Logging in the first time and falling to my death. It’s especially fun to watch all the NPCs fall with me. No wonder the new Kargath is deserted.
Watching enemy spawns that haven’t been moved to match the new landscape yet wander through lava, at the bottom of the ocean, and up vertical cliffs.
Being able to Track Beasts and Innkeepers at the same time. Even better? Tracking herbs and ores at the same time.
Mounting up and flying real quick to catch the Orgrimmar to Undercity zeppelin as it leaves the tower.
Lagging while on the zeppelin and getting past the zoning screen just as I arrive back in Tirisfal.
Getting lost in Orgrimmar, particularly visiting visiting old what’s-his-name — you know, that orc no one likes — every time I want to go to the bank.
Flapping on my Green Proto-Drake over the immense crack through the center of the Barrens. (And being dismounted and falling to my death.)
Walking on the bottom of the ocean, looking up in awe and terror as a whale shark passes above me.
Getting lost in the Kelp Forest and swimming into the wrong boat. Three times. (Two ships — or maybe the same one twice? — inhabited by giblins and and one by Alliance.) Hint: Look for the one with the big skulls on it. (Unless you’re Alliance.)
Riding my bony pony Sparkles across the seabed.
Swimming up and down, left and right in a futile effort to get close enough to a corpse to loot. (My 3D spatial sense is awful.)
Finally finding — and killing — a quest lobster and immediately getting booted back to character select with the dreaded world server down message.
“Even better? Tracking herbs and ores at the same time.”
I have a hunter on one of my sadly neglected servers that has had this glitch on live for several years now. Its so handy I’ve NEVER attempted to change tracking!
It sems to have survived every patch since before TBC.
Oh, flying dead spots of doom. I remember that one in Shadowmoon Valley in TBC that persisted until 2.3 or 2.4 or something silly like that.
@Cryptography: it won’t be a glitch anymore, Cata will let you track multiple things at once on purpose :)
They should get rid of Improved Tracking out of the SV tree now they have allowed that though. When you can’t forget to turn an appropriate kind of tracking back on, it may as well be a passive “you do 3% more damage to enemies that can be tracked”.
Is the multi tracking split into nodes only or mobs only or does it also work node/mob (e.g. could my kitty druid track humanoids and herb nodes at the same time)?
Mania got into beta… Now someone let me iiiiin!!!
@Mania
For any underwater looting or mid-air targeting I use the “click to move” function that is in the Interface Options somewhere.
Basically, you right-click your target (that is reasonably close) and it automatically moves you to the target and loots or opens a quest box.
I discovered it a few years ago when I was spending more time trying to “get the attention” of that big Netherwing dragon that flies over SMV than I was spending actually doing the quests that he was giving me.
neutrallo: Oh excellent! Thank you. :>
Tsani: I was going to tell you that you can track herbs and humanoids at the same time so I logged in to get a screenshot — and found out that as a hunter I can track absolutely everything at the same time: beasts and humanoids and herbs and ore and giants and dragonkin and undead and …
… which renders my mini-map completely useless. *grin*
> Swimming up and down, left and right in a futile effort to get close enough to a corpse to loot. (My 3D spatial sense is awful.)
Oh god, me too, Mania. >_< lol!
*giggles about the completely cluttered minimap*
“Walking on the bottom of the ocean, looking up in awe and terror as a whale shark passes above me. ”
I’m going to avoid the ocean as much as I possibly can in Cataclysm. Sucks I have intense fears of the ocean and sharks and everytime i look they’re puting more of both in the game >< I had to get my fiance to do some of the quests in wrath of the lich king that involved sharks or water for me, sucked. Then they tried to introduce a land shark mini pet O_O i woulda fell right off my chair if i ever encountered one of those
I can really sympathize with that, Jesswyn. If we had quests on the surface of the open ocean I’d be in the same boat. (I can’t handle not being able to see the bottom below me.) As long as I can walk along the bottom it’s not so bad for me, but all things considered I rather wish this expansion wasn’t so much underwater.
Why would you be afraid of the ocean. other than stnking badly, it’s not tat bad. On the other hand, what land shark??? Any news on if they’re improvig what mobs can be tamed? friggin clefhoofs made into rhino class plz!!!
I realized later that my comment seemed insensitive.
To elaborate, the best way to get over a fear is to confront it. Granted, jumping off a boat to overcome a fear of the ocean isn’t a good idea. However playing a visual game and trying out some quests in a water zone would be a great way to “get your feet wet”, some pun intended. That way you’re not just gaining “progress” on some bit of data on a server somewhere, you’re overcoming a real life difficulty with a forgiving and simple environment where you can pace yourself without consequences.
^^ misstyped Email ^^
I’ve sometimes wondered if there are many arachnophobes that manage to cope with playing all of WoW… (cases in point, Amberweb Pass in the Draenei starting area, or all of the Nerubians in Wrath)
As far as phobias go, I don’t think it’s truly possible to understand them without experiencing them yourself. I don’t suffer from any that I know of, but I’ve had people that *are* phobic try to explain the sensation to me and I get the feeling that it’s such a visceral reaction the conscious mind really doesn’t get much of a chance to override it. Advice to “just confront it” may understandably *seem* helpful, but it really isn’t because the rational part of your brain isn’t calling the shots at that point (I see that kind of advice as being about as helpful as telling someone that is clinically depressed to “just cheer up”).
Riding the bony pony…..*LAUGHS*
“Logging in the first time and falling to my death. ”
Words cant describe how many times I’ve done that in Hyjal…
I also have one more to ad.
“Remembering that you can, indeed, fly on Azeroth now and don’t need to worry about which flight points land where.”
@ Jaraii
Honestly I’m not sure why i’m afraid of sharks and such. I mean I love animals and you’d think something as interesting/unique/historic as sharks would make them something I adore but it’s quite the oposite. Its just the visual of it, their face/fins/body even the name just make something snap in my head that triggers an instant anxiety attack. I never worried about the ocean before but the fact that sharks are in it make me afraid of that too. I havent had any bad experiences with sharks or anything, I literally just woke up one day saw a picture of a shark and it scared me half to death.