Due to a new job, I recently had to step down from raiding with my hunter. The only upgrades left for her, really, are in ICC, so there's not a whole lot of point in playing her. The new LFG tool has been a godsend for my disc priest, though. He was wearing a patchwork of Naxx stuff, BoEs, and blues from heroics, so suddenly having access to t9 is fantastic, not to mention the actual items that drop in the new instances.

Anyway, I know there's been a lot of grr over the whole gearscore thing, so I thought I'd mention the only time I've actually run into it in-game. This was a couple days ago, and the random tossed us into H-HoR. This is really the only heroic that makes me half-cringe, as the Marwyn trash waves can get pretty awful if the tank doesn't pick up everything instantly and securely. Even if they do, it can be pretty rough. But I'm willing to try any instance with any group, and H-HoR usually doesn't get instaquits, since everyone wants the gear (including me!).

It wasn't the easiest clear of that instance I've ever done, but we did clear it. After all the crystals/loot had been distributed from the last chest (I think that was when I got the belt I'm wearing), the tank who had previously been entirely silent says: "OK GUYS WHAT'S EVERYONE'S GS!????" then drops group.

I thought that was pretty awesome.

I will have to admit I did ditch a group earlier, though. The tank was doing something wrong - I have no idea what - but he was taking unhealable levels of damage from old kingdom trash. I remarked on the insane damage he was taking one or two trash pulls in, and when we wiped after another couple pulls because I simply couldn't heal through the damage, I was like "well, good luck with that" and ditched. He accused me of being a "gear elitist" because I said he wasn't ready to tank the instance, but like, I hadn't even inspected him and honestly wouldn't know what to look for if I had. All I know is that if you've got weakened soul on you, renew ticking, penance and PoM on CD, and you die while flash heal is casting on old kingdom trash, you're not ready to tank it. You're just not.

Hi everyone!  [H] Friends with Benefits [Lightbringer US PVE] is looking for some fun, good natured people to expand our family.  We are a brand new guild made up of people who were just weren't satisfied in their previous guild.  We're eager to return to our 10man content but are lacking the manpower to do so at the moment.  :(

( Halp!  )

First of all...HAPPY WINTER VEIL EVERYONE!!!! ^ ^

Secondly....

So I did WG at 5 in the morning on my mage this morning.
We win (with 5 people in group) and people form a VOA10 group somehow. I ask for invite since they need a dps and I figured I'd do it for stoneshards for my hunter alt.

Me: *port*

Me: *greet my guild mate i see*

Party Leader: "noone should do under 3k dps"

Me: *go over the last 6 times ive done this on 10 man and smile cause I do good dps*.

Noob priest (now on /ignore): "look noob mage, no enchants and crap gear".

Party leader: *does not check my stats obviously* "Oh" */kick*

Me: *gets kicked*.

Now 1) this is 5 in the morning so gl and have fun finding people for your group.
2) My mage does 3k dps in average selfbuffed, has mostly t8 and t9 gear, gearscore of 2350 (good enough for Ulduar 10 man, mostly enchanted (except the new t9 gloves) and around 4.5k on bosses.
3) My guildie doesn't take kindly to this and leaves group (and he's mt, which is hard to find during prime time on my server).

I know we've been angry at people that ask for gearscores and so on, but this was about as disturbing... level 80's that can't use the inspect function? O.o

I'm so scared right now....

Unguilded Alliance alts please whisper Purr on Drak'thul for guild charter signings. Thank you!!

The random dungeon finder is a cool thing, I'll admit, but how many of you have their fingers hovering over the leave party/teleport out of dungeon option once the Oculus rears its ugly disgusting head?

I'll admit it, as much as I don't hate the Oculus, per se, it easily wins my vote for "it's worth not going into a random dungeon for twenty minutes to leave this" award.

Incidentally, anyone on wow ladies on Turalyon? (Horde-side? Just givin' a shout-out.)

So now I'm level 75 and I think it's about time I learn how this whole gear set = certain dungeons works. So far I've run Nexus, the buggy place, troll dungeon, and UK. I've gotten a few upgrades for my Resto spec but I want to learn how I get gear at the top of the charts. Not saying i ever will but I think it's still a good thing to learn.

So what gear should I get before I attempt Heroics? Do those only start at level 80? What's the first set of dungeon on heroic do I do in blues from normal past dungeons?

I'm sure I'm mixing up all my words here as I'm completely confused. Basically what is the chart of gear I need to match the chart of dungeons/heroics/raids?

I have a teeny baby warrior alt, and I'm thinking of going with blacksmithing on her just 'cause. If I find I don't like it, I may do engineering on her and go goblin since my main has gnomish.

But I already have two toons with maxed out mining. I'm not sure what else to pair up with blacksmithing, other than jewelcrafting, but the thought of the two of those at once makes me just shudder. I also don't have an alchemist, so I'm tempted to go that way too, but I also have... two herbers! @-@ IDEK, guys, IDEK.

Any suggestions for warrior alts when all other gathering proffs are maxed out?

Wyrmrest Accord (US) RP Realm
The Gathering of Druids (cross-faction Druid Gathering)
Call of the Spirits (cross-faction Shaman Gathering)

The Gathering of Druids event started out about two months after the server opened, the Call of the Spirits event started several months later. For a time there was a break in the events as I took a "vacation" from RP. Another person has stepped up to help run them and they are starting to build slow momentum.

More information about the events can be found at: http://www.brightmoonfaire.com/naturalists

To find out what we're in need of (I mean other than participants) please check behind the cut!

( The Gatherings )

We have a beautiful new kitty and my son and I would like to name her after a WoW character. Lore masters please share your ideas! She is the color of creamed coffee,long haired, petite and a survivor of some pretty brutal trauma. We are so lucky to have her!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you were all good this year and Santa got you lovely gifts!

A few days ago, someone posted about their hubby buying them the vanity pets from Blizz store for xmas. As part of that thread, and unknown to my hubby, I posted that I hoped my man would buy me a murlock doll. Well...he did. It's one of those talking ones and I'm just in love with him (the murlock that is. Obviously, I totally love my hubby anyway!).

Not being one of those collector types, I just took the murlock out of the box and, to my absolute surprise, there was an official adoption certificate in there...Cabbage Patch Kid style. That's gone into my currently empty for a year photo frame and I have a new "baby", Kampi.

Arch Druid Lathorius himself signed the cert from D.E.H.T.A!

Pics to follow.

This issue has come up a lot for me and I'm curious as to what your opinions are.

The other day in H UP (a cross-realm random) the blue proto-drake dropped from Skadi. I was stoked since I collect mounts on my druid. We all rolled Need on it and lo and behold, I won it! I squealed a little bit in chat saying that I only needed a few more mounts to get my 100 achievement. One guy congratulated me, but the other 3 people were like "wow way to ninja the mount u noob" and dropped group. I was speechless...the only thing I can think of is they were mad because I rolled on a flying mount as a druid.

Honestly, this annoys me to no end. Just because I have flight form doesn't mean I *like* using it. Why shouldn't I be able to have pretty mounts just like everyone else? It's not like anyone else truly *needed* the mount, either, so what makes it different for me as a druid? I've gotten yelled at for rolling on the bronze drake in CoS too, and a former guildie was -- get this -- REPORTED for "ninja'ing" the Sarth+3 mount in a pug, when all he did was roll need on it like everyone else. They were mad because he was a druid.

What do you ladies think about this issue? I truly wasn't trying to make anyone angry, but I don't understand this anger against druids rolling on mounts. It really frustrates me.

So, I finally got dragged into Halls of Stone on lfg. And mildly had a heart attack. I've never healed that, and the fact I was finally in Ulduar...I was mildly having a squee moment. Since I had never healed (or seen, for that matter) for this place, I politely let everyone know.

Amazingly, everyone was fine. The only question was from the tank. 'How well do you feel about your healing abilities?' Which my answer went 'Confidant'

....the tank then went and chainpulled about three groups of mobs. We got to the Maiden of Grief like that, me running behind because the tank was chainpulling through the ENTIRE instance with a new healer. When we finally killed her, I kindly asked if he could slow down just a touch cause it was giving me a heart attack. The response that came was 'well, I've done this about 4 times now, just trying to make it a bit more fun.' that got a quick response of 'then make it more fun without a new healer trying to heal your candy ass :P '

Everyone laughed, even the pally.

So, thank you Mrs. Pally. I love you. Since I got used to Northrend instances, I've been looking for a challenge to test my healing. And other than the warlock dying twice within 2 minutes and the enhance shammy dying on the Maiden....we had no wipes and you did not die, my candied ass tank. Thank you for a beautiful and informative run on perhaps the most awe inspiring instance I've ever run. :)

A few years ago I saw a video of the 12 days of christmas but it was set to wow characters.  It was basic wowmodelviewer style on a white background and the lyrics were facing my inlaws, sending christmas cards, batteries not included, ringing up the lights, ect.  I have looked all over youtube and google but cannot find it anymore.  Anyone know where a copy is?

Nothing like a great pug group in WoW to warm my heart this Christmas morning!

( Cut for Sappy Story and Picture )

My husband plays a Prot Warrior (his Armory) and he's a bit confused when it comes to dodge. He's heard about dimishing returns on dodge, but after looking, he's having trouble finding at what amount dodge really starts to feel it. Basically, is there a soft cap on dodge? Or is it just, the more dodge the better? He's really just looking for some kind of number to aim for here. (does block follow the same guidelines?)

Also, he's currently wearing the Bubbling Brightbrew Charm for the Stamina, would it be a good idea to give the stamina up for the Glyph of Indomitability?

Any help you could shed would be greatly appreciated! <3 Thanks ladies and Merry Christmas!!


(also, any other advice on his spec or gearing wouldn't go unnoticed <3)

A few days ago I read a post here about which specialization to choose. Elixer sounds nice- more flasks? Yes, please! The only problem.... I went to pick up the quest to specialize in elixers. As you non-alchemists probably don't know this quest requires you to visit black morass (spelling?) and gather items off rift lords.

Problem one: There is an attunement quest for BM, which I have finally completed.

Problem two: There is -nobody- lfg for BM and I can't get a run for love or for money.

Problem three: The droprate on the quest item is godawful low. I convinced a CoT group today to run black morass with me after durnholde and only got 5 of the 10 items I need.

How did you elixer specialist ladies get past this? I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work.

My idea: make a group on my boyfriends account, invite my 80 druid, log off druid (she will stay in the party, even logged out), log on priest, and invite priest to the party. I would then have a my boyfriend's toon, and both my priest and druid in the same party. Let's say I were to run my priest into BM and change to my druid and haul her over there. I would kill some rift lords on my druid, then switch to my priest. Would my priest be able to loot the bodies, being DC'd at the time they were killed?

Edit: Looks like I am going to have to bribe my guildies harder. In the mean time, let's talk about all the stupid outdated quests that you haaave to do but can't get groups for. Thanks for telling me if my idea would work. You saved me a lot of time.

Double edit: Being nice pays off. A shaman I helped with his spec/rotation a few months ago came to my aid. Thanks a lot for the recommendations, if I level any more alchemists I will specialize in transmute and change to elixir. 

All right, ladies (and lurking gents!).

I caved. I created a few characters on an RP realm (Wyrmrest Accord, Alliance). I will try this. I will try not to suck at it.

But first, I have some questions for all you seasoned RPers out there!

1.) Alliance or Horde. Why did you pick what you picked? Or do you RP on both sides? (And why?) ((If you want to get more detailed, why did you pick the RACE you picked?))

2.) Any tips for first-time/n00b RPers?

3.) How versed in lore should I be? How detailed should I make my character's backstory?

I feel so silly, but I really do want to try this.

If you want to talk to me in-game with tips, you can whisper up one of the following names. I should be online: Essie (Night Elf), Sacae (Draenei), or Caelin (Human). ♥ Thank you for all your help! And if you want, share some fun stories about RP experiences. :D

Facepalmed myself so hard I gave myself a headache.  Just WHACK in the forehead. >.< Literally.

Picture it. 50s group.  Blackrock Depths.  The dreaded Lyceum.  I'm the only person who's been in the "keyed" areas before. And since I have the key, profit!

No. Not even close.

Me: Okay, this is how this area works.  There's a lot of mobs that respawn really, really quickly, but they die really really fast.  We have to stick together, find the Flame Keeper mobs, kill them and take their items.  Then, we have to move to these braziers here (minimap ping) and here (minimap ping).  We have to move fast, since the items have timers. 

Group: Okay. Sure. No problem.

HALF AN HOUR LATER

Tank: What are we looking for?

Rogue: I dunno... How much longer is this instance?

Me: *dead and angrily pounding instructions for the TENTH time into my keyboard*

Healer: .... Rezzing the mage AGAIN (me).

Warlock: Would you listen to the mage already?  She's trying to tell us what we need to do here.

It's been five years since I first set foot in the depths of Blackrock, all the way back when it was 10-man.  It's both comforting and pathetic to know that the Lyceum can still turn people into complete goddamn retards, and me into a tower of frothing, forehead-slapping rage.

Good evening WOW Ladies,

I'm hoping someone not so noobish as I can perhaps help me understand the situation I'm in with RAF. A friend and I have somehow completely managed to bungle it, and although Blizzard support is very nice, they're not being as helpful as I had hoped. I've read the official FAQ, searched the forums, and I went through the community tags without hearing of anything like this happening to anyone else. Here's what happened:

1. My friend bought and installed vanilla WOW when it was $5, but did NOT create an account.

2. She waited till my semester was over (= free time), and then I sent her the RAF code. She created a trial account using that code, and then immediately upgraded the account using the code that came with her copy of the game (perhaps this is where we went wrong). Unfortunately, when we logged in, we could not do any RAF stuff (no summon, no triple XP). My account showed my RAF referral as being sent but not being acted upon.

3. I sent in a ticket to Blizzard support, and got a quick reply back that seemed like it would have solved our problem. The support person said that she had "retro linked" our two accounts, and that "MYACCOUTNAME has now recruited WOW1 on FRIEND'SACCOUNTNAME." Okay. We log in, still no link. My account information now shows TWO linked accounts, a trial and a full version.

4. We realize that on my friend's log-in screen, she has the option of two accounts(?), "WOW1" and "WOW2" (she only has one Battle.net account, but both of these are somehow part of it -- this is really confusing me). Turns out WOW1 is her upgraded game, WOW2 is a trial version, and WOW2 is the one with the RAF link (we tested this by rolling a toon on it). So I replied to the support email with this information. Got a reply back today saying merely "A paid character transfer can be done to move the character. WOW1 is the recruited account and the account to play on."

... buh?

It's so very confusing (and frustrating!). I am seeing on my end that WOW2 (a trial) is the linked account, but support is telling me otherwise. My friend and I have no problem rerolling our toons to start over together, but it kind of sucks that my friend may have to buy the game again to get a new code to upgrade. I'm also really peeved that we've wasted all this playing time on nothing.

Has anything similar happened to anyone else, or can anyone shed some light on what actually happened? Thanks for your time in advance. :)

We are pretty broke this year (like everyone else) so most of our money went to our sons Christmas and we werent to get each other anything... But i made my husband a winters veil gift bag


( What did Great Father Winter bring...  )

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