I highly recommend ForteXorcist.
I would agree, I can kick as a solo but I suck tanking in a group=(
Ok…would that apply to crusaders strike too? Both are AOE’s…
Is threat calculated for a mob, or just for individual enemies?
Honestly, especially if he’s frost spec, a DK tank should be able to put out enough aoe threat that it isn’t an issue between death and decay, howling blasts and blood boils; it sounds more like you just plain outgeared him and maybe were better at your rotation.
Each individual monster has a threat table based on who’s damaged them specifically (or used threat-causing abilities on them) and who’s done how much healing.
(My own DK didn’t start tanking until level 80 so I really don’t know what the issues are for lower-level DK tanks).
Careful: It becomes an obsession pretty easily! :o But if you’re gonna stick an alt there, this is a good time of year to do it. I had to get my farmers there the old fashioned way: run them all the way from Darnassus to the northern end of Darkshore, then keep swimming until I was in Moonglade, drown myself, and rez at the graveyard. Pain in the tuchus. If you’re at all interested, definitely take advantage of the Lunar Festival. (Other bonus: there’s a mailbox there now!)
I use it on my Priest. I remember setting it up, and then I logged on and had somehow lost all of my settings and had to redo it. (It also moved the config window to the Blizzard UI, which meant I couldn’t move the damned thing, which made it a huge pain to redo.)
Okay, here’s my suggestion of what to get rid of.
Delete:
Anything starting with Auc-
BeanCounter
Enchantrix
Enchantrix-Barker
SlideBar
Here’s how it works, in more detail.
To start your rep grind, you first complete a chain of quests. This chain of quests will flip your rep back and forth between the Frenzyheart and the Oracles; there’s nothing you can do about it at that point. However, at the end of the chain, you will get a quest to fight a lich, and a Frenzyheart and an Oracle will be with you. You have to pick one to kill and one to save. The one that you save will be the faction you become friendly with for the long rep grind, and you’ll be dropped to (Hated?) with the other faction. This quest is repeatable, and it will always reset your rep with both factions when you do it.
You can’t ever be friendly with both factions at once, because there’s no way to do quests for both at the same time. They’re the Aldor/Scryer of WotLK.
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Yup! Then the flyer you can get at 60 is 150% in the air and 100% on the ground, and epic flying is 280% air/100% ground. There are also some air mounts that bump it all the way up to 310%–the one that’s the “easiest” to get is the Violet Proto-Drake, which is a reward for completing all of the meta-quests for the various holidays in game.
Funny you should ask, since the whole system is going to be changing with the next major patch. Right now, PvP currency comes in three basic forms: Honor Points (which you have about 20k of); Marks of Honor; and Arena Points. The Marks of Honor are specific to every battleground or area they come from: there are Warsong Gulch Marks of Honor, Wintergrasp Marks of Honor, Eye of the Storm Marks of Honor, etc. Arena Points are rewards from competing in ranked Arena matches (2v2, 3v3, or 5v5 teams).
Rewards are currently purchased with some combination of these currencies, but as of the next big patch, that’s mostly going away: Marks of Honor will be completely replaced with Honor Points, and all items that are currently purchased will Marks will be available for Honor, instead. Any leftover Marks will be redeemable for Honor. Arena Points will still exist, but people will be able to earn them in ways other than just doing Arena matches (e.g., through Battlegrounds).
If you enjoy PvP, probably the best thing to spend your Honor Points on is PvP gear. You can get a decent starter set with Honor Points and/or various Marks of Honor. All of the best gear, though, is purchased with Arena Points, so you might want to wait until the patch to start buying. You also might want to hold off, since an item you want might currently only be available for purchase with a type of Mark that you don’t have.
If you’re mainly a PvE player, there are several options for getting rid of your Honor. (It’s currently capped at 75k, though that’s almost certain to change with the new patch.) One of the most useful is epic gems. All of the current raw epic gems are purchasable for 10k Honor each. You can use them to socket your own gear, or you can sell them on the AH; on most servers, an uncut epic gem will go for anywhere from 100g to 160g, so that’s some nice income.
There are also vanity items such as tabards and mounts. Currently, these are purchased with Marks, but after the patch, they’ll all be available from Honor, so you might want to start saving up if you collect items like these.
Hey–some of that gear actually coordinates! 
Only one level to go until Northrend, too! Whee!
Probably the tank and/or healer. If one or both have the wrong gear or spec for their role, they could run into big problems. For the tank, if they’re inexperienced, they could just not be used to the whole mechanics of the role yet; tanking is something that you can’t ever practice on your own the way you can practice healing or especially DPS. There are also rookie mistakes, like forgetting to put on Righteous Fury as a Prot Pally or forgetting to switch to Frost Presence as a DK.
Next time, try to make a note of the person’s name and realm. Taking a look at someone’s spec and gear can tell you a lot about what they might be doing wrong.
Some of it is just going to be getting comfortable with your rotation and bindings. If I’m in a fight where I know it’s a solid tank-and-spank, where I’m not going to have to do anything but stand in one place and crank out as much TPS as I humanly can, you bet your ass my eyes are glued to my cooldowns. However, for pretty much any other fight, I’m constantly glancing around all all the information on my screen: I have OmniCC showing my cooldown timers (which is probably what you have), IceHUD throwing up my health and my target’s health, MSBT showing incoming damage/heals and outgoing damage (including anything I might need to know like misses/resists/immunes), ClassTimer showing how much time I have left for various buffs on me and debuffs on my target, SBF pulling up my debuffs where it’s easy for me to keep an eye on them, etc.
If you’re having a problem with focusing in on your cooldowns, that’s not going to be solved by moving the bars. You’re going to be staring at them even if they’re right next to the void zone you should be moving out of. IMO, it’s a matter of becoming aware that you’re doing it (which you are) and then forcing yourself to look away. That’s one of the great things about OmniCC, I think–because you know how much time you have before you’re hitting that button again, you know exactly how much time you have to look around at other things. There’s no need to watch it tick down if you can just glance back down in another 10 seconds, 3 seconds, whatever.
Fun fact: In WoW lingo, a mob *is *a single enemy. When most people talk about “a mob,” they don’t mean a group of enemies, but rather a single one.
And to answer your question, each enemy has its own threat table. However, various AOE abilities work differently in how they cause threat. Some give X threat to any target they hit (so one target would be a total of X, two targets would have X each for a total of 2X, etc.), while some give X total threat, split among the total targets (one target has X threat for a total of X, two targets each have X/2 threat for a total of X, etc.).
[grizzled old one-eyed fisherman]
Aye, lass, but that little linguistic beauty has been around far longer than yer shiny newfangled Warcraft. ‘Tis older than the very graphics themselves! I remember the days when mobs were naught but an ANSI-colored name in the MUD, wrigglin’ and spammin’ yer screen so as t’break yer very buffer! Aye, and vicious too, believe you me. Ye haven’t known fear until a hoppin’ little bunny OBLITERATES you for 9650 damage! Every step were perilous in those days, aye, so they were…
[/grizzled old one-eyed fisherman]
Ahrr. You had ANSI colors? LUXURY! We had to make do with straight Ascii we did.
Headed out – just wanted to drop another plug for the BDL Mana Tombs run tonight. Don’t forget!
Ok, I am honored with the Frenzyheart now, so I will stick with them until I hit Exalted and then do the lich quest to switch over to the Oracles and then grind those guys into exalted being careful not to do any dailies that might flip it back to Frenzy.
Got it.
Okay…
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Thanks to all for the alt Z reminder. I thought I had it on a post it stuck to the screen, but musta lost it, so here we go again. Also I appreciate y’all’s patience with me, as I know I ask some of the same stuff over again. Sorry!
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Whenever I level up, I usually go to the AH, to weapon/armor up, but my OG, some of those folks REALLY inflate their prices, don’t they? No WAY would I pay 300g’s for a damn belt, for instance.
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Thanks SFG, for the taking off the add-ons advice, but can you tell me which ones I DO need, and let me go ahead and load those?
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Whenever I target an enemy, and that red ring appears around him, do other players see that ring and shouldn’t they then keep the fuck away from my target instead of rushing in and doing away with said target before I can even get a shot off my cross-bow, Og-dammit? I would have whispered at him, but as I don’t do that that often I forgot how, other than making him a friend and THEN addressing him, and I sure didn’t wanna do that. Still pissed me off though…
Thanks
Quasi
You won’t see any dailies at all until you’ve done the lich quest, and then you’ll only see dailies for one faction or the other, depending on your choice at that time. Have you already done the lich quest once? If you did and you chose to ally with the Frenzyheart at that time, then you won’t see any dailies for the Oracles, so no chance of “accidentally” switching.
Well you can always do what I do when I forget what is what. I just start going through every letter on the keyboard to see what that letter does. Then I’ll go through every letter while holding down Ctrl and then again while holding down Alt.
Haha and you know why I usually do this? It’s because I accidentally hit the letter “v” which brings up the health bar over the heads of EVERYTHING even the level 1 rabbits and other critters. And I never remember which key it is so I start at “q” and just go across the rows until I eventually get to “v” which turns them back off. You’d think I’d have branded that into my memory by now but nope 4 years later and I still go through most of the keys to get rid of it. I’m a goof. 
I have a question about guilds.
I inherited a guild from a group of strangers, I just signed for the gold they offered and then just hung around, and then the small group of friends abandoned the guild and left me in charge. So I had a friend join so he could add my alts to the guild and things were all fine and dandy until I started buying guild bank space. I have four tabs now.
The thing is I don’t really like the name of the guild, “Nights of Death” it’s ok but I’d rather change it.
So can I change the guild name without abandoning the guild and losing my guild bank tabs which cost me all that money?
If not it’s ok. I can deal with the name I’d just rather have something different and honestly I haven’t even thought of a different name that I’d like yet.
No they do not see that ring, though with a couple of simple UI tweaks (mainly a target-of-target panel) they could have access to that information. I think, though, that you’d be seeing mostly coincidence. The possibility that someone is attempting to grief you in that way is very unlikely. It could happen, but I’ve not seen it since it was a bugged way to pvp flag somebody 4 or more years ago.
As for whispering someone, you have a goodly number of ways to do that. You can type “/w CharacterName Message” into the chat panel, or use any of a large number of commands which are functionally equal to /w, like /whisper, /message, /pst, and probably more. You can also target them, then right click on their character portrait in your target frame, and select whisper from the drop down list. This will auto-fill the “/w CharacterName” portion in the chat panel for you.
Missed the edit window.
As to Quasi’s #2 question.
There really is no need to go to the AH to gear up every level. Every 3 to 5 levels is when I visit and a lot of times what I got from quest rewards is better than what is offered on the AH.
Especially since you are one level away from Northrend. It is pretty much guaranteed that you will upgrade, and very nicely, your gear within the first level or two of being in Northrend. It is a big jump in gear from quest rewards compared to Outland.
No, there is at present no way to change the name of a guild after it has been formed. People have speculated that this feature may someday be implemented, but it is firmly speculation at this point. To my knowledge Blizzard has never stated an intention to add the ability to rename a guild, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. As you note, you can create a new guild and repurchase the bank tabs if the name is worth the expense for you.
And that’s a shame. I’ve been tempted any number of times to correct the spelling in some of the guild names I’ve seen, as well as suggest some freakin’ capitalization. I’ve turned down guild memberships on more than one occasion based solely on those two things. That, and the word “Elite” in the guild name. Or any guild name that implies demonic affiliation, such as Bloody Demonic Legion or Satan’s Elite (actual guild names I’ve seen). What’s up with that anyway? Demons are, like, the universal enemy in the game.
Thank you I’ll pop in next time I’m in SW.
Thanks SFG I have just read up on the patch notes so think I’ll wait until the changes to do anything with them.
I use Power Auras to do this, it’s an addon that allows you to create Auras around\on\under our character to let you know, well, just about anything.
I play a pally and I play Prot when soloing so I had certain auras appear for when things were off cooldown. For example when Hammer of the Righteousness was available a Hammer would appear over my head, when Consecrate was ready a pink semi circle would appear at my feet and so on. I found that I could watch my toon and be aware when abilities were ready to hit though you do have to teach yourself what each ‘aura’ means obviously.
Here is an article that goes into more detail and has some screenshot and set up examples: http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2009/06/25/addon-power-auras-revisit/