Random Question Thread

[Jodwahh]

A few days solid effort, it's hard to say as it all depends on how many you have done already. For me the last 10 quests took as long to complete as the previous 100. Seriously have to look in every fucking nook and cranny for those bastards. If you do decide to do it use wowheads quest by zone function, helps out a lot.

[Norellicus]

More than the quest by zone function, use the wowhead maps that show all the questgivers. Soooooooooo helpful. Then find all the items that start quests if you have anything left over, and finally check for ones that start INSIDE instances.

Got about 300 quests left to do between the continents, gonna try to knock that out this weekend.

[Jer]

It also depends on if you're horde or alliance. If you're horde, be prepared to scour Kalimdor for all you're worth. Iirc, you'll have to at least do a couple in the AQ scepter chain.

[Blarg]

Why does wow take up hugely different amount of resources every time you use it. Right now (and past day or so) it's using a gig of memory and 40%cpu. Most of the times it's like a third of that memory and half or less of the cpu.

[Correction]

Why does wow take up hugely different amount of resources every time you use it. Right now (and past day or so) it's using a gig of memory and 40%cpu. Most of the times it's like a third of that memory and half or less of the cpu.

A lot of AddOns are load-on-demand, which means they won't consume the system resources until they absolutely need to. This is true for a lot of the default UI, as well. To see this in action, log into WoW on a level 1 toon for an hour, mark the max cpu/mem usage.

Then log into your real toon and browse the AH for 20 minutes. Boggle at the difference.

[Kaylia]

How long would it take to do loremaster? i'm considering doing it for the tabard but im not entirely sure if its worth while, i know im currently doing quests as rep farming but once i get thunderbluff (oh lawdy not tb) done im not entirely sure ill be in the mood if it is going to take an absurd ammount of time.

Probably 1 full week for azeroth.


Personally, I simply used wowhead to find quest starter items, and made sure to get all of them (one map at a time to not lose track of it). If you walk around using the "low level quest search", you won't miss many.

[Blarg]

Is it possible to kick the twin valks heal at the very very start of the cast? I was just in a toc25 and they said something like 'everyone kick in 2 seconds' and then I saw the shield go up and there was no cast at all. I've never seen this done before but if you can time it right that's pretty handy since shields are the bane of mediocre pugs. if anyone has done this is there a way to time it perfectly?

[Guitarman]

Is it possible to kick the twin valks heal at the very very start of the cast? I was just in a toc25 and they said something like 'everyone kick in 2 seconds' and then I saw the shield go up and there was no cast at all. I've never seen this done before but if you can time it right that's pretty handy since shields are the bane of mediocre pugs. if anyone has done this is there a way to time it perfectly?

was this the first shield? the only way i can figure they would know it's coming is if the other 3 abilities were used. the valks will always use 1 of each ability before starting the cycle over again, but the ability can be used in any order.

[Blarg]

was this the first shield? the only way i can figure they would know it's coming is if the other 3 abilities were used. the valks will always use 1 of each ability before starting the cycle over again, but the ability can be used in any order.

It wasn't the first one but it must have been the 4th ability. Even if you can't know for sure everyone using a 10sec~ cd interrupt at the very start of an ability could possibly interrupt it if the shield happens and if you screw up the interrupt cd could be ready again for the end of the healing cast.

[Rama]

Yes you can interrupt the valks cast before the shield prevents interrupts.
I'm sure it comes down to a client/server lag issue, but just interrupting on the 'special move' cooldown timer of DBM or w/e will occasionally interrupt the cast behind the shield. If everyone is trying for it, your chances increase (obviously).

[Wintermute]

The downloader's trying to nab the 3.3 patch for the third time in as many weeks. This happening to anyone else or is my install just cocked up?

[Marcin]

Hasn't happened to me.

[Knyghtmayre]

Has happened to me 10 times in the last week, the downloader that is.

Question:

Just got Prot Paladin to 80. Except it was GF's char from 1-78 and she levelled it as Holy. I did the last grind as Prot but I have absolutely no clue what my rotation is really. My damage is abysmal, so how do I keep threat? For grouped trash, I assume it's pull with avenger's shield>Consecrate, but then I have no idea what to do. When I grinded I just cycled HoR>SoR>Exo>JoW and re-consecrated if more than 1 mob was still alive. Halp pls ;<

Edit: Also, when I'm in instances, I have a feeling that I'll want BoK, but literally the only way I didn't OOM myself constantly while grinding was BoW, what do I do ;<

[Jodwahh]

Protip: Place head on keyboard and rollface.

[Plow]

Has happened to me 10 times in the last week, the downloader that is.

Question:

Just got Prot Paladin to 80. Except it was GF's char from 1-78 and she levelled it as Holy. I did the last grind as Prot but I have absolutely no clue what my rotation is really. My damage is abysmal, so how do I keep threat? For grouped trash, I assume it's pull with avenger's shield>Consecrate, but then I have no idea what to do. When I grinded I just cycled HoR>SoR>Exo>JoW and re-consecrated if more than 1 mob was still alive. Halp pls ;<

Edit: Also, when I'm in instances, I have a feeling that I'll want BoK, but literally the only way I didn't OOM myself constantly while grinding was BoW, what do I do ;<

6 = HoR, SoR
9 = Holy Shield, judgement, consecrate

6,9,6,9,6,9, repeat ad infinitum

It works out so that you're using something every global cooldown (1.5 seconds)

I.E.

0.0 HoR > 1.5 Cons > 3.0 SoR > 4.5 HS > 6.0 HoR > 7.5 Judge > 9.0 SoR > 10.5 Cons >

etc. etc.

use 1 point in imp judge and don't use consecrate glyph (so it's technically 2 9's and an 8, but the gcd wouldn't let you use it at 8 anyway)


And use BoSanc. The 21 point prot talent.

[Arcana]

There is no reason to not use sanctuary, 3% damage reduction, restores mana on dodge block & parry and also 10% stam boost.

worrying about your damage as a prot pally isnt something you should worry about, your threat comes from the holy damage effects on your skills, use your CDs as you see fit, for pulling you should definitly aim at casters with Shield since the added silence effect force them to walk at you.

[Eaglestrike]

There's no good reason to not worry about your damage as a paladin. Damage from any source is good to have, damage is extra tps and shorter fights.

And stick to 10min Sanc until 3.3, 10min sanc is 10% str/stam, 30min sanc is only 10% stam. 3.3 will put greater up to par with the normal version.

[Bweigelt]

Also make sure you have Righteous Fury up.

Other than that, Pally's have far and away the best threat of the four tanks. I'm rocking mostly 200 + 213 gear because I just got back from a break and have had no issues with threat even running with full 245-258 geared dps (well other than one dumb hunter who didn't seem to know what FD was).

EDIT:

And stick to 10min Sanc until 3.3, 10min sanc is 10% str/stam, 30min sanc is only 10% stam. 3.3 will put greater up to par with the normal version.

Whoa is that actually true, I always kind of just assumed it was a tooltip error and that they both increased strength. I never actually checked though.

[Jer]

There's no good reason to not worry about your damage as a paladin. Damage from any source is good to have, damage is extra tps and shorter fights.

And stick to 10min Sanc until 3.3, 10min sanc is 10% str/stam, 30min sanc is only 10% stam. 3.3 will put greater up to par with the normal version.

Is this a bug that is only affecting some? My Greater Sanctuary is functioning correctly. The only issue it has is the thing where if somebody tosses up Forgotten Kings, you only get the 8%.

Just logged in and double checked. My Greater is giving me STR and STA. If yours isn't, try filing a report or something.

[Eaglestrike]

Hmm, maybe they hotfixed the change in and 3.3 is only fixing the tooltip. I've just used 10min sanc on myself the whole time anyway.