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    Leveling Guide | Power Level Your Alliance Character


    2010 - 02.27

    Undoubtedly, the best leveling method that available in WoW now is an effectively designed quests series where you can complete multiple quests at once whenever possible; this is an absolute requirement for a good alliance leveling guide. The other benefit of this system is you don’t need to wasting time farming for gold since gold, gears, and items are earned from quests rewards. Note that this is a guide for Alliance character; for Horde character, check Horde leveling guide or Joana’s Leveling Guide Review.

    When you just created your character, you will get different quests based on your starter zone, which is vary for each race. In addition, you will also have different class quests; but after you arrive in Stormwind, all Alliance character will receive the same quests.

    For early level, let’s use Night Elf as an example; these are the quests series that you need to accomplish in order:

    1. The Balance of Nature from Conservator Ilthalaine.

    2. The Woodland Protector from Melithar Staghelm.

    3. Webwood Venom from Gilshalan Windwalker at Aldrassil.

    4. A Good Friend from Dirania Silvershine in Teldrassil.

    5. A Friend in Need from Dirania Silvershine.

    6. Iverron’s Antidote from Dirania Silvershine.

    7. The Balance of Nature from Conservator Ilthalaine.

    8. Webwood Venom from Gilshalan Windwalker at Aldrassil.

    9. Webwood Egg from Gilshalan Windwalker.

    10. Tenaron’s Summons from Melithar Staghelm in Teldrassil.

    11. Crown of the Earth from Tenaron Stormgrip at Aldrassil.

    12. Iverron’s Antidote from Dirania Silvershine.

    13. Crown of the Earth from Corithras Moonrage in Dolanaar.

    14. In Favor of Elune from Shanda in Teldrassil.

    15. Dolanaar Delivery from Porthannius in Teldrassil.

    16. Zenn’s Bidding from Zenn Foulhoof outside of Dolanaar.

    17. Denalan’s Earth from Syral Bladeleaf in Teldrassil.

    18. A Troubling Breeze from Athridas Bearmantle in Teldrassil.

    19. The Emerald Dreamcatcher from Tallonkai Swiftroot in Dolanaar.

    20. Crown of the Earth from Tenaron Stormgrip at Aldrassil.

    21. Recipe of the Kaldorei from Zarrin in Dolanaar.

    22. Gnarlpine Corruption from Gaerolas Talvethren in Teldrassil.

    23. Timberling Seeds from Denalan at Lake Al’Ameth.

    24. Timberling Sprouts from Denalan.

    Finishing those 24 quests should bring you to level 7. At level 12, you have the option to travel into different zones (example:  Bloodmyst, Darkshore, and Westfall) and continue questing there or stay where you are; whatever your choice, you will reach Stormwind by keep following the quests chain. After that, you can follow the same alliance leveling guide regardless your races.

    Note that just taking quest after quest is hardly sufficient; you must complete it in the most time efficient possible by finishing various tasks from different quests in one go whenever you have the chances. Now, if you have reached Stormwind, you can take these following quests:

    1. A Watchful Eye from Theocritus in Elwynn Forest.

    2. The Price of Shoes from Verner Osgood in Redridge Mountains.

    3. Blackrock Menace from Marshal Marris at Lakeshire.

    4. The Everstill Bridge from Foreman Oslow in Redridge Mountains.

    5. Underbelly Scales from Verner Osgood in Redridge.

    6. A Baying of Gnolls from Verner Osgood.

    7. Selling Fish from Dockmaster Baren in Redridge Mountains.

    8. Murloc Poachers from Dockmaster Baren.

    9. Howling in the Hills from Verner Osgood in Lakeshire.

    10. Raven Hill from Elaine Carevin in Duskwood.

    11. Deliveries to Sven from Elaine Carevin.

    12. Eight-Legged Menaces from Watcher Dodds in Duskwood.

    13. Wolves at Our Heels from Lars at Sven’s Camp on the western border of Duskwood.

    14. Supplies from Darkshire from Abercrombie in Duskwood.

    15. The Night Watch from Commander Althea Ebonlocke in Duskwood.

    Those 15 quests should bring you to level 22. With a good Alliance leveling guide, you can keep questing until you reach level 80 while earning sufficient gold, gears, items, and mounts in the way. For this purpose, I recommend Zygor Guides as the ultimate tool to help you. Why? Read the in depth review at Zygor Guide Review.

    PvP Guide For Affliction Warlock | The Best Talent Build


    2010 - 02.16

    If you have been in PvP for a while, you may think that an affliction warlock is very easy to play: just throwing some DoT spells while keep retreating from the opponent; in fact, it takes a lot more than that to win the match against an expert player, thus in this pvp guide for warlock, you’ll learn how to take the most necessary talents to maximize your killing power and end the match ASAP.

    Your Skills
    Your primary weapon is your DoT spells, so it is only natural for you to pick the talents that give boost to your spells and DoT damage, but there are some other talents that you need too. Here’s the PvP Warlock talent build that focused on Affliction:

    1. Improved Corruption; boost all of your Corruption by 10%, you don’t want to miss this since you are an Affliction warlcok.

    2. Suppression; increase your spells chance to hit by 3% and reduce mana cost for your Affliction spells by 6%.

    3. Improved Curse of Agony; boost your Curse of Agony by 10%.

    4. Improved Drain Soul; increase Drain Soul spell.

    5. Soul Siphon; both of your Drain Life and Drain Soul are improved.

    6. Fel Concentration; having this will make it even more difficult for your opponent to distrub your channeling spells.

    7. Nightfall; surprise your opponent by hurling an instant Shadow Bolt at him/her.

    8. Empowered Corruption; increase your Corruption spell damage.

    9. Siphon Life; increase some DoT spells damage and heal you when you use Corruption spells.

    10. Shadow Embrace; increase the power of Haunt and Shadow Bolt. At the same time also reduce all periodic healing such as Priest’s Renew.

    11. Shadow Mastery; increase your Shadow spells damage by 15%.

    12. Eradication; when dealing damage with Corruption spells, there is 6% chance to increase your spell casting speed by 20% for 10 seconds.

    13. Contagion; increase the damage of your Corruption spell and at the same time make it harder to be dispelled.

    14. Malediction; boost your spell by 3%. It also increases your periodic critical strike chance of your Corruption and Unstable Affliction by 9%.

    15. Death Embrace; increase your Drain Life by 30% when your health is below 20%. If your health is below 20% in 5v5 you will be dead in seconds, so it is not that useful in team PvP, but it has some effect in 1v1 battle. The other effect is increasing your Shadow spells damage by 12% when your target’s health is below 35%; this is very useful to finish the battle quickly.

    16. Unstable Affliction; 1150 Shadow damage 15 second with 2070 damage and silence effect as “bonuses” for whoever dare to dispel it.

    17. Everlasting Affliction; your Haunt and Drain Life spell can reset the duration of Corruption spell on the target.

    18. Haunt; deal 654-673 Shadow damage and increase all DoT on the target. If it get dispelled or finished, the soul will come back and give you healing that equal to the damage dealt.

    You may have read other pvp guide for warlock that recommend to spend the points that left in Demonology to make you harder to kill, but for this warlock talent build, I’ll pour some points in Improved Shadow Bolt. It is useful for your Nightfall talent and as a reserve spell in case your curses are not work well on your opponent.

    The Affliction build also applied in PvE, you’ll just have to adjust some talents, read the PvE buld at world of warcraft warlock guide for Affliction warlock.

    Your Enemy
    On some occasions, you may get away with only the basic tactic: running around while casting DoT spells and Fear, but what if your enemy can counter those skills? These are some skills that dangerous for you:

    1. Drain your mana; you are fully depending on your mana for combat. Without it, you are less dangerous than a Baby Bunny.
    Solution: Depending on circumtances, you can add your mana by using Life Tap; just be very careful when you do so.

    2. Remove your curses; having Shadow Bolt or other direct damage skills as a reserve can help you in this situation; otherwise, you have to play strategically with strict mana management.
    Solution: make it more difficult for your opponent to dispell your spells by having Contagion and Unstable Affliction.

    3. Resist to Fear; there are no real solution for this one. You can still win the battle, but it will be harder since they can catch up with you.

    The solutions above are only making it harder for your opponent, but it will not make you win the battle. If you want to increase your winning chance, you have to know strength and weakness of each class, including your own. A good counter strategy can be developed based on those data.

    I’m not recommend you to do the research on your own since it will takes a lot of time and effort, I suggest that you read ultimate wow guide review to get the best solution to this problem. Not only it cover detailed pvp strategies for warlock, if you want it can also teach  you to level and fund your warlock.

    Note: if you enjoy PvP, you might also interested in building a character that has very important role in Arena Team, check it at PvP Guide for Paladin.