If I’ve got anything at all else running on my computer, I get much less than 1 FPS in Dalaran. Even if I quit everything else before starting WoW (as I’ve taken to doing), it’s still not much more than 1 at times.
So … when I 'm on my bank alt, this being the only toon that I haven’t turned off Trade chat, I see a lot of LFG posts in Trade that read like this:
“LFG H ToC need dps then g2g”
That “then g2g” makes me raise an eyebrow every time I see it. I’m reading “g2g” (or sometimes “gtg” as “got to go” (like it means/meant in old-style chat rooms and text messages), which makes it appear that these people are basically saying, “Hey, I need some help with such-and-such raid, but don’t expect me to stick around after and help you with yours!” Which seems kind of … tacky.
Unless “g2g/gtg” has some other meaning that I’m not picking up. Could they maybe mean “good to go”? That would make it read, “Hey, I need some help with such-and-such raid - just need dps and then we’ll be good to go.”
Just for fun last night, lacking anything better to do, I rolled a human mage (gonna try speccing this one Arcane). I named him Pterry, and using the photo inside the back cover of a Discworld novel as a guide, I did my best to make him look as much like Terry Pratchett as I could:
http://www.mister-rik.com/hosted/pterry.jpg
Unfortunately, the photo was black & white so I don’t know Sir Terry’s eye color. I was waffling between the blue-eyed face above and a brown-eyed face that was also fairly close. All he needs is some big, round spectacles.
He’s on Grizzly Hills, where I have a couple other rarely-played alts. On the realm selection screen the “Population” tag recently changed to “New Players”, (it used to show “Medium” all the time) which might explain why the human starting area was so freakin’ crowded last night. I’ve never seen that many people in a starting zone. Had a strange encounter with another player. While I was sitting near the stream drinking, this warrior ran up to me and asked me “do you know where garricks is?” So I said, “Er, I can’t remember who that is. Which quest?” (I figured if I knew which quest he was trying to do, it would jog my memory). He stood there for a moment, and then ran off. 
Noticed a couple things lately that make me go, “Hmmmm…”:
• Human hairstyles: there are male hairstyles that are longer than any of the female hair styles. I think this may be true of the blood elf hairstyles as well.
• Inconsistent levels of daylight: I was in Tanaris one evening, around 7:00 PM, and it was bright as day. I took a flight to Theramore, which is almost straight North from Steamwheedle Port, and when I got there it was very, very dark.
Yes. Good to go.
Good to go, as in “you’re the last spot we need to fill, so we’ll get started right away and you don’t have to putter around while we fill the party.”
State conditions, eh? I haven’t tried that yet. Maybe I’ll fool with them tonight. I use lots and lots of addons, but most of them aren’t visible in the screen shots. I can’t even think of them all offhand.
One that I love is PowerAuras. That has helped me keep track of my cool downs and triggered abilities and combat stuff so many times. My hunter is SV, and my warrior is Fury, so there are lots of triggered abilities that I’d just miss otherwise.
I use an addon called ActionCombat that throws all that stuff up on the screen for me so I know when (on my warriors) to hit Overpower or Execute, or when Rend expires, etc. Also handy on my paladins; without it I’d often fail to notice when my Blessings and Seals expire.
I was just on my bank alt in SW, and spotted a character name that is surely a candidate for “Most Egregiously Misspelled and Unimaginative Character Name” award:
Rouguetheif
What a night…
I’d finished the usual dailies for the day (hit Exalted Hodir, finally), and was dinking around with leveling up Blacksmithing. In Trade I saw a guy shout out a couple times that he needed a healer for emblem runs. I verified he meant heroics and I signed up.
We proceeded to completely lay waste to Violet Hold, Nexus, Utgarde Keep, Utgarde Pinnacle, Drak’Tharon Keep, and Gundrak.
We had an overgeared Feral Druid doing DPS and a tank who knew what he was doing. Between us and the other DPS, we just sailed through everything. Gundrak was the only one in which we wiped (twice) because the other two DPS left and we had to bring in new ones, plus I was getting tired and my reflexes started to slow.
I started the run with only a few ilevel 200 pieces, and I ended with four slots still below 200. We pulled in enough Emblems of Conquest for me to get a spiffy new ilevel 219 belt, and after I grumbled once in the Nexus about not having gotten any healer upgrades, nothing BUT healer upgrades dropped. :o I went from halfway through Honored in my tabard rep to 20% through Revered.
I’d been dipping my toes in the heroic PUG water tentatively for the past week, but that more than anything showed that, damn, I really like the healer role. 
The Feral Druid didn’t seem to have much confidence in my abilities, as he’d pop out and assist in the healing unasked, but it did save our asses at one point. Still, I’m quite confident I wasn’t being carried. That was just so much fun.
My bad. Emblem of Conquest stuff is ilevel 226, not 219. Either way. It’s spiffy.
So it was a little frustrating last night, as I just missed the guild run through ToC and thus getting my 50th Triumph badge and my Epic achievement. But I logged in this morning, found out that VH was the daily, went into the pug queue as a Tank and half an hour later I’ve got my T8 helmet, my Triumph-badge trinket, and my Epic achievement! Woot!
And the T8 Death Knight helmet looks totally badass, too, in a Jack Kirby New Gods kinda way.
Well I had some success; after doing the daily heroic in ToC with the guild I put myself in LFG for Ony or ToC10, and finally got an invite for ToC.
I was inexperienced and the lowest-geared in the raid, but they carried me well as the OT healer. We wiped twice, I think, on the worms, but got through the rest without much trouble (but a few deaths). Got some nice pants and something like 15 Emblems of Triumph. Glad I finally got to do it!
Well, my 80 pally’s first foray into WSG was a laugh riot Donned my PvP set (such as it is), died 5 times, no killing blows, though I was credited with 9 Honorable Kills and earned 231 Honor. We lost, 3-0.
It’s a start, I guess 
WTF?!
I was in Sholazar Basin, flying from the place with the Oracle daily questgivers to the Maker’s Perch … alt-tabbed out to check my e-mail, and wasn’t paying attention. Overflew Maker’s Perch and continued out to sea, where I died of fatigue. I released my spirit at woke up in the graveyard …
… in Westfall?
Yes, that happens sometime, I think that Westfall is the default(for Alliance, don’t know where Horde end up) graveyard if the game doesn’t know where to send you. It beats being stuck in limbo.
What sucked was the 19g repair bill because I rezzed at the Spirit Healer. No way in hell was I running back to my corpse
A couple of :smack: moments tonight…
One: I decided this weekend I was going to go for Guardian of Cenarius. How hard could it be, right? Just grind out Cenarion Circle reputation. Repetitive, but easy. I headed out to Silithus and killed thousands of Twilight Hammer in a pre-emptive strike for their role in Cataclysm, and with the help of the Spirit of Sharing buff from the Pilgrim Bounty holiday, I hit Exalted with Cenarion Circle earlier tonight! …Only to discover that I also need Cenarion Expedition rep. :smack: Sigh. And the only way to get that up at this point is to run the Steamvault about 10 times, and I’m not certain yet that I can solo it. I’ll figure out a way, though; it’s just not right for a druid to be without the Guardian of Cenarius title.
Two: I saw that I had 27 Emblems of Conquest, and I also saw that my Feral idol was in need of upgrading. So what the hell, I spent 19 Emblems on the Feral upgrade, yay! Course, this got me to thinking about what other Idols were available for badges, and I followed some links back to Emblems of Heroism, the level 200 stuff…and the heirloom stuff. 40 Emblems of Heroism for a chest or shoulder heirloom. Did I mention I was painstakingly saving up to 60 Champion’s Seals for a single heirloom for my Mage, and now I just found out I was closer to getting both the chest and shoulders than I thought…after spending half the cost on something shiny. :smack:
Silly research. Who needs it? Oh well. I do remember seeing the Heroism item list a few months ago, but I don’t remember stuff very well if it’s not relevant at the time. You can bet this has been seared into my brain now, though. :smack:
(1) have you done all the DEHTA quests in Borean Tundra (both the camp and the Murlocs in the north)?
(2) It’s slow as heck, but you can also get expedition rep by turning in hunter ears (again in Borean Tundra).
So anyone remember what level you can train your trade skills to the 300-375 level (Artisan?) - is it 60 or 58? Ditto ditto flying? I’m thinking of running Rumpole (my 58 shadow/disc priest) out to Hellfire Peninsula to check out the possibilities, and it would be nice to know if I should ship him a bunch of cash as well.
Flying - 60
Artisan Profession - 35
Master Profession (the 300-375 range) - 50
Nice, low-key weekend. **Bosstone **was nice enough to give my BDL Hunter a run-through of all four SM wings on his Druid (a fun escapade of OH HEY I’M BRINGING YOU NEW FRIENDS given the aggro radius of an early-30s character in there). Yesterday I burned through most of the Pilgrim achievements; the only one I haven’t completed is the transform-Rogues-into-turkeys one, and after this morning’s dailies, I have enough guns to finish it when I get home tonight.
Tip, if you’re having problems getting the obscenely annoying Turkinator one:
[ul][li]Go to Venomweb Vale in Tirisfal (regardless of your faction)[/li][li]Eat Tracker Snacks (or just turn on Beast Tracking if you’re a Hunter) and turn off any other tracking (the yellow dots will be turkeys)[/li][li]Bring a friend to scout ahead for the next patch of turkeys (who should also be using Beast Tracking, either with skill or with food)[/ul][/li]
After a couple frustrating tries in Elwynn Forest where I never got above 20 turkeys before running out, I hit 40 on my first try with this strat.
Grats to everyone on the new kills, new gear, new rep levels, and general good-times-had-by-all!
Yowch.
For the record: Heroism = 200; Valor = 213; Conquest = 226; Triumph = 245.
Uld10 dropped Valor badges, so there is no 219 badge gear at all.
When you hit tricksy things like that, a GM can sometimes help you out. I once got stuck on the ghost boat under Arathi Highlands, fell off and died, and found myself at the Arathi Highlands graveyard with no way to get back to my body. Like hell was I going to pay the repair costs for everything I was wearing and had in my bags (I’m sure it would be at least 50g, probably more). I opened a ticket and hung out in ghost form (my friend came to entertain me by dancing as a bear). Eventually, a GM got to my ticket and rezzed me right there, no charge.
Turn in Coilfang Armaments. They drop in… definitely Steamvault, maybe the other CFR instances, too. But they **do not **bind, so you can often find them on the AH. I burned through the last of my way to Exalted with them by doing turn-ins, after I got sick of Steamvault.
Yeah, I’ve gotten myself into the habit of checking back over lower badge items before I go blow them on something else. Personally, I’m happy I figured out that I’d been misreading the tooltip on the 4pc bonus for Prot War T9 before I spent my trophy on the DPS shoulders instead of the Prot head.
I’m grinding away on the new holiday on my lvl 80 BElf mage - who is best-suited for all of this back-and-forth between the capital cities! Yesterday I finished everything except for the Turkey Lurkey achievement, because you need multiple turkey guns from the dailies to complete it. My husband (as his lvl 80 shaman) and I crashed the parties at Darnassus (ride across the water, charge the portal, die at the tables to jerk guards and a mean ganky rogue, rez at an empty seat and sit) and Exodar (drown yourself under the dock at Auberdine, rez on the boat when it shows up, somehow get flagged even though you’re just sitting on the boat quietly, jump off at Azuremyst, ride around to the NE side of town, jump the wall, run up and have dinner). Fortunately the Alliance PC guests at Darnassus were very welcoming and we had a pleasant dinner with them and ported out uneventfully. At Exodar, the NPC quest giver took offense to my husband being there and beat him to death - how rude! Stormwind was easy, but Ironforge hates party crashers - putting lvl 75 guards all around your outdoor party is just mean.
I nearly soloed the Talon King part, but the group of 4 at the entry to his room beat me down, so I went back through with my husband on his shaman and we took care of that.
For The Turkinator, get a Tracker Snacks if you’re not a hunter, so you can track beasts. You have a 30 second countdown to kill each turkey, reset after each kill. Do not stop and loot, keep moving. A great spot for this in Tirisfal is in Venomweb Vale, south of SM - lots of turkeys, out of the way spot.
I also used the 5 recipes to finally complete the sole uncompleted Cooking achievement on my warlock, the Chef de Cuisine - learn 160 recipes. I’ve been stuck at 159 forever!