… what if I were to mail some of the folks who’ve bought leather in the AH from me and told them that on such and such a day, all my leather would be sold for like a fraction of what I sell it for now?
Would that be considered “insider trading” and would I then have to go to the stockade?
SFG, thanks and I will check out those farming locations you mentioned.
Flightless Bird, that’s very generous. I’ll do that tonight! I think I already have a great name for my Cairne toon! 
Thanks
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Wait! I didn’t know about these portals! Can someone tell me where the ones in Org are? I’m sick of flying from Vash -> UC -> Org and I’ve only done it twice.
North, on the same level with the flight points but across the chasm. I think they’re where the intro quest with the cut-scene was.
It’s one point five seconds and has been for well over a year now. Effectively instant. Did you even read my description of what these people were doing? They were mounting and dismounting, mounting and dismounting, over and over, so the time “wasted” in remounting was clearly not the issue. It was the "dismount to run over and kill the thing right in front of the questgiver and then run back and OMG I need to remount immediately while I sit here and wait for the next mob to spawn because I just can’t be seen not sitting on my epix bronze drake!
Actually interacting with the NPCs is not so much the issue, especially now that I’ve discovered that right-clicking on the big yellow “!” or “?” works just as well as clicking on the NPC proper. I don’t know if that’s new or not.
I just really hate when my own toon has to disappear from my view under all those wings. Perhaps I’m just a bit claustrophobic.
Theoretically, Malfurion is a questgiver in Hyjal. I say theoretically, because I couldn’t actually see the questgiver around all the drakes, but when I clicked on the ! it says it’s Malfurion! 
Yeah, you’re right. I wondered about that while I was posting but then decided that it really didn’t matter.
No, that would be fine. I just don’t know how many takers you’d get. Most people are either buying as needed, in which case they probably don’t need your leather anymore, or they’re playing the market, in which case they’re snatching up whatever’s cheapest at the time.
What does happen sometimes is becoming someone’s personal farmer. You supply them with a regular supply of leather for an agreed-upon price. Usually the materials are mailed COD, where the recipient has to agree to pay the designated fee before they can take the attachment from the mail.
1.5 seconds is not effectively instant. It is 1.5 seconds. Over the course of a night of playing, if I were to add up 1.5 seconds for every time I talked to an NPC, it would be a significant amount of time. Not to mention, it would actually be *more *than that in practice. Because I’d have to stop at some distance from the NPC, move my cursor to click my mount button, walk to the NPC, then walk away, then, click the mount button again. As opposed to just flying straight up and talking to the damned thing.
I think you’re reading *way too much *into things. You really need to get over the fact that there is a *huge *segment of the WoW population that simply plays differently than you do. I mount up on my flyers pretty much any time I need to move, because at 310%, it’s almost always going to be at least slightly faster than walking there. Having to constantly remount for literally no reason at all would very quickly become incredibly tedious for me. I enjoy efficiency, a lot. Dismounting to talk to an NPC is inefficient. Would it be a *massive *waste of time to do so? No, but there’s also no real benefit whatsoever that I can see–I am in no way blocking other people from interacting with the same NPC.
It sounds like that’s probably it. I get that this is one of your personal bugaboos, but it’s not stopping you from playing the game. It’s okay to be annoyed by it, but I really don’t appreciate you casting all kinds of aspersions on people who happen to like to play differently in a way that doesn’t harm you.
I tried calculating what the length of travel time was when it became more efficient to just run rather than mount up. Provided I worked out the math correctly, even when mounting took 3 seconds, it was still some absurdly short time, like 5 seconds. In other words, if you have to run longer than 5 seconds, you’ll get there faster if you spend the time to mount up first. With the mount time reduced to 1.5 seconds, it’s even shorter.
Isn’t there actually a quest in Silverpine where Garrosh shows up after Sylvanas does some really, really evil shit and asks her “What makes you different from the Lich King?” To which she answers “Simple, we serve the horde.”
I’m interested to see the story that develops over the course of Cataclysm with the leaders of the Horde races. Sylvanas is doing her own thing and expanding the power of the Forsaken by whatever means necessary. Cairne is dead. Val’jin (what, what’s his name? That doesn’t sound right) is looking for an excuse to murder Garrosh while he sleeps. And of course Garrosh has fewer and fewer friends all the time, and certainly does not have the respect of most of the Horde, even his own people. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out. (Personally, I’m rooting for Sylvanas to come out on top as the supreme leader of the Horde).
Vol’Jin. Val’Jin stole a loaf of bread, I believe. Also, note Thrall’s words from the cut scene. (Speaking of which, do the Allies also get a very special message from Thrall?)
ISWYDT. 
I just made this point in the weekly WoW thread over at Daily Kos (the guild is Horde (Wreck List) and we have a very special visitor who’s doing the worst Alliance Asshole RPing I’ve ever seen in the comment section).
Half the Horde leaders hate Garrosh’s guts. Sylvanas, Baine, and Vol’jin all want to gut him in his sleep. The other two leaders are non-entities at the moment (seriously…can ANY Horde player name the Blood Elf leader off the top of their head?). I’m not sure where the overall Horde storyline is going, but it doesn’t look all that cushy for Garrosh.
Not that Alliance aren’t having their own internal problems at the moment…
Sure! It’s… Um… Fancyhair Mc…Blondie. Dude. Guy.
Johnny Awesome.
I totally want a Belf toon named Fancyhair McBlondie.
snerk
double-snerk
When one of my guildies needed a Belf Rogue to turkify, I rolled one for him. And gave him a pretty face and flowing hair. And named him Boykisses.
Stripped him down to his boots and set him up dancing outside of the city.
Can someone explain to me what happened to Cairne? I’ve completely missed that piece of lore. Also I haven’t played horde in a bout a year now.
The details are in The Shattering, which I intend to read soon, but you pick up the essentials while questing in Mulgore. [spoiler]Garrosh and Cairne fell to a duel, possibly over disagreement about how to lead the Horde. Either before or during the duel, Magatha Grimtotem poisoned Cairne, weakening him, and Garrosh wound up killing Cairne because of it.
The Grimtotem are assholes.[/spoiler]
While we’re at it, anyone want to explain what happened to Fandral Staghelm or whatever his name is?