Eh. Nothing creates drama in this game like guild politics. You may have been caught in a takeover, where a particular person or clique in the guild have managed to be made an officer (and preferably the GM) and have kicked those people not in the clique. Or the old officers just plain up and quit and the above happened when the new officers took over. Really, if you managed to miss weeks of bitching, moaning, meltdowns and general mutiny in guild chat, you’re lucky. It’s not pretty.
In many cases, people are just trying to create a “convenience guild” (a.k.a. “vanity guild”) for themselves or a few friends. Since only one toon per account can sign a charter, they run around and get their signatures from others. If you hang out in the right spots, you can actually make money at this. One time I created a new toon on a server I hadn’t used, and signed three guild charters my first day, getting paid a total of 4G for the three signatures.
Once the guild is established, the founder will kick everybody out except his own toons or his buddies.
There are two reasons for this. One is to get a funny guild name that matches your character’s name. The other is to get a guild bank and such. I ended up being handed control of a dying guild (one of my kids started it and then left to join a raiding guild). I now have a few of my lower-level toons in the guild, and it’s a convenient way to transfer stuff between them and store extra stuff. The guild bank has a couple of tabs, so that’s almost 200 extra storage slots. Quite handy, really.
Yay, flying! I hit 77 about an hour ago, hearthed to Dalaran, bought Cold-Weather Flying, pulled out the old gryphon, and finished up “Explore Northrend”. Now I think I’m going to gallop all over old world and get the Explorer title before I continue leveling up.
I’ve heard a lot of people swear by grid and clique, but it just seemed too complicated to me when I tried it briefly and it didn’t seem to have any functionality that healbot didn’t. Quick question though, how do you get by without at least Circle of Healing (I assume you have that if you have Guardian Spirit) and Binding Heal set up with clique as well?
I don’t suppose you remember when you took it do you? I am thinking of maxing it out after getting Vengeance.
You’re going to want Judgements of the Wise first. Every time you hit with a judgement you get 15% (10% or so after the cost of judgement) of your mana back, plus replenishment. In all honesty, I’d build down to CS and DS before looking to other trees, more strength is nice, but getting the attacks is going to help you more.
'Fraid not. Fairly early, I think.
Great talent. I don’t even bother buffing my partner’s Priest with Blessing of Wisdom. I give her Blessing of Kings and this talent takes care of mana management.
Great thanks, I will do that.
I want to jump in here with some advice on my Ret Pally, Yeticalayla. I’ve focused on agility and crit along with Strength and Stamina, but I wonder if I’m missing out on something (other than getting better equipment, I do need to focus on it), any quick fixes for her? I like the instant Flash of Light when I crit hit and fits in nicely with my crusader strike, judgements and my normal 2-hand sword swing…
I am trying to shoot for 30-33% critical hit…is that possible or can I go even higher? What’s the highest anyone has seen for Crit Strike %?
This weekend I spent some time playing with more UI addons. Here’s a rundown for other Dopers who might be interested in UI modding.
Prat 3.0 is a pretty nice chat add-on, although I still haven’t banged out the kinks yet. Timestamps, colorcoding, level info, font sizing, etc. Sending to separate windows is also nice, although General still gets everything piped to it. Also, if someone sends to a new channel that you’re in and you haven’t created a window for it, you’re going to overlook it until you flip back to General.
**Dominos **is really nice, and I can see why you like it. I rearranged all my buttons into more logical row groupings, and then hid them all except for the main row (various attacks, etc). I wasn’t quite willing to give up FloTrap/Aspect though – I really appreciate the burndown counter on the left. It also takes some getting used to, to notice when a buff is actually on (glowing border).
Dominos got combined with **SunnArt **and **SexyMap **to try to go for a dashboard approach across the bottom that replaced the standard Blizz UI. Key information got stuffed into TitanBar across the top bit.
However, I went back to the Blizz UI (kept Prat, TitanBar, and SexyMap, tho) after noting a few dealbreakers. The big one was that Chat/Combat log windows wouldn’t stay locked where they were, and kept jumping up about a cm to their default Blizz position. This typically happens when I open another Blizz window such as the quest log or my bags, for example. This breaks the dashboard layout since it blocks the buttons and spills over the top of the SunnArt theme. (That’s basically a large dashboard bitmap that shoves the worldview up a couple inches so that you can lay all the buttons and such across the bottom, thus the ‘dashboard’ moniker)
I don’t suppose anyone else has noticed or knows why the Chat/Combat log windows do that? Locking/unlocking does nothing to preserve position permanently, which really annoys me. 
While we’re soliciting advice on builds, I’m trying to figure out what I should pick next for my UNHOLY/blood DK. I’m working my way up the Blood tree now – here’s my talents so far. My 1 unspent talent point is going into two-handed weapon specialization, and I’m planning on putting the next 3 after that into bladed armor for more attack value, but it’s the last 10 points where I’m torn:
First, should I bother with death rune mastery? I frankly don’t really see the point. I mean, having lots of wild-card runes some of the time would be nice, but I’d rather take the skills that give plusses.
I see a couple options: (1) max damage - put 5 points into the +critical thing for +5%, throw 3 points into morbidity on the unholy tree (I’m going to put those 3 points in if I get a free respec, anyway), and spend the last 2 on bladed armor.
(2) max healing: do 4 points of + critical and then rune tap, then get 3 more rune tap and 2 points in vendetta.
I’m thinking healing, myself. Being honest here, at least up through level 80 I’m going to be soloing 90% of the time, and self-healing is very very good for soloing.
Side question: rune tap and 3 points of improved rune tap plus 2 points in vendetta (gives 20% of life back at the cost of a blood rune and a global cooldown (i think), plus 4% of life back for every kill) or 2 points of improved rune tap and 3 points in vendetta (17% of life for a blood rune, 6% of life back for every kill)? I’m thinking rune tap +3 and vendetta 2.
Some very odd behaviour last night - I played for a couple of hours and when I left Booty Bay they were a few level 80-odd players slaughtering the local guards. Hearth back to Booty Bay and they are still killing them, any idea why?
because they can…
Also possibly they’re trying for the Bloodsail Admiral achievement (you get a hat! And a parrot!). You have to kill Booty Bay bruisers for that.
Getting a hat and a parrot explains it completely.
Plus, if you get revered with Bloodsail Admirals, then do many many runs of dire maul to recover your rep to exhalted with Steamwheedle Cartel, plus a few other things*, you can get the title “the Insane” with the next patch.
(* Darkmoon Faire, Ravenholdt, and Shen’dralar)
I’ll be impressed if anyone can get that achievement and still be able to form coherent sentences.
One uses talents for death runes to turn ‘off-spec’ runes into ‘on-spec’ runes. So in your case you don’t want to take Death Rune Mastery but the unholy equivilent ‘Reaping’
Unless you’re going for a lot of PVP I’d suggest DPS (and Bladed armor is better than you’d think). If you need healing the odd deathstrike will take care of it.
What would be required to get back to neutral with the Steamwheedle goblins after being revered with Bloodsail? I’d hate to not be able to use the neutral auction house, the boats, or the flight points.
ETA: On the other hand, my main is a mage, so he can port himself instead of using the boats and send stuff off to one of my alts for the neutral auction house. A hat and a parrot, you say?