I’m on Borean Tundra, which is an US server, and yeah, she was spelling it correctly when searching for it. She’s sorted the list of US servers every which way to try and find it. 
She rolled a toon on Antonidas, but that’s not one of the servers I play on. I’m not sure what to suggest other than me rerolling there (yet another alt. groan.), since I have no problems getting onto BT. 
UPDATE: Turns out that, per Blizz support, it took a manual setting of the realm name in her .wtf file to find and stick the realm. It’s a bit odd that we needed this sort of tinkering for my friend to be able to get in, but that hump’s done with. We’ll see if my friend stays interested enough in WOW to stick around. 
Maybe it was a rare spawn that killed me that time.
That might explain what happened the time I was trying to auction some gear I’d found and got a message that I couldn’t auction damaged gear.
Speaking of the AH, yesterday I was there and for whatever reason the various mats (ore, fish, what have you) posted just fine, but every time I tried to post an equippable item it told me “Item was not found in inventory”. I don’t know what that was all about, but I did a /reloadui and that seemed to fix it.
Well how 'bout that. Say hi sometime. Glad to hear your friend was able to fix the bug that was keeping her from seeing BT on her list–I’m having a lot of fun on this server.
I dunno 'bout you, but rares are distinctive enough with the silver portrait that I don’t think I’d ever misremember one as just a regular elite. I think they probably did just get nerfed down like most of the other old-world elites.
Most did, a few did not.
There is a dragon that occasionally spawns in the Swamp of Sorrows, just east of the sunken temple. He has not been nerfed.
Well, it also parodies the behavior of WoW players, particularly the ones on the Nesingwary quests in Outland (where each step requires you to kill off 30 beasties… Nagrand isn’t as heavily populated as it used to be, but I remember walking through and just seeing corpses everywhere. It was like those old photos of the buffalo hunts conducted from trains).
I’m sure if you explained to the druids that the innocent wildlife happened to walk into the radius of your area-effect attack, they’d understand perfectly =).
Heh. Indeed. There is a DHETA quest were you lay traps for the trappers. The /say emotes they have for them are like that. (I presume you were referring to them.)
One trapper may say “Only a few more hides, and I can get that set of steakknives!”, which is a parody of rep grinding.
And yet among my plans for my toon is camping out in the DEHTA area for like a year grinding Nesingwary Lackey Ears to get the Champion of Cenarion title. IRONY!
Yeah, there are still some left. Thus, my “most.” I’m of two minds as to how I feel about it. On one hand, there are some things that have become much easier for my alts to do. On the other hand, there was something kind of cool about running into elites just out in the world.
WTB a Glyph of Sunder Armor that won’t pick a not-currently-hostile mob (i.e., an un-aggro’d neutral) as the target of the extra Sunder. :smack:
Heh…the AoE problem happens involuntarily for Unholy-specced DKs. Desecrate triggers when you use Pestilence. And the ghoul can be a problem, too…anytime I have to target and hit a mob for a quest in which I don’t actually do damage (f’rinstance, the whip quest in the Brunhildan mine), if the ghoul isn’t on “passive”, it will initiate combat with the mob I “whipped”. Of course, the whipping still counts, but then I have an unnecessary fight on my hands, and with the AoE it turns into a grande melee when other mobs are distributed too close.
I also hate it when I put my ghoul on passive for a quest, finish the quest, and then realize a half-hour later that I’ve forgotten to re-activate my ghoul.
Done that. Annoying.
Pets can be such a pain. I don’t know how many times when doing that seal-sex quest that my cat got jealous of the seal I threw a fish to and decided to extract the fish forcefully.
Then that same cat decided to pull Emalon when it thought “turn cower auto cast on” meant “go up next to the boss and cower right now”.
Heh! I can hear that conversation… “GRRR, EVIL ONE! Wait! Wait! It wasn’t me! It was HIM! Go kill HIM!”
All pet classes have the same issue; at this point I just always leave my pets on passive and macro the first attack in my chain to:
/petattack
/cast Immolate
With an unholy DK, I’d guess adding it to grip, ice strike or plague strike would be the way to go.
I also bind passive/follow to my Z key to pull it back if goes wandering off, or if I left it on aggresive after a fight like Gothick. (sigh I wiped a raid once due to forgetting this and walking around to the back of Four Horsemen. Everyone else got a good laugh at the imp try to take on Zelik).
I was really amused by Children’s Week and the achivement spam I managed at the end of it. SoHK, For the Children, WSG victory, WSG perfection in about 30 seconds. I really think that WSG loses any appeal after about level 29, but my wife wants to get all the Black War mounts, so I guess I should get used to it.
I like having my pet peel off annoyances when I’m trying to mine, though. Or otherwise not paying much attention. I should probably do something like that for instances & raids, though.
Lost out on a spore-less Loathb attempt a while back because at least one DK forgot about Wandering Plague. :smack: And the hassle of ordering a pet around is why I scrapped the Blood/Unholy hybrid spec I’d been messing around with on my main DK and went back to straight Blood.
Hrm, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever run an instance with either my Hunter or my 'Lock. Pets sure do make questing on them a hell of a lot easier, though, at least at the lower levels. Since all the buffs to Prot Wars, though, there’s not much I can’t solo on my main.
Woot!
I finally dinged 80 last night! Now to upgrade my crappy equipment.
When I first got the talent that allows my mage’s frost armor spell to proc frost novas, I was aggroing extra neutrals quite a bit. Right in the middle of a fight, bam, I’ve just frozen (and aggroed) everyone close in. Now I change to mage armor in tight places.
I also found out it’s a bad idea to leave the molten armor spell up when I’m just running by areas with the other faction’s guards. They hit me, the molten armor causes them damage, and I’m flagged for PVP. Oops.
Congrats Yeti! 
sniff I remember when I was a few levels higher than you…