Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
378	Plate	Melee	Shoulder	Elementium Dragon Shoulderguards
378	Plate	Tank	Chest	Elementium Dragon Chestguard
378	Plate	Tank	Hands	Elementium Dragon Handguards
378	Plate	Tank	Head	Elementium Dragon Faceguard
378	Plate	Tank	Legs	Elementium Dragon Legguards
378	Plate	Melee	Shoulder	Immolation Shoulderguards
378	Plate	Tank	Chest	Immolation Chestguard
378	Plate	Tank	Hands	Immolation Handguards
378	Plate	Tank	Head	Immolation Faceguard
378	Plate	Tank	Legs	Immolation Legguards
384	Plate	Tank	Shoulder	Spaulders of Pure Flame
378	Plate	Melee	Head	Nestheart Greathelm
378	Plate	Melee	Shoulder	Shoulderguards of the Molten Giant
378	Plate	Tank	Chest	Chestguard of the Molten Giant
378	Plate	Tank	Chest	Flamescarred Carapace
378	Plate	Tank	Hands	Flickering Handguards
378	Plate	Tank	Hands	Handguards of the Molten Giant
378	Plate	Tank	Head	Faceguard of the Molten Giant
378	Plate	Tank	Legs	Legguards of the Molten Giant
378	Plate	Tank	Shoulder	Spaulders of Recurring Flame
378	Mail	Physical DPS	Legs	Fireflight Leggings
378	Leather	Spell Spirit	Head	x3 Raid – 4.2 – Firelands – Boss 1 Loot 2 – Leather Int Spirit Helm

Firelands Epic Loot

This raid instance has only one boss (Onyxia).

Onyxia Video

1. The Beasts of Northrend Encounter (1st boss fight)

The Beasts of Northrend encounter is made up of three sub-encounter:

• Combat Gormok the Impaler, a magnataur
• Combat Acidmaw and Combat Dreadscale, a pair of jormungar
• Combat Icehowl, a wendigo

Things to remember for the Acidmaw and Dreadscale (2nd phase) fight

Please read the following bit of advice from “WowWiki” for this boss if you plan to attend the guild raid.

The key mechanic in this phase is interaction between Burning Bile and Paralytic Toxin.

• Acidmaw applies Paralytic Toxin; Dreadscale applies Burning Bile.
• Players with Paralytic Toxin can get it removed by running close to a player with Burning Bile and taking a tick of fire damage.
• Burning Bile falls off naturally and cannot be removed.
• One worm is mobile and the other stationary. Regularly they burrow themselves and switch state after resurfacing.

Both worms can be tanked normally. They apply their special attack depending on their state, that is the mobile worm applies it only to its tank, while the stationary worm puts it on a random group of players (AoE). The mobile worm also spawns poison circles around itself (similar to Grobbulus), thus must be moved.

Initially, Dreadscale is mobile and Acidmaw stationary. This means that random raid members get Paralytic Toxin, and they must run towards the Dreadscale tank to get rid of it. After the first burrow, only the Acidmaw tank gets Toxin, but he must get close to the random raid member who has Burning Bile. Usually it’s better if one of the players affected by Burning Bile runs to the Acidmaw tank, not vice versa.

Positioning is important. No players except the tank should ever stand in front of one of the worms. The distance between players should be as large as possible, so that fewer raid members get Paralytic Toxin at once (it’s an AoE centered on one player with 10 yard radius). At the same time, players can’t be more than half the room away from the Dreadscale tank, else the toxin freezes them before they reach the tank.

Normally, Acidmaw is killed first, to get rid of Paralytic Toxin, even though after one worm dies, the other enrages for at least 50% extra damage (10 and 25 player normal).

Hunters should mark both snakes when they burrow so they are easily followed underground.

2. Lord Jaraxxus (2nd boss fight)

Lord Jaraxxus is the second encounter of the Trial of the Crusader raid instance. Lord Jaraxxus is summoned by Grand Warlock Wilfred Fizzlebang when the gnome attempts to summon a doomguard for the next challenge. Jaraxxus kills Fizzlebang for his efforts, and next plans to kill the player.

3. The Faction Champions (3rd boss fight)

This fight is a PvP-styled encounter against a team of the opposite faction:

4. Eydis Darkbane and Combat Fjola Lightbane – Twin Val’kyr (4th boss fight)

The Twin Val’kyr, Combat Fjola Lightbane and Combat Eydis Darkbane, are a pair making up the fourth (and ostensibly final) encounter in the Trial of the Crusader raid. They both share the same health pool.

5. Anub’arak (5th boss fight)

Blizzard is targeting accounts that use a power leveling service and banning accounts left right and center. They have banned over 100,000 accounts in the previous year. So think about it twice before you go down this path.

I know the packages these power-leveling companies are offering these days are very lucrative to get anyone interested in getting a character power leveled. Here is a typical package the power leveling companies are offering for around $70.

Lv1-80 Fast Powerleveling Package (9-10 Days)
(1)First Aid and Two Related Professions to 450
(2)Epic Gears + Rare Gears
(3)225 Riding skill + Flying Mount + Epic Mount
(4)Cold Weather Flying skill
(5)3000 Gold
(6)Complete your class quest
(7)Open all flight paths(Azeroth + Outlands + Northrend)

If you think about it, this is just unbelievable but they can offer you these prices because they know that your account is going to get banned so they actually won’t have to deliver. All they need is for you to fall in the trap. This is a typical scenario:

1. You don’t have time to level your toon.
2. You look up the offers on a typical power leveling company’s website.
3. Once you see the above mentioned unbeleivable offer you are ready to order without thinking anything else.
4. The power leveling company start botting your character (24/7).
5. Blizzard bans the account.
6. The power leveling company doesn’t deliver or take any responsibility.
7. You lose everything (the account and the money)

How do Blizzard catch the Power Levelers?

I don’t know exactly what Blizzard do to catch the power levelers but it’s not really hard if you think about it. Say for example, if your account is registered in the US but someone from China (most power leveling companies are based in China) logs on and is online 24/7 then it is very easy to flag that account for further investigation. I am sure you get the idea now.

Don’t Buy World of Warcraft Accounts Either

Some World of Warcraft account selling companies are trying to take advantage of this situation by promoting the fact that you should buy a character rather than power levelling. I would steer clear of these character selling sites too. No matter what they say the account can be recalled by the original owner at any time. You don’t want to put all these time into the game only to find that the account has been recalled at a later date. This is what typically happens when you buy an account.

• The company selling the character will tell you that you can change the account password and email address and bla bla bla but what they do not tell you is that Blizzard will not let you transfer a character from an account that is not owned by the same person (the last name on the account has to match). Blizzard also will not allow you to change the account name.

• Few months later the original account owner will feel like coming back to the game and will tell Blizzard that his account got hacked. Once he can provide proof of ID (the account name is not changeable so you are screwed at this stage) the account can be reclaimed.

You will end up loosing the money you paid to buy the account and lost any work you did on characters on that account!

I hope this article will save some of your accounts from getting banned if you have been considering to use any of the services mentioned above.

High Priest Thekal was the High Priest of the Primal God Shirvallah, the god tiger. Thekal comes with 2 named humanoid adds (Zealot Lor’khan and Zealot Zath) and 2 tigers. The 2 humanoid adds are a shaman and a rogue. Thekal initiates the fight in priest form. If any of the adds or Thekal dies, the remaining ones will resurrect them. This means all 3 must die simultaneously (within a 10 second window).

High Priest Thekal

After dying once, Thekal respawns as a Tiger. In this form he can charge, Flurry, enrage, and Force Punch. He spawns 2 tigers periodically throughout the fight.

Tiger mount that Thekal drops

If you are a clothie then I suggest using the Evade bug to solo him

Warlock Solo High Priest Thekal with the Evade bug

Solo Zul’Gurub Thekal as a Death Knight

High Priest Thekal Solo (Feral Druid)

Good Luck with the tiger mount!

• Go the the vendor you want to buy items from.
• Set ‘At War’ with the faction that the vendor belongs to from your characters reputation tab.

When the vendor respawns (which is very quickly), he will have the item in stock. You can make a lot of gold doing this by buying an item cheap and reselling it on AH (ie Gnomish Cloaking Device)

Blizzard is challenging you to design and illustrate your own Blizzard Entertainment Theme Park, including roller coasters, water rides, shows, shopping areas, food courts, game areas, patrons, and whatever fantastic attractions you desire.

Submit your original park design by March 30, 2009, and Blizzard will choose the favorites based on the creativity of the design, artistic technique (including the medium and style), and how your park reflects the lore and spirit of Blizzard Entertainment’s games.

Here are the links to the competition…

• Blizzard Theme Park Contest Entry
• Blizzard Theme Park Contest Eligibility

Harris Pilton

Ruby Shades before Patch 3.0.2

Ruby shades has approximately 30 mins respwan time… so all you gotta do is park a character next to her and log back on that toon every now and then and make some easy gold.

Gothik The harvester

Gothik the Harvester has two phases. In phase two he uses Shadowbolt – Gothik will chain cast 1 second Shadowbolts for 4500 to 5500 (2880 to 3520 in 10 man) Shadow damage on his primary aggro target.

Your group can Mana drain him completely during the 1st phase so he can’t use the Shadowbolt spell in 2nd phase which makes the fight very easy.

In order to do this trick, organize your Warlocks, Hunters and Priests to stay on the live side and mana burn the boss in phase1 (Gothik the harvester is immune to all damage in phase1, but he is not immune to mana drain). Mana drains now take a percentage of the mana instead of a flat amount so your group can easily mana drain him completely (easier in 25 man as you have more players who can cast mana drain).

When he can’t cast Shaodowbolt, he uses his melee abilities which doesn’t do much damage. As I said earlier, this boss fight is considered to be one of the easiest in Naxxramas but this trick makes it even easier and fun.

Howling Fjord Map

The Reef Cows in Howling Fjord (shown on the map above) have about 9k health and spawns pretty quick. There are heaps of them. They are level 70 and they go down pretty quick.

Reef Cow

If you farm the Reef cows for an hour you will end up with about over 100g worth of trash, greens and cooking meat. Remember to sell the meat on the Auction house. Now the sweet part… from Skinning you will get around 8 arctic furs which will sell for about 250g (on some servers it will sell for even higher) and another 80g from Borean leather and Borean leather scrapes. Altogether, I think this a very good farming spot for skinners.

I am sure there are other good farming spots that I don’t know of. If you know of a good farming spot please leave you suggestion the comment area below.