Oh yeah I forgot about that. Sorry.
I just did the TH wedding and Nightmare Iso’h? quests last night too and they were a lot of fun.
I think the port to Thrall with him fighting Deathwing thing was a nightmare of what the future might be. Thrall did have long braided hair so I assumed it was in the future. I tried to help out too but nothing happened and then boom I’m dead and ported back inside Iso’h or whatever it’s name is.
And that’s 10 I have on Alex. Here he is:
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Basic paladin tactics early on: Keep your Seal of Righteousness up. Use both Crusader Strike (I think it’s called that) and Judgment whenever they’re off cooldown. Judgment requires a Seal to be active, which is why you want to make sure you have Seal of Righteousness up all the time.
You’ll eventually get abilities that use Holy Power. You make Holy Power by using Crusader Strike (but not until you get Word of Glory (the first Holy Power ability)). You can save up to 3 Holy Power and your HP abilities do more damage or heal more damage based on how many Holy Power you have chucked away. The first HP abilities are Word of Glory (which heals) and Verdict of the Templar (which does extra damage).
That’s about as far as I’ve gotten on my pally at this point.
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We’re at level 4 and I do have both of those. I know I cast righteousness on myself right, and then hit judgement?
And judgement is suppposed to let me know if I can inflict holy damage on an enemy?
I’m not sure I’m understanding that correctly.
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Pallies are fun Quasi (I have three! but I only play two). Your judgement will do extra holy damage on the enemy, and at your level I believe it’s the only ranged attack you have. Can you belive that it used to be the only ranged attack pallies ever had? And it’s pretty short range, too.
The think you’ll like about being a pally is the ability to heal yourself in the middle of a fight. It will come in handy.
The Seal of Righteousness does continual holy damage to the mob you’re attacking, and the Judgment (on the Seal of Rightousness…you’ll get more seals and they do different things when they’re Judged) does an extra burst of holy damage to it when you use it. You only have to refresh Seal of Righteousness when it runs out (it has a 30 minute duration)…you USED to have to recast it when you Judged, since Judgment used to use the seal up, but it doesn’t anymore.
Oh man, life got crazy. I guess I can sum up by saying that I took a leap of faith and moved across not only servers but factions, to rejoin some old friends and hopefully start up a new 10-man raiding guild. I only just moved, and logging in for the first time yesterday on Sleutel as a Blood Elf instead of a Night Elf was really, really weird. And I miss being a Nelf already. A lot. 
Hopefully things will work out well. As much fun as I had with The Backseat, I was being pushed into very much a secondary role, and I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity to raid again with some of the people who’d shared what was always my favorite time raiding. So yeah, I’m on Area 52 now. Keep your fingers crossed for me that we can drag back a few more old friends or recruit some new ones and start kicking ass and taking names.
At least the transfer pushed me to finish off a few things before I moved: I completed all of the quests in every new zone but Uldum, which pushed me over the top for It’s Over Nine Thousand! (busting past 9,000 achivement points). And it’s a good thing I did, because I lost probably over a hundred achievement points with the transfer, as well as getting put into a position where I’d have had to completely start over on Vashj’ir and Twilight Highlands, since those chains are faction-specific.
Sell, sell, sell, unless you’re about to use it right this second. Prices are going to keep dropping as more and more people level their gathering professions. At this point in the expansion, you’re better off selling what you gather and then buying (or gathering) the mats again later when you actually need them.
IME it’s a lot easier if you have a solid strategy down, especially with how your tank (and melee, if applicable) are going to get out of his ground AOE, and how the tank is going to keep the conal AOE away from the group. I’ve found it works very well to simply tank him on the stage, swapping from left to ride side as he drops the AOE on the ground. The CD on it is long enough that the previous one has always faded in time for me to move back to the same spot again, so I can just alternate between the two. Then I keep him pointed at the wall behind me, and angled slightly towards the wall at the back of the stage, so that the whole room (as well as the middle of the stage) is a safe zone away from the conal AOE. After that, you just need to make sure that the tank is picking up the adds that silence casters; the other adds shouldn’t need to be tanked but instead just burned down.
Half of the battle with CC is putting the right CCs on the right mobs, and location is a big part of that. You should ideally be CCing something that’s on the outer fringes of the group, so you should have zero issues dropping a targeting reticule on it.
Now that taunts can’t miss and bosses don’t parry haste (at least not the ones that do the worst melee damage), Hit and Expertise are much more subjective. If you’re having threat problems, prioritize Expertise first. If your interrupts are missing and you can’t count on anyone else to pick them up, get more Hit. There’s really no magic number–it depends on your situation.
At 8% hit, none of your special attacks will miss against a raid boss (effective level of 88); 3% feels a bit low to me for raiding, but it’s probably a liveable percentage for Heroics.
Wowpedia and WoWWiki: Wiki-based encyclopedias of World of Warcraft
Wowhead: Searchable, filterable database of everything in the game (items, quests, NPCs, zones, mobs, etc.); also has tools like talent calculators
WoW Insider: Massive blog that has frequent posts and a number of running columns, with content aimed at players that range from complete newbies to endgame hardcore raiders and top-rated PvPers
Elitist Jerks: Save this one for later–it’s a community mainly populated by theorycrafters and min/maxers; i’ll be a great resource if you hit max level and decide you want to raid, but before then it might get confusing
IIRC from a friend with a similar complaint, there’s no way around it, unfortunately. New computer time!
Herbalism is the easiest profession to combine with Inscription, because the materials you need are created from herbs. It may be more efficient to pick up a different profession that would make more money and simply buy what you need, but that requires you to play with the Auction House, which not everybody enjoys.
Honestly, there are very few boss mechanics in old instances that will cause you any problems at all. In general, just be sure to stand behind the boss to DPS and don’t stand in anything on the ground. And while you do get some real stinkers through the RDF, I’ve also met a few great people, as well as the great unwashed masses of at least minimally competent ones. 
Really, nobody can tell you what addons are right for you–it’s going to be a matter of your own personal playstyle. I’ve added mine a few at a time over the years, building up to my current ridiculous list. A lot of what I consider “essential” is because of what I like to do with the game: endgame raiding, and some things that I “need” on every character, like a HUD, other people consider distracting.
FWIW, here’s the list of mostly everything I’m using right now (spoilered so as to avoid even worse Wall o’ Text):
Acheron: On-demand reports for the last ~10 seconds of anyone’s life. Great for figuring out whose fault a death was.
Ackis Recipe List: For nerds like me who attempt to obsessively collect as many recipes as possible for each profession. Will give you a list of everything you’re missing and where to find it.
**Addon Control Panel: **This is one I’d say is actually pretty univerally essential–it allows you to turn your addons on and off by simply reloading your UI instead of fully relogging.
**Advanced Trade Skill Window: **Allows you to sort your recipes in various ways, create custom categories, queue recipes and the other recipes you need to make them, create shopping lists for vendors and/or the AH, etc. Useful for when you’re powerleveling a profession; often a pain in the ass otherwise. I keep it turned off when I’m not actively using it. Some features moot because of changes to the official tradeskill UI (e.g., being able to filter for skillups).
**Atlas: **Maps for every instance and raid, as well as transport nodes like flight points. Has synergy with Atlasloot–if you have both installed, the boss lists for each instance will link to their loot tables.
**Atlasloot Enhanced: **Searchable database of gear drops from bosses, rep rewards, badge gear, etc.
**Auctioneer: **Extra features and tools for the Auction House. Another one I can’t live without because of the ability to scan the AH and maintain a database of average prices over time.
**BigWigs Bossmods **(stopgap while DXE is outdated): Bossmod for raid encounters. Essential for raiding; useless outside of it. (One bossmod, Deadly Boss Mods or DBM, also has modules for instances, but I don’t use it.)
**ClassTimer: **Timer bars for buffs and debuffs you apply to yourself, your target, your focus, your pet. Can include or exclude anything you personally apply.
Collect Me: Another nerd addon, this one for people who collect vanity pets and mounts. Gives me a list of anything I’m missing and where to find it.
**Decursive: **Excellent addon that makes using any debuff-removal abilities your class has simple, by using a simple click-based interface.
**Deus Vox Encounters **(disabled until it catches up): Another bossmod, currently not as accurate as BigWigs; however, it’s historically my favorite because of how obscenely customizable it is.
Fishing Ace: Simple addon that does two things when you have a fishing pole equipped: turns up your sound effects while turning music and ambient noises off, and lets you cast with a double right-click. Resets sound levels to normal when you unequip the pole.
**Gatherer: **Excellent addon for any character with a gathering profession that tracks locations where you’ve found nodes in the past (they’re static in the world and will always appear in the same locations). Can also receive data from guild members and party/raid members who also have the addon. There use to be a database that you could use to upload every node in the game, but all of the old world data was rendered obsolete after Cataclysm because the world was redesigned. Presumably it’s being rebuilt.
GoGoMount: Allows you to assign preferred global mounts and/or mounts for specific zones which you can then randomly select from a single button or keybind. Will select the appropriate mount (ground vs. air vs. swimming) based on where you’re curently located.
Grid: Raid frames replacement with endless tweaks and additional modules to add on (a number of which I use but haven’t listed here). Excellent for healers of all levels (especially anybody who wants to use mouseover macros to heal); IMO also very useful and important for anybody at max level who wants to raid.
**HatTrick: **Simple addon that just adds a checkbox next to your helm and cloak on your paper doll so that you can turn them on and off.
**IceHUD: **Heads-up display of health, resource (Mana, Rage, etc.), and castbar for you, your target, and your pet. Various other options and modules include buffs and debuffs, sunder or combo point counts, etc.
**InFlight Taxi Timer: **Estimated flight time countdown for known routes and a count-up for any unknown routes.
**Interrupted: **Announces in /say whenever I interrupt something with the name of what I just interrupted.
Iron Chef: Puts on my Chef’s Hat and changes my title to Chef whenever I open my Cooking window.
**MapCoords: **Places coordinates under player portrait (and party portrait, though I turn those off), as well as displaying coordinates of both player and cursor on the world map.
MikScrollingBattleText: Very customizable scrolling text for incoming and outgoing damage, incoming and outgoing heals, cooldowns, procs, etc.
Omen Threat Meter: Shows total threat, threat per second, and the effects of any threat-modifying abilities (e.g., Misdirection) for the aggro table of the targetted mob in a graphical fashion.
**OmniCC: **Has more features than what I use, but I use it for tracking cooldowns on abilities, as it places the countdown right on the icon.
**Outfitter: **Less necessary now that the UI has a built-in equipment manager, I still use this to organize all of my gear sets. Lets you swap between preset equipment sets with a single click.
Overachiever: Adds tooltips or other cues to various things you need for achievements (e.g., /love or kill tracking for critters, icons next to recipes you need to cook), adds a suggestion tab to the Achievement interface based on your current location, adds a Search tab, and adds a Tracking tab.
Postal: Excellent mail-management addon for dealing with high volumes of attachments, allowing you to open any or all of AH sold, cancelled, won, expired, and non-AH attachment emails with a single click.
**Quartz: **Castbar replacement. I only use this on one character, my healer, where I don’t use a HUD.
RatingBuster: Adds summary descriptions into tooltips to compare the stats that are most important to you on new items vs. what you have equipped. Also converts ratings into percentages.
**Recount: **Meters for damage, healing, interrupts, deaths, etc. I’ve been hearing great things about Skada and am considering switching to that instead.
**SatrinaBuffFrame: **Highly customizable replacement for the default buff frames, allowing you to tweak everything, from size to location to number of buffs to how they’re sorted. Will no longer be supported going forward. Hopefully someone else picks this project up, because I love my SBF.
**SilverDragon: **Alerts for rarespawns in your area.
SpamThrottle: Cuts out any repeated lines in any chat for the interval you set.
**teksLoot: **Simple replacement for the roll dialogue, both smaller and providing more information than the default, while also being easy to relocate to a more convenient piece of screen real estate.
Tidy Plates: Threat Plates: Tidy Plates is a replacement for the standard nameplates, and Threat Plates is a mod for that addon that allows you to set their color, size, and alpha based on your threat levels.
For a newer, relatively casual player, I’d recommend out of that list: ACP, Atlas, Atlasloot, Auctioneer or a similar addon, Fishing Ace, Gatherer, IceHUD, MapCoords, Omen, Overachiever, Postal, RB, Recount or Skada, and teksLoot.
Which speed boosts stack and which don’t is complicated. The spurs, glove enchant, and Carrot on a Stick all stack together, IIRC. However, the craftable Riding Crop trinket and the quest reward Skybreaker Whip don’t stack with anything else or each other–they both give the maximum possible speed boost.
I also don’t think any of those buffs stack with things like Crusader Aura. And, as noted, they stop working after level 70.
I can’t get to Wowhead from here, but… Did they change Carrot on a Stick? It used to be a trinket; now it looks like some kind of permanent enhancement that increases the speed of one of your mounts? Two links are showing up on Wowhead (1)(2). 
Sometimes yes, mostly no. Anything that *can *be interrupted on a boss almost always *must *be, at least as often as possible, because not interrupting it causes Terribly Bad Things, usually in the form of either your tank or your entire raid taking huge chunks of damage. Bosses from Wrath with abilities that had to be interrupted included Vezaxx, Jaraxxus, and Lady Deathwhisper.
:smack: That’s actually pretty funny.
To feed a Cat pet, taking up fishing can definitely be helpful. He’ll happily scarf down raw anything you pull up, as long as it’s close enough to his level.
Oh, and I know you already figure out the Prowl thing, but for future reference: right-clicking it the first time turned off “auto-cast,” which was the sparkly border. He was still in Prowl, and clicking it *again *is what finally turns the actual ability off.
IMO, make your own account on World of Logs (you can create a nonexistant guild in order to do so). Then, you just have to manually start and stop logging on your way in and out of dungeons, and upload those logs to the site.
I can’t remember if this has been brough up for you before–do you have a thread open on the official WoW tech support forums?
Uninstall AVG. Seriously. I used to love it, too, but it’s turned into bloated crap over the years. Get Microsoft Security Essentials instead.
I’ve been having chronic, recurring issues lately when switching characters. I don’t think it ever happens on the first character I use after logging in, but when I swap to another, there are sometimes problems: either it will disconnect me after attempting to load, or it will load all the way (I can hear sounds around me, and people see me log in), but the loading screen never goes away and the only option is to kill the game with Alt+F4 and come back in again.
No, that’s entirely intended. It’s a nightmare. The entire point of the vision is to make you feel like shit. You’re getting it from an enemy, after all.
Woo! Max out those slots, Quasi.
I think I will post my problem on there, I’m seriously at my wits end.
Not to mention but I having “sound bite” popups happening at random times that are pretty damn annoying…kind of like those TV excerpts with those 15 to 30 second commercials that precede them without the video or any audio/video player popping up so I can identify it.
I do have some trojans that AVG has found on a daily (sometimes multiple times a day) but it keeps roving around in different folders on my computer. But AVG doesn’t seem to be able to find the exact file that is replicating these trojans. Hell, I’m not sure if the two things (the trojans and the sound bite popups) are even related.
As for removing AVG and switching the Microsoft Essentials, that may be the step in the right direction. I might try it tonight or later this week after I get a hold of Blizzard.
Do you play any other 3D games? I’m 90% sure your 9800 is at the end of its life, at least I was until you said your computer is overrun by spyware. You might just want to nuke everything and reload to solve that one, but that’s kind of lazy and probably unnecessary.
What do the sound clips say?
Regarding AVG: I haven’t had a problem and in Feb. I will have had the paid version 2 years.
SFG, if you recommend Security Essentials (and it’s free!:)), I want to try it.
I can do that now, right? All I have to do is disable AVG, but don’t delete it?
Multiple disconnects: Today, Boyhowdy was in the process of looting when he froze while being stooped over. The game must have been trying to restart itself, because although he couldn’t auto loot, I could make him move. Only thing is, he ran in that stooped position. It was comical to watch, but then the game did finally kick me out.
Paladin Weaponry: I switched him to a short sword, because I thought the mallet wasn’t what I wanted him to fight with. Are mallets actually more damage-inflicting than swords?
Wolkie’s armor: I didn’t realize that one should equip one’s toon with the same named equipment, such as Jasperlode “Breastplate of the Bear”, and Jasperlode “this” and “that”. I saw that last night in the AH, and then did buy equipment such as I described - although some of that stuff was way expensive.
Skinning: Should I still take Wolkie to K3 and where those raptors are to get leather, or at his level (81) are there better places? I did get some savage leather and scraps in that underwater place, but the drops were few and far between. I know it won’t help his XP tghat much, right?
In general, one weapon of the same level and quality is going to be about the same level of damage as another. There’s no real advantage to using a sword over a mace (mallet) or vice versa unless your particular race has a racial advantage with them. I can’t remember if humans still get pluses with swords–if so, it would be advantageous to use a sword–but only all other things being equal. If you’re level 10, say, then using a level 10 hammer/mace or axe would be better than using a level 7 sword, for example. Edit to add: there are certain advantages to paying attention to things like weapon speed (toons using 2handers generally want slow weapons so they hit harder per swing, I think, while tanks using 1-handers want faster ones to hit more often). But at low level this really isn’t worth worrying much about.
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Wolkie’s armor: I didn’t realize that one should equip one’s toon with the same named equipment, such as Jasperlode “Breastplate of the Bear”, and Jasperlode “this” and “that”. I saw that last night in the AH, and then did buy equipment such as I described - although some of that stuff was way expensive.
[/quote%0use a sword–but only all other things being equal. If you’re level 10, say, then using a level 10 hammer/mace or axe would be better than using a level 7 sword, for example. Edit to add: there are certain advantages to paying attention to things like weapon speed (toons using 2handers generally want slow weapons so they hit harder per swing, I think, while tanks using 1-handers want faster ones to hit more often). But at low level this really isn’t worth worrying much about.
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Wolkie’s armor: I didn’t realize that one should equip one’s toon with the same named equipment, such as Jasperlode “Breastplate of the Bear”, and Jasperlode “this” and “that”. I
In general, one weapon of the same level and quality is going to be about the same level of damage as another. There’s no real advantage to using a sword over a mace (mallet) or vice versa unless your particular race has a racial advantage with them. I can’t remember if humans still get pluses with swords–if so, it would be advantageous to use a sword–but only all other things being equal. If you’re level 10, say, then using a level 10 hammer/mace or axe would be better than using a level 7 sword, for example.
There’s absolutely no advantage to wearing gear of this type with the same name, unless you want it all to look good together. Some sets have a “set bonus” which you get for wearing multiple pieces of the same armor, but those are almost always either crafted pieces or raiding tier pieces. The generic “<Mumblefutz> Whatever of the <Whatever>” pieces don’t have these. It’s much more important to get the correct “of the <Whatever>” for your class and spec. So, to use your example, a Jasperlode piece of the Bear would be helpful for you since you’re a warrior, but a Jasperlode piece of the Whale wouldn’t be, because it has stats you will never want as a warrior.
Ugh, can the admins please delete my first post? Somehow it got borked while I was trying to edit it. Thanks.
infovore, I understand about a level 10 mace being better than a level 7 sword, but when I tried that before last year, I didn’t do so well with the mace because my skill in that particular weapon wasn’t as advanced as the 2-handed sword one.
Same thing happened when I wanted to go from a crossbow to a normal bow.
With the mace I kept wondering “Dude! Why isn’t this guy dying???!!” 
So would it be better to go ahead and train with a mace (switch them out now and then) so both skill levels will equal each other?
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They changed that on you, Quasi…you don’t have to train up weapon skills anymore. You start out with a set slate of weapons you can use and the game basically assumes that you’re proficient in all of those. You can use any weapon in your skill set “out of the box”, as it were.
ETA: They only changed this a couple months ago, so you’re not too far out of the loop.
They took out weapon skill levels; now you’re automatically max level with all the weapons you can use.
ETA: shakes fist at jayjay
Oh, right, I forgot to give an update. So I send the Pristine Hide to my bank mule, who checks the AH to see what they’re going for. Apparently some entrepeneur has cornered the market: there were only 8 or 10 available at all, and he had them all priced at 899g. Brilliant for me! I put mine up at 875g – hoping that someone will want to save 25g, or that Mr. Monopoly will buy mine and try to re-sell it.
I could have put it up at 898, but I wanted Mr. Monopoly to be outraged enough at my undercutting to buy it himself.
WoW is the only 3d game I have on there atm, although there maybe older 3d games that I have removed since they are not being played by anyone.
The 9800 video card is an upgrade that I purchased within the last 4 months which was an upgrade from the glitchy 8800 card that originally came with the Dell 720XPS.
I did reinstalled WoW from scratch this last weekend…did not solve anything.
Run another 3D program like an nvidia benchmark. You need to do something to stress your GPU to see if that’s the issue. All 9800s are defective, just like all 8800s.
Ah, I see what you mean now. I’d forgotten about the fact that there used to be weapon skills to worry about (my toons that care about that sort of thing had been maxed so long I no longer had to consider it, and by the time I had a new one, they’d gotten rid of it). So yeah, as **Jayjay **and **Tom Scud **pointed out, you would have had an issue with that before but no longer. So just use whatever weapon you can get with the best stats and closest to your level.