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Can anyone recommend a UI pack? I used to use something called Cosmos (I think, it's been a long time since I playd WoW after all) and

Isomnix or something (which I didn't really like)

What's a good one these days, and is there any other quest helping addons other than questhelper that are decent as well?

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I've been doing Jewel Crafting for 2 days now. I'm upto 80 skill.

I've made quite a few things and I've made 2 gold doing it so far.

Surprisingly?

I actually enjoy it.

I'm just wondering when I can start cutting / smoothing out gems for cash.

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Can anyone recommend a UI pack? I used to use something called Cosmos (I think, it's been a long time since I playd WoW after all) and

Isomnix or something (which I didn't really like)

What's a good one these days, and is there any other quest helping addons other than questhelper that are decent as well?

Lightheaded is basically WoWhead on your quest log

Grand Master

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Thanks for that one Youdontknowme. I added that one in as well :D

I found an awesome quest addon called Carbonite. Does anyone use the full version by any chance? (there is a free version with some features, but the full version requires a small subscription, $4.99 for 2 months etc)

Currently the free version is working great, but some of the features from the full version interest me. Just wondering if it's actually worth it or not :)

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I've been doing Jewel Crafting for 2 days now. I'm upto 80 skill.

I've made quite a few things and I've made 2 gold doing it so far.

Surprisingly?

I actually enjoy it.

I'm just wondering when I can start cutting / smoothing out gems for cash.

The most efficient way to make money is by selling the mats. Two gathering professions = tons of cash.

On a different note, can anybody recommend an ADD -ON that does this and ONLY this: display coordinates on the default map and minimap. It seems like many coord add-ons come with a lot of baggage that i don't really need.

On an even more different note, I finally decided to level up my main up to 71.5. He's a dwarf Survival hunter. How many hours do you guys think it takes to get to 80 from here? I play roughly 10-15 hours a week.

On a remotely similar note, I've been able to explore Northrend a little more, and I gotta give it up to Blizzard; the environments and sceneries are superb. Everything seems well polished. Granted, I've only visited Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord and a little bit of Dragonblight, but I've found myself oohing and ahhing loudly very often just by riding my ram exploring new areas. What I've discovered, seeing I'm an engineer, is that I should get myself a parachute cloak attachment as soon as possible, as the terrain can get pretty steep with a lot of jump points.

On a pretty similar note, to those who can use their flying mounts in northrend, is there a lot of content that can only be accessible by flying mount? It seems to me that the flying mount seems to be strictly a convenient option this time around.

On a distant and last note, either I'm encountering a lot of farmers, or people are just not talking enough. Since the expansion I've seen a lot of players just out and about questing and all that, and most whom I've messaged just never replied back. I would get random group invites, but no party chat. Lol. It bugs me because this is a community driven game (although a very solo-friendly one at that) and I just want to say hi. Lol.

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Thanks for that one Youdontknowme. I added that one in as well :D

I found an awesome quest addon called Carbonite. Does anyone use the full version by any chance? (there is a free version with some features, but the full version requires a small subscription, $4.99 for 2 months etc)

Currently the free version is working great, but some of the features from the full version interest me. Just wondering if it's actually worth it or not :)

I'd still say QuestHelper and LightHeaded are better. You can also get PoIs in Cartographer. To answer your question, no I don't think it's worth the cash.

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On a different note, can anybody recommend an ADD -ON that does this and ONLY this: display coordinates on the default map and minimap. It seems like many coord add-ons come with a lot of baggage that i don't really need.

I only use 3 add-ons, but the one i use for the coordinates is the Wowhead Client http://www.wowhead.com/?client

However, it only puts coordinates on the main map, not the mini map.

Grand Master

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On a pretty similar note, to those who can use their flying mounts in northrend, is there a lot of content that can only be accessible by flying mount? It seems to me that the flying mount seems to be strictly a convenient option this time around.

Storm Peaks and Ice Crown are pretty much completely inaccessible without a flying mount (in Peaks your 'ghost' is given a flying mount to run back to your body when you die!). At the launch of TBC there were only a couple of places you couldn't get without a flying mount: the tempest keep instances (and Karazhan because of attunements). I can't think of any quest hubs you wouldn't have been able to reach. If you ignore the fact that warlocks can get you anywhere then WOTLK makes storm peaks and ice crown almost unplayable. Naxx is inaccessible and even just getting to the major city can be a pain in the ass.

They designed the early zones with the idea that you'll be on a land mount, the level-cap zones with the idea that you'd be flying. You can use this to your advantage by grinding out 77 without going to Zul'Drak, Grizzly Hills, or Scholozar Basin. Doing quests there with a flying mount is much quicker.

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Storm Peaks and Ice Crown are pretty much completely inaccessible without a flying mount (in Peaks your 'ghost' is given a flying mount to run back to your body when you die!). At the launch of TBC there were only a couple of places you couldn't get without a flying mount: the tempest keep instances (and Karazhan because of attunements). I can't think of any quest hubs you wouldn't have been able to reach. If you ignore the fact that warlocks can get you anywhere then WOTLK makes storm peaks and ice crown almost unplayable. Naxx is inaccessible and even just getting to the major city can be a pain in the ass.

They designed the early zones with the idea that you'll be on a land mount, the level-cap zones with the idea that you'd be flying. You can use this to your advantage by grinding out 77 without going to Zul'Drak, Grizzly Hills, or Scholozar Basin. Doing quests there with a flying mount is much quicker.

thanks for the info. I'm glad they're integrating the flying aspect better. Hopefully, it's not just all daily quests or so.

Grand Master

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To those that have bought it and have been playing it: Is it worth it? Is it better than TBC was when it came out?

Leveling is about the same but with a slightly better connection to level 80 bosses and a few pretty solid quests.

End-game raiding is pretty dull if you like to be challenged and not too bad if you don't*. It's in a much better state than it was at the start of TBC, but it'd be almost impossible to accidently end up that bad again.

I can't say too much about normal-mode dungeons: I skipped most of them and just went straight for heroics at 80.

Just clearing them is easy (nothing comes close to the 2.0 Heroic versions of Shattered Halls, Arcatraz, or Durnehold for example) and many of the achievements don't require much skill either. There's a little bit of a challenge because we're doing a lot of them still wearing piles of Level 70 gear but by the time we've got Full 25-man gear they'll pretty much all be a joke (Gotta Go! is the only one that would be hard but it's getting fixed).

I don't particularly care for most of the achievements: I don't like to be rewarded for doing things 'wrong'. Stuff like "the immortal" (no deaths in a full naxx clear) are cool, but "don't kill orbs" achievement for Malygos is stupid.

There's about 60 hours of content for a dedicated PVE player. $40 for expansion +$20 for subscription: it's about a dollar an hour for entertainment. That's reasonable IMO.

* Sunwell guilds are bored. Kara guilds are doing well. Slot yourself into an appropriate group.

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I am Redbeard

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I decided to buy it. Downloading right now.

What really got me was talking on Vent with some old friends. Not to mention the 3 week break I'm going to have starting December 19th. I'm excited for this, I'll let you know how I feel about it after I spend some time on it, not that my opinion is valued or anything, :p

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Emorex

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UI pack or custom? Hows raid frames look with it?

Custom. I normally don't show Raid frames or party frames even since I am a tank and I could care less who is dieing. If people are dieing, I am not doing my job :p.

Omen goes to the bottom right, where the pet bar is but without the pet bar (I am frost).

If I wanted to add party/raid frames I would add it to the left hand side and it would probably be very similar to the target of target frame except the name would be inside the bar rather than on the top.

Grand Master

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Anyone know any calendar display mods?

I'm plugging away finishing up my UI for Neowin release (Because I've had about 15 requests for it, and I've released it to two people so far):

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And I've run into the subtle problem that when Minimalist hides "clutter" it hides the calendar which usually goes right next to the Carbonite map C icon.

I don't have anything that can resolve that. :(

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i bought the expansion, i hve been playing since day 1 the game came out, and this expansion seems so blah, everything seems so much easier, when i was in beta, the current 25mans/10mans were so easy it wasn't funny. I got my DK to 80 and i just couldn't find a reason to play, no challenge what so ever, i deleted all my toons and stopped playing.

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