The World of Warcraft Cataclysm Thread.

[LuvSnowWhite]

I haven't had a chance to play since before Dec 3rd
(ARRRRRRRRGH), but I will look for these guys next time I log on. I have trained cooking now I have to build it up but I can't do any of the receipes I have bec I don't have the stuff for them bec they are low level things. Can I go back to a lower zone and get the stuff then will it let me increase cooking? I'm ready to toss cooking.

 

[Nayan]

Do not toss cooking! Yes you can go back to lower level zones to get what you need, but the best way to level cooking is by fishing and cooking what you catch. Here's a site that will help you with both:

http://www.elsanglin.com/

And here's a site that can help you with any of your other professions:

http://www.wow-professions.com/

 

[TheZue]

There is NO reason to toss any secondary profession. You can learn them all...it's not like you are making space for a new one.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

There is NO reason to toss any secondary profession. You can learn them all...it's not like you are making space for a new one.

Sure there are reasons... like I have several characters who are 450+ in professions, and I don't want to do them again, nor do I need any money they make.

I used to make 600g an hour fishing. I made so much money that I don't need to eve r fish again. And I never will, except for dailies.

 

[TheZue]

Sure there are reasons... like I have several characters who are 450+ in professions, and I don't want to do them again, nor do I need any money they make.

I used to make 600g an hour fishing. I made so much money that I don't need to eve r fish again. And I never will, except for dailies.

But why unlearn the skill? It's not taking up any room that something else could use, it's not doing anything. You can completely ignore it.

 

[LuvSnowWhite]

How do you earn money in fishing? And so much money at that?

 

[Dax]

Hey WoW Peeps! I hope Great Father Winter was good to you all this year and gave you everything you wanted and asked for...

So I was on vacation all last week, and honestly, I did not play as much WoW as I probably would have. I am normally all gung-ho about the holiday achievement, and I just havent gone for it. DH is on the "free trial" which wont allow him to level past 80, just get to it, so we have been working on goblins and worgens up until then..LOL.

So hopefully this week, we will get some play in, though I doubt it, due to the crappy work schedules we are on.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

But why unlearn the skill? It's not taking up any room that something else could use, it's not doing anything. You can completely ignore it.

Oh, I didn't realize someone was getting rid of the skill.... no point in that at all.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

How do you earn money in fishing? And so much money at that?

OK, I don't know if this still applies, post Cata....

but on alliance side, it can be very hard to get cooking from 290 to 300. I would fish those hot springs in Winterspring and catch the blue colored salmon. You needed a MINIMUM off 330 skill to even fish it, and realistically, you needed 380 skill to catch those fish fairly often.I think they are called Whitescale Salmon.

OK, I could catch 50 - 60 per hour. And I would put them on the AH for 7.5 bid price, 10g buyout PER FISH. They almost always were bought out at 10g per fish. Plus you would sell the other fish you would catch for 50s - 75s each... Then, if you fished for an hour, you usually would catch at least one green item, that you would sell on the AH.

I even once caught a Purple BS recipe.... that recipe alone sold for 900g.

But yeah, 600g an hour was fairly easy to do.

The other thing to catch, though not quite as profitable was Darkclaw Lobster in the bay of Storms.... 3g - 4g per lobster. Also used for getting from 290 - 300, but for some reason, people didn't pay a much.


BTW, pre cata, mining the crater could easily make 600g an hour in thorium and gems, if not a 1000g an hour as a pally ( due to Crusader aura ) But back then I could sell thorium for 1.5g each easily.... now, on my server, it is 40s per piece... in fact, I have even seen it as low as 17 silver each.... which is less than copper goes for on the Whisperwind server.

 

[LuvSnowWhite]

My cooking is only 65 right now. I have been mailing eggs and buck meat from my lvl 10 draeniea (sp?) and also sending light leather so I can get my leatherworking up. Its a long boring job.

I don't understand the auction house and how anyone can make money from it. Noone wants to buy the stuff I have put on there so far.
Do you use an add on?

I am also nervous to go into instances by myself when I don't know the other four players I have been avoiding that.

I am also looking for a good guild/realm for horde pve. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

My cooking is only 65 right now. I have been mailing eggs and buck meat from my lvl 10 draeniea (sp?) and also sending light leather so I can get my leatherworking up. Its a long boring job.

I don't understand the auction house and how anyone can make money from it. Noone wants to buy the stuff I have put on there so far.
Do you use an add on?

I am also nervous to go into instances by myself when I don't know the other four players I have been avoiding that.

I am also looking for a good guild/realm for horde pve. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

I usually use auctioneer, but in all honesty, to make a ton at the AH, requires lots of experience. But once you figure it out it can be a gold mine... like last night I bought 10 arctic fur for 380.... that was one auction. so 38g each... I put them up separately for 58g each and they were sold in an hour.... 200g profit.

Plus you need to really be aware of the going rate of what you are selling. If you want to sell it fast, and it is desirable, just BARELY undercut everybody. But sometimes not being the cheapest will net you more gold.

Making money is what I do best in WoW.... By level 80, my toons are usually sitting on 20,000g.

BTW, "some" servers just stink for making money. But IMO, the oldest servers make the most money because everybody has money to spend.

Things are also a little whack right now, with Cata changing everything all around. It definitely has affected the AH.

 

[LuvSnowWhite]

RU a business person in real life????? I NEVER figure that stuff out. I am going to look at some addons for the auction house. Thanks.

Can anybody recommend a good pve realm for horde? Or a good (ie levelling together, grouping, instancing etc)

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

Could just be my server, but HEAVY leather is just absolutely ridiculously priced right now.... 50g a stack! I went and farmed a 1000g, + or -, yesterday.

I now have my palaidn almost to 84 from 80, ENTIRELY on archaeology. I know it is goofy, but I am playing my other toons normally. I 100% believe that I can get to 85 just on archaeology.

 

[Dax]

Hey all...have not been playing a lot of WoW last few weeks, but I am back in the saddle now!!

I spent a few hours playing my tauren pally, I jumped her from level 41 to level 47 in just a few hours. I am in a Level 10 guild, so the 10% bonus, added to the 20% I am already getting from BoA...its a nice push..

DH and I started leveling our first 80's too. We fully completed Hyjal, and just starting on Deepholm now. The lore has been great, the quests flow well..its been a lot of fun.

Otherwise, just messing with alts...I am not doing a lot on my professions, just selling everything still, and raking in the cash...made 650g just from selling all the herbs and leather I picked up questing on my 82..very nice.

 

[GoodFairies]

I played relatively casually (1-2 nights per week plus weekends when I didn't have other stuff to do) and I finished every quest about 2-3 weeks ago. My guild started raiding this week but my heart's just not in it yet - I don't feel like making the time commitment to raiding yet. Also I've done some heroics but some of them seem hard with a gearscore that is 10 points above the required gearscore for queueing so I just can't imagine raiding quite yet.

So while there was a lot of pretty cool stuff in this game, I feel almost like I'm "done" with most of it. It did not take as long as Blizzard expected to get to 85. I know a lot of people did it in 10 hours. One really good thing about this expansion is money is really no object.

I was super excited about playing a worgen, and the starter quests were okay, but I can't stand the snuffling sound they make constantly. LOL, it's bad enough that I don't think I'll be leveling mine much further.

Goblins are another story. It seems the developers spent a lot more time on this race (Funny, I felt the same way about blood elves vs. draenei at the time) and their area/storyline is absolute genius and hilarious. I would recommend everyone who hasn't, do that.

I did just recently start archaelogy.

Anyway that's my 2 cents on Cata.

 

[Dax]

Well DH and I have decided we enjoy going back and doing all the old zones MORE than we like the new stuff..LOL..

Just recently, I quested on my horde in Hillsbrad. WOW...talk about a great time! There were SOOO many cinamatics, and the quests were a ton of fun. My favorite was when you got to be the "quest giver" What fun!

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

I am 2 blue bars from 85 with my current main. And like happens with every toon as it approached the top level, I become hesitant to hit the cap. I know there will still be tons of things to do, but I enjoy the leveling process.

I have yet to do a cata instance. I made it all the way to 84+ entirely on archaeology and mining. I'm still only at about 475 in archaeology, and have yet to have an epic drop.

The other night I did Karazhan for the first time ever.... did it as a guild run. We had it set as 10 man heroic, and we had 10 people. We absolutely destroyed the place, BUT IT STILL TOOK ALMOST 2 HOURS, as we lost the chess game twice. I bet that place would take 5 hours on a normal run with level 70 toons.

Also, and this is a cool tip... if your guild wants the armadillo pet that you get for killing 50,000 criiters, form a raid and go to the cave in Terrordale in EPL.... there are hundreds of critters in the cave. And they respawn fast. As a raid, when 1 person kills one critter, everybody gets credit for a kill. We killed about 30,000 critters in about 45 minutes to get the guild achievement. We had about 15 in our raid. We're going back soon to get the achievement for 100,000 critters.

Don't know about your server, but mine is out of control with gold these days.... I'm making 1000+g a day without even trying, really. Volatile earth is like 20g each on my server and I keep getting lots of them while mining. Plsu volatile water is 15g, and sometimes ONE cast while fishing can get 3 at once. You probably know that, but maybe your prices are different.

Anyway, as soon as the server comes back up, I guess I will go hit 85.... sigh.

 

[Colleen27]

I'm excited... After being with my current guild since vanilla I have an invite to another guild that I've run with. The new guild advancement/guild achievement system means it makes more sense for me to hop, where before Cata I was raiding with them but sticking with my old guild for social reasons, but I think the other guild is a better fit for me. More social, more adult/fewer kids, less rigid, and frankly, I'm excited to be getting away from my current GM who is a nice enough person but holds a grudge forever over people letting real life "get in the way" of the game.

 

[jekajekalynn]

Well, I hit 85 on my main about a month ago and since then took a little hiatus. Now I am back in the saddle again as it were. I'm trying to grind rep right now so that I can acquire some epics.

Man, epics are hard to come by this time around. lol I remember with Wrath, by this time a month or so into it I had the epic bs maces, the trollwoven spaulders and belt and the epic cloak that I made with lw. lol

 

[jekajekalynn]

The other night I did Karazhan for the first time ever.... did it as a guild run. We had it set as 10 man heroic, and we had 10 people. We absolutely destroyed the place, BUT IT STILL TOOK ALMOST 2 HOURS, as we lost the chess game twice. I bet that place would take 5 hours on a normal run with level 70 toons.

Kara is one of my fave raids (next to Naxx, there is a special place in my heart for Naxx ). I remember a few months ago, my guild went on a Kara fun run with about 6 or 7 of us.
Mind you, it was us "A-Squad"ers with our full 264 tier gear sets and the like... We went into the ballroom and our gl accidentally pulled the WHOLE room of ghosts on us when it was just him , me and our hunter there (our healer hadn't made it down stairs at the time)... Was quite a sight to see all of us l33t raiders dead cause of a noob mistake.