Throw out that concept. That’s true for items of the same level (like a lvl 54 blue vs. 54 green, or 62 blue vs 62 green), but once you level up, you will certainly find “lower” color items for your level that are definite improvements over the old stuff.
When the Burning Crusade expansion came out, the joke at the time was “green is the new purple” - people were selling to NPC vendors various hard-earned purple gear from raids because they were getting better green items as rewards from starter quests out in Outland. Look at the stats, not necessarily the color.
And exactly the same thing happens again when you get to Northrend. A lot of the starter quest rewards are better than the high level Outlands gear.
If you use addons at all, I’ve just come across one recently (others might already know this one) that I’m now in luuuuuurve with :), called RatingsBuster. It’s very handy for comparing the stats of gear, to let you know the differences between items.
When you hover over an item, it displays some stats on the new piece of gear vs your currently equipped item. It takes into account the attributes that are useful for whatever class you’re playing (e.g. shows health, attack power, dodge, parry, block etc. for warriors, shows mana, mana regen, etc. for mages).
It can be pretty handy for making a decision as to whether a piece of gear that you’ve picked up is better than what you are wearing. You can see how the stats will impact you, and pretty clearly shows that yeah, high level greens can be much better than some lower level blues.
I have exactly that situation with two pairs of cuffs – as others have said, the stats are better on the greens all around, so those are the ones that I’m wearing. I suspect I’ll probably just disenchant the blues since they were bop. \
I didn’t find that at all. My rogue had full Kara-level BC gear when WotLK came out, and I wore it unchanged until level 78+. Even now at L80 I’m replacing L70 gear, not because it’s no good but because my guild thinks it must be no good and won’t allow me on Naxx runs if I wear it.
Mind you I probably sold a lot of quest rewards I shouldn’t have, because I was told that as a raiding rogue Hit was king and none of the new gear had Hit bonuses. Now they tell me I shouldn’t have bothered getting to 320+ hit, 99 was good enough and I should have been concentrating on Expertise and other stuff instead :rolleyes:
Well, yeah, full Kara gear should last you a while…till mid 70’s at least. I should have clarified high level quest reward gear, as opposed to high level instance gear.
I found that my druid who I hardly ever get to take on instances (because my warrior is the guild’s main tank and no-else in our very small guild wants to roll a tank, do they, noooo, but they expect me to do all the work leading dungeon runs and doing all the marking…err…where was I? :p) had quest reward gear from lvl 68-70 quests in Outlands that got replaced pretty much as soon as we hit Northrend.
My warrior’s Kara stuff (not that I had much…just a few pieces from a pity run that a friend’s guild took us on) lasted until about 77-78.
In your login screen, the one with the list of toons, click on Addons. The list of your addons will pop up. Those with missing dependencies have the name in red. Mousing over those should tell you which dependency is missing.
It’s possible that instead of ItemRack you’ve gotten only the “addon that lets ItemRack hang from Titan.” Hie thee to curse and look for ItemRack, making sure you get ItemRack and not ItemRackSomethingElse.
When I’m going after some named mob for a quest and get there just as someone else kills him, I appreciate the new faster respawn times. But there are other times it drives me nuts. Several times I’ve gotten into corners where there’s a group of mobs, and I just can’t kill all of them before the first ones down start respawning. In one case, I killed a mob and he respawned while I was looting him. I killed him again, and he respawned again, so I ended up fighting him while standing on TWO of his corpses.
A lot of people said this, but I haven’t found it to be so. My mage is level 74, and I still haven’t replaced a bunch of my level 70 purples and blues.
Let me once more recommend WoWmatrix. I haven’t had to wade through Curse since I got it; installations are 100% automatic; new addons are trivially easy to find; and my addons are never out of date.
Painfully. He’ll have to corpse-leapfrog until he gets to the lake in the Valley of Honor(?). He should be able to find a spot on the far side of that pond that’s beyond anyone’s aggro range and fish away.
oooo he is a hunter, no stealth for him … looks like the nekkid dwarf run for him
<evil grin>
that beggers the question, main gate or the back river gate … I think he would have better luck trying the river gate on an epic mount … it doesnt have that hard double sharp corner that is the main gate, and i think it may be less guarded. Ill have to scout it for him in a baby troll
The thing is it’s actually a longer distance from the river gate, and you pretty much have to go through narrow/heavily populated areas either way (either the area between the bank and the auction house, the Cleft of Shadow, or right past Thrall’s place with all the elite special forces guards).
On the river gate side, you have two guards that stand on the west end of the bridge.
(They were able to dismount my lv70 mage in one shot.) You have a couple NPC vendors that you may need to stay away from, because I don’t remember if they summon (spawn) guards or not. (Snake non-combat pet vendor wanders up and down the trail, there is a staff vendor in a hut.)
You’ll come around to where the PvP rewards hut is (I think that’s what it is), and there is a guard (or two?) standing in front of that.
Keeping to the left, and going downslope, there is usually a guard standing near the fruit vendors hut.
Then you get into Thrall’s valley, and there is a couple guards standing in front of Thralls throne palace. (The Lunar festival coin Elder is just beyond them to them north, outside the palace.)
Turning east, you head through the drag. I think there is a mounted guard wandering the road in here, as well as two guards standing at the tunnel going to the valley of honor. There are many vendor NPC’s, as well.
When you get into the Valley of honor, hang an immediate left, and the fishing lake is there in front of you. You can head to the northern side of it, and you should be out of aggro range of NPC’s. However, being a Horde city, you will remain flagged. Pick an “off” hour to do your fishin.
Yes there are, but if he’s using it he should make sure to dismiss his pet beforehand.
I used one to reach the Elder in Thunder Bluff but had forgotten to dismiss Calladita… oops :smack:!
MrAru may want to use the trip to do the instance in Orgrimarr as well, it’s about the level of the Deadmines. mlees, aren’t you sending him to the small pool where the fishing trainer is? The larger and shallower lake where the first aid trainers are, in Spirit Valley, is very close to the river door… just run in, die or FD if you didn’t bring an invis potion, then hang a right into Spirit Valley and go all the way to the south edge to fish.
Yes, I was. I wasn’t sure if you could fish that first pool, or not. (I never tried.) I figured the valley of spirits pools was too close to various NPC’s to risk fishin there, unless he’s above level 70.
I know there is a special fish (croc) you can catch in Ogrimmar and Ironforge, with an acheivement for catching both. I don’t know if the croc is tied to the valley of honor or not.
(I also wanted to point out where the elder was. )
Nava’s right - the pool in Spirit Valley is a better choice for an Alliance person looking for the Diplomat badge.
My main is a Horde-side hunter and I’ve done the daily fishing quest many a time in that pool (because it’s right where the portal from Shatt dumps you in Org).
MrAru is probably going to have to suck up at least one death though - easier just to run to the pond and take the death then take the res as far back towards the wall as possible when he runs back.
You’ll have basically no chance at catching Old Crafty (the Org special fish), but since the base chance is something like one in ten thousand of catching him anyways, that’s sort of a no-harm, no-foul.
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