Anyone play a frost mage? I can’t quite work out the usefulness of the Glyph of Water Elemental, why would I want it health buff aside? Here is the tooltip:
Just started a mage you see and this is the only thing I can’t get my head round.
Do unglyphed water elementals try to close to melee with your combat target? That would be a difference.
(No frost mage. I’m playing an 85 arcane right now, and it’s not easy. You have to get rolling to do a lot of damage, and you’re soooo squishy.)
No, but if the target is too far they close up, and if it runs they pursue. Also, often it’s the mobs who do close up with the elemental.
Whoops! Sorry, Rik and Quasi…I tipped the guild over to lvl 12 when nobody else was on, so you missed it. 
Yeah, I’m reeeeal pissed off about that, jay! It was a nice surprise to see when I logged on this evening, my friend, and it’s good to see “The Three Amigos” kickin’ some Horde ass together! I hereby declare us, “The BIGGEST little guild” of all the Dopers’ guilds!
Quasi
Yes they do pursue very annoying in BGs sometimes. I am only level 20 so maybe I will work it out as I play, so far the elemental is not really something I seem to have to worry about.
Shrug, 99% of the time it’s… like a body part. Something that’s quite useful to have but which you don’t manage consciously. The warlock’s and hunter’s pets take more managing; that one, none so long as he’s not trying to run to the other end of the world.
Okay, this was amusing to me, and probably nobody else, but I want to share it anyway. It’s a sort of “optical illusion” kind of thing.
I was in Stormwind, accepting the “Crushing the Crown” holiday daily quest, when Donna and William ran past. My eyes automatically scanned their dialog in the chat window:
Donna says: I have your gorilla! Nyah nyah!
William says: No fair! Gimme back my gorilla!"
My eyes scanned William’s line at the same time I clicked the quest “Accept” button. Accepting the quest added the line
You receive item: [Snagglebolt’s Khorium Bomb]
which popped up immediately below William’s line, at exactly the moment I was “reading” his line. And of course, the new line bumped up and took the place of William’s line, so what my brain registered was:
William says: No fair! Gimme back my Khorium Bomb!"
Well, it’s about time Donna started playing for keeps!
I knew that little shit was a menace. I now theorize that little Billy grows up to be a great engineer, invents a powerful Mana Bomb enhanced with a Focusing Iris (inherited from his dad, who obviously downed Malygos or Deathwing at some point), and has it stolen by time-traveling Horde agents. So he’s at least partly responsible for what happens to Theramore.
I just got the Headdress of the First Shaman from Archaeology.
Of course my paladin can’t use it, it’s low level agility mail. But how does “binds to account” actually work? I understand mailing stuff to alts on the same server, but can I mail this to my hunter on another server? Or am I limited to accounts on Galakrond, the server where I found it?
For now, you’re limited to the server where you found it. They’ve been talking about fixing this, but as yet they haven’t done it. So if you want to give it a toon on another server, you’d have to give it to a mule on the same server, transfer the mule, and then give it to the desired toon.
Which is an amazingly convoluted and expensive way to do it. You’d be better off grinding archaeology on a toon on the appropriate server, unless paying for a server transfer seems cost-effective for you, considering that the toon you’ll be sending the thing to will only be wearing it for a few levels before it gets replaced by a green quest reward.
Even epic archaeology drops of sub-maximum-level are pretty much just collector’s items nowadays. (Twinking aside, but this doesn’t seem cost-effective for twinking either.)
I didn’t say that’s the way I’d do it (though I have been known to server-transfer a mule to equip an orphan alt with heirloom gear, but I use it as an opportunity to pass across some money and saleable items, too), nor did I advise doing it that way. But it’s one way to do it, and people have.
Some of those items, though, like the helm in question, could be useful for transmog into higher levels. My human paladin, when she works on Archaeology, is still farming Zin’rokh. Damn that sword looks awesome!
I did that to transfer some heirlooms to a paladin on a PvP server some time back. Wish I hadn’t, since it didn’t take me long to determine that I don’t like playing on a PvP server.
That’s about what I expected, since I know that a character name has to be unique for that server, but can be duplicated on another server. I’ll just tuck this little guy in the bank until/unless I get another agility-based alt up to level 61. I’ve got a level 20 gnome rogue, she’d look pretty awesome wearing this, but I’m not going to level her up just so I can use this one item.
She wouldn’t be able to use it anyway, since it’s mail, not leather.
In other news, I got my nelf priest to 90, making her my fourth 90.
My monk is winding down both her 60s and Outland. And I repeat something I’ve said earlier on, that’s only become more obvious as she gets higher level…monks are enormously OP. Not that I’m complaining or anything.
I’ve noticed that too! Leveling my Windwalker monks (both of them!) was a breeze, especially with full heirlooms. I didn’t even slow down until I got to level 80 and lost some of the heirloom bonuses. And as far as damage–wow. I normally play tanks and dislike melee DPS, but my higher-geared monk just rips through mobs, and he’s so easy to play. It’s so cool being able to tear Kael to shreds and solo Black Temple up to Council in about 20 minutes. 
I’ve heard that monk damage isn’t as good once you get into raiding above LFR level, but the one time I did a couple of bosses in normal MV with my early-stage LFR gear, I was definitely doing competitive DPS. Not top, of course, but given my gear level compared to the others in the group I was satisfied with my performance.
As an aside, WW monk is supposed to be one of the best classes for doing Brawler’s Guild. I got an invite and had very little trouble getting up to Rank 7–only a couple of the bosses gave me a bit of trouble, and that just took an adjustment or two. I haven’t gone past there yet–I was in a hurry to get to 7 so I could pass on an invite to the next person in my guild, and GG Engineering is giving me fits, but 1-7 was a lot of fun.
I originally said I was eager to get my new prot paladin into Cata content, but I changed my mind. I’ve got her XP-locked at level 80 instead. I decided I just wanted to take my time going through Northrend again. Aside from the first three characters I got to level 80 (human ret pally, belf ret pally, and draenei mage), who ultimately spent the bulk of their time at 80 running 5-man heroics and Icecrown dailies for a year+, subsequent characters have charged through Northrend and gotten out of there as soon as they dinged 80. My fourth 80, a draenei warrior, hit 80 right at the end of Wrath, so for all intents and purposes she went straight into Cata (and then she became a he).
So I got Aigerlinn into Storm Peaks and realized I hadn’t quested all the way through that zone since 2009. Even toward the end of Wrath, my characters after my first were pretty much jumping straight into Icecrown at level 77 to get to the Argent Tournament, skipping SP altogether. So it was fun doing some storylines I hadn’t done in a long time.
One fun bit is the fact that, outside of a dungeon, she’s basically unkillable. This is helped in part by the fact that she’s wearing a handful of level 80 Cata pieces and right now she’s sitting at about 32k HP. She’s been able to complete several quests that simply proved impossible for my first few 80s to complete solo. For example, that elite harpy, Sirana Iceshriek. And on Sunday I did that The Iron Colossus quest. I was never able to complete that quest before; I just couldn’t get the jormungar to kill the colossus before the colossus killed it. And, well, I couldn’t do it this time either. So I ditched the jormungar and attacked the colossus myself. It took a while to whittle down its health, but I eventually did it, and meanwhile I was never in any danger of dying myself.
Also, once again, Scarlet Highlord Daion is proving to be the bane of my Northrend existence. Across various characters I’ve killed most of the rares needed for the Frostbitten achievement. Of the few I’m still missing, I’ve simply never even seen or detected most of them (with either my current _NPCScan add-on, or SilverDragon, which I used previously). But Daion is the frustrating exception. My addons have detected her repeatedly, but always when I’m stuck flying over on a taxi. By the time I can land and fly myself back to where I picked her up, she’s gone. I’ve never detected her while questing in her spawn areas or simply flying over on my own mounts.
The others I’m missing for the achievement:
Loque’nahak: Never seen/detected in the wild. Part of the problem here is that NPCScan will detect Loque (and other hunter-tamable rares) when in proximity of a hunter who has tamed them and has them out (though it doesn’t sound the alarm in that case). Once it detects one of the mobs and it’s in your CreatureCache file, it won’t notice them again until you delete the cache file. So often, simply logging in while in a populated area will automatically cache Loque and similar mobs, because somebody is bound to have their pet out nearby. Your best bet, then, is to log out in Sholazar Basin, exit the game, delete the cache file, and then immediately log back in on the same character. Otherwise, Loque could be right behind you and NPCScan wouldn’t notice.
Vyragosa: Detected and found her corpse. Once.
Terror Spinner: Never seen or detected.
King Krush: Detected and seen in the wild exactly once, while playing one of my paladins. Knowing he was a desireable hunter pet, I politely announced his presence to the zone for the benefit of any hunter who wanted to try taming him. A moment later a hunter showed up … and proceeded to slaughter him :mad: