Hi everyone. :) Does anyone know a good place to grind for xp? I'm level 43 and I'd really like to get to level 55 soon. Also, does anyone know where's a good place to wool cloth to drop? I'm trying to get 60 of them. Oh, and what are some quests that can raise my rep with Ironforge? Thanks for any answers! :)

Are there any mods that will try to track the northrend and/or outland rare spawns? I've been looking and have found macros but I could have sworn I've seen people mention a mod in this community before. I tried searching mod sites but either they don't exist or I'm having an attack of the stupids and am using the wrong search terms. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

So, has anyone here ever started a fashion trend on their server? My bank alt is named Elfbank and wears the lovely black dress, the battered jungle pimphat and uses the diamond tipped cane. I just logged on to run a scan of the AH and saw no less than 2 other characters wearing the hat, the dress and the cane! LOL I just thought it was hilarious. Anyone else ever have this or something similar happen?

This is technically my first post, I've only recently joined this community though I've been playing WoW for a while now. Of course, since introductory posts are usually boring for me, I'm moving on from that to another topic that's been on my mind for a while.

A few months ago my guild went through some massive changes in its hierarchy. It used to be that all of the guild's leadership was consolidated into one person who was also GM/RL/MT and he was awesome at it. He led us through Vanilla WoW all the way through Wrath's Naxx and under his leadership it felt like our guild was one big family.

Unfortunately this time of bliss did not last, our former GM lost his job and had to find another that cut into our raiding times. Since he had no set days off we couldn't schedule our raids around those, so he pretty much stepped down as guild leader and passed the reigns over to the officers. Raid leading duties went over to those who stepped up to be raid leaders, I happen to be one of them.

Now the thing that's been bugging me lately is that since our GM stepped down, I've been noticing a slip in performance. Our GM brought us all together and while it definitely felt like we were a family, he could also slap us in line if we ever do anything stupid. In fact on days when our GM could log on and raid with us, raid performance actually is a lot better than what it usually is. I remember distinctly a moment when we were doing Hodir and people were doing so badly that our GM got so enraged that he began snapping at people and lo and behold next attempt it was absolutely flawless.

Of course I'm not saying that my guild is doing absolutely horrible, we just recently managed to down Yogg, but I really do feel that it could be better. I'm pretty certain the majority of the guild is just waiting for when our GM can get a stable job so he can lead us again. But until then, I'm wondering if anyone who's been through a major transition like this could offer any advice in keeping people in line, in keeping morale up, in enforcing people to stop playing like tards?

I am starting to work on the Argent Tournament (yea!) and I have come to a stumbling block.  I am really bugged by it because i just started this.  I have completed the first main Quest that you must turn in 15 Aspirant Seals.  Done.  The next quest is to talk to Squire Danny and actually fight an NPC opponent.  I talk to Squire Danny, and all he says is something like "are you sure you are ready for mounted combat", and does not summon anyone.
Yes, i am mounted on the horse (Ally), yes, I have the lance equipt, yes, I have collected and turned in the 15 seals.  I do not know what to do.  I have asked my Guild, I have posted to Wowhead.com - nothing.

I sat here and watched other people talk to Squire Danny and gotten an opponent, so I know its him and he is not bugged.

Any help from you ladies would be great!!!  ;-)

The only thing that I can think of is that while I was "collecting" the seals, I once placed them in the Bank.  But them pilled them out and collected the rest and completed that Quest.  i dunno.   /hands



http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13679#comments:id=774817

So, long story short, we're in town this weekend, after planning to be in Sandusky.

So we've been bumming around the house today, gardening, cooking, loafing, researching and video gaming.

I enjoyed the wonderful slow thunderstorm today. Sitting outside, just taking it all in. I don't know what it is about rainstorms that makes me so happy....but I love them. they make me feel like everything is all right.

I also talked to N and she sounded so sleepy. Looks like baby B is a lamb, after all those somersaults. I can't wait to meet her.

anivair made the best breakfast. And is currently cooking up something made with herbs from our garden (which delights me to no end). It's been a lazy day, but I have to say it's been awesome. Birth, growing green things, rain, I am totally amazed and thankful to be alive.

Now, how to spend my evening!!!!

Knights of Entropy (KoE) is a new guild with a foundation of experienced raiders and players dedicated to progression seeking like minded, mature players. Our goal is to run 25-man content but we are currently focused on running 10-man Ulduar and other content until our numbers grow. We are a fun, sociable, early/late evening guild that talks on vent, jokes around and has fun helping each other lvl and gear up our alts.

( Specifics found here. )Above all else we just like to have fun. We don't appreciate lootwhores, those that think they are entitled to loot drive us nuts. Please don't come to a raid and when we invite another of your class/spec go crazy in vent complaining that they will take your gear. It's not your gear until you win the roll/bid fair and square. We don't put up with BS and we will call you on it. We know when to have fun and when to be serious and expect the same level of maturity that we bring to the guild.

Currently I am the ONLY female in this guild.. so come on ladies.. someone help a girl out lol! If you have any questions you can reply to this or send an email to RoundTable [at] knightsofentropy [dot] net. And of course you can just jump on Khadgar and /who knights of entropy and message of the toons that start with Dom :)

Dear healing raiding priests.

Do you need crit as a priority?

Simply there is a few priests I know that roll on it above haste etc.  Yet when the OH quizzed a priest priest (working on uld25 compared to our naxx25) he said he'd never look for that first.

Clear this up for me.

Love a confused mage x

This definitely has spoilers, so if you haven't seen season 3 of torchwood just leave right now. 

I have very mixed thoughts on this season.  Part of me thinks that this is some of the best television I've ever seen.  It was suspenseful, and often disturbing, with the right amount of levity thrown in to make it bearable to watch.  There were no useless moments... everything seemed to have a purpose.  The acting was brilliant from all, especially Barrowman and the man who played Forister.  RDJ didn't follow the standard rules of sci-fi shows: Don't kill children, and REALLY don't kill children.  The two hardest parts of this season were Forister shooting his kids (especially knowing that in the end they would have been fine), and Jack allowing his grandson to die.  But to me at least, they were also some of the best parts of the show, acting and writing wise.  I liked that they didn't do the standard, 'oh I just thought of a way were no one has to get hurt.'  Jack did what he had to do.  Even Ianto dying...I'm still sad but I liked the way they handled that.  I really saw how important Ianto was to Jack. 

If this had been the first season, I would be very happy.  I do feel somewhat betrayed... after all, torchwood was never a very serious sci-fi show.  It was fun, and it had a gay couple, and they shot things.  I loved it, and I knew what it was and what it wasn't.  This season was not what I was used to, but maybe I'll change my mind over time.  It was still pretty amazing.

I've geared my boomer a little haphazardly, and I'm hanging on to a LOT of stuff cos I'm not sure exactly what is best.

In my closet:
Cover of the Keepers: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45864
Faerlina's Madness: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39732

Hero's Dreamwalker Mantle/Spaulders, in both Resto and Boom form
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39542
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39548

Valorous Dreamwalker Vestments: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40469
Fungi-stained Coverings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39259

Bindings of Yearning: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40338
Resurgent Phantom Bindings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39390

Heroes' Dreamwalker Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39544
Valorous Nightsong Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45351
Contagion Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39275

Valorous Nightsong Trousers: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45353
Legguards of the Boneyard: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40379
Heroes' Dreamwalker Leggings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39539
Leggings of the Winged Serpent: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37791

Everything else I have only one option for the slot at the moment. What should I wear as Boomkin? What should I keep around for Resto? What should I ditch entirely?

This was inspired when I realized that -- making Outfitter start an outfit optimized for pure Spell Power (for healing) I found I was over 400 haste, something I need an elixir to get to in my boomkin gear >.>; I feel so lost with all the stat options.

Thank you very much, ladies. (and if anyone could tell me how to make those item links mouse-overs, I would be much obliged!)

So last night while having some good ol' fun on my main rogue on Crest who hit 68 two nights ago, (yay!) I decided to try my luck on the sprite darter after having read several happy squee cute happy stories.

I made only about eight kills, and was distracted by my friends in whisper about various things,
But here's the cap of me finding the Sprite Darter egg.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/chaosmaiden/WoWFamilyRP/WoWScrnShot_071109_014911.jpg

Quality sucks. Now the amusing thing, was that I was chatting as I mentioned before, so when I found it I pretty much hit R and typed "I FOUND IT!" In my glee, and was responded with. "LIER! I do not believe you!"

Of course a quick hearth to silver moon, and having my cute little Sprite Darter follow me around. My friend had to then say. "I HATE YOU SO MUCH!" Course it was all in good fun.

Here's a screenie of my darter with me taken this morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/chaosmaiden/WoWFamilyRP/WoWScrnShot_071109_105851.jpg

Let me explain. D:

Well then.

Long story short. My guy and his best friend create an Ulduar run for this past Thursday and instead of embracing it our GL has a moment of blah and asks that we reschedule it for Friday. No problem. Friday rolls around and everyone had been under the impression that we cancelled the Friday Naxx for Ulduar. Except the GL's wife. She decides to put together a Naxx25 half guild/half pug and do that till Ulduar. o_O I flat out tell her in advance that I would be leaving once the times comes to start this group. No problem. :D

9pm server hits and the boys begin making their group and we finish 4H and I bow out. It took us five hours...to do Arachnid, up to Thaddius in Construct, and finish out Military. =/ So at this point I bow out and they invite a couple guildies, only to dissolve the raid and stuff because they'd rather do Ulduar. At this point, my boy's best friend has already started filling up our Ulduar10. People in the guild get upset, but the thing is this. One guy pipes up saying that if we can't even clear Naxx25, then how are we going to do Ulduar10? He doesn't want to waste his repair bill. I say fine, that's cool, you can sit this one out then. I understand where he's coming from, but the thing is, is that we have enough in guild to do Ulduar10, not Naxx25. A pug is a pug, and with people coming and going it's too tough to keep a steady speed. Besides, with the amount of people we have that have not done this, we expect to wipe. XD

So I ask...how do you deal with the naysayers? We have plenty of people wanting to try Ulduar that are geared well enough for it, but at the last sec someone always gets upset. Whether they'd rather do Naxx, don't get invited because they aren't geared, or what. Do we just invite the ones who we know can do this casually, or do we have to pull teeth and start drama each time we want to progress? =[

I don't know about the kid in my guild, but my bar on be imba says I should be working on H Ulduar, as well as the majority of the guild. =/ We wanna do more!


(We did make it to Kologarn though last night. :3)

Me and my husband are needing a change in servers, sorry to say. There is just too many people that have ties to my main RP character and it is causing some un-needed drama in our lives. So we feel if we move servers all will be better.

We're looking into possibly going to Wyrmrest Accord, only transferring our high levels for the time being. But I want to know is there any other RP servers out there as equally good(from what I have heard about WRA), that we could look into? We're looking for RP servers. I myself am not much of a fan for the PVP or normal servers.. I like my RP!

And tell us what the RP and people are like Horde and Alliance side. x)


Thanks gals!

The combination of class, title and name made me giggle a little.

EDIT: Some more my boyfriend and I dug up from the armory:

General Motors
Talktothe, Hand of A'dal
Notthe, Champion of the Naaru

Okay so.  I run a little Horde guild on Wymrest Accord (Eclipse) and right now, it's sort of fallen into disrepair, which I know is mainly my fault.

I've been in a slump for a month or two not wanting to play and so has my Head Officer and his wife.  We actually lost a good number of members to former officers who decided to break away and form their own guild... which was certainly discouraging (before my "I'm bored with WoW slump" which is now gone).  We've tried hosting events, but it's rare our membership shows up.  I can count the actives on one hand right now, I think.  We had such a great group before that little split off and now it's sort of dwindling.... =\

It also probably has something to do with the Summer and people being online less and vacationing more and such... but I'd still like to fix things.

  I've got a few options I'm considering, but I'm not sure what to do, so, I'm asking for your advice, Ladies!

1.  Completely reform the guild from the ground up, disband Eclipse, new name, new guidelines, new RP story.
2.  Keep Eclipse as it is and just continue recruiting from that point of view.
3.  Try and work within the premise of Eclipse and just reform a few little things.
4.  Something else?

There isn't really a point to this, other than the fact that my mind is totally blown.

About half the rogues I've encountered on my new server are combat daggers. And I cannot for the life of me figure out why.

Like...
It's combat daggers.

I'll admit that when I was new, I thought daggers were awesome. I leveled as subtlety, then gradually realized that combat was the way to go for end-game... but when I tried to keep my daggers for combat, I quickly came to the conclusion that it's just bad. Not only is it bad, it's just so boring (opinion, I know.. but seriously.. gah).

But a lot of these guys are raiding as combat daggers. They're in full epics. I feel like they should know better, unless there's some new rogue news I am totally missing (which is possible 'cause I am bad at keeping up with things sometimes >>).

I know I can't pass judgement on anyone because they can play how they want to play, but.. just.. why D:

And to put icing on the cake, one of the two cdaggers rogues we picked up for a half-pug VoA was so arrogant about his "awesome dps," which was less than half the tanks' dps. The other rogue was even lower.

Face, meet desk.

How are the leaders in your guild about the guild bank and donations etc?

I just opened my inbox today to like 8 emails JUST outlining the new bank rules (which are more restrictive than v1)

The guild I'm in now is really controlling. I'm new to the guild but its not the first guild I've ever seen, yanno? My guild on my alliance server is twice as stocked and much less strict. And while organized, thats true it's starting to get on my nerves a bit just how controlled this guild's bank is. There are so many rules and regulations just for whats already in the bank that it sort of makes me roll my eyes...And not want to bother donating. Nevermind the rules for MAKING donations.

I mean I'm talking about an 8 bullet list of rules just for the POTIONS tab. Some of the rules make sense but when you look at it as a whole its just a bit much to me. Don't take items more than 2 levels above you. No gray. No white. No bags below 10 slots. Put it in the right spot. Don't use it unless you're leveling your own skill. If it doesn't meet the guidelines it will be sold and the money donated back into the bank. (that makes sense but.....REALLY?) All donations are final. Limited to 1 stack per day etcetc...

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Its a bank. For the guild. I don't really understand why the GM has so little trust in their guild mates that they feel that making all these lists of rules (the aforementioned is just a few) is really necessary. Seriously? I can't stand micro-management...Its such a waste of time.

I've seen the proof in the pudding so to speak in my other guild where there are about 8 billion less rules and a few handfuls more to choose from IN the bank. All these requirements and regulations aren't necessary. Nobody takes what they don't need. There are plenty of blues and purples just collecting dust because *shock* people are honest and don't need it.

Honest enough that the GM can spare us a laundry list of regulations. All the time they spend doing this crap could be put to use doing something else in my opinion...Like maybe talking to guild members rather than using some lame bot to auto respond to EVERYTHING.

Does anyone else have to deal with wasteful micro-bank-management like this?

Though I'm not quite done yet. I've accomplished one wristwarmer, and it was most certainly the most complicated pattern thing I've tried yet! I learned a lot about cabling and following a pattern in this one, by golly. ( Tadaaah! )

The funny story about this one is that I needed something small that I could work on while I was on the plane. So I've knitting this particular one on the plane to Vancouver, then at the Vancouver airport, then to Japan, then on every shinkansen (bullet train) we took, as well as in some evenings when we were resting from all the walking we did that day. This is a well travelled wrist warmer!

Sorry for the mess in the background, we just moved, and are still unpacking. :\

(x-posted over at who_knits) C:

Here's a question for you to /facepalm over.  I've wondered this since I first leveled my paladin but by the time I wanted to ask it I felt embarassed to because I knew I would be mocked for not knowing and told I was fail. :P

Divine Protection.  When?  This is like my Shield Wall to be popped when I'm still tanking but really need to reduce damage?  (Pulling the adds on Emalon, for example?)

I ask this because back when I was leveling I was a complete noob paladin and mixed this up wit Divine Shield, popped it and everyone died because I dropped agro.  So ever since I've been afraid to cast it because I'm afraid I'll wipe groups. >_<

So if it IS like Shield Wall . . . it has a pretty small cooldown, should I pop it just whenever it's up to help my healers?

A couple of days ago, I had an experience which got me thinking.

Setting: train station. I'm wearing a pretty dress (green!), pretty peep-toe shoes (even greener!), and in general, feeling pretty.

Characters: me, and a bunch of teenage girls

Now the thing is, I know myself. I am wary of teenagers (hello childhood bullying, my, what deep marks you leave!). I regularly take a train which many teenagers take to get to school in the morning, and go home in the afternoon. Said teenagers are often very loud, make dumb remarks (hard to translate from Hungarian, but imagine stoner voices, obligatory swearing to seem "cool", making fart noises, you get the gist of it...some things are universal) and are in general, a pain in the ass.

Add to this that I have a rather strong persecution complex, and I think you can see where I'm going with this.

What happened was simply that I was standing around waiting for the train, and so were they. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I could see one of the girls looking me up and down (my trigger is hands down that glance) and whispering something to one of her friends. Cue her friend glancing over, and pretty soon they had a conversation going which seemed to be centered on my dress and on my legs.

I was on the phone at this point, but my ears perked up and my palms started sweating. Immediately, a million assailed me - all negative.

"Are they talking about my legs - did I miss a spot when I was waxing?!"

"Are they talking about my toes - did I miss a toe when I was putting on nail polish?!"

"Are they talking about this dress - I'm sure I don't look as good in it as I thought, maybe I should have worn the other one..."

"Geez, I'm like an amazon next to them, damn petite teenagers..."



So on and so forth. Not one positive thought. And then I caught an actual sentence:

"I really like those shoes. Those are the kind of shoes I want!"

There you go. All the poor kid was doing was praising my shoes, and I heaped all my insecurities and preconceived notions on them. Instead on focusing on feeling good in myself, and approaching my looks from the view point of, well, me, I chose to put words in the mouth of a teenager.

I guess my point is just that whilst often the world can indeed be cruel, stupid, and shallow, sometimes it is we ourselves who put words into the mouths of other people, who perhaps in their heads are praising us at that very moment. It is a heartening thought, no? Sometimes we just have to let go, and dare to believe in people.