Right now, Stormwind is probably best, since my toon is human and is adventuring in that area right now. I CAN go to Northrend but the only bank up there is in Dalaran, which neither one of us can get to yet.
What I mean to say, I KNOW y’all don’t mind helping, and you’ve really gone above and beyond helping this ol’ dweeb, and I always remember to thank y’all, right, SFG? but I can at least elevate (or demote) my dweebage, right?
I know I’ve required less in-game help, and don’t ask the dumb questions I used to here. I also know that I’m still not sure I understand the strategy of everything, but I have always wanted to pass what y’all taught me to someone lower rank than me, but you know what?
It’s hard to tell when someone’s just a lower rank or if they’re forming an alt and if they are, and I phuck up, they’re gonna know it, right?
What I mean to say is, sometimes when I play, it’s a GOOD day for me mentally and some days not so good, and I’m afraid I won’t always know the diff. I know the easy way is just not to play on those days, but I pretty much need to.
Any answers?
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To answer your guild vault question, for Alliance, there are banks in Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, and the Exodar in the old world. There are banks in Shattrath in Outland, but be careful…if you’ve done the quest where you pick a side, there is a Scryers’ bank and an Aldor bank, and I don’t know if the employees of each are violently hostile to people who are friendly with the other. In Northrend, the only bank is in Dalaran. There are also neutral banks in goblin towns: Gadgetzan, Booty Bay, Everlook, Ratchet and Area 52 in Outland. All of them have guild vaults…they just all look different.
As for your second question, the only suggestion I have is to gather people who will understand your situation into the guild, if they’ll come. You can’t always tell who’s going to be an asshole and who’s going to be a friend, but time tells, and you can always kick people out if they end up being assholes. One thing to remember is to not be so afraid of interacting with people that you end up never doing it. I spend A LOT of time solo playing, because I’m always nervous about partying up with strangers…will I mess up so bad they’ll hate me? Will I embarrass myself in this fight? Do I really know how to play my class? But, over the last five years or so, I’m getting better. Hell, I belong to two different guilds! 
Hah! Like we don’t already have enough paladins 
I decided to sit out Naxx last night cuz there were so many other paladins signed up.
Instead of Naxx, I ran a couple Heroics on my main, and just need 6 more Triumphs for a new pair of pants. The first Heroic was Gundrak, and I didn’t realize that I didn’t already have the achievement for it until the tank decided to lead us all against that gorloc boss (whose name escapes me). I’d been through H-Gundrak three times previously, and all the other tanks skipped that guy. Anyway, took that boss down and the achievement popped up.
Then I ran Halls of Lightning (for the first time), and got two of the special achievements: Shatter Resistant and Timely Death. I also looted Loken’s Tongue, for a quest I got a long time ago (so long ago I forgot I still had it in my log) from the king of the Sons of Hodir.
I’m having fun running these heroics. My druid friend told me “You’re a very good paladin”, though considering my almost total lack of any previous group-play experience in the game, I’m wary that compliment might just be eyewash to go along with her almost nonstop cajoling me to join her guild 
OTOH, I haven’t heard any complaints about my performance from the random people I’ve pugged with either. My general approach seems to be working pretty well: follow right behind the tank, and when he engages the mob I run straight through him, dropping my Judgement as I pass, Consecrate as soon as I’m out the other side and behind the mob, then turn around and start whaling on it.
Say, is there an addon or something that will let me put a big arrow or something on the tank? When the tank is a paladin, DK, or warrior, and there are others of those classes in the party, I’m really having a hard time telling at a glance which one is the tank because everybody’s wearing nearly identical shoulderpads.
Don’t need an add-on. The in-game UI will allow you to put raid markers on anyone (even in 5-mans as far as I know). Target them, right click, select “raid icon” and pick a pretty one. They might ask why you’re doing that, but it’s pretty typical in PuG raids to mark the tanks in this way.
Not that I know of, but you can ask the party leader to put a raid mark on the tank.
If you’re asking for when the pug zones in, the party frames should have little dungeon markers next to each player - shield, cross, sword. Shield = tank, cross = heals, sword = dps.
If you’re asking for visual aids with sorting out the fighting, you can use raid icons and stick one on the tank. Everyone will be able to see this icon, which can be helpful. To do this, target the tank, right click on em, and then pick Raid Icons. That should give you a choice of icons. On my server we usually use star/diamond/circle for the tanks as far as I’ve been able to tell. This saves the skull/x/square for the kill order priority. Your server may vary.
In raids, it’s common for the raid leader to mark the tanks just like you’ve seen mobs being marked - with the skull, X, triangle or whatever. It makes it a lot easier in big groups for people to quickly spot the tanks.
I’ve never seen it done in a 5-man, but the leader could do it. But they might make fun of you for not being able to pick the tank out of a group of four other players. 
You can also make any target–friendly or hostile–your focus, which gives it its own separate portrait, which you can then unlock and move around your screen. To do so, select the unit in question, then either right-click the portrait and type /focus. To get rid of your current focus target, just type /clearfocus. You can also write macros that will do things specifically to or based on your focus (for example, that performs an attack against your focus’s target or that heals your focus). Setting and releasing a focus can also be done through right-click menus on the target portrait (to set) or the focus portrait (to release).
Generally speaking, anyone with a modicum of sense and restraint is considered a good player, just because there’s so many people that lack either.
Main problem was that in one of my randoms last night the tank was a male human paladin, and the other two DPS were also human males, one a warrior and one a DK. And all three of them were wearing virtually identical shoulders - looked like the Triumph badge shoulders. It became very difficult to tell them apart.
Also, I did ask a tank to mark himself once, but that was because he was a gnome. I just flat couldn’t see him half the time when he’d run off toward the next fight, because the corpses were always blocking my view.
ETA: Never have any trouble picking out the healer, though. It’s always a tree. Every single heroic, it’s a tree. Where are the priest/shaman/paladin healers?
There’s a known issue with the right-click /focus option in the UI which to the best of my knowledge has never been fixed for the people who hit that. If you hit this and the toon in question has ASCII characters in their name, the best way to do this on the fly is to use a mouseover /focus macro. Saves time hunting for the alt-code or asking the person to explain htf they spell their name.
Super useful in Oc where the mount/dismount will clear your focus every time and people are GOGOGO SURPRISE MAMMOTH ATTACK.
What I do is:
/focus [@mouseover]
And then keybind that so all I need to do is mouse over the tank and hit the keybind.
Yeah, it bugs out for me most of the time when I use the right-click, which is why I listed the line commands. Personally, I’ve never had any problems with selecting someone, then typing **/focus **(or just typing **/clearfocus **to clear it).
… though it refers to me, has apparently pissed someone off.
Reading in the little manual I got with the game, it does say that a name such as the one I chose may be found offensive to others, and I agree that it could be. However, if I had a problem with someone in-game, wouldn’t I contact him directly instead of going right to a GM?
So now I am waiting for a response, since I have created my OWN ticket, but of course, this may take a couple of days.
Speaking with jayjay in-game tonight, he told me I may have to change the name to something else, and I’m okay with that, but what does that entail - hopefully not starting all over again with purchasing a new charter, etc.?
Also, jaejae, badlilsister and Henchi have all been made officers and everyone in the guild can deposit and withdraw.
I guess now I can get back to work questing.
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Quasi, from what you said, the guy may have just been telling you he was going to report you and didn’t do it. I would have just waited to see if a GM contacted me about it rather than opening a ticket myself. If you have to change the guild name, the GM should change it to a placeholder name and you’ll get an email (don’t know if it’s real life or in-game) telling you how to change it to something non-offensive. They shouldn’t dissolve the guild. I could be wrong but I don’t think I am.
No, they won’t dissolve the guild. And I doubt they’d do anything for “Slightly Demented.” That doesn’t even rate for offensiveness. If they do change it, they’ll change it to “Wolkenlaufre’s Guild” and then you’ll have to change it (I think you need GM help for this).
But in any case, I wouldn’t worry at all. If they make you change that name, I’ll eat a bug. I’ll even let you choose the bug.
jayjay, the guy didn’t just say he was going to, I know that he did, because next to his name the words “you have been reported” appeared in orange.
Y’all jaejae (what a cutie! Just wanna pinch her ittum-bittum cheeks off) danced with Wolkie tonight in front of the vault while jay was showing me how to promote, add a deposit in addition to withdrawal and showed me how to do the message of the day. (I had been doing it wrong: I thought the message of the day was written in the guild info box and then transferred over). But anyway, I couldn’t get ol’ Wolkie stopped and then I heard a rumble from over Sentinel Hill way? You know, where Heather has her inn with the leaky roof?
Well, hell, I knew how to make him dance, but didn’t know how to make him stop till jay told me to make him jump!
But anyway, the guild informational message: I just wrote what the guild is designed for (helping new players level, provide funds, gear, etc. and that anyone was free to leave at any time they felt comfortable enough to do so, but to please leave with the mindset that they may help another new player (I hate “noob”) the way they, themselves were helped and helped each other.
Well, not exactly like that, but that is the gist of what I wrote.
Anyway, Professor jaejae hop on over and check out my work! 
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That’s just somebody messing with you. Orange text like that is somebody using an emote. Like I could type this:
/e grins like a maniac at Quasi and it would show up like this in your chat box:
Mister Rik grins like a maniac at Quasi.
Don’t worry about it. I don’t think the game tells you when somebody reports you - you don’t find out until a GM contacts you.
/e Quasimodem thanks Mister Rik for teaching him a neat new trick!
I think I’m gonna hang it up for the night, y’all. I have Wolkie asleep at that little outpost with the orange dragon in Calderra.
Thanks for the help you guys!
Q