Originally posted by: Scrimmy
Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Malladine
Started again...playing a priest now, in fact i started this guy at release... Level 63 now though.
Can I get an idea what's still useful from TBC since WoTLK came out? IE, honored blue gear from honor hold, cenarion expedition, etc...aldor/scryer? anything there? Or will it prove pointless since i'll be seeing serious upgrades to all of it right away in Northrend?
nothing is worth grinding out, just take whatever quest rewards are upgrades on your way through to 80
And go straight to Northrend as soon as you can get the quests there (lvl 68 I think). Don't wait to finish out BC content unless you just want to see it for some reason.
Yep, as someone who just leveled a fresh character up from scratch on a new account, this is the way to do it. I went to Howling Fjord at 68, did all the quests there and got to 70 or 71, then went back to Borean Tundra and did all those quests.
Also, keep in mind that most 3-man group quests are very soloable by a lot of classes if you know what you're doing. There are a few quests here and there that will tear you up, but as a feral druid (very good solo class), I was able to solo the vast majority of 3-man quests, and usually at least a level or two below the boss. Ended up with a good amount of blues and I've been tearing everything up.
Two other quick notes for someone starting from scratch. First: if you want to make cash, just do quests and don't worry about farming, either grinding mobs or running around with a gathering profession. The quests will take you all over the zones so if you've got either mining or herbalism you'll see plenty of nodes along the way. Just mail it to your bank alt and dump it on the AH. The quests usually give 10-20 gold each, so it's pretty common to leave a quest hub a few hundred gold richer are you've done them all.
Second: don't be afraid of buying WotLK greens from the AH. The item levels on even the level 67 greens from the expansion are really pretty high, so if you've just got gear from BC, it's pretty common to find a green "... of the Bandit" item or whatever from the AH that blows away the BC blue you got just a few levels earlier.
Originally posted by: rh71
what? There's a death strike glyph?! I'm so jumping on that one when servers come back up.![]()
Your Death Strike's damage and healing increase by 2% for every 5 runic power you currently have. The runic power is not consumed by this effect.
Originally posted by: lupi
Not sure if this will work but here goes....
The riding crop got nerfed when they failed in trying to make it a mount enhancement vice trinket item and couldn't get the programming right, a problem compounded when they made the mount bag. They said they are going to revisit it at some point when they have found the solution to programming these speed enchants to all you mounts when used.
Originally posted by: Anubis
they eaisily could have just left the trinket working
even easier fix if they want to make it like they were trying is to add in 2 new levels of riding skill
you apply the trinket you get a new level and you go faster, simple fix, make 2 levels one for 280%+ trinket and one for 310% + trinket
Originally posted by: Anubis
@ Chimley and QuantumPion specificially and anyone else who wants to see it
10 Man 3D Sarth DK Point of View
http://files.filefront.com/sar...2953118;/fileinfo.html
hope it can help you
(im not the lock that dies)
Have not watched it yet so i have no idea what kinda music Varn put in it
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Hell, if you want to kill two birds with one stone, make it an item that teaches you the spell that engineering has to make. Poor engineering has absolutely no worth to it other than making extremely overpriced items.
Originally posted by: ggnl
I pushed engineering on my shaman up to about 390 last night from 300. To be honest, I have no idea why I'm doing it. You get a pretty nice helm out of it, but that's pretty much it.![]()
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
As a healer. Try that as a tank. Healing in WoW is by far the least gear dependant- not a bash in any way, I've seen plenty of healers in greens/blues trounce some of our epicd out healers by an embarassing amount(Skil>gear in general, but for healers skill>>>>>>>gear).
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
In that case, I understand and agree mostly. Personally, I started running Naxx with mostly 77 blues and some 80 blues.
As a healer. Try that as a tank. Healing in WoW is by far the least gear dependant- not a bash in any way, I've seen plenty of healers in greens/blues trounce some of our epicd out healers by an embarassing amount(Skil>gear in general, but for healers skill>>>>>>>gear).
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
However, I don't think everyone needs to come to the raid knowing everything they need to know about a boss encounter before they fight a boss.
I personally never really understood this level of selfishness and general disrespect for others, so perhaps you can explain it- why should 24 other people be expected to wait around because one person couldn't be bothered to watch a 4 minute video? Why do they demand that everyone else learn the encounter and then spoon feed it to them? Who made us their slaves? What right do they have to expect anyone else to check the encounter out first?
That isn't a hardcore/casual issue, it is basic respect of other people.
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Personally, I don't mind about strategies and such. It is good to acquaint yourself with a situation before diving in, but heck... I think usually talking about a fight beforehand is good even if you require people to read strategies. But I usually had my issues with people that well... really had no effort at all. I mean, I'm glad that they enjoy playing it and all, but when I'm raiding, I'd really prefer to actually progress and not regress. It also certainly wasn't helpful that I was honestly at a higher plateau gear-wise than the group I was with and really should've been in their "experienced" group. I mean hell, the group I was in had trouble with Attumen for Pete's sake. That may give you an idea of the level of incompetency I had to deal with. Although I've been in some PUGs that almost wiped on Attumen too =P.
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Oh and does that Transmute discovery bug still work? I read it was something along the lines of... you make potions directly after you do a transmute and you have a chance to learn. I can easily get some goldclover and make the wild alchemist potions (incredibly easy to make... 2x goldclover and imbued vial). I wouldn't mind learning Life->Fire or Water->Fire. (Probably Life->Fire since I tend to get more Crystallized Life in a day than I do Water... although I know I know... just sell the life and buy the water).
Originally posted by: lupi
I entered NR with honor at about half max, and if I keep doing one or two WG every day it looks like I'll be hitting the max soon (alliance never wins on defense and rarely does so on offense; of course it sucks fighting them 1v1 as they usually have a nice tenacity buff). Too bad I've never done arena since it looks like there isn't much to buy just for the purpose of lowering my honor; maybe I'll get the buff flag for the /flex factor.
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I'm a dwarf rogue. Stoneform was cool back in the day but got nerfed however the real reason I chose it was because, wait for it, I like dwarves.. We ain't sexy but we like beer... and we like treasure. It's great that we have a 'Find Treasure' skill but it has absolutely 0 use as far as I can tell in wotlk. Can anyone else think of comparable completely useless racials? I wish they would just give us something else since I have yet to see a chest at all in wotlk. Even if its just a +5 to a skill, resist, etc.
