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To those in the WSG BG... Description

To all my many team mates in the Warsong Gulch Battleground:



I know it's kind of stressful when the Alliance does their characteristic zerg rush. I know that it's kinda nerve-racking being one of the "stealthies" going in to the Allaince base to steal the flag. I also know that, because you're usually mid to upper 40's and you have your second PvP rank that you're not too new at all this.



To my many team mates who need an idea of how to run a Battleground smacked brutally into their head with a 2x4, when you have the flag and you're running back to the Horde side, DO NOT do this:



After successfully making it out of the tunnel and outside of the Alliance doors, although you're still on their threshold, do not stop, turn around slowly as if you're liesurely taking in your surroundings and begin to mount. I know it's all a little mind-boggling sometimes, but it ain't gonna work. YOU CANNOT CARRY THE FLAG WHILE MOUNTED. Don't try it multiple times. And don't get mad at me, when seeing our precious flag fall to the ground, I pick it up and go running. I ain't stopping... and I'm not gonna get in a verbal fight because you wanted to carry the flag or that I'm yelling at you because you can't seem to grasp this simple idea of DO NOT MOUNT WHEN YOU HAVE THE FLAG!



Thank you,



Your face-melting shadow priest

bur Description

Dear Shadow Priests,



When you created your toon, you created it in the image of a healer. You signed up for using your mana to heal your MT and help keep the raid alive. I personally would like to inform you, that the next time i hear a "shadow priest" tell me, I don't heal.. I'm DPS.. i wll slap you with a wet trout. You are not a shadow mage, you are not dps in a raid, it's not your job to out dps the damage meters.. and further more since you chose to be the rogue, you can die like one.



kthxbye :)

Ragnaros down on Tichondrius Description

No, its not the first time. In fact, it's probably like the 10th time by a guild but "I Heart Bunnies" on Tichondrius downed Ragnaros tonight! Loot was Malisters Defender, Judgement, Wrath and that crappy trinket that does fire damage

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Being an Orc. Description

Anyway since the RP-PVP servers are coming soon after the 1.7 update. (Don't know how long it will take for Europian users)



I was wondering about a few things.



Orc Language: I know three words in Orcish. Named "Lok'Tar" (to battle), Aka'maggosh (thank you), Zul'zul (I'm on it). But I was wondering if there were more words and so where I can find them (like a webpage or something).

The Horde clan the player is: During the Warcraft history there used to be loads of clans, I know them all. As the Twillights Hammer, Shattered Hand clan, Dragonmaw clan, Laughing Skull clan, Blackrock clan and I know their history and background story. I was wondering if the clan you're Orc is playing is the Warsong Clan (might be a silly question lol)?



I think thats it, unless anyone can provide me any side information.

Oh yeah I'm playing a rogue, my idea was playing a sort of spy/assassin type person, but I don't need tips on how to play a person like that.



Any help is welcome.



Thanks a lot in advance

~ Drakhnor

good low-population PVP server? Description

I want to try a PVP server. Can anyone suggest a good low-population realm?



I'll be playing an undead priest. I love my lvl 60 instance raiding priest, but I want to melt faces solo.

Do not taunt... Description

While going to do my water quest in Dire Maul I found a Happy Fun Rock.



Anyone not familiar with the reference can, at the very least, see a transcript of it here.

Looting changes in 1.7 Description

From the patch notes:



"Need Before Greed and Group Loot options have been improved. The rolling window that appears when an item of the threshold and above is looted now has three buttons: a Need button (the dice), a Greed button (the coin), and a close button. Any players who select Need will get a chance to roll first for the item, with the high roller winning. If no one selects Need, all characters who selected Greed will then roll, with the highest roll winning the item. If everyone closes the window, the item becomes lootable by anyone in the group."



What do you think about this change?

funny stuff Description

just sitting at work and decided to post something funny that happened the other night.

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Out with the old... in with the new... Description

Right. So I was invited to an UBRS run the other day. As a priest who usually knows what he's doing (and usually pays attention) I typically have little trouble finding groups. I've had pretty decent luck with pick-up groups. I've only been on two runs where something was ninja'd. But this group gave me some bad vibes, so I asked the leader - whome I've grouped with on a number of occasions - if he'd switch to Master Loot for the bosses. A few others in the group aggreed, those being from the same guild as the leader. So we have another priest in the group, who just recently switched servers. From start to finish he tried to buy off people from rolling and demanded that everyone only get one item, because that was the rules they played with on his old server. So while he was talking and arguing during fights (obviously spending more time talking and less time healing), I was forced to do his job - healing his group. I let him die on several occasions. I looked at it as, he's not doing much, and I'd rather spend the mana on keeping the rogue or mage or warrior in his group alive. After a few items he wanted didn't drop - which made me smile, he became rather verbally abusive to people - which made me frown, and we were all thankful when we finally completed the instance and could see him go.



Right. Where am I going here? Yes, the switchovers. If you're transfering to a new server, don't expect people to do the same things in the new place they did on your old server. Like separate societies, each server, while having common ground and roots, has evolved and developed it's own freakishly weird identity. The rules you may have played through on your old server, may not be common place on the new one. Don't argue about it with the pick-up group you've joined, you'll most likely only irritate people.



Oh yeah, in the end, my percentage of healing done was 72.4%. Does anyone else think that's a little high for one healer on a UBRS run? If one healer is doing that much on a UBRS run, then the group has some issues.

feet wet.. Mood: working

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My sessions have been sparse yet fruitful.

I'm one of those players who plans on taking his time, exploring at length,

and seeing everything I can see.

I've been busy with the baby, but have still managed to level my Shaman almost to 10.

I haven't even played in a group yet.

I'd like to however.

The beauty of this game is breathtaking. EQOA doesn't hold a candle to this.

Even dying is cool. The whole ghost thing is a nice touch.

Last night, I was killing those poacher/tanner/skinner cretins, and accidently drew

the attention of four of them. I actually killed off three before the fourth did me in.

It was amusing. That totem spell seemed to help.



A few non-gaming questions for you.

Why did it take me almost 15 minutes to log in?

It said Greymane was full, and that I was in a queue.

Is it just that so many people were trying to log on at once?

The population status of the server was New so I thought I'd have an easy time getting on.



And, does anyone know when the 1.7 patch goes live? Tomorrow?

I know they're testing in currently.

I want to know so I can set aside a large block of time to DL the monster.

Vanish FTW! Description

Alright, my new Rogue hit 22 yesterday, and I got Vanish and Distract, and seriously, Rogues are the damned coolest class ever. I accidently aggroed like 4 even leveled Raptors in the wetlands last night, hit Vanish and they are all like, Hey, nevermind, and go along their merry way. :-D

Razorgore died Description

The Epic Crusade on Dragonblight killed Razorgore last night for a server first*.



(big) screenshots follow behind the cut.



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[Pristine] Chromatic Carapace? Mood: curious

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So, I have vague hopes of ever getting the Breastplate of Chromatic Flight. Far as I understand it, I need to make a ton of UBRS runs for brilliant chromatic scales off the drakes before Rend.



Blood of heroes I can dig up by running around the plaguelands and stocking up on swiftness potions to haul ass away from the two mobs that spawn once you pick the blood up.



I'm not sure where to get the frayed abomination stitchings, but I recall that they are skinned from something... in Scholo? Or maybe Strath. I haven't actually been to Strath yet at all.



But, where the heck do you get a pristine chromatic carapace? A friend of mine says that it's skinned using Finkle's Skinner from the Beast in UBRS, but I don't buy that, since the quest log says it's supposed to be from a chromatic drake or dragon... which the Beast obviously isn't.

Hey everyone Description

Hmmmm heres an easy question to everyone whos better then me, how do i get Honorable kills? lol and also does anyone play on durotan and would like to help someone new?





Thanks! have fun

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Anyone know the name of the quest that gives you the key for UBRS and DM North?

Mood: amused

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So, I was in UBRS with my guild on Saturday. [Side note: we 15-manned LBRS before going to UBRS. If you haven't done it before, try it. It's great for stress relief. :)]



The Beast dropped Lightforge shoulders that were awarded to my warrior, since Horde has no paladins and the other two warriors in the raid went 'OMFG NO!'. But, I figured the stats weren't too bad, even if I didn't need the +11 int, so what the hell, right?



Wrong. Those are the ugliest things ever. I mean, sure, finding shoulder armor that doesn't looks stupid on a female char is a challenge to begin with, but those Lightforge shoulders are just plain hideous. What's up with that? I put them on and the majority of other folks in the raid who were on Vent at the time, just started dying laughing.



I'm so happy that I didn't keep my female paladin now, cause if I had to wear that for my class, I would've had to cry every time I logged on. Maybe there is a point to having that built-in model viewer after all. :)



In the meantime, though, I vendored the Lightforge and I think I'll stick to my Stoneform shoulders that look very cool and give 688 armor.

Hunter Pet....Dragon???? Description

So Last night I'm running around with my warrior joined by a hunter. Out of no where this lvl 44 warrior comes out and starts talking to the hunter.



Warrior: Why do you have a cat as a pet.

Hunter: Because it has fast DPS and I can teach it almost everything

Warrior: Cats are not as good as Dragons

Hunter: You can't get a dragon as a combat Pet. Just to baby whelps that don't attack.

Warrior: Yes you can. My lvl 55 hunter has a Dragon Pet that I use in Combat

Hunter: You mean the engineered Dragon?

Warrior: No. It's a real pet I use in combat

Hunter: You can't get a dragon for a pet. You can only tame beasts.

Warrior: Dragons are pretty powerful if trained right. You should look into getting one.



So here is my question....is there any truth to this. Can you get a dragon or was the guy making the whole story up? Now having a lvl 55 hunter I would love to have a dragon as a pet. The only thing that comes close to a dragon is that flying snake thing. I wonder if that's what he was talking about......hmmmm What do you think?

Some Hunter questions Description

I'm still getting used to playing a hunter, so I just have a few questions regarding pet training.



1-How long does it take to learn an ability from a pet usually after you tame it? Meaning if I want to be able to learn Claw and Bite so I can teach it to my raptor, how long would it take for a wolf and bear to teach me that ability?



2-Regarding learning the bilities mentioned above, could a recently tamed pet teach me lower level ablilty? meaning if I went to tame a level 25 bear, would it be able to teach me claw rank 1? Or would I have to start with a lower level bear?



3-Just curious if anyone has tamed Lupus, a lvl 23 wolf from Duskwood. I'm a horde hunter, so it'll be hard to do it, but I would like to try.





Thanks for any help!

Bonechill Description

Last night I did a quick Scholomance run and Ras dropped the Bonechill Hammer. I was using Thrashblade in my main, and nobody needed the Bonechill so I figured I'd take it.



(As a side note - I seem to have a knack for knowing when to use my 'N' in instance runs - as is often the case when something drops early in the run, you're temped to wait to use your need until the main boss. Everytime I've grabbed an item early, though, there's been nothing I've wanted later on, though I've still won a few random raid rolls.)



Anyway, I slapped an Icy Chill enchant on the mace so make it look pretty and went to kill a few things to level my skill. I linked the mace to a friend and he said that Thrash was still better because the extra attack proc outdamaged both the slightly higher damage range and the proc on the Bonechill. I said that surely the faster speed will apply poisons faster and that the slightly higher damage range will mean higher crits but he said that the crit difference would be negligable and that weapon speed, when applying poisons, only applied to off-hand.



Agree or dissagree? What do people think is the better weapon? I'm a lvl 60 Rogue, and am using Lifeforce Dirk as off-hand and am currently doing Plugger runs to get the Shanker.

The Perils of Attunement at 3 AM Mood: exhausted

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I went on what seemed like a 5-hour BRD run last night. We started with Jail Break, clearing both rings and then escorting Windsor, then we went after the Emperor, (skipping the arena thing, Angerforge, and Argelmach, but doing the pub) then did MC attunement, and then Incendius. We finished at about 3 AM, which is just way too late when you have to work at 8 the next morning. After we ported back to IF, I went back to Blackrock to turn in my attunement quest. After I had turned it in, the elf there told me that I was "to take the opening at his right" to get to MC. Deciding that I needed to see MC, I promptly lept through the opening at his right, which happened to be a window leading directly into the LARGE POOL OF LAVA.



The run itself was pretty amazing, though. A fantastic group consisting of myself (60 warrior), a priest, a druid, a mage, and a paladin. We had two epics drop (I know! Epics in BRD!), Stonerender Gauntlets and Circle of Flame. We had no mail users so the gaunts were greeded out. I rolled a 98, but was absolutely stupid and did a /roll for it, instead of using the stupid roll box! When I made my official roll...it was a 4. *cry* The gaunts went to our priest (who did a great job switching from nuker to healer at a moment's notice) and the circle went to our mage. I came away with Plans: Dark Iron Sunderer and The Emperor's New Cape.



All-in-all a pretty great day. I did a few WSG matches and came away with 144 kills for the day, and two wins in the Gulch. I got attuned for both MC and BWL, and managed to solo the rest of the Drakefire Amulet quest up until I have to go back to UBRS for the blood. Funny story with that...I went to go turn in Awbee's scale so I could start on my Chromatic Breastplate quest, and at the same time I wanted to turn in the broken scale piece to get further on the Ony key. Of course, I had to do the Breastplate thing first...so instead of getting two quests done right away, I get flung across the entire world unexpectedly and have to travel back to Winterspring! Gah for early mornings! I wish I had read what that stupid dragon/elf was saying more carefully.

for the horde!!! er... i mean alliance Mood: content

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ok so i've been pvping alot lately because well.. when i'm not doing molten core what else am i suppoed to do?



So i was in AV killen ppl and stuff, and i finally decided to take a break. You know how there are certain people on the other faction that stand out in your mind. Ones who make you say, wow they are really good.. or wow they suck. Or maybe say, they are a good player i like them. WELL there is a priest on my server Sargeras who is i believe the best pvp priest i have ever seen in all my days of pvp. So while i was taking a break from the slaughter, she came to join me as we both sat together and watched the battle of stormpike go down.



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And because i was so bored..

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Abuse? Description

This may be one of those 'Open' secrets that everybody knows but nobody talks about, but I was really rather taken aback by this when I saw it happen tonight...



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