WASD and strafe like crazy (depending on the fight, but for instance the last boss in PoS would be impossible without a lot of strafing).
Another WASDer here. Q & E are my strafe keys. Interestingly, my E key is way more worn than my Q key, perhaps I have a preference to strafe right rather than left?
A side button on my mouse toggles run/stop which is quite handy and I generally mouse-turn, especially in boss fights.
I’ll keyboard turn when I’m in a static boss fight and I just want to see have a nosy around the room. (One of the perks of being a healer is that I can cast heals to people regardless of the direction I’m facing!)
Well, it depends on how you move around. Do you use the arrow keys to run, or do you use some of the letter keys?
A lot of people use what’s called “WASD” - the W, A, S, and D keys to go forward, turn left, back up, and turn right, respectively. Then if you “strafe,” that means that you’re walking/running sideways, not turning to the side. Some people have the Q key assigned to “strafe left” - walking left while facing forward - and E assigned to “strafe right” - walk right while facing forward.
I once had the problem where my flying/riding/moving kept going sideways to the left. I tapped hard on the Q key (which is my “strafe left” key) and the A key (my “turn left” key), and got some canned air out to blow some debris out of the keyboard, and that fixed the problem. One of those two keys was a little bit stuck somehow.
I don’t remember if WoW has the “WASD” keys assigned by default or not, however. Try tapping one of those keys and see if it makes you walk. If so, tap the A and Q keys a little, maybe clean the keyboard a bit, see if that fixes it. If not, clean around your arrow keys too.
I’ve never reassigned my keys, and WASD with EQ for strafing is my keyboard setup.
For movement, I use WASD and Q/E for strafing. (My husband uses WQSE, and A/D for strafing, which confuses the heck out of me when I try to move his character/kill something that’s attacking him when he’s AFK.)
I don’t PVP at all, so I don’t care about being a keyboard turner, though it probably couldn’t hurt to learn mouse moving for some boss fights. If I’m healing, though, I’m using my mouse to activate my Grid/Clique combo and I’m afraid I would screw that up.
Or possibly you use your keyboard for other purposes besides WoW. 
I have the WASD default, but am primarily a mouse turner. It doesn’t get in my way of using Grid/Clique to heal, really, but I don’t use a lot of mouse modifiers for my healing spells - I tend to just use my number keys. I only have Dispel Magic and Abolish Disease hotkeyed to my mouse buttons.
ETA: as the healer, most of the time I’m not running around much anyway. On fights where I do run around alot, it doesn’t usually matter what direction I’m facing since I can cast most of my heals over my shoulder without facing my target (which is great!).
Got the Defias messenger quest. Now I just need to figth past the crowds of other people to get to kill him… my god but it’s congested in westfall
I use WASD and Q/E but I’m mainly a mouse turner too. My mouse’s a MS Sidewinder with two thumb buttons, so top is set to ‘pet follow’ and bottom is set to ‘autorun’.
Quasi, if you don’t have canned air handy, something that might be helpful is to turn your keyboard over and GENTLY tap it on the desk to knock any debris loose.
I’m considering shifting my priest to my G13 since it has more rooms for spell flinging and a small thumb joystick…
He walks between Moonbrook and the Jangalode Mine. I’ve usually had decent results by waiting right outside either one for him, or just walking (or riding) the road between them until he spawns and starts his path.
I HAD some canned air, but sniffed it all.
I’m not home right now, but I’ll try that, thanks.
Wanderer, yup. LOTSA folks waiting to do the messenger in. IIRC, I did at about 3 in the morning. :eek:
Have fun! You’re in the section of the game (the beginning) that made me fall in love with the whole concept of questing, chivalry, etc., and is one of the reasons I take role playing so seriously.
My toon, Wolkenlaufre is in love with Innkeeper Heather at the Sentinel Hill Inn. http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/141px-Innkeeper_Heather.jpg Although I rest him over in Shattrath or the Alliance Stronghold Inns, he still has to do his herbalism and skinning over in your neck of the woods, so he visits her there. (Her roof still leaks, BTW).
If you ever see me and Wolkie over there, be sure and say hello, and I’ll try to help you do some of your quests, if you like.
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I tried a practice dummy in SW, but unfortunately, it appears that whacking the dummy doesn’t trigger my Replenishment ability. As a result, I was completely out of mana in about 1 minute, and without mana I’ve got nothing but autoattack.
Hm, I had to log my paladin and try it just to be sure, it works fine for me.
Oh god, brace yourselves… It’s a long one.
Grats on the dings and achievements, all!
Personally, I have bad news and good news.
The bad news is that I am once again in search of a new guild. I tried, I really did, but ultimately the latest place was just a bad fit. At least on Stormrage I can PUG at least a few of the bosses until we find a solid guild again. Sigh. I don’t honestly know what the hell we’re going to do for a new guild. There’s no way I want to end up anywhere less progressed than the last guild, but anybody better on the server has crappy raid times. I am getting so sick of this crap.
Side note: Please be honest in your recruitment. If you’re an insecure RL who can’t stand people asking questions or making suggestions, have the balls to admit it when someone who’s apping to your guild asks about it… before they server transfer and waste a month of their time.
The good news is… I am now Sleutel the Salty! After years of trying to get that motherfucker Mr. Pinchy to drop for me, he finally showed up in my loot box, and wouldn’t you know it–the *very first wish *gave me my Magical Crawdad Box. 
I am a very happy achievement nerd.
There’s really not much point to doing anything but max-level dailies, though, unless you’re rep grinding. When you’re still getting XP (e.g., the QD dailies), the gold bonus gets nerfed way down low. You’d probably be better off just questing normally.
Woohoo!
The biggest pain with forming a raid group to do anything is that the person you pull in with you won’t be able to do any non-Raid quests while they’re sitting in the group with you. So, here’s a raid-forming method that only requires about 30 seconds of their time (and you to have at least one alt on the server).
1.) Invite the other player to a group.
2.) Turn the group into a raid. (Social window -> Raid tab -> Convert to raid button.)
3.) Pass the other player lead.
4.) Log off. (Your offline character will stay in the raid.)
5.) Log on to your alt of the same server and faction. (Could even be a level 1 you’ve just created.)
6.) Have the other player invite you to the raid.
7.) Log off. (Your offline alt will stay in the raid.)
8.) Log back on to the character who needs to be in a raid.
9.) The other player can now drop the raid group, and you’ll be left in a raid with your offline alt.
Actually, I think it’s only the four that you can get in the one corner of the neutral tent (Champion jousting, Chillmaw, Battle, and… something else I’m forgetting.)
The LFG *tool *is now the random dungeon matcher. There is no LFG tool for quests anymore. There is a LFG channel, but you just join it automatically in capital cities; there’s no way to access it out in the world, AFAIK, so no one bothers with it much.
Do they actually call it by that specific name? I’m trying to search for the Get Kraken! daily quest to see if it or any comments on it reference the name of the mob you have to hit, but it’s all blocked from here.
Linking achievements usually means “link your achievement for having done the thing we’re about to do right now.” A “gear score” is usually either the number from WoW-Heroes or from the GearScore addon. The two numbers vary quite a bit; e.g., 3k would be a very good score on WH but a bad one from GS.
People who know anything about raiding realize that they’re mostly crap, but it’s a quick and dirty gating mechanic for PUGs. If the RL is any good, they’ll happily take you along if you say, “I’ve been out for a while, but here’s a link for an Ulduar hardmode that would make you pee your pants.” If all they care about is your absolute gearscore and/or the achievement for the thing you’re about to PUG, they’re probably bads you want to stay the hell away from, anyway.
Chain random Heroics for badges. It’s going to be tedious as hell, but it’s faster and easier than the old method of having to work your way through every previous tier of raid content. As someone else mentioned, tank if you have the spec and the gear: I can say without any hyperbole that five seconds is a long time for me to wait between when I queue and when my group is assembled.
Triumph badges will get you T9 and non-tier 245 gear. Triumph badges plus trophies (which drop in ToC25 and both versions of ToGC) will get you 9.33, which is the 245-level tier gear. Regular ToC10/25 is a faceroll with a group that’s at least reasonably competent, so you should easily be able to PUG it in Ulduar (especially hardmode Ulduar) gear.
I can’t recall that there are any new enchants since Ulduar, and there definitely aren’t any new Alch recipes. (I’m Alch/JC these days myself.) The new rep you want to start working on is the Ashen Verdict, which is the ICC faction. They’ve gone back to the “grind rep, get a ring that you upgrade at each faction level” model. They’re pretty sexy–Revered has a proc and Exalted has a gem slot.
The only way to get AV rep is by running ICC. However, even if your gear isn’t high enough for bosses, you’ll probably see people organizing “rep runs” in Trade, where they’ll put together a PUG to just clear trash before the first boss, then reset the instance and do it again.
Wait 'til you see T10 coming up from T9.33… My pocket healer is a Resto Druid, and he’s going nuts because the Resto set for T10 mostly uses Crit instead of Haste, and his Haste rating is currently right about where he wants it, so he doesn’t want to drop any…
A brazier, like a campfire, a cooking stove, or other source of heat, is used with the Cooking profession. Someone with the Cooking skill can stand near one of these and use it to combine raw materials into food that they or others can eat.
Yup, you’re a little “young” for Northrend yet. You don’t want to head there until 68 at the earliest.
**Mogle **hit it pretty well. My main is a Prot War, so if you have any questions about tanking in general or Prot Wars in specific (you do play a Warrior, right?), feel free to holler!
The “breach” was in pointing out that your tank was a moron who didn’t know what the hell he was doing. Personally, I always make a point of explicitly stating the kill order I want in HoR 'cause the add packs on those bosses are such a bitch, and marking them if I have the time (or, preferably, having a friend mark them so I can focus on gathering them up and keeping them the hell off everyone else).
I think it has to do with the way they reset every year. If you have an achievement, you retain credit for all the ones you talked to. However, if you only talked to some of the Elders for a particular achievement, when they reset all the quests for the year, it wipes out the record of them for how they track the Achievements, too. That’s my WAG, anyway.
Assuming you don’t care about Jewelcrafting or creating a Draenei, Blood Elf, or Death Knight, you won’t need the first expansion (The Burning Crusade) until your mid-50s or the second (Wrath of the Lich King) until your mid-60s. You don’t want to quest in Outland (TBC) until 58 and you don’t want to quest in Northrend (WotLK) until 68, but if you’re an obsessive profession leveler, you can train your professions up a bit sooner than that. (I know the highest level can be trained at 65; I can’t off the top of my head recall if the TBC level came in at 55, but I think it did.)
Note that you do not need WotLK to train in Inscription, as those trainers are available in all capitals. JC, however, can only be trained in TBC or WotLK areas.
And the giant snake under Gundrak!
The Wrath dungeons are all very straightforward in terms of flow. While they may *appear *sprawling and laberinthine, a quick check of the map will reveal that there is really only one way to go at any time. It’s very hard to get lost in most of them.
Get a Focusing Lens. JCs make them and you can find them in three colors (purple, green, and a purple/green combo). If you target something and use the item, it will give you a beam of colored light aimed straight at the target. You can’t use it while mounted, though, so make sure you land first.
You’ll probably get over that sooner or later. Especially as you start moving further and further out from the capital cities, having to constantly pop back to auction items becomes progressively more tedious. It’s much better to have an alt, where all you have to do is find a mailbox to clear out your bags of anything AHable.
Did you have Thorns or Retribution Aura? That might do it.
Tuesday maintenance varies widely. Sometimes it’s just rolling restarts, where each realm will be offline for no more than 15 minutes. Other times, they’ll use the full window, and everything will be down for hours.
Aha, it looks like you’re actually talking about what we call “vendor trash.” If the item name is gray, that means the item is just intended to be sold to a vendor for some quick cash. It’s not an item that a player is ever actually going to use. And repairing never makes a good item out of a broken one–it just restores any durability on a given item. So a rusty musket will always be a rusty musket.
Because of the chance to drop rare items like the mount and the pet, you’ll actually want to use the summon for every person in the group (i.e., you’ll go in and kill the bosses five times in a row).
There are two fun helms: one is a gas-mask-plus-backpack like the bosses wear; the other is a permanent version of the rose you can throw at people (a female toon will wear it in her hair, while a male one will hold it in his teeth).
Nobody gets XP for PvP, unless they’re in a Battleground.
Arenas are something you don’t have to worry about until you hit max level. It’s 2v2, 3v3, or 5v5 PvP team combat. I hate them with a passion because they break PvE gameplay. Blizzard has flat-out admitted that Arenas are probably the worst thing they ever did. Argh.
Buy or build a second WoW-box? It doesn’t have to be very fancy to play the game–its low system requirements are one of the nice things about WoW.
1.) Dungeons are filled with “Elite” mobs and bosses. Elites have more HP and do more damage than standard mobs, and they often (especially bosses) have special abilities. You can tell if a mob is elite by the gold dragon around its portrait. This means that you cannot solo an instance until you overlevel and/or overgear it.
2.) The random dungeon tool isn’t necessarily random: you just get an extra bonus for doing a random dungeon. You still have the option to queue for a specific dungeon, which you could do for VC. (Side note: Deadmines is often referred to as VC, the initials of its final boss, instead of DM, to avoid confusion with Dire Maul, a much higher-level instance.)
I’m still sad that I never hung on to any of mine. I guess I assumed that they’d disappear when the event was over, so I always wanted to pass them on to as many other people as possible. 11k might be a bit high, but a few thousand definitely seems like a price that some people would pay.
Every level of the game has some kind of “elemental” essences. In TBC, this was Primals. Ten Motes of a type make one Primal of the same type. Primals (and occasionally Motes) are used in high-end crafting recipes. Because you don’t have any production professions, these items are safe to sell–you won’t need to use them for anything.
Some of them are harder to sell because they don’t get used very often anymore. And, as someone else observed, they usually sell better as Primals than as Motes. So hang onto them (probably on your AH mule) until you have at least ten of one type, then right-click that stack and it will turn those ten into a single Primal. So, for example, you would turn ten Mote of Water into one Primal Water.
I believe that’s not 100% correct. Something like a Felhound might be, but I’m quite sure that at least a Felguard is considered a Warrior, as well. The last time I ran with a Demo lock on a regular basis, I remember him often asking for our Pallies to rebuff Warriors to get his pet buffed up.
I mostly use mouse movement. I have WASD bound to my main movement directions, with Q and E rebound to pivots. If I’m tanking on a fight where I have to be constantly kiting a boss backwards, I’ll generally have my left hand on my number keys (where most of my abilities are bound) and my right hand on my arrow keys. However, in a fight where I need to strafe (e.g., Marrowgar), I’ll just drop my left hand down to hit A or D and necessary.
:eek: Isn’t that a great way to freeze your nose off?!
One of my desires each day is to post something that will get quoted by Guns. I have failed this week. 
I’m sorry to hear about your trouble with guilds, too. That’s got to be disheartening.
SFG, I know all about the ridiculous amounts of crit they keep putting on resto tier gear. Right now, only the gloves and pants of T10 have haste, with the rest crit. So, from what I’ve seen the best combo is to use the helm/shoulders/gloves/pants of T10 for the 4 piece and the badge chest (Vestments of Spruce and Fir) which gives a nice chunk of haste until you can get the heroic cloth robes (forget their name). Overall, you still will need to gem Reckless Ametrines in order to hit haste cap (especially if you don’t spec Celestial Focus - which I really, really, really want to spec out of). It’s annoying, but thankfully my guild has decided my “skill” at the game is worth gearing me up, so I’m not worried.
I’m actually rather quite happy with the random dungeon finder. Being the healer, I can keep up most undergeared tanks in the pre-3.3 heroics, and in the 20+ heroics I’ve done in the week that I’ve been back, I have yet to fail in any of them through the random dungeon finder. There have been drops (like some rogue who joined then left 'cause their appliance repairman had arrived), but quick resumptions. It does help that I can always lead the group when necessary, like if the tank is inexperienced, but overall, I’ve had a rather surprising pleasant experience with the new dungeon finder.
P.S. I also sympathize about your guild woes. I sent you a PM about my current guild, which may or may not fit your needs.
You could always join our guild, SFG. Did I mention we’re on The Underbog?
Guns is already in the BDL, though she shows up far too infrequently.
We were about to report you missing in action 
w00t!
It’s not in the quest text. It’s in a couple of the lines randomly shouted by the various Kvaldir Berserkers and Harpooners while you’re doing the “Rescue at Sea” daily. Like, “I will throw you to Leviroth myself!” or “You’re not even fit to feed Leviroth!” (Not sure on the exact wording on those, but you get the idea.)
Maybe it’s a case of those creatures being rare enough that the kvaldir don’t realize there are more than one of them. They never see more than one at a time, so they assume they’re all the same creature.
I think I’ve also figured out why the kvaldir are so foul-tempered: they appear to have no women
I made an honest-to-goodness attempt at doing my warrior’s class quest to get the “Fire-Hardened Mail”, which required entering one of the Razorfen instances to get an item from a specific boss. I went in there and spent a great deal of time searching, but finally gave up in frustration because I simply could not figure out how to get to the guy. I could get close; I could see and target the guy not ten feet from me, but I’ll be damned if I could get to him. I explored every nook and cranny I could find, attempted to climb everything that looked like it might possibly be a ramp up to him, took every path that looked like it might get me above him so I could drop down, pored over the Atlas map … nothing. This was soloing it over-level, because my many attempts at finding a group to run it with me failed. I totally hate being stymied by a map.
Ooo, I’ll look for one of those!
Oh, it looks like my main’s Tailoring might finally start to pay off. I dropped 750g at the AH for the Royal Moonshroud Bracers pattern. Eilyssana is a Mooncloth tailor, which lets her make 2 Moonshrouds at a time instead of 1, so the only mats I need to pay for to make these bracers are the 4 Crusader Orbs (selling for under 150g each on the AH) and the Eternal Lifes (usually less than 50g for 2) for making the Moonshroud. Still a hefty investment, but the bracers seem to sell for 3000-3400g, so even if I only make and sell one set, I’ll show a nice profit.