Drake Dealer Hurlunk is the only vendor I can find on WoWhead, maybe there was a vendor in Shattrath at some point but there isn’t one now.
Tbh there is little excuse to go on memory for things like this when we have easy access to a database like that.
Yeah, in Shattrath there is a collection of netherdrakes just chilling. And when you ding exalted, you’re told to go there. And the guy says you can pick out ONE drake.
Didn’t realize you had to go back to the ledge to a completely separate guy to buy the rest.
So yeah.
Went back to the ledge and got the other 5 nether drakes from a non-descript Orc. Only 200 gold each!
That entire sequence of events struck me as… improbable.
Less than half an hour ago, I just had a dramatic confrontation with your boss and (by the magical equivalent of video teleconference) his boss. I was supposed to get a promotion, but instead I got unmasked (along with my co-conspirator) as an undercover saboteur and, in fact, one of your faction’s worst enemies. I made an amazing escape and… came back to you while the echos of your boss’ boss’ rant were still in the air, and your boss was seriously contemplating his upcoming execution for gross incompetence.
And when I returned, you greeted me cheerfully and with full respect and let me acquire 5 more of the precious dragons you hoard. Dragons that, because of my actions, you’ll have a harder time getting more of, because I liberated so many of them. (Dozens of eggs that you’ll never harvest and raise.)
Dude, you make theBlackrock Scarshield Quartermaster (who is notably stupid even to other Orcs) look like an F’in genius. 
Warning: this might constitute a pitting, except I don’t think I ran LFR with any of you, so technically I can do this here (since I wouldn’t be busting on an SDMBer). I hope. If you recognize yourself in the following rant, I apologize and humbly recommend you L2Play. 
I’ve heard that Wednesday Night is the sweet spot for LFR. The real raiders hold Tuesday for their real raid resets, so they’re ready for LFR the next night. You get in a Wednesday LFR, it’s like a carry.
Feh.
I need Titan Runestones. I entered the week with 8/12 for that particular legendary cloak quest.
Last night I ran Vale of Eternal Sorrows. It’s aptly named, because the raid I wound up with was nothing but grief.
These fights have been around since… what, forever? Apparently 1/2 the raid had never done the fights. Or watched a youtube video of the fights. Or even read a stategy writeup.
Have you ever seen a raid with 4 stacks of Determination? Have you ever seen a raid with 4 stacks of Determination, and people were bitching because they though it shouldn’t be capped at 4? Because by the time we downed the Fallen Protectors, we would have theoretically been at 7 stacks. :eek: Yeah. 7 wipes.
(To be fair: one of these wipes was malice, not stupidity. Not exclusively stupidity, I mean. One of the tanks had apparently never tanked in his entire life. If I, with my mediocre DPS, can pull a boss off of a tank, that tank has utterly failed. And I did. Because he did. So we wiped. But because of the criticism, this “tank” decided to ragepull the bosses after reset before disconnecting, while the raid was still prepping. Stupid douchebag.)
There wasn’t a single boss fight where we hadn’t wiped twice in that entire run. We wiped on trash… three times. (Worse yet, we wiped on the one particular mini-boss twice.)
We must have cycled through 75 people in our little 25-man, with people dropping because we weren’t on the boss they wanted, people dropping because they couldn’t put up with the incompetence, people being kicked because they were DC’d or ignored rezzes or were notably incompetent.
And the only Runestone I got was the guaranteed one from the Sha of Pride. No RNG love at all.
Worst. Raid. Night. Ever. It’s almost enough to make me quit the legendary quest line. FML.
My initial excitement about getting into the beta has worn off. Not because of WoD — what little I’ve seen has been amazing.
The problem is with “what little I’ve seen”. I really wish I could have gotten a beta invitation when I was still working at my previous job. I would have had the last part of June though August with almost no work, and had all sorts of time to devote to testing the beta. Now, working a steady job, I have to squeeze in time to play the beta when I can, and not to mention the fact that there are still things I want to get done with my characters in MoP (I’m up to eight lvl 90s now).
And then, when I finally do have time to log into the beta … the servers are offline. Or I successfully log in and the first thing I see is “Server restart in xx:xx” So my paladin has only made it to level 92 and is nowhere near completing Shadowmoon Valley, the Alliance starting zone.
Then there’s the fact that I’m doing the beta on my Windows laptop, because my 2008 iMac just can’t handle it. I hate hate HATE playing on a laptop. I have GOT to get myself a Windows desktop gaming machine with a big monitor. That little 15" laptop screen just sucks, especially when I’m accustomed to playing on a 20" monitor.
I’m back playing again for the first time since 2009. On my little Surface 2, which runs the game just fine. It just has too small a screen for my liking.
This game has changed a LOT.
Welcome back. Yeah, the game has changed a whole lot.
Your initial posts confused me. A Surface 2 is based on an ARM-family processor; WoW doesn’t have a client for that. I.e., you can’t run WoW on a Surface 2. A Surface **Pro **2, on the other hand, has an Intel i5 processor. That’s perfectly compatible with the WoW executable. So I have to assume you meant “Surface Pro 2”.
I entered the reset week needing one stinking more Titan Runestone to move on with my legendary cloak. Of course, Blizzard would wait until this week to turn Gaze of the Black Prince back on. :rolleyes:
One smooth Tuesday night Gates of Retribution LFR and I have… 13 Titan Runestones. I only needed twelve. Thanks, Blizzard.
Turned 'em in and queued for LFR Pinnacle of Storms, so I can loot Lei Shen’s heart. Yuck.
So, turned that in and got my epic cloak. Yaaay.
Next phase, try to get kills on the four celestials available on Timeless Isle. (There were minor quests in the way, but they required stuff I had already done while endlessly farming Timeless, so they were done before I got there.)
Turns out the little-heralded “Queue for other raids” capability built into the Raid panel (default dog-standard WoW UI) works very well. I queued and was pulled cross-realm into a raid just about to pull Xuen. That went well, though it was close. Someone started ganking me from the edge of the arena, but I kited his dumb ass right through the boss fight and he died of stupidity.
I got the kill credit and left group… and appeared right in the middle of an ongoing fight on my own realm fighting another of the celestials (Yulon, I think). So I got a few shots in and credit for that one.
Queued up again, and got in on a Niuzao fight. Check.
Left and queued again, and got in on the Chiji fight I needed. Check.
All this (from arrival at Timeless Isle to ready to turn that quest in) was in a span of under 45 minutes. Very efficient.
Turn quest in and collect my LEGENDARY! MWAHAHA!
All in one evening.
ETA: TBH, I thought the Timeless Isle part of the quest chain would take a few days. The cross-realm queue thing was a significant win.
As a bonus, I got a set of normal raid T16 gloves off of the Xuen fight, which very nicely replaced the “Timeless” upgraded Timeless Isle gloves I’d been wearing. And I had valor points to take my cloak 4/4 and the gloves 3/4 upgrade.
A very damn lucky night.
Lucky bastid. Congratulations!
Yes, sorry, I meant Surface Pro 2. And it runs it pretty well, surprisingly so. There are a couple of frame-rate intensive spots I’ve run into that chug a little bit, but nothing too bad. The screen is so small that I have some difficulty reading the text at times, which is annoying.
Back when the game first launched, EVERYONE hung around in Iron Forge if they were not questing or doing dungeons - and as soon as you flew into there on a gryphon, my old computer used to just churn and burn trying to keep up. And heaven help us if the horde decided to raid and kill King Bronzebeard! Now I guess people are a bit less concentrated, as well as there’s fewer players - at least there seems to be.
I’ve leveled up my level 60 rogue (untouched since vanilla) up to 79 as of today, in about a week or so, mostly by doing regular dungeons and heroic Burning Crusade stuff that I never got around to before. My level 80 priest is up to 83 now, so I’m just really getting into Cataclysm stuff now and haven’t touched the Mists of Pandarian stuff yet.
I don’t have tons of time to play, so I’ve made it my goal to have both my characters to 90, and my professions maxed by the time the next expansion launches. I’m not too concerned about gear, really - the first round of greens in the expansion will probably be better than any purples I can get now anyway.
The Warlords of Draenor cinematic is up. It’s got a pretty nifty callback to this Warcraft III cinematic.
Very nicely done. Not really feeling the love, though. I’m just sick of orcs. Enough with the orcs, already.
Is this the first expansion not to feature a new race or class?
I’m not really feeling it, either. Though it does LOOK nice, I’m not sure that it looks fun.
Lich King was the most enjoyable expansion for me so far - I liked the storyline and all the challenge of the achievement system. It made the game new again.
Well, you can race around the Darkmoon Faire. Does that count?
I’m Horde, but I’m tired of orcs as well. I’d love an Alliance Human-centered expansion.
If this preview is any indication, we’ll probably have a healthy dose of Draenei-focused content in the mix. Ogres, too; we haven’t seen much of them in a little while.
Shadowmoon Valley, the Alliance starting zone (after the Tanaan Jungle intro) is extremely Draenei-heavy.
I can’t speak beyond that. Aside from finding the time to actually play in the beta, they have wiped the characters yet again, erasing all of my previous progress, such as it was.
I guess I should just roll a level 100 pre-made toon. Then I can go back and explore the zones I haven’t managed to get to.
LOL. I had some unexpected fun last night when I was randomly grouped for the revamped Dead Mines. My rogue is a woefully under-geared, barely turned level 85. I remembered Dead Mines from back in the day, figured it was just a Heroic level of the same fights. Wrong!
I think our group wiped 8 times, and I was laughing so hard during the “Cookie” fight, but we downed him.
Fun dungeon. A nice way to cap off Cataclysm.
I guess I get to start in on the Panda dungeons tonight.
Cataclysm heroic 5s struck me as quite technical. I always envisioned them as “raid training”. At the appropriate gear levels, you can’t overpower them and ignore mechanics.
Which, IMHO, is perfect.
(I just wish all the Cat heroic achievements were solo-able; but some of those very mechanics make them require at least a small group, even if you can blow through the fights nowadays with pure DPS. I have some achievement catch-up to do!)
So, in my guild we finally realized that no, we’re not going to be able to recruit enough people to do Mythic, so we’re throwing in the towel and won’t be raiding in WoD. 
But fear not! There is a back-up plan, too bad it involves holding my breath until my face turns blue. Aka, faction changing and joining an Alliance guild instead.
It’s too bad only four of us(so far at least, some may change their mind later) decided to do that. But some people will be missed.
Well, there is an achievement called “Ready for Raiding”. 