World of Warcraft questions

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1001

Is there anyway to counter stealth on players that have it? I at the point where if I see an opposing faction druid or rogue in the same area, I just leave. I don’t seem to have a defense againstr them stealthing and attacking me unless I attack first. I’m rarely given the opportunity to do that, :frowning: and if I’m on a “kill X number of this” quest its not worth it to hang around for them to sneak up on me while engaged. They will, and quite frankly I’d do the same thing if I were them. (I did that to an opposing hunter this morning. I can’t stealth but he didn’t see me and he was already in a fight) But from my hunter’s point of view its easier to not be set up that way.

This is not serious, just me bellyachin’ Dept.:

I would like to know why izzit that all animal npcs hate me? Me specifically. Every.Single. Time I am fighting an alliance player (more like “being ganked by one”) the animals in the area aggro on me. Never the other guy, always ME! :mad:. I actually had a chance of winning one gank attempt when freaking wolves aggro to me and don’t attack the other guy. What the heck? Do orcs smell like hamburger or something?

Also someone mentioned in this thread or another recently about an add on that autodeclines duels. I may need to get that. Some guy challenged me to a duel while I’m waiting for the zep to STV ten freakin’ times in a row! Between duel request 7 and 8 he asks “y not”.

[ul]
[li]Um, its kinda obvious I’m waiting to board the zeppelin. Thats a clue. Heck, I boarded the zeppelin and he kept sending the challenges. Dude, I’m leaving the area. Use your noodle.[/li][li]We’re right in front of Orgrimmar! You can’t find a person willing to duel HERE? The front gate is like f’in’ Thunderdome! There are always duels out there. “y not” ask one of the people out there since they are obviously interested in dueling?[/li][li]Its been said before, but you know, if I decline the first 5 times, most folks would figure 5 more requests are most likely gonna piss me off rather than get me to agree. [/li][/ul]
I did reply to him as he leapt of the starting to move zep that “I don’t like to duel. Pls stop spamming me”. I figured I’d try reason rather than be a jackass and say something mean or put him on ignore. But geez, kiddo…social skills are your friend.

1002

I’d appreciate some help from Druids. I have two, one alli, one horde, both 22, feral tree for now, hopefully balance at some point.

I’ve been looking around, unsuccessfully, for a listing of which spells can be cast by cat and bear form. At first I thought none, but an example is Nature’s Grasp. I can cast it in animal form, and the tooltip on wowhead specifies that, but the ingame tooltip does not. I can’t remember how I happen to know I can use that in animal form, but I do. At least there’s a specified feral form of Faerie Fire in the spellbook. And aquatic form: go and stop are all it can do, right?

I don’t know what to put on my action bars in animal form. I’ve been switching to humanoid then casting healing, but it seems that if I put healing spells on my animal bars it’ll switch me to humanoid and cast in one move, not two.

Is there a resource I can look up to know what specific spells I can cast as animal, or at least put on my animal action bars? If not, can someone please spell (heh) it out for me?

/rant
And now, what’s driving me most crazy in the game, is the massive changes to all my classes hitting us over and over again in patches. My 80 hunter has given up playing (with 66/75 minipets even!) due to the beastmaster nerfbomb, and now 3.1 will be adding a new tier for BM to recoup some small amount of dps. Hunters had massive changes with Wrath, due especially to a reworked pet system.

To cope with Hunter Limbo, I’m alting my ass off, but mage, warlock, and druids all have changes coming in 3.1 too. It’s hard enough to keep alts’ playstyle straight when switching toons, but keeping up with all these changes make it really hard.
/end rant

1003

If it costs mana you can’t use it bear or cat form. Off the top of my head the only spells you can use in both caster form and feral forms are Nature’s Grasp and Barkskin.

You can attack with your equipped weapon and gather herbs too. :slight_smile:

With the exception of the previously mentioned Nature’s Grasp and Barkskin, cat and bear form can only use the spells found in the Feral tab of your spellbook.

1004

That helps tons, thank you!

1005

Upon further thought, how do you handle self-healing while in feral form? Do you have a macro that heals you and reverts you back to feral form? Or is there some trick to it?

1006

Ha! I wanna know why NPCs won’t attack anything! Not consistently, anyway. I mentioned earlier there’s an NPC town guard in Lakeshire who kept running straight up the cliff behind the town to steal my kills when my pally was fighting the gnolls up there. Meanwhile, my tauren hunter was fighting murlocs on the coast of the Swamp of Sorrows and managed to aggro a crowd of 4 or 5 of them, so I fled back into the swamp and these murlocs chased me right into the middle of the small orc encampment there and beat me to a pulp while all the NPC orcs stood around saying, “I din’t see nuttin’!” IT’S A MURLOC-HUNTING CAMP! THERE ARE MURLOCS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CAMP! POKE 'EM WITH YOUR POINTY THINGS!" AAAAGH!"

1007

I’d laugh but I feel you, bro. I just landed in Grom Gol to take the flight to stonard in order to get to HP. But the base was under attack. An ally warrior chased me up to the flightmaster and none of the NPCs (save one) did anything! “Hello, guys, theres an ENENY slaughtering your comrades in the base! Little help?”…:smack:

1008

If you want to cast an actual healing spell you have to leave the feral form and recast it manually once you’ve cast the heal. These days you can use potions and bandages while feral form however and at level 36 you get Frenzied Regeneration that can be used in bear form to convert rage into health.

1009

Same thing happened to me. I was in Valiance Point(?) in Northrend. One of the first quests sends you to get some anti-venom from a boat in the middle of the friggin’ town. I run down not expecting to get mobbed, and run out when I do. Baddies follow me *into the Keep *where I get killed by three. You’d figure a guard would notice and help out.

1010

If you have to heal while killing a mob you’re probably taking on stuff that’s a little to tough for you. Better to go a few mobs, shift out, heal to full, shift back and resume killing for a few more mobs. That said if you absolutely must there’s lots of druidic tricks to help you out. Barkskin lets you get a heal off no matter how many mobs are beating on you. Particularly tough mobs can be rooted and walked away from to heal (or flee). Very very tough mobs can be bashed to give you time to get a root off. These of course should only be used in situations where improved leader of the pack or frenzied regen won’t be enough.

In general though, stay in cat form and only heal between fights.

On preview I see you mentioned balance as an aspiration. I play balance druid quite a bit (swapping between balance and resto as my raid demands) and unfortunately I have to say that to get the best out of it you kinda need specialist gear. The rewards you get while questing are not as suited to you as the stuff feral gets. That said the first time you 1 shot a level 80 mob with starfire makes it seem worthwhile.

1011

Ding 70! Yay! I’m flying to Wildhammer as I type this to buy my riding and my griffon. Yay flying!

1012

Grats, sir!

1013

Heh. Thanks.

I realized after I bought and learned the Snowy Gryphon that there are skeletal flyers to be had at Acherus… :smack:

Although I don’t remember how much they are. I have about 300 gold left out of 1100 I’d managed to save in the 15 levels since 55. I had a bunch of auctions up this weekend but almost all of them expired unbid. I don’t know if there just wasn’t anyone playing this weekend or if I was led astray on auction prices by some high rollers crowding out the good prices.

1014

Well, after taking my snowy gryphon and finishing the “Explore Outland” achievement, I’m on my way to Stormwind to catch a ship to Northrend…it seems a shame to go back to being grounded for another 7 levels, though.

1015

I’ve been sick in bed with bronchitis this weekend, but at least I could sit on the laptop, ding 70, and make my roflcopter. :smiley: And now I’m broke as hell. But man I sure look cool!

Grats to you also, jayjay!

1016

Thanks! And congratulations to you, too! I never had the patience or fiscal skills to level up engineering. One of the things I really like about Northrend is the variation in the “taxi” flying models…it’s not all gryphons or hippogryphs or wyverns or bats. There’s a freakin’ DRAGON not far from Valiance Keep that acts as a flight point (and you ride on a dragon in flight) and there’s a gnome airport a little farther from the keep that you ride on a gnomish flying machine.

1017

I find it utterly baffling that you can’t get a flying mount until 70 and then can’t get Cold Weather Flying until 77. I especially can’t understand the former now that Northrend is open. Where before it might be justifiable in that the flying mount would help you get around the Outlands for the endgame content, now you spend 10 levels in Outland, then head to Northrend, where you still can’t use your flying mount until 77. I presume there’s still reasons to go to Outland after 70, but they can’t be as numerous as they were before the level cap was raised.

1018

Yeah the dragon FP for we Hordies is on Amber Ledge. I squee’d with delight when I found out he was my taxi! And one of our guys in Warsong Hold sends us down on a magic carpet, which is pretty nifty. One way only service, though.

1019

I think he’s a neutral flight point, because it’s the same place for Alliance.

1020

Oh! My server swings so far toward Horde side I guess I just assumed it was only for us since I haven’t seen any allies!