LVL 80 or bust

[akun50]

I've heard from a friend who found out something rather interesting. For those of you who are tired of seeing spambots who use hacks and level 1 alts to spell out company names and such, here's something you can finally do to get rid of the pests for a bit.

If you have the <a href='http://www.wowhead.com/item=13379' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Piccolo of the Flaming Fire</a>, which forces characters to dance and use it around said spambots, you can fuck up glitch their code, which ruins their routine and forces them to have to log out.

Friend of mine said it was hilarious and I'm waiting for the little buggers to pop into Ogrimarr so I can do it to them. :evil2:

 

[endev8003]

I've heard from a friend who found out something rather interesting. For those of you who are tired of seeing spambots who use hacks and level 1 alts to spell out company names and such, here's something you can finally do to get rid of the pests for a bit.

If you have the <a href='http://www.wowhead.com/item=13379' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Piccolo of the Flaming Fire</a>, which forces characters to dance and use it around said spambots, you can fuck up glitch their code, which ruins their routine and forces them to have to log out.

Friend of mine said it was hilarious and I'm waiting for the little buggers to pop into Ogrimarr so I can do it to them. :evil2:

I think it will only works when they are lying down on the ground. I have tried it before when they were up in the are standing and sitting and it didn't work as well. The piccolo causes them to dance in a sitting position.

I will try it again when I see them in SW and they are all lying down.

 

[Belgarion213]

Yes we are hideiously slow but my guild has been working on Sindragosa this last week and tonight managed to get her to 10%. Yes I know we should be better but we have had a awful couple weeks with peoples net dying or lag spikes. We hopefully will have that final 10% (only 1.5 million hp) down before the end of the week and we can start on the LK.

We had a rather epic attempt though where one of our tanks computers literally started smoking midway through though we still managed to get Sindragosa to around 20% health with the tank juggling and managing to survive somewhere in the vicinity of 20 stacks or something.

 

[akun50]

The starting areas now have storylines to follow as you start out. The one for the Forsaken in particular is interesting, as it gives you as a small cast of characters to interact with, an NPC who acts like a guardian for the first few quests, and various phasing mechanics where the cast around you grows and develops as actual characters.

I'm going start up a bunch of characters on another server just to see what these starting zone storylines are like once Cata drops.

 

[akun50]

<a href='http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/26/cataclysm-beta-removes-portals-from-dalaran-and-shattrath/#comments' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Portals in Shattrath and Dalaran are going bye-bye in Cataclysm.</a>

Thoughts?

 

[endev8003]

<a href='http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/26/cataclysm-beta-removes-portals-from-dalaran-and-shattrath/#comments' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Portals in Shattrath and Dalaran are going bye-bye in Cataclysm.</a>

Thoughts?

No more lowbies begging for portals to Dalaran.

You'll have to do more travelling, but I don't think it's going to change much in terms of where the busy cities are going to be. It will be easier when leveling in Outland and Northrend, since you don't have to run back to major cities to train new abilities.

 

[Kayeich]

<a href='http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/26/cataclysm-beta-removes-portals-from-dalaran-and-shattrath/#comments' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Portals in Shattrath and Dalaran are going bye-bye in Cataclysm.</a>

Thoughts?

No more lowbies begging for portals to Dalaran.

You'll have to do more travelling, but I don't think it's going to change much in terms of where the busy cities are going to be. It will be easier when leveling in Outland and Northrend, since you don't have to run back to major cities to train new abilities.

It'll still suck in terms of auction house, unless they add those too, to Shat/Dal.

 

[violinmana]

<a href='http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/26/cataclysm-beta-removes-portals-from-dalaran-and-shattrath/#comments' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Portals in Shattrath and Dalaran are going bye-bye in Cataclysm.</a>

Thoughts?

No more lowbies begging for portals to Dalaran.

You'll have to do more travelling, but I don't think it's going to change much in terms of where the busy cities are going to be. It will be easier when leveling in Outland and Northrend, since you don't have to run back to major cities to train new abilities.

It'll still suck in terms of auction house, unless they add those too, to Shat/Dal.

Yeah, they added Auctioneers to both cities.

 

[endev8003]

Do you know if they are adding an automatically known flightpoint for Dalaran like Shattrath is now.

 

[akun50]

That'll be nice.

Oh, and I've got the Brewmaster title for all three of my level 80s.

If I can get my alliance Paladin up to 78 by Oct 3rd, I can get Brewmaster for her too. And considering I've managed to get her to 67 recently, I think it might just be doable.

BTW, anyone have suggestions for major glyphs for a level 67 Protection spec Paladin?

 

[Kayeich]

You should have Glyphs of Hammer of the Righteous (hit extra target) and Seal of Vengeance (get 10 expertise), probably.

The only other decent option is the Glyph of Salvation, which gives you a pretty nice oh-shit button, turning your hand of salvation into a pain supression type spell. You generally shouldn't find yourself -needing- an oh-shit button while levelling though...

At level 80, pick up the Divine Plea one for your third.

 

[violinmana]

I'm just going to wait for 4.0.1 to level up my characters, it seems like it'll be much more fun then.

 

[Raven1138]

<a href='http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Cacaclysm's release date confirmed for December 7.</a>

Repent, the end is extremely fucking nigh!

 

[akun50]

Second run on the Headless Horseman and I open my daily pumpkin to find: <a href='http://www.wowhead.com/item=37012' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>this</a>

You guys probably all have it, but being the newb, I feel I need to preen over this.

 

[cilrais]

they seem to have upped the drop rate on all the holiday mounts a good bit when they switched to this bag system

 

[Shirotsume]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

 

[violinmana]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

 

[Darksnider05]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

He could have it hot keyed to something you can't see.

 

[violinmana]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

He could have it hot keyed to something you can't see.

He's using the default UI. Seriously.

 

[Darksnider05]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

He could have it hot keyed to something you can't see.

He's using the default UI. Seriously.

Haters gonna Hate anyway.

 

[Shirotsume]

So what's your guys' UIs, anyway?

Here's mine- <a href='http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7992/wowscrnshot102110145351.jpg' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7992/wo...02110145351.jpg</a>

 

[akun50]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

He could have it hot keyed to something you can't see.

He's using the default UI. Seriously.

Yes, I'm using the default UI. What part of NEWB wasn't obvious? I've only played this game for roughly a year, as opposed to most of you who've probably been playing since the launch of the Vanilla Beta.

And actually, I realized I didn't have Death Coil on my hotbar just after this. I blame the fact that it was removed in the first place, along with many of my other abilities which I DID remember, when the patch dropped.

As for why I don't have Rune Strike on my number keys? When I started using my death knight, it wasn't all that useful compared to my other skills, so I tossed it up onto the other bar. I just got used to it being there.

Edit: Also, I can confirm they've jumped the drop rate for the Horseman's Reins. Just got them yesterday on my Paladin. :mellow:

 

[violinmana]

wow, that's nostalgic. Feels like I'm playing back in 2006 again- 4:3 screen, default UI...

I'm just amused that he's Blood and doesn't have Death Coil/Rune Strike on his number keys, and instead has Blood Strike. XD

He could have it hot keyed to something you can't see.

He's using the default UI. Seriously.

Yes, I'm using the default UI. What part of NEWB wasn't obvious? I've only played this game for roughly a year, as opposed to most of you who've probably been playing since the launch of the Vanilla Beta.

And actually, I realized I didn't have Death Coil on my hotbar just after this. I blame the fact that it was removed in the first place, along with many of my other abilities which I DID remember, when the patch dropped.

As for why I don't have Rune Strike on my number keys? When I started using my death knight, it wasn't all that useful compared to my other skills, so I tossed it up onto the other bar. I just got used to it being there.

Edit: Also, I can confirm they've jumped the drop rate for the Horseman's Reins. Just got them yesterday on my Paladin. :mellow:

I've only played since the end of BC, and the beginning of WoLK. Not that long. One year is not an excuse for being ignorant. XD

 

[Shirotsume]

I have been playing since the beta of vanilla- not the alpha though, but I know someone who was and he showed me it. (Hence why I got into it.)


Man, that seems like so long ago...

 

[akun50]

Anyone had to repair after running PVP battlegrounds and found themselves with a ridiculous repair bill?

Because I found myself with a 15 gold repair bill when I was expecting maybe 1 or 2 gold at the worst.

I'd repaired after the patch, and then again after I'd gotten my Venomspine Raptor mount, and the only other thing my DK has done since was run two battlegrounds, head to Southshore for the Halloween horde quests there, and then get ganked twice by alliance players while getting the hell out of Southshore.

Now, if nothing's bugged, the only reason I should've taken ANY damage at all is because of one damaging fall during one battleground fight (the fall was damaging, but didn't kill me, another player did), and while the various guards around Southshore ineffectively attempted to gang up on me.

The only other times I've died since is via PVP.

Edit: Mmmm. Might be due to that.