It’s not at all obvious (and really badly designed). What you have to do is kill them in this order: the guy on the skeleton dragon, then the magician dude on foot. Or if you kill them in the opposite order, you have to go back and kill the magician dude again - at that point, he will call for his master, and Thyrm will show up and try to kill you.
killed them in that order and walked off to look for the giant where I had seen him previously. Shgould I just have held my ground? (Against SWARMS of scourge)
Don’t worry about the small fry, Gymer periodically steps on them.
He should show up pretty soon - 10 or 20 seconds maybe.
It’s even more confusing, because you don’t want to kill the Thrym who walks up and down the path in Zul’Drak (the one that’s always there). The quest spawns its own version of Thrym, and that’s the one you have to kill.
It’s a horribly designed quest. I hate it. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to finish it successfully.
They already have feedback from the SC2 beta. It was universally met along the lines of “What is this shit?” RealID is really one of the worst online systems ever.
Thanks for the info guys. Will give it another go tomorrow.
Nope. He’s thinking:
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I sure do have some good friends on The Dope
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Hope I can convince anyone riding up to wait for the ship that I meant to jam my sword into the dock.
And we got it right the first time. He didn’t fall into the drink. 
Quasi
PS to SFG: I get the Tropical ones. Singles, never doubles - too messy.
Well, I’m back. (and my computer)
Last night I did the weekly, the daily frost run and took out Ragnaros in the Molten Core for throw-back points. Need to fine tune the game and start taking macros a little more seriously and I should be helpful again.
Plus, I was hoping y’all would think that’s a pretty scene.
I’m using it as wallpaper.
I think it’s great that in Azeroth, we don’t have to worry about oil spills!
Q
Well, like I said, it’s just a bug up my personal ass. To a certain extent, I’m remembering the days when people who played RPGs tended to be more imaginative than the average Joe, and despairing over the fact that RPGs are now full of average Joes. But how do you take somebody named “Lolpally” seriously? A name like that in the RDF makes me worry I’m about to get another one of those tanks who thinks it’s cute to quaff multiple potions and elixirs to shrink himself down to about 1/4" tall (had a tauren tank yesterday who had chugged multiple Pygmy Oils to turn himself into a voodoo gnome, and then kept drinking Noggenfogger Elixirs to shrink himself even further. Then he bitched when I put a star on him so that I could see where the hell he was).
I don’t get it. He’s been “Arthas Menethil” and “The Lich King”, the latter being a title, not a name. And I guess he’s also been Matthias Lehner … Did he use another name at some point that I’m not remembering? He ceased to be a paladin when he became the Lich King. Does Murdersmash consider his toon to be a corrupted/fallen paladin?
It’s a family name, handed down from mother to daughter for thousands of years. It’s pronounced “hesh-POE” :o
Seriously, though, I think that name would qualify as a reasonable nickname, one her friends might have hung on her (being the sexiest belf in warlock school, natch), which I don’t have any problem with.
I once spotted a low-level troll rogue named “Hahayoudied” :rolleyes:
I rather enjoyed this early scene from the “The Noob” webcomic.
Now see, that’s clever.
Likewise.
I’m still pretty proud of the fact that, after a year and a half, my main is still the only Eilyssana on US realms (above lvl 10, anyway).
On another topic … I once again want to throttle whoever was in charge of writing orc quest/flavor text in vanilla WoW. I found an orc questgiver in Azshara who you get sent to by another orc in Orgrimmar. The guy in Azshara says, “So <other orc> finally wizened up and sent somebody…” :smack:
Dude, you’re playing World of Warcraft.
Yeah, the dumb names kind of annoy me, too. I mean, puns are fine, but netspeak in names makes me cringe a bit. That being said, one of my friends changed the name of his female space goat when he got the exploration achievement. His name?
Intemet the Explorer.
He’s kind of awesome :).
On the subject of reporting names: I’m seriously pissed off that someone reported <Cenarion Circle Jerks> on Stormrage (Alliance). It was one of my favorite guild names ever. And while it’s a clever double entendre, the obscene interpretation isn’t the *only *one.
You never can tell. One of the best healers I’ve ever played with was named Lifebloomqq.
Dooooo iiiiiiiit.
The complete lack of enforcement of RP rules on RP servers really pisses the shit out of me. Just as people shouldn’t be held to RP standards on normal realms, RP realms should be places that people can escape from the “anything goes” mentality of normal realms. Bah.
- I really hope I can unstick it when it starts to get cold or I have to pee.
Have you *seen *what the Naga are doing in Zangarmarsh?! It’s a travesty!
No, I think he just enjoys hitting things with big two-handed weapons. My point was simply that not all Paladins are sweetness and Light all the time. Arthas was subsumed by one of the most evil beings on the entire fucking planet, and even when he was still human and himself, he did some pretty questionable things (e.g., slaughtering all of Stratholme).
Yes, they could really use a few good editors. Drives me nuts.
It’s all right for names to be punny. Puns are the classiest form of humor, so it’s totally acceptable. Leetspeak and juvenile jokes are just sad.
Reminder: Burning Dog Legion alt dungeon run tonight – Arcatraz. I hope to be online by 8:45 but I have a work thing so it may start a little later than usual. Also I have not had a chance to read anything about the instance yet, so unless I get home earlier than I expect I may be going in blind.
Still, join us if you can!
I wonder how many people, like me, roll toons on RP servers simply hoping the population will be lower and there’ll be less lag? That said, I do try to observe all RP conventions while playing a toon on an RP server.
BWAH-HA-HA-HA! 
I look at Arthas as being WoW’s Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. While still a paladin/Jedi, they came under demonic/Dark Side influence, and gradually became evil, all the while believing they were just doing what they needed to serve the greater good. Nearly identical motivations: “I will do whatever is necessary to protect the things/people I love!” But neither one started calling himself “Homicidalfreak” 
While I do run across honest-to-goodness typos all over the game, a lot of the orc stuff is just blatantly … wrong. Using completely the wrong word, using words that don’t mean what the writer apparently thought they mean. Really makes me think it was one guy who got handed a stack of orc quests to write, but really didn’t understand the words he was trying to use.
Just saw a draenei hunter today named “Urajerk”. OTOH, I got a chuckle out of the gnome frost mage named “Frostitute”
Does somebody have the key?
Don’t need it anymore, apparently (the RDF lets me queue for it).
It was moot anyway; we only had four people sho up. We waited in queue for about 20 minutes looking for one more dps, then just said ‘screw it’ and ran UK. Not a bad run - no wipes, a couple of deaths. Healer went down during Ingvar but the shammy picked up the heals and saved our butts.
Next week we’ll try Arcatraz again if we can get 5 guildies - it’s almost impossible to pug because the minimum level is 68 and at that point most people are queueing for the NR dungeons.
In the BDL raid thread, I stated my intention to start ramping up my playtime on Nahren, my Druid, again, and to run at least one random dungeon a day to build up badges. Immediately after, I’m completely unable to do that. :smack:
Last night (Tuesday) I got home late from work and had barely enough time to grab some food before my ICC 10-man started. Tonight, when a few people didn’t show for the continuation of the 10-man, we got some people together for an 8-man Naxx.
In less than 4 hours we curbstomped all four wings plus KT. We didn’t get The Undying (no deaths on bosses); we had at least one death on most bosses, and we wiped about four or five times on KT when we attempted to get Just Can’t Get Enough (kill KT after killing 18 Abominations). Once we gave up on that, we pulled together and busted through KT to earn The Dedicated Few (kill all bosses except 4 Horsemen with less than 9 people). Even though The Dedicated Few doesn’t require the 4 Horsemen, we still tackled them for the raid achievement. Despite losing half our team, we still managed to kill them on the first try. We got Arachnophobia by clearing the entire Arachnid Quarter in less than 20 minutes (it was more like 15) and The Hundred Club by not turning on Frost Resist Aura against Sapphiron.
Even in ICC gear, Naxx is still challenging enough that parts of it still felt like an at-level or just-below experience, especially at KT. The loss of 2 players is extremely noticeable; the gap between Naxx gear and ICC gear is smaller than the gap between 8 people and 10 people. It was very satisfying to accomplish that, and a lot of fun.
And then tomorrow is my ICC 25-man, so once again I may well not have enough time to log on Nahren. 
Contemplating sitting it out; I’ve been raiding a hell of a lot more than I expected to be already.
I think the oil covered wildlife in the Borean Tundra would disagree.