The Queue: Ebonweave and heirloom longevity
by Alex Ziebart 
Nov 22nd 2008 at 8:30PM
Welcome to today's edition of The Queue, in which we don't have any witty or necessary preamble, so we're going to skip straight to the questions.
Aigarius asked...
Is it possible to craft Ebonweave without cold weather flying?
Technically yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. You'll need a lot of help to do it. By help I mean people who are willing to summon you into Icecrown and protect you while you get to the altar needed to craft the cloth. If you have really good friends willing to do that for you, go for it. If not? Don't bother. Just wait until you can fly.
AbsalonPrieto asked...
I remember a Story about how there would be a overhaul to Mining, so you wouldn't have to run to Elwynn forest to get those Copper Nodes to level up. What ever happen to that?
This actually did happen to some extent. They wanted to make it easier to skill up Mining, and they did. You get skillups from Smelting longer than you did before. Smelting Copper doesn't go grey before you can even mine Tin anymore, for example. You can't avoid mining entirely (unless you spend a whole lot of money on the auction house) but skilling should be much faster than it used to be.
fobe asked...
This might be a bit early for this question, but my question is about heirloom items. They are useful for leveling alts, but what will they be worth after Wrath? Will heirloom items still scale with you when you will be leveling to 90 in a couple of years and will you still get the experience bonus from the shoulders or will they stop being useful after level 80?
Yeah, it's a bit early for that one. We just don't know, and I bet Blizzard doesn't know either. That's probably something we won't find out until the beta of whatever the next expansion is, and that's a long ways off. If they scale up to level 90 they'll probably end up far inferior to actual level 90 blues. They sort of need to be for people to want to do 5-man dungeons.
Andostre asked...
I remember hearing that they were going to do to tabards what they did to Badges of Justice or vanity pets. Is there still a plan to keep tabards from taking up bag space?
The more common tabards can be thrown away and repurchased at tabard vendors in major cities, so there's that. I don't think they plan on doing something like they did with vanity pets, they just made it easier to get rid of them and get new ones without feeling bad about it. It will still cost you a bit, but you don't really need to keep thousands of tabards around anyway, even for the achievement. Once the tabard has been registered as you owning it at one time, it counts forever.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King, The Queue
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Lorcher. Nov 22nd 2008 8:50PM
Lorcher was first.
How do I turn into a cat as a druid.
Arturis Nov 23rd 2008 9:16PM
step 1) level your druid to at least lvl 20
step 2) purchase Cat Form from the druid trainer
step 3) Activate the Cat Form skill
step 4) Meow!
jon Nov 22nd 2008 8:58PM
hey i was heard about dual specs a while back does anyone have any idea when that will be implemented?
Snorri Einarsson Nov 22nd 2008 9:35PM
Last we heard about dual specs is that they will be implemented in the 3.1 patch which also brings the Ulduar raid. It should be coming relatively soon, as Ulduar was apparently finished already.
Osi Nov 22nd 2008 8:59PM
Nice responses. But the mining answer is wrong. All smelting becomes grey at one point, and you must mine to level up mining until you get to the next ore.
SaintStryfe Nov 22nd 2008 9:16PM
I just leveled my DK up to 300 mining.
Most of the time, it'll be your AH that's the problem - if there's not enough truesilver for instance, you get to go mining. But for the most part, I was able to smelt 275 of the 300 ranks without even trying. It cost about 1500 gold total.
Avery Nov 22nd 2008 10:34PM
Same for me on the smelting to level up my mining. I got all sorts of upset about releveling my mining for my JC. So I went the expensive route, I bought ore off the AH and smelted it. I was able to get a LOT of skillups just by doing that. I still had to go out and mine at times when the smelting would go green (around 272 I was smelting around 40 truesilver ore for one skill up. At that point I couldn't justify it anymore). I think I ended up spending almost 600g doing it that way, but it was a lot faster than running around trying to find a node and hoping that it would give me a skillup. Luckily I was able to make a decent amount of it all back by selling the smelted bars on the AH.
Osi Nov 22nd 2008 10:36PM
They must of modified it extremely recently. Just over 2 months ago, I had to re-level my mining. I ended up having to mine about 20 points in the middle. Somewhere in the Silver or Tru-Silver area. After that, then I was able to buy the rest of the ore.
Its good that this change happened. But was it a hidden change to mining, or was it documented?
Naithin Nov 22nd 2008 9:03PM
This might be one that someone here can answer for me, but:
How much gold do the level 80 dailies give you? Are there even level 80 specific dailies, or do you just gain more gold from the existing ones you find as you level due to no longer gaining the xp from them? I know there were heroic / regular dungeon dailies mentioned recently, but it was never actually mentioned how much or what they offer in way of reward.
Any information on this would be much appreciated! :)
Donaghy Nov 23rd 2008 3:06AM
Dailys in Icecrown seem to give about 13g 23s or somewhere there abouts. Dungeon dailies give somewhere around 35g and also give you your choice of an item that when used will give you 250 rep with either Ebon Blade, Wyrmrest, Kirin Tor or Argent Crusade.
Drea Nov 22nd 2008 9:29PM
Mining can be leveled to at least 225 from solely smelthing ore. My DK got to 227 mining through sittingin SW smelting, and smelthing mithril is still a green.
Feanor Nov 22nd 2008 10:16PM
During the Scourge Event, the Night Elf quest chain ended with Tyrande talking about the discovery of a new world tree in Northrend. Is that tree actually somewhere in Northrend?
Anteia Nov 22nd 2008 10:26PM
SPOILER WARNING.
Sort of. It is, in fact, a very very old tree that is in lots of parts, primarily in Grizzly Hills. There is a whole rather awesome quest chain pertaining to it and why it is not a 'good thing'.
kozom Nov 22nd 2008 10:32PM
SPOILERS AHEAD:
that was an old corrupted one no? and i believe they are referring to the one right ouside dalaran in the crystalsong forest...i think...because the "new" grizzly hills one they would know is dead right?
(the one you refer to)
http://www.wowwiki.com/Grizzlemaw
(mine)
http://www.wowwiki.com/Crystalsong_Forest
Anteia Nov 23rd 2008 1:01AM
SPOILERS FOR GRIZZLY HILLS
Except The Great Tree in Crystalsong is only a sapling of a world tree http://www.wowwiki.com/Great_Tree . It's a portal to the Emerald Dream and the very page for Crystalsong said only it survived because of the Emerald dream.
The actual quest words from Tyrande are: What's more, we have sensed that perhaps another world tree grows far to the north, nestled hidden near the Lich King's own domain. Perhaps someday... we will shepherd both trees and herald a new era of peace. http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12773
What they are in fact referring to as 'growing' is the sapling INSIDE The world tree in Grizzly Hills. The Furbolgs are attempting to regrow it, and you are given a quest to burn it, and to actually find all the seeds of it so that it cannot be regrown. I just didn't want to give that much detail before to avoid spoiling it for people.
A wondering Hunter Nov 22nd 2008 10:34PM
Hi all,
I am not sure my question will be appropriate but I will try to ask it anyway.
I heard from a few of my friends who play WoW about an in game leveling guide that costs money. I think it was called Zygor.
Has anyone heard of it? Is it safe as far as spy ware key-loggers? Can one get banned by using it?
will appreciate any response!
deathsteed Nov 22nd 2008 10:48PM
You won't get banned for using a leveling guide, but you may get smacked upside your head for buying one. Look for James leveling guide. It's great, and levels you really quickly. I have only used the horde side, but I leveled 4 alts to 60 that way, and it works very well.
Quill2006 Nov 22nd 2008 11:32PM
Jame's guides are amazing; fast, easy to follow, and free! They're probably better than anything you'd pay for; the guy loves to write them and they are much faster than anything else I've seen.
They're available only on www.wow-pro.com, and they're Jame's guides, not James's guides, if it makes any difference. He's even got DK leveling guides and is planning on making class-specific guides. I used them to lvl my hunter to 70 and they work very well for that class. I'm in the midst of following his Horde 70-80 guides and so far, so good!
Really, you don't need to pay for anything. It's not worth the money when people who love the game will give their advice to you for free. Just pay attention to the advice given by people like Jame and Big Red Kitty and you'll be in great shape.
Kyle Nov 23rd 2008 2:04AM
TourGuide is the way to go. look it up on WoWInterface.com. It's an in-game guide similar to Zygor but free and freakin awesome..There's a writeup here on the site about it. Get TomTom + LightHeaded + DoubleWide and you'll be 70 in no time! Unfortunately no 70-80 or DK guides yet but there will be soon.
Pfooti Nov 23rd 2008 10:11AM
Unpaid testimonial here - I use Brian Kopp's guide, and I like it a LOT more than any other guide for the alliance, free or otherwise. I've leveled four characters to 70 using it (druid, rogue, night elf, death knight). I don't know if there's a 70-80 guide, but leveling seems so much easier in Northrend, I doubt it's necessary.