Hey, thanks Mr. Rik! Now that I know this, I will be sure to put it to good use! 
Q
A week ago a well-meaning in-game friend suggested I change my spec from arms to fury stating that I would level faster. As a gift, he (blacksmith) made me a present of 2 one hand cleavers, and then went with me to my trainer and had me unlearn all my talents and then learn his fury ones.
Well he thinks I made a mistake and didn’t add the off-hand weapon correctly and so, with SFG’s kind assistance we got da Wolk’ back to arms and fight-ready once again.
Here’s my question: Could the reason I couldn’t equip the off hand have been that my cleaver skills were too low? I tried using just the one and got Wolkie’s ass royally kicked by some Scourges, so I went back to the sword (which luckily I kept in the bank).
I ask this because after we got him straightened out, I switched him to a regular bow (he had won as a drop) and my skill level with the bow was also very low, so I went back to the crossbow.
Thanks
Q
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
:D:cool:
Mucho gratz! I’m still plugging away on mine. I did get my old world done. I’m working on Outland now.
Wow. That IS one ugly-ass tabard. But congratulations!
Ah, guild drama! You’d think that a hippy-dippy socialistic guild dedicated to helping each other enjoy the game wouldn’t have drama, but you’d be wrong!
For a while now, there’s been low-level simmering going on with a couple of guildmembers in regards to the raiding structure of the guild. Just this past week, our guildleader and officers put together a fun little “guild quest” kind of thing leading up to some mysterious event that we don’t know what it is yet. This event involves a locked forum on our guild board where (I assume) Mama and the officers are hashing out the “quests” and such. Well, the aforementioned grumblers have gone batshit paranoid about this locked forum and the whole event itself, apparently thinking it had something to do with the most advanced raid team in the guild throwing their weight around or something.
So, last night, about six of our guildies (including our Shadowmourne recipient (they already killed Arthas)) /gquit, butthurt over something or other that I don’t understand from reading the forums or the post at the blog we all belong to. This afternoon, another guildie who’s been doing a lot of passive-aggressive grumbling about raiding also /gquit, in our guild blog post at this blog we all belong to.
Meanwhile, I’m just shaking my head at the whole thing because the grumblers and quitters all seem pretty childish and petty to me. I just don’t get how they see this guild event as some great conspiracy to prevent them from getting the phat lewtz.
This is why I don’t raid. It seems like just about every piece of guild drama, minor or major, that’s happened since this guild began over a year ago has come because of raid drama. I’m beginning to think (only half-jokingly) that Blizzard created raiding specifically to maintain guild churn.
Expressions of joy and desires for continuous happiness, Mister Rik!
Yeah, sadly the achievement tabards are consistently ugly. The Ebon Knights’ and the Argent-whatever lot are about the only game-designed tabards which don’t look like barf on a cake (either in general or when worn by certain body types).
Q, you don’t need a given skill level to equip a weapon. So long as you have the skill itself, it can be at skill-level 1 and you’ll still be able to equip it.
It was a haul the last couple days! I’d previously done 14 quests in Netherstorm, so I spent most of Wednesday knocking out most of the remaining 106 quests I needed, finishing the day at 117/120 (knocked off cuz it was getting late). So Thursday I came back and got those last three quest, and then all I needed was one lonely quest in Blade’s Edge.
I’d been sitting at 85/86 in Blade’s Edge for a very long time, mainly because the only quest I could find that I hadn’t done was one that required me to be Honored with Ogri’la before it would become available. So I’d been doing the Bomb Them Again! and the nether ray wrangling dailies whenever I could remember. And that’s what prompted me to get this done Wednesday and Thursday - I’d happened to look at my Ogri’la rep score and realized that two days worth of those dailies would get me to Honored. So I flew out there on Wednesday and did the dailies, then headed off to Netherstorm to bang out the bulk of the quests there. Then Thursday I finined up Netherstorm, flew back to Blade’s Edge, did the dailies, got Honored, and cleared out the quest that became available. Ding!
Also while in Netherstorm, I lucked into finding and killing two of the rare spawns there (one of them twice). The one I killed twice dropped a nice, medium-length, nearly pure black cloak (twice). I said, “Hey, this cloak will go awesome with my Haliscan outfit!” So I kept the useless one (… of the Whale) for my outfit, and put the useful one (…of the Bandit) up on the AH for something like 115g (what Auctioneer said it was worth).
I also discovered that some quests are actually harder when you severely outlevel them. In particular, quests where you’re supposed to simply weaken a mob rather than kill it. For example, that nether ray wrangling quest: I had to taunt them to me with Hand of Reckoning, and then just stand there and let them beat themselves against my Retribution Aura until they were weak enough to wrangle. Then there’s a quest in one of the ecodomes where you have to beat on talbuks until they’re weak, and then tranquillize and tag them. Problem was, if I attacked them normally I’d one-shot them. So I unequipped my weapon and tried punching them, but I was still too strong. I ended up having to strip completely naked, so that I had no bonuses at all, and turn off my Ret Aura, and then punch them into submission so that I could tranq and tag them.
Grats very well done indeed I /bow to your dedication.
May I scream? thanks – aaaarrrggghhhhhh poor quest design annoys me. The quest Betrayal where you finally get to confront Drakuru is hard enough as it is (again I have a pet Blizzard why are you making me control this other pet for a while???) but when others are doing it it’s a nightmare. It seems you can ask Drakuru to kick off the final event even when others are doing it and this results in you standing there not able to do anything but watch. So you go back down to kick it off again and Elune dammit someone else has started it. Finally got my shot after about 10 minutes of waiting and failed it so logged off in disgust grumble
Any way did Gundrak with a great group though again a healer who was happy for my minion to die which is rather inconvenient for a demo warlock.
Did you say anything to the healer? I never paid much attention to pets when healing on my priest, because most of my heals are AoE (Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing). But I’ve realized on my pally – all single target heals – that I’ve never really paid any attention to pets except for occasionally dispelling debuffs. It’s a little bit of a learning curve.
I suspect many healers don’t realize they need to pay some attention to pet health. Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me if some didn’t know they even could. I only found out about it way back when because I couldn’t figure out why Wild Growth wasn’t hitting all 5 group members when we were bunched up till one day I targeted a pet with it ticking away. Needless to say, i’ve now set up a pet frame in Vuhdo, though I will admit to giving your pets a lower priority than anyone except asshat DPS who pull instead of the tank or stand in stuff all the time and expect to be healed through. 
Also, thinking about this some more… pets don’t show up on Grid which is what I use to heal. Unless Grid can be configured to show them…? I never looked into it.
Healbot pretty much gives pets equal billing to anyone else, so I tend to give them about as much attention as other DPS; they tend to die a bit more often than anyone else in groups I heal just because they (a) usually don’t have as many hp and (b) aren’t as smart as (most) humans about stepping out of bad stuff et cetera.
What about it are you unable to do? You basically have to keep moving or else he’s going to toss a gas attack at you, but you also have to keep an eye on the “pet”…you really don’t want to have too much of a gap between the death of one of those mutations and gaining control of the next. You can actually begin casting the charm spell on the next mutation when there’s still a bubble or two of health on the first one. Not too much time, though…if the old mutation is still alive when the new mutation’s control actually begins, the old mutation will run to attack you.
As I recall, anyone (who’s up there at the right time) can loot his head and finish the quest; when I did the quest the first time there was a night elf hunter there at the same time and we double-teamed him with the controlled trolls.
I’ve had a bit of a problem with that quest in that my shadow priest heals tend to keep troll #1 alive beyond the end of the mind control’s duration, which leaves me facing both Drakuru and a pissed off troll.
What does a real guild do with their bank? What do they need to keep and how do they get there?
Yes it can, it’s somewhere under Layout, from member. I have GridAutoLayout (or something similar to that), so I’m not sure if you need that additional add-on for it to work.
Generally they use it for keeping enchant mats and other craftskill mats for use by the guild members, any useful gear (often blues and purples unless it’s a low-level guild), money for guildies to use for repairs, food items (either cooked or uncooked), crafted items, enchant scrolls, glyphs, and any other things that the members find useful.
Usually one or more of the officers has the job of keeping the bank neat, because guildies tend to use it as a garbage dump, putting in anything they don’t want that they vaguely think might be “useful” to somebody. These items are vendored (if they’re not valuable) or sold at the AH (if they are) and the money is put in the guild bank.
I’m a happy camper! We finally got our 25-man drakes last night (we haven’t been trying because the officers wanted to spend our time on hard modes (which we were all fine with) but last night we were a bit short so we decided to crank them out. Not only did I get my drake, but I picked up the Phylactery of the Nameless Lich, the uber-trinket for Fire mages. It was a good night.
I have a Demo warlock but I’m also a Disc priest with an extremely casual/lazy attitude towards pet healing. I’ll heal your pet if I’m super-bored (or a hunter’s pet after a rez), but otherwise, that’s your job to deal with. Sorry. Playing my warlock or hunter, I’m astonished when I see heals on them; it’s pretty rare and definitely not something I’m expecting.
Oh, and in anything larger than a 5-man? Pets are not my concern, ever. I’m too stressed playing Whack-A-Mole on people’s health bars to even use any screen real estate on monitoring the pets.