Oh well, yeah, replacing a ranged DPS weapon with a tank weapon of the same iLvl is going to be a DPS loss. The popularity of that gun with hunters is that it’s far better than anything outside of ICC, and can be acquired for gold. For a fresh 80 with a pile of cash, it’s easily the biggest DPS boost you can buy.
Fair enough, yeah. I wasn’t really thinking about new 80 situations so much as I was wondering if the dwarf racial was making a difference in the output, and I put that poorly.
I encountered a Level 75 dwarf on the boat last night and he asked me to group with him. I had to explain that I’m useless in that situation anymore. How do I ignore everybody and just work solo the way I want to?
Oh yeah. The guild is still active, but it’s like on auto-pilot. Most of the stuff in the vaults is meant for higher levels and we’re down to 8 members and they haven’t been online in months, some of them.
I don’t understand: They can take higher level stuff and sell/auction it, right?
Why don’t they?
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The best thing I can think of is to type “/dnd” (without the quote marks) to mark yourself as “Do Not Disturb”. Anyone that whispers you will get a message back saying you don’t want to be disturbed.
Taking stuff out of guild vaults to sell or auction to add to your own gold reserves is usually considered a serious abuse of guild privileges. In most guilds, it will get you at least a warning, if not a /gkick. That’s the modus operandi of most gold farmers who hack other people’s accounts…the first thing they do is usually to sell all of the account holder’s equipment and bank stuff, then the second thing they do is generally clean out the guild vault that the toon they’re on has access to and vend it (because auctioning takes some time, which is what most hackers don’t have…the guild is going to realize something’s wrong fairly quickly, and the guild vault lets you know who took what out of it, so a report to a GM usually happens fairly soon. The GM will usually cancel all the auctions that the hacked toon has up, then suspend hte account that it’s on…so no money for Mr. Hacker).
I love Wowhead, and often use it along with Thottbot and WowWiki. But the thing is, it is like a parts manual for a car. You need to know what each part of your car is, how it relates to the other parts and where each part is. If all you know is ‘my car is gobbling up gas like a maniac’, you don’t know if you need to replace the fuel tank, the fuel lines, or even if certain parts exist. If I know I need a glyph with a big Agility boost, then it comes in handy, but if you’ve never been told about glyphs, you don’t know to look for it.
Mister Rik wondered above if the lack of 1st party documentation is because of the strong 3rd party community. I think it is that, combined with the MMO aspect - you are expected to make friends with someone who knows more than you. Problem is, 3rd party doesn’t really make things simple like game dev documentation should be.
The Research, yes. The Glyphs, no. And the Research makes the kind of scrolls that nobody will pay for (“oh gee, another three Scrolls of Intelligence I…”)
I got Rams on two of my toons (but not on the main). Then I got a Kodo… on the one who was born on Brewfest two years ago and who got a Kodo last year. As Shot said, way to waste a Kodo! 
Now up to three toons who can go hunting for mounts, as my warlock hit 78 last night and promptly queued and requeued until he got the pocketwatch.
You do get the recall scrolls, which are nice. Even once you’ve outleveled them there are still times when the random teleport can be useful.
I’m 0-8 for ram/kodos this year. Plus the many times I ran it last year and the year before. sigh
No kodo for me yet either. I have been pleasantly surprised by the various ram racing type quests. I’m able to do them even with my high latency issues. I can’t max out the delivery one–I’m lucky to get 10 tokens before the ram goes away, but at least I can get those. 34 tokens away from Brew of the Month Club, which is the last achievement I need for the Brewmaster title.
Also now only 24 frosties from two piece T10. I’m thinking of getting the hat, mostly because it looks wicked cool. Have the shoulders now. Will have to take a hard look at the stats to pick my second piece…
I too have had awful luck with the mount rewards–granted, I think random drops are pretty retarded in general.
Is the ram mount much different from the one you get for being exalted in AV? The kodo is obviously the one I want, but with my luck, if I get any mount, it will likely be the ram…
I’ve got all the kodos from the Tauren dealer, so it’s not really a big deal if I don’t get that one, but the Ram would be really fun. Anyway, random drops is random and I shouldn’t complain.
Hopefully I’ll get some decent playing time in tonight - life has been busy lately.
No Brewfest kodo for Kutkal, who’s my achievement toon. But when I decided to run it on my priest for fun, I get the ram and two achieve dings. :smack:
The Brewfest mounts have special barding with the Brewfest logo on em, iirc.
The scrolls of recall to Dal are useful for my inscription toon who bounces between Org and Dal. (Hey, maybe we could make a case for them being ink-stained wretches 
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Also, the kodo has kegs instead of wardrums. I haven’t examined the ram closely enough to tell if there are modifications for it.
Is there any way, via the Armory or another method to look up a character and also find that player’s alts on the same server?
My RP guild was holding an RP event last night (a knighting ceremony, which we hold for members being promoted to the rank of Knight), which was disrupted by griefers, two of which I suspect were the same player. A level 80 asshat paladin thought it was amusing to bounce his mount up and down on top of our guild leader and make crude remarks while he was trying to perform the ceremony. We put him on “ignore” and said so, and he soon went away. A couple minutes later a level 80 asshat warrior showed up and began behaving exactly like the paladin had, also firing off all his noisiest, most disruptive abilities (like Thunder Clap and whatever the similar, higher-level ability is - the one that looks like it cracks the ground), and since “ignore” unfortunately doesn’t make the offender invisible, he kept it up throughout the entire ceremony.
I believe my GL intends to file a GM ticket about it (if he hasn’t already). I don’t have any doubt that the paladin and the warrior were the same player, but don’t have any apparent way to prove it. But I figure it would strengthen our complaint if we could show that he used an alt to circumvent an Ignore. I also mentioned reporting his behavior to his guild leader, but when I looked up his guild I saw it was a tiny guild - only 14 members over level 10, which suggests it might be a group of real-life friends, and if that’s the case I don’t know how much good talking to his GL would do. Assuming the GL isn’t another of his alts.
Strange (or maybe not) how many people find it funny that people actually want to roleplay on a roleplaying server :rolleyes:
I think this latest disruption has convinced my guild leader to move future events to a different location, though, which a couple of us had already been suggesting. I’ve always thought holding the event on the bridge in the Valley of Heroes, right in front of Stormwind, was a bad idea. With so many people riding through there on their way into the city we’re pretty much guaranteed to attract idiots and attention whores. We’ve had some kind of idiot griefer every time we’ve done this, though none of the previous jerks got anywhere near the asshattery of that guy last night.
There’s no way for players to tell (unless they’re on your RealID friends list) and I’m glad of this–I don’t want people knowing who all my alts are, especially random strangers.
The GMs will know, though. Just put both toons’ names in your report and tell them about your suspicions–they can easily check.
I definitely would not be doing a guild RP event at the entrance to Stormwind. That’s just begging the asshats to do what asshats do. I’d do those events in some scenic spot in a little used zone, and probably do the dialogue in guild chat.
And don’t set it in a PvP zone and then advertise it on a public forum. <3 Serenity Now.