The Rogue Poison Quest

Rogues and poisons. Well, they do have talents labeled Assassination, so it seems perfectly natural, right? All a Rogue has to do is a little quest and she can apply poisons to her weapons. These poisons can slow movement, slow thinking (spell casting,) or do either instant damage or damage over time (DoT.)

For a complete walkthrough of these quests you can go here: Rogue Poison Quest, but the basics are below. The quest can be obtained at level 20. Alliance has it easy, Horde Rogues will need a buddy or two, or otherwise be able to handle a 23 Elite.

By the way, unlike the lockpicking quest, this quest is required to get the poison skill.

Horde -

1. Talk to the Rogue Trainer Shenthul, in Orgrimmar
2. He'll have you do the secret salute then give you a quest. Accept it.
3. Go to the Sludge Fens in the Northern Barrens, and find Fizzule
4. Use your flare gun, as instructed, and salute him.
5. He'll tell you what to do next.
   
6. Go to the tower just west of you
7. Pickpocket Foreman Silixiz at the base of the tower and get his key
8. Kill the guys you need to kill and go to the top of the tower.
   
9. Kill Gallywix (23 Elite) and open the chest. (You can pick the lock of that chest continuously if you want to work up your lockpicking skill.)
10. Dispell the poison affilcting you with an anti-venom (if you have one)
11. Go back to Shenthul and hand it in
12. He'll send you to Tarren Mills to finish up and get the poison dispelled.
    

Alliance -

1. The Alliance version is much easier that then Horde version.
   
2. Talk to Mathias, the leader of SI:7 in Stormwind. He’ll give you the quest Mathias and the Defias
3. Head to Westfall and go to the south east corner to talk to Agent Kearnan.
   
4. The agent is very trusting, so you don't need a special salute or anything.
5. You'll get the quest to enter the tower.
6. Pickpocket the guy at the base of the tower and head up.
   
7. Sap or kill Klaven at the top of the tower and open the chest (You'll be poisoned.) By the way, you can't continuously pick that lock. Just the one time is it.
   
8. Dispell the poison with an anti-venom and head back to Mathias. He'll give you your poison skill.
9. If you need to have the Touch of Zanzil dispelled he'll send you downstairs to the Doc.
   
10. Note that you don't have to kill anything to do this quest.
    

Congratulations, you're done. Now go kill something.

Rogue Lockpicking, the Basics

The World of Warcraft Rogue has a unique ability - picking locks. This allows the Rogue to open chests, footlockers, and doors that would be otherwise inaccessible short of using a seaforium charge. Rogue's can also pickpocket boxes off humanoid mobs.

Here's a link to a complete Rogue lockpicking guide, but you can get the basics below.

Horde (Blood Elves can do this one or their own in the Ghostlands) -

1. Head to Ratchet and talk to Wrentex the Wretched to get the lockpicking quest
   
2. Get your tools and an ECAC from the device next to him.
   
3. Head south along the coast to a ship parked up against the shore.
   
4. Run up the bow spike and go to the stern and enter.
   
5. Pick the locks there until your skill is at least 80.
6. Head downstairs, to the bottom, find the chest at the back.
   
7. open it, get the item, activate your ECAC
8. kill the level 18 parrot in the next room (it'll be level 50 if you don't use the ECAC)
9. Return to Wrentix and hand in.
   

Alliance

• Get to Lakeshore (in Redridge) and talk to Lucius.
• He'll give you your tools and send you to Alther's Mill, to the east.
• Once you hit the mill, pick the practice locks till your skill is at least 80 then open the main chest.
  
• Return to Lucius and complete the quest. You'll reeive your certificate of Thievery and get some snide remarks.
  

Congratulations.

Ask your Rogue trainer where you can go to level up your skills.

Also, pickpocket humanoid mobs for lockboxes. Open the boxes to level your skill and get Rogue poison materials. Every once in a great while these boxes will also contain more interesting items, but they're rare.

Zygor's Leveling Guide for Horde and Alliance

Given the thousands of quests in the World of Warcraft is it any wonder that people will choose to endlessly grind mobs (humanoids, monsters, beasts) in order to level?

When questing it's easy to get lost or find yourself traveling hither and yon in order to finish the quests. Many quests provide inadequate info which means that you can't head straight over to your objective.

Yet quests provide a lot of bonus XP as well as the occasional item, some of which are quite nice. They also provide relief from the endless grind.

This is why people pick up one of the many quest guides that are available. Quest guides are much like the strategy guides that you get from the store for your favorite console games. They tell you where to go, what to do, and in what order.

Some or these guides are websites, some are Adobe PDF documents, and some are in-game widgets that stay on your main screen. Zygor's is the latter. Not only does it remain on your main screen, but...

• The window is resizable and moveable
• It automatically tracks which quest you're on and updates when you finish
• It provides enough info that you almost never have to look anywhere else, not even to your quest log, to be able to finish the quest.
  
• It provides a waypoiont arrow to the location of every quest objective, and the arrow updates as you reach those objectives.
  

For a more detailed review visit the cookbook:

• Zygor's Leveling Guide review
  

The Power over Poison, a Druid Quest Walkthrough

Gotta Druid?

New to the class or some of the quests? Several of the Druid quests are rather long and involved, one of those being the poison quest.

Here are the links to a couple of complete poison quest walkthroughs. Hopefully you'll be able to get through these in fine style.

• Alliance Druid poison quest walkthrough
• Horde Druid Poison Quest Walkthrough
  

Reviewing Joana's Horde Leveling Guide

Got a Horde character?

Need to get leveled to kill off some of those slimey alliance fools?

Gotta join your pals in some raids, but you're not high enough level yet?

Then you might want to get your hands on a copy of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide.

Joana's Guide has been around since the beginning of the World of Warcraft and has been regularly updated since then, even for the latest WoW patches.

In fact, with the 2.3 patch update (which allowed for faster leveling) Joana was able to trim several zones out of the guide, since the XP earned there was no longer necessary. (You can still do them if you like.)

If you play a Hunter you'll find a talent build, hot keys, and all the class quests. If you don't play a Hunter you'll still find that Joana's guide will get you to 70 as fast as anything else out there.

So for more info, here's a detailed Joana's Horde Leveling Guide Review.

The Massive WoW Gold Blueprint, Questions Answered

So what the heck is a Massive WoW Gold Blueprint?

Good Question. Jonathan Kinens, the author, is launching this thing is a few days. It's a ste-by-step guide to making a ton of WoW gold, without using your level 70 as an endless ore gathering machine.

In fact, much of what is done with this guide is done with very low level characters! Want a ton of gold to outfit your level 19 twink? Jon will show you how to get the cash without using your 70(s) or begging from the guild or having some sugar daddy to outfit your twink.

One of the cool things he does is a 30 day speed run to 1000 gold. Starting from 0, on a new server. No help, no gifts, obviously no 70s.

Here's the first of four videos on getting Massive WoW Gold
After watching it, join Jon's notification list and then click through to his blog to ...

1. get the links to the other videos. and
2. enter to win a free copy of the blueprint! I'll leave it to you to find that post on his blog. Don't worry, it's not hidden.
   

And here's a recording of a live Q&A call.
What Jon did was take questions from people, from his blog and through email. He collected around 400 questions and answered most of them in a two hour call.
Click here for the audio (in two, 1 hour each, parts.)