# 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:** 243
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4841 "2010-11-15T20:59:14Z")
And the entirety of the WoW population who hold down a 9 to 5 job cried out in despair. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4842 "2010-11-15T21:04:48Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > And the entirety of the WoW population who hold down a 9 to 5 job cried out in despair. No kidding! I’m like. . .come on come on, I wanna go _home_. But I imagine that Blizzard’s thought of this, and it’s not just a one-time, random event. ---
**Author:** ![Shin\_Kell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@Shin\_Kell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shin_Kell)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4843 "2010-11-15T21:04:53Z")
Word on trade chat is that it happens every 3 hours and lasts for one hour. I’m not sure if it alternates from Org/TB to UC/SM and their respective Ally cities but I guess I’ll find out in 3 hours. Apparently you have to be present while the invasion is going on to have access to the portals that open up the mini bosses, you can queue for them through the LFD finder as well. If you clear both cities you get 4 bosses, if you clear only one you get 2 bosses. There’s also a quest that you pick up when you enter that asks you to defeat the boss and there’s an achievement for turning it in as well. That’s all I really know so far. I’m sure MMO Champ and WoWhead will have more info up later. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4844 "2010-11-15T21:08:57Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Really, the tabards are gonna be a godsend. And keep in mind, the existing cloth turn-ins are going away, so if you’re stockpiling Runecloth (either to use or to sell), dump it before the expansion hits. Me? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4845 "2010-11-15T21:14:16Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Quasi, have you done any of the PVP dailies? There are several in Grizzly Hills, one near Amberpine Lodge, where all you have to do is kill I think 10 horde-aligned npcs in a lumber camp. You will be flagged for world PVP from when you accept the quest until you turn it in, but at least on my server, I haven’t seen any Horde players trying to fight Allies there. You get gold and honor as rewards. Also, up north of there, there’s another lumber camp with several dailies…one to drive malfunctioning shredders back for repair, one to gather parts (sparkly things on the ground), one to bandage wounded soldiers, and one to kill more horde NPCs. > > Also, there are more pvp-type quests down at Venture Bay. I think sometimes there are a few hordies contesting those, but not always. > > Just throwing those out as a way for you to get more honor without dealing with a battleground all the time… I’ll check it out, **Oak** , 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:** [November 15, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4846 "2010-11-15T21:26:25Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Me? If you’re stockpiling it for First Aid, no, she’s not talking about you. She means the reputation turn-ins…for each faction in your main faction (i.e., Stormwind, Darnassus, Ironforge and Exodar for Alliance, and Orgrimmar, Undercity, Thunder Bluff and Silvermoon for Horde), there’s a cloth quartermaster who accepts cloth turn-ins to increase your reputation with that subfaction. Each one asks for 60 wool first, then 60 silk, then 60 mageweave, then 60 runecloth. After that, you can turn in runecloth repeatedly in (I think) stacks of 20. Each turn-in gives you a set amount of reputation with the subfaction that the particular quartermaster belongs to. I wouldn’t worry about that, though, since it IS going away as of 12/7, and they’ll have the tabards to earn reputation. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4847 "2010-11-15T21:27:21Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I’ve encountered a frequent bug/glitch in dungeons. After the run is over, I try to teleport out of dungeon, and it tells me I can’t do that when I’m dead. Sensible, I suppose, except that I’m not quite dead. Feeling much better, actually. (Sorry, unable to resist a bit of Mel Brooks). So I’m fully alive, vibrant, able to run, talk, cast spells, etc. Just can’t leave the dungeon. In most places, this is a minor annoyance, I can just run back to the entrance, and leave that way–which will return me to wherever I was when I accepted the dungeon group. But that one dungeon…the one with Haddrox, and then you jump down that hole and fall a looooong way, then fight the last boss in a circular cage thing…yikes. Only way I have found to get out of there is hearth stone on my druid, or portal on my mage. Have noticed that sometimes leaving the group will teleport me out of the dungeon, but only if I am not the last person to leave the group… If this is occuring on your druid, then druid form is equivalent to dead form, by some bizarre accident of coding. Drop to your normal caster form and teleport to your heart’s content. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4848 "2010-11-15T22:15:21Z")
> [@Headrush042](#): > > If this is occuring on your druid, then druid form is equivalent to dead form, by some bizarre accident of coding. Drop to your normal caster form and teleport to your heart’s content. Aha. I’ll try that next time it happens. Thanks! ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4849 "2010-11-15T22:18:13Z")
Just a heads-up for those who care: I’m having minor hernia surgery tomorrow (yaaaaaaaaay!). I pretty much live in my bedroom in the house I share with a couple other guys, so that’s where my computer is, and it’s upstairs. So depending on how soon I can climb stairs after the surgery, I may be incommunicado for a day or two. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4850 "2010-11-15T22:31:00Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Just a heads-up for those who care: > > I’m having minor hernia surgery tomorrow (yaaaaaaaaay!). I pretty much live in my bedroom in the house I share with a couple other guys, so that’s where my computer is, and it’s upstairs. So depending on how soon I can climb stairs after the surgery, I may be incommunicado for a day or two. Don’t worry, if you used some talents on BM you’ll have the ability where your pets make themselves happy without food. 😉 I love it how pets also gain happiness by killing things. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4851 "2010-11-15T22:36:59Z")
Okay, well… [this is Stormwind on Lightbringer at about 2:30PM today](http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/sw20101115.jpg). Not sure what the hell’s going on here. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4852 "2010-11-15T22:37:43Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Just a heads-up for those who care: > > I’m having minor hernia surgery tomorrow (yaaaaaaaaay!). I pretty much live in my bedroom in the house I share with a couple other guys, so that’s where my computer is, and it’s upstairs. So depending on how soon I can climb stairs after the surgery, I may be incommunicado for a day or two. Gute und schnelle Besserung, **Herr Rik**! Why don’t you get them to rig up one of those things that they drag behind horses in the old westerns, lay you on it, hook it around the upper bannister post with a chain and then pull you upstairs? They’d do that for you, right? All kidding aside, glad you’re getting it fixed. My bro had one and he felt so much better after. Your pal Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4853 "2010-11-15T22:37:55Z")
Elephants on parade. ---
**Author:** ![Jbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Jbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jbone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4854 "2010-11-15T22:54:25Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Huh. I also had a strange death experience on Sunday. My mage died on the trash right before Trollgore in heroic Drak’Tharon Keep after an overenthusiastic pull. I saw the healer (also a shaman… hmm) was busy trying to keep everybody else alive, and since we were still close to the entrance I decided to just release and run back. So I clicked the Release Spirit button … and materialized in the graveyard alive and at full health, rather than as a ghost.. I’ve seen this recently as well. Doesn’t happen everytime though. Strange indeed. > [@Oakminster](#): > > Also of interest…I read somewhere, probably WoW Insider, that the next stage of the cataclysm events will probably be starting soon. Maybe today or tomorrow. Dunno what it will be, but hopefuly something more interesting than the last one. Arresting cultists was pretty dull. I did not roll a cop. Agreed, but then again it was easy money. It sounds like things are heating up this afternoon though. Can’t wait to get home. > [@jayjay](#): > > That’s Phase II. I’d say a city-wide invasion of actual hostile, powerful elementals along with an attached raid(?) event with ilvl 251 loot is huge. > > And I do like how this is being handled so far. The invasion isn’t random and unscripted like the zombie invasion was…in between the events, you can still do your capital-city business without the danger of turning into a zombie. AND it’s only capitals, as far as I know, so if you’re in Crossroads or Ratchet, you’re completely untouched. > > Were there events like these for Burning Crusade? I can’t remember…it’s been forever. The zombie event was by far my favorite. In the major cities though I noticed that they had posted cleansing npcs around the city to take off the debuff. I didn’t think they implemented that until later - too many players creating problems (_cough_ me). The BC event was the world boss (Doomlord Kazzak I think), would stand outside the major city gates with his hellhounds and wreak havoc. I was pretty young then and low level so I don’t remember what more there was to it. I do remember the Youtube video - search for “wow kazzak kills stormwind”. Apparently this video was taken before they tethered the boss to the gates and in it, he charges throughout the city killing everything with his shadowbolts. It’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4855 "2010-11-15T22:55:05Z")
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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4856 "2010-11-15T22:58:33Z")
So wait, if 4.0.3 hits tomorrow but Cataclysm actually isn’t happening (4.0.3a?), meaning the content changes and additions, what’s 4.0.3 bringing? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4857 "2010-11-15T23:04:02Z")
> [@Jbone](#): > > The BC event was the world boss (Doomlord Kazzak I think), would stand outside the major city gates with his hellhounds and wreak havoc. I was pretty young then and low level so I don’t remember what more there was to it. I do remember the Youtube video - search for “wow kazzak kills stormwind”. Apparently this video was taken before they tethered the boss to the gates and in it, he charges throughout the city killing everything with his shadowbolts. It’s hilarious. Thanks! I do remember that, now that I’m reminded. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4858 "2010-11-15T23:09:22Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > So wait, if 4.0.3 hits tomorrow but Cataclysm actually isn’t happening (4.0.3a?), meaning the content changes and additions, what’s 4.0.3 bringing? AFAIK, lots of prep work and a few bug-fixes. Lots and lots of Shattering data, apparently, so that they can just go _boom_ and not have tons of down-time on patch day (hopefully). Some other things (from mmo-champion): > [@](#): > > ``` > * The leader of Wintergrasp raids can no longer kick players from the raid (this change will also apply to Tol Barad in Cataclysm). > * When in a Looking For Dungeon group, using an instance portal to that instance will now take players to the Looking For Dungeon entrance point instead of the normal destination of that portal. This will make it easier to return to the instance after dying in an LFD group. > * Honorable Kills are no longer awarded for killing players below level 5. > * Added pets to the new raid unit frames when displayed in party. > * The default UI Scale has been altered so it will be set at a 1:1 pixel/texel ratio. This will result in a smaller UI appearance for higher resolution monitors. > * Players may now adjust the local "Lag Tolerance" time for better precision of spell timing. This is an advanced-users-only feature found in the Interface Options (Combat) panel. > * Macros now handle spell variant transitions better. For example, Trap Launcher causes a different version of Frost Trap to be cast. Previously the macro system was not handling this transition properly. > * Queuing in Looking For Dungeon for a different wing of the instance a player is already in now works properly. For example, a party can now queue for Scarlet Monastery - Library after completing Scarlet Monastery - Graveyard. > * Killing High Interrogator Gerstahn before killing Emperor Dagran Thaurissan in a Blackrock Depths - Upper City random Looking For Dungeon run will now provide the proper reward. This also applies to Archmage Arugal and the Crown Chemical Company bosses in Shadowfang Keep during the Love is in the Air holiday event. > * Repeatedly inspecting other players should now function correctly. > * Area heal-over-time effects should no longer cause players to stand up. > * Male blood elves have received a crash course in dancing and now know to stop dancing when they run. > * Drake mounts have gotten bored with gliding and will flap their wings again when flying forward. > * Druid Flight Form now properly appears in the Spellbook before Expert Riding is learned. > * Sunfire's damage-over-time effect now deals damage at the same rate as Moonfire's damage- over-time effect. > * GM Ticket messages should now displace buff icons instead of obscuring them. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4859 "2010-11-15T23:13:19Z")
Thanks! > [@](#): > > - Male blood elves have received a crash course in dancing and now know to stop dancing when they run. THANK you. Good lord, this has been driving me nuts on my mage. It’s not dancing, though; I constantly get stuck in the swimming pose, usually after dismounting quickly from flight. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480/4860 "2010-11-15T23:26:45Z")
You know, if they (Blizz) are gonna pull this shit (what’s going on in SW NOW), they oughta take into consideration the amount of cock-sucking, lung-butter eating LATENCY it causes! I’m just trying to catch a lift to fucking Menethil Harbor, and I can’t even get out of SW!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=242) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wow-general-discussion-thread-6-8-10/542480.md?page=244)