# World of Warcraft General Discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 4, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294 "2009-03-04T17:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 152
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3021 "2009-07-16T22:28:18Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > [Check it out.](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29937) Whoa, cool. I took the chest plate on that quest; the helm was inferior to what I already had so I probably didn’t even ctrl-click to see how it looked. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3022 "2009-07-16T22:32:17Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Whoa, cool. I took the chest plate on that quest; the helm was inferior to what I already had so I probably didn’t even ctrl-click to see how it looked. Yeah. I usually run with the helmet hidden, since I think most helms look absolutely retarded. By chance, I decided to turn helm display back on while I was wearing that, and I liked it so much I left it. Course, as soon as I upgraded I had to hide again. Sadly there aren’t any level 80 pieces that look like that. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3023 "2009-07-16T23:03:30Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > There’s an amusing sketch somewhere (I think on the official WoW site’s fan-made art section) of a very pooped looking flyer carting around a character and all of her bags, mounts, etc. [Found it!](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#217) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3024 "2009-07-16T23:16:18Z")
[Here’s one I agree with 100%](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#220) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3025 "2009-07-17T00:00:24Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Is that [Bone Fishing Pole](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45991)? Cause I got that one too but my fishing only just became good enough to use it and I haven’t equipped it yet… Thats the one. I love it. I still have the Kalu’ak one in my bag but since I got the Bone Fishing pole I only use it because of how it looks. Also a comment on my previous post: I didn’t mean to come off sounding like I was bragging. It just seems to me that Blizz up’d the drop rates of the good stuff because for 5 months all I got was worms and water walking potions and then poof two months ago I started getting all this good stuff. I don’t think it’s tied to fishing skill either as I had my fishing up to 450 before I hit 74 and made it up to Dalaran. It’s funny I love fishing in this game but find it boring in real life. I was going through some of the comics Shot From Guns linked to and I just started an herbalism/alchemy alt and this comic had me laughing. [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#240](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#240) I love the look on her face in the last panel. She’s trying so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3026 "2009-07-17T00:38:46Z")
> [@Electronic\_Chaos](#): > > I have a proposition for a new achievement. > > Today, I was grinding some skills when one of my guild officer’s alts asked if anyone wanted to run him through Ulduman. So I obliged him (since he’d tanked my first heroic the other day, I figured I owed him for being semi-craptacular). So we go through, and I’m 1- or 2- shotting everything, and it’s all going great. We down each boss (and get lost several times), and get to the end, and the last boss falls with ease. I hearth back, and go to sell some of the trash off from where I’d been fishing earlier. And then I notice my dagger and off-hand item… in my inventory. And on my back was my fishing pole. > > Yes, I cleared an entire (albeit low-level) instance with a fishing pole. (Well that, and lots and lots of Shadow Bolts.) I just can’t think of any clever names for the achievement. “Sleeping with the Fishes” ---
**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3027 "2009-07-17T02:49:39Z")
**Quasimodem** , do you actually look for new pieces of armor on the AH every time you level? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3028 "2009-07-17T03:17:35Z")
On the subject of skimpy armor for females, I found this great cartoon: [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#136](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#136) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3029 "2009-07-17T08:57:56Z")
> [@Animastryfe](#): > > **Quasimodem** , do you actually look for new pieces of armor on the AH every time you level? Yes, Ma’am (Sir?), I do. I thought that is what I should do. No? Q ---
**Author:** ![Mogle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mogle/32/12021_2.png) [@Mogle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3030 "2009-07-17T09:05:06Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Yes, Ma’am (Sir?), I do. I thought that is what I should do. > > No? Nothing wrong with _looking_, buying on the other hand is probably a waste of gold. Personally I try to upgrade every 5-10 levels, but even then it has to be at a reasonable price, there is no way I’m paying 10+g for a level 30 green! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3031 "2009-07-17T09:08:16Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Still, female belfs can appear somewhat [obscene](http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/obscene_belf.jpg) in certain situations … 😃 I wish to apologize for not having taken a screenie of my female dwarf during those five minutes that my guild’s tabard had the “lightning” model. Five seconds for me to yell “oh lord NO!”, fifty seconds for the GM’s wife to stop bashing him with the sofa’s pillows, and some four minutes for him to come up with something that didn’t make the female players in the guild freak out. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3032 "2009-07-17T14:27:21Z")
On April 1, our guild leader really made us all scream. We logged in to find the nice black tabard with double-lightning bolts turned into a shockingly hot pink tabard with bright green leafy border and a huge Greek omega emblazoned across it (her main character’s name is Omegamoo). Worse yet, she left it that way for several days. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3033 "2009-07-17T14:44:21Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > On April 1, our guild leader really made us all scream. We logged in to find the nice black tabard with double-lightning bolts turned into a shockingly hot pink tabard with bright green leafy border and a huge Greek omega emblazoned across it (her main character’s name is Omegamoo). > > Worse yet, she left it that way for several days. We have a pink tabard with a bunny on it. I love my guild. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3034 "2009-07-17T14:48:22Z")
> [@Redwing](#): > > We have a pink tabard with a bunny on it. I love my guild. Wait…are you a Pink Nicie? ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3035 "2009-07-17T15:07:20Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Wait…are you a Pink Nicie? Heh heh heh. No. We’re a progression guild, and we do PvP as a group at times, it’s just not a required part of the guild. We just think the idea of having a bad-ass tabard is silly, and we take ourselves as seriously as we take our tabard. It’s a PvP server, as well, so some PvP is going to happen at instance portals, and we do occasionally do Wintergrasp during raid nights to do Vault. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3036 "2009-07-17T15:12:33Z")
> [@Redwing](#): > > Heh heh heh. No. We’re a progression guild, and we do PvP as a group at times, it’s just not a required part of the guild. We just think the idea of having a bad-ass tabard is silly, and we take ourselves as seriously as we take our tabard. It’s a PvP server, as well, so some PvP is going to happen at instance portals, and we do occasionally do Wintergrasp during raid nights to do Vault. That would have been TOO weird. The Pink Nicies were my old guild on Turalyon. Our tabard was pink, with a white bunny. I think they still exist, but a) I haven’t played that character but once or twice in the last two years, and b) the last time I logged in on him, I knew NOBODY in our guild. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3037 "2009-07-17T15:17:23Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > Thats the one. I love it. I still have the Kalu’ak one in my bag but since I got the Bone Fishing pole I only use it because of how it looks. You know, I just used it for the first time last night and while it looks really cool (and the +30 is sweet since I don’t have the Kalu’ak one) I had a problem. With the “standard” and Nat Pagle poles I could see my line before the bobber appeared. This helped a lot when trying to hit a node (I could recast if the line didn’t end in the water). With the Bone Pole I can’t see the line and so don’t know if I hit the node until the bobber shows up (maybe 2 secs later). Not a big deal, but does add a few seconds to each catch - when farming up the Dragonfin it can make a difference. Oh, and on that note there was absolutely zero Dragonfin on the AH last night (or Mammoth Cutters). Are there that many people taking a break? Fewer farmers (producers) and more raiders (consumers)? Or maybe it was just a fluke occurance. I won’t complain because I can fish up a few stacks of Dragonfin in 30 mins or so and make a nice bit of cash, but having no ammo for sale really sucked 20 mins before raid start last night. > [@](#): > > I was going through some of the comics Shot From Guns linked to and I just started an herbalism/alchemy alt and this comic had me laughing. > > [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#240](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/gallery.html#240) > > I love the look on her face in the last panel. She’s trying so hard. That’s brilliant. I never did figure out how one could fail at picking a flower but now I’ve figured it out - it’s the damn hooves. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3038 "2009-07-17T15:23:13Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > On April 1, our guild leader really made us all scream. We logged in to find the nice black tabard with double-lightning bolts turned into a shockingly hot pink tabard with bright green leafy border and a huge Greek omega emblazoned across it (her main character’s name is Omegamoo). > > Worse yet, she left it that way for several days. Sorry, you just can’t beat that time the aforementioned GM went on vacation. After changing the tabard. To hot pink, with a white heart and white border. I still want to kill him, but Sweden is a bit too far and his wife refuses to relinquish dibs anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3039 "2009-07-17T15:47:21Z")
Several years ago on my alliance server my main joined a guild that was just a couple of friends who wanted their own guild so I signed their charter and played in that guild for a while. They had a pretty nice tabard too. Well after just a couple of months some of my friends started playing so I switched servers and joined their horde guild and that’s where I play today. About a year ago I decided to log into my alliance characters just for giggles and I found that the guild was empty, not disbanded just empty. The only toons in it were me and one other who hadn’t logged in for two years. The guild note basically said, “We made another guild you can have this one.” So I got a friend to log in and I made him an officer and then had him invite all my alts into the guild and then I went and changed the tabard to black with the skull and crossbones emblem in green. So in honor of you pinkies tonight I am going to change the tabard to pink and the emblem to black or white depending on what looks better. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/3040 "2009-07-17T16:05:50Z")
My draenei paladin is probably going to stick with her Hand of Argus tabard because it is nicer-looking than the guild tabard. We have a good one, though; it’s blue with a white border and a white starburst kind of thing in the middle. I had my hunter keep wearing hers for a while, but haven’t bothered for several levels. It made her Outlands clown suit look even clownier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294.md?page=151) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294.md?page=153)