raises hand And I think we should have a different thread, as Jas09 said.
Doing the “get Gnomeregan” quests now, I love that when I mounted, the gnomes I’d recruited mounted too 
Mister Rik, those medics and the other guys share spawns. The problem there was that Blizz hadn’t expected people to be so picky about targets.
Yeah…the actual battle was a farce. The crowd doing the event when I did it was all 80s, and when you’ve got a couple dozen AoE spells all going off at once, virtually nothing is coming through it alive. Probably has never been more 80s in or near Ironforge at the same time…
This is a relic of the previous form of those quests. You used to have to kill Kurzen Medicine Men to get the Jungle Remedy drops. This was *100% terrible *at level, although it did teach me the importance of saving my interrupt when fighting healers, as well as the importance of having that interrupt somewhere that I could quickly reach it. (They’d be almost dead, and then pop off a huge heal that more or less topped themselves off. Pulling a Medicine Man along with a Jungle Fighter was iffy–pulling two or more Medicine Men in one pack? Ahahahahahahaaaaaaaa just go home.)
No real word yet, but a lot of people seem to be thinking sometime in November. I doubt it will come out before Blizzcon, since Blizz uses their own staff to work the con and it would be disastrous to have all your tech-support people away from the office shortly after a major expansion hits.
What Nava and SFG said. Let’s say the centaur camp spawns mobs of 4 random types (we’ll call them A, B, C, and D). The quest only calls for you to kill A, B, and C – and so that’s what people do, mostly leaving D up. However, whenever mobs respawn, 1/4 of them end up being D, so as the cycle goes on and on, you’ll end up with mostly D wandering around and very few A, B, and C, since that’s all anyone ever kills.
Once I see this is happening, I find it much quicker to just run through and slaughter everything – and next spawn I’ll have more than enough to finish my quest. If I keep being picky about my kills, I’m sitting through 3 or 4 spawn cycles, which takes significantly longer. It’s annoying either way, and poor quest design in vanilla is the main reason why I’ve stopped playing alts. Having to kill 25 murlocs in order to find 12 murloc heads just makes me want to punch babies.
But not baby murlocs, surely.
Too bad there’s no quest for baby heads–you could kill two birds with one stone. 
Seriously, though–what is it with low level quest mobs that don’t have the required body parts? Some friends and I are leveling some lowbie Alliance toons, and I’d forgotten just how many Goretusks you have to kill before you get a usable liver. Yeah, I can justify it by saying that somehow the other livers were just ruined and unusable (as opposed to a bunch of Goretusks running around without livers!) but it’s still annoying. It appears this is one of the things they’re moving away from in Cataclysm, to my intense relief.
To be fair, Goretusks are heavy drinkers. Most of the livers are far to pickled to be useful.
Good point. I guess if I had to live in Westfall, I’d be a heavy drinker too.
There’s a quest in Ashenvale where you have to kill water elementals for their bracers. You get a drop from 100% of your kills, but only something like 1 in 4 or 5 are the actual quest item you need; the rest are grey items like “Damaged Elemental Bracers” when what you need is something like “Pristine Elemental Bracers.” The grey items can be vendored for a small amount of copper. That makes vastly more sense than what happens in Westfall and 90% of the game.
I’m also seeing issues with mob density in the lower zones. There are places with aggressive mobs packed in so tight that you just about can’t cross the zone without having to fight for every step unless you’re way higher level than the zone. Probably wasn’t a huge problem when those zones were actually used by people that aren’t farming mats or leveling another alt. Even places like Tanaris and Unguro Crater could stand some thinning of the mob population.
And then there’s that Tanaris field-testing kit quest… what moron thought it would be a good idea to put a time limit on a gather-the-animal-parts quest… don’t get me started.
Cairne is pretty lackluster when it comes to raiding. Anyone who’s decent is in a guild, or runs with a guild group. I don’t know anyone outside the BDL so starting a group isn’t something I want to do.
Not to mention I left the BDL with my warrior to join this guild and raid with them, now they’ve stopped raiding and everyone I knew has left. Fun times let me tell ya.
I thought I had repressed that memory from the one alliance character I had. Hours upon hours running around Westfall trying to gather ingredients for that woman’s soup. Also, raptors with no heads and zevhras with no hooves.
Trying to get Exalted for Stormwind depresses me. Worst starter zone ever. No wonder my first try at WoW had me dropping the trial before the 10 days were up, I rolled Human. I don’t know which zone I hate more, Westfall or Duskwood.
I think I was the only non-80 in the battle (75).
Raptors in the Barrens are actually 100% drop for heads. It’s the striders that have no beaks that really annoy me.
I started up a new thread for the xpac. So unspoilered conversation can continue over there. I hope winterhawk11 will head over and offer his or her first-hand knowledge to the mix.
Oh and since I didn’t do it before…My latest 80 (4th) is a druid. I’ve been totally taking advantage of my guildies to get carried through heroics to gain some emblems so I can start competently tanking heroics. (or at first, start tanking the regular ICC 5-mans to gear up) But bear-tanking is hard. Much harder than tankadin-ning. Still getting used to a rotation. Is there a must-have addon I need?
No addons that I know of, but here’s how I tank. First macro Maul to either Swipe or Mangle, I chose mangle. Then just keep Mangle on cooldown and swipe your little bear butt off. That’s pretty much all you need to know as a bear tank. Mangle, Maul, Swipe. Oh and be sure to tab target between all the mobs so you spread around all that Maul goodness.
My main is a 10-man Kingslayer Bear Tank (Clawdio-Aegwynn) and I use no add-ons. Just key bind all the keys on the left side of your keyboard to Maul & and all the keys on the right side to Swipe… Then just roll your face back and forth on the keyboard. Oh, and always pull with Feral Faerie Fire.
In other news I finally won a token in 25 man (woot). I swear raids are made up of nothing but Mage,Druid,Rogue,DK since it seems like i’m always rolling against 10 people when my token actually drops. Well enough QQ, i have a new T10.5 hat
Since everybody else had the battle well in hand, I (and several other people, apparently) elected to simply hang back and guard Mekkatorque 
I’m a little bit disappointed that my troll hunter is only level 70. He won’t be able to participate in the last part of the Echo Isles event, and thus won’t get the achievement or the special cloak. And unfortunately, they decided to launch the two events the same week my job kicked back into high gear, so there’s really no way I’m going to have time to level him to 75 before it’s over. I mean, seriously, Blizz! I’ve been sitting on my ass doing pretty much nothing but play WoW for the last two months. You couldn’t have launched these events a week or two earlier? (Dammit, why won’t major corporations cater to the vagaries of my seasonal job?)
But here’s Eilyssana modeling her Gnomeregan Drape.
So it’s like that quest in EPL where that dying tauren druid sends you to kill Diseased Wolves, but when you get to where the wolves are supposed to be there’s nothing but spiders. So you kill the spiders and they respawn as wolves. Then you kill the wolves and they all respawn as spiders…
Oh, indeed, I go through and just kill everything in my path, but that’s part of what I’m complaining about. It’s particularly a problem for a caster - all those unnecessary kills use up mana, which means you have to keep stopping to drink, which depletes your resources.
I tend to go along with that particular fanwank to a degree, but I still think to myself, “Good grief, I just want to cook this stuff, not hang it on the wall and call it art!” It’s especially exasperating when the purpose of the body part is simply to confirm a kill (“Kill 12 wossnames, and bring me their heads as proof!”) Come on, a severed head doesn’t need to be in pristine condition, it just needs to be recognizable as the head of a wossname. I shouldn’t need to kill 28 wossnames to get proof that I killed 12. Or when the item I need is simply “meat” from a particular kind of animal. Not a specific organ, just “meat”. Okay, this tallstrider I just killed is bigger than I am. I killed it with two thrusts of my sword. I can’t believe I rendered all of it’s meat completely unusable with two thrusts of my sword.
I’m glad they’re fixing this in Cataclysm, but I think they actually addressed it in TBC - it seems the mobs in the belf and draenei starting and secondary areas tend to drop quest items at close to 100%.
Now that I’m spending most of my time on lower-level alts, I’m getting really annoyed with mounted level 80s who charge through the area I’m working, aggroing every mob in their wake. It’s most annoying when I never see the level 80, and I wander into an area that appears devoid of mobs. It turns out I just missed the level 80 and the train of mobs chasing him, and I happen to be standing in the spot all those mobs are going to be leashing back to any second now, and I’m going to get my ass kicked when they get here :mad:
Anyway… regarding a guild issue I mentioned a few days ago (in the guild on Argent Dawn where I’m an officer): The member who was having “difficulty” remembering the gchat language rules left the guild on his own a couple days ago. He didn’t say anything, he just logged in and /gquit. So one less problem to worry about. Aside from the language issue, he was very annoying with his non-stop chatter. When he /gquit, another guildie said, “Well, not to be mean, but … whew.”
OTOH, I ran into what I hope doesn’t turn into a problem. At the moment, the guild only has three officers aside from the Guild Leader. The GL decided to confer officer status on all officer’s alts as well as their mains, so that if we needed to do “officer stuff” we wouldn’t need to switch toons to do it. In my case, that means all five of my characters in the guild hold the same officer rank (“Duke”, one rank below the GL, the “King”). So a couple nights ago I was playing my lowest-level alt, when another guild member logged in - a member who was in the guild before I was, but hasn’t been made an officer. He saw my toon’s name and rank, and I suppose noticed the low level, and whispered me, “Oh, a Duke. To whom am I speaking?” I answered back with my main guild toon’s name. He replied, “sigh And me still a Knight [the highest non-officer rank]. And I’ve been here since the beginning…”
I wasn’t quite sure how to handle that, so I just mentioned that the GL is looking for more officers, and maybe they should make it clear to him that they’re interested. The flipside of that, though, is that I didn’t ask (or even want, initially) to be an officer - the GL and another officer offered me the position simply because I’ve been helpful from the day I joined the guild, and they decided I’d make a good officer. Apparently my normal in-game interactions and behavior matched up perfectly with the guild guidelines, before I even knew what those guidelines were. I didn’t accept the offer until I’d thought it over for a couple days. So I didn’t really know what to say to this other guild member. Personally, I don’t see any reason why he shouldn’t be an officer. Though at this point, being an officer doesn’t come with a whole lot of responsibility. We’re just a casual, light-RP, “friendly leveling guild”. We don’t raid as a guild - heck, the GL and one of the officers don’t even have either expansion yet, for financial reasons. So all being an officer really gets you at this point is the title, and slightly better guild bank access. That, and the small responsibility of policing guild chat when necessary, which isn’t often. But I don’t know what specific criteria the GL uses to decide who gets to be an officer. There are specific requirements for being promoted to “Knight”, mostly involving observing guild rules, being in the guild for a certain amount of time and being a certain minimum level, plus performing an assigned “quest” that the GL comes up with. But officers … I wasn’t even a Knight yet when I was offered the officer position. I basically skipped over “Knight” and went straight to “Duke”. Granted, the guild was still pretty new at that point, and I don’t think the GL had even implemented the “Knight” requirements yet. And I should mention that I don’t know the GL personally - we’d never met until he sent me a /ginvite (I just happened to be nearby when he was recruiting one day).
Oh, and I just reported a character named “Råpe”. That seems like a clear ToS violation to me :dubious: