Real ID is on now, I just don't know how to do it. I thought Draka had 3.3.5 now, but not sure. L4L, do you know? I have no 80 toon yet, so that new instance is out of my reach anyway. My main made it to 68 last night.
Andrea

Congratulations Andrea!

Yes, Draka has been updated. I know there is a tab in the chat window for the Real ID...if someone will let me know when they are on tonight, we can try it out.

I believe the patch on Tuesday was the 3.3.5 one.
I tried the Real ID with my son, don't know yet if it works. He is always busy and doesn't get to play much.

Hi Andrea! I didn't see you on much over the weekend! We should group together and run some randoms. I've stop playing Juhani for now. Pipen is my main toon and I want to get her leveled up for the new game. She hasn't even scratched the surface of all the quests in Outland. Too many quest, not enough time.

for Owlheart!!! : L4L!!

Alright Andrea!! way to go!

How do I get to Sunfury spire in Silvermoon city where I
use the orb to get to Undercity? It's been a long time
since I did this quest I forgot? Thanks!
I leveled my NE 4 times today!
took me just about all day to do it.


Karen

Hi Karen!

Sunfury Spire is in the Court of the Sun(in Silvermoon). There is a long ramp that you take up. Once inside you will see two more ramps take either one. Just keep going up to reach the orb to UC.

Linda

Thank you Linda! how's the weather there today?
sure hope it gets better for you~

Hey ya L4L I had about 10 names on my friends list
that were not friends, I deleted them, should I report
this or do anything about it? is this Hackers doing this?
Thanks again for helping me out last night

Have a WoW day everyone Karen

Thanks Lindy

Karen, I wouldn't worry about the friends names....delete them, but if they start showing up again I would report it.

Just remember, Blizzard will Never ask you for your info via the game....whisper or mail. I sometimes get mail that says if I don't go to this site and put my info in, my account will be permanently banned.

Report those as they are just phishing for your info to steal your account.

It's great to see you back!

I had a good time playing with you all tonight! It was fun chatting and getting to know a little bit about everyone. My only problem is it's my only toon on that server and I'm so poor, lol, that I have to level my skills right away.

Hopefully I can get on tomorrow night for a bit. My priest on Sisters of Elune just joined a new guild so I may have to socialize tomorrow.

Jean, it was fun. I know that "gotta level to have money to train" feeling!

Do you have a toon of each class?

Last night was fun. Pipen gave up farming last night and went to the AH, closed my eyes to the price of the item and just clicked away. Problem is there wasn't enough to buy, so I'm broke and still farming. I'm going to make that purple item one way or another.

Hi Boomies!

I had such fun last night, chatting with all of you! Karen and I have done the Real ID thing and it works great! Just do it with those you know and trust! You can chat accross factions AND servers! So no matter what toon you're playing with, or which server you're on, you can keep in touch. I'm not pushing this, you need to feel safe and secure, but it seems to work really well.
See you in game!
Andrea

Lindy Which item are you trying to make?

Let's see. On Sisters of Elune I have a holy/shadow 80 priest, 80 mage, 80 warlock (useless dps), 80 restro/feral druid, and 78 shammy (elemental). In the background and hardly ever played is a 63 rogue, 53 boomkin and 48 gnome warlock with pink hair, lol. Oh and a 43 blood elf priest.

Ok Draka I have my baby priest. I haven't tried paladin or warrior yet. Had a dk for 2 levels and couldn't get used to it. Had a hunter up to level 20 once but couldn't really get used to her either.

Are any of you going to make worgens when Cataclysm comes out? I can't decide.

Boy Linda, I can relate. Having to buy mats from the bank just about left me pennyless. I'm doing Leatherworking, and I got it up to lvl 250 today, but gosh it was hard, what with farming and buying mats. Why do some of the recipes use so much mats?? And then what do you do with what you made? I've been selling it in the AH and it usually sells pretty wall, but not enough to pay me back for the original cost. It's still fun though, and I'm not discouraged. Judt not the most fun thing to do. LOL.
Andrea

What is farming?
And if I want to do Tailoring, what's the best approach?

Jean, sounds like you have had a lot of fun trying out different toons.

I don't know if I'll make a Worgen...kinda depends on exactly when Cata drops.

Andrea, I can relate...but your leatherworking is much ahead of mine. Most items when you are leveling don't sell enough for you to recoup your costs, but the end items sometimes do. But not always. If I have to buy mats to do potions/elixirs/flasks, I can't sell them for a profit. Thus, the farming.

Misslilo, farming is when you are out gathering materials for your craft...collecting herbs or skinning or mining, etc.

If you do tailoring, you'll be getting material from drops so running through instances can be a good way. Also, friends can help by sending you material they get by drops but can't use. For instance, Soot tailors so I give him all my frostweave and on Burning Blade, I give it all to my son.

I think the professions are easiest and most beneficial to level as you level your toon.

Hi Misslilo!

Farming is when you kill mobs(lots and lots of them) to get the item you need to craft something. I just google the item for web sites that tells me what mobs will drop the item and where are the best places to go. It can be very boring. "What's the best approach for tailoring" visit your trainer, get all the recipes you can get your hands on, save every piece of cloth you can. Which is hard if you are leveling up First Aid.

Hi L4L!

Last night I got a random dungeon on my main, Lalais (Hunter Lvl 69). It was for Utgarde. Never been there before and the group had a bad healer. We almost finished the dungeon but got wiped at the last boss twice and then we were disbanded. I felt so clueless and unprepared for that place. The people who keep track of the dps of the group annoy me and make me feel inadequate. I would love to go back there sometime with you, Soot, Linda and one other player or just us.
I actually did most of the sunken temple all by myself yesterday to get mats. there's lots of thick leather there. Just didn't go upstairs, or do the major bosses.
I really enjoy WoW. Have a good day all!
Andrea

Awww Andrea, that is too bad.

Yes, it is very confusing when you do a dungeon for the first (or even 2nd or 3rd time).

There are videos that can help, but it is by far the easiest though when you run the dungeon with someone who has and is willing to explain.

Sometimes if you just ask something like "This is my first time here. What do I need to know?" the other guys will give you quick highlights.

Hubby and I will be happy to help you run through the dungeons...but hubby can't tank those yet.

Sure wish my toons were leveled so I could run those instances with you all, but it's going to be quite a while before I get there. Utgarde can be hard the first few times you run it. There's a method to the madness there.

With the first boss, the one in the big room that puts freezes on everyone, everybody should stack on the tank. That way if you get frozen the tank or other dps can unfreeze you. If you're a healer in there that's really important. Also, if your healer is a priest she can fade when the skellies come out, cause they make a beeline for her.

In the room with all the dragons to the left, right and straight ahead, the tank has to be careful to face the dragons away from everyone. The ones on the sides aren't too bad, but the ones straight ahead can be painful.

On the two bosses together (can never remember there names, ah one is Dalran), they more or less have to be taken down at the same time or the one will turn into a ghost and keep attacking. Again, if you can stack closer in because you can get hit otherwise.

I know more about the instances from a healer's point of view, than dps. When I play my dps toons, I have a macro that I made to target the tank's target so that I don't pull aggro. Always wait at least 3 seconds, maybe more depending on the tank, before hitting something so tank gets aggro first.

Hehe on the Wow forums there used to be a saying, "If the tank dies, it's the healer's fault. If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault. If anyone else dies it's their own darn fault".

I forgot to mention, Deadly Boss Mods is a real must in Northrend, so if you don't have it, you can download it at the Curse website. Curse has a lot of other really useful mods, that go a long way in keeping you alive. There are other sites too that have them, but I'm not sure of what they are.

Jean would you mind sharing that macro? It sounds like a good one to have. I have a problem seeing who the tank is focused on at times.

Thanks

Hi Lindy:

Just go into macros (esc to menu options and then click on macros). Click on "new" and give the macro a name and icon. Then in "enter Macro commands" box type /assist. Then exit out of macro command box. Don't click new again or you'll just create another one, lol.

Next time you're in an instance, go to that macro and after /assist do one space and type in tank's name. Then exit again. You have to exit or it won't take. I use the icon that corresponds to the macro in my = key in first bar so it's easy to get to, but you can put it wherever you like.

You'll click on that when tank fights and it will pick up his target. When he goes to a new target you'll have to click on it again.

There are probably other ways to do it or write it, but I don't know beans about macros, lol. Maybe someone else can tell us an easier way, that will follow the tank around and you don't have to keep clicking on it.

Thanks Jean!

I wrote it down! The problem that I may have is trying to get the tank's name typed in before everyone takes off and leave me behind, lol.

You know if you just select the tank, then type /focus, the tank will be your focus. Then there is a setting in your interface which lets you see your focus's target. Then you just click on that to target it.

It's an extra click, but I never have time to open a macro and type the tank's name. People take off the second we pop in. Zoom zoom zoom.