FINALLY!!!!

Skogafoss hit 50 and I'm about 5 bubbles shy of 50 myself...

Finally over the 40something blues, created a mule and an alt. We'll see if the alt doesn't also become a mule.

Actualy Stompy your crit rate will go down as you level. You need more agil/attackpower to keep your crit rate with same level mobs. Its best not to worry about crit rate till one is at 60 when the agil to crit rate propotion flate lines.

My main 60mage is in desperate need of a endgame staff. May I inquire as to where you found this valuable staff? Much thanks

Well thats what I have been doing is just trying to save for the mount but I just seem to get bored playing the ssame char for 3 hours!

thank god for generous guildies :) they helped farm the mount fund by going to SM and donating all rolls and retrieved gold :)

Ya I play with this one person in my guild all the time but she comes on at late hours......but maybe now that I got like 3 quests for SM might get a group together :D

I helped a guildie this weekend.... she had plenty of money, she just needed XP.

now she's got a blue chicken. LOL

Blue chicken? as in gnome mount?

yes we were trying to steer her away from AMC Pacer Orange.

OK -- A question about farming for those that have done it a bit more than me...

Does the drop rate go down as you kill more things? The reason I ask is that I need Spider's Silk to make the Robes of Arcana, which I can sell for ~5G on my server (which is why I already have 42G as a level 28 :D). Problem is, the stuff is a bitch to get. So I go farm the mobs I know to drop it. However, it seems that invariably, I get one off the first few mobs I kill, but nothing else for a *long* time. As in, I counted last night and killed 94 of these spiders before the second one dropped. And its a 5% drop rate according to Thottbot. Went again today, and the same thing happened... I got one on the fifth one I killed, and gave up after killing 40+ more of them.

The only way I can think to explain this is Blizzard trying to prevent this by lowering the drop rate by either 1) Limiting the number you get in a certain period of time or 2) Lowering the drop rate on things you have killed more than once, which is everything when you are farming things that respawn quickly.

Any thoughts? This is quite annoying.

seems to me that some things are just stingy drops from quest items to harvesting consumables.

I'm going to say that a 5% drop means you'll have to kill 100 mobs and you'll only get 5 drops. Seems pretty stingy to me.

Spiders silk is hard to come by... and I'm too impatient to farm. Was killing the spiders in Arathi highland with a 10% drop rate, got one then gave up after killing about 30.

On a brighter note, just hit lvl50. Huzzah.

Drop rates seem to be working as you would think. If it's 1% drop rate then each time you kill the mob you have a 1 in 100 chance at getting it. Meaning its possible to get one every time, just highly improbable.

I've taken a break from the game for this last month or so, has it improved any? Been thinking about trying the honor system and getting my char to 60 (hes 52 right now I think).

Yeah, Im not expecting it to drop often, it just gets annoying when you go through almost 100 mobs and dont get a single one on a 5% drop. I should be getting one roughly every 20 mobs, and its *nothing* near that. Im gonna try to find a different place to farma and see if it makes a difference.

Zeraph -

If you're taking a break, you might want to hold out until Battlegrounds comes out. The ganking of mid 50s in certain zones (Winterspring, EPL/WPL) is just outrageous. I am so happy I was able to hit 60 before the ganking system came out.

I believe that once the BGs hit the servers all the 60s will scramble into them to attain higher cp's.

I really enjoy the pvp and have really upped my taste for it, but, I would wonder about trying to level another char in this environment.

Anyone else have differing thoughts?

Differing? No. Its even the same at lower levels. I played on a friends character quite a bit before the honor system, and my own (lvl 28 now) after, and ganking has gone up astronomically. To the point that I can hardly quest in some places--ashenvale, hillsbrad, and to some degree, stonetalon, though that ones not that bad. It makes it hard when you need/want the quest XP to level, but you cant do it because you spend more time running to your corpse than playing. Ive basically been obsessively running instances since I hate grinding and instances at least make that more tolerable, and have the added bonus of more frequent blue drops.

This is my problem with Blizzard. They seem to be working hard to prevent the game from getting stale, which is good, but they also dont ever seem to fix any problems they create. Of which there are many, which are primarily ignored. First on my list is the honor system needing a drastic makeover to prevent the obscene ganking going on.

Go to Dire Maul, Ogre side for a tribute run and get rod of the ogre magi. The only current end-game staff you need. :)

--jaded

Thats what I am using now. I would like the Trindlehaven, Brightwood or Argent Crusader (or even Hale Magefire when I am using Mage Armor). What are you using Jaded? From your previous posts I know you have a mage and have been at 60 for sometime. Pray tell? Thanks

one of the reasons that I don't play on a PVP server, because it would get in the way of just playing with my friends without having to "rumble" all the time.

Yeah, the only reason Im on one is that several of my friends at school started on it when the game first came out, and I wanted to be able to play with them. We are all considering moving to a PVE server soon, and I even went ahead and picked one and created a character whom I ran to an inn so I could have a nice rest bonus when we started.

Sometimes you can get Spider Silk for cheap at the AH. Or go to Stonetalon Mountains I got lots of spider silk from there!

My caster buddies swear by the Trindlehaven. Any of those staves you indicated are delicious though. All relatively difficult to obtain as well. Argent Crusader - yikes, like anyone feels like fighting through undead strath for 4 hours to kill the Baron with 5ppl.

Unfortunately, it sells for a gold a pop on my server. Stonetalon is where I've been farming it, and where I havent been getting much. Im gonna try a different part of Stonetalon though--Ive been farming one place a lot.

I just reformatted my HD and reinstalled WoW. Now my mouse is sluggish and slow to respond. I have the sensitivity all the way up in the Interface Options and it's not helping the slow response-ness that's giving it a loose, unaccurate feel. I see Hardware Cursor and Smooth Mouse in Video Options but both are greyed out so I can't try that. I'm also getting 30+ FPS so that's not it. Also, I notice that it doesn't begin slowing down until the character-select screen. It works fine when I'm in the login screen but it gets bad after this.

Any ideas? Thanks for any help guys.
-T

PS: I'd post this in the Tech Forum at wow.com but I'm getting the all so helpful "Login Failure" :rolleyes:

Does your mouse act the same way on other games?

Video driver? The way you describe it, it works fine when there is no hardware acceleration going on, but slows down once there is. This, combined with the greyed out buttons, makes me think its an issue with your video card.

Thanks for the help guys. I did some searching at wow.com and found a guy with the same problem. He found that he could fix it by changing SET gxFixLag to 1 instead of 0 in the Config.wtf file. Not quite sure what this is for, but it works!

funny my mage dosent view the value of items by worth or ah prices or class use.. its by what it will disenchant into.

the big difference between blue and purple? blue items always nuke into a shard.. purple is the same but *drool* stacks. and yeah i've nuked several purple guns already to the horror of those around me. its just a game and well ive always has this reasoning. i wont buy off the AH, ill sell but not buy. cuz after playing diablo 2 for so long the mind set is thus....

an hour to a day from now ill find better. and i could care less how much an item is worth. instead of hoping that that item sells big id rather sell a ton of lesser bulk items and get the money faster.

and omfg pfft how hard is it to hot fix tailoring? i mean seriously. we have to wait till a content patch to get it fixed.. sigh

You nuked purple guns???? omg your crazy, actualy as a rog i just run instances over and over, and flood the market with shards(by flood i mean like 20)

I'm very with you on this. I've never disenchanted a purple, however I *always* undercut competition in the AH to get a quick sale. Even if I know the price is too low, I figure I found the item, thus any money is free money, thus I don't mind selling and item for 3g instead of 4g simply so I can make the quick sale and move on.

GAHHH!! My first experience with being ninja looted!

We were running BFD. The leader of the group, a 34 shaman, started to insist that the staff that drops off one of the bosses was his. Me and another guy (the only other member of the group that knew what he was doing) insisted that no, it wasnt his to claim, but that if he wanted it, he could roll on it just like anyone else who could use it. He continued to insist that because he was higher level than me (Im a 28 priest), it was his, and I couldnt roll on it, even though its a priest staff (rod of the sleepwalker, +11 int +10 spir). We continued to insist that it was up for the roll. At this point, Im seriously thinking hes either gonna boot me from the group or change it to master looter just before the kill. He doesnt do this though, he just continues to bitch. We finally get him to agree on loot rules--if its bind on pickup and you can use it, roll, and the winner gets it: the standard fare. So at this point everyone in the group knows very well what the loot rules are, as we spent more time setting them than killing things. We get to the boss--first, while we are still killing the goons that surround him so we have an easier shot at him, he just runs up to him and aggros him. So now we have a serious fight on our hands. We barely survive and kill the dude, and then, the goddamn WARRIOR rolls on and wins the staff! The shaman starts screaming and yelling, cursing everyone up and down as the only other sane guy in the group and myself ask the warrior why he rolled. He doesnt answer. Then, he and the shaman run to the torches and activate them all, flooding the room with somewhere in the vicinity of 50 creeps. Of course, we all wipe. If you havent run BFD, you activate these torches one at a time and kill each wave successively. I know these two guys knew this and had run it before, because they were both talking about how many times they had run it.

Me and the other good dude took the spirit healer and immediately dropped from the group and hearthed home. He had a 60 and went to put out a blacklist. I also got to put out my first blacklist.

Bah, Im venting at this point, sorry. Im still pissed off. I should have dropped the group early. I almost did, realizing early on that most of the group was either very childish or an idiot, but decided to go for it anyways, which I now regret. You live and learn, right?

Let me vent about the group too. There were 5 of us--me (28 priest), the bad warrior, a good warrior, the shaman, and another priest. Not the best group, but we are all rather high for the instance, so no biggie. First, it takes us forever to get started. Half the group is just running around Ashenvale looking for HKs, and wont come to run the instance until after about 15 minutes of prodding. Then, we get in the instance, and the only ones that know how to play worth a damn are me and the good warrior. The bad warrior cant hold his aggro for shit, the shaman, well, you know about that, not to mention that he liked to just run up and aggro things while we still had our hands full, and the other priest couldnt fathom that using psychic scream in an instance is bad because it aggros other creeps. And he used it when he wasnt even in trouble or getting beat on. Not to mention he didnt know the difference between bind on pickup and bind on equip, and we had to explain it to him after he rolled on and won a BoP blue *mail* chestpiece. After that, he still had to ask if he could wear something everytime there was a roll.

yeah I don't group up with many people that I don't know most of the time I am grouping with my guildies and no one else.

if I say loot rules are n/g and they don't get the idea behind it. I don't play with them. period.

So I've rerolled again, this time a mage on Tichondrius server. Anyone here play there? I'm an allmighty level 10 so don't even try to front if you're Alliance! It's fun starting with nothing again, I usually get my alts a few bags or so just to help out in the early levels but without Big Papa Rumblepants helping out makes it a bit more challenging.

If you're on Tich gimme a holla. My name there is Suggs.

Allot of the people from Activision are currently playing on Tichondrius on alliance

our guild died on lothar so me and my bud transfered to bonechewer we have toons to 20 now.. but im working on the one class i thought i wouldnt a rogue. I must say the ability to stealth in to say a quest creep and kill him is nice seeing others that have to kill every thing up to the creep heh. at this time money is easy to get. pick pockets kill loot like getting two purses instead of one.

Right now as a 60 Mage I'm sticking with Rod of the Ogre Magi with a +9 Int Enchant until my Staff of Dominance drops in MC. A Priest got the last one
:rolleyes: :p . Running Lower until a Trindlehaven drops isn't fun at all, I'd rather wait.

I'm on the mannoroth server.. Anyone else on Mannoroth? :D

I'm going to assume you've nuked a few precisely calibrated boomsticks, which, while lamentable, I can understand. For 48, they're great, but you're not going to use it much past that. Now, if you've nuked dwarven hand cannons...you must be crazy. You can buy a lot of crap for 600+g. Even if you're not into the AH buying, epic mount, anyone?

you've heard about it maybe seen it but here it is in all its glory.. *yeah its a repost but my god the vid is funny*

leeeerrrroooyyy jjjjeeeekkkinnnnssss

or.. how to totally f*ck up a good raid being an a$$hat

be prepared to wet thyself

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/downlo...oy.wmv&id=1666

and on a side now there has been a new entry in the ubran dictionary.. heh

http://www.urbandictionary.com/confi...346769b8bb/ack

Leeroy

n.
1: One who does not grasp the concept of caution.
2: One whose success is based purely off relentless aggression and pure luck.
3: One who likes chicken.
4: One whose battle cry consists of their own name.

v.
1: To destroy all hopes of success.
2: To rush headlong into danger without regard to consequences.
3: To satisfy one's own desires at the expense of all around oneself.

- I can't believe he just tried to headbutt that dragon. What a Leeroy.

- We were doing great until that idiot totally Leeroyed us.

- The party was really boring until Bob pulled a Leeroy.

welp its content patch day and battleground is out.. havent seen the patch notes yet but get ready for an update.. woot they fixed tailoring though i bet.

which everyone knew it cuz of the extended 3hr downtime they posted about see you .. ingame

tailoring is fixed in this patch! YAY! It's about DAMN FREAKING TIME.

BG is fuxorz no one can get on Dragonmaw

There's about 100 people waiting outside the entrance in Alterac on Destromath...

I'm not one of them :P

Bah. The patch made it start crashing left and right on me. Disabled all my UI mods ( :( ) and it started working better, but still crashed a couple times.

And my internet connection is sucking at life at the moment--I'm pinging at 2000ms (yes, two thousand), so no BG (or anything) for me...

Just to ask the stupid question, you did allow it to disable your UI mods, right? On the off chance you didn't, that can easily be the cause of all the crashing that's going on for you. I assume you did, but just in case...

I'm not even going to worry about BG for a few weeks. Let things settle down a bit before I take a stab at it. I hope finding groups for endgame instances isn't going to be an even bigger chore now. I get the feeling it very well may be. The tradeoffs of having a small guild in which everyone knows one another and is really cool but still need to do pick up groups to run 10 man instances. le sigh.

I made it in a 10v10 lvl 40-50 BG game today and had a blast. It lasted a good 25 minutes and was definitely worth the 5 minute wait ;)

Later on I waited two hours and gave up :(

I had a blast in the 40 man Alterac Valley BG tonight. We got a guild deathsquad going consisting of 3 Mages and 2 Priests and basically sneaked around causing problems for the alliance. Destroyed a few towers and converted some graveyards and held them by ourselves for a while, at least until the zerg showed up. Mages can really shine in Alterac Valley; small AE groups can shatter some pretty strong enemy advances. Other times we ran in and got promptly killed :lol: All told I got 200 Honor Kills in about 2 and a half hours, which is quite nice compared to the usual Tarren Mill affair.

On BH its been pretty good, so far I havnt had to wait over 3 minutes after playing 10 or so matches. My main gripe is the level ranges. My character happens to be 51...worse possible level as Im up against mostly 60s...with raid gear no less. The other problem is the 31-40 range since 40s will have their mounts.

A really easy fix would simply to make it 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60 with maybe an option for 58-59s to join the 60s if they want. The difference between a level 59 char, and a 60 char with raid gear is huge. Not that the 59 cant have good raid gear, but the odds are a lot better that the 60 will.

The other nice thing is that so far no class seems to be dominating. All classes can be useful.

There's a pretty big difference between a newly made 60 and a 60 who has been loot gathering for a while, too. My toon is worlds more powerful now than he was when I first made 60, and I'm still missing a bunch of important gear pieces. Compared to someone running MC consistently, I'm way behind, though. I wonder if it might be worth it to have 51-60 where the sixties can't have been that level for more than 24 hours IG time and then a 60 only one for people who are 60 and have clocked more than 24 hours IG time at level 60. That might make equipment discrepancy a bit less severe.

BG is fun as hell! However about everyone and there mother seems to be a paladin out there :p

http://img242.echo.cx/img242/7893/dunbuldar3op.jpg

Where do I get this (and future) wow patches?

I'm SOOOO not using this torrent downloader anymore - way too f'n slow.

Right now I think I'm getting 17k/sec... out of a potential 500k/sec. Screw that.

I went to the wow forums and people had listed a bunch of mirrors. I think I downloaded it in 8 minutes :thumbsup: Bet you could still find a bunch of working links.

that's what I did too...

I got it from www.Filefront.com

Jesus, do The Alliance suck ass! We get owned so completely and throughly by The Horde. They are infinitely better organized and have much better team work! I am seriously thinking of rerolling a Horde character on my server (Zul'jin). I just want to win once! Is that tooooo much to ask?

MahlerIsGod: That's probably because the horde are so used to being outnumbered in PvP that when they have an even fight they kick some ass.

I've managed to collect all of the wildheart set except for the vest and the kilt. Unfortunately BG's now occupy most of the time for all people in the level range that usually go on Baron and UBRS runs, so I have a feeling I wont be completing my set for a while.

In other news, I had a lot of fun today being a secret agent. 3 rogues and 2 druids. LBRS. 3 runs. We assassinated all of the bosses, managed to complete 2 UBRS keys, and got wildheart boots for both of the druids ( :D )

It was kinda funny.. the first time the boots dropped. I was like, "MINE!" and then I rolled. 8. My heart sunk. The other druid said, "Oh, I'm sorry." He rolled. 6. "YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!" I bet he felt pretty shitty. Ahh well, as least the boots dropped again on the 3rd round.

Haha, yep. Fighting 2 or more at once is nothing new to most of us Horde. Alliance on the other hand, it's hard for them if they don't outnumber by at least 2:1 :D

oh how i hate those low rolls... vindication!!!

This is why I hate rogues and druids. Stealth LBRS runs make your life so much easier. Trying to get actual raid groups together to do LBRS for beaststalker stuff is like pulling teeth. I really really wish they'd move shoulders and gloves somewhere else that I actually have a good chance of getting a group to reliably go. My guild is getting close, but it's going to be a while before we can 10-man stuff consistently. Blech.

On a more positive note, congrats on the loot! I'm just jealous.

I got a 1 lastnight.....but there was nothing good anyway!

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...p=1#post348569


a warning to warlocks you must read this and be wary of it plz.. pass it along to all your guild mates and general chat ..

As most of you probably know by now, there is bug on the live realms whereby Soul Shards will “overwrite” items in a Warlock’s inventory. We are currently looking into this issue further and we will keep you updated as to when a fix is planned to go live. In the meantime, I would like to explain exactly what is happening and how you can restore the items that have been “overwritten”.

Synopsis: Your items are not gone forever, they are just stored in an invisible overflow buffer. Read below to find out how to restore your items.

Explanation of the Bug

Firstly, when all player items are saved to the character database, that item is assigned a specific number which denotes which inventory position it is in. When the character is loaded and items are pulled from the database, the items are placed in their corresponding slots in your inventory. If, for any reason, two or more items are pointing to the same inventory slot, one of them is chosen to fill the slot and the other tries to find the next open inventory location. If no location is available, the item is not loaded, but it still exists in a limbo state. Some people are calling this an “overflow” state.

The problem we are seeing today is being caused by the spell Shadowburn. When cast, the spell should expend a Soul Shard, and if it kills its target, will replace that Soul Shard. If you cast Shadowburn while your inventory is full, when you use Shadowburn to kill a MOB that yields experience or a player that yields honor (this will occur in both PvP and PvE), the Soul Shard that is given back to you is sometimes not placed back into the slot that was just freed up by the Soul Shard cost of Shadowburn being used. While you did actually acquire that Soul Shard, it does not appear in your inventory and is actually in your item “overflow”. The item slot that the spell chooses for the Soul Shard to enter is seemingly random. Meaning that for example, the Soul Shard in your “overflow” could be trying to use the same inventory slot as your mount.

If that empty inventory space is now filled by another item and you then logout of the game, when you log back in you have an extra Soul Shard in your “overflow” that has no where to go. Instead of just staying in this “overflow” slot, the Soul Shard switches with the item in the slot it is pointing to, placing your other item into the “overflow”. Each time you login with this character in this state, it is random which one of the items that points to that same inventory slot will actually appear. In other words, you could sometimes login and see the Soul Shard in that slot, and other times login and see the other item in that slot.

With this in mind, the more times Shadowburn is cast while you have a full inventory, the worse the condition becomes. Every time the spell is cast, a soul shard is added to the “overflow” state. As described above, if the newly opened inventory slots are filled, then upon logging out and back in, there is a chance that my items will switch with the soul shards in the “overflow”.

How can I get my items back?

Your items are NOT gone forever, as stated above, they are just in a limbo “overflow” state. Basically, to get your items back, you have to clear enough inventory space to clear this overflow buffer of all of its items. Clear out as much inventory space as possible and then re-log. The items in your “overflow” will then be placed into these empty slots.

If you find that doing this fills your inventory up again, my suggestion would be to repeat the process until you login and still have empty inventory slots. All of your items will be restored.

How can I avoid losing my items in the first place

One current workaround to this problem is to only store Soul Shards in your main backpack, not your other bags. The bug will not manifest itself if you follow this rule. Another suggestion would be to ensure that you are always playing with a lot of empty inventory space.

If any more workarounds to the problem are discovered, I will update this post.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion. Thank you for your patience while we get this issue resolved.


i had my epic mount vanish cuz of this.. and omg did i almost die that day.. the gm didnt belive me so he looked in on my stuff and found out just as the offical post states.. i thanked him for 10 min straight heh.. ftr my epic mount was not so bad to get just a hard ass quest to do.. but still.

Did anyone elses world crash??

Well let me take that back...looks like blizzard blew up or something there webpage is down also! :eek:

So guys I'm about to delete my 50 Shaman and switch to alliance. It's been a very hard decision but two of my real-life friends decided to make the switch and I'm following. A bud of mine found out his real-life friend is concidentally in a really good guild on the opposite faction of our server and there's more potential in the guild for end game stuff. It hurts to leave such a fun guild behind but I think change is good and there aren't any hard feelings as of now. I must say I'm looking forward to it. I liked being alliance in the open beta, and my server is way horde-heavy so now it'l be more of a challenge.

I'm considering rolling either a priest or a warrior. Man I wish alliance had shamans :)
I hear that shadow priests are the best for solo potential and that dwarves are the best for this. I like humans a bit more, are dwarves that much better?

Thanks guys
-T

Ouch, deleting a 50? Why not just start on a new server? I never found friends to be enough of a reason unless theyre both good friends and friends you know in RL. It sounds like you have unfinsihed business still with your shaman.

Depends if you like casters or melee more. Priests are def powerful, and probably wont get "balanced" in any near future since they are relatively balanced for group vs group. Warriors can be baddass if they have good equipment. While they dont have the burst damage of a rogue, they can do nearly the same damage in fights over 30 secs and given the chance to build rage. I dunno tho, IMO priests are just dang boring.

As for dwarves vs humans (or NE dont forget) just look up their racial spells, thats the biggest difference. But ya I heard dwarves anti fear ward was better, BUT with the new pvp trinkets that may have changed.

Wow, I don't think I'd delete a level 50, but I guess if they're good enough friends that could somewhat be understandable.

I, for one, love being horde. My Undead Warlock is the win. ;) And how can you go wrong with Barrens general chat!?

I'll tell you what.

MC + BOP = lame faction imbalance.

Yeah I'm definitely going through some regrets. I thought it out over a few days so it wouldn't be a hasty decision, but there were a few things I could never plan for. I didn't realize how personally attached I got to the actual character, not just a "shaman." I noticed this when I began my new player and it felt like it wasn't me, not because of the gameplay but because of his voice, his movement, etc. I try to think change is good, but you're right Zeraph, I do feel like I've got some unfinished business. Maybe I'll petition Blizz, tell them how lame I am, and try to get them to revive him. If not, no regrets and I'll just have to personally balance out the allance/horde problems myself :)

-T

why would you delete it when it could just sit there? it doesn't cost extra does it?

what's the limit on how many toons you can have across the different servers?

Well barrens chat on my server is dead all the time. But I don't play my horde that much anymore!

Because my two real-life friends found out that their friend is coincidentally on the alliance of the same server and had in's to a good guild. I figured I'd quit while ahead and dab around in alliance while working on my upcoming summerschool courses. Don't underestimate the attachment to your character if you play for reasons other than power leveling. :( :thumbsup:

Because you can only have all alliance or all horde characters on a PvP server. To prevent "spying" I guess :rolleyes:

And Ever, I have heard of them restoring characters so you have a good chance.

They do and I just got an email respecting my petition saying that he will indeed be restored. I've just got to find out what that means though because I have the alliance character I made and it's not like Whorpe the shaman will just pop up in my char menu :)

Edit: I logged off my NE Priest to find him side by side my Tauren Shaman in the same character lineup, lol. I deleted the priest shortly after I took some screenies.

We all make mistakes, and luckily Blizzard is there to clean things up after us ;)

Gratz bro alliance = stupid. IMHO nay its not an opinion. from every server ive tried i gotta say horde is a family, greedy to a point but not like alliance.

and you can either get a guest pass or a cdkey off ebay and have another account. on bonechewer vm is a popular alliance guild.. and they have a lame 1st lvl troll that pops up every time they raid horde.. chance? i thought so at frist but.. vm moves before we can .. once we stopped using the spatial chat and /say they couldnt stand against us.. can way say teamspeak?

lame


on alliance lothar my mage is finally is a guild. two i was in just split was annoying so now im getting into MC my god thats nasty.

Man I my server its the opposite Allicance is the under dog and we all are more family like. Seems horde are the onese that zerg everything. But thats why I joined the server like being the under dog enjoy a challenge. Seems to be the opposite on most servers.

Well Im not a fan of horde and never have been sense War Craft 2.


I started a Human Warrior on the Eredar server because its PvP and Windrunner is normal
so if anyone is on that server and sees a lvl 8 named Belicia that would be me:)


some updated pics of my 35 Human Mage:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~tylerdonlon/other/wow_016.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~tylerdonlon/other/wow_017.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~tylerdonlon/other/wow_018.jpg

Here's me rockin' out on Noggenfoggers'.

http://mrflux.orcon.net.nz/rockin.jpg

Yeah on kel'thuzad it's about 2.8 alli per horde :( it's funny too because my level group consistantly owns up bg pvp now that it's a fair fight. Alliance are so accustomed to just not having to do anything they don't have the same skills that horde do.


Tishar - Tauren Druid on kelthuzad

Who do you guys host your images on? I have a few screen shots I'd love to post, but I don't have a good place to put them. Thanks in advance.

I'm gonna ask again, because I'm curious... does anyone play on Mannoroth server? :D

Also, I used to use photobucket to host my screenshots.. check 'em out. :)

http://www.photobucket.com

Excellent, let's hope this works.

I have a problem about forgetting to move my cursor. Here's me after a successful BRD run a few weeks ago.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ronDwarves.jpg

Man my rouge is level 49 right now on the spirestone server. This game rocks now with BG in place and the honor system its great. The bugs seem to be far fewer. I seem to remember a lot of complaints but I think we should give it up to BLizzard they did a far better job of fixing things and getting that content out.

I still don't notice any difference in player skill in alliance vs horde that everyone keeps talking about. But maybe thats because I normally play on a server that is an equal split (aliance only have like 4% more players).

Update:
I lvled and spent 5 gold on armor trying to see if I should use the robe or the vest!

http://home.cogeco.ca/~tylerdonlon/other/wow_019.jpg

http://home.cogeco.ca/~tylerdonlon/other/wow_020.jpg

anyone finding the top end raid instance a bit annoying? the group i ran with is a sorta established guild on lothar, having my 1st two guild either die or merge to a gank squad i moved on. they are partners with a bigger guild. Into MC we went. first thing outta the leaders mouth was.. "you roll on nothing im master loot so i decide who gets what." so im fine with this.

we continue on defeat most the stuff in MC in half a day and night heh.. yet after it was all said and done. I got nothing. no gold no vendor loot (the grey junk) and yet i was not asked to roll on any item i could use.. and a damn +9int 2h enchant dropped..

later on i drug that guild leader in a heated discussion about loot rules cuz the person that got it put that enchant up on the ah for 120g and as far as alliance looting goes on lothar, you win a prof scroll you learn it then and there. she was like "well they said they needed it." and i was like "i told you i was 300 enchanting tailoring, had i gotten it i would have learned it then and there."

seems the yutz keeps cooking recipies on him and everytime he wins a prof scroll instead he learns one of his cooking scrolls to jype everyone.

which caused several of thier guildies to think back and realize how utterly stupid they were cuz you cant learn blacksmithing, tailoring, enchanting and alchemy at the same time..

kuddos for the clueless

alright i got off my lazy arse and can now post my screens.. heres a few..

http://img277.echo.cx/img277/8152/wo...52048106cu.jpg

http://img277.echo.cx/img277/1916/wo...52046250pu.jpg

and as you can see in this one its not always good to be the mage. funny thing about this dragon chick. she wont show up as humanoid on a hunters tracker.. adn not wise to venture up there when its going on heh

http://img277.echo.cx/img277/4876/wo...51456446if.jpg

http://img277.echo.cx/img277/9413/wo...52255482ev.jpg

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http://img113.echo.cx/img113/6163/wo...52127159nx.jpg

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You should spoiler that picture from the Grand Masquerade, hehe. I knew what it was, but other people might want to figure it out themselves.

I've been levellling a 2nd mage and yesterday I did some aoe grinding at Dire Maul (just hit 52) and wow. 55k xp/hour. That place is sick.

--jaded

Why would you have 2 mages for?

Good God Pain, I come to read about WoW, not stare at your avatar. Can't that thing come with a warning label?

Heavens to Betsy!

Hey - what's the deal with "Lady Onyxia" in Stormwind? I'm horde 4 L1f3 so I don't really know what's shaking in your silly towns.

I lost my beaststalker cap tonight.

I lost it because somehow, despite the fact that I watched Gandling's life tick from 1% to 0% while I auto-fired, I was not allowed to loot the corpse. I didn't die and release. I didn't get ported. He was wearing a serpent sting DOT of mine when he died. My pet was attacking him. I was shooting at him, had him targeted and was most certainly in combat. And somehow, I didn't "earn" looting rights to the corpse, because I'd somehow gotten "out of range" and "didn't put myself back on his hate-list before he died."

The raid group I was with was dumbfounded. None of us could figure out what had happened or what was going on. They made me the master looter, they made it FFA, nothing, nada, zero.

World of Warcraft can be an amazing game, but the whole point of endgame stuff (for me, at least, and I know for a lot of my friends) is loot. And when you can't loot the item 10 people spent two hours of time helping you get, well, it's a really fucking lame experience. The Blizzard forums have posts about this bug all over the place and the best anyone has gotten is, "We're looking into it."

Ugh....

Sorry about the avatar...... :D

http://students.washington.edu/ajcwales/Stuff/Robe.jpg

Hanging out in Org with my shiny new robe http://www.thottbot.com/?i=40410. Looks a little feminine with a floral pattern on the back but I'll live with it (as well as the fact that we've never had an Arcanist Robe drop!) :p Just need to get rid of those horrible looking shoulders now but I don't think I'll be seeing Arcanist Shoulders any time soon.

http://students.washington.edu/ajcwa...uff/Onyxia.jpg

I probably should have been paying more attention to the fight instead of getting a good picture, but the fight ended up going ok without me :)

Different servers.

As I hit 60, I had accumulated 609g. Not bad :D Total /played was 7 days and 20 hours from 1-60.

--jaded

Server: Skullcrusher
Name: Bonkai/EddieDean
Chars: Troll Mage/Tauren Shaman

Shit I'm only 57 and I've clocked in 13days 21hr and only have 142g :x

And a good amount of that time has been spent looking for goddamn ST/BRD groups!

The reason for this is that due to my timezone (New Zealand) when I play nobody from my guild is on hardly anyone at all is so I end up soloing and can't do Elite quests :/

During my grind I did 3 instances, Scarlet monastery for rod and hat (got both on the first run), Zul Farrak with help from guildies for carrot and Maraudon for inventor's focal sword (got it on first run through).

The trick to levelling fast is just to pure grind. You waste time doing instances and quests. Grinding is boring as hell, but the game really starts at 60 anyway :D

I highly, highly, highly recommend Dire Maul east lasher grinding from 52-60 if you are a mage. The xp is insane and you make tons of gold selling the drops you find.

--jaded

Man Jaded you should write a leveling guide for mages. Thats insane leveling.

Any tips for grinding locations? Im a 33 priest... We're both casters, so I imagine we'd have similar needs in grinding. Although, I'm horde, so I suspect that will change things a bit ;)

I cancelled my account today. Oh well. The game sucks at 60...it's all about who has the most time and luck to do instance runs. Boooring. I'm now playing Battlefield 2. :thumbsup:

-Lasereth