 Touring Rocket
will soon be a collector's item! Within the next few weeks, a third RAF mount will be introduced and the current one retired from Azeroth.
The mount will likely be
Heart of the Nightwing
--apparently it was added to both the PTR and the MoP beta, so it will be the RAF mount! (My bad for earlier saying I didn't know.)
Remember,
you can always post in the Wowhead RAF friend if you're looking to recruit someone before the rocket is removed
. Happy leveling!
Heads up! The current Recruit-A-Friend reward mount, the experimental X-53 Touring Rocket, will soon be cycled out of the RAF program. If you’ve always wanted a Touring Rocket, but haven’t snagged one yet,
this is your last chance to get one by bringing a friend to World of Warcraft
.
While we don’t have an official launch date to reveal for the new Recruit-A-Friend mount, we wanted to give you an early heads up that the changeover will be happening “soon” (TM). You have a few weeks to claim the X-53 Touring Rocket before it goes away.
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