1.) Necrosis

If you have a warlock and you use Necrosis you have probably noticed that the "Shadow Trance" vocal cue hasn't been working, even though the addon has been updated since the last patch. This has something to do with what triggers the alert... I read up on it, but I can't explain it properly, and to be honest I don't feel like I need to know the particulars of the issue. I just want that ominous voice to keep chanting "Shadow Trance" in my ear. ( Read more... )

So my husband and I started WoW the other day on Turaylon (medium pop / normal serv). We're huge Warcraft fans, always have been, so we knew that Horde was where we wanted to be.. However the server we're on seems to be very quiet and full of, well, idiots. Trade chat is overloaded with people talking about petty squabbles, relationship issues and making random <(^.^)> crap like that all the time. I don't particularly want to LEAVE trade chat because I like checking out offers people are making.

Are all servers like this or can anyone here offer up a suggestion as to which server we should be looking at instead?

After wiping on Saurfang 3 times, it sure is nice surprise to murder him with no marks :D

What boss fights/achievements have you gotten that made you go "OH SHIT I CAN'T BELIEVE WE DID THAT!" When you totally weren't expecting it?

I've got a few questions for you lovely ladies since my guild has a helpful!fail.

( Resto druid glyphs )
( Kitty druid glyphs )
( And, finally, ICC10 )

Sorry for all the questions, but better altogether than spread out, I think.

Thanks in advance ladies. =)

OK, y'all, you tell me if I got this right.

( Because I was a software tester and have a compulsion about trying to analyze crashes )

I use Clique and I have my click-to-cast heals going on and it's great, I use it in backup situations, since right now I still use healbot to manage my HoT timers.

Right now, I'm looking for a way to send my heals towards my target's target. I target the boss, so that means I'm throwing heals on whoever the boss has targeted - without clearing my target on the boss. I want to be able to use my click-to-cast heals on the boss's portrait and have it go to HIS target.

I'm a bit of a macro and Clique noob, is there any way I can do this? D:

I am about to start raiding ICC 10 man as the MT for one of my guilds raid groups. With Chill of the Throne and the 20% dodge nerf, is our threat really worse then before? Does Rune Strike proc less because of this, or has it seemed to stay the same? Would it be possible to stack dodge trinkets for on use threat in hopes that I would actually pop off more Rune Strikes? Or should I just stick with the +stm trinkets? Overall I have about 60% avoidance, and losing some dodge doesn't seem bad except for the threat issues it could cause.

Tonight, my two best friends and I went back to Kara and ran the whole thing. Dispite a couple of wipes because our pally thought it was funny to pull ALL the trash or move during flame wreath (after I was already dead so I couldn't heal him or the warrior), we finished and got our Kara achievements on these alts. It was also the first time I'd ever done Netherspite. (I dunno how I missed him before). Anyway, it was the most fun the three of us have had playing WoW in a long time.

What have you done that you had a ball doing lately?

I pretty much lived under a rock for the entirety of patch 3.2 (school...yay...). I now have some shiny new badges thanks to the dungeon finder system and I would like to spend them...but I don't know how to prioritize my upgrades. I want to do as much upgrading with badges as possible because I don't have a lot of time to raid. Both triumph and frost badges will buy upgrades for me right now.

Can you please point me to some good resources with info about the 3.2 and 3.3 badge gear for druids (mainly resto and balance)? I'm sure they're out there, but for some reason I wasn't finding what I wanted with google.

Thanks!

Dear mages, why do you use focus magic more often on my enhancement shaman than my moonkin?

Also, priest with the Stained-Glass Shard Ring equipped. Why?

I installed WoW on my Toshiba laptop a while back, running Vista. It ran very poorly so I hadn't tried to use it in a long time. Then the prospect of an out of town trip prompted me to fire it back up and patch WoW. After doing so, I get this on the login screen:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thermalnoise/4227127018/sizes/o/

Notice that the buttons aren't visible, but I can click on things as normal. Then when I get to the character selection screen, the Create New Character left panel is not visible nor is the Addons button.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks.

Disc priests, what do you put in a blue slot when you want the socket bonus? SP/Spirit? Crit/MP5? I'm so confused. :(

After hearing about the tremors, and the Cataclysm chatter, me and my best friend decided to roll newbie Night Elves and start over. Our intent was to read all the quests, observe any differences, make note of any changes. Also, we were kind of...scrap booking our adventure so that when Cataclysm DOES hit and things change, we've got the screen shots to see what it was like.

We noticed that the Night Elf starting area has been changed a bit. We're not too sure how long it's been like this, but I've rolled and re-rolled dozens of Nelves, and didn't notice until last night.

Some of the quests have been changed. Minor changes really, but changes none-the-less.

We also noted the size/body type of some of the cats seemed to have changed. As well as the spiders being yellow now instead of red.

One NPC I noted was Melithar Staghelm. I will be the first to say, I'm slacking on my lore. But I recognized the name Staghelm, wiki'd him and saw that there wasn't any info about his namesake other than that he shares it with Fandral.

Then, in Dolonaar, I see Athridas Bearmantle. Again, I recognized the name (Hey, I bought Broll's action figure since i've got a happy for all things druids....)

And wowwiki also has no info on him. Are any of you ladies familiar with them and know if there's more to them than just sharing a name?


Next on our list of things "to-do" was to go to Darnassus and see the High Elf. I screen capped the conversation between him and the sentinel, and was uber excited for all the stuff we were learning and all because we were slowing down and taking the time to read the quests and listen to NPC banter.

Next, we logged into our 80's and went to IF. In the process of goofing off, we felt the tremors someone had mentioned in the post yesterday that got us all excited to start this adventure. It was quite exciting.


So, to recap:
Melithar Staghelm & Athridas Bearmantle; Do any of you ladies know anything more? I'm slow on reading the books/comics, but was wondering if mayhaps something may have been mentioned somewhere. Or if these two NPC's were destined to forever be in the shadow of the two they share names with?

Also, have any of you started newbies and explored in other areas and noticed anything different? (besides Northshire since IIRC they've changed the wolves out there). Specifically other Alliance races or Horde? According to a friend on Horde side, all arcane entities in the Blood Elf starting area are now passive instead of aggressive.

Third, is there anything you're doing before Cataclysm that you'd like to have done before it hits?


EDIT: As a side note, most things we noticed we're not implying that it's cata related or hasn't been there at all, just that we noticed it basically because we slowed down and read quests and paid attention to what was around us instead of zooming through.

Has anyone else noticed this, or am I just "lucky"? :p

I play on a PvE server. Have always done so, always will (with the occasional forays onto RP realms). The only "PvP" I do is the occasional WG (and then I usually hide in a machine once I've ranked up enough XD ). But I'm having a torrid love affair with BoAs. They make leveling so much easier, and more fun for me since I just plow through everything. I can also focus on learning new classes without the constant "OMG gonna die!".

Yet I've gotten asked several times if I'm a twink (I'm level not-ending-in-9!). I may be in the PvE sense, but not the PvP. I've also had more horde try and pick fights with me on my BoA-wearing characters than ANY of the ones I leveled without. Stuff like killing my quest npcs to try and make me flag. Sigh.

Is there something about BoAs that says "Kill me now!"? Seriously...

But on a lighter note, I also have a squee (with a pic!):

( They called her Araga... )

Yes! It's that time of day and year where you can sit down and watch horror movies to make you puke!

I'm watching this today, with justdbear on vent. I'm gonna scare the panties off her:


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Don't get me wrong, I don't mind PVP.  I enjoy BG's, and even defending against For The Horde achievements.  Last night though was so not cool though.

I was questing up in Darkshore with my NE druid alt, and I went to sell some stuff off at the travelling salesman on the Longshore beach.  Well a hordie was stealthed on him and when clicked on what I thought was the salesman I flagged PVP and the hordie one shotted me.   All I could say was WTH!!!  I'm lvl 18 and your lvl 80 (lvl 74 friend of mine had just shown up to hand me something and told me the hordie lvl)!!!  Where's the honor in that???

What made it worse was when a few of my guildies showed up to avenge me, there was an alliance guy there yelling at us for killing the hordie, swearing at us and other things not appropriate for writing.  Again, WTH???

I ended up logging on my main on that server ( a currently lvl 38 gnome lock) and joining in the defense of the SW King.  I ended up getting 3 achievements in two attempts by the horde, with 16 HK and at least 4 deathblows in one round before logging for the night.

I feel better now  :-)

Lately I have been bouncing around from toon to toon and not really doing anything on my paladin, haven't raided in a few weeks or even done the new Icecrown stuff. Most raids in the past I've ended up healing (was dual spec ret and holy), which I don't mind helping out with at all but I've come to realize I really don't like pali healing compared to druid or shaman healing on my lower alts. So I did something very expensive and switched ret to prot, since my holy gear is mostly higher level than my ret stuff... plus I felt a little guilty about not being able to heal if needed. I made 4 titansteel things for her, bought some blues off the AH, and spent a few emblems on a new libram. But I've still got 6 things that are not tanky - armory.

I know I'm not ready for heroics with that gear, maybe not with that spec either (was going mostly by the post on the WoW pali forums) but do you think with some practice I could do some regular instances? ToC perhaps even? Please feel free to correct me on spec, gear, etc.

So my boy and I decided we are going to faction change from alliance to horde. I am going to miss my sexy draenei girl (the cute chibi in my user pic). But its one of those 'for the best' things. And if it doesnt work out, I can always faction change back out of it. Since we aren't server transfering, I am going to probably change my name as well.
Anyone have some good name reccomendations for a soon to be Belf?
I was thinking Araushnee (kudos to you if you get the refference!)

As for the worst LFG ever, two IDIOTS  have made it to my ignore list. Why? I randomed into HOL (normal because I am still gearing up... almost to tanking heroics). And apparently these two retards had chosen this dungeon becuase they were already up ahead pulling the boss back towards everyone else.  I had signed up as Dps/tank and was still in the middle of specing back to ank while they were doing this. The rest of the party whiped. I thought about leaving then and there, but decided to stick it out. One DPS left, leaving us a dps short. While waiting for the LFG to provide us with some deeps, I pulled ONE trash mob, one. I wanted tro sort of see the DPS of the two hunters and also to test them out before the first boss. To my dismay, one of the hunters intentionally pulled the boss with his pet and started firing. The other hunter ran the other fucking way back to the door as the idiot hunter goofed around kiting the boss and trying to use various traps on it. No surprise he died. I didn't even try to take it off him. If he was stupid enough to pull the boss, he could tank it.
The hunter who ran away went LOL YOU GOT TURNED INTO BONES. In caps, like that. The hunter who had died, then goes lol, brb getting serious pet. we were still mid boss fight, the healer and I were still alilve. I bailed group then. I feel bad for ditching the healer, but I wasn't going to pay for a wipe caused by two idiots pulling crap like this intentionally.


Edited because people whinged asked me to,

We got a new guy in our guild, a dps/tank warrior who seemed to know what he was doing. He was giving people fairly decent advice, but he was grating on my nerves a little, getting kinda know-it-all-ish. He means well and just wants to help, I know this, so I let it go.

He asks if anyone wants to run heroics, him as a tank. Sure! He, a holy priest friend, a shadow priest friend, and myself (mage) all went for it. H AN comes up and I'm like, great! A quick one. Let's roflpwn this shit.

( And the rest of this horrible story... )

Super tl;dr - worst AN run in the history of, well, everything. I had to vent here, it was just too fucking crazy not to.

How do you deal with new guildies who mean well, but don't know wtf they're doing? I suggest stuff, but he shoots me down, saying all he needs is his T9 badge gear and he'll be golden.

He just joined yesterday and he hasn't done anything to warrant a /gkick, but goddamn. He makes me want to pull my hair out and I definitely don't want to run anything with him sometime soon if he's tanking. I know everyone needs to start somewhere, but... man. :/