# World of Warcraft General Discussion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294>\
**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\
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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4761 "2009-09-08T17:40:02Z")

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Hey guys…I got very lucky from the Bag of Fishing Treasures and got a [Brilliant Stormjewel.](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45882) I would like to trade for a [Bold Stormjewel](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45862) or equivalent. Also, I’ve been stockpiling some jewels that I’ve been mining from Saronite and Titanium nodes. Who are our GO TO guildies that can help me tweak as much strength for my empty sockets?

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4762 "2009-09-08T18:02:04Z")

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> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#):
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> Hey guys…I got very lucky from the Bag of Fishing Treasures and got a [Brilliant Stormjewel.](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45882) I would like to trade for a [Bold Stormjewel](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45862) or equivalent. Also, I’ve been stockpiling some jewels that I’ve been mining from Saronite and Titanium nodes. Who are our GO TO guildies that can help me tweak as much strength for my empty sockets?

In the Burning Dog Legion, Jarryn has been the main JC. I hadn’t seen J online for a while, but he was on last night, so you might want to send an in-game message. My pally is a JC also, but very low-level.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4763 "2009-09-08T18:08:49Z")

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Got Northrend Loremaster a week ago, then finished up Eastern Kingdoms a couple of days ago, and now I’m about 80 quests from Kalimdor Loremaster! After that, I only have a little over 200 Outland quests to go for the meta, the title, and the ugly-ugly-ugly tabard.

Coming up on Seeker, too–probably 50 or 60 quests to go there.

And I’m getting close to Exalted with Cenarion Circle–I already have Expedition, so that will be my Guardian of Cenarius.

All in all, a productive holiday weekend. 😃

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> I just finally told her “I can take it from here”, and let her go. When I tried to thank her, I saw I was being **ignored**.

Ugh. I hate, hate, hate ignore, and I reserve it only for people who spam or people in pick-up groups who were so bad that I never want to have anything to do with them ever again. ☹

> [@Telperien](#):
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> I am trying for a title; the one I want is Ambassador.

Probably a stupid question, but you’ve already done all of the starting zone quests for all of the factions, right?

As far as Runecloth farming, two other good locations are Stratholme (instance in Eastern Plaguelands) and an area of Hellfire Peninsula in Outland that’s called the something or other Armory, IIRC. It’s in the middle of the southern edge, and it’s full of Human ghosts. Nice respawn rate, good cloth drops, and there are spots where they’re just lined up in a row, waiting to be mown down like so many leaves of grass.

> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Dumb question - does that mapping work just for the character in question, or is it universal?
> 
> I have bad notions about mapping to the left two mouse buttons for druid forms, then my shaman dying horribly when she falls off a cliff and keeps trying to switch to flight form…

Note that you do not bind skills/spells per se, you bind actionbar slots.

> [@aruvqan](#):
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> I really wish they did make quest givers and flight masters unkillable

They don’t need to be unkillable–they just need to bump the damn flight masters up already. Killing a 65 Elite at 80, even one with adds, is trivial.

> [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](#):
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> Oh, and jousting - can’t you be grouped for that and get help?

For the jousting that you do at the Tourney grounds, you do not get group credit, nor can a group member joust the same target as you. However, people on the ground may attack the target you are jousting with using their normal attacks.

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> Does anyone know if resort places like PCB have internet cafe’s with WoW access, or do y’all know of anyone who might let me come over to their house and let me play?

You might be able to find a gaming center with WoW computers. It would probably be on the pricy side, though. Don’t forget that it won’t be a total loss, though–Wolkie will be getting rested XP while you’re logged off, if you leave him in an inn or a capital city. (Basically, anywhere that the level number in his portrait changes to “ZZZ.”) You get one “bubble” of rest XP for every eight hours you rest, so a week of rest would be 21 bubbles–that’s more than a level!

When your character works through rested XP, everything they kill gives \*\*double \*\*experience. (Note that this only applies to kills and not to quest turn-ins.)

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> As a matter of fact, if it wasn’t for the fact we’re getting the use of the \*\*condom \*\*for free, there’d be no way we could go.

This is my favorite typo of the past weekend. 😃

> [@](#):
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> Gonna take my WoW game “books” with me and try like hell to read and _retain_ everything written in them.

I know exactly which books you’re talking about–I own one of 'em. One caveat, though–the information can be very outdated. WoW constantly evolves, so something that was accurate at the time the book was published isn’t necessarily going to be true now.

> [@jayjay](#):
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> We put the “fun” in dysfunctional!

Personally, I put in the **nctio**.

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> Asked on WoW but got a flat NO from an 80, even after saluting and bowing. Anyone know of another way?

If you need run-throughs, the best thing to get them, assuming you don’t have a friend online, is to offer to pay. Ask in Trade chat in a capital city (you should be able to type in trade by starting with /2, so you’d say something like, **/2 Is any level 80 available to help me with XYZ? Paying ## gold** ). You probably want to offer something in the range of 50g to 100g.

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> And I have a dragon “patch” that no vendor wants?

If no vendor will take it, it’s probably a quest item. If you’ve completed the quest and it’s left over, you can delete it. (Pick it up, drag it outside your bag, and click again, then confirm the deletion.) If you’re not sure, look the item up on [Wowhead](http://www.wowhead.com). It will tell you what it’s used for.

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> Also how can you “whisper” to someone after adding the /whisper?

There are actually a couple of ways to whisper someone. As you know, you can use the button to whisper people on your friends list. You can also right-click their portrait if you have them targeted, then select “Whisper.”

As \*\*Bosstone \*\*mentioned, you can manually whisper them by typing **/w** or \*\*/whisper \*\*and then their name, and then your message.

To reply to a whisper, hit **R**. This will pop up a whisper to the last person who whispered you, and you can hit \*\*Tab \*\*to cycle through other names of people who whispered you. If you want to send another whisper to someone who you already whispered, but who hasn’t whispered you back, hit **Shift+R**. Again, \*\*Tab \*\*will cycle through names.

> [@col\_10022](#):
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> Herbalism lets you harvest frost lotus. One frost lotus cam make two flaks.

Herbalism will also lead to a tiny orgasm of glee the first time you step into Freya’s room in Ulduar, when you realize that it’s full of Northrend herbs… **including Frost Lotus nodes**. Many of the mobs are also herb-skinnable, even if they mostly drop trash.

> [@winterhawk11](#):
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> It’s probably sort of cheating, but I picked up a Logitech G19 keyboard with a bunch of extra macro keys on one side, and macroed my two rotations to those keys, so I can switch easily between the two.

Nope, not cheating–just good sense. 😃

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> BTW, for you experienced tanks out there–is there an addon that will easily tell you who in the party has aggro on something in a big AoE pull?

Not that I know of. Blizzard will throw up “losing aggro” and “changed target” warnings, but it doesn’t get more specific than that. Being a Warrior who started tanking before our AoE threat got a big buff in late TBC, I’m already used to cycling targets to keep threat up, so I just have target-of-target enabled in nameplates and keep an eye on mobs that way. Also, it doesn’t do you any good with melee DPS, but if your healers and ranged DPS are standing out of the way like they’re supposed to, it’s generally pretty easy to spot any mobs they’ve pulled that are heading towards 'em.

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**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4764 "2009-09-08T18:22:45Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> Probably a stupid question, but you’ve already done all of the starting zone quests for all of the factions, right?
> 
> As far as Runecloth farming, two other good locations are Stratholme (instance in Eastern Plaguelands) and an area of Hellfire Peninsula in Outland that’s called the something or other Armory, IIRC. It’s in the middle of the southern edge, and it’s full of Human ghosts. Nice respawn rate, good cloth drops, and there are spots where they’re just lined up in a row, waiting to be mown down like so many leaves of grass.

The last ones I have are for the dwarves, and I’m finishing those up now. I’ve run Scholomance twice this weekend. Once for fun and the second time I ran someone through. I got a heap of runecloth, among other things, both times. I’ve also done Tyr’s Hand for the cloth, and am going to venture to the Armory to bust the ghosts for their cloth in a day or so. I picked up a bunch of Stratholme quests, so I’m going to go there in the next few days, too.

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**Author:** ![Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Words_on_the_Interweb)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4765 "2009-09-08T18:30:17Z")

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> [@col\_10022](#):
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> Mining has a couple of cooldowns that they can make some money with but the cooldown limits you to making it once a day and there is little that you can make with titanium bars (other than engineering stuff) that doesn’t become trivial after you go to Naxx 25. Also you don’t get a lot of repeaty business.

Except raw ore prospects into gems, which makes it desirable for many jewelcrafters; titanium ore can give epic gems, while saronite ore can give blue quality. It may not be as profitable as herbs, but if you really want to make money, skip crafting, take herbalism and mining, and sell the raw materials.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4766 "2009-09-08T18:44:10Z")

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> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> And I have a dragon “patch” that no vendor wants?

Is it the [Black Dragonflight Molt](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10575)? If so, you picked it up in the Searing Gorge. You take it to a black dragonkin NPC over at the northeast end of the Burning Steppes, and he turns it into the Altered Black Dragonflight Molt. You can’t talk to that character until you’re level 52 or so.

In any case, the Altered Black Dragonflight Molt is then used after you’ve killed a particular boss in Blackrock Depths, which is an instance/dungeon. I don’t know if you’re doing those or not. If you’re not going to do Blackrock Depths, you can just toss the thing (or save it in case you want to do it later).

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4767 "2009-09-08T18:45:48Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> Is it the [Black Dragonflight Molt](http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10575)? If so, you picked it up in the Searing Gorge. You take it to a black dragonkin NPC over at the northeast end of the Burning Steppes, and he turns it into the Altered Black Dragonflight Molt. You can’t talk to that character until you’re level 52 or so.
> 
> In any case, the Altered Black Dragonflight Molt is then used after you’ve killed a particular boss in Blackrock Depths, which is an instance/dungeon. I don’t know if you’re doing those or not. If you’re not going to do Blackrock Depths, you can just toss the thing (or save it in case you want to do it later).

I don’t think Quasi is high enough level to have done that quest yet. Closer to a level 50 thing.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4768 "2009-09-08T18:54:31Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> I don’t think Quasi is high enough level to have done that quest yet. Closer to a level 50 thing.

Ah well, it was the only thing I could think of. He said “dragon patch”, and the flavor text on the Black Dragonflight Molt says, “A dull and gray patch of black dragon skin”.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4769 "2009-09-08T18:58:13Z")

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> [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](#):
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> take herbalism and mining

The bitch of combining Herbalism and Mining is that you can only have \*\*one \*\*type of tracking active at any given time. So, you can track Herbs, or you can track Ore, but you can’t track both at once. I tried it on a DK farmer (my one on Cairne, actually), and I gave up after not that long. It was just too frustrating to constantly swap back and forth between the two types of tracking.

If you’ve got a decent node database build up through Gatherer or a similar addon, it might be slightly easier, since you could at least throw up the HUD that would show where nodes could be expected to spawn. But you’d still have to run right up to one you’re not actively tracking to see whether or not it’s up.

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4770 "2009-09-08T19:12:33Z")

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Yeah, that’s why Mining or Herbalism and Skinning is the smoothest way to go. Leather doesn’t bring in a _lot_, but the sheer quantity of leather makes up for it. Not only is it easy to get when you’re questing in places like Stranglethorn and Un’Goro, but non-Skinners leave their corpses behind. It’s like free money.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4771 "2009-09-08T19:33:18Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> If you need run-throughs, the best thing to get them, assuming you don’t have a friend online, is to offer to pay. Ask in Trade chat in a capital city (you should be able to type in trade by starting with /2, so you’d say something like, **/2 Is any level 80 available to help me with XYZ? Paying ## gold** ). You probably want to offer something in the range of 50g to 100g.

What run-throughs are you talking about? I’ve _never_ seen anyone offering 100G on my server (Khaz Modan). The low-level dungeons are usually 5-15 gold, and the mid-range ones 25 or 30.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4772 "2009-09-08T19:39:55Z")

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Hey, I finally got around to making a gallery on Facebook of my Burning Dog Legion toons:

> **[Log in or sign up to view](https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150971&id=661212628&l=1bd2789439)**
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> See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

(You should be able to view that link without needing a Facebook account.)

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4773 "2009-09-08T19:50:24Z")

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> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> What run-throughs are you talking about? I’ve _never_ seen anyone offering 100G on my server (Khaz Modan). The low-level dungeons are usually 5-15 gold, and the mid-range ones 25 or 30.

How many \*\*takers \*\*do those people actually get? I always offer 50g, minimum, because these days an 80 can make gold about as easily as breathing. A daily that takes five minutes gets you 13g. A dungeon run, on the other hand, especially for someone in their 40s or 50s, requires a lot more time and effort. Running someone else isn’t even as easy as soloing, because you have to worry about keeping mobs off the lowbie while they stay close enough to get kill and loot credit.

Note that for these runs, the person buying the runthrough gets to keep all the drops, and will almost certainly make a good portion of that money back.

ETA: And I wasn’t sure if \*\*Quasi \*\*wanted a dungeon run, or if he wanted someone to come help him quest. I think 100g would be a fair rate to “hire” an 80 to come run around with him for a couple of hours.

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4774 "2009-09-08T19:56:17Z")

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Rik - nice pics. Facebook is a good idea, I’ve been wondering how to share pics of my toons - especially Kene in his new Chef’s outfit: black pants, white shirt, Chef’s Hat. I would like to be all in white, but couldn’t find any white pants. Anyone know of any?

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4775 "2009-09-08T20:06:27Z")

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Ah, folks? Quasi wasn’t asking for a dungeon run.

> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> **Getting To Hinterlands By Taking Boat To Ratchet?**
> 
> Asked on WoW but got a flat NO from an 80, even after saluting and bowing. Anyone know of another way?

Quasi, it might be best if you didn’t put your question in the Title. It doesn’t get quoted when someone clicks Quote on your post and it’s very easy for people to skip over it accidentally. I had to go back and manually copy the question to put it in the quote above.

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4776 "2009-09-08T20:10:25Z")

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A while back I surprised a blacksmith by paying him **50g** for opening a dozen lockboxes for me. These were high-level lockboxes (Thorium, etc) that I’d collected over a stretch of time, and they’d all been taking up space in my bank for way too long.

I paid the amount I did mostly out of gratitude - I’d advertised on several other occasions for somebody to pop the boxes for me, with no luck. I probably wouldn’t have paid a rogue as much, though, since the rogue could just pick the locks. The blacksmith had to use keys, so I figured I’d reimburse him for his materials as well as his time.

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4777 "2009-09-08T20:15:51Z")

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It also seems like they’ll be putting in high-level leatherworking items for things like drums and whatnot, so there may be more interest in skinning at the high-end from those.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4778 "2009-09-08T20:16:12Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> A while back I surprised a blacksmith by paying him **50g** for opening a dozen lockboxes for me.

Are you in a guild, **Rik**? The rogues in my guild won’t even accept tips from guildies - just as I don’t charge guildies for enchants or tailoring if they provide the mats.

That’s the whole purpose of a guild - you take care of them and they take care of you. I can’t remember the last time I paid someone to open a lockbox.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4779 "2009-09-08T20:27:28Z")

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1. Yeah, **SFG** I was just asking for directions to Hinterlands, but it may be possible that the 80 misunderstood me.

2. Yeah, it 's the Dragon Molt patch. I guess I can store it till needed right?

3. Thanks for the tip on whispering. I knew that at one time, but forgot.

4. Also for the “right-click” on quest items in by bags tip. Somtimes can’t see the forest for the trees. 🙂

5. Still trying to find my way to the Hinterlands, but I’ll get it eventually.

6. “The use of the **condom** for free”. :smack: Jesus, whay was I thinking? 😃

Thanks

Q

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**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:** [September 8, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-general-discussion/488294/4780 "2009-09-08T20:32:20Z")

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> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> Are you in a guild, **Rik**? The rogues in my guild won’t even accept tips from guildies - just as I don’t charge guildies for enchants or tailoring if they provide the mats.
> 
> That’s the whole purpose of a guild - you take care of them and they take care of you. I can’t remember the last time I paid someone to open a lockbox.

In this case, I am my own guild, the [Order of the Rik](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125117&id=661212628&l=d4561db14b). Vanity guild and all that. One of my toons is a blacksmith who can now open the lower-level boxes, and I’m working on a rogue, though the rogue just now got the quest to learn lockpicking, so they’re both still a ways away from being able to open the high-level boxes.

ETA: Now that my main is leveling Enchanting, I recently had need for a Golden Rod, and there were none on the AH. So I was advertising in Trade for a blacksmith to make me one and getting no response … then I remembered my DK is a blacksmith, so I logged him in, discovered he was able to make Golden Rods and had the materials to do so, so I had him make one for her plus a few more to post on the AH at an inflated price since there was no competition 😃  
I just looked at my [BDL gallery](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150971&id=661212628&l=1bd2789439) again and realized I’d uploaded out-of-date pics of my orc hunter, Orahka. He was still in his starting quest-reward gear and hadn’t gotten his pet yet. I’ve fixed that - now you can see his pet boar, Truffler 😛

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