Aww, I like SFG’s post crits. But then I again I’m typically bored a work and grateful for any WoW discussion I can get.
It does annoy me when I or someone else answers a question and she pays no attention to those posts, but otherwise I’ve got no problem with it. Spurs conversations and the like.
I finally got to do a quick raid on my warlock last night (yay for not being in pain). It was my first one since the patch drop. And. . .even playing my class incorrectly (I keep on forgetting to pop Doomguard at the onset), I still made top DPS, easy. I don’t know if it’s because destro 'locks are OP, or because I actually practiced the rotations quite a bit on the PTR. This was before I knew that hit gems were blue, too, so I still had some +Spirit gems in. After replacing those with +Int/Hit, I was able to reforge for some extra Mastery, though I’m not sure if I should do that or Haste (EJ has them ranked equally, last I saw. Real helpful. Of course, they’re also saying I should do Glyph of Imp instead of Incinerate, which makes me “hrmm”).
G.N.E.R.D Rage was stupid easy. I just got a bunch of them and did a Wintergrasp. I think I might have to grind some honor, now that you can get most of the PvP gear without an Arena rating. Though I don’t know that I’ll be doing PvP very much, it’s still nice to have the option.
Also, my imp is back. This makes me super happy.
I like them, too. Sometimes there is some repetition, but other times, she’s the only one who acknowledges or answers my question.
If you find what I have to say annoying instead of worthwhile, you’re more than welcome to put me on ignore.
I try to avoid doing that. Generally, when I do, it’s because (a) someone posted since I started composing and I didn’t catch it on Preview, or (b) there was some nuance in my intended reply that I think they missed, so I went ahead and said it anyway.
Another voice in support of SFG’s mega-responses. I find them entertaining and informative.
Hate to disagree here, but I look forward to SFG’s postings, no matter what the length. That isn’t to say I don’t appreciate the rest of you for taking time to help me out - just that she’s my friend and had this been written about Oak or anyone else in this thread, I’d be writing this defending them (not that they’d need it).
And I think y’all know that, right?
Thanks
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet, but I’m really loving the new XP from gathering system: you can chalk that up as one thing I think they got absolutely right. My DK is getting 2500 XP per node in Icecrown and Wintergrasp at level 70. I’m massively annoyed that I can no longer have the riding speed boost plus the permanent pet (or at least not until he’s closer to 80–I can’t remember if On a Pale Horse is 2nd or 3rd tier), but at least I’m getting a feel for his new Frost rotation. (Not that I use it much, but.) His DPS has been something like 1.3k, in terrible gear (a lot of it’s still his starter set), at 70.
Clearly, you need to get out more. 
Bought Artisan Riding and didn’t have enough left to buy a mount, ha ha ha. But I’m sick of the gryphons anyway, I want a drake! So Heroic Stratholme it was.
We were like 20 seconds too late. 
Group blamed it on Arthas, he glitched at one point when he was supposed to go into a building but stayed outside and killed zombies. Keep up, Mr. I’m-an-awesome-Prince-and-Pally! 
Did Heroic UP after that, but reins didn’t drop. Noticed there’s a chance with Heroic Oculus, but I would rather have my Huntard shoot himself in the head with his own gun than do that again.
I’ve trick and treated my way through the Old World, will do Heroic Stratholme again tonight and hopefully make it so I can go through Outlands next.
In any case, you can only get the reins from Heroic Oc if you get random’d into it.
Heheh. I ran HH twice with no issues, and a minor temporary lagspike-looking thing on the third run (among all my 80s). But when my spriest went, our resto-drood healer and one of the DPS both caught the cogwheel o’ doom. The tank actually died. No one dies in the HH event, NO ONE. Unless stuff like that happens.
We still downed the HH; the rogue was evasion tanking the squashling adds and I burned down the detached head.
But really. Having a skill position freeze out on this exceedingly annoying bug takes it from annoying to borderline-disastrous.
Someone (Bosstone?) already posted a temporary work-around for this. It’s a pair of commands that you can copy-and-paste or make macros for to turn your tooltips off and on. Run the one to turn them off as soon as you accept the dungeon invite; run the one to turn them on when the HH is dead. And spam party chat with an all-caps message not to mouseover the altar as soon as you zone in.
They weren’t mine, but they do work so far as I can tell. I made them into a couple of On/Off macros: I click Off when entering the instance, then once the pumpkin has been clicked and disappears, I click the On macro and continue about my business. Easy peasy.
It does turn tooltips off, which is infuriating during loot time. You want those back on ASAP.
The Mine is particularly bad for that. Any number of random passers-by can just glance down the cliff and see you camped out there all by your self. It’s a lovely trap, though, if you can get a few rogues, droods in stealthy cat-mode, or night elves (damn shadowmeld) to wait with you.
Why, yes, I do play Horde. Why do you ask? 
Grats indeed. That achievement is intense, and I’m glad Blizz didn’t nerf the violet drake to not automatically give Master Flying. That achievement deserves much more than another 280-speed mount.
Yeah, shadowmeld is a pretty damn unfair advantage to the allies in battlegrounds (and especially Arathi).
How is it any worse than Will of the Forsaken for the Horde? That’s a get out of freeze/CC free card that doesn’t…or at least didn’t used to…share a cooldown with trinkets…
The nice thing about Strat is that you’re guaranteed the mount if you beat the timer (and most groups do). At worst, you might have to roll against someone for it. But the H-UP and H-Oc drakes are very rare drops (my mount-collecting priest does not have either of those yet).
Speaking of mount-collecting, I picked up all of my Sha’tari nether rays yesterday! Woot! Now to figure out my next goal…
I think it does share a cooldown. And Allies have Every Man for Himself which does more or less the same thing.
Not a mount, but have you fished up Mr. Pinchy and gotten the Magical Crawdad companion pet for your wish, yet?
Still not seeing anything unfair about shadowmeld. Rogues and druids have much better stealth available to them…all a non-rogue or druid Night Elf can do with it is stand in one spot. It breaks as soon as he moves. It is handy in PVE when I need to lose aggro…but still, not at all unfair to the Horde. Tauren get their stomp thing, Blood Elves get that mana drain thing, trolls get a haste thing…all have some degree of usefulness in PVP.