Also, you can buy Alterac Swiss in Freewind Post (Horde Thousand Needles FP).
You can get the Giant Eggs of the Searing Rocs in the SW corner of Tanaris )flying around a bone heap). You can get the zesty clam meat from the turtles on the coast of Tanaris.
True, on a point-for-point basis Agility is strongly preferred, and for a Survival hunter 1 AGI > 2 AP. This is for a Beast Mastery hunter though, and they don’t have the talents that make AGI more than twice as good as AP.
Since all gems have twice the AP as AGI, the advice I’ve generally seen is that only Survival hunters should socket for straight AGI (because of talents like Lightning Reflexes and Expose Weakness), while BM and MM should socket for straight AP (although now apparently you can get enough ArPen on gear to make socketing for it a good idea for MM - they can get to 100% armor penetration with the right trinket proc).
Also, if you’re willing to do a little traveling, the Moonkin in the Hinterlands drop Giant Eggs as well, and at least subjectively I found them to drop eggs more often and been more plentiful than those damn rocs, which hardly ever dropped eggs and were cleared out way too fast, forcing me to expend a lot of downtime on waiting for them to respawn. But the Hinterlands are across the world from Tanaris, so it may not be in your best interest.
I do believe so. The orc shammy I mentioned earlier HAD to do the quest, IIRC. This was pre-BC.
I will second Bosstone’s suggestion of going to the Hinterlands to farm them if you can. Otherwise you try doing what I did and stumble across them in the AH for a rediculously low price 
Yeah, I already have all the clam meat I need (and more) from killing nagas in stranglethorn and turtles in the hinterlands, and a handful of eggs from owlbeasts in the hinterlands. I was planning on farming the rest of them off of the AH, if they’re not too expensive :).
While I’m using you guys as a not-blocked-at-work wowhead, is that recipe one that just uses clam meat once you have it, or is it a westfall stew kind of multi-ingredient thing?
The quest being required to gain Artisan Cooking was as recent as pre-3.1, I believe.
Just one Zesty Clam Meat per Magnifique. Pretty good deal if you ask me, as it’s a great recipe for the level, and you can get a ton of Zesty off the Steeljaw Snappers at Steamwheedle Port.
ETA: Although it appears to be bugged. It doesn’t seem to give the mana regen, and the attack power doesn’t translate to ranged attack power.
We’re just going to yell at her in Vent, basically. She and her husband are unemployed, desperately searching for jobs, and squeaking by on charity from friends/family/their church, including friends who said “you need a stress outlet, we’re paying for your WoW accounts” in addition to real necessities. She’s playing on the cheapest laptop that WoW will run on, pretty much.
Still, she should have told us, then we could have started yelling sooner. 
(I know it’s kind of embarrassing to admit to, though.)
Yes, but my toon got it pre-BC. That’s all I was commenting on.
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Thanks, SFG! Made my day you did, Mädchen! (hope that’s right!)
The real bonus is the fire-tree talent Improved Scorch (4th tier - level 25) which debuffs the mob by making further fire spells do more dmg. After you get it, you will open up with 5xScorch then fireballs until the scorch debuff is almost up. (this is more for dungeons where you have a tank holding aggro) Speaking of - if you are doing dungeons get Omen2 addon (threat meter) the burst damage from fire mages will get crazy aggro.
I restarted a mage and am trying to level frost, but yes, I find this totally annoying.
I just saw your reply on Wolkie’s armor, and what you said about he’s mostly “intellect”?
Do I need to go back to AH and buy LESSER stuff, or can you just tell me what YOU would do in my case?
I always (whenever I level up) just buy the strongest armor/weapon available to Wolkie, but maybe that’s not correct?
Sorry to be so dense! 
Thanks
Q
I did this quest last night! For completeness I’ll add that the provisioner in Caverns of Time Tanaris also sells Alterac Swiss. You need 5 Zesty Clam meat for one ‘meal’.
Q you’ll be wanting armour that improves the stat bonuses that help Warriors. Basically:
- Strength = More attack power (you’ll hit things harder).
- Agility = You’ll dodge better and have better armour
- Stamina = More health so you’ll survive longer.
any other bonus is wasted on you really, if you see a piece that has +20 Intellect and another that has only +10 Strength the piece with +10 Strength is better for you.
Does that make sense?
You do want the strongest armor and equipment, but there’s more to a piece of armor or a weapon than just the Armor value. Armor and weapons have stat bonuses, as well. What you want, as a warrior, is equipment with stat bonuses to STR(ength)(which increases your Attack Power (AP), AGI(lity)(which increases your chance to land a critical hit) and STA(mina)(which increases your Health). INT(elligence) and SPI(rit) are secondary or useless, depending.
Q also when you’re searching for armour pieces in the AH look out for ‘<item name> of the Bear’ (for example ‘Revenant Chestplate of the Bear’) as that means it has bonuses to Strength and Stamina.
At the lower levels you’ll mostly see stuff with a combination of Strength, Agility and Stamina. Like Martu wrote, those are the stats you should be looking at right now. When you get closer to lvl 50 or so and Outland, you’ll start running into other stats as well. I made a more comphrehensive list below if you ever want to check on an item to see if it has stats useful to you.
Good stats
Strength
Stamina
Agility
Attack power
Critical Strike Rating
Hit rating
Haste Rating
Expertise Rating
Armor Penetration Rating
“Bad” Stats:
Spirit
Intellect
Spellpower
Spell penetration
Restores X mana per Y seconds
Some stats are better than others, but you don’t need to worry about that too much. The bad stats are harmless, but they also don’t help you in any meaningful way.
I would take items “of the tiger” and “of the bear” primarily where you can find them, until you start running into more of the exotic stats nearer Outland. After that I’d look for items that have the most stats that are good for you.
Yup, absolutely correct.
I limited my answer to the nearest, geographically speaking, sources that I was familiar with.
The Searing Rocs in the sothwest seem to have a 1 in 4 or 5 drop rate. However, your mileage will most likely vary.