The Queue: Feasting and Fishing
by Alex Ziebart 
Nov 25th 2008 at 3:15PM
Welcome back! Since yesterday's picture of Malygos was so awful, I decided to give up on his righteous beard and take a picture of his lightning breath instead. Yeah, see that up there? It hurts. It hurts a lot. Just trust me on that. Let's get into the Q&A now, eh?
Goorguy asked...
Why is it that tanks are always the group leaders? Why are we always expected to mark mobs? Every time I get in a group to tank for it I will always get thrown the leader. I don't really mind, but at least once I want to get in a group where someone else was willing to mark for me, instead of the other way around.
It's usually the tank's job to set the pace of combat. Not always, but usually. The tank knows what they want to tank, the tank knows what they tend to have trouble with and want crowd controlled, and the tank is the first one into combat and should be ahead of the pack. The tank should know exactly where each mob needs to be when a pull starts. What will she/he be tanking, and what will be sapped/kittened/feared? It's more important for the tank to know where each individual mob is. The Mage or Rogue or whatever doesn't need to know all of that. It's better for the tank to do it in most cases.
Zoidberg asked...
What's with the cooking daily quest? It seems to give out cooking currency, but I can't spend the currency in a useful way until I hit 400 cooking. Should I level my cooking to 400 on [Feast]?
Feasts or green recipes. Tradeskills overall take a little more effort now than they did in The Burning Crusade. Rather than your last 10-15 points in a tradeskill being back-breakingly expensive, the whole leveling process is a bit more difficult to make a better curve. So yes, you can either skill up on Feasts or the wide variety of green recipes you have at that level. If you're a raider, Feasts are actually very useful and mass producing those will be nice to keep costs down on individual raiders. It's more 'efficient' to mass produce feasts, if not the best food in the game for min-maxing If you like Fishing, you can skill fishing at the same time since a lot of your current green recipes are fish. Be warned, you'll be fishing for a long time.
Terethall asked...
How much gnome could the Lich King punt if the Lich King could punt gnomes?
All of them, plus a Dwarf.
Darkwind asked...
Have any of the WoW Insiders come across any Tailoring dailies? I've seen JC, LW and Cooking dailies for tokens, but nothing evident for Tailoring.
Only certain professions have dailies like that right now, not all of them. Tailoring doesn't have any, neither does Blacksmithing or Engineering or a few other ones. It wouldn't surprise me if we saw more of those types of things in a future patch, because they add some nice flavor to otherwise boring profession work. I don't really know that for sure, though.
Algathar asked...
I want to ask a question about Naxxramas concerning the final wing of the raid, the Frostwyrm Wing. I know that the first four wings must be cleared in order to access it, but will this be something you need to do each time the raid resets, or is it a one-off unlock and that's it? Also, does everyone in the raid group have to have cleared the first four wings in order to access the final wing, or does just one person need to be able to access it in order for everyone to enter? Thanks.
It just opens up after the four wings have been cleared, like a gate... except it's a teleportation device. You don't attune to it or anything like that, so you need to clear the entirety of Naxx every reset. As long as you're in a raid with a raid ID that has this area opened up, you can go to it, even if only one of the people in your raid originally cleared up to that point. Just make sure that one person isn't stealing the Raid ID from its original group, eh?
Clasifyd asked...
What's the deal with 'The Sunreavers' faction? I'm neutral with them now, and as far as I can see, there's no way to gain rep with them, and they don't have a quartermaster so far as I can see. Will these guys be 'used' with or after Uludar, or are they just hanging out to make a blood elf presence?
The other day we had a Wrath 101 post that goes into all of that stuff in some detail, so you might want to give that a look. It has a basic look at all of the factions and reputations in Wrath, including that one.
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW Insider crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column! Leave your questions in the comments and we'll do our best to answer 'em!Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Factions, Wrath of the Lich King, The Queue
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
James Nov 25th 2008 3:28PM
What are the best min-maxing professions for each class?
Stormscape Nov 25th 2008 3:32PM
Does Crusader Aura or On A Pale Horse affect VEHICLE speed?
Ttya Nov 25th 2008 4:08PM
Aspect of the pack does, so i assume unholy aura would. I'm not sure about the mounted movment speed increases do though.
Eisengel Nov 25th 2008 6:21PM
I was just wondering if anyone else found Unholy aura a little... out of place? Blood aura; extra damage and healing, yeah! Frost aura; extra armor and stam (and spell resistance on talenting), yeah! Unholy aura... here we go... the crazy, insane power of an Unholy ex-minion of the Arthas and one-time Knight of the Scourge is... you can run faster! ... what?
JPN Nov 25th 2008 3:32PM
The link didn't really answer the Sunreavers question...lol...
Doffencrag Nov 25th 2008 3:36PM
From the linked article Wrath 101: Factions and reputation:
"The Sunreavers and The Silver Covenant are an extra-special case, because they're currently almost entirely unused, along with Crystalsong Forest where they have their base camps. I fully expect to see these two used more in a future content patch, like Ogri'la and Skettis were implemented after The Burning Crusade's release."
Ness Nov 25th 2008 3:34PM
Originally, death knights were gonna be available to make on every realm, as long as you had a 55 character on one realm. When they changed it to only having a death knight on the realm your character was on, i heard it was only temporary and at some point it would change back. Is this true? and if so, when?
Tseran Nov 25th 2008 3:34PM
Tanks are also generally the leaders because they need the ability to set marks to determine which mobs will be CCed, which order they will be killed in and such, and that is something only a group leader can do according to the coding.
Eisengel Nov 25th 2008 6:13PM
Actually this seems to be some behavior that cropped up around mid to late BC. Usually in vanilla WoW or early BC I was group lead and marked on my Rogue. One of the advantages was I had good stealth, and in dungeons we hadn't been in I could see if there were mobs/pulls we couldn't see around corners, and if there were long-range pats. I ran Sethekk halls so many times for my Assassination shoulders I had the pulls down to a science... and every so often people would ask to pull with no marks just to make things interesting.
Doffencrag Nov 25th 2008 3:36PM
From the article Wrath 101: Factions and reputations:
"The Sunreavers and The Silver Covenant are an extra-special case, because they're currently almost entirely unused, along with Crystalsong Forest where they have their base camps. I fully expect to see these two used more in a future content patch, like Ogri'la and Skettis were implemented after The Burning Crusade's release."
Doffencrag Nov 25th 2008 3:40PM
Grrr.... durn comment system...
FF Nov 25th 2008 3:38PM
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could get to 400 cooking fairly easily through the green recipes. Fishing was a big help. If you can't fish, buy those fish in mass because it seems easier/cheaper than Feast.
Cyno Nov 25th 2008 3:44PM
Keep in mind, you need to make 5 feasts for the Dinner Impossible battleground cooking achievement.
ferrrow Nov 25th 2008 3:40PM
The tank deal, its just part of a consiracy between the DPS to pass the job to the tank.
They could mark and decide pulls themselves and just let the tank know, many times I had to help inexperienced tnaks like that.
Its not hard.
But they dont want to do it so they pass the job to the tank.
Rohannor Nov 25th 2008 3:49PM
If I'm in a good experienced group, as a tank I actually prefer someone else who knows the fights well to do it so I can just do my job and have less on my plate. If I take skull everytime or skull and diamond or whatever, just mark em up and let me go get em.
Besides my Intelligence is only 33. *drools*
Arcaria Nov 25th 2008 3:53PM
were you being sarcastic or are you kind of an idiot?
I'll bite just in case it's the later. Unless you're helping an inexperienced tank learn it's much faster and more efficient to have him mark the mobs he wants to tank himself instead of having someone else do it and then explain their thoughts.
It's part of a tanks job. Don't like it, don't be a tank.
Dunnion Nov 25th 2008 6:49PM
@Arcaria
And that is why people don't like to be tanks. All the DPS show up, and turn off their brains, while the tank marks, but its insane for a tank to let a DPS mark, and not think for a run? that sounds fair.
Maybe you should expand your horizons a little. Explaining why a tank is going to tank a mob for a certain fight is exactly the same as a tank explaining to the DPS why they are killing the target they are killing. Stop being lazy.
Phaedra Nov 25th 2008 3:41PM
There is no LWing daily. You can, however, turn in leather and fur for recipes.
Gridneo Nov 25th 2008 3:42PM
Anybody have information on LWing dailies? I hadn't seen them yet, but I do tackle the Cooking Daily every time I can...
Terethall Nov 25th 2008 3:44PM
How much harder are WotLK heroic dungeons than their regular counterparts? When I hit 80 in my levelling greens and blues, will I be successful in heroics with a decent group, or is there a significant gear check on heroic dungeons?