You’re not imagining it. I was getting the same thing.
When I reported it the GM told me to run the game as “window-maximized” under video options. I did that and have not had that problem since.
Yay! Finally back in the game! And OMG I can actually move in Dalaran now; it’s so nice. Going to take a bit of getting used to using a two-button mouse instead of a one-button trackpad, but just from running around cities I can now see how the whole mouseturning thing works.
Anyway, I snuck in a couple runs at the HH to get my feet wet again, and on my first run I got, oh, a broom, a squashling, and a helm in my goody bag.
Haaaaaaaate…
Well, if you specifically need the fish-only recipes (Broiled Bloodfin or Skullfish Soup, then yeah, that’s only from the Outland cooking daily in the Barrel of Fish. But the other recipes that can drop from either the Barrel or the Crate of Meat (Delicious Chocolate Cake or Stormchops) can also drop in the reward bag from the Dalaran cooking daily. You may already know that, though.
I haven’t encountered that yet. Just disconnects while zoning into or out of instances (rare, except for Headless Horseman, when it’s surprisingly common) or the Cogwheel o’ Death thing. Still, a lot more provoke-able disconnects with this release of the client. Blizz QA and debug devels have a lot of work ahead of them.
I can’t believe they haven’t fixed the cogwheel of death yet. My last two HH fights were three-manned because of people getting frozen out.
Yeah my first time in I forgot about the cogwheel and got booted. Though I came back in time to get a couple or three licks in.
On another catch-up topic, are there any new inscription recipes that I have to go to Outland for?
Already got the cake and the stormchops. I just need the other two.
Thanks, everyone
Wolkie, Silka and Quasi
Woot! Congratulations Quasi! We knew you could do it.
Congrats Quasi!
Now its time to get ALL of your alts to 80.
WOOHOO! Good going, Quasi!
I feel like my kid just graduated college…
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CONGRATULATIONS, QUASI! (That’s some Epic purple for you.) I am *so proud *of you! 
Wolkie’s looking quite handsome in his current gear, too.
Oy vey, what a night.
I was able to come home from the office an hour early yesterday, and on the way home I got a message from my friend saying that he was going to crash and asking if I could drag him along for an HH run. No problem, I figured. He does the same for me all the time. Ah hah. Ah hah hah hah.
Walk in the door, boot up the computer. Launch my browser to check my mail quickly before I sign on. Oh, GMail didn’t load. Refresh the page. Still nothing. Notice that none of the other tabs are loading either. Hrmmmmm… Lean over and look down at the modem. Wheeeeere the DSL light is blinking red. Sigh. Reset modem a couple of times. Reseat all of the cables. Nothing.
Call customer support. Spend a stupid amount of time talking to someone who eventually comes to the conclusion that it must be a problem with the modem. Bonus: the sticker on the front with the serial number was conveniently made with ink that wears right off, so I can’t tell if it’s part of the batch that’s being replaced for free because it’s defective. Option 1: Have Customer Service mail me a new one, which will probably take three business days (and that’s on top of the fact that they’re probably already gone for the evening). Option 2: Go to a physical AT&T store and buy a new modem there. Oh, hey, there’s one just a few blocks away!
Call the store. Whoops, they’re not an official store, just an authorized retailer. No modems. The lazy sons of bitches. Find the next closest store. Open 'til 8, modems ahoy! Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to get to, since it’s just a couple of blocks off a bus route that runs straight past my apartment. About 90 minutes later and $80 poorer, I’m walking back in the door of my apartment with a replacement modem. Luck of lucks, I’m actually able to remember what the hell I chose as my username and password on only the third try, and I’m back online! Still 40 minutes late for…
Ulduar 25! Working on some more achievements, clearing our way to get One Light finished for those of us who still need it for our drakes. (My last achievement for that meta!) Fortunately, the group wasn’t full, so I was able to hop right in. Cue something that’s mainly a mess of people AFKing, DCing, and generally having weird bugs that interfere with the achievements we’re trying to do. Sigh. So we stop at Auriyayayayaya. Though I picked up two new achievements, including But I’m on Your Side, which I’ve missed approximately a half-dozen times through forgetting to hit the damn flask just before we kill the last boss, generally because I’m focused on watching the “30 seconds before you explode, killing yourself and everyone near you” debuffs on the other tank and myself–and I also got another boss down for my Conqueror of Ulduar, with only two left to go (Mimiron and Yogg).
So I tab out and start another instance of WoW to run my friend through HH with me. I’m able to get him online for a bit, then he keeps disconnecting. Fine, whatever, I crank the video settings way down. I get us queued up, and just after we zone in, he disconnects again. So I’m trying to alternate between tanking the HH and getting my friend back in there, so he can get credit for the kill. Fortunately, his character stays in long enough to get credit for the kill. I stick the loot bag in the middle of his free bag, where he can’t miss it, and log off. I tab back to my window… to see him sign back on again. :smack:
Apparently, he slept for a couple of hours, woke up, realized he was going to be awake again for a while, and decided to go PvP with another friend of ours on another server. And left me a voicemail. So when I logged on to get him HH on his main, he was trying to cap the stables on his alt. And I kept kicking him offline, and then he’d kick me offline. Fortunately, he eventually figured out what I was doing.
We’re going to try to finish off Ulduar on Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed. If we could just get enough people to show up, it would be fine. The problem is that we end up running with a minimal group that’s at least partially composed of undergeared alts and FnF members. Sigh. We’ll see!
Honestly, if *all *you’re after is the mounts, there’s no reason to even kill the bosses. You can clear all of the trash up to the first boss, zone out, and reset. (Raids *can *be reset if you’re not saved to the ID yet, which you won’t be if you don’t pull the boss.) The only downside is that it will count towards your “five instances an hour” total.
When I was working on getting my Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaeric Chops recipe (the only Cooking recipe I was missing in the entire game), I had to get my Brood of Nozdormu rep up to Neutral, and trash farming was a reasonably efficient way of doing it.
AFAIK, there are *no *boss MCs that can be broken in any way.
Really? I’ve never even bothered to see if it was worth the trouble. All of my greens go straight to DEs for the chant mat stash.
Absolutely 100% worth it to never see another wrinkly elephant ass on a Draenei alt.
Yup, like other people have said, you get XP for every one you open. While the buckets all look the same, they each have their own unique quest ID. Holiday activities like this, where you have some little activity in every zone, are something that people will often use to help get a leveling boost on their alts. You go around and hit all the buckets, and you walk away with XP and cash.
AFAIK, there have been no changes to the animation. I think you’re either misremembering or your video settings have changed.
Congrats! It’s always so interesting to look back on your development as a player. I still have my T4 helm in the bank from TBC, and a while back when I was looking through the old gear, I realized that one of my gems was Stam/Haste. I have literally* no idea *what I was thinking there.
Yeah, it’s the old Warlock shard bag. I know my Mage has the pattern; I’ll have to check it out.
Your wish is my command! I present you with the WoW Insider Guide to Hallow’s End 2010.
Check your bags. You got an apple. (Or maybe a small stack of them.)
Innnnteresting. Either they added an official portal, or you just walked by at the right time to see one that a Mage made.
All due respect, BT, I think you’re underestimating how much has changed. Yes, 4.0.3 is changing the world, but 4.0.1 fundamentally changed the game, in terms of class mechanics. They eliminated or changed a bunch of basic class abilities. They completely redesigned the spec trees from the ground up. They made changes to many of the fundamental ways the classes operate (e.g., Warlock Soul Shards, Hunter Focus, Warrior Rage normalization).
I started playing in late July/early August of 2007. I was here for the Wrath pre-patch at the end of TBC. And I am telling you that a few mechanics changes and expanded trees are nothing like what just happened.
IME, it’s been working pretty well to use the “disable tooltips” macro before I click the queue accept button, and then put an all-caps message in party chat not to mouseover the altar as soon as I’m zoned in. Get a lot of “Ohhhh, that’s what’s happening!” responses, and I don’t think I’ve had one person freeze.
Congratulations, Quasi and Wolkie!
That macro has worked like a charm, but I haven’t been warning the others. It’ll serve me right to end up having to solo him one of these days.
Grats on getting the replacement modem so quickly. That’s the worst feeling.
No, that was there. It’s not a “real” portal, as in it’s not usable by player toons. It’s the portal that the fresh troops transport into Outland with, off against the wall beside the Stair of Destiny. You can see it from the flightmaster of either faction (Hordeside it’s an Org portal) as new troops run out of it to join the battle with the demons at the bottom of the Portal structure.
Grats, Quasi!
Sucks about the modem, Guns. :smack:
I’m just being cautious here because folks have been using BT for me for some time now, but I just want to clarify that you’re responding to Broomstick, not me. I have trouble telling us apart, too. I keep seeing her name and wondering how I posted and don’t remember doing so.
Interesting. Brooms Tick? Not how I would have parsed it.
I don’t think the lack of soul shards changed that much; I used the majority of them for Soulwells, summoning portals, Soulshatters, and demon summons when I was Demo and using the felguard instead of Destro/imp. The class still largely plays the same for me; I just don’t have to spend time farming before raids. And I have another bag (whoever said the stupid things shouldn’t stack should be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.) This makes me all kinds of happy.
Focus on the other hand. . .wheehah. That feels totally different at level 21. Sigh.
I still have yet to get the Squashing for the title; it’s all I need now. However, I got the Horseman’s Reins, so I’ll manage to cope. Somehow.
Grats, Quasi!