Not being terribly into or good at PvP I think i’ll hold off longer before going into in ernest…like when I get to at least the mid 70’s. I only gank when theres an irrestistable opportunity, or I’m just pissed from being ganked. Yeah, I have on occassion been a real jerk after being ganked. I’ll go to where I know I can find lowbie allies and gank a few to get my frustration out.
I don’t hate gankers per se, though…it is a PvP server so I cannot complain. But I hate ***Death Knights and Rogues with a passion. Druids ***too, but not as bad as the other two. DK’s are horribly overpowered in my opinion. I won’t even fight them anymore. If a DK shows up in my quest area I usually just leave. I may suck at PvP, but they have too much of an advantage for any suckiness on my part to count for much. I don’t even like playing my own DK because its too freakin’ easy. Rogues and anyone else that can stealth are a thorn in my side. I need to learn how to counter their stealth effectively. Last night I was in Hellfire Peninsula gathering Sporeling embryos for a quest. At one point I had to go gather the discarded nutrients from the Bog Lords. I killed a Bog Lord and while looting him my hunter was blocked from view by being “inside” the corpse. My pet was too. I saw an equal level ally warlock approach the area and it became obvious that he didn’t see me. I had a perfect shot to gank him, but I really just wanted to finish my quest. Besides, every time I get in a fight with another player…I mean every.single.time…and I’m in an area full of NPC foes, the foes always attack me in concert with the ally. Never the other the way around.
The corpse vanished and the warlock was literally ten yards away from me. He started backing off but did not attack. So for a full minute we just faced each other waiting to see who was going to attack first. Neither of us did, so I moved off to finish my gathering. I killed another bog lord that was in my path and noted that the warlock followed me at a distance and ran to gather the items nearby. So that was his game. He was scared of the Bog Lords for some reason, and hesitant to engage them. He was letting me slaughter them so he’d have a safe path. Unfortunately for him one respawned behind him. I could…and probably should have attacked him while he was engaged, but I only needed one more item so I grabbed it and left. Then I went to finish with the sporeling embryos. I needed one more and I had track humanoids up to help be aware of any allies in the area. I saw one ally, a mage, fighting a few monsters, but she ran off. So I went on to my bizness. On the mini map a red dot appeared, I assumed it was the mage. I couldn’t see the player because a ridge was between us. The dot moved away and disappeared just as I mouse hovered it to see the name. I figured she was gone and got my last embryo and began to summon my mount…then BLAMMO! A freakin’ rogue sapped me from stealth. I should have known…the name was "night something or other", so I should have figured it was a rogue with an unimaginitive name from the minimap. :smack:I tried to quickly recover to defend myself but of course…a bog lord runs up and begins attacking ME! Not the rogue, just me. :mad:.
I lost. I hate rogues. I might play one next just to piss other players off.
So I rezzed and went on to finish another quest to kill some clefthoof thingies. I see an ally mage on the same quest. He didn’t see me or acknowledge me and he was fighting a clefthoof. So from range I filled him with arrows more out of a desire for revenge than anything else. He died before my pet even reached him.
Today I told myself that I was going to work on a few professions. I have 300 in mining but I don’t know where to go to get to the next level. I think its a trainer in Hellfire, but if anyone else knows, I would appreciate a heads up. I also need to level my fishing up. I might try and get cooking as another secondary. I kind of enjoy crafting stuff and selling things more than actually fighting…go figure since I suck. ;). I also need to work on blacksmithing. I’ll probably have to buy the ore rather than mine my own if I want to save time.
You play a hunter and you have a problem with rogues?? You guys are a perpetual thorn in MY side! There is nothing worse for a rogue than being kited. You can break stealth with traps.
Your better bet of course would be to team up with us, since I eat Nelf druids for breakfast.
Edit: the next mining trainer is indeed in Hellfire, at Thrallmar.
When I upgraded to 4GB, I got a huge improvement in game performance. I actually crashed the client a couple times when I took long flights across Northrend–the fast, constant loading of textures overwhelmed it. Now, it’s all good.
I generally don’t bother Alliance, even when they’re flagged. The Cairne server used to have generally good relations between the sides, although that’s been less true lately. I have killed Alliance out in the open, but that’s when they’ve been doing something stupid like attacking the flightmaster or a quest giver. Just last week I killed some level-50 paladin in Un’goro crater because he was attacking the quest giver as I was trying to turn in a quest. Great way to piss off a level-80 character, meathead. :smack: He died quickly, but I didn’t bother to camp him.
I suppose I’d have an easier time with foes that can stealth if I knew they were around. As I said, I thought the player had left the area.
I did oncew see an ally druid near me and saw him stealth out. I tried using a flare in my vicinity to see if he was coming near me and it didn’t seem to work. Detect Stealthed foes doesn’t seem to help me either.
I should say I hate opposing faction rogues. Rogues on my side are no problem.
It’s a very common PvP tactic among rogues to make it appear that they have left the area. Then they wait until you are lulled into a false sense of security, get back to questing, and then get the drop on you. I don’t do it myself (Scout’s honor!) but have seen it and had it happen to me many times.
I tend to log into an enemy alt and send them a whisper telling them why i did it =)
Though I will admit, we did have a blast once after a fellow lock and I got our infernos taking them out for a walk in goldshire=) We hung out in the area that they hold the faire, and ganked guards but we left the questgivers alone and the only alliance peeps that got ganked were those marked PVP that attacked us.
Yes, you can hear it when players stealth. I get all jumpy when I’m anywhere where mobs are stealthing! Or when I’m powerlevelling my husband, also a rogue. “Was that you stealthing just now?!”
Also like **Jolly Roger **said, a clever PvPer will wait until you are out of range before hitting it.
I was hunting Clefthoof Bulls for the quest when i aggro’d an extra clefthoof by accident, and another joined in…so now I had three of them to handle. I beat 'em as they are not that hard to defeat.
As soon as I was finished a level 70 druid swooped down out of nowhere (I guess they can shapeshift into biirds…I didn’t know that) and attacked me. I was low on health and mana but I stunned her and got some space between us so I could use my bow. My pet rushed into melee. I saw here companion a level 65 DK running towards me. I meant to drop a Freezing trap to hold him, but hit Frost trap instead. Fine. It’ll slow him down. I had the druid on the ropes though, but daggone it…a freaking wind elemental thingie jumped in and attacked me. (I toldja, they NEVER attack the gankers!) Still the frost trap slowed the DK so I made it a point to kill the druid. She dropped like a sack of bricks!
But now the DK was on me. So was the elemental. So I feigned death hoping he’d attack the DK and give me time to regroup. The DK had killed my pet so I need to keep him off of me while I figured out how to beat him in my weakened state. Alas, it was to late. The DK killed me ignoring the elemental attack until I was down.
Still, I got the druid. If I was at full strength I could have taken the DK that time. (he seemed to suck, really. usually DK’s slaughter me faster than he did.). Rot in hell, #%$@! It felt good beating a higher than me level character when I was weakened. Maybe I don’t suck as bad as I thought. (or they sucked worse)
Yeah, that’s their flying form, which comes at lvl 68 for druids. They get a fast version too if they buy fast flying skill, or they can ride normal mounts too.
I was being a jerk, admittedly. I was on my way back to Hellgfire Peninsula from Orgrimmar and when I stopped in Grom Gol I saw a chat message that an ally was out a’ ganking in the arera. Feeling a bit restless I headed out to Nesingway. Thats usually where the gankers are and the chat message said they were at the Nesingway camp.
I didn’t see any allies except a level 35 whatever. I ganked her just for giggles. Then I headed back on the road to catch a flight to Stonard. Just in front of Grom Gol a lvl 74 DK jumped me. I was toast, I thought. I tried to fight him off, but he had 7 lvls on me and I was caught by surprise. I fell, but just as I was bleeding my last bit of health a lvl 80 Horde DK showed up and jumped my attacker. IT was kind of funny as this guy wasvtaken co,mpletely by surprise as I was. He went down fast, too, I think we both hit the ground at the same time.
Turns out the hordie was a friend of a guildmate of mine. My guildmate had been getting ganked and camped by this jerk so they were looking for him. (he apparently fled his camping when help arrived and decided to gank by the gate of grom gol.).
Before I went out of town for the weekend, I did the murloc quests in Borean Tundra. I’d just like to note that there is no cuter thing in this game than murloc tadpoles…not just what they look like, but also how they sound. My god, those quests have completely erased 4 years of Murlocophobia, and never again will I wince when I hear that great gurgly-murgly battlecry. It makes me sorry I wasn’t at Blizzcon three years ago to get the baby murloc pet code.
If you’re Horde, head out to Zabra’jin in Zangarmarsh, in Outland. There’s a troll there who has two baby murloc buddies, and if you poke them with the mouse cursor, you hear baby murloc burbling. They burble otherwise as well, without interaction. I’ve seen twice, and screenshotted once, one of them pulling out a top hat and doing the "Michigan J. Frog / ‘Hello My Baby’ " dance. (There’s also a quest you can do where you release baby murlocs and they do that to disrupt a camp of monsters.) My husband and I also swear that we once heard a baby-murloc-burble version of two lines of the chorus of “Ode to Joy”. I mean, maybe we’re hearing stuff like people who listen to radio static and hear dead relatives, but seriously, we really thought we heard it.
About that battle cry - I was at work, helping a visiting tech calibrate a piece of equipment their company makes. The room had to be completely dark for proper readings, so here we are, sitting in almost total darkness, chatting about work and stuff. And then I hear it. A murloc. Her cell phone went off with the murloc “battle cry”, and so I say, “… a murloc?” There is a pause, and she says, “No one has ever recognized that before. [pause] OK, first of all, Alliance or Horde?” (She was Alliance.) We spent the rest of the time talking WoW.
She had it set as her text message notification so it would just “arghl” at you once. My husband thought it was a great idea, but set it as his ringtone. Now an unanswered call sounds like a broken record murloc.
Oh, I would love to have a baby Murloc burble as my phone ringtone. I know you can buy the adult Murloc ringtone from Blizz, but I don’t think they have the baby yet.
I love baby Murlocs. I love the way they look, I love the way they sound…I absolutely adore the quest in Borean. I wish so much that it was a daily. As it was, I had to snap screenshots of my decked-out, oh-so-serious blood elf mage being followed around by a herd of Murloc tadpoles. It was the cutest thing ever.
You can still get the Murky pet, but you have to be very lucky to find it on Ebay and it’s very expensive (last ones I saw went for $800 and $1300. Yikes! But still, there are only about 5,000 of them in existence (for the US–there’s a Euro version too) and most of them have already been used, so…yeah.)
The best way to get a baby Murloc now will cost you $20 and some time. You can join the WoW Arena tournament and play 200 matches (you don’t have to win any of them) and you get an armored baby Murloc (he’s wearing a roman centurion helmet and has a little sword) to assign to any character on the account you joined the tournament with. I’m already signed up. You need to have a 3-person team to play, so you need two friends (or another account or two), preferably who are either Murloc-crazy or actually decent at arena PvP. You don’t have to have a level 80 character–you make a character on the tournament realm and get to deck him out in all kinds of nifty free epix.
BTW, as an aside: at least one of the pets you can get from the Oracles egg in Sholazar Basin (the Cobra Hatchling)…sings. It doesn’t do it very often, but every once in awhile it will burst into song. And it sings just like a baby Murloc.
:eek: squee! I’m so glad my two 80s are Oracle-faction! My priest got the white tickbird and a yolk, so far; my warlock is still grinding through Honored rep.
Yes, the Frenzyheart Wolvar. You do a series of quests where you do things for each faction–you start with the Frenzyheart, then halfway through something happens (it’s scripted–you can’t prevent it) and suddenly the Frenzyheart hate you and you start gaining rep with the Oracles. At the end of the chain, you have to fight an elite Lich in a cave and choose to rescue one of the two captives (a Frenzyheart or an Oracle). Depending on which one you choose, you become Honored with that faction and Hated with the other.
If you ever decide you want to switch, just go kill the Lich again and save the other captive. Warning, though: all the rep you’ve gained with the original faction is lost, and you go back to Hated (and go to Honored with the other one).
The Oracles, IMO, have the best loot: three pets (a tickbird hatchling, a cobra hatchling, and a protodrake hatchling) and a very small chance of getting a green protodrake mount. The best thing the Frenzyheart have is a trinket that lets you turn into a Wolvar for a short time. No contest, as far as I’m concerned. I won’t be switching until I get all the pets and the protodrake.
