mmmmmmmaaybe. 
Crazy Crazy - my level 11 Tauren Priest has in hand more than 30 gold, from a few stacks of light leather, linen cloth, and Peacebloom.
I’ve noticed a lack of low-level green cloth armor, though, and what IS there is crazy expensive, compared to what I used to pay. Guess that’s why I made 30 gold off of those mats…
Joe
Have them set their sights low next time…
Dirtybird.
You will occasionally see a lot of green cloth armor posted on the AH as someone power levels Tailoring but more often than not the gear will disnechanted to ether sell the mats or they will be used by the tailor (or an alt) to level enchanting.
If you take two gathering professions and are sensible about your spending, really no one needs items from the AH while levelling quest rewards are more than adequate, then you’ll be able to afford all the flying upgrades as you hit the pertinent level for them. Having 280% flying as you ding 70 is such a quality of life improvement while questing.
/cheer!
My goblin shammy dinged 80 last night. That’s my third toon (all healers) to hit that milestone. Time to start collecting some new Cata gear and to decide which zone I want to hit first (leaning toward Hyjal).
For casters I would definitely say Hyjal, simply so you don’t have to go back and back-farm rep to get the arcanum later.
The only other consideration I’d give is if your toon is an herbalist, Vash is good for collecting Azshara’s Veil while you’re questing.
Good point. He’s actually mining/engineering, although I’m way beyond obsidium now – I’ve been mining elementium in Uldum since level 76, which was pretty dicey at the time. But the arcanum is good reason to do Hyjal - plus I just liked Hyjal better on my other toons anyway.
Grats!
After 2 weeks, we finally got Al’Akir down last night!
They say that Phase 1 is the hardest, but we got pretty good at that and kept wiping in Phase 3. In fact, after the win there was only 2 people left alive. I kept dying pretty quickly in P3, but being a squishy mage, that’ll happen. No good drops (no token either 
) RL says we’re heading to Nef next and not coming back to Al’Akir without good reason. So now I’m 11/12 normal for Cata. Yay!
I also just bought the Tier11 Legs, so obviously on my next BH kill, they’ll drop. Two weeks, or maybe 1 if I fulfill my heroics/ZA/ZG for the week I’ll be able to get the hands and the 4-pc set bonus.
Well, Hyjal rocks the box for Cinderbloom, and at least on my server that goes for absurd and disconcertingly good prices on the AH, even with market variation taken into consideration. And once you’ve finished the Hyjal quest chains past Aessina’s Miracle, most of the hostile mobs vanish (yaaay phasing), leaving most of the flowers unguarded. I’ve actually dropped into an “herbalism trance” on my taurenodrood there and picked more than two full bags full of stacks of cinderbloom and Stormvine in just a couple of hours without even noticing. I had to be careful trickling them onto the AH to avoid collapsing the market.
Q: What do you call 3 Hunters all trying to trap at the same time?
A: 3 Huntards!
Yeah, I’m not sure how that BoT trash run worked so well. I don’t think I’m going to be joining any more of those. Just Heroics for me, thanks.
Last night, a guildie was complaining about tanks and healers that dropped as soon as they zoned in, so I offered to tank H TOT for them given that it was going to be a long wait for her. :eek: As soon as I got in group, a healer pinged. It seems 3 DPS groups get lower shrift in the RDF even if they’re already in the run, and a 4-group gets higher priority.
I explained to everyone that I’m new to tanking and please to give me a few seconds for aggro. The other 2 dps were hunters who were just beautiful at huntering, and the holydin helped mark mobs for cc. It was pretty nerve wracking for me, but it went extremely smoothly. I will say, though, having 2 awesome hunters in the group let me get away with being sloppy on parts like the Nazjara fight (got cycloned once).
That run made me feel better about pugging as a tank now, although I am still not going in the RDF without a guildie.
Didnt mean to post and run, but it seems whenever I post to this place, real life interferes and I don’t get back to the boards for a week. In this case, my marriage may not quite be falling apart after all, and as much as I liked the thought of finally being able to play WoW until my eyes bleed, I have to prioritize my family.
That was my impression before, but until I started looking at how many instance runs I would need to do to get all the JPs to gear up, I thought I must have been missing something. Turns out that what I was missing was blizzards desire to keep collecting my 15 bucks a month.
No kidding. There’s a sweet 346 healers mace that I should be able to get with a mere 15 days of dailys there, depending how the PVP part goes. I was nervous about going there since I’m a total carebear, but it’s actually been fairly good. As for as rep gear goes, I’m prioritizing the mace since only the weapon slot has spellpower, so an upgrade there seems worth a lot more than any other slot. Did find a nice 346 offhand on the AH cheaper than the enchant I needed for it though, which I thought was nice. Still haven’t run a cata dungeon yet, but I hoping to be able to this weekend, time permitting.
Good advice I think. I’m going to wait until the family situation settles out a bit before I go looking for a guild, since I can’t really commit to anything right now anyways. Besides, I figure it’s better to get some more group experience with total strangers before I go looking for a group that I might want to stay with for a while.
This makes sense, and I’m not planning on queing up for heroics anytime soon. I want to run each instance a few times on regular first, even if the RDF thinks I’m geared enough.
One question though, for the healers out there. The first time you run an instance, do you do it as a DPS off-spec, or just jump straight in healing? One piece of advice a friend gave was to try the dungeons as a DPS first, where you have two others who can pick up slack if needed while learning mechanics, instead of healing. Of course, my other friend disagreed with him, saying that learning how to dps whill only slow down learning to heal, and learning the boss mechanics as a dps won’t help. Any thoughts?
I’m pretty sure they dropped that in either 4.1 or 4.06, now only healing speced priests can dispel.
Mass Dispel is still around though for all priests, right? I feel like I see Shadow Priests firing it off all the damn time in BGs, even after 4.1.
All priests can mass dispel and offensive dispel. Shadow can’t defensive dispel other people.
Well, as long as mass dispel can be used defensively (team cleanse), it might be worth the mana cost and cast time, although you’d hope the “official healer” would have to wherewithal to cleanse like you’d expect them to. (I haven’t studied healing in a while, let alone the recent changes, but… am I right in understanding you have to talent into cleansing spells, and some raid-type healers don’t? Seems quite counterintuitive to me.)
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After 2 weeks, we finally got Al’Akir down last night!
They say that Phase 1 is the hardest, but we got pretty good at that and kept wiping in Phase 3. In fact, after the win there was only 2 people left alive. I kept dying pretty quickly in P3, but being a squishy mage, that’ll happen. No good drops (no token either ) RL says we’re heading to Nef next and not coming back to Al’Akir without good reason. So now I’m 11/12 normal for Cata. Yay!
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Grats on Al’Akir. I hate that fight and I’m glad we aren’t going back to it anytime soon. Phase 2 is just a terror as a healer.
Going after our first two heroic bosses tonight, Chimaeron and possibly Atrameded, Chimaeron for sure though. I’m a little nervous since I’m a healer and this is pretty much a healer fight. Crossing my fingers for a clean kill and for the mail bracers to drop (which they won’t because that’s how much RNG hates me).
Managed to snag Sambas today. I had been out looking for him for about a month on my hunter and decided to fly around Twilight Highlands to mine a bit. NPC Scan had already logged him as found so I had to whip up a quick, flew over his first spawn point and BAM there he was. He was the last pet I really wanted to tame so I’m pretty happy right now. I still have two open stable slots and I have to fill them with something…
I’d say it’s largely a matter of preference. Normal dungeons are tuned to be pretty forgiving. You should not have too much trouble learning the dungeon and how to heal at the same time. The Cata dungeons aren’t really more complex than Wrath ones, just somewhat more unforgiving.
That said, doing decent dps in leveling gear is easier than healing in it. Mana efficiency and regen can be painful with subpar gear. If you run oom 2 minutes into a 3 minute fight, it’ll have a much bigger effect on the group than doing 8k vs 12k dps.
Grats! That’s one amazing looking lion. I keep a pet slot open at all times in case I encounter something like that. (I generally don’t camp for pets though. No patience with just waiting, and with my luck the likelihood the animal will be ninjad or I’ll be ganked would be directly proportional to how long I’ve been camping it.)
Anyway, I’ve contented myself for now with Pogeyan, whom I stumbled over in North Stranglethorn while screwing around for one reason or another. Thank God for NPCSCAN.