BUT then there was I in Orgrimmar with Alch 1/75 and Herb 1/75 *sigh*

NOTE: THIS GUIDE WASNT MADE BY ME, ALTOUGH I DID CHANGE SOME THINGS AT IT!

1 – 50

Collecting Silverleaf and Peacebloom

· Mulgore. Just do circuits round the base of Thunderbluff picking Silverleaf and Peacebloom.

· Do circuits around Dolanaar heading South East around the lake and back upto to Dolanaar, if your Alliance or complete circuits of Elwynn Forest.

· For Undead, try starting at Solliden Farmstead in Tirisfal Glades, run north to the mills, loop round and back south past Stillwater Pond and onto Cold Hearth Manor and Nightmare Vale. Then back up to Solliden Farmstead again. (Thanks to Olmolmtyr for info)

You can find Peacebloom and Silverleaf in abundance around your main starting area (not in it, around it). So the first 50 levels should be really easy.

51 – 70

Collecting Mageroyal and Earthroot

· Go west from Crossroads then head north before the entrance to Stonetalon Mountains and follow around to where the harpies are, then head east back to the Gold road and then south to Crossroads again, picking Mage Royal, Earthroot, Peacebloom and Silverleaf as you go.

· For Alliance start in the north of Westfall and follow the coast south to Deadmines and then head straight to Sentinel Hill and back up to the north again, picking Mageroyal.

· You can also run circuits of Gol’Bolar Quarry in Dun Morogh, collecting Earthroot as you go. (Thanks to Flareon for that info)

71 – 100

Collecting Briarthorn

· Same route as above (for Horde), but extend it east to Sludge Fen, picking Briarthorn now.
You could actually extend your runs to encompass the whole of The Barrens, as this area is absolutely chock full of Briarthorn and other herbs. It’s possibly the best area to get your herbalism trained up.

· Southern part of Silverpine Forest, from Pyrewood Village to the Entrance to Hillsbrad Foothills and back again.

· Same route as above (for Alliance) or do circuits of Twilight Grove in Duskwood.

· Also for Alliance, just wander north to south in Darkshore for loads of Briarthorn.

· The eastern side of Loch Modan is also a great place for Briarthorn.

· You could also do circuits of Lakeshire in Redridge Mountains.

101 – 115

Collecting Bruiseweed

· Start at the Ramparts in Ashenvale and head north-east to Splintertree Post (dont follow road, try to go as straight as you can, you’ll find more herbs that way), then head west from Splintertree Post towards the first bridge. Head south from here past the Moonwell and then back west to the ramparts when you reach the edge of the map. Pick Bruiseweed as you go.

· Stonetalon Mountains. Go to Camp Aparaje, head west to the Grimtotem Post, then south to Malaka’jin, then east to the Greatwood Vale. Nice run of Bruiseweed there.

· The Field of Giants in Southern Barrens or between the two Razorfens.

· You can also circle to the north of Mystral Lake for Bruiseweed or to the West of Astranaar in Ashenvale.

· Windshear Crag in Stonetalon Mountains.

· The eastern coast of Loch Modan.

· Circuits of Stonewatch keep in Redridge Mountains.

116 – 125

Collecting Wild Steelbloom

· Go to Stonetalon Peak and do circuits of the small area around the Alliance Town and the Talon Den collecting Wild Steelbloom.

· For higher levels do full circuits of Arathi Highlands, sticking to the mountain sides (as this is where you’ll find Wild Steelbloom)

· Nek’mani Wellspring in Stranglethorn Vale.

· The Zuuldaia Ruins, north of Grom’gol in Stranglethorn Vale.

· Go from Black Channel Marsh in the Wetlands to the Angerfang Encampment, taking in Whelgar’s Excavation Site as you go.

· Go from The Field of Giants in southern Barrens to the two Razorfens and back up again.

· Between The Great Lift and Highperch in Thousand Needles.

*from now on your going to be doing circuits of the full map, so you’ll have to learn your own paths.

126 – 160

Collecting Kingsblood

· Full circuits of Ashenvale to collect Kingsblood.

· Circuits of The Charred Vale in Stonetalon Mountains.

· Full circuits of The Wetlands.

· Full circuits of Hillsbrad Foothills.

· The Misty Reed Stand in Swamp of Sorrows.

161 – 185

Collecting Fadeleaf

· Full circuits of Swamp of Sorrows to collect Fadeleaf (sell these to Rogues for a good profit).

186 – 205

Collecting Khadgar’s Whisker

· Full circuits of The Hinterlands to collect Khadgar’s Whisker.

· The Witherbark Village and Ogre Compound in Arthai Highlands.

· You can also stay in Swamp of Sorrows, as there is a decent amount of Khadgar’s Whiskers there.

206 – 230

Collecting Firebloom

· Full circuits of Searing Gorge to collect Firebloom.

· Full circuits of Blasted Lands.

· Tanaris also has a lot, but doing full circuits takes time. You can divide Tanaris into four and do circuits that way.

231 – 250

Collecting Sungrass

· Full circuits of Felwood to collect Sungrass. This is actually more of a zig-zag pattern, rather than a circuit (also try to do the Cleansing Felwood quest and pick up Windblossom Berries, Nightdragons, Whipper Roots and the odd Songflower Serenade buff when needed).

· Feralas is also a great place to get Sungrass. You can make two circuits here. One that starts in the very north west at The Ruins of Ravenwind and runs south to The High Wilderness and one around The Lower Wilds, Lariss Pavillion, Grimtotem Compound and Woodpaw Hills, all near Camp Mojache.

· You can do circuits around The Forlorn Ridge in Azshara.

· You can try the main path through The Hinterlands too. As you follow it one way, stay about 50 metres from the path and then do the same the other way.   Forget this, the very best way to level your herbalism at this level is in Swamp Of Sworrows. Its FULL of Blindweed.

I farmed for an hour and 30minutes and this is what I got: 119 Blindweeds (5g per stack on AH) 53 Liferoot (2g 20 per stack, 30 Kingsblood (3g 15 per stack) , 40 whiskers 3g 20 / stack.
Collecting Gromsblood

ll circuits of Felwood to collect Gromsblood. See above notes.

· Do circuits of Mannoroc Coven in Desolace for Gromsblood too.

· Full circuits of Blasted Lands.

· Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale, not many people bother with this area, so although its small, it can be good for farming Gromsblood.

271 – 285 or 290 (see below)

Collecting Dreamfoil

· Full circuits of Un’goro Crater to collect Dreamfoil.

· Two good routes in Azshara are:

· From The Forlorn Ridge, head south east to the Ravencrest Monument and back again.

· From the north of the Ruins of Eldareth, head north east to the Jagged Reaches and back again.

285 or 290 – 300

From 285 you can get Plagueblooms from doing circuits of Eastern and Western Plaguelands and Felwood, but if your not competing against a load of other players, try to collect Icecaps from Winterspring, as they will sell for more money

300-375 (390 for the cows among us)

Do full circuits of

-Hellfire Peninsula (altough there arent much herbs here)

-Zangarmarsh (the BEST place to level herbalism, you can choose to only do circuits here and leave the rest, thats what I did. My favorite place is at the Boglords nearby Sporregar.

-Nagrand (a lot of herbalismemers (lol?) here so you gotta be quick)

-Blades Edge’s Mountains

A good tip for druids, always stay in (epic) fly form. You can pick herbs in shapeshifts form without going out of it. When you re picking herbs in Azeroth always stay in travel form.

Note: This shows yo wich herbs to pick and where to level FAST, if you see another herb then the one you are supposed to gather, pick it!

With this guide I leveled my herbalism and alchemy to 375 in 3 days.

Note about leveling Alchemy, alch is faily simple, make sure you gathered enough herbs to start.

-Put them in your bags (rest in bank)

-Go to alchemy supplies , buy vials and start to make and make and make , if you are out of herbs go to bank, out of vials -> buy new ones. At the alchemy supplie man in Ogrimmar is also a Alchemy trainer, I think every time after 10 or 5 levels you can train something new.

Red = Alchemy Supplies and trainer

Blue = Mail box (if you got too much pots in your bags send them to alts or your bank char)

Green (light) = Bank

Green (dark) = Auction House (if you got too much/out of herbs put/buy them on AH)

Thats it. I hope its a bit usefull

/hug

Thal

Panzerkin is a total new concept of Moonkin tanking and is invented by Lithanial (http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=305842304&sid=1) His guide inspired me so much, so again thanks a lot! (if you will ever read this hehe ^^) Some reasons I wanted this : -fun (that’s what’s the game is all about ..) Im also sick of being asked are you a tank? , the scenario goes like this:

- Are you a tank?

-Nope

-Are you a healer?

-Nopes

-Dude you gotta be kidding me … /ignore

-/facepalm

-XXX is currently ignoring you.

LOL, this really happend to me… Or people that are spamming the LFG channel and trade chat that they need a tank , like this: LF1M TANK XXX HEROIC LAST SPOT!!!!!!! Why they say last spot AND LF1M … So this is whats pushes me. Well here is the gear I have already and the gear I want/need.

Chest: http://thottbot.com/i32060, Merciless Gladiator Wyrmhide Tunic,  

Enchants: +6 stats or +15 resilience rating, I choose +6 stats because you already get enough ress from the Pvp gear

Sockets: 2 red and 1 yellow, Ive just put 3x 12 stamina gems in it (Solid Star Of Elune, wich can be bought at the AH for about 30gold) or you can buy Star Of Elune for about 20gold.

Shoulders: http://thottbot.com/i28139 Gladiator Wyrmhide Spaulders, Ive chosen the normal Gladiator for this because I had them in my bags and I wasnt really in the mood for more more honor farming ^^

Enchant: 13 defense rating, requires: Scryers honored. When Im revered Im gonna update it with 15 defense rating and 10 dodge rating.

Sockets: a red and yellow socket, it doesnt really matter wich gems you put into these, defense rating, dodge, resilience, spell dmg/hit/crit ,.. as long as you have enough of everything at the end.

Head: http://thottbot.com/i28137 , Gladiator Wyrmhide Helm, again I had this in my bags from the old days ^^,

Enchant: the best enchant for a head is Glyph Of Gladiator (requires Shattered Sun Offensive Revered, costs around 90 gold)

Sockets: Meta and a yellow sockets, the best meta socket is +18 stamina and +3% stun resist. Like I said before the yellow one doesnt really bother much.

Cloak: http://thottbot.com/i33593 , Slikk’s Cloak of Placation, this costs 35 Badge Of Justice and can be bought at G’eras at Shattrath City

Enchants: here are a lot of enchants possible: 12 defense rating (pattern drops in Mgt hc, a bit rare though), 12 dodge rating or 120 armor. I personally choose for 12 defense rating IF you find someone who has the enchant ofcourse!

Gloves: http://thottbot.com/i35111, Brutal Gladiator Wyrmhide Gloves, this is one of the only Brutal armor pieces wich doesnt require a personal arena rating and it only costs 1125 arena points so doing 2v2 and 3v3 arena for 2 weeks and you will have the gloves for sure.

Enchants: Personally Ive chosen 10 spell criticial strike rating but 20 spell damage and 2% threat is also a very good option.

Leggings: http://thottbot.com/i25690, Heavy Clefthoof Leggings, imo this was the best option for me, another good choice is the Merciless Gladiator Wyrmhide Leggings. They have 2 blue sockets (2x 12 stamina gems and a yellow one (6 dodge rating + 4 resilience rating) I personally enchanted them with Nethercleft Leg Armor (again +40 stamina and +12 agility)

If you are a Leatherwork this leggins are a good choice, otherwise ask a skinner with you. You kill he skins and this is the perfect place  to do it. (see screen 1) The materials you need (for both the leggings AND the leg armor)

6+4 heavy knothide leather (can be made through combinening Knothide leathers, 16+4 heavy clefthoof leathers (drops the best from clefthoof BULLS), 4+8 primal earth (see pic 2 for the best farming place , not much people know  this spot ^^) 1 primal nether (can be bought from the badge vendor for 10 Badge of Justice and it drops from every last boss in any heroic instance.)

 This is in Nagrand in front of Garadar.

 This is BEHIND Garadar at the  Elemental’s Plateau. Best place to farm Air/Fire/Earth motes, although you need a fly mount to get there. (for us druids that isnt a problem hehe ^^)

——————————————————————————–The gear I want:

Weapon: http://thottbot.com/i29171, Earthwarden, one of the best beginning weapons for a panzerkin (also for a feral dr00d though) Im 50% to being exalted with Cenarion Expedition so it will be mine soon ^^

Enchants: Dont hassitate to throw a +40 spell damage on it, this is really the best enchant I can imagine.

 Trinkets: There are a lot of good trinkets available like:

http://thottbot.com/i34473 , Commendation of Kael’thas, this is the BEST stamina trinket there is currently in game, so getting this would be really awesome. The drop rate isnt that bad but the trickiest thing about this is that EVERY tank will want this so you gotta ninja it or play with someone who already has the trinket. (this drops from the third boss in Magister’s Terracce heroic)

http://thottbot.com/i31858, Darkmoon Card: Vengeance, you can get this beauty by combinening Ace, Two, Three, Four, Five , Six , Seven and Eight of Furies into Furies Deck wich gives you a quest that you can turn in at Darkmoon Faire.

http://thottbot.com/i32658, Badge Of Tenacity, a really good trinket that boosts your armor A LOT. Altough this is a very rare drop and normally can be bought from AH for around 2000g if you have the money -> spend it ! Or you can farm for ages for the Depleted Badge wich can be turnd into the trinket when you combine it with 50 Apexis Shards (drop from almost every mob in Bashir’s Landing in the northern part of Blade Edge’s Mountains.

http://thottbot.com/i28528, Moroes’ Lucky Pocket Watch, this might be the best dodge trinket there is. Wow what am I saying? This IS the best dodge trinket there is! Get this for sure ^^

Rings: here are a lot of them available , ill will only post the ones that are the best but you have also various pvp rings, note : they give lots of spell dmg but almost no armor and stamina

http://thottbot.com/i33054, The Seal Of Danzalar, this beauty drops from the second or third boss of SSC (Serpentshire Cavern , its a 25 men raid in Coilfang reservoir) this is the best tanking rings for us, if you can get it , get it! Ninja if needed hehe ^^

http://thottbot.com/i29279, Violet signet of the great Protector, along your way on being friendly till exalted with the Violet eye ,you get rings (violet signets) for a melee dps, spell dps, healer or tank. When you are exalted you can always change them for 75g. You can earn rep by killing bosses and mobs in Karazhan.

http://thottbot.com/i34888, Ring of the Stalwart Protector, can be bought at the isle of quel danas (aka Lag isle) for 60 Badges of Justice, wonderfull ring! If you have the badges , spend them on this!

http://thottbot.com/i28792, A’dal’s Signet of Defense , also a great choice. You can get this ring by slaying Magterhidon , grabbing his head and delivering it at Thrallmar. Easy as pie ^^

Necks/Waist/Bracers:

There is only choice for the neck/belt/bracer/boots:

http://thottbot.com/i33915, Vindicator Wyrmhide Belt

http://thottbot.com/i33916, Vindicator Wyrmhide Boots, best enchant here is + 12 stamina. You can NEVER have enough hp.

http://thottbot.com/i33917, Vindicator Wyrmhide Bracers, I personally put a +12 stamina gem in it and ive enchanted it with +15 spell damage. You can also put a 12 spell dmg in it and enchant it with +12 stamina. Your choice.

http://thottbot.com/i33920 or http://thottbot.com/i33921, Vindicator’s Pendant of Conquest/Dominance. The one has better stats and the other more spell dmg/crit.

The som of honor thats needed:

Leggins + Shoulders + Chest + Helm = 54750 honor points, 50 Arathi Basin marks, 30 Alterac Valley Marks and 30 Warsong Gulch Marks

Bracers + Boots =  23122  — WILL BE UPDATED, GOT TO CHECK PRICES

This is all for now, phew ive really put a lot of work in this ^^ (bah I really got too much free time :p) I hope it really inspires people and if you got any comments/question blow away.

Thal.

Im back with a brand new post how my guild Stronghold encountered all the bosses of Karazhan. Mostly I forgot to take screens but I got a couple already ^^ We cleared Kara in the beginning of July I think, not sure. Here are the pics I already have, I will updated it regularly:

The curator

 Opera event: The Big Bad Wolf

 Maiden of Virtue

 Damn how did that get there :s

WILL BE UPDATED

Now a few words of my first charachter in the World (of Warcraft) A year back now around 15 August 2007 I went to my cousin for a few days (he just bought WoW) He rolled a Troll Mage wich is pretty cool but it didnt gave me a wow effect. We were wandering in ogrimmar and then I saw it: a druid. There was he, the ancient protector of the old spirits. He sat on his mount and we asked him if he would switch into his forms for us and so he did Bear, cat, travel and boomkin. From the very moment I was enchanted ^^ A few days later I got the  trial from a friend and installed WoW. My first char was bron: Thalantor , a tauren druid. Unfortunately trial is only 10 days. So after my trial Ive waited a month till I bought WoW. In the beginning people were really nice to me (giving me gold, helping with quests, advising me a lot, …) Im still very thankfull for it. Ok so where was I ? Ow yea I leveled my dr00d as feral because people told me that was the fastest way. It was my first char so I explored much of Azeroth and ofcourse I did almost every instance. Damn I was happy with it ^^ Around may 2008 I dingded 70 and the FIRST thing I did was: Teleport Moonglade -> reset talents , Balance all the way! Around level 63 I changed to a raiding guild (Stronghold) and since shoolyear almost ended,  I could go on raiding. Now 2 months later since I dinged 70 (in June I couldnt play cuz of exams, wich I did great btw ^^ ) I got 10500 HP, 9400 mana, 17% spell crit chance, 950 spell damage and around 300 mana regen. Im quite satisfied, my gear is 2/5 of Karazhan and Ive done all heroics. 

This is a little intro about my druid. This section will handle about wich bosses I have encountered and stuff. I will also post some vids about me doing raids (although if I find out how gamecam works :p) Ill keep you guys in touch.

Over and out. Thal.

First I wanna say welcome and I hope you enjoy my fresh made blog about World Of Warcraft! This blog will contain various information about my interest in world of warcraft, the raids I encounter, in one word all what keeps me busy in the magnific world: Azeroth. Im a owlkin , yes Im a balance druid. Im one of the few Booomkins of my server (Arathor – PvE (rocks ^^)) My current spec is 48/0/13. My guild at the moment is Stronghold, we are a non-hardcore raiding guild who just want to have fun Our raiding progress is: Karazhan fully cleared (mm I will probably post some pictures of me dancing on every boss) big wipe-fest on High King Maulgar (wasnt my fault … I guess) This tuesday we are finally gonna start on Magtheridon then , not sure though maybe we dont get enough sign ups but we will see, really looking forward to it! Thats it, exept for some pre-tbc raids like Zul’gurub and Molten Core (pretty fun still ^^, T1 ftw xD)

Some plans Im working on at the moment

-gearing up for panzerkin (Moonkin tank) – yes TANK (gonna post some things about it)

- Im leveling some alts: a 52 frost mage and a 36 fury warrior

Thats all for now! But prepare I will be back soon ^^

Cya all, Thal