Wrath of the Lich King zombie plague covering Azeroth

[Dr. kitteny berk]

The flight point ones are often dead.

[FatherJack]

Shatner's been overrun since about last Wednesday, just getting out of there basically means dying, waiting an indeteminate amount of time for the flight master to be there, then respawning right next to it and trying to click and set your flight within the throbbing mass of zombies and angry griffons before either of you get killed again.

When I logged on to Dogrimmer on Sunday night to find zombies all around the bank, AH and the stairs up to the FP I just logged straight out again. It's gotten to the point where the zombie players are basically preventing you from doing anything else other than fighting or joining them.

I've always thought killing flight masters was a bit griefy, particularly on a PvE server - where it's a petty way of getting at the opposition because you can't directly attack them. I don't mind being zombified maybe once or twice - the death penalty is a minor inconvenience - but to be trapped from flying out and doing something else is just annoying.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Chunder muff is the place to be really, I'm finding it a fair bit safer than anywhere else.

Though I'm not playing that much, because as handy as flounts are, they're only useful in outland, and are slow as fuck for the basic ones.

[FatherJack]

While their excuse for not allowing supermounts in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms is that they didn't draw the tops on mountains and stuff, the way they're not letting you use them until L78 in Northrend just denigrates the achievement and vast expenditure required in their aquisition.

If the 70-78 levelling experience would be trivialised by allowing florses, then that's their fault, not the player's. Attaining the mounts are one of the key reasons to keep pushing for the next level, so why short-change the player with vehicles which are useless in most circumstances?

[Dr. kitteny berk]

While their excuse for not allowing supermounts in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms is that they didn't draw the tops on mountains and stuff, the way they're not letting you use them until L78 in Northrend just denigrates the achievement and vast expenditure required in their aquisition.

If the 70-78 levelling experience would be trivialised by allowing florses, then that's their fault, not the player's. Attaining the mounts are one of the key reasons to keep pushing for the next level, so why short-change the player with vehicles which are useless in most circumstances?

Basically, you get to pay 900g for a mount that's slower than your previous one on the ground, and will get you to a few places you couldn't before.

Then another 5200g for the one that's actually useful.

Given blizzard (like most MMO makers) are very against gold buying, this seems a bit of a dumb thing to do, I can see it being easily attainable for people who're guildy, or do lots of playing at 70+, but for people like me who don't really give that much of a fuck, but would like to get around easily, it leaves me grinding my tits off to earn pennies.

[friznit]

Daily quests earn gold.

Easy to say, but I'm shit at making gold - it was particularly difficult for a prot warrior who had no way of actually killing stuff to make cash, and spend more repairing plate armour than was ever made from raids. I only got an elite flappy mount in the end by borrowing 2k from a stupidly rich mate who spent all his time working the AH.

A bit easier to make cash now that aoe grinding is viable, but still boring as fuck.

[Dog Pants]

Looks like the zombies have gone. Pressure from the players?

[friznit]

I reckon so. I guess they found a "cure" which involved various special "reagents" which included things like Tears of the Carebear, whinus forumus and QQMoarNub™.

[spoodie]

I hope there's something good on 31st.

[centerededgedesign]

Aye, the zombies were annoying for a bit. Then I ran off into the woods and just ground up some levels, then went and mined and ground until I couldn't carry anymore ore's.

Yes, Dres has gone into WoW w/ his daughter. Turns out it has been a focus for her, and makes her mornings and days brighter since she can play with Dad.

We're on a US server, Aggramar, and when it's full, Blood Hoof. We play Alliance toons on Aggy, Horde on Hoof. Pretty low levels since my daughter wants one of everything, but she loves making toons and trying to get them pretty.

What servers you lot play on? Might have to maka 5punky toon to hang w/ you lot! What ya be needin?

[eRabbit]

loves making toons and trying to get them pretty.

Same here!

[FatherJack]

What servers you lot play on? Might have to maka 5punky toon to hang w/ you lot! What ya be needin?

EU - Emerald Dream

I'd say we mostly lack a mage - some portals would be most handy from time to time.

5punkwow kind of started up in the Spring, lost momentum during the Summer, but has seen a resurgence this Autumn.

It's certainly a great filler game, stopping the gaps between major releases, but I think it's perhaps become more than that - a dirty secret game that you just load up for a quick blast when you can't think what else to play.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

EU - Emerald Dream

I'd say we mostly lack a mage - some portals would be most handy from time to time.

5punkwow kind of started up in the Spring, lost momentum during the Summer, but has seen a resurgence this Autumn.

It's certainly a great filler game, stopping the gaps between major releases, but I think it's perhaps become more than that - a dirty secret game that you just load up for a quick blast when you can't think what else to play.

we had a mage once, but he eloped with ray mears.

[centerededgedesign]

EU - Emerald Dream

I fear I am fail at accessing any EU servers... all I find is US, Oceanic, and Latin America...

I did create a mage on the Emerald Dream server under the US tab, just in case they're linked or something. Kaneerdan is a Dranei, got as far as level 6 this morning. Toss a mail his way, (spare bags appreciated, as he's not got a profession yet). If he does happen to be in the right place, what profession would be needed most by the group?

[spoodie]

I should really do a bit more with Margia the Mage, but I find she dies very easily. Which is more than likely down to my wackness.

[Dog Pants]

Don't you need to adjust your client setting a little to get onto the EU realms? I seem to remember having much spackage over this when I started playing and ended up with several US accounts.

I'm not sure about which professions are needed. Everyone kind of does their own thing anyway. Tailoring maybe? You can never have too many bags.

[FatherJack]

The crafting professions don't seem to help you much until you get very good at them as the ecomony is such that you can buy better stuff than you can make, plus instance drops usually outclass them.

The buffing professions like alchemy, enchanting, inscription and jewelcrafting are good earners and can produce things that are useful right from the start - their feeder professions are probably herbalism, tailoring, herbalism and mining.

The collection professions are where the most money is at - if you can be bothered to go get the materials - since most people can't or only dropped one of their existing professions to take up inscription, they sell consistently well.

If I did it again, I'd probably take two of herbalism, mining and skinning and sell everything on. With vast sums in the bank I could buy whatever I needed up to about L60, then I'd drop one and spend a bunch of cash buying the mats to skill up whatever my armour type profession was and craft the bind-on-pickup items at the top of the tree. I know that seems like you end up buying back the mats you made your fortune with, but money begets money and you can buy/sell yourself a mint if you have a wedge of cash you're sitting on using the auction house and employing a bit of patience.