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Fair enough.
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Thanks - I’ll give that a try.
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The Tauren graveyards aren’t much fun either. All these framework things all over the place …
My biggest peeve with death is when i narrowly win against several foes, find a safe place to eat and drink to regain mana and health and have an enemy respawn three feet away from me. 
You always have about five seconds to get out of its aggro zone. Mobs that are just respawning don’t become aware of you immediately.
Some walls don’t have anything on the other side. The whole world is really just a big stage set. If you could walk through every wall that would let you walk right out of the world. (You actually used to be able to do that in certain locations with modelling bugs.)
I know. A few times they caught me by surprise.
heh I’ve had monsters spawn right smack on top of me, and completely ignore me to go running after that guy over there 
Hey, I haven’t quite figured out this chat thing yet. I did the “/who Burning Dog” and got a list of several of you (“you” as in Burning Dog members - I don’t know if any of the names listed belong to people contributing to this thread). Blindly added all the names to my Friend List. Then I typed “/chat SDMB”, and identified myself as “Mister Rik from SDMB looking for Burning Dog invite”, but I don’t think it went through the chat channel - the words just appeared over my head - and I didn’t get any response.
Anyway, i only have two Horde characters at the moment - my main character is a lvl 21 Tauren Hunter named Chimtahna. The other is a lvl 2 Troll Shaman whose name I can’t remember off the top of my head. If somebody would be so kind as to send a Burning Dog invite, I’d be grateful
Maybe y’all could share your character names here?
I’m also having fun discovering the various actions like /dance. I’ve been just randomly typing “/<verb>” to see if anything happens, and I’ve discovered these others so far:
/laugh, /cry, /kiss (and found it’s helpful to /kiss the opposite-gendered Winter Revelers), /wave, /cheer, /flirt, /blush, /point, /kneel
After seeing the fetching way the female night elves bounce up and down occasionally I tried /bounce, and that gets me text that says, “You bounce up and down”, but there’s no actual bouncing.
Any more?
I just got the guild invite today. I’m a lvl 31 Tauren hunter named Jagaya. Sounds like you’ll be heading down some of the paths with Chimtahna that I’ve done recently - let me know if there are any questions.
To talk in the SDMB channel you need to do a /join SDMB first. Then /6 (or whatever it assigns to the channel) and type your message. I never even talked there but someone (I can’t recall who right now) saw me there and sent the invite.
I’ve got one! Where the hell is Silverpine? I’ve been carrying around this damned necklace forever that some undead chick in Thunder Bluff gave me to place on her late husband’s tomb. And now I’ve got another quest sending me to Silverpine with no clue as to where it is. I’ve got QuestHelper, but it’s rather single-mindedly pointing me toward another quest.
Where are the gnolls? I know they’re across from the garrison and on the other end of the forest, but I have yet to run into one and I keep getting clobbered by bears.
Thanks
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From Kalimdor, you have to go to Orgrimmar and get on the zeppelin to Undercity. Once the zeppelin gets in at Undercity, go across to the city. You’ll go through a courtyard, then a throne room, and then a kind of tomb. Go down one of the tunnels from the tomb thing and get on an elevator. It’ll take you down to Undercity proper. Once you’re down there, get off the elevator and run around the ring to find the flight point. Grab that, then go back up the elevator, through the tomb and throneroom and courtyard and out into Tirisfal Glade. Get on the road that passes by the entrance to Undercity and follow it either east or south (I’m unclear on the facings at the moment). Keep going until you come to the 3rd path on your right (which will be about 1/3 down into the zone), turn right onto that path. Follow it into the outpost of Sephulcre. The grave is in that graveyard…if you mouse around, the gear cursor will come up when you’re over the right one.
The gnolls are right in that little piece of land between the road the the two rivers, directly across from the garrison.
Where are the cheez-its?
Third shelf down, behind the Captain Crunch.
Yeah, I’ve got that quest still in my list too - I should probably just abandon it but I figure I’ll get to the Undercity eventually. QuestHelper is great, but I can’t seem to figure out how to tell it to ignore a quest - I can get Cartographer to ignore waypoints, but that’s not quite the same thing. I’m sure such a simple function exists, I just haven’t found it. QuestHelper is very good at pointing you to the quests that will give the most XP (which is it’s point, I guess…).
So yeah, Lvl 32 and still haven’t been to Undercity (although I think I’m on the way now). Finally made it over to the Eastern Kingdom today - lots of higher-level mobs, died a few times… same story in Desolace.
Oh, let me guess - took a zeppelin from Orgrimmar or the boat out of Ratchet? Yeah, that might be a lil high level for you in Stranglethorn Vale. Take the other zeppelin out of Org and you’ll go to UC. Talk to the goblin standing there on the platform if you don’t know where the zeppelin will take you; the zep tower east of Org’s gate services both UC and STV.
Yep, boat from Ratchet to Booty Bay (had a few quests that directed me there… something with an engineer). Then QH decided to send me up to the hunting party at the other end of the zone… a long run through gorillas, raptors, and cats all at least a few levels higher than me (and some more like 5). I wish QH was a bit smarter about things like that, but oh well. I think I’ll just turn it off for awhile - I feel like I’m missing a bit by using it (I only started about 5 levels ago).
All Questhelper really does is figure out the most efficient path for you to take to complete all your current quests. Level and zone suitability don’t really apply (the closest it comes is not displaying red or group quests unless they’re your only quests). So if the most efficient path requires you to walk through the Burning Steppes when you’re level 20, by god it’ll tell you to walk through the Burning Steppes. More realistically, I’ve had QH draw a line over impassable hills from one point of interest to another, but if you were to look at the path realistically you’d see there’s other points of interest along the way that would be more efficient to reach.
Thankfully the world is set up so that if you’re good about grabbing flight points, and who isn’t, it’ll usually be a good path.
Those aren’t too bad, but you need to know to take the path out of Grom’gol. That route isn’t too bad if you weave around the raptors, and at one point you’re going to get aggro from at least one cat about your level.
I’ve been playing WoW a couple years now and have high level toons and all that… but there is one thing I just have not been able to figure out and this seems like a good place to ask.
I’m on a PvP server, and when I’m getting ganked my opponent typically runs circles around my toon. Literally. * zzzzzzzzip!* Very, very fast. How do you do that? I have never been able to get my toons to do that, whether a lumbering Tauren or a nimble rogue. I’m assuming you use the mouse cause the keyboard turns are way too slow, but really, how is it done?
They are using the mouse, and may have BG increased run speed boots (though I’ve never really noticed much of a difference with the ones I got from Arathi Basin), but additionally they probably have the view scrolled waaaay back (further than just using the scroll thing on your mouse, there’s a way to set it farther – is this in interface – camera?). Makes it easier to run around like that and keep your view on the target or targets. (being twelve and high on sugar may also help them)
But this is just my guess, I BG a lot, but as a healer so I don’t need to run around like that as much.
If Mister Rik or anyone is still looking for an invite – I’m Rulca or Lieth from the Burning Dog Legion. I tend to be on evenings after 6 cst (or a sure bet Saturday mornings).