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Post by Office Ninja on Apr 25, 2009 13:14:54 GMT -5
Quest helper basically does all that for you. Its great for repeating content Ive seen a million times. I don't like using it on my Shaman though, because this is the first time Ive seen any of this content.
I too have mixed feelings on it. It makes the game easier than it already is. And it trains you to not read any of the quests. Which is ok for alts if you have already done quests. Little Raviole was doing the Dusk wallow quests, and those are pretty dull. So I turned it on and BAM 3 levels in like 2 hours. it was fast.
Now my little Raviolee can wear Plate armor! Im really surprised though, i was grinding my levels in defensive stance, ad a protection warrior. This used to be impossible to do! It is really odd how much they have changed Protection. I wanna take him tanking now.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Apr 25, 2009 13:21:02 GMT -5
I was never a big fan of Protection Warrior. Well, for soloing. My Dwarf Warrior will go Prot when I get him into the Instances but for now I solo as a Fury Warrior. Its pretty effective. Not as effective as say a Prot Paladin or a Frost Mage but its easier taking dudes down.
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Post by Caller on Apr 25, 2009 19:10:46 GMT -5
Given the complete and utter lack of variety of quests in this game, I need QuestHelper to get through it. I used to use thottbot for all the quests but this is just easier. I do read the quest text but ultimately...they're the same. "Thin the population" "Find x amount of this to prove to me you killed y amount of z's" "Talk to this guy"
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Apr 25, 2009 19:39:20 GMT -5
Speaking of addons I am trying out Bartender. It allows you to fully customize your action bars. You can place em anywhere, choose to have em horizontal or vertical and you can resize em. You've probably seen this addon in some people's screens or videos. They usually stack their bars like this. i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/norfenstein/wow/interface2.jpgWhich I tried but couldn't get used to it. So I positioned my bars pretty much identical to how they were with the default UI. With one exception. i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/norfenstein/wow/interface.jpgIts pretty much the same. But originally (in the default Blizz UI) I had everything from the Netherweave bandage all the way to my mount setup vertically on the right side of the screen. This addon is serving me no real purpose other than "omg it looks diffrunt lolazer!" EDIT>> And another thing is neat. For my Mage I always wanted to have my teleports shortcutted but never wanted to sacrafice battle abilities that are way more important. So you can add bars and position em anywhere. And like I said earlier you can resize the action bars so I shrunk the new bars with my teleports and put it off to the side of the screen. So its easy to access but still out of the way enough to not fuck with my other bars. So yeah, I might keep this.
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Post by Caller on Apr 26, 2009 0:30:01 GMT -5
Can you still use Shift+ Up or Down to switch between em? That could be useful if so. I don't really click much because I rarely use the mouse playing this game and my reaction time is a lot faster with a number press myself.
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Post by Office Ninja on Apr 26, 2009 8:14:29 GMT -5
Ugh. I wish you could disable the shift + 1 or Shift +up option. Im always spamming my #2 macro and then i accidentally hit shift and all of a sudden im throwing down AoE fire totems. Its annoying.
Did yet another heroic Violet Hold. Got some more badges. im 7 away from getting a shield for me healing set. After that I want to get the healing necklace, then the healing totem, then some of those EXP shoulders for my alts. At the rate I collect badges, that will be a while.
I did some questing n Sholazar Basin again. Got honored with the Oracles. Im 10k rep away from getting that egg that has the chance of spawning a Green Proto Drake mount every 7 days. I want that thing.
I thought I saw Raylu last night, but it was some other stupid Human. Im always keeping an eye out when I venture through Dalaran. I wanna /tickle you.
I wish bind on account stuff could be sent to my Alliance alt. Those plate shoulders could help little Raviolee a ton.
Do any of oyu have alts around level 40? I wanna try my hands at tanking (its been years) and I dont wanna pug. We should try to schedule a group some night. Here pretty soon my work schedule is going to change and I will be getting off the same time my raids start. So thats going to suck.
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Post by Yvondith on Apr 26, 2009 10:58:59 GMT -5
I use quest helper sometimes, and sometimes I don't. I used it last night, because I didn't feel like running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to find out where I was supposed to go. I don't really feel that it's cheating, it just makes things go faster. I still read quests completely whenever I can (NPCs that won't be still prevent me from doing so) and I still find myself going to places like WoWHead sometimes to find out just what it is I'm supposed to do.
Tairotha hit 58, but plan on continuing to level in the old world until I hit 60, so I can just go ahead and get my speedy mount before attempting to go to Shatt.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Apr 26, 2009 13:18:06 GMT -5
Yes, shift 2 will change your primary bar to your secondary. When you first load it though your secondary bar will be visible as its own bar. What you can do is choose to hide bar 2 and when you need to use it you just click shift 2 (not sure if shift up/down works or not). Yeah I prefer button pressing myself. Everything that is a primary ability anyways. The only time I click is if I use a spell or ability that I need to fire off but dont use very often. For instance, my summons on Warlock are click only which I think works considering you idealy need to summon once. Same with Priest. My heals and shit are number presses but the odd boss fight here and there I feel like I can get a quick DoT off which are all mouse clickys. Kik, I do not have any characters in the 40 range yet. They are all in their 30's minus my caster Druid who is 23. I was planning on working on Paladin next but.....I wanna tank with him too. XD EDIT>> Apparantly the Easter event started....a little late.
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Post by Caller on Apr 26, 2009 14:20:44 GMT -5
.....AH! o.o
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Post by Office Ninja on Apr 26, 2009 14:23:53 GMT -5
Well a 40 warrior can tank for level 30's. We just need heals and DPS and we can get a group going. What do you say/
That poor human.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Apr 26, 2009 15:51:29 GMT -5
Sounds good. Character name is Kaazur. He is 33 and I have the Plate Shoulders for 10% exp bonus so maybe I can catch up to you.
Trying out Shaman for now. Needed a break from Death Knight. I'm still not sure if I like this class or not. I have three elemental totems but I am finding that the Strength totem is really all I need. The health totem only gives me 6 HP/5 secs and the Flame shooting totem deals quite a bit of damage but it doesn't stay out long enough. And the mana cost is pretty high. So I am finding myself just casting the Earth Strenght totem, shooting out a ball of lightning then using Flame Shock or whatever its called. And then just watching myself auto attack.
This Shaman is only 22 so I am assuming it will become much funner at about 30. I know Mage was pretty boring too until it hit 30.
Is there anyway to dismiss totems? They draw unwanted aggro sometimes. XD
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Post by Yvondith on Apr 26, 2009 18:43:53 GMT -5
Reireci is 32 priest, but I'm in no rush to level her... not until things settle down after this latest patch. Was still hoping to get level 80 on someone and get those heirloom items before I really focus on her, to make things easier.
They reset my talent point on Tai last night, thankfully they've not glitched anymore. But, the GM letter said they may glitch again as I level up.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Apr 28, 2009 9:52:43 GMT -5
So for those of you who want to waste your time (like I did) with Noblegarden, here are some tips from Norfy.
Do not camp spots. Its boring and it takes forever. Instead just run around and look for eggs. After about half an hour you should have spawn points memorized (maybe not all of them but that is ok) and plan out a path for yourself. Make sure your easter basket is hotkeyed for quick and easy use cause it speeds you up. And it has NO cooldown.
Don't be afraid to "Ninja" other peoples camping spot. People won't be afraid to do it to you if you are camping. And if you are a succesful Ninja no one bitches. I Ninjaed many eggs and not once did I get a tell saying "omfg egg ninja" so have at her. Oh and this may sound kinda douchebaggy but if you see someone already in the process of retrieving an egg try an retrieve it anyways. And by that I mean hold your shift button and spam your right click on it. It has a chance, I have found, of cancelling out the others persons looting of the egg in favor of you. Again, it may sound harsh to do that but like I said. People won't hesitate to do the same to you.
When you see an egg at a distance run towards it but before reaching it try to put your mouse cursor over it. If your icon doesnt change it means someone already looted it and it gives you the chance to move on to the next egg without wasting time running to something that is already gone.
Do NOT do this quest in Goldshire. Its is the most crowded place. Kharanos wasn't as bad but I would suggest either Dolonaar or Azure Watch. Mainly because they are off of the Alliance based continent and are more of a pain in the ass to get to (unless you are a Mage). For Horde, I.e. Kik I would suggest the same thing. The opposite continent. Either Brill or....whatever the town is that borders with Silvermoon.
If you get the Elegant Dress and are wearing it, don't get annoyed cause of people constantly /kissing you. Its all part of an achievement.
Once I started doing these things instead of spawn camping my aqusition of chocolates and Noblegarden related items became much easier and faster.
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Post by Office Ninja on Apr 28, 2009 10:40:38 GMT -5
Actually, Brill is quite popular due to the Zepplin outside. Its very crowded.
Silvermoon is a deadzone, as is Thunderbluff usually.
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Post by Yvondith on Apr 28, 2009 12:23:12 GMT -5
Har har, talent points have been reset! - Edit: Or so the patch details said. Mine have not been reset as Tairotha... I sorta wanted to respec again. Sorry I didn't log in last night, Norfy... I was sick when I came home, and ended up going to bed immediately. Didn't wake up until morning. I'll try to run you as soon as possible, sorry about missing it. >.< Thanks for the tips about noblegarden. That's why I haven't bothered yet, it's a douchebag parade out there. Gonna wait a few more days still, I don't care about the achievements, I just want the dress, the robe, and the ears. Also, if you're an orc or dwarf female somewhere that's level 18+, expect bunny ears to be spammed on you... that is all I've heard about in chat, people looking for those females, orc especially. I have an orc female DK on Terokkar, but she's still in the intro... maybe I should finish it and allow people to do the achievement.
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