:smack: You’re right. I don’t know why I haven’t been noticing that first repair button for the past year or so, but there ya go.
Color me insane then. Ran it for the 16th time last night even though I was brought in after the first boss was already down. Even though the tank didn’t get aggro on our evil halves (the adds from the giant skellie) and wiped…I told them the next time for the tank to kite the skellie back to the first chamber to avoid those adds and the it was cake after that. Never died on the escape from the LK either, and there are more players that know what to do now in the wave fights. And I enjoy getting the drops to sell for gold too.
This whack-o luvs HoR.
Okay, fellow “whackos”, I’m off to meet Wolkie and the 2 Silkas. Hope I have a better night. I have the Lich manual right beside me with all the important places/quests marked with a Post-It.
Luck and Happy Hunting!
Q
And, just to demonstrate that there is no justice in this world, today; queued for daily with my warlock, which turned out to be the Oculus, and what do you think he found in his little bonus box?
3 for 3 blue drakes.
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That Oculus is an 80 enemmy level. Tried it again tonight.
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Ymirheim: Flew over to it (long way). Also an 80 location. (from what I saw of it). I did nothing there.
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Mistakes I am correcting:
a) I’m using stuff on the action bar wrong and at wrong times. A couple of yells affect parties around me and don’t help meing solo
b) This is a biggie: I need to pay close attention to my buttons and not hit them randomly, and SFG is gonna slap my hand for this one: I’m not letting Wolkie’s rage build to 50 to help with defeat. I’m supposed to remember to do this! Made myself a sign with RAGE-50+ and stuck it on the side of the screen.
- I found quests that I can do again. I went to Sholazar Basin to do that Foreman and his Bodyguard quest, “Wipe Off That Grin”? Well I flew there, dropped right down, got off Silka and there they were on the very top of the scaffold and I wasted em. The last time I tried that quest I was still on foot and had to run up the ramp (IIRC) and that’s why I had been avoiding that quest. Tonight I told myself I’m gonna take my time, read up on quests on Thotbot and “git 'er done”. So that one led to others on Nesingway Camp, and we’re currently there
Q
The wording may not make it obvious, but when you’re alone, you’re still a party, you’re just a party of one. Battle Shout and Commanding Shout certainly help you. You can confirm this by looking in the top right of the screen - when special abilities are affecting you, they’ll have an icon and duration appear in a list next to the minimap. If you eat food that gives you a stat boost, you’ll see an icon of a piece of cheese along with a number showing how long until it wears off, and if you put the mouse cursor over it, it’ll tell you what it does. There are only two warrior skills that you can’t use by yourself: Intervene and Vigilance; they’re specialized protect-other-people tanking abilities.
There’s nothing innately special about having 50 (or more) rage. Rage is money that you spend to use your special attacks. Having more rage will mean you can do more special attacks in rapid sequence, but it doesn’t do you any good if you don’t use it, especially because it steadily drains out when you’re not fighting.
The important thing is what you’re spending that rage on, which gets into the whole issue of what the special attacks actually -do-. Pushing any button that lights up, for example, will get you into trouble because the most commonly available attack is Heroic Strike. It has no special requirements, and it doesn’t cost much rage, but it also doesn’t increase your damage much and it reduces the rate at which you gain rage. In general, you would be better off saving up for a Mortal Strike instead of using Heroic Strikes. Even better would be using Overpower, which does a lot of damage and costs barely any rage, but Overpower requires specific combat events to happen before you’re allowed to use it at all – and so on, and so forth, and it rapidly gets complicated 
Hey Quasi, if you fly to the very far north of Icecrown, the Argent Tournament is there. I don’t know if you’ve done the random dungeon that matches up with this location yet - it’s jousting in an arena - but there are plenty of quests. Technically they’re daily quests. You’re supposed to move up to the point you’re doing PvP (I think) but I haven’t done that yet. The three dailies are set up so one is a fetch quest (go here, do something, get an item), a kill mobs quest (go here, kill 10 of these) and a practice jousting quest (get on a mount, learn how to use your abilities).
(for the rest of y’all, I know, that’s a very stripped down description of the Argent Tourney)
Somebody likes me! Woo woo woo! Too bad it just happens to be a faction that is lame and gives me nothing for liking me. Alliance Vanguard, if you’re wondering…
Hey kushiel
That’s PvP, right? I might not be adept enough at that, but thanks for letting me know. Maybe I can be a specator? 
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It’s 11:19 pm here and I’ve been playing since 5 pm. My ankles are swollen and look like Stewie’s head, so I’m gonna lay down and nap and start again in an hour. I can tell my reflexes aren’t as good as when I began and I’m starting to make little tactical mistakes…
The way I’m doing it:
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Quest till my bags get down to 29 freespace (no reason; just a random number)
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Hearth to Dal
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Port to SW
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Assess what’s in my bags and decide what to send my auction mule Wollkie (notice the 2 l’s), what to stick in the guild vault and what to vend, and then I do all those things.
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Check my bags and decide if I need to go to AH to replenish food and potions/elixirs
Then log out for 10 minutes…
Seems to work for me. I’m going to hang in there as long as I can. Those quests in River Heart are very easy ones, and We’re gonna make it to 80 “if it harelips everybody in Buck Creek, Texas” - (Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.)
We’re at 72% to lvl 78
Thanks
Q
He Quasi, there’s nothing wrong with going to SW each time – but if you have a bank mule (Wollkie) there’s no reason you can’t stay in Dalaran. There are mailboxes where you can send everthing to Wollkie, and there are two banks you can use. If you want to use the AH, you can have Wollkie buy the food/potions you want with his money (mail him more if he needs it) and he can mail those items back to you. Mail travels instantly between your characters, so it’s faster than making your way back to Northrend from Stormwind (unless you’re waiting until your hearth is back off of cooldown).
Makes sense, Skammer, thanks - I’ll do that next time I sign in.
About last night…
About an hour after I posted that last item, I began to feel an ache in my legs, so I got up to stretch. When I did, that ache became more intense and when I looked down, not only were my ankles swollen, my whole lower legs were so tight, if you’da thumped 'em they would have sounded like a bongo drum. So I stood up and for the next 20 minutes or so and alternated walking and laying back in the recliner.
Needless to say, I stopped for the night at 75% to level 78, and today I’m gonna rig up something that will let me play with my legs stretched out so I’ll look like a backward L.
Thanks, my friend
Quasi
Just finished both primordial drake quests, and we’re pretty proud, because I thought we were going to get our asses kicked, or at least burned off, but it turned out to be a piece of cake.
None of the adult drakes even attacked when we hacked into the egg, and the adults got no help when we went after them, so it was always one on one.
Bushwacker, the big crocolisk was a little tough because I couldn’t find the fallen log, but while I was looking, a level 79 flew in where the log was and finished off the croc. I waved at him from across the water and the guy waved back and left.
Cool, huh? So then I just went to the log, got into my fern disguise just in time for Bushie to re-spawn, so that one was done.
Still have some stuff to finish for Nesingway, and, of course the outpost (the drakes) has a couple of quests for me to finish too, so at 87% to 78, I’ll finish tonight and start on getting to 79 tomorrow.
Skammer, your suggestion worked, thanks. I sent Wollkie into AH for our supplies, then, while in Dal, just logged out, logged in as double l, sent the stuff and there ya go. Saves a lot of time. The reason I didn’t do it before was because I thought double l might not be able to buy food at our level.
Oh yeah, the hunter quest (60 animals) is great, because as I kill it counts toward the 60, and of course, I still skin there which makes us the “King of Borean Leather” sales in the AH!
Thanks
Q
This made me laugh out loud.
I haven’t read ALL of the WoW threads here yet, so I’ve no idea what server you’re on, but if you are on Argent Dawn and need help that a single, flower-child toon can help with (i.e. I play a lot, but I am terrible; I am earnest, but not professional about the game, and wander a lot) just let me know. One 80 Hunter, one 79.6 Mage, half a dozen mid-20’s everything else; waiting on a Wargen Druid to be named later. I played Horde through all of Beta and the first few months of the game, and sometimes still run up to the wrong areas and wonder why the Orcs don’t like me. And while I’ve a 64 BE priest on a PvP server, I’ve never raided <except old-world dungeons with the guild when it was active> and am genuinely sorry for whatever groups get me the first time I do the random generator on Cataclysm dungeons; I figure then, EVERYONE’s a newb and it won’t be as noticable <though I’m sure my GS will get me booted 99 percent of the time anyhoo>.
I am a default guild-leader on Argent Dawn <nobody else plays any longer, so it’s me, my alts, and 3 bank tabs 
> and would happily help you <or anyone else here> on Alliance AD, to the limits of my quite limited ability 
Hey Y’all
Heading off to bed, smiling and slapping myself at the same time!
Smiling because we’re at 78
Slapping because I hadn’t trained up in the last 2 levels!:mad:
My feet are so swollen that I cannot see the television lying down and I know I’m gonna catch hell for it when D gets in from work, but I think I can charm her down. I’m German and charm is in my DNA! LOL!
Also, I didn’t realize there was such a thing as “Heavy Borean Leather”. Gonna have to check that out and also I want to get back to my herbalism. I want to find the elusive “Plant to wipe with when there ain’t no toilet paper”.
Thanks!
Q
Hi Taomist, and welcome to the thread.
I guess you could call me the “Wal-Mart Greeter” here, and also the guy who needs a lot of help playing the game. The fact I made it to level 78 is an accomplishment for me in that it took me 2 years to get here.
My guild, “Slightly Demented” has just a few members, and it’s a social guild, which generally runs itself, with me funding it and stocking it.
See ya in the thread and I’m on Alextracza as “Wolkenlaufre”.
Thanks
Quasi
Man, talk about “faceroll” - I went out and tied one on tonight, then logged into WoW at 3AM… queued up for a random heroic on my main (paladin) and drunk-stumbled my way through ToC… and survived 
So I just ran with a pick-up group to kill Razorscale in Ulduar 10, and just out of curiosity checked my meters at the end, and it sure as hell looked like I was solo healing it: 800k heals plus absorbs for me (disc priest), 110k for the #2 person, a shadow priest, and about 90k for the supposed raid healer. (We also had a second single-target healer, a paladin, but he died early so I’m not going to blame him for not putting up huge numbers). Am I wrong to feel slightly annoyed that I was apparently the only guy clicking on the little health bars?
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/TailsUpHarkoa.jpg
Hanging it up for the night at 20% to level 79. The picture above is from the Tails Up quest where we were asked to use a blow gun to subdue a snow leopard or bear, then lift up the tail to see if they’re a boy or girl. Here you see Wolkie with one of the girl leopards following him around as he stops to fight one of Harkoa’s mean kittens.
The funny thing about the quest was that this was one of the few times, D chose to watch and she saw the instructions about lifting up the tail to check for sex.
What she said is priceless: “We’d better not tell your shrink about this.”
Thanks
Q
Grats on 78 Quasi that quest made me chuckle a lot when I did it.
I have finally experienced a 10 man raid when I was able to sign up for the Guild weekly run which was ‘Patchwerk Must Die’ so got to see the inside of the Construct Quarter. Man boss fights go on for ages don’t they? I ran out of mana on the last boss which hasn’t happened to me in a very long time indeed, I was frantically hitting Divine Plea waiting for it to come off cooldown as the tank’s health slowly trickled down. We wiped 3 times on the third boss, the one where if the adds get to it he heals himself, but apart from that a success and I loved being part of a bigger group. I can hardly wait to raid in Cataclysm now.
Thanks, martu
Getting some of those quests done has really been a morale booster!
On a related subject, what happened to the WoW movie? Did I miss it?
Thanks
Q