Comments on: I heart Pike!

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:06:09 +0000

A few months back, while leveling my first character I found myself in the Undercity. I was attempting to make a trip to the auction house to purchase items. As this was my first trip to the UC I did not know of the location. I selected to find it on my minimap and went searching. I spent a good 10 min trying to find the doorway on the top level to take me to the AH. After much frustration I took a desperate plea to trade chat asking for someone to help. Within in moments I was whispered by a lvl 80 who I “followed” downstairs. I have taken this kindness with me as I continue to play. A month or so ago when the new patch allowed for lvl 20’s to get their first mount, I was spending some time in Thunder Bluff organizing my bank. I received a level whisper for a level 20 asking me where the stable master was. I showed him to the stable and was suprised to find that he was a warrior, and not a hunter. I stayed close by and waited and was whispered a follow up question “How do I get my mount from him?” After I explained that he must travel to Bloodhoof to complete the task, he was quite thankful.

By: Cornfedhick

Cornfedhick — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:49:30 +0000

Just this week a guildie asked me if I could heal a heroic for a badge run and he had a friend who was going to tank. I wish he would have let me know the following information first.

1) The tankadin had just hit 80
2) The tankadin gear was all level 76 or below
3) The instance was heroic Utgarde Pinnacle
4) The tankadin had just gotten dual spec’d into Protection at 80 after running solo Ret spec
5) The player had never played WoW before this toon and didn’t know anything about what being tank meant, including abilities, rotations, hit cap, and especially Def cap ( I also later learned his Def was only 489)

Surprisingly we got to Skadi after about 2hrs in and multiple wipes and then I looked at the spec and gear and after a couple whispers back and forth learned all the information to know that we wouldn’t be able to finish the run with basically no tank. My tank is a warrior so I don’t know much about abilities and specific gear choices like Librams but I spent the next hour and a half talking to him about what he should be looking at changing, enchanting, gems, tank websites and tactical advice. I even decided to give him a boost by crafting him the titansteel tanking helm, boots and shield. He was so thankful for the help and amazed that peopel in a game would actually do all that to help him and he admitted that tanking a heroic and being in group was stressful and overwhelming because he really didn’t know much about the game mechanics at all. He ended up joining our guild and our Pally officers have started tutoring him in the ways of the holy warrior.

By: Pike

Pike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:13:44 +0000

D’aww, I heart Bear too. I keep telling myself one of these days I’m going to turn my Tree’s moonkin offspec into a bear spec and give tanking a shot, (following your advice, but of course,) but I don’t feel like going around and scrounging up all this feral gear that I’ve been passing on this whole time.

Anyways, awesome addition to my post. Sort of like a Part Two. I’m glad to see there are still guilds out there running the old stuff. It warms my lil’ huntery heart to see posts crop up around the blogosphere of people just now clearing Naxx, or just now trying Ulduar. Now if only I could figure out a way to find said raids with my alts *mutters*
Pike´s last blog ..Tawyn’s Mechanostriders Don’t Change Facial Expressions

By: Lady Jess

Lady Jess — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:36 +0000

I was on my druid hanging around Shatt for some odd reason or another a couple months ago. I was in epic flight form. When a player whispered me, another druid, lvl 60 just in awe at the flight form model. He had never seen it before, and was oh so excited about getting to 70 after seeing it. It was a pretty cool conversation:)

By: Volog

Volog — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:58 +0000

The entire WoW gaming experience sure seems like it has changed significantly over time, and will be completely changed again with Cataclysm. Yet the process of installing an addon is still somewhat confusing to a person completely new to WoW.

I know back in the day installing my first massive addon collection in the form of Cosmos. At the time I thought that was the greatest thing ever. Only after months of gameplay did I realize the amount of bloat that collection brought.

Now we have things like the Curse Client and MMO Minion, but even those can be confusing to use and often conflict with each other. I have no doubt it will change again with future expansions. That’s the one thing you can always count on with Blizzard and WoW. Things will change, and usually for the better.
Volog´s last blog ..How To Install AddOns

By: Fangtastic

Fangtastic — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:45:17 +0000

Intravax, the first time I saw Need / Greed in WoW, I thought it was some variant of rock paper scissors or something!

By: Voda

Voda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:04:25 +0000

I got fed up with a PvP server one night, trying to run an escort quest, a hordie nailed me and trashed the whole thing. Started a new druid on PvE, got him to about lvl14, and decided to try a dwarf pally. While running the pally, I swiped a quest item out from another player, inadvertently. So, I pst him saying I’d stick around till the boss rezed and help him with the kill. Well, turns out he was a GM starting a new guild, and invited me and my wife, and our alts (lol). He told us about QH and a bunch of other stuff. Along the way we recruited about a half dozen other good folks, all lvled together and now have 80’s, in a laid back guild that wants to teach the 10-25 man bosses a thing or two. This was all about 6 months ago or so. So, yep, there are sincere newbies out there. be nice to ‘em they might be raiding with you before long.

Yep, need greed was not clear at first. Actually, I didnt figure out about AH till lvl 40 or so (doh!)

By: Intravax

Intravax — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:13:46 +0000

My biggest confusion when I started playing (believe it or not) was the Need/Greed loot box. I was constantly getting them confused much to my embarassment. I never saw one as I leveled my first character all solo and guildless. I got to Outland once I hit 58 and started running the Hellfire dungeons and hit a big culture shock since I had never grouped with anyone before.

By: Lupius

Lupius — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:46:17 +0000

I remember installing questhelper (and later carbonite), when I started to level alts. I refused to use it for my first 70. In a way, it took a lot of experience out of the game when you’re really supposed to explore everything for the first time.