Semi-serious raider. My attendence has gotten weak with new work commitments, so I don’t go as often as I’d like. My guild currently has everything on farm (though we likely won’t do anymore 20 man runs), and the majority of raid time is spent on the ptr.
We’re not like most raiding guilds though, while there are some uptight and serious members, most of the guild, and all of the leadership, is laid back. All that’s really asked of people is that they hit their buttons and don’t stand in shit.
For those looking for thorium, I found the density and spawn rate of the nodes in southren Winterspring to be fairly nice, and usually no one else is in the zone. The issue comes from all the elite demons in the area though, so it may be useful to have a friend along if you’re not comfortable taking them on. (my wife decided to go jewelcrafting, so I had to farm a fair amount of thorium for her).
I really really WANT that fishing pole myself. It’s a reward from “the walrus guys”. I’m revered now, working slowly toward exalted.
Also, the mage just made 80, and the priest is next. I picked up my second and third black warbear this weekend too. So, now three toons are riding big angry looking bears. Life is good.
Yep, concur on the thorium in the whole of Winterspring, always made a point on doing a full circuit there when I was in the mining range for thorium.
Also, when you are there…Jump off of Frostsabre Rock in the north end of Winterspring to get your “Going Down” acheivement. It fulfills the 65m requirement. I did it with about 7200 HP and had about 42 HP left as a Ret Pally…So maybe you need a few more points if you don’t have plate armor. Never hurts to try…much.
You should’ve bandaged after that…it’s another achievement (Perform First Aid when reduced to less than x% of your total health), can’t remember what it’s called.
Oh, count me in also for going after the Mastercraft Kalu’ak Fishing Pole. I always try to get back to Moa’ki Harbor to do that pretty easy daily quest of picking up the pups.
Ha! I was hanging with a guildie out in Tanaris while she fished and I counted the snapjaws wandering around. We got ambushed by the odd giant during, and it is hilarious to watch a giant cow beating an even bigger giant with a fishing pole. Good thing attacks are automatic, I was laughing too hard to aim any better.
FTR, you can create ‘ohcrap’ macros using /equip, so that you only have to click the button to re-equip your objects-of-painbringing. The only issue with this that I’ve found is that I need to update it every time I change gear.
I just dinged 50 on my hunter this weekend since I ran ZF and Mara for the first time and then ran both a second time just cause. (A tiny complaint: I actually kind of wish I could level a bit slower, as I feel a little pressured by the quests changing color in my log.)
This weekend was a rush, instance-wise. I got to Volley zombies like a mofo.
And I also think I may have made some new instancing friends from the Mara pug. Apparently they’d had difficulty finding DPS the week before and greeted me with enthusiasm, which was a bit bemusing – aren’t us hunters supposed to be fairly thick on the ground?
I found my last few thorium nodes in Silithus. Practically all the underground bug tunnels have at least one node down inside them, Hardly anybody wants to go in there to get them, either, so you don’t have competition for them.
I’m primarily a roleplayer, but just hit max level for the first time about two months ago (I started playing WoW in February 2008). I’ve now been in Naxxramas three times with my guild and am learning the finer points of raiding. First time my mage went on a raid he had a hit rating of, oh, about eleven, which meant I was missing the bosses roughly 20% of the time! We expected me to come in at the bottom of the damage meters, but not necessarily behind the tank.
Yeah, but most of them are guarded by a swarm of those big wasps, and you can’t just get the wasps one at a time — pull one, and you get all of them. I decided those underground thorium nodes just weren’t worth it, and ended up getting my last few in Azshara.
Of course, I was soloing. Probably a lot easier with a partner.
IIRC, there’s just the one hive of the three that is guarded by wasp swarms. The other two are standard silithids in onesies or twosies. Easy enough to manage by yourself and rich in ooze covered thorium lodes. Also it’s best to do your mining Monday through Thursday. Too many people on weekends.
Of the four underground nodes I encountered (i.e. those that were “active” at the time I was hunting), three were guarded by wasps. There is more than one hive area - I was in the one where I had the quests to kill 30 each of four different kinds of bugs. That particular hive is pretty big, and I discovered four thorium nodes.
You probably got lucky and hit the hive (if it was the same hive) at a time when different nodes were active.
Personally, I avoid Silithus. The bugs make me unreasonably twitchy, and I started after BC came out, so I never had to get over it. =)
Tonight is going to be stressfull, we’re doing an Immortal run. Bad enough for me as dps, I can’t imagine how nerve racking it must be as a healer.
Kingspades, tanks can put out some decent dps these days, so it’s not as bad as being below the tank in BC. Especially if he’s fully Naxx25 geared and you’re not even in full heroic gear yet.
Well, I made another DK, this time a troll on Cairne so I can hook it up with BDL (remind me again who to whisper for an invite?)
Once again, I had one hell of a time with the mission flying the frost wyrm. Actually, it was harder and took longer than the first time, mainly because there seemed to be three other players doing the same quest at the same time - I couldn’t find targets. How on earth did anybody finish that quest when WotLK was new and everybody and their brother was making a DK? I still couldn’t figure out how the wyrm’s “Devour” ability was supposed to work, I still couldn’t see where I was aiming (they should have set it up so you see through the wyrm’s eyes, or made the wyrm’s head see-through or something). And apparently, there’s some kind of penalty for “shooting” from too high - I kept firing, the frost breath would hit the ground in a crowd of crusaders, damage numbers would flash all over the screen, but I wouldn’t get credit for any kills. I destroyed at least five ballistas that I didn’t get any credit for.
And of course, it doesn’t help when your wyrm dies, you go crashing to the ground and die yourself, and the undead angel thing comes along and resurrects you a thousand feet in the air without a mount so you just go falling to your death again.
Do the epic flying mounts in the late game have aerial combat ability, so that figuring out how to fight with the frost wyrm is useful later in the game, or was that mission something they just threw in there because they thought it would be “cool”?
On the other hand, I got to Light’s Hope Chapel in time to see the entire confrontation/changing sides scene play out this time. It makes a lot more sense now.
There are a number of people to whisper (I’m Jagaya) but the sure-fire way is to /join SDMB and introduce yourself there. Hope to see you soon!
There is at least one raid encounter that is done mounted. And many quests require you to mount up and do something while airborne. And the battlegrounds (including Wintergrasp) make heavy use of vehicles which have similar mechanics.
Woot! The druid I’ve been playing since the game first came out (with many many prolonged periods of not playing in between) finally hit 68 tonight. Flying form is fun, though I wish I could use the cat form’s Dash ability for a speed boost in flight form. Next up, level 70 and Northrend (yes, I know I could hit Northrend now, but I’d like to finish the single-player quests in Outland, since I have 3 zones left to visit there).
BTW, which is better for a Feral druid–rep with the Aldor or rep with the Scryers?
Flying mounts, no. There is vehicle combat, some of it aerial, though, which is what that was. It’s all in Northrend, of course; there’s a daily on Coldara which does this as practice for the Oculus instance and Malygos raid. The instance is harder to master than the raid, and, I feel, much more complex, at least in terms of the vehicles.
There are also ground based vehicles, which feature in some quests (mostly in Borean Tundra) and in the two new pvp areas.
As a side note, druid flight form is OP on pvp servers as it’s instant cast. They can (and do) fly up next to you, change form, knock you off your mount, and change back before hitting ground.
Umm, no, they don’t. Flight form is instant cast, but you have to be out of combat to cast it. That said, if you can time it right, you can shift out of flight form and into bear form, while still in the air, then feral charge into an opponent on the ground without taking fall damage. But, no, you can’t immediately shift back into flight form and fly away without getting out of combat first. Even that technique is not OP at all, since any druid that knows what they are doing would open with pounce, which requires stealthed cat form.
