So I’m finally having time for WoW again, and boy oh boy what a difference it makes to have a 2v2 team of Enhancement Shaman and Holy Paladin rather than Enhancement Shaman and Assassination Rogue.
8-1 to cap conquest before the patch, then we did battlegrounds with some guildies (another EnhSha and an Affliction 'Lock) and I think we seriously ground all our honor points up to cap in under two hours.
True. I kinda forgot about these, mostly because my particular obsessiveness has turned away from fishing for now. For the record, I’ve never fished up a pet or mount and only have the fishing achievements you can accomplish by grinding or suicide (like The Lurker Above), because the RNG despises me. The title, dependent as it is on RNG (and also on winning a tournament, which is dependent on both the RNG and the ability to gather a bodyguard to protect you from ganking) is completely beyond my luck, popularity, and patience.
And I’m the one people walk away from shaking their heads because of my tolerance for tedium and grinding.
… to help me with, please?
Torch tossing: I have those flowers in my bag, but cannot toss because it tells me I need a bonfire, even though I am standing really close to one (I thought I was, anyway). So I open the bag, right-click to target bonfire and then right-click again to toss and that is when I get that bonfire message. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong?
After the patch, Wolkie and everything around him looks elongated. Will that straighten itself out and return him to his more normal, workable self?
Thanks
Q
You don’t need to click on the bonfire, you just need to be near it. So don’t click the bonfire, just click the torch while beside the bonfire.
After further prodding around, I found that the Firelands Daily Quests are very much worth grinding for!
Within a certain number (14) of seconds, right, kushie and watch for the arrow over it? I’ll try again w/o clicking on the fire. Thanks! 
Quasi
Which quest are you doing? The one where you throw torches at targets, or the one where they ask you to juggle it 4 times in a row? I’m guessing where they ask you to do 4, right? That quest is insanely hard if you don’t have good hand-eye coordination. It took me 45 minutes to pull off. Don’t feel bad about having troubles, it was the hardest quest for me to do for Midsummer - even harder than the one where you have to go into enemy territory!
There’s no arrow over it, unfortunately. You have to watch for the shadow of the torch as it comes down and run under the shadow to catch it. Stormwind is a hard place to do it because it’s so busy, I’ve heard Ironforge is easier.
There is (well, was last year, at least…I don’t know if Blizzard nerfed the functionality) an add-on called “Juggler” that helps with the torch-juggling. I used it last year to get the juggling achievement.
Thanks guys and SFG for the help with the coins. I went ahead and bought a couple of recipes to make with the cheap fish and see how it goes. I have the camp fire, so I guess next is gathering the ingredients and cooking?
Also, due to the dailies with Ron Flay, I’m within 8 points of getting out of the apprecentige stage.
Gotta spend some time with herbalism too, I’ve been concentrating on auctions and gold too much so I can get the alts a good financial base. (almost have 20k gold now).
Thanks everyone, for the help!
Q
Finished my Firelands dailies and got out of a failed Zandalari PuG. Decided to go hang around Twilight Highlands while everyone was busy in Hyjal. You know what that means!
Sambas tamed, two minutes later found Karoma hanging around. Aw yeah! And I got Jadefang yesterday. Gotta catch 'em all!
Grats! Pet collection is the one thing that really draws me to hunters but please keep it down I have a DK, Rogue and Druid (dinged 53 last night, 7 levels until she’s a bat) to level first.
Has anyone in the US checked out the honor vendors since the patch dropped? If so what’s the deal with the weapons you can now buy with honor, how much are they? Wowhead not up to date yet.
I made it in under the wire Monday and earned the 700vp Rahuul needed to purchase his epic relic and capped his Jp as well, which afforded me the ability to buy the (former) valor boots and my t11 2p pants after the patch went live Tuesday. Then, I ran the new Thrall quest line for the spiffy new cloak. 4 epic upgrades in 2 days isn’t bad. And while I didn’t have time before work to do the dailies on my shaman, I did get day one of the dailies done on my Druid. Sadly, from what i’ve read, it’ll take just over a month to fully unlock everything in the Firelands. Goody, Argent Tourney 2.0 here we come. 
Logged in to have a new pet awaiting me in the mailbox – apparently they added more pet collection achievements; you now get a squirrel named Nuts for having 100. He’s got a much more detailed texture and model than classic squirrels, and he occasionally pelts people with acorns (similar to the ice elemental randomly throwing snowballs) that gives them a stunned animation (but doesn’t actually stun). It’s got that cartoonish bouncy noise when it happens.
Going through the new pre-firelands quests, be careful about your targeting (especially tab-targeting). There were people intentionally flagging themselves and standing in the middle of the chaos and then they and their friends would gank anyone who mistakenly attacked them and became flagged themselves. Luckily I was on my boomkin on their air platform when it happened to me (yay tab-moonfire for quick quest credit) and just cycloned the lot of them off. You’ll also want to be careful right-clicking on the quest NPCs as the flagged people enjoy sitting on top of them with their huge mounts as well (personally, I’ve stopped using right click to interact with NPCs for this very reason).
For you hordies, there’s a new non-combat pet quest (very easy, but you won’t see it if you don’t have low-level quest tracking on) in Orgrimmar. Where The Drag becomes the Valley of Wisdom – the pond with the bridge – there’s an orc child with a pet dragonhawk who lost his balloons. Grab the quest from him to find his balloons around Orgrimmar and he’ll reward you with a Horde Balloon of your very own!
I did a double take when I noticed that when you select him on the pet screen the view is zoomed right up into his … nutty … region. I can’t believe they actually did that.
Hmm, I supposed to play on my low-level toon with my friend tonight, and then tomorrow night I’ll be packing for vacation and gone (wow-less) until the 11th. So it looks like I’ll have to be patient before I can try all the new quests :(.
OK, that explains it. I only played my main last night, so I didn’t check the other toons’ mail… If I had, I may have made the connection between “100 pets” and the new pet, since the main’s the only one with the achiev (and, presumably, the pet waiting in the mailbox).
Well, on a PvP server, everyone’s flagged already, so it’s not douchebaggery. Now, ganking in the crowd is douchbaggery, but that’s just world PvP. And if you do it in front of Mallorne and his bodyguards, expect to die less than 2 seconds later.
The issue with everyone being flagged is that if you don’t mean to gank and don’t feel like provoking a PvP fight, tab targeting is useless without extreme care. I know I accidentally shot a few people, but it never came to anything. And I know I kept getting attacked by some warlock’s pet, but I’m such a nice guy I’d dismiss my own pet and feign death. Since that always ended it, I have to assume it was accidental. (I had to turn off AoE attacks on my own pet, too; that’s very easy to forget.)
Dammit, I was desperate for more quests. I burned through my 25 diailies and all the new quests I could find – the Thrall quest chain, the intro and the first few Sanctuary of Malorne quests (including the initial dailies), and even the one-off to kill Alyssra. I wrapped up playing less than 500 rep points short of exalted with my guild, and I would have liked to have gotten there last night. Oh, well, I’ll nail it tonight with dailies alone, but still… I’ll have to hit that quest for sure, because another companion pet would be awesome! (Even if it’s just a balloon)
Logged in yesterday to three new pets waiting for me! So glad they finally added more achievements for 100, 125, and 150. I think that brings my grand total up to 154 now, which is just ridiculous.
Soooooo I’d moved to Stormscale to start raiding with my friends’ guild, only to get home from work and realize that I really, really didn’t want to be raiding. Kind of sucks I didn’t figure this out before the transfer, but $50 (two characters) isn’t the worst price to pay to discover that I’m actually happy not dedicating three nights every week to one particular aspect of this guild.
Dunno where I’m going to end up. I’ll probably stay here for a little while to try to get some five-mans in with my friends while I can, and then I might head to Mal’Ganis to join Daed and some other friends of mine, where I know I can get into decent PUGs if I get the itch to see some content, without having to commit to a schedule.
Salty Sleutel, actually. 
I don’t remember how it started, but in my last guild, we were joking about the other tank and me changing our names to Salt and Pepper. I was going to be Salty Salt.
Oh yeah, Salty is just brutal. It’s one of the most exclusive titles in the entire game, out of realm first achievements, just because it’s limited to a maximum of 104 characters per server, per year. When I won the BB tournament, I was actually shaking, I was so full of adrenaline. (Pretty sure there’s a post about it in a previous iteration of this thread.)
There are three different things going on here.
1.) **Flowers. **You right-click these near a bonfire to… I don’t remember, get a buff or something. You can also use them as currency to buy fun items like clothes, a pet, etc. They’re not related to the torches.
2.) Torch tossing quest 1. This involves tossing torches at a semicircle of braziers. You need to be standing close to the bonfire while also staying in range of the braziers. This is the quest where the bouncing arrow will tell you which one to hit. You can use the torches by right-clicking them in your bag, but that will probably slow you down way to much. What you want to do instead is put them on your quickbar, so that you can press the number or symbol associated with that button to throw a torch. Now, for this quest, pressing the button won’t throw the torch right away. Instead, it will give you one of those targeting reticles, which you’ll then have to position on top of the correct brazier to throw the torch into it. This is why you want to have the torches bound to a key: so that you can hit the key with one hand and then click a spot on the ground with your mouse hand.
2.) Torch tossing quest 2. This is the one where you’re throwing a torch into the air and then catching it yourself. This quest is a giant pain and nearly impossible if you’re in a busy area or have low graphic settings. For this one, you only need to toss the torch the first time, but you’ll still want to put it on a key so that you don’t have your bags open. This is because you’ll want to be able to see the entire ground. The trick that always worked best for me was this: scroll your camera all the way out (so that Wolkie gets really tiny) and then point your camera straight down. When you toss the torch, it will fly up into the air in the direction you’re facing. Don’t try to watch it in the air–it’s too hard to gauge the position. Instead, look for its shadow on the ground. Keep running around so that you’re positioned right on top of that shadow. If you’re underneath the torch when it lands, you’ll automatically catch it and throw it again. The torch will again travel more or less in the direction that you’re facing at the time, so be sure to angle yourself toward a nice open space.
Sounds like your resolution settings got screwed up. That happens sometimes. Go into your video options and change the resolution to be the same as your computer monitor. If you need more details than that, I can explain when I get home and can take a concrete look at where the settings are and what they’re called, or someone else can, too, if they beat me to it.
AFAIK all that Juggler does is bind the torches to your mousewheel. That’s great for the “catch X torches in Y seconds” achievement that’s based off of the torch toys, but it’s not much help at all for the original quests, where the tricky part isn’t tossing them quickly but rather positioning, etc.
Yup! The campfire is what you want to use if there’s nothing else around, but you can also use many other fires and stoves in the game to cook with. All you need to do is stand next to them and it will allow you to cook.
Woohoo, nice work! At this rate, you’re going to pass me up soon. If you count my liquid assets right now instead of items I bought a ton of to mule over and sell on the new server, you’re already way ahead of me. (Hopefully I’ll be making that back with a lot of profit, though–I already got 4k back in the first few hours last night.)
Woohoo! Man, now I really want to go work on my Hunter again. (Who is, by the way, my toon in the BDL, so that would mean I get to see more of all you guys.)
Oh awesome, I hadn’t heard about this yet–thanks!
… BRB leaving work to go check this out right now.
Yeah, that was my experience playing on a PvP server. Probably 90% of the world PvP was accidental, understood as such, and forgiven without retaliation. I still feel guilty about a poor Paladin I almost killed because I didn’t see him the big AOE pack of mobs I’d picked up to mow down. 
The other 10% is terrible players who only attack you when they’re in groups and/or think you’re an especially vulnerable and easy target. I don’t mean to knock people on PvP servers, but honestly, they’re just full of bads who roll toons there because it’s the only way they’re ever going to get any HKs, since they would be incapable of succeeding in consensual PvP.
RE: Thrall Firelands questline and Jaina.
Blizzard, that was just plain mean. Poor Jaina.
Heartily agreed. This is why I am waiting to do these quest chains on my DK. He’s blood spec, so some of his best attacks are multiple-target, and I really just don’t want to hit anyone I don’t mean to. Let the crowds thin a bit, I say.
There are a lot of defective human beings on a PvP server. I suspect that these are the same people who aren’t rampaging murderers IRL only because they’re afraid of being caught.
I did rofl a bit at one of these tards. I was in the first stage of the Thrall chain, up on the platform at VP (or ToTW… these cloud cities all look the same up close), and a Draenei shaman intentionally Thunderstormed me off the edge. Like it mattered; I fell for about 20 seconds into the ocean, completely unharmed. When I came back, he was dead; I think he aggro’d other Horde players who weren’t as charitable or temporarily out of action as I was. He hadn’t even released, either, so I /chuckled him and finished questing.
What?
Oh, you mean… you don’t actually think Jaina was…
Oh my. Is Jaina gonna start singing Michael Bolton songs now?
I’m not racist or anything, but FWIW I think Aggra and Go’el are a better match anyway. I’m from a multicultural family, and dammit, sometimes it’s just harder.