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A Quick and Easy Guide to Daily Quest Hubs

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Ok, so you’ve hit 90, you’ve got time on your hands and you want to do ALL the dailies, or, maybe you just don’t know where they are.  This is a Quick and Easy guide to the various factions and where to go for your daily quests.  Please, keep in mine, my priority list may not be the same as yours.

Professions:

Jewel-crafting – do your research
Alchemy – make any transmutes you can
Inscription - do your daily research
Tailoring – make your cloth
Cooking – Pick up the daily at Halfhill

Main Factions:

The Klaxxi–Located in Dread Wastes, you’ll need to have done at least part of the zone to open up the daily quests.  I strongly urge you to do the whole zone because the quest rewards are high enough gear level to get you into heroic five man content.  I would make this a high priority daily hub.

Golden Lotus – Located in the central area of Vale of Eternal Blossoms (where the “log in screen” statues are).  You need to have reached revered status with Golden Lotus to open up Shado Pan and The August Celestial faction daily quests, and as a result their epic gear.  I strongly urge prioritizing these daily quests over all others.

The August Celestials – You need to speak with the Quartermaster located under your capital city once you reach revered with Golden Lotus, each day they will direct you to where your help is needed most (aka where the daily quests will be).  In addition, there are always daily quests up for them in the Cradle of Chi-Ji, which is the largest of the Islands off the coast of the Krasarang Wilds.  From what I’ve found, if Chi-Ji is your breadcrumb, then that is the only daily hub you will have for them for that day.  These daily quests should become a priority once you open them.

The Shado-Pan–Their daily quest hub is located in Townlong Steppes at the flight path closest to Niuzao Temple.  Enchanters are going to find their best enchants with these guys.  These daily quests should become a priority once you open them.

Order of the Cloud Serpent–This faction is purely for fun items.  They have the Jewel-crafting patterns for the mount, and the Cloud Serpent mounts at Exalted   These are fun, and if you have time to do them, they are located at the Arboretum in Jade Forrest.  If you don’t have time, they aren’t going anywhere!

Secondary Factions:

Tillers– The tillers give us the ability to grow our own farm, which can be used for any profession, and even to farm motes of harmony once you reach the proper reputation. To get started with the Tillers, check out the information I posted here.

Anglers–Nat Pagle is back again along with some friends.  This rep is entirely to give you things to make fishing easier, if you enjoy fishing head over to the Anglers wharf in the Karasang Wilds.

Lorewalkers: This faction gives Archaeology a nod, there is a mount you can get as well.  You should see Lorewalker Cho at the top of Mogu’shan Palace to get daily quests.  To reach exalted with the Lorewalkers however, you do not need archaeology or daily quests, Michael Sacco at WoW Insider did a really good post about that!

These are the daily areas I’ve opened up so far, I hope this quick guide helps!

 

Guild Leader Perspective: Elder Charms

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This weeks Guild Leader Perspective is short and sweet!  Be sure to check out the archives for more guild leading and raid leading related posts!

As a raiding guild, we are starting to amass our Elder Charm of Good Fortune currency.  The charms work as an extra roll for the *chance* at extra loot on any raid boss in Mists of Pandaria, including the Sha of Anger and Looking for Raid version of all of the raids.  You amass them by doing the weekly quest Elder Charms of Good Fortune offered in the lower level of the two capital cities in Pandaria.

As a guild leader, I do expect my raiders to be collecting their charms, and hopefully the folks who step in as casual and do raid finder with us as well!  How they are used, is entirely up to the raider.  While it would be nice to see them used wisely, they are entirely rng based, and they have no effect on our loot system (which is a hybrid of loot counsel and /roll).  As a raider myself, I will probably use them to help my chances at a tier token.

How is your guild handling the Elder Charms?  Do you have a system that you’ll be using?

Busy Week!

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This is the last “grind” week I have before Mists drops to get school work done ahead of time so that I can focus on the game, so I leave you with these pages:

What’s Changed in 5.0.4 for all healing classes

and

Pre-Raid Gear for Pandaria (all classes!)

Big thank you to the folks who made those link lists possible, as none of the linked content belongs to Healing Mains.  :-)

I’ll be back in a few day with fresh content!

 

Mists of Pandaria: An Early Look at Consumables – Alchemy

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It’s a given that Mists of Pandaria are still in Beta, but, I did promise more cheat sheets on my last post about cooking.  I’m not going to list every possible flask, potion or elixir here…what I will list are ones that pertain to the Healing aspect of wow.  I am not a theorycrafter at all, therefore if you are looking to find best in slot sort of information, this is not the blog you are looking for.

Flasks, Potions and Elixirs

When it comes to Flasks, you’re going to want to go with which stat you need the most.  If you’re having regen problems, go with Spirit! If you’re not go with Int!  With Elixirs you always want to use two at a time, one Guardian and one Battle.  The combo is really up to what you need stat-wise.  As for potions, I generally tend to use mana potions, but there are several other options!

Flasks:  

Flask of Falling Leaves - Increases Spirit by 1000 for 60 min.
Mats Needed: Crystal Vial, Green Tea Leaf (4), Golden Lotus

Flask of the Warm Sun - Increases Intellect by 1000 for 60 min.
Mats Needed: Crystal Vial, Silkweed (4), Golden Lotus

Elixirs:

Elixir of Peace - Increases Spirit by 750 for 60 min. Battle Elixir.
Solid choice I would choose this if I needed more mana regeneration or if a haste elixir would adversely affect my haste numbers.

Elixir of the Rapids - Increases haste rating by 750 for 60 min. Battle Elixir.
If I did not need the Spirit elixir, I would choose this one instead

Monk’s Elixir - Increases your mastery rating by 750 for 60 min. Battle Elixir
This is the battle elixir of my choice, as currently mastery > crit for most healers

Mad Hozen Elixir - Increases critical strike rating by 750 for 60 min. Battle Elixir (note:  most people don’t focus on crit for their healers, at the time of this writing, but I included it just in case)

Potions:

Master Mana Potion - Restores 28500 to 31500 mana
This is the mana pot most people will carry around for everyday use, stock up on these!

Master Healing Potion - Restores 60000 health
As a healer, I don’t generally keep health potions on me, I give these to my favorite rogue!

Potion of Focus - Puts the imbiber in an elevated state of focus where they can restore up to 45000 mana over 10 sec, but they are defenseless until their focus is broken
This is my absolute FAVORITE mana regen, I carry a stack of these to use when I have a moment to regen mana while my fellow healers heal.  Even if you only get to use half of it’s duration its larger than the regular mana potion!

Potion of the Jade Serpent - Increases Intellect by 4000 for 25 sec
These can be pretty good for crunch time or to prepot at the start of the fight

There you go ladies and gents!  Granted, this is a list from the beta, so it could become incomplete or completely outdated very quickly.  I also did not include alchemy only items!

If you would like a more complete list of what’s going on in Mist of Pandaria for Alchemy, you should check out WoWhead’s Guide. It’s pretty darn awesome!

Mists of Pandaria Cooking–an early look at healing food

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Thanks to El’s Anglin’ we have some really good information out there about the MoP Cooking specialties available!

The original post is here:  http://www.elsanglin.com/news/mop-cooking-specializations.html for all it’s glory, but I’m only posting what pertains to the healing classes here.  All Mists of Pandaria information provided here, I got from El’s post, it is not my original work at all.

For healing, it looks like we will want to go with one of these two specializations, as each specialization offers one type of food buff for all the recipes they offer…

  • Way of the Pot – Intellect
  • Way of the Steamer – Spirit
I’m not sure which will be better overall for healing classes, but I’m going to guess that we’ll start with Steamer and then move to Pot once its maxed out. (That sounds illegal in some states!).  As we usually tend to focus on Spirit when we first hit max level, then move on to Int later.  Also, good to know is that feasts are an exception: Every specialization offers 2 feast dishes, each of which grants precisely the same buff – 275 Useful (class-specific) stat. This means one only needs to train one specialization to be able to cook raid feasts.

Check out the full post over at El’s Anglin for more information, it’s a really great write-up describing how the cooking profession is looking in Mists of Pandaria!