That’s a known bug with that pole. Oddly, the other pole that can be obtained from the fishing daily reward bag (the Jeweled Fishing Pole) doesn’t seem to have that problem. At least, mine doesn’t.
Speaking of unfortunate tabards… I refer to the Kirin Tor rep one as “the penis tabard.”
Take a look at the below-the-belt portion the next time you equip it. Seriously.
Dragonfin Angelfish are required for two of the most in-demand buff foods (+Str and +Agi), and they have some of the worst school spawns (possibly **the **worst) of any Northrend fish–they’re only available in one zone (Dragonblight), with a handful of potential spawn points in the lake by the ghost Kalu’ak village and a few more up by the waterfall that comes down from Wintergrasp.
Oh, I know - I hit up Lake Indule as often as I have time (at last it’s pretty close to Dalaran). Both for my own buff food and the STR/STAM one (side note: why does the AGI food take two fish but the STR only takes one?).
Most of the time I can also find a few fish on the AH just in case I ran out of food/fish and don’t have to time to fish before a raid - last night, none. I wouldn’t have mentioned it except there were also no Mammoth Cutters or Bullet Makers (which I’ve only had happen once before), and very little Saronite ore. I’ve never had problems getting the consumables I need for a raid before, and found it noteworthy that everything I needed was unavailable on the same night. Fortunately I think I’ve lined up a new Engineer to keep me in ammo.
Can you describe the effect? I suspect it must be similar to a problem I had trying to select a tabard icon for my vanity guild - aside from the fact that the human female breasts really distort the icon*, there were also several icons that ended up looking like “shelf bras”. That is, that kind of bra that supports the breasts from below while otherwise leaving them bare.
*Did I already bring this up? I’ll recap: All of the human female chest items conform perfectly to the model’s breasts (and as somebody on the WoW forums pointed out, it’s especially ridiculous when she’s wearing plate, and they bounce when she does her “yawn” idle animation). It’s not nearly as bad with the night elf and draenei models, because on them the tabard fabric stretches nearly straight across between the breasts, as it should. I haven’t put a tabard on a female dwarf or gnome yet. I’m very much looking forward to Blizz redesigning the human models, as is rumored.
There’s a guild on Lightbringer that has a pink tabard with a red heart 
The AH on Lightbringer is utterly swamped with Saronite ore, to the point where I’m lucky to get 20g for a stack. If I really want to make money with my mining, it looks like thorium is the way to go - last I saw it was up to somthing like 56g/stack.
Yeah, Thorium and Mithril seem to be the best moneymakers, especially when you consider that the enemies around the ore are zero threat when you’re 80. The only trouble is they’re a little hard to suss out; there’s very few zones where either ore is readily plentiful and you can ride around in an easy circle to gather them up.
Yeah, Silithus is probably the best zone for Thorium, but you need to keep running in and out of the damn tunnels all the time. (and either ignoring or swatting all the bugs, some of which will probably aggro on you even with the level difference).
Speaking of thorium nodes in Silithus, what is up with “Slime-covered Thorium Veins”? I understand that “Rich Thorium” nodes give you a bit more ore than a plain old “Thorium Vein”, but I don’t really get the difference in a “Slime-covered” node. (Or is it “Ooze-covered”?)
My experience is that enemies will always aggro on you if you physically touch them (or otherwise get within a very small radius from their center), and clicking a mining node will aggro enemies within about 10 yards or so. Add in that you can’t take mounts into tunnels and they become a hassle and a half.
ETA: As far as I’m aware, Ooze-Covered veins are exactly the same as their normal counterparts; they’re just a hold-over from when the Silithid was the Big Threat. It seems like it was meant to be a ‘they’re taking over the world and even affecting the nodes!’ kind of thing. I think. Just a WAG.
There’s still a lot of distortion on the female Night Elf model. One wonders why they couldn’t have spent all the time they dedicated to making bikini and midriff versions of armor to making the various tabard skins not look like pure distorted shit. (Psssst, Blizzard, a lot of the people who play female characters are actually women, and we’d rather not look half-assed than get an extra glimpse of fake tits.)
Bugs are slimy. The nodes are by the bugs. Therefore, the nodes are also slimy.
I STILL need to get out of Booty Bay! Wolkie is right outside “The Plate And Chain”
Sorry! I know y’all told me where the birds are, (somewhere higher up, right?) but I can’t FIND them!
Sorry, I’m just worthless sometimes.
I do have flashes of “brilliance”, but those are mostly in my dreams.
I love y’all - A WHOLE BUNCH!
These days.
Quasi
Do you know where the inn is? If you’ve found that (goblin bartender on the ground floor, that kind of thing), start walking upstairs. Keep going up and up - if you walk out on what looks like the bow of a boat, with a couple of (friendly) pirates there, turn around, go back inside, walk straight ahead then hang a left and go out the door. You ought to, I think, be able to see the Alliance flight master from there. (Look on your minimap in the upper right corner for a light green “!”, which will let you know when you’re close to the flight master.)
In general, tabards look like they were designed for males and then what was done for females was bunch up the center together, stretching the part on top of each breast. Definitely not the geometry you’d get on a tabard; depending on the fabric the picture could get stretchy on the breasts, but it would never get squeezed in between.
And many female versions of armor (specially older ones) look decent (if pr0nographic) on the leggy ones, but on orcs, dwarves and gnomes? It’s like the opposite of sexy. Then again, those robes with cutouts on the sleeves (check out the starter priest robe) are designed with females in mind.
More like “there’s hands made of lightning grabbing my tits!” Seriously, you know those guys whose idea of “foreplay” is to just put one hand on each boob and squeeze? It looked like the handprints of that. And dwarf females have a serious case of curves, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. We checked, and the “grab” effect wasn’t anywhere near as evident on the nelfs or humans.
Then again, one of my dwarves is wearing the Ebon Blade tabard right now; it frames her frameables very, uh, framedly. And in the login screen, sometimes dwarvettes yawn and stretch a bit. She did that while wearing that tabard and I felt like telling my bunch of 1s and 0s “don’t do that when there’s guys around, dear, they’re shocked enough by the sight of a female dwarf…”
For some reason, I never get hordies flirting with my allies when I’m in another race, but the dwarves get flirts, hugs, kisses, random assistance and whatnot. No idea how many of them know me from their Ally chars (I play RP, where you can have chars on both sides in the same server), how many just like the rarity (I saw a troll warrior the other day and took a screenie) and how many just happened to be bored when I walked by. The gnomes get the occasional pat, but that’s from Allies as well.
Wild guess: dwarves just seem more likeable? I’m sure the rarity is part of it too - funny you make that troll comment, as my husband made a female troll warrior just because of how infrequently that combination turns up.
Female dwarves are rather cute. Our healing priest in the Stockades the other day was a blonde dwarf with braids and she was lovely. I generally pick the taller character models, as I am tall myself. Hell, my draenei paladin is wearing glasses and has a short haircut because I have both of those characteristics. Alas, I am not a hot blue-skinned goat-girl from space, but you can’t have everything.
Last year, someone in my guild put together a beefcake calendar of people’s male draenei alts. They didn’t finish it–couldn’t get anyone for December for some reason. It was very…interesting.
THEY ARE SO GOOD ZOMG. (Otoh I just got the Bad Clams recipe – the flavor text on that amuses me exceedingly) I got mine from Trader Joe’s, so if there’s one near you, you might want to take a lookysee. I ate nearly the whole bag before I exercised my willpower.
I also just spent a day and half in Silithus to level my mining and reemerged with about 4-5 stacks of thorium, jewels, Silithid Chitin, and Sandworm Meat, and cleared nearly all the quests that didn’t require sticking my head into AQ. Keep running counterclockwise especially at off hours of the day and check all the tunnels and mountain edges. Some nodes spawn in the middle of the flat too, there’s one right by the ramp up to Cenarion Hold.
You don’t have to RP to have Horde and Alliance toons on the same server. You can do that on any server that isn’t PvP.
Quasi, you wouldn’t believe how long it took me to find those FPs in Booty Bay the first time I went there (first time with a Horde toon, and then I had to do it all over again with an Alliance toon).
Anyway, I made a video for you. If you can find that “half-boat” with the injured goblin lying in its shade, you can start there and just watch what my DK does in this video:
So I’ve been doing the Alliance dailies at the Blue Sky Logging Grounds in Grizzly Hills. These are “PvP dailies”, though I’ve so far encountered only one Horde player in the area. Which brings me to my question:
How the hell is a melee class like a paladin supposed to PvP against a druid? This druid kept rooting me, which was easy enough to get out of — the paladin “Cleanse” spell breaks the roots — but what can a melee class do against an opponent that can instantly shift into flight form and escape every time you get within striking distance? The only DoT a paladin has is Consecrate, but that targets an area of the ground, not the opponent, and requires the opponent to stand there and take it (which a human-controlled opponent is not going to do) if it’s to have any effect. The closest thing a paladin has to a ranged attack is Exorcism, which coincidentally doesn’t work in PvP (and it has such a long cooldown it would be useless as a dependable ranged attack anyway). Seals don’t do enough damage on their own to be considered “ranged attacks”. I think I managed to get close enough to hit this druid maybe three times.
I don’t want to QQ about druids being OP, but geeeez!
I would have actually been content to just leave this guy be, but he was pissing me off. I didn’t even know he was there until I was attempting to return one of the damaged shredders. I walked the thing into the water and suddenly got hit by a series of Moonfires (or whatever equivalent a lvl 79 druid would be using … Starfire?) and Nature’s Wraths. It only took about three of those to destroy the shredder, and by the time I surfaced and swam back to the shore the dude was gone (he wasn’t directly attacking me at this point). I looked all over, didn’t see anybody. So I found another shredder, walked it all the way to the water, and as soon as I was in the water here came another barrage of Moonfire/Starfire/Wrath. And again, when I got back to shore there was nobody in sight. At that point I finally remembered “flight form” and looked up, and there he was, circling way the hell up there. What he was doing was just staying out of sight at high altitude, waiting for somebody to try to return a shredder, flying down and blasting them as soon as they were in the water, then flying back up and away before they could get out of the water. The only reason I was able to engage him personally was that I “pretended” to give up on the shredders and went about “renewing” some wounded Westfall soldiers. He took the opportunity to attack some other Wounded Westfall soldiers, and I jumped him while he was doing that. Didn’t do me any good, though, since he just kept flying away every time I got close.
He finally killed me, and I guess he was satisfied with that because when I got back to my corpse he didn’t bother me any more.
One other question about the Blue Sky Logging Grounds: according to WowWiki or WowHead, there is a quest there that involves riding a log down the river to Venture Bay, where more quests are found. I’ve even seen a guy go zipping past me on a log while I was fishing in the river.
Thing is, I can’t find any questgivers there except for the ones handing out the dailies. Where the heck do I get this quest? There aren’t any more quests appearing at Amberpine Lodge, or anywhere else in the zone that I can find (I’ve already earned the “Fo’ Grizzle my Shizzle” achievement, which would suggest I’ve gotten all the non-dungeon, non-daily quests in the zone).
I’m sure someone will have some tactics you can try, but my initial thought is their scissors beat your paper.