Arena Season 5 starts today! What are you gemming?
Dec 16, 2008 Arena & Battlegrounds, Class Specific, Crafting, Investing, Patches, Resources
Another late post! No more slacking from me, I promise!
I just got done watching my server slowly count down to shutdown. You know what that means? Arena Season 5 with lots and lots of new gear! A few dozen sets of gear, at least!
Just like Season 4, I hope you stocked up and prepared for enchanting and jewelcrafting because they’ll be hot, hot, hot over the next week or two. Last season, our readers together earned hundreds of thousands of gold profit. Enchanting materials (dust at least) didn’t seem to do as well as expected, but essences sold quick. What sort of surprised me was how much was made from leg armor and spellthread - huge profits in these areas. I stocked up on Frozen Orbs with plans for Icy Prisms, but I may start crafting the new spellthread instead.
Jewelcrafters did well too since most of the gear needs socketing. In Wrath we have some new, unique cuts designed specifically for PVP. I’m hoping to see these gems take off in price. If you’ve been running heroics over the last few weeks and you have a small pile of Stone Keeper’s Shards, go grab the new Jewelcrafting patterns from your Wintergrasp quartermaster - most of them are just 12 shards a piece.
Now, before you run off trying to be the first to login and buy up all the mats on the AH, let us know what race and class you play mainly and what gems you’ll be using for raiding, arenas, and battlegrounds. I can’t be an expert in all classes, so your recommendations will help us all invest properly with a wide variety.
Death Knight preparation and investments
Nov 5, 2008 Class Specific, Factions & Reputation, Farming, Investing, Resources, Wrath of the Lich King
A few guides and shopping lists are floating around to prepare yourself for rerolling a Death Knight. With the introduction of a brand new class into WoW and the fact that all races start in the same area, the leveling process in the first few weeks is going to be chaotic. That’s where these guides come in.
Scattered around Azeroth and Outland are many repeatable reputation quests. Almost all of these quests offer experience the first time you turn them in and usually some bonus reputation as well. There are a dozen or so of these quests that are well worth doing after your Death Knight escapes the Scarlet Enclave. The major ones being the cloth turn-ins for every city faction and the turn-ins for Outland factions. I’m not going to go into much detail about the quests themselves, but the complete shopping list should give you an idea of what items to start investing in.
- 300x Wool Cloth
- 300x Silk Cloth
- 300x Mageweave Cloth
- 300x Runecloth
- 6x Blasted Boar Lung
- 6x Scorpok Pincer
- 11x Basilisk Brain
- 14x Vulture Gizzard
- 5x Snickerfang Jowl
- 1x Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment
- 1x Flawless Draenethyst Sphere (very rare unless you kill Teremus, you can probably skip this one)
- 30x Core of Elements
- 30x Crypt Fiend Parts
- 30x Bone Fragments
- 30x Savage Frond
- 30x Dark Iron Scraps
- 2x Thorium Bar
- 1x Golden Rod
- 8x Hi-Explosive Bomb
- 8x Unstable Trigger
- 10x Unidentified Plant Parts (or 360x to get you to Honored before you do Zangarmarsh quests, helping you to hit Revered for your head enchant before you leave Zangarmarsh)
- 6x Bog Lord Tendril
- 10x Mature Spore Sac
- 10x Glowcap
- 6x Fertile Spores
- 5x Sanguine Hibiscus
- 30x Arakkoa Feather
- 10x Oshu’gun Crystal Fragment
- 3x Pair of Ivory Tusks
- 10x Mark of Kil’Jaeden (for Aldor)
- 10x Mark of Sargeras (for Aldor)
- 1x Fel Armament (for Aldor)
- 10x Firewing Signet (for Scryer)
- 10x Sunfury Signet (for Scryer)
- 1x Arcane Tome (for Scryer)
The Death Knight starting area quests will get you past level 58. Afterwards, you’re forced to roam around Eastern Plaguelands for a while - with dozens, maybe hundreds, of other Death Knights, all competing to complete the same quests. The reputation turn-ins will give you a significant boost (a level or two initially, and a few bars every few levels during Outland leveling) and will allow you to push past the chaos into uninterrupted leveling.