1621

Not in a guild but if I joined, normally I join a guild and then get booted once I stop playing, would I lose the mount if I wasn’t in that guild anymore?

1622

Nope, you keep the mount and any pets you bought from the guild vendor. I know that from personal experience.

The shieldwall dailies reward you with a new griffon model at the end and you can buy the armored version when hitting exalted. One of my favorite mounts is the Flameward Hippogriff which you can get from finishing up all the quest lines for the molten front dailies in Hyjal. It takes awhile to get, but its beautiful.

1623

Quickest flying mount: solo heroic Culling of Stratholme, guaranteed Bronze drake. Make sure you have picked up some MoP greens available to increase ilevel.

1624

Oh, duh, I forgot that one.

1625

Man, logged in 1 minute after server reset at 5 AM PST at the exact spot and someone had already beaten me to the Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman.

1626

Would it be worth getting to 90 and somed ecent gear and then doing that, it’s not like i need it now.

Also can you still get the charger from Strat and should i be abale to solo it as well?

1627

It was soloable at 85, worth a shot right now if you are in the mood. MoP greens should have you kitted out at Dragon Soul raiding levels.

The ground mount from Baron whats-his-face Strat is a ~1% drop rate. Grindy and non-flying.

Regarding soloing in general, a hunter should be able to handle everything up to LK heroics at 85. Use your pet to tank, don’t overpull. Remember you can be invulnerable for a while and that you have a get-out-of-combat-free button.

Regarding raids (accessible solo now) I recall using my DK tank to solo at least 60% of Kara at 80 in partial Icecrown gear. Oddly enough, gold sites often have good soloing guides due to collectibles/mats markets.

1628

It’s a timed run though (at least the last part) so you might not be fast enough solo’ing it (then again it’s BC level 70 tuned).

1629

I like those phoenix mounts you can earn from challenge dungeons. Don’t see myself running a lot of those, but I do like those mounts.

1630

Well joined a couple of guilds, level 25 ones bu when getting in found tehy had no active members, how hard is to just join an active friendly guild.

Also I assume I need to earn rep with the guild before I can buy the mount.

I think I won’t bother with the mount outside of heroic culling and see what happens

1631

You would need to earn guild rep, yeah. Takes maybe a couple zones of questing, if that. and I don’t think it matters if they have active members as long as at some point they earned the achievement that rewards the Dark Phoenix.

1632

Yeah but be nice to have a guild with people in as well, still if it doesn’t take long probably 85-90 would do it anyways

1633

The bonuses that come with being a member of a level 25 guild mean a lot. They will help you get to 90. Buy an Illustrious or Renowned Guild Tabard to boost your guild reputation gains. Even doing the daily cooking and fishing quests (as well as any other quests you get experience from) will boost your guild rep.

I soloed my way to 90 on four toons and all of them belonged to a level 25 guild.

1634

Why not join Drop Bears? It’s level 25, friendly and usually plenty of raids and groups. I’ve been in it since I started playing WoW in Burning Crusade, and I’ve gotten a lot further than I would’ve on my own (or in one of those “we invite anyone” guilds).

1635

463, yes. Gear lower than that doesn’t get bumped up, though. Hit and expertise don’t scale down, or you’d barely be able to hit anything!

1636

It may sound odd, but I’m really looking forward to buying out Yoon on the farm and the new quest hub, although for entirely different reasons.

For the farm, it’s the first time we’ve been able to buy real estate. never mind we will all have instance versions of the SAME real estate, it’s still ours. Plus, this idea of getting contracts from around Azeroth for rep or other rewards is really interesting, since they’ve never done anything like that before, either. It’s a whole new dynamic, and maybe the freshest thing I’ve imagined in years for WoW. I may be disappointed and may love it completely, but I’ll give props for the effort in advance.

The quest hub takes me back to the BC elf elf island questing, where more quests became available as the server population works together to build up the effort. We haven’t seen anything like that since 2008, and I’ve really missed it. The individual build of the Firelands quest hub, to me personally, just never engaged me. I never felt like part of an over-arching anything. But I did in BC. So long as this is server-wide and not just individual contribution, I’m eager.

Also, Blizz announced that they will be increasing the loot drops in 5.2 for 5.0 LFRs, to help with gearups for the 5.2 stuff. That will make it easier to gear toons quickly. I’ve personally had dreadful luck, winning something like 6 pieces of gear in over 2 months, and 3 of them duplicates. I just gave up on LRF. This could help get me back in, and maybe get me some gear and enthusiasm for regular raiding.

So, from my casual and dailied-out point of view, sounds pretty promising.

1637

Good idea except i’m Europe based :)

1638

Uh…I was LFR-ready the second week they were out, and had only run 4 heroics and had 1 piece of heroic gear.

1639

1 piece of heroic gear and you were LFR ready in Week 2?? Then you must have spent more gold than most people have because I can’t see any other way to get that high that fast other than chain running heroics and maybe a few world boss drops.

1640

The highest quest gear is 437, each class has 2 476 craftable pieces available (chest & gloves), sha can get you some 476 boots, there’s a 450 weapon quest with the ring scenario, and maybe you got a 470 brewfest trinket.

The numbers are tough to add up. What did I miss? Scenario gear? Profession trinket? Retained valor & justice points?