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I saw one in general chat shortly after the servers came up after patch (I reset my UI so I had joined the 'crap' channels automatically). Right click -> Report as Spam -> Yes.

Congratulations!

I had a quick look over your guild armory pages and noticed that most people had very little raid experience (at least on those characters). Karazhan is much more difficult than Molten Core or Zul'Gurub was at level 60 so if you're in there and killing Atunemen and Moroes then your raid is doing very well. It's a huge step-up in difficulty from 5-man stuff and without a history of raiding before expansion your group must be learning very quickly.

Maiden is a really rough fight on your healers especially without a paladin (I didn't see one in your guild). You should really consider skipping her for a while and trying the Opera house event. 2 of the three events are just tank and spank fights, and big bad wolf is pretty funny—as in "laughing on vent" funny. You may take one or two attempts to work out the strategies but luck and timing play much smaller roles in those fights. Opera opens up the back door which makes repeated attempts on Curator easier than Maiden now that his trash re-spawn is nerfed. If you can get him (which is a much more controllable fight than Maiden) then you'll also get access to Chess and a couple more free epics every week.

Also, the trash past opera will pay for a full night of wiping—it drops 1-3g per person per pull.

You think right, we are very low experienced in Karazhan at the moment! But slowly progressing, we might be taking a shot at it tonight so if we do without a Paladin (usually PUG one) I will ask to skip it and go onto the Opera Event, which yes does sound fun t:)me! :)

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There is a current bug that you can have your Netherdrake mount while flying around. I have had it happen numerous times, pretty cool and fun to have people think you already have one.

Rep grinding for one isn't to bad, it's mainly the same set of daily quests over and over.

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Prosidius

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Im so proud. I did Childrens week to earn alot of gold and discovered how much the auctioning business makes. Of course I'm still a n00b and sold most of the Dagger set for around 5 silver a piece. :p I did sell something else for like 4-5 gold though. :)

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i chose the turtle. :D

i made an undead warlock on the Earthen Ring server. my goal is to be a part of the 'iacta alea est' guild. :o

"The die has been cast". Umm might have to ask those guys why that name by the great Julius Ceaser quoting Suetonius. Man wikipedia is the ****.

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There is a current bug that you can have your Netherdrake mount while flying around. I have had it happen numerous times, pretty cool and fun to have people think you already have one.

Rep grinding for one isn't to bad, it's mainly the same set of daily quests over and over.

Yeah, it bugged for me when out of transform areas in Shadowmoon Valley.. Didn't last long though. I'm 5k into revered at the moment. The rep aint too hard, and the quests don't take too long (On a low pop realm) Just wish i could be a bit more lucky when it comes to getting the damn eggs. A friend of mine on the same realm hit exalted yesterday, so lucky :(

Anyone else think the Sha'tari rep quests around Skettis are a bit of a pain? The droprates on dust etc really suck.

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Can someone help...

i've just noticed i've been playing US servers for my trial account and i've gone a brought a EU serial, i take it that its not possible to upgrade using that key as i've just gotten an error.

so basically i've got to start over again?

got to lvl 26 in a week so should be able to do it again hopefully... :(

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Can someone help...

i've just noticed i've been playing US servers for my trial account and i've gone a brought a EU serial, i take it that its not possible to upgrade using that key as i've just gotten an error.

so basically i've got to start over again?

got to lvl 26 in a week so should be able to do it again hopefully... :(

With the trial being limited to level 20, I call bull****. :p

Nevertheless, it shouldn't be that hard to get to level 20 again... after I started playing again it took me something like a day to get to level 16 (that was pretty much the whole day though) on a totally new class and start location for me, taking the time to read all the quest texts thoroughly and trying to enjoy myself. So... imo, it's not that big a deal. :)

To answer your question though: You can convert, but I wouldn't be surprised if they charge you for it. And, at least upon release, they stated it might take a couple of weeks. Plenty of time to even reach level 70. ;)

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oops i didnt mean lvl26 i ment 16, slip of the ol' finger it seems. i've started on a new server now anyway UK, i've managed to get to lvl 10 in 4 hours, probably not thaty great compared to most people but its not bad for me.

just sucks thinking about all thats stuff i had in the bank and money on there.

thanks for any help anyways guys.

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Anyone else think the Sha'tari rep quests around Skettis are a bit of a pain? The droprates on dust etc really suck.

yeah i only think they suck as i now have people running all over my fishing hole, it used to be nice and quiet up there :(

the dust is awful for drop rate I agree...on my server i've not seen any on the AH but it can be sold...might be a niche in the market there.

best part i found about those Sha'tari Skyguard rep was getting the Arokkar costume as a druid, you stayed in the costume in flight form so could dive bomb people as a proper bird man :D

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is it just me or is worldofwarcraft.com down, and so is the game auth system? and when you can log in, either no one is there playing, or settings are screwy like not being able to mount, and the friends/guild list cleared so no one is in it?

this as of midday AEST 30th may.

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phantasmorph

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Need some advice...

I'm going to be rolling a Troll Huntard on a RPPVP realm with some guildmates, and I'm completely at a loss as to what to name him. So any suggestions would be appreciated, but bear in mind, this will be for a rppvp server, so nothing like 'loldpspewpew', 'Supahunta' or any kiddie crap like that.

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'ZOMGHAIDOWNTHARMON' << Has the 'mon' at the end, which conforms to the troll RP element. Enjoy!

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Just kidding, of course. Check out http://www.behindthename.com/ - might have some names you find interesting... might now. I always take time to find a nice name for my characters, and I appreciate other people doing the same. Then again, you WILL get a warning if you have a name that clearly breaks the RP convention... trust me (clarification: my main server was down one day, I was bored. Created an orc named XSUPERKILLERX or some such on an RP realm and ran from Org to IF and planted my corpse right outside the AH. Got a nice little warning. :<). ;)

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'ZOMGHAIDOWNTHARMON' << Has the 'mon' at the end, which conforms to the troll RP element. Enjoy!

:p

Just kidding, of course. Check out http://www.behindthename.com/ - might have some names you find interesting... might now. I always take time to find a nice name for my characters, and I appreciate other people doing the same. Then again, you WILL get a warning if you have a name that clearly breaks the RP convention... trust me (clarification: my main server was down one day, I was bored. Created an orc named XSUPERKILLERX or some such on an RP realm and ran from Org to IF and planted my corpse right outside the AH. Got a nice little warning. :<). ;)

...Thank you so much for that link. That will help immensely!!

On my old realm, someone did the same with a female nelf huntard. Someone created a toon named 'Welcome' and planted her corpse right outside the main gate to Org. :laugh:

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sup fellas, i was just browsing through 1up and came acroos this screen. Anyone know which UI mod this is? That makes is so minimal toward the bottom of your screen. None of that other stuff i never click on. (character info, spells n abilities, talent buttons) much rather be without them.

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