I miss the rush ability on my Paladin. I have also since rolled a Warlock named Braverkerl. It is a German name and is actually 2 words: the first ends at the second “r”, and that “a” has the long “ah” sound. The rest of it is a slang term like our word “guy” for a guy.
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Okay! Everybody who’s getting frustrated by Archaeology, here’s the breakdown of the addons I use.
Archy for compact Arch windows (current fragments and active digsites), a waypoint arrow to the nearest digsite if you have TomTom, double-rightclick Survey casting, alerts when a piece your working on can be solved, etc.
TomTom to integrate with Archy for the waypoint arrow
Archaeology Helper to generate a HUD based on surveys
Gathermate2 to integrate with ArchH for Arch nodes on its HUD
In Transit Screenshot: You can see here the waypoint arrow to the nearest dig site from Archy. You can also see the two Archy windows in the lower-right of my screen; these are the collapsed versions, with slightly more info available if you expand them (e.g., the exact distance to each dig site).
Surveying Screenshot: Here’s the ArchH HUD enabled. I purposely did a couple of surveys standing away from known artifact nodes (yellow circles on the HUD). It’s a bit hard to see because of the coloring in Felwood, but I recorded one red survey and one yellow one. (I’ve turned up the alpha on the overlays since taking this screenshot, so they’re much easier to see now.) After completing a survey, you rotate in the direction the thing is pointing and click red, yellow, or green, which creates the appropriate overlay. Overlapping overlays give you the location you should survey next. Upon finding an artifact, all of your current overlays are cleared from the HUD, and you can manually hide all overlays of any color at any time. The HUD itself can also be enabled or disabled easily.
It might seem a little bit silly to download four addons for one secondary profession, but I cannot tell you *how much easier *they make your life.
Are we using the term “dig site” the same way? When I say “dig site”, I’m referring to the whole area outlined in orange on my zone map, and I don’t need an addon to help me find those 
My frustration with archaeology is the sometimes extremely roundabout and indirect way the existing tool directs me from Point A (my starting location within a dig site) to Point B (the spot where the fragment is located within the dig site), and the descriptions of these addons don’t seem to address that, unless they’re using the terminology in a different way than I am. In other words, to me, “dig site” =/= “fragment location”.
No portal to Mount Hyjal yet?
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As I’ve probably said a bajillion times in this thread, I came into the game with Wrath, and after every raider and their mom had done their 25-man LK raid. I was going to meet up with friends just starting Wrath, so I rushed through Outlands and didn’t absorb anything from it.
I felt bored today doing quests in Twilight Highlands, and MisterRik (I think it was you?) talked about soloing Magisters Terrace easily, so I decided to give it a shot. Meh, if I died at the start, I know I’m not ready.
Kael’thas Sunstrider went down faster than an Uldum camel~! 
I’m going to do this every day until I get one of the rare drops because it takes like 15 minutes.
I think I’ll take a detour for a few days and solo the Outlands dungeons now.
Nope, not me. I’ve never even seen the inside of MT 
Well, I got on my night elf hunter on Argent Dawn, submitted a ticket to a GM, and got myself promoted to Guild Leader of <Knights of Justice> (and also had a good time talking to the GM — he asked if there was anything else he could do while I had him there, and so I asked if he could do anything about the Azure Drake that keeps flying through the top room of Wyrmrest Temple and making an awful racket, cuz I didn’t think it was supposed to be doing that.)
Anyway, this RP guild is supposed to be based on King Arthur and all that, so the GL’s title was “King”. I went ahead and changed that to “Steward”, on the basis that I’m (theoretically, anyway) just keeping the throne warm until the King returns from his “pilgrimage”. I considered posting a guild message stating my intent and asking if there were any objections, but I looked at the roster and saw that, aside from myself and one other guy (who was at the lowest rank), nobody else in the guild had logged in during the last month, so I just went ahead and did it. And I promoted that one other guy
Finally found those “Blazebound Spirits”. Liked to took me forever, and then it was just by accident, because the game calls them elementals. Well, I knew they were elementals, but i was looking for “spirits”, dammit.
Also was glad to have my bladestorm to kill all them little friggers once I got the big ones down. Also weakened that Baron guy and I’m glad the game kept the “score” (1-20), because I died twice doing that one.
But damn! Only one per centage point per quest completed???
I know we’re just capped at 85, but I mean damn! At this rate it’ll take me till the next expansion to get there!
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The Rock Lover achievement for completing the Lost in the Deeps daily quest in Deepholm 10 times will reward you with Pebble.
How can we stop idiots posting single items on the AH?
Wish I knew, you’d think that “nobody buying wool cloth in singles” would work. Apparently not. There’s things for which posting singles when you have several makes sense - but linen, wool, silk, copper or tin are definitely not among them.
It’s the only market where buying in bulk adds a premium which is dumb. Sure there are some goods where smaller than 20 stacks make sense but do I really need to browse past 2 pages of single Silverleaf auctions? No.
. Ah, nice. I was about to stop doing those dailies because I’m only about 1000 rep points short of revered, but maybe I’ll just check in occasionally to see if that one is offered until I’ve done it 10 times.
Downloading Runes of Magic to sub for WoW on Tuesdays.
Hey! It’s from Germany!
Anyone ever played it? It’s a free game.
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That’s what’s sooooo nice about Arch Helper. When you get a survey result, the actual fragment can be anywhere *in an arc *to the right of the left of where the tool indicates. The potential arc for a red result is absolutely huge. That’s why you end up zig-zagging so much. When you use the Arch Helper HUD, you can clearly see the overlapping results from every survey you make, and you can also ensure that you’re also generally digging in spots where there are known fragments.
We are, but you missed that I didn’t talk about “dig sites” with Arch Helper, instead talking about nodes. The TomTom arrow is for pointing you to the nearest dig site; the Arch Helper HUD is for narrowing down the location of a fragment within a particular dig site.
That’s exactly what Arch Helper does. It allows you to map your Survey results onto a HUD that shows you the exact boundaries of where the active fragment in your current digsite is located. The “zig-zagging” happens because a survey result has up to X degrees of latitute to either side of the actual location of the item. The HUD shows the entire swath where the fragment could be. That way, you can pick a new point inside the zone, Survey again, add the new results to the HUD, pick a new point inside the overlapping zones, etc. It goes very, very quickly.
You should have one. Hopefully you found it! It’s in that same portal hub. It’s the one that’s signified by the tree branch.
Stop buying them. And that will never happen. Give your thanks to every AH gold-making guide on the planet, which tells everybody to list everything in single stacks.
This is where I find Auctionator to be very helpful. The Buy tab is excellent when you know exactly what you’re looking for: it sorts everything from cheapest to most expensive, regardless of stack size, and collapses identical listings. Then, when you select a particular price, you can rapidly buy multiple stacks listed in the same fashion by spam-clicking the buy confirmation button.
SFG,
Thanks, I’ll be sure to look for the portal next time. On that little island behind the Dwarven District, correct?
And I have to admit that I’m guilty of auctioning one mutton chop :o! 
I got O.Z., (overzealous) I guess and stuck that damn thing in there along with a sword and some pants because it only gave 58 health and I was already up to needing 234.
I do see the point, however!
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PS: I DID want to add that when I see cheap stuff I can auction, more often than not, I set the price BELOW what auctioneer recommends and set BUYOUT at that same price. I figure maybe that’s helping some new player out.
You got it! All of the portals will open up there as you get them.
We’re not complaining about people who only have one of an item and auction it. We’re complaining about people who have twenty, fifty, a hundred of an item, but auction all of it as singles, so you get pages and pages of it like that. It’s fine to auction it by itself if you only *have *one!
Okay, gotcha.
And the people on the official forums who argue in favor of the tactic all repeat the same reasoning: “It sells faster in singles!”, which leaves me wondering, just how broke are you that you absolutely must get that gold right this minute? Hell, my characters are far from “rich”, but I’m perfectly content to post my auctions today and collect the proceeds from my mailbox tomorrow. Seriously, if I have 20k I can literally do anything I need to do that requires gold. There’s no urgent need to get more “faster” by having it dribble in 2g at a time instead of waiting a bit longer and getting 40g in one chunk.
I think I’ve found something more annoying than people who AFK on their large mounts on top of NPCs: people who AFK while hovering on their flying mount a short distance away from/above the NPC so that the wings are constantly flapping up and down in the area surrounding the NPC. It reeks of “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you”, i.e. seeing how close they can get to the line/rule without crossing it.
4.0.6 drops today! According to the patch notes Marksmanship Hunters got quite an upgrade. Survival Hunters took quite a hit.
Worgen can also be properly groomed at the Barbers now.
So I think I’m missing the point somewhere with Gatherer and GatherMate2. It doesn’t help me to be shown every single mining node, what I need is to know which nodes are spawned at the moment. The GUI already does this for me. Is it something better used in old zones now? I can see it being more useful in Outlands, since the competition for gathering professions isn’t nearly as bad.
Presumably the idea is not to get your gold as fast as possible, but to have your auctions sell out before someone else comes by and undercuts you. Selling 18 out of 20 singles is better than not selling a single 20-stack.
Yeah, you’re missing the point. There will never be a way to tell which nodes are spawned other than getting in range of them. The point of a node tracking addon like Gathermate or Gatherer is that they show you where to look, so that you can plan a farming route to check spawns. They also let you know what spawns where, so that if you’re looking for a particular herb or ore, you can go after it directly. I don’t know about Gathermate, but Gatherer also has an optional HUD that can display a trail of where you’ve been so you don’t double past something you’ve already checked.
The single unit stack is the best thing to happen to the WoW economy since buying gold. Being able to purchase in single units reduces overall prices, because sellers with quantities smaller than a full stack are able to enter the marketplace and drive prices down and people who’re above subsistence-level farming benefit from not only the lowered prices, but also the lowered overhead involved in making more profitable items. For example, if you’re trying to pull in 100g/unit from Pet Bomblings, you only need 6 mithril bars. If groups of 20 are the only thing posted, it’s impossible to avoid waste unless you’re willing to invest into five pets, which is a pretty risky investment given how quickly prices can fluctuate. With single unit stacks, you can either just directly purchase the 6 bars or purchase a larger group if it’s the best price and resell the singles. It was great when Blizzard made it super easy to post single groups. Now they just need to add a way to make buying them less painful.
:smack: I KNEW I forgot to do something before I went to work this morning. I was planning on letting the patch download while I was at work. Too bad I forgot to even leave the computer on, let alone actually having opened the Launcher.
