Because Quest Helper is not made by Blizzard and may not always be correct.
Don’t trust it blindly, if something seems wrong it probably is.
Never thought about that. Anything better than QH?
Headed to Eastern Plaguelands to turn in this quest to Aurora Skycaller. The Wiki says go to Light Hope Chapel from Iron Forge and from there to North Pass tower in North Eastern Plaguelands.
Seems I have been a little more directionally challenged of late. I always thought you got to EP via Aerie Pointe/Hinterlands, but Wiki says Ironforge…
Thanks
Q
to be perfectly honest, I use allakhazam.com, in general in the comments about any given quest they tell you things like the co-ords of the mob or where you find whatever, any special tricks and tips…
a, I jad asked about punching in co-ords before, but the concensus at the time I asked was that many here didn’t use them, and I have been unable to figure it out on my own…
I just finsished an ALLIANCE quest in Winterspring and have to to turn it in to Aurora Skycaller in the North Pass Tower of Eastern Plaguelands.
I KNOW I have the FP, but don’t know which one to choose and last night is the longest I have EVER played, since I’m trying to get to 58 ASAP, so I’m a bit frazzled, so can someone give me the FP? I’m in Iron Forge trying to get to Light Hope Chapel, and I guess, from there to EPL.
Also how much sense does it make to do a quest in WS and then have to return it to EPL?
Thanks
Q
LHC is in the Eastern Plaguelands, if you have it, it should be the northernmost FP you have in the Eastern Kingdoms.
If you don’t have it you’re going to have to hoof it from either Chillwind Camp or Aerie Peak.
I did some copy-pasting, here’s a map for you. You can either head north from Chillwind camp through the ruins of Andorhal and then east along the road, or you can go through the pass east of Aerie Peak and then head north along the shores of Darrowmere Lake until you hit the road(you have to pass some low mountains) and then head east.
Not much, and it gets worse, I’ve done that quest chain once and it was enough.
Mogle,
THANKS for the map and all the help and advice today! 
Funny part of it all is, I wonder if I would have been so confused about everything had I not been so sleep-deprived (and the “other” of course ;)).
Also, sometime during the night I would up in Darrowshire on Little Pamela’s Quest, but later had no idea how I got there.
What I DO remember is having dragged one of these evl spirits in there along with me and one of the Darrowshire Elves (I guess) had to help me kill her.
What made the whole thing “stand out” in my mind was I hit the “thanks” button and she came back with a “rude gesture” and then “wishes you best of luck”.
So bottom line: Yeah I was there (in Darrowshire- which is close, I guess, to EPL), but then couldn’t remember how I got there!
Thanks again, my friend!
Quasi
Speaking of Darrowshire, have you seen this little tear-jerker? (YouTube video)
Sounds like that was another player, and you may have accidentally gotten in her way.
Darrowshire is in the EPL.
BWAH-HA-HA-HA! Thrall’s Crib.
Quasi
I thought I’d start sharing some of these things that happen to Wolkie, which poor Silka can’t help, but which are hilarious anyway.
Some of you have noted that I write the way I speak, so you may consider this a narrative:
2:00 am Saturday Morning
After having already played 4 hours straight, I decided to do some clean-up in Winter Spring, so Wolkie hopped the gryph and off we went.
Got to the harbor, mounted Silka and headed down the dock to the boat.
Got there just as it was pulling out, but decided to “make a run for it” and “catch” it “just right”.
No.
Wolk’ came in at too sharp an angle and he and Silka got trapped between the dock (“o’the bay”) and the ship.
"Jump, dammit! Jump!", said Quasi, furiously pounding away at the keyboard space bar.
Finally we hit the right “combination” of moves and were able to get onboard.
Quickly, we looked around to see if anyone had noticed, but luckily, we were the ship’s only passengers, so Wolkie dismounts, does his best Don Knotts impression (hitching up belt) while saying, “Yeah, that’s us. Always pushin’ the ol’ envelope! sniff”
I hope y’all don’t mind me including these stories here, but if you’d like me to create a separate thread, I can sure do that and no feelings hurt at all.
I just appreciate your help and would, in some way, repay that by making you smile and/or laugh.
Thanks
Q
BWAH-HA-HA! Indeed! 
Man, Rik, some of those guys are as talented (if not more so) than the game designers! I liked the whole thing, but my fave was when he tried to hide the pic with the 'fro!:D:D:D
This is just the kind of thing needed when we need to “lighten up” a bit from the quests and the grinds.
Wish there were a whole site (other than YouTube) set up for this kind of creativity. That way I could go there while rezzin’ (which I STILL do a lot, but not AS much?) or just taking a break!
I appreciate the links and the laffs!
Q
I know that in my case (Alliance) the blue castle means that where I currently am (EPL) is controlled by us rather than the Horde.
Does that make monsters easier to kill, can I get more “help” there, or is it just a matter of rep?
Just wondered, why, if out in a battle zone, and I see these “castles” on my screen, should they be important?
Thanks
Q
That’s just world PVP (PVP outside of instanced battlegrounds). The towers are targets to either defend against or attack to control the other faction (in your case, Horde). You are not forced to PvP, even if you were to actually go inside the towers. You can’t help take one or defend one unless you’re flagged for PvP, though.
Some zones bestow a buff if your faction controls all the towers/targets (there are other zones that have this kind of thing, too), whether you’re actually PvPing or not. I think the buff for EPL is “Echoes of Lordaeron”, but I don’t remember what it does.
They only have to be important if you want to play PvP. Otherwise, you can completely ignore them.
And, Quasi? You keep telling us stories about Wolkie and Silka. They’re as entertaining as plain old talking about WoW!
Also, I just ordered a new power supply online. I may actually be back on my own computer by Wednesday!
:):):):):):):):)
Thanks, jayjay and I’m glad you’ll be back on your own “poot” soon!
You and all the others have just made this whole game so much more fun for me!
Thanks
Bill
Did ya get him SFG?
I just happened to log on and there were some “festivities” in Dalaran.
So we have a disc priest on our healing team and I have always suspected that she wasn’t playing optimally (she doesn’t use clique for instance) but she is sensistive to criticism and gets really touchy when anyone makes any comments about her healing.
I know you can’t really tell how good a disc priest is with healing meters because so much of their healing comes in the form of damage mitigation but we recently had a holy priest, resto druid and resto shammy healing HTOC 10 and we were able to get past beasts. We tried again last week using the same tanks but swapped out the shammy for the disc priest and we couldn’t keep our tanks up. That seemed wierd to me.
So I recently pugged with another guild for HTOC 25 (My guild is is still working on HTOC 10) and I noticed that their Disc Priest was putting out much higher numbers on the healing meters and when I asked if they were healing any differently in HTOC 25 than they would in HTOC 10, the answer was “yeah I mash the buttons harder” but otherwise no. He was slightly better geared than our disc priest but not by much.
Is there some way to measure damage mitigation, recount doesn’t seem to measure it, is there some other add-on that does?
I’m not saying that our disc priest is hiding behind the fact that recount doesn’t capture damage mitigation but I think the lack of feedback and objective numbers makes it hard for her to be able to gauge how much of a difference an add-on like clique can make, it makes it harder for us to offer constructive criticism because we have no idea of how she allocates her time.
So when is 3.3 rumored to be dropping, anyway? My DK has now completed Tuskarrmageddon, and is a week’s worth of dailies from completing Sholazar Mercenary; he’s pretty close to out of things to do in Northrend outside of raids and instances, and is getting pretty close to fully-geared with badge gear and ToC drops as well. I need new 5-mans, dammit.
Since there’s such a long delay in posts I can assume everyone was either very busy or watched football all day Sunday.
I normally don’t raid much anymore mainly because I have two daughters under 2-years-old that keep me pretty busy, and my cellular Internet connection can be sketchy.
So I was on my laptop in the living room sitting next to my daughter who was in her bouncer seat, and all of a sudden I receive a blind invite to join a group. Since I wasn’t doing anything important (working on my Argent Dawn rep) I decided to see what’s up. Turns out it was a group that my guild casually runs with and they were doing 25-man Trial of the Crusader. I told them that I was playing on a laptop without Ventrilo and I would also probably disconnect with my sub-par connection.
Nobody said anything so I assumed it was okay. My connection held up surprisingly well and I managed to snag Boots of the Courageous as I was the only paladin healer. We cleared the Northrend Beasts and Lord Jaraxxus and then decided to do 25-man Onyxia before it got too late. There I picked up Head of Onyxia.
I was feeling on a roll and decided to join a 10-man Onyxia pug. After a 5x wipe we decided to call it a night…at 3am! After each wipe someone had to be replaced so it was hard to get a rhythm going. We only got her to the start of phase 3 on our best attempt.
Overall it was a pretty good weekend. Sunday’s raiding helped get me some gear and money so together it makes for a tired, but happy Monday.
How did everyone else do?
My, my, my… What a weekend!
Two new rare mounts.
Friday, I logged in to my character to find that my friend had parked her right in front of the Oracles quartermaster. I opened up my bag and had a small freakout moment, because there was an icon that looked like the polar bear mount! … Only it was the item to do the “Back to the Pit” daily quest, because my friend is a jerk and likes to tease me. 
But, the joke was on him, because I opened my egg and… Green Proto-Drake! Then, on Sunday, I finally got the polar bear mount, too. After months of farming, who’d’a thought I’d get both mounts in a weekend?
Two new titles.
One of these I’m gonna gloss by, because it wasn’t (IMO) that impressive. Sunday I hopped on a quick 10-man Sarth+3D run. We zerged it–just burned Sarth down while a member of the raid kited the first drake to land. One of the raid members was one mount away from 100, so we all agreed to let him buy the drake off of whoever won the roll (which happened to be the one DPS we had to PUG).
But Saturday… Heh heh heh. Saturday was Ulduar-10. Besides taking another shot at Algalon, we wanted to work on some hard modes for those of us who didn’t have our drakes yet. Wow, the content that was so hard in Naxx gear is really simple when you have a bunch of people geared for ToC. We missed out on FL and Razor because we had to use an already-started run (the only other tank that could come was saved), and we had to end early (picking up tonight, possibly), but we knocked out Ignis, IC (whom I’d never killed at all), XT, Hodir, and Thorim. (Should have gotten Kolo, but it bugged.) Hodir was a dear and dropped the shield out of his hardmode cache, so I even got an upgrade for my Anub add tank set.
But getting back to Algalon… It took a couple of attempts to shake everything into place, and we had some stupid deaths to start, but in only six attempts (and less than 30 minutes–some of those were very fast wipes) we downed him! So, for the past few days, I’ve been running around as Starcaller Sleutel. (Bonus: he dropped the plate shoulders, which I got 'cause my DPS set was still using Naxx25 ones.)
Actually, a raid is a larger group. Older raids can be for 10, 20, 25, or 40 players, and they don’t start until level 60. Current raids (at level 80) are for 10 or 25 players. The quests you have that are labeled (Dungeon) are for regular five-man instances.
Right-clicking on a mob will start your autoattack. But autoattack by itself takes a long time to kill something, so be sure to “spend” your Rage by using special abilities. Because it’s capped at 100, anything more Rage you “earn” will just spill over and be wasted. As long as you right-clicked the mob, you will always keep attacking, though, so going out of Rage just means you have to wait to get more before you can use another special.
Grats!
For an Arms Warrior, Slam is your “I don’t have anything better to do” ability. It’s the filler for when nothing else is lit up or off CD. For an 80 Arms War, the ability priority is:
**Rend **(if off or almost off) > **Execute **> **Overpower **> Mortal Strike > Slam
**Bladestorm **only immediately after an Overpower
Obviously this will change a little bit for lower levels depending on what Talents you have (e.g., Rend is first here because of Talents like Imp Rend, Taste for Blood, and Trauma).
Blizzard is actually working on their own in-game quest tracker. I don’t think it’s due out until the next major patch, though.
:smack: So glad I’m not the only person who’d ever done that…
Woohoo!
Glad you got to see it! I missed it the last time my guild did a Starcaller run, so this was my first time watching it, too.
On preview: Grats on the Ony head and the ToC loot!
There is no way in hell that a Disc Priest (tank healer) should have a harder problem tank-healing than a Resto Shaman (raid healer). You might be able to configure Recount to include mitigated/absorbed damage; if not, running logs and uploading them to a parsing site might give you more information. I had a post about that upthread; if you don’t know how to do it and/or you didn’t see the post, drop me a PM and I’ll be happy to explain it again.
Nobody knows yet. They didn’t start testing ICC bosses that long ago on the PTR, so it’ll probably be a couple weeks, if not a month or more.
Saturday night, I offtanked Ulduar as my druid. And it was a damned painful experience. Neither my husband (the MT, on his pally in prot mode) or I had ever tanked it before, though we’d both been there as heals and DPS. Why were two newbs tanking, you ask? Well, because everyone wants to pew-pew on DPS and they don’t want to level tanks (unless maybe it’s a DK because of the headstart/automatic assumption that they must be awesome).
FL was no problem, though one of the never-been-there DPS managed to nearly die during the initial vehicle sequence. No idea why.
Razorscale next. Couldn’t seem to get good timing on the harpoons, so we wiped at least once. (I’m repressing my memories.) We have a hunter and a rogue (the aforementioned hasn’t-been-there DPS) who compete for who has the highest crit score. Husband and I have emphasized we haven’t tanked this before. Well, Mr. Hunter apparently decides that yanking stuff off me from all the way across the fighting field is great, and the rogue at least once decides to run up close to the turrets and take on dwarves/vrykul before I’m even there. (squish) Kill him on the second or third try, I don’t recall.
Ignus. Major failing. Tried at least three, four times. I tanked Ignus, but it felt like my job was mostly to haul him around in a circle, curse as he looked away from me to flame people, and curse as the fire started up and I had to move him again. Hated it. Frankly, I don’t even know what the problems were.
XT: No problem. I handled adds, husband had XT. Apparently someone failed on the Light Bombs because the newbs didn’t get that achievement, only Nerf Gravity Bombs.
Kologarn: No problem.
Iron Council. Ugh. We started with me tanking the giant, husband tanking the vrykul, a DPS DK dealing with the dorf caster. Pally healer had issues with removing the debuff and healing (as my priest, I know that’s annoying) so we swapped my husband and I since as a pally he can remove his own debuff. We just couldn’t get it together.
I console myself by remembering that I was not the one who died first, so it’s not like I’m uber-lame. I was always pulling everything out of my bag of tricks to keep aggro and was very focused on just doing my job.
Did I have fun? Oh hell no. The only fun part was riding around on the vehicles and shooting stuff.