If you have “don’t show helm” set then no one sees you with a hat of any sort.
Hey.
If me and Wolkie and Silka smell a little “fishy” tonight, it’s because we went down and tried to catch us some Turlocs fins and stuff down at the Western Strand of South Shore
God, I need to rub Silka down, clean out her stall, and curry her coat.
They (Blizz) have to take that into consideration, don’t they?
I mean, that’s my horse!
Thanks as always!
Quasi
That’s a perfectly adequate tip. Here are a few suggestions for getting locks picked:
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Try trade chat and /1 – more people will see the announcement than with yell
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Make sure to announce what kind of chest it is (e.g., say “Need lock picked on iron chest” not “need lockpick”)
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Say where you are (e.g., “Need lock picked on iron chest on SW bank steps”).
Or work out something with a guildie. My main is a tailor, and makes bags and gear for anyone in the guild that sends me mats. My alt is an enchanter, who will do any enchant for a guild member for free if they bring me the mats. In return, there’s a rogue in the guild I can just mail chests to, and he’ll pick the locks and mail 'em back. That way there’s no waiting, yelling, announcing, and trying to find times to meet people.
I don’t see the problem with High lvl characters farming for their alts. Heck everyone does it for the non bind items. I ran a death knight through the stockades about 8 times for wool first time I started some alliance characters. Yet I had to toss dozens of useful green items for no reason.
As for “I need it for my alt” isn’t that already a problem with non-bop items? I remember reading a few drama threads about ninja looting and people saying things like ‘but my guild needs this’ or ‘I need it for my druid alt’ for regular items. Obviously making Bop to bind on account would make it slightly worse but really I don’t see it as game breaking.
NOOOOOOOOO…not the green items …:eek:
<my DK is an herbalist and enchanter>
It would trash the economy almost as effectively as removing Soulbound since no one would have any reason to buy any gear, not to mention there would be even less reason than there is now to properly run low level instances.
Problem? Sure, but useful BoEs are relatively rare and if everything was account bound it would happen on every single boss kill.
This is a big one. Every new toon I create would get geared out by having my 80 solo old dungeons and send the useful stuff to my alt. No need to buy crafted items, or BoEs, or anything.
But this would be the worst thing about it. I get mad enough as it is when somebody trots out the “but my ___ can use that” on a BoE drop. If your alt wants it then run this dungeon on your alt, don’t steal money from me just because you happen to have a toon that can use something. The worst was Avool’s Sword of Jin which somebody took for their hunter. That can sell for a few thousand gold… and he just took it. Hell, he probably just sold it.
Having to deal with that shit on every single dungeon drop… um, no thanks.
So, a question from someone sorta new to the horde.
I’m playing an undead warrior, and I’ve managed to scrape my way to level 24. After level 18 it really wasn’t easy. I’ve finished off all the silverpine quest-stuff, and now I’m in Taren Mill. I’ve been scratching and biting my way through the questlines, and now it’s at the point that pretty much any quest I want to do will have level 27-28 mobs and a 30 at the end of it, usually with back-up.
I’ll be honest. I’ve done Barrens. I don’t like Barrens or the areas around it. But it looks like on the eastern continent, there’s just nowhere for someone my level to go, quest-wise. Is this the case, or am I just really missing something?
Looking at the zones by level chart, your options are Hillsbrad Foothills (where you are now), Barrens, Stonetalon, and Ashenvale. You don’t want to do the Barrens or the adjacent areas, so…yeah, looks like you’re out of options, I’m afraid.
I don’t like how the game forces Horde into the Barrens, either. Alliance have a much more balanced selection to choose from.
I managed to avoid The Barrens on my belf pally by going pretty much straight from Ghostlands to Hillsbrad/Arathi. But all my other Horde toons have been through/are currently in The Barrens. Problem with The Barrens is that the game keeps you there so freakin’ long, to the point you’re just sick of looking at that tan-colored landscape. As I mentioned in BDL chat, I remember when Chimtahna, my first Horde toon (a tauren hunter) left The Barrens and walked into Ashenvale, and I was completely blown away by the explosion of color. It was liking walking into a whole new world.
I kinda miss that sense of wonder 
There is one good thing about The Barrens: Mining. The ore veins are right there and easily accessible. So many other zones have the veins located in weird places and you spend way to much time just trying to figure out how to get to the damn things.
ETA: One thing I just noticed the other day in Camp Taurajo. I was inside the inn there and wandered upstairs … the buildings there, including the inn, are clearly tauren architecture, and I found it odd that the beds in the inn aren’t nearly large enough for a tauren.
“You can then pick different pieces to look at side-by-side. It’s got a lot of options, which can seem a little confusing at first, but if it looks like something you’d be interested in, I’d be happy to throw together a little how-to with screenshots.”
Found it again!
I didn’t miss it or forget it the first time, but this is the first time I have had a chance to get back to your sweet offer, SFG!
But only when you have time, okay, and THANK YOU! 
Quasi
You made the ridiculous assumption that the beds are for the Taurens, when in fact they’re for weary travelers. It is a well known fact that cows sleep standing up.
The beds are big enough for Taurens… it’s the hammocks that are too small.
Actually, my cow girls usually just lie down on a rug or fur or whatever, being in-tune-with-nature Druids, Shamans, and Hunters.
Want to try some tauren-tipping? You can start with my death knight 
Really? Is that why wool is so cheap everywhere because people can farm it? The economy is 99% people who can’t be bothered to do it themselves already. Looking at what stacks of even copper goes for on the AH makes my brain bleed sometimes. There’s millions of items that are easy to get but people just pay for it anyway.
Why do you care so much that people run low level instances anyway? I don’t see how it effects your enjoyment of the game.
I still don’t see the problem. I get to kill a boss once get something useful for an alt and don’t have to kill him again and again and again and again so I just happen to have the correct character kill him with the correct dice roll to get what I need?
Also to the person about the greens 
my ally characters needed them darnit. My low lvl enchanter needed fuel as well.
One stack of wool is the same as any other stack of wool and it is destroyed when you use it.
The gear the drops in instances is better than anything you can expect to find on the ah, so there would be no reason to buy anything from the ah.
Because some people might actually enjoy running instances? Problem is that so few people bother that finding a group is almost impossible.
So, you would be fine with me joining Naxx on my druid tank and then roll on all the set tokens, The Turning Tide for my warlock, Envoy of Mortality for my hunter and Betrayer of Humanity for my paladin?
Wool isn’t cheap. At least not for Horde in most places, it seems.
Not having many soulbound items (there were some BOP, but those were mostly quest items) screwed royally with the economy in EverQuest. Jewelcrafting was a fun and interesting tradeskill for a while, and then people started selling off their old jewelry that they’d outleveled for less than the materials cost - you had to buy the metal bars off NPC vendors, IIRC - and most tradesmen couldn’t compete. A few high-end jewelcrafters could get work but that was about it.
Blizzard fine-tuned the system to keep the economy and the game itself running, and I suspect you can find other systems out there too if you look around. I think this system works better than others I’ve seen, typically.
Love to farm BFD, Stockades, DM … the cloth sells like hotcakes because I sell it for silvers. I am high enough as an enchanter now that I sell the low end dusts fairly cheaply also. I made enough in the past 3 days to get my DK flying mount and training [i just hit 62 last night] though I had to make the trip to HH to get the flight training.
I was rich enough in EQ that what I did was experiment to make new crafted items … like Velium Inlaid Cestus [and sumbit the screenshots to alla’s for fun] becuse I had started playing way back at the beginning … and crafting was interesting as you could work without a recipe and see what you could come up with. There was quite a culture of people who did experimental tradecrafting. [I also had a raid character that did nothing but raid for 6 hours a day, 5 to 6 days a week. I was also customer service and spent about 6 hours a day in game on Winterskiss the Cookiemaker as a gm.]
I had no life sob