So freaking cute. There are also two baby murlocs with a troll ‘witch doctor’ at Zabra’jin in Zangarmarsh. If you just like the sound, the Cobra Hatchling (from the hatching egg given out by the Oracles in Sholazar) has a nearly identical burble, but does it only very rarely.*
I’ve surely posted this before, but what the hell: My workplace had an outside consultant in to help us calibrate a particular piece of equipment, and I volunteered myself as the guinea pig. I had to sit in the dark for 20 minutes for the test to work properly after that, and the consultant offered to sit in there and keep me company, so we chatted about work. Then, I heard an unmistakeable sound. The sound of a murloc ‘yelling,’ and it was coming from her cell phone. I said, “… a murloc?” There was a pause, and then she said, “No one’s recognized that before. (pause) OK, Horde or Alliance?”
Mine chose to do it during a rundown of the Heigan fight, and our raid leader paused mid-explanation in confusion, then asked what the heck that sound was.
Oh, yes! One of my big regrets in WoW is the fact that that quest isn’t a daily. I would be over there every day rescuing herds of baby Murlocs just so I could have them following me around.
I finally got my very own baby Murloc pet (wouldn’t pay the ridiculous prices people are charging on Ebay for Murky, so I bit the bullet, did 200 arena matches in the tournament, and got myself Murkimus). I click on him all the time just so I can hear his cute little noises. *Other *people (including random strangers) admit to me that *they *click on him so they can hear them!
I’m really looking forward to Blizzcon this year–the giveaway pet there is a Space Marine baby Murlocwith a spacesuit and an energy rifle.
He’s called Gruul the Dragonkiller for a reason! We’re supposed to believe he impaled the blacks onto those spikes by hand. Give him about 35 Growths as he hulks out, and he’d actually be big enough to do it, too.
Did you guys think the dragons also decapitated themselves so as to have the heads dangling from an overpass? :eek:
Really hard to feel sorry for the ogres, though. They turn to Gruul and his brood for protection from the dragons, and soon they come to realize they need to be protected from Gruul instead.
Griefing only applies to actions you take to inconvenience other players. So, no worries–camping the spawn point of a mob that you need to kill for a quest does **not **count.
I used to go click on Murky every time I passed through the section of IF with the Blizzcon vendor. Then I was able to participate in the Arena 2k9 Tournament for a Murkimus of my very own! If I ever start getting frustrated during raids, I just pull him out and click on him repeatedly to hear the adorable burble.
You have no idea how disappointed I was when they released the ringtones and I couldn’t get the Murloc one on my T-Mobile phone.
Oh yeah, but that could just be because **SeptemberDay **is a voice actress. She actually got to audition for “Wrath of the Lich King.” They didn’t use her voice in the game, but it was interesting to get a little bit of a sneak peek of what was going to be in the expansion. Her part of the audition script had the dialogue from some other bits of the game, everything from tuskarr flavor speech to instance encounters.
Ah…I never encountered Gruul. I more or less shorted my Outland time and went to Northrend when I turned 70. After I flew around the whole damn thing to get my Outland Explorer achievement.
This was one of the fun parts of running my 80 around the old world doing lowbie quests — one-shotting murlocs. They’d get as far as “Mrg…” and switch into overacting “extended death scene” mode.
Hmm. It certainly doesn’t explain the spikes that are not in canyons, particularly the massive spikes extending out into Zangarmarsh.
Somewhere I’ve got this standup comedian talking about plotting his wife’s violent death:
“Oh, I love my wife, but I have thought of ways to kill her. Of course, I know I’d never get away with it. ‘So, Mr. Smith, how do you explain the fact that we found your wife’s body stuffed into a 55-gallon barrel, floating a mile out to sea?’ ‘Geez, I don’t know how she paddled out that far! I guess that’s when she panicked and dismembered herself!’”
The word “silk” is translated as “Seide” (Sai-duh) in German, but there is also a very pretty German name: “Silke”.
So, after giving it some thought (and knowing that my toon’s name: Wolkenlaufer (fre) means “Cloud-Runner”), I decided that running on top of clouds would be like running on silk, and if Wolkie were riding a horse across clouds then that must be a very smooth ride indeed, and that’s how I came up with the name.
I wrote that I was heading to Burning Steppes and needed help, and someone came back and asked for an invite, and then she changed it to the Barrens, but I still thought BS, and waited, and waited and waited.
Shouldn’t she have whispered first, instead of staying in guild chat?
I didn’t see this addressed elsewhere, and wanted to mention that you’re “supposed” to have to switch between battle and defensive stance. Later, you’ll add a third stance called berserker stance. The three stances are like different modes; each stance gives different effects to your character (such as increasing threat generated), and each stance also has some abilities which are unique to it. That’s why the main hotbar will change when you change stances; I tend to put stance-specific abilities (like Charge, which is normally usable only in battle stance) on the main hotbar that changes according to my stance, and use the extra hotbars for abilities which can be used in every stance (like Heroic Strike).
Defensive stance is meant for “tanking”, when you’re the one who puts on a shield and tries to keep the attention of all the creatures your party is battling. This usually goes along with a talent spec that is heavily focused on the protection tree. Berserker and battle stances are damage-dealing stances; battle stance goes along with a focus on the arms talent tree, while berserker stance goes along with a focus on the fury talent tree.
Generally speaking, you’ll want to limit the amount of stance changing you do during combat, as “stance dancing” resets your Rage resource to a low number. For a solo warrior, battle stance is usually your best bet, unless your talent spec is very heavily into the fury tree to get the berserker stance bonuses.
I was set to make a toon on Cairne so I could join the Dopers there, and I could never get that server to come up in the list. It turns out that I had the list set so that only RP realms (which mine, Kirin Tor, is) showed.
I have created a troll hunter, Zoraili, and look forward to encountering other Dopers there and joining the guild, if y’all wouldn’t mind having a new hunter.
Hey, I’ve posted my first-ever video to YouTube! It took me a while to figure out a good way to translate the .mov files the Mac version of WoW creates into something YouTube could understand, without ruining the quality. Simply exporting to MPEG from the QuickTime Player, or VLC, or any of the other players I have resulted in crappy video with lots of artifacts.
Then I remembered I have iMovie :smack: I just had to import the .mov file and then upload it to YouTube using iMovies built-in “Upload to YouTube” feature.
Anyway, while doing lowbie quests in Redridge Mountains I came across a wounded soldier in a cave, and accepted the mission to escort him back to Lakeshire. He was wrapped in bandages, and it just so happened that my paladin’s “shirt” was the “Antiseptic-Soaked Bandages” from the first aid shop in Dalaran. So I stripped her chest armor, shoulders, and gloves off so that she and the soldier would match on their way back to Lakeshire
