Just don’t participate in BG’s. Problem Solved.
PVP is WoW for assholes. That’s just how it is. In any MMO, the most strident, combative, aggressive dickheads are the PVPers. It’s basically legal griefing, so it attracts that kind of player. Sportsmanship is not enforced, so it shouldn’t be expected.
The funny thing is, I don’t really mean that as an insult. I like PVP myself and I understand the mentality.
No. Unacceptable. I refuse to miss out on part of the game I pay for because certain people are immature assholes that don’t understand the value of sportsmanship. I’m good enough that I can get legitimate kills without resorting to cheap cowardly asshole tactics.
That’s totally cool. Play by your own set of rules. Just don’t try to hold others to it; it’ll only piss you off.
http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/flight_masters_license.jpg
It may indeed be a glitch/bug - it shows up in the spellbooks for both of my level 80 paladins, but not in the spellbooks of my level 80 mage, my level 75 warrior, or my level 70 hunter (The 5 toons I’ve gotten to Northrend - I didn’t check any others yet. I only have one other toon with flying skill - my level 68 nelf hunter.) Seeing as how it’s only appearing on my paladins, I’ll agree it appears to be a paladin-specific glitch.
Eh, my mistake, my “punishment”. I intended to purchase the skill eventually, and I can earn the money back easily enough.
Yup. All my ground mounts go 100% now (assuming Journeyman Riding) and all my flying mounts go 280% now (assuming Artisan Riding). And my human paladin’s flyers all go 310%. Dagnabbit. So I can dress Eilyssana up in her Mexican outfit and put her on her Pinto mount, and go full speed 
(I actually call her “Elysaña” in that outfit.)
Here’s a UI / Action Bars question.
I can’t seem to figure out how to stack my action bars so that I can access multiple action bars from my keys.
In other words, I like to be able to stick my DK’s Frost Strike and Plague Strike into normal 1+2 slots. I’d then like to be able to press Shift+1, Shift+2, and Shift+3 to cast Death and Decay, Pestilence, and Blood Boil, respectively.
I can’t seem to figure out how to configure my UI to accomplish this. Is this possible? If so, how?
The way I would do it is to set up simple macros, then throw them into the action bar.
For example, you want 1 to be Frost Strike and Shift+1 to be D&D. You’d create a macro with the following lines:
#showtooltip
/cast [nomod] Frost Strike
/cast [mod:shift] Death and Decay
Then drag that macro into your action bar and you’re golden. The #showtooltip will show you either the info Frost Strike normally or the info for Death and Decay while you hold Shift. Without that line, the tooltip will only show you the name of the macro.
ETA: I’m almost positive someone’s going to point out a simpler way through the keybind menu, but that’s how I habitually stack abilities into a single keypress.
If you watch The Guild, you probably weren’t surprised that it was Bladezz and Tinkerballa trying to duel during the wedding scene
Now I’m thinking about that undead mage named Ikillu on Lightbringer who likes to camp out in Wintergrasp Fortress between battles while the Alliance has control, and kill people as they they portal in from Dalaran. You step through the portal, materialize at the top of the steps in front of the door, and die to a barrage of Arcane Missiles before you even have a chance to look around for enemies. Me and another guy killed his ass the last time he did that (though only after he killed me first and I was able to sneak up behind him after rezzing). He’s the same guy I mentioned a while back who was exploiting the ability to fly into the VoA portal room (before the door closed) and up onto that central ring where he was completely untouchable, and from there was ganking people as they exited VoA. He hasn’t been doing that since I (and probably many others) reported his cheating ass. From what I’ve seen, he goes down quickly in a “fair” fight, so I guess that’s why he resorts to such cheap tactics.
If you normally use Curse or something similar to update your addons, most of the time they will only have release versions. You can go to the addon development sites to get the alpha versions which are more up to date most of the time. Both X-Perl and DBM have functional alphas that work with 4.0.1. I don’t know if the raid frames for X-Perl is working, since I don’t use that, but the rest of it is.
Here are some links:
X-perl
DBM, but be sure to get the 4.63-r4566-alpha version
But that has nothing to do with BG graveyard camping. There is nothing to be gained from killing people zoning in to WG fortress, so it’s greifing. Same as corpse-camping. But camping a GY in a BG has a very clear purpose (keep them bottled up and not capping nodes/flags), and very clear rewards (a BG win, and a faster one at that).
What I’d like to see, and what I think would address Oak’s concerns, is basically what there is in Eye of the Storm. Make the “home-base” GY unassailable (but also impossible to actually accomplish anything from. If you want to “surrender” you can just chill up there till the match is over. I’d also add the ability to GY-hop to some of the BGs that don’t have it.
As for the UI question, I use Bartender4 and show 3 action bars at the bottom of my screen with the keys bound to my various hot-keys, shift-, and ctrl-modified versions thereof.
That’s actually a known issue with this patch, from the article someone linked to earlier. Paladins and Warlocks have Flight Master’s License in their spellbooks with the note “see your trainer”, starting at lvl 20. I wonder if that derives from both classes having native mount summoning abilities? If anyone has a DK they can check, you might want to see if that extends to DK (since they have the Acherus Charger ability (which (like pally/lock mounts) is not a purchased mount)).
That’s not nearly as satisfying as my suggestion, but probably much more doable. And I could live with it. But let’s not rule out torture and/or waterboarding just yet…
Why yes, I can be vindictive sometimes…
To help one another on a quest during which one of them has to kill the boss (The Leaders of J’in Alai)?
I read up on that one in Thotbot, and someone recommended that if you do this quest, others (even Horde) should help you because you have to kill so many trolls.
So is this possible?
Thanks
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PS: This is in Z’im Torga
Why? You rez with full health and mana, and even the ability to rebuff without any costs. How is it any different to attack you at your GY than elsewhere on the field? The only problem here seems to be that your raid can’t get coordinated. Move out of range of the rezzer together, then move back in when you’re all ready. You’ll rez at once, pop CDs, and kill them all right back. Better yet: rez together, get them to pop *their *CDs, then rez together again and pop yours.
If you can’t solve the problem of being GY camped, it’s the fault of your raid. Not the opposing team. GY camping is a legitimate strategy, if a potentially stupid one with the potential of backfiring. But it’s accomplishing a valid objective. If they’re actually able to lock you down, it’s almost certainly because you’re rezzing one or two at a time, and/or some members of your team are off somewhere else. That’s a failing of your raid.
If you get mad because the opposing team is killing you without hacking or exploiting, then you probably shouldn’t PvP.
Option 1 is to make macros using [nomod] and [mod] or [mod:shift] arguments, as suggested by Bosstone. Option 2 is to activiate the other action bars that go across the top of the quickbar, drop the abilities into them, and then set the keybindings via that menu to be Shift+1, Shift+2, etc.
Sort of. You can’t make a group with the opposite faction in the usual sense, where you both get credit for a kill. What you *can *do is help by attacking the boss once the other person has tagged it, and then they can do the same for you. Or, for a handful of bosses, they will drop an item on the ground after they’re killed, which anyone can loot to get quest credit. (I don’t know if this is one of those.)
I think this might be the quest where you have to keep mugging trolls until their bosses come out to fight – and the bosses do drop a thing on the ground that anyone can loot. So opposite factions can definitely help each other out on this one, both by chewing through the fodder faster and by taking down the bosses.
Much as I would like to, I won’t be able to ding 80 before sometime this weekend - not Friday.
But if y’all hear a “Yee-Haw” from the south, that’ll be me. 
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It’s getting chilly enough that I might have to start closing the windows at night, but I’ll keep an ear out. 
Yes, Tom and SFG, that’s exactly what I remember being written about this quest..
As an aside, me and the kids at my local Gamestop are WoW buds, but they’re Horde - both of them.
The other day Shannon was putting up some new games and she accidentally backed into me (I was turned the other way). She excused herself and I replied, “Oh yeah! Uh-huh! It’s not enough we have to be enemies in WoW, now you’re carrying it into real life!” (Well, SHE laughed anyway!)
They’re both kids (like early 20’s) and they think it’s cool that an “old guy” like me plays the game, so when I go to get my hair cut, I stop in next door and say hello and talk WoW with 'em. They kinda “know” what’s going on with me, so when I have a quest question and no one’s here - they don’t mind me calling them.
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If you just can’t grok what is unsportsmanlike about ganking people as soon as they rez, there is no point in continuing this conversation.