Well, MY advice is to stay out of that virginity, Rik!
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How far are you into First Aid? Go into your “spellbook”, the first page. Click on the red cross type icon. It should open up your First Aid tradeskill window. If you haven’t tried to make anything yet, your skill is probably 0. There should be one item you can make, linen bandage. Before you start, get all the cloth (linen and wool) out of your bank and go stand by a First Aid trainer…it doesn’t matter which one you pick. You can find the one in Stormwind in Cathedral Square, in the Cathedral itself. But there’s also one in the inn in Goldshire, so you can go there, too. Make sure you have a bunch of linen in your personal bags and make linen bandages until you hit 40. Then talk to the trainer and buy Heavy Linen Bandage. Make those until you hit 50. Talk to the trainer again and buy Journeyman First Aid. Then make Heavy Linen Bandage until you hit 80. Talk to the trainer and buy Wool Bandage and Anti-Venom. Make Wool Bandages until you run out of wool or hit 115. At 115, talk to the trainer and buy Heavy Wool Bandage. If you still have wool cloth left, keep making Heavy Wool Bandages until you run out. At that point, you’re probably stuck where you are until you hit level 40 (I think).
You can use bandages to heal yourself and others, but only as long as you’re not taking damage, so their utility is limited in combat.
Unfortunately, no; I don’t think jumping off her ledge to the bottom is even any quicker to get back to the hydra area than just running back out. :\
Yeah, I couldn’t find any other way. And, if you ask me, I don’t really see the point of a teleporter that can send you deep into the instance, but doesn’t let you teleport back out. So sure, I can teleport to that waterfall area in the middle, but then when I’m done I have to run back to there and then continue running past all the stuff I got to skip on the way in.
And if that’s not bad enough … after I killed Princess Theradras, whatsisname woke up and gave me this Seed of Life thing to take to, of all places, Moonglade. To the best of my knowledge, the only way for a non-druid to get to Moonglade is to wait until the Lunar Festival. 
What level are you? There’s a side branch of the Timbermaw tunnel between Felwood and Winterspring that goes into Moonglade. About halfway through the main tunnel, there’s a tunnel opening off to the left. That goes down to Moonglade.
Also, you can “cheat” this by going to Darkshore, running up to the northern end of it, then swimming out until the game says you’re in Moonglade. Then drown. Your spirit will be in the cemetery in Moonglade and you can just spirit rez and get the flight path (directly south of the lake).
This is my lvl 80 paladin.
Cool, I did not know that. I’m Friendly with the Timbermaw, so that won’t be any trouble.
Can I get the FP? I could swear that when I was there for the last Lunar Festival, the flightmaster told me the taxis were for druids only. Obviously, I could be misremembering.
There are two FPs in the village for druids only. One for Alli, and one for Horde.
The regular FP that non-druids can take is on the other side of the lake.
Like what Jayjay said, max out your first aid skill for your level. I don’t remember what class you are, but even if you’re a healing class the bandages can come in handy. Sell the weapons, armor, etc. that you are either not going to equip, or not going to use as reagents for blacksmithing.
Warning: I have not played for a while.
One advice that I’ve read from a variety of sources, and which I used to follow when I played, is to not get a crafting profession until you’re pretty much at max level. Crafting professions take a lot of money to level up, and the items that you get can I think almost always be replaced by a non-profession item when your main focus is on leveling up. Especially if you’re a new player, the crafting professions can really take up a lot of your resources and time, and perhaps not leave you enough money for a mount. Perhaps it’s feasible if you have a dedicated guild, or you’ve looked up a guide and have figured out a strategy for leveling your crafting profession, but I don’t really recommend it.
I just checked Wowwiki, and it seems that mounts are overall much easier and cheaper to get. Curse you Blizzard for implementing that after I quit.
There are two FPs in Nighthaven that are only usable by druids and only go to Thunder Bluff/Darnassus. There are two regular FPs in Moonhaven, one for Horde and one for Alliance.
The Horde FP is right at the base of the hill that you go down after you get out of the Timbermaw tunnel. You just turn left at the bottom and double back on yourself.
The Alliance FP is just south of the lake…follow the road north from the tunnel until the branch-off just before the lake and follow that east until you’re just south of Nighthaven. The Alliance FP is just to your right and back into the trees a little.
And about to get even easier and (I think) cheaper. When 3.2 comes out you can get regular riding at 20 (4 gold), elite riding at (I think) 40 (50 gold), regular flying at 60 (600 gold, and faction discounts apply) and elite flying at 70 (still 5000 gold, but faction discounts apply).
Other’s have explained where you’d use need vs. greed, but here’s what it actually MEANS:
When a green or better item drops in a typical dungeon run, everyone has an opportunity to roll. You can roll greed or need, or pass on the item.
Once everyone has decided, if there are multiple people who chose “need,” they’ll each get an automatic roll, and the winner gets the item. If only one person chose need, that person gets the item–rolls are irrelevant.
It’s only if nobody chooses need that greed even matters. In that case, everyone who chose greed gets a roll and the winner gets the item.
Token gratuitous pixel bragging: Per WoW-Heroes, I am currently the #5 best-geared Warrior on my server, the #2 Prot Warrior, and the #1 Alliance Prot Warrior. /flex
Yup. It’s the Stormwind Vault.
No, you get the achievement regardless. If you did it **before **the patch that added Achievs, though, it probably just never properly recorded your kill. I know there was a lot I didn’t get credit for.
Many quests will give “spillover” rep to other Alliance (or Horde) factions. However, you only see the rep for one faction’s gain in your chatlog. Since you’re Exalted with SW, it shows the Darnassus rep gain, instead.
No other *Alliance *toons of high enough level that you might have brought past Goldshire?
If possible, dump all your gear that has durability on it (including anything off-spec that you carry with you) in your bank before you go, and get naked before you die if you’re not already. Rezzing at the Spirit Healer is a 25% durability hit to anything you’ve got with you, not just what you’ve got equipped.
ETA:
Read what I wrote again. There is nothing wrong with running Heroics to pick up gear for your off-spec… as long as you make it clear to everyone in the group that that’s what you’ll be rolling on. Just tell everyone coming in that you’re planning to roll for pieces for your tanking set, and then anyone who wants to QQ about it can drop group and find another PUG.
Sheesh! Talk about bad timing! I rolled into Moonglade (via the Timbermaw Hold passage) at almost precisely the same time that Eranikus, Tyrant of the Dream showed up. Not realizing what was going on, aside from seeing the red text of Eranikus and Remulos yelling back and forth at each other, I trotted into Nighthaven where I was promptly mobbed by a crowd of extremely tough elite whatevertheyweres (Eranikus’ minions, not Moonglade Wardens or Nighthaven Defenders). I eventually died, of course, but not before taking one of them with me! I wandered around as a ghost for a little while, trying to see what was going on, but of course once I got out of the designated corpse radius I couldn’t see anything. So when it was safe I rezzed, then swam in the lake until I found a spot where I could get out, northeast of Nighthaven. From there I located a spot where I could see Eranikus and safely watch the fight. It went on and on and on and on …
Very exciting, but damn I had to wait a long time to hand in that Seed of Life thing to Remulos. He was busy, you see 
Are you sure that’s it? The instance portal thing I’m talking about is nowhere near that structure - it’s way over on the wall near the main SW gate. It’s almost directly under the flight point.
I didn’t start playing until after WotLK was released, so achievements were already in place. In any case, I just double-checked and it turns out I did Stockades with my human DK. (And, apparently, Deadmines, though I have absolutely no recollection of that.)
Nope. Aside from the pally and the DK, I haven’t gotten any toons on this server higher than lvl 20 (and only one of those).
The screenshot linked isn’t the instance you’re describing here, which is between the Trade and Old Town districts. That instance has been there since beta and is rumoured to be related to the player housing Blizzard claims to want to implement at “some point”. The screenie is the Vault as SFG and the Wiki describe, which is located at the intersection of the canals from the Trade, Cathedral, Dwarven, and Old Town districts.
Correct. Here’s a screenshot of the one I’m talking about:
http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/mystery_instance.jpg
And one with the map opened to show exactly where it is:
http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/mystery_instance_map.jpg
Regarding what WowWiki says about the Vault, let me just go on record as saying that I can see no good coming of locating such a facility in the middle of a capital city. Can you say “future special event”? I knew you could
I felt a bit bad last night while questing in Dustwallow Marsh. I was doing this quest Twilight of the Dawn Runner which involves rescuing belf NPC from North Point Tower. When I picked it up I thought the name rang a bell and when I got there I remembered that when I came through DW with my alliance Pally I had done a few quests out of there. One thing I hate is players ganking quest givers, really what’s the point? But now I had to. I waited until all the other players had finished and went in for the kill but, of course, while I was killing the mobs, you have to get to the top of the tower, quite a few players turned up only to see their NPCs dead at my hands. I gained quit a crowd of alliance players and a few who deliberately stood in my way with their PvP flags on assuming I was just being an arsehole.
However some good came out of it, I found out that you can duel players from the opposite faction (how great is that?) and that a level 37 belf warlock can DOT up and then Fear a level 39 nelf Druid and gain the achievement Duel-icious without much trouble at all.
I hit level 68 last night and was trying to tidy up my very full quest log. I was on the way to do this quest, and ran into a bird named Skywing with the questgiver exclamation point over his head. He wanted me to escort him, so I did, because I was in the area, not pressed for time, and the rewards were nice (an item, some gold, and a pet). I finished the quest and went to report it to the guy in Shattrath. Now I have a little birdie to add to my pet collection.
I want that bird too. I never cared much for vanity pets because I could never remember to drop them every time I got off a flight point, mount, or hearthstone. Since I wasn’t using them, I didn’t pursue them. But me being an add-on hound, I found PetLeash, and immediately went out and snapped up a good 17 vanity pets on my Hunter.
It’s really entertaining to click the button to log in a character, flip windows while WoW loads, and come back to find a kitty waiting patiently for me.
Some of my guildies have a ridiculous number of pets. I’m just trying to get to fifteen. I have twelve, so I’m getting there. PetLeash sounds fun; I’ll try it tonight. Wandering around with my moth, piglet, or parrot, for example, would be good fun.