Flux

For those of you who like pets, there are over 80 non-combat pets in World of Warcraft. There are also a few combat effects that act like pets. Some are easy to get while others are incredibly difficult to find. Taking some time out to hunt down one of these can be a welcome distraction from the grind of leveling or gearing up. And you get a little friend.

Pets come from from a variety of sources including vendors, drops, quests, crafting, and special promotional awards.

By far the most difficult pets to get, often impossible, are the promotional award pets. These are available by going to conventions, buying special editions of the game, or getting lucky and finding a reward card in the trading card game. You are typically given a game code which you can turn in to get your pet.

Let’s take a look at some of the fun, interesting, but still obtainable pets.
(more…)

Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.

Everlasting Underspore Frond

Profile: Continuously free mana and health regeneration food
Where: Underbog, behind Hungarfen
How: Quest Oh, It’s On!
Loot: Everlasting Underspore Frond gives Underspore Pod

Having trouble finding Mana Biscuits or just tired of the taste? Get your own Everlasting Gobstopper^w Underspore Frond and try Underspore Pod’s. Sometimes tasty and always free.

(more…)

Unlike in other ages where King’s easily bestowed titles upon the rich, WoW doesn’t have titles for gold or even many for accomplishment. Some MMO’s give titles for the easiest of accomplishments like killing several hundred rabbits for the title Rabbit Slayer or Wanderer for discovering new areas. But in WoW titles are difficult to obtain and most require PvP. Let’s take a look at them.

Non-PvP

There are four titles in the game that do not require PvP. They are Scarab Lord, Champion of the Naaru, Of the Shattered Sun, and Hand of A’dal.

The first title “Scarab Lord” was introduced before the Burning Crusades Expansion when patch 1.9 came out. There was a server wide event introduced to open the 40 person raid Temple of Ahn’Qiraj. The first person to complete the difficult series of quests used a gong to open the temple. And the first couple people within ten minutes to do the same thing got the title “Scarab Lord”. This only happened once per server. And only about one to three people per server got it. At last count there were only 150+ people in the world with it. Rare indeed. (more…)