AQ Gates

[Correction]

How long does it take to get a from-scratch level 1 to Bang A Gong, including all relevant attunements and professions feeding the questline? I'd wager the transfers simply beat any reasonable timeframe for the 'normal' route.

[Rivero]

Not too much considering how much of a joke it is to level now a days. You get RAF and hit 60 in a week. Another week for 70. As far as professions go you can level them while you play. Although I don't remember what the reqs were.

[Correction]

Not too much considering how much of a joke it is to level now a days. You get RAF and hit 60 in a week. Another week for 70. As far as professions go you can level them while you play. Although I don't remember what the reqs were.

It's pretty onerous regardless. Even with nonstop playing you still need a solid group of ~10-15 level 80s to really push through the quests quickly, especially since you need a full clear of BWL + the attunements before it. 20 elementium ore for Maws will take a lot of time to farm, and IIRC you have to clear to Chromaggus to even begin farming them, and have all of five hours between Vael -> Nefarian for the Draconic for Dummies quest. This means at least two raid resets for BWL (I don't think there are 20 technicians in a single clear of BWL, plus the week to get 15 people from 1 to 80 and keyed for BWL/Onyxia/MC/UBRS.

Three weeks minimum of nonstop, perfect play and incredible luck with elementium drops, with two separate groups clearing to Chromaggus just so you can farm more elementium. That easily becomes a month for people who sleep/eat/shit, and two months for people who have jobs/school/family. All so one person can get Scarab Lord.

I honestly don't think anyone on a new server could beat existing level 80 transfers who can blow through the content on an established server who will mostly buy the materials they need rather than have a skinner/herbalist/leatherworker/miner/tailor/alchemist farm/make things from scratch.

That's probably why the gates start open at the beginning. The achievement was being cheesed to all hell, as was evidenced in the screenshot.

[Norellicus]

In other news, that font is atrocious

[aurik]

It's really not trivial even at 80.

How to bang the gong:

1) Complete "What Tomorrow Brings" in Silithus, a fetch-quest to Caverns of Time
2) Complete "Only One May Rise" in Silithus, and kill Broodlord Lashlayer in BWL.
3) Now, farm your way to Neutral reputation. Along the way, complete "The Path of the Righteous" at least once, which involves farming 200 silithid carapace for 500 rep.
4) Once you are neutral, you will be given a fedex to Anachronos outside the Caverns of Time
5) Anachronos will give you a fetch-quest to Silithus

Now, the path branches into 3. All 3 must be completed.

Green shard:
1) Accept a quest in Sunken Temple. Advance the quest chain in Teldrassil. Advance the quest chain in Moonglade.
2) Now you need to collect 4 fragments from around the world: Feralas, Hinterlands, Ashenvale, Duskwood. At 80, you could probably do these with a handful or solo.
3) Next is a "defend the npc" quest in moonglade, which rewards the green shard

Red shard:
1) Kill Nefarian within 5 hours of killing Vaelstrasz in BWL. This probably won't be on the same raid week as the Broodlord, but in theory could be. BWL can be done with ~15 fairly easily.

Blue shard:
1) Go talk to Azuregos in Azshara.
2) Head out to Tanaris, where you get a quest to collect 3 items
2a)Item 1: Goggles--drops off of any monster in MC
2b) Item 2: 500 Pound Chicken--from a short questline
i) Pick up a quest from the butcher in Gadgetzan
ii) Kill Lord Lakmeran and collect 20 drops off of the Chimeraoks in Feralas
iii) Collect 20 deeprock salt and 20 goblin rocket fuel for the follow-up quest, after which you get the chicken
2c) Item 3: Draconic for Dummies
i) Swim to an island south of Tanaris. With modern techniques (mount with frost aura / mount with water walk / glyph of aquatic form), you may be able to reach the island without the swim speed buff, otherwise you'll need to do an easy fedex quest to get a swim speed buff.
ii) Next up is a kill-quest in Winterspring
iii) Collect the 8 pages from Draconic for Dummies:
- one on Alcaz Island, Dustwallow Marsh
- one drops rarely from elite demons in Blasted Lands
- one drops rarely fomr elite demons in Winterspring
- one in Undercity
- one in Stormwind
- one dropped by Onyxia
- one on a table in BWL
- one dropped by Ragnaros
iv) having collected all these, you finally obtain the draconic for dummies item
3) After collecting the 3 items, fetch a heap of crafting items for the next quest in the line. In particular: 10 Elementium Ore, which only drop rarely from BWL. Probably like 3-4 runs worth of ore. But could be purchased.
4) Finally, fish up a shark off the coast of Azshara, and kill it for the Blue Shard

After collecting all 3 shards, talk to Anachronos. He will give you a quest to wait for the server to complete the War Effort. 5 days after that is completed, he will give you the scepter and you can bang the gong. Once the gong is banged, any other players will have 10 hours to also bang the gong to receive the title and mount.

[Dezzimal]

That's probably why the gates start open at the beginning. The achievement was being cheesed to all hell, as was evidenced in the screenshot.

That screenshot is from 2 days ago. They still start closed on new servers.

[Talragan]

On Eu servers they may start closed but, just did corpse run on new south american server, drakkari, gates are open, its a new server, and my server dreadmaul which started 6 months ago was open also, looks like US server start open >.>

[Rivero]

It's pretty onerous regardless. Even with nonstop playing you still need a solid group of ~10-15 level 80s to really push through the quests quickly, especially since you need a full clear of BWL + the attunements before it. 20 elementium ore for Maws will take a lot of time to farm, and IIRC you have to clear to Chromaggus to even begin farming them, and have all of five hours between Vael -> Nefarian for the Draconic for Dummies quest. This means at least two raid resets for BWL (I don't think there are 20 technicians in a single clear of BWL, plus the week to get 15 people from 1 to 80 and keyed for BWL/Onyxia/MC/UBRS.

Three weeks minimum of nonstop, perfect play and incredible luck with elementium drops, with two separate groups clearing to Chromaggus just so you can farm more elementium. That easily becomes a month for people who sleep/eat/shit, and two months for people who have jobs/school/family. All so one person can get Scarab Lord.

I honestly don't think anyone on a new server could beat existing level 80 transfers who can blow through the content on an established server who will mostly buy the materials they need rather than have a skinner/herbalist/leatherworker/miner/tailor/alchemist farm/make things from scratch.

That's probably why the gates start open at the beginning. The achievement was being cheesed to all hell, as was evidenced in the screenshot.

You don't need to be attuned any more I think, or at the least you can get summoned with a warlock from inside if I remember right. : p

[Rivero]

It's pretty onerous regardless. Even with nonstop playing you still need a solid group of ~10-15 level 80s to really push through the quests quickly, especially since you need a full clear of BWL + the attunements before it. 20 elementium ore for Maws will take a lot of time to farm, and IIRC you have to clear to Chromaggus to even begin farming them, and have all of five hours between Vael -> Nefarian for the Draconic for Dummies quest. This means at least two raid resets for BWL (I don't think there are 20 technicians in a single clear of BWL, plus the week to get 15 people from 1 to 80 and keyed for BWL/Onyxia/MC/UBRS.

Three weeks minimum of nonstop, perfect play and incredible luck with elementium drops, with two separate groups clearing to Chromaggus just so you can farm more elementium. That easily becomes a month for people who sleep/eat/shit, and two months for people who have jobs/school/family. All so one person can get Scarab Lord.

I honestly don't think anyone on a new server could beat existing level 80 transfers who can blow through the content on an established server who will mostly buy the materials they need rather than have a skinner/herbalist/leatherworker/miner/tailor/alchemist farm/make things from scratch.

That's probably why the gates start open at the beginning. The achievement was being cheesed to all hell, as was evidenced in the screenshot.

You don't need to be attuned any more I think, or at the least you can get summoned with a warlock from inside if I remember right. : p

But hey if people can do 1-70 in one day 14 hours then hell, I wouldn't be surprised at the things some people do with WoW.

[Correction]

The biggest cockblock besides the silithid carapaces is still the elementium ore. Farming 20 within one BWL reset is likely as not impossible, even with two 10 man teams clearing to Chromaggus during the Vael -> Nef grind for the Draconic for Dummies character.

And I'm pretty positive they haven't removed BWL attunement yet. Onyxia, yeah. MC...don't think so. Which leaves a few UBRS keys for folks, and any time a quest moves you from Eastern Kingdoms to Kalimdor and back, you're burning through time.

[aurik]

BWL still requires attunement.

Anyone who thinks a bunch of fresh lv1s could accomplish the above chain quickly ("oh just summon them in") is silly. Would take at minimum several weeks, not to mention the war effort on the server needs to succeed independently of the scepter chain.

That's most likely the reason that the gates start open, I think--most players wouldn't bother contributing to the war effort, and it would never get done.

[aers]

BWL still requires attunement.

Anyone who thinks a bunch of fresh lv1s could accomplish the above chain quickly ("oh just summon them in") is silly. Would take at minimum several weeks, not to mention the war effort on the server needs to succeed independently of the scepter chain.

That's most likely the reason that the gates start open, I think--most players wouldn't bother contributing to the war effort, and it would never get done.

BWL's attunement consists of clearing UBRS.

Which you can raid.

[Pabst]

New real opened with gates closed. Only problem is it's not open for paid character transfer yet

[Talragan]

O_0 Name? and is it pvp? please be pvp.....

[Pabst]

Not pvp . And the name is Boreen Tundra