Category: World of Warcraft

Midsummer Fire Festival is here!

Desecrating the enemy’s!Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction’s flames!Throughout the world, there are bonfires surrounded by questgivers and NPCs that sell summery items in exchange for Burning Blossom.

There are commoner NPCs of all races that can be found lingering around the major cities that will give you a short quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps to get you started.

It’s that time of year again. Acquire flaming threads, a frosty companion, epic cloaks, and more! Horde players can obtain the title Flame Keeper and Alliance players can obtain the title Flame Warden.

This year there are new Pandaria bonfire achievements: Flame Keeper of Pandaria/ Flame Warden of Pandaria and Extinguishing Pandaria/ Extinguishing Pandaria.

In addition, Ahune now drops ilvl 480 capes.

Midsummer Fire Festival begins on June 21 at 11:00 AM (PST) and runs until July 5 at 11:00 AM (PST). 

Going onto gold, you’re going to need alot of this for riding training, new glyphs,

etc. To ensure smooth sailing, keep about 20k stored away for a rainy day. If you

have your eyes on things like raid BoEs, 20k might not be enough though. Then get

bags. The Netherweave Bags gives you 16 slots at 15 gold each while the Frostweave

Bags gives you 20 slots for 120 gold. The more expensives ones are the Embersilk Bags

which comes with 22 slots at 300 gold and the 26-slot Illusionary Bags at 3,000 gold,

give or take.

Here’s a quick start-up guide to save you time going through trial and errors to

kick start your Monk. For more detailed suggestions, go for this Unofficial World of

Warcraft Monk Handbook. Well, here goes:

For starters, make sure to get some heirloom items for the extra XP bonuses and

damage output. This will definitely get your up and running super quick. Between

agility leather and intellect leather, for fast leveling go for agility leather.

Keeping in mind that you’ll have 6 slots, make use of a 4 armor to 2 weapon

combination. There are also infact heirloom trinkets and ring but I wouldn’t

recommend them much until later in the game. This more or less already covers half of

your gear slots. Keep the other half empty for quest rewards and drops.

Going onto gold, you’re going to need alot of this for riding training, new glyphs,

etc. To ensure smooth sailing, keep about 20k stored away for a rainy day. If you

have your eyes on things like raid BoEs, 20k might not be enough though. Then get

bags. The Netherweave Bags gives you 16 slots at 15 gold each while the Frostweave

Bags gives you 20 slots for 120 gold. The more expensives ones are the Embersilk Bags

which comes with 22 slots at 300 gold and the 26-slot Illusionary Bags at 3,000 gold,

give or take.

Then come consumables. If you choose to play a Pandaren, you’re obviously going to

need to stock up on Food, especially buff food to maximize racials. Recommend

Skewered Eel and Severed Sagefish Head. If you want to play as a Mistweaver, also

make use of Flasks of Distilled Wisdom.  As for potions, you can never get enough of

to start out strong. Stack up on Swiftness potions as well as healing potions to

avoid wasted time visiting the underworld. 

When I read the news about the monk, I knew I had to try out the class but I needed

guidance. For the longest time, I used guides published by KillerGuides. These guys

are the gods of WoW guides. Before the launch of the game, KG had already published

guides on their website which can be located here. I bought both guides, MoP strategy

and monk guides for $29.99 USD a piece. Like all of their guides, their guides are in

an e-book format which can easily be stored on your hard drive.

I’ve been an avid gamer for over five years now and there’s nothing I enjoy more

than participating in online games. They’re fun, dynamic and you can always make new

friends online! My current niche is World of Warcraft! I started playing WoW since

the launch of the Burning Crusade since I wanted to know what all this hype was

about. Needless to say, the game never lost its touch in giving me new challenges to

face. When I heard about Mists of Pandaria expansion, I couldn’t stop following the

news! Seeing that in this expansion, Blizzard went ahead and changed all the classes,

particularly Death Knight to accommodate the changes and new skill and ability

mechanics. I was excited at the announcement of the new class, the Monk class.

Pandaria
Since KillerGuides is now updating their old WoW guides, I’m going to invest in the

All Access Pass which is a lifetime membership with the company. The complete bundle

package includes 200+ guides from the entire KillerGuides library. This is a

worthwhile purchase IMO and plus the great thing about KillerGuides are their free

updates! Whenever a new guide is updated, you receive a notification via their

newsletter. I really think this is a great way to up your game and learn about the

other classes 🙂

Undoubtedly, this has been one of the the most solid guides I have ever come across!

Featuring a strong build section and a copious amount of leveling know-how, I can

definitely say this purchase was well worth it! I see a gradual change in the way I

game was quite impressive! If you were like me struggle to build a strong talent

and/or apply a strong rotation, this guide is definitely for you! Written by a pro

gamer with years of WoW experience, their recommendations were spot on! Want to up

your game now? Then get this WoW Monk advanced handbook. Looking for more than monk

strategies? Don’t miss out on this unofficial Pandaria secrets book!

KillerGuides Pandaria and Monk Guides
Wicked covers, eh? I was interested in the monk class book and without hesitation I

went ahead and skimmed through the guide. I’ll start with this: niiiiiiice! First

off, I liked the layout of the guide; they were laid out in two readable columns and

was written in full on, grammatically correct English. Secondly, the contents of the

guide. From the get go, I could see the guide was written by a professional WoW

veteran because he mentions the changes between Cataclysm and Pandaria in thorough

detail. In addition to that the author went into detail about how to properly use the

monk by following his recommendations. What I enjoyed reading and referencing was his

skill rotations for each of the three builds: Mistweaver, Windwalker and Brewmaster.

Since I’m a tanking Pandaren monk, I have my Brewmaster equipped.

Technically at the beginning I was quite clueless what to do with all these skills

and abilities however, with proper instruction and guidance, a light bulb went off in

my head; everything became easier to understand once I read through the author’s

explanation how this particular talent build can help me. Testing out the

recommendation, I headed off to a secluded place in Pandaria with a buddy of mine to

do some slaying. I was surprised to see the results; I was leveling up fast and

efficiently within the hour plus, my gold surplus doubled! Awesome! You have to try

it for yourselves by using the books to help you create an indestructible monk for

World of Warcraft. It’s really hard to tell you how the guide works wonders, even

for casual players like myself. You really gotta try it out! 

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asked us to pass along, to you, our lovely readers, some splendid Xbox Live avatar t

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Blizzard contacted us–in the form of the inimitable Jonathan Brown, aka Zarhym–and

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This alleged mobile armory hack was discovered a few days ago when a forum post went

up asking how 200K gold escaped a user’s account. The US user in question had three

unauthorized auction house purchases for “white” (useless) quality items that

would normally be sold to a vendor for a few copper coins. Commenters made guesses

as to what the user could have done wrong to allow something like that to happen.

Did they attach an authenticator to their account? Did they have a good password?

Perhaps there was malware on their computer or phone?

In what people are calling a mobile armory hack, World of Warcraft Mobile Armory

users have literally watched as thousands of gold are swept away from them. They

watched it happen on their own phones. The Blizzard team has taken action by

shutting it all down. Here’s a tweet from Blizzard Customer Service that went out

this morning:

Greetings everyone. The Mobile Auction House will be unavailable until further

notice. No ETA as of yet. We’ll provide updates when we can.

The silver lining in this potential (alleged, supposed, rumored) mobile armory hack

is the track record that Blizzard has when this kind of thing happens. Once the dust

has settled and the software recoded, we will get an explanation of what happened

and people will get their gold back… and they will get to keep those level 1 axes.

Then reports came in of the same thing happening to others. UK users seemed to be

affected too. There was one thing everyone seemed to have in common: They all used

the mobile armory. This might be a huge coincidence as the armory app is free and

widely used, even if it just for trolling guild chat or showing your family your

awesome mog set. However the auction house is a very important tool used by all

kinds of players. Going through the forum comments, it looks like there were people

who actually watched on their phones as purchases were made on the auction house

from their account.

There is nothing conclusive stated from Blizzard that this is indeed a mobile armory

hack, but the evidence does point in that direction. At first it seemed that only a

few realms would see the mobile auction house shut down. Then, Bliz posted on their

Breaking News site that mobile auction house was down for emergency maintenance.

Now, it looks like it will be down for a prolonged period.

If it is indeed a mobile armory hack, what else can be done from the armory? Well,

everything you have that isn’t bound to your character could be sold, but that

doesn’t put all that much gold into potential gold sellers hands unless they hit

the jackpot with someone who hordes expensive items. Also, auctioning takes time

(minimum 12 hours) that hackers don’t have. They need to grab all the gold they can

before getting caught. The more likely situation is the continued purchasing of

cheap items for exorbitant amounts of your gold.

I’ll leave you with this: When I use the mobile armory auction house, it requires

me to automatically include an authenticator number. If someone has access to our

mobile armory, then do they potentially have access to our authenticators too?