This WoW Blacksmithing guide will show you the fastest and easiest way to level your Blacksmithing skill up from 1 to 600.
Blacksmithing is the best combined with Mining and I highly recommend to level Mining and Blacksmithing together because you will need a lot of gold if you want to buy everything from Auction House.
It will take a lot of dedication to get to the end and get those epic items. Also, like other crafting trades, the benefits only really start showing at the end, so this Blacksmithing guide will be a massive gold drain all the way up to 600.
Blacksmithing guide sections:
Apprentice 1 - 75
Journeyman 75 - 125
Expert 125 - 200
Artisan 200 - 300
Master 300 - 350
Grand Master 350 - 425
Illustrious 425 - 500
Zen 500 - 600
Approximate Materials Required for 1-600:
◾133 x [Rough Stone]
◾210 x [Copper Bar]
◾80 x [Coarse Stone]
◾7 x [Silver Bar]
◾150 x [Bronze Bar] - 75 Copper Bar + 75 Tin Bar
◾105 x [Heavy Stone]
◾230 x [Iron Bar]
◾50 x [Steel Bar] - 50 Iron Bar + 50 Coal. You can buy [Coal] at Blacksmithing Supply vendors
◾20 x [Solid Stone]
◾150 x [Mageweave Cloth]
◾320 x [Mithril Bar]
◾20 x [Dense Stone]
◾420 x [Thorium Bar]
◾80 x [Rugged Leather] or 10 [Star Ruby]
◾152 x [Fel Iron Bar]
◾10 x [Netherweave Cloth]
◾85 x [Adamantite Bar]
◾320 x [Cobalt Bar]
◾240 x [Saronite Bar]
◾10 x [Titanium Bar]
◾166 x [Obsidium Bar]
◾84 x [Elementium Bar]
◾60 x [Volatile Earth]
◾4 x [Volatile Water]
◾8 x [Volatile Fire]
◾267 x [Ghost Iron Bar]
◾1 x [Spirit of Harmony]
Blacksmithing Leveling Guide 1 - 75
First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Blacksmithing.
If you want to farm your own Copper Ore, visit my Copper Ore farming guide.
◾1 - 30
33 x [Rough Sharpening Stones] - 33 Rough Stone
◾30 - 65
50 x [Rough Grinding Stones] - 100 Rough Stone
Keep these.
◾65 - 75
10 x [Copper Chain Belt] - 60 Copper Bar
75 - 125
Learn Blacksmithing Journeyman.
◾75 - 90
40 x [Coarse Grinding Stones] - 80 Coarse Stones
Save the Coarse Grinding Stones and if you have a lot more Coarse Stone or it is really cheap, then you should make this up to 100 and you can skip the next step.
If you didn't reach 90 by making these, you can still continue to the next step, but you will need a few more Copper Bars, or make a few more Coarse Grinding Stones.
◾90 - 100
10 x [Runed Copper Belt] - 100 Copper Bar
◾100 - 105
7 x [Silver Skeleton Key] - 7 Silver Bar, 14 Rough Grinding Stone
You can also skip this part and just make Runed Copper Belt if you don't have any Silver Bar.
◾105 - 110
5 x [Runed Copper Belt] - 50 Copper Bar
You will need Tin Ore to make Bronze Bar, visit my Tin Ore farming guide if you want to farm the ores.
◾110 - 125
15 x [Rough Bronze Shoulders] - 75 Bronze Bar, 15 Coarse Grinding Stones
125 - 200
Learn Blacksmithing Expert.
◾125 - 140
35 x [Heavy Grinding Stone] - 105 Heavy Stone
Keep the Heavy Grinding Stones. Make this one up to 150 if Heavy Stone is cheap.
◾140 - 145
5 x [Rough Bronze Shoulders] - 25 Bronze Bar, 5 Coarse Grinding Stone
◾145 - 155
10 x [Patterned Bronze Bracers] - 50 Bronze Bar, 20 Coarse Grinding Stone
Make [Golden Skeleton Key] between 150-160 if you can get cheap Gold Bar.
Visit my Iron Ore farming guide if you want to farm your own ores.
◾155 - 165
10 x [Green Iron Leggings] - 80 Iron Bar, 10 Heavy Grinding Stone, 10 Green Dye
Green Dye is sold by Tailoring and Leatherworking supply vendors.
◾165 - 190
25 x [Green Iron Bracers] - 150 Iron Bar, 25 Green Dye
◾190 - 200
10 x [Golden Scale Bracers] - 50 Steel Bar, 20 Heavy Grinding Stone
200 - 300
Learn Blacksmithing Artisan. Check out my Mithril Ore farming guide.
◾200 - 210
20 x [Solid Sharpening Stone] - 20 Solid Stone
◾210 - 225
15 x [Heavy Mithril Gauntlet] - 90 Mithril Bar, 60 Mageweave Cloth
◾225 - 235
10 x [Mithril Scale Bracers] - 80 Mithril Bar
This recipe is sold by these NPCs. There is around 30 minutes respawn rate for the recipe, this means you have to wait a bit if someone bought it before you. Make [Mithril Scale Pants] if you do not want to wait for the recipe to respawn or check the Auction House and look for [Plans: Heavy Mithril Pants]
◾235 - 250
Check the Auction House, if you can get the Mithril Spurs recipe and it's not that expensive, buy it and make those until 255.
15 x [Mithril Coif] - 150 Mithril Bar, 90 Mageweave Cloth
◾250 - 260
20 x [Dense Sharpening Stones] - 20 Dense Stone
Visit my Thorium Ore farming guide if you need places for farming Thorium.
◾260 - 275
15 x [Thorium Bracers] - 120 Thorium Bar
◾275 - 290
15 x [Imperial Plate Bracers] 180 Thorium Bar
◾290 - 300
Choose one from the recipes listed below. They both requires 12 Thorium Bar for each craft, the only difference between them is that you need 1 Star Ruby for the Helm and 8 Rugged Leather for the Boots.
10 x [Thorium Boots] - 120 Thorium Bar, 80 Rugged Leather
or
10 x [Thorium Helm] - 120 Thorium Bar, 10 Star Ruby
300 - 350
Visit your trainer and learn Blacksmithing Master.
You will have to go to Outland if you want to farm your own ores. Check out my Fel Iron Ore farming guide.
◾300 - 305
7 x [Fel Weightstone] - 7 Fel Iron Bar, 7 Netherweave Cloth
◾305 - 315
10 x [Fel Iron Plate Belt] - 40 Fel Iron Bar
◾315 - 320
5 x [Fel Iron Chain Gloves] - 25 Fel Iron Bar
◾320 - 325
5 x [Fel Iron Plate Boots] - 30 Fel Iron Bar
Visit my Adamantite Ore farming guide if you want to farm the ores.
◾325 - 330
10 x [Lesser Rune of Warding] - 10 Adamantite Bar
If Adamantite Bar is cheap on your server you can make this one up to 335.
◾330 - 335
5 x [Fel Iron Breastplate] - 50 Fel Iron Bar
◾335 - 340
5 x [Adamantite Cleaver] - 40 Adamantite Bar - Recipe location
◾340 - 350
35 x [Lesser Ward of Shielding] - 35 Adamantite Bar - Recipe location
350 - 425
Visit your trainer and learn Blacksmithing Grand Master.
You can also check out my Cobalt Ore farming guide.
◾350 - 360
10 x [Cobalt Boots] - 40 Cobalt Bar
◾360 - 370
10 x [Cobalt Triangle Shield] - 40 Cobalt Bar
◾370 - 375
5 x [Cobalt Legplates] - 25 Cobalt Bar
◾375 - 380
5 x [Cobalt Gauntlets] - 25 Cobalt Bar
◾380 - 385
5 x [Spiked Cobalt Boots] - 35 Cobalt Bar
◾385 - 390
5 x [Spiked Cobalt Shoulders] - 35 Cobalt Bar
◾390 - 395
5 x [Notched Cobalt War Axe] - 50 Cobalt Bar
Make [Saronite Defender] or [Saronite Protector] if Saronite Bar is cheaper than Cobalt Bar.
◾395 - 400
5 x [Brilliant Saronite Belt] - 30 Cobalt Bar, 25 Saronite Bar
◾400 - 405
5 x [Horned Cobalt Helm] - 40 Cobalt Bar
Visit my Saronite Ore farming guide if you want to farm the ores.
◾405 - 415
11 x [Brilliant Saronite Boots] - 132 Saronite Bar
◾415 - 420
5 x [Tempered Saronite Gauntlets] - 70 Saronite Bar
◾420 - 425
5 x [Titanium Weapon Chain] - 10 Saronite Bar, 5 Titanium Bar
Alchemists can transmute 8 Saronite Bar into 1 Titanium Bar and this transmute doesn't have a coolddown.
425 - 500
Visit your trainer and learn Blacksmithing Illustrious.
From here, you will see that sometimes you will craft an item which requires a bit more materials than the other one. The reason for this is that if you don't mass produce an item, it's easier to sell them (you should) at the Auction House for profit.
Farm your own ores by using my Obsidium Ore farming guide.
◾425 - 455
83 x [Folded Obsidium] - 166 Obsidium Bar
Stop making these when you reach 455, make more only if you need them. If you choose different recipes you might need less than 80.
◾455 - 459
Make 4 from any recipe that requires 3 Folded Obsidium.
Almost all of the following items will give you multiple skill-ups per craft!
◾459 - 462
1 x [Stormforged Gauntlets] - 6 Folded Obsidium, 8 Volatile Earth
◾462 - 470
Make 8 from any of the following items:
[Redsteel Belt], [Stormforged Belt], [Hardened Obsidium Belt] - 32 Folded Obsidium, 8 Volatile Earth
◾470 - 475
[Obsidium Bladespear] - 12 Folded Obsidium, 10 Volatile Earth, 4 Volatile Fire
◾475 - 480
[Cold-Forged Shank] - 15 Folded Obsidium, 6 Volatile Earth, 4 Volatile Water
Make [Obsidium Skeleton Key] up to 480 if you don't plan to sell the dagger at the Auction House.
Visit my Elementium Ore farming guide if you want to farm the ores.
◾480 - 489
3 x [Stormforged Legguards] - 6 Folded Obsidium, 24 Elementium Bar
◾489 - 494
1 x [Fire Etched Dagger] - 20 Elementium Bar, 12 Volatile Earth, 4 Volatile Fire
◾494 - 500
2 x [Stormforged Helm] - 40 Elementium Bar, 16 Volatile Earth
You can also make 2 x [Hardened Obsidium Helm] (8 Folded Obsidium, 30 Elementium, 12 Volatile Earth), but I think Elementium is easier to farm than Obsidium.
500 - 600
Visit your trainer and learn Zen Blacksmithing.
◾500 - 501
1 x [Ghostly Skeleton Key] - 1 Ghost Iron Bar
This is an important step, don't skip it.
◾501 - 526
5 x [Ghost-Forged Bracers] - 25 Ghost Iron Bar
◾526 - 532
Make [Ghostly Skeleton Key] until you reach 526, if you start from 525.
2 x [Ghost-Forged Belt] or 2x [Ghost-Forged Gauntlets] - 14 Ghost Iron Bar
◾532 - 544
4 x [Ghost-Forged Boots] - 28 Ghost Iron Bar
◾544 - 549
1 x [Lightsteel Shield] - 9 Ghost Iron Bar
◾549 - 559
2 x [Spiritguard Shield] - 18 Ghost Iron Bar
◾559 - 569
2 x [Ghost-Forged Helm] or 2x [Ghost-Forged Breastplate] - 24 Ghost Iron Bar
Check your Calendar in-game to see if the Darkmoon Faire is open, the event starts at 00:01 on the Sunday before the 1st Monday of each month.
You can gain +5 skill points by completing a single quest. Click here to read more about the quests.
◾569 - 575
12 x [Ghost-Forged Shoulders] - 84 Ghost Iron Bar
◾575 - 600
Once you reach 575 you can purchase vendor recipes for the last 25 points. The Blacksmithing recipes are on a vendor in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. You can enter Vale of Eternal Blossoms after completing the quest A Celestial Experience (requires level 87). After you completed the quest, you can find Jorunga Stonehoof (Horde) in Shrine of Two Moons and Cullen Hammerbrow (Alliance) in Shrine of Seven Stars.
You'll need 1 Spirit of Harmony to purchase a recipe and you only need one recipe. You can get Spirit of Harmony by combining 10 Motes of Harmony. Motes are dropped by every mob in Pandaria, even in dungeons. The drop rate is low, so it may take you some time to collect 10 motes.
Choose one recipe from the Contender's Armor recipes. It doesn't matter which one because if one of them requires more Ghost Iron Bar, it will give you more skill points. You will need between 58-64 Ghost Iron Bar.
I hope you liked this WoW Blacksmithing Guide, GZ to 600!
Taken from: http://www.wow-professions.com/wowgu...ing-guide.html
Posted here for people who didn't know about the site already, and find this useful.
Enchant: Level 35 cloak Cataclysm Enchants!
Cloak of Coordination, prior to 5.1, was unenchantable and unable to be used for transmogrification. 5.1 allows the cloak to be used for transmogrification, but it also had the side effect of letting it takes enchants.
While not BoA, it will provide a gigantic leveling boost for anyone. You can enchant the cloak with any of these enchants, which will very easily make up for potential stat losses, and grants you 625 armor, which will be more than almost any cloak up until level 80.
+50 Intellect
+30 Stamina
+65 Critical StrikeI don't think it needs to be said what potential this has for twinks. At level 39 it has over 10x the armor of any other cloak.
While not BoA, it will provide a gigantic leveling boost for anyone. You can enchant the cloak with any of these enchants, which will very easily make up for potential stat losses, and grants you 625 armor, which will be more than almost any cloak up until level 80.
+50 Intellect
+30 Stamina
+65 Critical StrikeI don't think it needs to be said what potential this has for twinks. At level 39 it has over 10x the armor of any other cloak.
Farming Klaxxi reputation,Spirit of Harmony,Cloth & Greens Solo
The two sections are marked with red on the map, and the groups you're going to be looking for are also showed below on a screenshot. I personally think this spot is a lot better for rep farming than the one out on Zan'vess, simply because you can pull these ones much quicker, and the competition is smaller. Have fun!
Quest - Just a Flesh Wound: Fast Completion
Just a Flesh Wound - Quest - World of Warcraft
Just a quick tip to complete this quest faster you can just start bandaging the baby drakes, and then cancel the channel as soon as they get the recently bandaged debuff. This will still give you quest credit (Although it can take up to 5 seconds or so to count)
Just a quick tip to complete this quest faster you can just start bandaging the baby drakes, and then cancel the channel as soon as they get the recently bandaged debuff. This will still give you quest credit (Although it can take up to 5 seconds or so to count)
Duel in arena, trade cross faction and get to old AQ
2. Now all you guys are out run as a group just away from the arena it deosnt matter what way (north takes you to old AQ btw will update screen shots of that). Now you run until the other arena players are now friendly and you will then be able to trade / duel can't wisper though only real id wisper. You will not die in duels.
3. Yet to test but you should be able to trade cross faction, please note that cross realm won't work. NOTE we have got an mc idea that will work if this isnt working.
4. You can duel and duel players from the opposite team no matter the faction.
Instant Professor Title & Achievement: Jade Forest
Today happened something really strange with my warlock while questing in Jade Forest. I was at the Tian Monastery doing the quest where you have to pick up oranges
from Greenwood Thieves.
( A Courteous Guest - Quest - World of Warcraft )
The follow quest was to talk to High Elder Cloudfall, where you can choose between 2 dialogues 2 times, I always clicked the one at the bottom saying "save your time old man, skip this shit" or something like that
( http://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screen...mal/323229.jpg )
After getting a short black screen because of a cutscene I suddenly unlocked the Professor Title and the achievement for finding 20 rare artifacts
( Professor - Title - World of Warcraft )
But I only found 12 rare artifacts yet, and not 20?!
The day before I solved 1 Mogu and 1 Pandaren rare Item (trinket+speer).
I don't know if this is a bug and if it is repeatable, but it worked for me and now I don't have to waste my time finding more rare artifacts
Achievements just popped up after the cutscene / blackscreen!
First confirm from a user!! This will save you hundred hours of stupid flying around to skill archaeology and to find rare artifacts
What did u say? Screenshot or it didn't happened? Well, here you go:
Directupload.net - k2e5h4ht.jpg
Hope this works for you too and maybe somebody can confirm this!
Happened on a EU realm, today @ 17th of october after server maintenance
Seems like you have to begin the achievements first to make this work.
If you already have done the quest, try this with another char (85 or higher)
I should mention that you can't get banned for doing this, you are just questing in Jade Forest
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-exploits/382143-archaeology-instant-professor-title-incl-achievement-jade-forest.html
from Greenwood Thieves.
( A Courteous Guest - Quest - World of Warcraft )
The follow quest was to talk to High Elder Cloudfall, where you can choose between 2 dialogues 2 times, I always clicked the one at the bottom saying "save your time old man, skip this shit" or something like that
( http://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screen...mal/323229.jpg )
After getting a short black screen because of a cutscene I suddenly unlocked the Professor Title and the achievement for finding 20 rare artifacts
( Professor - Title - World of Warcraft )
But I only found 12 rare artifacts yet, and not 20?!
The day before I solved 1 Mogu and 1 Pandaren rare Item (trinket+speer).
I don't know if this is a bug and if it is repeatable, but it worked for me and now I don't have to waste my time finding more rare artifacts
Achievements just popped up after the cutscene / blackscreen!
First confirm from a user!! This will save you hundred hours of stupid flying around to skill archaeology and to find rare artifacts
What did u say? Screenshot or it didn't happened? Well, here you go:
Directupload.net - k2e5h4ht.jpg
Hope this works for you too and maybe somebody can confirm this!
Happened on a EU realm, today @ 17th of october after server maintenance
Seems like you have to begin the achievements first to make this work.
If you already have done the quest, try this with another char (85 or higher)
I should mention that you can't get banned for doing this, you are just questing in Jade Forest
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-exploits/382143-archaeology-instant-professor-title-incl-achievement-jade-forest.html
Fun with Goblin Glider
Steps:
1. Queu up for random BG.
2. Make sure you are on your flying mount.
3. Accept BG.
4. When BG is about to end use Goblin Glider, and hopefully you timed it right so you are still on it when BG finished.
5. Click Leave BG.
The buff still stays even if it hits 0 seconds & even if you log out, also when you dismount you will have slow fall effect till you touch the ground, so its an unlimited slow fall.
85-90 In 5 Hours - 12 Million XP Per Hour
This video shows you a Mob with 2.1 Million health we have a paladin tagging and killing it to receive 110k xp Per Min, 20 Second Kill 10 Second Downtime Leading to 30 Seconds per 110k
110k x 2 per Min = 220k Per Min x 60 = 12 Million xp Per Hour we have only been online for 2 Hours and our paladin is at level 88.
Krasarang Wilds - North West of The Southern Isles on a little Island.
Venerable Viseclaw - NPC - World of Warcraft
Is the location it's showed within video.
110k x 2 per Min = 220k Per Min x 60 = 12 Million xp Per Hour we have only been online for 2 Hours and our paladin is at level 88.
Krasarang Wilds - North West of The Southern Isles on a little Island.
Venerable Viseclaw - NPC - World of Warcraft
Is the location it's showed within video.
How to be "Realm First! level 90"
how to increase your chances to get you the FoS achievement -
Or if you are really setting your goal for it, maybe even get you it!
Disclaimer: This is not for noobs, you must be very experienced with your class, World of Warcraft, fast leveling in general, and you must have the time! This will not work if you are not ready at LAUNCH time, you can not excpect to get realm first if you go to sleep early and then go to school before starting the journey to 90!
Preparing for MoP Realm First:
Things you will need :
#1 Reliable network
You must be 100% sure that you have your network ready for the launch day. One Disconnect and you risk your realm first achievement right there!
Having 1000ms won't help you very much aswell, make sure you have closed every download / porn sites / YouTube or whatever that might cause you to lagg more than wanted.
#2 Food, Energy (Drinks / bars etc)
Even tho you are going for realm first, you need to stay hydrated and not starve This is pretty self explanitory but you cant spend 30 minutes at level 87 cooking food because you get hungry. What I like to do is to make some awesome taco before launch and eat me full and then wrap some more so I can eat whenever I get hungry, just put it in the microwave for one minute when you have any idle* time on WoW.
*Idle time is a time where there is some cinematic. You probably remember the first time you went to Vasj'ir and had to sit on the boat for 3 minutes doing nothing. This is a good time to go to the bathroom and get your food heated up in the microwave.
#3 Privacy
Tell your wife / friends / your dog or whoever you may live with, what you are doing. You dont want your girlfriend charging into your room dragging you to shopping or your boyfriend begging you for le sexy time. So make sure they know, you don't want ANY downtime!
#4 Have the client downloaded!
Make sure you have downloaded the game before the launch! Open the launcher and it will start download (They have allready made the game available for download)
#5 (Optional) Some good music!
What I like to do when playing games is to turn on my kick ass surround sound system and fire up some awesome music! This makes the gametime more fun and less boring
Spotify is a great way to setup music for your gameplay, just make an account on Download Spotify - Spotify (I highly reccomend getting premium so you wont have any commercials between the music which is really annoying trust me.) Make your playlist and put it as "Available Offline" so it wont use any uneccesarry net.
In-game Preperations :
#1 Keybindings
Make sure you have keybindings for targetting and interracting with friendly NPCs, this will make it much easier if there are alot of people blocking the quest givers etc.
#2 Addons
You dont want to spend alot of time clicking accept and and complete and all that, Turn In lets you skip all that and makes you a couple of seconds ahead.
Turn In - Quests & Leveling - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse
You dont wanna stop for 10 second figuring out where to go looking at you map. Mapster gives you the ability to have the map open while running around questing.
Mapster - Map & Minimap - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse
Make sure all your addons WORK on the Beta, you don't want your addons to crash your client while playing the game.
#3 Daily Quests
Make sure you have 25 daily quests and preferrably normal quests besides that.
I will have the comment below reserved for full guide on all the quests you can get and deliver when MoP hits.
#4 85 Heirloom gear *Note: this is not tested, but it worked at Cata launch!
In Cataclysm only 2 new heirlooms was implemented, the head and the cloak (80-85) Im 99% sure this will work in MoP. Basically since its 80-85 it means you can use it in 85 aswell to gain more exp untill level 86.
#5 Flasks / Potions / Food and inventory
This is pretty much self-explanitory. Clear your bags of trash, put useless stuff in your bank and buy alot of potions, flasks and buff food.
The more buffs you have, the faster you will level!
#6 Level 25 guild
Make sure to have a level 25 guild for the extra experience points and to setup dungeon groups before launch.
Beta preperations :
If you don't have beta access, buy it from someone on the forums, get it from a friend, just make sure you have it! If you don't...well then you could pretty much give up allready.
#1 Talents and gear
Figure out the best possible spec you can have. Get BiS gear, the better gear you have, the more damage you will do and the faster you will level up.
#2 Read up on your class
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies
Mmo champion have all the updates on every class, I won't teach you how to play, so go read up on that site if you are not 100% sure of what changes gonna hit in MoP and how you will handle that.
#3 90s everywhere!
Go to Battle.net -> Summary -> WoW Beta -> Beta Character Copy -> and copy your char.
Now what? Level it up, level it up 10 times, level it up 100 times. Level it up enough times so you are 100% sure your method is the fastest!
Ask other 90s their /played time and if they did it faster then you? Well guess what, level your char more!
Optimizing your strategies :
#1 Figure out the fastest way to travel
Where should you put your HS? Figure out the best times to change zones. There are many items in-game that lets you teleport to different places around Azeroth!
#2 Enchants and Gems
Keep enchants and gems in your inventory to enchant your new gear. Every oppertunity to gain more dps is an oppertunity to level faster!
#3 Don't kill uneccesarry stuff!
Don't stay around to finish that 1 extra mob you pulled after completing the neccesarry stuff for your quest! Are you a rogue? Vanish. Are you a hunter? Feign Death. Are you a druid? Dash away. Effectivity ftw!
#4 Practice!
Don't stop with the Beta playing until you are fully satisfied with the speed and effincency of your leveling method and you are sure you will get Realm First with that exacy method!
Bonus:
MONKS ONLY!
If you plan on getting realm first level 90 Monk, you HAVE to do the RAF to get your monk to level 81 ASAP!
Basically, just kill a couple of mobs at level 1 and then grant to level 80. And after you have granted that last level. You will be level 80 and have 99% exp for level 81
Or if you are really setting your goal for it, maybe even get you it!
Disclaimer: This is not for noobs, you must be very experienced with your class, World of Warcraft, fast leveling in general, and you must have the time! This will not work if you are not ready at LAUNCH time, you can not excpect to get realm first if you go to sleep early and then go to school before starting the journey to 90!
Preparing for MoP Realm First:
Things you will need :
#1 Reliable network
You must be 100% sure that you have your network ready for the launch day. One Disconnect and you risk your realm first achievement right there!
Having 1000ms won't help you very much aswell, make sure you have closed every download / porn sites / YouTube or whatever that might cause you to lagg more than wanted.
#2 Food, Energy (Drinks / bars etc)
Even tho you are going for realm first, you need to stay hydrated and not starve
This is pretty self explanitory but you cant spend 30 minutes at level 87 cooking food because you get hungry. What I like to do is to make some awesome taco before launch and eat me full and then wrap some more so I can eat whenever I get hungry, just put it in the microwave for one minute when you have any idle* time on WoW. *Idle time is a time where there is some cinematic. You probably remember the first time you went to Vasj'ir and had to sit on the boat for 3 minutes doing nothing. This is a good time to go to the bathroom and get your food heated up in the microwave.
#3 Privacy
Tell your wife / friends / your dog or whoever you may live with, what you are doing. You dont want your girlfriend charging into your room dragging you to shopping or your boyfriend begging you for le sexy time. So make sure they know, you don't want ANY downtime!
#4 Have the client downloaded!
Make sure you have downloaded the game before the launch! Open the launcher and it will start download (They have allready made the game available for download)
#5 (Optional) Some good music!
What I like to do when playing games is to turn on my kick ass surround sound system and fire up some awesome music! This makes the gametime more fun and less boring
Spotify is a great way to setup music for your gameplay, just make an account on Download Spotify - Spotify (I highly reccomend getting premium so you wont have any commercials between the music which is really annoying trust me.) Make your playlist and put it as "Available Offline" so it wont use any uneccesarry net.
In-game Preperations :
#1 Keybindings
Make sure you have keybindings for targetting and interracting with friendly NPCs, this will make it much easier if there are alot of people blocking the quest givers etc.
#2 Addons
You dont want to spend alot of time clicking accept and and complete and all that, Turn In lets you skip all that and makes you a couple of seconds ahead.
Turn In - Quests & Leveling - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse
You dont wanna stop for 10 second figuring out where to go looking at you map. Mapster gives you the ability to have the map open while running around questing.
Mapster - Map & Minimap - World of Warcraft Addons - Curse
Make sure all your addons WORK on the Beta, you don't want your addons to crash your client while playing the game.
#3 Daily Quests
Make sure you have 25 daily quests and preferrably normal quests besides that.
I will have the comment below reserved for full guide on all the quests you can get and deliver when MoP hits.
#4 85 Heirloom gear *Note: this is not tested, but it worked at Cata launch!
In Cataclysm only 2 new heirlooms was implemented, the head and the cloak (80-85) Im 99% sure this will work in MoP. Basically since its 80-85 it means you can use it in 85 aswell to gain more exp untill level 86.
#5 Flasks / Potions / Food and inventory
This is pretty much self-explanitory. Clear your bags of trash, put useless stuff in your bank and buy alot of potions, flasks and buff food.
The more buffs you have, the faster you will level!
#6 Level 25 guild
Make sure to have a level 25 guild for the extra experience points and to setup dungeon groups before launch.
Beta preperations :
If you don't have beta access, buy it from someone on the forums, get it from a friend, just make sure you have it! If you don't...well then you could pretty much give up allready.
#1 Talents and gear
Figure out the best possible spec you can have. Get BiS gear, the better gear you have, the more damage you will do and the faster you will level up.
#2 Read up on your class
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies
Mmo champion have all the updates on every class, I won't teach you how to play, so go read up on that site if you are not 100% sure of what changes gonna hit in MoP and how you will handle that.
#3 90s everywhere!
Go to Battle.net -> Summary -> WoW Beta -> Beta Character Copy -> and copy your char.
Now what? Level it up, level it up 10 times, level it up 100 times. Level it up enough times so you are 100% sure your method is the fastest!
Ask other 90s their /played time and if they did it faster then you? Well guess what, level your char more!
Optimizing your strategies :
#1 Figure out the fastest way to travel
Where should you put your HS? Figure out the best times to change zones. There are many items in-game that lets you teleport to different places around Azeroth!
#2 Enchants and Gems
Keep enchants and gems in your inventory to enchant your new gear. Every oppertunity to gain more dps is an oppertunity to level faster!
#3 Don't kill uneccesarry stuff!
Don't stay around to finish that 1 extra mob you pulled after completing the neccesarry stuff for your quest! Are you a rogue? Vanish. Are you a hunter? Feign Death. Are you a druid? Dash away. Effectivity ftw!
#4 Practice!
Don't stop with the Beta playing until you are fully satisfied with the speed and effincency of your leveling method and you are sure you will get Realm First with that exacy method!
Bonus:
MONKS ONLY!
If you plan on getting realm first level 90 Monk, you HAVE to do the RAF to get your monk to level 81 ASAP!
Basically, just kill a couple of mobs at level 1 and then grant to level 80. And after you have granted that last level. You will be level 80 and have 99% exp for level 81
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