Well, I’m off to Alexstrasza. My name is Wolkenlaufer, so if you see me, wave.
Gotta empty my catheter bag first, 'cause I wanna level at least twice tonight…
Y’all DO know I’m nowhere NEAR that bad yet, right?
That tells me you’re not a real World of Warcraft fan yet. Otherwise, you’d have set up your computer on a tray table in front of the toilet and put a mini-fridge on the floor next to it. You never have to stop
:D:D:D
Man! I never even THOUGHT of that!!!
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Just don’t ask about “poopsocking”… 
We don’t allow sock poopets here
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Since I now get rez sickness, I just let my healer do their thing with that sexy voice and sit for that 5 minutes. Yes?
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I was always taught to loot everything, even inedible meats. OK?
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Does hopping while you run make you cover more ground than normal? I can’t tell?
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If I am now a 15 (I am) and I pass a Level 8 beast, am I always sure it’s not going to attack? Is it a proximity thing - like if I run over it, it will attack?
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Gryphons: Can they be attacked while I’m flying them?
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I don’t “get” the auctions, and I’d rather be questing. Is the auction REALLY that important? I tried to sell some weapons, but they wanted 'em fixed first. Is there no “as is”? I have a lot of stuff in the bank, but I don’t wanna do the 'Ebay" thing…
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And lastly, I think my guy is “calling cadence” very softly as he’s running! Is he? Today’s the first day I ever really heard it…
Thanks
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Are you rezzing at the graveyard? By talking to the spirit thingy? If so, yes just wait out the 5 mins (or do some first aid or cooking or something). You do know you can run as a ghost back to your corpse to rez without getting rez sickness (this also doesn’t cause damage to your gear)?
I generally loot everything but if you have bagspace issues then maybe leave the Gray-quality stuff behind. Anything gray quality you just sell to a vendor ASAP. If it’s white you most likely sell it unless it’s gear you can use (at lower levels) or something desired for crafting or something (but if you don’t want to use the AH then you might as well vendor this stuff too).
No, it doesn’t make you faster. Doesn’t stop some players from hopping everywhere It is useful for “kiting” (running away from a mob dragging it with you). On my hunter I will often run away, jump and turn at the same time to get a shot off, and then jump-turn again to keep running away.
If you walk right on a mob it will attack you, no matter what level it and you are. It is based on proximity and relative level.
No, your flight point gryphons can not be attacked.
You can definitely play without using the AH but it’s much easier to make money if you use it. If it’s not your thing then just sell things that you don’t want to the vendors.
No idea… possible I guess. What race?
Is your class a mail-wearing one? You might be hearing your armor jingling.
You don’t have to resurrect at the spirit healer and get the sickness in the first place. Just run back to your corpse and resurrect there, spirit healers are only meant to be used as last resort for when you can’t reach your corpse.
If it isn’t nailed down you take it and sell it(or use it yourself), when you’re poor every copper counts.
No, it doesn’t.
Yes, get close enough and a hostile mob will attack you even if you’re 79 levels above it. The exact range depends on the mob and level difference. Note that it works both ways, so stay far away if the mob is much higher level than you are.
No
The auction house is the most convenient way to buy/sell items from/to other players and as long as an item’s name isn’t grey you will probably get more money selling it to players than you will get from a vendor, though it depends the specific item.
Weapons and armour are always at full durability when you find them, stop using the spirit healer to resurrect and you won’t have to worry about it.
Also, you can’t sell/trade soulbound items, so don’t try anything on if you intend to sell it.
Thanks to all of you!
That thing with the cadence? It sounds like he’s just softly calling out 1-2-3-4 over and over. Could be my imagination, but I heard it as he’s running over snow in Forest Mane area.
Yeah, I knew about the finding your body thing, but I had a real bad experience early on when I couldn’t find my body and one of you told me to drown myself after about 30 minutes and the healer would appear and she’d rez me. Was it you, jay? Anyway, what I was getting at with the rezzing. I was forgetting to wait and went back weak as a kitten and gettin’ clobbered. I’m glad it finally sank in.
And ** jay** you were right about the Forestmane cave, I did almost have to come out the other side before it was all over. Quests are getting longer and harder.
This isn’t gonna do anything for me “Miss Popularity-wise” :rolleyes:, but I’m not too thrilled with the motorbikes in Iron Forge. I thought we were supposed to be medieval? Sorry if I’m offending anyone.
Y’all are totally awesome for helping me and I am thoroughly enjoying myself in Azeroth. I did tell my AD friend Tom in Pittsburgh about playing it and he’s going to start and I’m gonna help him! 
Even though I do almost jump out my skin sometimes, it really does help the senses and reflexes to stay sharp.
Whereas I used to just barrel through an area filled enemies, I now wait and let them separate a bit before moving. So the strategy is sinking in.
My toon is a Human Alliance Warrior named Wolkenlaufer.
One more question? What’s with those spears? Are they really in me or just piercing the mail? Because I was able to fight with 2 of them sticking out my body, and how do I find my wounds to patch them? I never knew I could do that. So I guess ol’ Wolkie’s been fighting like a walking dead man.
Thanks very much, you guys! I got some Defias “clean-up” to do, and then my quest-slate will be clean.
Bill
Could be the sound of running over snow that sort of sounds like numbers. I don’t think any race actually calls cadence as it runs.
Wasn’t me, that I remember.
It’s just an engineering toy. The world isn’t QUITE medieval…they have flying machines and zeppelins and a subway, etc…the motorbike and such still fit, in a way.
The spears/knives/arrows/etc that stick out of you temporarily are just cosmetic. They did their damage already, and they don’t actually get in your way or anything. You don’t have to find your wounds…eating will heal you (outside of combat), and if you train in First Aid (which uses cloth that you pick up from humanoid mobs you kill) you can bandage yourself, too.
I really like flying on the Gryphon, but I was concerned about an aerial… BIRD fight?
The bikes?
Yeah, I know… it’s a personal thing, I reckon. I also didn’t care for that Queen song in that film about knights, and I love Queen.
The major thing I have trouble with,** jay**, is directions, and I know people say, “well that’s no big deal”, but it is to me especially when I was just there a minute ago!
But you know what? The frequency when that happens is getting less, so even that is improving, and I know I have said this before, but I give all the credit to WoW for that!
Thanks WoW, and thanks jay et merci, et al! (Latin and French, right?;))
Bill
Heh heh http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/MMORPG.jpg
You know how you can hover your mouse over a creature and see its level? I’ve always figured the monsters can do that to you too. So you walk toward a much lower-level mob, it waves its mouse pointer over you and says, “Uh-uh, I’m not messing with that!” But of course, if you get too close it panics and attacks.
I’ve used this to great effect while searching for mining nodes. There’s a cave in UnGoro Crater that’s full of cranky gorillas, but there are some mining nodes in there. My paladin is more than 10 levels higher than the gorillas, and I hate wasting time killing a bunch of monsters that are too low-level to give XP, so I just strolled through the cave making sure I didn’t get too close to any of them, and got through the whole cave pretty much unmolested.
Well, as I painfully discovered, if you don’t sell things at the auction house, you’re liable to reach level 30 and not have enough money to pay for riding lessons and buy a horse.
I kind of think it would be cool if, when a flight path takes you over the other faction’s towns/bases, the NPCs all took (harmless) potshots at you, or at least shook their fists 
Speaking of mining, I’m getting really cranky trying to find thorium nodes. I need just 5 more points in mining to reach 300 so that I can mine in Hellfire Peninsula, and thorium is about the only ore in Azeroth that will still raise my mining skill, but my god those nodes are scarce! I’m using mapwow.com to help me find nodes, but most of the time I go where it shows the nodes and there’s nothing there. Of course, when my mining skill was below 275 — the number required to mine Rich Thorium nodes — they were all over the place. I just couldn’t mine them. Now I can mine them, and they’ve all disappeared.
I tried smelting to get those last few points, while “Smelt Thorium” was still green. I smelted 43 thorium bars, which raised my mining skill 1 whole point. Harrumph.
:mad:
Oh, and I decided to go ahead and sell that fancy Blade of Misfortune sword, but I’m going to wait a while. Though Auctioneer showed a market price of 435g, by the time I actually got to the AH there were three other people trying to sell the same sword, which had pushed the price down to 200-something. So I’ll wait for the “glut” to go away, and try again later.
I highly recommend Gatherer, the Gatherer DB, and the Gatherer HUD. Having the node locations on your in-game map makes a world of difference, because MapWoW can only show you the approximate location. It’s difficult to tell if you’re where the node should be or not. Gatherer however shows you little circles in exactly the places where the nodes would spawn, so if you don’t see yellow there you know not to waste your time. The addon starts out blank and adds circles as you mine, but you can get the DB which pulls node locations from WoWhead and prepopulates your maps. The HUD will throw up a display of nodes relative to your position on an overlay in the center of the screen. It’s not necessary, but I find it fun and useful, as it does a better job of showing you where farther-away nodes are than the minimap itself.
I’m in the same position myself. I’m at Mining 296 or so. I just haven’t gotten back into the game long enough to find those last few thorium nodes. It doesn’t help that the enemies around thorium are still green to me, and as I’m already 2 bars ahead of my GF, I don’t want to pull any more XP without her around.
I have Gatherer, and just discovered its HUD feature, and now I’ve installed GathererDB on your recommendation, so we’ll see how that works. I’ve already got lots of nodes marked via sends from guildmates who also use Gatherer. I was noticing yesterday that I was receiving a veritable barrage of thorium sends from a particular guildmate, with less time between them than you’d normally expect. When I asked “How?”, this guildie said something about an AddOn called “Carbonite”, but I don’t see that one listed in my Curse Client.
Because of what is going on with me, I think I may not be"understanding" all the “ins and outs” of the game, and so I am avoiding them, and am concentrating mostly on questing because that’s more “comfortable” . Does that make sense?
However, because I am more comfortable now, I don’t just exit the game: I “tidy” up.
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I feed my toon and then put him to bed (and no I don’t make him brush his teeth or tell him a bedside story - I knew that’s what you guys would write! :D)
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Then I tidy up the bags, get rid of what we don’t need, take some stuff to the bank
3, I also take another look at my quest and see what’s left, and I am trying to have only one to work on, (so tonight it’s the Defias “family” who still need my services! ;)) although sometimes someone will ask me to take a note to his sweetie or deliver some horsehoes, so I can combine those.
Anyway, my point is,when I first started playing. I created a BUNCH of characters so they’re all still waiting. And I’m being a bit “anal” about it all, but that’s a good thing, right?
One more thing I need help with: I misspelled “Wolkenlaufer” and messed up the “er” so it looks like Wolkenlaufre. How can I get that fixed, kids?
So We’re in Goldshire in the inn (me and my blizzard bear). Tried to chat up one of the servers and tell her to be sure not to bring a refill if I didn’t order it, and I said it real low, so she’d have to bend over to hear me? But she only says a couple of things, poor thing.
Hope to see y’all on one of my quests! Feel free to jump in and say “hello” (hint, hint, HA-HA! Like you 70’s guys with your fancy schmanzy clothes and horses would take “pity” on your old Unca Quas with the Alzheimer’s and stuff! :D:D:D)
Shit! Sometimes I get started on one of these “character things” and I can’t stop myself!:smack:
See ya!
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Remember to import it into Gatherer through the Gatherer option screen. It won’t read it automatically.
I’m not that familiar with Carbonite, but it looks like a pretty hefty program. New world map, quest assistance, gather support, and a few other things. They may have taken it off Curse due to Blizzard’s new policy of forbidding addon developers to charge for their product, as apparently they charged a subscription. Going by the note on the website, I can’t tell if they’re preparing to make it free or cut out a bunch of the features they used to charge for. Hard to say.
I’m running Curse Client. Is it Gatherer only? Because all I am finding is Gatherer Database.
Thanks
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ETA: Sorry. I didn’t understand. I’m running QuestHelper off Curse. Is Gatherer a better map?
My experience, having gone through this recently myself, is that I had the most luck finding Thorium nodes in northern sectors of Eastern and Western Plaguelands. As I was level 63 at the time, I had no problems with mobs and I just basically rode my fast mount around the edges and caves of those areas till I had found all of the needed nodes. Took about an hour to go from 275 to 300.