Hallow's End 2011 Best Route For Alliance Buckets

OK, so as I said a few days ago I'm not going to re-hash my previous Hallow's End Guide, but I am going to document how to get to all of the Candy Buckets (not just the achievement buckets) in the mosty efficient manner.

There is also a good guide over at Revive and Rejuvenate.

So without further ado.

Starting Outside Stormwind:
Pick up all the quests.
DAILY: Go to the bonfire and burn the Wickerman
DAILY: Go to Undercity with Gertrude Fenlow and stink bomb it!
Goldshire
Sentinel Hill (Inn or Tower depending on which phase your in)
Darkshire
Fort Livingstone, Northern Stranglethorn
Booty Bay
Surwich, Southern Blasted Lands

Outland
Honor Hold
Temple of Telhamat
Cenrion Refuge
Telredor
Tosheys Station
Area 52
The Stormspire
Evergrove
Sylvanaar
Orebor Harborage
Telaar
Shattrath
Allerian Stronghold
Wildhammer Stronghold
Altar of Shatar (or Scryer Sanctum)

Nethergarde Keep
Bogpaddle, Swamp of Sorrows
The Harborage
Lakeshire
Dragon's Mouth, Badlands
Fuselight, Badlands
The Farstrider Lodge, Loch Modan
Thelsamar

{ Twilight Highlands
Highbank
Firebeard's Patrol
Victor's Point
Thundermar
}

Greenwardens Grove
Stormfeather Outpost, Hinterlands
Lights Hope Chapel
Chillwind Camp
DAILY: Go to Undercity and douse the Wickerman
Aerie Peak
Swiftgear Station, Wetlands
Menethil Harbour

Boat to Kalimdor
Theramore Isle
Mudsprocket
Gadgetzan
Bootlegger Outpost

{ Uldum
Ramkahen
Oasis of Vir'sar
}

Cenarion Hold
Marshals Stand
Feathermoon
Dreamer's Rest
Karnum's Glade, Desolace
Nijels Point
Farwatcher's Glen
Thal'Darah Overlook
Stonetalon Peak
Whisperwind Grove
Talonbranch Glade
Lor'Danel, Darkshore
Darnassus
[Jesper] Darnassus
Dolannar
Exodar
Blood Watch
Azure Watch
Everlook

{ Mount Hyjal
Nordrassil
Shrine of Aessina
Shrine of Avina
}

Astranaar
Windshear Hold
Northwatch Expedition Base Camp
Honor's Stand
Ratchet
Northwatch Hold
Fort Triumph

Back to Theramore and Boat back to Menethil.
Ironforge Inn
[Jesper] Ironforge Inn
[Jesper] Ironforge - Talvash

{ Vashj'ir
Fly to Sandy Beach and swim over to The Clutch in Kelpthar Forest and then north East to...
Deepmist Grotto
Silvertide Hollow
Tranquil Wash
Darkbreak Cove
(If you haven't got the flight path but can fly then go west of Gnomeragan and fly over)
}

Kharanos
Iron Summit
Stormwind Inn
[Jesper] Stormwind Inn
DAILY: Clean up Stormwind
Get the portal to Deepholm

{ Deepholm
Temple of Earth
Portal back to Stormwind
}

Get the Boat to Northrend
Borean Tundra:
Valiance Keep
Unu'pe
Fizzcrank Airstrip

Sholazar Basin - Nesingwary Base Camp

Storm Peaks:
Boulderctrag's Refuge
Frosthold
K3

Zul'Drak:
Argent Stand
Zim'Torga

Grizzly Hills - Westfall Brigade
Howling Fjord - Fort Wildervar
Howling Fjord - Valgarde
Howling Fjord - Kamagua
Howling Fjord - Westgarde Keep
Grizzly Hills - Amberpine Lodge

Dragonblight:
Wintergarde Keep
Wyrmrest Temple
Moa'ki Harbor
Star's Rest

Dalaran:
The Underbelly
Silver Enclave
Ledgermain Lounge

Portal back to Stormwind
Hand in All Quests

Westfall Hallow's End Bucket and 2011 Guide

I'd heard that due to phasing you couldn't get the bucket in Westfall. If this was true then it has now been fixed. The Hallows End bucket is located in the tower.

Good Luck, I'm not going to re-hash My Hallow's End Guide this year, it's pretty similar, bar the inn keepers don't give treats but an inanimate pumkin does, and QQs win again and the PvP section is 10HK rather than 50 HK.

Worth a read, it's funny. Go On.

Breaking News: Steve Jobs Not Dead...

... the nurses are just holding him wrong!

Resto Shammy Heirloom Gear

Oh my, got a bit behind on posting since I went on holiday to France. Oops.

Been concentrating on getting my shammy to level 75 so I have 2 Jewelcrafters ready for patch 4.3

Today I'm just going to document the heirloom gear I'm going to purchase or want to purchase to get as much levelling bonus as possible.

Shoulder Purchased for JP
Mystical Pauldrons of Elements - 2175 JP or 60 champion seals

Chest Purchased for CSs
Mystical Vest of Elements - 2175 JP or 60 Champions Seals

Back Purchased
Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak - 1080g - Guild Vendor

Head Purchased
Mystical Coif of Elements - 1500g - Guild Vendor

Legs - Not in game yet
Mystical Kilt of Elements

Ring
Dread Pirate Ring - Kaluak Fishing Derby

Weapon
Devout Aurastone Hammer - 2725/75 - no XP gain

Trinket
Discerning Eye of the Beast - 2725/75 - no XP gain

Holidays

I'm on holiday for a fortnight and had planned on queueing up a post a day from my backlog of images that are not post-date dependant.

I didn't. So all you get is this post and any that I put up from the wifi cafe on the west coast of France.

On the upside it's bloody hot and the kids are loving it!!

I was hoping that I would be able to login to WoW from my laptop. I copied the entire WoW directory onto a USB hard drive and plugged it into the lappy. When I ran the launcher without a wifi signal it wouldn't even open.

Once a signal was acquired I ran wow.exe and it gets to the login screen but says unable to connect. Maybe the wifi cafe has a block on the proxy or something. Fuckers!

3rd Firelands Vendor

Band of Glittering Lights - Hunter loot ring*
Globe of Moonlight - Off Hand Caster
Moon Blessed Band - Melee DD ring
Moonwell Chalice - Caster Healer trinket
Moonwell Phial - Tank Trinket
Relic of Elune's Light - Healer/Caster Relic
Relic of Elune's Shadow - Hunter Loot relic*
Crimson Lasher - Pet
Mushroom Chair - crap
Pattern: Luxurious Silk Gem Bag - Bag Recipe
Pattern: Royal Scribe's Satchel - Bag Recipe
Pattern: Triple-Reinforced Mining Bag - Bag Recipe




So what am I going to get this time?

The Moon Blessed Band is a big Ret upgrade from Gorsik's Band of Shattering.
The Relic of Elune's Light is a 6ilevel side grade - swapping out some crit for mastery and a slight int increase.
The Moonwell Chalice again is a 6ilevel side grade - slight intelect increase and mastery instead of spirit on use. I'll take this as I don't hae mana problems.
Moonwell Phial - is a big tank upgrade from blue-346 Throngus's Finger(HC)

And I am tempted to replace the Elementium Stormshield with Globe of Moonlight. But just as I won't wear cloth, leather or mail; I must have a shield at end-game!




*begone rogues this ain't for you :P

Firelands Finished ... Nearly and Odd Client Patch.

I shot past the 125 marks of the world tree yesterday and was able to open up the final vendor and finish the quest line.

I shan't bother with another picture of the tree as it hasn't changed. But once I'd finished the moonwell was full and Leyara was dead.

Check out the usual progress post for latest achievements (molten offensive and Leyara).

And Now For Something Completely Different
So now that I have finished that grind what next?

More Firelands Dailies until I get Flashfire and Singeslayer for the Death From Above achievement and Charscale, Behemoth and Harbinger for the Ready For Raiding II achievement. The amrks won't get wasted as I'll spend them on Gilneas Rep commendations.

Then I'll start on my Tol Barad dailies and hopefully finish off Pebbles soon.

Unbeatable Pterodactyl is 2 days away :)

Client Patch on non-patch Day?
Also last night at around 19:00 server time I got booted from WoW and when I got back on I had to download a patch. WTF is all that about?

Not in my memory has that ever happened. Patches have only ever occured after a maintenance, not the day before ... It must have been some serious exploit fix.

Two or more Death From Above Bosses
So after this wierd client patch download (which incidently happened just as my brpadband speed drops to 100K. Thanks Blizztards!) I went off to finish my dailies and whilst on Death From Above - or whatever the quest is for this achievement - Ragepyre and Hatespark are both up (apparently there were 3 bosses up) and also today there are 3 bosses up; unfortunately I didn't get that daily :(

I thought there was only one boss per day :S

It Nearly Made Me Cry

Once I had purchased my gear from the 2nd Firelands vendor it took me some time to getting round to enchanting, gemming, reforging and actually putting the pieces into item sets.

Well actually I am still doing it, but I put them in the item sets and sold the replaced pieces.

I am still wearing quite a few blue ilevel 346 items but it was these I had to delete...

47 Exalted Reputations - Darkmoon Faire - Check!

The Darkmoon Faire rolled into town yesterday morning so I sent all my darkmoon cards to HolyWarrior to hand in to the Darkmoon Faire whatsit bloke.

I only had about 6-7K rep to go so I started with 200 rogues card hand ins and then moved onto the Cataclysm cards.

Considering DMF rep is pretty hard/expensive to get I was surpised at the lack of fanfare.

I handed all the cards in and wondered if I'd hit exalted, only when I scrolled back and realised I'd stop getting rep was I sure I had done it...

What Does The 2nd Firelands Vendor Have?

Having opened up the second vendor* we can see that he has the following...

Meteorite Ring - Melee DD ring.
Fiery Treads - Resto/Ele Shaman Feet.
Widow's Clutches - Cloth DD/Healer gloves.
Belt of Living Obsidium - Holy Pally Waist- YAY!!
Ricket's Gun Show - Prot Pally Wrist.
Ricket's Magnetic Fireball - Agility Trinket. Rogues? Hunter Loot?
Gauntlets of Living Obsidium - Holy Pally Gloves.
Fireplume Girdle - Resto/Boomkin Druid belt.
Rickety Belt - Plate wearing DD belt.





So What am I going to buy? ...



Off to the reforge dude we go!
































* Actually this vendor you can see his wares beforehand I think.