World of Warcraft General Discussion

The Game Room
8341

Yeah, I think I found those guys. There was one on top of the hill right behind the tent that told me to purify the land around that crystal, and I got clobbered by those giant spiky guys. If that’s not the place you’re talking about, then I don’t know, and anyway, I’ve already completed a bunch of quests for them, if those are the ones you meant, that is.:slight_smile:

Also when I go over to Zangamarsh, my gryph seems to lose altitude and I keep having to hit the space bar to keep her from landing. Should that be happening? Does she get tired or something?

Thanks

Q

8342

I was playing my Orc Rogue, and got the fishing daily where you have to go to Wintersgrasp to catch the quest fish. I took the FP to the horde camp on the west edge of the zone, and saw that there were three other hordies fishin’. I unlimber the bone fishing rod, and settle down.

After about 5 minutes, a Dwarf Pally swoops in, and three shots me and another guy. I get rezzed by the spirit Taunka, and see everyone scurrying like ants. The Pally hops back onto his red drake, and flies off.

Slowly, we hordies all come back to our fishing hole, and drop our lines back into the water. A couple casts pass. Then the guy to my left /says “I hate this fuckin quest.”

8343

I’m also gonna have to go back to Elwynn and practice my herbalism, skinning and fishing professions. I’ve been neglecting those in favor of levelling…

Also I’m still not sure about my First Aid. I’ve got all kinds of heavy wool bandages (86) in my bags, but I’m still at 175/225 and the heavy wool bandage section is greened out but it isn’t letting me create any. Silks - 16… but not green…

Thanks

Q

8344

Bwahahaahaa. I can relate.

Sometimes it’s better just to use a water-walking potion to give yourself a little more time to react to gankers. For that quest, I like to go the southeast lake in Wintergrasp and go to the east end of it…between the shore and the ice floe, quaff the ww potion, and cast towards the ice floe, just missing it. You can catch those fish there too…never got messed with either.

8345

Can I make Wolkie into one at level 63?

Any advantages/disadvantages to doing this?

Can I change him back once he’s a DK?

Thanks

Q

8346

Nope, you can’t change an existing character into a DK. DKs start at level 55, and are separate characters. You can make a DK version of him if you want, but you can’t change one class to another.

8347

So I’d have to create a whole separate character, get him up to 55 and then make him a DK, yes?

OK, just making sure. Looks like me and da Wolk’ are gonna go to 80 just as we are, then. That’s fine w/ me. I just thought that at some point you could make an exisiting toon into one…

Thanks, winterhawk!:slight_smile:

Q

8348

No, once you have any character to level 55 you can make a DK and he will start at 55. (weird, but kinda nice!) You’ll be 60 or so when you’re done with the DK starting area. It’s a really good area, too.

8349

Please make the DK on Cairne, as a horde and join the Burning Dog Legion …

The DK starting area is an instance, you have no choice but to finish it - though you can mail yourself stuff from outside teh instance [there is a mail box where you can just get to it if you either sneak your way to it or kill your way to it… healing potions and stuff are good =)

There is a decent set of quest reward armor and weapons and trinkets, just take every quest you can get so you are running them simultaneously. I would suggest once you finish the ones up in the flying building, the first one you do is the mount quest from the horseman.

8350

Well, HEY! a:)!

Look what the Reaver drug in! :smiley:

Glad to see ya back in-thread, and yeah, I need to get over and start levelling my namesake. Gonna take me a while to get him to 55, though!

Almost half-way to 64 with Wolk’ and as jay mentioned up-thread, there’s still a few quests to finish in HP.

Couldn’t have made it this far without this thread, you and all the others, helping me though! :slight_smile:

Thanks

Q

8351

Quasi,
You can just make the DK on Cairne. He’ll be a level 55 automatically. If Wolk is 63 then you can make a DK anywhere you choose to.

8352

MDSL, thanks. I get it now. Sorry to be so dense. Will do ASAP! :slight_smile:

Thanks

Q

8353

Quasi, do you currently have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion? If not you won’t be able to make a DK.

8354

No worries, mate. It’s a unique situation in WoW. I don’t play on Cairne much, but give Pangolin a yell if you see him. He’s me, and he’s a DK.

Yikes…I hadn’t thought of that. Yep. You’ll need that.

8355

Yea I thot he had mentioned just buying Burning Crusade prior to hitting 60 so not sure if he got LK yet.

8356

Lich is loaded and DK made. His name is QModem and he needs an invite. Waiting on Yeti to finish her instance…

Thanks

Q

8357

Cool! You will enjoy DK!:smiley:

8358

Oh great Og, I’ve killed so … many … bears!

My troll hunter (level 32, yay!) did the quest out of Tarren Mill to learn the Soothing Turtle Bisque recipe, and I decided to tame myself a turtle pet while I was at it - I named him Atuin (It wouldn’t let me name him A’Tuin :frowning: )

Alas, the recipe required Cooking 175, and my skill was only 158. But I discovered the local bears dropped Big Bear Meat, and I knew how to cook Big Bear Steak. The recipe was yellow, but I figured 20 Big Bear Meats would be enough to get me 17 points. And so I killed bears, and killed bears, and killed bears, and the Big Bear Meat dropped, on average, every third bear. That is, until I got to 19 Big Bear Meats. Then the bears formed a conspiracy to prevent my obtaining a full stack of 20. It probably took me another 15 bears to get that last piece of meat to drop.

With 20 Big Bear Meats in hand I built a campfire and started cooking. And wouldn’t you know it, the recipe turned green at 170. Still, I had 7 pieces of meat left. I hoped I could get to 175 with that. My skill counter incremented: 171, 172, 173, 174 … and then I was out of meat :mad: Dammit, that’s what happens every. single. time - my skill points stop one freakin’ point shy of what I need. Same thing happens when I’m trying to get my First Aid skill up to learn a new bandage.

So it was back to killing bears. Ten or so more bears yielded three more pieces of meat. Built another campfire, cooked the meat, got no more points. Killed more bears. Encountered a pair of cranky, level 40, named gryphons behind Durnholde Keep who aggroed on Atuin while he was tanking a bear. They killed me, Atuin survived (yay!). Ran back to my corpse and rezzed, killed more bears until I had three more pieces of meat, cooked 'em, again got no points.

Continued killing bears. Spotted a Tin node. Ran toward it and spotted a lvl 27 orc also aiming for it. Stopped to kill a pair of spiders that apparently also wanted the Tin. Orc whispered to ask if I was going for the Tin, I told him to go ahead and mentioned that I was farming Big Bear Meat and trying to get one more skill point. Since I let him have the Tin, he kindly handed over the two Big Bear Meats he was carrying and didn’t need. Added to my own supply, this gave me five pieces of meat. I built a campfire, started cooking, and finally, finally saw my Cooking skill click up to 175. Learned new recipe, and cooked a stack of Soothing Turtle Bisque.

I’m now preparing to vendor the assload of Big Bear Steak I’ve cooked but don’t need because the Soothing Turtle Bisque is better. And the Turtle Meat has about a 150% drop rate (I say 150% because those Hillsbrad turtles always drop meat, and often drop 2 pieces).

The crap cooks have to go through :mad:

Level 80 human pally: Exalted with Knights of the Ebon Blade! 15 Exalted Reputations! New boots!

8359

Say … is there an explanation in the lore for the animosity between blood elf paladin/melee types and blood elf rangers/hunters? I’ve noticed, when I’ve taken my belf pally to the paladin trainers in SM, that the NPCs near the trainers make all sorts of snarky remarks about the rangers on the other side of Farstrider Square. Tonight I had to take my troll hunter to SM to visit the trainer there (no hunter trainer in UC), and when I asked a guard for directions I got, “Oh. You’re looking for one of … them.”

It almost seems like a “generation gap” thing, rivalry between the “new breed” (paladins) and the “old school traditionalists” (archers/rangers/hunters). Or maybe the belf melee types feel the “elf archer” is a stereotype they’d just as soon be rid of.

8360

I have to concur with this it always happens to me too. I suffered worst levelling up Blacksmithing and relying on my alt to mail me mats, always bought one or two extra just in case but damn near every time I was 1, not 2 or 3 oh no, skill point short of what was needed.

Dinged 73 on my pally in Howling Fjord last night picking up the last 5% of XP just standing outside of Valgarde and fighting the attackers, what a great grinding spot for a prot pally that is I could still be there and alive now probably.