I hit 80 last night when I turned in the post-Frenzyheart quest to the High Oracle guy in Sholazar after stumbling around trying to figure out how to open them up. Dinged, did a dance for my first 80 evar.
I still think the Oracles are a little creepy. (momma said never trust something with a mouthful of teeth THAT big… )
Tom, the Plaguelands are two of my favorite zones in vanilla for the sheer lore involved. I’d definitely say go for it.
Skammer, that’s a mighty tempting offer and I’ll keep it in mind.
Congratulations on 80 lizard! And seriously, think about joining our Wed night dungeon runs. I’m excited because we’re getting close to the instances that no one does anymore (ST, BRD, DM, etc). Even Mara – I had never done it before this toon and we’ve found it’s hard to get a pug for it a lot of the time.
Still missing the Kibbler’s Bits and Broiled Bloodfin recipes for “The Outland Gormet”, that’s still a toughie unless the new patch made it easier to obtain since these are low percentage finds for the Rokk’s rewards. This is really the only thing I need for the title “Chef”, but I would like to finish the whole list of cooking achievements…
I’m at 142/160 recipes learned for “Chef de Cusine”…mostly picking up cheaper Alliance recipes at a neutral AH, some of them for only 2 or 3 gold, others I’ve spent up to 10g. You can also buy Horde recipes and put them on the neutral AH for the same amounts so it kind of works like a straight up trade or a cheaper way to get the achievement.
At 89/100 Dalaran cooking awards…so that will come soon if I keep grinding.
And then the final achievement is getting the Chef’s hat…just straight up grinding and no luck involved there.
This works very well. I used to have two bank toons, and then we decided to shut down our little lowbie fun guild. I kept the guild with its two-tab guild bank, deleted one of the bank toons, and bought all the bank slots for the other, filling them with 16-slot bags I had left over. That little dude has a ton of space, and since I started using ArkInventory, it’s auto-sorted and easy to find stuff.
Having enough room to hold onto stuff when it’s selling cheap on the AH makes a big difference. Saronite on my server is going for about half of what it was two weeks ago, so I’m just accumulating it until it goes back up. I also keep 10-12 stacks of every kind of cloth used in first aid, just to help my next toon level through it easily without being subject to the vagaries of the AH pricing.
In the back of my head there’s this little blue troll having a minor fit over what to do next now that she’s hit level cap. Practically though, I expect I’ll quest some more through Icecrown to get stuck into the higher zone Northrend rep and gear grinds. Well, and grinding Sporeggar and Kalu’ak rep for funsies and pets.
That said, I’ve been comparing both the Blizzard and the RatingsBuster systems of crunching gear data, and there’s discrepancies. I’m not sure how the math adds up since I haven’t sat down to run the numbers, but it is rather noticeable. Has anyone figured out which one is more ‘reliable’?
I think(but I haven’t done any number crunching) the difference is that:
RatingBuster takes talents into account, Blizzard’s system doesn’t.
RatingBuster will show the total effect on the derived stats, eg attack power, mana, health, crit chance.
Both are probably reliable but Blizzard’s is, imo, quite useless since it just tells you the raw stat differences between the items and not how they actually affect you.
… and although my guardian did help me kill one Syndicate Spy in Stratham (sp), he wasn’t able to help me when I got triple teamed going after a Syndicate Mage, and I died (again! :smack:).
So right now I’m wating to rez in the graveyard of the Alterac Ruins.
Question: I have this dog for ten minutes and we only used up about three when I got killed. Does his usable time time freeze or am I going to lose his protection?
Thanks
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BTW: I won the three charges as drops. Pretty cool having a guardian at level 39!
Oh, yeah: I’m at 1250 XP on the way to 77+k. Gonna be a laong haul!
The name of the item you’re looking for, not your character’s name. Since you’re not looking for a specific item just leave this blank.
This is the item level. All items have a level that determines how powerful they’re supposed be. You can leave this blank, though in this case it didn’t do much since you left the right box empty you only excluded items with an item level below 39, and there are no plate items below item level 40.
Yep, because there is no chestpiece called Wolkenlaufre.
Summoned pets like that are a useless gimmick at best and a liability at worst since they will attack anything in sight and can’t be controlled by you.
Okay! Here’s what you do. The only two sections you want to pay any attention to are **Required level **and Quality. For Required level, put in a range that extends below and above your current one. (Since Wolkie is about 38, I used 35-45 in the example.) Then click on one of the quality levels. I used Rare (blue) because that’s going to a good upgrade.
If you look at the linked screenshot, you can see that “35” and “45” are filled in by Required level, and “Rare” is highlighted over on the right under Quality.
Everything else you can leave blank.
IMO, this is where the fun starts! First, start running Heroics. Definitely get into ToC and Heroic ToC–this is the best 5-man gear in the game. Once you’ve ditched your greens, you can start running Naxx with your guild, or looking for PuGs. (Try searching YouTube for Tankspot’s how-to guides, posted by a user named Ciderhelm. They’re some of the best raid boss guides out there, and they’re useful for everyone–not just tanks.)
He’s up for 10 minutes with each charge, unless he’s killed or you die. Then you lose any of that remaining time. (You got the collar that summons him off a guy in the crypts underneath the Raven Hill cemetary, right? I got that once, too! :D)
Unfortunately, this is one of those items that sounds a lot cooler and more useful than it ends up being, due to some poor design on Blizzard’s part. You can’t control the pet at all, and IIRC it’s set permanently to “Aggressive” mode: it’s going to run off and attack anything it sees, regardless of whether or not you want it to attack that thing. So you can’t tell it what enemy you want it to attack, you can’t tell it to stop attacking, you can’t tell it to only attack things that attack you, you can’t tell it to just ignore everything and keep running…
We ran it last night, both wings up to Celebras. I had both the pieces for the scepter, which I handed in. Then there’s a second piece to the quest where you have to read this book he summons - you turn that in and he gives you the scepter.
I did the first part and read the book, but I didn’t realize I had to talk to Celebras to finish the quest and I hearthed out. Now, I don’t really need the scepter (it’s just a staff with +Int and +Spi), but I hate to give up the XP for the quest. So I need to get back to him.
I can use the portal near the instance entrance to skip to the falls. Once I get there, is it possible to get back up to Celebras? Or do I have to go all the way through the Orange/Purple wing to get to him again? I’m trying to avoid having to do the whole instance again.
This seems like a situation where getting an 80 to run you is perfectly acceptable practice. (If this is on Cairne/Burning Dog Legion, I’d be happy to help - Muzungu is my 80 but I’m more frequently on Rumpole these days).
LOL - took me a while to figure that one out, too. If you get out of the water and into those lower caves and go to your right (as you’re facing away from the pool), there’s a kind of roundabout path back up to Celebras.
Big Annoyance of the Day: I got around to finally reaching lvl 25 with my draenei shaman yesterday. Yay, she can wear a hat now! So off she went to the AH to look at hats, where she found only two leather helms she could wear. Both “requires level 25”, both with level-appropriate stats like +2 Strength, +3 Spirit, both ordinary green items … and both for sale by the same guy for 240-245 gold.
Useless Item of the Day: My belf paladin found a “Requires level 36” mail helm with “+23 Nature Spell Damage” on it. Yay randomness
Curious Question of the Day: Have the Bloodsail Buccaneers near Booty Bay always had custom art? How do they rate custom art? And why only the male Bloodsails? Yarrrr!
Weirdness of the Week: My main (lvl 80 human pally) has recently put several stacks of Saronite Ore on the AH, only to have them come back a couple days later as “Auction Expired”. Then she mails them off to my AH/bank alt, who posts them at the same price, and they sell almost immediately. This has happened several times now. Very odd.
Anybody else use the TourGuide addon, which integrates Jame’s Leveling Guide into the game? I’ve started using it just to speed things up a bit, and following the instructions does seem to make for quicker leveling just because it cuts out a lot of unnecessary running back and forth. The only tricky part is picking up with it on a toon that’s already got several levels. The guides are broken up into “chapters” for different level ranges, so my belf paladin for example was already to level 41 and started with the guide chapter to go levels 42-43 in STV. But since the guide assumes you’re starting at level 1 and progressing through the “chapters” in order, sometimes a higher-level chapter will have instructions to turn in a quest that it told you to pick up in a previous chapter, so it can be a little confusing trying to figure out what you missed.
