Yeah, for group quests out in the world, I would use /1 chat in that particular zone. This seems to work best in the <20 level zones; as you get higher it seems more difficult to find groups outside of instances.
:eek: Don’t do it Quasi!
Like the others have said the best way to earn gold is by questing, your professions and playing the auction houses.
You may also want to consider rolling a female night elf so you can run to Iron Forge, strip naked and type /dance! Some horny kids may give you nice tips. 
This is the biggest reason I’ve never gotten a rogue past lvl 20. I just really don’t like the Energy mechanic, where you basically shoot the works at the beginning of combat and then have nothing to fall back on if the fight takes longer than expected.
Do both! Playing a low-level rogue is often frustrating, but trust me, it gets much better later on. I’d suggest playing until you feel burnt out on the rogue and then switch to another toon. It took me almost 9 months to hit 80 on my rogue. I played it here and there but once I got to Outlands I started playing more frequently. So roughly 9 months and 9 days play time I dinged 80 and absolutely love it. There’s a feeling of empowerment when you’re able to take down your foe, npcs or players, without them being able to get a single hit on you.
I would at least pick up the collection quest, it’s passive in that just killing at-level npcs gives you the shards that you can use or give to friends.
As everyone who posted above said, it’s not worth it Q. A little hard work grinding quests or, if you have the patience, monitoring the auction house can get you some decent income.
This, MW.
Like mentioned above, I found the best way is to use the /1 General chat in the zone. Keep doing that while continuing to quest. I noticed a lot of zones can be pretty empty.
Quasi, you’re actually just starting to get to the point where doing quests brings in significant gold. Outland and Northrend quest rewards are either really good for your character or really good for selling. Even vendor trash in Northrend gets a fairly large amount of money from the vendors.
Here’s my system, which seems to work pretty well:
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Log out in Stormwind after my daily session, making sure I have either 2 bracelets or enough charms to make 2 bracelets on my person.
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Log in the next day, grab the “Crushing the Crown” daily, grab and do the cologne/candy daily, get the daily to give a bracelet to the King of Stormwind, deliver the bracelet to the King.
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Fly to Ironforge, do the quest to give Bronzebeard a bracelet
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Hearth to Dalaran or Shattrath, depending on which character I’m on, fly down and do the Crushing the Crown quest (my mage isn’t to Outland yet so she can’t do the hearth thing, but hey, she can teleport from one capital to the next, so no problem)
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Do my regular quests until I’ve collected at least 40 Lovely Charms
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Fly back to Dal/Shatt, portal to Exodar, grab gift quest/give bracelet to Velen
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Boat/bird to Darnassus, do bracelet daily there
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Hearth back to Dal/Shatt, portal to SW, turn in Crushing the Crown, log out
Got a computer question…maybe you have ran across this as well…
My screen is starting to show green pixels that blend in with graphics when I play WoW or other screen intensive games. Not so much when I do work like letters and spreadsheets.
Do I:
- Assume the screen is going bad? It’s about 3 years old.
- Assume the video card (that I just replaced a month or two ago) is faulty?
- Assume the drivers are out of date?
It’s a Dell XPS720 Desktop.
Anyone else out there been there, done that?
w00t!
Saturday was a productive day for me!
Eilyssana, lvl 80 human paladin: Almost as soon as I logged in this morning, I spotted somebody in Trade gathering a group to do I Pitied the Fool. I already had everything except Naxx and Arathi, but I went along for all five locations. Arathi took the longest; we all pitied the fool there and then stuck around to finish out the BG, because it’s just rude to pop into a BG, do the achievement thing, and then split, leaving your faction at half strength. I got the 100 Honorable Killsachievement out of the deal, anyway. So now all I need is a bouquet of red or black roses, and I’ll get my Love Fool title 
Castariora, draenei warrior: Hit lvl 68, hopped a boat to Northrend, and read the Cold Weather Flying book that Eilyssana bought for her. Stuck around long enough to make it to lvl 69! It was sure nice not having to beg for a port to Dal, cuz she could fly there herself 
But geeeeeeeeeeez she was dying for a 2-hand axe quest reward! The axe she had wasn’t keeping up so she was using the 2-hand sword she got from an early quest. It had much higher DPS than the axe she arrived with, but she was unable to utilize her Poleaxe Specialization talents, so her damage output and killing speed were disappointing. She did finally obtain a 2h axe from that tuskarr dude in Borean Tundra who wanted her to slay kvaldir to avenge his family. It did occur to me, though … since one of those quests involved me diving under the sea and killing Leviroth, who the heck is that sea monster splashing around between Icecrown and Hrothgar’s Landing? The kvaldir there call that one Leviroth as well.
Svelexi, draenei mage: Hit lvl 60 and will journey through the Dark Portal tomorrow!
ETA: Oh yeah, and Keliraeda, my belf pally on Cairne, hit lvl 77 on Friday. Learned her Cold Weather Flying (damn I was getting tired of her not flying), traveled to the Argent Tournament Grounds and got started on her Aspirant quests there.
Hi all,
I decided to re-up my subscription and joined a guild (Stradivari on Korgath) that decided that my previous raiding experience made up for my lack of gear (I’m in full T8 and HM loot from Ulduar). However, now that I’ve started up again and am trying to close the gear gap in any way that I can (until I can start running raids with my guild after this reset), I have a few questions:
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What the hell is with being forced to link Achievements (and which ones?) and “Gear Score” to get into PUGs? I understand that leading a PUG raid is akin to herding cats, but it seems pretty ridiculous to force some arbitrary limit on raiders (especially in a way that is far inferior to looking them up on Armory). I can wear all sorts of mismatched gear to raise my gear score (which is at 4800 right now, and rather low for the content that I will be doing, apparently), but that gear will actually make me heal worse (such as pieces of feral gear for my resto druid).
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For those who do get kept out of certain content due to their “Gear Score,” what is the best way to gear up now? Like I said, I’m trying to close a significant gear gap, and it seems to me that the only means I will have to do so until I can run raids will be to farm heroics and get into a random PUG when I can (and if my gear score allows…).
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Is anyone else dismayed as to how quickly the top end guilds are burning through the Heroic encounters in ICC25? Paragon only has Arthas left and Exodus only has Putricide/Arthas after the first week of those encounters being available. Are there achievements that increase their difficulty further, or will these guilds basically be farming these encounters until Cataclysm? Sorry, perhaps this is an elitist rant based off my love of the difficulty of raids such as Sunwell Plateau.
Any other tips/tricks people could provide me to help me get back up to speed would also be appreciated. New recipes (I’m Alchemy/Enchanter), quick daily quest routines (that aren’t seasonal based), new reps that I need to grind, etc.
Cheers.
Use the Random Dungeon Finder feature to get Emblems of Frost and Triumph. If you grind heroic dungeons in this way, you can get tons of Triumph emblems quickly, which will give you a T9 set in no time.
Also, you should have no problem whatsoever getting in a pug for the weekly raid quest (which you can pick up from a guy in the Violet Hold in Dalaran). That’s another 5 triumphs and 5 frost badges for killing what is usually (in my experience) someone close to the entrance of the raid.
You mentioned that you were a Feral druid - if you can reasonably fake being a tank, you can speed up the chain-running of heroics still further by queuing as a tank, in which case the Dungeon Finder will generally find you a group in less than ten seconds.
Also, in addition to queuing for randoms, you can queue for the new Icecrown Citadel 5-man heroics, which drop ilevel 232 gear, though not every slot in every spec is covered (no tank plate wrists for instance). OTOH, when I compared I found that gemmed-up T8 was usually better than the ICC 5-man drops.
Okay, so I juuuuust barely missed out on some much-needed gold with the Charm Bracelet market. Help me get a leg up… Is there anything similar with the Lunar Festival that I should be farming? All I see so far is this Coin of Ancestry thing, and I gotta say, going all the way to Moonglade and getting my ass handed to me by the Horde for some fireworks and some pretty clothes… Not cutting it. 
Show me the gold!!!
I think you’re stuck on this one, sadly. The coins are soulbound, and that’s the only currency of the event. If you don’t want to deal with Moonglade, you get money and rep with each of your home cities for each elder you talk to, so that’s nice.
@Ferret Herder and Tom Scud:
Thanks for the tips. I am a resto druid (feral off-spec). Just made the point about having high ilevel feral gear that I could swap for lower ilevel resto gear to jack my gear score up. As a healer, I have little trouble finding 5-man PUG groups, just hate the hit and miss that can happen (I had good luck yesterday, but doubt that will be consistently the case). I looked through the 5-man heroics in ICC, and their drops aren’t really well itemized for their ilevel (no sockets really hurts for most of the pieces) with a lack of healing leather/cloth that I’d find useful over my T8.5.
I suppose I will find weeks of farming heroics to be in my future. I really wish they added a “legendary” difficulty or something to some of these instances. I find it rather dull having to farm instances that I did easily before clearing Naxxramas (T7). I hope they find better ways of distributing gear than forcing people to run the same instances over and over and over again in Cataclysm. Ah well, I’ll be busy leveling my Worgen Rogue at that point anyway.
It doesn’t take that long, really. If you use the random dungeon finder, you get two Frost emblems your first run of the day, and each run after that you get two bonus Triumph emblems off the last boss. Each boss in the dungeon will have another Triumph for you, and the runs tend to be very fast since you’ll usually be grouped with high-end people (or a mix).
Alternately, use the Dungeon Finder, pick specific dungeons (no bonus emblems), and go for Regular ICC dungeons so you can run them over and over. Triumph emblems, nice loot, quick runs. Try regular ToC as well, over and over. (iLvl 200 but nice stuff for some slots, and very fast dungeon.) Then work up to random heroics.
People who get into dungeon PUGs solely to collect the Elder’s coin and then drop as soon as they get it should have their balls removed and the only way to get them back is to run Oculus. And Eregos only drops one ball at a time. And it’s a low drop rate.
This has happened twice, and both times it was the tank who dropped after getting the coin. At least in Halls of Stone we hadn’t killed any bosses yet, but in Utgarde Pinnacle the Elder appears two rooms before Ymiron, the last boss. We were lucky that the new tank was good enough to help us finish the run.
Selfish jackasses. If you don’t want to run the whole instance, don’t freaking PUG it. I’m only running the dungeons for the coins, but at least I’ll stick around for the whole thing.
The best Outland daily IMO is Spirits of Auchindoun. I still run that at lvl 80. It’s quick, rewards you with gold and honor pts, and it’s easy to do. All you need to do is /join worlddefense. Then you get all the PvP warnings that you see when you are in a zone (“Auberdine is under attack!”) but gamewide. When you see “The Horde/Alliance has taken control of a Spirit Tower!” then you know the towers are open and you head for Terokkar Forest for some quick profit. If you travel a lot from Shat to Nagrand the Multiphase Survey quest is worthwhile. All you do is put on the special goggles provided and click some portals while flying around. You don’t even have to fight anything.
So I signed back onto Warcraft. Still have a lot of lag so I’m not playing my lvl 80 much. But having fun. I’m levelling a new druid tank so I can run the lowbie dungeons I missed when I was levellling my main toon.
This is to be expected. Icecrown’s slow gating system meant that everybody was forced to spend plenty of time plugging away at the normal mode bosses, the place was already on farm before Heroic was even unlocked. Secondly, they’ve changed away from the Ulduar hard mode philosophy that had the fight mechanics changing, Icecrown heroic modes are mostly just bigger numbers. Couple that with the practice already available from the gating, and it’s no surprise that people are blowing through the stuff they’re familiar with. Bigger numbers just requires polish, not any learning.
Yeah, I guess I’m just used to the Ulduar HMs where the encounters were completely different from their normal mode variants. I also hoped that the last raid instance of the expansion would be more of a test for even the world’s elite guilds, but looking back, even Kil’jaeden was killed 5 days after he was released by SK-Gaming. I guess part of this is just my imperfect recollections of past raids.
The problem is that Ulduar was really good, and really recent, so it’s fresh in memory. While most of the Ulduar hard modes got killed quickly, it was specific groups focusing on specific hard modes. Bagging the entire set took a while even for the top guilds. Add in that some of the hard modes are almost entirely different fights and it provided an awful lot of content, especially for your average groups going at a slower pace. Much of Icecrown is already starting to wear on me, but I’ll still happily go to Ulduar. It’s a shame that it died a premature death due to TOC’s early release and severe undertuning.