The Queue: Greatfather Winter is coming to town
by Alex Ziebart 
Dec 14th 2008 at 7:30PM
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.Welcome back! Before we start, I'd like to take a moment to remind all of you that Winter Veil starts tomorrow at 6 AM! Are you excited? I'm excited. After the next couple of days, keep an eye on WoW Insider for some great holiday guides and features. Now, let's get to the Q&A shall we?
Flint asked...
Is it possible for a level 80 hunter to solo any of the lowest level Outland instances, or will the boss fights be way too much for one person to handle by himself?
The early Outland instances are easily solo'd by most level 80 players (though not all), especially BM Hunters. You could probably solo many of the mid and high-level Burning Crusade dungeons as well, depending on your gear and pet. The gorilla pet is the pet tank to end all pet tanks, so having that will greatly improve your chances.
Shulkman asked...
Can a tailor change their BC specialization somehow in order to change their Wrath Spec so that they can make a different cloth?
You can change your specialization, but you'll need to drop a bit of gold to do it. Just head back to Shattrath where you originally learned your current specialization, and the NPCs there will let you change it for a fee.
Ragan asked...
I am a herbalist of 450 skill and I was wondering if I put the enchant gatherer on a pair of gloves will it improve the quantity of herbs in a node? Or does skill gained from enchants etc grant naything special if you're already at max skill? Thanks in advance.
It's useful in theory. It does push your skill to 455, over the cap of 450. In practice, it's pretty useless. It could make picking high end herbs easier if there were any herbs where it was actually a concern. In Classic WoW, the very high end herbs were right at the cap and thus picking them had a chance to fail. An extra 5 skill would've let you overcome that. In Wrath, only Frost Lotus nodes require 450 skill, but those are only found in Lake Wintergrasp. In a PvP zone, you want to be in your best gear possible, eh? Extra Herbalism skill doesn't cause more herbs to come from a plant or anything like that, either.
Tenchan asked...
There is a little fenced in and guarded spot in front of Orgrimmar now. It's not connected to the path to the Zep tower, and no one I asked had any idea what it's doing there. What's this little area for/involved in?
That's where the Orcs hold their weekly dance contests.
Frago asked...
Grid or Healbot?
How much time to do you want to sink into configuring your mods? Healbot is easier to use right off the bat, just install, click some buttons, and go. Grid takes a bigger time investment, but will ultimately be superior if you have the patience. Grid just has so many more options and convenient ways of displaying things that it takes a bit to wade through it all, but once you know what you like and don't like, it trumps Healbot (in my opinion).
The only thing Healbot has that Grid doesn't (I believe) is a click-to-cast feature. Most of the Healers I hang out with use Grid coupled with Clique for their click-casting. It's a great pair of mods, but again, will take more time to configure than the simpler Healbot.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Cheesetoast Dec 14th 2008 7:42PM
Actually that little fenced-in area in front of Org is just where you get ported if you try to get to Northrend without Wrath installed/attached to your account.
At least, that was my experience...
tony Dec 14th 2008 10:22PM
Why does it seem the comments are more useful than the articles?
offday Dec 15th 2008 12:30AM
Because in the articles they can't just say, "I don't know," or at least just not publish your question. Instead they like to take people's serious questions and turn them into jokes.
twelve Dec 15th 2008 2:16AM
love it - or leave it
Daniel Dec 15th 2008 4:01AM
@Cheesetoast
In fact this spot is not the spot you got ported without "WotLK".
The point you got ported was aabout a hundred feed southwards on the right side (if your heading towards OG).
jim carey Dec 15th 2008 7:59AM
@tony and offday:
if you find these posts so useless then you can always leave. this may be surprising to you but your not being forced to read this.
king0lag Dec 15th 2008 8:25AM
I always found Jim Carey's older work to be more funny than his new stuff. He's just losing it lately.
Kassu Dec 15th 2008 9:41AM
To clear something up:
"Shulkman asked...
Can a tailor change their BC specialization somehow in order to change their Wrath Spec so that they can make a different cloth?"
Your answer was a bit wobbly. You can make all the new cloths with ANY spec, but the spec of choice will gain a bonus of an extra piece of cloth recieved in the crafting process.
Redman Dec 14th 2008 7:43PM
As of a few patches ago, once you reach the max gather skill you can no longer fail to herb/mine/skin something as long as the item doesn't require more than you have. Back in the day where you needed finkle's skinner & the skinning enchant to skin a core hound. I don't know if anything like this exists any more.
Farrell Dec 14th 2008 7:54PM
The main reason for finkle's and the enchant was for being able to skin Onyxia and the Beast [and corehounds of level 61+], since they were boss level and therefore were +3 to level.
Of course, they were internally coded as 63, so with TBC this became no longer needed
The only reason I could see a need for them again is if we get a skinnable boss [or level 81+] mob. [Are any of the current dragon bosses skinnable?]
Chris Anthony Dec 14th 2008 8:30PM
Fortunately, skinning skill has outpaced the level cap. My understanding, borne out by empirical testing at lower levels, is that you can skin creatures of a level up to [Skinning/5]. (This appears to be waived for creatures of level 10 or less.) At the moment, therefore, skinners can skin creatures up to level 90, so skinning bosses shouldn't pose any problem at this point.
Farrell Dec 14th 2008 7:57PM
The herbalism - and mining, etc - enchants were to try and make sure that you'd not fail a gather on a max level node [and for skinning, see above].
However, as stated, since a patch from ages ago, the herb and mining enchants are pretty much useless apart from helping you level a touch faster [those node/herbs that were previously just out of level reach].
Kriegle Dec 14th 2008 8:19PM
i r nubbin:
What does QQ mean?
Chris Anthony Dec 14th 2008 8:31PM
"QQ" represents a pair of eyes with tears falling from them - thus, crying, generally over a change made to the game that someone dislikes, or a loss of some sort that someone else feels the need to belittle.
joerendous Dec 14th 2008 8:33PM
bless your heart.
cjshrader Dec 14th 2008 11:20PM
Less QQ more pew pew
Kassius Dec 14th 2008 8:33PM
I always thought that little new area outside orgrimmar was just a duelling area; more formally pronounced
Dez Dec 14th 2008 10:40PM
That was my first thought as well, however on second thought it's way small for that, imagine like 20+ duels going on at once and ppl move around, you would have no idea who is fighting who and it would just be a mess.
The area outside Org where duels usually go on is nice, even if you're not dueling you can choose to spectate a duel that seems interesting.
Firestride Dec 14th 2008 8:34PM
I've been healing for all of two weeks, but what is Healbot doing for you if you're not using Click-to-Heal? I thought that's what Healbot was: a way to click (and right-click, and shift-click, etc.) to heal. You make it sound like a small feature. Am I missing something?
Stripes Dec 15th 2008 12:13PM
Healbot (I assume - I use Grid) also shows various debuffs that the healer may need to clean off party members. It also shows current health status AND incoming heals, so you can avoid having 3 people throw huge heals on someone only to have 2 of 'em get wasted.
I also have mine set to show who has aggro, and some people have it set to show who doesn't have whatever buff they are responsable for keeping up.
So it does all sorts of fancy stuff OTHER then click cast (in fact Grid doesn't do click cast, it makes a great click cast target, but it doesn't do click cast itself).