One of my favourite tricks for this is to use the mail! Buy a bunch of what you need, mail it to another of your toons, then log on to that toon & hit return on the mail.
Log back on to your original toon. Now the items are sitting the mail for 30 days. They aren’t taking up room in your bags, or your bank, and you can usually find a mailbox pretty much anywhere. Just take what you need to carry around while questing. When you go back to town to sell junk/repair/turn in quests, you can just grab more food from the mail if you need it. Much easier than travelling all the way back to a distant city to buy more.
If I had given it more thought, I probably would have figured it out. I was seeing high “Bear” prices and low “Monkey” prices because I was looking at plate armor, and the classes that wear plate benefit a lot more from strength than dexterity. Hence, not much demand for “Monkey” on plate :smack:
Me too
Yeah, but it takes so freakin’ long to drink. Not a problem when the mobs are spread out and I can feel safe sitting down, but a big problem in crowded areas like, say, hunting those thrice-damned murlocs. I swear those little bastards can respawn in the time it takes to drink. Since I was burning mana so quickly (i.e. draining my mana bar killing a mere 2-3 murlocs), actually finding a safe place to sit and drink was quite difficult.
Good god I’m getting tired of murlocs.
So, still mainly useless for hunters. Any mob that runs up to me and whacks me with an axe probably isn’t a caster.
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Do you have The Burning Crusade enabled? Head on over to Hellfire Peninsula via the Blasted Lands. You’ll get some significant gear upgrades within the first handful of quests, too.
Once your pets get to a certain level, you should rarely have to feed them. My dragonhawk has carrion feeder which allows it to feed on nearby bodies to gain happiness. My gorilla and Devilsaur both have an ability that allow them to gain happiness off of growl. I think I’ve only had to feed my devilsaur once or twice since I got him a week ago.
The place it most drives me nuts is spellcast interruption. If I get whacked while I’m casting, it increases the casting time. If I whack a mob while casting, it doesn’t affect his casting time.
Just a correction that may help: Aspect of the Viper is the spell you want, which will generate mana faster. The trick is to remember to turn it off when your mana bar is full, because your dps is cut in half while it’s on. I recently found a simple addon that gives an audible reminder to reapply **Aspect of the Hawk **(or later, Aspect of the Dragonhawk).
When you’re in a group and want to toss mark beforehand; it’s not needed by game mechanics, but it will help your group know which mob to attack, tell the leader that you’re indeed aiming for the right mob etc before the fight starts; some tanks hate marking (it’s not so bloody hard, I have shortcuts for all marks and a macro for the kill order I use) so your big shiny arrow is the pointer the group should follow.
I know you guys think I’m OCD’ ing over this, but I still think that this thread could be re-structured into a handy-dandy little book called The Straight Doper’s Guide To World Of Warcraft, and proceeds from its sale could go into running this place.
Pochacco, I respecced as you suggested, and also found a slightly better bow on the AH, and there’s been an immediate improvement. Thanks
On another subject: I’ve mentioned that I installed the addon “BugMeNot” to automatically decline duel requests, since I have no interest in dueling/PVP. So two days in a row while trying to level my new rogue, the same character challenged me to a duel. Three times each day. She (it was a female toon) challenged me once, and was automatically declined. So she immediately challenged me a second time. Okay, I can see that — maybe I misclicked the first time (the other person doesn’t know the “decline” is automatic). Then she challenged me a third time … okay, somebody’s not getting the message. :rolleyes:
ItemRack addon: Is there a standalone version of this? The only version I’ve found is the one tied into TitanBar, and both times I’ve installed it I’ve gotten error messages about missing dependencies, and I can’t figure out what I’m missing (I have TitanBar installed).
Zul’Gurub: Do I have to go all the way to the entrance of the instance to get credit for “Discovered Zul’Gurub”? I’m trying to finish the “Explore Stranglethorn Vale” achievement, and I can’t seem to get this one. There are “Lvl ?? (Elite)” mobs guarding the approach to the instance and I can’t even get close.
You have to get a ways up the path/stairs, but not all the way to the instance entrance. When I completed it (circa lvl 40), it was a suicide mission. But I did get the achievement, so yay?
You could wait a little bit to do it, or if you’re really hot on getting the achievement now, you could corpse run, which is where you just remove any gear that takes durability damage (everything besides neck, cloak, shirt, tabard, rings, and trinkets), and run as far as you can before you die, then when you run back, get as far past your corpse as possible before accepting the ress, and repeat. It will take a little while, but if you’re naked, it won’t cost you anything, and once you get it, you can just try to ress away from the mobs and hearth, or corpse run back out.
If I were you though, I wouldn’t worry too much about getting the achievement now, since you can always come back at a higher level to get it.
Some people are idiots. I was running a guildie through a couple lvl 20ish instances with my lvl 80 warlock, and during travel, some guy 10 levels above him was repeatedly challenging him to duels. I was standing behind this guy, so I targeted him and challenged him. Either mistaking it for a counter-challenge from my friend or not seeing what level I was, he hit accept. Bam, dead. He whined “not fair” and I replied, “Neither is challenging someone when you’re 10 levels higher.”
amused Kutkal the troll hunter was running around in the clearcut vale with all the goblin loggers and the watermill last night, having a grand time exploring. “Ooh, that looks like I could get out of the water over yonder! …Hmm.”
Swim across, climb out.
Climb up the hill. Do the inevitable when faced with a cliff and water below. “BANZAAAAI!”
Yup, Carrion Feeder (Cunning), Guard Dog (Tenacity) and Bloodthirsty (Ferocity) allow you to never worry about feeding your pet again. Bloodthirsty is the best - it only takes 4 talent points to get it, whereas the other two require your 7th talent point. Guard Dog and Bloodthirsty are passive abilities, but Carrion Feeder will need to be placed on your action bar and you’ll have to remember to click it after a kill when your pet’s happiness wanes.
Also, check the AH for “Glyph of Mend Pet”. You’ll generate some happiness for your pet whenever you cast mend pet on it.
I’m really liking my Ferocity pets. Between Bloodthirsty (pet heals and happiness on attack), Heart of the Phoenix (free auto pet rez every 10 minutes), and Lick Your Wounds (pet heals to 100% every 3 minutes), it seems like they’re at full health all the time. My wolf is specced into Call of the Wild, and that plus Ferocious Inspiration plus the wolf’s Ferocious Howl gives me great AP buffs. My cat is specced into Rabid and is a DPS machine.
I really can’t recommend enough the use of a Gorilla, especially for mid-level questing. When the quest says “Kill X mobs” or “Kill mobs until you have Y McGuffins”, and you find a group of mobs, send your gorilla in on one, let him attack, then send him for another, let him attack, then send him for a third. If the mobs are a lower level you may be able to send him for a fourth. When he’s tanking the crowd, have him thunderstomp and he’ll keep aggro on all of them. Then volley and let the ape do most of the work.
If you take a gorilla into an instance, make sure you turn the autocast off on thunderstomp. The mobs may pull your pet away, and the AOE on thunderstomp
will then pull half a room’s worth of elites on you.
Heh. I did the same thing with Ogrimmar. I may have been able to run past closely and escape, but it was a lot more fun to take my level 66 night elf, mount up, and charge right the hell in.
FYI, I got the accomplishment and died so hard that the game actually lagged. Totally worth it.
Aktep. I like my gorilla, but it’s been worth the 50+ points spent in beast mastery to get the devilsaur. She pulls enough aggro that I don’t face much in the way of melee. Thus far, beast mastery is my favorite PvE build out of the three.
I have a gear question. I spent a lot of gold to get “blue” items for my hunter, ones that I could use at my then level, arounmd 54. Now I’ve gotten several pieces of gear of higher level, since I am pushjing 62, but they are “green”. the green items have higher bonuses on them too. But I thought blue items were better…I’ve switched to the green gear items so far, but how does this work? Is there a cut off on items according to levels?
