My hunter was just doing that quest a couple nights ago, and I learned a hard lesson: while escorting Tooga, do not stop to “discover” the Caverns of Time (for the exploration achievement) along the way. I started down the path, “discovered” CoT, and Tooga promptly disappeared and the quest failed. After making it all the way across the freakin’ zone :mad:
I laughed my butt off at the end of that quest when his wife just chews him out for being late. 
Poor Tooga.
Before they nerfed the OOX-series chicken quests, they were really hard to solo. I’d recruit Tooga first, drop by the chicken on the way, and have them both battling the chicken spawns with me since we were all going to the same place anyway 
Heh…The Noob is on the RealID case…
Anyone know why the hell I’ve been able to auction a Blood Elf Bandit Mask I picked up with my new Draenei priest fro 180 gold? When I saw the value of the thing I thought it was just someone’s AH shennanigans, but no, it sold. What gives?
It’s apparently one of the few hats that sub-25 level characters can wear (and the others require jumping through various hoops); you can stick an enchant on it to give it some game value. And it doesn’t bind on equip, so you can put it on one alt, level him, and then give it to another alt.
Fair enough. Maybe I should go farm a couple more, cos that’s good gold, but I bet I just got lucky with this one. I was literally just navigating to a quest when the bandit jumped me and happened to drop the mask. I hear it’s only a 10% drop so yay me.
Aside from the value as headgear, these things are also highly coveted by RPers because they just look cool. Never underestimate the willingness of an RPer to pay big bucks for something cool looking to wear, especially if it’s rare.
It also helps that, unlike the Red Defias Mask, it’s both non-binding and usable by all classes.
Putricide down! Yay! No warrior marks or Last Word! Boo!
Didn’t think we’d actually attempt him since a lot of the people who showed up Wednesday didn’t show up last night, but we brought in a few friends and got him down on the… third try, I think. I doubt we’ll get much farther than Dreamwalker in 25 though. Apparently we don’t have the DPS or raid awareness for BQL and Sindragosa. Not that I’m complaining, I wouldn’t want to go through the nightmare that is bite order and ice blocks with 25 people.
To my surprise my paladin got put into H PoS for his random, I offered to drop out since I wasn’t sure that I could actually make it all the way to the end. But everyone agreed to give it a shot, made it all the way to Ick without any problems. Then the healer decided to die to the Poison Nova 3 times, semi wipe on the first attempt and he was soulstoned for the second. We all agreed to skip the hill mobs, sadly the healer ran up ahead of us, caused a wipe and then dropped group. So we disbanded, fun…
I’m not sure if I like paladin tanking, but that’s all I can do until I get enough badges for my holy set.
So I’m building a new computer soon and I was wondering if there was any way for me to save all my addons, addon settings, and macros so that I don’t have to go through and reconfigure them again. It’s bad enough I have to download all the patches, but sitting around for an hour or more configuring each profile will be annoying. I do have an external drive I’ll be using to transfer files between computers.
Just did some fun things this weekend–I knocked out BRD and LBRS on Sleu as the next steps of my Ironman chain, got Hasati (my Hunter in BDL) to 50, and dinged my Rogue to 30.
Ah, I see what you were getting at–you didn’t mean that the trees would have half the talents, but rather half the potential number of *talent points *in them (i.e., if you were to add up the total number of points required to get every rank of every talent, there’d be about half as many needed per tree).
:smack: Thanks for reminding me about this! I need to start doing the dailies on my Hordies.
That quest got me pretty close to crying… Because it was so damned tedious! 
I was ready to kill the damned turtle myself by the end.
Twinks, RPers, and people who like putting together fancy outfits for their bank alts. I should track down what happened to the one I used to have on my twink Mage, before I got her Engineering leveled enough to make the goggles… Though I may have sold it to finance chant mats.
Back up your WTF and Interface directories. When you reinstall WoW, put them back in the root WoW directory. Done.
Actually, you don’t even have to reinstall WoW. Just back up your entire World of Warcraft directory (might want to save WTF and Interfaces off separately) and then when you get your new machine, just copy them over as is. WoW doesn’t do anything to the Registry, so you should be able to start right up where you left off.
ETA: Oh, and my DK got the Deathcharger’s Reins this weekend! I’m beginning to think there’s something to my friend’s theory that the drop rate for mounts is higher for DKs, because in the past three weeks I’ve gotten two Zulian Tigers and the Deathcharger, but when my mage goes by himself nothing ever drops for him even though he’s been trying much longer to beat up the Baron and steal his horsie.
If you’ve got the space to back it up, anyway. The WTF and Interface files take up a fraction of the size the full game takes. I think it’s up to 20 gig or something now?
I just put it on an external drive and move it around between my machines as needed. If you have the drive, it’s definitely a lot faster than reinstalling from disks and then having to apply all the patches one at a time.
IMO, if you can do PP, you can do BQL. Are you manually assigning bites? That could be your problem–the RL should be running an addon to do it automatically (including raid markers and whispers).
Announcement: Laemadras has real pants now. He no longer looks like the pervy rogue with a furry codpiece and leggings that are the exact colour of his skin. He looks like a real assassin.
Yeah I’ve got a 350 gig external drive I use to transfer files so it’s good to hear I can just move the entire folder over to the new computer. Assuming I don’t screw up the build, my first time assembling a computer.
It took us like 3-4 weeks of constantly wiping on Professor to get him down. We’d get like one or two awesome attempts and then I guess most of the people phoned in on the rest of the attempts until we moved on. Last night we had to bring in quite a few people from a friends guild to fill in spots which I think made a bit of a difference. With our normal group it seems like the majority of people are being hit with malleable goo and running into vials, it’s almost comical. Our RL won’t even attempt BQL at all with this group, though I think we could talk her into trying Sindragosa if we get that far.
On my RP server, Argent Dawn, there seemed to be some sort of price-fixing/collusion going on in the hat market for a while. Almost every single hat in the under-level-30 range was priced at 294g, 84s, 51c. Lots of different sellers. I’ll go hatless, thankyouverymuch.
Some interesting discoveries I’ve made recently:
• A bout of insomnia last night prompted me to get back out of bed at 2:00 AM and play WoW for a couple hours. It was amazing and wonderful to run around Dalaran at 40 fps instead of 4.7 fps … to fish from the Dalaran fountain and not have it take 5 seconds to loot every fish I caught … to turn a corner in Dalaran and not run face-first into a wall …
• I’m sure some of you already knew this, but if a female draenei character is mounted, her /rude emote becomes really rude.
Jabloo, my troll hunter, has reached level 58 and will be heading to Outland as soon as he gets his Mining up to 300. His skill was sitting at 229, and 230 is required to mine Small Thorium Veins, so naturally while running around WPL he was encountering one Small Thorium Vein after another, with no Mithril Veins in sight. I gave up and went to UC and smelted all the mithril ore he had, then bought additional mithril ore from the AH and smelted more. 32 Mithril Bars later he dinged up to 230. Then I flew him down to Un’Goro to mine thorium, and naturally, the very first mineral node he found was Mithril :mad: Mined a couple stacks of thorium and smelted it all, which got his skill up to 278. So now he can hit the Rich Thorium Veins and get up to 300
Even on normal difficulty, BQL is orders of magnitude easier than Sindragosa. If your group is having problems with movement and situational awareness, Sindragosa will be a nightmare for you. BQL does require folks to spread out during the bloodbolt whirl and move during pact and flames, and of course the bites can be a bit of a pain, but there are ways to make those easier (such as the addon **SFG **refers to–we use Vamp). 25 man Sindragosa is one of the harder fights in ICC, while BQL is actually one of the easier (even on hard mode).
Basically, I would say if your group can’t handle BQL I would strongly doubt they would have much success on Sindragosa.