Go to the Great Forge, right by the blacksmith trainer. You can cast in the lava there and catch fish.
It felt really good to wipe him out the first time. And Morladim, too. I don’t remember how many times he snuck up in that graveyard and two-shotted my mage.
The first time I went up there, it was empty like that. The next time (different toon), one of the world dragons had done his random spawn there, and I was just in time to watch a raid party from the other faction take him on. Impressive. That was before Burning Crusade, so it would be different now.
Ah, there is one area in Ashenvale I didn’t get when trying for the “Explore Ashenvale” achievement. It was right next to an elf settlement, in sort of a V-shaped area between some mountains. I had started that direction and then noticed some big-ass … thing … labeled “blah blah lvl ?? (Elite)” and I said, “I’ll come back later” and started to leave. Then something one-shotted me from behind. I never knew what it was, especially since I was a long way off from that thing. I didn’t think I was close enough to aggro it.
Right now at 0800 Eastern all the US servers are down for emergency maintenanace. I wpnnder what the issue is? I was only logging on to move my main from outside to an inn for the rested xp bonus before I went to work. I logged off with him outside last night because it was getting late, past my self imposed beddy bye time. (since I have to be at the company by 0630 for PT every frackin’ day…nothin like a 6 mile run before the roosters start crowin…:rolleyes:)
I was feeling a bit like what was mentioned upthread. All of the quests I had were either too difficult for me at the moment, instances (and I didn’t have time to form a party and do them) or too low. So I picked a quest that was pretty low for me (Lines of Communication, in the Hinterlands) that may at least give me enough xp to hit the next level. Most of the foes were conning green or grey (I know theres no xp for grey enemies but the green ones yield some).
Oh well, hopefully they’ll be up when I get back from work and I can level, finish up stuff in Un’Goro and find something else, por get some folks to team with and take some of my dungeon/instance missions before I outlevel them.
Another bit of flavor a lot of people miss: In Ironforge, go to the battlemaster room and look up at the ceiling. They have a launch tube for their biplanes running.
Our guild used the spot for our super secret RP guild meetings…all of us new players, the highest level was 40 and all on their first toon
One day in the middle of our Guild meet…A level {skull} Dragon shows up and wipes the complete guild, apparently its one of the spawn locations of the one of Dragons of Nightmare(world Bosses)
Very ironic since our guild was called Elucidated Brethren, based on the the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night…from Guards Guards
Is there a way to “reset” an instance?
I was running (solo) Scarlet Monastery Armory last night, looking for the tabard to drop from one of the 20 neophytes at the end. No droppy on that run, but I knew that it might take several runs, having read other accounts.
I exited the instance and re-entered, thinking that would reset it, but no: everyone I had killed was still dead. I tried entering another SM instance, then returning, but there was still the stench of rotting flesh.
This surprised me, because I had assumed that any instance resets once all party members (just me, in this case) exit. Is there some way to force it to reset, other than simply waiting XX minutes?
No WAY! I can’t believe I haven’t seen that - and I’ve been playing since the launch! (in my defense, I don’t play a lot of instances, and never farm them)
My money making tips in tribute:
On my alliance server (Eonar), Bear Flank and Giant Egg sell for incredibly high prices - about 5 gold each (not a stack, EACH). Bear Flank drops from the bears in Western Plaguelands, and Giant Eggs can be obtained from the Hinterlands owl-beasts or the Deadwind Pass’ birds. Drop rates on both are pretty good (30-50%).
Auction everything, absolutely everything. Auction off ANYTHING used in trade skills, especially cooking. Meats sell for insane prices. Cloth is a gold mine. Even some grey item stacks will sell for preposterous sums.
If you are just starting your career, take two gathering skills and use them to gather stuff to auction off. They are vastly more profitable than having any creation skill.
Do not assume that because something can be bought from a vendor, people will not pay huge amounts of money for it. I’m not giving away all my secrets, but I know of items that can be bought within 100 yards of the auction house, for 5 to 50 silver from a vendor, and then immediately sold on the AH for 5-30 gold. It’s amazing, but true. With an initial investment of a few gold you can rake in 40-80 gold for doing basically nothing.
When special events come around, like Winter Veil, get all the seasonal items you can from seasonal quests, put them in your bank, and auction them off six months later. People will pay stupid prices.
Buying items on the AH is often not a good long term decision. For most classes, reasonable work on questing and raiding will yeild drops and quest rewards almost as good as, or as good as, the items you can buy; plus, within two levels your new sword might be hopelessly inferior to the stuff you can now buy and use. You’re usually better off saving your money for mounts and enchants to your better items.
While I generally agree with this, it is sometimes worthwhile to check out prices, in case someone puts up an item for ridiculously cheap. I was able to pick up Bonechewer for 30 gold this way, which I consider a real deal, and I managed to get myself outfitted in plate armor before 45 for less than 100 gold. It sounds like a lot, but blues are really pretty sufficient for standard questing for about 10 levels past when they can first be equipped, and I can earn that much gold in a couple hours of mining.
I love my standard mining areas; I can usually get at least one stack of iron and one stack of mithril, plus an assortment of silver, gold, and truesilver, with no serious danger involved.
The emergency maintenance is to fix Arenas, which have been borked since the patch came out. This patch has been a nightmare for us raiders–terrible latency, random disconnects, and other ongoing annoyances, and the patch was supposed to fix these problems! Instead, it’s only made them worse. Between Arenas and Lake Wintergrasp, PvP has really made life miserable for those of us who raid.
I for one am getting very tired of Blizzard mucking around with the game and screwing things up to make things more balanced for the PvPers. Why not just separate the two and let people choose? Or at least put all the arena/battleground stuff on different servers (instance servers, I mean, not realms) from the PvP stuff so they don’t affect each other when one has problems. It’s simply unacceptable to have Northrend crash every time Wintergrasp changes hands.
Are the blue items dropped in an instance always the same? I notice they’re all BoP.
I soloed my paladin through Shadowfang Keep last night, since Jordan’s Smithing Hammer was the last item I needed for the quest to have Jordan Whatshisname in Ironforge make me a fancy hammer. It wasn’t especially difficult, seeing as how she’s lvl 34 now Of course, that meant no XP whatsoever for the entire run. Lots and lots of loot, though, and of course the achievement. I took the loot and disenchanted all of the blue items (though I kept a shield I liked better than the one I had) and then threw all the greens up on the AH.
Now I need to go back and run Deadmines, just to get that damned Edwin van Cleef quest out of my hair. I’ve been carrying that one too long. I made it far enough through DM a few levels ago to get the White Oak Lumber for the other quest and just hearthed out as soon as I had it.
On at least three occasions now, my pally has encounted NPCs who want me to enact “justice” by going into the Stormwind Stockade and assassinating a prisoner who was convicted of a capital crime and then given a reprieve. I’ve declined each time, since I didn’t figure I was prepared to go into the instance. Just out of curiosity, though, would completing those quests adversely affect my reputation with Stormwind?
On my tauren hunter toon, I’m getting really fed up with that Headhunting quest in Stranglethorn. Too damned many trolls, and they respawn way too quickly. I got killed, and by the time I made it back to my corpse most of the trolls had respawned and there was no place I could rez without drawing aggro. I was surrounded! So when I died again almost immediately I chose to just rez at the graveyard. Then, with the resurrection sickness in place, I had to make the deathrun back to Grom’Gol through crowds of crocolisks and raptors. I barely made it.
Nope, usually a boss in an instance has a selection of a few possible drops. Some will show up more than others. And not every blue drop is BOP, though most will be.
Of course, that meant no XP whatsoever for the entire run. Lots and lots of loot, though, and of course the achievement. I took the loot and disenchanted all of the blue items (though I kept a shield I liked better than the one I had) and then threw all the greens up on the AH.