Hey My Guild-Bros
I’m headin that way in a few for a few. (My grandson’s here and I have to spend time with him), so Rik, you told me to let you know when I’m ready to upgrade my gear with my honor points, and I’m there now, if you see this and have time.
Thanks
Q
Great Info…
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Thank you!
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I just started playing WoW for the first time last week. Just so we can establish that I have no idea what I’m doing, the last time I played an online MMORPG was Ultima Online a decade ago. I’ve been trying to comb through these threads, but honestly they are over my head, so I’m just going to ask here.
Gameplay-wise, if you’re soloing, do you just wander around until you find quests to do that are in your level? When I finished all the quests in my starting area, there was no direction on where to go, so I just wandered over to another section until I found someone that needed something that I could accomplish. I’m assuming it’s kind of free-form like that, right? There’s no linear story line I’m supposed to be following and have just somehow missed?
I’m thinking I made a mistake in what server I chose, as even though it was med-population there never seems to be anyone else around.
You can go to your major city for your faction/race, and find the “Hero’s Board” (there will be a yellow ! over it). That will always have quests to lead you to the appropriate zone for your level, where you will find many more quests.
The game is pretty mature, so it’s pretty common not to see too many people in the lower-level areas unless they are levelling alts. You’ll probably see a ton of people in the city.
There is usually a cookie-crumb quest at the end of a given area’s quest-load that will direct you to another area. If you do come up against a dead end, opening the world map and mousing over different zones will tell you what level range those zones are intended to service and help you decide where to go next.
What zone did you finish where you didn’t get a cookie-crumb to the next area?
BTW, GRATS on Champion, Quasi!
The last two nights, I’ve been trying to get back into a troll priest character which was the second toon I ever made, and has long lay fallow. She’s lvl 31, in Silver-Thread garments, believe it or not. And it kinda sucks.
I don’t know if she’s underpowered because of her seriously ancient gear, or because she’s been inactive since well before 2.0, or if I missed something in reassigning her talents, or what…but it’s a serious effort to level in Desolace with this priestess. There’s a new tier of crafted gear on the AH that opens up for her at lvl 32, so I may just struggle along until I hit that and see if I can buy her way out of this hole.
Seriously, when solo questing, should I need to stop and drink after every pull? I thought by the 30s mana shortage was only something you needed to worry seriously about in instances.
Howdy, Stranger! 
You’ve come to the right place. This is where I got my game knowledge, and, as this thread is quite long, no one minds if you ask questions as a new player.
Q
PS: Thanks for helping me get there, jayjay!
Time Stranger- What Quasi said. We’ve got several tens of thousands of posts on this subject between two subsequent threads…repeats are inevitable. No one minds too much if you do repeat a question someone’s asked before. It’s nearly impossible to actually read through and remember what was and wasn’t asked.
That’s usually where I use my “Walk On Water Elixir” going after the Captain.
Question unrelated to this post: When you pick up an item, such as a bomb, needed to incapacitate an enemy, how come sometimes it will appear next to your action bar on the right, and sometimes in your bags and is there any way to make it appear on the outside *every * time?
Thanks
Q
Thank you for all the replies, every one! I did find the Hero’s Board in Darnasses when I finished the starting area, but it sent me to a higher level in Ashenvale than my character could handle. I only had that happen with my Night Elf priest though, I’ve also been trying out a Tauren Hunter and it guided me a lot more. It has been fun just to wander around though.
Hmmm…there should be a quest to go to Lor’Danel in Darkshore after you finish all your Teldrassil quests. I’m thinking off the top of my head that it comes from Tyrande Whisperwind, the High Priestess of Elune in the temple in Darnassus.
Fun fact! You can mistletoe Tyrande, but not Malfurion. You can also mistletoe Varian, so I think it might be a racial leader thing.
I have Elder and Love Fool to go and then I will have a pretty, pretty purple dragon!
You do not marry your way into racial leadership, especially if the game doesn’t acknowledge it. 
On The Road To Sholazar*** starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, with Frank Sinatra as the Lich King.
Welcome! Which server did you choose? If you want to join in with other dopers feel free to roll a toon over on Cairne. (We’re Horde side) It’s nice to have occasional help.
Let us know if you do. There’s another thread if you want to check in there.
Woohoo my guild got Ultraxion last night.
The fight is simple enough from a mechanic standpoint, but kind of intense in a “I have to concentrate and stay completely focused for nearly six minutes so i don’t make a stupid mistake” kind of way…
and wow, the boat is A LOT harder than LFR…
The speed of mana depletion is still the one thing I dislike about my priest. Though in her 70s (she’s 77 now) she doesn’t normally have to stop and drink until after the third pull… Though one thing I found that really helped was to stop casting Power Word: Shield on myself before every pull. I started looking at my spell tooltips and realized that PW:S all by itself almost costs more mana than all the damage spells combined that I need to kill a single level-appropriate mob.
Spirit really helps with priest mana regen (and it gives you +hit too). So make sure you are gearing as much spirit as possible and don’t worry about +hit (not that you would be at lower levels). And I think the Spirit Tap talent increases your mana regen when you kill things too.
What tree is Spirit Tap in? I remember it from way back when but I don’t remember seeing it when I was reallocating her talent points in Shadow, which makes me think it’s either later than she’d get at lvl 31 or it’s in a different tree. That’s the one thing I don’t like much in the current talent system…you’re locked into one tree until you hit bottom. You can’t grab something from Discipline (like Spirit Tap, I assume) until you’ve finished out Shadow.
Spirit Tap is (was) a Shadow talent, from near the beginning of the tree.