I have a hunter and the macro. Still only get belts and a staff. Oh well. Maybe one day the WoW gods will smile on me and I will have the kitten. 
I got mine by camping on a bridge he was supposed to cross early in his pat and fishing in the middle of the day. In the two years I’ve been playing, I think I’ve seen him a total of three to five times, and I’ve only gotten the kitten once or twice.
AFAIK, a Frost Mage is still good for soloing.
Rejoice! For twinks have now been segregated from the main population. Completing BG objectives (i.e., pretty much anything you do but straight-up HKs) now gives experience. Players can turn off a character’s ability to gain experience, but these no-XP toons have separate BGs.
I don’t remember how long it took me to go from 60-70, but 70-80 was about two weeks, and that was with me “slacking”–spending time on alts, leveling Herb/Script on my new DK, etc. (Although I did have a leveling buddy, which probably speeded it up some.)
ETA: shinto46, be sure to sell the belts and staff on the AH. I can usually get a nice sum of cash for them. (Which I then spend on Horde pets, which I ferry over to the Alliance side and sell for a ridiculous markup.)
You’ll really like what they’ve done about twinks; I know I do. Basically, at any point, you can go to a special NPC and have your XP turned off. From that point on, no matter what you do, you don’t gain any experience. So if you have a level 19 twink, you can run around doing whatever dungeons or quest chains you need for that one item you want and not have to worry about hitting 20.
Then, they’ve separated BGs so that toons with xp turned off are in separate BGs from those with it turned on. So the twinks are all together, and separate from the non-twinks. I think you get XP in BGs too, now, if you don’t have it turned off – someone please confirm. I only BG with my 80 so I haven’t been paying attention.
Yes. My priest was in Undercity, with a bar and a half to go to level 44, so he joined an Arathi Basin battle & dinged mid-battle, and thus could get his skillups before he went back out into the world.
Years and years ago when the original NES was the hot Christmas buy, I heard this thing on the radio, a medley of Led Zeppelin songs with Christmas-related lyrics. The first part was set to “Stairway to Heaven”:
There’s a lady who’s crazed
In her Christmas shopping daze
And she’s buying the last Nintendo
If the stores are all out
Black market bucks she’ll shell out
For a crisp thousand she’ll get what she came for …
I’ve gotten the kitten twice, both times by pure luck when I ran into Timmy on my way to someplace else in SW. I’ve seen him quite a few times, but most of the time somebody’s beaten me to the kitten. I think I sold the second kitten for 100g.
Yes, you would. My main is a frost mage, and I quite enjoy playing him solo at level 80.
The good news: Getting from zero to sixty is way faster than it ever was (although this might be considered bad news by some: there are more level 60+ idiots than there used to be).
The bad news: I average about eight hours per level at the higher end of the 70-80 grind. For a casual player like me, that means months to go from 60-80.
I’m more of a mount collector; I just got my Blue Dragonhawk on my gnome DK. I don’t even want to start totalling how much time/gold that took.
It’s the first I’ve seen on my server, I’ve seen a couple red ones though.
Aren’t the red ones the Horde Argent Tourney faction flyer?
This weekend was awesome. Did more instances and got invited by an acquaintance to his guild’s For the Horde attempt. That guild’s way more progressed than mine is, so I was pleased that he decided to pull me in. It was a lovely tight run too, we got through Darn and Exodar really nicely, but got roflstomped in SW.
I also got invited in to help a pug with the last 2 BWL bosses. Nobody told me that Nefarian’s hunter class call… breaks my freaking gun! :eek: Next time I go, I’m gonna have me an unequip macro ready. 
The Red Dragonhawk is the Horde-equivalent 100-mount reward.
There is a Horde Argent Crusade mount, called the Sunreaver Dragonhawk. IME it looks better than the Red one, and is obviously much easier to get (150 Champion’s Seals).
Go figure. They both get the Albino Drake for 50 mounts, right?
That reminds me. I have a guildie who has been trying for ages to get the Deathcharger’s Reins to drop from Baron Rivendare. I have lost count of how many runs she’s tried. I would ask her how it’s going, but she tends to be a little touchy on the subject after so many failed attempts. She won’t stop, either; she really wants that skeletal horse.
Correct-a-mundo. And I’ve seen a number of those around (hell, with the reduced mount cost I might get one myself… only 18 mounts currently, but about 26 easily obtained - those last 6 will take a bit of grinding though… either Champion’s Seals or PvP marks, or maybe Mag’har rep, or maybe try to find a group for For The Horde!..).
Speaking of mounts, over the last 3 days I’ve been working on the [For the Horde!] achievement with many other people. For a mostly pick up group, we actually did pretty well I think, especially since Alliance outnumbers Horde on my server at least 2:1. The first day, we did Exodar and Darnassus, and wiped in Stormwind.
We probably would have done Stormwind successfully, except half of us were following the main tank, who assured us he knew where he was going, and led us right into the Cathedral. The other half followed the raid leader, who DID know where he was going. After a failed mass-res attempt, we decided to call it quits for the night. Yesterday, we pulled Stormwind off successfully, and wiped in Ironforge. Today, we managed to do Ironforge, amazingly enough right after Wintergrasp. We were trying to do it during, but since it was a PUG, of course nobody was cooperating. Still, the king fell and I got my Black War Bear. That, on top of my turtle should fetch a lot of jealousy!
So what exactly can I put in a “meta socket” on an item? This Spiked Titansteel Helm I bought has a “Blue Socket” (into which I’ve stuck a +24 Stamina gem) and a “Meta Socket”. I had the idea from somewhere that a Meta Socket would take any color gem, but that was apparently incorrect as the socket won’t accept the red +16 Strength gem I tried to put in it.
Help?
Grrr… okay, never mind. After posting that I discovered the “Meta” subsection under “Gems” at the AH.
I could, however, use some instruction on just how these meta sockets are supposed to work. I’ve got the 1 blue gem in my hat at the moment, but most of these Meta Gems say something like:
Requires 1 Red Gem
Requires 2 Blue Gems
Does that mean I need 1 red gem and 2 blue gems on the item with the Meta Socket, or does it just mean I need to have that particular combination of gems total on all of my gear put together?
There are apparently rare, specific meta gems. I believe the meta requirements apply to all gems on your worn armor, not just the one in the helmet (otherwise that single blue socket wouldn’t trigger any of the meta gems).
Last night someone said hello to me in chat but their text appeared in the game window scrolling up in front of my toon how do they do that? I noticed my name was red in the chat window surrounded by chevrons similar to this: >Kelantholoas<
Fishing now at 275 though it is beginning to seriously slow down, one shiny bauble equates to about 4 skill points or at least it did last night. I have to get to 290 before leaving Felwood so hopefully manage that tonight so I can carry on levelling up.
One final question - is there a good resource of quests one should do to experience as much lore as possible? I really enjoyed my time Hillsbrad where you follow a story arc over many quests but since I have left there it seems the quests are more standalone and I’d hate to miss something big.
If you think fishing’s slow at 275, just wait until you get it to around 400. 12 or 13 successful casts to get one skill point. That last 100 or so was just painful…
I thought I had finally replaced my trusty trident from the murlocs, but it turned out the new weapon wasn’t an upgrade after all when I looked at the effect it had on my stats. (good thing it was a quest reward and not something I’d bought) I went to the Amphitheatre of Anguish with four guildies and ended up with the Icier Barbed Spear, which is very shiny indeed. Another guildie helped me kill Ragemane the angry seal, and I made her some Flasks of the Frost Wyrm. Oddly enough, it was the Ragemane quest that gave me the not-really-an-upgrade weapon. A few days ago I tried to take on the magnataur warlord again. A warlock and his felguard stepped in to help when things looked bad, and I hung around afterward, healed myself and the wormie, and helped the warlock kill the magnataur on his summon.