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Best in Show: A Guide to All Shirts
Today's guide looks at all the vanity shirts in game--perfect if you want something to match a transmog set! They're not restricted by class or armor limitations, so nothing is out of reach for avid collectors. They're great for both bank alts, players looking to cover up skin, or show off a rare find.
I've organized all the shirts by color, as well as providing descriptions, acquisition methods, and crafting materials. To see an image for every shirt, click on the
Image
toggle which will display a user-submitted screenshot.
Here's a a set of quick links to currently-obtainable items by source:
Vendors
Brawler's Guild
Tailoring
Drops
Trading Card Game
Guild Achievements
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Blizzard Store and TCG Vanity Loot Guide
With the recent addition of
cosmetic items to the Blizzard Store
, it's the perfect time to update our guide to TCG and Blizzard Store Items!
Our new Blizzard Store section covers all the mounts, pets, and cosmetic items like
Jewel of the Firelord
, as well as how to purchase them from the store.
The TCG section covers the mounts, pets, and vanity items from the popular game, tips on how to acquire them, pictures, and cheap equivalent in-game items. We've also got battle pet information on these collectible pets!
We've also highlighted items from past BlizzCons and Collector Editions like
Big Blizzard Bear
--these items are not available on the Blizzard Store but can be purchased from places like
WoW TCG Loot
.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Transportation Guide: Maps, Portals, Flight Paths, and More!
Getting around Azeroth quickly is important--especially with holidays requiring lots of travel like the Lunar Festival and Love is in the Air. Basic flight paths can take you anywhere, but they're slow and easily up to 15 minutes across a continent. And which boat goes where from Stormwind anyway?
This is a newspost from 2013 which is now outdated. Please refer to the
Transportation Guide
in our guide section for updates.
There are numerous items, teleports, and portals that can shave minutes off your travel experience--even breadcrumb quests that you can hold onto which will provide useful ports!
With this guide, you'll learn about all the travel options on each continent, complete with maps. We've also added details on flight paths, mage portals, and Hearthstones.
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Transmogrification Guide: BoE Armor Sets (Updated for 5.4)
Continuing with our series of transmog guides, today's guide will cover world-drop greens. You can either hope to get lucky when killing mobs out in Azeroth, or check the Auction House to see if your BoEs are for sale!
Many of these sets from vanilla and TBC do not have matching helms or shoulders, but are especially coveted for their artwork and rarity.
Check out the complete updated series of Transmogrification Guides:
PvE and PvP Tier Armor
Lookalike Tier Without Class Restrictions
Dungeon Armor
Quest Armor
BoE Armor
Cape Styles
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2013 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
.
This year there are new Pandaria bonfire achievements:
Flame Keeper of Pandaria
/
Flame Warden of Pandaria
and
Extinguishing Pandaria
/
Extinguishing Pandaria
.
In addition, Ahune now drops ilvl 480 capes.
Midsummer Fire
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The Golden Lotus: 5.3 Reputation Guide and 5.4 Changes
The
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
is getting some
major changes in 5.4
, and understandably players have been curious as to what they can and can't do in the new patch.
We've broken down what's staying and going away, as well as provided our Patch 5.3 guide to the Golden Lotus if you want to experience the original rep grind before it's changed. A lot of players found
Golden Lotus
tedious to grind at launch, but it might be interesting to experience for lore reasons. In Patch 5.4, the Vale is corrupted into the Vale of Eternal Sorrows, and familiar figures from the Vale are
Siege of Orgrimmar bosses
.
Usual disclaimer: the 5.4 PTR has been up for less than a week, and things can change quite frequently! We'll keep this guide updated with further PTR developments.
What is going away
:
Eternally in the Vale
is being removed, as well as the related quests and rewards. Players progress farther through this ques
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Vanity Items Guide: Disguises and Character Effects
This weekend's guide covers vanity disguises and character effects! Based on one of our most popular guides from Cataclysm, this guide has been updated to cover all disguises in Mists of Pandaria.
We've also added helpful tables sorting out all vanity effects, breaking them down into categories like all Alliance-themed disguises, or grouping together all effects that share a particular color.
Playable Races
: Learn how to make your character look like any race in WoW.
Non-Playable Races
: Beasts, Critters, Dragons, and Humanoids from Murlocs to Mogu.
Character Effects
: This section covers items that keep a player's basic appearance and armor, but change colors or summon fun things--great for screenshots.
Objects
: These items turn the player into an object.
Glyphs
: Mists of Pandaria introduced many minor glyphs with cosmetic effects.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Transmogrification Guide: Dungeon Sets
Today's transmog guide covers all the armor sets that are acquired in dungeons across all expansions. Many of these sets do not have class-restrictions and resemble quest or class-specific tier gear, making them very popular among users, like
Judgement Armor (Recolor)
.
We've organized all the dungeon sets by expansion and type, as well as provided links when applicable to all of their sources. You can also mouseover the set's name to see an image of the set!
In addition, you can search for dungeon sets more easily now with our new
Dungeon Style
filters.
Check out the complete updated series of Transmogrification Guides:
PvE and PvP Tier Armor
Lookalike Tier Without Class Restrictions
Dungeon Armor
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Patch 5.3: Updated Brawler's Guild Guide
The Brawler's Guild, added in 5.1, is designed to provide players with solo challenges that test their DPS and situational awareness. Players fight various well-loved bosses with quirky abilities to gain ranks in the Guild, earning titles and vanity items as prizes. While gaining an invitation to participate in the Guild is exclusive, any player can gather around the Brawl areas and watch their friends learn the new bosses.
This guide covers how to obtain an invitation, the guild locations, vendors, all the bosses and their abilities, how to complete the achievements, vanity items, and fun touches like tribute NPCs to
Fight Club
.
We have updated it for Patch 5.3, which includes twenty new bosses, Challenge Cards, new vanity items, and spectator mode!
Also be sure to check out
GuildOx's new Brawler's Guild Ranking Tool
to see how far along your friends are!
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Patch 5.3: Mists of Pandaria Currency Guide
Patch 5.3 introduced several new ways of acquiring currency, and ways to spend them. We've updated all of our currency pages and gone over the updated rewards and methods of acquisition below. Of particular interest:
There are several new ways to acquire
Valor Points
, including 0
Valor Points
from
Battlefield: Barrens
and 0
Valor Points
from Heroic Scenarios.
A catch-up mechanism has been added to the
cap, and unlike past seasons, players can purchase Elite items if they have earned 0
this season, as opposed to hitting 2200 rating.
Players who have acquired 0
can also purchase regular Tyrannical gear for Honor Points instead of Conquest Points.
Players can spend their
Elder Charm of Good Fortune
on
Empty Supply Crate
in 5.3, which helps them out in the Troves of the Thunder King.
Click the cut to read our currency overview!
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Patch 5.3: Battlefield Barrens Guide and Noxy Comic
Patch 5.3 introduces a new world event,
Battlefield Barrens
, that explores the conflict between the Alliance, Horde, and Garrosh. There's a ton of stuff to do and collect as part of this event--but it's only around for a limited amount of time. It will be removed when Patch 5.4 hits.
Site artist
Noxychu
also made a comic about this event, capturing the spirit of helping the Darkspear in unexpected ways!
To unlock this world event, which takes place in Durotar and Northern Barrens, you'll need to do several new scenarios and a quest chain, Escalation. showing the underlying politics behind your faction.
Once the world event is unlocked, you can collect Kor'kron supplies through various ways to purchase vanity items and armor like
Xan'tish's Flute
.
Garrosh's influence can be seen in the Valley of Spirits being shut down, a Horde digsite in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and Kor'kron camps in the Northern Barrens.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Wowhead's Patch 5.3 Guide
Patch 5.3 goes live on
Tuesday, May 21st
, as things really heat up between the Alliance, Horde, and Garrosh!
While there's no new raid in 5.3, there's plenty to keep you busy--
new Brawler's Guild bosses, heroic scenarios, pet battle rewards, and numerous PvP changes
.
There's also a new world event,
Battlefield Barrens
, in which you assist Vol'jin with the Darkspear Rebellion and collect some unique vanity items along the way. Don't delay though--this world event is only around for a limited time!
We've got summaries of all the new content below, as well as links to blue posts and Wowhead's comprehensive PTR coverage.
Patch Notes and Overview
Experience needed to increase from 85-90 has been
reduced by 33%
.
Players get
more control over loot rewards
with a "Loot Specialization" menu option for bonus rolls, quests, Raid Finder, and Heroic Scenario loot.
Read more here
.
Battlefield Barrens is a
new world event
in which Alliance and Horde players unite to undermine Garrosh and kill his Kor'kron guards for u
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Patch 5.3: PvP Changes, Additions, Cosmetic Rewards
PvP is getting some radical changes and welcome additions in Patch 5.3! Most importantly, resilience is gone from gear, Season 13 gear won't be eligible for item upgrades, and all gear is being scaled down to ilvl 496 in arenas and battlegrounds. These changes are designed to make PvP a more welcoming experience for new players, instead of being something dreaded for
School of Hard Knocks
or
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
where undergeared players repeatedly meet a quick death.
There's also a greater emphasis on cosmetic PvP rewards in 5.3--enchants and special gear for high-ranked players. And since high-level Elite gear is getting a nerf, Elite gear now fills a transmog niche instead of serving as overpowered PvP gear.
Finally, there's a new arena and battleground, for which you'll get the fabulous
Gorgeous
title if you complete the meta.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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Patch 5.3: New Battle Pets and Pet Battle Changes
Patch 5.3 not only has a variety of new battle pets to capture, but some rewards for PvP Pet battles, quest improvements, and ability changes to make battles less predictable!
New battle pets are being added to Burning Crusade raid bosses, as well as
Throne of Thunder
bosses.
Players can get a pet and title from PvP Pet Battles,
Stunted Direhorn
and
Trainer
.
Players can now see Battle Pet Tamers on their minimap.
The Beasts of Fable quests have been broken down into three smaller quests.
Bad luck protection has been implemented for Pet Supply rewards, and some quests have more rewards now.
Spectator mode has been added to all wild and player pet battles.
Click the cut to read the guide!
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5.3 PTR Profession Changes, All Profession Guides Updated
5.3 Profession Changes
The 5.3 PTR doesn't have nearly as many changes for professions as Patch 5.2 did, but there's some changes to gathering professions as well as the fishing carps!
Herbalists and miners with low skill can still interact with Pandaria nodes. Instead of getting an herb or ore though, they'll simply get fragments. The number of fragments will increase based on their skill level.
Mining:
Ghost Iron Nugget
: Combine 10 for
Ghost Iron Ore
.
Kyparite Fragment
: Combine 10 for
Kyparite
.
Herbalism:
Torn Green Tea Leaf
: Combine 10 for
Green Tea Leaf
.
Rain Poppy Petal
: Combine 10 for
Rain Poppy
.
Silkweed Stem
: Combine 10 for
Silkweed
.
Snow Lily Petal
: Combine 10 for
Snow Lily
.
Fool's Cap Spores
: Combine 10 for
Fool's Cap
.
Desecrated Herb Pod
: Combine 10 for
Desecrated Herb
.
In addition,
Tiny Red Carp
,
Tiny Green Carp
,
Tiny Blue Carp
,
Tiny White Carp
appear to be cageable on the latest 5.3 PTR build. Currently, these fish have a very low chance to be caught on live, and are both BoP and unable to be caged--meaning if you want it, you had to catch it yourself.
Profession
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Children's Week 2013 Guide (April 29 - May 6)
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 29th
at
11:00 AM
and ends on
May 6th
at
11:00 AM
(PDT).
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 2013, but since all vanity pets are now battle pets, you might be more interested in collecting pets this year! Since battle pets are also account-wide, you can collect different sets of pets on your alts to round out your collection faster.
If you already have all the pets, be sure to pick up [item=7115
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Transmog Guide: Patch 5.2 New Sets
Continuing with our series of transmog guides, today's guide looks at all the new sets and models added in Patch 5.2. There were many new sets from Tier 15 (PvE) and Season 13 (PvP), but there were also troll-themed armor piece dropping on
Isle of Thunder
. Mouseover the name of each transmog set to see a screenshot of the set.
We've updated our two big guides:
Transmogrification: Tier Armor
: covers all class-specific tier sets--both PvE and PvP.
Transmogrification: Look-Alike Tier
: covers all items that resemble class-only tier, which anyone can equip.
In addition, the following guides specifically cover 5.2 transmog:
Patch 5.2: Troll Transmog
: New looks based on items from the original Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman.
3D Gallery of Main-Hand weap
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News Round Up: Legendary Guide Updated, Battle Chest Sale
Today's news roundup features a lengthy discussion on WoW's RNG loot system. While
5.3 will reduce the amount of bad bonus roll streaks
, some players are frustrated by feeling unrewarded for killing a boss.
There's also a Warcraft Battle Chest Sale until the 23rd, and the 2013 Student Art Contest Winners have been selected--as prizes, they'll get a mentorship with a member of the World of Warcraft art team!
Legendary Guide Updated
With
Pinnacle of Storms open on LFR
, more players may find themselves completing their legendary metagems. We've updated our
Legendary Quest Guide
with some user comments and videos on the challenging single-player scenario, The Thunder Forge, you'll need to complete after getting 20
Secrets of the Empire
.
There's also been a confirmed issue with ilvl 502 gems not working on upgraded ilvl 504 helms:
Yes, it is intend
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Darkmoon Faire In Town -- Patch 5.2 Changes
The Darkmoon Faire is back in town this week! We've updated our Darkmoon Faire guide for Patch 5.2, and also checked it out on the 5.3 PTR, where we did not find any new major changes.
Check out the complete Darkmoon Faire guide here!
Patch 5.2 launched right in the middle of last month's fair, so if you missed it with all
the new 5.2 things
to do, here's a recap:
There are two new hats,
Darkmoon Top Hat
and
Darkmoon Fishing Cap
, as well as the chance to get a Darkmoon pet inside
Darkmoon Game Prize
from dailies.
Darkmoon Faire Hats
The stylish
Darkmoon Top Hat
be obtained through several means:
Small chance to be found in
Darkmoon Game Prize
, the new reward for completing Darkmoon Faire dailies.
0
Darkmoon Prize Ticket
from
Gelvas Grimegate
.
When you use the item, you initially summon a bunch of fireworks. For the duration of the buff, your character will appear to wear a fun purple hat. This hat periodically sparkles and has small fireworks.
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Battle Pet Tamer Guide: Locations, Quests, and Rewards
Battle Pet Tamers are a great way to level up pets and get battle pet rewards, but they're sometimes hard to track down since they're scattered all over the place. 5.1 also added the
Safari Hat
for completing
Taming the World
, which boosts battle pet experience gained by 10%.
This guide covers the locations of all the battle pet tamers, as well as the tamer quests and rewards. We've also included maps and screenshots to the pet tamers, and if you'd like to see the exact stats and breeds of their pets, you can easily find them on the
trainer pet pages
, now flagged as Untameable!
If you want to take an in-depth look how to defeat the pet tamers, check out
Battle Pet Dailies - A guide to all the dailies involving Pet Battles
by user
ishirra
, who covers the trainer's pet types, their abilities, and suitable families to counter the trainer teams with. If you want to see a quick list of what dailies are available for each faction, check
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