Okay, so Varian is the one who was kidnapped by the Defias/Onyxia? That would explain the various references I’ve encountered to a “boy king”. Those must be referring to Prince Anduin. I was having difficulty reconciling the fact that Varian has been standing there in Stormwind Keep every time I’ve visited it with quest text that refers to a “boy king” (which Varian obviously isn’t).
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ETA: I started playing around 2.8, I think, and the update to 3.0 followed fairly soon after, so I may have never had a chance to visit SW Keep before the 3.0 patch.*
Speaking of updating scripts, I wonder if they’ve fixed the (current as of yesterday) bug where most of the SW Harbor Guards weren’t handing out the holiday items. That bug made completing the SW Gift Pack incredibly difficult. It’s no wonder people were camping the other city guards — the largest concentration of guards in the city was in the harbor, and they weren’t working.
Yep. The throne room in Stormwind used to have Bolvar Fordragon, Prince Anduin and Lady Katrina Prestor. When people used to do the quest turn-in from the Prison Break quest (escorting the former prisoner through Stormwind and into the castle), the scripted event for that revealed that Lady Prestor was actually Onyxia, and her disguise would drop (as would the disguises of most of the throne room guards to reveal ugly dragonkin). For a long time, her model was of one of the female dragonkin casters, but a year or two ago a patch made her actually turn into her full dragon form during that event. It was always a good show! I used to make sure I ran to the throne room every time I saw a group escorting him through the city so I could watch it.
The first time I actually saw King Varian in Stormwind was during the harbor event that more or less introduced Wrath…a huge attack on the harbor by undead and those ice dragons. The king was up on that raised plaza with the GIANT lion statue directing the defenses. Shocked the heck out of me!
Thanks, I’ve stolen that. Haven’t had anyone figure out the earworm yet, though. The Undercity denizens are a bit difficult to manage – I’ve found more females than males. Guess I get to try the cologne and see how it works.
The guards in Darnassus are 100% female, and my human female paladin had no trouble putting on the cologne and telling the elf girls how much she loves them
That actually made obtaining a Gift of Adoration (one that would count for the Nation of Adoration achievement) remarkably easy - all I had to do was look for a male elf with a heart floating over him - I’d know he wasn’t a guard.
My human pally easily found the questgiver in SW and completed the quest chain involving the perfume & cologne, but my tauren hasn’t had the same luck. I assume the Horde questgiver is somewhere in Org? My human pally, my tauren hunter, and my nelf druid are the only three of my numerous characters who will be able to complete that one. All the rest are of such low level that the only way for them to complete it would be to walk a very long way, since most of them haven’t progressed much farther than the areas immediately following their starting areas (i.e. the first town you find with an inn) or their capitol cities, and so don’t have any flight points. Still, I can at least take all my females to their capitols and try to obtain [del]Sexy[/del] Lovely Black Dresses for them Speaking of those, my pally managed to obtain three, so she auctioned two of them for 1g each. Wonder if I could have gotten more?
On a completely different subject, how much RAM do I need to install to make entering SW a non-lockup-the-machine action? I’ve got the stock 1GB in my 2.4GHz Intel iMac, and I think I can upgrade it to 4GB.
There’s one in Org - should be an orc standing near the bank with an exclamation point over his head. He talks about falling in love with a beautiful undead female, but his friends ridiculed him, so he left her, but regrets what he’s done. (IIRC, there’s one in TB as well who fell for the same woman.) You bring the letter to UC, give it to her, then a NPC nearby says ‘hey you’ and that triggers the quest.
My husband’s (male) shaman got a Lovely Black Dress and my character hasn’t. Phooey.
So that’s how it works. My tauren got (and completed) the first part of the quest in TB, but it was the first day of the festival and UC was such a clusterfuck that I never even noticed the second questgiver there. (When I first arrived at UC on the zeppelin, there was a literal … horde … of people on the tower waiting to board the zep. That many people up there had to have violated some kind of safety code ) When my human paladin did it, she also didn’t notice the second questgiver until a bit later, so I didn’t make the connection between the two. I’ll tell you what, Blizzard should know by now not to put questgivers and the like in front of the bank. That area is always so crowded anyway; adding holiday questgivers to the same area just makes it almost impossible to navigate.
Yeah, my male tauren got one in his first Gift of Adoration. And he looked stunning in it, lemme tell you Actually, with the guild tabard over it, it just looked like he was wearing a black robe, and it looked kinda cool. Alas, since it displaces the chest armor, it had to go.
I think they nerfed ore. I haven’t found as much of any ore as I used to.
I found a website once that had a list of good places to mine with what what kind of ore and places it spawns. It seems to be gone now. I’ll have to keep looking since I wanted to spend some time raising my mining level and of course selling ore to make some extra money.
They may have shaken up the distribution. I’ve certainly had a harder time finding iron and mithril in my usual haunts, but on a new character wandering around in Elwynn last night, I kept tripping over copper, usually two veins right next to each other.
Arg. I’d forgotten that my druid’s northernmost flight point in the Eastern Kingdoms was Theslamar in Loch Modan. She still had to trot from there, through the Wetlands, through Arathi Highlands and into Hillsbrad Foothills to finish the quest. I don’t know what it is with this druid and bears, but she seems to have an uncanny talent for pulling aggro on them. I swear, after entering Hillsbrad Foothills she was managing to aggro bears from fifty yards away, doing nothing more than trying to run past them. I’ll tell you, it took a very long time to sneak all the way around Durnholde Keep and into the mountains when I was forced to make the whole trip in stealthed cat form (50% movement speed). But I had to - every time I unstealthed to speed things up, bears would come charging at me from fifty yards away. This is basically the same problem she was having in Darkshore, but at least in Darkshore she was actually fighting and generating enough threat to draw in the bears. Bears are my druid’s murlocs, I’m tellin’ ya! Maybe it’s because she has the “Bear” facial tattoo.
Nevertheless, she managed to complete the quest. And I have to say, the Lovely [color] Dress looks much better on a night elf than on a human. It just seems to drape her figure better. At first I thought it was because night elves have a more slender build than humans, but I saw a few female draenei wearing their dresses, and they looked stunning in them; if anything, the draenei are curvier than humans.
My druid finally joined a guild, and let me tell you, I’ve never been so glad to obtain a tabard. The reason being the camel toe her current leather britches appear to give her. Actually, her pants also make her butt look awful too, which is why she’s the only one of my characters I’d left the cloak visible on. I wonder why that happens with the pants. If I take the pants off so she’s in her underpants, she has a perfectly shaped butt. Put the pants back on her, and suddenly it looks like a potato. It’s like Blizzard put a great deal of care into making sure the female character’s breasts heaved and bounced realistically, while completely forgetting that the overwhelming majority of the time we’re looking at these things from behind.
You know, I totally forgot to be helpful in my last post. I highly recommend the Gatherer addon, along with the Wowhead database import. It effectively works like MapWoW, except the nodes show up on your in-game map and minimap. There’s also a HUD you can get that will project the node locations on the main screen. Most nodes turn out to be duds, but having them right there and visible makes it vastly easier to sweep a zone.
Naturally, if you don’t want to bother with an addon, MapWoW is a great resource too.
A very quick question - I picked up a new ring last night (from another Deadmines run) and I can’t equip it while wearing my existing ring yet I have two ring slots. Any ideas?
Does it have a level limitation - in other words, are you too low level? There will be red text about the level on the ring if this is the case.
Does it have the same name as the ring you’re wearing? If so, it may be considered a “Unique-Equipped” ring - in other words, you can only have one of those rings equipped, though they will let you carry around another to, say, give to someone else.
What error message do you get when you try to put it into the other ring slot?
This is sort of an “is it plugged in?” suggestion, so forgive me if you’ve thought of this already. Are you just right-clicking on the ring in your inventory to equip it? You need to drag it to the second slot, or the rings will just switch places.
I can wear one of the rings on it’s own but not both of them at the same time, if say I have one equipped and I try to drag the other from my bag to the slot it doesn’t let me ‘drop’ it into the empty ring slot.
It might be me being dumb I only had a few minutes after the run last night to check my loot I will try again tonight. Thanks.
Not only this, but what’s your character and server? We can look your guy up on The Armory and compare what you have equipped with the ring you’re trying to equip.
I can’t remember the name of the ring I took off (maybe Willow something?) but my new ring is Lavishly Jeweled Ring dropped by Glinid. I’ll check everything tonight and either return begging for help with all the data or apologising for stupidity.
My wild guess is that you have your ring in the right ring slot (the lower of the two ring slots), and that you’re accidentally trying to drop the other ring into your first trinket slot, immediately below it? Try dragging the second ring into the slot above the one where you’re wearing the current ring.
Speaking of those, my pally managed to obtain three, so she auctioned two of them for 1g each. Wonder if I could have gotten more?
) When my human paladin did it, she also didn’t notice the second questgiver until a bit later, so I didn’t make the connection between the two. I’ll tell you what, Blizzard should know by now not to put questgivers and the like in front of the bank. That area is always so crowded anyway; adding holiday questgivers to the same area just makes it almost impossible to navigate.