This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser.
Classic Theme
Thottbot Theme
News
Children's Week Guide - School of Hard Knocks How-To
With
Children's Week
underway, players shooting for
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
will be wanting to check this holiday off their list.
Children's Week
brings the meta's most hated achievement:
School of Hard Knocks
. Wowhead has a short and sweet guide to help you get this done with the minimum of fuss. Let's go from the easiest to the hardest. If you're looking for a full guide to all the achievements and rewards from this holiday, check out
Wowhead's Children's Week Guide
.
This guide assumes you have little or no PvP experience, and we've got tips for avoiding PvP if you're a die-hard PvE-focused player who just wants to get this done and never enter a Battleground again.
First up,
always
have your orphan out in these battlegrounds. No exceptions - you wouldn't want to complete one of these objectives only to realize your orphan wasn't there to see it and your hard work was for nothing.
2014 Children's Week Guide (April 28 - May 5)
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 28th
at
11:01 AM
(server time) and ends on
May 5th
at
11:00 AM
.
Due to the advent of Cataclysm,
Children's Week
was changed in 2011 to have two new pets and redone locations for the initial tier of quests.
There's nothing new in 2014, but since all vanity pets are now battle pets in Mists of Pandaria, you might be more interested in collecting pets this expansion! Since battle pets are also account-wide, you can collect different sets of pets on your alts to round out your collection faster.
Live
2014 Noblegarden Guide (April 21 - 28)
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 21 at 11:00 AM
and ends on
April 28 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.
If you're raiding,
Ji-Kun
's eggs resemble
Brightly Colored Egg
s this week too.
Also be sure to check out our
2014 Noblegarden TCG Egg Hunt
with tons of prizes!
Live
New/Boosted Player Guide: Transmog Basics, Tools, and Guides
Continuing with our series of new players guides, today we're focusing on transmogrification--changing the appearance of your armor.
Transmog is one of Wowhead's favorite features, as we've built lots of tools to help you find perfect gear matches! We also have a series of guides that covers different types of gear.
For more guides in our New/Boosted Player series, check out our
Boosted 90 Essentials
,
Mists of Pandaria Content Overview
, and
1-60 Leveling Guide
.
Live
New Player Guide: Mists of Pandaria Content Overview
Today we're taking another look at WoW through the eyes of a boosted 90. Earlier in the week, we published
a guide to essentials for boosted 90s
including gearing tips, raid details, professions, and currency overviews.
This guide presents an overview of other new types of content added in Mists of Pandaria, in case you've been away from the game a bit or want a break from the gear grind.
Before we dive into the guide, be sure to check out our
1-60 Leveling Guide
if you want to boost a character but would like them to hit 60 first for the profession boost as well! Also check out our
guide to Boosted 90 Essentials
to read up on raiding, professions, and the legendary questline.
Click the cut to get started!
Live
Boosted 90s Essentials Guide: Gearing Up, Currencies, Legendary Questline, and More
This guide is for boosted 90 players--it covers basics like how to gear up quickly, fast ways to get Valor Points, profession perks, and raid information. We also cover some more advanced things you can try out, like Proving Grounds and Challenge Modes.
If you want to boost your character to 60 first for a profession boost, check out our
Leveling from 1-60 Guide
which covers questing zones and dungeons.
Level 90 boosts are now available for
$60 on Battle.net
.
Click the cut to read the guide!
Live
Leveling from 1-60: Questing and Dungeons Guide
This guide covers how to level from 1-60 on the same continent--maybe you want to level an alt to 60 to get the Veteran bonus for
upcoming level boosts
, or just want something new!
Find out where to go and what zones you shouldn't pass up in our guide! We've even included some fun items to hunt for to give you reasons to check out certain zones over others.
Each section breaks down the questing experience by continent and faction, along with maps and descriptions of interesting things in each zone. We've also included a section for dungeons at the end in case you prefer to get some experience that way.
Live
Diablo III Welcome Back Guide
Welcome to Wowhead's Diablo III Guide! Patch 2.0.1 went live this week and this guide helps returning players see what's changed in the patch, as well as an overview of major content for new players! We also have a huge contest in celebration of Diablo going on--we're
giving away a new computer, SteelSeries gear, and more
!
Also in preparation for Reaper of Souls, the Wowhead team has taken our old Diablo site D3DB and relaunched it as
D3head.com
! Here you'll find updated class information, skill calculators, new items, revised recipe costs, and even details on the upcoming Crusader class.
Click here to check out D3head.com!
We've also published another guide, this time covering content new to Reaper of Souls--Act V, Adventure Mode, Bounties, new itemsets, and transmog.
Click here to check it out!
.
Finally, be sure to buy your copy of Reaper of Souls if you haven't already.
If you pre-order it digitally before March 31, 2014, y
Live
Updated Warlords of Draenor Guide
With the recent round of press interviews and character model updates, we thought it was a good time to update our
Warlords of Draenor guide
published at BlizzCon!
Here's some additions you'll find:
New model art for female undead, humans, dwarves, and orcs, as well as Artcraft blogs explaining the design choices.
More details and artwork on Garrisons.
Updated details on itemization and gear changes in Warlords.
Updated level 100 talents.
Proving Grounds Silver is now a requirement to random queue for level 100 heroics.
Challenge Mode daily quests in Warlords will reward LFR-quality epics.
Trial of the Gladiator has been scrapped for PvP, but Skirmishes and Spectator Mode are coming.
Bonus quests are available when questing in select areas and automatically go away when you leave the area.
Details on level 90 boosts from the PTR, including the Veteran bonuses which boosts professions to 600 if you boost a level 60+ character.
Spoiler details on the end of the Shadowmoon Valley questline.
[url=
http://wowhead.com
Live
Patch 5.4.7 and Season 15 PvP Guide
Patch 5.4.7 is scheduled to go live today on Tuesday, February 18th and this mini-guide covers all the patch changes and additions.
This is mainly a PvP patch with the start of Season 15. There are also some tweaks to Timeless Isle weapons and better loot from the Celestials. There is also a bug where all Recruit-a-Friend and Scroll-of-Resurrection mounts aren't showing up for players in-game, but that should be fixed
next realm restart
.
Also, earlier today we covered how
Level 90 boosts were visible in the in-game store and cost $60
, but after more server maintenance, that has been removed. No level 90 boosting today!
Celestials and Gear Changes
The four celestials on the
Timeless Isle
now drop ilvl 550 Season 15 PvP gear instead of ilvl 522 Season 14 PvP gear. These items are fairly good for new alts or players that don't raid Normal
Siege of Orgrimmar
.
The ilvl 550 slots you can loot from the Celestials is: [url=
http://www.wowhead.com/items=4?filter=sl=16;na=prid
Live
Love is in the Air 2014 Guide (February 10 - 24)
Ah,
Love is in the Air
in the World of Warcraft: sweet flowers, perfume, and sharing gifts with loved ones! But, what's this? A sinister plot is afoot involving some shady goblin newcomers to the seasonal market--the Crown Chemical Company! It's up to us to help save Azeroth from their chemically altered goods all while spreading love and appreciation to our faction leaders and fellow players!
Love is in the Air
starts on
February 10
at
11:00 AM
and ends on
February 24
at
11:00 AM
. This holiday can be celebrated by the Horde in
Orgrimmar
and the Alliance in
Stormwind City
. Seasonal decorations such as wreaths, candles and ribbons can be found in all major cities and at most zone inns. Players will also find
Lovely Merchant
s who sell seasonal gifts and goodies.
We have added additional sections on Love Tokens and rewards in 2014, but there appears to be no changes to the event. New to 2013 were updated ilvl 480 epic amulets for defeating
Apothecary Hummel
and different places to farm
Lovely Charm
Live
Pop Culture References in WoW: NPCs and Quests from Games and Music
We're continuing our series of pop culture reference posts with a look at NPCs and quests that are clever references to games and music! In past weekends, we've covered items, achievements, and player tributes.
Did you know that many Operation Shieldwall and Dominance Offensive dailies are references to Queen songs? Or that Archmage Vargoth quotes "Hotel California"? Perhaps you're nostalgic for the long
Legend of Zelda
questline removed in Cataclysm, but are happy Mario and Luigi are safe in Un'Goro--unlike Dadanga.
We'll be doing another post on NPCs and Quests soon covering other topics like books, movies, and TV shows.
Check out our past guides in the series:
Blizzard and Community References in WoW
Pop Culture References in WoW Achievements
Pop Culture Item References: Comics, Books, Music, and Poetry
[url=
http://www.wowhead.com/news=2257
Live
Lunar Festival (January 20 - February 3) 2014 Guide
It's time for the first in-game holiday of 2014, the
Lunar Festival
--so everyone break out the fireworks, show a little respect for your
elders
, and come celebrate the (lunar) new year!
The
Lunar Festival
is held every year starting on a date that typically coincides with the Chinese New Year. 2014's Lunar Festival starts on
January 20
and ends on
February 3
. 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!
While there were significant additions and changes in 2012, the
Lunar Festival
for 2013 and 2014 is unchanged.
Honoring Elders
Honoring elders is one of the
main activities
of the festival. In 2012's Lunar Festival, 9 elders have been added in zones new to Cataclysm.
Rewards
F
Live
Blizzard and Community References in WoW
This guide looks at Blizzard staff and WoW players who have their names referenced in WoW in some form--items, NPCs, quests, locations. We've added some references we've found in WoD's alpha as well!
Did you know the NPCs placating the angry townsfolk in
The Culling of Stratholme
are named after the Customer Service team? Perhaps you've tamed
Ghostcrawler
in Vash'jir, answered Blizzard Historian
Senior Historian Evelyna
's questions on the Timeless Isle, bought battle pets from
Breanni
, or found
Perculia's Peculiar Signet
in Pandaria :)
We're happy to include additional references, but we've deliberately left out some items and details based on privacy concerns and requests.
For previous installments, check out the following:
Pop Culture References in WoW Achievements
Pop Culture Item References: Videos, Movies, and TV
Pop Culture Item References: Comics, Books, Music, and Poetry
Live
Pop Culture References in WoW Achievements
We're continuing our series of pop culture references in WoW with a look at achievements! From
Arrested Development
to
Portal
, Blizzard has sampled a variety of popular games, songs, books, movies, and TV shows for achievement names and criteria.
We've previously published two other guides, and have more to come for player references, NPCs, quests, and zones:
Pop Culture Item References: Comics, Books, Music, and Poetry
Pop Culture Item References: Video Games, Movies, and TV
Click the cut to read all the achievements that are pop culture references!
Live
Darkmoon Faire in Town 1/5 - 1/12
The Darkmoon Faire is back in Azeroth today and remains open until the 12th. Some of the fun stuff you can do at the Faire includes:
Picking up
WHEE!
at the Carousel or
Darkmoon Top Hat
to get a 10% bonus to experience and reputation gains.
Killing rare spawns
Moonfang
and
Darkmoon Rabbit
for pets like
Moon Moon
.
Fighting special pet tamer
Jeremy Feasel
for
Darkmoon Eye
.
Earning
Darkmoon Prize Ticket
for a variety of rewards--mounts like
Darkmoon Dancing Bear
, pets like
Darkmoon Monkey
, transmog gear like
Darkmoon Hammer
, and heirlooms.
Completing a variety of quests for profession skillups and tickets like
Talkin' Tonks
.
Fishing up the rare
Darkmoon Fishing Cap
and
Sea Pony
.
Also check out our
Darkmoon Island
zone page to listen to all the unique Faire music, like
MUS_43_DarkmoonFaire_IslandWalk
.
We've put together our
own guide to the Darkmoon Faire
and several users have written great guides as well, which you can find linked on important Darkmoon Faire pages in our database: [url=
http://www.w
Live
Pop Culture Item References: Comics, Books, Music, and Poetry
Earlier this week, we took a look at
pop-culture references in WoW items
--movies, TV, and video games. Today we've got the remaining items covered--books, music, comics, and poetry! You'd be surprised how many poetry references there are, as nearly all Justice and Valor Point gear from Cataclysm's launch is a reference to poetry by Keats or Eliot.
There are many more references outside the scope of these item guides, such as NPCs, achievements, and quests. There's even a subset of items named after WoW players, like
Perculia's Peculiar Signet
and
Hamlet's Wind-Whipped Leggings
. If you like these types of guides, we'll consider doing more.
Click the cut to read more pop culture references!
Live
Pop Culture Item References: Video Games, Movies, and TV
Blizzard loves putting little easter eggs and pop culture references in World of Warcraft, from Austin Powers (
Mr. Bigglesworth
) to
Zelda
(
It's Dangerous to Go Alone
) . This series of guides takes a look at all the cleverly-named items that are references to pop culture!
Since there's so many item references, we've broken it up into two guides. This guide covers the "pop" of pop culture--video games, movies, television, and other celebrities.
There are many more references and tributes outside the scope of this guide--items named after players, NPCs, achievements, and quests. If you like these types of posts, we'll consider doing more on references.
Edit: our second
items guide is now up
covering books, poetry, comics, and music references!
Check it out here
.
Click the cut to read about pop culture references!
Live
Guild Guide: Reputation, Rewards, Perks, and Achievements
Guild reputation was added in Cataclysm as an incentive to promote guild loyalty and activity. There are unique perks, mounts, and pets that you can only get being part of a Guild too!
This guide covers how to gain reputation with a guild, how to level a guild up, achievements, perks for each guild level, and what reputation levels and achievements you need to unlock all the special guild rewards.
Guild Reputation
Guild reputation lets players purchase special rewards from
Guild Vendors
and work towards
Guild Achievements
.
Guild reputation can be gained by turning in quests, killing PvE bosses in a guild group, or PvPing in a guild group.
In Mists of Pandaria, the weekly cap for guild reputation you can earn per week has been removed. Between this and the limit on daily quests being lifted, you can grind reputation out pretty quickly.
You can speed up reputation gains through reputation buffs like
Diplomacy
(full li
Live
Feast of Winter Veil 2013 Guide (December 16 - January 2)
Feast of Winter Veil
is hitting servers early Monday so get prepared to drink some
Winter Veil Egg Nog
, sit by your
Cozy Fire
, and open your
Stolen Present
--wait, what? Is that a new type of present we've found in the database? There's a new holiday gift waiting for you under this year's tree, and your
Father Winter's Helper
has stopped sulking and is ready for some pet battles, so this is one holiday you don't want to miss!
Changes in 2013
The 2013 special gift in your faction's capital city is
Crashin' Thrashin' Flyer Controller
. Two achievements have been added:
Crashin' Thrashin' Flyer
and
The Danger Zone
.
The
Stolen Present
has a number of improvements as well. It can drop all the old Winter Veil toys and some of them now grant holiday Feats of Strength.
Players can collect a new battle pet:
Rotten Little Helper
from the
Stolen Present
. This is a Humanoid battle pet with the following abilities:
Club
,
Booby-Trapped Presents
,
Greench's Gift
,
Ice Lance
,
Ice Tomb
,
Call Blizzard
.
Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake
is also a bit easier to obtain. It is sold by Copperpinch and Jingleproket vendors for and is in the daily
Stolen Present
.
As of
1
3
4
5
6
7
16
