Season 5 is here

For all you Rogues and Druids that have banked up honor points, Season 5 is finally here! Officially it started on Dec 16th, and i can see a flurry of people on my server putting teams together.

I enjoy the PVP aspect of the game and have a bunch of points saved, but the questions is, what is the first thing i buy?! We're all worried that what we buy with our valuable points will be obsoleted way to quickly, and why the heck are there 3 different sets of PVP armor?!

Well first off, i would say from a PVP perspective you can't go wrong with buying the new PVP trinket, in my case the Medallion of the Alliance but i'm sure some of you will be purchasing the Horde one.

After that you need to decide how badly do you want the PVP gear and if your willing to wait, 3 sets of PVP gear were released

Savage Gladiator - blue pvp set
Hateful Gladiator - epic pvp set
Deadly Gladiator - even better epic pvp set

I would really advise skipping the blue set altogether, the Deadly Gladiator pieces require personal ratings to purchase while the Hateful pieces do not. If your good in the arena and you find getting a good rating comes easily, you'll probably end up skipping the Hateful set, if your an average player, you will probably need to start buying Hateful pieces to be able to get some sort of rating that will let you purchase the low end pieces.

Arena is a great alternative to PVE for gearing up, even if your losing 10 games a week you'll still some epics.

Soloing Anzu as a Druid with any spec and gear

Jitsuk at elitepvpers.de has found an easy way for a druid of any spec and gear to solo Anzu for the mount.

Here is the original article
http://www.elitepvpers.de/forum/wow-guides-templates/192023-guide-get-raven-lords-mount-easily-solo-druid.html

He says his method is an exploit, so i urge people trying this to beware the consequences.

First off you must be able to summon Anzu, and he says you must be 80 (not really sure why this would be the case)

Stealth through to Anzu's room, of course the first boss can see through stealth, so if you stealth around the edges he won't be able to detect you due to the level different. I've also heard Night Elves can run straight through to the other side aggroing the boss, once you get through the doorway Night Elves can Shadowmeld to drop agro, similiar to the way Rogues used to vanish back in TBC.

(Note if you find you die often attempting Anzu or clearing the room, you may want to kill the final boss Ikiss as that locks you into the instance and opens the back door shortcut into the final boss's room)

In Anzu's room you need to clear enough trash to not get agro when fighting Anzu.
He recommends clearing the pack on the left hand side of the room, pull the mobs behind the crypt in order to LoS other pats and mobs.

When your ready summon Anzu, and stand next to the crypt on the south west side of the room, just in range of the Eagle Spirit but out of range of Anzu. The Eagle Spirit is the bird to the east.
When you summon Anzu for some reason he doesn't engage and just sits there, you must keep HoTs on the Eagle Spirit at all times, the Eagle Spirit will do 300 damage a second to Anzu, and when Anzu gets really low you must finish him with one spell, (i'm guessing winding up a starfire would be the safest) If you don't finish him with your spell and the Eagle Spirit does suppposedly Anzu is unlootable.

If you mess up and miss HoTs or dps Anzu, supposedly he agroes and all his birds come out and and he tries to the wipe the floor with you.

Since the Eagle spirit only does 300 dmg a second and Anzu has 236k HP, this will take a while.
So good luck in getting your Druid mount, the drop rate has been reported as being 1%

Resto Druid Solos Anzu

Well i've only been 80 for a few days now, so i'm slowly making my way into groups and running heroics. I've not yet started stealthing instances yet, as i want to see what the actual instances look like. When i run an instance, i always take mental notes if the instance looks stealthable or not, i guess it's a habit of doing so many stealth runs in TBC and Vanilla WoW.

But this post is not about stealthing, well i guess it could be, as Druids would most likely be stealthing to Anzu for farming the mount.

As you know, many Feral Druids are already solo farming Anzu, which makes sense, as i think Feral is out best soloing spec. Non mana dps, which means you can dps forever, shifting into Bear for extra tankiness or Kitty for extra dps, being a feral you'll naturally have lots of dodge to have a lot of damage avoidance, and with talents you can even improve your healing power slightly. With the changes coming in, Ferals will very soon be shifting for a very cheap cost to mana, that with free heals from ILOTP means ferals have a lot going for them in soloing.

Not all of us Druids are Feral though, there is a smattering of Resto's and Balance Druids out there, and we're also interested in that ooh so sexy epeen Druid mount.

Well i'm happy to say that Resto's are now claiming to have solo'd Anzu, i'm not sure of their gear level, but i'd be guessing they're at least geared with the new heroic goodies, supposedly the strat is to keep themselves healed while hotting the Eagle totem (it does 300 dmg per second while hotted) so although this could take a while, a few resto Druids are claiming to have done it.

Only one problem, because the totem does the majority of the damage, Anzu becomes unlootable....

I'd say a resto Druid that is able to balance their dps with the Eagle totems DPS will be able to down Anzu and loot him soon enough, it's still early days of Wrath and we're only just gearing up now.

Now i'm just waiting for a Balance Druid to claim doing this, i'm keen to give it a go myself, but my gear is still quite lacking.

Mages Mirror Image knocking Rogues and Druids out of stealth

Well a few months back we had all that fuss about starfall taking stealthers out of stealth.

Seems we have the same situation again, but this time with Mages Mirror Image.

Is this a bug? Well people reckon it is, but only time will tell until (if) Blizz fix this.

So why is this so bad compared to other Mages AoE that can knock us stealthers out of stealth, supposedly the range of this is huge, at least with a Mages AoE search for a stealther, they can only choose a localised area to try to catch us, Mirror Image (like Starfall) seems to out us in a very large area. Rogues have complained of been outed from 50 yards away, i haven't tested this myself, but even if it's outing us at a 30 yard radius, that is a big unfair advantage they have against us.

Anzu soloable for mount

Since i'm not yet 80, and have been working on leveling i haven't had the chance to do any stealth runs in Wrath, i'm almost 80, and keen to start stealth running again and soloing some old instances.

People have been soloing, Ony, ZG and the old Heroics.

One boss i'm particularly keen to try is Anzu, as of patch 3.0.2 it's been reported the mount still drops and Feral Druids are able to solo him.

I have grown quite fond of my old cat mount, but with the new stables feature, i think it's time to add some more mounts to the collection.