Fun trick:
Do you ever get sick of your character’s model? Ever think to yourself, “Gee, I really love my racials, and I’d never switch factions, but it would be fun to see what my toon would look like as a Gnome, or an Undead, or a Troll…”
Well, now you can! As far as I can tell, this little trick is 100% game-legal, because it doesn’t change anything but how your character appears to you. (You look normal to everyone else, your hitbox stays the same size, your abilities including racials stay the same, etc. It just reskins you.)
Here’s a tutorial video. You don’t have to create a new character if you don’t want to. Just log in to the toon whose skin you want to use, do the 20-second log out, then follow the instructions. (Select the toon you want to play, mouseover the toon whose skin you want, then click and enter in rapid succession, a split-second apart.)
Here’s the result: a Night Elf Warrior becomes a Tauren Warrior… in **Alliance **T9/ToC gear! 
The character uses all of the animations of the skin you’re wearing, too, so if you’re thinking about a race change, it’s a fun way to test drive all the aesthetic stuff. (One small side note: if your skin toon is wearing a tabard, pull it off before you log out, or it will show up on your play toon.)
ETA: There are no restrictions on race/class/faction combinations. So you could turn a Night Elf Druid into an Orc Druid or a Troll Shaman into a Human Shaman. However, it seems that anything that changes your skin will reset it to your original (Druid shapeshifts, Orb of the Sin’Dorei, etc.), so you’ll have to log out and do the whole thing over again if you want to reset. Logging out also resets it, so you won’t be stuck this way forever.
Raiding crap:
I… AM… UNHITTABLE!
I skipped raid on Wednesday 'cause I was spending time with my friend on his birthday, but a Signet of the Earthshaker dropped off of XT and they banked it. The other Prot War and I compared stats on our current sets, and I was a few percent ahead of him, so we decided to focus on getting my set together first. I regemmed and rechanted everything I could (with gbank mats, thank goodness, or it would have been $$$), and it was *just close enough *to the 101.6% avoidance I need against the adds that raid buffs and a +Def elixir pushed me over the top!
We got a couple of attempts in on Anub in TotGC25. Unfortunately, it quickly became apparent that it’s going to be almost impossible to do the one-add-tank strategy without a Rogue for Tricks + FoK. We had three hunters MDing and me Taunting, but it just wasn’t enough–most times, there would be at least one add that would pull off before it got to me, and Anub’s hit box is so effing big that it’s often in the way of what I’m trying to taunt. It doesn’t help that I have to save Shockwave to stun the adds right before Shadow Strike, too–that’s usually a huge chunk of my AOE threat. We have one Rogue in the guild, but he’s been offline with net problems, so we’re upping our recruitment efforts. (P.S., if you know a really good Rogue who’d like to join a server #1 guild and have a good chance at picking up a server-first achievement, send them our way.)
People on this board really are amazing! Whoever sent that, you rock.
I’m officially creeped out. Can’t… stop… staring at it!
Them’s fightin’ words!
Boats and the IF/SW Tram (for Alliance) and Zeppelins (for Horde) have no level requirement and no “Flight Master” equivalent. They run back and forth between fixed points on a set route and schedule. From a flight point, you take off on your own personal taxi the second you click your destination, but for a Boat/Zep, you have to wait for it to show up, then ride it when everyone else, then walk off it on your own. (If you AFK, you might come back where you started instead of where you were going.)
Hilarious that you tried, and lame that it didn’t work. What’s the point of having a big piece of Goblin engineering if it doesn’t explode once in a while? IMO the zeps should make their rounds faster than the boats, but have a 1/100 chance of exploding and killing everyone aboard.
On even levels, I head to a capital city to learn all my new spells. (IIRC, once you hit 60, you get new skills at every level, not just the even ones, so watch out for that soon!) I do **not **generally buy armor unless a piece is particularly outdated. I tend to stick with quest rewards and dungeon drops.
Merchants almost never sell gear that will be at all useful to you. Mostly, they sell “white” gear, with no magical stat enhancements. A very few vendors will have a very limited selection of “green” gear with some helpful stats (think: one item that one person can buy, versus the unlimited supply they have of the normal stuff), but it will almost never be better than what you’re currently wearing. So **if **you buy armor, you want to buy it off of the AH.
Can’t get there from work, but I’ll try to remember to have a look-see when I get home!
Hahaha, perfect!
That’s incredibly awesome.
Well played, good sir.
Reminds me of something that happened to my then-GM probably about two years ago, during TBC. She was questing in Outlands, I think in Nagrand, when suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, a player comes hurtling down and splats dead in some shallow water in front of her. She whispers him to ask what the hell. Apparently, you should never make assumptions about the depth of the water you’re aiming for before you dismount from a flyer.
Monday, my guild decided to rip through a quick Naxx run to try to pick up some more gear for our tanks’ unhittable sets. I got a summon just as I arrived at the necropolis, so I decided to do my usual trick:
- Stand at the edge of the opening to the outside
- /yell GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD!
- Jump off
- Click “Accept Summon” a split-second before actually hitting the ground
Only this time, I mis-timed Step 4. So my guild just sees me yell, jump off the floating necropolis, and then I’m clearly dead in the raid frames. Vent is full of, “Sleutel, what the hell did you just do?” :smack: Fortunately, one of our lovely healers came out after me and rezzed me on the ground to save me the run back.
However, to my good fortune, another mage was along and fulfilled that purpose.