Wombat: I have that problem with Damage Shield. (And that’s a passive I can’t turn off without stopping to switch from Prot to Arms.) On the plus side, people are usually pretty loathe to mess with a flagged 80 Prot War who’s clearly headed elsewhere.
The last time anyone tried was during Noblegarden. I accidentally got myself flagged by sitting inside Crossroads a second too long, and a group of Horde jumped me, while I was wearing nothing but my dress, basket, and flowers (so as not to freak out any of the lowbie female Tauren I was in search of). Too bad for them, I rezzed, put on main tanking set, and proceeded to stomp the snot out of them. Repeatedly. With glee. It certainly didn’t hurt that my equally-geared pocket healer Resto Druid was there to help, too.
lizardling: I promise not to gank you if I see you flagged.
Now that I’m home and can actually look at your gear…
Be sure to check the AH (or a BS in your guild) for the Spiked Titansteel helm and boots as well as the 2H mace. That’s three quick epic upgrades right there.
ETA: Durrrrr, you **are **a blacksmith. In which case, I believe you get all three recipes at 440. Dunno how hard the grind is to get there, though, or what the economy’s like on your server–you might still be better off buying 'em or getting a combine from a guildie.
Well, at the time (around lvl 40, maybe a bit lower) I hadn’t seen enough rares or elites to know what the difference in portrait dragon color meant. The silver would have registered as “elite” to me at the time.
That would be Somnus. I managed to stay out of his way, but there was one time when I was on the beach there killing murlocs, and I got mobbed so I fled into the forest … and almost ran straight down Somnus’ throat. Fortunately I spotted him in time and managed to change direction and get out of his aggro range before he noticed me.
Oh, and regarding my earlier comment about the level of Silvermoon’s guards, I double checked when I was in Stormwind last night and saw that SW does indeed have lvl 75 guards. My bad.
I changed my MOB targeting via the MetaHud addon - it changes the target to a arc-shaped mana and health bar of my target, and does perch a little tiny gold or silver dragon on the end of the bar, so I often miss details like that.
Thanks for those suggestions! I am grinding out my Mining and BSing; still working on the Saronite weapon and armor recipes, but I will keep plugging along to get those items.
I noticed that on my blood specced death knight. I was “worm specced” and I noticed that sometimes the worms would agro some other mob. I respecced so I won’t have to deal with that anymore. I prefer to choose what I agro, and when.
I don’t know about the saronite DPS gear, but the tanking stuff made a good base for an 80 Heroic dungeon starter set, so presumably the DPS pieces would be equivalently useful. (That was one of the things that they did right in Wrath versus BC–when I hit 70, getting uncrittable was a much bigger pain in the ass.)
ETA: And obviously, if you don’t plan on raiding, there isn’t as much of a rush to get to the titansteel stuff, since you can do Heroics fine in blues.
Last night was a lot of fun. Ikakal, my 34 retadin and her 35 holydin leveling partner, sallied out to take on the Scarlet Monastery. We got a group together (frost mage, bear tank, and a holy priest).
We cleared Grave but the mage disconnected and didn’t come back, so we 4manned Grave and Library. Then partway through the Armory, we picked up a MM hunter.
After Consecrating the hell out of the trainees in the Armory, we looked at each other and went, what the hell, and hit the Cathedral. We didn’t wipe on the doors, but we did wipe twice on the monks in the naves to either side of Mograine. :smack: But we ran back, the druid yelling, “WE WILL DOOOO THIS!”, and took everyone down, including Fairbanks.
Everyone dinged two levels, plus the Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade dropped (the druid won the roll).
That was all kinds of awesome – we had a truly great priest and I know I made damn well sure to thank him for his heals – and he complimented us on our tanking (we pallies were offtanking right there besides the bear). I know I was keeping Righteous Fury up and doing my best to taunt mobs back off the hunter and priest while the others took down the main mass, and killing as many runners as possible.
I’ve never been part of a group that did the entire SM in one go before. Plus we were basically clearing the Cathedral 10 levels early, even with people dinging.
Grats on the dings, the tabard, and the SM clear–sounds like much fun was had by all.
And thanks to you and your pocket healer for actually *making use of *the extra abilities you get when you play a hybrid class, even if what’s needed right now isn’t what you’re specced into.
Okay, so what’s the deal with this Flight of the Wintergarde Defender quest, where I have to fly a special gryphon and rescue “Helpless Villagers” (in Dragonblight)? It kept flashing this message on the screen along the lines of “Return to Wintergarde Keep or the Carrion Fields, or your gryphon will drop you!”. I was flying straight from the keep to the village, picking up a villager, and flying straight back, yet it seemed to think I kept wandering from the path. I finally got jettisoned right into the middle of a pack of undead; death followed quickly.
Why does it keep giving me that message, and why did it only start appearing after I rescued my fifth villager? I wasn’t doing anything differently on the 6th or 7th.
Oh good grief, and these Dragonblight quest rewards! Grrrrr! It’s boots and gloves, boots and gloves, boots and gloves …
Yeah, I know, complain complain complain. I just haven’t seen plate chest or leg armor offered in quite some time. I guess it’s just as bad for the other armor types - I notice that leather and mail rewards all seem to be helms and shoulders. It’s just really irritating - I get a new pair of gloves, spend time deciding whether or not they’re better on balance than the ones I’m wearing, finally make a decision one way or the other, and then two quests later I have to do it all over again!
Also, let me add that flight masters should not be handing out quests. Or if they must, I ought to be able to ignore them in favor of flying out of there. I was over at Star’s Rest, trying to do the quests there, but I was getting annoyed because QuestHelper’s arrow kept pointing to the flight master there instead of in the direction I needed to go. So I finally went ahead and turned in the quest I needed to give her, which required me to fly to Wintergarde, figuring I’d hand in the quest there and then fly back to complete the Star’s Rest quests I was working on. Instead, I’m stuck in Wintergarde until I finish the flight master’s quests there. Unless I want to ride all the way back.
That’s strange, I just did that quest on my alt and I could use the flight master right away. Are you sure you’re talking to the flight master and not Gryphon Commander Ulrik?
There’s a small hole in front of the town portion of Wintergarde that takes you to the Wintergarde mausoleum (used in a much later quest). If you fly over that hole, you’ve technically left Wintergarde Keep and the Carrion fields, which is why you’re getting that message, since the special gryffon is only good in those two areas.
There’s two different guys? That could be the problem, then. I arrived at Wintergarde on “autopilot” when the flightmaster at Star’s Rest put me on a special epic hippogriff, and the hippogriff dropped me right in front of Ulrik. If there was another flightmaster there, I don’t recall speaking with him, since I naturally assumed Ulrik was the guy. And Ulrik is standing right in front of the “regular” gryphons, just like you see at any other human FP; the special gryphons were across the way. I guess simply arriving at Wintergarde on the epic hippogriff was enough to get me the FP, though, because I just checked with the flightmaster in Dalaran and I see I’m able to fly back to Wintergarde.
Nevertheless, the point still stands for the Star’s Rest flightmaster. I was given a quest in Borean Tundra (“Missing Courier” or something like that) and once I got to Dragonblight it turned out I had to go to Star’s Rest and talk to a guy there to complete the quest. So I got there on horseback and spoke with the guy, who then instructed me to report to the flightmaster. So I talked to her and found I could hand in the quest, but not pick a destination. Handing in the quest automatically put me on the epic hippogriff and flew me to Wintergarde, as that was the next step in that quest chain. Unfortunately I didn’t want to go to Wintergarde at that time, I wanted to finish up another quest (the ley line thing) for the boss at Star’s Rest. I wanted to be able to use the flightmaster as normal, because I determined it would be quicker and easier to fly back to Moa’ki Harbor and ride to where I needed to go from there, than to ride to where I needed to go from Star’s Rest.
Instead I wound up in Wintergarde doing several quests there instead of finishing up the chain I wanted to do. And then Ulrik put me on the back of another gryphon as somebody’s passenger and I ended up in Grizzly Hills. And I’m all, “What the hell am I doing here? I didn’t want to come here!”
I guess my problem is basically this: these quirky situations took the decision-making process out of my hands and I felt railroaded into a linear path. Which would be fine if that’s the way the game was made to be played, but in fact it felt extremely inconsistent with all of my previous WoW gameplay.
Weird. I did the mausoleum quest, and it seems the mausoleum is to the right of the gate (as you’re leaving the keep), and when I was flying I was well to the left of the gate.
Yes, the flight master is ten paces left(Urik’s left) of Urik. Anyway, look on bright side, the quest chains that start in Wintergarde have lots of nice rewards and one of them ends with the Battle of Undercity with a couple of other epic events on the way there.
I experienced what I presumed to be a bug last night. I decided that I was bored with Northrend for now, so I went back to the lowbie areas of Kalimdor to grind rep and finish the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement. As I was killing mobs to start the first quest I had missed while I had been a lowbie, I noticed I could not loot the dead mobs at all. I had to log out at that point and decided to go to bed instead, but is that normal behavior or did I just hit a weird bug?
