I’m stuck at 194…is there an addon to find what I am missing?
Heh…right there with Kushiel…I use mouse clicks on bar icons for spells, and my left hand on the aswd for movement. I iz oldskool.
Obviously, that’s where etiquette ends, and taking care of your wifey’s needs begins.
Maybe he’s afraid of being scammed by the “Bonus” farmers…
I use Ackis Recipe List. Very thorough, good interface, good filters.
TANSTAAFL. Not all stats are created equal. Most specs weight certain stats strongly above others. If the socket is a different color from the gem that carries your primary stat, even using a hybrid gem of your primary stat and another useful one of the socket color can be a DPS loss versus socketing a pure gem of your primary color.
Example using completely made-up numbers:
Your best stat is Strength, worth 1.0. Your second-best stat is Crit, worth 0.5. Haste is worth 0.3.
You have a yellow socket that will give a bonus of +10 Haste.
Red 40 Str gem = 40 Str * 1.0 = 40
Orange 20 Str/20 Crit gem = 20 Str * 1.0 + 20 Crit * 0.5 + 10 Haste * 0.3 = 20 + 10 + 3 = 33
Unless the socket bonus is very good, gemming for it will often lower your performance (DPS, HPS, TTL).
I second Headrush042’s recommendation of Ackis. It’s essential for any obsessive recipe collector.
FYI, my 200 recipes includes ones that are no longer obtainable. For at least a while, the achievement was bugged so that you *couldn’t *get it if you didn’t have some recipes that were removed with Cata, but I think that’s been fixed now.
Also, my OCD > stat optimization. I’ll match socket colors for a dps loss each and every time simply because I’m fucking neurotic. 
And ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. Hell, you could be a Warrior putting Spell Penetration gems in every single socket for all I care. The only time optimization comes into play is when (a) your goal is to min/max or (b) you’re underperforming for the role you’re playing in a group of other people. As long as you’re soloing, or performing up to the minimum required levels for whatever groups you’re in, you can do as you please.
As I try to pull myself back into raiding shape, I concur with reason (b) heartily. If I’m in a raid, I have to do my share of the DPS, because there are enough DPS checks in raid encounters that 1 player underperforming may be the difference between chain wipes and sweet sweet progression. I don’t wanna be “that guy”.
I did get to guest in on a guild Baradin Hold run and managed to (A) slot in at #5 in a 10-man (and me with weaksauce gear) and (B) not stand in too much fel fire. The Fel Firestorm phases on the guy makes me really glad for Aspect of the Fox. I like being able to keep plinking while the baddy is spewing green fire all over.
On that run, only pally tanky bits dropped, and the only pally in the run is dps/holy, so meh. It was a fun little interlude, tho.
I don’t know if my copy of Ackis is glitched or what, but last time I checked it was still showing only 198 recipes available (Alliance-side). I don’t think my copy is out of date, since I fire up Curse every day before I launch WoW to catch any updates.
And I’m trying to figure out why TidyPlates has a new version every frackin’ day.
Whew! What a night! B. leather is up to 15.71 and 19.64 for buyout, so we went harvesting tonight and right now I have 10 stacks of 20 in the AH. They DO get bought, because I always check who’s selling for what and undercut just a bit.
A stack of 14 spider silk is also on the block but I’m saving my arctic fur in the bank till I get at least a stack of 10. (right now I have 4).
Good strategy or not?
Picked up a blue drop tonight and it was plans for an orb and required enchanting (forgot what level), and auctioneer told me to vendor it, so I did. Picked up some green drops and vendored all of them.
I’m still not sure I understand the mechanics of all that. I was under the impression blue drops were high value items and one should auction them if one cannot use the item?
I went ahead and gave the alts their allowance, since it was after midnight, and I’m still just a little over 4K to the good.
I checked and artisan flying is 4k, so I’m gonna wait. i thought it dropped to 3 k when you got exalted, but i guess I was wrong.
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What’s after “exalted” anyway?
“People get giddy and prostrate themselves before you as you ride by”?
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have you ever watched someone making something (say bandages, for instance)? They look like they’re wringing their hands and farting at the same time.
I watched someone called Holyheretic doing that for what seemed like forever and then she finally slumped to the ground and the AWAY sign came on over her head.
A bunch of us had gathered around her, there in the Dwarven District, watching, and I commented “Lord, that makes me tired just watching her!”
It got a few lols.
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Oh and ps: I’m still waiting on a salute from some of the lower ranking players, but have yet to get one at level 82. I guess i shouldn’t be surprised - even though I saluted and waved my ass off when I was a lower rank.
Maybe it’s my gear.
Yeah, THAT must be it! THAT’S the ticket! 
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If you’re not on an RP server, the only time you’re likely to get a salute is if you just hauled someone’s digital ass out a honkin’ big fire. Saluting someone higher level than you just isn’t a part of most servers’ culture.
This is probably a dumb question but… TidyPlates/ThreatPlates is for nameplates, right? I mean, it doesn’t do anything on the player frames, only on the nameplates?
One of our RL was putting it as pretty much required, but I don’t like having nameplates on (too-busy screen) and rarely have overthreat problems, so I’m not really sure it’s good for me.
Yep nameplates only and I would recommend you give it a try, it’s small and damned useful for all classes. I have been using the combo points widget on my rogue and seeing them right their on the nameplate is fantastic.
Some blue drops are actually quite common for various reasons but I do find it odd that a blue recipe would be vendor trash as there are always complete-ists out there going for every recipe.
I tried loading “Auctionator” a few nights ago - to replace Auctioneeer - but I think my computer was on the rag that night, so I’m going to try again today.
SFG says that might be a better option for me and the things I need to know, so I’d like to try that.
One pet peeve I have here lately is these little boxes opening up in the midst of combat.
These things have to do with my quests, and I don’t mean that super-imposed quest list. It’s another, smaller, box that lists them and I have NO idea how I enabled it. It must be my beefy fingers which keep hitting the (in) correct key to make that happen.
I wish I could have a whole screen with nothing on it but my toons and their questing, and if I needed any quest info, I could hit a key and look at it and not have it floating on the screen. Same thing with the chat window. SFG has helped me fix that several times, but as I said, I must be doing some stupid shit to bring it back up.
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Well that just sucks a gasoline-soaked rag down the gullet and out the dung-hole, don’t it, jay? 
That’s always been one of my favorite ways of mini-interacting with other players and “inviting” them to chat with me (“Your gear is for shit”)
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Auctionator is all you need I agree, it’s all I use these days and I play the AH quite a bit. Do you have a screenshot of the boxes? Does it say anything?
As martu said, I would’ve thought that blue orb recipe would’ve sold quite well. I can think of 2 things:
1 - and unlikely - that recipe’s been seen on the AH, on average, for less than it’s worth to a vendor (again, highly unlikely, and Auctioneer would give you the averages on the tooltip)
2 - most likely - Auctioneer’s never seen it on the AH at all and therefore couldn’t offer up any values (in this case, you wouldn’t get any data on the tooltip other than the vendor value)
Anyway, the next time Auctioneer tells you to vendor a blue recipe, check on the AH to see if there are any listed and then check wowhead to see what the average across servers is.
I often vendor blues before endgame, because I’m focused on speed. I find that I frequently make more money by doing things fast than doing them slow. If I can dump the AH chase and simply go money-hunting or something now, it’s better for my wallet.
