WoW BHA Monday Night Crew - Ruby Sanctum Tonight 12/6! Farewell to WotLK

I use AutoAspect to remind me to change out of Viper, although it's kind of clunky to set up. Power Auras is indeed awesome and I use it across all of my characters.

ELewis17 wrote:

I have a nice Hunter mod. I'll get the name when I get home. It reminds you to swap Aspects when your mana is low or too high to warrant a certain aspect.

A day late, but it is AntiDaze. Apparently it is no longer being updated by its creator though.

I forgot who sent me the gift in the mail. Joot was the character, but I don't know whose char that is.

Thanks to whomever it was.

PopEsc wrote:

I forgot who sent me the gift in the mail. Joot was the character, but I don't know whose char that is.

Thanks to whomever it was.

SillyRabbit has made us a bunch of bags. Another round of them is on its way.
Thanks SR and everyone else that's been helping us!

Well I just ran Ragefire Chasms in a PuG to get a feel for what we are up against. It is going to be a cakewalk. Tanking it is easier said than done since I have only one ability that draws any substantial aggro, but it won't be hard to stay alive. Since it is the entry level instance there doesn't look to be much as far as loot to be found either. I figure we can run it a few times, and see how we do. If it is a cakewalk, we can see how we fare in The Deadmines (most sites say that 18 is the minimum to run The Deadmines and that 20 is preferred). Otherwise we can run some quests together. Although I'm not sure everyone is going to have access to the same areas. Long story short, the first week may be less than productive. By the second week we should all have our mounts and have access to all the main areas, so the massive logistics issue shouldn't be too much of an issue.

I was bored today so I decided to level a shaman alt I had abandoned at level 5 a year or two ago. I'll try to keep pace with you guys in case you fall short of a full five (I'll be level 13 or 14 tomorrow), although I don't want to take a spot if your core group is all around. I'm currently speccing (and gearing) elemental, but especially at these early levels I could easily throw out some heals if need be.

So, who's in for our virgin run tonight? I've seen everyone but Grenn online.

Grenn- You need 14 slot bags? I've sent out a handful to everyone else, but assumed you probably didn't need them. If not I'll pass out the remaining ones tonight.

PopEsc- Did you get Vent figured out?

Could someone PM me/post the Vent WoW channel password please?

I will be on tonight, I stopped at 15 cause I did not know what everyone else was going to be. I did not log on all weekend, so if I got bags.. THANK YOU SO MUCH hehe I needed them. I think we should just dungeon queue..i mean u at least get those bags that give us some gear...and the xp is much faster then trying to get together and coordinate qsting together. It might get a little repetitive, but maybe we will hit 18 and we can queue for DM.

ELewis17 wrote:

Could someone PM me/post the Vent WoW channel password please?

Ask in guild. Keeps the riff raff out if we don't post it publicly.

Slytin and I are in. He stayed up to grind out 15, I went ahead and hit 16 to get a big heal in my bag o' tricks.

BTW ELewis...tanking will be hard for u until 20..but at 20 u get concecrate and it will make life so much easier...just a little fyi

I will log on after work and be on when everyone gets on. I will ask for vent info in guild.

Looks like the armory actually picked up my shaman.

I should be online if you do need me -- if not, I'll see about pushing up a few more levels. What are you guys going to target for next week?

zeroKFE wrote:

I should be online if you do need me -- if not, I'll see about pushing up a few more levels. What are you guys going to target for next week?

Heavily hinged on how far we get tonight, but I was thinking we should for sure try to get our mounts by next week. We'll see though.

Cheeto1016 wrote:

BTW ELewis...tanking will be hard for u until 20..but at 20 u get concecrate and it will make life so much easier...just a little fyi :)

I noticed when I ran the instance on Saturday night. Threat management is NOT in my toon's vocabulary yet.

I've got some threat generating abilities, I can try being the main tank. I'm new but coach-able.

I've got 4 medium armor kits and a stack of light armor kits that I can give out.

ELewis17 wrote:

So, who's in for our virgin run tonight? I've seen everyone but Grenn online.

Grenn- You need 14 slot bags? I've sent out a handful to everyone else, but assumed you probably didn't need them. If not I'll pass out the remaining ones tonight.

PopEsc- Did you get Vent figured out?

Could someone PM me/post the Vent WoW channel password please?

I just sent a bunch of bags to myself, so I'm good there. I got really busy over the weekend and didn't have time to level my toon past 6, but I have today off so I'll see if I can't get him up to 15 by game time.

I have vent install and got a new USB mic. Harmertime is at level 15. I've played around with my vent setting on the gwj vent server and things seem to work.

Quick question, should I set my mic for auto-detection or use a push-to-talk button?

PopEsc wrote:

I have vent install and got a new USB mic. Harmertime is at level 15. I've played around with my vent setting on the gwj vent server and things seem to work.

Quick question, should I set my mic for auto-detection or use a push-to-talk button?

Depends on how much you swear. Push to talk is pretty easy to use but auto removes one step. Seems like a preference thing to me.

PopEsc wrote:

I have vent install and got a new USB mic. Harmertime is at level 15. I've played around with my vent setting on the gwj vent server and things seem to work.

Quick question, should I set my mic for auto-detection or use a push-to-talk button?

I have a 5-button mouse and I use one of the thumb buttons for PTT. If you can set up the sensitivity properly the auto may work nicely. For me, I'm the James Gandolfini type and breathe pretty loud, so PTT is just better all around. I can be on Vent a little early and run you through the motions to see how you sound if you like.

Yeah, I would go the push to talk route. You would be suprised how many things can trigger the auto thing and you will just end up annoying those in the channel with you. i actually made my push to talk the left CTRL button cause i use ASWD to move around and can use my left pinky to hit ctrl... just find what works for you I used to use my side mouse button also ELewis until i used it to much and the button actually fell inside the mouse and now it just rattles and i have a big gap on my mouse.

Alas, RL rears its ugly head. I won't be able to go tonight anyway. I was almost to 10 when I got the notice of plans. Have fun tonight and I'll be sure and catch up for next monday.

We are meeting in the WOW>Alliance>Cupcake Rocks! channel. Ask in guild chat or be in the Single Player Coffee Shop channel and one of us can get you the channel passwords.

The legacy of Cupcake lives! I'm smiling IRL right now.

OP updated

Monday April 12:
Goal is to be level 15 by Monday 4/12 for our first meetup. As long as you can get to 10 by then we should be ok.
I suppose we'll run Ragefire Chasm a few times, and we'll tie up any loose ends that people need help with.

Follow-up:
Well our first night was an overwhelming success IMO. We ran Ragefire Chasm ~4 times before we got the minerals to try The Deadmines where we only wiped once. We ran like sissies a few times before making Edwin VanCleaf our b*tch. Loot was whored by all. I believe most of us dinged 18 before we ended up logging off. A big thanks to SillyRabbit for all the bags, and everyone else for all your help.

Good times tonight. Thanks for having me along!

Man, I do wish it was possible to dual spec before 40 though. I am quite interested in giving resto an actual try (rather than just throwing a few heals in elemental spec like I did tonight) but the thought of solo leveling in a healing spec is, well, not appealing.

Hey guys, thanks for letting me play my hunter last night with you in Deadmines, it was a blast!

Yeah, it was a great first night in my opinion. Good times. Besides my stupidity of falling off the boat haha

I look forward to next Monday!!

Cheeto1016 wrote:

Yeah, it was a great first night in my opinion. Good times. Besides my stupidity of falling off the boat haha

I look forward to next Monday!!

Heh, my first time in Deadmines, I fell off the stairs in the Goblin Forge... yeah that was a great wipe

Aries wrote:
Cheeto1016 wrote:

Yeah, it was a great first night in my opinion. Good times. Besides my stupidity of falling off the boat haha

I look forward to next Monday!!

Heh, my first time in Deadmines, I fell off the stairs in the Goblin Forge... yeah that was a great wipe :)

Would almost have been excusable had it been Cheetos first time ;). You more than made up for that little faux pas with that jump on the wheel trick to escape that pirate mob.

The wheel trick still works? Cool.
I, for one, can't wait for heroic Deadmines. Cataclysm will be barrels of fun, methinks.