Took my lvl 44 draenei warrior back to Azuremyst/Bloodmyst to ToT, and while I was on Bloodmyst I decided to go back and do the final two quests of the draenei “starter” campaign, “Clearing the Way” and “Ending Their World”, which were too tough to solo back at lvl 20. I’m glad I did it - the ending was really cool. Pretty much every NPC I helped along the way came out to cheer me (including a whole flock of chickens from Admiral Odessyeus’ encampment 
), and I got a really sweet tabard out of it.
Fun fact of the weekend: If your Priest is transformed into a Goblin pirate, you **punch **people with PW:Fort. So full of win.
Grats to all and sundry for your various achievements that I may have missed below!
Like a sailor. A drunken sailor. A drunken, dirty sailor.
Natch! She **is **a tank, after all! 
Well, there’s /cower…
Seriously. Talk about insult to injury…
Agreed. Be sure to keep an eye on Trade chat in the major cities–that’s how most people hook up. (E.g., “WTT Pirate, Ghost, or Leper Gnome for Wisp, PST.”)
Grats on the leveling and the robe–that’s a sweet, sweet chest piece. I’ve loved having it on my Tailors.
Welcome to the wonderful world of magic resistance–this was something I missed out on when I played a Warrior (purely 100% physical damage). As you level, you start running into more mobs, mainly demons or elementals, who are immune or highly resistant to particular schools of magic. Giant PITA when it’s your chosen school.
It was that way originally, then I think there was a while when they were the same as everyone else as the riding level was lowered, but then most recently they dropped Druid Travel Form, Shaman Ghost Wolf, and Hunter Aspect of the Cheetah to level 16.
See also: barf on your friends. If possible, barf in a wisp costume: barfing wisps are hilarious.
Grats and grats!
1.) It’s not an RP server, so a lot of people don’t care or don’t know how to properly acknowledge it.
2.) People might not be watching at all. I know when I’m waiting for a boat, I’m usually “tabbed out”–I have WoW minimized while I look at another window, usually a web page on my browser. That means I won’t even know if somebody emotes at me.
Soooo close! How big of a bitch are the last two gonna be?
IIRC, if you /slap him, he will /no you.
So jealous. I love that tabard, but you can only get it on a Draenei toon–the chain stops before that point for everbody else.
No. Shamans used to get Ghost Wolf at 20 and I think druids had to wait until 30 for the original travel form. Talk about hax in WSG 29 bracket. :mad:
D’oh! I’m not sure why I thought the middle change happened. It only changed once, with patch 3.2.
As it turns out, not as bad as I thought. #39 will be Keepers of Time, which will be easy enough (basically, solo Black Morass til exalted). Originally, #40 was going to be a major pain, as none of the remaining options seemed very pleasant: either try for The Defilers or Warsong Outriders, which would mean months of constant PVP play (and tons of frustration), or a raid-based faction, such as Hydraxian Waterlords (which I already have at half-way through revered). Unfortunately getting groups for any of those would have been unlikely (and, because of lockouts, taken several weeks). Thus, Darkmoon Faire was looking like the most likely candidate, which would instead just have been ridiculously expensive.
However, because I was basing my faction choices on the list from Armory, I missed Warsong Offensive (one of the sub-factions for Horde Expedition), which is not included on Armory, for some reason. Anyway, I was already into revered with them, and they even have 9 dailies you can do for rep! So about 6 more days of doing the dailies will get me to exalted with them. Based on my current playtime (~1 hour per day, lately), I should have the title within a couple weeks.
After which, I suppose I can begin running instances again… My bracers are still blue!
Uh, that **is **lower than the original mount level–it was 40 for most of the game.
Excellent! (And on the bracer note–check your Exalted WotLK factions. One of them might have something for you.)
Saturday night, my guild whipped up an old-school raid run. With 10 people, we cleared Blackwing Lair (after doing two separate UBRS 5-mans to attune some people to BWL), Molten Core, and Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj. Frankly, the “toughest” part was the first encounter in BWL, where you had to mind-control the dragon and protect him and the controller, and that was just because of the duration and trying to keep track of everything going on. Oh, and I hated the part leading up to the Broodlasher, where you were slowed.
Three members, including my druid, had for the BWL run the quest Only One May Rise, which is a very early step in the impossibly long (and completely needless) quest to gain rep with the Brood of Anachronos and eventually open the long-ago-opened gates to Ahn’Qiraj. I’m about +2.5 k points on my way out of Hated with them, which starts you in the hole over 30,000 points. Yeah, I’ll get right on fixing that…
During the AQ20 run I hit Revered rep with Cenarion Circle on my druid, and since I’d already ground Cenarion Expedition up to Exalted back during the BC expansion, I went for it yesterday. Killed Twilight Circle and turned in their writings, grabbed their robes and killed Abyssal Templars, did Field Duty and Allegiance to the Circle quests over and over. Finally - she holds the title “Guardian of Cenarius.”
IjustgotWhatAStrangeTrip!
bounce bounce bounce
Apparently, the situation re. connection at the uni has reached a point where the process is as follows:
- discover you can’t connect,
- call, channeling Tweety Bird like crazy,
- wait while they reboot whatever,
- connect.
Do NOT respond to that message. It is probably a phishing attack. They would probably ask for your username and password “for verification”, something Blizzard would not ask for. I get those messages sometimes, I delete them all.
As for my own in-game stuff, I got new rings from HH for most of my toons, the HH plate helmet and sword (fun sword), a bunch of brooms, and squashlings galore. I’ve been running HH almost every night with a regular group and we all cycle through all our alts, so we get plenty of shots at him. About the only thing we haven’t seen, is the mount.
And two of my “squishies” got the “Knuckle Sandwich” acheievement 
Ah, Razorgore, good times, good times. I liked that enounter in a way, insanely chaotic but even when you were bashing your head against it, you could keep track of how much progress you were making by counting how many eggs you destroyed on each attempt. And it was one of the first non-tank-n-spank raid encounters.
Yeah, that place was annoying, if the rogues slacked and didn’t disable the suppression devices it was even worse, but at least Broodlord was really easy once you reach him, we used to refer to him as Lootlord. 
Yay! Hope you warned any Hunters to un-equip their bows before the final boss… We forgot to on our run. :smack:
Worst. Ever. Oh. Em. Gee. So. Annoying.
More like “Only, Uh, as Many of You as Have the Quest at the Moment” these days. And it’s not **completely **needless–it’s the only way to get that epic Cooking recipe, for example, if you’re an insane completist like me.
Very appropriate for a Druid, I say!
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!
I think that should, like, allow you to equip Fist Weapons, even if your class can’t normally.
Purple Proto for the win!
Grats on the proto-drake Nava! It sure is fun flying at 310% speed.
SteveG1, you have Knuckle Sandwich, so do your squishies have Master of Arms yet? I did it on my priest with Wand, Mace, Dagger and Unarmed.
Metoo metoo metoo! 310% is going to ruin me for my slower toons.
Not yet, I think this will be on my Things To Do list though. One thing at a time
…Which cooking recipe? :eek: (Dammit.)
And yeah, that was my intention to match the “Guardian of Cenarius” title to my druid. I also got the Argent Tournament title “…of Sen’jin” for my troll, as that’s the troll newbie village - and I play on the Sen’jin server.
Yeah, I plan on this for my druid, too. I’ve been an irresponsible druid, though; I have yet to do any of the class quests save the Bear Form. I really hate the Aquatic Form quests, since I absolutely refuse to go near deep water.
It’s gonna be a long time before I get Long Strange Trip. 
I’ve been too busy with other stuff to worry much about Hallow’s End achievements.
Going back to Yeti’s quotes from Elitist Jerks, which I somehow missed seeing all weekend:
I completely forgot about Divine Strength. I know Strength benefits from BoK and AP doesn’t, but otherwise I’ve usually shrugged about the difference, since ilevel-equivalent gems are usually something like +16 Strength or +32 AP, so I never worried about it too much. But factoring in Divine Strength, Strength definitely wins every time.
- Other than looking at the terrain closely and thinking “maybe I’d better go around”, is there a way to tell when you’re about to fall off a high cliff. I know: “Dumb question”, but I’m in Azshara right now and that place is REAL hilly.
Thanks
Thanks, SFG for explaining about the “salute” thing. I understand a little better now, and won’t get my pantaloons in a wad when a salute doesn’t get returned.
Thanks, SteveG1 and everyone who responded regarding that phishing e-mail, and yeah, they DID ask for my password, which is why I didn’t respond.
One more thing about the Gold-Sellers: Yes, I DO feel sorry for them, but not at the expense of my account, so now I hit ignore and continue to feel sorry for them.
So when I finisch in Azshara I’m heading back to Burning Steppes. I just hope I don’t run afoul of those ?? guys. I hate them sumbitches, SFG!
(My drunken, dirty mouth sailor-friend!:D)
Thanks
Quasi
Quasi, if you play in third person (you can see your whole character), try angling your camera angle: hold down the right mouse button and move your mouse down (or up, if you use an inverted mouse like for a flight simulator), then let go when you have a good viewing angle. You should then be able to see ahead of you enough to know if a hill is a cliff or a gentle slope.
If you play in first person (you don’t see your character’s body on your screen), you could try third person for those types of situations. Just scroll down the wheel on your mouse to move into third person (I think you know how to do this already, from taking screenshots, but just in case).
:smack:
Thanks, Words! I do that already when Wolkie’s going UP a hill, or I don’t like his positioning.
Didn’t EVEN think I could do it to see what’s ahead for us!:smack:
jayjay? Got room in your “Smack The Head” guild for one more???
Thanks!
Quasi