All pets are supposed to have Cower, even if you don’t have on the pet bar you should be able to find in the Pet-tab of your spell book. You should also be aware that there is a bug (unless it’s been fixed, but I haven’t heard anything) that spontaneously turns the auto cast for Cower on even if you turned it off manually.
I was mistaken earlier - looking at my Pet tab, I see he does have Cower.
Well, some dumbass made up my mind for me: I’ve installed BuggerOff to auto-decline duel requests. I was in Ashenvale at Felfire Hill, doing that quest where a female orc at Splintertree Post sends you to kill demons. 18 demons, all lvl 29 & 30. I was trying to solo these things as a lvl 27 character, mind you, and I was holding my own. I’d killed 17 of the 18 demons I needed, and I’m scouting around for the last demon when some idiot runs up to me and challenges me to a duel, and then starts clucking like a chicken at me after I declined :rolleyes: As I told him/her, “This isn’t the place!” These bigass lvl 30 demons can spawn literally anywhere at any time in that area - I’m not going to engage in a duel in the middle of all that :smack:
Ha. I feel you, Mister Rik. I may install that myself. I have zero interest in dueling. Even if I was interested in it, I hate having anyone just challenge me while I’m doing something. I haven’t had anyone do the chicken thing, but if they did I’d just ignore them. (though I have had people constantly beg me to duel them. And they’re usually so many levels higher its pointless anyway. I just don’t get it. 
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I had someone roll up on me while I was mining copper in Ashenvale last night and plop their guild charter on me. I don’t know if they just needed signatures or wanted me to join and I never will. Because they didn’t ask. Maybe I’ve got a stick in my ass, but i’d prefer to at least have someone say “Will you sign my charter?” or “Do you want to join my guild?”. I don’t know you…if you aren’t going to speak to me don’t bother asking me to sign anything.
I got ganked three times by Alliance players in separate instances…I can’t be too upset, I’d have done the same if my character had a high enough level to probably win. (mid 20’s right now…so I assume any Alliance players are too high to challenge right now. I avoid them, especially if they’re mounted…but man when I get to a high enough level I’m going to do something crazy like go to Redrige and kill all of the NPCs. :p) I think the funniest gank was while I was killing Galak scouts. I was wiping the floor with them and a few other people were on the same quest. We massacred them when suddenly I see one guy just drop while I was engaged with an enemy. I thought “What killed him? He was eating those centaurs alive!” when suddenly I saw a flash hit me and I was dead. 2 alliance players were behind us and it was obvious they were high level. After they killed all of the other horde guys there they mounted and rode off. A few minutes later I saw the alert that Tauren camp nearby was under attack. I chuckled a bit at that.
So I switched to my low level (10 then, 12 now) undead warrior for awhile. Is it me or is the*** Kill Ulag ***quest ridiculous. Everytime I summoned him in the cemetary the NPC guard would run over and kill him with one blow before I could and get credit. :smack: I only managed to really fight him when I summoned him and ran away so he followed me a bit out of the guards aggro range. The guard eventually did run over and kill him again, but I guess I had fought him long enough to get credit for it.
Is it just me or the Undercity confusing? I’ve never been there and I found it hard to navigate. I don’t know how to get to the flightmaster there. I got bored tying to figure it out so I hearthed out and did some more quests. I’d did get mining as a profession while there, and I want to get jewelcrafting as the other one. I don’t know where the trainer for that is yet. Couldn’t find any in the UC.
HATE that. I’m looking through my mailbox or checking out the AH or comparing my tradeskill list to what my character is wearing, and bam, up pops the “omg sign here” charter. I always hit no if that happens; I don’t mind the occasional whisper but not the “sign here now” window.
OK, I do hate this whisper I’ve been getting from one player - for a few days, any time I’d log in an unguilded character in Thunder Bluff, I’d get this seemingly macro’d whisper promoting the dude’s guild and how kewl it was and send tell now for invite! I ignored it at first, then I right-clicked and reported him for spam. 
Finally I just put him on ignore after I got another tell, I guess the GMs decided it wasn’t spammy enough and removed the auto-ignore feature for that character.
I think you can only train JC as Horde in Silvermoon, Outland, or Northrend, as it was added with the BC expansion. Hit the portal orb to Silvermoon out in the big upper courtyard of UC; it’s off to the east side, I think, up the stairs and through the doorway.
UC isn’t too bad once you have the knack; there are the series of rings and the quarters, and just a bit of dodging back and forth. It’s pretty compact-feeling, at least. Orgrimmar is a pain if you’re doing any crafting that requires a forge - run all the way out to the smithing/engineering section, oh wait left something in the bank, run all the way back, oops now I’m out of this one item, all the way back to the AH, etc. Silvermoon feels very sprawling too, for some reason; maybe it’s the bottlenecks between the sections of town where you fork one way or the other to go around the decorative/defensive panel. I also hate not having a flight master within the city proper, for some reason.
I only sign guild charters if the person asking is paying. It’s a fairly lucrative hobby, especially when you get a lot of lvl 70 or 80 folks trying to get a vanity guild started.
Flightmaster in Undercity is located on the trade district upper ring, where you first come out of the elevator. It’s just about directly opposite the inn.
In other words, Thunder Bluff for the Win. Too bad it’s way out in the middle of nowhere and you have to fly to Orgrimmar to get the zeppelins.
BTW, while I’m here, level 80 Noob question: is there any way from kalimdor/eastern kingdoms to Outland that doesn’t involve (a) begging/paying for a portal from a friendly mage (b) going through the portal in the Blasted Lands or (c) going to Dalaran and taking the portal from there?
Also, on pets: at what level does my pet start to accumulate talent points? Or do I have to get them from somewhere? I remember there was some kind of training system back when I made my first hunter half a year ago, but that seems to have been changed for Wrath.
Those three methods are the only ones, to my knowledge: A port to Shattrath, the Dark Portal or Dalaran.
They completely overhauled the hunter pet system about two patches ago. Now all tamable animals have one of three sets of abilities and one of three talent trees. You no longer have to tame pets to learn new abilities to train your pets in. I think you get your first talent point at pet lvl 20.
Um…
Set your hearthstone to an Outland town, and hearth? 
Maybe enter a battleground with someone who starts the BG group in Shattrath, then /afk out? That might pop you into Shatt. (I know it works for a certain level, maybe 73+, in getting people into Dalaran, though I only ever saw it tried for people currently in Northrend at the time.)
Otherwise, I think you’re stuck. I prefer the Org -> zep to STV -> fly to SoS pathway for those trips if I’m out in Kalimdor and want to hit Outland.
Another good method is to set your hearth in Shatt. That way, when you hearth, you can skip down from whichever faction you’re hearthed to and just jet through a portal to pretty much all major cities, I believe.
The problem I had was that I fell off and died halfway down, stuck in a branch. I ran all the way around, and couldn’t get to my corpse, so I had to run all the way BACK to the graveyard and res at the spirit healer.
I had a similar problem because I didn’t realize that (a) she was a spider, and (b) she had two different spawn points. In fact, that’s how I fell off Teldrassil – trying to find her.
No achievement, but as someone else mentioned, do the rat quests down there. They can be fun. Yum. Rat on a stick.
That’s true if (and only if) you have no AOE or DOT spells. If I aggro two mobs with my shadow priest, I’ll DOT the heck out of one of them and then attack the other with everything I’ve got. With my death knight, I’ll disease one, spread the disease to everyone else in the area, and then slam AOEs. With my frost mage, I’ll put my water elemental on one while I attack the other. The water elemental lasts less than a minute anyway, and any damage he takes doesn’t really matter (although I do make sure to hit the elemental’s mob at least once so I get credit for the kill).
Absolutely, completely true. Especially healers.
If I understand you correctly, that’s not true. I’ll frequently drag my full enchanting bags back and forth from my toon’s bag slots to the bank’s bag slots, and I’ve never had to empty them first.
Except Dalaran. But if you set your hearth in Dalaran, it has portals to just about everywhere – including Shattrath.
Yes, but there are still a lot of us who haven’t upgraded to Wrath yet, and don’t have Dalaran available…
I did encounter (with a different character) a gnome in one of the tram stations who said something about rats, but he didn’t offer a quest at that time. I didn’t see him there while my mage was thumping them.
Right, but you can’t drag your enchanting bag — if it has anything in it — into your backpack or another bag, or into a “normal” bank slot. (The reason is apparent: if you could place loaded bags into other bags, you could theoretically create infinite bag space.) But pay your money at the bank, and you can buy special “bag slots” that will hold a loaded bag.
The rat quest was still int he Deeprun Tram right before WOTLK was released, I’d be surprised if they’d removed it since. Though I can’t remember, for love nor money, which side of the DT it was on.
Was going to add this to my previous post via edit, but realized it was taking too long and I was going to miss the edit window …
My hunter made a nice find yesterday. Actually, a quest reward. I got to choose between two blue-named items: a staff and some piece of mail armor, I think, that I couldn’t wear. So I took the staff, figuring I could trade it for a nice bow or something. But looking closer at it once it was in my hands, I realized its melee damage was higher than than the 2-handed axe I’d been using, and had a faster attack speed. So I ditched my axe and got some staff training, and now I’m using that staff for melee. It kind of makes me look like a druid 
I’ve also found something kind of confusing with my leatherworking profession. One of the things I can make is a “Dark Leather Cloak”. The “recipe” calls for 8 Medium Leather, 1 Fine Thread, and 1 Gray Dye. Simple enough, but here’s the confusing part: the Gray Dye costs 3 silver and 15 copper, and the Fine Thread costs 90 copper, but I can only sell the finished cloak for 3 silver 9 copper. I lose 96 copper every time I make and sell one of these! What’s the point of that? I do all the work to make the thing, and then I have to pay a vendor to take it off my hands? Or should I be checking with different vendors looking for a better price?
He may have been at the Stormwind end. I was killing rats at the Ironforge end (there were hardly any rats at the Stormwind end).
Don’t melee as a hunter.
Those creatable white items are there so you can cheaply increase your skill in the relevant profession. Everyone gives you the same price and no player will ever buy them. They aren’t intended to make you money.
The rat-catching quest is in the Ironforge end of the Tram. The quest level is 10-something, and I’d bet you were either too low-level to get it or too high-level to see the exclamation point over his head.
And you will not get rich crafting. Or at least, you will not make as much money as you would just selling the results of your gathering skill. The game is designed so that you can’t make money from crafting low-level items. And you will never be paid more by a vendor for an item than you spent making it. If you want to make money, take gathering skills: Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Enchanting, then sell the Ore, Leather, Herbs and Disenchant results on the AH.
I’ve been working on my horde characters on Archimonde lately. They were largely ingonred, but to be honest, I think I like horde better than alliance. Anyway, I started a new Blood Elf Mohawk…er…I mean Warlock…and again someone plopped the guild charter in my face. I was selling crap off at the inn, since I had little bag space and needed every copper I could get. When the invite came in it closed the innkeepers browse screen, which mildly annoyed me. Right after the person offered to give me 2gp if I signed it. i was actually about to do it, when they ran off before I could type anything. Oh well…at least I maintained my stance on ignoring people that do that. 
I learned something else too. Pets can make stupid pathing decisions. It happened with my orc hunter yesterday and again with the warlocks imp. While killing the wretched thugs and hooligans in the building by the port, I jumped off of the balcony to avoid having to go out the way I came in and thus have to fight the ones that respawned again. A hooligan on the ground was close enough to aggro so I started fighting him thinking the imp is right behind me. This shouldn’t take long, I thought.
Well, the imp didn’t jump. He ran down the ramp through the building aggroing all of the thugs I was trying to avoid. So when he did reach me he had about 4 new playmates for us to deal with. I was right. It didn’t take long…the only problem was it didn’t take them long to beat my head in. 
Stupid imp.
Not always much choice. As near as I can tell, just about every creature in the game runs at about the same speed unless they’re hit with a speed-debuff (witness the way trying to flee is rarely successful unless you’re close to a zone border - and you keep getting hit all the way to the border). If my pet can’t pull the enemy’s attention off me (those hyena things, for example, are notorious for completely ignoring my pet and running straight at me) and I haven’t managed to drop the monster before it reaches me, I’m going to have to take a few swings in melee. I haven’t yet figured out a technique for successfully getting away from an attacker that has already closed to melee range, and then turning and firing a shot before if closes the gap again.
Most of the time, though, I’ve gotten their HP down enough that I only need one or two swings.