Awesome! My wife won it sometime last year. We stacked her chances though, I disrupted allies, while the guild MT fished the same nodes as horde.
Just because, I bought a full stack of torches (40). I was unable to get more than 16 in the air at once (when targeting myself, obviously). Going to try to get a group of people to spam pass torches to each other at some point.
AFAIK, there’s no reason not to do him on normal, the only thing different is the necks, and it’s all 70 gear anyway. There’s not much difference between the modes though, as far as Ahune goes, he’s still a 70+ instance boss type mob. With a dps and a healer he’s easy. We where running with my pally, a lock and my wife’s hunter, and we’d summon people in for two attempts each. We use regular because we don’t have to worry about who’s attuned to the H, and we can harvest lowbie summons. It’s win/win, they get two summons, and a guarunteed kill, with a direct summon right to the boss area; we get two more chances at the pet.
Guild off night run. Loot rules were open rolls, except if a glaive drops that completes a set (we have both glaives in guild, but no sets).
Yeah, but the guy in question has been earning a reputation for loot whoring. It doesn’t bother me that much, but there certainly was drama. We did have someone on an alt 71 mage, who all the other casters let take KJ’s caster dagger. I went to get the SwP achivement on my pally.
Mind control works best in Alterac Valley. I pick a “lucky winner” to MC off the bridge and sometimes the fall kills them. Also, it really pisses them off if you run onto the bridge and let loose a psychic scream. But it’s more fun if you save it for when they are all in the room trying to down Vann (or Drek, depending on what side you’re on). You’ll probably die fast once they notice you, but oh well.
Priests and warlocks, with their fears, debuffs, and stuff can really make a mess of it for the other side IF they live long enough to do it.
This. If you’re on a flying dragon mount, it’s impossible to get close enough to click the NPC without getting your mount right on top of the NPC. I had that issue when I was trying to talk to that gigantic Freya NPC in Sholazar Basin while mounted on my bird. I hate talking to a questgiver’s ankles, so when I was turning in her quests I flew up to her eye-level, but found I couldn’t effectively click on her (that is, couldn’t get a yellow “!”) without moving so close that my bird’s head was buried in her face. Blizz really ought to make the NPC click distance proportional to the size of the NPC. It seems, rather, to be based on your toon’s distance from the “geographic” center of the NPC’s model and this is a fixed distance regardless of model size. So even on foot, to click on something huge like a giant you’ve got to stand in it’s feet.
I’ve seen the same thing around Old Man Barlo (the fishing daily questgiver near Shattrath). Lots of people log out near him, or even on him, while still mounted on their flyers. The other day I ran up to him, and the instant I got there, before I could click, a tauren on an epic mount dropped right down on top of him. Part of the problem there is that if you’re mounted on a flyer, you simply can’t see what’s right under you, so that tauren probably didn’t even know I was there. That’s why when I log out while still mounted, I back my mount off a short distance so that when I log back in I can see the NPC. If somebody is talking to him, I wait until they’re finished before I move in. I just think that’s being polite.
Our guild uses Master looting and also a “everyone pass and then discuss” on important drops. Greens, we don’t really worry about. That takes care of most loot whores pretty well.
If you’re having issues clicking on a quest giver/flight master/vendor hit shift+v to turn on friendly nameplaces, and click on the nameplate for the guy you want. This really makes a difference in Venomspite when everyone is trying to repair after a wipe, and you have all these drakes, proto-drakes, and such blocking the vendor.
Thorim, in Storm Peaks really irritates me with this. I want to click on his head, not his legs.
It was master looted. We always master loot, greens get DEed for the gbank, blues get sold, rolled for, or DEed, and epics follow whatever loot rules we have (offical raids are DKP+rank based, the alt run is roll based, but someone who hasn’t gotten a mainspec piece has priority over someone who hasn’t (KT is open rolling to keep people from “saving” their rolls)). Since the starting loot rules said open rolls for everything but glaives, and the rogue had the highest roll…
You don’t need the quest to summon him for Heroic, and you can keep summoning him until you kill him. It’s a good way to test whether he’s solo-able, because if you die, you haven’t lost your summon for the day (whereas if you try to solo him on normal and die, you’re SOL, at least as far as your summon goes).
IMO, if the Hunters wanted the bow that badly, they should have had everyone agree ahead of time that they’d be the only ones to roll on it. Otherwise, open roll is open roll, and there’s no use crying about it.
A friend of mine has some fun video of him defending a graveyard in AV on his Undead Shadow Priest. I can’t look it up from work, but if you search for the user jcapone3rd, you should find it pretty easily.
We use Master Looter with the threshold set at blue items. Greens go to whoever picks 'em up. Blues go into the gbank. Epics are distributed by a loot council system. The GL/RL, officers, and some other experienced raiders are all in a loot council channel during runs; when an epic drops, anyone who wants it links their current item (i.e., what they’d be upgrading from), and the council discusses who to award the item to. We prioritize main spec over off, mains over alts, and generally healers/tanks over DPS. Other factors include attendance, effort (in terms of researching fights instead of waiting to have it explained to you, running heroics to get all other upgrades you can instead of showing up in greens, etc.), being prepared, not dying to stupid stuff, and how much other loot you’ve gotten recently.
Baby Spice is your friend. Nothing pisses off a Tauren on a mammoth who’s trying to completely block the Dalaran flightmaster faster than when I toss some Baby Spice on him and suddenly he’s a wee tiny Tauren on a mini-mammoth and I’m happily on my way. (Yeah, since I’m Horde too I could just ask him to move, but even some of our own Hordies are dicks sometimes. Baby Spice is more fun.)
Assuming we’re talking about Thori’dal, the funny thing about someone stealing it from a hunter is that it might be the only Legendary item with a “quirk” that is still useful at 80. Ammo might be cheap, but free ammo is even cheaper I can’t image whoever ninja’ed it will shoot it enough to make it worth the grief they got for taking it.
I’ve got a friend who has a rogue. He only does ‘vengence’ PvP… He likes to stalk people who either kill questgivers or lowbies that they wouldn’t get any honor for. And when I say ‘stalk’, I mean -stalk-. He’ll follow them, stealthed, for a very, very long time, occasionally just running over and sapping them. Just a little stun. That lasts for freakin’ ever. Doesn’t kill them unless they don’t get the ‘hint’. His little hunting of some hordies who were killing newbies in the early levels of the Darnasus surroundings (a trio of level 50ish horde versus nelfs who were, at most, around level 12) was so amusing I almost choked on my soda. After long enough, said hordies got so frustrated with the constant stunning they literally jumped off the side of the world-tree rather than face either the rogue or the guards that would inevatably be in Darnasus proper (though lord knows how they got past 'em in the first place…)
The fact that it’s ammoless is useful, but that doesn’t make it outweigh a bow with better stats that does more damage, especially given the DPS bonus that’s given by the highest level of ammo.
ArrMatey!: I, too, am not a big fan of world PvP, and generally only PvP on my main to teach a lesson to someone who tries to gank me (e.g., when in holiday clothes instead of my normal gear, or when my HP is abnormally low) or a lowbie.
It’s a potential reward you can get from the cooking daily in Dalaran–you get a spice bag that has a chance to contain Northern Spice (used for recipes), Baby Spice (shrinks things), or Old Spice (gives things a “smells good” buff).
Northern can be traded or sold; Baby and Old soulbind, so you have to do the quests yourselves to get them. Personally, I just vendor them for the couple copper they fetch–it’s not worth it to me to take up an extra bag or bank slot on the off chance that I might want to use them, especially seeing as it’s pretty hard for anybody to truly block a vendor/mailbox/etc.–you just have to get creative with your camera angles and where you’re clicking.
That’s easy. Zone in the portal like the Alliance do, then run like hell.
Well no, it’s not actually easy. Not that I’m bitter about the Alliance NElves getting all protected like that or how tough it is as a Horde to get the Explorer achievement as a result, oh no…
A year or two ago, my level 16 tauren hunter went on a quest to get herself an owl pet. Teldrassil is/was the only spot with owls that low level. A naked run and six deaths later, she had an owl who loved the Horde, and an awesome bragging rights pet.
The only times I get involved are when there’s a whole bunch of people involved. I watch the general melee, and when an opposing faction player is fairly badly hurt, I’ll leap in with max DPS and finish him off. When someone new joins the fight, I’ll polymorph him to keep him out of the way for a while.
How do you put blues in the guild bank? Aren’t most of them BoP?
We usually discuss the blues, and if nobody on the run can use them, we have an enchanter DE them.
Why not memorialize your standards in a DKP system? My old guild used to have a DKP council that awarded bonus DKP for good play (tanks, and healers tended to get a lot of this, tradeskillers sometimes got bonus DKP for outfitting the guild with stuff), who could benefit the guild most by using it.
The biggest problem with my old guild DKP system was that the GM was the main tank and the discretionary DKP bonuses basically meant he got every upgrade he ever wanted and we only farmed long enough to start raiding content that would provide upgrades for the tank/GM. We all put up with it because the GM treated his GM duties like a full time job and we shot past other progression guilds, then we split up when the GM started telling people to reroll to optimize guild composition (oddly he never had to reroll and none of his best friends ever had to reroll).
