We have gathered 10 tips and tricks to help you get ahead in WoW Classic. Some items are almost cheating …
In the classic version of World of Warcraft, there are many items and game mechanics that are not as well balanced as in the retail version of the game. Therefore, it is sometimes possible to find items in starting areas that are still quite useful even at level 60. Additionally, there are some tricks that work in Classic that Blizzard has later rendered useless.
We will reveal to you 10 tips that give you a significant advantage over players who do not heed these tips in WoW Classic.
Jungle Medicine
If you are traveling in Stranglethorn Vale, you will surely remember the cave with Kurzen’s henchmen. These can be found in the far north. Three types of enemies there often drop the item “Jungle Medicine”.
This is a consumable item that removes all diseases and poisons from the character upon use – even at level 60.
It is worth farming multiple stacks of the medicine, which can be dropped by Kurzen’s Medicine Man, Kurzen’s Witch Doctor, and Kurzen’s Headshrinker. Jungle Medicine is helpful in both PvP and PvE in WoW Classic. In PvP, it can be used to remove the slowing effect from a rogue, while in PvE, diseases can last up to 60 minutes.
Even at level 60, Jungle Medicine is an extremely useful item that ambitious players should always keep in stock.
Hydro Staff
Underwater breathing is particularly important in WoW Classic, as some quests require you to dive into sunken shipwrecks. Since breath duration in Classic is not very long, many characters often drown – but this doesn’t have to be!
As soon as you have the opportunity, you should visit the dungeon Gnomeregan and farm the Hydro Staff. This drops from the boss Liquefied Deposit and is relatively easily accessible. The staff grants the user underwater breathing, preventing drowning.
The cool thing is that you can equip the Hydro Staff even in combat. So when your breath is running low, you can equip the staff for a few seconds and then switch back. A huge advantage, even at level 60.
Dartol’s Rod of Transformation
Dartol’s Rod of Transformation is strictly speaking a quest item, but it is one of the coolest items in the game. The player is transformed into a furbolg for 3 minutes, and the transformation only breaks if the player takes damage.
The rod was often used in PvP because when the rod is activated, the character performs an animation as if casting a holy spell. This can cause priests and paladins in PvP to “fake” casting a healing spell. Rogues and other classes then waste their interrupt ability on such nonsense – because in Classic, it’s not easy to see what spell the opponent is casting.
Alliance players can obtain the rod by questing in Ashenvale. The questline starts in Astranaar with Raene Wolfrunner and has several steps. For one of the early steps, you receive the rod as a quest reward.
It is important that you never fully complete the questline – because then the rod will be removed from your inventory and will never be available for that character again!
If you want to keep this cool item, you must forgo a few quests. However, the interesting and sometimes even useful effect is worth it.
Free Teleport without Hearthstone
In WoW Classic, it can happen that after completing a dungeon, you still have cooldown on your hearthstone. If you still want to return to the place of your hearthstone, you simply need to leave the group while still inside the dungeon. After that, a 60-second timer begins, which teleports the players to the location of their hearthstone. In current WoW, you land near the instance entrance instead.
Since the hearthstone in Classic has a respectable 60-minute cooldown, this trick can save you long travel times or wait times.
Magical Dust
Similarly useful as the medicine is the item Magical Dust, which can also be farmed endlessly. It drops from the Dust Devils in Westfall, which are enemies at level 18-19. The Dust Devils patrol the entire area and there are only about a dozen of them, so it’s better to farm with a riding mount.
The magical dust can be used to put any target into a deep sleep for 30 seconds. This works on both normal and elite enemies and significantly simplifies many quests. In PvP, the dust can also be used, but it only lasts about 10 seconds, which is still a powerful control effect.
Since the dust can be used by all classes, it provides a solid additional means of crowd control. So if you are in Westfall, you might want to smack a few Dust Devils to gather some magical dust. Because it is still incredibly good even at level 60.
Dividing Enemy Groups
In Classic, you will repeatedly encounter groups of enemies composed of three, four, five, or even six foes. If you attack these enemies solo, you will likely die. However, you can still defeat these groups by “dividing” them. Simply attack one of the enemies and then run away. At first, all enemies will pursue you, but after a while, only the attacked mob will chase you.
Kill this one while he is alone and repeat the game until the enemy group is small enough to be defeated in one go.
Skull of Doom
The Skull of Doom is an off-hand item that at first glance seems useful only for spell classes, but upon closer inspection, it provides an incredibly valuable advantage in PvP.
The skull has a “Use” effect. Once activated, the character’s movement speed is increased by a whopping 60% for 10 seconds. However, the character suffers damage between 100 and 500 points every 2 seconds over that duration, and a mana reduction of also 100 to 500 points. However, if you are somewhat quick on your feet, you can use this off-hand weapon to your advantage!
With the “Sprint” effect, you can shine in PvP as a flag carrier. Alternatively, you can use the DoT on yourself to be almost immune to control effects. Because a mage cannot polymorph you into a sheep if you keep breaking out of sheep with self-inflicted damage every 2 seconds.
The skull can be obtained after a short questline in the Blasted Lands. The dwarf Theldurin stands “in the middle of nowhere” at coordinates 51 / 76.
Magical Candle
In Classic, it was not so easy for all classes to pull enemies from a distance. Especially tank paladins had a big problem with that because they didn’t have a proper range attack. Therefore, paladins relied on other players to help them – or they took matters into their own hands.
A useful item here is the Magical Candle. It drops in Elwynn Forest from the kobold geomancers in the Fargodeep Mine. The magical candles are a consumable that allows the player to shoot a small fireball. This fireball even causes a short damage-over-time effect. While the damage is minimal, it is a good alternative for melee characters to pull enemies without making a “body pull”.
If you are therefore exploring the mines in Classic, farm a few of these candles for later or gift them to a friend paladin who really wants to tank …
Early Zone Change
Do you plan to later ride a night elf saber as a human? Or do you want to ride a taurens’ kodo as an orc? Then you will have to put in a lot of work because you need a revered reputation with the respective faction that owns the mounts.
However, gathering reputation in Classic is difficult because quests provide reduced reputation if they are no longer challenging. So if you want to become revered with the night elves as a human, you should stroll to Teldrassil with your human at level 1 and complete all the starting quests there. This way, you can easily gather several thousand reputation points that you will not have to scrape together later.
The journey to another starting area is arduous, but the nice feeling of being able to ride a nightsaber as a human should make up for it.
Nightslayer
If you want to become the absolute favorite of all spell classes in the raid as a warrior, paladin, or shaman, you should choose the profession of blacksmithing and work towards the weapon Nightslayer. This epic two-handed axe has a devastating effect that brings tears of joy to all classes dealing magic damage.
Nightslayer has a chance to increase the target’s magic damage taken by 15% for 5 seconds on each hit. In a raid or even a dungeon, this can be a massive buff that can greatly accelerate boss fights.
The axe certainly comes at the cost of your own DPS, as it has no stats of its own. However, its pure damage is also not to be underestimated.
Do you have any great tips and tricks for Classic? What should one keep in mind? Which items should never be sold? Let us know in the comments!
Further interesting tips and tricks can be found in these articles:
- 5 important things you should keep in mind in WoW Classic from the start
- How to choose the perfect professions for WoW Classic
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