Comments on: Community Round-Up: Shared Items, Quick Tricks and More http://www.maniasarcania.com/2007/10/31/community-round-up-shared-items-quick-tricks-and-more/ Flotsam from too many sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Someone http://www.maniasarcania.com/2007/10/31/community-round-up-shared-items-quick-tricks-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2653 Someone Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:09:48 +0000 http://www.maniasarcania.com/2007/10/31/community-round-up-shared-items-quick-tricks-and-more/#comment-2653 "Gwaendar has also posted a handy hint for controlling your pet: seems that when you issue the Stay command to your pet and then send him to Attack, telling him to go Passive later will send him to his Stay position, not to your side." Of course it does! :) Attack/Follow/Stay is one set of "options"; Aggressive/Defensive/Passive is a different one! Stay always means "Stay HERE", so, as long as he stops fighting (mob dead, set to Passive), he will return to that place! I used that a lot when camping an elite mob that was "bugged" and dropping the quest item for what should be a non-elite quest (needed to kill that elite 10 times when the "proper" mobs wouldn't drop the quest item and he did every single time!), so I'd set my cat close to the spawn place prowling and thus be ready to do him again as soon as he re-spawned, which thankfully was some 2 mins after going dead or so... Being an NE with Shadowmeld was also useful as I could stay closer to the spot just far enough to be in ranged action and not aggroing patrols... "I need coordinates so rarely that I’ve never bothered installed a mod that shows them" WHAT? GIRL! Do yourself a HUGE favor and install LightHeaded and TomTom RIGHT AWAY! I can't live without those anymore! That and a "proper" quest log as the default one, yuck! Here's what a "normal" questing session goes like: - Open quest log and for every quest in the proper region, check wowhead comments for that quest (that's PART of Lightheaded!) - Set a marker for the proper coordinates (99% of the time is just clicking on a blue link in those comments with the coordinates and a marker is set!) - Sometimes, when glimpsing said comments, I found that I can get quest X/Y/Z from NPCs A/B/C and I could complete both in the same place/from the same mobs, so I set a marker for those NPCs and go pick those up! - When my map is full of markers (those are all temporary markers), I look at it and set a "visual" route through all those quests. - Finally I start moving and when I complete a round at the map, safe some occasional exceptions such as picking up more quests on the way/from drops, I will have a bunch of quests ready to be delivered. This whole "preparation" process won't take more than 2-3 mins and will save me countless runs back and forth! Questing is MUCH faster this way! Not that I'm trying to speed race my chars to 70, but let's face it: after a few ones, you almost know those quests by heart, but why should you NOT optimize your route through them? And it doesn't need following a paper guide from player X or Y! You do the ones you want, in the order you want, but you do it faster! I hate moving around not doing something "useful", so whatever cuts my traveling time is a MUST, as long as it's legit and no hack! “Gwaendar has also posted a handy hint for controlling your pet: seems that when you issue the Stay command to your pet and then send him to Attack, telling him to go Passive later will send him to his Stay position, not to your side.”

Of course it does! :)

Attack/Follow/Stay is one set of “options”; Aggressive/Defensive/Passive is a different one!
Stay always means “Stay HERE”, so, as long as he stops fighting (mob dead, set to Passive), he will return to that place! I used that a lot when camping an elite mob that was “bugged” and dropping the quest item for what should be a non-elite quest (needed to kill that elite 10 times when the “proper” mobs wouldn’t drop the quest item and he did every single time!), so I’d set my cat close to the spawn place prowling and thus be ready to do him again as soon as he re-spawned, which thankfully was some 2 mins after going dead or so… Being an NE with Shadowmeld was also useful as I could stay closer to the spot just far enough to be in ranged action and not aggroing patrols…

“I need coordinates so rarely that I’ve never bothered installed a mod that shows them”

WHAT? GIRL! Do yourself a HUGE favor and install LightHeaded and TomTom RIGHT AWAY! I can’t live without those anymore! That and a “proper” quest log as the default one, yuck!

Here’s what a “normal” questing session goes like:
- Open quest log and for every quest in the proper region, check wowhead comments for that quest (that’s PART of Lightheaded!)
- Set a marker for the proper coordinates (99% of the time is just clicking on a blue link in those comments with the coordinates and a marker is set!)
- Sometimes, when glimpsing said comments, I found that I can get quest X/Y/Z from NPCs A/B/C and I could complete both in the same place/from the same mobs, so I set a marker for those NPCs and go pick those up!
- When my map is full of markers (those are all temporary markers), I look at it and set a “visual” route through all those quests.
- Finally I start moving and when I complete a round at the map, safe some occasional exceptions such as picking up more quests on the way/from drops, I will have a bunch of quests ready to be delivered.

This whole “preparation” process won’t take more than 2-3 mins and will save me countless runs back and forth!

Questing is MUCH faster this way! Not that I’m trying to speed race my chars to 70, but let’s face it: after a few ones, you almost know those quests by heart, but why should you NOT optimize your route through them? And it doesn’t need following a paper guide from player X or Y! You do the ones you want, in the order you want, but you do it faster!

I hate moving around not doing something “useful”, so whatever cuts my traveling time is a MUST, as long as it’s legit and no hack!

]]> By: sandralover http://www.maniasarcania.com/2007/10/31/community-round-up-shared-items-quick-tricks-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2606 sandralover Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:46:16 +0000 http://www.maniasarcania.com/2007/10/31/community-round-up-shared-items-quick-tricks-and-more/#comment-2606 the macro is interesting and i will try it one day but i like my nice simple coord addon called " Koordinator " it does all i need with 1 tiny window , it only gives the coord info nothing fancy like some of the other bloated coord addons i have tried and i mostly use it when in a new area and the map has no details showing , at least then i know where to head to ( it shows coords on the bottom line of the map when you open up the map window ) thanks for keeping us all up to date with all things WoW the macro is interesting and i will try it one day but i like my nice simple coord addon called ” Koordinator ” it does all i need with 1 tiny window , it only gives the coord info nothing fancy like some of the other bloated coord addons i have tried and i mostly use it when in a new area and the map has no details showing , at least then i know where to head to ( it shows coords on the bottom line of the map when you open up the map window )

thanks for keeping us all up to date with all things WoW

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