I think an MMO is one of the hardest games to get into, especially an established one like WoW.
About your earlier question about addons: When you feel comfortable with the default UI and all that, check out your class-specific forum at the official WoW website (forums.worldofwarcraft.com), the UI/Addons section of those forums, and some popular WoW addon websites (I think links to those can be found in the official forums). Addons can very quickly become very complicated and overwhelming, so start slow and don’t be discouraged if they seem very complicated in the beginning.
Speaking of mounts, I just got the Reins of the Green Proto-Drake, on my druid :dubious: Nice in a way, but completely useless since I have flight form
Wednesday night a friend and I play together on the Windrunner server. Well, for some reason last night we couldn’t get WoW’s party chat to work. We tried logging out and in, rebooting our computers, double- and triple-checked our Voice Chat settings on the menu, but no joy.
We could hear the game sounds through our headphones, and we could see the little speaker icon next to our character portraits when talking, but neither of us could actually hear what the other one was saying. I sent out a general message in the General chat channel asking if anyone else was having a problem; the one response I got back was “no”.
We eventually quit after only 90 minutes of actual playing time, because it was so difficult to play and type at the same time (plus my friend isn’t a very good typist). And we won’t get to play for a couple of weeks, as he’s heading out on vacation.
Yikes! Scary stuff, hope whatever underlies it is temporary, wierd and easy to control.
Prot pallies do use a 969 rotation, but you need to be fairly high level to have all 5 abilities available to you.
It’s named for the cooldowns you have, 3 9 second cooldowns (Judgement (talented with 1 point), Concencrate (do NOT use the Conc glyph), and Holy Shield; and 2 6 second cooldowns Hammer of the Righteous and Shield of the Righteous. This lets you use every single GCD, assuming you don’t need to burn a long cooldown (bubble and lay). Divine Plea needs to be talented and Glyphed, or you won’t have the mana to handle a fight of any length, and your downtime will be enormous.
At the lower levels we’re talking about here, though, prot pallies are kind of screwed. You need to talent Spiritual Attunement, as you won’t learn Divine Plea until 71, you don’t have access to either of your 6 second cooldowns yet (Hammer is the 51 point Prot tree talent, and Shield is picked up at 75), you don’t have your preferred seal (Seal of Corruption), and you don’t have the talent points to pick up what you need from the other trees.
I’m not saying don’t do it, but you won’t really get much of a feel for end game tanking (even instances) until you’re in your mid 60s at least. For now, you’re pretty much going to run in and body pull, drop a Concecrate, keep holy shield up, and taunt things off the casters. Judge wisdom, and use Seal of Righteouness. You will want to avoid places you out gear, as your main mana return is getting effective heals. Remember that if you can’t out threat one of your dps, you can always bubble him. Unless you need the minor additional mitagation from Devotion Aura, keep Retribution up for the extra threat. Talenting Righteous Fury and making sure it never, ever falls of should go without saying.
One of the things that helped me when I was leveling as prot was having engineering as a profession. Dragonlings and flame throwers were nice additional cooldowns, and having gernades to pull with was a major benefit.
Congratulations! And no wonder I couldn’t find your character on WoW Armory; I was spelling his name wrong.
My baby pally is advancing nicely. She found a schematic for the Mechanical Squirrel Box in a chest in a blood elf camp, and made one as soon as she could. It sold within fifteen minutes of being put up on the auction house. I think I will make one for her to keep, and sell a few more.
I did imagine a funny conversation as she was making it in the Exodar. The mining and smithing trainers stand around the anvil and forge, and I pictured them watching her smelt ore and build things. “What are you making?” they would ask her. “Bombs to throw at your foes? A scope to improve accuracy?”
“Nope, a mechanical squirrel to follow people around.”
Thanks, Telperien and Mogle and yeah, that’s kind of a “nuisance”.
Wolkie started out as Wolkenlaufer, but then some “stuff” happened with the account (been so long I don’t remember what) so when I wanted to come back in with the fer spelling, the game wouldn’t let me, because that name was already in use, blah-blah-blah… so I re-created him with the fre, spelling (not knowing any better) and when I asked the GM to “correct” the spelling, things got reeeeaaaal complicated, so I just left it alone.
You’d think it would be a very simple thing for a GM to do, to switch the letters around, but no, I’d have to delete that character, and re-create another one, but then I couldn’t DO that because fer is already in use… and I LIKE that name. (And so does he - he told me so.:))
So we’ll leave it like it is now and say it’s a French pronounciation of a German name.
Also, my chestnut mare (no name yet - any suggestions?) is just a “conveyance” right? She doesn’t have any special powers (like stomping the shit out of some Blackrock Champs or Fetid Corpses with them heavy feets?) does she?
Nope. As far as I know, mounts are only transportation. There are no mounts that fight. And you can’t fight, or pick herbs, or mine, or skin, or cast spells while mounted. The only thing you can do on mounts is move faster than you can on foot (and fly, once you get to a high enough level and buy the skill and the mount).
Nice! Congrats, Quasi, and nice choice of pony by the way. The chestnut is my favorite.
Ready to graduate to Screenshots 102? Next time hit Alt-Z before you hit print screen. It’ll make all your toolbars and maps and stuff go away so you can get a nice clean picture. Alt-Z a second time will bring everything back.
One thing I noticed from your screenshot is that you only have one Action Bar enabled. Now I have never played a warrior so maybe that’s all you need but I would assume that you might want more than 12 abilities easily clickable on your screen. If so go into the game menu (from the little computer icon) and select Interface then Action bars and you’ll be able to display another Action bar (or more) to put your abilities on.
I know that both my toons had need for more than one bar from level 20 or so.
Agreed! The DK starting quest chain is epic, and it only takes a few hours, even on your first time through. I use DKs as farming alts for my low-level toons on some servers, so I’ve gone through it a number of times, and it’s **still **enjoyable.
Grats! And it’s not **totally **useless… you could always be one of those people who just mounts up and hovers AFK over Krasus’ Landing.
1.) Did you select party chat using the minimap icon? Even when you have everything else enabled, IIRC you’re still not in the channel by default. You have to click the speaker button that shows up on your minimap and select “Party” or whatever they call it.
2.) If all else fails, you could check to see if your guild or your friend’s guild has a Ventrilo (Vent) server. This is a third-party voice chat program that you run separately from WoW, and it’s the one that most people use for raiding (versus the in-game chat feature).
Unfortunately not. All mounts do is make you go faster, which is a damn shame–especially once you hit the level where you get your epic land mount, which will be all armored and everything. And if you get a Night Elf mount… It’s a giant freakin’ tiger–how can it NOT fight?! Oh well.
The other nice thing about being mounted is that you can outrun most enemies. You don’t have to stop and fight if they start attacking you–you can just keep riding, and they’ll give up after chasing you just a little way. The only way you can be dismounted is if they stun you. Of course, this trick only works if you were already mounted when you were attacked–you can’t mount in combat.
To the two ?? level Human Warriors slaughtering everyone in Tarren Mill last night then waiting from them to respawn then doing it again I’d just like to say you are both a waste of good carbon. 15 minutes to hand in two quests and get a flight to Undercity is annoying even if my tiny little triumph of catching a bat a split second before you had charged in to kill the bat handler did make me /lol.
Were you around in the bad old days? It used to be that Hillsbrad was a constant slaughtering ground. You were lucky if you could manage to get a [del]living[/del] animate questgiver in Tarren Mill for more than 2 minutes. It was CONSTANT warfare, WAVES of player toons attacking…Alliance would attack TM, Horde would retaliate against Southshore, Alliance would reretaliate against TM, Horde would rereretaliate against Southshore. On a PvP server, your chances of surviving more than 5 minutes per incarnation were very low unless you were level 60 (the cap at that time). A lot of people just gave up on Hillsbrad and leveled in the level-equivalent zones of other races instead.
(1) Yes, that was one of the first things we checked. I made sure that both of us had the ‘Party’ icon checked.
(2) The two characters that we’re leveling together don’t belong to a guild, so we don’t have access to Vent right now with them. Up until now, that hasn’t been a problem; in-game chat has been fine when it’s just the two of us.
FWIW, Martu, “zone disruption” qualifies as griefing and is a reportable offense. Now, granted, most of the time the perpetrators will have gotten bored and gone elsewhere by the time a Game Master shows up. I believe, though, that Blizzard does keep track of reports against players and does discipline accordingly.
I think it would be fantastic if faction NPCs came back to life neutral for a few minutes. That way they couldn’t be targeted by griefers until they “reflagged,” giving griefees a chance to interact with them. The price for this would be the loss of any factional discounts or reputation-based perks while the NPC was neutral. I’m willing to concede that there’s a difference between zone disruption and town raiding, and there ought to be a benefit to taking down the enemy and a penalty for not defending your own people.
Alternatively to reporting them, just get some higher-level characters from your guild to help. You can find out what level the opposite-faction characters are by (a) looking them up in the Armory or (b) inspecting their Talents and adding up points. If all else fails, just ask for 80s. If you don’t have a guild, try advertising in Trade chat in a capital city–there are usually some bored people sitting around who’d love to come smash Alliance face in (or Horde, for anyone on the Alliance side).
