Just for the record, when you use that pale turquoise color for your text, I can barely see it on my notebook computer. The color is too close to the pale blue background, and too close to the highlight color. If you’re highlighting important stuff, you may be doing the opposite of what you intend with it. Bright colors show well, though.
(If you’re doing that to hide it, or because it’s UNimportant, then carry on! :D)
Hmmmm. Okay, IW, 
I was doing it mainly for shits & giggles, and when I left-click and mouse over it, it appears for me. Usually, it indicates one of those “nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more, say no more!” things - kinda like a “spoiler box”, I reckon, only different!
But thanks for letting me know!
(Just think! All those funny lines lost forever in the ether! :):):))
God, I DO love you kiddos!
Quasi
This friggin’ “Quest-Helper” just ain’t gittin’ it, y’all.
I KNOW The Badlands Are SOUTH of Loch Mordan, but I can never remember the WAY there, and the friggin’ MAP is of NO help at all!
I mouse all over the map, but it just will NOT reveal a path for me!
My next quest is in the Uldans, and I distinctly remember a meeting stone there, but I can’t even find my way to the Badlands anymore.
FARG!:rolleyes:
Thanks
Q
Starting at the Thelsamar flight point, travel directly West (you’ll be moving away from the road), sticking close to the hills. You’ll come to an opening in the hills; if you look South, the terrain looks the same and there are troggs in that valley. Continue on past that opening, still sticking close to the hills, and you’ll soon come to another gap in the mountains. If you look South into that gap, you’ll see the landscape changes from green grass to red dirt. That’s the pass you want to take.
You’ll find Uldaman on your right almost as soon as you go through the pass. At your level, take some friends with you if you want to go in there
Hooray, I got my Buzzard Bites recipe restored
(I found a couple on the AH, but … not for 300g.)
Thanks Rik. Guess that means I’ll be running into some high-level bad mammajammas, huh?
Q
Lots of elites. Like Deadmines, only meaner 
Yep. Uldaman is pretty much level-par for you right now, and the mobs are elites, which means they can take a LOT more damage than regular at-level mobs (and sometimes hit harder, as well). Any dungeon is going to require at least a five-toon party if you’re at-level with it.
Grats to all of you who have gained a level or two recently.
My WoW time has been curtailed a bit so not much of an update from me, I did ding 55 on my pally last night and got a nice new chest piece from a random mob drop with +Str. I have been trying to level cooking and fishing on my warlock which has not been as dull as I expected, in about 4 evenings he has gone from a skill of 1 in both to Fishing 260 and Cooking 273, following a guide to do both at the same time highly recommended.
Wednesday night we hit Sunken Temple for the first time. It’s been a while since I did an instance (SM I think) so I am really looking forward to it.
I gathered enough gold so that now my 73 rogue alt has both an elite flyer and coldweather flying, so she is cruising through Northrend.
And she was in the best PUG ever the other night – in about an hour and half, we went through the two Dragonblight dungeons (AN and OK) twice each without a wipe. It helped of course to have a level 80 tank and level 78 healer. She dinged 74.
Are you doing the run with us in Burning Dog Legion? If so, cool. Can you remind me who your toon is? (This is Rillian, 47 pally).
I’m so proud of myself–my little DK alt tanked a bit of Ulduar, and I didn’t completely and utterly embarrass myself.
Most of our guild was already saved to Uld, so we decided to do an “alt run” with a combination of mostly alts of main raiders, a couple of folks who don’t raid very often, and one main who didn’t get into the regular run. I’ve been working on my DK’s tank set and getting advice from some seasoned tanks (I leveled him as DPS and have next to no experience as a tank), and as it happened we needed a second tank and I was the only one available so I gave it a shot.
I managed to off-tank Razorscale (AoE tanking is my bane, so all those little dwarves were a lot of fun), XT (my main is a mage–I don’t pay attention to the adds that need to be tanked, and had no idea there were so many of them! but I managed to hold onto about eight of them long enough for the team to kill the boss) and Ignis trash (Ignis too, but we failed miserably on him–not sure if it was my tanking, the healing, or low DPS–I suspect a combination of the three).
Anyway, I was satisfied with my performance–need a lot of improvement still, but that did wonders for my confidence level. Think I’ll try some heroics now.
My priest alt is now up to 45, so he should be ready to join the big kids in the alt instance this week (hopefully). I need to go do the Sunken Temple chain quest in the Hinterlands (as well as the fishing pole quest) before then, hopefully.
Tom, I’ll be online tonight (probably on Kene) so let me know if you need help with that Hinterlands chain.
The thing to remember with the Badlands is that you can’t get there from the road (which goes south into Searing Gorge). You have to go **east **of the road, then go **south **down through the middle of the southern end of Loch Modan.
P.S. Thanks for all funny comments in your posts since Friday–you’ve got me laughing on a Monday morning.
… That is the best idea ever. I always turn my helm on when my character’s riding in the rain, even if it’s an ugly one I normally have hidden.
Oh, and I forgot to mention this when I looked Wolkie up to see what level he was, but speaking of armor… The main stats you want are Strength, Stamina, and Agility. I noticed that a lot of your gear has Intellect on it, which is unfortunately absolutely useless for Warriors. (They like us strong and dumb, apparently. :p) Other good stats that you might start seeing are things like Hit Rating, Attack Power, and Critical Strike Rating. Other bad stats are Spell Power and X Mana per 5 Seconds. A mediocre stat is Spirit–you’ll probably see some of it on your gear, but all it does is make you regenerate health faster when you’re not in combat, when you could heal up faster by bandaging or eating.
Right! If the one you talk to doesn’t have it, you can ask them who does. You’re going to want to look for something like “Thrown Weapons.”
Long gryphon flights are a great time to stretch your legs!
Good luck trying to get everyone to cooperate. I’ve had this same problem with the Black Tabby and some of the Horde pets. There’s always one jerk who keeps posting for the stupid low price.
Someday, I would like to take everybody who doesn’t understand how to undercut properly (hint: dropping from 19g to 9g to 2g is not how to do it) and stab them all in the face.
I now desperately want an animated emote for this.
How did you end up with **eight **Pummellers on you?! You must have had the worst luck ever. Usually only one or two spawn per phase two, and tanking them by XT gets them killed off by incidental damage before the wave of adds. Good job holding on to all of them!
(Fun XT story: We decided to try for hardmode for shits ‘n’ giggles one time, so I was in DPS gear and Arms spec. A couple of our best DPS were out that day, so we didn’t quite burn through the heart in time, and the adds spawned. I managed to swap back to Defensive stance and throw on a shield in time to grab the Pummellers, and it’s a credit to our healers that they were able to keep me up in DPS spec and gear that was entirely DPS except for the shield and weapon–gear that was **not **all plate.)
My tiny, happily slacker, way-casual-re.-raiding* guild hit Ulduar this week for the first time in a while (we have some harder-core raiding fans who’ll PUG Naxx25/Ulduar), and ripped through the start. First time guild kills were Ignus and Kologarn. We probably could have taken down Kologarn the first time except that I was too focused on my Grid healing layout (we refer to healing as playing whack-a-mole, where all you see is the health bars going up and down, and nothing else about the encounters) and didn’t see the initial warning message that Kologarn was fixing his gaze on me. When your priest dies, things tend to go awry.
Also, my BElf mage is trying to get away from her ‘chocobo’ mount, and has started the ravasaur mount training quest series out of Un’goro. After taking a terribly long time to get enough poisonings from the venomhide ravasaurs, she got a baby ravasaur to tend to. These first two days, he’s only wanted silithid eggs to eat. Lots of yummy protein and fat for a growing baby dino! He’s also at a weapons-grade level of cute, for now.
My DK and my friend’s priest went to Hellfire Citadel this weekend. We had a PUG with two warriors and a rogue. Apparently we weren’t going fast enough for the rogue, who would run up and aggro patrols while we were taking a short rest. My friend called her on it and she left in a huff. We picked up another DK and the rest of the run went fairly smoothly. We wiped a couple of times on the last boss. The other DK kept asking if he could tank as well, but my friend didn’t think it was a good idea. On our third try, he finally said OK, so the other DK switched to Frost Presence since he wasn’t Frost-specced. That time we killed the last boss without losing anyone. The DK was gracious and didn’t say, “I told you so.”
I’m trying for Master of Elixirs on my hunter, which is proving to be a giant pain. It’s Black Morass that is the trouble. We couldn’t get in at all last night. I probably should have gone the route most people seem to go, which is transmute spec then switch, but I’m nearly done now so I might as well stick with it.
Good question! I might have tanked them too far away from the group–remember, I’m the tank equivalent of a 16-year-old kid fresh out of a rather inadequate driver training class, piloting a Porsche (I have quite a nice tank set for a toon that’s done very little raiding and most of it DPS)–or I might have just gotten really unlucky. In retrospect I might have exaggerated a little bit–it might have only been 7 or even 6 (I wasn’t pausing too much to count them!) but there were definitely a lot. My taunt button got a workout, as did my Death Grip button. Once I had them all gathered up it wasn’t that hard to hold on to them, since nobody else was hitting them. It was exhilarating and scary. I could get to like tanking, for sure.
Nope I am EU unfortunately, much as I’d like to join up.
My little PUG story for the weekend: I was playing on my Hunter in Dragonblight when a Mage asked on General if anyone wanted to kill Alystros, the giant green pissed-off parrot in the Emerald Dragonshrine. I had that quest, so I joined up with him. It’s a 3-man group quest, but I like I think I’m pretty strong, especially with my Tankbear. Plus, Alystros is a 74 Elite, and the Mage was 75 and I was 76, so we figured we’d have a chance. Ahem.
Attempt 1: We got Alystros down maybe halfway before we died. I realized I was using my attack macro that makes Yogi Cower in a group instead of Growl, so he wasn’t holding aggro. Plus the Mage laughed at me for not using Feign Death. I swapped the macro for my tanking macro and we tried again.
Attempt 2: We wiped with 200 HP left on Alystros. :smack: I realized I hadn’t even tried using my traps, so I wired myself up to throw down traps like crazy and crank up my DPS.
Attempt 3: I used my traps, all right…and forgot to put Mend Pet on Yogi. He died instantly, and we followed shortly thereafter.
Thankfully, the Mage was incredibly patient with me, and as we were recovering from the third failure a 72 DK showed up. We pulled him into the group and took Alystros down without any further trouble. Lesson: There is a world of difference between solo and group tactics. On the upside, I finally starting taking note of FD and how to use it to clear out my aggro.
In other news, unrelated relationship drama means I most likely no longer have a WoW partner to play with, so I started questioning why I was still working my Alliance characters. I’m shifting over to Cairne to play my Hordies more, both my Warrior and my new baby Druid Nahren. I got him to level 10 in 3 hours last night, and I plan to finally play through the Ghostlands for the first time.
Ha, that’s funny b/c we are doing Sunken Temple on Wednesday too.
Just as well - I was starting to get worried we would have too many people wanting to be in the party!