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How To Defeat Gorespine With Standard Pets

November 1, 2015 by

World_of_WarcraftI love my pet battles but I have to say this Elite pet frustrated the hell out of me.

After about 20 attempts at Gorespine (who’s located in the Dread Wastes on the lower west coast), I finally stumbled on a combo of standard Level 25 pets that worked:

1. Alpine Foxling Kit

2. Emerald Turtle

3. Arctic Hare

The strategy that worked for me was: Dazzling Dance, Howl and Bite from the Foxling Kit, then Headbutt, Emerald Bite, Healing Wave, Emerald Bite from the Emerald Turtle. Finally Burrow, Dodge and Scratch from the Arctic Hare finished him off.

Hope that helps!

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Location Of The Sacred Mount Lore Object

August 11, 2014 by

Here’s the location of the Unity At A Price lore object, which is required for the Rumbles of Thunder achievement.

First, you need to go to the Isle of Thunder, and get to the large building in the middle of The Diremoor, which is located here:

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The lore object is in the outer ring of the building. Go up the steps. turn and walk around the outer ring until you see it sitting right here:

 

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Location Of Unity At A Price Lore Object

August 11, 2014 by

Here’s the location of the Unity At A Price lore object, which is required for the Rumbles of Thunder achievement.

First, you need to go to the Isle of Thunder, and get to the Hall of the Grand Imperion, which is located here:

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Once you’re in the Hall of the Grand Imperion, you stay on the ground level. The lore object is on the rear wall from the entrance, so you’ll need to clear a couple of the Shan’ze Soulrippers to get to it. Here’s the picture of the Unity At A Price lore object:

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Fish Tales Achievement: Location of Watersmithing Lore Object

August 10, 2014 by

Here’s the location of the Watersmithing Lore Object which you need for the Fish Tales achievement.

Map location in the Jade Forest (at Moonwater Retreat):

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And here’s what the Watersmithing Lore Object looks like:

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Location of Thunder King Lore Object

August 10, 2014 by

Here’s the location of the Thunder King Lore Object, which is part of The Dark Heart of the Mogu achievement.

The map of the location within the Vale of Eternal Blossoms in Pandaria:

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And then what the lore object itself looks like:

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Location of Lost Dynasty Lore Object

August 10, 2014 by

Here’s the location of the Lost Dynasty Lore Object, which is part of The Dark Heart of the Mogu achievement.

 

The location on the map in Karasarang Wilds:

 

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And here’s the Lost Dynasty Object itself:

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Enjoy!

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 10: Azshara, Durotar and More!

March 22, 2013 by

Azshara Achievement GuideWelcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

Covered this instalment: Azshara, Orgrimmar, Durotar, Stonetalon Mountains, Northern Barrens and Ratchet

Azshara is the coolest zone. The new Goblin areas like Galliwix Pleasure Place, Bilgewater Harbour and the twisting Rocketways that traverse the zone definitely make it the new Steampunk capital of WoW. With no Alliance quests until Stonetalon, Loremasters get a well-earned reprieve from one-shotting 12 things while collecting 8 other things to sit back and enjoy the rocket-ride. Robochick and Rabid Nut Varmint, two of the only six catchable mechanical pets, are both found here and Archmage Xylem’s Trials (how-to guide here)  are three fast and fun achievements easily accessed through a central portal hub at the Arcane Pinnacle.

Orgrimmar, however, will be the Bremer Traffic Wall to Azshara’s Bilgewater Rocketway for most. As the Stormwind of Horde, only the craftiest will complete this area without getting their cold dead corpse /hugged by a loving troll.

There’s a secluded fishing spot marked on the map, away from town business and the daily questing areas for Old Crafty and The Fishing Diplomat, but catching a battle pet for Big City Brawler may not be as straightforward.  The Orgrimmar Wind Riders are vigilant and relentless plus there’s a bug that means unless the banner above your mini-map says Orgrimmar, the catch probably won’t count. The entrance to Ragefire Chasm is underground down a long tunnel and is much easier to find if you know exactly where to look and unseating Garrosh Hellscream will require nothing short of a full raid.

Completing Durotar and Stonetalon Mountains will lead you to the Nortern Barrens and the most tragic casualty of Cataclysm – Barren’s Chat. Previously a hot-bed of emotion, the mecca of trolldom and the birthplace of Chuck Norris’ WoW celebrity, Barren’s Chat has become little more than a few solitary alts trying desperately to incite the hey day of old and failing miserably.

The history of Barren’s Chat is pretty interesting:

Tauren, orcs, and trolls were all pointed toward the Barrens after finishing their starting areas and this mass of population drew many of the Undead here as well. The combined zones thus became a vast questing nexus with very few flight points that spanned 20 or so levels of long, boring runs from objective to turn-in.

One of the early quests, Lost in Battle, required you to find “Mankrik’s Wife who fell in battle”. The quest didn’t mention that Mankrik’s Wife was actually called “Beaten Corpse” and gave almost no directions to her location. As a result almost everyone resorted to asking where she was in general chat.

Twenty levels of hearing the same question repeated over and over and over again to a mob already agitated by boredom would drive anyone insane and Barren’s Chat was born… Where’s Mankrik’s Wife?  In my bedroom… In Chuck Norris’ bedroom… No, you’re mother’s in Chuck Norris’ bedroom… Ur a loser…  How much wood would Chuck Norris chuck if Chuck Norris could chuck wood?… all of it… ALL OF IT!

… sorry caps.

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 9: Space Goats and Nelfs

February 14, 2013 by

WoW achievement guideWelcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

Areas covered this week: Azuremyst Isle, Bloodmyst Isle, Darnassus, Teldrassil, Darkshore, Ashenvale

Draeneis and The Exodar were a bit of a sensation when they were first released. Until Burning Crusade, Night Elfs presented the only tall, non-human race option for Alliance. But the choice to be both tall AND exotic came with some heavy penalties. If you wanted to play a ranged class, and actually look like a Night Elf, your choices were Hunter or Priest…  healing Priest, that is. Darnassus required a boat to get from the bank to the Auction House, well almost, and the harshest penalty of all apart from having a flat chests… contending with the relentless barrage of tree-hugging, Volkswagen camper-loving, crystal-stroking nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, I respect Radagast but I lean much more heavily to the Sci in Sci-Fi and I’ll take gun-toting, manga-vixen Faye Valentine over Elune-of-the-Moon-Pansies any day.

Draeneis, therefore, introduced the only non-human option for Mages and Warlocks that wanted to continue dpsing despite the small crate in front of them. Draeneis also opened up the Shaman class to Alliance for the first time and their popularity remains strong to this day.

Not so with The Exodar. Its sheer inaccessibility relegated it to ghost town in just a few short weeks, home to just a few bank mules, Auction House scanning toons and anyone who wanted to buy a Moth.

Now that you can fly, Darnassus isn’t nearly as arduous. It’s the next hub for Well Read and is a great source of food for the Delicious achievements. You can pick up all the mounts and tabards for the Night Elf and Gilneas races here as well.

Throughout the Draenei Isles, Teldrassil, Darkshore and Ashenvale there’s a dozen or so fairly ordinary battle pets to bolster your collection and The Maw of Madness in Darkshore is the best place to jump off a cliff for Going Down!

Next week, we venture into the goblin heartland of Azshara, get smacked about the head a bunch in Orgrimmar and check out Barrens chat five years on…

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 8: Swamp of Sorrows, Blasted Lands and Deadwind Pass

February 4, 2013 by

WoW Achievement Guide by ZoneWelcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

Catching the Bogpaddle Bullet from Sharon Boomgetter in Burning Steppes will land you smack in the Swamp of Sorrows – the zone where Goblins go Keanu surf-style and the Alliance v Horde clash over Stonard has been raging relentlessly for at least 2 years now.

The Swamp is home to a huge variety of the very sought-after flying and aquatic pets so prepare for battle and snatch yourself some Level 15 rares.  It also marks the beginning of the next level of fish for The Oceanographer and The Limnologist. Sunken Temple isn’t the maze it used to be and I highly recommend doing this when the quest chain takes you there. It’s a quick, fun zone that Loremasters should be able to knock over in an hour or two.

Blasted Lands, however, is without doubt the worst questing zone in any MMO …ever.

The mobs are spread far enough apart to make aoe impossible, the story is plain lame given how much lore there is to work with this side of the Dark Portal and I don’t know about Horde but Alliance spend the entire zone running one errand at a time for a myriad of NPCs at the end of overly-circuitous caves, caverns, towers and keeps.

If I wasn’t so annoyed at being a substitute telephone for Quartermaster Lungertz in the Keep and Watcher Mahar Ba at the top of the Mage Tower, I would have nominated Blizzard as the World Record holder for Longest Possible Path Required to Travel the Shortest Distance. As it stands, I just stabbed myself in the eye with a rusty screwdriver instead.

By contrast, Deadwind Pass – the home of Karazhan – is in my opinion the best raid instance I’ve ever experienced in a game.

It has everything – a great backdrop with a compelling story and some of the most interesting raid encounters you’ll experience. I’d go so far as to say the raid mechanics introduced in Karazhan laid the foundation for everything that was to come after and established WoW’s reputation as the gurus of raid content they are known for today.

If you’re going for Rep achievements, getting exalted with the Violet Hold will take 2-3 weeks if you do all the quests and full clears of Karazhan. Alternatively, you can fast track a rep grind by clearing to Opera, leaving bosses alive, and resetting.

Violet Hold’s two quest chains require you to run most of the Outland Heroics, as do many other quests out there, so efficiency nuts may want to save these until you’ve fully completed questing in all Outland zones.

Deadwind Pass is also home to two zone-exclusive pets, the Restless Shadeling (only found between 12 midnight and 9 am) and the Arcane Eye, as well as Eastern Kingdoms’ Grand Master Pet Tamer.

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 7: Badlands, Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes & Blackrock Mountain

January 28, 2013 by

WoW Achievement GuideWelcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

Chapter 7 is all about the Dwarfs … and lizards… and beetles … and snakes. Ok, so basically anything that scuttles, skitters, crawls or slithers can be found in Badlands, Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes and Blackrock Mountain.So strap on your Ultra-Advanced Proto-Typical Girly-Scream Diffuser coz we’re going in!

I highly recommend completing all the quests in these three zones, especially Searing Gorge, before entering Blackrock Mountain if you’re concerned at all about reputation achievements. The Mountain offers both the shortest and the longest reputation grinds in the game. You can easily get to exalted with Thorium Brotherhood in less than a day but Hydaxian Waterlords will take a minimum of 15 weeks even with all the guild perks, banners and a human racial at your disposal. Plus, two of its three raids, Molten Core and Blackwing Lair, offer the new Battle Pets for Raiding with Leashes. Beware though- contrary to popular belief, these raids still require attunement as of 5.1. Details about how to do this are included in the guide.

You’ll also need to gather a possee of mates to easily do Cata’s Blackrock Caverns achievements as some of the mechanics are going to stymie solo players.

And remember as you travel, Female Dwarf Hate is wrong, mmmkay. Ironforge girls rock! (pardon the pun).

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 6: Ghostlands, Eversong Woods and Tirisfal Glades

January 8, 2013 by

WoW Achievement Guide - Ghostlands, Tirisfal Glades and EversongWelcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

Ghostlands, Eversong Woods and Tirisfal Glades move us deep into Horde Territory.

Scarlet Monastery, Scarlet Halls and Zul’Aman will provide some challenging content but if you’re on a PvE server then there’s little to do in these zones other than exploration and pet battles.

If you’re on a PvP server it’s a great opportunity to practice your Orcish. ‘Kagh! Grombolar’ (Deploy the yak!) and ‘Bin mog g’thazag cha thrAkk gezzno’ (It looks like your face caught on fire and someone tried to put it out with a fork) are some of my personal favourites. Just kidding, Blizzard has made it pretty difficult to communicate cross-faction and are constantly updating their algorithms to prevent it, so most of your time here will probably be spent avoiding guards, getting the spacing right in D a p Ee bb (Y o u Lo se) and reminding yourself that killing lowbies is mean and no yard stick of your PvP prowess.

Other things that may happen while you’re completing your achievements in these three zones:

  • You may break some electronic equipment on your desk after the fourth time you try to fly in Ghostlands and realise you can’t.
  • You may feel a bit bad when a fresh level 12 Rogue, with a glinty eye and a sorely misguided sense of how well stealth protects him, skulks up behind you and crucifies himself on your lightning shield.
  • You may start to individually name each of the Maggots and Spirit Crabs you battle in the hunt for a rare Larva.
  • You may fantasise about winning a championship spelling bee with the word Lordaeron, then realise it’s way past time to get a life.

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WoW Zone by Zone Achievement Guide Part 5: The Plaguelands and Scholomance

January 1, 2013 by

zaggarat-5Welcome to ZAGGARAT ( Jetsai’s Zone-by-Zone Achievement Guide for Getting Across the Realm with Alliance Toons), a comprehensive zone by zone guide to wrapping up every achievement you need. You can view all instalments by clicking here. The printer and screen friendly guides can be downloaded at the bottom of this post.

This week’s ZAGGARAT takes us to the Plaguelands where we first meet the Argent Dawn and Argent Crusade. This region also presents the first at-level dungeon with achievements – Scholomance.

I have to admit I used to hate both the Plaguelands. Apart from being drab and in desperate need of Zap Beezlerocket’s Interdimensional Cobweb Cleaner, they were awfully grindy and extremely difficult to move about in unaccosted. Install a beach, equip each of the mobs with a selection of bead jewellery or teach them how to braid hair and you’d have yourself a tropical holiday but Blizzard chose a different path when revamping these zones and they did a pretty good job.

Both Plaguelands are now cut-scene central. Lore-buffs will appreciate a personal introduction to Highlord Tirion Fordring and the story around Andorhol in Western Plaguelands has been condensed, tarted up with some cut-scenes and is much easier to follow. Those of you who are just after Blighted Plaguehawk will have to /popcorn while you quest as these zone-excusive battle pets aren’t available until after Andorhal is phased.

Eastern Plaguelands is tied together through the story of Fiona’s Caravan, with Gidwin and Tarenar providing all the quintessential elements of an epic Dwarf meets Blood Elf tale – friendship, paladin humour, tragedy, betrayal, ultimate reunion and a serious amount of rep with Argent Dawn.

In fact, you get Revered about half-way through the zone. A few repeatable quests later, one of which can be done in Heroic Scholomance and you’re Exalted.

Stratholme, surprisingly, still has a lot to offer achievement hunters. You need to do both live and dead sides to get Stratholme and credit toward Classic Dungeonmaster but the live side offers four books for Well Read and a repeatable quest for 2000 Argent Dawn Rep. Aurius Riverdare, on the dead side, has a chance to drop his gorgeous… er, I mean… very manly, Deathcharger.

Scholomance is where it’s all at, though, with some of the easiest and one of the hardest achievements to get your Reins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent. Shouts go to lancore89 of wowhead who developed some macros that have made Attention to Detail very much easier as well as any healer that has managed to retain their sanity after completing School’s Out Forever. Also don’t forget to grab a full supply of disguises for Polyformic Acid Science completed throughout the rest of Panda’s dungeons and The Invasion of Draenor from Lilian Voss’ room in either Heroic or Normal for Well Read as this is the only place you’ll find this book in the game now.

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