Ah, ebonsteel buckles, the current flavor. Probably pretty expensive. (Wowhead says around 300g right now.) And again, unless you’re on the final belt you’ll ever own, or are gearing up for raiding, a poor investment.
Molten Core is an old-school raid. “Attunement” used to mean that you had completed a quest chain of some length and complexity in order to be eligible to even enter the raid instance. Nowadays, it’s used in raid contexts to mean you performed a quest chain of minimal length and complexity in order to be eliglbe to use a shortcut teleport directly into the raid instance, instead of wending your painful (and potentially lava-swimming) way to the actual raid entrance.
Your “battlegroup”. A group of WoW realms that function as one large server group for battleground PvP and random instance group participation. (Yes, your fellow players in a random looking-for-group group are probably not even from your server, Alexstrasza.)
Well, jousting was a nice skill to have in late WotLK era. But yeah, it’s a tough skill to learn, and amazingly frustrating until you learn it. (I’m still trying to unteach my 5-year-olds some of the language they learned watching me as I learned how to joust. :smack:)
Any more, it’s as useful as the real thing in 21st Century Western Civilization. Renaissance Faire material and that’s about it. But hella fun, “back in the day”. And strangely egalitarian: your gear, class, and build, and raiding e-peen had nothing to do with it; only your skill with mounted movement and mashing the 4 little in-combat buttons were the only thing that mattered.
Got it from one of the Gundrak raps and auctioneer says vendor, but it carries a 12 gold starting bid - buyout 15. It is a low level (80) item, but I thought someone scribe might want it. Requires inscription 425 and the auction fee is 3 gold, and the vendor is offering 5g.
What say y’all?
Getting drops at my new level is confusing, but rewarding.
Ah, yes, I think I remember you telling me about that before. Like I said before, I can understand the merits of having a healer coordination channel, but that really only works if there’s actually someone who is running that show. I’m still a relatively new member in the guild, so I don’t quite have that clout as of yet, and honestly, I’m a bit burned out on having to coordinate everything after grinding out Heroic Lich King in Wrath. Literally having to call out DPS to use their cooldowns so that they can live from an Infest during every attempt is exhausting, and not something that I’m wanting to take up again. As for blaming tanks for dying, unless it’s some kind of egregious gearing/positioning issue, that’s on healers, and I think the healers I work with understand that enough not to ever fall into that useless debate. We’ll see how things pan out from here. Working on Heroic Cho’gall now, and it’s the first fight in this tier of content that has given us any real pause. We are getting close to P2 regularly now, so I think we have things worked out, but it is a fight that a dedicated healer channel may have been useful on.
I just call them stupid over Mumble. Especially the melee that sit in fires for 7+ seconds and complain about dying. Or the mages that get corrupted (as per the strategy), but complain about not having shields when they have shields, just not Weakened Soul. Those, I just Life Grip into Shadow Crashes. I also enjoy Life Gripping people that just used their Engineering boots to get to the feast faster. In fact, I just really enjoy griefing people with Life Grip. Especially PUGs in Heroics. The boss at the end of Stonecore is perfect for that.
I don’t use auctioneer. When I have something that might be worth listing on the AH, I check to see how many other identical items are listed, and what they’re listed at…if the listings are higher than the vendor price, then I price mine to be the cheapest starting bid and cheapest buyout. If it doesn’t sell (I usually go 48 hours) on the first attempt, then I vendor it.
Hah, most of my theorycrafting in this game now involves innovative ways to grief people in my guild as well.
My favorite has gotta be levitating someone right before the jump on conclave, I’m not sure if they fixed it recently, but before they would just fly off into oblivion and subsequently die a good majority of the time. The best part is once they fly past the point where you get bounced back, they know they’re going to die, so you have a good 10 seconds of rage-filled profanity being thrown at you before you see their character frame gray out.
Auction it. Someone levelling a scribe will snap it up pretty quickly, probably even at 10 times that price. Those books are the only way to learn a large portion of the glyphs, and with fewer people cavorting around northrend these days, the supplies are pretty thin.
First, I’d like to say thanks to everyone. Everytime I get burned out on playing WoW, reading this forum always get me pumped to jump back in. I don’t normally check the SD forums over the weekend. This past weekend I just had to motivation to log in. Maybe a total of a hour or two just to dink around checking mail/AH etc. I thought about not renewing several times, but each time I come back here and hear stories about people playing, it gets me pumped up to log in. So thanks.
Secondly, an add-on question. Is there a way to customize what add-ons load for a specific character? I’m sick of having roguepowerbars load when I log on my pally. I can disable it before logging into the character, but then I have to re-enable it when I log onto my rogue. I just rolled a mage, and didn’t want to download any extras yet for that reason. Some add-ons have character-specific settings, but I don’t recall seeing any that you can load per character.
-I’d suggest sticking with a group, or at least with a healer. A dead dps is no dps.
-Don’t attack a group solo, unless you know what you’re doing. I once saw a paladin charge in, ahead of an attacking force going to Slagworks (flag is up the stairs); he ran through the defenders and around to the back of the building. Most of the defending group left to follow him just before the attacking group arrived, they quickly took out the remaining defenders and capped the flag. Those who followed the paladin came back to find a group waiting for them!
-Try to get ahead of the capture pattern. Usually a large attacking/defending force follows a pattern on which they travel (clockwise/counterclockwise). It can make it an endless battle if it just follows that rhythm throughout the battle, so sometimes on chat you’ll see someone shout “rezzers go to ___”. Meaning, if you’re dead and come back, head to that flag area.
-Don’t listen to negative comments on chat. I’ve found that people who post multiple times that “Allies/Horde suck” or “You’re not doing something right” or “this is useless” are either A) sucky whiners themselves B)“Elitists” who think it should be done their way. Either way their comments do not help anyone and I often point that out. I like getting the “We just got thrashed at Slag because no one stayed to defend, you all suck, we’re gonna lose, etc”. I counter with “Thanks for that useless bit of info. Next time, how about you tell us how many just kicked your ass? That would be more helpful.”. Which kind of brings me to my next point.
-If you do find yourself defending solo, or with a very small group which is sure to get over run, I try to defend outside the gate in the direction the attacking force will come (remember the clockwise/counterclockwise thing). I figure they’re going to kill me in 2 seconds anyway. If I’m not standing in a capture point, that’s 2-less seconds that they would be standing in a capture point if I stun/slow them outside.
Yes. I don’t have WoW in front of me, but on the Add-Ons screen where you select your character there is a drop down list at the upper left. You can select your character’s name and it will enable/disable add-ons only for that character. If you select All (I think that’s what it’s called), it will enable/disable for all characters.
So you would set up the ones you want everyone to have under “All” and then only enable the power bar one for your rogue.
I have the everburning ember but am having trouble finding the girl to give me the sword. Coords aren’t helping me. I need a landmark, something she is close to in Howling Fjord. I know she’s in the middle of a frozen lake and I have gone as far as Grizzly Hills. Approximate coords (according to Wowiki) are 42 and 20 and she’s located near Camp Winterhoof, but none of those HF place names look familiar to me and I am wondering if I am looking at the Horde version of that quest?
Southwest of Camp Winterhoof, Southeast of Gjalerbron (Vrykul quest area at the nw edge of HF), and due north of Skorn (Vrykul town in the middle of the map). Pretty much the only thing on the HF map that looks like a lake, rather than a bloated river. It’s a real lake, water and everything, not frozen over. Icy banks for parts of it though.
In the middle of the lake is an ice floe. The girl with the sword is actually a Dryad (WoW deer-centaur female) frozen into a mage-style ice block. Select her, then “use” the ember (click the quest item icon) and it’ll thaw her out.
Quasi, I think you can use your in-game map screen to find quest NPCs like that.
Open your quest log, highlight the quest, and click “track quest” to make it appear in a list on the right hand side of your main screen. It will have a number next to it.
Once you have entered the right zone for the quest, type “m” to bring up a map of the zone. You should see a yellow circle on your map with a number in it that matches the number in the list at the right hand of your screen. Click the number on the map, and go back to your main screen.
You should now have a little yellow arrow on your mini-map at the top right, showing you which direction to go. The arrow will disappear when you get pretty close.
Even if the mini-map thing doesn’t work, looking at the big map should give you an idea of where you are relative to the quest NPC.
Yeah. I find myself attracted and disturbed all the time by the Dryads in the game, since they are quite attractive from the waist up. It’s obviously most disturbing when I realize that from the waist down, she’s a doe, and I definitely don’t do the barnyard/wildlife thing. Always good for an internalized slap across the mental face.
You should only get fatigued if you try to fly over open ocean, Quasi. If you go too far from land, you’ll have a minute of “Fatigued” before you die. If you ever see that, just turn around and go back.
