Yep. They’ll do that, Quasi. If you’re doing cooking daily quests, you’ll sometimes get something called “Baby Spice” in the reward bag. Sprinkling that on them will shrink them down so you can see the person they’re blocking. I don’t know if Baby Spice is soulbound…you MIGHT be able to buy it on the AH if it’s not. Let me log into my 80 DK on Alex tonight and see if I have any I can send you.
If you turn on friendly nameplates (I think the default key is ‘v’, anyone confirm?) you can click that easily enough. Shitty behaviour I agree.
My DK is a sliver from 65 and being able to max out her professions, tonight I will be mostly standing in Dalaran in front of profession trainers.
Question for DKs - when should I use Blood Tap?
If you report people who appear to be blocking the flight points or quest givers or whatever to the GMs, they will usually take action if the guy’s been standing there long enough.
Interesting! I have a paladin/DK combo with exactly the same situation–the paladin is an earlier version of the DK. But that’s my main DK. The other guy (the one I’d move for the right provocation) has a different story.
It’s a pretty natural way to think of a DK - my primary alt the DK has the same name as my first character, a Tauren warrior, and a similar appearance; the backstory is obvious enough.
It is soulbound 
I usually just report the player
Until I got the 4-piece T10 (which made Blood Tap into another tanking cool-down), I used it when I needed a tanking cool-down but didn’t have the correct rune available (needed Vamp Blood with no Blood Rune up, basically, although it would work for Unbreakable Armor and Bone Shield also).
Another common use (if you have the talent) is to macro it with Rune Tap to guarantee that you can use Rune Tap when you want it. Basically a use-anytime self-heal.
If you’re a DPS DK, then I really don’t know when you would use it… maybe in some burst scenarios for lots of Oblit/Scourge Strike spam (along with ERW)?
WOOOOO MOUNTAIN O’ MOUNTS! 
Apparently while I was out of town this weekend, my friend decided to surprise me by grinding my Sha’tari Skyguard rep to Exalted. I logged in yesterday to find myself hovering in Dalaran on a Nether Ray, and headed back to Skettis to pick up the rest of the mounts I needed to top off, plus the pet.
I think that brings my mount total up to 102 and my pets to 124. Too bad the dragonhawk isn’t 310%–but at least it will scale in Cata.
Less likely that they’re the same player, but still possible, if one or more of the toons was getting a runthrough.
Again suggests that they’re different players, but not conclusively. I have a friend who has a bunch of toons with “Cap” somewhere in the name (Caponus, Capboom, Capwn, Shadowcap, etc.) but also has alts that don’t include it; I have other friends who have thematic or matching names for alts that they play together a lot (e.g. Miwa and Awim; Rivertam and Simontam).
You can open a ticket to report them. Be sure to note as much information as possible; I usually give the player name, class, race, server, and time and location they were being a jackass. So my ticket might look something like “Level 80 Night Elf Druid Imadouche on Korgath was sitting on top of the flight master NPC in Dalaran at about 8:30 p.m. server time on Monday 9/27.”
Baby Spice and Old Spice are both soulbound, which has been incredibly annoying to me all expansion. They vendor for only a few copper, but you know you could get a crapload for them on the AH… *if *you could sell them.
V is the key for enemy nameplates. Shift+V is friendly ones. Using those shortcuts will disable the other one, if active. (For example, if you have friendly up and then turn on enemy, friendly will go off.) Turning on friendly nameplates is always the fastest way to deal with players blocking NPCs (though I usually report them as well–and whisper or email their GM so they know that someone is making their guild look bad.)
So do you now use it as an actual cooldown? I’m looking at that 4xT10 bonus and wondering if I should just throw Blood Tap onto all of my macros to trigger it automatically; I’m not sure I’d really have much use for yet another cooldown. (Or maybe just macro it into all my existing defensive cooldowns… that’s a possibility).
Thanks so it is a case of using in emergencies. Not had many of those yet but I’ll put it on my action bars for future use. For the record I’m trying to tank though picked Frost so will have to relearn everything come Cataclysm.
Yes, I now use it as an actual mini-cool-down. You could also macro it to VB or something to get them both at the same time (both are on a 1-min CD). I actually probably use it way less than I should, but since I’m just tanking 10-mans it’s not really that big a deal. Maybe I’ll drag out my BT + VB macro again…
Some fights I switch out the tier anyways for more armor (chest in particular).
Another Wyrmrest Accord player checking in here.
I moved my characters over to WRA a couple of months ago to play with some friends of mine, though they aren’t RPers themselves. I’ve been having a lot of fun with my guildies, but I haven’t had much luck figuring out how to break into the RP scene. A lot of it seems pretty insular, though I probably haven’t made enough of an effort to get myself involved.
My main is Maledicta, a forsaken priest in the service of the Argent Crusade. I’ve been playing her on and off over the years since 1.x, and have worked out her backstory and motivations in details. I’ve been quasi-RPing her even on regular servers, so it’s influenced her decisions about where to quest and which quests to take over the years.
I also have Iratus, a former paladin now enjoying a second career as a Knight of the Ebon Blade, and Mondegreen, a blood elf paladin. If any of you guys play horde side on WRA, feel free to send an in-game mail to Maledicta if you want to meet up some time.
I don’t use a RP add-on at the moment, since when I tried out MyRP, it didn’t play nice with GearScore, and it was a hassle turning add-ons on and off and reloading my UI when I wanted to swap from RP to dungeon running. The other thing I noticed with MyRP running was that while a bunch of people had custom names and titles, most of them didn’t have any other information in their tags to read. I don’t know if people are just lazy, or whether they were using another add-on that wasn’t entirely compatible.
Do our RPing dopers have any recommendations for me as far as RP add-ons to use, or how to get them to work together with GearScore peacefully? I have two level 80 healers and a tank, so I like to check gear scores when I zone into a dungeon to gauge what I might be getting myself into.
Mister Rik, that is awesome. I love seeing little color moments like that when I’m running around taking care of daily business with my characters. Too bad we’re not on the same server! Dimondley is exactly the sort of character I’d love to meet.
Heh. Last night as he was entering Undercity, he stopped to launch a tirade at those drunken sots in the courtyard 
I just received a rather alarming phishing e-mail, a fake beta invite. What made it so alarming is that the “To:” field was addressed to my main character’s name … and the name was followed by my password. Now, I am lazy enough that I use the same password for multiple things (though of course I immediately changed my WoW login password), so I suppose somebody could have obtained that just about anywhere I’ve used it. But how they connected it to my main toon’s name is puzzling, since I don’t type that when I log into the game and I don’t enter it anywhere for login purposes. The only place that character name is used as a screen name is on the official WoW forums, but even there it’s not used for logging into the forums. The e-mail was addressed to my regular e-mail account, which is not the same e-mail address I use for my WoW login - I use a unique, WoW-only address for that. And I do have an authenticator.
The phishing e-mail itself seemed to have been bungled, though. For one thing, the character name/password in the “To:” field was like a big flashing neon warning sign. And the sender also failed to include the usual HTML, so the bogus links would not redirect to their phishing site if clicked on (I use a plain-text e-mail client, so HTML redirects and the like don’t work on me anyway.) Since my mail client is plain-text only, HTML e-mail appears to me as a plain-text message with an HTML attachment, and that attachment was absent in this case.
I’m on a Mac, so viruses are essentially nonexistent (yes, they’ve been demonstrated in the lab to be possible, but none are known to exist “in the wild”); malware/keylogger scans of my system turn up nothing. My Flash and Adobe Reader are up-to-date, and I use ad-blocking software. I download all of my addons via the Curse Client. So I’m not sure what happened here. Fortunately, my account has not been hacked.
From what I understand, Wrymrest Accord and Moon Guard are the two RP servers with the healthiest RP communities on them (I play mostly on MG these days, and there’s plenty of RP going on everywhere). A good way to break the ice is to check your server forums and find out where various events are held regularly and just show up. I know on MG there’s several weekly tavern parties (World’s End Tavern in Shattrath every Thurs evg, for example) and storytelling circles (the open-theater area in TB by Cairne often hosts storytelling time for our RPers). You can also ask around to find out where the “hubs” are – Silvermoon City tends to have a lot of RP, but it’s a bit silly and melodramatic for my tastes (Children’s Week in SMC with all the BE girls hanging out crying over their orphans made me :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::smack:). I find the lesser-trafficked areas like Brill to be far more entertaining with better RPers (wandering through on my druid in bearform once, I had a party of low-level trolls in a panic thinking I was going to snack on them, heh – it also didn’t help that my druid wasn’t experienced enough to be able to speak while in animal form, my own little self-enforced character restriction, so the most I could do was chase them around trying to roar in a non-threatening manner, which didn’t really calm them any).
For RP addons, I use FlagRSP2, but I don’t use GearScore so I’ve no idea whether or not they play nice with each other. The nice thing about FlagRSP2 is that it reads RP information from other RP addons like TotalRP and MyRP and such, so it’s like an all-in-one. Plus it works a bit faster than MyRP (the only other one I’ve tried) as it caches all the information it receives locally, so you’re not constantly trying to receive info from everyone each time they come in range. And you can go back and reread people’s profiles later on, since it saves it to its own local database.
You’re correct though that many RP communities are rather clique-ish and insular, but there are many RPers who welcome random RP from random people, as well. My recommendation is to keep an eye out for people RPing and eavesdrop. If you enjoy their style, make a note of them and join in when the opportunity arises. Research their guild a bit and apply if it seems your goals are in line. My favorite part of being in an RP guild is the character fiction people write and post on the guild forums – but that’s just me; others simply like being in a friendly in-character environment that a small RP guild provides. It may take a while to find a guild that really fits you though – a friend of mine went through 2 or 3 RP guilds before finding one that fit her style (no silly melodramatic or abusive or gratuitously twisted story arcs, no excessive juvenile/crass humor, mature adults who don’t constantly share every insignificant thought that crosses their mind, regular raiding schedule with skilled, friendly, and supportive players).
I’m quite sure that’s wrong. They’re less common because Macs are the less common platform, but they’re not nonexistant. A quick Google for “mac virus” turned up quite a bit:
Help, My Mac Has a Virus! Huh?
Mac superior to PC in virus prevention but not immune
Does a Mac need anti-virus protection?
The Mac Virus - A Brief History
If a questgiver recommends “getting help” (A hero’s burden), and the game suggests 3 players, is that pretty much the way it is for a level 76 human warrior or should I attempt it anyway?
I ask because that seems to be the last quest in Solazar Basin and I declined it.
Guess I can go back to grinding since I’m now 84% to 77?
Thanks
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A Hero’s Burden is pretty tough - I had a tough time on it with a level 80; you’re probably better off skipping that one for now. You might want to zoom over to Zul’Drak if you haven’t been there yet - it’s over on the east side of Crystalsong Forest.
Another way to get around Flight point blocking is to walk “inside” the mount/character, then zoon in on your toon as far as you can go. Usually, I can then see the stuff “inside” the shell of the mammoth (or whatever).
Doesn’t always work, but usually.
Quasi, you are protection specced, right? A Hero’s Burden is difficult to solo, especially if you can’t heal yourself during the fight. My holy paladin did it at level, but I probably spent equal time fighting and healing myself (fights take a really long time that way).
The other thing to be aware of with that quest is that the NPC that you choose to kill (you’ll be fighting one big baddie and will have the choice to rescue one NPC and kill another) determines which of the Sholazar factions you ally yourself with. You can change this (just do the quest again), but it’s easier if you just decide which one you want in the first place.