We got a new guy in our guild, a dps/tank warrior who seemed to know what he was doing. He was giving people fairly decent advice, but he was grating on my nerves a little, getting kinda know-it-all-ish. He means well and just wants to help, I know this, so I let it go.

He asks if anyone wants to run heroics, him as a tank. Sure! He, a holy priest friend, a shadow priest friend, and myself (mage) all went for it. H AN comes up and I'm like, great! A quick one. Let's roflpwn this shit.

( And the rest of this horrible story... )

Super tl;dr - worst AN run in the history of, well, everything. I had to vent here, it was just too fucking crazy not to.

How do you deal with new guildies who mean well, but don't know wtf they're doing? I suggest stuff, but he shoots me down, saying all he needs is his T9 badge gear and he'll be golden.

He just joined yesterday and he hasn't done anything to warrant a /gkick, but goddamn. He makes me want to pull my hair out and I definitely don't want to run anything with him sometime soon if he's tanking. I know everyone needs to start somewhere, but... man. :/

Today a guy known to our baby guild from a guild on a previous realm joined our ranks (we normally just run around and do heroics and have fun, nothing too serious)...He knew i was female from previous raiding situations and to be honest, the fact that im female has never really caused any of my guildies to really blink an eye...
However, within about 5 min of us being the only two online, he started to act really inappropriately and ask me things like 'give me vent sex' quickly followed by 'jks jks' and this happened numerous times

Even as a joke it felt like harassment, cos im sure it wouldnt have been the case had i been the only male member online...Yes ive spoken to the GM and ill be getting him to follow it up if it continues, but still....GRRRRR

and on that note, i wondered if this guy and many others like him may have been encouraged to act so sexist by situations like the one i encountered today...You know, the girl gamer that makes sure everyone knows shes a girl the second you enter the group

(Healer to tank she is going to heal): Your ass is mine.......Dont worry, its not weird cos IM A GIRL

Sigh

I have absolutely no guild to squee to so...!!

I was just doing a random group trying to get my pug pet and I got Utgarde Pinnacle. Easy, right? I wasn't even thinking about the blue Proto til my boyfriend (sitting on the other side of the room) said "good luck - hope the reins drop". Of course I laughed...everyone does. I've never seen it drop. And then it dropped. I actually screamed and scared the boyfriend! Rolled need and...I won!! I was bouncing up and down squealing. The boyfriend laughed at me and said he'd look at it when we both got back to Dalaran. To which I promptly showed off, took screenshots and posted! This is the only Proto I have. I *never* thought I'd get a Proto at all matter of fact. I'm not in a guild, haven't been able to find a raiding guild, and I gave up on the Green one ages ago. ( Read more... )

Ladies, enlighten me please?

I got the Kibler's Bits recipe this morning in my cooking daily, duly learned it and made some nummy bits for the guy's hunter pets. He had tamed Queen Shadra last night, and she was ferociously hungry, so we thought that would be good for her, right?

She's a spider.
Spiders are meat eaters.
Kibler's Bits are made of buzzard meat, same as buzzard bites (which she loves).
She won't eat them. He CANNOT feed them to her, because it says she doesn't like that food.

So much for "pet tested, hunter approved"???

What gives? Have you run into this before, or know what's up?

*truly baffled, and a little frustrated*

edit: typo, just logged in and discovered I was spelling it wrong, and my dyslexia is showing. whoops!

So today I dinged 80 on my second toon, she was my first ever major toon. I have an 80 DK that I hate playing, so I decided to re-level my pally.

( Pic or it didn't happen )

After some rather interesting LFG PuGs this weekend, both level 80 heroics and Wrath leveling dungeons, and finding out that if a person is cross-server, you cannot whisper them (or if there is a way, let me know!), how do you go about dispensing advice to cross-server PuGs? Or do you even bother? I don't like to embarrass people in party chat but I'd rather give people a chance before hitting the Vote to Kick button or leaving the group entirely.

So here's a few questions:
1) Do you give advice? Why or why not? How do you give the advice to the person?
2) If you were the person given advice, how would you react? Are you likely to listen to someone random?
3) Regardless of whether you give advice or not, how much time are you willing to spend in the dungeon before you either decide to Vote to Kick the poor performer, or leave the group entirely?

Today I was healing a pug and our warlock used an attack that drained his health (Hellfire?) while... overestimating how much health he had left. I tried to heal before it was too late, but alas, he was a Gnome corpse and there was nothing I could do about it.

He didn't seem to get that memo. He kept asking for a rez midbattle, but I couldn't tell him I was incapable of battle-rezzing because everyone else around me was trying to die. He kept asking and asking, in all caps and then just a 'HELLO' at me whilst I rolled my eyes and frantically switching targets. Thankfully, one of the other party members piped up that I was not, in fact, a druid-- I was a shaman.

The warlock still didn't understand, and after the pull I told him that only druids can b-rez. He apologized and all was cool, but it got me to thinking...

What are some common misconceptions people have had about your class or even their own? I know I assumed I needed spirit since I used mana, but it turned out the stat is basically useless for shamans.

So ladies, ~*enlighten me*~

I might be looking for a new guild here soon so just curious if there are any raiding guilds out there interested/looking for a feral dps druid? :)

Preferably I'd be looking for a mature, laid back and friendly guild who is currently working their way through ICC 10 or 25. I would also love to be working on more Ulduar hardmodes and trial of the grand crusader just for the pure sake of the challenge rather than gear. Though that would be considered a bonus and not a must.

My druid pretty much has gear for every spec but I prefer to dps as kitty. Her gear is mostly from ToC25 and ICC10. Her dps hovers around 5500-6000 overall on the meter, I'm usually sitting under those dern unholy dk's and rogues. I don't really feel comfortable linking my armory in such a public place but if you want to see it, let me know and I will PM it to you. :)

I'm a pretty active player... I always sign up and show up for raids on time prepared and ready to go, I also like running heroics(though I don't really need badges anymore) and working on achievements, etc. Horde or Alliance.. 10 or 25 doesn't really matter to me.. my only thing is no pvp servers, I avoid pvp like the bubonic plague. :D My schedule is pretty open right now so as far as days of the week goes, that doesn't really matter but raiding times I prefer around 4pm-12pm pacific time.

every time i enter a dungeon from the random dungeon everyone bails right after they die the first time.

is that stupid or is it just me?

While I am a Noob to this Community I am not a Noob to WoW. I have been playing for almost 3 years. No, I do not have the T9 gear or even gear from battles grounds as all 3 of my 80's I pretty much solo'd there doing quests. No, as for my earlier post it was NOT intended to be on my personal blog (like I said, I am a noob on LiveJournal) and I was NOT trying to make anyone upset. I accidentally found the community while researching Gondria and had found a community that likes to help others as much I like to help others. The subject of my post was what happened to me while standing at Shadow Vault. I normally make my own gear or buy them from AH when I have the gold.

Could someone please tell me the posting rules here so I don't offend anyone in the future?

I found these mentioned these on WoW.com and they got it from a forum post.

( Three PUG bingo cards! )

Is anyone else having trouble with the website?

I'm trying to log into my account online (going to assign my new authenticator) and it just keeps refreshing to the login screen. It's doing this on both worldofwarcraft.com and battle.net. I can log into the game just fine. :/

Anyone else having issues? Or is it something with my internet (tried it on two browsers now).

EDIT: I was finally allowed to log in... by going to the European site? I am baffled. I only tried this because my brother was apparently having trouble earlier with Hulu telling him he couldn't watch something because we were outside the US (but Vermont was still a state last time I checked...)

I play a paladin, and she's specced holy/prot. Today I promised a friend a run and upon swapping back to her prot spec (she's predominantly holy these days), I find she's missing Holy Shield, Avenger's Shield, and Greater Blessing of Sanctuary from her spellbook and her hotbar. She has a shield equipped, and Shield of the Righteous is still present in her book.

Needless to say this is a problem as those are three pretty vital spells for tanking. She still has the talents in her tree, and I can't re-buy them from a trainer.

Anyone having the same issue? I've already opened a GM ticket, but I am positively baffled.

I come with a massive squee and a smaller squee, but a squee all the same. Squee!

Reputation has always been the fun part of the game for me, anything to do with rep i'll usually try to do because of this I'd gathered a few mounts, when I hit 50 for the Albino drake then hit 60 and 70 I knew I had to go all the way with it! Today it finally paid off and I got myself an awesome Dragonhawk!
( HOLY DRAGONHAWK BATMAN )

Is there a limit to haste that a Holy Priest should have? I currently have 498 and I'm starting to think that's a bit too much. I have gear with crit that I use when I'm Disc that I can use to even it out more, plus gain some spell power and other stats.

Thanks in advance.

So.... Actually... I've had an EXCELLENT time in mostly all of my PUGs.

-I've geared myself pretty well, when otherwise I wouldn't have a chance of getting into a heroic group (80 Mage with BAD BAD gear to begin with).
-I've had success at getting better gear for my off spec Holy Pally. (And helped my darling husband with his Pally Off Spec-Ret get gear, too.)
-Met some pretty nice off realm people.


Yeah... I've had to tell people "Hey, I don't tell you how to play your char. Please, don't tell me how to play mine." twice. It didn't bother me, as it;s a common oocurance on ALL realms I play on. So why get butt hurt?

Yeah... I've had players do stupid things. "Hey, you pull, you tank. Don't want to tank, don't pull. Please wait for the healer." But ya' know... It's not *THAT* bad.

Over all, I LOVE THE TOOL. I'm very happy with it. 

I got a World of Warcraft game time card for Christmas from my mother in law.

It was a very nice gesture, though I already pay each moth to play.  It feels a little useless, even though I know I can hold onto it for lean months when saving $15 for two months would be handy, and I know I could potentially give it to a friend who wants to try out the game (though all my friends who have picked WoW up for a bit get bored and move on, or the one who likes it plays for a half hour every four-six days and has fallen into the "how come you're always on your 80" syndrome). 

SO...  I was wondering if there are any other imaginative things to do with the card I may not have thought of. I'm probably going to let it sit until needed, but just like looking up your class and thinking up every conceivable use for your class abilities, I wanted to know any ideas to use a gift card I hadn't thought of. Thanks!

EDIT:  I already have a Zhevra mount, but that's still an idea for an alt.

Hello everyone,

I recently lost my job and am in desperate need of cash to keep from drowning in debt, so I am opening up icon commissions. These are done in a simple graphic style, so I am offering them starting at $5. Characters with a lot of minute detail (like the Mirrii or Estela icon with all the armor) are $7.

( art samples under cut )

You can find more of my art here: tigrin.deviantart.com

If you are interested, you can either reply here or e-mail me at krystinahaggerty(at)gmail.com. I can accept Paypal, check, money order, and concealed cash. Since I've been ripped off before, I need to have the full payment up front before I start; should I not complete the commission for whatever reason, I will refund the money.

x-posted to teenycom, wow_fanart, wow_ladies

So many tales of Pugs! This one has both the terribad and the pretty good. And side note, I realized I don't have any good blood elfy or warlocky icons! *cry* Also, you should totally get credit toward the pug achievement for doing pre-heroics at actual preheroic levels, cause having run pugs on my main, they seem to go a *lot* smoother than ones for my poor warlock.

Anyway, read on for the good ( and the bad. )

So, I posted a few weeks ago about not being able to handle healing Northrend instances. Well, I'm far from that now. I'm actually going to be hitting 80 in the next day or so (whoot! First one!)

Before that happens, I wanted to get some ideas from you guys. I've heard from my guildies that it's easier to get gear starting out as dps than healing because it's easier to struggle through heroics without wipes as dps...but if you're an undergeared healer...

That fact honestly makes me a bit sad. Should I dps for a bit till I start getting my gear enough to heal? Or should I try my hand at healing a few heroics before I go to that extreme?

Another thing I was thinking about but never found a set answer...haste cap. What's the haste cap for healers and should I gem strictly for haste till I hit it then go for spell power?

For any tips, here's her armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Earthen%20Ring&n=Quena

Thanks in advanced.