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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 3 of 4)
Ronnidobbs Dec 14th 2008 11:26PM
Gorilla is the best for all specs because they produce the most aoe threat
AyaJulia Dec 15th 2008 12:27AM
The Core Hound is a Ferocity pet and thus designed to do DPS, not tank. The gorilladin is a Tenacity pet, designed specifically for tanking, and its Thunderstomp special ability is the only one of its kind--AoE threat generation.
Magebleck Dec 15th 2008 12:26AM
Is this a new mount they are giving away for Winter Veil?
http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=21044
pushmonk Dec 15th 2008 12:41AM
As for hunter soloing instances, go to bigredrhino.com and you will see a community that has risen since patch 3.0. A lot of early BC content was being soloed at 70, so a lot is possible.
Genkitty Dec 15th 2008 1:09AM
Grid has a click to cast feature, just so you know :)
Radioted Dec 15th 2008 1:42AM
Here's a question that was kicking around Borean Tundra chat this weekend- are there treasure chests (or some equivalent) in Northrend? I've never encountered any, and no one else I know has, either.
Ice Dec 15th 2008 2:18AM
No. This was answered few queus back. Theres none at northend. Too "easy to farm" and didnt really drop anything that good then(well I did get blue 18 sword once at random chest with my 70..yoinks).
Mastique Dec 15th 2008 8:52AM
The closest thing I have seen to a chest is the prison locker in the Violet Hold. But you have to fish out a rusty prison key from the water there to open it. It has an extremely low drop rate, but I have been able to fish up 3 so far. (Yeah, i'm fishing while you are raiding, k? hehe) I have gotten 2 sets of blue 80 mail pants, and a set of blue 80 plate bracers. Thankfully they are BoE.
Sharlej Dec 15th 2008 3:00AM
@ herbalism
As I read somewhere (thou don't remember where), the higher the skill the higher propability of special things falling from node (eg. frost lotus). Maybe it was just hoax, or they changed it, but well if there was no use to it (except for faster gathering), Tauren racial vould be... not so good.
Aubrecia Dec 15th 2008 3:19AM
I could be wrong, but isn't that fenced area also where Brewfest was?
Ing Dec 15th 2008 3:36AM
I want to farm the at mounts.
What's the best way for a rogue?
Currently 78.
I think I might have trouble soloing, right?
Ing Dec 15th 2008 3:38AM
zg! Not at. Dang iPhone
Lemons Dec 15th 2008 4:30AM
"Extra Herbalism skill doesn't cause more herbs to come from a plant or anything like that, either."
Yeah, well it should! Its kinda stupid that a max level herbalist still only extracts a single goldclover from what seems to be a huge patch of them. What? Does your character trample all but one of them?
I figure the reason low level herbalists fail is because they somehow didn't do it properly, but as you become more deft at extracting herbs you should get more from the lower level plants.
This also helps counteract the fact that once you're lvl 80 you don't really visit most of the lower level zones anymore, but you still need the herbs from those zones to make pots. Even some of the most advanced pots (like flasks) still require goldclover.
If you were to get 4-6 goldcover from a node instead of just 1-3 it would counteract the fact that you just don't run into it while you're mopping up the final quests in Icecrown and Storm Peaks.
Mike Dec 15th 2008 9:01AM
Maybe 'one' goldclover isn't a single piece of clover.
Perhaps the problem is in the perception. It might be that when you have 'one' unit of goldclover, you've really got a big handful, and that a big handful is the smallest usable amount of goldclover that can be useful for anything.
I always thought of herbs as being measured in ounces or something. It made me feel better for only picking a single usable 'ounce' of a plant instead of a single leaf from an entire bush.
vanye111 Dec 15th 2008 10:12AM
I've pulled as many as 3 "ounces" of goldclover and 2 dead nettles from a single patch of goldclover.
Pyril Dec 15th 2008 4:30AM
Any idea why WoWInsider.com doesn't want to return to the previous page when I hit my back button?
Especially when I read user comments.
Xioyn Dec 15th 2008 7:14AM
Do you know of any addons that well let me select a player and put them on a list that will show up in chat, when I am talking to them, and if they or I invite them to a group. This would be for ninja's and other people I do not want to associate with
Immoraldilemma Dec 15th 2008 3:24PM
I think 'Karma' would suit your needs. It allows you to give every player you run with a rating of 0-100 (Obv. 0 if they were a baddie/ninja)
Wistin Dec 15th 2008 8:24AM
Why the picture of the huge breasted receptionist in the background?
vanye111 Dec 15th 2008 10:14AM
In case you want to go upstairs ;)