What server are you on? When the new patch hits, I can make a DK there and run you through it. Besides the quest you can get some good drops for your level in Deadmines. I think there’s a chance for a 2-hand axe, a pole arm, a hammer, a sword, a ring, and maybe a shield or other armor piece.
Are the zeppelins and I guess the ships a non death area? Last night as I boarded the zeppelin to the Undercity a high level alliance guy ran up, killed me and several other people on the zep and ran off. The zep had begun to move when he leapt off. After the transition screen I was alive again, so were the others.
I wonder what would have happened if he stayed on board? Would he have been booted by the game or arrived in the Undercity terminal with a bunch of high level hordies waiting?
Lightbringer. My pally (her name is Eilyssanna) is lvl 23 now, and successfully completed the Defias Traitor escort mission. (It didn’t take much effort this time, because there were a bunch of other players in the town there who had already killed off most of the Defias dudes.) So then I thought, “What the heck, let’s take a crack at it.” I managed to fight my way clear down to that big lvl 19 ogre bodyguard, who proceeded to kick my ass 
I did take out several of the lvl 17-18 “elite” enemies on the way down, though.
I did develop an effective tactic for dealing with the enemies down there (and I suppose it will work elsewhere) one at a time without getting mobbed. Sort of “pulling”, which paladins normally can’t do all that well. It only works when the enemies are spaced out a bit (as the miners are in this Instance). Basically, I creep just close enough to an enemy to hit it with Judgment of Light and get its attention, and then immediately start backing away, forcing the enemy to chase me. Once I’ve drawn them away, then I start laying into them. If I’ve done it right, they’re now far enough away from help that when they turn and flee I can catch them to deliver the final blow before they make it back to their friends. If I do happen to draw additional enemies, I just hit Consecrate. Of course, I first have to make sure the area I’m backing into is actually clear
Am I correct in my impression that enemies in Instances don’t respawn?
My paladin now has a couple companion pets: a Snowshoe Rabbit purchased from that dwarf lady near the ram farm on the way to Loch Modan (good grief she was hard to catch!) and a Silver Tabby Cat purchased from the Crazy Cat Lady (why is she holding a bloody cleaver?) near Goldshire.
Has anybody gotten the To All the Squirrels I’ve Loved Before achievement? So far my paladin has /love’d a cat, chicken, cow, rabbit, ram, sheep, and squirrel.
My tauren hunter, Chimtahna, has acquired a second pet just for fun - a strider bird I named Chickentahna 
I still want a tiger of some sort. I’ll name him Chimtiger. Or Catahna.
They do respawn, but the respawn timer is usually set for a reeeeeaaaaallly long time. So long, that in most cases, enemies won’t respawn before you finish the instance. But if you take too long, and/or wipe too many times (<shakes fist at Utgarde Keep>), they will eventually be back.
In general, if you can solo an instance you outlevel it by so much that most likely there is nothing useful for you in it, they’re designed for 5 (or more in some cases) people.
Are you in a guild, Mister Rik? I usually solo and shy away from guilding, but I took a chance and joined one (because they actually spoke to me before sending an invite) and its been great so far. teaming with guildmates on an instance makes it a lot of fun if your guilod isn’t made of 10 year olds.
I definitely want to do this instance, so I’d better get some help. I want those pants! the pally hasn’t found much in the way of good armor, so her chest and legs slots are filled with plain old Scale Mail purchased from the vendor in Lakeshire and enhanced with Medium Armor Kits obtained from a quest there.
Eilyssanna is in a guild called Noble Creed. I haven’t had much interaction with them, but from observing the chat channel it seems to be a mix of kids and mature players.
Aaaaaaaand we’ll call that experiment a failure. Took the chicken to Stanglethorn with me, and while it attacked enthusiastically and doggedly enough, it just didn’t generate enough threat to keep the lvl 36 raptors attention off me. So back to the cat.
Are you shopping at the auction house? The armor offered there by other players is almost always superior to what vendors sell.
And similarly you should be selling stuff you can’t use at the auction house. You often can sell things for 5x to 10x what a vendor will pay you.
Of course, sometimes you absolutely suck at getting new equipment…
I had a Warrior at somewhere between level 26 and 28, my first character. The mail leggings reward for killing VanCleef was still better than what I had at the time :smack: so I recruited a friend with her level 28-30 Hunter to walk with me through the Deadmines. A disturbing amount of loot we found was still useful to us. Useful quest rewards really seem to dry up after 20, when you need to start relying on instances, world drops, or crafters to keep yourself up to date on gear.
I haven’t tried that, but then I haven’t managed to save up enough gold to afford much of anything there either.
That might solve the gold problem
Yes. You can’t finish it until you get to Northrend, the Borean and Steam Frogs are only found in Borean Tundra.
Yes, but realize that you’re not going to be able to sell grey or white items on the AH. No one is going to buy them. Only greens or higher sell.
Not grey or white armor or weapons, but some white items like scorpid blood, various meats and fish, fins, skins, and the like WILL sell because they are needed by crafters.
It might be worthwhile to browse “trade goods” and “miscellaneous” on the AH to get an idea of the some of the white bits and pieces that do sell.
Some in-game etiquette issues I’d love to see Blizzard address:
• Mounts in towns/cities. This is especially bad in Ironforge. The area between the bank and the AH there … good lord it’s ridiculous the number of people thundering around that area on humongous mounts! Blizzard ought to introduce some kind of forced auto-dismount upon entering city gates. Half the time I can’t even see where I’m trying to go because there are so many mounts. Last night in Ironforge I was inside a shop, and when I turned to leave I found somebody had parked their mount right across the doorway. I walked through it, of course, but being unable to see exactly where and how far I was going, I almost walked straight over the edge of that gaping chasm that runs through Ironforge.
• “Parking violations”: Numbskulls who park their characters (often mounted) in front of a mailbox, vendor, banker, etc., and then go AFK, making it difficult to accurately click on the mailbox/vendor/banker. I suspect people do this just to be irritating.
• Line hoggers: Knuckleheads who stand right in front of a mailbox/vendor/banker while they do their crafting and the like. It appears they’re purchasing/withdrawing materials and then proceeding with their crafting on the spot. I suspect these people are just clueless. Move to the side or go stand on the lawn to do your crafting! To quote comedian John Pinnette, “Get out of the line!”
I also encountered an incredibly rude jerk last night. I was in Stranglethorn and had just killed and looted a tiger, but before I could skin it I had to engage another nearby tiger. So while I’m fighting this other tiger, another player ran up and skinned the first tiger (which I was practically standing on) and ran off. :mad:
Question about the Cartographer add-on: Is there any way to make that darned arrow point to the quest I want it to point to? I can be in Orgrimmar, trying to work on a quest near Orgrimmar, and Cartographer’s arrow is pointing the wrong direction and saying, "Visit Orgrimmar flight point to travel to Desolace for quest “such and such.”
I’m assuming your talking about Quest Helper + Cartographer. Yeah, you can set Quest Helper to only track a specific quest (or set of quests). I believe the command is “/qh filter watched”. Then go into your quest log and shift-click on the quest you want to track. There are other helpful filters too (filter by zone, by level).
Cities are big, walking is slow, mounts are not 
If blizzard did something like that, whoever made that decision would have 11 million angry players with torches and pitchforks out side his house very soon after such a change had gone live.
Aka the Lag Pit of Doom, when I started I would exit the inn and my screen would freeze for ten seconds and when it unfroze I would find myself at the bottom of the pit. One of the reasons I got more ram.
If you think that is bad, you should try it with neutral guards around and a pvp-enabled player of the opposite faction. If you accidentily click the player instead of the npc you attack him, which will upset the guards.
Sadly, there are people like this, not much you can do about it other than making sure you’ll be able to skin your kill asap before looting.
There’s an add-on called Informant that’s included in the Auctioneer suite. It tells you how much an item will sell to a vendor, how much to buy it from a vendor if you can, how much it goes for on the market based on historical data (not terribly accurate, I’ve found), what sort of things it’s used for (which professions, if it’s a quest item, etc), and some other useful stuff. I find it really handy when I loot a white item I’ve never seen before; it tells me right off if it’s something used in Cooking, or Alchemy, or Jewelcrafting, or what.
Grey is simple vendor trash which is never used for anything. If it can be used in even just one recipe, it’ll be white.
Yeah, I have both installed. I’ll try your suggestion. Does it work with those quests that, when I Shift-Click on them, return “This quest has no objectives to track”?
Yeah, but c’mon. Ironforge’s bank and AH are right across the “street” from each other. Is it really necessary to gallop back and forth, back and forth, back and forth between them? And most these mounted players aren’t even going anywhere — they’re just stamping and jumping around and making noise. I’d hoped it would get better once the Christmas tree was gone, but nooooo…
Yup. I’ve gotten in the habit of removing my fingers from the keyboard the instant I experience lag.
The people on mounts don’t bother me, and I guess I have just enough RAM not to suffer lag when it crowded in IF.
I try to be polite as possible to other players. Another player that I had teamed with a few days ago for a short time always invites me as soon as he logs on, even when we’re really far from each other. I finally told him that I don’t just accept blind invites like that. I’m not going to drop what I am doing and group up on the drop of a hat. He was cool and understood. This morning he invited me after a whisper to help on an instance with an another person. But from party chat I could see they were already in the instance, and had to go to gawd knows where in order to summon me at the meeting stone. They both died about theree times before reaching the stone. (I kept going on with my quest just watching the chat) When they reached it, I get a whisper that they made a mistake…the instnace requires lvl 40 and I was lvl 39 at the time. Before the team disbanded i politelyy reminded him that this was the reason I fdon’t just join any old group. If I had attempted to travel to them it would have been wasted time.
That’s a really good question. I’m pretty sure the answer is “no”. There are also a handful of quests that it just doesn’t work for (ones where you have to go to some intermediate destination and it just tries to send you to the end, for example).
I’ve been playing around with some other add-ons suggested by guild-mates. Lightheaded with TomTom seems to work well for a light quest helper - it basically lets you see the Wowhead comments and you can click on the user-provided coords to get waypoints and crazy-taxi arrows. Today I tried out Carbonite and I’m liking it quite a bit - it lets you control which quests to track better than QH does. I can’t really tell if it helps with resource usage or not.