My son tells me that there’s a growing number of players and even guilds who only play pre-BC dungeons, because they’re the most fun in the game. I’m guessing that’s where the nerfed twinks hang out now. 
You probably still would. My polymorph spell doesn’t generate huge amounts of threat, but it does get me the aggro. I never bother to cause damage before sheeping, because the polymorph will just heal it anyway. When someone pops the sheep with incidental damage (e.g. the edge of an AoE), the mob attacks me. When they hit it hard, it attacks them.
Since the great nerf-down, I’ve been tending to run dungeons that are higher than my level, or run the five man dungeons with only four players. It’s more interesting that way.
My main didn’t hit level 60 until after BC came out, so I missed out on Molten Core and Onyxia and a whole bunch of others. I’d really like to go back and find a group to run them with now, just to experience them once. A solid five-man level 80 group should be able to take on just about any of the pre-BC 40-man raids, right?
I know Onyxia still regularly gets run, at least on my server. I’ve got a Rallying Cry of the Dragon Slayer I’m holding onto on my main until my GF wants to go hunting in Outland again.
My mailbox is like a second mule to me as well for cheap storage that’s accessible in every town with an inn:
- Make your capital city mule.
- Have your main farm whatever you need.
2a. Main goes to the nearest inn and mails anything he wants to auction off or store for later use.
2b. Log off the main and log on the mule.
2c. Mule takes all of the auction stuff to AH and returns the farmed items back to the main.
2d. Farmed items sit in the mailbox for later use by the main for up to 30 days or it can be cycled back to the mule to repeat the process. The higher the level of the main (and the money generated in AH), the more practical the practice. Maybe level 30, level 40 for sure.
2e. Also, the mule can do the shopping in AH for you and mail you the item without hearthing and flying back to where you wanted to be in the first place! - Prophet!
As for green items, I always get excited to accumulate Beast and Bandit items, because of the third attribute for a pally that gives him/her the extra kick.
I know that I regularly pass Onxyia’s head onna pike in Org on Borean Tundra, so at least on that server, the old instances are seeing activity. I’m also interested in scooting through BRD again myself as I still don’t feel like I’ve seen everything in there yet. 
Thanks to the folks who answered my healer question – much appreciated!
FTR, BigDownload is also hosting a mirror of 3.1.1 again, so if you don’t want to wait for Blizz’s downloader, grab it from there.
It shouldn’t. I hit it (with my main) almost every day myself, for two reasons: I usually play until my bags are full so I need to unload them, and I frequently buy crafting materials and such.
Oh, I mentioned Arakkoa Feathers up above; I collected 33 of them yesterday, and posted them on the AH in six stacks of 5 and one stack of 3. They’ve all sold, and I got 2g 39s 79c for each stack of 5. Works out to around 20g for freaking feathers 
One of my main uses for Auctioneer is when I have white-text stuff in my bags and I’m not ready to head back to the AH yet. I can do a quick mouseover to get an idea of the going AH price, and decide whether or not its worth the bother of leaving it to take up space in my bags. If I see an item has a very low price, I know to just vendor it at the earliest opportunity.
I’ve been really frustrated with prices on trade mats since the 3.1 patch. Ore prices on my server have plummeted, while cloth prices have skyrocketed. This is especially depressing because my main’s professions are Mining and Tailoring. Before the patch I was making a mint selling ore. Not so much since the patch. Of course, I only hit Outland a couple weeks before the patch, so most of what I was selling up till then was Mithril and Thorium (and I discovered bars of those metals sell higher than the ore). The market for Outland ores doesn’t seem to be as strong, plus Outland ores seem to be exceedingly hard to find so I haven’t had much to sell. I’m tempted to go back to mining Azeroth ores for a while to build my bank back up, since I just spent 900g to learn to fly and buy my flying mount. I really don’t like doing that, just because I’m a polite player who doesn’t like to interfere with lowbies who are trying to work the same zones. (By the same token, when I’m in a lowbie zone with my lvl 70, I go out of my way to avoid killing things so that I don’t make it harder for lowbies to complete their quests. I wish everybody played that way; I was questing with my lvl 20 draenei shaman the other day and a lvl 80 nelf hunter, probably grinding rep with Exodar, showed up where I was and started torpedoing all my quest objectives. Grrrrr! :mad: It’s one thing when another similar-level character is working the same quest I am — in that case I try to work some distance away so we can both get our kills. But a lvl 80 character can come in and one-shot everything, killing everything in less than a minute, and then I have to wait and wait and wait for everything to respawn so I can finish.)
Meanwhile, the AH prices on Netherweave are ridiculous lately. Thank goodness ogres are such a good source for cloth (and I just hit the Bladespire Mountains and found me a buttload of ogres to steal Netherweave from).
As far as my Tailoring, I just learned to make Imbued Netherweave Bags. I’ve made three so far, which sold for a tidy 42g each I’m kind of confused about those bags, as far as gaining skill by making them. I bought the pattern from a vendor, and it had a skill requirement of 340. So I learned the pattern as soon as I hit 340, and discovered that “Imbued Netherweave Bag” was yellow, not orange like skills usually are when you learn them at exactly the right skill level. WTF?
Exploration achievement progress:
Explore Eastern Kingdoms: Only need Eversong Woods and Deadwind Pass (I’m finally high-level enough to maybe survive the dangerous areas of Deadwind Pass).
Explore Kalimdor: Only need Durotar and Bloodmyst Isle (I could have explored Bloodmyst a while ago, but since I also have draenei characters I decided to hold off until at least one of them had fully explored Bloodmyst so that I didn’t spoil any surprises).
Explore Outland: Only need to finish Bladespire Mountains and Netherstorm.
Oh, one other question about Tailoring, if there are any high-level Tailors here:
My bank is stuffed full of materials I’ve found that say they’re used for Tailoring. Things like Essence of Undeath, Ichor of Undeath, various spider silks, etc. Some of this stuff I’ve been holding onto for a long time. The thing is, for a lot of this stuff I still haven’t encountered patterns that use them. Do patterns that use the various “undeath” mats show up when I get to Northrend? I’m getting tired of these things taking up so much space!
Check the item’s listing on WoWHead.com. Under the “Reagent for” tab it’ll show you which recipes need it. Essence of Undeath, for example, is only used in two Tailoring recipes, and those look like they’re moderately hard to come by. You may want to just sell them.
I do find it really annoying when a material you’ve gathered a ton of turns out to only be used in a single hard to get recipe, so the demand for it is effectively nil.
Heh. Yeah, I had 20 of those Essence of Undeath things. I’ve posted them for a second time, this time breaking them into stacks of 5 to see if that helps them sell.
Thank you all for the AH tips I finally have a use for the first character I created, my level 6 Dwarf Drumdredd, he’s going to sit in Ironforge from now on. I have downloaded Auctioneer too and will install it tonight.
I’d love to play the AH but I do not have the time, there must be an awful lot of arbitrage opportunities on each server. I wonder if you could set up a ‘bank’ offering interest? Hard to convince people you wouldn’t just run off with the cash but a nice little Hedge Fund wouldn’t take too much effort.
You could probably set up a guild-based hedge fund.
The big arbitrage opportunities go to those with two accounts that play off the horde and alliance auction house differences. I did this for a little while. One account had a horde banker in Durotar and a horde trader in Gadget. The other account had an allie banker in Stormwind and an allie trader in Booty Bay. Whenever one of the bankers spotted an item that seemed unusually cheap (or expensive), I’d use the other banker to see if things were different on the other side. If they were, I’d buy a pile on the cheap side, transfer them through the neutral goblin auction house, and sell them on the expensive side. I only did it for a few weeks because it’s a pain and takes lots of time, but I made a bundle.
Say, is this something new? Before I logged my paladin out the other night at the Pig & Whistle in Old Town, I decided she needed to quaff a few [Jug(s) of Bourbon]. Afterward I noticed bubbles coming out of her mouth. I never noticed that before.
Not new (says the Brewfest veteran).
Oh good grief! I made four Netherweave Bags and trotted off to the AH to sell them, whereupon I discovered that somebody had posted up several bags and had *undercut him/herself *by 50s on each one! Everybody else was selling for around 6g, but this person had singlehandedly driven the price down to around 2g 50s :mad: Seriously, this person’s prices went like this:
5g
4g 50s
4g
3g 50s
3g
So I went back and stuck my bags in the bank to wait a few days.
I hit level 37 yesterday with my hunter, so I have started saving some of the nice mail I end up with. I used to sell it, but I’m close enough to 40 now that I think keeping some of it to wear will be useful, rather than having to outfit myself with mail from scratch. I also keep seeing people with really neat-looking pets, but I still have my second pet ever, a bear I tamed many levels ago. I can’t seem to find another I like as much yet.
You missed an opportunity to make some quick cash. You should have bought out all the bags below the market, and then reposted those and yours at market price.
On the subject of pets I saw a Dwarf hunter with a two headed dog\cerberus type crature the other night, it was huge and looked awesome.
Core hound, an exotic pet tamed in Molten Core. Annoying to listen to it stomp about in a group too. =)
My wife still has the first pet she tamed, and with the patch she gets to raid with it again.
I was also loving the gnome warlocks with their succubi. My first pet was a spider from Teldrassil. Every time I fly over that area with the lava spiders (which are still ?? level for me), I want one. I don’t like spiders in real life, but I like the variety of spiders in the game.
We used to use CC in Kara.
On the Moroes fight, depending on what toon I brought, I’d either be assigned for shackles, or traps, or sheeping. On the Opera, I was on “scorch duty” for the scarecrow (I was fire at the time). Then, a lot of people got better gear and higher levels, so they could just nuke everything down and CC was less important. It became more of a “brute force” thing.
It used to be that CC was important a lot more than it is now. It’s still good to know how it’s done. If nothing else, it can give you a chance to save a potential wipe.