Yup, use it on a daily basis. The transmutation mastery proc, sadly, doesn’t follow the same rules as the main ability.
I’ve gotten used to it, but I wish they’d drawn his mouth different. He looks like a mutt, and it made me wonder if any other players have complained about their warriors/other toons, and would Blizz listen if enough complaints came through?
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You’re not the only one, Quasi. Human males always look like they’ve got a harelip. The only real way to fix it is to grow him a mustache.
Yeah, jayjay. If you don’t like beards you’re SOL unless you wanna be a girl, elf or an Orc. 
Oh, well. He’s got Heather at the Sentinel Hill Inn to whom it doesn’t matter what he looks like! 
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I’ve always thought the human males looked like…hairless lions. 
Always hated it.
On the Hunter front, I tend to name most of my pets Tao.
It stems from coming to WoW from DAoC. My server had an active VN board, and I um…posted a LOT. We had fun in and out of game on the Percival server, and my name, Taolynn, was just kind of known. I was a goof. 
When WoW started up, I didn’t want people to go ‘Hey look, a name!’ and start chatting (I’m not THAT social) so I took the name Lin…and my pet’s nameplates look like Tao<Lin’s Pet>.
So…if anyone knew me from Percival and actually SAW me in game <instead of a random /who> then they would ‘get it’ and I’d get a tell and that’s cool. But I was spared random “Hey what’s up?!” from folk I wasn’t already organically gaming with.
The problem with the wowhead percentages is the addon is unable to catalog corpses that drop nothing. Since empty corpses happen quite often for elementals, this makes their drop charts particularly unreliable.
Well, I got around to creating a goblin mage on Cairne named Azlokk. He got his invite into BDL this morning. Sadly, just after that my internet connection started dropping repeatedly. Two calls to Charter Communications later and a tech finally confessed that there was work being done and that they were bouncing stuff. Thanks guys.
Anyway, my mage is still on a n00b island. The goblin starting zones are pretty fun though, although I doubt I would want to do the quests too many times. The mage seems pretty squishy right now if I let anything get too close to him. If anyone has any current guides that are good, I would give it a read.
I’ve made two goblins so far, since Cata came out. I keep thinking “maybe I’ll do another one” but having to go through the whole starting thing again keeps me from trying. There are some high points (the aerial dogfight is awesome) but it’s like being put onto a train and not being able to get off until they say you can.
Same way with the worgen starting area (even though it is, in general, about 10x more fun than the ostensibly more light-hearted goblin zones)…being railroaded through the phased zones feels like work after the first time or two.
Yeah, there’s definitely an “on rails” feeling to it.
So, once they spit this toon out to Org or where ever, is it still considered kosher to withdraw from the guild bank to get tabarded up? Got to have priorities! 
I’m actually not even on Cairne, let alone the BDL, so someone who is is going to have to answer that. 
BTW, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, there’s a funny “flight attendants from Hell” routine done by (goblins) Assistant Greely and Hobart Grapplehammer when Horde PCs are waiting for their first zeppelin ride out to Twilight Highlands. Link to the text for anyone who’s Alliance or who won’t be 84ish for a long time.
They’re actually saying all this LIVE?
That’s the longest live voice dialogue I will have ever heard once my Elf gets to that point!
Love the part about the cyanide capsule, although the whole thing was hilarious as hell!
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It’s a fairly long wait between being told to go wait for that zep and actually having the zep show up. Probably close to 10 minutes, at least. That dialogue helps pass the time. 
ETA: I just realized that I don’t remember if that’s an actual voice dialogue or just text dialogue (the word balloons). I THINK it’s just text dialogue, not voice.
jayjay, regarding dialogue, I’ve often wished it were vocal as well as written, but that would be a hell of a logistical nightmare, wouldn’t it?
Also regarding auctions: I don’t know if this is a bug or just something new.
Say I choose an item and wanna buy it out. For some reason, depending on whether it’s on the top or the bottom of the list, that item will jump up or down a line when I click it. This is kinda confusing. (To me anyway). I was used to the old way - where the item just stayed there and you finished your transaction.
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Re; voice or text. When I went to FH’s link, the first comment was from someone indicating they heard it.
I’m pretty sure it’s all text - except for the loudspeaker, which does make a blaring sound only - and that the voices are only in my head. What you miss from the text is the animations done by the goblins, including Greely hopping onto the gun turret that appears and firing shots into the town in the harbor.
That sort of goblin attitude is why I’ve long referred to the goblin specialty of Engineering as the “shit that goes boom” division.
Wheee! My draenei mage, Svelexi, Stood In The Fire!
She was in Tanaris, taking the taxi from Gadgetzan to the south, looking for the next elder, when I heard a roar and everything went red. As soon as the taxi landed, I mounted my flying mount and went looking for Deathwing. Found him! 
There are several conversations in WotLK dungeons where they tried to set something like that - and the script itself is good, but the execution is just horrid. The two worst offenders are Brann trying to hack into a Titans computer (in theory, he keeps being interrupted by the machine; in actual execution, there are clear pauses between the point where he ends speaking mid-sentence and the machine’s voice saying something) and Artie Slowpoke being surprised at some infiltrated dragonmen… which at that point have not transformed into dragonform yet, they still look human.
I guess they figured out it was easier to just make the movies; plus, having it all on voiceovers would require dubbing, whereas having it as written dialogue doesn’t - it’s cheaper. And you can code the language bubbles to be flex-size (so they fit around whatever the text is when written in Spanish or Korean), you can’t flex-time spoken dialogue.
Speaking of hacking, gotta love that quest in Uldum, shortly before the gnomecalypse one, where you hack into a mainframe. With an axe, of course!
We’re supposed to start raiding any day now… I’m scared… Mommy!
Depending on your rank, I think there’s a 1g/5g daily withdrawal limit. I don’t think anyone in the BDL will begrudge you a few gold for tabards, especially if you don’t have a higher level toon to support yourself with. I haven’t checked our guild balance in a while but I’d imagine we’re pretty flush right now.