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Farming Frozen Herbs in Zul’Drak

Renei — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:32:30 +0000

In my ongoing efforts to gather some Frost Lotus, this morning I farmed the Frozen Herbs of Zul’Drak. If you’ll please refer to yesterday’s map that showed the entire Zul’Drap Herb Map, the frozen herbs are in the eastern, frozen part of the map.

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I must admit that I was somewhat hopeful that this would prove a little better than yesterday’s farming of Talandra’s Rose. I was dissapointed for two reasons. Obviously, the first reason is that I did not get ANY Frost Lotus drop. Not even one. I also did not get any Crystallized Life, which is weird, but that’s OK because my bank is full of them.

So, you ask me, what could be worse than not finding Frost Lotus when farming Frost Lotus. I’ll tell you what. The stupid Frozen Herbs – nature’s surprise gift-wrap! – principally dropped Goldclover. And if there is something I don’t need, it certainly is Goldclover. Seriously, I think I have 300 in my bank that I don’t know what to do with… Maybe I’ll sell them for coppers, or roll ‘em up and smoke ‘em.

No idea. But they are pretty much useless at this point.

One of the positive aspects of this morning’s farming is that I still managed to get some more Talandra’s Rose, which means that I probably have enough never to farm it again.

Tomorrow, I think I will be going to Storm Peaks and Icecrown, since the herbs I seem to need the most are there. And I still think the Flask of the North sucks.

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Crafting the Flask of the North is expensive

Renei — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:31:36 +0000

I have finally discovered the reason why Frost Lotus are ever so profitable to sell on the Auction House. There is a little recipe that you learn, as an Alchemist, at still level 425. It is called the Flask of the North. Sounds cool, eh?

The Flask of the North is a Bind on Pickup item that has the following effect: Increases your Spell Power by 47, Increases your Attack Power by 80, or Increases your Strength by 40 for 1 Hour. It has the clear disadvantage of counting as both a Battle Elixir and a Guardian Elixir, however you’re free to die as many times as you want withing the allotted time, since the “effects persist through Death.”

The Flask of the North requires nothing more to craft that an Enchanted Vial and (4) Frost Lotus.

In all my years of playing World of Warcraft, I have never encountered a situation where it is clearly so much better to sell the materials than to sell, or in this case use, the crafted item.

I have been selling the Frost Lotus for over 50 WoW Gold each. Conservatively, this means 200 Gold for each Flask of the North you don’t make. This is pretty significant.

If you are looking to level your Alchemist skill, you are much better of making ‘green’ recipes and only leveling at 1-in-5 than making the Flask of the North. In fact, I recommend casting the Northrend Alchemy Research and crafting what you find there. I got the ‘Elixir of Lightning Speed’ the other day, made a whole bunch and sold them on the Auction House for close to what the mats would have sold for.

Don’t make the Flask of the North. It’s expensive to make, you won’t be able to sell it to anyone, and if that wasn’t enough, it’s not even that good.

Sell the Frost Lotus and buy yourself something pretty, instead.

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Talandra’s Rose in Dragonblight

Renei — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:25:34 +0000

I completed the Wrathgate quests yesterday, although I have not yet taken care of the missions that should bring me to Undercity to kick some serious Forsaken butt. I’ll take care of that this weekend, when I have the time to enjoy it.

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No, this morning I decided I wanted some Talandra’s Rose, and instead of going to Zul’Drak, the number-one source for Talandra’s Rose, I figured I’d try my luck at some Frozen Herbs in Dragonblight. As you may know – ot not – Frozen Herbs drop, as far as I’ve noticed, either Goldclover, Tiger Lily or Talandra’s Rose, with a slight chance for Frost Lotus.

Turns out I was lucky, and in only a few minutes aquired (13) Talandra’s Rose to use in my Northrend Alchemy Research. I promptly hearthed back to Dalaran, where I performed said research, and I learned the “Elixir of Lightning Speed.” Boosts your haste rating by 45 for an hour or something. I’ll have to see if it sells.

Incidentally, I also made a nice Dragonblight Herb Map, with recommended herbing routes. Here it is, it’s kind of a throwaway, since I have to get to work, but anyways, maybe you can use it. I’ll write more about it tomorrow or something.

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Crafting The Mighty Alchemist Stone

Renei — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:29:17 +0000

My Alchemy skill is now 405. Still a bit short of ultimate glory (for now, until they raise the bar again) but nonetheless respectable.

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So respectable, in fact, that I crafted for myself the Mighty Alchemist Stone, a beautiful Bind-On-Pickup trinket that gives some interesting bonuses to the effects of potions, but also to Attack Power and my favorite, Critical Strike Rating. Here’s what it looks like:

Despite the fact that it’s a Blue item and provide all sorts of mildly interesting bonuses, the Mighty Alchemist Stone is relatively easy to craft. As stated before, it requires only a 400-plus Alchemy skill level, which is hardly unobtainable, even for one such as I that did not spend 10 minutes Fishing with this character.

In terms of actual mats, here is what you’ll need:

15 x Adder’s Tongue –> Find them in Sholazar Basin
15 x Tiger Lily –> Anywhere in Northrend
1 x Frost Lotus –> Rare Drop from Northrend Herb nodes

If you have been furiously leveling your Alchemy skills since level 1 and finally reach level 400, I guess this is a good way to reward yourself and feel like what you’ve been doing has meaning. Incidentally, 50 Critical Strike Rating is worth 1.57% at level 75, which is nothing to sneeze at.

On another, stranger note – yes stranger! – this morning, just before server shut down, I was witness to a bizarre mammoth procession on the streets of Dalaran. I took a picture for your edification, and if you can tell me what it was, for mine.

That’s me on the left, bemused, looking at the Mammoth procession going on before me. I asked if they were on a pilgrimage, which would seem “normal”, and if so, if they had “alms for the poor” (pronounce “pure”), but none of the exalted characters had an answer for me.

Maybe you can tell what’s up.

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Make a Killing With Frost Lotus

Renei — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:36:33 +0000

My Paladin Wesha is now an exalted level 77, and has of course been puttering around Northrend for a while now. I have discovered than one of the most regular sources of income I can find is to farm and Auction off the Frost Lotus drops I get.

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Just to recap, Frost Lotus is currently the highest level herb in World of Warcraft, and according to some, is likely to remain so for quite a while yet. Frost Lotus is used in a variety of very high-level Alchemy recipes, mostly for Flasks and Stones. Here is what the Frost Lotus can be used in:

Emerald Bag (32-slot Herb Bag, gotta get me some of that!)
Flask of the North
Indestructible Alchemist Stone
Mercurial Alchemist Stone
Mighty Alchemist Stone
Flask of Endless Rage
Flask of Pure Mojo
Flask of Stoneblood
Flask of the Frost Wyrm

Now bear in mind those are all really high level, so the people needing Frost Lotus to level their skill are likely to be flush with cash. Don’t be shy when pricing your items.

On the Gnomeregan server, Horde-side (where I currently play), a single Frost Lotus can be sold for 50-60 WoW Gold. This is a reliable price, not a pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking price. This can make farming for Frost Lotus a very profitable venture indeed.

But where can Frost Lotus be found?

Frost Lotus can be farmed in any Northrend zone that has herb spawn nodes, meaning everywhere except Crystalsong Forest, that dead and depressing dump. Frost Lotus has about a 5-6% chance to drop on any herb node, usually in singles but occasionallyin doubles and even triples.

Frost Lotus can also be farmed in Wintergrasp, where it has spawn nodes of its own. Since I am also an Alchemist and do not farm purely for profit, I enjoy being able t0 gather other herbs along with my Frost Lotus, so I stick with the regular zones.

Once you get past Alchemy level 400 or so, you will find that Frost Lotus becomes more and more prevalent in all the recipes you could be making to level your skill. Since I enjoy having Gold as well as leveling my skill, I sell 50% of the Frost Lotus I farm, which makes for a very stable income and still lets me level my skill at a decent pace.

Farming Frost Lotus, either for leveling Alchemy, or simply to make wow gold, is relatively quick and easy. Make sure to farm with your highest level character in the zone with the most herb nodes. I recommend Scholazar Basin if you also need Tiger Lily, Adder’s Tongue and Goldclover.

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Alchemy: Resurgent Healing Potion

Renei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:31:33 +0000

Wesha’s Alchemy skill is now at 360. It’s funny that in all my years of playing World of Warcraft, farming for gold and other materials, and learning all sorts of new things, I’ve never had an Alchemy skill quite that high.

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I was desperate to reach 350 so that I could get the Grand Master level and start learning Northrend and Wrath of the Lich King recipes.

The first recipe that becomes available, correct me if I’m wrong, is the Resurgent Healing Potion. Strangely enough, this Healing Potion heals exactly the same amount, 1500 to 2500 as a Super Healing Potion.

I’ve read on Thottbot people asking questions as to why this is the case, and while I didn’t read anything definitive, I do have an idea. The Super Healing Potion requires Netherbloom, which requires you to go to Netherstorm to farm, and needless to say, is quite the PITA.

I think that the Resurgent Healing Potion is one of the recipes that was included just to make leveling a little easier at the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King. After all, all you need is (2) Gold Clover and an Imbued Vial to create a Resurgent Healing Potion, which I’m sure you’ll agree beats the hell out of a pair of Netherbloom and some Felweed.

Gold Clover is all over the map in the Warath of Lich King starting areas – Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord, making creating the Resurgent Healing Potion very quick and easy. This potion, however, turns Yellow at 360, so it’s not really good for a long term plan, but its the easiest 10 high-level points you can get, that’s for sure.

In short, creating the Resurgent Healing Potion requires two Gold Clovers, an Imbued Vial and an Alchemy skill level of 350. It heals 1500 to 2500 Hit Points, just the same as a Super Healing Potion, but much easier to create. And if you’re looking for WoW Gold, as most people are, you’ll be glad to know that the Super Healing Potions are quite popular on the Auction House with your fellow WoW players, so you can rotate the stock, so to speak, selling the Super Healing Potion and replacing them in your inventory with Resurgent Healing Potions. Nobody will notice a difference except your bank balance!

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Farming Netherbloom in Netherstorm is FUN!

Renei — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:46:22 +0000

Playing a Horde character is fun. For instance, you can pretend you’re really bad ass and so much better, and cooler, than all those Alliance pussies with their pretty toon and fancy thingamajigs and whatnots.

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Once of the disadvantages, at least in my case, is that I know nobody and since I hate people (not really, I love you guys!) I find it difficult to get groups to do instances that are not douchebag-heavy. Which brings me to my actual point: I have hit a wall leveling alchemy. I’m stuck at skill level 347 and I need three lousy points to be able to learn the Northrend-level alchemy and the cool recipes that come with it.

Since I can’t do Instances, I am somewhat limited in my choices for leveling. All that’s left that’s not grey is some sort of Super Healing Potion, and it requires Netherbloom. Since my leveling was so wicked fast, I didn’t even make it to Netherstorm, the only place where Netherbloom is found. I made a little foray there, riding my trusty Blue Wind Rider.

To start with, here is a partial Netherstorm Herb map:

As you can see, the map is not entirely explored, because I had to do this this morning and my time is limited. Before you go off looking for Netherbloom in Netherstorm, better know what it’s used for, and – conveniently enough – here is the list:

Destruction Potion
Elixir of Empowerment
Elixir of Major Mageblood
Flask of Blinding Light
Flask of Chromatic Wonder
Haste Potion
Shrouding Potion
Super Healing Potion (the only one I care about!)
Super Rejuvenation Potion
Superior Mana Oil

Wow, Renei, what a pleasantly polyvalent herb! Yeah well who cares. All I want is to level up 3 freakin’ points!

I spent about 40 minutes of my life this morning farming Netherbloom in Netherstorm, with somewhat disappointing results. This is due in great part to the fact that I had no flight point to Netherstorm, and had to fly on my crappy flyer all the way there, cutting down on my actual farming time.

Anyways, here is what I got:

33 Netherbloom
15 Dreaming Glory
5 Felweed
1 Golden Sansam
5 Motes of Life
1 Mote of Mana

I also got about 1 Wow Gold’s worth of grey stuff and loot, and 1 Green Item which I can’t disenchant so will be vendored.

All in all, not a total catastrophe, but I’ll be back there tomorrow and I’ll see what I can actually get in a REAL 30 minutes of farming, with no taxying about…

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Make WoW Gold Farming Terocone in Terokkar Forest

Renei — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:34:06 +0000

Frustrated by the slow speed of my Alchemy leveling, I decided to go farming Terocone in Terokkar Forest. Terokkar Forest is actually the only zone in World of Warcraft where Terocone can be found.

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Before we go any further, please allow me to display the Terokkar Forest Herb Map, courtesy of Blizzard:

Terocone are used in the following Alchemy recipes:

Elixir of Draenic Wisdom
Elixir of Major Agility
Elixir of Major Defense
Elixir of Mastery
Elixir of the Searching Eye
Fel Strength Elixir
Flask of Relentless Assault
Haste Potion
Heroic Potion
Insane Strength Potion

Obviously, most of those potions are actually quite useful for characters level 60-70 or so, so I decided to spend a little bit of time – about 30 minutes - farming Terocone in Terokkar Forest.

Overall, the loot was quite miserable, but I did manage to gather some herbs. Here’s what I got from my little farming run:

34 Terocone
29 Felweed
16 Motes of Life
4 Fel Lotus
6 Dreaming Glory
1 Mana Thistle

I only managed to loot about 50s’ worth of Grey stuff from the mobs I killed, but I you were to sell all the herbs on the Auction House, I gather you would get upwards of 100 WoW Gold for the lot. At least Horde-side, on my server, just the Fel Lotus are worth about 10-12 WoW Gold each, and the Terocone about 2-3 WoW Gold apiece.

Farming Terocone in Terokkar Forest is perhaps not the best way to make WoW Gold, but it certainly isn’t the worst!

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Blacksmithing: TitanSteel Destroyer

Renei — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:13:12 +0000

The Titansteel Destroyer is an epic-category weapon that can be crafted by high-level Blacksmiths. Since it is a Bind-On-Equip item, it can be bought and sold at the Auction House, or crafted for you by a friendly Blacksmith. The mats needed to create such an awesome weapon are quite prohibitive – expensive – so even the friendliest of Blacksmith is likely to at the very least ask you to supply the mats, or charge you dearly for them.

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What are the mats required to Craft the Titansteel Destroyer?
To craft the Titansteel Destroyer, you will need the following mats:

8 Saronite Bars
8 Titansteel Bars
2 Frozen Orbs

These items, particularly the Titansteel Bars, are particularly expensive, since the skill to make them are on a 20-hour cooldown. You can either farm them or buy them, but either way, they are expensive.

What are the advantages to wielding the Titansteel Destroyer?
The Titansteel Destroyer is a weapon of awesome power! It does 186.4 Damage per Second (DPS), as well as gives a bonus of +124 Strength and +105 Stamina. If that wasn’t enough, it also improves your hit rating by 54 (worth 1.6% at level 80).

Since it is “Unique-Equipped”, you can only wield one at a time, even if you are a Warrior with the very powerful Dual Two-Handed Weapon spec (a Fury Warrior).

Who should use the Titansteel Destroyer?
Anyone who cares about dealing massive damage and having a really cool-looking weapon should wield the Titansteel Destroyer! Joking aside, you will need the Two-Handed Mace Weapon Skill, which your character may already have (such as Alliance Paladins) or that you will have to learn from a trainer.

Where can I learn to make the Titansteel Destroyer?
As a Blacksmith, you can learn the recipe to make the Titansteel Destroyer from any Blacksmithing trainer in Northrend. You can learn the recipe at 440 Blacksmithing Skill, and it turns Yellow at 450.

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Blacksmithing: Eternal Belt Buckle

Renei — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:21:24 +0000

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Blacksmithing: Eternal Belt Buckle

The Eternal Belt Buckle is an item created – crafted – by high-level Blacksmiths that attaches an extra socket to any Belt-slot items. It is very useful, as it is not Soulbound and can be traded or sold to any character in the game. A nice steady money-maker for your Blacksmiths out there.

Attaching an Eternal Belt Buckle to a belt causes the item to become Soulbound, so think about what you are doing before attaching it.

Eternal Belt Buckle Blacksmithing Level
A Blacksmith will need a Blacksmithing Skill Level of 415 to be able to learn this ‘recipe’ from the trainer. The recipe becomes Yellow at 420, Green at 425 and Grey at 450. It is not really useful to level up the skill, but will contribute a solid 10 points to your Blacksmithing Skill Level before the law of diminishing returns kicks in.

What are the Mats Required to craft an Eternal Belt Buckle?
To make an Eternal Belt Buckle, you will require the following materials:

4 Saronite Bars
1 Eternal Earth
1 Eternal Water
1 Eternal Shadow

As you can see, the mats are not exactly cheap, but they are not outrageous, either. This means that you will at the very least recuperate your materials costs when you sell your Eternal Belt Buckles on the Auction House.

There are several really cool points about the Eternal Belt Buckle. From the standpoint of the Blacksmith that is crafting them, they are easy and relatively cheap to make, will help you level your skill, and you will never run out of people to buy them, since as soon as your customers upgrade their gear, they will need to get a new one.

From the user’s point of view, the Eternal Belt Buckle adds an uncolored gem slot to a belt-slot item, which means that they can customize that item to a never-before-seen degree. Casters can add spell power, DPS toons can add critical strike chance, etc., without compromising the slot and overall gem bonuses of the rest of their gear, all of that at a very affordable price.

While I’m not saying that crafting the Eternal Belt Buckle will make any Blacksmith rich beyond his or her wildest dreams, it will be a steady source of income and nice little boost to the Blacksmithing Skill. And for users, while it will not drastically boost your character’s performance, it a chance not to be missed to enhance your class-specific stats and / or abilities at a discount!

Make sure you always use an Eternal Belt Buckle!

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