A party on your schedule

Companions are AI characters you hire directly from a friendly innkeeper. Your starting quest giver can introduce your first companion. Choose tanks, healers and damage dealers to fill the roles your party needs. Play solo, bring a friend, or mix players and companions in the same group.

They fight beside you through quests, dungeons, raids and battlegrounds. Their class and encounter logic handles much of the moment-to-moment play, while your orders decide the plan: focus a marked enemy, keep another controlled, choose a spell, change formation or stop to drink.

You still lead the adventure. A poorly planned pull can wipe the party, and good positioning, gear and control matter. Start with the Beginner’s Guide, then learn the Microbot Control Panel and companion behavior.

Companions can also talk with you through their AI personalities. AI personalities explains their modes, styles and conversations.

Grow from a first companion into a raid

You begin with one companion slot. The Basics II, III and IV unlock the next slots when you complete their quests at levels 10, 12 and 14. A character can then lead four regular companions; licenses improve the equipment available as you progress.

Develop other characters on the same account to build a larger roster. Each uses its own level, slots and licenses. Your own max-level characters can also become Legacy companions, bringing the heroes you have geared into the party.

A full Vanilla raid takes at least eight level 60 characters on one account, or a multiboxing setup. That strength is earned: develop your characters, upgrade regular companions, gear your Legacy characters and learn to control the group. A full raid is not available at character creation.

A player guild is optional, and multiboxing is allowed. Friends can share the adventure and earn real-player group bonuses while companions cover missing roles. Choose the company and pace that suit you.

A lasting journey through Azeroth

Vanilla content is available through Naxxramas. There is no future phase schedule holding the later raids back, but individual characters still earn their access through the progression and recognition quests. Earlier zones, dungeons and raids keep a purpose as you build your account.

Heroic dungeons add challenge at the original dungeon levels, with improved rewards. Licenses, Lead by Example, Legacy bonuses and Legendary weapons give you several ways to keep developing your party.

Vanilla is the starting point of the intended journey through the expansions. The current character bridge covers Vanilla to The Burning Crusade; Wrath of the Lich King is planned. Read Expansions and transfers before moving a character forward.

Keep the characters you build

Microbot has never had a server wipe. There are no seasonal resets, forced fresh starts or hardcore character deletion, and characters are not deleted for inactivity. You can take a break and return to the progress, account power and story you built.

Character names are shared across Vanilla and TBC. A transferred character keeps its name; a surviving character or a transfer still being processed can keep that name reserved. Account and character names explains what happens when a character is deleted.

You can play and complete the game for free. Optional shop conveniences support the project; progression does not require a purchase.

Find the answer you need

• New player: Getting Started takes you from account creation to the world; the Beginner’s Guide builds your first party.
• Leading the party: Microbot Control Panel gives you buttons, Commands gives the full command reference, and Whispers adjusts individual companions.
• Growing stronger: Innkeepers, Hiring Costs, Licenses, Progression and Legacy companions explain the next steps.
• Making everyday play easier: Appearance, Economy, Professions and Field tools explain the conveniences.
• Choosing your adventure: Playstyles, Quests, Dungeons and Raids explain what to prepare and where each journey leads.
• Planning a fight: Dungeon and Boss Strategies and Behavior explain control and encounter decisions.

Search with the words you use in game: a command, a feature, a class or the problem you are having. The orange terms on Features lead to the corresponding detailed guide. When you need help beyond the guide, ask in Discord.

Choose the company you want

Solo here can mean one real player leading companions. It does not mean every dungeon or raid is balanced for one character fighting alone. You can change your setup as friends arrive or as your account grows.

Solo: your schedule, your party

Companions let you get started without waiting for a complete player party. If you play a damage dealer, a hired tank and healer can give you room to fight; if you enjoy healing or tanking, hire the roles around your own. Follow the Beginner’s Guide to unlock your regular slots.

Take time to read quest stories, explore a zone or learn a dungeon. Good gear, suitable companions and control still matter. The Control Panel handles everyday orders; Commands and Strategies help with more demanding encounters.

Duo: build around two friends

Choose the classes you want to play, then use companions for missing roles. Two damage dealers can hire a tank and healer; a player tank and healer can hire damage dealers. Your characters, available slots and the content’s group size determine the roster.

Decide who leads before a difficult pull. One player can manage marks and a tank while the other watches healing, interrupts or patrols. Transfer companion control can help share responsibility; it does not change whose character the hire belongs to.

Two eligible nearby real players add a +25% ordinary group contribution before other modifiers. Companions do not add real-player bonuses. Groups and rewards explains which rewards use that contribution and why it is not a promise that every reward increases by exactly 25%.

Groups: play with the people available

A mixed group combines player decisions with companion support. Replace missing roles rather than waiting for a particular class to log in. Cross-faction cooperation lets Alliance and Horde friends play together; hostile faction NPCs and companion hiring restrictions still apply.

Eligible nearby unique players contribute to ordinary group bonuses: +25% with two, +50% with three, +75% with four and +100% with five, before other modifiers. Keep the group near the action. Several characters controlled by one person do not automatically count as several different players.

Players-only runs have their own token and special-reward rules and dungeon-time competitions. Adding a companion changes players-only eligibility. Choose the kind of run everyone wants before entering.

Grow toward a larger company

A single character begins with one regular companion slot and reaches four through The Basics hand-ins. Hiring for other characters uses their own levels, slots and licenses. Eligible maximum-level alts can also join as Legacy companions. These are different ways to grow your roster.

A full Vanilla raid roster can be built from at least eight developed level-60 characters on one account, or through an appropriate multiboxing setup. A player guild is optional. This is a progression goal: earn licenses, gear your Legacy characters and learn the encounters. Having enough slots does not guarantee a raid clear.

Multiboxing is allowed. It gives you more characters to manage, rather than turning one person into several unique players for reward calculations. Keep that distinction in mind when comparing the options.

Pick your next adventure

• For an introduction to the controls, follow The Basics.
• For stories and useful custom chains, read Quests.
• For a small party adventure, read Dungeons.
• For a larger company and equipment progression, read Raids.
• For PvP with companion-filled teams, read Battlegrounds.

1. Create an account

1. Open Create account. Choose a game username and password, then read and agree to the server rules.
2. Keep your game username: that is what you enter in the game client. On the website you can use your username or email with your game password.
3. Add and verify an email if you want password recovery. Email is optional; an unverified address cannot recover your account.

A new game account uses the same username and password on Vanilla and TBC. Vanilla is ready first; your account page shows when the TBC login has been prepared. Wrath is planned, so its presence in the account space does not make it playable today.

You can create or link more game accounts into the same website account space. Each keeps its own password, characters and progress. Sharing an email does not automatically link accounts. If you sign in with a social provider first, create or link a game account before trying to log into WoW.

2. Get the client

The client download provides the prepared Vanilla 1.12.1 client. Its realmlist points to Microbot, the companion addon is included, and patch-3.mpq contains the server’s client changes. Extract the archive into its own folder, then run WoW.exe from that folder.

The Microbot Launcher can manage an existing client, prepare required content and keep it up to date. Add your client in the launcher and choose its supported expansion. See Launcher setup for the current route, or manual patch installation if you update by hand.

Keep separate folders for separate client versions. If a download fails or you are unsure which TBC client to use, ask in Discord before mixing files from different expansions.

3. Log in and create a character

1. Start the prepared client using WoW.exe, or select that client in the launcher and choose Launch.
2. Enter your game username and password. The website login can accept email; the game client expects your game username.
3. Create the race and class you want to play. Companions can fill tank, healing or damage roles around your choice.

The website’s expansion bar shows realm status and player counts. If your TBC login is not ready, check the status on your account page; expansion readiness explains the labels.

Vanilla supports cross-faction play, so Alliance and Horde can group, trade and talk. Choose the character you want rather than choosing a class only because a future raid needs it.

4. Join the community

Discord is where players arrange raids, report bugs, find recipes and trades, and ask for help. On Vanilla, new characters automatically join the <Companions> guild, giving you a place to ask your first questions.

When reporting a problem, explain where it happened, what you tried, what you expected and what happened instead. For a companion issue, include the class, role, license and command involved. Reporting useful feedback has a short checklist.

What comes next

Start the Beginner’s Guide at level one: hire your first companion and work through The Basics. Learn the Microbot Control Panel as you play; it gives the same practical orders without requiring you to type each command.

• For an unexpected companion action, open How Companions Behave.
• For exact orders, use Commands, Whispers and Macros.
• For growing your party, use Hiring Costs and Licenses.
• For practical play, read Leveling and Tips.

Keep a way back into your account

Verify at least one email address from your account page. Password recovery can be requested using any linked username or email, and sends links to the confirmed addresses in that account space. Unconfirmed addresses cannot recover it.

Linked game accounts keep separate passwords. A reset changes the account named in the recovery message, not every other linked account. If you have no verified address and cannot log in, or have lost access to that mailbox, contact support on Discord.

A TBC account marked Needs support is a separate readiness problem. Follow the expansion-status guidance rather than assuming a client reinstall will reconnect it.

Where the journey stands

The intended journey follows the expansions in order. Check the website’s live realm status and your account readiness before trying to play. A planned expansion or future-use item does not mean that expansion is available today.

Required and useful preparation

Vanilla to TBC requires a level 60 or higher character with the rewarded T5R raid license. Select a character from one of your linked game accounts and open Transfer to see its current checklist and availability.

Required, recommended and optional rows have different purposes. The class Legendary is recommended preparation. T5D, the Paragon Maestro Shirt, Scarab Lord, PvP ranks, transporters, loot pets, Petopias, Eternal Wisdoms and Eternal Recipes are optional preparations; they do not replace the required T5R unlock.

The optional scouting contracts are listed in travel order: Azeroth, Outland, Northrend. Azeroth’s contract learns your faction’s Azeroth flight paths when read and is consumed; carry Outland’s for its flight paths, and keep Northrend’s for a future Northrend journey. That future-use contract does not unlock a Wrath transfer today.

Understand the transfer mode

Read the agreement shown for this character. A release transfer is one-time and cannot be undone. A testing copy can be repeated only when that mode is enabled; a fresh copy replaces the verified TBC character on the same account, including progress made there since the previous copy.

Your original character is not deleted, and you can continue playing it in its original expansion. In release mode, keeping that character does not mean it keeps gold and unbound items that moved forward. A later testing copy does not restore possessions moved by an earlier release transfer.

Some Vanilla items have no TBC version and stay behind. Empty a bag that cannot travel before transferring. For a release transfer, move soulbound items and other items staying on Vanilla out of unbound bags that will move forward, so those items keep a bag on the original character.

Open wrapped gifts and empty any opened loot container that still holds loot before transferring. Mail and auctions normally stay on their realm without blocking the operation; follow the specific error if an inventory item needs support review.

Review, save and confirm

1. Open your accounts, select the Vanilla character, and choose Transfer.
2. Read the requirements, active mode and belongings agreement. Review any replacement warning and wait for the agreement countdown.
3. Choose the agreement action, then review the separate save/disconnect confirmation. Confirm only when you are ready to be disconnected from the affected game accounts.
4. Wait until the transfer finishes before signing back into those accounts. If the result is uncertain, reopen the same character’s transfer to refresh or continue its existing operation.

The final confirmation saves your progress and disconnects the affected accounts while the operation runs. Cancelling before execution leaves the transfer unstarted. Do not try to start another transfer to work around a pending result.

Account readiness and support

An older TBC account may need ownership verification before it can synchronize or receive a character. A password reset or repeated transfer attempt cannot settle an ownership hold. Explain the account’s displayed status to support so it can be reviewed safely.

A temporarily unavailable character list is different from an account marked Needs support. Check the realm status, then the account status. Keep the specific error shown in the transfer dialog when asking for help.

The required server patch

patch-3.mpq is required for the server’s custom client content. The prepared client includes it; when updating by hand, use the current server patch for your client: Vanilla or The Burning Crusade.

1. Close every WoW client that uses this installation before replacing files.
2. Download the current patch-3.mpq and keep a backup of the old file until the updated client works.
3. Place it in the client’s Data folder alongside the game’s patch.mpq and patch-2.mpq. Replace the previous patch-3.mpq; leave the game’s original patch files in place.
4. Check the exact filename: patch-3.mpq, without a browser-added suffix such as patch-3(2).mpq or an extra space.
5. Clear the client’s WDB cache after updating, then start the client and log in.

First-party tools

The Microbot Launcher manages clients and required updates. The Microbot Control Panel is the in-game addon for hiring, orders, rosters and settings. The server patch and addon are different files: updating one does not automatically prove the other is current when installing manually.

Start with these supported tools before adding optional client patches or addons. Keep a working client configuration so you can identify which extra caused a problem.

Install or update Microbot Control Panel

The addon’s current name is Microbot Control Panel. Older guides may call it CCP or Companions Control Panel. It is included in the prepared client, and its controls are explained in the Control Panel guide.

1. Close the client, then download MicrobotControlPanel.zip for Vanilla or The Burning Crusade.
2. Extract the addon folder into the client’s Interface/AddOns folder. The result should be Interface/AddOns/MicrobotControlPanel/MicrobotControlPanel.toc, without an extra nested archive folder.
3. Start the client, check the AddOns button on the character-selection screen, and enable Microbot Control Panel.
4. Open the panel in game and follow the Control Panel guide for hiring and commands.

Use the addon build for your client expansion. If it does not appear in the addon list, check the folder nesting and .toc file before reinstalling the entire game.

Aux and auction posting

Aux is an optional auction-house addon for Vanilla. Its Post tab can help list many items without entering every field repeatedly. Check the current Marketer rules before choosing price and duration: an addon’s suggested price does not decide whether the server will buy an auction.

Older custom Aux instructions describe preset prices and a display quirk in the unit-price field. Verify the posted auction’s actual unit and total price, stack size and duration with the addon version you use; do not assume every Aux build has the same custom presets.

Optional companion-control addons

Some older guides recommend third-party context menus for companion orders. They are optional and do not replace Microbot Control Panel. Check that an addon supports your current client and command syntax before relying on its role, spell or toggle actions.

The Commands and Whispers references are the place to check the actual supported orders. The in-game panel is the recommended starting point.

Optional item and dungeon guides

Loot and dungeon addons can help you plan a run, but a generic Classic catalogue will not explain every custom Microbot item or upgrade. Check the Legendary weapon guide, license rewards and Eternal consumables for the server-specific systems.

AtlasLoot and custom catalogues

AtlasLoot is an optional loot reference. Older server packages included an expanded catalogue with custom items. Use a version compatible with your client, and treat missing or outdated entries as a catalogue limitation rather than proof that the reward is unavailable.

Optional client visuals

Optional graphics change your local presentation. Other players do not see your changed textures or models simply because you installed them. Keep them separate from the required server patch and choose compatible options for your client.

The published launcher provides optional content controls. Install or remove a selected option there when it is supported, instead of collecting old patch links from an imported guide.

Modern graphics and models

Modern graphics can change the look of an older client, with possible visual quirks or performance costs. The launcher exposes water textures and modern druid forms separately where supported, so you can choose those options without assuming every visual change belongs to one bundle.

If you see a graphical anomaly or reduced performance, remove the optional content and compare with the supported default client. Optional visual files do not change server combat rules.

Darker nights

Darker-night patches change the local night-time atmosphere. They are cosmetic and optional. An old patch download may not match the current client; use only an option whose compatibility you have checked, and retain a way to remove it.

Older auto-login patches

Older Vanilla auto-login patches store account passwords in a plain-text file. Anyone who can read that file can read those credentials. These patches are optional and are not required to play Microbot.

Use the current launcher’s account and client controls for supported launch workflows. Do not install an old login patch merely because an imported download list recommends it.

Launcher setup for an existing client

1. Download the Microbot Launcher and open it.
2. Add your existing client and select the correct installation and expansion. Keep Vanilla 1.12.1 and TBC 2.4.3 in separate folders.
3. Let the launcher prepare the required content for a supported client. Close WoW while replacing client files.
4. Select that client and choose Launch when it is ready. Use your game username inside WoW.

The launcher keeps several client installations in one library and provides required and optional content controls. For a new Vanilla installation, the website’s current client archive remains the starting download. Website login and game login are separate steps; linking the launcher to the website does not create a game character.

Play the full game for free

You can play and complete the entire game without a purchase. The Shop offers optional quality of life conveniences and helps support Microbot’s development. The project is community supported, and progression does not require spending money.

Shop items can be traded with other players in game. Read a product’s current description and choose the intended account and character before paying; use My orders to review an existing purchase.

Understand the convenience you choose

The city Illusionist uses NPC menus to change appearances. The portable Field Illusionist and its dedicated window belong to the shop presentation. That window is not required to use the city service.

Pack value depends on what you already own and which conveniences you will use. The Shop’s displayed price, contents and available recipients are the current purchase terms; this guide does not promise that every product is sold for every expansion.

Report a problem or suggest an improvement

Microbot is actively developed, and many systems began with player suggestions. Send clear bug reports and constructive ideas through Discord. Published Vanilla changes are collected in the Changelog.

• Where: expansion, zone, dungeon or boss.
• What you did: the shortest steps that reproduce the problem, including the command or setting involved.
• What changed: what you expected, what actually happened, and whether it happens every time.
• For companions: class, role, license, party setup and relevant addon/client version.
• For an account or purchase problem: use the specific status/error and order reference when contacting support; never include your password.

Your first companion on Vanilla

1. Speak to the quest giver at your race’s starting location. These starting quest givers can hire companions and introduce The Basics.
2. Choose a role that helps your class: a healer supports a melee character, while a tank gives a caster space to cast. Quick hire chooses the class and appearance and earns a 25% hiring discount; a custom hire lets you choose more.
3. Check the character, role, license and price before paying. A level-one regular companion costs at least one copper: if you have no money, sell a drop first.
4. Open the Companion Commands Manual and Microbot Control Panel. Companions follow and assist naturally, so you can begin questing while you learn the orders.

For later hires, speak directly to a friendly innkeeper. Hiring conditions explain location, faction, combat and capacity checks; Hiring Costs explains the price.

The Basics on Vanilla

This eight-quest chain teaches the controls. The first quest leads from your starting quest giver to a capital; later lessons are offered by the capital innkeeper. Complete the actual objectives in your quest log and hand in each lesson. The slot rewards activate on hand-in, rather than when you merely reach its level.

• Basics I counts an order that changes what a companion is doing. Start needs a new attack target; Stop needs a fight to stop; the come orders need someone to move; Come-T counts when switched on. Repeating a button on a companion already doing it is not useful progress.
• Basics II: damage dealers begin with skull as a focus mark, and companions begin with moon as a crowd-control mark on Vanilla. A marked enemy is only controlled if an available class can use a suitable spell. Warriors and shamans do not supply a conventional crowd-control spell for this lesson.
• Basics III specifically needs damage-dealer pausing, not a pause on the whole group. Hire a tank and a damage dealer, use .z pause dps, then .z unpause dps; .z pull gives the tank ten seconds to establish a pull by default. Pull Back brings the enemy back to your chosen fighting position; practise it before a dungeon.
• Basics V and VI introduce services that also work without completing those lessons. Shearlock Combs in Stormwind and Edward Stylehands in Orgrimmar are Barbers; Madame Belle in the Stormwind Mage Tower and the Mistress of Shadows in Orgrimmar provide the Illusionist service.
• Basics VII: .z aoe orders an immediate area cast, and .z use asks companions to interact with an object within five yards of you. Stand beside the usable object with your group.
• The Control Rod lets you click a ground position for the targeted companion, or your companions together, to move there and stay. It is useful before a pull or when moving around a patrol.

Lead by Example

Preparing your own character is one of the most useful ways to strengthen the whole party. Through Lead by Example, suitable enchants, weapon enhancements, armor kits, food, elixirs and Engineering explosives benefit nearby companions too. One preparation can help several group members, with an equivalent chosen for each companion’s class, role and level.

• Improve your equipment. Supported permanent enchants and armor kits help regular companions receive suitable gear enhancements; a stronger suitable enchant is kept.
• Prepare for the fight. Apply a weapon stone or oil, eat useful food and use suitable elixirs with your companions nearby. Their versions can improve damage, healing, mana support or survival.
• Put Engineering to work. Using a supported bomb or dynamite can unlock that tool for companions to use in suitable fights.
• Check the result. The roster’s Info and gear views show preparations and consumable charges. Refresh supplies after deaths and check new hires before setting out.

These benefits matter together: better damage dealers finish fights sooner, while a prepared tank and healer help the group survive them. Keep developing your professions and caring for your gear as you progress; licenses supply better equipment, and your preparations improve what the party can do with it.

Read the dedicated Lead by Example guide for how sharing works and a preparation checklist. The Vanilla profession lessons teach Cooking, Alchemy, Engineering, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking and Enchanting through four rounds of practical quests.

Your first companion on The Burning Crusade

Speak to your starting quest giver, choose a role, and review the hiring price. Quick hire chooses the class and appearance for a 25% discount. Custom hire gives you more choices. Keep at least one copper for a level-one regular hire.

Read your Companion Commands Manual, then use the Control Panel for common orders. Friendly innkeepers are the usual place for later hires. Licenses explains the Classic and Outland equipment ladders.

The Basics on The Burning Crusade

The Burning Crusade has Basics I–IV at your starting quest giver. The regular-slot lessons open slot two at level 10, slot three at level 12 and slot four at level 14 when handed in. Check the quest log for the action counters.

Basics V–VIII are Vanilla lessons. The Barber, Illusionist, .z aoe and .z use are still useful here. A Control Rod earned on a Vanilla character can be carried forward through the transfer system.

Leading a party from level one

• Companions follow you and assist the group in combat. Simply selecting an enemy does not order an attack: attack it yourself or use Start when you want an explicit pull.
• They eat and drink on their own, and do not roll against players for loot. Loot and equipment explains automatic gear upgrades and shared preparations.
• A regular companion arrives at its source character’s level. A legacy copy arrives at the realm’s level cap. Hires based on lower-level alts do not automatically become your current character’s level.
• Use Pause to hold damage dealers, Pull to give a tank time, and focus marks to control kill order. Keep enemies marked for crowd control away from area damage.
• A logout keeps your roster for up to one hour. A server restart ends the active hires; the first-hour location waiver still has other hiring conditions.

For a difficult fight, learn the Commands rather than repeatedly issuing every order. Companion Behavior answers why one stops moving, how death works and what to expect after a disconnect.

What comes next

• Set up your controls with the Control Panel or macros.
• Learn roles and talent builds, then individual spell and healing settings.
• Earn licenses for stronger regular hires and develop Legacy Companions from your own heroes.
• Use Leveling, Tips and Boss Strategies as your group grows.

Regular slots, alts and a larger company

Each character begins with one regular companion slot. Handing in Basics II, III and IV increases that character’s limit to two, three and four. These rewards belong to the character, so complete them on each source you want to hire from.

Invite hiring uses another character on your account as the source. Its level, earned licenses and regular capacity decide what is eligible; the character you are playing pays and leads the hire. One source reaching its four-slot limit does not consume a different source’s four slots.

A max-level source can also supply one free legacy copy outside its regular slots. Eight fully developed sources offer enough capacity to form a full raid, but the player and other real members occupy raid places too. Group size and the instance’s entry requirements still apply.

Reaching the level cap also unlocks account Legacy bonuses, including faster development for later characters. These account bonuses are separate from hiring a copy of a character.

Speak to the innkeeper

Go to a friendly inn and speak directly to its innkeeper. The companion options are part of the innkeeper’s menu, alongside the ordinary services that NPC offers.

Choose Hire Companions to build your roster, or Companion Services for preparations and other tools. Your starting quest giver can still introduce your first hire. A Field Recruitment Officer provides a portable hiring route when you have that optional tool.

Friendly matters: enemy faction NPCs are still hostile, and hiring an opposing-faction source has location restrictions. Use Hiring conditions when planning a neutral meeting place.

Hire companions for your current character

1. Select Hire Companions. Your current character is selected first; check the character name, level and available regular slots.
2. Choose basic equipment or a license that character has unlocked. A higher tier changes the available equipment and hiring price. On TBC, Classic and Outland licenses have separate eligibility.
3. Choose Quick for a role-based hire, or Custom to make the available class, role and appearance choices yourself.
4. Review the source character, equipment tier, role, available slots and quoted price. Confirm when the choices are right; Back lets you change them.

Quick hire lets the server choose the class and appearance for the role you request and gives a 25% hiring discount. Custom hire gives you more control. The final quote includes the discounts that apply to that route; Hiring Costs explains the formula and calculator.

A level-one regular hire costs at least one copper. You begin with one regular slot, then earn more through The Basics. If another companion is still being prepared, wait for it to finish before confirming another hire.

Hire for another character: the Invite route

Choose Hire for another character to select a character on the same game account. Its level, unlocked slots and earned licenses decide which regular companions can be hired. The character you are playing pays for the hire and leads it.

1. Open Hire Companions and select Hire for another character.
2. Choose the source character, then review its name, level and regular-slot count.
3. Select a license that source has earned, then use Quick or Custom and review the final quote.

This is the hiring route called Invite in the Control Panel. It hires companions using an alt’s progress; it does not turn that alt into a Legacy copy. One source reaching its regular-slot limit does not spend another source’s slots.

For an opposing-faction source, use an eligible neutral innkeeper or field hiring object outside faction capitals. The location and faction checks still apply even when another character owns the license.

Hire a Legacy companion

A Legacy companion is a copy of a maximum-level character you have developed. It brings the supported equipped gear, permanent enchants, known spells and talents from that source. It is a different route from hiring regular companions for an alt.

On Vanilla, Hire Legacy Companions is below Hire for another character in the hiring menu. On The Burning Crusade, look in Companion Services. Select an eligible source and a supported role. If you have no eligible source yet, the requirements option explains what you need.

Legacy copies are free and use separate capacity from regular hires. Each qualifying source can have one active Legacy copy, while the party or raid still has its overall size limit. Eligibility is level 60 on Vanilla and level 70 on TBC. Read Legacy Companions for the complete source, equipment and capacity rules.

Companion Services

An unavailable service can show a requirements option. Read that explanation rather than assuming the whole menu is broken. Hiring fees, paid world-buff packages and a free Legacy copy are separate transactions.

Before purchasing world buffs

Armaments begin with qualifying tier-three progression. On Vanilla the purchaser must also be level 60. The group needs at least ten total members, including companions, and the purchase has a two-hour group and player cooldown.

Gather the group near the purchaser before buying. Buffs affect friendly recipients in range; a distant, dead or late-arriving member should check their actual auras. World Buffs and Armaments lists the packages, gold costs, progression and cooldown rules for both realms.

Find an innkeeper

These are useful city innkeepers, rather than every hiring location. The TBC icon marks innkeepers added with The Burning Crusade. Speak to an innkeeper who is friendly to you; Shattrath is neutral, while faction-capital hiring restrictions still apply.

Capital and Shattrath innkeepers — TBC icons mark added locations

City	Innkeeper
Stormwind	Innkeeper Allison
Ironforge	Innkeeper Firebrew
Darnassus	Innkeeper Saelienne
Orgrimmar	Innkeeper Gryshka
Undercity	Innkeeper Norman
Thunder Bluff	Innkeeper Pala
The Exodar	Caregiver Breel
Silvermoon City	Innkeeper Velandra
Silvermoon City	Innkeeper Jovia
Shattrath City	Minalei
Shattrath City	Innkeeper Haelthol

Capital innkeepers on Vanilla also let you continue The Basics, start Lead by Example and follow companion license quests. TBC’s starting quest giver offers Basics I–IV; the Beginner’s Guide explains the different lesson chains. A quest appearing depends on your level and previous hand-ins; read its objectives before gathering materials.

The first Basics lesson begins at your race’s starting quest giver. Completing the objective and handing the quest in is what awards progress; simply reaching the required level does not unlock the next slot.

Keep the inn useful between adventures

The innkeeper retains the normal services that NPC offers. Set your Hearthstone home through the home-setting option, buy available food and drink, and collect or hand in the quests shown in the menu. Seasonal options can appear when their event is active.

Visit before a dungeon or raid to check your hires and preparations. A Hearthstone home near your current quest hub can make the next quest hand-in or supply stop easier.

Estimate a hire

Choose the realm, level, license and applicable discounts below. The calculator helps compare choices; check the actual in-game quote before paying, especially when hiring for another character.

A regular hire never costs less than one copper. Even a discount of 100% or more leaves that minimum, so a new character still needs some money. Legacy copies are a separate, free hiring route.

How the price is worked out

1. Begin with the base price for the character the companion is hired for. At level 60 the base is 1 gold; at level 70 it is 2 gold. Lower levels have smaller base prices.
2. Apply the count multiplier: first regular companion ×1, second ×1.5, third ×2.5, fourth and later ×5. Legacy copies are excluded from this regular count.
3. Apply the selected license multiplier. Vanilla licenses require a level-60 source; on The Burning Crusade, Classic licenses require level 60 or higher and Outland licenses require level 70.
4. Add the applicable discount percentages, subtract them from 100%, then apply the remaining share of the price. The final hire costs at least one copper.

On The Burning Crusade, NPC hiring evaluates the selected source’s qualifying shirt and PvP title; command and direct Control Panel hiring evaluates the paying character’s shirt and title. Do not copy a discount assumption from one route to another.

See Licenses for the gear each ladder represents and how to unlock it. The license affects starting equipment, not the source character’s level.

Discounts and the one-copper minimum

These reductions add rather than multiply. For example, Quick hire plus a qualifying shirt reduces the price by 40%, leaving 60% to pay. Legacy has no separate ten-character or 25% cap; once all reductions total 100% or more, the regular hire reaches its one-copper floor.

Discounts do not unlock a race, role, license or slot that is otherwise unavailable. A random Quick hire is chosen from eligible recruits, and the actual race can determine whether its Exalted discount applies.

Where and when you can hire

• Normally stand within ten yards of a friendly innkeeper, a supported starting hiring quest giver or a usable field hiring object. Speak directly to the innkeeper; check the nearby NPC or object rather than standing elsewhere in the town.
• You must be alive, out of combat and off a flight. Hiring is blocked inside battlegrounds and while a previous recruit is still being initialized. Group capacity and source regular slots must be available.
• Hiring for an opposing-faction source requires a neutral innkeeper or suitable field object outside faction capitals. Enemy capitals are blocked; a field object does not bypass that restriction. Shattrath is neutral on The Burning Crusade.
• The first hour after a server restart waives the usual hiring-location requirement. It does not waive faction-capital, combat, death, flight, battleground, license, money or capacity checks.
• The server’s chat explanation and the hiring quote describe a failed requirement. Correct it before repeating the hire.

Logging out and restarts and recovery explain how long a paid hire remains with you and the limits of refunds.

What a Vanilla license gives

On Vanilla, a license requires a level-60 source. Dungeon T1D–T5D and raid T1R–T5R are separate equipment ladders: one hire uses one tier, and the two ladders do not stack. Sets are selected for the class and role, including accessories. Without a license, regular hires use leveling equipment and suitable copies of gear your group picks up.

A different class or role receives its own suitable set, rather than the tank’s items. Some class talent builds also change with the tier. Roles and Talents explains these differences and how to inspect the actual build.

Licensed mages and warlocks have more service charges, from two at tier one to six at tier five. The unlicensed allowance is one. This affects portals, summoning and mage supply trades; the service payment is separate from the hire price.

Resistance sets require the appropriate license and your own preparation. Fire and Onyxia Scale Cloak sets begin at tier one, shadow at tier two, nature and the Viscidus set at tier three, and frost at tier four. The Vanilla resistance check is 255 in the corresponding resistance; the Viscidus set uses nature resistance. Wear your own Onyxia Scale Cloak for the cloak set.

Tier three and later also offer purchasable raid buffs. Raid progression and recognition explains entry access separately: equipment licenses and raid-entry objectives serve different purposes.

Vanilla dungeon licenses

Each tier has a recognition quest for a boss kill, followed by its license quest. Capital innkeepers offer the recognition quests from level 50. The license hand-ins require level 60 and progress through the tiers in order.

Use your current quest log to confirm the exact required items before gathering them. Required hand-in items are consumed. For T2D, the engineer-made Field Repair Bot 74A is the requested item; the similarly named quest reward is a different item. After the final dungeon tier, look for Celebrations! at the capital innkeeper.

Vanilla raid licenses and entry progression

The capital innkeepers offer a raid chain that combines a boss objective and a hand-in. The quests can begin from level 50, but the equipment license works on a level-60 companion. Hand in the earlier stage to open the next.

Dungeon recognition also provides alternate entry routes for some raids: Counter Strategy for Zul’Gurub and A Blood Sacrifice for the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj. Realm event gates still apply; Naxxramas access is affected while the Ahn’Qiraj opening event runs. See the complete raid-access explanation rather than treating a license item as every attunement.

Tokens of Mastery and raid Essences

Tokens of Mastery come from high-level dungeon bosses, with other chances and repeatable trial quests along the way. Hakkar and Ossirian are also part of the dungeon-token progression; the Dire Maul tribute can supply tokens. Battleground mark hand-ins provide another route. Tokens of Mastery can be traded.

The final bosses Ragnaros, Nefarian, C’Thun and Kel’Thuzad supply their raid’s tokens. Six tokens combine into that raid’s Essence: use one while carrying the other five. Keep the correct Essence for the next license hand-in.

Griznak the Collector in Booty Bay and Blackrock Depths offers these exchanges once per raid week after the relevant raid’s final boss is dead in your saved raid. The exchange is an additional progression route, not a way to skip the required boss objective.

Hiring with a Vanilla license

NPC and Invite hiring use the licenses earned by the selected source character. A higher tier includes access to lower tiers on the same ladder, so you can choose a less expensive tier or no license. The source must have enough regular slots and be level 60 for a licensed hire.

Direct .z add, Quick Hire and Detailed Hire use license items in your current character’s bags; the bank is not searched. Carry the desired license and leave higher alternatives in the bank when you want to control that route’s automatic tier choice. Use Invite for an explicit source and tier.

A companion always arrives at the source character’s level. See Invite command examples and the Invite window.

License ownership and replacements

Licenses belong to the character that earned them and are not consumed when hiring. An alt hire uses that character’s progression and slots; you pay and lead the companion. A lost license item does not erase the completed quest used by NPC and Invite hiring.

Ask Warton Stratford in Stormwind Keep or Dust Brokenwolf in Grommash Hold, Orgrimmar, about lost licenses or recognition documents. Check the offered replacement price before buying.

The website’s transfer requirements govern moving a character to The Burning Crusade, including its Vanilla raid progression. Carrying a document and earning its quest are different checks; review the transfer checklist for your character.

Equipment licenses on The Burning Crusade

Outland licenses O1R–O5R require a level-70 source and progress from dungeon equipment toward later Outland raids. Transferred Classic licenses T1R–T5R work from level 60 and provide the corresponding Vanilla-era equipment. Every class and role receives a suitable set.

Higher Outland tiers increase the hiring cost; the Classic tiers reduce the Outland base hiring price. A tier describes a class-and-role equipment set, not a guarantee that every slot has one item level. Inspect the actual companion gear in the roster or with list gear.

Licensed mages and warlocks have more portals, summons and supply-trade allowances, up to six at tier five. Charges and service payment are separate from the hiring fee. Armaments are available with qualifying tier-three progression and later.

Earning the Outland licenses

General Tiras’alan on the Terrace of Light in Shattrath offers the Outland chain from level 70. Complete and hand in each stage before taking the next. Each combines a boss objective with a required item; the current quest log gives the exact objective and hand-in.

The first stage also recognizes the Skyriss kill in heroic Arcatraz. Do not confuse earning equipment licenses with the individual dungeon, raid, key or quest requirements for entering the content.

Classic licenses carried forward

Classic raid licenses arrive through the Vanilla-to-TBC transfer path rather than being earned as an Outland license chain. They are usable from source level 60; Outland licenses only become eligible at 70. Between levels 60 and 69, a carried-forward Classic license is therefore the available licensed ladder.

Vanilla raid licenses explains that ladder. Expansions and transfers explains the current website requirements and what can be carried forward.

Selecting a TBC hire’s source and license

NPC and Invite hiring use the selected source’s earned quest progression and allow a tier choice. You can choose a lower eligible tier or no license. Source level, source capacity and race/class eligibility still apply.

Direct .z add and ordinary Quick or Detailed Hire select the highest license item in your current character’s bags. The bank is excluded, and Outland licenses rank above Classic licenses for this selection. Use Invite when you want an explicit tier.

Classic licenses require a source of level 60 or higher; Outland licenses require level 70. The companion takes its source’s level, not the paying character’s level. Hiring Costs describes the route-specific price and discount rules.

Progress belongs to the source character

Hand in the license quest to unlock its earned progression. NPC and Invite hiring can use that progress even if the physical license is lost; direct bag-based hiring needs the item. Choose another eligible character on your account to use its licenses and regular slots.

For an opposing-faction source, use a neutral innkeeper or a suitable field hiring object outside faction capitals. Location and faction conditions also apply during the restart hiring window.

Open the panel and bind your controls

• Click the minimap button or type /ccp or /mcp to show or hide the panel. The minimap button’s right-click menu offers extra windows and position/size reset controls.
• Use /ccpconfig or /mcpconfig for addon settings, and /ccpai or /mcpai for AI Personality.
• In Key Bindings, find the Companions Control Panel section. Bind the panel toggle or important individual orders, particularly Start, Stop and Come-S.
• The logo on the character sheet opens the Stats window. Addon settings control opening at login and whether Escape closes the panel.

The addon is supplied with the Microbot client. Download the current Control Panel for Vanilla or The Burning Crusade if you need its standalone package, and keep it matched to your client expansion.

Hiring from the panel

Use Quick for a role chosen at a discount, Detailed for a custom class and appearance, Invite for another source character and explicit license, or Legacy for a copy of a max-level hero. Hiring Costs and Licenses explain the eligibility and prices.

Quick Hire

Tank, Healer and DPS request one companion of the chosen role. The server chooses an eligible class, race, gender and supported specialization. This route earns a 25% discount and remains subject to reputation, source slots, group capacity and money checks.

Detailed Hire

1. Choose the class first. Changing it resets dependent selections.
2. Choose a supported role, then optional race, gender and specialization. Bracketed or unselected choices are randomized.
3. Review the price and chosen source before submitting the hire.

Race and class availability depends on the source character’s capital reputations. Vanilla has specific mage and paladin specialization choices. The Burning Crusade uses prepared role builds for regular hires; its optional specialization token does not change the talent tree. Companion Specialization explains mage schools, custom Legacy builds and choices after hiring.

Invite, Legacy and Remove

Invite selects another character on your account and a license it has earned. That character supplies the hire’s level, regular slots and license progression; you pay and lead it. Alt-hire pricing differs between the two expansions.

Legacy makes a free copy of one of your own max-level characters. It brings its equipped gear and permanent enhancements; one copy of each source can be active at a time. Legacy Companions explains what is copied.

Remove dismisses a selected companion after confirmation. Dismissing a paid hire does not refund its cost.

Review a hire before spending gold

Stand at an eligible hiring place, choose the hire and read the displayed price. With Confirm Hire enabled, the addon asks before sending a paid hire; Shift bypasses that addon question for the click. Direct chat commands do not receive the addon’s confirmation prompt.

An unaffordable price is shown in red; MAX indicates that the displayed regular capacity is full. The price tooltip explains its base, count step, license and discounts. The server can still reject a changed price or another requirement and reports the reason in chat.

Orders for one companion or the group

Target your companion to give compatible orders to it, or use the role/class selector to narrow the group. Include applies the selected role or class; excluding it applies the supported order to the others. Check a button’s tooltip for its individual selector support.

Right-click Pull to change the waiting duration, normally ten seconds. Modifier Targeting can select tanks with Shift, healers with Alt and damage dealers with Ctrl. Commands gives the full syntax and exceptions. Learn Pull Back to bring enemies into cleared space, then use Pause and Start to control when damage dealers engage.

Roles

Target a companion and choose Tank, Healer, melee DPS or ranged DPS. DPS means damage per second; here it describes a damage-dealing role. The two damage buttons are shortened to M.DPS (melee DPS) and R.DPS (ranged DPS) in the addon. Unsupported roles are unavailable.

The Companion Roles guide explains each job’s decisions, capabilities and class options. Classes and Talents covers class builds and inspecting the talents your hire actually uses. Changing a role does not automatically provide all the gear or talents that job needs.

Focus marks

A focus mark tells a companion which target to prioritize. Damage dealers use it for a kill order; a tank can use a different icon to hold a particular enemy. A healer can use a separate focus icon on a friendly group member for a healing assignment.

1. In Mark Configurator, choose Focus Mark, then a raid icon.
2. Apply it to the targeted companion or your supported group selection.
3. Put that same icon on the enemy you want attacked, or on the friendly group member you want the healer to prioritize.
4. Click Focus Mark to inspect assignments. Clear removes the selected kind; Clear-A removes both focus and crowd-control assignments.

Assigning an icon to a companion and placing that icon on a unit are two separate actions. Marking an untouched enemy alone does not issue an attack: engage it or use your normal Start order when ready. With several focus assignments, companions check them in assignment order for an eligible target.

Vanilla damage dealers begin with skull focus; TBC gives skull focus to non-tanks, including healers. Tanks can spread threat when they have no focus assignment. Use Focus Mark commands for the chat equivalent, and give controlled enemies a different crowd-control mark.

Crowd control

Crowd control temporarily stops or limits an enemy so the party can deal with fewer threats at once. A crowd-control mark reserves a target for a suitable control spell and tells companions to avoid ordinary damage on it. The addon calls this setting CC Mark.

1. Choose a companion with the right learned control spell for the enemy.
2. In Mark Configurator, choose CC Mark and a raid icon, then apply it to that companion.
3. Give the other companions the same protected mark, using your supported group selection, so they know which enemy to leave alone.
4. Put that icon on the enemy. During the fight, an eligible companion attempts its control spell while the others fight your chosen focus target.

A mage can Polymorph suitable humanoids or beasts; a priest can Shackle Undead; a warlock can Banish demons or elementals; a druid can Hibernate beasts or dragonkin. These are examples, not spells every hire has: level, talents, creature type, range, line of sight, immunity and spell blacklists affect whether a cast is possible.

Moon is a default crowd-control assignment on both Vanilla and TBC. Check the actual assignments after changing them or clearing marks. Assigning a mark does not give a class a new spell, and a mark by itself does not start a pull.

Damage can break control such as Polymorph or Shackle. Avoid attacking the protected target, damage-over-time effects and manual area-damage orders through the pack. Automatic routines can skip a control that ongoing damage would immediately break. Clear removes the selected mark kind; Clear-A clears both kinds, without restoring defaults. Crowd-control commands and practical control examples explain the matching chat orders and dungeon tactics.

Your roster and Companion Info

Active Companions shows each companion’s level, license, class-colored name and role. Durability warnings turn yellow as gear wears and red when something breaks. Right-click a row to inspect status, marks, consumable charges, settings and gear.

The Tanks control defines an order for supported boss encounters. The Gear row selects an eligible preset for a companion, role or group. Gear changes still require the relevant license, source preparation and supported preset.

Consumable information shows what companions have unlocked and how many charges remain. A shared consumable gives a charge; death spends a charge. Inspect this before a long run rather than assuming a previous supply lasts indefinitely. Shared food, elixirs and charges explains what to replenish.

The extra windows

Useful settings

• Keep Confirm Hire on while learning. Set opening at login and closing with Escape to suit your layout.
• The General/Chat options control automatic joining of the World channel.
• Command tooltips show their meaning and any assigned key binding.
• Use AI Personality to tune conversation separately from battle orders; turning conversational replies off does not remove every short combat notification.

Build a small set of reliable controls

1. Open the client’s Macros window, create a macro and choose an icon.
2. Enter one order, put it on your action bar and bind a convenient key.
3. Try it with a companion outside combat before using it during a difficult pull.

The client versions have different macro systems. Do not assume retail conditional syntax works in the Vanilla client. Control Panel key bindings are the simplest shared option when you do not need custom Lua.

The most useful orders to bind

Come, Stay, Move and AoE can also be useful, but do not bind more controls than you can distinguish under pressure. A role-specific Come-S is useful for positioning only the tank, melee or backline.

Orders while your character is dead

A plain command is normally sent through Say, which the client blocks while dead. Prefix a companion macro with /p to send the server command through party chat. The command’s normal ownership and gameplay conditions still apply.

/p .z start

One button for Follow and Unfollow

This chooses Follow when you target a friendly unit, otherwise Unfollow. The following order still needs an eligible group member and the normal distance/combat conditions.

/run if UnitIsFriend("player","target") then SendChatMessage(".z follow","PARTY") else SendChatMessage(".z unfollow","PARTY") end

Vanilla client macros

The following examples concern the Vanilla 1.12 client. Keep them separate from your TBC macros and verify that the named ability is learned before using them.

Alternate gathering tracking

When you know both gathering tracking spells, this alternates Find Herbs and Find Minerals. Multiple professions are explained in Professions.

/run if mbTrack~=1 then CastSpellByName("Find Herbs") mbTrack=1 else CastSpellByName("Find Minerals") mbTrack=0 end

Ranged attacks

Put the learned Shoot ability appropriate to your equipped weapon on the action bar: bow, crossbow or gun. For a companion ranged pull, inspect list spells and request its known attack with cast.

Corner pulling explains how to keep the party staged while a ranged attack brings the pack to you.

Start a rogue’s autoattack

For this Vanilla rogue example, place the Attack ability in action slot 13, the first slot of the second main action-bar page. The macro casts Sinister Strike and starts autoattack if that action is not already active.

/cast Sinister Strike
/script if not IsCurrentAction(13) then AttackTarget() end

Long macros and optional addons

Ordinary companion orders fit in normal macros. If you use SuperMacro or another addon to maintain longer client scripts, choose a compatible version and follow its instructions for your expansion.

The Control Panel provides hiring choices, confirmations, mark configuration and class services. Review each source and price before assembling a full roster.

Ask for a specific class buff

Whisper a known spell request to your current companion, or set its normal blessing/totem choice. This avoids a macro permanently tied to the name of a previous hire. Cast, blessings and totems give the supported inputs.

A regular hiring macro

/p .z add warrior tank human male

Chat hiring charges immediately when accepted and does not show the addon’s confirmation. Be at a valid hiring place with money and a free slot, and carry the intended bag license. Do not repeat it unless you want another paid hire.

Invite hiring macros

/p .z addinvite Myhero t5r warrior tank human male

Invite uses earned source progression rather than the current character’s bag license. Replace the name and tier with your actual character and unlocked license; check that source’s capacity and the realm’s price-count rule.

Build a raid deliberately, checking each source’s slots and the group’s remaining places. The first hour after a restart relaxes location only; it does not make a bulk hiring macro exempt from the other checks.

Choose a job for each companion

A role is the job you ask a companion to do. Its class supplies the abilities; its role changes how it chooses targets, positions itself and uses those abilities. DPS means damage per second and is the usual name for a damage-dealing job. Melee DPS fights up close; ranged DPS attacks from a distance.

Choose the role when hiring, or target an active companion and use the Control Panel’s role buttons to select a supported job. Classes and Talents lists the class options and explains the prepared builds. A role change alone is not a full gear replacement or talent respec; inspect the hire before relying on a new assignment.

For a five-person dungeon party, one tank, one healer and three damage dealers is a useful starting point, counting your own character too. Add the tools the dungeon needs, such as an interrupt, a dispel or crowd control. Dungeons and Raids explain preparing a larger group.

Tank

The tank takes the front line and tries to keep enemies attacking it. Threat is an enemy’s measure of who has its attention; tank routines use their available attacks, taunts and defensive abilities to build that attention and survive it.

Without a specific focus assignment, a tank can switch between attackers to build threat and pick enemies off vulnerable party members, with attention to protecting healers. A focus mark can reserve it for one enemy when several tanks have different jobs. The exact tools depend on its class: a warrior’s shield and stance logic differ from a druid’s bear form or a paladin’s spells.

Warriors, paladins, druids and shamans support the companion tank role. Shaman tanking is a custom supported job; their defensive and threat tools differ, so choose a suitable class and prepared gear for the encounter.

Give the tank time to establish the pull, and position the fight where your healer can reach it. Pull can hold damage dealers while the tank starts; Dungeon and Boss Strategies explains bringing a pack back to a safer position.

Healer

The healer’s first job is to keep the group alive. It checks injuries, healing already being cast, spell range and available mana, then chooses an appropriate heal. Target selection gives weight to real players and tanks, especially a tank taking hits, rather than treating every missing point of health as the same priority.

The class determines its support: priests can bring shields, druids healing over time, paladins blessings and protection, and shamans totems and chain healing when those spells are learned. Suitable dispels, buffs and emergency abilities are part of the class toolkit. Companions with a resurrection spell can raise group members after combat.

Priests, paladins, druids and shamans support the healer role. A friendly focus mark can give a healer a particular group member to prioritize. Healing thresholds let you tune when it heals; Healing and support explains the wider support logic.

Keep the group within reach and give the healer room to recover mana between pulls. A tank behind a wall or a party spread beyond spell range cannot be healed simply because a healer is present.

Melee DPS

A melee damage dealer fights within weapon range, using its class’s attacks and resources. It approaches the selected enemy and keeps within reach while the tank holds its attention. Its rotation chooses suitable strikes, finishers and cooldowns for the target and situation.

Warriors, rogues, paladins, shamans and druids support melee DPS. Their extra tools differ: a rogue can interrupt with Kick, a warrior with Pummel, and a hybrid class can contribute class support or off-healing when its build and resources permit.

Melee damage follows eligible focus targets and uses threat-aware attack routines. That still needs a tank with control of the fight. Use Pause during a careful pull and keep melee clear of dangerous boss positions; encounter movement and explicit orders can change where they stand. Pull Back helps bring the fight away from nearby packs before you release them.

Ranged DPS

A ranged damage dealer uses spells or a ranged weapon while maintaining a useful distance. Class routines choose attacks, manage resources and use suitable cooldowns. Hunters also manage their pet and the space needed for ranged attacks; casters need a clear line of sight and enough mana to keep casting.

Hunters, mages, warlocks, priests, shamans and druids support ranged DPS. Their capabilities differ: mages can interrupt with Counterspell and control suitable enemies with Polymorph; warlocks bring demons and valid Banish targets; damage-role priests and other healing hybrids can provide off-healing. These tools depend on learned spells and the actual build.

Ranged damage follows eligible focus targets, considers threat, and can provide crowd control when the class has a compatible spell. Keep sight lines open and use Come-S or Stay when you want to stage the backline in a particular place.

Class support and your orders

Roles describe the main job, not the whole toolkit. A damage dealer can still interrupt, dispel, buff or help heal if its class, spells and resources support it. Off-healing is supplementary healing from a damage-role hybrid; it can be useful in suitable content, but sustained damage may call for a dedicated healer. Choosing classes for curses, fears and dangerous casts explains how to fill the basic roles while keeping the counters a dungeon needs.

Level, licenses, gear and talents affect the tools available. Inspect spells, talents and the roster’s Companion Info instead of expecting every hire with the same role to behave identically.

Your commands, focus marks and crowd-control assignments give the plan. Companion Combat Logic describes the automatic responses, including encounter support. The party still needs your pull choices, preparation and positioning.

Choose a role before a talent picture

The Companion Roles guide explains what tanks, healers, melee DPS and ranged DPS do in the party. This page covers each class’s supported jobs and builds.

Regular companions use class-and-role builds selected for their level, tier and expansion. An unlicensed hire uses its leveling build; licensed hires can use a different prepared build. Leveling talents may be filled a pane and row at a time, so an important talent can arrive later than in a human player’s preferred leveling order.

For a build you design yourself, develop a Legacy companion: its source character’s learned talents and spells are copied with its equipped gear. Companion Specialization explains how to combine those choices with mage schools, spell blacklists and support settings.

Changing the role with .z set changes behavior and available job selection, but it is not a guarantee of a complete new gear set or talent respec. Hire for the intended job, inspect the actual talents and choose an eligible gear preset when appropriate.

Inspect the current build

Inspect the companion’s actual allocation, especially after a role or tier change. Companion Info and Whispers provide its details.

Warrior

Tank or melee DPS. A tank controls threat and defensive cooldowns; damage builds use melee attacks. Faction, tier and role can affect the build.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Paladin

Tank, healer or melee DPS. Auras, blessings, protection and healing support the group. Vanilla might/magic choices distinguish supported tank and melee styles.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Hunter

Ranged DPS. Uses a ranged weapon and pet, manages range and supplies ammunition. A valid tranquilizing shot can help with an enrage.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Rogue

Melee DPS. Uses poisons, control and melee attacks; can lockpick supported boxes, doors and chests.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Priest

Healer or ranged DPS. Healing, shields, dispels and undead control remain class tools; a damage-role priest can support with off-healing.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Mage

Ranged DPS. School and tier affect its spells. Conjures supplies, controls valid targets and offers known portals.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Warlock

Ranged DPS. Damage, demons, healthstones, soulstones and summoning; banish needs a suitable demon or elemental.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Druid

Tank, healer, melee DPS or ranged DPS. Form and role decide its job. Healing support and utility still depend on available mana and learned spells.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Shaman

Supported tank, healer, melee DPS or ranged DPS roles. Totem support, healing and attacks vary by role and expansion. A supported tank role is a custom companion job, not a claim that every encounter is best tanked by one.

Choose the intended role when hiring, then inspect its current talents and spells. The role’s equipment tier and source progression matter; a role label alone does not make every build identical.

Choose what the party needs

Two companions of the same class can contribute differently. Their role, talent build, equipped gear, learned spells and individual settings all matter. You can plan for steady damage, a tougher front line, stronger healing or a particular support tool.

Start with the job: tank, healer, melee DPS or ranged DPS. Then choose a class with the abilities your party needs. For example, a mage brings curse removal and suitable crowd control alongside its damage; a healing hybrid can bring a different set of dispels, buffs or totems. Dungeon preparation helps you match those tools to curses, fears and dangerous casts.

Customize a regular hire

At a friendly innkeeper, choose Custom hiring, or use Detailed Hire in the Control Panel. Choose the class and a supported role, then the race, gender and specialization choices offered. Quick Hire instead chooses the class for your requested role.

Regular companions receive prepared talents and equipment for their class, role and progression. Vanilla offers Fire, Frost and Arcane mage choices, and Might or Magic styles for supported paladin tank and melee builds. Other classes use their prepared role builds. TBC regular hires also use prepared role builds; adding a school name to its hire command does not replace their talents.

Use Classes and Talents to compare supported jobs and inspect the result. Changing an active companion’s role changes its assignment; it does not automatically rebuild all its talents and equipment. Hire for the intended job, or build your own Legacy source when you want direct control of the talent allocation.

Mage schools: Fire, Frost and Arcane

• Fire: Fireball-driven damage with supported Fire tools such as Pyroblast and Combustion when learned. Build around the Fire spells you want it to use and the enemies you plan to fight.
• Frost: Frostbolt damage and slows, with learned defensive tools such as Ice Barrier and Cold Snap. In TBC, a build that knows Summon Water Elemental also gives the AI that pet option.
• Arcane: Arcane Missiles and learned damage cooldowns such as Arcane Power. TBC also has logic for learned Arcane Blast. Gear, mana and the target’s defenses affect what is useful.

Vanilla’s selected school guides the normal damage routine, with other known schools available when its main attack is blacklisted or the target is immune. TBC compares usable Frostbolt, Fireball and Arcane Missiles damage, taking spell bonuses and cast times into account. Your Legacy mage’s talents and gear therefore affect that choice, rather than a hire-menu label forcing one school.

A mage still has class utility outside its main damage school: interrupts, curse removal and crowd control remain useful when the required spells are known. Choosing Fire does not mean giving up every Frost or Arcane ability.

Build your own Legacy specialist

A Legacy companion lets you design the source character yourself. Choose its talents, train its spells, equip it and enchant its gear, then hire the copy while playing another character. Its learned talent allocation, including passive bonuses and talent-granted abilities, comes with it; a regular hiring template does not replace that build.

Develop a Fire-focused mage, a defensive warrior or a healer built around the support your party needs. The class routines use supported learned abilities when the role and situation call for them. Talents that improve an existing spell affect that spell too. This makes both your build and your equipment meaningful choices; the AI still chooses casts rather than replaying a player’s exact rotation.

A Vanilla Legacy mage normally detects its damage school from the talent tree with the most points, unless you explicitly choose a school for the hire. That choice changes its damage routine, not the talents copied from your character.

Prepare the source before hiring, and remove and rehire its copy after changing the source’s build or equipped gear. A currently hired copy is not a live mirror of later character changes. Sources must be level 60 on Vanilla or 70 on TBC; each eligible source can have one active free Legacy copy, separate from its regular companion slots.

Guide automatic casts with a blacklist

Whisper blacklist commands directly to the companion to exclude a spell from its ordinary automatic casting. For example, deny add Fear avoids that automatic fear when fleeing enemies could reach another pack. deny add Blink can keep a mage from choosing Blink when you want to manage its position yourself.

• deny add <spell> excludes a named spell from normal automatic use.
• deny list shows that companion’s current blacklist.
• deny remove <spell> allows that spell again; deny remove all clears the list.

You can also exclude a damage spell such as Fireball to leave other eligible attacks available. This blocks that spell, not every spell of its school, and does not change talents or prescribe a complete rotation. Keep useful attacks and essential support available. An explicit cast request or direct area-damage order is a separate instruction, so a blacklist is not a safety lock against a spell you deliberately order.

Tune support and give precise orders

• Healing: adjust healing thresholds and off-healing to decide when supported healing takes priority. A damage-role hybrid can help heal while still having a main damage job.
• Party support: choose suitable paladin blessings, shaman totems or a supported pet choice for the group you are building.
• Target assignments: use focus marks for attack or healing priorities, and separate crowd-control marks for enemies you want controlled.
• Direct requests: ask for a known spell when you need a particular action. Use group commands and positioning controls to decide when and where the party fights.

These choices work after hiring, so customization continues as you learn a dungeon or change the party. They use the companion’s actual toolkit: an off-healing setting does not teach a mage a heal, and a crowd-control mark does not give a class a new spell.

Combine specialization with stronger gear

Upgrade, enhance and specialize work together. Licenses improve the available equipment for regular hires. A Legacy specialist grows through the gear you earn and equip on its own source character. Eligible gear presets let regular companions use supported equipment choices when their progression permits.

Then prepare the company through Lead by Example: suitable enchants, weapon enhancements, food, elixirs and Engineering explosives can strengthen several companions. A well-chosen build, appropriate gear and shared preparations can make a substantial combined difference to damage, healing and survival.

Try, inspect and refine

1. Choose a goal for one companion: the role, damage school or support your party needs.
2. Customize a regular hire, or develop and equip an eligible Legacy source. Hire for a supported role that fits the build.
3. Inspect the result in Companion Info, or whisper list talents, list spells and list gear.
4. Add only the spell exclusions and support settings that help your plan. Use deny list to check them, including on a fresh hire.
5. Try the companion in a manageable fight, watch what it uses and refine the build, preparation or orders. Restore excluded spells when the next encounter needs them.

For example, prepare a mage for a curse-heavy dungeon, keep its curse removal available, choose suitable damage and assign a valid crowd-control target. Alongside the tank and healer, that gives the party a planned contribution beyond simply adding another damage dealer.

Your preparation strengthens the party

An enchant on your equipment or a consumable you use can do more than improve your own character. The sharing system gives nearby companions a supported equivalent, chosen for their class, role, equipment and level. Preparing one hero can therefore improve several members of the same party.

Think beyond damage alone: a tougher tank can survive heavier hits, a healer can benefit from healing or mana support, and melee and ranged damage dealers can finish enemies sooner. Small improvements across several characters can make a substantial difference to a dungeon or raid.

Make preparation part of progression. Licenses improve regular companions’ equipment, professions provide the enhancements, and companion roles determine which versions are useful. The gain depends on the party and its starting gear; there is no single damage multiplier for every group.

How to share a preparation

1. Hire the companions you want to prepare, and gather them in your group within 40 yards of you. Use a safe place where the party can recover and apply buffs.
2. Use the supported food, elixir, scroll or explosive, or apply the enhancement to your own equipped item. Crafting or carrying an item alone does not share its effect.
3. Let companions apply their suitable effects between fights. A healer may receive a different version from a melee damage dealer; matching your own buff name is not the goal.
4. Open the Control Panel’s Info and gear views and check the result. Recheck after changing the party, hiring replacements or recovering from deaths.

Sharing uses supported preparations and compatible equipment. A companion that is too low level, has no suitable item or already has a stronger effect may not receive a new one. Your preparations do not automatically buff other real players in the group; those players prepare their own characters.

Permanent enchants and armor kits

Put supported permanent enchants on your own equipped gear. Regular companions receive appropriate enhancements on their corresponding armor slots, while weapon enchants can improve compatible weapon slots. The chosen enchant suits the companion’s job rather than blindly copying your exact stats.

Leatherworking armor kits use this equipment-enhancement system too. Their value extends beyond the armor you apply them to: an eligible regular companion can receive a suitable enhancement for that slot. An armor kit and an ordinary permanent enchant occupy the same permanent enchant slot; they are not two separate bonuses on one item.

A stronger suitable enchant is preserved. Enchanting a weak item repeatedly does not create extra stacking enchants. Keep improving the quality of your own supported preparations as you level and develop your professions.

New regular hires also receive suitable permanent enhancements based on their source character’s equipped enchants. For Legacy companions, permanently equip and enchant the actual source character before hiring its copy. Vanilla preserves that copied permanent equipment; TBC can also share a suitable permanent enchant with an active copy, but this does not update the source character.

Weapon stones and oils

Sharpening stones, weightstones and weapon oils are temporary weapon preparations. Applying a supported one to your own weapon teaches nearby companions a suitable version for their role and compatible weapon. You do not need to apply the same item by hand to every companion.

For example, a high-tier sharpening stone can give a melee fighter a suitable stone, a healer mana oil and a caster wizard oil. Class and weapon rules still matter: companions with their own weapon imbues may use those instead. A stronger learned preparation is not downgraded by sharing a weaker one.

These temporary effects are separate from permanent weapon enchants, so both are worth preparing. Companions reapply their learned weapon preparation between fights when appropriate. The consumable charge rule below does not describe these learned weapon enhancements.

Food, elixirs and shared charges

Eating supported food or using a supported elixir, flask or scroll gives eligible nearby companions a suitable consumable effect and a charge for it. They can keep refreshing the effect while charges remain, rather than spending another charge every time a buff expires.

• One charge supports that companion until its next death. Death spends one charge from each of its shared consumable effects; when no charges remain, share the appropriate preparation again.
• Sharing the same supported rank again can build a reserve of charges. A stronger replacement can change the assigned effect, so inspect the actual remaining count rather than assuming old charges carry across.
• Compatible categories can complement one another, such as food and an elixir. Conflicting effects replace one another: eating many different foods does not stack every food bonus, and TBC flasks compete with battle and guardian elixirs.
• Supported effects can also help companion pets. Their preparations and death charges are tracked separately from their owner’s.

For example, share a suitable food while your party is gathered. An eligible companion can refresh its assigned food buff through several successful pulls using that one charge. After it dies and spends the last charge, prepare it again before the next attempt.

Use Info and Consumables to inspect effects and remaining charges. Knowing a preparation and having charges for it are different things. Eternal consumables offer reusable items for repeated preparation; their own cooldowns still apply.

Engineering explosives

Engineering adds useful combat tools as well as gear. Throwing supported dynamite or using a supported bomb near your group can unlock a suitable explosive for companions of sufficient level. Making the item or leaving it in your bags does not perform this sharing step.

An unlocked explosive becomes an available tool; companions choose when to use it according to their combat logic, targets and cooldowns. This can add useful damage against clustered enemies, but it does not mean every companion throws a bomb at every target. Explosive unlocks are separate from the consumable charge counter.

Keep crowd control and safe positioning in mind. Area damage is useful on the right pull, and dangerous when it breaks control or catches another pack. Learning to lead the fight remains part of making a stronger party.

Make professions part of progression

Professions give you practical ways to improve your company throughout leveling and at maximum level. Microbot lets you learn every profession on one character, so you can develop the trades your party needs without the usual two-primary-profession restriction.

• Cooking: make and eat supported food to share suitable companion food buffs.
• Alchemy: use supported elixirs, flasks and other preparations for useful combat buffs.
• Blacksmithing: apply supported sharpening stones or weightstones to share temporary weapon preparations.
• Leatherworking: apply supported armor kits to your equipped gear for suitable regular-companion enhancements.
• Enchanting: improve your equipped items with supported permanent enchants; weapon oils provide a separate temporary preparation.
• Engineering: craft and use supported bombs or dynamite to unlock companion combat tools.

On Vanilla, capital innkeepers offer the Lead by Example quest series: four rounds of six profession lessons. Follow the requested recipe and action, keep a companion nearby and complete the hand-in. Later lessons introduce stronger preparations, then the profession journey continues through Wubba Duckie and Grimando.

You can use supported sharing before finishing the entire quest series. The lessons teach the system and offer rewards; the last quest is not a requirement for every shared preparation. Account recipe sharing and Eternals make developing useful crafts valuable for future characters too.

Before a dungeon or raid

1. Review your own equipment and supported permanent enchants. Check the gear and licenses of regular companions, and prepare Legacy source characters before hiring their copies.
2. Gather the party, apply a suitable weapon enhancement, eat useful food and use the consumables you want to share. Give companions time to apply their effects outside combat.
3. Check each companion’s gear, consumable effects and remaining charges in Info. Replenish after deaths and check newly hired companions.
4. Add encounter-specific preparation: resistance, dispels, interrupts and world buffs where useful. A well-buffed party still needs the right classes and tools.
5. Choose a safe fighting position and use Pull Back to bring enemies there. Good preparation and good control make each other more effective.

Build this habit while leveling instead of waiting for a difficult raid. Better weapons and licenses help, but food, enchants, weapon preparations and useful profession tools are another substantial part of the party’s strength. Dungeons and raid preparation explain how to put that strength into practice.

They fight with you

Companions ordinarily follow and assist while you or your group fight. Selecting an enemy alone does not issue an attack; your own attack or .z start does. Class AI chooses spells and positioning for its job, while explicit orders help you control careful pulls and difficult encounters.

Companion Combat Logic explains threat, healing, crowd control and positioning. It still rewards leading the group: a class does not acquire a missing spell just because the encounter needs it.

Why one stands still

Check whether it is staying, paused, eating or drinking. On Vanilla a companion can also wait while its leader is stealthed out of sight. The roster’s right-click Info shows its current state.

Move releases Stay; Unpause releases Pause; Start reactivates companions and orders an attack. Use the specific release you intend rather than Start when you only want to move around an enemy.

Eating and drinking

Companions provide their own food and water. When it is safe to rest and you stop moving, they can sit to recover missing health or mana; the ordinary resting thresholds are 100%.

Whisper set eat 50 or set drink 50 to delay resting until below half. These are resting thresholds, not their combat healing rules. A stopped or paused companion may still need its order released before acting normally.

When a companion dies

A companion with a suitable resurrection spell can raise dead group members after combat, and companions accept your resurrection too. Self-recovery requires their leader alive and the group out of combat; after a wipe, run back or resurrect yourself first.

A timer does not revive the group in the middle of combat. Confirm everyone is alive, recovered and supplied before the next pull.

Loot, equipment and preparation

Drops belong to the real players: companions do not roll against you, loot corpses or become the group looter. Hiring changes the group to free-for-all loot, so agree with other players on how to distribute valuable items. Gold and experience still use group-sharing rules; rewards are not simply multiplied by adding companions.

Regular unlicensed companions can equip suitable copies based on what your group picks up, without consuming your item. Licensed hires begin with a prepared class-and-role set. Legacy copies use the source character’s equipped items. Licenses and Legacy equipment explain the limits.

Your suitable enchants and preparations help nearby companions with an appropriate equivalent for their class, role and slot. Better suitable enchants are retained. Shared consumables supply charges, with death consuming a charge; the roster’s Info shows what remains. Their repairs do not charge you.

Lead by Example explains permanent and temporary enhancements, food, elixirs, shared charges and Engineering explosives, with a preparation checklist for your party.

Levels and the source character

A regular companion arrives at the level of the character it is hired for. Ordinary leveling hires grow as you do, but a hire sourced from a character two or more levels below you remains at that source level instead of being raised to your current level. Rehire an appropriate source when you need it to catch up.

A legacy companion arrives at max level: 60 on Vanilla, 70 on The Burning Crusade. A license changes equipment, not the source’s level or the group’s entry requirements.

Logging out or disconnecting

Your active roster is retained for up to one hour after logout or disconnection. Returning before expiry lets the companions regroup; after the retention window they leave. An ordinary logout timeout does not refund a paid hire.

A server restart is different because the active runtime roster cannot survive it. See the next section before assuming a disconnected hire has been lost permanently.

Restarts and hiring recovery

A restart ends the active companions, so you hire again. For the first hour afterward, the normal proximity-to-a-hiring-place check is waived. You still need a valid source, eligible license, money, capacity and a permitted faction/location state; you must be alive, out of combat, off a flight and outside battlegrounds.

Crash recovery can return recorded paid-hire costs by mail when eligible recovery records survive. It is not a universal refund for every recruitment route. An announced shutdown, dismissing a companion and the ordinary logout timeout are not crash-refund claims. Wandering adventurer recruitment is also distinct from the normal paid-hire recovery route.

If something seems missing, check your mail and the error or hiring messages before paying again. Report a failed expected recovery with the character, approximate hire time and the route you used.

Sending one away

Target the companion and use .z remove, or its Remove/X control in the addon. Check your target before issuing an unqualified Remove, because it can act on more than one hire. Paid dismissal has no refund.

On Vanilla, an ordinary unlicensed companion can return to its racial city as an adventurer. Upgraded and legacy hires leave directly. Ambient adventurers are not the same system as your persistent account characters.

Talking to companions

Whisper a companion, or address it by name in party chat, to converse when AI replies are enabled. It can speak about the adventure and react to events, separate from the mechanical orders described in Whispers.

Use the AI Personality guide for modes, styles, quiet settings, channels, personal context and saved voices. .settings personality off turns conversational AI replies off; brief battle notifications are a separate setting and may remain.

Use buttons or chat

The Control Panel provides common commands as buttons and key bindings. Type orders in chat when you want a precise selection or your own macro. Use the full command name: abbreviations can resolve differently between expansions.

Understanding commands

Every companion group command starts with .z. Type .z to ask the server for its available verbs. Commands require a companion you own or are allowed to control; being in the same group is not permission to dismiss somebody else’s hire.

Whispers adjust an individual companion’s spells and settings. AI Personality controls conversation; it does not execute combat orders for you.

Targets and selectors

Commands have individual targeting rules. Many movement and configuration orders affect a targeted companion, otherwise a selected role/class or your controllable group. A directly targeted companion takes priority over optional selectors on these dynamic commands. Start and Stop are group combat orders; do not assume every command has the same targeting.

Common selectors are tank for tanks, healer for healers, dps for all damage dealers, mdps for melee DPS, rdps for ranged DPS, or a class name. Where supported, a trailing not excludes that selection. Clear your companion target when you intend an order such as .z pause dps to affect all damage dealers.

Read the syntax

Square brackets show optional inputs and angle brackets show a required input. Do not type the brackets themselves. Keep the arguments in the printed order; for example .z pause 30 tank not pauses everyone except tanks for thirty seconds when you are not targeting a companion.

Spell and character names sometimes contain spaces. The Control Panel handles the correct format for its controls. For a command you are unsure about, read the server’s usage response before spending gold or using it during a pull.

Choose the order you need

Combat orders

For an ordinary fight, let the tank make contact before releasing damage dealers. An explicit Start can end a pause or stay, so avoid accidentally undoing your preparation. Pull Back in practice shows how to choose a safe fighting position, draw enemies away from patrols and release the party when the pull is ready.

Start

Stop

Pause

Unpause

Pull

Order an area spell

Movement orders

Stay fixes the current location; Come-S fixes your current location; Move releases a stay. Use these to stage a careful pull. Dungeon tactics shows an actual corner-pulling sequence.

Come

Stay

Come and stay

Move

Follow another member

Return to following you

Roles and marks

Set a supported role, assign focus or crowd-control icons, then mark the intended enemy or friendly healing target. A mark assignment is separate from putting the icon on a unit.

Change a role

Focus marks

Crowd-control marks

Clear marks

Automatic area spells

Hiring and dismissing

Paid chat hires act immediately when accepted. Check prices and requirements first. Invite and Legacy use another owned character as a source; they do not let you recruit from somebody else’s account.

Custom hire

Quick hire by role

Dismiss a hire

Transfer control

Preparation and information

Inspect a roster or companion, request a supported gear preset, interact with an object and tune visual displays. Orders still depend on the class, known spell, available preset or usable object involved.

Use an object

Who

Helm and cloak display

Formation

Spread

Rebuff

Come toggle

Hire from another character

Hire a legacy copy

Reclaim transferred companions

Roster

Companion Info

Gear presets

Tank order

Illusionist controls

Inspect combat

Spells and permissions

Send these as whispers to the companion, without a .z prefix. Its owner, master or permitted partner can use supported controls; targeting somebody else’s companion does not grant control. Spell requests need a known spell, a valid target, range and the normal casting conditions.

Vanilla responds to hello with mechanical help; TBC uses help for its command help. A normal greeting may instead begin a personality conversation on TBC.

Cast a known spell

An explicit cast is an order, so do not rely on the automatic AI blacklist to prevent a spell you deliberately request. cancel interrupts an outstanding request where supported.

Deny a spell in automatic behavior

Consider Blink, uncontrolled fears or an unnecessary situational buff when planning a dungeon. deny remove all clears the blacklist. The blacklist is not permission to issue the same spell through an explicit cast or AoE order and expect it to be refused. Companion Specialization explains combining spell choices with a build and party plan.

Choose a dispel target

Formation whispers on Vanilla

Vanilla supports the following individual formation whispers. On The Burning Crusade, use `.z formation` or the panel’s Formation control instead; the old formation-whisper branch is not the same on that realm.

Following distance on Vanilla

Following direction on Vanilla

Restore formation on Vanilla

Inspect the companion

The list commands report the companion’s actual state, not a generic class template. These are useful after hiring a new tier, changing a role or investigating a companion that does not act as expected.

Statistics

Status

Auras

Known spells

Actual talents

Equipment

Set individual behavior

Change one companion’s following, pet, class buffs or resource thresholds. These controls configure its AI and do not teach a missing spell or supply an unavailable class role.

Diagnostic messages

Follow a named member

Pets

Use the companion’s pet help and available controls to choose a supported hunter family or warlock demon. A chosen pet must be usable at the companion’s level; it is not a way to summon an arbitrary creature.

Paladin blessings

Shaman totems

Drinking threshold

Eating threshold

Healing threshold

Healing also considers range, mana, known spells, the target’s needs and healing already in flight. One percentage does not force a heal through an invalid target or an unavailable spell.

Off-healing threshold

Restore settings

Other requests

Use cancel for an outstanding request, class-specific help for supported services, and the personality window for conversation. These are separate from group combat orders.

Cancel

Conversation and jokes

A normal whisper can start a conversation when AI replies are enabled. Ask for a joke in ordinary language through the conversational personality. AI Personality explains modes, styles and quiet settings.

Soulstone assignment

Which characters can become companions

A character on your own account at the realm’s level cap can be a legacy source: level 60 on Vanilla or 70 on The Burning Crusade. You can hire its copy while playing another character, including a lower-level character. Each source can have only one active legacy copy at a time.

This is separate from account Legacy bonuses. Those bonuses help your characters develop; this feature brings a specific character into the party.

What the copy brings

• Its equipped items, including an equipped legendary weapon, and permanent enchantments. Backpack and bank contents are not a second inventory for the companion.
• On The Burning Crusade, valid socket gems in copied equipment are part of the equipped-item copy. This does not duplicate loose gems from bags.
• The source’s learned talent allocation, skills, spells, professions and reputation provide its available tools. Class AI and the chosen role determine how the companion actually uses them.
• The source’s pet and mount information can contribute to the companion, subject to class and supported companion behavior.

Design the source’s talents and equipment for a particular contribution: a damage school, a tougher tank or stronger healing and support. Learned passive talent bonuses carry over, and the AI has routines for supported talent-granted abilities. Build your own Legacy specialist explains how to use this freedom, then refine it with spell blacklists and settings. Inspect list talents, list spells and list gear after hiring; its casts follow companion logic rather than your exact player rotation.

Equip and permanently enchant the source before hiring its next copy. Developing an alt therefore gives you a reusable party member for later adventures. Then share suitable food, consumables and weapon preparations with the hired group. Check the source’s raid lockout before choosing it for a raid; its copy follows that source identity.

Capacity and group size

The legacy copy does not consume one of its source’s regular hired-companion slots. You can combine it with that source’s ordinary hires, and with hires from other eligible sources. One active copy per source and the party or raid’s total capacity still apply.

A real player occupies a group place too. Having forty potential hires across your account is capacity to assemble a raid, not permission to put forty companions plus players inside a forty-member group. Source eligibility and instance entry rules continue to apply.

Hire and lead your hero

1. Prepare the max-level source character’s talent build, equipped gear, permanent enchants and learned tools.
2. On the character you will play, use Legacy Hire in the Control Panel or the available NPC legacy service and choose the source.
3. Choose a supported role, hire the free copy, then inspect its equipment and talents.
4. Use the normal companion orders to lead it. Its level remains the realm’s cap rather than your lower-level character’s level.

Normal hiring-state and group conditions still matter. Logging out and restarting use the same active-roster lifecycle as other companions.

What you can purchase

Open Companion Services at an eligible innkeeper, choose world buffs (Armaments) and review the offered package. On Vanilla the purchasing character must also be level 60. Eligibility comes from the purchaser’s qualifying progression, not merely having someone else’s licensed companion nearby.

These are in-game gold purchases. They are separate from the website Shop and from the fees for hiring companions.

Group size, range and cooldown

• Be in a group with at least ten members; companions count toward that group size.
• Gather the intended recipients near the purchaser before buying. These buffs use nearby friendly-area effects, so being listed in the group does not deliver them to someone on another map.
• The purchase starts a two-hour cooldown for the group and the real players in it. A member’s unexpired personal cooldown can block another group purchase.
• Changing groups is not a way around a participating player’s cooldown. Check the NPC’s remaining-time message and current gold cost before confirming.

If a player is dead, distant or arrives afterward, do not assume a group purchase has already buffed them. Check the actual auras before beginning the encounter.

Trophy turn-ins

Some supported hiring locations also offer trophy turn-ins through Companion Services. The option is contextual: bring the required trophy and check whether that location offers it. The trophy is consumed, and the associated buff affects friendly recipients nearby. This is a separate route from purchasing an Armaments package; gather the intended recipients first.

Open the personality controls

Use the Control Panel’s AI Personality icon, /ccpai or /mcpai. This window controls conversational replies, mode, style, length and personal context. Mechanical casts and group commands still use Whispers and Commands.

Whisper a companion or address it by name in party chat to ask a question. Responses can use context from your location and adventure. Conversation does not execute a combat order or replace the current quest log and server rules.

Four conversation modes

The default mode is immersive. A conversation mode changes presentation, not the companion’s tank, healer or damage role.

Style and response length

Styles are neutral, serious, funny, inquisitive, gruff, scholarly, cheerful, grumpy, dramatic, deadpan, wary, boastful and blunt. Choose the flavor you enjoy; the default is neutral.

Length and style influence responses rather than promising an exact word count or a guaranteed joke on each event.

Personal context and ten saved voices

Write a persona for the companion and a short description of your own character in the personality window. These are character-specific settings: the companion’s persona describes its voice, while About You gives context for the player it is accompanying.

Save up to ten library presets for that owner character. A preset can hold its voice, style and related conversation choices. Assign one through the roster’s Shift-right-click menu, or the AI window, so different companions can have different voices.

The library controls handle saving, replacing, deleting and synchronizing presets. Deleting a preset does not mean every companion will acquire another preset automatically; inspect its assigned voice afterward.

Quiet conversation when you need focus

Keep routine battle notifications separate from personality conversation when choosing what you want to hear. Quiet settings do not pause companions or reduce their combat activity.

Events and how often they speak

Companions can react to level-ups, upgrades, quests, rare sightings, valuable loot, a near-death moment, a wipe, a new zone or city, and your return after an absence. Quiet travel can allow banter; event controls let you choose what deserves a remark.

Other supported event names include levelup, charge, welcome, upgrade, revive, greeting, kill, ambient, zone, quest, death, node, neardeath, mount, reputation, profession, talent, instance, wipe, buffed, durability, askabout, rare, banter, city, welcomeback, trivia, npctalk and playergear.

A separate minimum gap limits proactive messages overall. Shortening an individual event delay does not guarantee a reply on every occurrence or make a large party repeat the event immediately.

Choose where they speak

The personality window lets you choose where event remarks appear on either client. When typing a channel setting, Vanilla uses a number and TBC uses a name:

Class, role and positioning

Each class has its own combat routines rather than sharing one generic attack pattern. Tank, healer, melee and ranged jobs use suitable abilities and positions. Hunters manage their ranged dead zone, melee approaches its target and healers try to remain in useful healing range.

The Companion Roles guide explains each job. Available spells, level, gear, source development and mana constrain those decisions. Classes and Talents shows what each class brings; individual settings lets you tune it.

Threat, interrupts and control

Damage routines consider threat so the tank can hold enemies. Interrupts, taunts, dispels and crowd control use valid targets and available class abilities, with coordination intended to avoid wasting several casts on the same need.

Use focus marks for kill order and crowd-control marks for protected targets. Pause damage dealers during a careful pull, then release them when the tank has control. A marked target that is already being damaged may not be safe to crowd-control; avoid manual area orders across it.

Healing and support

Healers consider injuries, available mana, range and healing already on its way to a target. Hybrid damage roles can help with off-healing, while class support supplies buffs, dispels and emergency protection.

Known trinkets, cooldowns, potions, bandages and drinks form part of their toolkit; a caster can use an appropriate wand when it cannot sustain its normal casts. Talented versions of a buff take priority where the group’s coordination supports them.

Use healing thresholds, off-healing, blessings and totems when you want a different support plan. An off-healer is an option for suitable content, not a guaranteed substitute for a prepared healer everywhere.

Class services outside the rotation

Mage supplies cost 3 gold per supply trade; a portal or warlock summon costs 10 gold. Follow the companion’s request before trading, and check its remaining service charges. A license gives additional allowances; it does not make every service free. Portals and summoning still require known spells and usable destinations.

A summon needs the required participants to activate its ritual. .z use can help with a supported summoning object; some raid objects explicitly require real players, so do not assume it works on every ritual.

Raid encounter support

Vanilla raid scripts include encounter-specific companion support in Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Ahn’Qiraj and Naxxramas. These scripts can assign tanks, healing targets, positions, add control and reactions to hazards or phase changes. The class routines still perform the fighting.

Players and companions share the same encounter. Learn your own mechanics, gather the right jobs and watch the actual pull. Do not assume a scripted movement means every player is safe, or that a TBC encounter has identical Vanilla support. Boss Strategies explains how to prepare and the updated named encounter examples.

Duel practice

Duel an owned companion to practice against its class. Dedicated duel behavior differs from the rotation it uses as your ally: a warrior can seek charge range, a rogue can use stealth and appropriate poisons, and ranged classes can kite within the duel area.

This is a practice opponent with its actual level, build and gear. It is not a guarantee of a perfectly matched PvP encounter or the same behavior as a human opponent. PvP and battlegrounds explains the separate skirmisher system.

Molten Core: prepare the company

Bring suitable tanks, healers and class tools. Use Lead by Example to prepare the party through your own enchants, weapon enhancements and consumables. Check gear and consumable charges, then gather any world buffs before the pull. Companion encounter support assigns jobs and positions; it does not remove the mechanics that real players must handle.

The named examples below describe Vanilla companion support. Do not infer that every TBC encounter or ported boss uses exactly the same positions and reactions.

Magmadar

A hunter with Tranquilizing Shot can use it against a valid frenzy/enrage. Bring a suitable hunter and check its known spells; a low-level or unsuitable hire does not obtain the spell merely by entering the raid.

Keep the tank and backline ready for the encounter’s fear, fire and positioning. Watch the actual dispel and healing rather than using the presence of a hunter as proof that every frenzy was removed.

Baron Geddon

Living Bomb is a dangerous personal explosion. Companion support sends a bombed non-tank toward its escape position and brings it back after the bomb clears. The tank is handled differently: it holds the boss while nearby melee make space for its bomb.

Inferno and the final Armageddon create hazards around the boss. Encounter positioning keeps the backline at range and moves affected companions as needed; Ignite Mana is a dispel priority for suitable classes.

• Keep real players away from a bombed member and from the escape direction. Do not stack on someone merely because it is the tank.
• Avoid spamming Come-S or Start through an automated escape. A new manual order can conflict with the movement you need.
• Learn your own Inferno and bomb response. Make room for the escape direction, and recognize that a bombed tank and a bombed non-tank have different companion reactions.

Garr

Warlocks provide Banish for suitable Firesworn adds. The current encounter plan assigns add control and tanking while Garr is killed first; remaining adds are dealt with afterward.

Protect assigned control targets from unnecessary damage and area orders. Firesworn explosions are hazards, so real players must also stand sensibly and avoid treating every add as a normal clustered cleave target.

Majordomo Executus

The fight needs separate add jobs and crowd control. Suitable tanks, mages and healers matter more than simply adding damage. Companion encounter support includes assignments and positioning.

For manual control, assign distinct tank focus marks, keep suitable healer adds protected by CC marks and avoid AoE that breaks control. Check the encounter’s assigned targets before replacing its marks or movement.

Blackwing Lair: plan tank transitions

Prepare more than one suitable tank when the fight calls for a transition. Use the roster’s Tanks control for supported encounters, and check class spells and resistance gear before engaging. Boss-specific scripts can manage positioning and threat, but the real players still need to follow the encounter plan.

Vaelastrasz

Current Vanilla support places companions during the dialogue and manages a tank threat order. A main tank affected by Burning Adrenaline stops attacking so an off-tank can take over through threat; Vaelastrasz is not handled as an ordinary taunt swap.

Affected non-tanks move toward their side’s bomb position while suitable instant spells can continue. Stand clear of those destinations and do not spam group movement through a transition.

Bring prepared off-tanks and healing, and learn your player’s Burning Adrenaline response. A script choosing a companion’s destination does not make a nearby real player immune to its explosion.

Corner pulling in dungeons

A corner pull makes ranged enemies come toward the party by breaking line of sight. It helps group a pack and keeps companions from chasing through nearby patrols, but the actual pull can still reach extra enemies. Companions do not choose a patrol-safe route for you. Pull Back and safe positioning explains choosing cleared ground and timing the pull before a patrol arrives.

1. Choose a safe place behind a corner and put the party there with Come-S or Stay.
2. Pull one intended enemy yourself, or use Pull Back so the tank engages and returns while damage dealers wait.
3. Let enemies reach the safe position and give the tank time to gather threat.
4. Release damage dealers with Unpause or Start when the pull is under control. The pull’s waiting timer also ends automatically; hold damage dealers with Pause again if the setup needs longer.

For a careful ranged pull, keep the tank staying within its ranged attack’s reach, whisper the actual known ranged spell, then bring it back with Come-S. This reduces an unintended charge or body pull; it still requires range, line of sight and a valid spell. Macros puts the important orders on your action bar.

Use marks and suitable crowd control

Assign focus marks for kill order and crowd-control marks for protected targets. Vanilla begins with skull focus on damage dealers; TBC uses skull on non-tanks. Both begin with moon assigned for crowd control. A mark does not control a target without a class that can cast the right spell.

Choose the class for the dungeon’s enemies and protect its target. Focus, CC and Clear explain how assignments work.

Soulstones and recovery

A suitable warlock can give soulstone support. Whisper set soulstone on <name> to choose a permitted group member, and check the actual aura before pulling. A recovery plan also needs resurrection, enough room to regroup and a leader who can recover after a wipe.

Companion death and revival explains the outdoor/instance differences. A soulstone is useful preparation, not permission to pull through a patrol or ignore a boss mechanic.

Blacklist an unwanted automatic spell

Whisper deny add <spell> when a class ability is unsuitable for the route. Examples are Blink near an extra pack, Fear or mass-fear spells in a tight dungeon, or a situational buff you do not need. Use deny list to inspect and deny remove <spell> to allow it again.

Deny controls automatic behavior. An explicit cast or ordered AoE can still request something you chose manually, so do not use those orders as a test of whether the AI will refuse it. Spell blacklists explains the distinction.

When an off-healer can be useful

A damage-role hybrid can contribute healing while also dealing damage. Ret paladins, balance druids, shamans and shadow priests offer different mana, buff and healing tools; a feral druid’s form changes can consume mana that you wanted for healing.

Try this in content your group handles comfortably. Set a suitable set offheal threshold, keep pulls small and watch actual mana and injuries. Results depend on the party’s level, build, gear and selected difficulty.

Use a prepared healer when sustained damage or encounter mechanics need it. More damage is useful only while the group can survive the pull.

Before an unfamiliar boss

1. Check entry requirements, raid saves and the equipment tier you intend to use.
2. Choose tanks, healing and required class tools; inspect their spells and current gear.
3. Prepare consumables, enchants, resistance sets and available recovery support.
4. Agree on positions and responsibilities with other real players, then avoid conflicting manual orders during scripted reactions.
5. After a failed pull, identify what actually happened before changing the whole party: missing spell, threat, range, crowd control, player mechanic or an unintended order.

If support fails unexpectedly, report the realm, boss, party composition, companion role/tier and the observed action. Encounter support is specific; one successful fight is not evidence that every boss and expansion behave identically.

A useful first journey

Start with the Beginner’s Guide and finish the Basics quests. They teach companion control and open additional companion slots. A healer can make a difficult quest safer; a tank gives you room to learn your class. You can also invite other players and mix players with companions.

• Finish zones you enjoy: outleveled quests still give full experience and reputation.
• Learn gathering and crafting as you travel. You can train every profession, but each character still develops its own skill.
• Keep materials you will use and compare vendor prices with the Marketer’s auction rules before selling.
• A bank alt can keep useful materials near the bank and auction house. Instant mail makes moving supplies easier.
• Companions help with group quests and dungeons; learning their behavior and Commands matters as much as hiring more of them.

What extra Spirit does

Spirit above your character’s natural Spirit adds experience from creature kills. Each extra point contributes 1% to this bonus, up to +100% from Spirit. This is the Spirit contribution, rather than a cap on all your experience bonuses combined. Quest and exploration experience do not receive this kill-only bonus.

The Spirit system also speeds up movement in ghost form and reduces resurrection sickness. Talk to a Spirit Healer to turn the system on or off; the choice lets you keep the ordinary experience and recovery rules if you prefer.

Growing the next character

Legacy can pass on flight paths and explored areas and improve experience, reputation and crafting. These benefits have separate switches. You can inherit discoveries while disabling a bonus you do not want.

The Shirt of New Beginnings adds an experience bonus while worn. It occupies the shirt slot, so you cannot wear it together with another bonus shirt. The Control Panel’s stats view helps you see which bonuses are currently active.

Party composition

A leveling party needs a way to survive pulls and enough damage to finish them. A tank holds the enemies, a healer keeps the party alive and damage dealers shorten the fight. Match that balance to the zone and to your characters’ levels.

On Vanilla, if a player or companion outside the group that tagged an enemy lands the killing blow, the kill gives nobody experience, reputation, loot or quest credit. Keep everyone who fights in one group.

Use companion behavior and pulling tactics to keep the party together. Pull only as many enemies as your healing and crowd control can handle. Check the hiring quote before you hire a bigger party.

Macros for targets and recovery

Use raid marks to keep a consistent focus target, and combine your own targeting with companion commands. The Macros guide explains the current follow, assist and companion-control examples.

Priest, paladin and shaman companions that know their resurrection spell raise dead group members by themselves once the fight is over, unless you stopped them with .z stop. On their own they raise a body only within 30 yards and in their line of sight: stay at yours without releasing your spirit, and .z come brings your companions to you while you lie there. To ask for it yourself, target the dead character and whisper cast Resurrection (priest), cast Redemption (paladin) or cast Ancestral Spirit (shaman) to that companion.

An ordinary /assist CharacterName takes that character’s target; /follow CharacterName follows it. Replace the example name with your leader. These commands affect the character running them and do not issue orders on every other open game window.

Several character windows

Opening several character windows does not turn one person into several unique players for group rewards. Extra characters can enter the experience-sharing pool, and they still need their own valid control, position and equipment.

Start with one character and the Control Panel. If you choose to play several characters, learn the follow, assist and owner-specific companion commands, then adapt macros to the client you use. Multiboxing software or extra computers are optional.

About this guide

These examples build on community experience with companion parties. Use the current Microbot Commands, Macros and Behavior guides alongside them: companion controls and reward rules matter more than a borrowed fixed farming recipe.

Build your party

An ordinary dungeon party has room for five characters. With The Basics companion slots unlocked, one player can bring four regular companions. You can also bring a friend, mix players and companions or form a players-only group. See Solo, Duo and Group Play for choosing a setup.

One tank, one healer and three damage dealers is a useful starting composition, including your own character. Adjust the classes to the dungeon: crowd control, dispels and interrupts can make a difficult pull much easier.

Visit a friendly innkeeper before travelling. Review each companion’s role and hiring quote. When hiring for another character on your account, that character’s level and progression determine the available companions.

Prepare before the entrance

• Collect the dungeon quests, and check the entrance level, keys and other entry requirements.
• Review your equipment and companion licenses. A larger party cannot replace the preparation needed for a harder dungeon.
• Use Lead by Example’s preparation checklist: your enchants, weapon enhancements, food and suitable consumables can strengthen several companions. Check remaining charges, repair and bring the supplies your class needs.
• Learn Pull, Pull Back, Pause and Start, then practise positioning with Come-S, focus targets and crowd control through the Control Panel, Commands and Macros.
• Learn the dungeon’s dangerous casts, curses, diseases, poisons and fears. Bring classes that can counter them instead of choosing damage alone.
• Agree on difficulty, loot rules and who leads before starting. Keep the group together for quest credit and reward eligibility.

Lead each pull

Companions handle their class combat logic, but they do not plan a safe route around patrols for you. You choose the route, pace, targets and fighting position. Letting the party charge every pack or fight where enemies stand can bring a nearby pack or passing patrol into combat and cause a wipe.

Learn Pull Back early. Bringing enemies into cleared space gives you room to fight away from other packs and patrols. This one habit can take you a long way: choose the safe position first, then bring the fight to it. The return route and the position you choose still need to be clear.

Mark the first target, give the tank time to gather enemies and keep crowd control away from unnecessary damage. Check the healer’s mana before the next pull. Pause and Start help you control the timing; corner pulling helps bring ranged enemies into the same safe fighting area.

After a wipe, regroup and use the recovery controls. Identify one useful change for the next attempt: fewer enemies, a different mark, a dispel assignment or a safer position.

Pull Back: bring the fight to a safe place

1. Look ahead for patrols, nearby packs and casters. Choose cleared ground with enough room for the whole party and a safe route back to it.
2. Gather the party at that spot with Come-S. Give the healer a clear line of sight and time to drink before engaging.
3. Target one enemy in the intended pack and use Pull Back. Expect the enemies linked to that pack to join it; the command does not guarantee a single-enemy pull.
4. Stay back with the party. Let the tank draw the enemies away from their original position and establish threat. Watch the patrol as well as the pull; do not run forward to meet them.
5. Once the enemies reach the safe area and the tank has control, release waiting damage dealers with Unpause, or select the intended enemy and use Start. Keep dangerous nearby packs out of the fight.

The waiting time ends automatically. Choose a longer wait for a slower setup, and use Pause on damage dealers if you still need them held back. Releasing them early can undo the pull. Healers can continue healing during the pull’s attack hold; pausing the entire party can also freeze the healer.

A caster may keep casting from its original position. Use a corner to break line of sight when the layout allows it, and leave the tank and healer sight of each other once combat starts. Pull Back helps with positioning; it cannot make an unsafe path or patrol timing safe on its own.

Know Pull, Pause and Start

For role-based orders such as .z pause dps, clear any friendly companion target first: a targeted companion takes priority over the group selector. Here dps means both melee and ranged damage dealers. Target an enemy for Pull or Start, and remember that your orders control your companions, not another player’s roster.

Bind these controls through the Microbot Control Panel or place macros on your action bar. Practise on a small, familiar pack before a difficult run. The Basics III teaches damage-dealer pausing and tank pulling; focus marks and crowd-control marks give you more control as you learn.

Choose classes for the dungeon’s spells

Learn what the enemies do, then choose your party’s strengths. A group that handles one dungeon comfortably may struggle in another with frequent curses, fear or dangerous casts. Read debuff tooltips, watch which casts hurt and adjust after an attempt. More damage does not replace a missing counter.

For example, a warrior tank, priest healer and three damage dealers can cover the basic roles, yet still have no curse remover. Making one damage dealer a mage adds curse removal without changing that role balance. Your own character’s abilities count too. Companion Roles and Classes and Talents help you choose.

Automatic support uses the companion’s known spells, settings and available resources. A needed cast can be limited by mana, cooldowns, range, line of sight, shapeshift form or other activity. Inspect its known spells before counting on a tool, and use spell orders or dispel requests for a deliberate response. Naming a spell does not give a class a spell it cannot use.

Use the same preparation habit for difficult group quests and raid encounters: identify the danger, bring a counter and choose a safe fighting position. Dungeon and Boss Strategies gives examples where the encounter needs a more specific plan.

Loot, quests and the next license

Companions do not roll against players for loot. Their equipment handling follows companion behavior rules. Regular companions grow through your license tiers; Legacy companions use the supported equipment copied from their source character. Save eligible class relics when preparing a class relic rite; its finale needs three different choices.

Eligible unique players can improve supported group rewards. Companions do not add to that player count, and players-only token rewards have separate requirements. Read Rewards and sharing before choosing a group for a particular reward.

Finish the quest hand-ins after the run. Dungeon license quests open stronger regular companions; check the offered quest for the required materials, gold and prerequisites before gathering supplies.

Normal and Heroic on Vanilla

Vanilla Heroic dungeons retain their original leveling ranges. Heroic adds a harder challenge and bonuses to supported rewards; it does not turn every leveling dungeon into a level-60 instance or double every kind of reward.

Choose the difficulty before the run and respect the instance save. See Difficulty and combat rules for the current settings and eligibility.

Dungeons in Outland

The Burning Crusade has its own dungeon levels, Heroic entry requirements and instance saves. Prepare for the Outland dungeon you want to run rather than applying the Vanilla Heroic leveling explanation to it.

Read TBC companion licenses and TBC difficulty rules. If you are arriving from Vanilla, the Transfer guide explains how your character and progression move forward.

Build a company for the raid

A raid can combine players, companions or both. Every character occupies a place in the raid, so plan the tank, healing, damage and support jobs within that raid’s size limit. Solo, Duo and Group Play explains how different setups work.

For a full Vanilla companion raid, develop several source characters and use their regular slots and Legacy copies. At least eight developed level-60 characters on the same account is the regular-and-Legacy capacity goal described in the Beginner’s Guide. Multiboxing is another option. Capacity alone does not make the roster ready to clear a raid.

A player guild is optional. You still need suitable equipment, licenses, roles and a clear leader. With friends, decide who controls each set of companions and who gives the encounter instructions.

Vanilla raid access and companion licenses

Vanilla content through Naxxramas is available without a staged release calendar. Your character still needs the recognition quests and entrance conditions for the raid you want to enter. Raid progression lists the recognition chains.

Raid access and companion equipment are separate progress. The regular raid-license chain develops through Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Temple of Ahn’Qiraj and Naxxramas. Bring the quest’s required token, materials and gold to the capital innkeeper offering the upgrade after meeting its prerequisites.

Prepare the raid

• Confirm everyone’s access, the selected difficulty and the instance save, including each Legacy source’s save.
• Assign tanks, healing, dispels and interrupts and any encounter-specific jobs. Plan positioning before the pull.
• Review equipment, licenses, resistance needs and consumable charges. Use shared preparations to strengthen the party through your own enchants, food and weapon enhancements. Regular and Legacy companions obtain equipment differently.
• Purchase eligible world buffs if you want them, and keep the intended recipients in range.
• Agree on marks, the leader’s orders, loot rules and recovery after a failed attempt.

Work with the encounter logic

Companions have class and encounter support, while players lead positioning and the overall plan. Learn what each boss asks of the raid. Dungeon and Boss Strategies includes examples for Magmadar, Baron Geddon, Garr and Vaelastrasz.

Use Commands, the Control Panel and Whispers to coordinate special jobs. On Vanilla, removing the ordinary debuff cap gives more room for abilities; threat, crowd control and encounter mechanics still matter.

Rewards and the next challenge

Companions do not roll against players. Supported group bonuses depend on eligible unique players, while special players-only rewards have their own rules. See Rewards and sharing for the difference.

A final-boss progression token, a recognition quest and a companion license serve different purposes. Finish the relevant hand-ins before planning the next tier. Raid progression, Licenses and Legendary Weapons explain those longer goals.

Vanilla Heroic raid support currently covers Onyxia, Zul’Gurub and Molten Core. Read Difficulty and combat rules before choosing a harder run.

Raiding in Outland

Outland raids have their own sizes, entrance requirements and progression. The Vanilla recognition table describes Vanilla. Check the actual Outland raid and offered quests for the requirements that apply to your TBC character.

Use TBC companion licenses and the Transfer guide to plan the next expansion. Reaching TBC does not automatically grant every level-70 license or raid entry.

Access and companion strength

Recognition quests open raid access for your character. A companion license controls the equipment tier of companions you can hire. Completing a recognition quest is therefore different from buying the next license: check both your raid access and your party’s equipment before the run.

Read the quest offered in game for its current objectives. Recognition does not replace the entrance conditions of a dungeon or raid.

From the first raid to the next tier

1. Complete the recognition quest for the raid you want to enter.
2. Prepare your party and clear the raid. Its final boss provides the token used in companion progression.
3. Bring the required token, materials and gold to the license quest giver. Review the requirements before turning them in.
4. Use the new raid license to hire stronger raid companions. The achievement window also records supported license and progression goals. Progression follows Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Temple of Ahn’Qiraj and Naxxramas.

Dungeon companions have their own progression path. A raid license and a dungeon license serve different equipment tiers; the Licenses guide explains those paths and Hiring Costs explains the price of the party you choose.

When moving to Outland

The Burning Crusade has its own dungeon levels, heroic entrance requirements and raid progression. The Vanilla recognition table above describes Vanilla. Use the TBC quest and entrance requirements for Outland content, and review expansions and transfers before copying a character forward.

Choosing Normal or Heroic

Vanilla offers custom Heroic dungeon runs, including leveling dungeons at their original levels. Onyxia, Zul’Gurub and Molten Core also offer Heroic challenges. Select the difficulty before entering and make sure the group agrees on the run.

The setting is kept with your account. Check it when changing characters or planning a leveling dungeon. An existing saved instance is not a fresh run simply because you changed the setting.

What the harder run changes

Heroic enemies have more health and stronger damage. The tuning varies by dungeon and attack type; it is not one identical multiplier for every creature, melee attack and spell. Bring an on-level party, plan crowd control and keep your healer’s resources in mind.

Heroic adds a reward bonus to supported kill experience, loot, money and reputation paths. Other bonuses can be active too, and special rewards such as tokens have their own rules. Read group and loot rewards rather than treating Heroic as a promise that every item or every reward is exactly doubled.

Outland Heroics

TBC Heroics use their own heroic creatures, levels, entrance requirements and instance saves. They are a separate system from Vanilla’s harder leveling dungeons. Check the dungeon’s level and key or attunement requirements before attempting entry.

Use your full debuff toolkit

The original 16-debuff gameplay limit is removed. Damage-over-time effects, class utility and other debuffs can coexist, allowing a broader range of classes, specializations and raid strategies.

The client has a limited number of visible debuff icons. An effect can remain active even when there is no free icon to show it. This does not remove the need to manage your party, crowd control and encounter mechanics.

Rewards for playing together

Group rewards count nearby unique players, rather than every character window. Companions do not add a real-player bonus, and running several characters yourself does not automatically count as several people. Staying near the fight matters.

Reputation’s group contribution stops increasing after five eligible players. Ordinary loot adds another 1% for each eligible player beyond five. Experience, money, quest rewards and special loot are calculated separately; the table is not a universal multiplier for everything you receive.

Kill experience is shared with companions. Distinct players do not split it with each other in the same way; extra characters from the same player can still enter the shared pool. Gold is shared by the whole group. The Control Panel’s stats view is useful when checking your current bonuses.

The Rates and Bonuses table shows the current base-rate overview. Shirts, Legacy, Spirit, difficulty and group contributions have their own conditions. Check the relevant reward path and your active settings before comparing a final experience, reputation or loot result.

Players-only rewards and tokens

A players-only run has special rewards. In eligible players-only instances, dungeon and raid tokens can be looted by each eligible player rather than being one ordinary shared drop. Bringing a companion changes the run’s players-only eligibility.

Special bags, raid tokens, Eternal Wisdom and pets do not all follow the ordinary loot formula. Larger eligible groups can earn additional special rewards. Several windows from one player are not a way to claim one personal token per window.

A Lucky Charm also improves ordinary loot rolls and helps discover Eternal recipes. These are separate benefits with separate rules. Read the item’s current tooltip for the duration of its buff.

Alliance and Horde together

Alliance and Horde can group, trade, chat, share guilds and use the same auction house. You can build a PvE party around the people you want to play with instead of their faction.

Battlegrounds still have opposing teams, and enemy faction NPCs remain hostile. Cross faction cooperation does not make an enemy city safe. Companion hiring also has its own race and faction requirements; being able to group together does not automatically unlock every companion race.

Leaderboards and prizes

Leaderboards include monthly hiring and players-only speedrun races, weekly challenges, PvP standings, City Protectors, guild raid progress and lasting records. There is no separate sign-up for eligible recorded play. Leaderboards and Competitions explains each board, its period and what counts.

Monthly prizes are processed at the first server start on or after the new month’s scheduled close. Winning players-only runs can earn Eternal Wisdom. Check the current boards for the active competitions, standings and prize rules rather than assuming every listed record carries the same reward.

Two kinds of qualifying character

Legacy uses two counts. Maximum-level characters add experience, reputation, companion hiring and Hearthstone benefits. Characters with every profession fully trained add crafting benefits. A maximum-level character is not automatically a qualifying master crafter.

Legacy is calculated for the account on the realm where you are playing. A character copied to another expansion needs to meet that realm’s requirements; the Vanilla 60/300 thresholds are not the TBC thresholds.

What each finished hero adds

The experience and reputation shirt bonuses are added alongside their corresponding Legacy contributions. Other reward paths use their own rules, so the figures here do not promise one identical final multiplier for every source of experience or reputation.

What each master crafter adds

A Savant shirt adds another four skill points to supported crafting and gathering gains. With the ordinary one point, its +4 and Legacy’s maximum +5, a successful craft can grant ten skill points. Skill requirements and the chance of a skill-up still apply.

Pass on discoveries

Flight paths known by your other characters of the same faction can be inherited by a new character. Map exploration is combined across your account. Exploration experience has its own option and requires map inheritance to be enabled.

If exploration experience is enabled, the new character receives experience for the areas it inherits. The starting level depends on the areas your account has explored; it is not a fixed level given to every new character. Use .legacy to review your account’s current bonuses.

Choose your Legacy settings

Use the Control Panel’s Legacy settings to enable or disable individual benefits. You can also use the typed commands below. Switching off a benefit does not erase the characters or discoveries that earned it.

Individual settings use .legacy settings <setting> on or .legacy settings <setting> off. Available settings include xp, rep, craftinggain, craftingchance, craftingspeed, taxi, map, mapxp, discount and hscd.

Learn every profession

Vanilla allows all 12 professions on one character: the nine primary trades plus Cooking, Fishing and First Aid. TBC adds Jewelcrafting, for 13. You do not need separate characters just to get around the usual two-primary-profession restriction.

Specializations still have their own choices and requirements. Learning every profession does not mean learning every mutually exclusive specialization. Train useful recipes as you need them instead of spending all your early gold on every trainer recipe.

Skill grows per character. A Savant shirt and crafting Legacy can improve gains. A successful craft can grant up to ten skill points with those bonuses; this is not a promise that every craft succeeds or grants points.

Learn a recipe once for your account

When one character learns a profession recipe, other characters on the account can receive it once they have the profession and reach its required skill. Each character still trains and levels its own profession. Sharing a recipe does not raise a new character’s skill.

For example, a recipe requiring Alchemy skill 150 does not appear as a usable recipe for a new Alchemist at skill 1. Reach the required skill on that character first. Eternal recipes are shared through the same account recipe system.

Crafts other players may need

Time-gated crafts and chosen specializations can make a crafter useful to other players. Mooncloth, Arcanite and refined salt are familiar examples of crafts worth checking. Bags also remain useful while leveling and organising bank characters.

Check the current recipe, cooldown, material price and auction demand before buying supplies. Being able to craft an item does not guarantee a profitable sale. Offer the crafts you can actually make, and agree on the materials and fee with the other player first.

Craft to strengthen your party

Your crafts can improve more than one character. Through Lead by Example, supported food, elixirs, equipment enchants, armor kits, weapon preparations and Engineering explosives benefit nearby companions. Suitable equivalents are chosen for their jobs, so preparing your own hero can help the tank, healer and damage dealers too.

Develop useful trades as you level. Six preparation professions explains what each contributes, while the Vanilla Lead by Example lessons teach the crafts through practical quests. Use the item or apply the enhancement with your group nearby; crafting it alone does not share its effect.

Reusable, with a cooldown

An Eternal is a reusable version of a familiar consumable. It is not consumed when used; a longer cooldown balances repeated use. Read its tooltip for the cooldown and effect instead of assuming every Eternal has the same timer.

Learning the recipe does not give you an unlimited supply of crafted items. You still craft the Eternal using that recipe’s required materials, profession skill and tools. Once made, the resulting item can be kept and reused.

Discover an Eternal while crafting

Crafting a supported ordinary consumable can teach its Eternal counterpart. Discovery begins at 0% without a qualifying crafting Legacy bonus or one of the discovery buffs. Crafting an unrelated item is not a chance to learn any arbitrary Eternal recipe.

For example, two qualifying Legacy crafters provide a 1% discovery contribution. Lucky Charm adds another percentage point. A cooking craft under Grilled Spirit can receive its cooking contribution as well. A chance is still a roll, so repeated crafts may teach nothing.

Quests, Wisdom and the next crafter

Lead by Example introduces companion consumables and rewards some early Eternals. Eternal Wisdom teaches a random Eternal recipe you do not already know, and eligible players-only leaderboard winners can earn Wisdom.

Eternal recipes are shared with your account’s crafters once each character meets the profession requirement. The current in-game recipe shows the materials, tool or rod and skill needed for that Eternal. Use that recipe when preparing a craft.

City Illusionists

Visit the Illusionist near the mage trainers in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to change how your equipment looks. City Illusionists use their NPC menus. A source appearance must fit the equipment slot and be usable by your character; transmog does not make an unusable item usable.

1. Equip the gear whose appearance you want to change.
2. Bring a suitable source item in your bags or bank, or choose an appearance available to your character’s collection when that collection is enabled.
3. Ctrl-click the preview item link whispered by the city Illusionist to try on the look, then review the binding notice and quoted gold cost in the menu.
4. Confirm the change. Your equipment keeps its combat purpose while the illusion changes its appearance.

Companions can use illusions too. Appearance presets let you keep looks for later. Applying an illusion can bind the source item; read the notice before paying. Ordinary item appearances use the selected source item’s buy value; learned weapon glows have separate prices. Use the actual quote for the service you selected.

Collections and matching equipment

When the appearance collection is enabled, looks are learned per character when suitable items are equipped. It is not an account-wide collection learned merely by seeing an item drop. The choices shown are your character’s carried or collected looks, subject to its equipment and use requirements.

Compatible equipment slots matter. Two-handed weapons can share their two-handed looks, including staves and polearms; bows, guns and crossbows share a ranged group. Wands and thrown weapons stay separate, and fist weapons retain their hand restrictions. Armor must fit the intended slot; chest pieces and robes share that slot.

Head, shoulders and cloak have free Hidden appearance choices. Invisible shirt and tabard looks are collectible appearances rather than extra free hidden slots. Weapon Glows explains the separate Original and Hidden weapon-effect choices.

You can turn collection notices off in Microbot Control Panel: Config → General → Tooltips → Show transmog collection notices. This hides the reminders without stopping your eligible appearance collection.

The optional Field Illusionist

The Field Illusionist is a separate optional portable item offered through the Shop when available. Its appearance window is distinct from the city NPC menus. Check the current product description and realm availability before purchasing; the city service remains the place to start without that item.

Where the portable window is available, it supports search, favorites, outfit staging, saved presets and undo/redo for supported appearance changes. Read the Field window workflow before applying an outfit; undo restores the look and is not a gold refund. Your collection and equipped items still determine valid choices. Owning a field item does not unlock every appearance or replace the equipment requirements.

Change your face, save a style

The barber changes more than hair: choose a new whole appearance for your character. Find the barber at the guild master’s house in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Appearance presets make favorite styles easy to reuse.

Companions can be customized and renamed, with their own appearance presets. The Barber and Companion Names guide explains the service. Review the quoted price and name before confirming. Companion names must remain valid and available; a rename is not a way to take another character’s name.

Selling to the Marketer

The Marketer can buy eligible auction listings at their listed price when that price is no more than twice the stack’s vendor sell value. It checks qualifying listings in their final hour. It does not pay twice vendor value automatically when you asked for less.

Grey items, legendary-or-higher-quality items, unsuitable prices and listings already taken by another bidder do not qualify. Vendor-sold goods have an additional price check. A listing being eligible is not a promise of an immediate sale or a guarantee that every unwanted item is bought.

For example, if a stack vendors for 1 gold, a listing at 2 gold meets the twice-vendor price ceiling. Listing it at 3 gold does not. The duration and item eligibility must also be correct. Keep the auction deposit and sale deductions in mind when comparing what you will receive.

The Marketer also posts supplies and resells purchases. Prices can move with supply and demand, and an expensive auction is not necessarily your cheapest source. Compare vendors, other players and your own professions.

Griznak’s unusual stock

Griznak, the Black Market Trader, can usually be found at the tailor in Booty Bay. He offers oddities, special consumables and appearance items such as Invisible Shoulders.

Raid-end essences are a currency for his goods and can also be turned in for Black Market reputation. Read the selected offer before spending: an essence trade, a reputation turn-in and a gold-priced service have different costs.

Buying a raid lockout reset

Griznak can offer a paid reset of a saved raid run. The reset frees the characters and groups bound to that run, including participants who are offline. It is not just a private reset of the buyer’s own character.

1. Make sure everyone currently inside has left the raid.
2. Choose the saved raid and read the confirmation, price and affected participants.
3. Confirm only when the group is ready to lose that saved run and begin again.

Repeated resets increase the price. The quote accounts for the highest relevant reset count among the run’s participants and the buyer; it is not simply the buyer’s number of attempts. A conflicting save or someone still inside can prevent the reset.

Instant mail and a bank alt

Mail between characters arrives without the ordinary one-hour item delay. Send materials to a bank alt near the bank and auction house, or move supplies to the character that needs them.

Instant delivery does not remove mailing fees, item binding or mailbox limits. Check the recipient before sending. Keep important trade materials instead of vendoring them just to free a bag slot.

Keep more of your leveling gold

• Train the abilities and recipes you will use. A spell rank you never cast or a recipe you cannot afford to make can wait until you need it.
• Larger bags reduce trips back to town. Tailoring bags or sending materials to a bank alt can free room for useful drops.
• Compare auction demand, vendor value and Marketer eligibility rather than assuming every green item or crafted item is profitable.
• Gather materials while questing. At higher levels, areas such as Tyr’s Hand, Silithus and Winterspring offer different enemies and materials to investigate; choose a route your party can handle.

Farming results depend on the enemies, drops, competition and supplies you use. Keep a healer and suitable crowd control for dangerous packs, and leave room in your bags before a longer trip.

Choose when to fight

Microbot’s PvE setting lets you choose when to flag for world PvP. Battlegrounds and attacks on enemy cities still have their own combat rules. Cross faction grouping does not turn hostile city guards into friends.

You can duel your companions to practice class matchups, specializations and party control. A companion duel is a practice fight, rather than an ordinary battleground objective.

Skirmishers fill battleground teams

Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley use AI skirmishers to help populate teams and pursue objectives. A real player can replace a skirmisher as the battleground fills.

Skirmishers are the battleground’s AI players. They are not your hired companions and cannot be ordered with companion commands. Your own hired companions remain a separate controllable team where the battleground permits them. Queue availability depends on the current battleground and population.

Vanilla ranks without passive decay

Vanilla retains the classic honor ranks and rank rewards while removing passive rank-point decay. Taking a break does not erase your rank merely because a week has passed. You still earn honor and progress through the ranking system; Rank 14 requires continued play rather than an instant unlock.

Dishonorable kills still count against you, so leave civilians alone. No passive decay does not mean every action is free of an honor penalty. Defending your city can earn City Protector, and the highest rank can earn a permanent companion hiring discount.

TBC honor has different rules

The Burning Crusade uses its expansion’s honor and PvP reward systems. The Vanilla Rank 14 progression and no-decay explanation above describe Vanilla; do not treat them as a promise that TBC uses the same weekly ranking ladder.

Quest with the party you want

Companions help with combat, healing and difficult group quests while you choose the zone and pace. You can journey alone with companions, bring a friend or mix players and companions. Solo, Duo and Group Play helps you choose the arrangement. For a dangerous group quest, use Pull Back and safe positioning and bring classes that counter the enemy’s spells.

Read each objective: killing an enemy, collecting an item, using an object and protecting an escort can have different credit rules. Keep bag space and supplies ready, and check your own prerequisites and hand-in. Being present in a party does not complete every objective automatically.

Follow the starting quests for your first hire, then visit a friendly innkeeper to develop your party. Before travelling into a dungeon or raid, collect the quests you want to complete there.

Full rewards after you outlevel a zone

Low-level quests retain their full experience and reputation rewards even when they have become grey to you. You can return to finish a zone without the ordinary outleveling penalty taking away those rewards.

Maximum-level experience handling, repeatable quests and a quest’s own objectives or reward requirements still apply. Companions help you complete adventures you might otherwise have skipped. The optional Voice Over addon can read quest text aloud; it is a listening aid rather than a quest requirement.

Choose a useful custom chain

Microbot’s custom quests give you more reasons to explore: a stronger company, a profession project, a class story or a new travelling companion. The routes below begin on Vanilla. Custom quests in Outland explains the TBC lessons and license chain.

Finish the hand-in to receive a reward or open the next chapter. Check your level, class, reputation and earlier quests if an NPC does not offer the next step. Keep bag space for rewards and read the quest log before buying materials.

The Basics: grow your company

Start with your race’s starting quest giver, then follow the Vanilla lessons to a capital innkeeper. The Basics teaches the orders you will use throughout the game: attacking and stopping, positioning, focus marks, crowd control, tank pulls and class services.

The Basics II, III and IV open your second, third and fourth regular companion slots at levels 10, 12 and 14 when you hand them in. Later lessons introduce the Barber and Illusionist, area spells and object interaction. The Basics VIII rewards the Control Rod for placing companions where you want them to stand.

Use the complete Basics guide for each lesson’s objectives and common reasons an action does not count. These are practical lessons: press the controls in a situation where they actually change what a companion is doing.

Lead by Example

Look for Lead by Example at companion-hiring innkeepers in the capital cities on Vanilla. The series has four rounds of six profession lessons, progressing from simple crafts to stronger preparations. Your companions learn from the suitable consumables and enchants you use; keep a companion hired and nearby while doing the requested tasks.

For example, the Cooking lessons move from Herb Baked Egg to Smoked Sagefish, Rockscale Cod and Cooked Glossy Mightfish. Engineering moves from Rough and Coarse Dynamite to Solid and Dense Dynamite. Craft the requested item, then use it while the quest is active; simply carrying it does not complete the lesson.

Rewards include helpful scrolls, with a Sealed Lucky Charm added to each of the six final-round lessons. Read each quest’s current objectives and rewards before crafting: a different item, consuming before the quest is active or forgetting the companion may not complete the requested lesson.

If a companion already has an equivalent or stronger effect, repeating a weaker preparation may not count. Try with a freshly hired companion that can receive the requested effect. After the final Enchanting lesson, Hone Your Craft sends you to Wubba Duckie in Blackrock Depths.

These lessons introduce a major way to strengthen the party: your own equipment enhancements and consumables can improve several companions at once. The dedicated Lead by Example guide explains permanent enchants, weapon preparations, explosives and shared consumable charges, with a checklist for putting them to work.

The Control Panel shows unlocked companion consumables and their remaining charges. Learning a consumable and having charges to use it are separate things. See Info and Consumables for the current controls.

Wubba Duckie and the Cooking Grill

Wubba Duckie is in Blackrock Depths, near the East Garrison route after the Ring of Law. Finish Lead by Example and take Hone Your Craft before setting out. Wubba’s Cooking Grill quest turns your profession lessons into a portable place to cook.

• Bring 10 Dark Iron Bars, 5 Guardian Stones, 3 Small Flame Sacs and 1 Heart of Fire for the Cooking Grill.
• At level 60, Small Tweaks, Big Strides starts another branch after the final Lead by Example lesson. Bring 1 Fused Wiring, 2 Dark Iron Bars, 2 Primal Bat Leathers and 5 Hearts of Fire for the repair-bot project.
• The Golden Opportunity then sends you to Grimando Goldenlock in Booty Bay. Testing Your Mettle and The Master’s Challenge lead to the Savant shirt; the final challenge asks for 50 Gold Bars, not 50 gold coins.

The grill creates a place to cook. Nearby characters can receive Grilled Spirit, improving Spirit, cooking speed and supported Eternal cooking discoveries. The cooking discovery buff adds one percentage point to the chance; it does not add that cooking contribution to every profession.

Read the current quest for materials and the grill’s tooltip for its cast time, cooldown and buff duration. Keep those supplies ready before travelling into Blackrock Depths.

Helpful shirts and profession detours

Each bonus shirt uses the shirt slot, so choose the bonus that fits what you are doing.

The six contacts are Bennet Ridley in Stormwind, Hordos Stormcave in Ironforge, Myleae Silverlight in Darnassus, Maru Pyrebend in Thunder Bluff, Koten Blindfury in Orgrimmar and Fabian Withers in the Undercity. Their quests are separate from the innkeeper’s hiring menu. Tokens of Mastery come from dungeon progression and other supported reward routes.

The Bag of Plenty, the Horadric Cube and the Field Mailbox come from the Shop, which also sells the New Beginnings shirt. The Shop delivers to Vanilla characters.

There are smaller profession detours too. Eternal Juju, Mon! from Witch Doctor Mau’ari in Winterspring, available from level 55 after her earlier quest, sends you to Meilosh at Timbermaw Hold to investigate Eternal Jujus. At level 60, Andros Geargrinder in Deadwind Pass offers A Scholarly Gamble, directing you to Lorekeeper Lydros in Dire Maul for specialized elixir recipes. Professions explains the wider crafting systems.

For My Retirement: the Paragon adventure

At level 60, visit Kadi Coxbain on her island off the coast of Tanaris. The retired rogue has unfinished business, a very questionable shopping list and a secret worth chasing. For My Retirement begins a longer original story involving Winkey, old debts and some of the Companions’ most eccentric craftspeople.

Follow the conversations and quest objectives rather than treating Kadi’s opening wish list as a normal shopping order. The adventure sends you through investigations, rare materials and encounters across Azeroth, with Grimando Goldenlock and Mr. Deathicus helping turn your findings into the Paragon shirt.

Plan for a substantial project. The Centerpiece consumes your New Beginnings and Silvertongue shirts and charges 500 gold; these form the foundation for Paragon. After Paragon and A Dream Come True, The Final Puzzle Piece combines Paragon with the Savant shirt from Wubba and Grimando’s profession branch to create Paragon Maestro.

Paragon Maestro combines experience, reputation and profession benefits in one shirt, with additional perks described on its item. This is a long-term goal with permanent material hand-ins: keep the earlier shirts for the chain rather than selling them.

Recognition, licenses and timed Trials

From level 50 on Vanilla, capital innkeepers offer custom boss quests. The Ropes sends you to Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance, followed by Corrupted Hearts for Baron Rivendare in Stratholme. This dungeon recognition path continues through Blackrock Spire, Zul’Gurub and the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj.

At level 60, the corresponding dungeon license quests turn recognition, materials, Tokens of Mastery and gold into access to better-equipped regular companions. The raid chain begins with The Seat of Power and continues through Ragnaros, Nefarian, C’Thun and Kel’Thuzad. Raid licenses and raid entry explain the separate requirements.

For a repeatable challenge, the Companions’ license quest givers also offer timed Trials from level 50. These reward Tokens of Mastery for clearing the requested dungeon within its deadline. Ghost Busting, offered by Holymana Brightshield at Uther’s Tomb, gives you 90 minutes for Scholomance; other Trials have their own targets and timers.

Take the Trial before starting the clear, prepare the route and watch the quest timer. A timed quest is separate from the speedrun leaderboard; completing one does not automatically mean you hold a record. After earning T5D, Celebrations! at a capital innkeeper adds a small reward for finishing that progression.

Class stories: Spellshield, Libram and Idol

These level-60 Vanilla stories send you beyond the capital to earn a relic made for your class. Expect conversations, travel and combat before the final rite.

The final NPC lets you choose three different eligible relics of your class to surrender. Those selected totems, librams or idols are consumed permanently. Carry the candidates in your bags and review the selection before completing the rite. The Class Relic Quests guide lists eligible offerings and explains the final hand-in.

Legendary weapon journeys

Several custom level-60 stories build on Azeroth’s existing lore and take a weapon through further stages. Raid materials, reputation and earlier quests can all matter, so choose the journey that fits your class and prepare for a longer project.

Eldendrassil’s opening requires Exalted with Darnassus for Tyrande’s quest or Thunder Bluff for Hamuul’s. Umbrathil begins at Exalted with Ravenholdt. Paladins pursue Ashbringer’s redemption after obtaining the Corrupted Ashbringer. Existing Priest staves also have a custom upgrade path beginning with Harmonizing the Duality of Light and Shadow from Keeper Remulos, after the original staff quest.

The Legendary Weapons guide explains each weapon’s stages and powers, while the Legendary Armory lets you inspect the models. Bring the completed Vanilla stage required by the transfer guide if you want to continue its progression later.

The Price of Pigg: adopt a travelling companion

At level 35 on Vanilla, Innkeeper Skindle in Booty Bay offers Loose Pigs in the Jungle! A storm has scattered his piglets, and his idea of a simple favor soon turns into a small livestock business.

1. Round up five escaped piglets near the wellspring north of Booty Bay.
2. Feed the hungry herd with Moist Cornbread from Skindle, then clean the pen.
3. Take Skindle’s feed to three underfed boars in Ratchet and three underfed cows at Dabyrie’s Farmstead in Arathi Highlands.
4. Return to Skindle for The Price of Pigg and receive Pigg.

Pigg is an ordinary companion pet when first earned. Petopia can convert the supported Pigg item into its autoloot version; finishing Skindle’s quest does not perform that upgrade automatically. This is an exploration and interaction chain, so follow each objective rather than killing the animals.

Reputation rewards and Lucky Charms

Reputation can lead to more than a vendor discount. At level 60 on Vanilla, several factions offer a custom reward quest at Exalted. Talk to the named NPC once you have earned that faction’s reputation.

These particular Exalted reward quests grant the autoloot versions of the listed pets. Summon one to collect eligible loot for your group, with normal ownership and bag-space rules. Autoloot pets and Petopia explains how the service works and how supported ordinary pets can be upgraded separately.

For repeatable rewards, Vinchaxa’s Lucky Charms on Yojamba Isle exchanges 20 Zandalar Honor Tokens for one Sealed Lucky Charm from level 58. At level 60, after completing the original Ossirian head quest, Commander Mar’alith at Cenarion Hold offers A Head for Luck: another Head of Ossirian the Unscarred earns three Sealed Lucky Charms.

Scouting contracts: maps for the next horizon

At level 60 with Exalted Wildhammer Clan reputation on Vanilla, visit Gryphon Master Talonaxe at Aerie Peak in the Hinterlands. His contracts cover three different journeys; choose the one you need.

Scouting contracts are optional preparation. The transfer guide explains what is required to copy a character and what can be carried forward; buying a contract does not open a planned expansion.

Custom quests in Outland

The Burning Crusade has its own Basics I–IV at the starting quest givers, including the Blood Elf and Draenei starting areas. The slot lessons unlock your second, third and fourth regular slots at levels 10, 12 and 14 on hand-in. Follow the TBC Basics guide for that realm’s objectives.

At level 70, General Tiras’alan in Shattrath offers the Outland raid-license quest chain. Into the Heart of Madness begins in the Arcatraz and requires 20 Badges of Justice. Pit of Shadows, The Traitor Prince, Twilight of the Betrayer and The Sun Dims then lead through Magtheridon’s Lair, Tempest Keep, Black Temple and Sunwell Plateau.

These quests award the Outland raid-license tiers in order. Check TBC companion licenses for the resulting equipment progression and your quest log for each boss objective and hand-in. The Vanilla custom stories above use their own quest givers and rewards; start those projects on Vanilla.

Shirt of New Beginnings

The Shirt of New Beginnings adds an experience bonus while equipped. It is useful for an alt. On Vanilla, a contact in the tailor shop of each capital city offers its quest; Helpful shirts names the contacts and the materials. The Shop also sells the shirt for Vanilla characters.

The shirt adds +100% to its supported experience contribution. Legacy and other bonuses can be active too, so “double experience” describes the shirt contribution on its own. Only one shirt can be worn at a time.

Field Repair Bot and Shirt of the Savant

Lead by Example starts a profession journey that continues with Wubba Duckie in Blackrock Depths and Grimando Goldenlock in Booty Bay. Their quests involve a Field Repair Bot and the Shirt of the Savant. Read the offered quests for the required crafts, materials and remaining tool charges.

Savant adds four points to supported successful crafting and gathering skill gains while worn. It does not simply multiply every profession experience reward by two. Combine it with qualifying crafting Legacy for faster skill development, subject to skill-up chance and the profession’s maximum skill.

Shirt of the Silvertongue

Silvertongue adds a reputation bonus while equipped. Look for its quest from Mr. Deathicus at Azshara Tower, and check the current quest for required gold, materials and tokens. It shares the shirt slot with New Beginnings and Savant.

The reputation contribution is +100%. Legacy and group contributions use their own reward rules, so use the active stats view when comparing a total gain.

Autoloot pets

A suitable summoned autoloot pet collects eligible loot for your group. These pets are mostly obtained through players-only content, with particular pets and bosses having their own drop rules. A companion pet is not automatically an autoloot pet.

Keep bag space available and remember that binding, personal eligibility and special token rules still apply. An autoloot pet is a convenience for collecting loot, rather than an entitlement to loot that belongs to someone else.

Petopia upgrades one supported ordinary companion-pet item to its mapped autoloot version. Carry the pet you want to convert, put other eligible pets in the bank, then use Petopia. It chooses an eligible carried pet; it is not a vendor or a menu for buying any pet. If none qualifies, the service reports that and returns Petopia. Keep bag space available; not every pet has a supported upgrade.

Automatic fishing

Cast your fishing line once and your character can catch and recast automatically. Keep the correct fishing equipment and enough bag space for the catch.

Automatic fishing does not turn off the server’s inactivity logout. Stay aware of your surroundings, interrupted casts and full bags; leaving the character fishing is not a guarantee of an unlimited unattended catch.

Optional field services

Portable items such as Field Banker, Field Guild Chest and Field Illusionist provide convenience away from the city when their products are available. Check the Shop for the current item, recipient realm and included pack contents before purchasing.

The Portable Services guide explains each tool and the normal city alternative. A Field Guild Chest still depends on the guild and guild-bank permissions. A Field Illusionist still depends on valid equipment and available appearances. A portable service does not grant access to another player’s bank, guild items or appearance collection.

Choosing a legendary

Microbot’s legendary weapons have distinct combat roles and upgrade stages. Choose a weapon that fits the class and role you want to play, then compare the stages below. The Legendary Armory also shows interactive weapon models.

Each stage describes that version’s powers. An upgrade is not three separate weapons equipped at once, and class or form-specific effects remain specific to the stated class or form. Read the current item and upgrade quest before gathering materials.

Choose a weapon below and follow its orange acquisition link for a separate, step-by-step guide: where to start, which bosses to defeat, what to bring and where to hand it in.

This catalogue describes the Vanilla legendary progression. Before moving to another expansion, review the transfer guide and the destination item’s tooltip; the Armory is not a guarantee that every number and quest requirement is identical in every expansion.

Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker

One-handed sword. Control & party utility. Carry the storm into every encounter.

How to obtain Thunderfury — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Thunderfury in the Armory.

Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

Two-handed mace. Fire damage & sustain. Leave a trail of shadowflame.

How to obtain Sulfuras — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Sulfuras in the Armory.

Ashbringer, The Redeemed

Two-handed sword. Melee & holy spell synergy. Let every critical strike carry the Light.

How to obtain Ashbringer — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Ashbringer in the Armory.

Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian

Staff. Five class identities. One legacy. Five ways to wield it.

How to obtain Atiesh — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Atiesh in the Armory.

Benediction / Anathema, Light and shadow, in one staff

Staff · interchangeable forms. Holy & shadow spell cycles. Choose the Light. Or let the shadows spread.

How to obtain Benediction / Anathema — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Benediction / Anathema in the Armory.

Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers

Bow. Hunter & pet partnership. Keep your companion in the fight.

How to obtain Rhok'delar — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Rhok'delar in the Armory.

Eldendrassil, Sprig of the Moonlit Glade

Staff. Balance spell synergy. Seed the battlefield. Unleash the moon.

How to obtain Eldendrassil — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Eldendrassil in the Armory.

Umbrathil, Blade of the Black Empire

Dagger · feral bonuses. Combo points & finishers. Keep your momentum between targets.

How to obtain Umbrathil — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Umbrathil in the Armory.

Dragonspine, Maul of the Dragonslayer

One-handed mace. Shaman tanking. Let Lightning Shield hold the line.

How to obtain Dragonspine — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Dragonspine in the Armory.

Earthbreaker, Sacred Totem of the Ancestors

Two-handed mace. Enhancement critical cycle. Build a storm from every critical strike.

How to obtain Earthbreaker — quest starts, boss drops, materials and upgrade hand-ins.

View Earthbreaker in the Armory.

Begin with the Bindings

1. Defeat Garr and Baron Geddon in Molten Core. Garr can drop one half of the Bindings of the Windseeker; Baron Geddon can drop the other. You ultimately need both.
2. With a Binding in your bags, speak to Highlord Demitrian in northwestern Silithus. Follow his conversation to receive the Vessel of Rebirth.
3. Use the Vessel to start Examine the Vessel. Return it to Demitrian and accept Thunderaan the Windseeker. Keep that quest active for the remaining collection.

Stage 1: free Thunderaan

1. Defeat Ragnaros in Molten Core for the Essence of the Firelord while pursuing the quest. Gather the two Bindings and ten Elementium Bars.
2. Return the materials to Highlord Demitrian. After the hand-in, use his conversation to summon Prince Thunderaan. Bring a group ready for a raid boss.
3. Defeat Thunderaan and loot the Dormant Wind Kissed Blade. Use it to begin Rise, Thunderfury!, then return to Demitrian for Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker.

Preparing the Elementium Bars

Elementium Bars are a Mining and crafting project. Blackwing Technicians in Blackwing Lair drop Elementium Ore. The smelting technique is associated with Master Elemental Shaper Krixix there. Arrange a miner who knows it before committing your materials.

These are the smelting ingredients; Demitrian asks for the finished bars. Allow for the Arcanite preparation and raid-sourced ore and cores when planning the project.

Stage 2: Bindings, the sequel

After Rise, Thunderfury!, Highlord Demitrian offers Bindings: The Sequel.

1. Defeat the Twin Emperors in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj for their individual Bindings.
2. Gather 50 Large Obsidian Shards. Obsidian creatures in Ahn’Qiraj are the associated gathering route; arrange the necessary Mining support.
3. Return the Bindings, shards and original Thunderfury to Demitrian. The hand-in replaces it with Stage 2.

Stage 3: The Last Bind

1. Accept The Last Bind from Highlord Demitrian after the Stage 2 hand-in.
2. Defeat Thaddius in Naxxramas and collect one Pure Elemental Core.
3. Return the core and Stage 2 Thunderfury to Demitrian for Stage 3.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Begin with Lokhtos and the contract

1. Defeat Golemagg the Incinerator in Molten Core for a Sulfuron Ingot.
2. Carry an Ingot to Lokhtos Darkbargainer in the Grim Guzzler, Blackrock Depths. Follow his offer to obtain the Thorium Brotherhood Contract.
3. Use the contract to accept A Binding Contract. Give Lokhtos the contract and one Sulfuron Ingot to receive Plans: Sulfuron Hammer.

Complete the contract quest on the character pursuing the upgrades. Hotter Than Ever requires that earlier hand-in, even if you obtain the crafted hammer from another player.

Stage 1: craft the hammer and combine the Eye

A Blacksmith with 300 skill and the plans can forge the Sulfuron Hammer at the Black Anvil in Blackrock Depths. Professions are part of this legendary’s preparation.

1. Gather the hammer’s materials and arrange the Blacksmith and Black Anvil craft.
2. Defeat Ragnaros in Molten Core for the Eye of Sulfuras.
3. Use the Eye with the Sulfuron Hammer in your bags to create Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros — Stage 1.

If you obtain the recipe yourself, budget nine Sulfuron Ingots in total: one for the contract and eight for the hammer.

Stage 2: Hotter Than Ever

1. Return to Lokhtos after A Binding Contract and accept Hotter Than Ever.
2. Defeat Nefarian in Blackwing Lair and collect one Ember of Draconic Might.
3. Bring the Ember and original Sulfuras to Lokhtos in the Grim Guzzler. He replaces the original hammer with Stage 2.

Stage 3: The Eternal Flame

1. Accept The Eternal Flame from Lokhtos after the previous upgrade.
2. Defeat Loatheb in Naxxramas and collect one Core of Rejuvenation.
3. Return the core and Stage 2 Sulfuras to Lokhtos for Stage 3.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Obtain the Corrupted Ashbringer

1. Defeat the Four Horsemen in Naxxramas. The Four Horsemen Chest can contain the Corrupted Ashbringer.
2. Keep the blade. It is required later during the cleansing, and its presence is part of Fairbanks’ special conversation in Scarlet Monastery.
3. Visit High Inquisitor Fairbanks in the Cathedral wing of Scarlet Monastery to begin A Dark Burden. Equip the corrupted blade when approaching the encounter to trigger its special interaction.

Fairbanks’ Journal also starts A Dark Burden. If you already have the journal, use it to begin the same journey to Light’s Hope Chapel.

Follow the witnesses

1. A Dark Burden: travel from Fairbanks to Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff at Light’s Hope Chapel, Eastern Plaguelands.
2. Seeking Guidance: speak with Commander Eligor Dawnbringer at the chapel.
3. Marjhan's Insight: consult Scarlet Commander Marjhan at Light’s Hope Chapel.
4. Overwhelming Odds: visit Highlord Taelan Fordring in Hearthglen, Western Plaguelands. Collect the rewarded Recipe: Greater Holy Protection Potion to prepare for the cleansing.

Follow the dialogue quests and keep their supplied items. The route crosses faction-held settlements, so plan your approach rather than attacking a quest giver.

Break the corruption

Taelan offers Breaking the Chains. This hand-in consumes the corrupted blade and gives you the Broken Ashbringer.

1. Defeat Kel’Thuzad and keep his Phylactery for this hand-in.
2. Prepare 20 Greater Holy Protection Potions, then bring them with the Phylactery and Corrupted Ashbringer to Taelan.
3. Accept Hope Remains and take the story to King Magni Bronzebeard in Ironforge. Keep the Broken Ashbringer for the reforging.

Stage 1: reforge the Ashbringer

Magni offers Reforging the Ashbringer.

1. Prepare ten Elementium Bars. Obtain an Eye of Divinity from the Cache of the Firelord after defeating Majordomo Executus in Molten Core.
2. Give Magni the materials and the Broken Ashbringer. He awards the Reforged Ashbringer, the first stage shown in the weapon presentation.

Stage 2: redeem the blade

1. Accept Blessing the Ashbringer from Magni and return to Commander Eligor Dawnbringer at Light’s Hope Chapel.
2. Continue with Ashbringer the Redeemed. Present the Reforged Ashbringer to Eligor for the final blessing.
3. Receive Ashbringer the Redeemed. This is the completed second stage of the Vanilla restoration.

The corrupted drop, the broken quest item and the reforged weapon are distinct parts of the story. Keep the current item until its next named hand-in.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Collect forty Splinters

1. Collect 40 Splinters of Atiesh from Naxxramas. They come from the wing encounters and the Four Horsemen Chest.
2. Use a Splinter once you have forty to combine the stack into the Frame of Atiesh.
3. Use the Frame to begin Frame of Atiesh. Visit Anachronos outside the Caverns of Time in Tanaris and turn it in.

Plan several raid visits around this collection. Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad are not Splinter sources; Kel’Thuzad is needed for the next part.

Recover the staff head and base

Anachronos offers Atiesh, the Befouled Greatstaff.

1. Defeat Kel’Thuzad for the Staff Head of Atiesh.
2. Defeat C’Thun in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj for the Base of Atiesh.
3. Return both pieces to Anachronos. Accept your class’s Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian finale and take the supplied befouled staff.

Exorcise Atiesh in Stratholme

1. Prepare a party for Stratholme and take the supplied staff with you.
2. Find the Consecrated Earth inside the dungeon. Use the befouled staff there to summon the entity Atiesh.
3. Defeat the summoned entity. This kill is the quest objective; simply entering Stratholme does not complete the exorcism.
4. Return to Anachronos in Tanaris to receive your completed staff.

Keep the supplied staff until the finale is handed in. The named quest asks for both the exorcism and the staff.

Receive your class version

The finale is class-specific. The presentation’s class selector compares their powers; it is not a choice to obtain another class’s quest reward. Atiesh has one completed Vanilla weapon per class, rather than a three-stage custom upgrade chain.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Prepare the two Eyes

1. At level 60, obtain The Eye of Divinity from the Cache of the Firelord after defeating Majordomo Executus in Molten Core.
2. Equip The Eye of Divinity and visit Eris Havenfire near the road from Stratholme in Eastern Plaguelands. Begin A Warning and listen to her warning.
3. Obtain The Eye of Shadow as well. Lord Kazzak and the elite demons in the Blasted Lands and southern Winterspring are sources. Keep it for assembling the staff.

This original chain is for Priests. The Eye of Divinity lets you see the spirits involved in the quest.

Rescue the peasants and form Benediction

1. Accept The Balance of Light and Shadow from Eris Havenfire. Save 50 peasants before 15 are slain.
2. Complete the rescue alone. Keep other players and companions out of the event; Eris explicitly warns that outside interference is punished.
3. Return to Eris for the Splinter of Nordrassil.
4. Use the Splinter with both The Eye of Divinity and The Eye of Shadow in your bags to create Benediction. Its use effect switches the original staff into Anathema.

The original Benediction and Anathema come before the three custom stages shown in the presentation. Finish the rescue and assemble the staff before pursuing the upgrades.

Stage 1: harmonize Light and Shadow

1. After completing Eris’ rescue, visit Keeper Remulos in Moonglade for Harmonizing the Duality of Light and Shadow.
2. Collect two Shadow Essences from Blackwing Lair bosses, such as Razorgore, Vaelastrasz, Chromaggus or Nefarian.
3. Return the essences to Remulos for Purified Essence of Light.
4. Switch your original staff to Benediction, then use the Purified Essence of Light with that staff in your bags. It creates Stage 1 Benediction, Bringer of Light.

The upgrade item specifically requires the Light form, Benediction. You can switch the upgraded staff to Stage 1 Anathema afterwards.

Stage 2: find equilibrium

1. Accept The Light Refines, The Shadow Defines from Keeper Remulos after the first quest.
2. Collect two Crystalline Shards from bosses in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj. These include Skeram, Huhuran, the Twin Emperors and C’Thun.
3. Give Remulos the shards for Soulstone of Equilibrium.
4. Switch to Stage 1 Benediction and use the Soulstone of Equilibrium with it in your bags to create Stage 2.

Stage 3: perfect the balance

1. Continue with Keeper Remulos’ Ancestral Light, Abyssal Shadow after the Stage 2 quest.
2. Collect two Impure Soul Fragments from Naxxramas bosses or the Four Horsemen Chest.
3. Return the fragments to Remulos for Essence of Perfect Balance.
4. Switch to Stage 2 Benediction and use the Essence of Perfect Balance with it in your bags. This creates Stage 3 Benediction, which can switch to Stage 3 Anathema.

At each upgrade, use the rewarded essence on the matching earlier Benediction. Remulos’ material hand-in awards the upgrade item; using it is the step that replaces your staff.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Find the leaf and the Ancients

1. Obtain the Ancient Petrified Leaf from the Cache of the Firelord after defeating Majordomo Executus in Molten Core.
2. Use the leaf to begin The Ancient Leaf. Find Vartrus the Ancient by the Ancients’ stone in Felwood and turn it in.
3. Complete An Introduction. Vartrus, Stoma and Hastat then offer the Ancient tasks.

The original leaf route is for level-60 Hunters. Keep the supplied Petrified Bark: it provides clues to the four demons.

Complete the solo demon challenge

Vartrus offers Stave of the Ancients. Defeat the four demons yourself and return their heads to him. Bring your own preparation, and keep companions and outside helpers away from these encounters.

• Un’Goro Crater: look for Simone the Inconspicuous, who becomes Simone the Seductress.
• Burning Steppes: look for Franklin the Friendly, who becomes Klinfran the Crazed.
• Silithus: look for Nelson the Nice, who becomes Solenor the Slayer.
• Winterspring: look for Artorius the Amiable, who becomes Artorius the Doombringer.

1. Use the Petrified Bark and look for the disguised targets in their respective zones. Speak to the target to begin its challenge.
2. Defeat each demon without outside interference and keep its head.
3. Return all four heads to Vartrus for the Ancient Rune Etched Stave.

Form the original bow and optional quiver

1. Accept A Proper String from Stoma the Ancient. Defeat Onyxia for one Mature Black Dragon Sinew.
2. Give the sinew to Stoma in Felwood for Enchanted Black Dragon Sinew.
3. Use the Ancient Rune Etched Stave with the enchanted sinew to form the original Rhok’delar.

Hastat’s Ancient Sinew Wrapped Lamina is the separate quiver task. Bring him one Mature Blue Dragon Sinew, available from Azuregos or the blue dragonkin in Winterspring, for the Ancient Sinew Wrapped Lamina. That quiver is useful, but it is not an ingredient in the bow’s forming spell.

Vartrus also has conversations for Rhok’delar and Lok’delar after the relevant original quests. The custom enhancements below apply to Rhok’delar, the bow.

Stage 1: awaken the Nightmare

1. After Stave of the Ancients, return to Vartrus in Felwood for Awakening the Nightmare.
2. Defeat any one of the Nightmare Dragons — Emeriss, Lethon, Taerar or Ysondre — and collect one Nightmare Essence.
3. Give the essence to Vartrus for Essence of Dream's Purity.
4. Use that reward with the original Rhok’delar in your bags to create Stage 1.

Stages 2 and 3: the Sting and Fang

1. Sting of the Forgotten: collect one Huhuran’s Sting from Princess Huhuran in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj. Return it to Vartrus for Essence of the Timeless Sting.
2. Use the Essence of the Timeless Sting with Stage 1 Rhok’delar in your bags to create Stage 2.
3. Fang of the Ages: collect one Fang of the Ages from Gluth in Naxxramas. Return it to Vartrus for Essence of Primordial Breath.
4. Use the Essence of Primordial Breath with Stage 2 Rhok’delar to create Stage 3.

Each hand-in awards an enhancement essence. Use it with the matching earlier bow to complete that stage; holding the essence alone does not upgrade the weapon.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Begin the Legacy of Nordrassil

• Alliance: reach Exalted with Darnassus, then speak to Tyrande Whisperwind in Darnassus.
• Horde: reach Exalted with Thunder Bluff, then speak to Arch Druid Hamuul Runetotem in Thunder Bluff.

1. As a level-60 Druid, accept The Legacy of Nordrassil from your faction’s named quest giver.
2. Visit Keeper Remulos in Moonglade and finish the introduction.
3. Accept Corruption of the World Tree. Defeat Xavaric in Jadefire Run, northern Felwood, for the Branch of Nordrassil. Return the branch to Remulos.

Purify the branch

Keeper Remulos offers Purifying the Branch and supplies an Empty Water Tube.

1. Use the Empty Water Tube at a moonwell to obtain one Moonwell Pure Water.
2. Collect three Pristine Elemental Essences from the elemental invasion leaders: The Windreaver, Princess Tempestria, Baron Charr or Avalanchion.
3. Bring the water and three essences to Remulos in Moonglade.
4. Accept Forging Eldendrassil. Take the supplied Purified Branch of Nordrassil to Galvan the Ancient in Stranglethorn Vale.

The elemental leaders belong to world events. Plan this collection around an active invasion; their locations are Silithus, Winterspring, Un’Goro Crater and Azshara respectively.

Stage 1: forge Eldendrassil

Galvan offers Materials For Eldendrassil.

1. Prepare the Souldarite, Bloodvine and Primal Tiger Leather from Zul’Gurub’s gathering and crafting economy. Prepare the Greater Nature Protection Potions through Alchemy.
2. Give Galvan all four requested materials to receive Stage 1 Eldendrassil, Sprig of the Moonlit Glade.

Stage 2: collect the Muculent Cores

1. Accept The Muculent Core from Galvan after the forging.
2. Defeat Viscidus in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj and collect four Muculent Cores.
3. Bring all four cores and Stage 1 Eldendrassil to Galvan for Stage 2.

This quest needs four cores, not a single boss trophy. Plan your raid visits around that count.

Stage 3: weave in Maexxna’s silk

1. Accept The Lifeweaver's Silk from Galvan.
2. Defeat Maexxna in Naxxramas and collect six pieces of Lifeweaver’s Silk.
3. Return the six silk pieces and Stage 2 Eldendrassil to Galvan for Stage 3.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Prove yourself to Ravenholdt

1. Reach Exalted with Ravenholdt as a level-60 Rogue or Druid. Speak to Fahrad at Ravenholdt Manor to accept A Test of Skill.
2. Defeat the Troublesome Informant in the Alterac Mountains, west of Ravenholdt. Return to Fahrad.
3. Accept Secrets in the Dark. In Blackrock Depths, defeat the Twilight’s Hammer Ambassador and collect the Twilight Cultist Plans. Return them to Fahrad.

The quest describes a Twilight’s Hammer representative; the creature carrying the plans is named Twilight’s Hammer Ambassador. Look for that NPC in the dungeon.

Recover the lockbox and blueprints

1. Molten Secrets: defeat Shazzrah in Molten Core for the Obsidian Lockbox, then take it to Fahrad.
2. Unlocking the Past: hunt Twilight’s Hammer operatives at their Silithus camps for the Twilight Key. Return to Fahrad.
3. Blueprints for Umbrathil: take the supplied Obsidian Lockbox to Master Smith Burninate at Thorium Point, Searing Gorge.

Stage 1: forge Umbrathil

Burninate offers Forging Umbrathil.

The potion required by the hand-in is Greater Shadow Protection Potion. Prepare all four materials and return them to Burninate for Stage 1 Umbrathil, Blade of the Black Empire. Professions and shared recipes can help you organize the crafting materials.

Stage 2: Power of the Old God

1. Accept Power of the Old God from Burninate after the forging.
2. Defeat C’Thun in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj and collect one Fragment of C’thun.
3. Return the fragment and Stage 1 Umbrathil to Burninate for Stage 2.

Stage 3: The Final Harvest

1. Accept The Final Harvest from Burninate.
2. Defeat Gothik the Harvester in Naxxramas for one Essence of the Harvester.
3. Bring the essence and Stage 2 Umbrathil to Burninate for Stage 3.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Stage 1: The Dragon Threat

Speak to Thrall in Orgrimmar as a level-60 Shaman with Exalted Orgrimmar reputation. Accept The Dragon Threat.

1. Defeat Azuregos in Azshara for the Dragonspine of Azuregos.
2. Defeat Onyxia in her Dustwallow Marsh lair for the Head of Onyxia. Arrange Skinning support for the required Scales of Onyxia and source the Red Dragonscales.
3. Return the trophies, ten Scales of Onyxia and forty Red Dragonscales to Thrall for Stage 1 Dragonspine, Maul of the Dragonslayer.

Reserve Onyxia’s head for this hand-in. Using a boss trophy in another quest does not leave that same item available here.

The Green Dragonflight side quest

1. After the first hand-in, Thrall offers Taming the Green Dragonflight.
2. Defeat all four Nightmare Dragons: Emeriss, Lethon, Taerar and Ysondre. This quest records the four kills.
3. Return to Thrall for ten Dreamscales.

The next weapon upgrade needs twenty Dreamscales. This side quest contributes ten; gather the remaining ten by Skinning the Nightmare Dragons or obtaining scales from other players. It helps fund the next stage, but completing it is not the prerequisite for Conqueror of the Black Dragonflight.

Stage 2: conquer the Black Dragonflight

After The Dragon Threat, Thrall offers Conqueror of the Black Dragonflight.

1. Defeat Nefarian in Blackwing Lair and keep the Head of Nefarian for this quest.
2. Gather twenty Brilliant Chromatic Scales and twenty Dreamscales. Chromatic whelps and dragonspawn drop the Brilliant Chromatic Scales, and Skinning Chromaggus provides another source. The Green Dragonflight side quest supplies ten Dreamscales; Skinning those dragons supplies more.
3. Return the head, scales and Stage 1 maul to Thrall for Stage 2.

Stage 3: The Frozen Guardian

Thrall offers The Frozen Guardian after the previous upgrade.

1. Defeat Sapphiron in Naxxramas for one Sapphiron’s Frost Essence.
2. Collect ten Chromatic Carapaces from Gyth in Upper Blackrock Spire. Arrange repeat runs or obtain the materials from other players until you have all ten.
3. Return the essence, carapaces and Stage 2 maul to Thrall for Stage 3.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Begin with Cairne Bloodhoof

Speak to Cairne Bloodhoof in Thunder Bluff as a level-60 Shaman. Accept The Weight of the Totem. This chain has no opening Exalted reputation requirement.

Prepare a company for raid encounters. Each upgrade is a quest hand-in with Cairne, and later steps require the Earthbreaker you already earned.

Stage 1: The Weight of the Totem

1. Defeat Jin’do the Hexxer in Zul’Gurub and collect three Voodoo-Twisted Mojos.
2. Keep collecting until you have all three; one mojo does not complete the objective.
3. Return the three mojos to Cairne Bloodhoof in Thunder Bluff for Stage 1 Earthbreaker, Sacred Totem of the Ancestors.

Stage 2: The Chromatic Trial

1. Accept The Chromatic Trial from Cairne after the first hand-in.
2. Defeat Chromaggus in Blackwing Lair and collect one Chromatic Heart.
3. Bring the heart and Stage 1 Earthbreaker to Cairne for Stage 2.

Stage 3: Storm Without a Sky

1. Accept Storm Without a Sky from Cairne.
2. Defeat Thaddius in Naxxramas and collect one Unbound Storm Core.
3. Return the core and Stage 2 Earthbreaker to Cairne for Stage 3.

Pure Elemental Core belongs to Thunderfury’s final upgrade. Earthbreaker uses Unbound Storm Core. Both come from Thaddius, so keep the correct quest item for your weapon.

Powers and the next adventure

Compare the weapon’s stages and powers or inspect its 3D presentation. The Raids guide explains how to prepare your company for the encounters along the way.

Keep the weapon needed for the next hand-in. For a later expansion, read the legendary transfer preparation before copying your character. These acquisition steps describe the Vanilla journey.

Open the achievement window

Use the achievement button by the minimap, or type /ach or /achievements. The window has separate Achievements and Statistics tabs. Y is the default shortcut when that key is free; check your key bindings if you already use Y for something else.

Use the current Microbot client content for your expansion. If the window is missing or cannot load its data, update the required content through the Client, Launcher and Addons guide, then try again. A loading error is not a record of zero progress.

Find an adventure worth finishing

1. Start with the summary to see recent completions and your overall progress.
2. Choose a category or activity, such as quests, exploration, professions, PvP, dungeons or companions.
3. Search by a goal’s name or words from its description. Use All, Earned, Incomplete or Titles to narrow the list.
4. Open a goal to read its exact criteria, progress, points and any reward before planning the next step.

Microbot has its own catalogue for each realm. It includes server-specific companion, license, Legacy, crafting and competition goals alongside the supported world adventures. A goal from another expansion or a stock Wrath list is not automatically available here.

Track the next steps while you play

Use a goal’s Track checkbox, or Shift-click its row, to add it to the watch list. You can track up to ten eligible unfinished goals. The list shows their requirements alongside your adventure; completed or unavailable tracked goals are removed automatically.

Remove a tracked goal when you change plans. Tracking is a reminder and does not complete its criteria for you. Some goals have several requirements, so read the expanded details rather than only the progress bar.

Points, completed goals and Feats of Strength

The catalogue and available goals can change. Faction, expansion, events and earned history affect what applies to your character; there is no useful single fixed number that every character must reach.

Statistics record activity, achievements recognize goals

The Statistics tab records supported activity counters and records. Browse its categories to see the available measures. A statistic can keep increasing after a related achievement is finished, and not every statistic awards points.

Progress follows the actual requirements of each goal. Some goals can use existing character records; others depend on events recorded while the system is active. Creating a new character or transferring one does not guarantee every historic action can be reconstructed.

Titles and your character on the website

Goals with a title reward show it in their details. Earning a title and choosing to display it are separate actions: the Titles guide explains the character-pane selector and None option.

Website nameplates show achievement points separately from companion licenses. A leaderboard championship trophy records a competition win; it is not the achievement-points icon. The Competitions guide explains those records.

Continue with professions, Eternal discoveries, Account Legacy, Legacy companions or legendary weapons when you want to plan a longer goal.

Earned and selected are different

An earned title becomes one of your character’s available choices. Selecting it changes the title you display; it does not earn another achievement or change your combat stats. A title that appears in a catalogue is not necessarily earnable on your realm.

Achievement details list the title rewards for supported goals. PvP and event titles have their own requirements. Choosing a title cannot bypass those requirements.

Choose or hide your title

1. Open your character pane. When earned titles are available, find the title selector beneath the level line.
2. Choose an earned title. Longer collections may group titles in submenus.
3. Choose None to hide the selected title. You keep the titles you have earned and can choose one again later.

On Vanilla, the title selection works with the Microbot Control Panel’s PvP-title visibility setting. The client’s Player Titles option also controls overhead display. Use the matching server patch so names, tooltips and the character pane can show the supported title text.

Find a title that fits your journey

Faction and character gender can affect the title’s wording. The selected title is personal recognition; a Legacy companion copy does not become a new player who independently earned your complete title history.

City service or portable window

City Illusionists use their NPC menus. The optional Field Illusionist item opens the dedicated appearance window away from the city. Both use your character’s available looks and valid equipment; owning the item does not unlock every appearance.

Check the Shop for current recipient, expansion and pack availability. The item purchase is separate from gold charged when applying a look. The city service remains an ordinary way to change appearances.

Browse and preview an outfit

1. Equip the items you want to style, then use your Field Illusionist.
2. Select an equipment slot. Search the available collection and use favorites to find looks you want to reuse.
3. Choose compatible appearances and weapon glows. Build the preview across the slots you want to change.
4. Review the staged outfit and the total cost before applying.

A preview is a plan, not a paid change. Only applicable slots can be committed, and source binding and equipment restrictions still matter. Leave the window and your real equipment remains as it was until you apply a change.

Apply, save and reuse

Apply commits the staged changes after their checks and costs. Save a preset when you want to keep a combination for later; the Field window also supports naming and renaming presets.

Loading a preset does not make missing or incompatible equipment valid. Review the result on your current gear before applying it. Keeping a saved appearance preset does not store a spare set of combat equipment.

Undo and redo change the look

Undo and redo navigate the supported appearance history. They restore looks, not money: undoing a paid change is not a gold refund. Loading a preset starts a fresh history, so do not rely on undo as a permanent outfit archive.

For hair, face, companion customization and names, use the separate Barber guide. For collection rules, free hidden slots and prices, read Transmogrification.

Find the barber

Find the barber at the guild master’s house in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Shearlock Combs and Edward Stylehands provide the respective city services. The barber can change more than hair: review the available whole-appearance choices in the menu.

This changes character appearance. Gear models and weapon effects belong to Transmogrification and Weapon Glows.

Preview and keep a favorite look

1. Choose the character or companion you want to customize through the service.
2. Preview the available appearance choices and check the quoted price.
3. Confirm the look when you are satisfied. Save an appearance preset to make a favorite easier to reuse.

Appearance presets are cosmetic combinations, not gear or talent builds. Review the selected character before confirming so the service changes the person you intended.

Give a companion a name

The companion service supports customization and renaming. Enter the intended name, review the quote and confirm. Names must be valid and available; a companion rename cannot take another character’s existing name.

Use names that help you recognize your tank, healer and damage companions. The normal Commands and Control Panel still control the companion after a cosmetic change.

Open your guild’s vault

Use a guild vault in a city when the service is available to your guild. You need guild membership and permission for the tab or action you want. The Field Guild Chest provides a portable vault access point; it uses the same guild rights.

The supported vault has up to six tabs with 98 item slots per tab. Your guild master decides which tabs to purchase and how ranks may use them. Read the current tab-purchase quote rather than relying on costs from an old guide.

Deposit, withdraw and check your allowance

1. Open the vault and choose a tab you are allowed to view.
2. Deposit an item or gold through the bank interface when your rank permits it.
3. Check your remaining withdrawal allowance before taking supplies or gold.
4. Use the transaction log and tab text to understand recent activity and your guild’s organization.

Guild rank permissions and remaining allowances are different checks. Being able to see a tab does not automatically mean you can withdraw from it, edit its text or spend guild gold. Repair permissions and money limits also follow the guild’s settings.

If an action is unavailable, check membership, tab access, rank rights, remaining allowance and whether the vault can currently be reached. Ask your guild master about access instead of assuming a portable item bypasses the restriction.

For guild masters

• Purchase the tabs your guild needs, checking the current quoted costs.
• Name the tabs and set a clear purpose for supplies, materials and equipment.
• Set viewing, deposit, withdrawal and text rights by rank. Set sensible daily item and gold allowances.
• Review transaction logs and rank access when the guild’s membership changes.

On Vanilla, purchasing tabs is reserved to the guild master. TBC uses its guild-bank administration interface. These are small interface differences within the same shared-storage workflow; ordinary members should follow the rights their guild grants.

Choose the tool for the job

Check the item tooltip and current Shop before acquiring a tool. Some tools have quests, charges, cast times or cooldowns; they do not all share one duration or acquisition rule. Choose the recipient and expansion you actually play.

Use the Field Guild Chest

1. Be in a guild and move out of combat to a suitable spot.
2. Face the place where you want the chest, then complete its three-second cast.
3. Open the chest placed just ahead of you. Each player accesses their own guild’s bank with their ordinary permissions.
4. Finish your transactions during its five-minute lifetime. The item has a one-hour cooldown.

The chest remains for its five-minute lifetime if its caster leaves or logs out. Sharing the access point does not share ownership: another guild’s member opens that member’s guild bank, not yours. The item does not remove rank limits or grant guild membership.

Mailbox, personal bank and auctions

The Field Mailbox, sold in the Shop for Vanilla characters, places a temporary mailbox ahead of you for ten minutes. It provides normal mail access; existing recipient, delivery and attachment rules still apply. It does not create instant delivery for every kind of message.

The Field Banker opens your personal storage, not another player’s bank or the guild bank. Auction access uses ordinary posting costs, durations and Marketer eligibility. A portable auction tool does not guarantee that a listing sells.

Repair, recruitment and appearance

Review remaining charges and the item’s current tooltip before a repair service. The Field Repair Bot quest route and profession quests explain the supported earned tool; similarly named tools need not have identical charges.

Portable recruitment still uses the source character’s level, licenses, slots and quoted hiring cost. It is a different access route, not free unlimited companions.

The Field Illusionist guide explains search, favorites, outfit staging, presets and undo. Its item price does not pay the gold cost of every future appearance change.

Choose your board

Open Leaderboards and select the board you want. Its filters, period and counting rules matter more than the overview’s short summary. Not every board pays a prize, and an empty board is different from unavailable data.

Monthly hiring and speedrun races

Big Spenders counts gold paid for companion hiring in that month; refunded hires are removed. After the month closes, places one to ten receive Tokens of Mastery by mail: ten for first down to one for tenth.

Speedrun time starts when the first player enters and ends when the final boss falls. A qualifying run has no companion at any point and no realm restart during it. Normal and Heroic are separate, as are monthly results and all-time records.

Each instance keeps its supported fastest runs. Every player in its fastest eligible monthly run receives Eternal Wisdom, with one additional Wisdom for a Heroic winner. The current board’s rules and finalized results are the reference for the selected realm.

Weekly challenges, honor and City Protectors

When active, Weekly Challenge names its featured dungeon and deadline. It uses the players-only speedrun rules, ranks Normal and Heroic separately and awards Eternal Wisdom to each player in the three fastest eligible runs per difficulty, with staff excluded from those prizes.

PvP Standings shows the honor system’s last completed weekly result. Your contribution, standing and rank are related measures, not three names for the same number. PvP and Battlegrounds explains play and rank progression.

City Protectors are weekly recognition for the qualifying strongest member of a capital’s race in the completed honor period. Their city title lasts for that protection period. This is separate from the permanently earned titles in Titles.

Guild races and lasting recognition

Raid Race records each guild’s first kill of a boss in the season. At least half of the players there must belong to the qualifying guild; companions may join the raid. The board shows recorded kills and dates, not a claim that every guild can skip raid access.

Guilds combines supported member records. Realm Firsts keeps dated seasonal recognition; Champions keeps finalized competition results. A championship trophy on a website nameplate represents a first-place competition win, separately from achievement points.

Periods, visibility and delayed results

A countdown marks the competition’s period boundary. Final results and rewards are processed at the relevant server restart after the period closes, so the countdown is not a promised restart time. An inactive weekly challenge has no current dungeon to race.

Characters hidden from the Armory are not shown in its public results. A recorded party may therefore display fewer public names than actually took part. Historical winner snapshots and today’s guild or equipment are also different facts.

Check the selected realm, difficulty and period before comparing scores. An unavailable or stale read is not evidence of zero players, zero achievements or no records. Select an inspectable character to see the available equipment and progress details.

Whose save does a companion use?

Changing who controls a companion does not create a new raid identity. Dismissing and rehiring it does not erase its owner’s or source’s save. On both Vanilla and TBC, plan the roster around those identities.

Before you hire or enter

1. Check the intended raid and difficulty, and review the characters’ existing instance saves.
2. For a Legacy copy, include the source character’s raid save in that check.
3. Bring members with compatible saves and meet the raid’s entrance requirements.
4. If a hire or entry is refused, review the source save and whether the conflicting instance is occupied before replacing the whole roster.

A source saved to a different instance, or an incompatible occupied instance, can prevent a Legacy hire or the raid from assembling as intended. Having the right gear or companion license is not permission to merge different saved raids.

Wait for a reset or use an eligible reset service

Normal instance resets and the supported Griznak raid-reset service are the legitimate ways to change a save. Check which raid the offered reset affects and its quote. A purchased reset cannot be performed while someone remains inside the affected raid.

The paid reset price rises with prior resets and follows the group member who has reset that raid most. This is separate from repairing, refreshing buffs or rehiring a companion. Read the confirmation before spending gold.

Continue with Raids, Legacy Companions and Difficulty and combat rules to prepare a compatible group.

Flights, hearthstones and portals

Discover flight paths as you explore. Qualifying Account Legacy can share supported flight discoveries; it does not place your character inside every dungeon or remove faction restrictions.

Keep a useful home location with the innkeeper. Legacy affects the supported Hearthstone cooldown. Mage companions can provide known city portals when their service requirements, charges and payment are met.

Three different scouting destinations

These are optional transfer items, ordered Azeroth, Outland and Northrend in the Transfer guide. Their regional purposes differ. Read the item and offered acquisition quest in game before spending its requirements; keeping a future contract is different from using it now.

Prepare the route before you leave

Check the destination realm, copied inventory and transfer conditions before moving forward. Mail and auction listings are not a substitute for carried transfer inventory. A travel convenience does not bypass level, quest or raid-entry requirements.

For bank, mail, repairs, recruitment and appearance away from the city, use the Portable Services guide. For a longer journey through the world, start with Leveling and Exploring and Quests.

Port to a city with a mage

To port to a city, ask a mage companion for a known city portal. This is a paid companion spell service, rather than a free teleport command. Hire a suitable mage through an innkeeper and check its remaining portal charges and available destinations.

1. Ctrl-click the mage in the Microbot Control Panel roster and choose an available city, or whisper the known spell request. For example, an eligible Alliance mage can receive cast Portal: Stormwind.
2. Follow the mage’s payment request and trade it 10 gold for the portal. Every use requires payment; a license increases service allowances rather than making the service free.
3. Wait for the mage to cast, then use the portal to travel. The destination must be supported and known by that mage, with normal spell and location conditions satisfied.

Different destinations have their own level and spell requirements. The roster marks unavailable cities with their requirements; choosing a city does not teach its spell. An unpaid offer expires after one minute. Whisper cancel if you want to call the request off before completing it.

The Cast command is sent as a whisper, without a .z prefix. Warlock summoning brings a valid group target to the ritual; it is a separate service from choosing a capital-city portal.

Three level-60 Vanilla class journeys

These are level-60 Vanilla quest paths for druids, paladins and shamans. Follow the quests offered to your class: each story leads to a final relic rite and then a normal quest hand-in. It is a quest reward, not an automatic companion-license upgrade.

Read the offered quest for your next objective and destination. Complete the earlier stages before expecting the finale’s ritual menu. An item or quest from a later expansion does not automatically substitute for this Vanilla path.

Choose three different eligible relics

Carry three different eligible relics in your bags. Three copies of one relic do not make three choices, and banked items do not appear as carried offerings. The Zul’Gurub choices—Longevity, Light and Flowing Water—are included in their respective rites. The rite’s own reward cannot pay for itself.

Finish the rite, then turn in the quest

1. Finish the prerequisite story and accept its final reward quest.
2. Bring the eligible relics to the finale NPC and open the ritual menu.
3. Select three different offerings. Review the selected items before choosing the completion action.
4. Confirm only when you intend to surrender them: one of each selected relic is permanently consumed.
5. Speak to the NPC again and complete the normal quest hand-in to receive the reward. Keep bag space for it.

Opening the menu and selecting an offering do not yet consume it. Confirming the rite does. Walking away before confirmation lets you reconsider; reopening the menu starts the selection again. The finale checks that all three chosen items are still carried before it accepts the surrender.

When the ritual option is missing

Check your class, completed prerequisite quest, active incomplete finale and carried eligible items. A previous hand-in or an item left in the bank can explain why the expected choice is absent. Follow the offered quest rather than bringing three arbitrary relics.

The final item’s tooltip explains its effect. Your companion licenses, raid recognition and other achievement goals remain separate progress. Read Quests for the other server-specific journeys.