World of Warcraft and the Latter-Day Geek

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

I thought Enchantrix was permanently broken since TBC? I need to fire up Auctioneer again, though. And selling during the week can be very lucrative, depending on what one is selling. Crafted items known to be used in quests can go for a nice premium during the week when supply is scarce. Which is why I chunked out 10g this morning for a mithril casing. *grumbles*

Hmmm... not sure about Enchantrix being broken. I'm not sure what version I was running, since I haven't played in a couple of months, but even with TBC it was showing what an item disenchants into and what % chance you have of getting what materials.

That's all I used it for.

And quitcherbitchin about having to chunk out 10g for a Mithril Casing. That and Gyrochronotoms are about the only thing Engineers can sell for a profit.

[Leesifer]

Oh dear! I totally this game. I started playing this morning - some limitations due to it being a free trial period.

Unfortunately, I can see it eating into my time, and my work time and my socialising and ..., well you get the picture.

If any of youse Europeans check out Stormrage then I'm ..... wait for it.... Leesifer!

[Sock Puppet]

Such an awesome toon name! I'm glad you're liking it. One of these days I'll figure out how to get onto the Euroservers and come & stalk you. Right now I'm having way too much fun pwning every Alliance character anywhere near my level, even 2 at a time. Shadowform continues to rawk, and I gots me lots of + spell damage gear.

Runnin' low on gold, though. Had to pick up some bigger bags. But I'm loving the herbage in Swamp of Sorrows; that's gonna make me some serious lettuce pretty soon.

[seebs]

I don't think letting people tell who's a minor is a good idea -- no point in giving the creeps targeting help. I once sent a ten-year-old a very polite letter pointing out that he probably shouldn't TELL people that he's ten.

[Sock Puppet]

Good point, I suppose. I'd just love to be able to avoid pugs with kiddies, but like most of the rest of my WoW wishlist items, it ain't never gonna happen, anyway.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Such an awesome toon name! I'm glad you're liking it. One of these days I'll figure out how to get onto the Euroservers and come & stalk you. Right now I'm having way too much fun pwning every Alliance character anywhere near my level, even 2 at a time. Shadowform continues to rawk, and I gots me lots of + spell damage gear.

Runnin' low on gold, though. Had to pick up some bigger bags. But I'm loving the herbage in Swamp of Sorrows; that's gonna make me some serious lettuce pretty soon.

Shadoweave and Felcoth sets give lots of +shadow damage. Unfortunately the stats on most pieces suck (lots of +SPI).

[Smilin]

Puppet, what are your professions in WOW?

I too have developed a serious WOW addiction and reading this thread really has me pumped and salivating over when I'll FINALLY GET MY FUCKIN' LAPTOP back from the serviceman.

Fuckin' HP Compaq and there cheap ass power connector design!

Good GOG I'm goin' through withdrawel symptoms here...it's hell when you have the urge and your significant other would rather spend HER time on her laptop doing some silly shit such as answering question on yahoo or some silly strange shit like that!

My 'toon' is currently a rogue at level 63 and loving the Outlands...LOL...

For anyone interested I'm on the "Malorne" server, Diebastages is my "toons" name...lol

Closer you get to endgame, the more enjoyable the dayum game becomes!

[Uthgar the Brazen]

3.25 levels to go before I can finally get to Outlands. I dumped all my ST quests since 'old world' is so empty these days. I'm just solo-quest grinding 'til I can finally join the rest of the universe.

And hoping that WoW makes good on revisiting 'old world' leveling so it goes a bit faster and is more rewarding. Then my alts will be fun, instead of making me cry after level 30.

[seebs]

I don't really mind the levelling in the old world, on most classes; there's nearly always something comfortable and easy, as long as you keep your rest bonus good.

[Sock Puppet]

Originally Posted by Smilin

Puppet, what are your professions in WOW?

Herbalism & Alchemy. Practically free friggin' money, once I figured out which potions sell at which times, and which are useless beyond the skill-up. Sometime this week I'm gonna forgo all XP & just farm with my horsie's help. (Invisibility potions FTW! Farm in Arathi, auction, profit.) I got a portal to Shattrath City & set my hearthstone there; not only can I portal from there to any Horde capital city, there's also an Alchemy trainer there that can train me all the way up. To get Master Herbalism I need to get to Hellfire, but I can probably farm everything I can get my grubby mitts on at 300 until I'm leveled up enough to get there. Or I can just pester a guildmate into portalling me to the trainer's town in Hellfire.

I'm still just level 42. Damned fambly keeps getting in the way of WoW. I have GOT to get some stronger duct tape.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Herbalism & Alchemy. Practically free friggin' money, once I figured out which potions sell at which times, and which are useless beyond the skill-up. Sometime this week I'm gonna forgo all XP & just farm with my horsie's help. (Invisibility potions FTW! Farm in Arathi, auction, profit.) I got a portal to Shattrath City & set my hearthstone there; not only can I portal from there to any Horde capital city, there's also an Alchemy trainer there that can train me all the way up. To get Master Herbalism I need to get to Hellfire, but I can probably farm everything I can get my grubby mitts on at 300 until I'm leveled up enough to get there. Or I can just pester a guildmate into portalling me to the trainer's town in Hellfire.

I'm still just level 42. Damned fambly keeps getting in the way of WoW. I have GOT to get some stronger duct tape.

You can get to 300 Herbalism in the Swamp of Sorrows pretty easy. Lots and lots of Blindweed there.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Just watch out for the dragon.

[Sock Puppet]

Yeah, Somnus is friggin' spooky. He (she?) even started to go after me when I was grinding dragonkin, but luckily he moves slowly and I got away. Lurves me them PvP-reward booties with the increased run speed.

I'm already at 282 herbalism from that lovely blindweed. I may have to be a pest about the Hellfire portal just 'cause I'm anal about wanting to keep advancing the skill, even though I doubt I'll need >300 anytime soon.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

I'm already at 282 herbalism from that lovely blindweed. I may have to be a pest about the Hellfire portal just 'cause I'm anal about wanting to keep advancing the skill, even though I doubt I'll need >300 anytime soon.

Yeah you can't get past 300 skill until you reach 60 anyways.

[Sock Puppet]

In that case, I'll just concentrate on cashing in on Alchemy. I spent oodles of gold recently on better bags, mount, training & shit, and I gotta get it back just on general principle.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I'm finding enchanting to be very useful in that regards (getting back ill-spent gains). It's expensive to grind up, but once high enough to d/e upper end items for mats, the skill's been making me a tidy sum every weekend on the AH.

Thank you, goldfarmer ruined economy! Cha-CHING!

[seebs]

Originally Posted by Zehava

Yeah you can't get past 300 skill until you reach 60 anyways.

50.

I have a L51 druid with 340 engineering and 320 or so herbalism.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

I'm finding enchanting to be very useful in that regards (getting back ill-spent gains). It's expensive to grind up, but once high enough to d/e upper end items for mats, the skill's been making me a tidy sum every weekend on the AH.

Thank you, goldfarmer ruined economy! Cha-CHING!

If you are only going to disenchant items to sell the materials then you only need 275 enchanting. I haven't found anything that takes more than that to disenchant.

[Sock Puppet]

Goddamned server kicked me off just as a level 70 paladin asshole was ganking me on the boat. My fault for forgetting to pick up the Booty Bay flight path (and for being dumb enough to hope the asshole would behave himself), but still. Took me a goddamned hour to get back on. The server didn't appear to be down for anybody else in my guild, and my net connection was solid the whole time, so I have no idea what happened. I blame the stupid patch. If they ain't gonna un-nerf any of the nerfs they've nerfed my class with, they can shove their lousy patches.

At least now I've filled in the missing flight path link with a run to the Badlands. Now I can fly across both continents and get ganked anywhere I want. I'm using the Jame's Horde Leveling Guide off and on, but replacing a lot of it with grinding or following quests he says not to take, since it's painfully obvious his guides are not written for PvP servers. Specifically, I'm skipping most of the quests that need to be filled right next to the goddamned instance in Ganklethorn. I don't need that kind of aggravation.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by seebs

50.

I have a L51 druid with 340 engineering and 320 or so herbalism.

They changed it then, didn't they? Granted I haven't played in several months, but I'm sure is was 60 on release of TBC.

[Smilin]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

I'm using the Jame's Horde Leveling Guide off and on, but replacing a lot of it with grinding or following quests he says not to take, since it's painfully obvious his guides are not written for PvP servers. Specifically, I'm skipping most of the quests that need to be filled right next to the goddamned instance in Ganklethorn. I don't need that kind of aggravation.

Is there a similar "leveling guide" for alliance?

fwiw, I'd gank your ass too if I ever came across it...

NUTTIN' better than "one strike" kills with my rogue on unsuspecting horde characters...yah...yah..I know, I'm a bastard, but it's SOO FUN being a bastard ain't it? LOL
A tip for noobs to the game, always have a side-kick to show out for when ganking lower level players in the game..

How did ya'll think I came up with "Diebastages" and "Illkeelyou" as nicks for my current players?

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Originally Posted by Zehava

If you are only going to disenchant items to sell the materials then you only need 275 enchanting. I haven't found anything that takes more than that to disenchant.

Mine's about 255 right now, so just a wee bit more to go. I do enchants as well, but they don't bring the cash in the way mats do.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I can't remember if you'd started before or after the last major patch, SP, so yes...welcome to patch day. Blizzard always manages to break the servers immediately afterwards. Or at least the authentication server, which is how I ended up getting other things done last night.

[Smilin]

GOOD! I missed patch day and SHOULD be back online in about 7 more hours now and counting!


Laptop is hopefully fixed and just waiting for Daddy to get home! LOL

[Smilin]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

Mine's about 255 right now, so just a wee bit more to go. I do enchants as well, but they don't bring the cash in the way mats do.

FWIW Black Lotus brings in 25 gold a shot with herbalism and can be farmed rather easily in Winterspring.

Don't know what it's used for, just know the stuff gets snatched up immediately as soon as it's posted on the AH