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Here’s a list of some new vanity pets and mount that are in the 3.1 patch data files.  Now, we all know this is not a definite guarantee that all these cool things will make it into the game, but we thought we’d let you take a gander at them anyhow.  I think the one I like the most is the rideable mechanical Gnome head!!

New Pets

• Spring Rabbit
• Plump Turkey
• Teldrassil Sproutling
• Tirisfal Batling
• Dun Morogh Cub
• Durotar Scorpion
• Alarming Clockbot
• Elwynn Lamb
• Mulgore Hatchling
• Ammen Vale Lashling
• Strand Crawler
• Enchanted Broom
• Argent Squire
• Argent Gruntling
• Curious Gorloc Hatchling
• Curious Wolvar Pup
• Gorloc Orphan  (Children’s Week)
• Wolvar Orphan (Children’s Week)
• Murkimus the Gladiator
• Sen’jin Fetish

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General

• All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
• Ulduar is now available for limited testing. Please visit the Public Test Realms for more details. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11572
• Players at maximum level will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent spec feature.
• A new Gear Manager feature has been added. Players will now be able to save gear sets for easy gear switching.

PvP

• Battlegrounds
  • Players will now be able to queue for battlegrounds from any location.
  • Seaforium Barrels can be looted while mounted, can now be seen from anywhere in the zone, and can now be found at the Central Graveyard.
  • Teleporters can now be used while mounted and can now be seen from anywhere in the zone

Classes: General

• Hysteria, Tricks of the Trade, Enrage, Wrecking Crew, Death Wish, Arcane Power, Owlkin Frenzy, Beast Within, Avenging Wrath and Hysteria damage bonuses no longer stack together.

Death Knight

• Blood Boil’s damage increased to make up for Pestilence no longer doing damage.
• Blood Boil now does some damage to undiseased targets and extra damage to diseased targets. Its radius has been decreased.
• Blood Plague: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.
• Death Pact: This heal cannot be a critical.
• Frost Fever: Now lasts 15 seconds untalented.
• Pestilence does no damage and has only one rank.
• Plague Strike and Blood Plague no longer remove hots. Plague Strike’s damage increased quite a bit to compensate.
• Raise Ally has a >15 min cooldown to keep it out of Arena.
• Raise Dead: Duration lowered to 60 sec. and cooldown lowered to 3 min. The cooldown on this ability now begins when the pet dies rather than when it is summoned.Rune of Cinderglacier now procs per minute instead of a 5% chance.
• Rune of Razorfrost now affects Frost damage done by the DK only, but stacks up to 10%.
• Strangulate no longer does damage and has been reduced to 1 rank.

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NEW DUNGEONS

• Cradle of Decay is a level 43 group instance which can be accessed through the Field of the Dead.
• The Slaughterhouse Cellar is a level 80 single player instance located in Thunder River just south of the palisades area.
• Xibaluku is a level 80 group instance located in Thunder River on the prison island. There is a quest pre-requisite to enter this area. You can begin this quest by speaking to General Lupercus in Thunder River. (This quest will send you into the The Slaughterhouse Cellar to obtain items).
• Black Ring Citadel, Wing 3 is a level 80 raid instance that can now be accessed from Kheshatta between the entrances to Wing 1 and Wing 2.

GENERAL

• All areas should now support multiple players zoning at once.
• Alt-tab problems should be fixed now.
• Several sources of server lag spikes have been removed.
• You wshould no longer briefly see yourself from inside your head when going from first person view into dialog view.
• The emote “relaxed_lean” should no longer cause the camera to shake slightly.
• Fixed the female sitting animation.
• Added some new emotes: Adjust, cough, fart, picknose, and sneeze.
• Added cinematic camera movement when you are killed.
• More than 200 male and female social animations have been polished.
• When creating a new character, the random server chosen will match the client language if possible.
• Corrected a few issues to improve performance and fixed several causes of crashes.
• Magic Damage should be applied now correctly to destructable objects.
• Corrected some invisible body parts.
• Many exploit fixes were included in this build.
• When mounting, all emotes are now aborted and blocked.

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Wow! Look at him…isn’t he beautiful? His name is Loque’nahak as I’m sure many of you know. He is a Spirit Beast who can be found in Sholazar Basin, he is a rare spawn and can be tamed by hunters (like me…Orc Hunter) as a pet. Now. I admit I am not one to camp out and wait for hours for mobs to spawn so it was really just coincidence that I saw this magnificent creature while doing my Oracle Dailies in Sholazar a couple of days ago. I got so excited I thought I might pee my pants (ok, more info than anyone probably needed…sorry). So I swooped down from the sky so I could tame this exceptional beast and right as I was about to tag him…a freaking Night Elf Druid Moonfires him and rushes in and kills him!!! Now I don’t know if this was for the achievement or if it was just to spite me, but I’ll tell you what I went from pee my pants excitement to a rage which cannot be defined (ok maybe that’s a little dramatic, but I was really upset, ok). This was…spiteful…rude…why…why I ask you??

Now, he’s Alliance so I couldn’t even yell at him or tell him what a butthole I think he is, no…all I could do was stand there and watch as he stood over the dead body of what should have been my beloved pet! He looted him, skinned him and then flew off on his stupid bird!

Sometimes I swear this game can be frustrating and yet a one day break is almost more than I can bear. Now I do find myself searching a little harder for this tamable beast so I can prove that even though that wretched Alliance character may have gotten the better of me that day, he did not break my spirit and the next time I see him I want it to be in a dark corner of a Battleground so I can sick my prized Sprit Beast pet on him and we, together will bring about his demise! I just have to get the pet first…

Druids

• Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.

Hunters

• Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet damage at max rank.
• Serpent’s Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet attack speed at max rank.
• Pets
  • Lava Breath now reduces the target’s casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
  • Poison Spit now reduces the target’s casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.

Mages

• Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 20%, cooldown reduced to 2 minutes.
• Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
• Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
• Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)
• Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.

Paladins

• The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer be dispelled.
• Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (up from 20%), but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
• Sanctified Seals: This talent no longer affects dispel resistance, but continues to affect crit chance.

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Lastly we have the Elders of Northrend:  We will start in Dalaran and since we have the ability to fly on our mount here, I will indicate when I took a flight path by placing an FP next to the fly command.

1. Fly (FP) to K3 in Storm Peaks.  Elder Graymane is at 41,84 just outside town on the hill above the wreckage.
2. Fly to Frosthold.  Elder Fargal is at 28,73 on the ledge over the town.  This is an Alliance town so don’t fly into it as you will agro the guards.
3. Fly to Bouldercrag’s Refuge in the NW corner of the map above Snowdrift Plains.  Elder Stonebeard is at 31,37 here.
4. Fly (FP) to Camp Tunka’lo in Storm Peaks.  Elder Muraco is at 64,51 along the mountain path.
5. Fly (FP) to Zim’Torga in Zul Drak.  Elder Tauros is at 58,56 here.
6. Fly to Westfall Brigade Encampment.  Elder Beldak is at 60,27 just outside town so this is no problem for Horde players.
7. Fly to Ruins of Tethis.  Elder Lunaro is at 80,37 on the islans SE of Drakil’jin Ruins.
8. Fly to Camp Oneqwah.  Elder Whurain is at 64,47 on a cliff right outside town.
9. Fly (FP) to Moa’Ki Harbor in Dragoblight.  Elder Toim is at 48,78 here.
10. Fly (FP)to Agmar’s Hammer in Dragonblight.  Elder Skywarden is at 35,48 on a ledge overlooking town.
11. Fly to Star’s Rest.  Elder Morthi is at 29,55 and is guarded by a “Winter’s Sister” which is a level 72.  If you attack her you will be flagged for PvP.  So just get in and get out.
12. Fly to Valiance Keep in Borean Tundra.  Elder Sardis is at 59,65.  This is an Alliance town but he is on a low rock outside of town so he is easy to get to for Hordies without agro problems.
13. Fly to the D.E.H.T.A Encampment which is NW of Kaskala.  Elder Arp is at 57,43 here.
14. Fly to Tansitus Shield which is a Kirin Tor settlement in SE Coldarra.  It was neutral for me and requires you to fly into the purple “bubble”.  Elder Northal is at 33,34 here.
15. Fly to Warsong Hold.  Elder Pamuya is at 42,49 outside of town on a ledge overlooking Mightstone Quarry.
16. Fly (FP) to River’s Heart in Sholazar Basin.  Elder Sandrene is at 49,63 by the Flight Master.
17. Fly to Rainspeaker Rapids.  Elder Wanikaya is at 63,49 here.  Everthing here was neutral to me but may not be if you haven’t done the quests here.
18. Fly to Wintergrasp and get in a safe place before being dismounted.  Elder Bluewolf is at 49,14 inside the keep.  This is a PvP zone and the only way to get to this elder is if your faction controls the keep.  Then you simply click the defender’s portal and it will take you to the room where he is.  He is in the room where all the portals to the different BG’s are.

Congrats!  You have earned another achievement!

Next is the Elders of Easter Kingdoms:  All players should start in Undercity and have their Hearth set to Shattrath or Dalaran.

1. Go above ground to the Ruins of Lordaeron.  Elder Darkcore is at 66,38 here.  This will complete the Elders of the Horde  achievement if you followed the Kalimdor guide already, so congrats!
2. Run out of UC to Brill.  Elder Graveborn is at 61,53 on the Eastern side of Brill near the Inn.
3. Run East into Western Plaguelands (WPL).  Elder Moonstrike is at 50,36 on top of the tower outside of the Scholomance instance.
4. Follow the path around to the docks and swim across the lake heading North.  Once on land go to the road and follow it East to the Weeping Cave.  Elder Meadowrun is at 66,47 here.
5. Continue East on the road into Eastern Plaguelands (EPL).  Elder Windrun is at 35,68 inside Crown Guard Tower.
6. Continue East to Light’s Hope Chapel.  Elder Snowcrown is at 75,54 directly South of the Inn.
7. Fly to Raventusk Village in the Hinterlands.  Go up the path from the beach (which begins at 76,61) and follow the road West to the Creeping Ruins.  Elder Highpeak is at 50,48 on top of the small hill here.  Run back to Raventusk Village.
8. Fly to Kargath in the Badlands.  Run East and then North past Uldaman into Loch Modan.  Elder Silvervein is at 33,46 on the West side of Thelsamar just outside of town by the graveyard.
9. Continue up the road to Northgate Pass (in the NW corner of the map).  Go through the tunnels into Dun Morogh.  Elder Golwell is in Kharanos at 46,51 just outside town on the North end.  Be careful as Ironforge Guards patrol here – they are level 75 so try not to agro.  Also be sure pets are set to passive so if you are dismounted by a guard they will not attack or you will be flagged for PvP (not good in this area).  Run back to Kargath.
10. Fly to Thorium Point in Searing Gorge.  Run to Blackchar Cave (path at 29,73) in the Southwest corner of the map and you will find Elder Ironband at 21,79.  Run back to Thorium Point.
11. Fly to Flame Crest in Burning Steppes.  When you land you will see Elder Dawnstrider just over the hill from the flight master at 64,24.
12. Run Southwest to Dreadmaul Rock.  Elder Rumblerock is just East of the highest cave at 82,46.  The path to get to him starts at 75,38.  Run back to Flame Crest.
13. Fly to Stonard in Swamp of Sorrows (SoS).  Follow the road South into the Blasted Lands.  Elder Bellowrage is at 57,54 in front of the Dark Portal.  Run back North into SoS.
14. Take the road West through SoS, through deadwind pass and into Duskwood.  Follow the road West and then North to the river and swim across the river into Elwynn Forest.  Take the road West to Goldshire.  Elder Stormbrow is at 39,63 in the NW corner of town by the pond.
15. Continue West on the road to Westfall then follow the road South to Sentinel Hill.  Elder Skychaser is at 56,47 at the top of Sentinel Hill Tower.  You will agro guards here, there’s no way around it.
16. Follow the road South and travel West along the shore as far as possible then jump in the river and swim South into Strangelthorn Vale.  Elder Starglade is at 53,18 just outside the Zul ‘ Gurub instance (up the 1st set of steps on the right).
17. Run to Grom’Gol Base Camp and fly to Booty Bay.  Elder Winerhoof is at 26,76 right by the Flight Master on top of the bank.
18. Fly to Grom’Gol Base Camp and take the blimp to Undercity.  Fly to Sepulcher in Silverpine Forest.  Elder Obsidian is at 44,41 near the Flight Master here.

Congrats on your achievement!  From here you can Hearth to Dalaran to begin Elders of Northrend.

This is a simple guide on what I feel is the quickest and most efficient way as a Horde player to get your achievements for the Elders on the three different continents and Elders of the Horde during the Lunar Festival.  This is part 1 of 3.  Also while doing these achievements you should be able to complete the Coins of Ancestry Achievements as well as each elder will give you one coin.

We will start with the Elders of Kalimdor:  All players should start in Orgrimmar and have their Hearthstone set to either Shattrath or Dalaran.

1. Fly to Valormok in Azshara.  Run to the Southeast corner of the map to Ravencrest monument, Elder Skygleam is at 72,85 between the feet of the fallen statue. Run back to Valormok.
2. Fly to Everlook in Winterspring.  Elder Stonspire is at 61,37 in Everlook just outside of the bank.
3. Run Southwest to Lake Kel’Theril.  Elder Brightspear is at 55,43 in the Southeast corner of the lake.  Run back to Everlook.
4. Fly to Bloodvenom Post in Felwood.  Follow the path North out of town and then East to Elder Nightwind at 37,53 standing next to some broken pillars.  Run back to Bloodvenom Post.
5. Fly to Splintertree Post in Ashenvale.  Run West to Asrtanaar.  Elder Riversong is at 35,49 on the outskirts of town in a gazebo.  Be careful as this is an Alliance town, lower level players can swim up through the water without aggroing guards.
6. Take the road NW into Darkshore and continue North on the road to Auberdine.  Elder Starweave is at 35,48 East of the Hippogryph Master along the beach.  This is also an Alliance area so be careful.
7. Go to the docks in Auberdine and take the boat from the dock on the right over to Rut’ Theran Village and then go through the portal to Darnassus.  Run quickly through Darnassus and continue on the road going East to Dolanaar, Elder Bladeleaf is at 57,60 in the Southern part of town.  He is easy to get to.
8. Hearth to Shattrath or Dalaran and take the portal to Thunder Bluff, once in TB Elder Wheathoof is at 72,23 on Elder Rise (of course).
9. Fly to Camp Mojache in Feralas.  Elder Grimtotem is at 76,37 in Lariss Pavilion just NE of town.
10. Run West to Dire Maul.  Elder Mistwalker is at 43,67 in the arena in the center of the Broken Commons – no need to enter the instance itself.  Run back to Camp Mojache.
11. Fly to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles.  Elder Skyseer is in the middle of town at 45,50.
12. Take the lift down out of town and follow the road East into Shimmering Flats.  Elder Morningdew is at 79,77 next to the race track here.
13. Continue South into Tenaris.  Elder Dreamseer is in Gadgetzan at 51,27.
14. Run Southwest toward Uldum.  Elder Ragetotem is in the Valley of the Watchers at 36,80 outside of Uldum.  He is in an area with a bunch of 48 giant elites, so low level chars. Will need to be careful.
15. Run NW into Un’ Goro Crater.  Elder Thuderhorn is at 50,76 in the Slithering Scar on top of one of the small mounds to the North.
16. Run to Marshal’s Refuge in Un’ Goro and then fly to Cenarion hold in Slithus.  Elder Bladesing is at 50,36 right in town.
17. Run NW to the Crystal Vale.  Elder Primestone is at 23,11 here.  Run back to Cenarion Hold.
18. Fly to Thunder Bluff – if your hearth is up you can hearth and port.
19. Run South out of Thunder Bluff to Bloodhoof Village.  Elder Bloodhoof is at 48,53 on the North end of the village by the bridge.
20. Follow the road East into the Barrens to Camp Taurajo.  Elder High Mountain is at 45,57 across from the inn.
21. Fly to the Crossroads.  Elder Moonwarden is at 51,30 just on top of the hill behind the Flight Master.
22. Fly to Ratchet.  Elder Windtotem is at 63,37 in the Northern part of town by the engineering trainer.
23. Run to Razor Hill in Durotar.  Elder Runetotem is at 54,44 just South of the Barracks.
24. Run to Orgrimmar.  Elder Darkhorn is in the Valley of Wisdom at 40,34.

Congrats on your achievement!  From here you can take the blimp to Undercity or if your Hearth is up, you can hearth and port and begin work on Elders of Eastern Kingdoms.

A Call to Arms has been issued to all players of WAR with the announcement of the first live expansion for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Call to Arms will introduce an incredible array of new content to the game, including two highly anticipated new careers (the Orc Choppa and the Dwarf Slayer) and a new dungeon zone called Land of the Dead, set in the desert realm of the Tomb Kings.

The Call to Arms live expansion, set to roll out for FREE over the next few months, will also include three in-game live events, a new RvR Scenario, added functionality to the Realm Wars section of the WAR website, the opening of the official WAR Forums, and a new free trial version of the game.

Call to Arms Live Expansion Schedule

• Call to Arms: Bitter Rivals Live Event: Successful completion of the live event allows head start access to the new Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer careers. The event will also introduce a new Chaos-themed RvR Scenario, Twisting Tower which will only be available during this event which begins on Feb. 24th.
• Call to Arms: Beyond the Sands Live Event (April): The promise of great riches and powerful weapons comes from the south.
• Call to Arms: Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event (May): The race between Order and Destruction begins to unlock the Land of the Dead for their Realm.
• Land of the Dead Opens (June): The deserts of Nehekhara open to players with the addition of a new RvR-gated dungeon zone. To gain access to the Land of the Dead, opposing Realms must battle for control of the zone to access dozens of new Public Quests, instanced lairs, and a massive new Tomb Kings dungeon to plunder in search of the Casket of Souls.

We are all totally excited about this new content and we can’t wait to start playing around with the new classes!