Garrosh has his moments (his reaction to the events in Stonetalon is telling) but he can be a real dumbass (the way he handles the arrival of the flotilla in Twilight Highlands is also telling, in the other direction).
Aviana’s Guardians - Wave One: I compeleted it, but I’m damned if I know how! Those things are extremely tough to control, and I liked to have give out by the time it was all over, and my right hand tingled like crazy from hitting the mouse key to keep my bird aloft! We had to land on one of those floating rocks several times so I could rest my hand.
It only gets worse, right? 
Achievements: I find I’m only getting these accidentally - not going after them, so I have a question: Where on the bar it says check the box if you want to track the achievment, does that mean you get some kind of a marker on the mini-map when you’re near what you have to do? For instance, in fishing, my next thing is going to shipwrecks, etc. to fish up junk, but it looks like a bitch trying to find those places on a map, although I know I can go to WowHead and put it in, and they’ll tell me the location.
Also, no dailies in Hyjal, apparently. I googled it, and there seem to be 2 answers: yes there are and no there aren’t, but both date back a few years.
Also in fishing: you know those places where there’s “flotsam” and boxes that when you open them you get loot? Does one just come up on them accidentally or is there a way to find them? I did the “teach a man to fish” daily in Tol B. a couple of nights ago, went out on the dock to get my fish, had to fight a villager, saw the junk floating there, and equipped my fishing pole. Pretty soon I was getting my ass kicked, because I wasn’t watching what was coming up behind me, but I was able to fish until the stars stopped twinkling.
It’s nice that I’m finally able to quest in Hyjal, because most of the monsters are level 80-81’s to Wolkie’s 85, making for easier kills.
Thanks
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Yeah, Blizzard made a lot of quests with weird control elements in them for Cataclysm. I’m not big on some of them.
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The game won’t tell you if you’re near an achievement, but when you track the achievement, it shows up just like tracking a quest. So if the achievement is for ‘kill this many things’ it will shows you how many you’ve killed, but not where to find them.
There is an addon that will help you out with this, but I don’t know if you do addons.
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The only daily in Hyjal is the Aviana thing. You can keep on going back and doing it again for another reward.
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I think the crates are random. Do you have the fish finder ability? If you do, your minimap can show if a pool is a crate or not.
Also, in Warcraft III plus its expansion, the only really sympathetic/heroic characters were Thrall and Cairne. (Jaina was kinda whiny and came off terribly in the Orcish campaign in WCIII:TFT; other than that Furion was okay, I guess.)
So while we have a sort of lore and Garrosh discussion going, I’d like to link to spoilers on MMO-Champion for the new Varian-centric book Wolfheart.
My kneejerk reaction:
Did you just try to kill Tyrande Whisperwind?! Bitch, you gonna be dead. Well, Garrosh would be, if this was still Warcraft III era Blizzard. Blizzard nerfed Malfurion and Tyrande.
Blizzard continues on their quest to make every female from Warcraft III incompetent arm candy or incompetent villain.
In a way, I wish I could go back to the time where I didn’t care about the lore.
Hey Kushie
I’m enjoying Mt. Hyjal, yeah, but those Aviana birds are kinda like that jousting at the tournament grounds. I can’t do it worth a shit. 
I do use add-ons - which one is it?
The Aviana thing? You mean flying those damn birds around? Ah---- maybe I won’t be doing that one. Very time consuming and aggravating. We’ll see. Maybe I can get the hang of it in Wave II.
I do have fish finder. Just haven’t noticed the mini-map thing. What am I looking for that’s different from the little gold dots?
'preciate it!
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The fish finder works the same as the other tracking on the mini-map, so they’re going to be little gold dots. You have to mouse over them to see whether they’re fish or ore or herbs or whatever. If they’re in water, they’re probably fish, but there are occasional ore veins underwater, and there’s also stranglekelp on the herbalism side, so you should mouse over to check before you waste time chasing a useless dot.
Yes!!! I knew that (once). It’s the same thing I do when I’m gathering herbs. Guess I need to print out my achievement lists, so I’ll know where to go next.
Apparently, I’m not finished with First Aid anymore either. Gotta visit the trainer and see what’s new.
Thanks, jayjay!
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I’m getting a little tired of the character retcons. What’s this? Varian hates Worgen now? Since when? (And the reasoning given in that book spoilers makes no sense whatsoever - did the writer even know the damn history?) And now apparently he’s a random berzerker or something and child abuser. :rolleyes:
While I don’t like Garrosh, they’re also pushing him way into the villain corner. Ugh.
Garrosh has ALWAYS been in the villain corner, from the Alliance perspective.
I keep feeling like they’re having both Garrosh and Varian kick the dog so that everyone gets good and het up over PvP while at the same time the Molten Front stuff is going on. No idea why, mind you, but whatever.
Makes a guy wish he could join the Earthen Ring.
Oh EXPLETIVE … Just read the spoilers link, and 99% of my reaction was more expletives. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? It really sounds to me like they said, “Oh, look, the two sides have been way too stable, so let’s destabilize EVERYTHING!”
Don’t get me wrong, nothing against shaking things up, but seemingly unmotivated shake-up of -everything-? No. Just no.
Also on-board with Kushiel’s opinion about how Blizzard shows women, and… Well, I’ll be honest, I’m ticked at the one mention of Geblin. The gnomes are a force in the alliance, and in -every- piece of fiction that doesn’t feature them -only-, they’re a joke. A misfiring weapon. A screw-up race. I’m tired of that.
Arrrgh.
Last Friday, I saw this cute girl (with her geeky glasses…sexy!) driving a blue Fit and as she passed me by, I saw the matching blue Alliance lion sticker on her rear window…
Why the frownie, Yeti?
Just because she’s an Allie doesn’t preclude a relationship. Some of best love affairs have been forged out of opposing factions. My Mom and Dad, for instance - German and American, respectively.
You should have chased her down, stopped her with flashing lights, got out, told her you couldn’t help but see her sticker, and that you’re Horde, but that shouldn’t preclude y’all going out for coffee sometime. Then tell her some of the best relationships have been forged out of opposing factions. “Quasi’s Mom and Dad, for example. One German the other American.”
Man, that’s golden! Better than any pick-up line at some bar, and you two already have something in common and to talk about.
Shit, Dude. Go for it!
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I don’t think Yeti’s wife would have approved of the cross-faction mingling.
Well, just because he’s married doesn’t preclude a relationship. Some of the best…
Well, you get my drift, right?
And I was only kidding, of course! :)
Well, I was a gentleman nonetheless…she can still drive her car since I didn’t run her off the road…who said the Horde can’t be civilized?
Did I say she was cute?
channels 10-year-old orc
“You like huuuuuuman girls! Icky!”
(I was going to go with the Forsaken, but the implications there are a little squicky)
Of course, Jeph has a possible romance between these two simmering on a back burner…
WoW! That guy’s a very good cartoonist! Hope he gets paid for that!
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It’s a long-running strip called “Questionable Content”. I don’t think he gets paid for the online comic, but he does publish printed collections and sells some advertising, I think. The strip isn’t all about WoW…only those two characters actually play, and they’re not main characters. Marigold (the girl) is a 2nd-tier character and the pizza guy is mostly a recurring character who shows up every so often, usually to further the background “future romance” thing between them.
Jeph’s art has very much improved since the beginning of the strip. It’s always weird going back and looking at the early strips of any webcomic, because usually the art has improved so gradually throughout the run that you don’t realize how MUCH different everyone looks until you actually see one of those early ones.