Is your kitty in the first Call Pet slot? Last night a bunch of us hanging around in Hunterland in Ironforge had the problem that we couldn’t summon our first slot pet.
Now that I’m figuring out a rotation, I’m at about the same point that I was before for DPS. Once I found out Steady Shot doesn’t cost Focus and actually regenerates it and Kill Shot doesn’t use Focus things got better. But I still miss my Volley. 
Okay, this one’s getting away from me, because I don’t know what that is/means.
After the patch, my glyph wheel was empty, but next to it was a list of stuff I could put in it: Prime, major and minor
So I put the prime glyphs from the list into the wheel
Same with the major
I put nothing into the minor spot BECAUSE
Those particular attributes were greyed out meaning they cannot be used (yet?)
Same with a bunch of majors - they couldn’t be placed.
So what IS a glyph. What makes it important and why does somebody have to make it for you.
If you ask someone to make you a MINOR glyph, even though it’s greyed out, does it then become active and you gain power from it?
I never paid much attention to the glyphs because I don’t understand their purpose.
So can someone give me the Clyph Notes version of what glyphs are?
Thanks
Q
Glyphs are little “perks” for your primary abilities. They’ve changed them significantly for this patch–it used to be you bought them and slotted them, but every time you wanted to change one, you had to buy a new one and destroy the old one (like gems). Now, you learn them once and you know them forever–you can switch them out at will (you need “Vanishing Powder” to do it, but that’s very cheap).
As for what they do, it depends on the ability they modify. Prime glyphs are usually really good, and increase a primary ability (like for DPS, they often give you more damage, more crit, etc.) Major glyphs used to be the main ones, but now they’re second-tier. They’re nice too, but not as great as Prime ones. Minor glyphs are usually small effects, cosmetic stuff, etc. You want to buy and slot all of them, but pick the ones that will do you the most good for your class. **SFG **will be able to tell you which ones you want for Wolkie.
Warning: right now, they’re likely to be expensive, so you might be better off finding a crafter and having them make the ones you need. You’ll have to provide mats and a tip, but it might be cheaper. Check the AH to be sure. But remember, once you buy them, they’re yours. You just have to learn them, and you never have to buy them again.
I’m not exactly sure how they are integrating with the new patch yet, but a glyph is like a power-up for your character. If you chose the Inscription profession, you’d learn to make them. Do a search on the AH just to see a list of different glyphs. Not all glyphs can be used by every character. For example, as a Hunter, I have a glyph that reduces the cooldown time on my Feign Death ability.
From the way I understood it, Major Glyphs hold better power-ups than Minor Glyphs and their prices reflect that.
They changed the glyph interface in the newest patch, but I’m guessing if you look through the list of glyphs that are greyed out and find one you want, just search for it on the AH to buy it or find an Inscriptionist friend to make it.
Do any of y’all subscribe and what do you think of it?
I assume it IS monthly (at $40.00 a year, it had better be!) right?
I get Game Informer through my GameStop customer card, and I always look for WoW articles, and really y’all, because of my love for WoW, the rest of that magazine doesn’t interest me .
But… I LOVE the WoW artwork. I love the storylines so it follows I’d like the art that goes along with those stories, but again: $40.00 a year?
I still also have not yet bought any WoW cd’s. Even the used ones on Amazon are priced kinda high given how long the games have been out…
So… my point?
Even if I COULD afford to subscribe to the mag, I’d look at the pretty pictures till I had my fill and then what? MAYBE they’d go on a bookshelf. (In my bachelor days, they’d go on the coffee table in a fan-shape, like my Playboys;)) But more than likely, the magazines would be given to my nephews who are into gaming, or taken to the library.
I USED to collect! My God, all my Steve King novels were on bookshelves and kept in pristine condition! I had Batman comics going back to the early 70’s! Cd’s were lovingly catalogued… in short, there was a day when I’d proudly show off ALL my collections…
But I gave them all away: The books, the comics and most of the cd’s. I can honestly say the only things I still have that I minorly “collect” are my guitars.
Collecting stuff is just not important to me anymore, so that’s why, WoW, you needn’t appeal to my “collector’s jones” getting me to subscribe.
But I sure would like to read and look at the magazine.
Sorry for the ramble. Guess I’m just a … Ramblin’ Guy!
Thanks
Quasi
I’m still having to visit the Stable Master to switch pets. I visited the one in Telaar and there was my cat. I moved it into that “Active” sidebar along my other two, but I still could not actually Call either the cat or the ravager. When I was able to call the turtle, the turtle happened to have been my active pet before the patch. So I moved the cat back into the stable, and then swapped it the old way with my turtle. Now I could call my cat, but not the turtle and still not the ravager. Something’s definitely still not working correctly there.
Also, my cat is barking like a dog when I send her in to attack 
I am absolutely delighted to discover that most of my special shots are limited only by how much Focus I have left, not by cooldown timers. So I can spam Arcane Shot until I run out of Focus. OTOH, Autoshot is slower than hell.
It is not. I believe it’s quarterly. I subscribed last year at Blizzcon and have only gotten two issues so far.
If you like the artwork, you might be better off buying one of the Blizzard art books. The mag is very nice (heavy glossy paper, cardstock covers, etc.) and well put together, but quite pricey for what it is.
I hope you’re on Argent Dawn; that happened to us <I’m alliance there> last week and I reported him big time. What was very sad was that nobody else would; they all insisted that if it could be done, then it should be done…which is poppycock, and they knew it. I hope I wasn’t the only one to appeal that jackass from Medhiev. <or however you spell that realm>
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Go go haste!!
Um, I am presuming haste affects autoshot; I sure hope so, as I reforged to add a bunch of it for that reason.
The ones in the right-hand margin are the glyphs that you “know.” You probably had the non-gray ones carry over from having used them some time before. The ones that are gray, you never learned. You can have a scribe (someone who has the Inscription profession) make you glyphs, and then you can right-click them to use them, and this un-grays those in your list. That lets you then right-click the glyph in the list and put it into the circles, activating those powers.
If you decide you don’t like a glyph that you activated, you can go to an Inscription vendor (ask a guard in a main city where the Inscription profession is, and you’ll find the vendor there), and buy some Vanishing Powder for cheap. This lets you “erase” an activated glyph - but keeps it active in the right-hand list - and replace it with another.
I perused the posts so far, but didn’t see these items addressed directly. I woke up a tiny Rogue/Engineer to run around Un’Goro Crater.
Odd, I am getting xp for mining Thorium.
Bad, my agi scrolls are now counted as battle elixirs, no stacking potions and scrolls?
Thanks, FH, kushiel and Infovore,
What “mats” might a scribe want me to give them?
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Wolkie’s in the Forlorn mine, dressed up as a girl and is about to put some hurtin’ on a few exhausted fellow human men. Discipline, iow.
Also this particular quest is part of a long series which goes into level 79 (I’m 78% of the way there) and then, according to thottbot, it’s a level 80 series the rest of the way.
Should I be able to handle quests at that level even though I’ll just be a 79?
I KNOW a 79 can attack a level above and win, I’m just wondering if I encounter an 80 on a 80 level quest, are they going to be as hard to kill as, say, an elite?
Also, I found something called “Flask of Endless Rage”. Seems to work pretty well and lasts an hour - even through death.
Thanks
Q
XP for mining/herbing is a new feature.
Not sure about the scrolls but I suspect that’s a bug.
/wave! Maybe I’ve seen you around there - my nelf hunter there, Nouveus, is an officer of <Knights of Justice>.
He’s currently farming Kurenai rep in Nagrand (I’m betting he can get to 70 just doing that 
). Since it’s a roleplaying realm, and he has done that quest chain to make “peace” between the Kurenai and the Boulderfist ogres, he’s killing Warmaul ogres exclusively.
Yup, new feature to bring mining and herbalism in line with skinning (since skinners have to kill things for leather, and gain XP doing so).
Also, I apparently no longer even need to carry my Skinning Knife. It has text on it that says it’s used by Engineering now :dubious:
Not ONLY can’t I get auctioneer and questhelper to work, look what’s happened to Silka!!!
That’s Wolkie in drag on top.
Hell, that ain’t even a pony! 
Q
Guys, what does this mean? It’s how to do a quest called “Going bearback”.
“all you have to do is mount the bear and spam the arrows … bear runs himself by the mobs … then he returns u to the starting point … easy gold and xp”
How do you “spam” an arrow?
Thanks
Q
By “Spamming” the writer means doing something repeatedly and a lot. Checking out the quest online, you hop onto Icemaw the bear. The bear runs up and down the valley - you can’t steer - and you shoot arrows (check your action bar when you hop on, you’ll have a new power there) at the stuff that you have to kill. You’ll probably have to click the appropriately-numbered key with one hand and use the other hand to click with the mouse showing where you want to shoot. If you get back to the start and you haven’t hit everything you need, just hop on again and go again.
Skinning them with your teeth? Ew.
It’s a component for the swiss army knife, which is a great all-in-one for those of us with constantly full bags.
Don’t think it’s a bug. The tooltips for scrolls clearly state now whether they’re counted as battle or guardian potions.
They’re making it so that buffs get stacked less and less (druid mark and pally king’s are the same and won’t stack now, for instance).