It looks like you have changed your main spec to Protection (7, 3, 52) so you will not have the Bladestorm ability as that is the 51 point talent in the Arms tree. Your dual spec has only 5 points spent (in Arms) so maybe you should flesh it out and set the talents to get Bladestorm? As soon as you put points in Bladestorm you’ll learn the ability.
Why do you have your main spec as Protection?
Thanks I’ll check all this out.
Heehee. 
Shockwave means you’re in a Protection Spec. From what **martu **says, you’re just stuck in the wrong spec right now–there’s an Arms one there, but you can’t use the abilities right now.
1.) Open your talent window (“N”).
2.) Look for the two tabs on the top of the right hand side. One of them will look like a shield–that’s your Protection spec. If that’s selected, a message at the top of the window will tell you it’s your active spec.
3.) Click the other tab, which may say Arms or may say untalented. There should be a red button at the top that tells you to click it to make this your active spec. Click that button, and you’ll start a short cast to switch specs.
4.) Now you should have the active spec message at the top of this window. From what martu said, most of your talent points haven’t been spent in this spec. Go ahead and re-spend them. You’ll re-learn your missing abilities like Bladestorm as you put points into them.
5.) Once you have your abilities again, you need to put them back on your action bar. Open your spell/ability book (“P”), find them, and drag them down where you want them.
If this is all a bit intimidating, I should be able to give you a hand when I get home from work.
Oh man, that would be nice! Unfortunately, action bars are just shortcuts–they don’t actually store anything for you. It’s just a way of using what’s in your bags without having to open them all the time.
Happiness is helping your wife grind that last 1800g to get her flying mount and cold weather flying.
Now if only I could get some raid slots. If I join a pug raid group doing 10-mans, with my 5-6k dps, how badly am I going to get screamed at?
5-6k DPS in a 10-man pug is pretty good, I’d say. If you get screamed at, it’ll be for not knowing the fights and causing a wipe 
My metrics are all skewed by the people I run with, so take this with a grain of salt: 5-6k is probably okay for ICC10 but light for ICC25.
The bigger issue, though, is knowing the fights and having good raid awareness. Somebody who pulls a solid 5k for an entire fight is worth more than someone who blasts out 15k for 30 seconds, then gets themself and/or other people killed. So do your research: watch boss videos on YouTube (Tankspot’s are usually quite good) and/or read the boss pages on Wowhead and WoWWiki.
I play on Moon Guard, and I can tell you that you won’t find any ERP unless you’re actively looking for it. You will, however, find all sorts of great RP anywhere and everywhere around the world (though some places more than others).
It’s funny about Wyrmrest, though – mostly I hear that
all the serious RP on Wrymrest moved to Moon Guard, and that MG is the last bastion of RPers in WoW, or
RP on Wyrmrest is still going strong but not quite as prevalent as on MG
so… YMMV.
Well, my progress is slowing now, after I’ve nearly completed the first phase of my gear update. 3/5 T9 caster set atm, with ilevel-equivalent PVP in most of the other slots. Still need to update a trinket.
Also need a better belt. Thinking I may get a belt with 60 emblems of Frost–I’m about halfway there, now.
Dipping my toe in the shallow end of the raiding pool. So far, I’ve done two bosses in VoA 10 and VoA 25, and I did Malygos as the weekly last week–odd, I got the reward for the kill, but did not get the achievement, possibly because I was dead when the fight ended.
The achievement/title for killing Malygos (Champion of the Frozen Wastes) also requires that you’ve killed (I think) Kel’Thuzzad in Naxxramas, and possibly also the dragon boss in Obsidian Sanctum. (Plus I think all of the “vanilla” heroic dungeon bosses, which you may not have gotten all of depending on how the random number generator is treating you). It’s a reward for beating all of the raids that came with the initial release of Wrath of the Lich King. Anyway, a lot of people won’t have killed Malygos because he’s a PITA, whereas they have done Naxx at some point.
The other place to go looking for a belt upgrade is in Heroic Pit of Saron & Heroic Halls of Reflection; both of them drop ilvl 232 cloth belts, both of which are pretty ok for DPS mages.
I experienced a comedy phish (is that a word now??) last night:
[W:From] [Blizzrard]: Hello,Blizzard Entertainment notifies you that your WOW account has been chosen to participate in Cataclysm beta test. For more information please visit:www. wow- ctmbeta. net <link broken by me>
I have all of the heroic bosses needed for the Champion of the Frozen Wastes title. That achievement shows I only lack the three raid targets, including Malygos. I don’t understand why I did not get credit for the kill on him, even though I did get the reward for the weekly quest…5/5 Frost/Triumph if I remember correctly…
Weird. I would have thought wearing two pieces of heirloom gear, plus a bunch of rested XP, would have made getting my troll hunter from level 64 to 65 go a little faster, but it seemed to take all day yesterday. Hopefully, I can get Jabloo leveled up in time to take part in the event to liberate the Echo Isles 
(I wonder if that’s going to be just for high-level toons, or if lowbies can participate as well. How did it work with the WotLK pre-launch world events?)
Somebody apparently noticed that Jabloo was making money selling Thorium Ore on the AH, and decided to put a stop to that. Yeah, that’s right. When I started selling thorium it was going for around 35g/stack, so I put mine up for 34 and change, and for a couple weeks the prices hovered right around there. So of course, somebody had to ruin it by coming along and posting a load for 25g/stack, and from there it’s been all downhill. Lowest price when I went to post my last batch of thorium was 18.50/stack.
So I bought up all the 18.50 stuff to hold onto, (though I experimented and turned some of it into bars, which I found would sell for 20g/stack on the AH), leaving just a bunch of 22g/stack auctions up there under my own 34g/stack auctions. I’ll let the 22g stuff sell and then see if my own will sell before somebody else comes along and undercuts again, though I’m not holding my breath.
OTOH, I think I may have made a mistake by posting too much ore in too short a period of time. As my current auctions expire, I think I may just hold onto the stuff and repost it in smaller batches when I see the price go back up.
Meanwhile, I also posted all the gems I mined along with the thorium during the 20 days I was in Un’Goro training my Venomhide Ravasaur. I had collected a bunch - lots of Azerothian Diamonds, Huge Emeralds, Large Opals, etc. Then I headed back to Zangarmarsh to get back to leveling, and while I was there my chat window let me know that somebody was buying all those gems. I eventually got to a mailbox to collect my earnings, and about fell out of my chair laughing when I saw the name of the toon buying all my gems: Rushlimborc 
Oh, and I’ve been meaning to ask …
My nelf hunter has been questing in Dustwallow Marsh, and I got to wondering about Alcaz Island. It’s clearly part of that whole old, now-obsolete “the Defias kidnapped King Wrynn” quest chain, but did anything actually happen on that island aside from the flyover Jaina sends you on?
I remember the first time I took a toon through that quest chain, and saw all those elite mobs on the island, and that led me to believe Onyxia’s Lair was on that island. So I was kind of surprised to learn later that her lair is actually in mainland Dustwallow Marsh.
The amount of detail and number of mobs on Alcaz Island seems a bit much for something you’re just supposed to fly over, not quest on.
Edit: I also noticed a subtle connection between Jaina and Thrall while talking to her. One of the random things she says when you click on her is, “Welcome to Theramore - have you come to help the Alliance?” and I was immediately reminded of Thrall’s, “Welcome to Orgrimmar - have you come to serve the Horde?”
Wrynn used to actually be there, and there was also an event added to the island for the opening of Ahn’Qiraj. (Don’t mess with Dr. Weavil!)
Thanks - I’ll read the article ")
Hey Quasi!
Just for you: I’ve Been Everywhere, Man, WoW version
Oh man, that is too funny
And the ending is just…perfect.
Yeah, I get obsessive about this, and I tend to be a fast study–as much as I like WoW, the bosses aren’t as complex as many of the ones I used to tank/DPS on in FFXI–which is a good thing.
Also, wandering through Dalaran, last night, I have a musing on the difference between Blizzard and other MMO companies.
Algalon in WoW and Absolute Virtue in FFXI are pretty similar–optional, high-end, this-will-kill-you raid boss. Except in WoW, when you beat Algalon, you get a huge scripted public celebration in the main city. And in FFXI, when you even come close to beating Absolute Virtue, Square-Enix silently patches the game to make him even harder.
WoooooooooooooHooooooooooo!
At last, at last, at last!
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got my main and two other toons in Dalaran that I always log out in the ground floor of Violet Citadel, next to the spawn point of the last book I needed. Logged in Eilyssana (my main) today, no book. She did the fishing daily, then went back to that spot. No book, logged out. Logged in my mage, Svelexi/no book/fishing daily/log out. Logged in my warrior, Castariora/no book/fishing daily/cooking daily/port to Outland to do fishing daily there/flew around Nagrand to get that exploration achievement/hearthed back to Dalaran/ran back to VC … and there’s the damned book!
Immediately “force quit” the game (using the Mac version of Alt+F4) to avoid the 30 seconds logging out a toon always seems to take, quickly relaunched game, logged back in, logged my main in, book still there, right-click, WIN!
/happydance
:D:D:D
I didn’t like it. The WotLK pre-launch event was an undead invasion that happened every-frakkin-where. Hordes of zombies that would infect players, turning them into more zombies. It was a real pain in the ass to avoid that stuff and get on with the other things I actually wanted to do. Not a fun couple of weeks for me, anyway–but some people loved it.
I really don’t want to have my random heroic queue pop, zone in, and find a zombified tank wanting to eat my brain. On the other hand, a zombified battleground may be kinda fun…
I loved it for one very useful reason–my spouse’s main is Alliance, and my main is Horde. And zombies (which were considered part of the same faction) could trade with each other! We used that time to transfer a whole bunch of stuff back and forth without having to worry about auction house fees or auction snipers. It was great!
