Honestly, I doubt there would be any problem with it. And IME, any time anyone’s tried to do anything WoW-related outside of this thread on the SDMB, it gets minimal responses and views, 'cause most of the Doper WoWers are concentrated right here. I know I almost never look at the container forum, so I’d certainly miss an external thread.
I do love that one. God damn, why couldn’t somebody useless like Dan Brown get EOAD? 
It’s always the *fun *people. (/wave at **Quasi **:p)
I think Yeti came up with an elegant solution I hadn’t thought of – creating a new thread but linking to it from here. We’ve already got 5 people signed up, so it looks promising! It just needs a Raid Leader to follow through with scheduling and organization (I nominate Yeti :D).
I know. And I’m almost to the end of the Discworld books. Don’t know what I’m gonna do when I run out!
Elegant indeed, Skammer! I’ll just repost this quote on every page until we get our list filled out and then some…SFG will have no excuse not to check it out!
As for raid leader, I’m a newb…just check out my Boffo Needo Raid Stats! I guess I can schedule the raid on the calendar, provided I’m at the appropriate guild level to do so…otherwise, I’m utterly useless except for DPSing. Yeah, call me a one trick pally pony.
I so want in to raid with you guys. Problem is, I’m 73-74ish (Ginsusan), not combat-specced (so PuGing is painful), and I’m not able to play a lot of nights of the week. I could use any / all advice on how to punt myself up those few levels as a assassin / subtlety rogue. (I can’t help it. I loves me some stealth)
Ginsusan, if you hit 80 in the next month and run some heroics, you’ll be fine to join us if we are starting on the lower-tier raids (Naxx, OS).
Yeti – if you don’t mind scheduling the raids, one of us will promote you so you can add events to the guild calendar.
Last night was fun - got to run a random heroic (Gundrak) with the guildies and while there picked up a new toy, the Super Simian Sphere trinket. Using the trinket turns you into a gorilla in a big glowing ball for five minutes. Useless but fun! I need to try to heal an instance with it.
Then I switched back to my pally – ran SM Cathedral (mostly without a tank until the very end) and then started questing in Stranglethorn – yay Skinning! Met my goal for the night to hit level 40, and picked up the Expert Riding skill and my charger.
Also I forget to mention before – it’s a good idea to get an authenticator. We had a guildie who had their account compromised this week, and the culprit stole 10 blue items and 5g from the guild bank. It could have been a lot worse, though.
Ah, that’s what that was about.
how does an account get compromised? I only ever play from my pc at home and I don’t purchase gold. I let windows update itself whever it wants to and run the latest version of AVG. Are my WoW chars safe?
Most likely, yes. People generally get compromised by entering account information in a fake website or installing a compromised add-on. It is also possible to get a keylogger by going to a WoW-specific website that has been compromised. I always use the NoScript add-one for Firefox whenever browsing WoW websites.
Even with all that said, authenticators are pretty fail-safe (although some did get hacked a few weeks ago).
Isn’t that thing awesome?? 
Not sure you can heal in the sphere though…
You got off easy. A lot of guilds require an authenticator before even giving guild bank access for exactly this reason. Sounds like the hackee was pretty limited in what they could take out, fortunately.
And for my third post in a row: accomplishments for the past weekend for Jagaya…
Putricide (finally!) down on 25s, as well as Blood Council. Got Blood Queen down to 40% or so before our raid time ran out. Gotta figure out how to call bites during the fear… too many folks ended up MC’ed (and we only ever got to 4 vamps I think!).
Missed out on 10-mans though, but our group did get Sindragosa down, so the Lich King is on notice for next weekend.
Also got Deathbringer’s Will! Gotta say that’s one of the more fun trinkets - not just a bad-ass buff but you actually turn into a Vyrkul/Iron Dwarf/Taunka! Good times, good times… 
Not sure why the Vyrkul is often shirtless though… is that how it’s supposed to be?
More like our guild bank is pretty limited in what it contained :). He could have gone fishing in some of the other tabs where there were a few flasks and a bunch of relics of ulduar, but in general there wasn’t anything super-marketable. I was a bit pissed when I checked the bank and saw that the level 80 caster necklace I wanted to grab for my levelling spriest was missing, but really it didn’t hurt much.
level 42 or 43 on my prot warr now. I keep getting the instance with the green slimes. What is the tactic for these? Do I just need to stand back and let the ranged guys do their thing? I have been trying to run up do a thunder clap, and run away without too much success.
I’ll test it first, but I was able to buff people in Dalaran and heal myself while in ape form, so it looks like you can. I read on Wowhead that you can even assume Shadowform while you are an ape in a bubble, so I want to see that too. 
From WoWWiki:
Hate those guys. The key is you want them to not hit you; fortunately they move really slowly. The idea is for you to take aggro the best you can (Thunderclap or Taunt or whatever you have) and then kite them around the room, staying out of their melee range, while the ranged dps kill them.
If you must engage them in melee, at least make sure everyone else stands back so the healer only has to worry about you. But kiting them is better if you have ranged dps to kill them.
Yeah, pretty much. (Wow, hadn’t occurred to me just how much of a bummer those slimes would be for a warrior tank - as a pally at least I could drop a consecrate in their line of advance and throw some of my ranged zaps at them).
Yeah, we did that bank “clean out” recently, getting rid of a lot of stuff that had been sitting there forever.
So I’ve got my two new caster toons on Cairne, a warlock (now level 17) and a mage (now level 12), and I’m being reminded once again just how much the Horde AH on Cairne sucks compared to the Alliance AH on Lightbringer. I had my main on Cairne, Keliraeda (belf lvl 80 pally), send my mage 100g seed money, but that’s pretty useless when there’s nothing for him to spend it on. I checked every cloth armor slot, and staves, and there was literally nothing for a lvl 12 mage. I see I’m gonna have to talk a guild tailor into making me me something.
I took my human pally into Alterac Valley for the first time yesterday. That was fun! At the beginning I served up a Great Feast, and got that portion of the Dinner Impossible achievement out of the way (the only achievement I still need for the Chef title). Then when the battle started I just followed the crowd in what was essentially a zerg rush into the Horde base. I killed a couple Horde players in there, and found myself engaging one of the elite NPCs (can’t remember which one) for an extended period, though I didn’t manage to kill him. Problem was I couldn’t hold aggro on him so he kept leaving me to go after other people and I had to keep chasing him around the room. I eventually got killed in there, and when I rezzed I decided to do some “scouting”, engaging random Horde players where I found them, usually by assisting teammates who were in “single combat”.
I did get one solo kill that was actually pretty funny. I was creeping around near the mine way up at the top of the map, when I spotted a wolf attacking one of those wandering rams. The ram had a Hunter’s Mark on it, so the wolf was obviously a hunter’s pet. So I killed the wolf and the ram fled, and I waited for the hunter to come after me. Surprised that he didn’t, I went looking for him. I found him — a tauren hunter — on the other side of a small hill … locked in melee with another angry ram. So I, er, “assisted” the ram in finishing off the hunter
So far I haven’t been too impressed with the damage-dealing abilities of my PvP Prot spec, so I’m thinking about experimenting with equipping my “PvP Protection gear set” (such as it is - at this point it’s just an axe and shield in place of my usual 2h sword, a crafted PvP cloak in place of my regular cloak, and a PvP trinket in place of one of my usual trinkets) but sticking with my Ret spec and abilities since I’m much more familiar with those abilities and my Ret attack rotation.
Well, I actually have the best excuse of all: I don’t have an 80 on Cairne.
I’m leveling a Rogue as Sub, and this is the guide I’m using. It’s been working very well so far, but I’m only mid-20s. Also note that this build is heavily emphasized towards soloing; there are a lot of talents that will have minimal utility or be downright useless even in a 5-man.
Actually, if you power through as many Heroics as you can stand (for the badges), you’ll massively outgear the earlier content. The T9 gear is 232, which is equivalent to the gear you get out of ToC10, and the off-tier gear is 245, which is ToC25-level.
I think that’s the first time I’ve ever see anyone be *excited *to quest in STV.
The biggest concern is with phishing. If you ever get an email or an in-game mail or whisper that looks like it’s coming from Blizzard, be very, very careful. A lot of them are fake, and re-direct you to sites that can LOOK very authentic, but are really just there to steal the account and password you enter.
The best way to keep your account safe is to NEVER log into a site that you’ve gotten to from some external link. To do anything with your account, go to the official World of Warcraft site, and then navigate to the page from internal links.
And then, as advised, stay away in general from anything suspicious. Free porn sites are notorious for being laden with all kinds of malicious code, for example. Keeping your antivirus and OS updates current and running regular scans (weekly, if not daily) should also keep you clean.
To be specific, the Authenticators themselves didn’t get hacked. There was a very specific type of account compromization (is that even a word?) that happened, and a relatively mild one. It was basically a special type of keylogger that picked up the account, password, and authenticator information as they were entered and passed them along to someone who then immediately used them. That person was then only able to log into the account right then and there and clean out what was currently available. They could not log in again without the owner of the account entering a new authenticator number, and they couldn’t do anything that would require multiple codes (like removing the authenticator from the account completely).
There’s an addon for that (a really sexy one, in fact). I can’t tell for sure from work, but I’m pretty sure that this is the one I’m familar with. It automatically assigns biters to bitees based on a priority list you create (which includes melee/caster distinctions, so you can have your first bite be cross-group, and then keep all future bites melee-melee and ranged-ranged). It will reassign based on things like deaths or MCs, too.
If you’re actually having bites coming during fears, you need to adjust when people are biting. IIRC, there’s a full ten-second window. Having people bite toward the beginning or the end of it can help you pull later bites out of synch with the fears, so that you don’t miss one and have someone get MC’d.
That’s one of the wings of Mara. And yes, those slimes need to be kited. Some tanking classes can kite them on their own, but for a Warrior, it’s damned near impossible. The ranged should be the ones kiting them. It’s especially helpful if you have a Hunter (Frost Trap, Conc Shot, Distracting Shot, Aspect of the Cheetah) and/or a Mage (Frostbolt, Frost Nova, Blink), but the slimes move slowly enough that any ranged class should be able to kite them, even without a snare. (The melee may need to stay away entirely–I seem to recall that my Hunter’s pet always takes a hell of a lot of damage from these, even when it doesn’t pull aggro, so they might have a nasty AOE. Something to look into, certainly.)
I can’t tell for sure without checking the Paladin talent tree, but based on how pretty much every other class works, you’re going to be gimping yourself terribly if you do that. Your Talents and abilities are built around using a 2H weapon. Switching to a 1H+Shield is going to give you a small amount of extra survivability, but it will massively lower your damage output, in a very unequal tradeoff.