Do you get confused about which face to hide from during his doomlazer? That happens to me occasionally, hehe.
Amen to that. Vehicles (like the drakes on Maly or the ones for FL), crazy buffs (like the Undercity battle), and fight mechanics (like Saurfang) should absolutely be excluded.
Take your Mage Frost for a few. I’ve had Deep Freeze crit for well over 20k.
I know how to go about finding a guild on my own. What I’m looking for is a recommendation, from someone who is *in *that guild or *knows people *who are. Every time I’ve gotten bitten in the ass, it’s because a guild that *looks *good on the surface turns out to be less than ideal once you’re actually in it.
I think a scammer tried to trick me last night. I got a tell from someone named Blizzardsurvey (or something like that). The tell, in fractured English, was in purple text, and advised me that my account was suspected of illegal gold transactions, and I should go to their website, which he helpfully typed out.
I reported it as spam, and put the guy on ignore. Can’t think of any legitimate reason Blizzard would do something like that.
Anybody else seen something like this?
Happens all the time. You get a tell from a character, usually one with a Blizzard-related name, telling you that there’s a problem with your account, or you’ve won some contest, and gives you a URL that contains “blizzard” or “wow” or both, possibly misspelled.
IMO, besides using “Report Spam” and putting the person on Ignore, also open a ticket. You don’t need the “Talk to a GM” version, just the “Report an Issue” one or whatever it is. Give the name of the character that messaged you, the server, and (if possible) the time.
Always a scam. Blizzard will never contact you in-game about a problem with your account, and if you do talk to a GM their name is flagged so that it’s unmistakable. Any websites that are anything other than www.worldofwarcraft.com and www.battle.net are not legitimate.
Yep. GMs have a tiny blue blizz logo next to their name, plus their chats with you open in a whole new window instead of the regular chat log, the few times I’ve had to talk to one.
I find that BadBoy is invaluable for automatically reporting spam and filtering the tells before they get to you (at least until the spammers try a new tactic, and then BadBoy will update). You can configure it to prompt you to authorize the spam/ignore action, if you’re worried about it catching legitimate tells by accident. So far, over the course of six months or so, I have yet to catch BadBoy’s algorithms making a mistake.
My main is going to have to talk to Sunsorrow and see if she can get that book!
She’s also about three quests away from Loremaster of Kalimdor. T__T Then it’ll be on to EK. I haven’t had to do additional dungeon quests aside from the ones I did when I was leveling. Lots of 4-zone quest chains, though. :smack:
Yeah my Greater Heal often crits for 21k or more (at least once, 24k!) but they don’t show in the stats 
Oh speaking of unwanted tells: I was in Dal the other day picking up the weekly quest and somebody whispers to me “Can I have 1,000 gold?” :dubious:
I reply “No.” After a few seconds they reply “Sorry I was talking to a friend.”
I think I need more friends who will give me 1,000g when I ask.
Between my two 80s that have done FoS, I’ve died that way a few times. More often it’s been a case of the healer and/or tank going down, which pretty much guarantees a wipe*. My paladin has 7 Devourer of Souls kills.
- Except for that one totally awesome time on my mage when everybody died except her and the boomkin, and the boomkin switched to bear and proceeded to combo tank/heal while I DPSed my ass off until Devourer of Souls was finally down
Looking at the statistics is actually pretty interesting, I think. My mage has actually been through H:FoS more times than my paladin - it seems that ever since she became eligible for it, she’s gotten it over and over and over: 11 Bronjahm kills and 10 Devourer of Souls kills. Bronjahm is her leading cause of boss-death - she’s died to him 7 times. But she’s been in there even more than that - I’ve lost count of the groups she’s dropped due to wipes on trash without ever seeing a boss. And of course it doesn’t show up in statistics, but I find it amusing that every time she drops group in FoS, the next random she gets is invariably Gundrak or DTK. It’s like the RDF is mocking her: “What, FoS too tough for you? Here, have some cake instead.”
Or the evidence for the number of times I’ve joined “in progress” runs for the final boss - my paladin has 8 Lich King Escapes vs. only 6 Marwyn kills; my mage has killed Tyrannus 6 times, but Ick & Krick and Garfrost only 5 times.
I do like that the stats give you and idea of how “random” the RDF is – for example, I’ve killed Loken and Ingvar nearly 40 times, I think, and Eregos <5.
Well, glad to know my instincts were right about spammer boy. Next time, I will submit a ticket on it while I have the name right in front of me.
Speaking of dungeons…I’m thinking of trying a couple, just to see if I can do them with the lag issue I have. My mage is 75 at the moment. Really don’t want to go in to one of the harder dungeons and cause a wipe due to stupidity or lag issues. Also wondering if I can crank out enough DPS to justify taking up a group slot. My gear score isn’t very good…I want to say around 1800 or so. I’m wearing a combination of mostly S3 and a couple pieces of S4 PVP gear, and my spell power is only around 910 or so.
I’m thinking the RDF may put me in things way over my head. Should I just join a que for a couple of the easier dungeons to test things out? Which ones?
I actually got an email yesterday claiming to be from Blizzard, telling me that my account had been locked for gold-selling and to log in at <deceptive.blizzardish.con> (well, not that exact URL) to log in and explain myself.
<Bill Cosby>Riiiiight!</BC> The email was formatted like the writer had never heard of paragraph breaks. Half the words were misspelled. And my account was NOT locked when I tried to get in. So…failx3, Mr. Conman.
Unfortunately, I can’t really help. My main’s guild is 8/12 HM25 (just a bit behind where you’d like to be - actually we have two 25s that are 8/12 and 6/12 respectively, and at least 4 10-mans that are 9/12HM or higher), and could certainly use a Prot Warrior and Tree/Boomkin, but we’re Horde.
I know one guy in the only progressed Alliance guild on Cairne (Havoc - 11/12HM, working on LK25HM). He’s a great guy, and very good at what he does, but I can’t really recommend them because (a) he’s the only one I know, (b) he’s only playing with them because they needed an Ele, he’ll leave once they get the kill, and (c) he seems to have concluded they are kind of jerks (and he’s not the only one I’ve gotten that report from…). And of course I have no idea what they’re needs are.
Sorry.
Well, do you need 1,000g? I have plenty sitting around. 
Uninstall GearScore. It doesn’t mean a damned thing 'til you’re 80, *and *it’s not helping your latency problems any.
Well, thanks for the thought, anyway!
Hi!
Huh. I wondered about that. I noticed latency was a little higher than usual after I installed Gear Score, Auctioneer, Quest Helper, Omen, Recount, and DBM. I’ve discovered I don’t particularly like Auctioneer, so I was going to delete it. Quest Helper is…ok, but I don’t like the way it prioritizes things. Think I may remove it as well.
I want to keep Omen, Recount and DBM, because they all do things that are useful to me…or were last time I played, anyway.
Try Skada instead of Omen and Recount. It tracks the same stuff in a single smaller program, and you can configure it to display threat while in combat and DPS meters out of combat.
GearScore’s your big problem, though. It’s constantly talking to the server, getting information on the people around you. Blizzard recently set up a data throttle to keep GS from pinging too often, but it’s still annoying as hell.
Cool beans. Gear Score will be toast when I get home from work, and I’ll check out Skada. I have the curse client, so getting addons is easy.
Um…about that removing them thing…do I just go in to the addon folder in my WoW directory and delete the ones I don’t work, or is there some uninstall process I need to follow?
Threat is my biggest concern as a mage. Ideally, back when I sorta knew how to play this game, I’d push things right up to the limit of pulling aggro, so I liked being able to actually see how close I was getting. I suppose I don’t really need a DPS meter, but I like them.
Most of QuestHelper’s functionality is native to the game itself now, anyway. Blizzard co-opted the map functions and the quest tracking.
ETA: You should be able to just delete them from your add-on folder.
You can just delete the addon’s folder(s) while WoW isn’t running. If you don’t want to delete it entirely, but you don’t want to load it (for instance, if you want to try Skada but you think you might prefer to keep Omen and Recount), at the character selection screen there’s a button marked Addons in the lower right. Click that, and you can turn off any addons you want without actually deleting the data.
As long as you have the more recent updates to GS, it’s much less bandwidth intensive now, as since the throttle, it will only inspect players that you target.