World of Warcraft questions

[jayjay]

One thing you do eventually realize is that there are only a limited number of cave/cavern/tomb designs in the game. They just get used again and again, with different decoration.

For instance, the cavern system for “Twisted Hatred” outside of Dolanaar on Teldrassil, is the same design as the troll cavern in the dwarf/gnome beginner zone and the cavern in the Valley of Trials (the orc/troll beginning zone), as well as Skull Rock(?) where you get the Lieutenant’s Insignia for the first quest you get from Thrall.

[Quasimodem]

@Jolly_Roger

Hey Quasi, hope you’re feelin’ better bud.

Thanks, JR

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[Gary_Robson]

@Mister_Rik

Coolness! It so happens that I’m already intending to get the “15 Vanity Pets” achievement (whatever it’s called) with this character. She’s up to six so far.

The first 15 are a piece of cake to get. You have both horde and alliance toons, right? There’s a “crazy cat lady” just outside of Stormwind where you can buy 3 cats. Then a kid outside of Ironforge selling bunnies, an elf in Darnassus selling moths, a guy in Orgrimmar with snakes, and so forth. There’s also the silly chicken quest in Westfall, and various other ones like it. You shouldn’t have too much trouble getting those all of those.

[Punoqllads]

There’s a merchant in Stormspire (in Netherstorm) who also sells a bunch of vanity pets.

Here we go: Dealer Rashaad.

[mlees]

@InvisibleWombat

The first 15 are a piece of cake to get. You have both horde and alliance toons, right? There’s a “crazy cat lady” just outside of Stormwind where you can buy 3 cats. Then a kid outside of Ironforge selling bunnies, an elf in Darnassus selling moths, a guy in Orgrimmar with snakes, and so forth. There’s also the silly chicken quest in Westfall, and various other ones like it. You shouldn’t have too much trouble getting those all of those.

(bolding mine)

clears throat Owls…

Moths come from Exodar, IIRC.

[wonderlust]

Here’s my collection of minipets, still 9 away from the 75 achievement with the fawn reward.

[Gary_Robson]

@mlees

clears throat Owls…

Moths come from Exodar, IIRC.

I knew if I just rattled that list off from memory I’d goof something up.

[Mister_Rik]

@InvisibleWombat

The first 15 are a piece of cake to get. You have both horde and alliance toons, right? There’s a “crazy cat lady” just outside of Stormwind where you can buy 3 cats. Then a kid outside of Ironforge selling bunnies, an elf in Darnassus selling moths, a guy in Orgrimmar with snakes, and so forth. There’s also the silly chicken quest in Westfall, and various other ones like it. You shouldn’t have too much trouble getting those all of those.

Yeah, she has the White Kitten, one cat from Crazy Cat Lady, a Westfall Chicken, the Snowshoe Rabbit from the dwarf, the Ancona Chicken from the vendor at the racetrack in Shimmering Flats, and a Senegal bird from Booty Bay.

I know I’ve encountered the Darnassus owl-seller once, back when I first started playing, but somehow I’ve never come across her again. I didn’t buy at the time because I didn’t have the coin to spare and I also didn’t really know at that point what the deal was with vanity pets. Is she over there on the right-hand side of Warrior’s Terrace?
I finally got around to taking my paladin into Warsong Gulch. What a joke that was. First, for some reason it dumped me into the BG when the battle was almost over and the Horde team was ahead 2-0. I got one kill, was killed once, and then it was over. Second, I’ve heard it said that the Horde usually wins in BGs because they go in as a team and with a plan, while the Alliance teams are usually disorganized with everybody doing their own thing. I can believe that. The Alliance chat channel was a solid scrolling wall of players insulting each other. “You suck!” “Go back to PvE you idiots!” “Kill yourself!” :rolleyes:

[jayjay]

@Mister_Rik

Yeah, she has the White Kitten, one cat from Crazy Cat Lady, a Westfall Chicken, the Snowshoe Rabbit from the dwarf, the Ancona Chicken from the vendor at the racetrack in Shimmering Flats, and a Senegal bird from Booty Bay.

You do know that different “types” of the same animal count separately? For example, the Bombay cat, the Orange Tabby, the Cornish Rex and the Black Tabby count as 4 different pets. Likewise with any types that have multiple skins.

[Mister_Rik]

@jayjay

You do know that different “types” of the same animal count separately? For example, the Bombay cat, the Orange Tabby, the Cornish Rex and the Black Tabby count as 4 different pets. Likewise with any types that have multiple skins.

Yup. It’s just that the last time my pally visited Crazy Cat Lady was many many levels ago, when she wasn’t flush enough to justify spending money on many many cats

[jayjay]

@Mister_Rik

Yup. It’s just that the last time my pally visited Crazy Cat Lady was many many levels ago, when she wasn’t flush enough to justify spending money on many many cats

Ah. Understood.

[aktep]

@Mister_Rik

I finally got around to taking my paladin into Warsong Gulch. What a joke that was. First, for some reason it dumped me into the BG when the battle was almost over and the Horde team was ahead 2-0. I got one kill, was killed once, and then it was over. Second, I’ve heard it said that the Horde usually wins in BGs because they go in as a team and with a plan, while the Alliance teams are usually disorganized with everybody doing their own thing. I can believe that. The Alliance chat channel was a solid scrolling wall of players insulting each other. “You suck!” “Go back to PvE you idiots!” “Kill yourself!” :rolleyes:

Yeah, because of the way the BG queue system works, you can end up in one that’s been going on for some time if a space has become available. This is great if you’re farming for marks of honor (you were in the second best scenario - the best being that you spawn in just as your team is running into the flag room unopposed for their third cap; 10 seconds in the BG and 3 marks). This is not so good if you’re looking for honor points, rep, or trying to actually, you know, play the game.

Don’t kid yourself about the Horde being more organized. This may be true in some battlegroups, and was probably more true before cross-realm battlegrounds (since so many realms had smaller Horde pops), but I’m in plenty of BGs as Horde that go horribly and have the same childish chats. A typical WSG for me is 1 horde trying to get the flag, 1 playing defense and 8 farting around trying to farm up kills in the middle, while the alliance leaves 3 in the base so the 1 horde on offense is horribly outnumbered, then clears out the horde “defense” with a rouge or stealthed druid, then takes the flag with a 79 paladin, druid, or shaman with a 79 pocket healer and simply marches right back through the battle in the middle of the map.

[Tom_Scud]

@aktep

Don’t kid yourself about the Horde being more organized. This may be true in some battlegroups, and was probably more true before cross-realm battlegrounds (since so many realms had smaller Horde pops), but I’m in plenty of BGs as Horde that go horribly and have the same childish chats.

It’s weird: My current character has been in about 7 or 8 Alterac Valley BGs over the last couple weeks and hasn’t seen one yet where the horde was remotely competitive; on the other hand, he’s something like 12-0 in Arathi Basin, most of them wipeouts where the Horde ends up holding all 5 flags and camping the last Alliance graveyard, and 4-0 in WSG with not a single flag capture by the Allies.

[Lady_of_the_Lake]

This is why I BG drunk! Any incoherent BG ranting is much funnier that way.

Though, really my experience has been similar to Tom Scud’s. More wins than losses for the Horde.

It seems to go in waves though - you’ll lose several in a row and then the tide will turn and it’s win after win. I’d always assumed this was related to the level of twinkage.

[Ferret_Herder]

@wonderlust

Here’s my collection of minipets, still 9 away from the 75 achievement with the fawn reward.

Gah. At 42/50 on my undead warlock (tailor/miner) as of last night. I had my engineer make her a tranquil mechanical yeti last night, and she’s a fisher so I have 3 of the 4 baby gator pets, as well as the Magical Crawfish from Mr. Pinchy. I also went Oracles rep with her just so I could get the Mysterious Egg potential pets. Must. Have. Skunk.

[Infovore]

@Ferret_Herder

Gah. At 42/50 on my undead warlock (tailor/miner) as of last night. I had my engineer make her a tranquil mechanical yeti last night, and she’s a fisher so I have 3 of the 4 baby gator pets, as well as the Magical Crawfish from Mr. Pinchy. I also went Oracles rep with her just so I could get the Mysterious Egg potential pets. Must. Have. Skunk.

The skunk is great! They’ve added the coolest Easter egg ever to the game now–if you have the skunk or the Bombay or Black Tabby cat, and you see somebody put out the other one (skunk if you have the cat, or vice versa) go close to them and put out your pet next to them, and watch the fun!

Spoiler for those who want to be surprised:

The skunk will get a heart over its head and start chasing the cat all over the place! They’ll run quite a distance away. Eventually the skunk’s “heart” will break, and then the cat will start chasing him! After maybe 20 seconds or so the pets will return to their owners, but if you stay close by it will happen again. What’s really funny is when you have multiple people with cats and skunks out–it can get to be a regular orgy!

[jayjay]

@winterhawk11

Spoiler for those who want to be surprised:

The skunk will get a heart over its head and start chasing the cat all over the place! They’ll run quite a distance away. Eventually the skunk’s “heart” will break, and then the cat will start chasing him! After maybe 20 seconds or so the pets will return to their owners, but if you stay close by it will happen again. What’s really funny is when you have multiple people with cats and skunks out–it can get to be a regular orgy!

Oh, my god…the designers are Pepe le Pew fans! I have GOT to try this sometime!

[Gary_Robson]

@Ferret_Herder

I also went Oracles rep with her just so I could get the Mysterious Egg potential pets. Must. Have. Skunk.

I understand. I did dailies for the walrus folks in Northrend until I got Pengu the penguin (and the epic fishing rod). Amazing what we’ll go through for yet another useless (but cute!) pet.

Those Blizzard folks are geniuses.

[Ferret_Herder]

@InvisibleWombat

I understand. I did dailies for the walrus folks in Northrend until I got Pengu the penguin (and the epic fishing rod). Amazing what we’ll go through for yet another useless (but cute!) pet.

Those Blizzard folks are geniuses.

Oh yeah. I’m doing that both for Pengu and the fishing rod - running the Shatt fishing daily the other night got me both Muckbreath the lil’ crocolisk and the special fishing line. Now I need the epic fishing pole to upgrade from my Nat Pagle special, and I’ll slap the fishing line on that.

It’s a pity I have to deal with killing monsters and running raids, it gets in the way of my collector nature and tradeskilling.

[Mister_Rik]

Well, I got my first world PvP kill Friday night.

I was playing my human paladin and had spent a considerable amount of time exploring The Barrens to get the “Explore The Barrens” achievement (getting myself killed in the process after wandering a hair too close to the gates of Orgrimmar while trying to find the Boulderlode Mine). My next destination was Darnassus, so I headed up through the Stonetalon Mountains to get to the flight point at Stonetalon Peak.

As I was nearing SP, there it was in bright yellow letters in the Local Defense channel: “Stonetalon Peak is under attack!”

So I thought, “Let’s see if there’s anything I can do about this. I’ve got a few levels under my belt, and I doubt that lvl 80 Horde players are going to waste their time raiding Stonetalon Peak of all places. So maybe I can actually defend this time, instead of standing around shaking my fist and yelling ‘FARGING BASTITCHES!’.”

I rode into Stonetalon Peak and scouted around a bit, found a couple dead NPCs, and then I spotted the telltale yellow name of an enemy player with his PvP flag on, sneaking through the trees.

So I ganked him. There was no honor in the kill; I was a lvl 48 human paladin and he was a lvl 25 blood elf hunter. But what can I say? My tauren hunter was around lvl 25 when he rode into Stonetalon Peak and started sniping dryads, and I would have expected the same treatment had a higher-level Alliance player shown up. (For that matter, while my pally was exploring The Barrens I was poking around near The Crossroads and turned around to find a lvl “??” tauren sitting there on his kodo just waiting for me to do something to light up my own PvP flag. However, I was just passing through, not looking for trouble.)

Also, my paladin posted her spare Cat Carrier (White Kitten) on the AH a few days ago with a buyout price of 150g (lower than the other sellers, who were asking anywhere between 170g and 300g), and it expired without selling. So I reposted it and dropped the buyout to 100g, and it sold within 24 hours

Speaking of achievements, I’ve accumulated a few hundred achievement points. Are these points actually spendable on anything at this time?

And “Yay! My new 4GB of RAM arrived in the mail today!” I’ll install it tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully, this will allow me to walk in the front gates of Stormwind without completely locking up my computer.