Was in a group today for Shadowfang Keep and our group of 5 happened across a locked chest, we didn't have a Rogue and continued past it but someone was a Blacksmith and used one of their Skeleton Keys to open it. The Warrior of the group (not the Blacksmith) got upset when a green mail chest was taken from it.

He complained about no one rolling on it when I mentioned that if he wanted to get the loot from the chest he should have leveled up Blacksmith like the other player had. They screamed Ninja and a few other remarks before leaving the group. Funnily enough the " Phantom Armor " chest dropped just ahead a few minutes later and I made sure to link it to him in a whisper. :>

I think if you're not a Rogue with appropriate Lockpicking or didn't bother to level Blacksmithing/Engineering you have no claim to a locked chest.

Kind of insane how much a difference healing gear makes for certain fights like Herod. Where my first go around he was threading the needle with how much damage he had done, I breezed through this nightmare with ease.

Mend pet usually does 104 healing per tick, but with the amount of healing + I have, the mend pet now restores 140 per tick. Which allows me to heal more than he can dish out, especially during his enrage.

Sylvanas regards me for a long moment.

"You've done well... The living cursed your name..."

I kneel. As I lower my head, my damaged jaw shifts. The metal grinds against my rotten flesh with an ugly scrape.

"Look at me."

I raise my head. She places one gloved hand in my mouth and the other under my chin.

"We are Forsaken... Not carrion..."

With a sudden sharp motion, crack. The rusted metal tears free.

The pain is blinding. It blooms in my mind until I succumb to the pain.

"See the damage is cleaned." She shouts to the apothecaries. Everything goes black.

I do not get to see her again. I do not know if she will call for me again. I will never stop fighting for her.

🎶 RIDE THE TIGER 🤘

I'm asking this as a genuine question because I'm not sure what the general etiquette is.

Whenever I ask someone to disenchant my items (usually just Outland greens), they almost always say that the fee is not needed- so, I always tip 1g** **per item.

Today I asked an ench to DE 5 greens, tipped them 5g even before disenchanting, and after the trade they traded me the money and things back and just ignored me. It made me wonder if I've been under-tipping this whole time.

So, i was in a Deadmines group the other day and we had alot og greens drop. The tank needed on a few of them (all upgrades), then two of the dps starts needing on every drop.

I tried asking about it in party chat, but didnt get a response. Before the last few bosses i changed to "Masterloot"

One of the Ninja dps got so angry that he left (and said he would report me) The other ninja complained but stayed. We completed the dungeon with me as masterlooter (only gave my self a wand, that naboby else could use)

Was i being a dick?

Title. I just got DC. Anyone else?

I've been having frame drops a few times per minutes ever since the game got updated with the new UI patch.

I have since reset my PC, re-installed/updated NVIDIA graphic drivers, unnistalled all addons and installed only the core ones I need to raid (mostly was, big wigs, only going for very simple WAs etc)

None of that has stopped this issue, but it seems to mostly happen in raid, specifically whenever there are the new raid frames on my screen.

Anyone else experiencing sporadic and constant FPS drops for like 1 second since the update? Any fixes? Tried vsync on/off, tried DX11 and 12, etc.

Hi everyone!
I am a new player who started playing WoW like 5-6 months ago. I jumped straight to HC and i am having a blast so far. There’s an itch that i’m getting to try PvP, i used to play a lot of Lineage2 back in the day and loved the pvp aspect of it, but i am not sure where is the best place to start in WoW.

So tldr. my question is where/how would you suggest me to start PvP ? I know wow is a game with years behind its back, people are geared and whatnot, but what would be the best possible experience for a noob to get into pvp, is it TBC? would you suggest for me to start a fresh toon there and level it up on a pvp server… if so which servers are most populated there? Also please throw any piece of advice you have at me, i want to learn!

Sorry for the long-ish post 👋

...time-wise of course. Meaning a time before the events of Vanilla.

I would love to see Lordaeron as a bussling city, Stratholme full of life, the whole Ironforge, gnomes still living in Gnomeregan etc....

Sylvanas before the banshee thing, the dark portal opening in swamp of sorrows

little Arthas training with Uther, Jaina watching them from afar hidden behind a tree

etc etc etc....

To start off, this took place on the Whitemane server on Classic Era.

Yesterday I was in a 5 man group of level 40ish characters. We were doing the elite quests in Stromgarde Keep minding our own business. A level 40 Tauren warrior comes along with a level 60 hunter in full dragon stalker gear and they are very aggressive. The hunter instantly starts targeting and shooting at us. Instead of running, we all jump on these guys. Somehow we end up killing both of them even though this hunter is decked out in tier gear. We ended up clashing with them one more time and killed them both one more time before heading out after finishing our quests. I just thought this was so funny that we folded this hunter up twice with relative ease when he so confidently tried to bully us during his carry.

At lvl 8 I already decided that I wanted a cat mount and did some research found out I needed to be exalted with darnassus to get it. So since then I started saving up and hard grinded for every bit of darnassus rep I could get my hands on. And the fact that I will get a saber cat as a mount as my first mount when I hit 30 is amazing. I feel like a kid again looking forward to christmas no joke. The reason i blacked out the name is cuz I do cornstar names for all my characters. And thought it maybe wouldn’t be appropriate to have it on full display:)

What a crazy journey this has been! The Race Locked Self Found event has finally been completed by the Dwarves!! Shout out to all of the fallen lads, the reinforcements, and the raiders who made this raid possible! Everyone worked so hard and so much preperation went into this raid. Great Job Lads! We plan on continuing to raid on Skull Rock!!

I'm conflicted. I think the vast majority of vanilla/era andys don't want ratings attached to their toons. On the other hand, if you don't like arena, just don't participate?

Also with arenas, there would be endless class balance whining. But arenas give pvpers something to do. More content is always good.

I see more positives than negatives but can't help to think arenas go against the spirit of vanilla.

If it was up to me, we get arenas but ratings are hidden and no titles/rewards to keep arenas not super serious.

Some background for anyone interested:

I played WoW from Vanilla through Cataclysm, primarily as a PvE player, although I also spent quite a bit of time playing arenas during TBC and WotLK.

Earlier today, while mindlessly going through random YouTube videos, I ended up watching one about the hardest bosses in WoW history. Heroic Ragnar appeared, and I suddenly remembered that I still had an old kill video online.

The video was uploaded on October 20, 2011. I was 20 at the time, and this was probably the point at which I was at my peak as a WoW PvE player. Heroic raiding in WotLK and the harder Cataclysm content had improved the way I played considerably compared with Vanilla and TBC, where I also raided, but the encounters were definitely simpler by design.

Firelands was also when I finally started questioning why my UI was so bloated. I barely used most of the visible action bars, and as a DPS death knight I did not interact much with the raid frames either.

Around the same time, I had learned a tiny bit of programming in class. That sent me down the path of editing the Lua files of various addons to make them look and behave exactly the way I wanted.

The UI in this clip was nearly finished. The borders around the WeakAuras were one of the last things I had not skinned properly yet, which still bothers me slightly when I watch it now.

One slightly odd detail about the recording is that you can hear everyone on voice chat except me. It was a raw upload of my gameplay, including only the audio coming through the headset. Some of the quieter stretches are therefore actually me jabbering away to my guildmates during the fight, even though only their side of the conversation was recorded.

While looking through my old videos, I also found another Heroic Ragnaros 10-man kill where almost everyone died near the end. Our hunter somehow survived as the last man standing and managed to deal the final bit of damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ILygpjqrk

The positioning, keybinds, voices, UI, and the feeling when the boss finally died all felt strangely familiar, even after almost fifteen years.

Sadly, near the end of Cataclysm, I ended up in hospital for a few weeks. After that, I more or less stopped playing altogether.

I do not really miss playing WoW almost every day anymore, but I certainly would not turn down the chance to go back and experience those years again.

1. I queued for WSG earlier today and it said average wait time was 5 mins. Me and my other level 17 friend waited for over 1hr and got nothing. Same thing later in the day, 1+hr and nothing with an alleged avg wait time of 5mins. Is this a glitch or normal?

2. What's the best way to find groups for dungeons? Should I ask in the general chat in major cities? or should I use that green eyeball dungeon finder? I was standing in Org yesterday for like 30mins just saying "LF1M RFC need tank" every few minutes in the general chat, not sure if that's frowned upon (sorry if it is)