You just have to talk to the transmog guy in the major cities. You need both the piece you want to use and the one you want it to look like (they must be identical (2H mace to 2H mace, dagger to dagger, etc.–you can’t even transmog a main hand weapon to an offhand of the same type, which is annoying). You pay a few gold and do the swap. Then you can put the weapon you got the skin from into “void storage” so you don’t have to carry it around in your bag (or even sell it, I think, if you know you don’t want to use the skin anymore. The skin weapon is not destroyed in the process).
There are some items that can’t be transmogged–I think some of the PvP items can’t, legendary items can’t, and some “frivolous” items can’t (for example,you can’t make your big badass 1H mace look like a fish or a frying pan, even though these count as maces). This, too, is annoying. I think you should be able to do both legendaries and silly items.
Here’s my human paladin in fully transmogrified kit:
Her actual gear is Cataclysm and MoP gear. Her armor is transmogged to look like the “starter” level 70 PvP gear from Outland — I spent a great deal of time during Cata grinding rep with multiple Outland factions for that, since each piece was sold by a different faction. I’m almost completed an armor “dungeon set” that looks just like that, but white instead of red. I’d rather be wearing the white version, but those pieces are all Outland heroic dungeon drops, and Wossname, the final boss of one of the Hellfire dungeons, has steadfastly refused to drop his pants for me
Her sword transmog also came from an Outland dungeon, but I can’t recall which one.
The exception is ranged weapons. You can transmog a bow, gun, or crossbow into any of the others. They allow that because, hey, dwarves and tauren prefer guns, while elves and some others prefer bows, but the best available weapon isn’t always they one you’d prefer. I really like the look of that Sporeshot bow (from a quest in Deepholm), so that’s what I keep my nelf and troll hunters’ weapons transmogged to.
Is everyone and their dog/demon doing the Golden Lotus Dailies on your servers too? It is way hectic on mine, I am tagging the right mobs, tagging the wrong mobs and also tagging the alliance players, it’s as messy as hell at the moment and I ma dying a lot. Love it.
Ms Boomstick refused to even touch a bow for the longest time, until she was forced to use the one from Prince (Kharazan) by our RL. I claimed that, due to the bonus dwarves got on guns at the time, my gun was actually better. No, no, the bow is Best in Slot, use it damnit. After leveling bow, it turns out I’d been right, damnit squared.
And yet, right now my gun is transmog’d to a bow (one from a quest that nobody used to do and which I think isn’t even available any more), because I often play with headphones on and the bow makes less noise… safety first, even when barraging your enemies down!
Yer nae dwarf! If yer ear aren’t ringin’ from the report, YER DOIN’ IT WRONG!
Hell, my orc hunter deeply prefers guns. As soon as I could transmog, I ground Karazhan until the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle dropped, and every wep I’ve had was mogged to that. Until MoP, anyway. I’m still grinding and questing, even at 90, and I refuse to waste gold mogging a quest green.
My character is figuratively shitting gold at the moment. I think about money a whole lot differently than I did in any of the previous expansions. I made 20k gold in 2 days, spent it on a mount, and now I’m back up to 11k again. Dailies are a solid source of income, my alt farms are raking in the veggies–to the tune of 140 turnips a day–not to mention fishing. Fishing is an *insanely *easy way to make money right now, because you can fish up jewel danio and reef octopus in pools with a fishing skill of 1 (and if you’re a monk, you can fish from your cloud :)). Everyone and his mother (from raider to casual) is leveling cooking right now. And even when people are done leveling cooking, they’ll still need piles of food to turn into groceries and exchange for tokens–for 300 stat food, banquets, and cool items like the flippable table.
I’d like to get a flippable table myself actually, and use it after raid wipes. RAWR MONKSMASH
I’s a Basque dorf. Me no speakee Scottish 'cept for saying “aye”. crosses arms and glares up at the Scottish orc
The Wolfslayer is also my mog of choice - when I’m not in danger of losing my hearing to it.
I’s a mad dorf too. I was able to make the “final” (for now) engineering gun, and bam, first Heroic I get into, the gun that drops is better. It ain’t fair! All that time going “squirrel” on trillium nodes, tons of ghost iron chopped by my JC to get the gems, a pack of trillium bought for a Harmony, and it lasted less than half an hour! Damnit!
I haven’t tried queuing up for any of the new dungeons yet; has anyone else done them?
I was wondering how long they were – are they short, quick instances like the 3 Hour of Twilight instances that Blizzard gave us as part of patch 4.3, or are they long, drawn-out hour-plus runs (like the god-awful Troll dungeons that came before the Hour of Twilight - those put me off of running any more Cataclysm dungeons until Hour of Twilight came along).
I usually wait until I’ve hit the level cap before queuing for instances, and my BE main is still grinding away at level 89, so I was just curious.
They are like herpy derpy. I’ve had runs with multiple people not having done the dungeon before and no deaths. I had more trouble with being slow and locked out of the room for a boss encounter than dying to the boss. I have no idea if I’ve just become a better player since Cata, or they dummied down the dungeons a lot. They go really quick.
More like the HoT dungeons, but with less RP. Overall they’re pretty easy, hardest part in my experience has been the trash before the last boss in the Shado-pan Monastery.
OK, can someone explain to me how I can use the Dark Iron ore that I bought? I understand that there’s Blackrock Mountain between the Burning Steppes and that other one. So, you know, you walk through, there’s a bunch of cool lava. Go over to the corner and I find an entrance to a dungeon. I talk to Acride and go off and kill a bunch of orcs and ogres and so on. I’m only 63rd level, so these guys are pretty tough to take on by my own. But it’s all orcs and ogres.
So…how do I collect black iron ore and residue (to improve my Thorium Brotherhood rep), and how do I find the Black Forge which I need to smelt the ore and the Black Anvil to work it? I picked up a couple of Dark Iron plans dirt cheap from the auction house, but now my gear is already better than what I could make–hit 300 blacksmithing and suddenly a whole raft of new stuff is available and I can collect all the Fel Iron I need from Outland. So I don’t need the gear, but I’d like to complete this quest.
Oh, and my kids freaked out over the orphanage at Shattrath City. We spent literally over an hour looking at the baby gnome and the baby tauren and baby draeni in their custom built cradles.
Heh. The lame lol-RP backstory to that orc hunter is that he grew up in a diplomatic hostage exchange thing* between his family, a minor subclan of the Warsong clan (one of the prominent Warsong Outrider families, in fact) and a side branch of Hemet Nesingwary’s family. So he grew up among dwarves and learned to appreciate engineering and firearms. And understands more Dwarvish than he lets on. But calls Hemet Sr. “Unca”.
:smack:
Been there, done that, wish I still had both the Nesingwary 4000 I made and the Zod’s Repeating Longbow I got that very same night.
First world problems, I guess.
*I wonder if I’m being too obscure about this. What I’m referring to is that two warring noble houses would seal a peace pact by exchanging younger members (not heirs apparent, but maybe the next) as hostages to the peace with each other. If war breaks out the hostages are the first victims. The presumption is that you don’t start a war if your son will be murdered in retaliation.
I’m trying to remember if that was ever a real-world historical practice, or just something I read in fiction.
Any experienced destro 'lock players here? I have an orc warlock that I had gotten to level 60 shortly before I took a 6-month break from the game. Coming back for MoP, of course several things have changed, and since this is the first warlock I’ve ever gotten as far as level 60 I’m having difficulty remembering what kind of rotation I was using prior to my break and trying to turn the new abilities into a good rotation.
Mind you, I’m not doing dungeons, just solo questing, at least at this point. Here’s the basic rotation I’ve been using:
Curse of the Elements -> Immolate -> Incinerate -> repeat Incinerate until target falls down. If I’m fighting a tough enemy, fire off a Chaos Bolt if my Burning Embers are full.
This seems to be working; that is, the mobs are dying and I’m not. But I wonder if I could be fighting more efficiently.
Don’t forget conflag. Use it early since it slows your enemy and gives a haste buff to your next 3 incinerates. And try to get into the habit of using havoc on cooldown. Havoc + chaosbolt means 2 dead (or nearly so) enemies with just 2 globals.
Real-world, it got done quite a few times during the Reconquista and ISTR it happened during the Italian Renaissance too. Can’t have been the only times. Sometimes it was one-sided: someone would be sent to get “a proper education from Daddy’s new liege lord”…
I don’t remember what it’s called, but there’s a skill with a green icon that renews immolate and is instant cast. Goes in between bunches of incinerates.
Mister Rik, Check out this site: IcyVeins - Warlock guide. It’s got talents, single target rotation, multi-target rotation, cool downs and how to survive stuff. Lot’s of great info. Lemur866, It looks like you have to turn those in to Lokhtos Darkbargainer in the bar in BlackRock Depths (easy to get to during Brewfest which ended recently, or if you have the Direbrew Remote. Are you on Cairne, I have one of these and can get you there easily). Runestar, These are much easier than those troll dungeons. Especially once you get into heroics, and you have raiders running them for their daily tokens (easier to gear up that way too since they don’t need most gear)
Fel Flame, instant cast and extends Immolate by 6 seconds it doesn’t refresh it to the full duration unfortunately. I only use it when moving really, it drains mana like crazy.
The Icy Veins guides are great and I use them all the time but for questing sometimes you have to go away from the raid rotation.
Mister Rik for Destro I go Grimoire of Supremacy and get the Voidlord out, he is an amazing tank I rarely get threat of him.
For one mob start the battle with this macro:
/petattack
/cast immolate
which will send the big blueberry in while you start to cast your DoT. Then hit Conflagrate x 2 and spam Incinerate until Conflagrate is off CD then cast it. Unless it is an elite or one of those new rare champions I never bother refreshing Immolate, not much point.
On single mobs I save embers for when the mob is under 20% to use on Shadowburn as an execute unless I have lots then I cast Chaos Bolt as it looks too good. I always keep one for Ember Tap, you never know when a damn alliance rogue is going to pop up.
For more than one mob it is as above with the added use of Havoc to send in two Chaos Bolts if you have 3+ embers and keeping Rain of Fire up. If I am drowning in embers, which happens often on multi pulls, I also use Fire and Brimstone to spread Incinerates or Conflagrates around.
On top of that I use Dark Regeneration virtually on cooldown and my downtime is, well, I don’t have any downtime.
