# New WoW General Discussion Thread 6/8/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480 "2010-06-09T00:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 139
**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2761 "2010-09-21T15:03:12Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I’m assuming there is some kind of caster/healing trinket that drops from Direbrew, but if there is I didn’t see it in about 8 runs yesterday. Thankfully it only takes about 30 seconds to kill him. Maybe 2 minutes from the time you put yourself in queue until you’re finished and back where you started. He drops Ancient Pickled Egg Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires Level 80 Item Level 200 Equip: Increases spell power by 98. Equip: Your direct healing and heal over time spells have a chance to increase your haste rating by 505 for 10 secs. and Mithril Pocketwatch Binds when picked up Unique Trinket Requires Level 80 Item Level 200 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 84 (1.83% @ L80). Equip: Your harmful spells have a chance to increase your spell power by 590 for 10 sec. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2762 "2010-09-21T15:08:33Z")
I love the 2-minute queue time - as a dps! - for Direbrew. Nice way to get 2 extra Frost emblems. Plus, coincidentally, my engineer got the remote control this morning as a random drop in her reward keg. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2763 "2010-09-21T15:29:44Z")
Thanks Martu. The Pickled Egg would be a nice improvement over my Troll Talisman. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2764 "2010-09-21T15:42:53Z")
Thanks for the gratses, everyone! 😃 I get a warm fuzzy glow every time I mount up now. Hit another milestone on the DK last night–he’s still only 68, but I’ve maxed out his Herbalism and Mining. So frustrating being on a PvP server where there were nodes I was about to land on, only to see a skull-level Horde character flying in and have to veer off because I know I’d get my face smooshed in. Now I just have to decide whether I want to spring on the 5k gold to get him epic flying. I think not for now, since regular flyers go 150% and he has the 20% bonus from On a Pale Horse. (If regular flyers were still 60%, I’d definitely dump the cash.) > [@Quasimodem](#): > > **Wolkie** made it to 76, finally, but I have to tell y’all, it wasn’t by fulfilling quests. Hey, it’s \*your \*$15 a month. If you’re not having fun with the more complicated quests, there’s nothing that says you \*have \*to level that way. > [@martu](#): > > First time in Brewfest for me and so far really loving it apart from the bloody Ram. Any tips? 1.) Put the reins on your action bar, preferably with a keybinding (i.e., on your hotbar so you can use something 1 through =). 2.) Leave your backpack (or lowest bag with an available slot) open so you can see when you pick a barrel up and when you drop one off. 3.) For Alliance, I’m using a route where you can keep the ram at a gallop all the way. Starting from the tent, I ride out to the barrel by the crossroads (next to the fence), stay along that side of the road (left) to hit the barrel that’s in a little dip, run as far as the path up to the building that the barrel tosser is standing in front of and do a jump-turn (usually just as I hit that grey path that breaks the snow), then do the same route back, being sure to hit both barrels on the way. At the end, I get myself aimed at the tent and then flip my camera, so as soon as I hit the back wall I can do a 180 in the other direction. 4.) Whenever you run past a barrel, watch both for the aura on the ram and the number of stacks on your debuff. They’ve fixed most of the problems with lag, but if you miss the barrel or it doesn’t remove your stacks properly, be sure to double back to clear the debuff ASAP. You do \*not \*want to get hit with Exhaustion–it will kill your timer. > [@Quasimodem](#): > > Just wish I knew what I was gratzin’ ya for 😃 The achievement [Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player)](http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4602/glory-of-the-icecrown-raider-10-player). You have to kill every boss in 10-man ICC on Heroic (except the Lich King), and then all 12 bosses each have another achievement to do (some easy, some very hard). When you finish the whole thing, you get [one of these](http://www.wowhead.com/item=51954/reins-of-the-bloodbathed-frostbrood-vanquisher). > [@Shin\_Kell](#): > > No Lich King kill… sadly. ☹ Good luck with whatever goals you have for the end of the expansion, then. And just think–how many people at the end of TBC were able to say that they’d finished everything in SWP up to Kil’jaeden? > [@Skammer](#): > > I’m assuming there is some kind of caster/healing trinket that drops from Direbrew, but if there is I didn’t see it in about 8 runs yesterday. He drops trinkets that are identical to the ilvl200 badge ones. > [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Plus, coincidentally, my engineer got the remote control this morning as a random drop in her reward keg. I’m kind of sad it isn’t useful for the actual event anymore now that the RDF takes us straight there. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2765 "2010-09-21T16:43:20Z")
Hah HAAAAAAAAH! A friend just emailed me some \*awesome \*Alchemist news for Cataclysm: Have you heard about the Sandstone Drake, where you transform yourself into a dragon with the option to carry someone on your back? Word is, that’s the promised Alchemy mount! Wooooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2766 "2010-09-21T16:49:04Z")
Wow, that’s almost cool enough to get me playing my 78 rogue alchemist again. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2767 "2010-09-21T17:09:37Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Hah HAAAAAAAAH! A friend just emailed me some \*awesome \*Alchemist news for Cataclysm: > > Have you heard about the Sandstone Drake, where you transform yourself into a dragon with the option to carry someone on your back? Word is, that’s the promised Alchemy mount! Wooooooo! _dances!_ About time. Most of our benefits are so unsexy. Some of them you don’t even notice unless you analyze the numbers (Mixology, really–which isn’t working in the PTR, sigh. Of course, neither are professions, so that probably has something to do with it). ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2768 "2010-09-21T17:44:04Z")
Not terribly sexy, no. Have to say though, I love having the [Endless Healing Potion](http://www.wowwiki.com/Endless_Healing_Potion) and the [Endless Mana Potion](http://www.wowwiki.com/Endless_Mana_Potion). Also the Flask of the North ain’t too bad either. Just wish you could set it to always give you the +STR or the +Spell Power, rather than it alternating between the two. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2769 "2010-09-21T17:46:40Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Hah HAAAAAAAAH! A friend just emailed me some \*awesome \*Alchemist news for Cataclysm: > > Have you heard about the Sandstone Drake, where you transform yourself into a dragon with the option to carry someone on your back? Word is, that’s the promised Alchemy mount! Wooooooo! Aw yeah, a major reason to get my priest out of semi-mothballs! ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2770 "2010-09-21T18:10:07Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > Not terribly sexy, no. Have to say though, I love having the [Endless Healing Potion](http://www.wowwiki.com/Endless_Healing_Potion) and the [Endless Mana Potion](http://www.wowwiki.com/Endless_Mana_Potion). > > Also the Flask of the North ain’t too bad either. Just wish you could set it to always give you the +STR or the +Spell Power, rather than it alternating between the two. What class are you? I’m a warlock, and it’s always +SP. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2771 "2010-09-21T18:27:49Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > Some of them you don’t even notice unless you analyze the numbers Endgame raiders do. 😃 (Soooooo glad that my benefits are going to scale with buffs now.) > [@Runestar](#): > > Also the Flask of the North ain’t too bad either. Just wish you could set it to always give you the +STR or the +Spell Power, rather than it alternating between the two. Play a class that doesn’t use both. 😃 I can’t remember if there’s some trick for Paladins to get it to use the right one for your current spec… if all else fails, you can just keep reapplying the buff until it gives you the correct one. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2772 "2010-09-21T22:12:49Z")
“Your Quasi” was missing the word “friend” up there in the thread. Sorry!:o Q ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2773 "2010-09-22T00:07:55Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@Runestar](#): > > > > Also the Flask of the North ain’t too bad either. Just wish you could set it to always give you the +STR or the +Spell Power, rather than it alternating between the two. > > Play a class that doesn’t use both. 😃 I can’t remember if there’s some trick for Paladins to get it to use the right one for your current spec… if all else fails, you can just keep reapplying the buff until it gives you the correct one. On my pally it alternates pretty consistently, first spellpower then strength, so I just hit it twice in a row. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2774 "2010-09-22T01:20:00Z")
Me, **Silka** and **Da’ Wolk’** are gonna make 80 before Catalyst appears as the new version. It may swell my ankles to twice the size of footballs, but we’ll do it. This is very important to me, and we ( **Wolkie and Silka** ) need to do it on our own (excepting questions asked here, of course! :-)) Thanks for all your help and advice. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2775 "2010-09-22T02:20:50Z")
For the record: FUCK Moorabi, FUCK the Less-rabi achievement, and FUCK lagging just enough to miss interrupting a transform at the literal last second three days in a row now. (I mean that, he transformed with 2300 hp left today). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2776 "2010-09-22T03:42:12Z")
I gotta say, the Echo Isles event was far more interesting than the Gnomeregan event. Though granted, that may just be my perception because I didn’t do Echo Isles in a crowd of 200 like I did Gnomeregan. I got a huge LOL toward the end, when Zalazane was making his little “haha, you can’t get through my impenetrable shield” speech, and Bwondonwossname appeared behind him with the “BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!” Just the voice acting, the way Zalazane said, “Who … who dat be?” Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2777 "2010-09-22T03:49:34Z")
The Echo Isles event did bother me a little bit…I don’t know whether it’s because all of my previous exposure to troll voice acting was the same four or five phrases or what, but I don’t think I ever realized that it really is at least as bad as the gungans in Phantom Menace, isn’t it? I was almost embarrassed about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2778 "2010-09-22T04:05:27Z")
I thought the voice acting was really good. Sure, stereotypical Jamaican, but they sounded just fine to me. I enjoyed Echo Isles more than Gnomeregan largely _because_ of the voice acting. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2779 "2010-09-22T04:13:58Z")
I didn’t really mean that the voice acting was bad, but that the voice acting was horribly stereotypical and, maybe to a little too sensitive person, a little racist. I mean, Jamaicans aren’t spear-wielding cannibals who practice voodoo, after all. Of course, the Scots aren’t drunken, bearded, violent…oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/2780 "2010-09-22T04:22:35Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Of course, the Scots aren’t drunken, bearded, violent…oh, wait… And durn proud of it! 😃 (Clan McKinley here. Well, on me mother’s side.) Gotta say, Keliraeda’s [Edge of Ruin axe went perfectly with her troll warrior costume](http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/keliraeda_troll.jpg). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=138) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=140)