Random Question Thread

[Boyiee]

How high are you guys rated in arenas? Mage seems pretty strong right now, and it seems really hard to find a decent mage on my battlegroup its as if they are all taken already. I just want to play whichever is fun and not going to require me to carry my teammates like I am not on my lock.

[Plow]

I'm not playing seriously at all, playing a few games a week with a druid that was never 1600 or above before. I've done some rbg at pretty high mmr, though.

[Odon]

How high are you guys rated in arenas? Mage seems pretty strong right now, and it seems really hard to find a decent mage on my battlegroup its as if they are all taken already. I just want to play whichever is fun and not going to require me to carry my teammates like I am not on my lock.

I've been 2.5k+ right now I'm ranked 14th on my Hunter, my DK is sitting at 2k in 2s with a 34-4 win/loss

[Tajin]

My current protwar build: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LGZhZcfGdRRobbu sole purpose to farm chaos orbs, the missing 2 points would be better spend in Incite, Deep wounds, or somewhere else?

[The Stig]

Quick one:

Transferring crap between factions on same realm:

Currently I've got a guild friend who also has a level 85 mage. Excellent! So I am going to create a Goblin to take advantage of its racial, he will help me get to Shattrath. I wish to purchase Portable Holes.

The in-game mail system won't let me send a BoE once, not sure what to do, I put it on AH for 5000g and logged on to alt to buy it, only to get the message I cannot buy my own items.
Would this limitation carry forward for neutral AHs too between Alliance/horde chars?

Otherwise my plan is to:
Get out of Goblin area
Friend portals me to Shattrath
Put some junk item on AH for 13000g
I log on to main, buy item for 13000g
Log back to Goblin, purchase 3-4 portable holes
Put them on AH for 3000g+
Get back on Main, buy the said items. Put back a junk item onto AH for about 13000g (give or take)
Goblin buys item for 13000g to send all my gold back
Delete gob (optional)

Would it work like this? Or would I be faced with the same message. I just didn't want to bother my guild friend more than I have to.

[Norellicus]

You would run into the same error, you cannot buy your own items account wide. You need a middleman that you can trust with the cash/valuables.

[The Stig]

Doh! Thanks for the insta-reply.

While I do trust him, infact, it works the other way around. I told him to do it on a per bag basis as he has about 4000g on his horde char.

Failing this, I will RAF my own account and pay for 60 days game time so I can get a rocket mount, or I will do it when I go visit my mate sometime in the next 2 months and do it all personally myself with our laptops.

[Keria]

Doesn't the neutral AH still take a massive cut of gold sales...? I don't see the point of making a goblin to buy stuff from NPC when you will lose more gold just passing gold cross-faction. Why not use the 2-account advantage and pass a super-pricy BoE to the gob for 1g, sell it on horde + buy the bags then sell them back to your main for 1g?

[Odon]

Quick one:

Transferring crap between factions on same realm:

Currently I've got a guild friend who also has a level 85 mage. Excellent! So I am going to create a Goblin to take advantage of its racial, he will help me get to Shattrath. I wish to purchase Portable Holes.

The in-game mail system won't let me send a BoE once, not sure what to do, I put it on AH for 5000g and logged on to alt to buy it, only to get the message I cannot buy my own items.
Would this limitation carry forward for neutral AHs too between Alliance/horde chars?

Otherwise my plan is to:
Get out of Goblin area
Friend portals me to Shattrath
Put some junk item on AH for 13000g
I log on to main, buy item for 13000g
Log back to Goblin, purchase 3-4 portable holes
Put them on AH for 3000g+
Get back on Main, buy the said items. Put back a junk item onto AH for about 13000g (give or take)
Goblin buys item for 13000g to send all my gold back
Delete gob (optional)

Would it work like this? Or would I be faced with the same message. I just didn't want to bother my guild friend more than I have to.

The Neutral AH takes a 15% cut of the money from a sale, so keep that in mind.

[LD]

My current protwar build: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LGZhZcfGdRRobbu sole purpose to farm chaos orbs, the missing 2 points would be better spend in Incite, Deep wounds, or somewhere else?

Uhhh, Deep Wounds is fine, but you might also consider Cruelty or Second Wind. Imo, Incite lost it's shine a bit with prot since the Inner Rage change, also you won't be able to max it with 2 points. I know Cruelty is kinda bland and Second Wind seems situational, but they contribute their fair share.

[Norellicus]

Is there anything in heroics that can actually proc Second Wind on you as the tank?

[Tajin]

Boss fights Ozruk, Asaad that I remember, quite a few trash pulls stun.

[Kaylia]

What is heroic mode typical progress? I'm assuming its not the same as normal

[Kaylia]

Yeah you're screwed. GMs can't fix it. (literally can't) outside of a one time per life of account raid ID reset (which you would be an idiot to use on lol BT) which resets your ENTIRE raid ID.
Just wait until next week.

Is there other limit like that, like the amount of time they can restore items and shit like this?

[Odon]

What is heroic mode typical progress? I'm assuming its not the same as normal

Halfus is a joke, so is Chim.

[The Stig]

Thanks guys on advising me about the AH stuff. 600gold is really no big deal for me although I do like to be a jew with gold sometimes but in this case it's not worth the effort. I'll just buy them outright.

I spent 5000g on a toy last night too, I forgot the name of the item but it's 15min cool down with a 30min duration. Lets you transform into a female Night Elf, ghostly aura (but not like shadowform), in some cloth armor. Your weapon/shield carries over to the model. You can fight/take damage in it/mount (and the ghostly aura carries onto the mount too). All in all, compared with the 10s costume 20min cooldown bullshit you get from Archaelogy, this seems fun.

If only the Orb of Sindorei has such a duration -- i love transforming into a Blood Elf.

[Mortilox]

How high does the tank enrage(vengence?) go? After getting a terribad tank in stonecore today who insisted on tanking entire packs at once and after nuking him with heals I noticed his enrage buff was at 11,000 attack bonus..

[The Stig]

How high does the tank enrage(vengence?) go? After getting a terribad tank in stonecore today who insisted on tanking entire packs at once and after nuking him with heals I noticed his enrage buff was at 11,000 attack bonus..

Each time you take damage, you gain 5% of the damage taken as attack power, up to a maximum of 10% of your health. <--- Tooltip

[Plow]

it's actually a tiny bit less than that cuz they were lazy with the tooltip, but yeah, basically 8-10% ish of max health

[Guitarman]

Not really feelin my DK this expac. With all the changes and whatnot i've decided to try something else endgame. Are hunters dominating the parses like everyone claims? I heard this raid tier is really harsh on melee dps, any truth to that?