I don’t think my hunter’s been as unlucky as **Jbone **though. From what I’ve been hearing, the game checks what you have on and what you’ve got in your bags – and then, I’m guessing, tries to find the closest match possible – but how the heck does *that *happen?
One does meet interesting individuals, such as the holydin with a very elementary-school-humor name who turned out to be an incredible healer. He was moaning about being bored and egged our tank on until we were chain-pulling entire rooms and blasting through the instance at warp speed. Looting? What looting? Or the dps DK with an eye-popping amount of health in his tank spec, unbuffed. It’s kinda fun wondering what you’ll get next.
Jas09, Kutkal’s a BM spec hunter, yeah. (One of these days I swear I’ll try out MM, but I lurves me my Bestial Wrath). I haven’t dropped the badges yet – running more numbers but it’s looking like going 4pc would definitely be a boost from my current setup. Mmm, more numbers fun.
I don’t care how uber you are, you can still die under an army of low level mobs … and I for one miss the fun of a perfect fight with everybody doing their assigned CC, tank, dps and heal jobs. There is a sort of zen master archer deal going on, a rhythm feel.
Doing the godzilla stomp through ragefire can be fun, in a kill tokyo sort of way but the old instance runs done properly are the best.
If you are on cairne, give me a shout, I can toss you the green stuff that drops as I wander around for a while, I normally put it up on the AH cheap for people who want to DE instead of buy stacks of dusts [or equip twinks, or themselves cheaply]
I go by Sonnenstrahl, Sonnenschein, Aruvqan, Margali. I’m in BDL as Aruvqan.
Warlock: H VH, new dungeon start. I suck rocks at DPS compared to the others, but we power through.
Holy Priest: Pit of Saron - dungeon in progress, two bosses down, group gets me and a tank simultaneously :dubious: and the 3 DPS are all from the same server. I almost leave right then. They say ‘yay we’re farming hilt’, tank says ‘screw that, do that on your own time’ and we move out and kill last boss.
Holy Priest: H Old Kingdom - dungeon in progress, group is at the area before Jedoga Shadowseeker (the caster with all those apprentices), and tank is talking about how he’s there for badges and doesn’t want to skip any bosses. Two DPS leave. I nearly get to the tank and remaining DPS and hear that no one in the group was there at the start. :smack: Two DPS join up, I leave.
Yes. I’m lucky enough to have convinced a seemingly normal person to try WoW for the first time. When he was in the mid 20’s, I mentioned that he had never run an instance before. I jumped on my 80 tankadin and my wife grabbed her 80 mage and we one-pulled Stockades for him. Then we did it again. And again…and again. I don’t think we were doing it for my friend’s benefit at that point, it was just too much fun. It’s awesome to see a pile of sparkling bodies in the final chamber. It took him longer to loot the bodies than it did for us to round them up and kill them.
Side note: After we did our epic Stocks runs, I had this crazy idea to take my friend (Level 24) to EPL to see if he gets XP from extremely high level kills. He does…and his aggro radius takes up nearly the whole map. Fun stuff.
We had about 10-12 players gquit yesterday, along with all of their alts. I took my alts out and today I’ll be gquitting myself. The guild ex-pats are forming a smaller guild focused on 10 man
stuff for now. And it will be more casual.
I got a song and dance from someone about how people were always thinking of themselves instead of the guild, yada, yada. It was all I could do to not just tell her that it’s my $15 and STFU
about it.
Ah, ok. I’ve never played a mage. Well then, everyone ought to bring a priest!
Hey! I’ve seen Sonnenstrahl online occasionally, but I never connected that Sonnenstrahl=Aruvqan. Haven’t seen Aruvqan in ages!
And thanks for the offer, but I really don’t mind buying the Infinite dust on the AH (the price has come down a lot in the last week). The most anoying part is all the people who sell the dust one at a time, instead of stacks of 5 or 10 or 20. So if I want to by, say, three stacks of dust, I have to bid on 60 auctions and then open 60 emails.:mad:
Old Kingdom can be pretty rough - the trash is probably the toughest in any of the old Northrend dungeons, what with patrols, fears, ground effects that are pretty hard to see if you’ve got a paladin and a DK in the party doing their own AoEs, et cetera et cetera.
Plus, Boss #1 can be a wipe pretty easily if the DPS don’t know to switch to the Guardian.
(Why yes, I did do a couple random OKs yesterday with people who I didn’t realize at first hadn’t been in the instance before. Why do you ask?)
Happy Winter Veil, indeed! I am now one (one!) achievement away from my Holy Shit Bright Fucking Fuschia Proto-Drake. I got everything else I was missing done yesterday, but it takes about 24 hours for your snowman costume to show up in the mail after you finish the Greench quest chain.
Another fun PUG story I forgot. Said to a DPS in a H-PoS run…
“Do not EVER Death Grip an add off the tank.”
Seriously, I have no fucking clue what that guy was trying to do.
When using the new LFG on my Mage, my favorite runs were the ones where I actually got assigned to sheep stuff. There was even one run where I was sheeping *and *the Rogue was Sapping.
Always fun was when I’d offer right at the beginning of the run to sheep anything if so requested, the tank would blow me off, and then wouldn’t be able to control a four-pack of mobs. I’d then make the offer again, and they’d start marking.
Being a Prot War, I actually miss out on a lot of that. My Damage Shield will often kill things off as I’m still running around and picking things up. so I leave a little trail of bodies behind me.
Sorry to hear. Hope you find a new home soon.
I don’t mind it when it’s clearly a bunch of people with just a few dust each. But when it’s all coming from the same person, who just set their stack size to one… ARRRRGH. I refuse to buy it out of principle. I’ve even sent people an in-game mail to tell them they lost a sale by being a fucking douchebag.
Well, you can do the “sprint to the end of SM Cathedral and let the boss call everyone in on you” thing, at least. (Not so much if you’re tanking a lowbie, but whatevs). Best way in the world to quickly farm silk - it usually took me twice as long to loot the bodies as to kill everyone on my DK when I did that.
You know, I still haven’t ever done that. I really should, one of these days, just for the fun of it.
Damn, now I can tell I’m really missing something. Stupid work filter, not letting us access streaming video or music. (I mean, I understand the reasoning for the bigger offices, the ones that have hundreds or thousands of employees… But our dinky one? C’mon. Grumble grumble company-wide restrictions grumble.)
So why not have the professions scale? Instead of JC giving 3 special gems that are a flat stat boost per gem, have them be special gems that give a 2% increase to whatever stat (or whatever the appropriate level is). That way the bonus gets better as your gear does.
I’ve seen this too, and was guilty of it myself at first (even on my toon that is an enchanter). Now I’ve broken the habit and only click DE for the BoP items.
I recently leveled Jewelcrafting on my main and found that having an alt to DE all the rings let me make most of the money spent leveling it back. And had enough ID to get a few more of those high-end enchanting levels done.
In fact using JC and Enchanting to convert Eternals to ID is a reasonable way to make a little cash, depending on the relevant markets on your server.
Oh yeah, that bonus was designed entirely to bring BM up to par (or at least closer) in raiding. If you’re staying BM definitely go for the bonus.
See, I go back and forth on this. On the one hand I’ve more than once passed up the stack of twenty for more expensive (on a per item basis) individual items, because I only needed 8 or whatever. You have to find the right balance between full stacks and what an individual buyer is likely to need. Now folks selling herbs or ore in one-item stacks should be shot. ID should probably be sold in 5s at the minimum. But Dream Shards, for example, I always sell one at a time, even if I’m selling a bunch.
More Fresh Holly than I can shake a stick at on two characters. sigh
My baby priest tripped over the Greench while leveling herbalism. That was fun – alliance and horde hanging out while waiting their turn. We got to line up gnome costumes for pictures. And little Arh got to dust off her rusty I SMITE THEE skillz. She was doing fine until he turned her into a snowman, which I totally was not expecting. Some kind Alliance druid moonfired the Greench the rest of the way down while I was stunned.
Shards are different, because you normally only need a couple. But Dust stacks in 20 because you need a lot – one enchant can use 30 dream dust, and you need one dust for every bolt of imbued frostweave (and did I mention I have a dozen stacks I need to make?). I went the AH the other day to buy dust and one person had nine pages of dream dust for sale, one at a time.:mad:
Still a balance issue, I’d imagine. Anything that would be reasonable for someone in starter epics would be mind-blowing on a maxed-out character. It would also be hard to apply across professions–how would you work it for something like Mixology, which gives you a bonus to flask effects? The flask effect is going to be the same every time, so that couldn’t scale with your gear. They also need to keep bonuses consistent across your gear level so that they can properly tune encounters. If any profession’s bonus gets too good, they have to assume that everyone will have it and adjust bosses accordingly. That’s actually why the +70-whatever to 1H weapon tanking enchant from the Wrath beta never made it onto the live realms.
Now I wish I didn’t just beat the guy down in a half-second. That actually sounds kind of fun.
ETA:
Stack size for auctions should be determined by the amount that someone might reasonably use. There are very, very few applications for a single Infinite Dust, and many that require metric shitloads of it. Conversely, it’s much more likely for someone to need a single shard. IME, dust, herbs, and ore should be sold in stacks of no fewer than five if you want them to sell well.
Depends on how someone’s sorting. It’s entirely possible to sort on price per item versus price per stack (at least it is with the addon I use), and my default sort is one (albeit one only avaiable with the addon) based on a comparison to the going market rate.
Or the dps DK with an eye-popping amount of health in his tank spec, unbuffed. It’s kinda fun wondering what you’ll get next.