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Gearing up in 6.2 and Hitting ilvl 650 for Hellfire Citadel LFR
6.2 has brought with it a myriad of gearing options and a wide range of item levels and accessibility to that gear. Below we have listed all the newly available gear by item level with links to the filters for that gear, as well as links to guides on how to obtain it!
Hellfire Citadel LFR
continues to unlock over the next few months, so this overview can help you hit your ilvl 650 requirement to run it!
If you have an excess amount of Apexis Crystals, purchasing the ilvl 650 Baleful items from Tanaan Jungle is a quick way to gear up. If you have an excess amount of gold, old pre-6.2 Apexis Items from vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now cost gold, and range between ilvl 630 and ilvl 670.
Supreme Lord Kazzak
is a new world boss who drops ilvl 705 gear for level 100 players in Tanaan Jungle.
You can increase your chance at getting Hellfire Citadel,
Supreme Lord Kazzak
, or Mythic Dungeon loot through
Seal of Inevitable Fate
for bonus rolls. Learn more with our
guide to Seals of Inevitable Fate
.
6.2 Darkmoon Faire: New Toys, Pets, and More
The
Darkmoon Faire
is back in town and runs from
July 5th - July 12th
. There are several new items in Patch 6.2, in addition to the numerous pets, toys, achievements, and heirlooms which can be purchased during this holiday:
Three new pets
:
Blorp's Bubble
,
Translucent Shell
,
Hogs' Studded Collar
. There are now 19 total pets from the Faire.
Three new cooking recipes
:
Fancy Darkmoon Feast
,
Lemon Herb Filet
,
Sugar-Crusted Fish Feast
. One even gives you a Gilneas costume.
One new toy
:
Seafarer's Slidewhistle
New heirloom
Returning Champion
from the Deathmatch Pavilion.
New potions that grow/shrink you, and
Darkmoon Firewater
New fish
Darkmoon Daggermaw
, which is used to purchase many new items and is a fun way to level up fishing.
Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide
now lets you loot items from Warlords of Draenor content.
Faded Treasure Map
for 100
Darkmoon Daggermaw
starts the
Silas' Secret Stash
quest which rewards 0
Darkmoon Prize Ticket
inside
Silas' Secret Stash
!
The Darkmoon Faire can also help with the
Tanaan Diplomat
/
Tanaan Diplomat
segment of
Draenor Pathfinder
. The following items provide a 10% reputation buff--these stack with the 20% from the Trading Post, but not with each other:
Darkmoon Top Hat
: Costs 0
Darkmoon Prize Ticket
from
Gelvas Grimegate
.
WHEE!
: Ride the Darkmoon Carousel--buff lost when dying.
Click here to read the Darkmoon Faire Guide
!
Wowhead’s Patch 6.2 Survival Guide
Wowhead’s Patch 6.2 Survival Guide
Patch 6.2, Warlords of Draenor’s second major patch, goes live on June 23rd for the US, and June 24th for the EU. The Wowhead team has compiled a list of our most useful guides and content to help you
build your Shipyard
,
raid Hellfire Citadel
, find the
treasures in Tanaan Jungle
, and more!
The database is now updated for 6.2, clear cache if you do not see the new data!
To celebrate Patch 6.2, we’re giving away a
Magic Rooster Egg
courtesy of
WoWTCGLoot
! Simply comment with a Wowhead link (item, guide, etc) to your favorite thing in Patch 6.2 to enter by June 30th.
2015 Midsummer Fire Festival Guide (June 21 - July 5)
Midsummer Fire Festival
is here! Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction's flames and desecrating the enemy's! 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
.
2015 has new toys and pets:
Burning Defender's Medallion
for 500
Burning Blossom
,
Blazing Cindercrawler
for 350
Burning Blossom
,
Cozy Bonfire
for 350
Burning Blossom
Several heirloom upgrade items can be purchased:
Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing
for 350
Burning Blossom
,
Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing
for 600
Burning Blossom
. In addition, Ahune now drops ilvl 670 capes.
Midsummer Fire Festival
begins on
June 21
at
10:00 AM
(PST) and runs until
July 5
at
10:00 AM
(PST).
Darkmoon Faire (June 7 -14): New Toys and Powermonger Races, Archimonde Lore Tweets
The
Darkmoon Faire
is back in town for a week, running from
June 7 -14
. There are two new items and races available this week.
Big Powermonger: Gold
, for using a
Powermonger
, rewards
Darkmoon Cannon
. This shoots you out of a cannon and lets you fly for a minute.
Powermonger: Gold
, for using a
Powermonger
, rewards a
Gaze of the Darkmoon
toy. This puts a Darkmoon Faire marker over someone's head.
To learn more about the Faire, check out our
Darkmoon Faire Guide
featuring more info on collections, transmog, and achievements!
Read more for additional details on the Darkmoon Faire, and some recent tweets on Archimonde's lore.
Hellfire Citadel Raid Overview
Hellfire Citadel
is the third raid of Warlords of Draenor. This guide provides an overview of the loot including
Calamity's Edge
, rewards including
Felsteel Annihilator
, bonus rolls, raid unlock schedule, and bosses in
Hellfire Citadel
! When
Hellfire Citadel
goes live, it will also link to all of Wowhead's detailed strategy guides.
Hellfire Citadel Basics
Hellfire Citadel has four difficulties: LFR (25 players), Normal (10-30), Heroic (10-30), and Mythic (20). The loot increases as you progress further in the instance.
Hellfire Citadel
has 13 Encounters:
Hellfire Assault
,
Iron Reaver
,
Kormrok
, and
Hellfire High Council
drop ilvl 690 Normal, ilvl 705 Heroic, ilvl 720 Mythic loot.
Kilrogg Deadeye
,
Gorefiend
,
Shadow-Lord Iskar
, and
Socrethar
drop ilvl 695 Normal, ilvl 710 Heroic, and ilvl 725 Mythic loot.
Fel Lord Zakuun
,
Xhul'horac
,
Tyrant Velhari
, and
Mannoroth
drop ilvl 700 Normal, ilvl 715 Heroic, and ilvl 730 Mythic loot.
Archimonde
drops ilvl 705 Normal, ilvl 720 Heroic, and ilvl 735 Mythic loot.
Hellfire LFR loot is ilvl 675 from earlier bosses and ilvl 685 from later bosses.
All four raid difficulties do not share lockouts.
The entrance is located in central
Tanaan Jungle
, which is a zone that requires building a Shipyard to access. The closest flight path is in Lion's Watch or Vol'mar, which are cities that are unlocked as part of the Shipyard questline.
Children's Week 2015 Guide (April 27 - May 4)
Children's Week
is a week in which we brave a challenge greater than any undead monstrosity and a task more daunting than saving the world. We must become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth and make sure they are happy. We can't tank a child's fears, we can't heal its memories of pain, nor can we DPS the sorrow out of them. So equip your toys, make a mage conjure a candy table, fill your quiver with joy, load your gun with something colorful, and venture into the World of Parenting!
Children's Week
begins on
April 27th
at
11:01 AM
and ends on
May 4th
at
11:00 AM
.
In 2015,
Green Balloon
is a toy that counts towards your Toy Box.
Pet Care Package
is also new to 2015 and contains a variety of items including pug costumes like
Big Pink Bow
,
Magical Pet Biscuit
, and
Flawless Battle-Stone
. This is an alternative reward from the orphan quests and great if you already have the pets!
Flawless Battle-Stone
can also be sold on the AH.
There are 10 pets you can get during Children's Week, and they are account-wide, so you can do the quest chains on multiple characters to get all the pets in one year. You can get
3 pets
on one character per year.
Orgrimmar/Stormwind
:
Whiskers the Rat
,
Speedy
,
Scooter the Snail
,
Mr. Wiggles
Shattrath (Outland)
:
Egbert
,
Peanut
,
Willy
,
Legs
Dalaran (Northrend)
:
Curious Oracle Hatchling
,
Curious Wolvar Pup
WoW Token Live April 7th, April 6th Hotfixes, Guide to Obtaining and Selling the WoW Token
The
WoW Token
goes on sale in the Americas game region (North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand) on April 7th. With the WoW token system, players can buy game time with gold in-game, or buy game time with real money and sell that game time via a token for gold in-game.
The starting price will be . The WoW Token will be available for $20 USD/$25 AUD from the in-game Shop.
Continue reading for our guide on how to buy and sell WoW tokens!
2015 Noblegarden Guide (April 6 - 13)
It's time for
Noblegarden
--a hunt for loot, this time in the form of brightly colored eggs! We join together to "share the joy of life and friendship" all the while looking for carefully hidden eggs and devouring tons of chocolate!
Noblegarden
starts on
April 6 at 11:00 AM
and ends on
April 13 at 11:00 AM
.
Brightly Colored Eggs
have been hidden all across the starting areas for both Alliance and Horde players to discover. These eggs can contain chocolates which serve as a currency to buy seasonal goodies--sometimes they also have special prizes! Simply head out to one of your faction's starting areas, grab some quests, and get out there and hunt eggs. Maybe you'll even earn some achievements along the way!
New to 2015 is the
Mystical Spring Bouquet
, a non-combat vanity pet that costs 100
Noblegarden Chocolate
. There's also
Poorly-Painted Egg
which is sold by Noblegarden vendors for . This lets you place an egg on the ground which sells for a small amount of gold (
Poorly-Painted Egg
). There are other more expensive versions:
Intricately-Painted Egg
costs and contains
Intricately-Painted Egg
,
Magnificently-Painted Egg
costs and contains
Magnificently-Painted Egg
. You wouldn't want to loot your own eggs, but these eggs could make a lovely egg hunt for your guild.
Guide to the Follower Dream Team: 3 Followers that Can 100% All Missions
Wowhead Weekly is on a short hiatus as
new co-host Panser is moving
, so today instead we have an in-depth guide on how to 100% all missions with just 3 followers!
To learn more about follower basics, check out the
Warlords of Draenor Followers Guide
. You can even track your followers on Wowhead and get mission suggestions
following these instructions
.
Hamlet is a special guest author who has written many guides for Wowhead including the
Balance
and
Restoration
Druid guides, as well as
gold challenge mode
and
Proving Grounds Silver
videos. Hamlet can be found on Twitter at
HamletEJ
and maintains a variety of healing projects
on his blog
.
I previously wrote
this guide
explaining how to go about setting up a team for raid missions. All the concepts from that post will apply to
Blackrock Foundry
missions as well, but today I'm going to write about a new twist:
making a single team of 3 that can 100% all of the raid missions (and potentially, any 3-follower mission).
Here is a link
to one such team and their core abilities.
The purpose of this is mostly for fun, since it's likely to require more effort and resources than typical methods of reaching 100% on the raid missions (choosing teams of followers with the right ability counters). However, it does have the advantage of using up only 3 follower slots to handle all hard missions. So if freeing up space for more active followers is important to you, or you'd like to remove your
Barracks Level 3
, this could be very useful.
Hearthstone
Blackrock Mountain - Blackrock Depths Guide
Blackrock Depths, the first wing of the Blackrock Mountain adventure mode, is out today with each week being the release of a brand new wing. Each wing will cost 700 gold or $6.99 (5.99 EUR / 4.99 GBP) each, however there are some bundles available if you want to buy them in buik.
Click to see the full article
where we'll be giving a brief overview of the encounters and what cards they have in their decks.
You can see a
full list of the normal and heroic Blackrock Mountain bosses and hero powers here
. Be sure to check out the
uncollectible cards of Blackrock Mountain
to see what kind of cards these bosses will be playing against you.
You can also view everything else Blackrock Mountain in
our handy guide
including all the
new collectible cards.
This week, you will unlock the following cards for beating the entire wing on normal mode: , , and . In addition, you will unlock the Hunter and Mage class challenges which upon completion unlock for the Hunter class and for the Mage class.
2015 Lunar Festival Guide (Feb 16 - March 2)
The
Lunar Festival
is held every year starting on a date that typically coincides with the Chinese New Year. 2015's Lunar Festival starts on
February 16
and ends on
March 2
.
Ancestors of Azeroth are praised and honored by both Horde and Alliance, who then reward players with a special title,
Elder <Name>
, a celebration in Moonglade, and numerous
Coin of Ancestry
that can be used to purchase festive garb, patterns and fireworks!
For 2015, there are several new additions:
Elune's Lantern
from
Elune's Blessing
is now a toy, and there are two Firework toys for sale,
Everlasting Alliance Firework
and
Everlasting Horde Firework
:
They were previously only available for one week before Mists of Pandaria launched as part of the Theramore scenario--great to see them return!
They cost 25
Coin of Ancestry
each, and learning one automatically teaches you the toy for the opposite faction.
Learn how to
track your Toy Box collection on Wowhead
.
For pet lovers, there's the
Perky Blaster
--give your
Perky Pug
a firework!
Engineers get three new firework schematics:
Schematic: Alliance Firework
,
Schematic: Horde Firework
, and
Schematic: Snake Firework
. These require 500 skill.
On the 6.1 PTR, vendors sell
Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing
for 40
Coin of Ancestry
and
Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing
for 75
Coin of Ancestry
. This is part of 6.1's
heirloom collection system
, where heirlooms can be upgraded to 100. 6.1 goes live during the Lunar Festival, so players can spend their coins on these tokens.
Raiding with Leashes III
With patch 6.1 comes a new battle pet collection achievement,
Raiding with Leashes III: Drinkin' From the Sunwell
.
This achievement requires you to collect and learn pets from
Black Temple
,
Sunwell Plateau
, and the
Battle for Mount Hyjal
raids. These are all quick and easy at 100 and also have some great transmog items, along with these new pets! These pets are not 100% drop rate so you will probably have to run these several times to complete the achievement.
This guide covers how to obtain all of the pets, as well as interesting transmog and vanity items in each raid zone.
Method's Mythic Butcher Guide: Video and Written Strategy
The Butcher
is one of the three optional bosses in
Highmaul
. He is a very big dps check and we recommend that you collect as many items for your raid as possible before attempting him. It's recommended to do him as your 6th Mythic boss.
This is a Mythic guide explaining the abilities, how to deal with
The Butcher
, raid setup and roles, and class specific tips by various Method players as well!
As announced in December,
Method is working with Wowhead
to provide Mythic raiding guides for all the bosses in
Highmaul
and
Blackrock Foundry
. Their other Highmaul guides are:
Mythic Kargath Bladefist
Mythic Twin Ogron
Mythic Brackenspore
Mythic Tectus
Want to kill The Butcher on other difficulties and see what's changed? Check out Wowhead's
Butcher Highmaul Strategy Guide
.
Video
Method's Video and Written Strategy Guide to Mythic Brackenspore
Brackenspore
is one of the three optional bosses in
Highmaul
. In terms of difficulty, you should probably be looking to tackle him as your 3rd or 4th boss depending on how good your interrupters and healers are. This is a guide explaining the boss abilities, how to deal with the boss, raid setup and roles, and class specific tips by various Method players as well!
As announced in December,
Method is working with Wowhead
to provide Mythic raiding guides for all the bosses in
Highmaul
and
Blackrock Foundry
.
Want to kill Brackenspore on other difficulties and see what's changed? Check out Wowhead's
Brackenspore Highmaul Strategy Guide
.
Video Guide
Building Your Ancient Trading Mechanism
If you have built a
Trading Post Level 2
in your Garrison, there is a broken down robot (the
Ancient Trading Mechanism
) who offers you the quest
Auctioning for Parts
(Horde version:
Auctioning for Parts
).
Completing this quest turns this hunk of junk into an Auction House right in your Garrison!
Completing this quest requires you to collect items from across Draenor, which this guide breaks down.
Learn more about Garrisons on Wowhead with our
Garrison Hub Page
!
Method's Video and Written Strategy Guides to Mythic Twin Ogron
It's time for our second
Method
Mythic
Highmaul
guides! As announced in December,
Method will be working with Wowhead
to provide Mythic raiding guides for all the bosses in Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.
Twin Ogrons,
Phemos
and
Pol
, are the 4th boss in
Highmaul
, but it is ranked as second easiest after
Kargath Bladefist
. This is a guide explaining the abilities, how to deal with the boss, raid setup and roles and class specific tips by various Method players as well!
Want to kill Twin Ogron on other difficulties? Check out Wowhead's
Twin Ogron Highmaul Strategy Guide
.
Video Guide
Guide to Ranged DPS: Gameplay Tips and Class Selection
Following our earlier
guide to tanks and tanking
, today we have a similar guide to ranged DPS. Like the earlier tanking guide, this is aimed at newer players, or players who want to try a new role.
Guide to Dealing Damage and Ranged DPS.
Dealing damage, or, in short, DPSing, is one of the most common roles in World of Warcraft, which can be separated in two large groups:
Those who do damage mostly to nearby enemies, or, as we call, enemies in melee range.
Those who do damage to enemies usually from a far distance.
This guide will cover the latter group, helping you pick within the options available from all the classes and explaining the basics that every DPS should know!
Dealing damage is the most competitive role in World of Warcraft. Ranged damage dealers have a few basic responsibilities:
Make sure to deal as much damage as possible.
Position yourself properly to make sure to be in range of your enemies and not standing in something bad.
Unless explicit told to, avoid to stay nearby other raid members.
Kill enemies quickly so tanks and healers can have an easier time.
Pilgrim's Bounty 2014 Guide (November 24 - December 1)
Pilgrim's Bounty
is here and it's time to reflect on your journeys across Azeroth, share plentiful food, and exchange stories with friends. Throughout this holiday, you can partake in feasts near major towns by sitting at a
bountiful table
and enjoying the foods you find there.
New to 2014:
Silver-Plated Turkey Shooter
,
Fine Pilgrim's Hat
,
Frightened Bush Chicken
which can be found in the new daily quest reward
Pilgrim's Bounty
.
Due to its focus on food, this holiday is especially well-known for being a quick and easy way to level up cooking, although that has diminished in recent years by alternative ways to level cooking.
Learn about easy ways to level cooking in Draenor here
.
This holiday lasts from
November 24
to
December 1
.
WoW's 10th Anniversary (November 21 - January 6)
WoW's 10th Anniversary
runs from
November 21st to January 6th
. It features a special level 100 version of
Molten Core
,
Tarren Mill vs Southshore
, and several mounts, pets, and titles to collect!
This guide covers clearing
Molten Core
, the rules behind
Tarren Mill vs Southshore
, and how to get all the special 10th anniversary pets, mounts, cosmetic items, and titles including the
Molten Corgi
.
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