I doubt it’s a gold seller, as they wouldn’t be trading in ore and stone.
Remember that the Armory doesn’t show characters under level 10. The character probably isn’t deleted, it’s simply a lowbie. My guess is it’s a bank toon that was trading materials between his own toons or to someone else. Definitely hang onto the ore and stuff until you hear back, as I’m pretty sure it was a mistake, but if you don’t hear back after a while or find out that Hg really is deleted, sell it or do whatever. Their mistake, their loss.
I would keep a list of what all was in the mail, just in case he comes back in two months and demands to know what happened to his stuff, though.
Oh yes, yes it is Finally got an upgraded melee weapon when Marrowstrike dropped! And then got the T8.5 helm from running heroics and this chest from the new 25-man raid. I’ve never seen such a big boost to my DPS in one weekend! Happy hunter…
Random note from yesterday: One of my guildies is starting a druid, and has him up to 10th level. He was kicked out of a RFC (Ragefire Chasm, the dungeon in Org) run because - he doesn’t have Ventrilo! (That’s a voice chat program for those who haven’t encountered it, aka “Vent”, typically used for raids and such.)
Seriously. Vent for a lowbie dungeon. He managed to find a group that didn’t require it.
I want to hit level 80 so bad. My Hunter is almost 75, but my partner may be coming back into the game soon, so I’ll be switching back to my 67 Paladin. Two steps forward, one step back.
The jousting is stupid (HAY GUYZ HERE’S THIS SHITTY VEHICLE MECHANIC AGAIN I KNOW IF YOU DO IT ENOUGH TIMES YOU’LL LOVE IT INSTEAD OF HATING IT), and the rest is a cakewalk. But the gear is good–I picked up a few new items for my off-spec set (DPS).
IMO, the incentives are great–better XP and gear than you’d get from questing or grinding at the same level. My WAG is that it’s just harder to find groups because people are being run through instead of grouping with others at their level.
Only characters level 10+ show up on the Armory. My guess is that someone’s mule sent the items to the wrong character. My advice would be to send a mail to this Hg telling them that you received the items (which it appears that you’ve done), wait a week or two, and then use or sell the items as you see fit if you haven’t heard back. (This is a character in the guild that’s just you and your alts, right? Otherwise, check the Guild tab in your Social window, sorted by name, to see if Hg is there.)
Is this true (the XP thing)? I’d always heard that the best per-minute XP is straight questing. I guess it would be true with a good group that blows through the instance (and maybe runs it a few times once they have it down). But add in the waiting around and the (inevitable, eventually) wipes and I can’t see how its better XP than just questing.
Oh, and my crazy WoW weekend… I ran every single 80 Heroic in the game on Saturday. That’s what, 13 instance? I picked up a few new pieces of off-spec gear, as well as enough badges to get my first piece of 8.5, what my friend Corey calls my “sad goat chest.” There were a few Heroics I’d never gotten around to doing because I didn’t need the gear, so I finally got my Champion of the Frozen Wastes title. Then, to top it all off, I won the roll on the Bronze Drake from the timed CoS run.
A **good **group won’t have the waiting or the wipes. You won’t have XP-per-hour of a runthrough by an 80, but a well-run at-level group is still probably going to net you much more XP (and definitely better gear) than an equivalent amount of time spent questing. The questing involves a lot of time spent in transit, not killing anything–whereas the mobs in the instance are all nice and concentrated, and they give extra XP because they’re elite.
What questing **will **give you better XP than is straight-up grinding.
Hee, my husband said “RFC iz srs biznis” in guild chat after the guy mentioned being booted. From there it went to comments about gear checks and such.
Regarding the ToC instance, on Saturday my husband and I got into a guild group and did the heroic, then ground the heck out of the regular instance for hours. I tanked the heroic as my sorta-equipped druid and am much better equipped now, including getting that lovely tanking trinket, The Black Heart, on normal.
Sunday we tried the heroic again, and failed repeatedly. Most of the same people were there, but we didn’t have our “thunder chicken” (Moonkin) along, I played my priest, the DK tanked instead of dps’d, and my husband went as his DK rather than his (healing) shaman; the rest of the group was the hunter from the day before (the DK’s wife) and another hunter. We switched out my priest for my warlock, and my husband’s DK for his shaman, to deal with the poison. Still failed repeatedly. The hunter-married-to-the-DK said that we needed root to force the rogue NPC to stay away from the group (which causes more poison problems), and the missing moonkin was the problem. I don’t even know if root works on her. Meanwhile, my husband thinks the problem was the hunters standing (repeatedly) in the green poison cloud, and the DK running further away from the healer and the totems when he would move out of the cloud. I’m biased because I’m also mostly a healer, but I tend to agree with a healer’s perspective.
Sounds like your problem was with the second half of the first phase (with the three faction champions)? I’ve done the heroic maybe 4 times now and it really makes a big difference which ones you get. I assume you had a kill order marked and being followed? If people are dying to the poison cloud then that is definitely a problem We’ve certainly never used any CC on this phase.
If you have the healer (Shaman) up you should try to be interrupting his heals (I believe they are all interruptable).
I think the general priority should be Shaman > Mage > Warrior > Rogue > Hunter. At least that’s how we’ve been handling it.
For anyone who doesn’t follow WoW Insider, they just reported a leak of the new races in the next expansion. (SPOILER)Link(SPOILER)
They’re closemouthed about their source, but I’ve found WoW Insider to be pretty darn reliable. If they’re satisfied with the veracity of the info, so am I. Blizzard will be announcing the expansion info at Blizzcon this month anyway.
What you can do is add Hg to your friends list. If the toon has been deleted, you’ll be alerted that no character by that name exists. If you’re able to add it, you’ll see his level, as well as being able to tell when he’s online and can thus just whisper him directly, rather than waiting for a couple months to determine what to do with the stuff.
Can you summarize? I can’t go to WoWinsider (or any primarily gaming website) here at work. Spoiler if you feel the need. New races always make me feel all tingly inside.
Yeah, we reset the instance once to try to get a better group of champions, and used the kill order you listed. IIRC, the first selection was shaman, warrior, rogue; the DK complained that the warrior would charge him and knock him out of healing range/whatever each time he tried to move from the poison cloud. Second time was shaman, mage, rogue - mage kept nuking the crap out of our shaman. The DK also complained that he had only one interrupt.
Yes, green cloud death is definitely a problem. I didn’t see it the first time I ran the instance, the day before on the heroic, on my bear-druid and had to turn up my spell effects on my crummy comp - the DK is the one who told me about that. We finally quit; there are only so many repair bills - and times that you can say “hunters, don’t stand in the cloud” - before you get sick of it.
We did have one really weird effect - at one point the hunter misdirected to her husband (tanking DK) and the shaman NPC actually went off on her immediately. I even saw my Big Brother mod report the misdirect had happened appropriately, so that was weird.
Jas09 has the races in the spoiler. My own thoughts:
[spoiler]I think they’re kind of odd choices, but also compelling. Apparently Undermine, home of the goblins, is on an island near the Maelstrom, so if the next expansion focuses on the Maelstrom, they’re a natural choice. Then, of course, there’s Gilneas, hidden behind that gate in Silverpine Forest. I made a pilgrimage the other day just to see the gate. The idea of it opening and worgen pouring forth to aid the Alliance is really neat.
Also, has anyone else noticed that huge gate in Stormwind Harbor near the boat to Northrend? They’re clearly planning to open up the area between Stormwind and Dun Morogh eventually, and it’s possible that will come with Gilneas, to give the lowbie worgen someplace to play other than Silverpine.[/spoiler]
Yeah, I’m gonna leave it in the mailbox for now - that will hold it for 30 days (and I have no room in my personal or guild banks for the stuff ATM either).
Yeah, this is on Eilyssana, my main, who is in my vanity guild (Order of The Rik). Interestingly, my Eilyssana seems to be the only Eilyssana in the entire game, on all servers, at least according to the Armory (so I suppose there may be one or more lower than lvl 10).
I too had some serious gaming going on this weekend as well…in Vegas. Maybe I will find my way back in tonight after Yeti Jr. hits the sack (school night).
Finally got an upgraded melee weapon when 
My Hunter is almost 75, but my partner may be coming back into the game soon, so I’ll be switching back to my 67 Paladin. Two steps forward, one step back.