Just be careful not to throw away a quest item that you’re supposed to return to its owner. That can be unfortunate.
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Yes. Yes, it can be unfortunate. Especially if it’s an item from a dungeon. Especially if it’s an item from any of the Blackrock Mountain dungeons. Especially.
A few quests will give you a non-magic-item memento; I know the quest from the Ghostlands where you end up bringing an item to Lady Sylvanas gives you a little book as a souvenir. There’s another from one of the holiday-style quests for the Horde where you go out to the monument to (IIRC) Grom Hellscream in a demon area in Ashenvale, and you get a book from that too. Those are items that can be discarded if you wish; they’re just souvenirs. Check your quest log to see if there are any half-completed quests or anything that mention these items, then trash them if you wish. Alternately, look up the item on websites like http://wow.allakhazam.com and see if it leads to a new quest.
Are there any good WoW tutorial sites for the basics - especially one with screen shots?
An old friend in another state has started playing at my behest, and they are pretty lost. They’ve never played anything like WoW. I thought when I first started playing at the beginning of 2005 that there was a tutorial, but apparently there isn’t now. I’m having to explain everything because, frankly, it really isn’t that obvious if you’ve never played an MMORPG. Examples: how banks work; the concept of a talent tree; action bar configuration; just the basics of using the UI, without having to resort to trial-and-error.
They downloaded the client, so no manuals.
There are newb tips that come up when certain things happen for the first time. I think the player can go into interface options to turn it on or off.
I can’t usually get to any WoW-specific websites here at work (they’re blocked as “Games” by our net nanny), but I’d look for “WoW for Dummies” or “WoW basics” sites.
Also, LJ has a WoW Noobs community, where he can ask questions about whatever he wants in the game without worrying about being laughed at.
Raza, having tips on and using a Draenei character can be very good. The Draenei starting area has a ton of quests to explain anything from how to scratch your ass to how to pick up flowers.
The newbie parts of the official WoW forums were helpful for me, way back when.
There are a couple of quest chains where you have to collect X amount of something, then upon completion of that quest and acceptance of the next, the questgiver gives you one of the items you just collected to take to someone else. Unfortunately I’m not always the most observant when it comes to quest details, and every time I have one of those quests and I spot the lone quest item in my inventory I think “Huh, I collected one more than was necessary. May as well chuck it.” Thankfully, after the first time I threw one away, I catch myself and check my quests first. :smack:
OK, I have absolutely nothing of value here to add, except that I think that the random “Dumb big-tongue lover!” taunt that Frenzyhearts will yell at you from time to time is the single-greatest insult in the history of the game, except maybe “I’ll get you, fruit vendor!”
My first was when my night elf needed to take that single seed to Rellian Greenspyre in Darnassus.
WoW has gotten better lately about destroying quest items if you drop a quest. Most quest turn-ins take back or destroy items that aren’t needed anymore, too.
I have a tooltip mod that’s pretty good about showing which items are needed for quests, but it doesn’t always know.
Nonetheless, we do tend to accumulate useless stuff. I took a couple of hours and looked up every single item I wasn’t sure about on thottbot and/or allakhazam. I should have cleaned out my bank before Wrath of the Lich King hit, because many of the items I had (primals, high-level ores and herbs, Burning Crusade specialty cloth…) dropped dramatically in value. Gems were really bad. There are some gems that I used to be able to sell for 40 gold that are going for 2 or 3 now, if you can sell them at all. I lost thousands of gold by not selling off everything before the expansion.
Better to sell as you go, and then buy as you need it, I suppose.
Thanks, JayJay/Nava. I ended up referring them to:
Perhaps a bit of an overload, but I think it’ll be a good index for them over the coming month or two.
Rogues take a while to come into their own. A large portion of your damage will come from poisons. The poison mechanic changed a bit recently, so I don’t know what the minimum level is, but you should always have poison on both of your weapons. I use wound poison when soloing and for pvp, and instant (main hand) and deadly (off hand) poison when grouped for instancing or raids.
When soloing, you eventually reach a point when your stuns last long enough so that your opponent never gets a chance to attack (cheap shot opening, kidney shot right before cheap shot wears off, burst damage in the interim).
You also have very good control over battles as a rogue, which is good because you cannot take hits well at all. If you want to attack a mob but it has a friend, you sap the friend before the battle and kill them one at a time. If you get an add mid fight, you can either burn them both down as combat spec by using the talents blade flurry and adrenaline rush, or you can blind one while you finish off the other. Need a few more seconds? Hit evasion and you’ll barely get scratched until it wears off. In over your head? Hit vanish and restart the fight, or gouge for a short stun and sprint away.
Thrown weapons are only good for pulling until you get deadly throw. Once you get deadly throw, you’ll find it an adequate finisher for that occasional fleeing mob (although I’m curious how it managed to survive your opening…)
Indeed. I spent a while running a mine to look for ore on my meandering exploration from Mulgore-> Stone Talon -> Ashenvale -> Barrens -> Org. “What? You’re a Venture Co. goblin? Outtamahway! shove”
Ended up with a metric load of ore and one unidentified piece that looked really similar except that it had the quest item flag. I’m glad I asked my guildies what it was a while later when I was in Org instead of chucking it when I was cleaning out my bags. 
Question: my guild’s pretty new, and doesn’t have a definitive solid charter or process other than casual levelling and recruiting, which I occasionally think about a bit. I suspect that a more defined charter and recruiting process would help recruiting retention and strengthen our guild but I also don’t want to tromp on the GM’s toes (first-time GM from what I can tell) since I’m not an officer. It’s driving my inner project manager a wee bit nuts, though. Thoughts?
Raza, you may also want to point them in the direction of wowinsider and Ten Ton Hammer which both have a buttload of excellent articles and resources to help the noob cope with information overload. I know they’ve been a huge help for me so I don’t overwhelm my WOWcrack-dealer with questions. 
I’ve had experience as a guild leader or officer in three types of guilds: casual friends-and-family leveling guild, casual guild trying to transition to a raid guild, and a relatively hardcore raiding guild. It’s been my experience that, whether we like it or not, casual leveling guilds do not transition well to raid guilds, or even to more structured endgame run-heroics-and-raid-occasionally guilds.
The reason for this is that when you get to max level, the whole game changes. There’s no leveling anymore, so you have to decide what you want to do to keep yourself amused: do daily quests and gathering to make money, mess around in instances with friends, start a new alt and begin the process anew…or go in for hardcore endgame raiding. If you choose the latter, I can almost guarantee you’ll have to change guilds, because the ones designed for leveling aren’t easily compatible with raiding. It can be done if the guild is very patient, but the problem is that in leveling guilds you have varying levels of skill and commitment that you don’t find in a raid guild. How do you tell your dearest friend that she (for example) isn’t really very good at playing her class? How do you tell your leveling buddy for 40 levels that you want more from the game than logging on whenever the mood strikes you and being content with greens and the occasional blue?
It’s something that can tear guilds apart, honestly. The healthiest way to deal with it is to just accept that those who reach 80 and want more will have to move on. That doesn’t mean they can’t still be friends, just that their goals have diverged. Nothing wrong with that. But in practice it can cause a lot of resentment.
I’m not even sure this is relevant to your situation, since I don’t know what level your character is. But if you don’t have a strong attachment to this guild and you aren’t comfortable with the direction it’s taking, I suggest you start looking around for something that’s more to your liking. People guild-hop a lot at lower levels until they find the group that fits their way of playing. Remember, everybody’s got a right to play the game the way that’s fun for them (as long as they don’t infringe on others’ fun, of course).
Is this a doable quest for my Level 14 Human Warrior, or should I come back to it later, y’all?
My guy has battle yell, thunder-clap and blood rage among his weaponry, which includes such diverse elements as a sword and shield, and he is solo.
Don’t suppose I could sneak up on ol Morgan while all three are asleep, could I? 
My other only quest is patrolling the Westphall grasslands for gnolls. Still haven’t seen any.
ETA: I am running Quest Helper
Thanks
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You do gnow a gnoll when you see one, right?
Get on the road behind the tower (between the Flightmaster and the vendor carts), and head South until you come to the fork in the road. There is a signpost there - take the fork indicated by the sign pointing to Moonbrook. Follow this road as it curves around - the ground to the right of the road will be a slight rise that blocks your vision in that direction. When the ground levels out, turn and look to your right. There are the gnolls.
Alternatively, go behind the lumber mill and head almost due Southwest. You’ll run right into them.
There are more elsewhere, but these are the ones you want for that quest.
If you’re running Questhelper, it should tell you that the quest (I assume you mean Manhunt) is level 10. As a general rule, unless the quest is marked as Dungeon or Group, you can solo any quest that’s your level or lower, and often up to as many as 5 levels higher. (This tends to be true more for the martial classes than the spellcasters.) There are exceptions, but for this quest I think you’ll be able to slaughter them. Really, once you’re in your teens, Elwynn Forest should be no threat, not even Hogger.
Actually, any gnoll in Westfall drops the paws you need, not just the groups in that area.
If you really want brownie points with your server population, though, go on General and say “Any warlocks need the necklace? I’m doing Morgan in 5 (10, whatever) minutes.”
The woman in that group drops the necklace that warlocks need to hand in to get their voidwalker, and that quest is tough for an even-level because there are three of them that all aggro at once.
One is an Old History Book, another The Story of Morgan Ladimore which I must be able to get rid of as I have completed that quest chain and sold the nice sword. I have other things too like a phial, I picked up a few quests from all over the place getting Verigan’s Fist for my Pally.
It seems there is no easy way other than checking each quest but again this raises problems, I have over 20 quests at the moment and some I picked up ages ago and no idea what if any item was related to them. A minor quibble really, I’ll go through all my quests though I do not like doing these admin type tasks, I have only a few hours game time a week and I want to be progressing my character not tidying up.
It would be very useful if the Armory allowed you to see your bags and list of quests, though I resent the lost game time doing such tasks a few minutes sorting this out at work not so much……