New For Hallows End 2019

As an addition to my updated guide to Hallows End 2019 (in the absence of any updates to wowpedia or wowhead) there is the new heirloom upgrade token allowing level 120 heirloom armour:

Battle Hardened Heirloom Armor Casing.

Hallows End 2019

UPDATE: You can also get tricky treats at level 120 by doing your daily missions from the boat in Boralus!!!

So, with Hallows End upon us and Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing, Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing and Weathered Heirloom Armor Casing, and the new level 120 Battle Hardened Armor Casing, up for grabs at 250-450 Tricky Treats you have a lot of running around and a lot of daily quests to be doing.

If, like me, you have ten thousand alts and you want them all to experience the joys of a trip to the dentist with rotten teeth than you had better get your daily routine stream-lined. Luckily for you, I have done it here.

So, now that we're ready for the 2019 event there are a few changes from last year.

Check out the 'Hag'. I don't know about you but I'd give her one, or two, or three!

GET YOUR ALTS OUT THERE AND GRAB SHED TONS OF XP!!!

Changes in 2019

• The Headless Horseman's loot is up to i-level 395
• The portal in Legion Dalaran to Dalaran Center has been removed. Need to set HS to Chillwind Camp
• No lol-rolling the garrison dailies, they now scale to level 120 for max level
• **NEW** level 120 Heirloom token - Battle Hardened Armor Casing

Notes for low levels
If you don't have the garrison or it's not high enough level, then skip it and hearth to Dalaran after the dungeon instead, if you have not got Dalaran yet then you will not be able to get to the Wicked Witch and you could run to Undercity from Andhoral but I don't think it's worth the time and effort.

Pick up the heirloom toys to grab a basic set of flight points: To Modernize the Provisioning of Azeroth and Surviving Kalimdor.

Pre-requisites for Dailies

• Take the Portal from Stormwind to Twilight Highlands
• Use your flying mount to fly to Vermillion redoubt (The gryphon flies in circles and takes ages)
• Take the flight path to Chillwind Camp and set Hearthstone there.
• Dalaran Hearthstone.
• Garrison Hearthstone.
• Stormwind Hearthstone Cloak.
• [Optional] Set up some quest accept and hand in macros to speed things up

One offs.

• Make sure you pick up the nougat quest before running around the inns.
• The first time you portal to Azshuna go via Dalaran
• Whilst in New Dalaran grab “Beware of the Crooked Tree” from Duroc Ironjaw next to the candy bucket in the Legerdemain Lounge, also grab the candy bucket!
• Grab the candy bucket from your faction Inn in Dalaran.
• Now you can fly to Bradensbrook.
• Then hand in the Crooked Tree quest before doing the daily.

Remember

• As soon as you get a magic broom, put it on your action bar and bind it to your mount key - its instant cast and especially useful for cleansing Stormwind and for fighting fires in Goldshire.
• Don't forget the Candy Bucket in Boralus!
• For max levels Arathi may be out of phase, Zidormi is at the south of the zone.
• You have to do emotes for the innkeepers for Jespers Nougat

Dailies

1. Start off at Goldshire Inn
2. Collect “Stop the Fires!” or “Let the Fires Come!” quests.  If it’s not available because the Pumpkin quest is active, wait for it to despawn then /reload.
3. Put out the fires, starting with the Forge chimney and working anti-clockwise.
4. If the horseman is currently being fought on the ground grabbing the Let the Fires Come quest may auto-complete.
5. Head to the Gates of Stormwind
6. Collect all quests
7. Talk to Gertrude Fenlow to go to the Undercity
8. Once you’ve started flying queue for the Headless Horseman
9. Continue with Bombing Undercity
10. If the Headless Horseman queue pops wait until the last possible second before clicking Enter Dungeon (You will NOT enter dungeon yet).
11. Say in /i or /p “Just waiting to dismount from the undercity broom”
12. Finish the bombing and click the Return button.
13. As soon as you dismount, click on group finder icon and select “Teleport to Dungeon”
14. Moan in /i or /p about how long it took to dismount from the broom whilst lol-rolling the HH
15. When the Headless Horseman dies exit dungeon and return to Stormwind.
16. (If the dungeon hasn’t popped yet start clearing up the stink bombs in Stormwind until lit it pops, then carry out the step above).
17. Finish the Clean Up Stormwind quest as you towards the Mage Quarter.
18. Take the portal to Azshuna from the Stormwind Portal Room
19. Fly north a little and then use flightpath whistle, take flightpath to Bradensbrook.
20. Fly Northwest to the Hag of the Crooked Tree at 35,56 and accept the quest.
21. Click on the Crooked Tree Cauldron to accept her curse and enter the weird realm and go kill the witch Aria Sorrowheart.
22. Remember to interrupt Aria’s Scream
23. Loot one of the sister's hats (hopefully)
24. Use your GARRISON Hearthstone.
25. Collect the four Garrison quests and fly to Socrethar’s Rest.
26. Lol-roll (2019 - actually have to take them seriously!) the quests and fly back to your garrison and hand them in
27. Hearthstone to Chillwind Camp and head West to Undercity
28. Land just before and to the left of the Wickerman and stand at the near end of the bridge
29. Use your dousing agent
30. Ensure quest complete pops then use your Stormwind cloak to return to Stormwind.
31. Ensure all quests are complete
32. Turn on War Mode if you're under level 120
33. Click the fire to the left of the gates then head over the road and hand all the quests in.
34. Turn off war mode
35. Head back to the Goldshire Inn and log out until tomorrow.

Don't even need you dala HS anymore ...

1. Hearthstone to Dalaran, head to the old portal room and take the only portal to Stormwind.

Hallows End 2018 Daily Tricky Treat Rotation

So, with Hallows End upon is and Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing, Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing and Weathered Heirloom Armor Casing up for grabs at 250-450 Tricky Treats you have a lot of running around and a lot of daily quests to be doing.

If, like me, you have ten thousand alts and you want them all to experience the joys of a trip to the dentist with rotten teeth than you had better get your daily routine stream-lined. Luckily for you I have done it here.

Check out the 'Hag'. I don't know about you but I'd give her one, or two, or three!

Notes for low levels
If you don't have the garrison or it's not high enough level, then skip it and hearth to Dalaran after the dungeon instead, if you have not got Dalaran yet then you will not be able to get to the Wicked Witch and you could run to Undercity from Andhoral but I don't think it's worth the time and effort.

Pick up the heirloom toys to grab a basic set of flighpoints: To Modernize the Provisioning of Azeroth and Surviving Kalimdor.

Pre-requisites for Dailies

• Hearthstone set to Bradensbrook in Valsharah.
• Dalaran Hearthstone.
• Garrison Hearthstone.
• Stormwind Hearthstone Cloak.

One offs.

• Make sure you pick up the nougat quest before running around the inns.
• Whilst in New Dalaran grab “Beware of the Crooked Tree” from Duroc Ironjaw next to the candy bucket in the Legerdemain lounge, also grab the candy bucket!
• Grab the candy bucket from your faction Inn in Dalaran.
• You’ll probably need to fly to Bradensbrook the first time to set you Hearthstone there. (Don’t worry about Boralus, you can get back there from the Stormwind Portal Room).
• Then hand in the Crooked Tree quest before doing the daily.

Dailies

1. Start off at Goldshire Inn
2. Collect “Stop the Fires!” or “Let the Fires Come!” quests.  If it’s not available because the Pumpkin quest is active, wait for it to despawn then /reload.
3. Put out the fires, starting with the Forge chimney and working anti-clockwise.
4. If the horseman is currently being fought on the ground grabbing the Let the Fires Come quest may auto-complete.
5. Head to the Gates of Stormwind
6. Collect all quests
7. Talk to Gertrude Fenlow to go to the Undercity
8. Once you’ve started flying queue for the Headless Horseman
9. Continue with Bombing Undercity
10. If the Headless Horseman queue pops wait until the last possible second before clicking Enter Dungeon (You will NOT enter dungeon yet).
11. Say in /i or /p “Just waiting to dismount from the undercity broom”
12. Finish the bombing and click the Return button.
13. As soon as you dismount, click on group finder icon and select “Teleport to Dungeon”
14. Moan in /i or /p about how long it took to dismount from the broom whilst lol-rolling the HH
15. When the Headless Horseman dies use your GARRISON Hearthstone.
16. (If the dungeon hasn’t popped yet start clearing up the stink bombs in Stormwind until lit it pops, then carry out the step above).    
17. Collect the four Garrison quests and fly to Socrethar’s Rest.
18. Lol-roll the quests and fly back to your garrison and hand them in
19. Hearthstone to Bradensbrook.
20. Fly North west to the Hag of the Crooked Tree at 35,56 and accept the quest.
21. Click on the Crooked Tree Cauldron to accept her curse and enter the weird realm and go kill the witch Aria Sorrowheart.
22. Remember to interrupt Aria’s Scream
23. Loot one of the sisters hats (hopefully)
24. Hearthstone to Dalaran, enter the Chamber of the Guardians and use the portal. Go all the way to the bottom and select the middle portal on the right (Dalaran Center).
25. As soon as you spawn use your Magic Broom or fall to the ground and use you normal mount
26. Head North to Undercity
27. Land just before and to the left of the Wickerman and stand at the near end of the bridge
28. Use your dousing agent
29. Ensure quest complete pops then use your Stormwind cloak to return to Stormwind.
30. Leave the Stormwind portal room and do/finish the Clean Up Stormwind quest as you head back to the gates.
31. Click the fire to the left of the gates then head over the road and hand all the quests in.
32. Head back to the Goldshire Inn and log out until tomorrow.

New For Hallows End 2018

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WTFinWoW - 7

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Now Darkshore totally Back to Normal

Looks like that nigh elf vanguard has now gone from Lor'Danel.

Guess they've gone to hold Tyrande's hand in Storwind.

Another Alt Beats Marcus to 111

I started off today playing Ballsax the Demon Hunter. I really am doing my usual prevarication when it comes to levelling my main!!

I didn't even start him off in Kul Tiras, like yesterday I took him back to Legion to clear out alll his bags and quest log.

By 13:33 I had finished up Azshuna and 20 minutes later done the Azshara dungeon quest knocked off.

I then pop back onto Burn to do some more mining and questing in Stormsong and get his second piece of Azerite Armour.

Marcus is really getting behind!

Oops - 2 Levels Ahead of Marcus

Not learning my lesson about my main being behind the levelling of one of my own alts I continued with Burnsprocket.

First of all I took him back to Legion and either dumped pointless quests or completed certain quest lines to clear up his quest log and empty stuff from his bags.

By 15:00 he just about finished up in Legion and managed to clock up the 2000 quest achievement.

Next he moved back to Stormsong Valley and mined a load more ore.

Before I knew it he was level 112 and got the 'Got My Mind on my Money' achievement.

Burnsprocket Does Freehold

Not happy with the mage dinging 111 before Marcus I sent him into a dungeon too. He whizzed through Freehold.

He didn't managed to catch the oiled up pig but he still managed to finish up with some upgrades and a shiny achi!

Oh and he finished at leet o'clock!

Another Logic Screw Up

I was still on my mage doing some mining and the local quests when I did the Bombs Away quest. This has you collect 8 bobs from round and about and then plant the, 4 at a time, to blow up horde demolishers.

Well, I think they changed this quest half way through development and then forgot to update the quest text appropriately.

I reckon, the originally intended for you to bring the bobs back and then go off on another quest to plant them, but then put it all into one quest. Why?

You'll see in this completion text that the bombs look particularly nasty? What? I've already used them to bob the demolishers!

1000 Free Wakening Essence

So a lot of the levelling guides suggest you go to the mythic chest to grab you free 1000 Wakening Essence and buy another legendary.

Well, you can't. That was purely for the week that there was a screw up with the Mythic chests and it was compensation.

Oops - It Wasn't My Main to Ding 111 First. Subtite: Insightful Rubelite XP Gem

So, having started off well with Marcus and getting 8 bars in 1.5 hours last night I hopped on this morning and re-evaluated the levelling options.

One of which was the Insightful Rubelite gem. I checked on the Auction House and they were going for 2,500 gold - WOWZERS!

So rather than continue levelling I thought I'd get one of my mining alts out of the blocks and grab some ore and send it back to Marcus or my other JC to prospect.

So, off went Burnsprocket the mage into Stormsong and before I knew it he'd hit level 111 ... before Marcus!!

While I was doing so I also noticed an Azerite Power Progress bar, I don't know whether that is with the stock UI or a dominos thing, but vaguely useful.

There was talk abound that the Insightful Rubelite was unique equipped but only per item, so if you had to items with gem slots you could equip 2 gems for double bonus. That might have been the case in Beta,  but it's not now. You can only have one equipped anywhere.

While prospecting all the ore I got the following:

40 Storm Silver Ore :
1 x Kubeline
4 x Kyante
3 x Goldern Beryl
1 x Solstone
2 x Viridium
1 x Owlseye (RARE)

65 Monelite Ore :
8 x Kubeline
1 x Goldern Beryl
3 x Viridium
2 x Solstone
2 x Kyanite
2 x Rubelite - YAY finally
1 x Laribole (RARE)
1 x Royal Quartz (RARE)
1 x Kraken's Eye (EPIC)

Oops 5 Platinum Ore gave 2 Viridium, I don't know yet whether it's a good idea to prospect platinum. Answers on a postcard!

Disenchant or Scrap? And Can you Scrap Legion Gear

So, I've been wondering what is best to do with all the green gear you get. Scrap it or DE it?

Well, after much research, it looks like the best option is to scrap all your soulbond stuff and mail all the BoE stuff to your enchanter.

The reasoning being that enchanting materials are going to go through the roof as they'll be rarer as people just scrap everything.

Legion and below gear: you CANNOT scrap - send to your enchanter.

Never going to have a gear profession? Vendor them!

BeefAss - 24 Hours In - First Impressions plus Battle for Azeroth Levelling Tips.

After 24 hours of BeefAss I got my main, Marcusmaximi, 11 bars into level 110 and left him sat with the castaways who got shipwrecked by the Sirens.

The first logic f**k up I encountered was here. They were stranded, they talk about beig stuck, yet they have a flight path!!

I did my first dungeon on Marcus and found that a 100% pure healer has a lot of downtime and no mana sink. Add to that a holy paladin seems to be geared towards doing some damage.

This really is the closest I've seen pallies being to real hybrid healer/damage dealers since vanilla!

I then went off on a tangent and put as any more alts through Darkshore and got them ready for Kul Tiras before looking into Insightful Rubelites as a levelling aid.

At the time I looked they were up on the Auction house for a minimum of 2,500g so I decided to get a mining character out there to get some ore!

But not before looking into other levelling tips, here is my top 5 list:

1 - Insightful Ruby - Only get 1 - See next post
2 - Guild Banner - XP boost every 10 mins
3 - War Mode - turn on war mode in Stormwind. Turn off before going to Zandalar.
4 - Azeroth Autopilot - everyone raves about this addon. Review coming soon.
5 - Empty bags and rotate alts who have rested XP (that's 6, but two little ones!)

So back to the game I went, I took the mage up to Stormsong, as I didn't want to repeat the same content Marcusmaxi had already done.

He started mining and getting some quests done then bumped into some rude people!

There are some new additions to model stances. NPCs dont just have one look and walk back and forth or just stand there.

The water effects are cool as well, even with just level 5 graphics the water looks cool I can't remember if it was like that before though!

What most impressed me though was the lack of restarts and NO login queues even on Argent Dawn which is a FULL server!

Back to mining...

Didn't I Just Kill You?

As I will go into tomorrow, I left Marcus down near Freehold fighting off Sirens and logged onto Burnsprocket to do some mining because Insightful Rubelites were selling for 2500 each.

One of the first quests in Stormsong is Archived Knowledge where you need to kill Lieutenant Wade.

Then you walk back upstairs out of the basement straight into Lieutenant Wade! DOH!

Darkshore World Quests Finshed

Well, it wasn't a bug, the world quests were still running. But now they have expired and Darkshore has moved onto the next stage. The Elves have taken the beachhead and cleared out Lor'Danel.

I'll check back later to see if there is any further progress.

Update on Collectors Edition Update to Standard Account

So, as I updated in my previous post, I didn't truly believe the first GM and put in several more tickets to get an honest to god definite answer which I could screenshot as evidence if it went wrong and I lost £39.99 when applying my Collectors edition key.

TL;DR

1. I didn't get a definitive answer to my original question. Grrrrr!

2. I lost $39.99 when I applied the collectors edition key.Grrr Grrr!

3. I put in a web chat ticket and got a SE key once the GM had checked I used both on the same account. Hurrah!

4. Well the original GM was wrong on two counts. I got a bonus. But as I'm a litte bit paranoid (possibly due to the use of some herbs with dubious legality issues whilst I was at Uni :O) I'm not going to explicitly state here. Needless to say it was an unintended bonus and it's a definite win for me. I guess it's compensation for the emotional turmoil this put me through! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Anyway, so I'm in no rush on launch day to go pick up my collectors edition as I already had the pre-purchase and was 8 whole bars into level 110!

I logged onto Marcus and did a dungeon run. I registered as holy so only had to wait 7 mins.

When that was over I realised that the Darkshore WQs were still active so got as many of my alts through them and the intro quests before they either a) expired or b) Bliztards realised they'd forgotten to turn them off.

Then I logged onto the mage and got him over to Kul Tiras and did a bit of mining before finally heading out to taking one of the kids' friends to the train station and pick up my collectors edition.

The drive home was filled with trepidation. Would the pre-purchase key or price be refunded. If not then the eldest lad wasn't going to be playing BeefAss anytime soon.

I arrive home and rip open the packaging and apply the code; and my Blizzard Balance ...

... did NOT go up. ARGGG!!!

So I refresh the screen, nowt.

Log out and back in again. NADA.

I try and apply the original pre-purchase key to the second account, Nope: Key already used!!

Nothing for it I guess but to raise a ticket. On Release Day. Like I'm going to get a response anytime soon!

Which channel do I want to use: Phone (long wait). Web Ticket (longer wait). Hang on, what's this? Web Chat - 8 minute wait! I'll give that a poop then.

So after around 8 minutes Velranus the GM pops on and says he's just going to aquaint himself with the ticket and after about 10 minutes (enough time for a fag and boil the kettle for a coffee?) he's back.

He explains, as you can see above, that the balance would only be applied to digital version bought

 through the Blizzard Store(TM).

Well, I gathered that from the poorly worded blog post Blizztards put a out about it and prompted me to keep on asking about this to get a definitive answer. They couldn't credit the amount spent with a third party store ... BUT they could replace the Standard Edition key that I overwrote... [LONG SIGH OF RELIEF]

So after a little more banter I ask my usual question about GM Island. No joy this time either :D

How to Hand in The Guidance of Our Shan'do after BfA Launch

TL;DR -Skip to the bottom to find out how to hand the quest in.

So, as the lead up to expansion launch I was frantically finishing up all the World Quests and pre-launch quests on all my alts. I got most of the way through but there were a few characters that I hadn't finished. I was on my hunter and all the mobs disappeared at around 00:20 server time. I was dual boxing and the same happened to my lock. Still had the hunter, shaman and warrior on account #1 to do and all characters on account #2 :(

So, I gave it up as a loss and moved onto Marcusmaxmi to begin BeefAss.

Then I was watching levelling tips on you tube as I'm levelling Marcusmaximi and I see about the XP gem Insightful Rubelite. So I hop onto the Shammy to go mining and she's in Darkshore and all the World Quests are still active.

Not only that, she's at the same stage of the quests as the Hunter was when the mobs and quests disappeared, and the two named mobs are up, and people are still questing in the area.

I complete all the quests and get as far as the Malfurion backstab cut scene. I go AFK while that pans out and when I come back the Hippogryph is not there and all the WQs are gone. I fly out of the immediate area thinking Zidormi can reset it, but no. But then everything re-appears. I fly back to the cutscene area and the Hippogryph is flying back to the mound.

So I jump on the bird, start flying to Darnassus, but then get ported back to Lor'Danel. Damm, I think, I can't finish the chain.

So I try and fly to Darnassus but you get halfway there and there is an invisible wall. Double Damn!

I'm asking in general, I'm searching wowhead, and no solutions. Then someone suggests talking to Zidormi so you can get to Rutheran Village.

OK, I'll try that, but I'm thinking that Darnassus will also be in the pre-burning version and Gina Greymane (or whatever her name is) wont be there to hand the quest in to...

TL;DR: The Solution

Talk to Zidormi at 48.10 25.69 to reset Darkshore to pre-burning. Go to Lor'Danel flight path and get the flight to Rutheran Village. When you're nearly there the sky goes dark and Teldrassil starts burning then you get the message "You cannot abandon your duty, return to Darnassus" and you get ported into the burning version of Darnassus. Now you can hand the quest in and finish the chain.

1st Dungeon

At half past nine on the first morning of the expansion I queued for my first dungeon: Freehold.

I had got up to 8 bars of level 110 in 1.5 hours last night.

I went in, I caught a greasy pig and I came out 15 minutes later, after  killing Harlan in exactly 1 minute, with the dungeon achievement, 3 bars of XP and an Azerite headpiece.

Guess what starter Azerite armour I picked?

Yep; the headpiece!

I am now the proud owner of two Azerite headpieces!