This is what I get for not reading the thread all the way to the end before responding…
Okay, now I’m seriously lost. I just did the whole Frenzyheart/Oracles questline, ending in “A Hero’s Burden”. I managed to snag a group who were about to go after Artrius, and we killed him. I clicked on the “?” over his phylactery and picked my necklace. And…that’s all there is. I thought this was supposed to open up the choice of who to align with, like the Scryers/Aldor in Shattrath, but I can’t find a single questgiver in either faction who has a “?” over his head. I feel like I missed something. Was I supposed to click on something else other than the phylactery with the “?” over it after we killed Altrius? Is there someone specific I’m supposed to talk to?
Never mind. I just realized what it meant when it told me to “Pick a side” during the fight. DUH! I’m so freaking stupid…now I have to find another freaking group to kill him again!
I just hit 79 on my human DK last night, in the middle of the Iron Colossus quest chain in Storm Peaks. I was about 1/10th from 79 to 80 when I logged out last night so I could get some sleep for work today…
And can I just note that the Brunnhildar Village quest where you fight about eleventy-thousand feet above the ground on proto-drakes around the Temple of Storms is the coolest thing ever?
Yeah that harpoon quest is awesome. Not sure if it’s before or after where you get to run around (and swim through the air if you’re a druid) as a Valkyrie. So cool.
So I’ve got these 2 Death Knights (one human, one troll), and I’ve taken Mining and Blacksmithing for both of them. My plan is to get their mining skill up to 300 before heading to Outland, so they’re both going to be sitting at lvl 58 for a while. Last night I got the troll’s (Uprofen) Mining and Blacksmithing both to “Master” level. But since at that Blacksmithing skill level I’m just now starting to make things out of bronze, I’m still mining lots of copper and tin which means lowbie zones and nothing in the way of challenging fights. I don’t think I’m going to find anything remotely challenging until I start mining thorium.
That leaves me dealing with the fact that I’m simply not really learning how to fight with a Death Knight. One problem I’m seeing is that at lvl 58, right out of the gate, a DK has so many freaking spells to choose from. My two main 50+ toons (my human paladin and tauren hunter) were of course leveled up from lvl 1, and learned new abilities/spells gradually, so I would learn how to fight with what I had, then when I got a new ability I would figure out how to either work it into my existing attack routines, or decide which old ability to retire to make room for the new one. I imagine it’s the same with any toon that starts at lvl 1.
But my DKs have full action bars practically from the word “go”, and I really don’t even know where to start.
I did have a bit of excitement last night while Uprofen was mining in Durotar. I was down in the canyon of Thunder Ridge (where all the thunder lizards are), and the local defense channel was screaming “Razor Hill is under attack!”. I was just minding my own business looking for copper veins, when a lvl 38 dwarf paladin went past me with his PvP flag up. I guess he was looking for a place to hide and wait for his PvP flag to turn off, but he ran into me instead. So, what the heck, I went after him. Given the 20-level difference, he didn’t even bother to fight back; he just sat there on his horse while I hacked him down with my axe. But I had the presence of mind to give him a /hug after I killed him, and got the “Make Love, Not Warcraft” achievement 
I was bored this weekend, and my levelling partner for the pally wasn’t around, so I rolled a baby priest on my main’s server. :eek: Given that my other toons are are all DPS machines with much better armor, dying as much as I am is a new experience for me. Let’s just say that Arhiatlel really, really hates the Scarlet Crusade now. shakes wee bony fist
However, buffing and healing random players is a lot of fun, and it’s nice to be thanked when you’ve saved their bacon.
Something I noted: It took me a bit to work out how the heck wands work, since they don’t seem to be automatic like bows/guns are when you’re out of melee range. If they are, please let me know if I’m missing something.
For now, Arhia’s rotation consists of: Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Blast, Power Word: Shield, Smite. And hitting with either her wand or a mace in between Smites and Heals.
I also noticed that I’m watching my health and CDs much more closely than I was on my previous toons – with those, I could just go “oh, I need to pop another DOT,” or “oh, I need healing,” while watching the mob go at it with my toon. Whereas with Arhia, I’m barely getting to watch the fight because I’m watching her bars. It’ll be interesting to see what happens once she’s high enough to try grouping…
For the priest rotation, try casting PW:Shield before you engage a mob. It lasts ten minutes unless it’s burned off by damage. Then cast Mind Blast…it has the longest casting time but doesn’t pull aggro until it’s actually done casting. Then Smite as many times as you can before the mob gets to you and starts burning off that Shield. SW:Pain is an instant, so you can spam that every time the Global Cooldown is off. By the time you get through MB/Smite/Smite/SWP, your Mind Blast cooldown should be over and you can start again. If your shield goes down, your cooldown/debuff on that should be long over and you can cast it again, then.
Oh, and first 5 talent points…Spirit Tap.
there is a wand clicky that is like the autoshoot hunter clicky in the spell book … or i am totally misunderstanding your question=)
I’m used to being able to right-click on the mob to engage with the appropriate weapon based on distance. On the priest, though, I get the message “You’re too far away!” or I engage with the mace or unarmed instead of with the wand when I’m in range.
So I have the wand actually bound to the first position on the action bar – I target the mob with the mouse and then hit 1. This is more involved than just right-clicking, as you can see – is your post the answer to that?
To jayjay, thanks for the in-detail explanation of rotation – I’ll have to change that over. One more question – I have Shield macro’d to self-cast, but I’m not sure how to change focus back to the target without doing some funky stuff with x-perl – when that happens, I end up with the mob displayed twice in my unit frames: once as my immediate target, and once as… I guess party/raid target? For now, I’m sucking it up and manually retargeting the mob.
The wand is going to be your best friend as a priest into your 20s. Always get the best wand you can at your level. In the beginning, the wands made by enchanters are pretty decent. I think the skill you use to wand something is actually called “shoot”, so yeah, keybind that. What I used to do was put up PW: shield, mind blast and SW: pain (and devouring plague when it was up) and then just wand the mob to death, casting a renew as needed. If you try to kill stuff with mostly spells you’re going to be wasting a lot of time drinking.
That’s an awesome quest, but the in-game directions for it were terrible. Your supposed to use your harpoon on the drakes not the enemy warriors, which is counter-intuitive when the drakes are flagged friendly and the warriors not. The quest even says to use the harpoon to defeat the warriors. I was flying around the temple for several minutes, unsuccessfully trying to kill the warriors, before giving up and looking for hints online. I sent in a bug report.
But once I knew what to do, it was a lot of fun.
drag the little wand clicky from your book to the 1 slot, then you can autoshoot on doubleclicking on the mob, that is why they have a wand icon in the spellbook=) it is simply a wand instead of an autoshoot. Of course as a warlock, I send in the pet first, to tank while I nuke and wand =) clothwearers should not be hitting anything!
Contacting Account Administration is good – they can investigate the ban over the weekend and start restorations and such. Also good is to contact Billing – of course, they’re only available Monday thru Friday, so of COURSE the most common time to get hax0red is 8:01 PM PST Friday night. When you talk to them, though, they can at least make sure your contact info is right and may even give you some tips on getting the account back.
The good news: It’s almost certainly all okay. Very few bans (at least, of the kind you get when your account gets jacked) stick anymore and it is easy to prove you weren’t the one who did whatever it was happened. It’s pretty slow at the moment, so accounts go from “horribly jacked up and banned to boot” on Monday to “mostly fixed” on Friday.
Patch 3.1.0 is live, although the servers are still down.
Yeah, I was hoping I could start the download this morning so it could go through while I was at work, but I couldn’t get in at all because of maintenance.
God, I’m not looking forward to finding out which of my mods is going to break…
I’m downloading the patch now. Is there any reason (or does anyone else have this problem) that it’s taking so long? It says it’s downloading 742 MB and that it’s going to take 13 hours to do so. I only have this problem with WoW. Nothing else takes that long. I have DSL. Is this incredibly slow for anyone else?
I have a fast DSL connection at work, but the servers are so slow it’s been downloading for 90 minutes and says there’s another 90 to go. sigh
ETA response to Shawn: This patch is 742 megabytes. I think at last count there are something like 6 million people in Europe and North America that play WoW. It’s a fair bet that there are well over a million people trying to download the patch today. We’re not talking about just gigabytes, or even terabytes, but well over a petabyte of data coming off of a limited number of servers in less than 24 hours. Even with peer-to-peer going on, that’s one hell of a load.
No! And I’ll be out of town until tomorrow evening!
Damn you, Blizzard, daaaamn yooooou!
Oh well. I always wind up avoiding MMOs after a major update somehow. Gives things time to settle down a bit.
Last night I was on with my level 80 and it seemed like everyone and their dog (or their warg, perhaps) was doing dailies. It was crowded! So I switched to my level 22 priest. Wetlands was empty. I think /who showed four players in the whole zone. I went over to Theramore and I was the only player there.
Right around a big patch is a great time to play your low-level alts.