# 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:** 161
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3201 "2010-10-07T22:08:05Z")
[quote=“Yeticus\_Rex, post:3198, topic:542480”] I just got this: > [@](#): > > \*\*Suspicious Activity(#91) Warning - Account Locked \*\* > From: NOREPLY [wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com] > Sent: Thu 10/7/2010 1:15 PM > To: [myemailaddress@myisp.net](mailto:myemailaddress@myisp.net) > > Dear customer, > > _snip_ > > 1. I was on my computer at home (the clean one from a few months ago with the upgraded AVG software), so I don’t believe I have any virus/trojans on it. So I think this is a hoax to give up some info on myself. > > 2. Need answer fast. Scam. “[wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com](mailto:wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com)” stinks to high heaven. Did you check the headers? Even so, trash that mail and get yourself an authenticator. You can check by typing [battle.net](http://battle.net) into your browser and logging in. If battle has banned you then that’s real. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3202 "2010-10-07T22:27:06Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > You can check by typing [battle.net](http://battle.net) into your browser and logging in. If battle has banned you then that’s real. Ok, I did exactly what you said and I was able to get on my account. I am ordering a keychain authenticator as soon as the verifying email comes through. Thanks. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3203 "2010-10-07T22:33:11Z")
Has anyone else heard that they’re removing the portals from Dal and Shatt with 4.0? I’m…not happy. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3204 "2010-10-07T22:37:16Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Has anyone else heard that they’re removing the portals from Dal and Shatt with 4.0? I’m…not happy. Yup. I actually think it’s a good idea. I’m not a big fan of neutral hub cities where both factions hang out. You won’t need the ports while questing through Outland and Northrend, because they are adding Auction Houses and Class Trainers to Shatt/Dal. Although, just to clarify, I’m pretty sure that isn’t happening until Cata, not with 4.0.1. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3205 "2010-10-07T22:45:48Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > > [@jayjay](#): > > > > Has anyone else heard that they’re removing the portals from Dal and Shatt with 4.0? I’m…not happy. > > Yup. I actually think it’s a good idea. I’m not a big fan of neutral hub cities where both factions hang out. You won’t need the ports while questing through Outland and Northrend, because they are adding Auction Houses and Class Trainers to Shatt/Dal. > > Although, just to clarify, I’m pretty sure that isn’t happening until Cata, not with 4.0.1. But do the majority of players only use the portals for AH and trainers? I know I generally don’t. My DK is an 80. No need for trainers, and all of mine were in Acherus, anyway. I used the portals to get easy travel to the capitals for holiday stuff and getting around when doing the loremaster achievement. I just don’t understand WHY they’re doing it. Are the portals resource-intensive or something? What would have been wrong with leaving them in? ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3206 "2010-10-07T22:50:39Z")
They don’t want to leave them in because they want people out and around the world instead of concentrated into a single hub. They want being bound in Org or TB or other places to be actual legitimate options – Dalaran and Shatt kind of make it silly to be bound anywhere else. Plus, world designers love to force players to experience the vastness of their world, whether the players want to or not 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3207 "2010-10-07T22:56:51Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > You can give him all the heirlooms you can buy, for a small fee. > > 1.) Level a mule to 10 on the same realm as your main. > > 2.) Buy all the Heirlooms you want to send–don’t forget a Cold Weather Flying book! > > 3.) Load the mule up with the Heirlooms, plus any other things you’d like your alt to have. (If you want to transfer money, do it in the form of chant mats, ore, gems, herbs, BOE pets, etc.) > > 4.) Pay $25 to transfer the mule to your alt’s realm. > > 5.) Transfer the items from the mule to your alt. Heirlooms can all be mailed, even cross-faction. Anything else can be mailed if they’re the same faction, or sent over via the neutral AH with the help of a friend if they’re not. Hmmm - is it worth doing so to a lvl 61 character? Or should I just level him since I’m so close anyway? I just want the exp bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3208 "2010-10-07T23:11:12Z")
Hell, my current ‘main’ \ is an almost-80 mage, and despite the riches awaiting me due to the removal of the portal \ I, too, don’t like the change with the lack of teleportation. Massive travel time decreases interest in the game; lord knows how many times I’ve logged out due to AFK on a flight somewhere and just not come back. My first EQ toon was a paladin, followed very quickly by a druid…just for the run speed and ports! Not wasting time travelling is important. Allow me to craft or play Plants vs…I mean flowers vs ghouls while in flight, and maybe it’d be a little better. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 7, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3209 "2010-10-07T23:22:41Z")
Yeti, I agree it sounds like a scam. If you can log into [Blizzard.net](http://Blizzard.net) and/or your wow account, you haven’t been suspended. But you should still go ahead and get an authenticator. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3210 "2010-10-07T23:30:36Z")
I did, **Skammer**. Just keep me at Ember Puppy until I get it delivered and registered. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3211 "2010-10-07T23:44:47Z")
Huh. I went to Shadowfang keep, and killed all except the ones with the very big jail bars. There was no handle to open that one that I could see. Collected a lot of cheap stuff which I vendored and I put 2 items in the guild vault. Speaking of which, almost 90% of that stuff is high level and the people who are playing can’t use it yet. So I guess I need to get them some lower level equipment, huh? No one’s using money but me and I haven’t noted anyone putting any equipment into the vault. I will send them a message. No XP that I could see. Forgot to create a new FP in the village just before the keep. When I go to vendor something and I hover over the gold repair hammer and there’s an amount, that’s for me and everything in the bags right? I sure am taking a lot of damage. I just paid 17g to the guy for repairs. 🙂 Is it a good rule of thumb to get repaired every time I vendor? Thanks Q ---
**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:** [October 7, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3212 "2010-10-07T23:47:06Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Allow me to craft or play Plants vs…I mean flowers vs ghouls while in flight, and maybe it’d be a little better. 😃 There is a [whole list](http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/categories/minigames.aspx) of add-ons that let you play mini-games in-game (Peggle, Bejeweled, Texas Hold’Em, etc.). ---
**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:** [October 7, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3213 "2010-10-07T23:50:16Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Huh. I went to Shadowfang keep, and killed all except the ones with the very big jail bars. There was no handle to open that one that I could see. You need to talk to one of the prisoners, who’ll unlock the courtyard door so you can go into the rest of the keep. > [@](#): > > Collected a lot of cheap stuff which I vendored and I put 2 items in the guild vault. Speaking of which, almost 90% of that stuff is high level and the people who are playing can’t use it yet. So I guess I need to get them some lower level equipment, huh? No one’s using money but me and I haven’t noted anyone putting any equipment into the vault. I will send them a message. No XP that I could see. Forgot to create a new FP in the village just before the keep. There’s no flight point in Pyrewood Village. It’s just a questing center for Horde. Buncha werewolves in there. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3214 "2010-10-08T01:44:18Z")
**Yeti** , caution’s a good thing, but I wanted to add a little more now that I can breathe @ work. The amount of ostensibly wow-related spam threatening bannination I’ve gotten (and still get) to the email I used to use in conjunction with WoW would paper a pretty big living room. The better scammers are pretty sneaky too – they’ll lift actual Blizzard language and/or visual assets and rewire the links to point to their site instead of Blizzard’s. As ever, when in doubt, check by typing [battle.net](http://battle.net) into a new window and trying to log in from there instead of clicking on anything. I doubt the spam was a directed attack; more likely your online wanderings have been noticed and if you use that address to log in anywhere else it wouldn’t be that tough to scrape it. My current [b.net](http://b.net) address has yet to get any wow related spam very likely because I never use it anywhere else, whereas the old address is still active a lot of places. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3215 "2010-10-08T02:05:50Z")
Thanks, **mkl12** I noticed that! LOL Q ---
**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:** [October 8, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3216 "2010-10-08T04:23:29Z")
[quote=“lizardling, post:3201, topic:542480”] > [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > I just got this: > > Scam. “[wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com](mailto:wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com)” stinks to high heaven. Did you check the headers? > > Even so, trash that mail and get yourself an authenticator. > > You can check by typing [battle.net](http://battle.net) into your browser and logging in. If battle has banned you then that’s real. Yup. I have three copies of the same scam e-mail sitting in my spam folder right now. Yeti, if you find the option in your mail client that lets you view “full headers”, you’ll probably find a Hotmail address in there somewhere - that will be where the mail was actually sent from. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3217 "2010-10-08T04:37:00Z")
> [@Headrush042](#): > > They don’t want to leave them in because they want people out and around the world instead of concentrated into a single hub. They want being bound in Org or TB or other places to be actual legitimate options – Dalaran and Shatt kind of make it silly to be bound anywhere else. > > Plus, world designers love to force players to experience the vastness of their world, whether the players want to or not 😛 Well, at least this time around I will always take the ship from stormwind to to the keep - that long ride into howling fjord makes me want to rip my hair out. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3218 "2010-10-08T12:28:32Z")
Ever accidentally hit a button that brings up the chat field and then not be able to move until you write something and hit “enter”? Also, last night in the midst of fighting 2 basilisks, I accidentally exchanged our sword for the skinning knife which was on my action bar. I noticed the mistake, and tried to do an exchange, but my sword was grayed out in the bag box and would NOT let me make the exchange. Thinking I had accidentally deleted the sword, or worse - someone had hacked me and removed it somehow, I hearthed back to Dal in anticipation of having to get my spare out of my bank bag. After I got to Dal, I tried it once more time and THEN it let me make the exchange. Latency was bad last night, so could that have been it? Thinking a bow is a bow is a bow, I bought a normal bow with a better hit rating than my crossbow, but when I used it, I got a message telling me my skill in bows is 58, so I went back to my cross (skill 350+). Question: Should I just stay with the cross rather than shoot the bow with the lower skill rating? Also, anyone need arrows? I thought I was buying 5 stacks of 100 last night. Guess what? Yup. I am now the proud owner of 5000. I can sure come up with some problematic shit, can’t I? 🙂 Thanks Q PS: Finally getting rich on Borean leather! Auctioned off 10 stacks of 20 last night and sold them at the buyout price of 13 g’s per stack. That’s right, right? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3219 "2010-10-08T12:42:29Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > > [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > > > I just got this: > > Scam. “[wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com](mailto:wowbillingsupporteu@blizzard.com)” stinks to high heaven. Did you check the headers? Late to the party, but total scam. The “click here to reset your information” link went to an address in [about.us](http://about.us). ---
**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:** [October 8, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/3220 "2010-10-08T13:14:53Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Thinking a bow is a bow is a bow, I bought a normal bow with a better hit rating than my crossbow, but when I used it, I got a message telling me my skill in bows is 58, so I went back to my cross (skill 350+). Question: Should I just stay with the cross rather than shoot the bow with the lower skill rating? Well, you could just stay with the crossbow, or you could try to skill up the regular bow, too. Since you’re just using it for pulling, it doesn’t really matter what your skill is, since a miss will pull just as well as a hit. So in your case, the major difference is going to be cosmetic…do you think Wolkie looks better shooting a crossbow or a regular bow? And I personally get Thrown on warrior toons instead of bows. You don’t have to buy ammo other than the initial knife or axe, and now you don’t even need to repair thrown weapons. As opposed to having to buy arrows and repair the bow itself when it’s damaged. ETA: I just wanted to amend my first paragraph. Specific bows or crossbows have bonuses, just like other gear, so if you happen to get a bow or crossbow with good bonuses, I’d use that, regardless of your current weapon skill in it. I don’t know how itemization of bows works out for warriors, since I’d think they’d mostly be geared toward hunter stats, but you never know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=160) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=162)