Time for one of my Patented Giant Catchup Threads ™!
Okay, yeah, then the guy was just a moron. And refusing to demonstrate DPS with an argument about how great his gear is pretty much guarantees that it’s a purchased account.
Seriously? I thought it happened some time in 2008…
Main spec = The spec that you mainly identify with. If you raid, this is the spec you use the most when raiding.
Off spec = Your “extra” spec–the one you use when you’re not filling your usual role
Example: My main is a Warrior. Her main spec is Protection, because when I group up, I go as a tank. Her second spec is Arms (PvE DPS), and I carry with me at all times an off-spec DPS set of gear. Before dual specs, I was only specced into Prot, and would only swap the gear, not the spec.
If the Rogue has an off-spec, it’s also DPS, just a different kind of DPS. It may be optimized for killing trash versus fighting a boss, or it may be one they use for PvP. If your character raids as a healer and groups as a healer, that means that (assuming you’re a Druid) Resto is your main spec and Feral is your off spec. You cannot have two main specs.
Understood–a lot of people who main-spec as healers or tanks will have a secondary DPS spec for regular questing. That doesn’t mean they get priority on DPS gear as well as healing/tanking gear. The standard loot convention for WoW is that main spec always has priority over off spec.
You know about the Tram, right? It runs between the Dwarven District in SW and Tinkertown in IF. Unlike the rassumfrassum magical instantaneous teleportation orb between UC and SM, the tram can be used by members of the opposite faction. (It’s even neutral territory–you can unflag inside, summon people in, etc.)
I get the general thrust of the rant, and I’m not 100% sure that it works the same way for Druids as for Warriors, but you do know that Rage is also gained from *doing *damage, not just *taking *damage, right?
Keep doing that every time your buff runs down–it will help a lot with leveling!
I know what the problem was–you were on the vendor’s buyback tab instead of the tab where they sell you things. When you’re on the buyback tab, you can only see the items you’ve sold them instead of the items they want to sell you, and right-clicking your own items doesn’t work. Make sure you’re on the selling tab and it should work just fine.
Mostly dailies are quests that show up when you get to max level, but there are a few earlier (mostly during holiday events). Look for a **blue **exclamation point instead of a **yellow **one. To open up the Midsummer dailies, you have to finish up the intro quests first–for instance, the fire-tossing guy has a couple of lead-in quests to teach you how to throw and catch torches before he’ll give you the dailies. And I believe you have to go do some sneaking around for the other dude at the fire before he’ll send you to do the Striking Back daily.
That’s officially the best thing I’ve read all day. 
That’s a mouse issue, not a game issue. I’m guessing you’ve got an optical mouse (red laser) instead of one with a physical ball on the bottom? They wig out like that occasionally. If it does it too often, it might be time to get a new mouse.
This is very good advice. Whenever possible, focus on quests. That way, when you’re killing creatures, you’re also working toward whatever quest you’re killing them for–it’s like double XP, plus extra cash and items.
That’s not just the AD, Quasi… That’s the game! I’ve been playing almost two years, and I *still have to constantly pop my map open in capital cities to see where I’m going! I even get lost trying to find the VC entrance on occasion.
*VC = Deadmines. Some people call the Deadmines VC (after the last boss) instead of DM, because DM can be confused with Dire Maul, a much higher-level instance in Ferelas.
If you’re specced into Wandering Plague, you’re just plain SOL, too. Had a couple of Unholy DKs in a group that was going for the Loatheb no-spores achievement, and they killed the damn things even without using an active AOE abilities. (You should have heard the RL… practically a “FIFTY DKP MINUS” moment.)
You’re entitled to your opinion, but you have to keep in mind that it goes very much against the standard looting convention in WoW, which is ALWAYS main spec over off spec. If you want to roll on DPS gear even when your main spec is healing, you need to make that clear to any DPS who are coming along with you, so that they can make an informed decision on whether or not to come along when you might snatch their drops out from under them.
That’s one of the main problems Feral tanks have–too much DPS overlap. You’re certainly entitled to run instances as a healer to pick up gear for your tanking set (or for DPS), but you need to make sure that any DPS who go with you understand what you’re doing, or they are going to end up pissed off, and rightly so. If you really want to avoid any arguments or having to explain what you’re doing, you could run as the tank or DPS instead of as the healer–then they will understand that that’s the gear you’re looking to get and won’t think twice about you rolling Need on leather melee gear.
Doesn’t the key mold drop off some blacksmith dude in SMV, right in front of BT? And then you have to get one half from Bot and one half from Mech and meld them together in a Fel Reaver? Or am I conflating two different quest chains…
The green chat is your guild chat. Anyone in your guild who is online sees the same green text that you do. Type /g when you sign on, and it will set your default chat channel to guild chat. Otherwise, your default chat channel is /s (/say), which just shows up for people who are physically very close to you (a few yards).
For example, you sign on. Type, “/g Hi everybody!” and hit Enter (to submit the text). This will make “Hi everybody!” show up in guild chat for everyone to see. After that, every time you hit Enter, it will pop up Guild chat. (You could also start everything with /g and it will also pop up the chat line and send it to guild chat, but why not save yourself a couple of keystrokes?)
You can change it to another kind of chat by starting your line with that chat’s shortcut “/s” for say (close range), “/p” for party/group. After you’re done talking to the person next to you or your party, you can switch back to guild chat with “/g” again.
I always forget about it and never use it.