Ah, Cleg, I don't quite agree with your opinion about fishing and cooking => my point of view
There are fish alchemists need ( so far 2 I know of) for fish oil => nice to sell. Fishing higher animals (lvl 25/35)and having the recipy to cook them requires no further ingredients for cooking and brings the cooking skill up very quickly. I had the max of fishing/cooking at 225 pretty quickly, by just fishing and cooking the fish
The thunderbirds e.g. only eat cheese and fish. So, I provide one hunter with that, so her animal is happy. My cat loves fish/flesh, so I can provide her with a variety of both - cooking fish increases the healing ability they have.
Am waiting now (lvl 39) to become 40, so I can gather the fishing quest and advance to 300.
Besides that => I fish potions, locked chests, weapons, chests with engineering equipment etc.
And... fishing is fun. It relaxes me to stand by the water and find out if there is endemic prey. The funniest lake so far was Cragpoole => fish smeared with oil, rusty bolts etc => pollution.
Everything you say is correct. It is just that fishing takes time and is relatively inactive time. I haven't had the patience for it. Perhaps I will give it a shot after reading your post.
As far as being an ingredient in alchemy recipes, I buy firefin snapper at the AH (auction house). Sometimetimes you can get it cheaply there--I have bought them for as little as 3 silver each. Sometimes of course it is really expensive--20 Silver apiece or more.
I maintain one alt who does nothing but buy and sell at AH. It is a big time saver for my other alts not to have to travel to Orgrimmar all the time. And it can be a huge money maker as well.
Auction house strategy What I'm really starting to dislike highly about WoW is raid disease (spamming in general chat and lags, lags, lags) and the new "honour system". Gets on my nerves. I'm hoping for Blizzard to provide RPG gamers with a server of their own.
I posted this in a thread I began on another forum:
"I do not like PvP and I am not a casual player. I never would have bought WoW if it were not for the fact that I had been led to believe that I would not have to be the victim of PvP on a PvE server. On a PvE server theoretically, if you don't want to engage in PvP you don't have to and your gameplay experience will be unaffected by PvP. We all know that is not true.
1. The opposing faction kills off NPCs which are essential for travel, questing, and the acquisition of skills. This has caused me masive disruption of my gameplay.
2. Battles between opposing factions cause massive lag problems for those who are not involved in the battle.
I wish they would remove PvP from the PvE servers."
I received a ton of replies. One brought me hope:
"Good news! Blizzard has announced that Battlegrounds will be in place for next patch and the following:
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We're taking our first step towards a dishonor system upon the release of the next patch. Trivial civilian NPCs such as quest givers and vendors will now give dishonor points to players that prey upon them. We haven't decided upon a specific penalty but it will be enough that the majority of players will not wish to engage in combat with those NPCs. This combined with the fact that upon the release of Battlegrounds most players will not be targeting towns or unsuspecting adventurers nearly as often, should reduce the need to add too much more in the way of a penalty, or dishonor.
See the full Q & A
here About skinning/leatherworking => gives XP by killing animals, skill is easy to advance as many leave the corpses on the ground, so I know a few "grounds" where I can skin the remnants of others and kill myself. Even high armoured warriors like a boost with the +32 sets - am waiting here for lvl 40 as well, so I can put on my turtle armour - and see if there are higher boosts.
Stranglethorn is the absolute best place for this bar none.
I'm sorry if I sound really harsh but i really didn't have any luck in the parties i was for the 3 last days... and i'm in a (more or less) bad mood
some examples
-people who are systematically rolling dices for items they don't need and they knew you need
-people who invite you in a group without a word and won't say a word during all the (generally short) existence of the group.
-people who are agressiving dangerous mobs despite of the common sense then are very surprised and angry to die.
-and also people for whom the vocabulary is reduced to "hi" and ""lol".
As far as I can say this is not really related to how old they may be. I'm precising that.
LOL!
Yes, this can be a problem. One remedy is a guild of people who really understand the game and are helpful and courteous to boot. I can recommend 2.
Both maintain websites which you should visit to get the flavor of the folks (As well as a lot of good WoW info). Both go back to the days of D1. To play with either group you need to become a member on their site. The amazon basin is a lot more formal and structured about it.
1. the amazon basin
http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/They have a presence on Stormrage, PvE, alliance, high pop server. And on Tichondriou, horde, PvP, high pop server. They are huge with I think around 500 members on Stormrage. Personally I don't like these servers because of issues I experienced with queues to login at peak times, lag in the big cities, and stability.
2. the lurker lounge
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/This is a smaller group and not a guild per se. I play horde on Terenas with Lurkers. Small group, often only 2-4 on, but great people.
They are on some other servers as well--look at the WoW forums on their site and the servers they play will be under their avatars.
