Ugh, yes. I’ve seen this so often now that I can figure them out with the first post, but wait for the second before hitting the report feature. The one(s) on my server use a specific phrasing in the ads that I can’t recall at the moment, but it really stands out.
My husband thinks he saw shill bidding on some desired item he was trying to get off the AH; both the auction poster and the person he got into a bidding war with had those random gibberish names. He let the other person have it, and waited a day when a different one (with a more ‘real’ name as the seller) came up, and bought that one.
Ok, I am seriously considering ditching my mining skill and taking up Jewelcrafting…I just wanna stockpile this list…I have a good deal of the upper end stuff and I maybe use some of the lower end stuff in the guild bank; It could use some freed up space. With the Blacksmithing already at 450, I should get my DPS a major boost. I just gotta make sure that the high end scarlet rubies are in good supply to keep up the gemming on better gear as we progress.
It could be a guild’s seller. My current guild has:
full guild bank, with stuff that’s actually expected to be getting use,
a second guild bank (from a guild which used to be for alts), with “reserves” that aren’t particularly useful to the average guildie, like tons of plants for the guild alchemists,
and any donations which are sellable and not of interest for the above get sold. Someone donates three stacks of thorium? The banker checks out whether it’s worth more smelted or raw, if smelted grabs a miner to smelt it pretty please with sugar on top, and then puts it up for sale.
BS+JC is godly for plate tanks, so I’d assume it’s similarly awesome for DPSers. Good luck switching over! I’ve thought about switching my main from Alch/Herb to BS/JC, but the time/cash involved is a little daunting, plus I’m a stubborn bitch who refuses to get rid of the profs I’ve had from day one, even if Blizz keeps declining to make them comparably helpful for endgame raiding.
Especially when the strats are weird crap like “shoot down that floaty thing to make an ice patch to kite that guy over when he goes underground and chases you” or “stand under the mushroom to shield yourself from this guy’s damage output when you fight him” or “if you get the fire on you, run over to that guy who’s poisoned so he doesn’t get paralysed”… I frequently wonder how people figure it out. It’s just as well I’m not on the cutting edge of progression; I’d get too annoyed at the “you die because you don’t know the boss is going to do an ice breath and you should hide behind your raid members who got turned into popsicles” type of things you’ll necessarily have to die to when first figuring out what a boss does.
Cutting-edge progression, I would assume, involves paying very careful attention to each and every buff and debuff you get when you get them, as well as going back over combat logs after each fight.
Well, the Mining certainly did help with the BS and I just didn’t unload the gems and spare ores/bars that I acquired in the process which does make for a great stepping stone to Jewelcrafting with minimal spending on mats that are not abundant in supply. Like my biggest hurdle right now looks to be acquiring 50 Citrine, which could run about 150-200g. I could easily mine for all the ore/bars with little to no effort…after all, I’m sitting on two 32 slot bags of saronite (one of ore, the other with bars)…worth enough gold to buy out most of the mats (about 1200g if sold to vendor) to cover for stuff that I can’t mine or the hard to come by stuff. I’ve got 40 of each Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, Huge Citrine, Shadow Crystal, Sun Crystal AND I have double digits of each highest level gems. I really only need the Scarlet Rubies, but you never know when what use they may have when Cataclysm comes out.
So Mining has been great for me, but JC will become even better.
Yeah, I think the five-mans are as deep into strategy as I’d care to go blind. (And even there, I’m not sure if I’d have been able to work out the “jump up and down while you fight the dragon” strategy).
Ooh, the +5000 rep is nice. Too bad Muz has a fishing skill of 1; he’s about 6000 rep short of exalted right now, which probably means 4 weeks; I usually have about one day a week when I’m bored enough and have enough WoW time to get around to the Kaluak dailies.
Fruitful weekend. Took the plunge and dropped skinning for engineering since I have an alt who’s partway through skinning – I’m now having fun powerleveling it with mining runs through Silithus, and can’t wait to pick up the really fun recipes. (pets, target dummies, what have you)
I also spent Sunday duoing my 41 enhance shaman with a frost mage friend. We blew through two levels in just one afternoon, which was awesome. I also got Stormstrike. Dear good little dancing gods. With that plus the SS glyph, between the two of us, we were taking down mobs 6 levels above us. I think I’m in love. tear
Okay, stupid question. Don’t laugh at me please. But this seems to be the best place to ask, since it’s probably not wise to admit to my high-end raiding guild that I don’t know the answer.
I play blood elves. I have one of every class blood elves can be. My main is a mage, and my primary alt is a death knight. Blood elves can’t be shamans, so I don’t have a shaman. And try as I might, I simply don’t get the difference between an enhancement and an elemental shaman. it’s like I have a mental block. I get that resto shamans heal. But can somebody explain to me in words of one syllable what defines an enhancement and an elemental shaman? How do they differ, what kinds of weapons and stats do they value, etc? I’m really embarrassed that I don’t know this, and I want to fight my ignorance. Thanks!
I heard, and I’m annoyed as hell, since it’s yet another fishing tournament at a bad time (this new one being smack-dab in the middle of a raid night). :smack: And of course, they put an actually useful reward on this one. (I.e., a BoA ring I’d actually send to an alt, versus my Hook of the Master Angler that just sits in my damn bank because I already have a fishing pole that gives me underwater breathing and a mount that goes faster in the water than the fish form does.)
Whoops, do I sound bitter about how comparatively shitty the current STV fishing tourney rewards are? That’s prob’ly 'cause I am.
Oh, and winterhawk11, a good way to get a feel for the different specs of a class is to take a look at their talent trees. The Wowhead talent calculator is rather useful for this. But yeah, for Shammies, Resto is healing, Ele is ranged DPS, and Enh is melee DPS.
In most cases, they figure it out on the public test realms where new content is released before it goes live. There are many, many examples of worldwide top end raiding guilds use the PTRs to learn the fights and then get world firsts on the same content when it goes live.
The side effect is that the rest of us get strats for the fights.
But this seems to be the best place to ask, since it’s probably not wise to admit to my high-end raiding guild that I don’t know the answer.