A few of us are, Bossy, but not this one, kiddo!
And this old man loves you just like he he loves his other kids.
I honestly don’t know what I would do without y’all!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for all you do for me and Wolkie!
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The thing I loved about Hand of Reckoning was using it on ogres. Cast it at one, and they do this little head jerk that makes it look as if you just picked up a rock and beaned 'em upside the head with it 
ETA: Oh, and w00t! Got my orc warrior to 30 last night, and today I’ve gotten my draenei warrior from 38 to 41 (almost to 42)! Loving my plate, loving my Great Green Elekk!
Hello and grats to all.
This mouse movement you guys are talking about what exactly do you mean? I use WASD for moving and strafing (thank you Quake II) and the mouse for turning. Is there another option?
Secondly how high up can I be to detect ore nodes? I tried to fly around HP for half hour last night looking for nodes but didn’t find any and I was wondering if height made a difference?
And the alt instance run went well, though the tank didn’t get anything shiny. We wiped twice; once in the big room full of non-elites when a couple of us non-tanks got separated from the group, and once when the eeeediot healer (which is to say, me) decided to holy nova in the middle of the bar. Oops.
Anyway, we somehow didn’t have the quest for the kidnapped princess, so we ended up with her just sorta standing there after we killed the emperor (plus all of us taking photo ops on the throne). And I got a spiffy new pair of boots.
Reading the comments since last night reminds me that (even though I brought it up) I need to remember to use Hand of Reckoning to taunt mobs off other party members, in addition to that other taunt spell I forget the name of at the moment.
For some reason in BRD last night, I had frequent trouble keeping aggro off the healer (Tom Scud) and the rogue (some guy we pugged). The rogue wasn’t really my fault; he kept attacking mobs that I hadn’t engaged yet. Actually he kept ticking me off – he would sap mobs I was about to pull, and pull mobs I didn’t want. But at least he knew what direction to go.
Mordrin, our regular healer, couldn’t join us, so I feel a little guilty about finishing BRD without him because we are supposed to be levelling partners. I may want to that last part of BRD again next week with him to let him catch up in XP (and also because no plate dropped last night). It’s also a chance to pick up the princess quest.
But even though I didn’t get any good drops, I picked up some new armor in the AH and had Kene do a couple of enchants. With my fiery red/yellow pants and gloves, and shiny blue chestpiece, and a cape, I look more like a superhero than a paladin.
I think shield pulls a lot of instant aggro, if it isn’t on you already before you start pulling. I didn’t want to slow things down, since we were doing fine for the most part, but next time I’m playing backup healer plz wait for the shield before you pull.
(I also totally forgot about my mana potions, which would have come in handy a time or two).
ETA: also, you did a fine job grabbing the aggro back; I don’t remember many times when either I or the rogue took enough damage to bust through a shield.
Also also, I love the way the critical-heal bubbles look. I was getting those a lot when I spammed holy nova.
Also, there are a LOT of ranged attackers in BRD. I was mainly drawing aggro from those damn fire dudes who were hanging back outside of your consecrate radius.
Woo, it feels good to be back into things again! I’m still bummed that my beloved guild broke up, but the new one that took a few of us in is going gangbusters and we’re fitting nicely into their team. We’ve already made Raider rank (after only a week) and in quick succession have picked up 25-man Mimiron hard mode (I wasn’t there for that one, unfortunately, because they aren’t likely to do it again anytime soon–that fight is nasty), 25-man General Vezax hard mode, and the first three bosses in Heroic 25-man Trial of the Crusader (all 5 of which were server firsts, cementing us firmly in the position of #1 guild on the server). They actually took me along for their first-ever 25-man Algalon attempt, and we got him down to 40%.
For awhile I’d been getting kind of frustrated with raiding, but this change has brought the rush back.
Boohiss. I pretty much **only **post from work. 
Naxx10 has **lots **of goodies–they’re just ilvl200 epics, which is currently the lowest level. But 200 epics are better than any level of blues or greens. You can also start running OS10 when you’re gearing up.
You should also be running a **lot **of Heroic dungeons, as well as regular ToC. This will get you (a) more 200 epics; (b) 219 epics off of the end boss of ToC reg and all the H-ToC bosses; and (c) lots and lots of Conquest emblems, which can be exchanged for ilvl 226 gear (or downgraded to emblems of Valor and Heroism, for 213 and 200 gear, respectively, if you need an item for a slot that there’s not a good Conquest item for).
Once you’re mostly in epics, you can add in to Naxx25 and EoE 10/25. VoA is kind of tricky–the first boss is a loot pinata, but Emalon and Koralon require more DPS/healing/raid awareness, so it’s harder to get into a group if you’re undergeared. A lot of people no longer need the gear that Archavon drops, so you may want to consider seeing if you can swap into a raid once they’ve already dropped Kor and Em.
You should be entirely in epic gear before moving on to Uld10 and Uld25, and you should probably have at least a few pieces of Ulduar-level gear before coming into a ToC10/25 group.
Mainly, mouse movement means “for the love of god, don’t keyboard turn.” Using the rotation keys (IIRC, those are A, D, left arrow, and right arrow) makes you turn sloooooowly, whereas reorienting yourself with your mouse is instant. (When you press both mouse keys at the same time, you move in that direction, which means you can flip 180 by holding down your right mouse to rotate your camera around, then clicking the left mouse button at the same time.)
Using your mouse to move also means that your other hand is free to trigger abilities on the keyboard. Hitting a key (or an extra mouse button you have bound to an ability) is almost always much faster than using the mouse to move your cursor to the button on the screen and clicking it.
AFAIK, as of a few patches ago, elevation makes no difference for finding tracked things (nodes, quest givers, etc.) I’ve been able to see Glassfin Minnow schools on the ground in Crystalsong Forest while running around Dalaran, and I can see questgivers in Dalaran when I’m on the ground in Crystalsong Forest. It **is **possible that being underground or indoors will make nodes disappear with enough altitude, though.
Isn’t that quest Alliance-only? If you don’t have the quest, be sure to kill her–it makes the fight easier **and **gets you more loot.
I don’t think it is (I have a quest in my quest log from the orc prisoner telling me to go talk to some dwarf in the same dungeon), and in any case I’m pretty sure there’s supposed to be SOME kind of kill-the-emperor quest at the end of BRD.
There might be a kill-the-emperor Horde quest, but I don’t think there’s a save-the-princess Horde one. Can’t get to Wowhead at work, but if you can, you might want to look up BRD and check the Quests tab.
I still have that quest as well, and don’t have a kill-the-emperor quest (or save the princess for that matter).
It looks like one more trip to BRD is in order. I’ll be glad when we move on!
There is - link - but it’s necessary to finish the stuff in the prison wing to unlock it.
C’mon, it’s fun to be creepy!
I submitted a shirt idea to tshirthell.com a couple years ago - the shirt would simply say, “Creepy old guy looking at you”. You know, just to confirm the suspicions of the look-ee 
I’ve never really grasped “strafing”. I made it all the way through Duke Nukem 3D without ever doing it. Though I will say it makes more sense to me in a game where you can shoot and run at the same time. In WoW, where you can’t move and attack at the same time (with the exception of a few instant-cast spells, like my paladins being able to drop a Judgment while running toward a target), I don’t see where it’s useful.
From not at work and for SFG?
Wolkie and Silka salute, bow and kneel in your presence!
You are TOTALLY AWESOME!
It can be very handy because you can strafe as fast as you can run forward, and a lot faster than you can back off, so you can use it to keep your distance from a mob while dropping various instant-cast spells (such as priest DoTs, Power word: Shield, and Renew) on them or yourself, as appropriate.
The troll boss in Ghostlands is a great one to strafe, as all of his spells have a casting time and he sits up on a round platform with a big circular wall in the middle that breaks line of sight. I killed him with my priest way back when by dropping DoTs on him and just refreshing them every so often. I think he got a couple melee hits on me, but not one lightning bolt.
Strafing moves you at the same speed as running foward (versus backing up, which goes at walking speed). There are times when you need to move the hell away from something right now, but keep your orientation towards what you’re hitting–those are times that you want to strafe.
For example, in EoE, the tank will be strafing Maly around the outside of the platform. (Backing him up wouldn’t be fast enough, and turning your back to him would mean taking too much damage + unable to continue attacking to keep your threat up.) In Halls of Lightning, on Loken, one strategy is to tank him at the end of the bright strip that leads to his throne, with everyone facing the strip on one side or the other, and then have everyone strafe parallel to that strip when he starts casting his big AOE.
Especially for melee, there are a lot of instant-cast abilities, and there’s always autoattack, too. Generally, though, it tends to be tanks who have the biggest need to stay facing the mob they’re tanking (so that they can continue to dodge/parry/block attacks), or players who are PvPing.
/thank
/cheer
/salute
/grin
God it was so nice first time I was in a group that used the “all stand on top of the tank and just let the priest heal through the lightning nova” strategy. So. Easy.
Didn’t take offense at ALL (come’on!!! Y’ALL know me better than that, right?), so don’t even give it a second thought.
Just give me a second to get out of these fucking leggings I seem to have bought when I was a level 10???
Flahhhhh! GODAMMIT
them things STINK!
Q/Wolkie
Yup, that’s my personal favorite. Everybody stands under Loken’s complete lack of genitals and just waits for it to be over. [Insert “sounds like my last date” joke here.]
I don’t even want to know what the inside of my backpack must look like after two years of eyeballs, entrails, brains, and goo.