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Guide to Hallow's End 2014: New Pets, Toys, Disguises, and More!
Our Hallow's End Guide covers achievements, vanity items, candy bucket maps, quests, and spooky loot--now with tons of 2014 updates!
Event Changes
After a drought of holiday updates, Hallow's End has some new loot in 2014!
Hallow's End loot is now ilvl 540 to get players ready for Warlords of Draenor. New Horseman loot includes:
The Horseman's Ring
Seal of Ghoulish Glee
Band of the Petrified Pumpkin
Wicked Witch's Signet
The Horseman's Sinister Slicer
The Horseman's Horrific Hood
Also tied to the event is the amazing costume
Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King"
, new wands such as
Hallowed Wand - Slime
, new battle pets
Widget the Departed
and
Cursed Birman
, and several pug disguises (
"Mad Alchemist" Costume
,
"Lil' Starlet" Costume
,
"Yipp-Saron" Costume
).
In addition,
Little Wickerman
is now classified as a toy to fit into your brand-new
Toy Box
!
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Darkmoon Faire in Town 1/5 - 1/12
The Darkmoon Faire is back in Azeroth today and remains open until the 12th. Some of the fun stuff you can do at the Faire includes:
Picking up
WHEE!
at the Carousel or
Darkmoon Top Hat
to get a 10% bonus to experience and reputation gains.
Killing rare spawns
Moonfang
and
Darkmoon Rabbit
for pets like
Moon Moon
.
Fighting special pet tamer
Jeremy Feasel
for
Darkmoon Eye
.
Earning
Darkmoon Prize Ticket
for a variety of rewards--mounts like
Darkmoon Dancing Bear
, pets like
Darkmoon Monkey
, transmog gear like
Darkmoon Hammer
, and heirlooms.
Completing a variety of quests for profession skillups and tickets like
Talkin' Tonks
.
Fishing up the rare
Darkmoon Fishing Cap
and
Sea Pony
.
Also check out our
Darkmoon Island
zone page to listen to all the unique Faire music, like
MUS_43_DarkmoonFaire_IslandWalk
.
We've put together our
own guide to the Darkmoon Faire
and several users have written great guides as well, which you can find linked on important Darkmoon Faire pages in our database: [url=
http://www.w
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Guild Guide: Reputation, Rewards, Perks, and Achievements
Guild reputation was added in Cataclysm as an incentive to promote guild loyalty and activity. There are unique perks, mounts, and pets that you can only get being part of a Guild too!
This guide covers how to gain reputation with a guild, how to level a guild up, achievements, perks for each guild level, and what reputation levels and achievements you need to unlock all the special guild rewards.
Guild Reputation
Guild reputation lets players purchase special rewards from
Guild Vendors
and work towards
Guild Achievements
.
Guild reputation can be gained by turning in quests, killing PvE bosses in a guild group, or PvPing in a guild group.
In Mists of Pandaria, the weekly cap for guild reputation you can earn per week has been removed. Between this and the limit on daily quests being lifted, you can grind reputation out pretty quickly.
You can speed up reputation gains through reputation buffs like
Diplomacy
(full li
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Feast of Winter Veil 2013 Guide (December 16 - January 2)
Feast of Winter Veil
is hitting servers early Monday so get prepared to drink some
Winter Veil Egg Nog
, sit by your
Cozy Fire
, and open your
Stolen Present
--wait, what? Is that a new type of present we've found in the database? There's a new holiday gift waiting for you under this year's tree, and your
Father Winter's Helper
has stopped sulking and is ready for some pet battles, so this is one holiday you don't want to miss!
Changes in 2013
The 2013 special gift in your faction's capital city is
Crashin' Thrashin' Flyer Controller
. Two achievements have been added:
Crashin' Thrashin' Flyer
and
The Danger Zone
.
The
Stolen Present
has a number of improvements as well. It can drop all the old Winter Veil toys and some of them now grant holiday Feats of Strength.
Players can collect a new battle pet:
Rotten Little Helper
from the
Stolen Present
. This is a Humanoid battle pet with the following abilities:
Club
,
Booby-Trapped Presents
,
Greench's Gift
,
Ice Lance
,
Ice Tomb
,
Call Blizzard
.
Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake
is also a bit easier to obtain. It is sold by Copperpinch and Jingleproket vendors for and is in the daily
Stolen Present
.
As of
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New Site Feature: Tracking Collections on Wowhead
A few weeks ago, we released a new feature letting users track
their quest progress
on database pages and search results. You loved it and asked for more, so we expanded the tool to track even more things!
In addition to quests, you can now track a character's collected
mounts
,
pets
,
achievements
,
recipes
, and
titles
across Wowhead.
Just pick a character and save it on Wowhead via the
Profiler
, click on the green resync icon next to their name to make sure it's completely updated, and click on the Red Heart/Pin option to get started. When you visit pages or get a list of results, you'll now see your collection progress as well as modified tooltips showing what you've completed or still need to collect.
You can
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Vanity Collections: Guide to WoW's Tabards
This guide helps you find the perfect tabard to match your transmog or new armor! We've organized all the tabards by their source, as well as by expansion. We've also provided thumbnails of all the tabards--click on them to view them in our 3D modelviewer.
Tabards currently take up a lot of bag space, but there may be plans to consolidate them as a
collection in Warlords of Draenor
, similar to mounts and pets.
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Patch 5.4: Mists of Pandaria Reputation Guides and Shaohao Guide
Patch 5.4 had many reputation changes, as well as the daunting
Emperor Shaohao
reputation to grind, so we've updated all of our popular Mists of Pandaria reputation guides! With the long weekend, it's the perfect time to finish up some rep grinds for mounts or other fun vanity items.
Of particular note:
Valor Points
gear now costs
Justice Points
, existing ilvl 458 gear is now 75% cheaper, and no gear purchasable with a currency requires reputation. You can still buy these items from quartermasters, but you don't need any reputation to do so.
Commander Lo Ping
sells all the ilvl 458 Justice Point gear, and
Commander Oxheart
sells all the ilvl 489 Justice Point gear--a little confusing since he's the Valor quartermaster.
Our
Emperor Shaohao
guide now explains the pros and cons to each rep farming area, lists all the mobs that grant reputation, and includes details on the unique vanity items for
Going To Need A Bigger Bag
that they drop.
Our
Golden Lotus
guide lists the handful of quests that haven't been removed, describes new cooking recipes in the zone, new locations for rare elites, and other changes in the Vale.
All the guides linked below
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Timeless Isle Guide: Coins, Achievements, Maps, Rares, and More
Our
Timeless Isle
guide covers all the BoA gear, achievements, rare spawns, and vanity items in this innovative new zone designed to keep players busy when they're not raiding. In a radical departure from previous content, this zone isn't tied to daily quests or grinding out
Valor Points
. Instead, players can kill numerous rare spawns for vanity items, collect
Timeless Coin
for unique items, stumble across secret events, and loot BoA epics for their alts.
This zone is a bit more free-form than past zones we've covered like our
Isle of Thunder Content Guide
, but we've broken down the available content into the following components for our guide:
BoA Epics:
Players can loot BoA armor tokens, which can be mailed to alts and turned into ilvl 496 gear based on their loot specialization. These can be turned into ilvl 535 epics in rare circumstances, and some gear has unique transmog looks.
Rare Spawns and Events:
The Timeless Isle is teeming with rare spawns of all difficulties, as well as daily and weekly events that are fun minigames.
V
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Patch 5.4: Shaohao Reputation Guide
Emperor Shaohao
is a new faction on the
Timeless Isle
. There are no daily quests or "mandatory" epics to grind out for this reputation--it's all about killing things on the
Timeless Isle
for vanity loot!
Reputation Rewards
The quartermaster,
Mistweaver Ku
, is located on the eastern side of the Celestial Court on the
Timeless Isle
. He sells the following items.
Requires Friendly:
Mask of Anger
: "Carved by the Monkey King for Shaohao, this mask draws the anger from its bearer when worn." 0
Timeless Coin
Mask of Doubt
: "Carved by the Monkey King for Shaohao, this mask draws the doubt from its bearer when worn." 0
Timeless Coin
Mask of Fear
: "Carved by the Monkey King for Shaohao, this mask draws the fear from its bearer when worn." 0
Timeless Coin
Mask of Hatred
: "Carved by the Monkey King for Shaohao, this mask draws the hatred from its bearer when worn." 0
Timeless Coin
Mask of Violence
: "Carved by the Monkey King for Shaohao, this mask draws the violence from its bearer when worn." 0
Timeless Coin
Requires Honored:
Scroll of Challenge
: Summons a rare or rare
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Best in Show: A Guide to All Shirts
Today's guide looks at all the vanity shirts in game--perfect if you want something to match a transmog set! They're not restricted by class or armor limitations, so nothing is out of reach for avid collectors. They're great for both bank alts, players looking to cover up skin, or show off a rare find.
I've organized all the shirts by color, as well as providing descriptions, acquisition methods, and crafting materials. To see an image for every shirt, click on the
Image
toggle which will display a user-submitted screenshot.
Here's a a set of quick links to currently-obtainable items by source:
Vendors
Brawler's Guild
Tailoring
Drops
Trading Card Game
Guild Achievements
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5.4 PTR: Timeless Isle Vanity Loot
The
Timeless Isle
not only has tons of
rare spawns
--it also has tons of vanity loot like character disguises, pets, and BoA items!
To read more about the
Timeless Isle
, check out our recent posts on
rare spawns
including maps,
transmog looks
, and our initial look at
BoA gear, world bosses, and Timeless Coins
.
Bloody Coin
Items
Speaker Gulan
by The Blazing Way has special vanity items that cost
Bloody Coin
. To get this currency, you will have to World PvP.
To flag up for World PvP, you'll first need
Censer of Eternal Agony
, which costs 2500
Timeless Coin
. On use, it sacrifices 90% of your health, turns you translucent, and makes you hostile to players of both factions. Killing players with this buff awards one
Bloody Coin
.
Here are the vanity items from
Bloody Coin
. Big thanks
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Blizzard Store and TCG Vanity Loot Guide
With the recent addition of
cosmetic items to the Blizzard Store
, it's the perfect time to update our guide to TCG and Blizzard Store Items!
Our new Blizzard Store section covers all the mounts, pets, and cosmetic items like
Jewel of the Firelord
, as well as how to purchase them from the store.
The TCG section covers the mounts, pets, and vanity items from the popular game, tips on how to acquire them, pictures, and cheap equivalent in-game items. We've also got battle pet information on these collectible pets!
We've also highlighted items from past BlizzCons and Collector Editions like
Big Blizzard Bear
--these items are not available on the Blizzard Store but can be purchased from places like
WoW TCG Loot
.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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2013 Midsummer Fire Festival Guide (June 21 - July 5)
Midsummer Fire Festival
is here! Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction's flames and desecrating the enemy's! Throughout the world, there are bonfires surrounded by questgivers and NPCs that sell summery items in exchange for
Burning Blossom
. There are commoner NPCs of all races that can be found lingering around the major cities that will give you a short quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps to get you started.
It's that time of year again. Acquire
flaming
threads
, a frosty
companion
, epic cloaks, and more! Horde players can obtain the title
Flame Keeper
and Alliance players can obtain the title
Flame Warden
.
This year there are new Pandaria bonfire achievements:
Flame Keeper of Pandaria
/
Flame Warden of Pandaria
and
Extinguishing Pandaria
/
Extinguishing Pandaria
.
In addition, Ahune now drops ilvl 480 capes.
Midsummer Fire
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5.4 PTR: Profession Additions and Changes
This is an article from the early 5.4 PTR and some things have changed. Click
here
for an updated guide.
On the 5.4 PTR, several professions are getting new recipes and vanity items! Engineering has the most interesting things with the return of
Pierre
, but crafters can make new epics, chefs can make
Pandaren Treasure Noodle Cart Kit
, and all enchants can be put on heirlooms.
Engineering
Engineers are getting some new vanity items in 5.4!
On the PTR, any mob in Vale of Eternal Blossoms can drop
Schematic: Chief Engineer Jard's Journal
. This is smart loot, meaning that it will only drop for eligible Engineers.
This contains recipes for
Jard's Peculiar Energy Source
,
Sky Golem
,
Advanced Refrigeration Unit
,
Pierre
, and
Rascal-Bot
.
Jard's Peculiar Energy Source
can only be crafted once a day and requires 10
Ghost Iron Bar
.
Sky Golem
was originally called the Skyclaw back in 5.2, so it may be reusing an item ID and changing completely due to the different name and "teaches you how to ride the PH." It takes 30
Jard's Peculiar Energy Source
and
Living Steel
to craft.
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Vanity Items Guide: Disguises and Character Effects
This weekend's guide covers vanity disguises and character effects! Based on one of our most popular guides from Cataclysm, this guide has been updated to cover all disguises in Mists of Pandaria.
We've also added helpful tables sorting out all vanity effects, breaking them down into categories like all Alliance-themed disguises, or grouping together all effects that share a particular color.
Playable Races
: Learn how to make your character look like any race in WoW.
Non-Playable Races
: Beasts, Critters, Dragons, and Humanoids from Murlocs to Mogu.
Character Effects
: This section covers items that keep a player's basic appearance and armor, but change colors or summon fun things--great for screenshots.
Objects
: These items turn the player into an object.
Glyphs
: Mists of Pandaria introduced many minor glyphs with cosmetic effects.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Transmogrification Guide: Dungeon Sets
Today's transmog guide covers all the armor sets that are acquired in dungeons across all expansions. Many of these sets do not have class-restrictions and resemble quest or class-specific tier gear, making them very popular among users, like
Judgement Armor (Recolor)
.
We've organized all the dungeon sets by expansion and type, as well as provided links when applicable to all of their sources. You can also mouseover the set's name to see an image of the set!
In addition, you can search for dungeon sets more easily now with our new
Dungeon Style
filters.
Check out the complete updated series of Transmogrification Guides:
PvE and PvP Tier Armor
Lookalike Tier Without Class Restrictions
Dungeon Armor
[url=
http://ww
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Patch 5.3: Updated Brawler's Guild Guide
The Brawler's Guild, added in 5.1, is designed to provide players with solo challenges that test their DPS and situational awareness. Players fight various well-loved bosses with quirky abilities to gain ranks in the Guild, earning titles and vanity items as prizes. While gaining an invitation to participate in the Guild is exclusive, any player can gather around the Brawl areas and watch their friends learn the new bosses.
This guide covers how to obtain an invitation, the guild locations, vendors, all the bosses and their abilities, how to complete the achievements, vanity items, and fun touches like tribute NPCs to
Fight Club
.
We have updated it for Patch 5.3, which includes twenty new bosses, Challenge Cards, new vanity items, and spectator mode!
Also be sure to check out
GuildOx's new Brawler's Guild Ranking Tool
to see how far along your friends are!
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Burning Seeds: Fire Kitty Disguise Added in Patch 5.2
During the Patch 5.2 PTR, players noticed that
Burning Seed
had been datamined, which would allow players to "harness the essence of Fire granted to the Druids of the Flame." The buff given,
Burning Essence
, explicitly stated that players turn into a Druid of the Flame while in Cat Form. This sounded exactly like the fire kitty effect granted by
Fandral's Flamescythe
, except you didn't need to farm up the staff. What was the catch?
Well, nobody knew how to get them, which has led to a heated discussion if this item ever made it to live servers. Earlier today, Community Manager Crithto
made a post
that
Burning Seed
s were in fact available in game, but
very
well hidden--nobody had reported finding them since Patch 5.2 went live over a month ago.
Thanks to
Bearface
and
Akrin
for finding it and emailing me the intial details, and
Serrinne
, and
Jasyla
for going to Firelands with me!
These seeds are available from the portal by
Majordomo Staghelm
in
Firelands
. They look like tiny [object=1
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5.3 PTR: Transmog and Vanity Armor
The 5.3 PTR is filled with ways to get vanity items--there are even some for PvP! Whether you're looking for new transmog gear or want a prestige item to show off beating a tough boss in Brawler's Guild, this patch has something for everyone.
Transmog: Cosmetic Armor and UI Improvements
A new armor type has been added: Cosmetic. So far, there is one cosmetic armor item,
Griftah's Authentic Troll Shoes
. This item can be transmogged onto any cloth, leather, mail, or plate item for that same slot.
Griftah's Authentic Troll Shoes
turn your boot armor invisible, replicating the barefoot look all trolls have. It costs 500
Kor'kron Lumber
and is a reward from the Darkspear Rebellion--
learn more about it here
.
When transmogging the item, we noticed that you can transmog any item from void storage or your bank now--it's not just the gear limited to your bags. You can expand the transmog display to see icons of all transmoggable items for a slot.
Legendary Questline Capes
Players completing
Cloak of Virtue
as part of the l
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5.3 PTR: Battlefield Barrens Rewards and Currency Overview
Patch 5.3 introduces a new world event, Battlefield Barrens, that explores the conflict between the Alliance, Horde, and Garrosh. There's a ton of stuff to do and collect as part of this event--but it's only around for a limited amount of time.
To unlock this world event, which takes place in Durotar and Northern Barrens, you'll need to do several
new scenarios and a quest chain showing the underlying politics behind your faction
.
Once the world event is unlocked, you can collect
Kor'kron supplies through various ways
to
purchase vanity items and armor
like
Xan'tish's Flute
.
Garrosh's influence can be seen in
the Valley of Spirits being shut down
, a Horde digsite in the Vale of Eternal Bloss
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