Bahaha. He just wishes he was as awesome as Malfurion.
Actually, isn’t that actually part of the official lore. He was one of those who went ahead and planted Teldrassil even though Malfurion and the Cenarion druids were opposed to it (since part of the point of the sacrifice of Nordrassil was that Night Elves needed to give up their immortality and share the world with the rest of the mortal races)?
Actually, looking at the lore, Fandral Staghelm leads the Cenarion Circle, so I’m wrong about that. Doh!
I believe it was Ysera, the Dragon Aspect of Life, that disapproved of the creation of Teldrassil, or at least refused to bless it. Or the Dragon Aspects, plural, as representatives of the Titans.
Ysera is the Dreamer, Alexstrasza is the Aspect of Life and according to wowwiki it was Nozdormu(aspect of time) who refused to bless Teldrassil.
Related to the helping others question I had an experience last night where help was appreciated.
My warlock is 25 and in Hillsbrad at the moment, struggling a bit as the quests were all yellow or worse* which I am finding tough on my own. There is a quest chain called Battle for Hillsbrad where you have to kill the humans and for each quest the humans are getting tougher. Last night I had to kill the magistrate, 4 councillors and vandalise\steal some documents, all good evil fun. I work my way to the council building slowly, lots of mobs and just manage to get inside without dying and now decide it would be good to get The Eye of Kilrogg out to check what’s in store for me inside. Up to this point the mobs have been level 25 at most but I check the magistrate and he is level 30! I have just spent nearly half an hour slowly working my way inside only to find out I have little chance of bringing him down especially as the room has two other mobs in it. Yes I know I should have used the eye before going into the building that was silly. Anyway I think I have got this far no reason not to try so send in the Blueberry and see what happens. As I move into the room after Kraknuz has kicked off a level 75 hunter strolls in and one shots everyone! Fortunately I had a DOT on the magistrate and had hit him with a shadowbolt so I got credit for the kill and was able to finish the quest. I walked outside to the scene of a massacre, those mobs I was carefully tip-toeing around all dead.
- on this point now I have no yellow quests left at all in Hillsbrad, tried to investigate one of the orange quests (Elixir of Agony) and the morlocs are level 30, no chance. I am thinking of trying The Barrens if anyone has advice on this I’d appreciate it. I went back to Ghostlands as I had a few to finish off there but getting no XP from killing random mobs so not sure it is worth it.
I can never keep them straight. I’m antidraconic…they all look alike to me.
You’ll probably want to skip right over the Barrens (which are roughly equivalent to Ghostlands in terms of monster/quest levels) and go to Ashenvale, which is also a 20-30 level area. Should be plenty of green & yellow quests there.
You have a good point, and I have in the past done the same - it seems that many group invites pop up from strangers…with no one around…and no clue as to what it’s about…
Congrats on cold weather flying/78!
The guild did mention that there’s often not much protest when Horde raids come to Darnassus, as they’re going to go after him and everyone wants him squashed.
I finally have access to my guild’s bank, and there’s nothing in there I need–most of the stuff is either too high or too low to be useful right now. I did take a tabard–ours is somewhat plain but still pretty, and it goes nicely with my town outfit–and some Deviate Fish, because I wanted to know what they did.
The first serving gave me a little spirit buff, and the second shrank me. I was hilariously tiny till it wore off.
Find deviate fish delight in the AH. You will become a pirate! Or a ninja! But never both at the same time…we can’t have players becoming TOO awesome, after all.
That will be fun.
Noggenfogger Elixir is a bunch of fun too.
The other day I was waiting on my GF to join me for questing, so while I did I grabbed an elixir which changed me into a skeleton, grabbed an Elder’s Moonstone I had left over from the Lunar Festival, got on a pedestal in the Ironforge main square, hit the spotlight and started rocking out. 
(The Noggenfogger skeleton has the same /dance emote as Forsaken.)
…Creepily enough, less than a minute after I started headbanging, a naked gnome ran up behind me and started slapping my ass. It was like he was waiting for it.
You have to keep an eye on the gnomes…they’re tiny so they can hide well. And I think some of the secret gnomish engineering recipes are for things like steam-powered sybian machines and rocket vibrators…it’s CREEPY!
Hmm, now I’m really wondering about all the non-gnomes I see riding those mechanostriders. Could there be a reason besides transportation?
Last night at level 78 I accepted a group invite from a lvl 78 DK who was doing the same quest. So we ran in, slaughtered all the lvl 77-78 mobs guarding the objective, and grabbed the objective. Then he got a head start on me when running back out, and when I caught up he was fighting a lvl 78 Elite that had spawned in the meantime. I figured the two of us could take the thing down so I jumped in too. But the thing was so big that I never actually saw the DK - I just saw the Elite fighting something. It wasn’t until the Elite had pounded me into paste that I realized the DK had fled as soon as I had drawn the Elite’s attention, leaving me to fight it by myself! :mad:
So then I was doing the next stage of the quest chain, and here came that same DK, and he sends me another group invite. “Yeah right,” I thought to myself. “You’re on your own, pal!” I declined this time and just sat back and let him clear all the mobs by himself. Then when he was gone I just waited around a bit, and pretty soon the “boss” mob respawned with none of his guards and I ran in and easily whacked him and got the quest item for myself.
It was kind of strange, though, when I was grouped with him - he was clearly doing way more damage than I was, yet I (a paladin) apparently was generating more threat. The DK could attack first, but as soon as I hit the mob it would turn and start attacking me, which is apparently what happened with that 78 elite. What’s up with that?
I’ve had bosses like Staghelm. He’s the department head whose “brilliant” plan didn’t work out the way he hoped, and he covers by puffing up with self-importance and putting his underlings “in their place”.
There are some fish called “Magic Eaters” in NR:
Magic Eater
Requires Level 70
Use: Restores 18480 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you aren’t real sure what will happen.
I’ve eaten them three times. The first and third times it just gave me a 60-minute buff of some sort. But the second time I got turned into a green dragonkin whelp for 60 seconds, during which time I couldn’t attack or cast spells.
There’s an ability in the first set of blood talents that causes you to generate less threat if you’re not in Frost (tanking) aspect - maybe 15% less if you take it 3 times? I forget. It also increases damage from blood strike (one of the basic DK attacks) if I remember right.
Did you have Righteous Fury on? It’s a tanking buff and it increases your threat generation, a lot.
Nope. I’m a retribution paladin. I run with my Retribution Aura on, and buffed with Greater Blessing of Might and Seal of Vengeance. Then my normal attack rotation goes like this:
Hit the mob with Exorcism and Judgment of Light
Crusader Strike, repeated as cooldowns allow, with auto-attacks in between.
I save stuff like Consecration and Divine Storm for when I get adds.
Actually, I just looked and I don’t even know Righteous Fury.
ETA: Er, wait, I do know Righteous Fury, but I never use it. It’s not even on my action bar.
The beautiful simplicity of a Paladin: hit it until it dies.
FWIW, I’m a Retadin too, but I use Righteous Fury all the time when I’m grouped with my GF. Even a Retadin’s an adequate tank compared to a Priest or Lock. Useless when soloing, though.
My guess is your DK buddy had the threat reduction talent. Paladins generate insane threat naturally anyway.