Despite knowing just how much work it took to revamp Azeroth and add 80-85 zones, I can’t help but be a little annoyed that they couldn’t update the Outland and Northrend stuff, even if it was just some tweaks here and there. But that’s an old grumble, so.
I know what y’all are saying, and Blizz’s reasoning, but why are you questioning a Worgie riding a normal horse (even a werehorse would be preferable to running on all fours)? Remember the ride to the crashed stagecoach? From Goldshire to Eastvale?
(Rhetorical questions, y’all, okay? :))
My Clawdie looked damn sexy on her horse, and that’s why I was so disappointed and horrified when I saw her scrabbling on all fours.
Worgen or not, she’s a lady, godammit, and this is just WRONG!
Okay, end of rant, but I do have a question about one of Clawdie’s quests: She’s supposed to recover a keg of beer, but the guys she’s fighting will sometimes knock her sideways, and I don’t always turn her back correctly quick enough to keep from getting her killed.
How can I recover her from this spell?
Thanks
Q
Can y’all tell me what to do here?: http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/wolkiewhat.jpg
Everything’s shimmering like I need to activate that cannon in some way for dah nun’t dah nun’t, but I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.
Thanks!
Q
Blackwing’s Bane! Whee! Sorry, had to share. Felt awesome to get him down.
You should have a harpoon in your bags, right click that when you are close to the gun.
Grats!
Really puts my tale of woe from last night to shame but oh well. Vortex Pinnacle first boss, everyone knew what to do and as far as I could see while tanking followed the strategy but I knew something was wrong when he pulled in the cyclones for the third time, this is taking way too long. Check DPS on Skada (not something I usually bother with other than for threat on my pally) and our three dps were doing roughly 7k, 6k and 5k. I was doing over 5k as the tank. My warlock, who is wearing quest blues and greens, hits 7k in normals FFS! Healer dropped and, with an apology, I had to go too.
This game is very annoying for me at the moment, I have a tank geared and ready for heroics but no one to run them with. My forum post about a new guild got one reply so I’m going to follow that up today and see what happens.
I’ve noticed quite a few people that are geared for heroics playing normals. I’m not exactly complaining about having the extra DPS, but I’m wondering if they’re having the same problem as you.
In my own case, I play normals when I’m in a mood where I can take the moderate stress of a normal PUG but not that of a Heroic. I’m also tanking normals with the already-heroic-geared Minitank, but only with guildies: I’m only just easing back into tanking, so it doesn’t seem polite to inflict my “ohshit now where is THAT button/shortcut oh there”… “min, reorganizing stuff”… “long detailed explanation on the next fight”… on someone who doesn’t know he’s up for it.
Which reminds me, I have to rescue my “here’s what the symbols mean” macro.
I took my level 20/21/22 (I dinged 2 times) worgen hunter into WC and SFK last night with my friend on his worgen mage, and easily topped DPS despite still figuring out how to juggle my pet with my own abilities. More than once I’d be firing away at the mobs and then realize my cat was sitting next to me :smack:. I also need to get a threat meter, since the SFK run was with a first time tank and I pulled aggro off him a couple of times.
This is at least my third attempt to level a pure dps toon, hopefully I’ll be able to stick with it!
Al’Akir down! And my god, I really hate the fucking RNG on that fight. Fuck all the Fake Difficulty in this expansion, Blizzard.
Spent the rest of the night on Cho’gall again. We’re making progress and getting to ph2, but I’m sure that we could have had this down already if the DPS would step their game up. Right now our strategies all feel to me like, “Sleutel, please compensate for the fact that our DPS can’t get their shit together.” I’ve been through that before, and if I have to do it again, it’s going to burn me out fast.
Because that’s how Blizzard wants the race to be. They didn’t prevent you from getting every other mount that another Alliance player has access to: you just don’t get your own racial mount right away at level 20 unless you grind the rep with another faction.
It’s an aesthetic choice, Quasi, and one that not everyone agrees with you about. The whole point of Worgen is that they are part animal. It’s a controlled part, but it’s still there, and it’s where they draw a lot of their strength. (Note that unless you’re in a Druid shapeshift form, you will always go to your Worgen form instead of your Human one when you enter combat.)
You have the same riding abilities as any other race. You can ride any mount that you can buy. You even have a benefit over everyone else, since you don’t have to buy your first level of riding training, and you don’t have to buy any ground mounts at all if you don’t want to.
Blizzard doesn’t care if you don’t like Running Wild, because nothing is forcing you to use it. If you want to ride a mount instead of running, all you have to do is buy one.
When in doubt, if there’s something shining and you can’t click it, check to see if the quest has an associated item. Usually the item will show up in your quest tracker so you can click it there, on your screen–otherwise, right-click it in your bags.
Congrats!
That’s on the low side, sure, but it should be enough to get you through a Heroic. If you weren’t able to get past the boss, the problem was something else–people taking too much damage because they weren’t running out of the shield, the healer being undergeared or inefficient, etc.
That’s a good point. Quasi, you’ve written a story for your character which is at odds with established lore, as supported by game mechanics: Clawdie is, first and foremost, a beast, not a human. All worgen are always just one involuntary moment away from reverting to true form. Hence, worgen always fight in were form, even if purely non-physical fighters (like casters), where beast-like attributes of agility and strength are useless.
The “worgen don’t get normal human mounts” thing is a little more arbitrary, in terms of lore, but not entirely. When a wolf begins to hunt, it doesn’t look for its horse. It gets up and starts running, like any good cursorial hunter does. Pursuit is immediate and instinctive, and a worgen’s best tools for this job are the natural ones.
It’s a pain, but I’d recommend grinding some Stormwind rep to buy the horse of your choice, and then it becomes a non-problem.
FWIW, this whole “I’m not a monster, I am a man” thing is why I deleted my worgen as soon as I finished the initial quest chain. Saw it, did it, decided I didn’t want to proceed like it.
I’m so used to playing monsters on all my Horde toons, that when my worgen got put in a dungeon last night I was all “WTF IS A DRANEI DOING IN HERE WITH US?!”
Well, it might–but not to ride. Horses can be tasty! 
I’m still not over that on my main. I’ll log in and think, “What the fuck am I doing in Orgrimmar?!”
Did I miss something? You faction-changed over to the Awesome side?
You think that’s possible then?? I’m reading that 7k is the minimum required and that’s considered low, this was a PuG remember the coordination was Ok but not great.
Cap and I moved to Horde-side Area 52 to join some old friends of ours from back in Fury of War on Borean Tundra (although we were all Alliance then). This was, oh, early January.
I still view every day that I log onto Sleutel as a Blood Elf as an exile. 
I’d heard the magic number was 5k, which was as equivalently and depressingly low as Wrath Heroics’ 1.5k requirement, but, like that number, would get you through if all the DPS were hitting it. (It just wouldn’t get you through quickly or smoothly). Could be wrong, though.
You totally should have gone goblin.
I’ve seriously considered it (Blue Mohawk!). But the Belf racials are okay for tanking and it gives me a bit of a lore link back to Night Elf.
So she was wolf even while she was human and then got bitten and now she’s a wolf all the time, right?
Not to mention that wolves and horses are natural enemies, so why let her ride a horse to begin with?