Well, if the team manages to die twice in every between-bosses runs, maybe you ought’a slow down. If nobody would want a car with a single gear, why is it ok to have a single gear in the brain?
Oh boy, tales from the Random Dungeon Finder.
I had a doozy in the weekend. DK tank and a DPS hunter from the same guild. I forget which instance we were in, it’s one of the ones in the same area as SSC. The tank had pulled a bunch of mobs and there was a patrol coming.
Owl: Pat
Tank: pays no attention
All of us: painful death
Me: You gotta taunt those mobs so they don’t kill us all
Tank: I taunted, but someone pulled other creeps
Me: You were warned in party chat
**Tank: How can I tank and read chat? **
Later, following a near escape thanks to awesome healing…
**Hunter: Healer, don’t heal so fast, then you won’t get aggro. **
Me: speechless
However, later that day I had an absolute blast in the same instance with other group. Well, I say ‘group’. It started as a group of five. We wiped on the first set of trash and two DPS left. That left us with a tank, a healer (me) and a rogue DPS. We queued but no DPS were forthcoming so we decided to continue, carefully.
We wipe once on the first boss, my mistake, I didn’t move out of hurricane enough. Rogue DC’s/quits.
So now there’s just me and the tank. We head back in. Two player dungeon fighting.
We down the first boss. We express our amazement at this. We make our way carefully through the trash.
We down the second boss. We continue to be amazed. We make our way carefully through more trash.
We fail on the last boss (it’s the one where you have to nuke the tanks or he enrages). We decided to call it there, my dinner was ready and the tank was able to grab a lvl 80 from her guild to help her finish it, as there was a drop she wanted.
So now I’ve got my first ‘battlenet’ friend as we swapped email addresses. 
I did Utgarde Keep for the first time at 69 and we made it okay with a couple of wipes. UK seems to be a fun dungeon in that it seems to be at the point where a lot of guildies go together so you can get much higher level people in the instance which makes it easier. DPS was having a pissing match with level 80 tank who was doing just fine. I jokingly said ‘you know, I think I’m going to stay on the side with the 80’ and the DPS was like, ‘what’s so great about an 80?’.
When you’re 69, having an 80 around is quite handy!
Just picked up Misdirection, now I can help more when heals get attacked!
Queued up my mage in the RDF, and of course it puts her into Forge of Souls first thing. (Why why why? Why is the RDF so determined that I run that instance?!) As usual for FoS, somebody immediately started criticizing the tank (every damn time) before we even got started.
DPS Paladin: Tank, why are you in blood spec? Frost is DK tanking spec.
DK: Why don’t you shut the !@# up and play your assigned role? (he actually typed "!@#" - I don’t have the language filter turned on).
Honestly, I don’t know the pros/cons of DK tanking in blood spec, but those two kept it up for the first third of the instance. The pally finally shut up, though, when it became apparent the tank knew what the !@#$ he was doing. I think it may have been my first-ever FoS run where the tank never lost aggro once, and there was not a single death at any point. I was going to congratulate the tank on an awesome job, but he dropped too quickly (and so did the paladin) after the last boss was down.
Then I got into Drak’Tharon Keep. The tank DC’d right when we entered Novos’ chamber, but nobody noticed (since the party frame doesn’t show a person as DC immediately) and somebody started the event. But we still took Novos down without a tank 
ETA: On the paladin side, I found a somewhat decent tanking cloak on the AH, bought the Triumph badge tanking ring, and then ran a couple randoms to get enough Triumphs for the tanking libram. Then I finally slapped the +22 Defense Rating enchant on my tanking chest. Equipped everything, checked my Defense … 534. Aaaaaaaagh!
The guy was an idiot. Blood is the best DK tank spec right now, especially if the tank is normally a raid tank and not just doing 5-mans. Frost is good for heroics (you can generate more threat with it, especially if your gear isn’t that great) but it requires a lot more hit rating to be viable since you’re dual wielding. From what I’ve heard, if you’re only going to be doing heroics and the occasional light raiding, Frost is fine. If you’re primarily raiding, Blood is much better.
You’re sure he said spec, not presence? Because a tank in blood presence would be an idiot (or inattentive, at least), and I’d have called him out too.
The idiots at Blizzard just broke a new record in stupid.
Force people to use their real names on a public forum ? :mad:
What kind of harebrained idiot comes up with ideas like that?
Not sure if it will be retroactive, but just to be on the safe side, if you’ll excuse me I’ll be over at Blizzard forums deleting my old posts.
Any high-schooler taking a computer familiarization class already knows that Blizzard’s security guys (if they even exist) couldn’t even stop a determined fish, let alone intelligent primates. How can such a large and successful company fail so wretchedly at something so simple?
Blizzard’s security is fine. This forum thing isn’t a big deal. The official forums are full of useless morons you should avoid, anyway.
Let me rephrase that. Their own network security may be fine. The bnet services are a different matter entirely. From the outside, it looks like it was designed intentionally to be easy to hack. I never use their forums, mind you, but just reading about this makes me /facepalm till it hurts (kinda like I did when they made my bnet login the same as my email address).
How is it designed to be easy to hack? Maybe if your password is firstname123.
I did exactly what you did…got my 2h Axe skill up…thanks for the alert!
Also, I finally got rid of Mining and took up Jewelcrafting…got the skill up to 350 with all the mats that I have saved up by following this guide. I will probably finish powerleveling tonight or tomorrow…ran out of time.
The only regret I have is that I should have not smelted all of my Titanium ore since it seems that I needed to prospect it for the Titanium Powder to use as currency for the higher level JC recipes…oh, well.
It’s not necessary, it just speeds the process a bit. There’s a daily quest out of the Dalaran jewelry shop where you go kill something for a (pretty common) drop, combine it with a couple lower-end Northrend gems, and hand it in at the jewelry shop for a token, which shows up on your currency page. I think 4 of them let you buy a purple-level gem cutting recipe. So you can still get these by running the daily; it just speeds things along if you have the powder to hand in for extra tokens.
Besides, a titanium powder is a pretty rare drop off the titanium ore. You have to prospect a stack of 5 titanium ores at a time and hope maybe you get one powder, and you need (IIRC) 10 powders for a token, when you’re getting a token a day anyway from the dailies.
Associating someone’s login ID with a valid email address is a powerful hacking technique. In this case, Blizzard’s removed half the work for the hackers. To this day, email remains one of the most powerful and successful hacking tools in the arsenal. Now they’re going to give us people’s real names along with it? Candy from heaven – now the WoW hackers have an ideal platform to jump into the more lucrative business of total Identity Theft. I read through the support forums from time to time whenever I have an account issue or in-game bug I want to resolve, to see if there are any suggestions up already. The amount of “I’ve been hacked!” posts are staggering, and it’s clearly not always the player being phished by ridiculous spam. The entire system was designed with no security in mind (sort of like the internet in general, but most systems designers know better by now).
If you have a high level alchemist friend/guildie, they can xmute 8 saronite bars into 1 titanium bar with no cooldown whatsoever. I give all my titanium ore to our JC for prospecting, and I have more than enough saronite to cover my titanium needs with our guild xmuter.
How is this going to work if you don’t opt-in to RealID? You HAVE to opt-in to post on the forums?
As a side note, this particular occurence is kind of funny, given a recent Noob comic…
Ok then, the Titanium Powder would not be the best path to the JC recipes then from the two posts above, but I should just stay focused on doing the dailies. I do have several stacks of each Northrend gem on-hand, so I can probably do these quests for months. Yay.
Yes, you do. Your RealID first and last name will be displayed on your post. Your character name is optional.
As far as I’ve seen, it’s not retroactive, but I haven’t found the blue post to verify this (supposedly there is one, buried in a hundred-plus page thread).
This is the worst idea in the long sad history of bad ideas. This makes the original RealID look smart by comparison. Blizzard has lost its mind.
“Oh, it’ll get rid of trolls and spammers!” they say.
“Yeah,” I say, “but what about people who don’t want their posts available to anyone (like employers) who googles their name? What about female players who would prefer that their gender not be known so they don’t get mobbed by sweaty 14 year old geeks? What about people with distinctive names? What about people who just like to play a fantasy game without being forced to reveal their real-life info?”
Why the hell do those of us who follow the rules and don’t try to screw other people over have to suffer because of the idiots, the scammers, and the just plain evil?
Yeah, I’m a little pissed about this. And I don’t even post to the forums anymore. :mad:
I’m not sure it’s a matter of opting in. To my knowledge, your RealID already exists, whether you like it or not (it’s your bnet email login + your account info tied to it). When the RealID patch went live 2 weeks ago, I logged in to a bunch of RealID friend requests from my RL friends on other servers without ever having had to “opt in” to it. It sounds like any post you make on the forums from that date on will have your RealID info on it whether you like it or not (not your email login, I hope, just your real name, which is still stupid).
Yeah. I’m a female player who has a real name so unique that I’d be willing to bet a whole lot of money that no one else has it on the planet. We have a bunch of insanely frothing-at-the-mouth trolls on our server’s board that I bet all are named the equivalent of “Bob Johnson.” 
Yup, he said “spec”. Like I said, though, I know nothing about DK tanking. It’s just that something like that comes up almost every damn time I get put in FoS. This was the second Blood/Frost argument I’ve seen. But regardless of the tank class, there’s something about FoS that very consistently prompts some DPSer in the group to immediately inspect the tank before even starting the run, and start bitching about their gear/spec/talents up to and including demanding that the tank drop group because they clearly “suck”. I don’t see this in other random dungeons - not even PoS or HoR.
Heh Rik, it’s happened to my pally tank once. I’d just come back from a year off of WoW – before then I was tanking heroics just fine. I get H:HoS for my random heroic, and the healer immediately drops because I “only” had 30k health. For a WotLK classic heroic dungeon. Seriously? Needless to say, the run went without a hitch once we got a replacement healer.