It’s been a long wait, but after Months of testing and waves of Beta invites, TradeSkillMaster 3 is finally available for download.
To download TSM3, please follow the link here. If you experience any issues with this addon, be sure to post all information within the TradeSkillMaster website IRC, which you can find here.
Thanks to Sapu and his team for such an awesome Addon!
Sadly, the run up to any r
elease to a new expansion is always a long and drawn out process, with the lack of new content and things to do. The introduction of Legion, will be a longer wait than the release of any previous expansion. But if you’re willing to read this first installment, you’ll find plenty of things to occupy you until Legion finally hits and hopefully prevent you from cancelling your subscription.
PvP:
With the introduction of Season 3, everyone will be keen to gear up again. Dont worry if you’ve not done any PvP in Seasons 1 and 2, as all gear whether PvP/PvE will get boosted to 715 ilvl (15 ilvl below Gladiator gear from Season 2) in Season 3 whilst within a Battleground, Arena or Ashran. This helps close the gaps for new players. However, always remember ilvl is just a guide of your gear, it isnt the important factor, you’ll need to concentrate on the stat priority for your class in PvP, to reap the full rewards of your gear.
Ashran can be an excellent way to gear up, if you have the patients. There are many objectives and quests to occupy you, and as long as you’re within a good group and lead by a good leader, the task becomes almost effortless. If you’re unfortunate and dont get a good leader or group, this task is almost near impossible or could take some time to complete.
Tips:
When you kill a player in Ashran, make sure you loot the corpse. You will have a chance to loot one of the following.
Troll Feet
Blood Elf Ear
Tauren Hoof
Goblin Nose
Orc Tooth
Forsaken Brains
Draenei Tail
Dwarf Spine
Human Bone Chip
Pandaren Hide
Severed Night Elf Head
Tuft of Gnome Hair
Worgen Snout
Each one of these items, will earn you a Dented Ashmaul Strongbox, which contains either gold, PvP points or gear. Horde corpses drop alternative tokens and reward the same Strongbox.
Pick up some Song flower which can be found in The Dark Woods. Upon use, will increases all your stats by 15% for 1 hour.
Star Root Tuber found in Gorian falls. Restores health and reduces 40% damage taken for 10 seconds.
Make sure you kill the rares within Ashran, as they drop Manuals, Books and scrolls that will benefit spells for your class. A map outlining all the rares can be found below.
Mount Runs:
You may have read my previous articles here or via Twitter, that Ive started running old instances to earn hard to obtain Mounts. Most recently I finally got the Fiery Warhorse’s Reins from Karazhan. Here’s a list of some other Mounts that maybe of interest to you and no doubt, something for your friends to envy.
Instances
Deathcharger’s Reins – Stratholme – Lord Aurius Rivendare
Raids
Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj – Trash
Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj – Trash
Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj – Trash
Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj – Trash
Level 70
Instances
Reins of the Raven Lord – Sethekk Halls (Heroic) – Anzu
Swift White Hawkstrider – Magisters’ Terrace (Heroic) – Kael’thas Sunstrider
Raids
Fiery Warhorse’s Reins – Karazhan – Attumen the Huntsman
Ashes of Al’ar – The Eye (Tempest Keep) – Kael’thas Sunstrider
Level 80
Instances
Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake – Utgarde Pinnacle (Heroic) – Skadi the Ruthless
Reins of the Bronze Drake – The Culling of Stratholme (Heroic) – Infinite Corruptor
Raids
Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth – Vault of Archavon – All 4 Bosses
Reins of the Azure Drake – The Eye of Eternity – Malygos
Reins of the Blue Drake – The Eye of Eternity – Malygos
Reins of the Black Drake – The Obsidian Sanctum – Sartharion (3 Drakes – 10)
Reins of the Twilight Drake – The Obsidian Sanctum – Sartharion (3 Drakes – 25)
Reins of the Onyxian Drake – Onyxia’s Lair – Onyxia
Mimiron’s Head – Ulduar – Yogg-Saron (No Watchers – 25)
Invincible’s Reins – Icecrown Citadel – The Lich King (Heroic – 25)
Level 85
Instances
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind – The Vortex Pinnacle – Altairus
Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake – The Stonecore – Slabhide
Swift Zulian Panther – Zul’Gurub – High Priestess Kilnara
Armored Razzashi Raptor – Zul’Gurub – Bloodlord Mandokir
Amani Battle Bear – Zul’Aman – Timed Reward
Raids
Reins of the Drake of the South Wind – Throne of the Four Winds – Al’Akir
Flametalon of Alysrazor – Firelands – Alysrazor
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor – Firelands – Ragnaros
Experiment 12-B – Dragon Soul – Ultraxion
Reins of the Blazing Drake – Dragon Soul – Deathwing
Life-Binder’s Handmaiden – Dragon Soul – Deathwing (Heroic – 10/25)
Level 90
Instances – None
World Boss
Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent – Kun-Lai Summit – Sha of Anger
Son of Galleon’s Saddle – Valley of the Four Winds – Galleon
Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent – Isle of Thunder – Nalak
Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn – Isle of Giants – Oondasta
Raids
Reins of the Astral Cloud Serpent – Mogu’shan Vaults – Elegon
Spawn of Horridon – Throne of Thunder – Horridon
Clutch of Ji-Kun – Throne of Thunder – Ji-Kun
I hope that this has given you some ideas or motivation, if not, be sure to read my next installment where I’ll hopefully tempt you further. Thanks for reading!
Well it looks like Shipyard Missions are the most notable changes in this Hotfix. No doubt, this is a catch up mechanic for those who didnt enjoy the Shipyard from the start, due to the cost in resources and the % chance of a ship to sink in a failed rare mission. Shipyard changes below.
Naval Missions
Rare Naval Missions should now appear more frequently
Increasing the chance of success on a naval mission will now also decrease the chance a ship will be destroyed on failure. If the mission success chance is at or above 90%, no ships will be lost on the mission.
Naval blockade missions now have a shorter duration of 30 minutes (down from 4 hours), reduced Oil cost to 50 (down from 100), and increased the amount of time before a naval blockade returns to 7 days (up from 5 days).
Ships and Crews
Increased success chance bonus on missions provided by a Human Crew by 50%.
Increased success chance bonus on missions provided by a Pandaren Crew by 33% and the bonus will now apply to Missions that are 12 hours or longer (was 18 hours or longer).
Significantly increased the effectiveness and bonuses provided by Naval Equipment items by 100%.
PvP Season 3
To finish, if your getting involved with the PvP in Season 3, you’ll also be grateful to see, that this hotfix has finally fixed the issue with the Warmongering Gladiator’s Medallion of Adaption and Warmongering Gladiator’s Medallion of Cruelty that had the wrong information within the tootip.
Thanks to the hard work and continued commitment to the World of Warcraft community, Wowhead has finished datamining all the items that will be coming in Legion. Obviously, this is surplus to change at a later date, as the developers continue to develop Legion, but I’m totally grateful for all the work Wowhead have done to give us a taste of whats to come.
Table of contents:
Legendary Items
New Toys
Fun Items
Artful Dodging Rogue Set
Cooking Recipes
Artifact Quality Items
Please use the link HERE to view Wowhead’s post.
Ive also posted below, further information regarding Legion. Links have been added.
Further Legion information:
Complete Legion Database, Talent Calculator, Talent Guides, PvP Guides
Legion Beta 3D Models – All Artifact Weapons
Legion Beta Datamined Class Changes
Build 20740 Datamined Professions, Battle Pets, Mounts
Demon Hunter Audio Including /flirt and /silly
Acheivements, Class Followers, Icons, Bosses, Scenarios
Many people within World of Warcraft will not be familliar with this strategy, but Ive been using it to my advantage for as long as I can remember and I have amassed atleast 45% of my gold balance from doing it. Now this is pretty limited, as you can only get the items during the the Darkmoon Faire.
Now, I can hear you asking, what is this big secret? well… it’s the opportunity to purchase Replica transmog items, from the vendor Baruma for a measly amount of Darkmoon Prize Tickets. The important part of this strategy, is to buy Darkmoon Quest Items, which Ive listed below this paragraph for you, once these are turned in, you will get a small amount of gold or experience (depending on your level) and more importantly the Darkmoon prize tickets. Do this on all your alts too, like I do. Remember, the tickets are BoP, but once you’ve bought your Replica transmog items, they’re BoE and tradable.
Darkmoon Quest Items:
Monstrous Egg
Fallen Adventurer’s Journal
Banner of the Fallen
Captured Insignia
Imbued Crystal
Mysterious Grimoire
Ornate Weapon
Soothsayer’s Runes
A Treatise on Strategy
TSM import string:
71635,71636,71637,71638,71715,71716,71951,71952,71953
You can buy each of the quest items from the Auction House for as little as 10g and as much as 500g for the higher demand items, you may even prefer to farm them. If this is the case, check the links out on the items above and see where they drop from. Personally, I buy them off the Auction House about 2 weeks before the Darkmoon Faire comes, as they maybe cheaper, than when it’s in Town. It’s a small amount of gold compared to what you’ll make on the Replica transmog items you sell. Dont forget to do the daily’s in the area too, whether it’s profession daily’s or the game daily’s for extra tickets, every little helps…
Quest – Silas’ Secret Stash:
As well as the Darkmoon Quest items above, you can also complete a quest called Silas’ Secret Stash. This can only be completed once on any one character and doesn’t reset! This quest costs 100 
Darkmoon Daggermaw and you can buy this quest from the vendor Galissa Sundew at co-ords [52.88]. Once you have started the quest, you’ll notice that you’ve been given a set of clues and some treasure to find.
I’ve added a video below, from a very good streamer called oldbess. He does many awesome videos, helping his viewers make gold in Warcraft. Be sure to leave some feedback and a like if you found his video on this quest helpful.
The Replica Gear:
Instead of posting links for every Replica item available, I will instead link every Replica set, you can go through the page to see the individual items. You will also notice the item it’s replicating.
Replica Sets:
Cloth
Dreadmist Raiment
Deathmist Raiment
Magister’s Regalia
Sorcerer’s Regalia
Vestments of the Devout
Vestments of the Virtuous
Leather
Shadowcraft Armor
Darkmantle Armor
Wildheart Raiment
Feralheart Raiment
Mail
Beaststalker Armor
Beastmaster Armor
The Elements
The Five Thunders
Plate
Battlegear of Heroism
Battlegear of Valor
Lightforge Armor
Soulforge Armor
I have made a Replica Transmog Import String for TSM which you can find HERE.
If you’re confident that you can get these items cheaper on the Auction House, feel free to purchase them to flip. I can sell Replica gear between 20-30k at the moment, so I’m happy to buy at 10k to guarantee a healthy flip.
Sales:
Each item within each set will be worth considerably more than another, this is where you’ll have the task to check your Auction House and see what the prices are and then purchase the best item that will maximise your profit. Below are a couple of screenshots I took today showing what sales you could make, by investing in a small amount of gold and a little time.
You can find further images of my Replica Transmog sales HERE or simply check out my Facebook page or Twitter feed for recent sales.
I hope you found this post interesting, please do post questions if you have any, but more importantly, please feel free to share your sales too…
Thanks for reading!
The best news to come tonight, Archaeology Dig Sites fixed! All those frustrated nights trying to complete my Archaeology to 700 and now I can finally achieve this. Good job Blizzard!
Click the link HERE to see a full run down of the patch notes.
If like myself, you have been fortunate enough to earn your Draenor Pathfinder achievement on your main and have many alts sitting at level 90, you maybe interested in power leveling them to level 100. I don’t boast to have the best or the quickest method, but below I have some ideas or more so tips on how to level them efficiently as possible.
If you don’t have the achievement, you could ask a fellow Guildie to fly you around, alternatively, you may wish to finish the achievement, here’s an extremely good guide from Wowhead.
What you’ll need to assist you.
Addons;
Handynotes
Handynotes_DraenorTreasures
Handynotes_TreasureHunter
Achievements and Items;
Draenor Pathfinder
Heirlooms – most heirlooms will be better than most quest rewards.
Elixir of the Rapid Mind (works up to level 99)
Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning (Purchased from your Garrison for 100 Garrison resources)
Darkmoon Top Hat obtained via the Darkmoon Faire.
Once you have the addons downloaded and installed, load up WoW and log into the character that you wish to power level. Be sure to obtain as many of the items above as possible. Be aware that as of 14/09/15 all the experience buffs stack, leading to a potential +340% experience boost. You might be lucky to be fully rested too, which will grant you a further boost. Be aware, that when killing rares, if someone joins in on your kill, you will lose a little experience. Try to kill all rares alone when possible.
Open your map to your starting zone this will depend on what Faction you’re representing, Frostfire Ridge (Horde) or Shadowmoon Valley (Alliance). You’ll see many treasure icons, rare spawn locations and bonus objective locations, these are the 3 things we’re concentrating on. Here’s an image of what you’ll likely see upon opening your map. Ignore the fact that I’ve shown Nagrand, this is purely for an example.
Equip your items, heirlooms, hat and use potions and start aiming for those locations on the map. Dont worry about anything else, just concentrate on the rares, treasures and bonus objectives! Once you’ve leveled and earn level 92, move to the next zone! Below is a guide when to move and where.
Ding 92! move to Gorgrond!
Ding 94! move to Talador!
Ding 96! move to Spires of Arak!
Ding 98! move to Nagrand!
This method, maximises the experience gained from mobs. I’ve heard people go from level 91 to 100 within 6 hours, but this depends solely on what you have above available to you, your motivation to level and how efficient you use the information to you in this guide.
I hope you found this guide helpful, be sure to share your times below, or maybe you have some tips yourself which you’d like to share. Thanks for reading and hit that follow icon if you’ve not done so already.
That long and tedious moment, when you exit an instance and need to right-click your portrait or player frame to reset all instances, well not anymore! With this handy little macro, you can cut down all that time, concentrating on getting back into the instance and continue your farming.
Open your macro tab, either by entering in chat /m or /macro
Please create a new macro, and add whatever icon you wish, that will help you quickly pick it out from your action bar and add the following script to it.
/script ResetInstances();
Once you’ve input the script, save it. Add the new macro to your action bar and viola; you’re good to go! Run an instance or clear the trash, exit and click on the macro to promptly re-enter, rinse and repeat.
Please remember in retail World of Warcraft; there is a ten instance limit per hour, if you exceed this, you’ll be restricted entry into another instance until this time has passed.
I hope you found this post informative, until next time, thanks for reading!
A cracking little tip for you today. Ever got disappointed, when you find out that an item you need, can be purchased from a vendor, only to realise it’s a limited stock item and already been purchased by someone. Normally a limited stock item has a 12 hour reset, but luckily for you, I have managed to find an alternative. With the joy of cross realm, we have the chance to bounce across realms, thus meaning, our chance of obtaining our item sooner, is incredibly higher.
What you’ll need to do, to make this option achievable, is click on the link for this addon, Cross Realm Assist. This addon can be downloaded from Curse.com. Simply shut down World of Warcraft (WoW) if your currently playing, go to Curse, download the addon and install it to your WoW directory. Once completed, re-log back into WoW and viola.
Once logged in, check for the Cross Realm Assist icon on your mini map, open it up and opt for Quick Join. This will let you join a group in Premade Groups that has auto accept enabled. Once you’re in the group, you’ll notice you’ve changed realm too. Keep leaving and joining new realms until the vendor you’re at, has the item you require. Make sure you close the vendor tab upon leaving group, or when you join another realm, the vendor tab wont refresh.
The Manual Join option to find a realm is a good option too and easy to understand. I try to concentrate on joining Kazzak groups that have a lot of people in, so you don’t get noticed easily, for realm hoping. Many people in the game dis-like realm hoppers, but that’s their issue for having auto accept enabled.
Good luck and if you have any questions or alternative ideas, be sure to post them below. Thanks for reading!
Welcome to my 
Draenic Philosopher’s Stone shuffle guide. Here I will try and advise you on how to make some guarenteed profit by following this easy step by step guide. A profession shuffle is crafting an item, to maximise materials from either disenchanting, prospecting it or by selling the craft to a vendor for a profit.
Let’s get started!
Item: Draenic Philosopher’s Stone
First off, make sure you have the ability to craft this item. If not, you can simply purchase the recipe from Albert de Hyde or Joshua Alvarez (Horde) or Katherine Joplin or Mary Kearie (Alliance) for one 
Secrets of Draenor Alchemy. You can craft one of these once per day, via your profession.
Mats:
Alchemical Catalyst x5
True Iron Ore x1
You can either craft these items yourself, or simply purchase them from the Auction House. Remember, when purchasing materials from the Auction House, the price you pay for each item, will reflect on your prfoit at the end of the shuffle, so always bear that in mind.
The Draenic Philosopher’s Stone sells for 25g 31s 47c each and there’s no crafting limit. As long as the mats cost for example 20g in total, we set to make just over 5g in profit. So you’re probably thinking, is that it, 5g! Well… imagine buying enough mats to craft 1000x Draenic Philosopher’s Stone, like I currently have in my inventory. Now that 5g doesn’t look too bad now, does it? as this would total 5.000g once crafted and sold to a vendor.
There are many other profession shuffles in Jewelcrafting, Enchanting and Tailoring, simply find the one that makes the most profit for you. Check out my future guides for tips and tricks.
Thanks for reading!
