Maybe it’s *Michael *Palin. 
Woohoo! I knew you could do it.
Grats on the achievements… and **big congratulations **on the wedding! How did I miss that you were getting married? Had you not mentioned it yet or am I just being oblivious?
Grats on both counts! But consider your WoW play time to be permanently cut from here on out…till death do you part.
Two alternative options: (a) marry someone who also enjoys playing WoW or (b) marry someone who has her own personal interests that she enjoys persuing separate from you. 
I can vouch for A) being a great solution.
Also, don’t forget the other condition: having kids will also cut into your WoW time. Since my daughter dropped a week before Cata did, I went from being a frontline WoLK raider to still being at ilvl 334. 
My solution: my wife is caregiver for her disabled sister which takes her out of the house three nights/week. If you don’t already have a disabled relative, it’s probably not an option you want to pursue.
Until they’re old enough to control a mouse, at which point they become gold farming and rep grinding machines.
I can’t stop laughing.
She’s gettin’ a great guy, and you can tell her I said that!
Quasi
Re: Clawdie and where she goes from here.
She’s in Lor’ Daneal (sp) right now, as I wrote. Will the next quest locations be the same ones the elves and warriors do or are there some specifically designed for Worgen?
If the same ones, I pretty much have it uh, dicked, don’t I - since I’ve taken a bunch of my toons through there already, so I’ll be able to level her pretty quickly, right?
Oh, yeah. I’m getting guild invites (or she is).
I don’t know, man. It will be a nice source of gear and g’s, I reckon, but I hate to be a non-contributing player in case of a dungeon, bg, etc. Also, my mood swings are a problem and I don’t want to piss anyone off (or get pissed off myself).
I mentioned this because since creating Clawdie, I have accepted one or two invites to group, followed by a guild invite, and I’ve always just said that I’m really no good at anything but DPS. (Also, with her being a Druid), I still am unsure of how the healing thing works…
Thanks
Q
Well … they’ve changed almost all of the quests, so “no”. So they’re not the same quests you did with Wolkenlaufre.
And to tell you the truth, if I were you I’d just skip Darkshore, take the boat to Stormwind, and hoof it over to Westfall. Darkshore has always been a horrible, horrible place, and it’s even worse now since the Cataclysm. I think you’ve already discovered the challenges of just getting around there. Some of the quests that send you into Auberdine are downright confusing.
Westfall, OTOH, is pretty straightforward.
Yeah, I have Tanus in Darkshore right now (level 14), and I hated having to swim there and at least one of those quests (the wreckers) are tough to do because of the bad guys clustered in 3’s which stand next to them.
So do the quest chain in L’or and then to Westfall? I was thinking that too, but wondered if it would benefit Clawdia in terms of XP?
Thanks
Q
I don’t think there is any benefit outside of doing something different and maybe the fact that both Westfall and Redridge Mountains are very linear in their quest progression. They’re also brilliantly done with a story arc that continues as you quest in the zone with a grand finale to look forward to.
Just go to SW as soon as you can and pick up the quest from the Heroes Board.
My friend and I are playing worgens (mage and hunter) and after finishing the starting areas we went to Darkshore. I didn’t think the quests were bad, although not as epic as what I remember of the Westfall-Redridge progression (which I did years ago). Not many quests are going to be too challenging for a mage and hunter together though. We did do a couple of dungeons and thus hit level 20 before we had come close to finishing the Darkshore quests - now they’re all gray, so we’re on our way to Ashenvale per the Heroes Board.
Oh, here’s a hunter question: I tamed a cat in Darkshore (a Moonwalker) and the stealth looks cool, but when we joind a pug in WC I wanted to turn off the stealth because kitty was taking too long to creep up to the mob and stealth was unnecessary. But once I zoned in, I didn’t see the Stealth icon in the pet abilities bar anymore. How can I turn it off?
Skammer, I would REALLY suggest you do the Westfall and Redridge quests again, even if you do them on a higher-level toon. Like the Silverpine quests for Horde, the zones have been almost completely revamped, and the Westfall quests, in particular, build up a far more interesting story than the old Westfall.
Someday when I level another Alliance toon, I will. I don’t know when that will be though.
Kind of depressing when a DPS weapon is an upgrade for your tanking one. Oh well–at least I could reforge the Haste to Mastery. And it puts me halfway to being able to play around with Single-Minded Fury, too.
Frustrating night of wipes on Cho’Gall yesterday. We had a strat that was working really well for us on Tuesday; the only problem was that the DPS was behind where it needed to be. So last night, we were trying all sorts of other weird things, which got progressively more frustrating as a couple of us were being asked to do more and more convoluted things… That all could have been completely avoided of the DPS would have just been able to push higher numbers with the previous strategy.
Anybody who’s just randomly inviting strangers to their guild is going to have approximately zero standards. IMO, you’ll probably already be a cut above some of the members by being an adult who likes helping out when he can and isn’t just there to steal as much as he’s able from the guild bank.
Prior to Cataclysm, there weren’t many concrete benefits to joining a guild that couldn’t just as easily be gained by having a network of friends on the server. But now, guilds actually provide benefits to their members based on their guild level and the achievements they’ve unlocked. I would recommend advertising that you’re looking for a social/leveling guild of level 8 or higher. (IIRC, level 8 is where you unlock Hasty Hearth–it changes the cooldown on your hearthstone from 30 minutes to just 15.)
I did this on my Worgen, because there’s literally nobody I know Alliance-side on Area 52. Literally all I’d typed was “/2 Looking for a social/leveling guild of at least Level 8 (for Hasty Hearth). PST!” Immediately, someone responded with the ad for their guild, which matched perfectly (and was level 16, for even more bonuses). I jumped right in. I was a little bit nervous about what I’d find coming into a guild with open invites (although I figured I could just ignore gchat if it came to it), but they seem like a really great group of people so far. In fact, they quite remind me of my very first guild.
IMO, don’t even bother with anything where you are now. Just head straight to Stormwind. Go through the pink portal behind the bank in the middle of Darnassus (the one that’s a tree that looks like a bear), and you’ll be in Rut’theran village at the foot of Teldrassil. Keep going more or less straight, and that will be the dock for the boat to Stormwind. You can tell if you’ve got the right dock because of the boat design: if it looks like a Night Elf or Draenei boat, you’re at the wrong one. If it looks like a Human boat, you’re set!
Once you’re in Stormwind, you can check the board to see what zones it wants to send you to. Personally, because of all the extra XP I was getting from Heirlooms, Herbalism, and Mining, my Worgen got the Redridge lead-in right away. (However, I went to Westfall anyway, because I wanted to see the new quest chain.)
Hit “P” to bring up your own spellbook. If you have an active pet, you’ll see a tab for it. Click it, and you’ll see all of that particular pet’s abilities, just like your own. From there, you can drag them onto the pet bar, or you can just turn their autocast on or off. (If you didn’t know yet, autocast is shown as a sort of a shimmering/rotating golden border around the icon. Right-clicking the icon will toggle autocast on and off. Note that if your pet has Prowl (stealth) on autocast, you’ll have to right-click to disable autocast *and *left-click to turn off Prowl.)
Try tanking as a Death Knight. Most of the weapons with good tanking secondaries are Bear tank polearms, so you have a buncha mostly useless agility; or else you get a DPS-friendly Strength-based weapon and hope it has hit, expertise, or mastery and not haste or crit.
Frustrating night of wipes on Cho’Gall yesterday. We had a strat that was working really well for us on Tuesday; the only problem was that the DPS was behind where it needed to be. The first phase was taking way too long (we were consistently getting a fifth add before pushing into phase 2, and people’s corruption stacks were too high from the adds being up for too long). So last night, we were trying all sorts of other weird things, which got progressively more frustrating as a couple of us were being asked to do more and more convoluted* things… all of which could have been *completely avoided *if the DPS would have just been able to push higher numbers with the previous strategy.
It’s really just “shades of Anub” for me. This same issue was the reason we never killed Anub in ToGC25. We had a strat that was working perfectly, except the DPS just couldn’t push hard enough. So we kept changing it up more and more, putting heavier and heavier responsibilties on the shoulders of the most competent players in order to compensate for the DPS that just couldn’t pull their own weight. That’s something I’d really never wanted to go through again. 
*I kid you not: by the end of it, it was basically being suggested that not only should we have the two plate DPS taking turns taunting the boss to eat all of the Fury debuffs, and take turns tanking the adds, but that we would each be half-tanking each add, so that one person would pick it up and the next would get it from them so that the first person would have time to run up and get the next stack of Fury. Um, no, sorry, that’s just retarded.
Aha, thanks, that’s what I was looking for. I knew my pet’s abilities had to be somewhere, but the tank was moving so fast I didn’t have time for a thorough search. I still topped dps even with Prowl on, so it didn’t matter a whole lot.
I knew how to turn off autocast (I turned off Growl) but I didn’t know how to do it if the ability wasn’t on the pet bar.
shakes fist at people
The RDF will let me into Heroics, but I ain’t goin’ anywhere near them right now. Due to neverending drops into Tol’Vir, I don’t really know any of the other high level dungeons at all so I’m still doing Normals. But argh, people are jerkfaces. Your level of expectation has to be lower in Normals. You’re going to get people who have only done the dungeon once or twice. You’re going to get people still learning things. If you want a perfect run, join a guild and only hang with your guildies.
Above grumbling brought to you by my second Halls of Origination run ever.
Healer, what are you doing? Why are you running towards that camel? You’re going to aggro it! Eeeeek- oh wait, you’re riding the camel. This is the camel battle I heard about! The first time I was through here no one took a camel.
Is there any advantage to riding the camels in that battle, or is it just cool? I’ve been in groups that have done it both ways.