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Catriona R

1/16/2012 4:26:00 PM


Getting the impression from the lack of posts on these threads now
that not many are actually playing much currently! I'm not doing so
much as usual myself, this week has been mostly:

Molten Core done forever on druid/priest, at last! Priest is max
exalted, druid is just into exalted, that'll do nicely. Druid also
dinged exalted with Violet Eye on the same run (I always pop into Kara
and kill Attumen on the way over, no mount yet but it's worth
trying!); he got to revered at the end of TBC (the group I was running
with on my priest at the time developed a few healer alts but were
missing an offtank so my green-geared newly-dinged druid got the job
when I asked if I could swap for a few trash kills to get friendly for
the ring lol, don't think I was actually very effective but it was fun
trying a different role!) but never got round to farming the rest.

I'm slowly working on picking up missing alchemy recipes on my druid
(missing about 30 atm), but keep running out of primals for my daily
transmute in search of discoveries - noticed there's a nice primal
earth-water one from Sporeggar rep so headed out to Zangarmarsh. I
remembered hearing that Underbog normal now gives rep with them as of
4.3 so grabbed the sanguine hibiscus that's been sitting in the
guildbank forever and tried my luck. Well - first I got 8k rep from
the banked hibiscus, then the run itself gave me 3k, the black stalker
brain quest gave me 1k and then I got another 6.5k from the hibiscuses
I picked up in the run! Pretty nice haul for under an hour's work; I
went from only just honoured to far enough into revered that I'm
pretty likely to go back there a couple of times so I can go for the
other recipe from exalted :-)

Only other thing of note I've done this week is dust off my old rogue
and start questing on him - now I'm asking myself why I didn't do it
ages ago! He was my first main and I clearly still love the class,
felt at home with it right away, and I'm really enjoying it atm. Looks
like I'd better focus on him next Darkmoon Faire then, since I suspect
he'll be 85 and wanting his transmog set soon! Finding that Cataclysm
has the same issues TBC had though, in that there's nothing different
when you do the other faction - what I've done so far is near
identical, just slight differences in quest text flavour, and it's
clearly going to remain like that through all of the first four zones.
I'm just looking forward to Twilight Highlands and actually seeing
something *new*.

This week's target: stop being a coward about 5-mans and farm End Time
for my priest's shoulders; I've done it enough times before, just
don't particularly like that one (Well of Eternity is by far my
favourite, it's pretty relaxing to heal other than Azshara, which is
pure chaos :-P). But I've just about got the honor for my pvp transmog
set (old Season 2 - I had most of that set at the time and been
kicking myself for deleting it, so I'm very very glad they added it
back!) so I really need to be not using my pvp shoulders in my pve
set, since wrong shoulders will ruin either set's looks! :-P
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (82 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)
22 Answers

steve.kaye

1/17/2012 8:44:00 AM

0

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:26:00 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Getting the impression from the lack of posts on these threads now
>that not many are actually playing much currently! I'm not doing so
>much as usual myself, this week has been mostly:

I've actually just started playing again.

My friend said that he'd started playing again a few months ago so I
joined up to so that we could play together. At the time, I didn't
play much unless he was on because I still had the computer issues
that caused me to leave last time (random, but frequent, 4 or 5 second
lock ups that didn't really feel like lag)

I fixed that issue last week by getting a new computer and it seems
like that's fixed the problem (although I haven't done the real test
yet - it was worse in instances)

The first thing that I did (after sorting out my interface :P) was
level my Mage and Hunter to 70. I like my mage but only in small
doses so she's parked again for a while. Next I joined up with my
friend's level 70 warlock with my newly 70 Hunter and we did three
levels in Dragonblight.

They seem to have nerfed the elite quests in there. We were at the
mage one in the west of the zone and I took the time to swap from DPS
pet to tank pet because I thought that we'd need it. He went down in
a matter of seconds. IIRC, he was the easiest of the elites in the
zone being a tough 2 man elite so maybe he hasn't been nerfed - maybe
character boosts have made it an easier fight. We'll see when we get
to the others.

Now that Hunter is linked to my friend's Warlock so I don't want to
play him when my friend is not on so I switched to my Rogue. I took
her through Deepholm until she hit 83 and then I went to Uldum. I've
done Deepholm with my priest but didn't get to do much of Uldum before
I quit so I thought that I'd take a look. It seems like I did a lot
more of Uldum than I remembered though because I've only just started
doing new quests.

She's only level 83 but my friend's level 84 Rogue seemed to be doing
a lot more DPS judging by the DPS readings that he sent me. I went to
the level 85 target dummies to see what DPS she can do. She was doing
just under 5k DPS which I thought was pitiful (unfortunately, you
can't easily find out how DPS a character should be doing less than
max level). I went to Elitist Jerks and skimmed the first post in the
Assassination thread and had another go. That got me to just under 6k
DPS. I read a bit more and tried again and I'm now at about 6.7k DPS.
Not a bad improvement just from a rotation change. That last little
but was gained by waiting until about 90 energy before hitting
Envenom. Envenom gives a short buff which increases the chance of
poisons being applied. Waiting until 90 energy allows you to do two
Mutilates during that time which decreases the length of time that you
are low on Deadly Poison stacks. I was amazed at how a small pause in
the rotation increased DPS by about 10%! Of course, that's fairly
useless when I'm soloing because the mobs are likely to die from
deadly poison and white damage during that pause time. :) It'll be
handy if I pluck up the courage to go into an instance though.


>This week's target: stop being a coward about 5-mans and farm End Time
>for my priest's shoulders; I've done it enough times before, just
>don't particularly like that one

My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
instance that they are in.

The target after that would be to get back on my Paladin and try a few
instances with him as tank. I tried a few before I quit but the
effect of those lock ups that I was having was even worse on a tank
than on the healer.

That's assuming that SW:TOR doesn't draw me away. The other friend
from our group of three that used to play WoW has just started playing
SW:TOR and would like me to have a go. I played it in beta and it was
really good. The main thing that is stopping me is that I signed up
for the annual pass for WoW as I was going to buy Diablo 3 anyway and
it reduced the price of WoW to be something like £4.50 a month which
was a good price. It really seems like a waste of money to have two
subscription games when you can only play one at once so that might
keep me on WoW. :P

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 83 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

Catriona R

1/17/2012 12:21:00 PM

0


On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:43:46 +0000, Steve Kaye
<nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:

>I've actually just started playing again.
>
>My friend said that he'd started playing again a few months ago so I
>joined up to so that we could play together. At the time, I didn't
>play much unless he was on because I still had the computer issues
>that caused me to leave last time (random, but frequent, 4 or 5 second
>lock ups that didn't really feel like lag)
>
>I fixed that issue last week by getting a new computer and it seems
>like that's fixed the problem (although I haven't done the real test
>yet - it was worse in instances)

Hope it's fixed it! Hate that kind of problem, after 4.3 I was getting
it really badly whenever I ran two copies of WoW at once (which I do a
lot, taking 2 characters to old raids etc), my bf got it too and we
both turned off all addons we had in common, no change, grr. Then it
suddenly cleared up a couple of weeks ago, for both of us - we didn't
change anything so perhaps Blizz hotfixed something, who knows. At
least it's fixed!

>The first thing that I did (after sorting out my interface :P) was
>level my Mage and Hunter to 70. I like my mage but only in small
>doses so she's parked again for a while. Next I joined up with my
>friend's level 70 warlock with my newly 70 Hunter and we did three
>levels in Dragonblight.
>
>They seem to have nerfed the elite quests in there. We were at the
>mage one in the west of the zone and I took the time to swap from DPS
>pet to tank pet because I thought that we'd need it. He went down in
>a matter of seconds. IIRC, he was the easiest of the elites in the
>zone being a tough 2 man elite so maybe he hasn't been nerfed - maybe
>character boosts have made it an easier fight. We'll see when we get
>to the others.

They should all have been nerfed, bit of a shame when you're playing a
class which was capable of soloing elites, since I liked the
challenge, but I can see why they did it since most classes can't, and
since there's not that many people levelling now, you usually end up
leaving zones without finishing them due to not being able to clear
the elite quests. Think all elite quests in Outland and Northrend got
nerfed, some a bit *too* much, I'd have preferred them to at least
leave the mobs having significantly higher health than usual so you
have to put some effort into killing them, but maybe just not hitting
like a truck!

>She's only level 83 but my friend's level 84 Rogue seemed to be doing
>a lot more DPS judging by the DPS readings that he sent me. I went to
>the level 85 target dummies to see what DPS she can do. She was doing
>just under 5k DPS which I thought was pitiful (unfortunately, you
>can't easily find out how DPS a character should be doing less than
>max level). I went to Elitist Jerks and skimmed the first post in the
>Assassination thread and had another go. That got me to just under 6k
>DPS. I read a bit more and tried again and I'm now at about 6.7k DPS.
>Not a bad improvement just from a rotation change. That last little
>but was gained by waiting until about 90 energy before hitting
>Envenom. Envenom gives a short buff which increases the chance of
>poisons being applied. Waiting until 90 energy allows you to do two
>Mutilates during that time which decreases the length of time that you
>are low on Deadly Poison stacks. I was amazed at how a small pause in
>the rotation increased DPS by about 10%! Of course, that's fairly
>useless when I'm soloing because the mobs are likely to die from
>deadly poison and white damage during that pause time. :) It'll be
>handy if I pluck up the courage to go into an instance though.

Sounds good! I'll have to take my 82 combat rogue to a target dummy
sometime, no idea what dps he does right now but stuff dies quickly
enough so seems alright solo :-) Really enjoying that class, wish I'd
played him ages ago!

>>This week's target: stop being a coward about 5-mans and farm End Time
>>for my priest's shoulders; I've done it enough times before, just
>>don't particularly like that one
>
>My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
>dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
>now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
>She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
>past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
>see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
>instance that they are in.

What you can do there, is check the AH for cheap boe epics, that'll
push you up some way. Do Thrall's questchain (starts in Hyjal, near
Nordrassil) for a 365 cloak, and open up the Molten Front dailies for
a 365 necklace. Run Tol Barad a couple of times and convert honor to
Justice for a cheap 378 item to replace whatever your worst current
one is (I'm betting your wand, if you're anything like me, those
things are near impossible to come by!) I've managed to get all my
alts over 353 with those tactics so they can go straight to the new
5-mans without having to run any of the older ones, should be fine as
dps, as a healer you might want a little higher, but random normals
will be fine for you and will get you justice points for more gear too
:-)

I still haven't run anything on heroic other than the three new
instances lol; hadn't plucked up the courage before 4.3 hit and
figured I was best off going straight to the new places while everyone
was new to them, rather than waiting till I was more likely to get
complained at for not knowing everything. If you do the new instances,
check WoW Insider's quick tactic guides, I can't normally hold much
info in my head, but they were written in a way that helped me
remember the main points enough anyway - massive help to me! :-)

>The target after that would be to get back on my Paladin and try a few
>instances with him as tank. I tried a few before I quit but the
>effect of those lock ups that I was having was even worse on a tank
>than on the healer.
>
>That's assuming that SW:TOR doesn't draw me away. The other friend
>from our group of three that used to play WoW has just started playing
>SW:TOR and would like me to have a go. I played it in beta and it was
>really good. The main thing that is stopping me is that I signed up
>for the annual pass for WoW as I was going to buy Diablo 3 anyway and
>it reduced the price of WoW to be something like £4.50 a month which
>was a good price. It really seems like a waste of money to have two
>subscription games when you can only play one at once so that might
>keep me on WoW. :P

Hehe yeah, I bet - I took the annual pass as well; I wasn't likely to
play Diablo but I'll happily try it when it's given me for free, and I
was likely to play WoW for another year, plus *definitely* wanted beta
access for MoP (I was in TBC beta, one of the most fun gaming
experiences I've had, was gutted not to get selected for WotLK and
Cata). But with one subscription game going I don't think I'd try
another; luckily for me Planetside 2 will be free to play so I won't
have hard choices to make when that comes out (Planetside is the only
other game I ever sub to, but I always find after a month or so that
I'm not playing enough to be worth paying any more - free to play will
suit me better since I can dip in and out as I please without feeling
I'm wasting money if I only play 1-2 times in a month!)
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (82 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)

steve.kaye

1/17/2012 2:49:00 PM

0

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:43:46 +0000, Steve Kaye
><nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I've actually just started playing again.
>>
>>My friend said that he'd started playing again a few months ago so I
>>joined up to so that we could play together. At the time, I didn't
>>play much unless he was on because I still had the computer issues
>>that caused me to leave last time (random, but frequent, 4 or 5 second
>>lock ups that didn't really feel like lag)
>>
>>I fixed that issue last week by getting a new computer and it seems
>>like that's fixed the problem (although I haven't done the real test
>>yet - it was worse in instances)
>
>Hope it's fixed it!

I *really* hope that it's fixed. It's my first self-built PC and I
spent £725 on it (without a graphics card or DVD drive as I can re-use
my old ones). Also, I've just ordered a 120GB SSD drive for another
£125. I wouldn't be happy if I still couldn't do instances in WoW
after spending all that money :P

I was pretty sure that it wasn't network lag as it didn't happen in
any of the other online games that I've played recently (Rift, City of
Heroes, Starcraft 2 and SW:TOR). I disabled all addons in WoW and it
still happened so I'm hoping that it was a WoW specific hardware
problem.


>>The first thing that I did (after sorting out my interface :P) was
>>level my Mage and Hunter to 70. I like my mage but only in small
>>doses so she's parked again for a while. Next I joined up with my
>>friend's level 70 warlock with my newly 70 Hunter and we did three
>>levels in Dragonblight.
>>
>>They seem to have nerfed the elite quests in there. We were at the
>>mage one in the west of the zone and I took the time to swap from DPS
>>pet to tank pet because I thought that we'd need it. He went down in
>>a matter of seconds. IIRC, he was the easiest of the elites in the
>>zone being a tough 2 man elite so maybe he hasn't been nerfed - maybe
>>character boosts have made it an easier fight. We'll see when we get
>>to the others.
>
>They should all have been nerfed, bit of a shame when you're playing a
>class which was capable of soloing elites, since I liked the
>challenge, but I can see why they did it since most classes can't, and
>since there's not that many people levelling now, you usually end up
>leaving zones without finishing them due to not being able to clear
>the elite quests. Think all elite quests in Outland and Northrend got
>nerfed, some a bit *too* much, I'd have preferred them to at least
>leave the mobs having significantly higher health than usual so you
>have to put some effort into killing them, but maybe just not hitting
>like a truck!

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't try the old versions
solo with my Hunter. I figured that I'd have had a chance as BM with
my tanking pet. Ah well.

On the flip side - I was a little disappointed to see that they
haven't nerfed the SMV quests. I was hoping to complete that zone on
my Hunter before going to Northrend but I couldn't complete the
Gorefiend or the Path of Conquest quest chains.


>>My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
>>dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
>>now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
>>She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
>>past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
>>see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
>>instance that they are in.
>
>What you can do there, is check the AH for cheap boe epics, that'll
>push you up some way. Do Thrall's questchain (starts in Hyjal, near
>Nordrassil) for a 365 cloak, and open up the Molten Front dailies for
>a 365 necklace. Run Tol Barad a couple of times and convert honor to
>Justice for a cheap 378 item to replace whatever your worst current
>one is (I'm betting your wand, if you're anything like me, those
>things are near impossible to come by!) I've managed to get all my
>alts over 353 with those tactics so they can go straight to the new
>5-mans without having to run any of the older ones, should be fine as
>dps, as a healer you might want a little higher, but random normals
>will be fine for you and will get you justice points for more gear too
>:-)

Thanks - I might have a look into those suggestions tonight.

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 83 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

Catriona R

1/17/2012 2:54:00 PM

0


On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:49:27 +0000, Steve Kaye
<nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
><catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>>Hope it's fixed it!
>
>I *really* hope that it's fixed. It's my first self-built PC and I
>spent £725 on it (without a graphics card or DVD drive as I can re-use
>my old ones). Also, I've just ordered a 120GB SSD drive for another
>£125. I wouldn't be happy if I still couldn't do instances in WoW
>after spending all that money :P

Hehe ouch, yeah it'd better work then, good luck! :-)

>>They should all have been nerfed, bit of a shame when you're playing a
>>class which was capable of soloing elites, since I liked the
>>challenge, but I can see why they did it since most classes can't, and
>>since there's not that many people levelling now, you usually end up
>>leaving zones without finishing them due to not being able to clear
>>the elite quests. Think all elite quests in Outland and Northrend got
>>nerfed, some a bit *too* much, I'd have preferred them to at least
>>leave the mobs having significantly higher health than usual so you
>>have to put some effort into killing them, but maybe just not hitting
>>like a truck!
>
>Yeah, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't try the old versions
>solo with my Hunter. I figured that I'd have had a chance as BM with
>my tanking pet. Ah well.

Yeah I really enjoyed running through that zone on my warlock,
couldn't solo everything but I did a lot of it. Shame it's been a bit
overnerfed then.

>On the flip side - I was a little disappointed to see that they
>haven't nerfed the SMV quests. I was hoping to complete that zone on
>my Hunter before going to Northrend but I couldn't complete the
>Gorefiend or the Path of Conquest quest chains.

Oh, dammit, I'd really hoped they'd do the lot (and thought they
would), since I've got several characters stuck at the start of
Outland; running through some of the old elite questchains would at
least make it less dull than doing the same old same old chains that
I'd already done a load of times.
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (82 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)

neithskye

1/17/2012 8:57:00 PM

0

On Jan 16, 11:26 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk>
wrote:

> Getting the impression from the lack of posts on these threads now
> that not many are actually playing much currently!

Well, we were so busy at work last year that I only was able to take
half my alloted vacation days during the year. You use them or you
lose them, so by mid-December I had seven vacation days left that I
had to take. With the way the stat vacation days worked out, that
seven days turned into a 2.5-week vacation.

I only post here when I'm at work, because when I am at home I want to
be playing, not posting, so I've still been playing, but not posting
since mid-December.

> But I've just about got the honor for my pvp transmog
> set (old Season 2 - I had most of that set at the time and been
> kicking myself for deleting it, so I'm very very glad they added it
> back!) so I really need to be not using my pvp shoulders in my pve
> set, since wrong shoulders will ruin either set's looks! :-P

It's weird. I have been keeping all kinds of gear on all my toons --
not knowing that one day there would a Transmog feature -- for years,
because I thought it was pretty, etc.

I was actually able to put together the Wildheart Shoulders (that
don't exist in the game anymore) with the antler head from Onyxia on
my Druid. The yellow hat and blue shoulders actually go really well
with T13 Druid gear. The blue shoulders match the blue in the tier
gear and the yellow antlers pick up the yellow highlights.

My Priest still has the Bloody Apron dress from the original SFK, that
no longer exists. Been having great fun with her, transmogging gear
I've kept for years.

Anyway, the weird thing is: 1) The new tier gear is really nice-
looking, especially the Priest set. Now that my three healers each
have a four-piece set plus the VP "matching set" for whatever slot
they didn't have, I don't want to transmog; 2) My Paladin will be five
years old in March. I have kept crap on him for five years -- my first
blue, S3 Arena gear, etc. I thought he would be my "transmog guy". But
with all the mismatched gear I've saved, I can't seem to put together
a look I like for the life of me. And even though my bags are full, I
don't have as much gear as I thought.

It's my Druid, whom I put zero thought into, who just happened to have
a pair of blue shoulders and an old yellow antler hat, who looks
great. Everything, including his transmogged Staff of the Verdant
Circle (it grows flowers!), just happens to look great with the tier
gear. Funny how that works.

--
Jill

Catriona R

1/17/2012 10:43:00 PM

0


On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:57:25 -0800 (PST), neithskye
<jill_bookerGREENEGGSANDSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Jan 16, 11:26 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>> Getting the impression from the lack of posts on these threads now
>> that not many are actually playing much currently!
>
>Well, we were so busy at work last year that I only was able to take
>half my alloted vacation days during the year. You use them or you
>lose them, so by mid-December I had seven vacation days left that I
>had to take. With the way the stat vacation days worked out, that
>seven days turned into a 2.5-week vacation.
>
>I only post here when I'm at work, because when I am at home I want to
>be playing, not posting, so I've still been playing, but not posting
>since mid-December.

Thought I hadn't seen you for a while, glad to see you back then! :-)

>I was actually able to put together the Wildheart Shoulders (that
>don't exist in the game anymore) with the antler head from Onyxia on
>my Druid. The yellow hat and blue shoulders actually go really well
>with T13 Druid gear. The blue shoulders match the blue in the tier
>gear and the yellow antlers pick up the yellow highlights.

I'd never have thought of using those antlers with that set! See what
you mean about the shoulders though, they would indeed go pretty well
:-)

>Anyway, the weird thing is: 1) The new tier gear is really nice-
>looking, especially the Priest set. Now that my three healers each
>have a four-piece set plus the VP "matching set" for whatever slot
>they didn't have, I don't want to transmog;

Hehe, different tastes, my bf keeps saying the priest set is great
too, but I think it's ugly! The faces are pretty cool but I'm not big
on brown, rather look like a healer :-) Actually I don't like most of
the sets; of the 6 classes I have at 85 (or likely to be 85 soon), the
only one whose set I like is paladin... and seeing how my paladin is
female and it's a bare midriff style plate (sigh, that's no use as
"armour"!), I'll need to find a matching shirt or transmog it anyway
:-P

> 2) My Paladin will be five
>years old in March. I have kept crap on him for five years -- my first
>blue, S3 Arena gear, etc. I thought he would be my "transmog guy". But
>with all the mismatched gear I've saved, I can't seem to put together
>a look I like for the life of me. And even though my bags are full, I
>don't have as much gear as I thought.

Hehe well, you can farm some more up as well, if you like vanilla/TBC
styles :-) I'm having a blast farming Molten Core and Blackwing Lair,
doing Darkmoon Faire for the vanilla Dungeon sets, etc, really giving
me something to do. I'll grant that healers aren't the greatest of
soloing specs but dual spec is good ;-)

>It's my Druid, whom I put zero thought into, who just happened to have
>a pair of blue shoulders and an old yellow antler hat, who looks
>great. Everything, including his transmogged Staff of the Verdant
>Circle (it grows flowers!), just happens to look great with the tier
>gear. Funny how that works.

I love that staff! I'll be getting it myself if I ever get a staff to
wear instead of a polearm (thank goodness monks use staffs I say,
maybe we'll actually get some feral-stat staffs in MoP available to
those of us with a more casual playstyle...), will go great with my
green outfit, which is a mishmash of a random kilt I got in BT, the T1
leafy shoulders (took forever to make those drop!), two green quest
rewards I found which matched the rest fairly well plus a boe green
chest. Works nicely for the look I was aiming at, though very much a
mixture of stuff :-)
--
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Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (82 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)

steve.kaye

1/18/2012 8:39:00 AM

0

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:43:46 +0000, Steve Kaye
><nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I've actually just started playing again.
>
>>My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
>>dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
>>now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
>>She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
>>past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
>>see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
>>instance that they are in.
>
>What you can do there, is check the AH for cheap boe epics, that'll
>push you up some way.

I'm really poor :) The cheap boe epics are about 1k on my realm and I
probably only have 5 or 6k across all my characters so I don't want to
spend that much money on them.


>Do Thrall's questchain (starts in Hyjal, near
>Nordrassil) for a 365 cloak,

I did this last night. That first quest was really annoying.

The quest text just said that I'd to fight the elementals until Thrall
is freed. It didn't say how many I had to kill. I killed them for
ages and didn't get the quest completion. I checked Wowhead and the
first few messages didn't say how many to kill - the first just said
keep going.

So I kept going - for about 20 minutes or so and still no joy. I
checked wowpedia and that says that there should be a progress bar
which I haven't got. Checking back to wowhead confirms this (in one
of the comment replies).

Wowpedia also states that there should be conversations triggered at
certain points along the bar. Reading them I only remember getting
the 5% one coming up.

Anyway, I keep going and don't get any more conversations. After a
while a hunter turns up and I suggest we group. I'll heal* and he'll
kill the elite mobs (as wowhead suggested that they'd get the quest
done more quickly). He uses multishot, pulls a few of the non-elites
which aggro me due to my healing. I fade and they go back to his pet
but it's not long before they are back and I die.

He quits and I get back, switch to shadow and start again. I still
don't get a progress bar but I do see the first conversation after I
kill one mob and I see all the other conversations until the quest
completes after 20 kills.

On all the other quests in the chain I get the progress bar and they
all complete normally. I say "progress bar" but I'm using a UI pack
and I didn't actually get a bar. I got a number above my character's
head saying what percentage the bar was at. I *could* have missed it
on the first quest but that isn't really relevant as I killed 100's of
them buggers so it should have completed many times over whether I
could see a bar or not.

* When I came to heal the hunter's pet I realised that I haven't set
Clique up. Ooops. I don't normally have any heal spells on my action
bars as I cast them all using my mouse buttons on Grid. So he starts
taking damage and I frantically look through my spell book for some
heal spells to drag to my bars. :) I've set up Clique now - next
task is to set up Grid so it shows stuff how I'm used to seeing it. :)

>and open up the Molten Front dailies for
>a 365 necklace.

I noticed last night that I have 105 TB daily quest tokens and that
I'm almost exalted with them. I'm currently wondering why I didn't by
the revered mace or staff for 85 tokens. I vaguely remember not know
which to choose - the mace is better for healing but the staff is a
bigger upgrade for my DPS set. I'm not sure if I was supposed to be
saving up for the spirit trinket though.


>Run Tol Barad a couple of times and convert honor to
>Justice for a cheap 378 item to replace whatever your worst current
>one is (I'm betting your wand, if you're anything like me, those
>things are near impossible to come by!)

My wand isn't so bad relatively speaking. I have the 333 wand with
spirit from Grim Batol. My worst items are my 318 boots and my 325
shoulders - everything else is 333 or above.


>>That's assuming that SW:TOR doesn't draw me away.
>>It really seems like a waste of money to have two
>>subscription games when you can only play one at once so that might
>>keep me on WoW. :P
>
>luckily for me Planetside 2 will be free to play so I won't
>have hard choices to make when that comes out

I was pleased when City of Heroes went Free to Play. I like to dip in
and out of that game but having to stump up £9 for a month's play and
then feel like I need to play it instead of WoW for the whole time was
a barrier to that. Now I can just nip on without even worrying about
it. It's a bit of a bummer that I lost the characters from when I
played as subscription but they weren't too high a level anyway (20
was the highest level out of a max of 50)

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 83 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

Catriona R

1/18/2012 11:47:00 AM

0


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:39:17 +0000, Steve Kaye
<nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
><catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:43:46 +0000, Steve Kaye
>><nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>I've actually just started playing again.
>>
>>>My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
>>>dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
>>>now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
>>>She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
>>>past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
>>>see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
>>>instance that they are in.
>>
>>What you can do there, is check the AH for cheap boe epics, that'll
>>push you up some way.
>
>I'm really poor :) The cheap boe epics are about 1k on my realm and I
>probably only have 5 or 6k across all my characters so I don't want to
>spend that much money on them.

Ahh lol, on mine they're more like 500-700g, can see your problem if
you're low on cash :-)

>>Do Thrall's questchain (starts in Hyjal, near
>>Nordrassil) for a 365 cloak,
>
>I did this last night. That first quest was really annoying.
>
>The quest text just said that I'd to fight the elementals until Thrall
>is freed. It didn't say how many I had to kill. I killed them for
>ages and didn't get the quest completion. I checked Wowhead and the
>first few messages didn't say how many to kill - the first just said
>keep going.
<snip>
>On all the other quests in the chain I get the progress bar and they
>all complete normally. I say "progress bar" but I'm using a UI pack
>and I didn't actually get a bar. I got a number above my character's
>head saying what percentage the bar was at. I *could* have missed it
>on the first quest but that isn't really relevant as I killed 100's of
>them buggers so it should have completed many times over whether I
>could see a bar or not.

Ouch, that sounds a seriously annoying bug! Worth setting that
progress bar up on your ui sometime, you can go and stand in the old
god-like thingy in Twilight Highlands for a controllable one (it shows
the dmg you're taking from stomach acid, lovely!) I don't think
there's too many other quests which use that but it's still useful to
be able to see.

>* When I came to heal the hunter's pet I realised that I haven't set
>Clique up. Ooops. I don't normally have any heal spells on my action
>bars as I cast them all using my mouse buttons on Grid. So he starts
>taking damage and I frantically look through my spell book for some
>heal spells to drag to my bars. :) I've set up Clique now - next
>task is to set up Grid so it shows stuff how I'm used to seeing it. :)

Hehe :-) Yeah I hate discovering my UI is missing when I try to use it
lol, doesn't make it easy!

>>and open up the Molten Front dailies for
>>a 365 necklace.
>
>I noticed last night that I have 105 TB daily quest tokens and that
>I'm almost exalted with them. I'm currently wondering why I didn't by
>the revered mace or staff for 85 tokens. I vaguely remember not know
>which to choose - the mace is better for healing but the staff is a
>bigger upgrade for my DPS set. I'm not sure if I was supposed to be
>saving up for the spirit trinket though.

You might well have been saving for the trinket, I'd say get a weapon
first though since it'll likely be a bigger upgrade. Mace is indeed
better for healing and you can add an offhand (hopefully there's some
inscription blues on the AH for a reasonable price, or you know a
friendly scribe).

>>Run Tol Barad a couple of times and convert honor to
>>Justice for a cheap 378 item to replace whatever your worst current
>>one is (I'm betting your wand, if you're anything like me, those
>>things are near impossible to come by!)
>
>My wand isn't so bad relatively speaking. I have the 333 wand with
>spirit from Grim Batol. My worst items are my 318 boots and my 325
>shoulders - everything else is 333 or above.

Ah you're doing better than me then! I had a 318 wand until I gave up
and bought a pvp one in 4.2. I'd get pvp shoulders tbh, since you have
to do the new 5-mans to get epic ones, and your only other options are
blue from justice points or worse blue crafted. (or blue pvp crafted
but by then you may as well get a pvp epic) I'm *still* wearing my pvp
shoulders since I haven't got lucky with either that 5-man drop (it
dropped once and a mage outrolled me... spirit mage, wonderful! :-P)
of the tier shoulders in raid finder. Boots, I'd be inclined to save
up and grab a BoE pair, the 378 pair which drop in the new instances
is BoE and on my server at least often drop to around 1k - can take
some waiting but may well be worthwhile for you.

>>>That's assuming that SW:TOR doesn't draw me away.
>>>It really seems like a waste of money to have two
>>>subscription games when you can only play one at once so that might
>>>keep me on WoW. :P
>>
>>luckily for me Planetside 2 will be free to play so I won't
>>have hard choices to make when that comes out
>
>I was pleased when City of Heroes went Free to Play. I like to dip in
>and out of that game but having to stump up £9 for a month's play and
>then feel like I need to play it instead of WoW for the whole time was
>a barrier to that. Now I can just nip on without even worrying about
>it. It's a bit of a bummer that I lost the characters from when I
>played as subscription but they weren't too high a level anyway (20
>was the highest level out of a max of 50)

Yeah I'm liking the idea of free to play games now - I'm happy paying
a sub for *one* game which I play a lot (ie, WoW), but if I subbed to
anything else I feel guilty if I don't play it enough. Which usually
happens!
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (82 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)

steve.kaye

1/18/2012 12:53:00 PM

0

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:47:23 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:39:17 +0000, Steve Kaye
><nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
>><catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:43:46 +0000, Steve Kaye
>>><nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've actually just started playing again.
>>>
>>>>My next target is to set up Grid how I like it and take my Priest into
>>>>dungeons again. The problem is that her gear is far behind the times
>>>>now so she might get grief for being under geared if she goes in now.
>>>>She does have 335 or so item level so she'll be fine in normals but
>>>>past experience tells me that people often give grief for what they
>>>>see as under geared even though it is more than adequate for the
>>>>instance that they are in.
>>>
>>>What you can do there, is check the AH for cheap boe epics, that'll
>>>push you up some way.
>>
>>I'm really poor :) The cheap boe epics are about 1k on my realm and I
>>probably only have 5 or 6k across all my characters so I don't want to
>>spend that much money on them.
>
>Ahh lol, on mine they're more like 500-700g, can see your problem if
>you're low on cash :-)
>
>>>Do Thrall's questchain (starts in Hyjal, near
>>>Nordrassil) for a 365 cloak,
>>
>>I did this last night. That first quest was really annoying.
>>
>>The quest text just said that I'd to fight the elementals until Thrall
>>is freed. It didn't say how many I had to kill. I killed them for
>>ages and didn't get the quest completion. I checked Wowhead and the
>>first few messages didn't say how many to kill - the first just said
>>keep going.
><snip>
>>On all the other quests in the chain I get the progress bar and they
>>all complete normally. I say "progress bar" but I'm using a UI pack
>>and I didn't actually get a bar. I got a number above my character's
>>head saying what percentage the bar was at. I *could* have missed it
>>on the first quest but that isn't really relevant as I killed 100's of
>>them buggers so it should have completed many times over whether I
>>could see a bar or not.
>
>Ouch, that sounds a seriously annoying bug! Worth setting that
>progress bar up on your ui sometime, you can go and stand in the old
>god-like thingy in Twilight Highlands for a controllable one (it shows
>the dmg you're taking from stomach acid, lovely!) I don't think
>there's too many other quests which use that but it's still useful to
>be able to see.

The progress bar addon works fine as far as I know. It worked every
other time it was needed on the quest chain. There are reports on
wowhead that other people got a progress bar on this quest but it went
away when it got to 100% even though the quest didn't complete.


>>>and open up the Molten Front dailies for
>>>a 365 necklace.
>>
>>I noticed last night that I have 105 TB daily quest tokens and that
>>I'm almost exalted with them. I'm currently wondering why I didn't by
>>the revered mace or staff for 85 tokens. I vaguely remember not know
>>which to choose - the mace is better for healing but the staff is a
>>bigger upgrade for my DPS set. I'm not sure if I was supposed to be
>>saving up for the spirit trinket though.
>
>You might well have been saving for the trinket, I'd say get a weapon
>first though since it'll likely be a bigger upgrade. Mace is indeed
>better for healing and you can add an offhand (hopefully there's some
>inscription blues on the AH for a reasonable price, or you know a
>friendly scribe).

It's much of a muchness really. Upgrading my weapon or a trinket
would increase that slot be 13 item levels either way. My current
weapon is the item level 333 healer mace from Crucible of Carnage and
the TB one is item level 346. My trinkets are the JC crafted ones
which are item level 346 - the TB one is item level 359.

The case for the weapon upgrade is that it is a clear upgrade as there
are no stats that are decreased. The trinket upgrade is less clear
cut as it exchanges one stat for another - I would gain 321 spirit but
lose 285 int.

The comparison that I was making, though, was that the DPS staff would
be a much larger upgrade to my DPS set than the healing mace would be
to my healing set. I would like to upgrade my DPS set but I'm never
going to join a dungeon as DPS so maybe it can wait.

A lot of her gear is crafted - she is a tailor / jewelcrafter so has
crafted head, shoulders, wrist and both trinket slots. My warlock is
a scribe so I have the crafted off hand too.

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 83 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

ald

1/19/2012 3:52:00 AM

0

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:55 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>Run Tol Barad a couple of times and convert honor to
>Justice for a cheap 378 item to replace whatever your worst current
>one is (I'm betting your wand, if you're anything like me, those
>things are near impossible to come by!)

(cough) Or the 390 PvP wand, for 700 HP (cough)

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