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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:10:55 -0500, Fvert <fvert@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>(1) Are the mobs on Three Breeze Terrace gone? Didn't see them on a 
>recent visit.

Nope, they're only there when someone summons them, so as nobody's
doing the summoning now, they're absent, but they'll return if someone
does the summon :-)

>(2) I used my instant 90 to level a low level alliance. I am  Horde on 
>all my high level characters. I was hoping to level him a bit in 
>Pandaria, especially Timeless, before moving him along to WoD. Do I need 
>flying to get to Pandaria on Alliance? I know I did on Horde. It will be 
>awhile before I can afford flying. Seems a bit silly to instant level to 
>90 but have everything else about the toon be as it was at lvl 15.

Don't you at least get slow flying with the boost? Even if not, it
costs like 500g for slow flying+Azeroth flying, can't be that hard to
get. Cage and sell a pet from your main if all else fails, that's an
easy way to transfer money between factions/realms.

>(3) I am considering getting a recent Apple leptop for mostly work but 
>some WoW. I will get enough RAM to do the job but what graphics minimum 
>do I need?

Haven't a clue I'm afraid, chances are the WoW site will tell you
though, should be some minimum requirements someplace on it.

>(4) On the toon on which I have lvl 2 mine, I mine the ore nodes when I 
>first log on but there are no mining carts. If I go back later in the 
>day there are usually carts but no nodes. Are they on different timers?

They're supposed to be on the same one (at least, I thought they
were), but mine are different too. No idea how it actually works!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:40:26 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>Okay, so one time? In band camp? Fvert <fvert@nospam.invalid> was all, like:
>> (2) I used my instant 90 to level a low level alliance. I am  Horde on 
>> all my high level characters. I was hoping to level him a bit in 
>> Pandaria, especially Timeless, before moving him along to WoD. Do I need 
>> flying to get to Pandaria on Alliance? I know I did on Horde. It will be 
>> awhile before I can afford flying. Seems a bit silly to instant level to 
>> 90 but have everything else about the toon be as it was at lvl 15.
>
>You do not need flying in Pandaria on either faction. In fact, if you
>level in Pandaria you cannot fly. You cannot fly at all in WoD, so I
>don't see any reason to pay for flying. There is also no reason to try
>to gear up in Pandaria at level 90.

His question was about getting there though - if you need to do the
intro quest to unlock the place, then you need to be able to fly in
order to reach the airship... but as I said in my post, it's really
cheap to get that level of flying, and frankly I'd expect it to be
given anyway on a boosted character (I haven't boosted one yet but it
seems an odd thing to leave out!)

Den 11-12-2014 20:10, Fvert skrev:

> (2) I used my instant 90 to level a low level alliance. I am  Horde on
> all my high level characters. I was hoping to level him a bit in
> Pandaria, especially Timeless, before moving him along to WoD. Do I need
> flying to get to Pandaria on Alliance? I know I did on Horde. It will be
> awhile before I can afford flying. Seems a bit silly to instant level to
> 90 but have everything else about the toon be as it was at lvl 15.

If you have the waterwalking mount from Nat Pagle you can actually walk 
to Timeless despite you get the exhaustion debuff between the island and 
the mainland.

> (3) I am considering getting a recent Apple leptop for mostly work but
> some WoW. I will get enough RAM to do the job but what graphics minimum
> do I need?

I bet any apple laptop can do it.  Which model do you have in mind?

Intel's HD3000 can run the game, but I wont recommend it though.  It 
worked like a charm in MoP (you could do 5man dungeons with framerates 
around 25-50+) while it lags in WoD even when soloing content (it _can_ 
be my setup though).  I dont know about HD4000.  but I know it does a 
better job than HD3000 (which is pretty obvious btw). :)
My laptop's geforce 540mobility does it very fine too in in raids with 
18 peeps as Blizzard has tuned the gfx engine greatly so even the 540m 
card can handle bigger raids with everything set to good quality!
But google your laptop's video card's perforemance in WoD.

> (4) On the toon on which I have lvl 2 mine, I mine the ore nodes when I
> first log on but there are no mining carts. If I go back later in the
> day there are usually carts but no nodes. Are they on different timers?

I have noticed this too.  But I only check the mine once everyday as ore 
has exploded in my reagent tab.

-- 
Peter T.

<https://www.elitedangerous.com/>

Fvert <fvert@nospam.invalid> wrote:

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> (3) I am considering getting a recent Apple leptop for mostly work but
> some WoW. I will get enough RAM to do the job but what graphics minimum
> do I need?
> snipped
> Brian
WoW works well on my iMac with 8 gig of Ram.  More would be good, but I
find 8 gig quite acceptable.

Peter


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On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:43 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>Okay, so one time? In band camp? Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> was all, like:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:40:26 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>Okay, so one time? In band camp? Fvert <fvert@nospam.invalid> was all, like:
>>>> (2) I used my instant 90 to level a low level alliance. I am  Horde on 
>>>> all my high level characters. I was hoping to level him a bit in 
>>>> Pandaria, especially Timeless, before moving him along to WoD. Do I need 
>>>> flying to get to Pandaria on Alliance? I know I did on Horde. It will be 
>>>> awhile before I can afford flying. Seems a bit silly to instant level to 
>>>> 90 but have everything else about the toon be as it was at lvl 15.
>>>
>>>You do not need flying in Pandaria on either faction. In fact, if you
>>>level in Pandaria you cannot fly. You cannot fly at all in WoD, so I
>>>don't see any reason to pay for flying. There is also no reason to try
>>>to gear up in Pandaria at level 90.
>
>> His question was about getting there though - if you need to do the
>> intro quest to unlock the place, then you need to be able to fly in
>> order to reach the airship...
>
>I don't think so. Or do you mean the quest in Stormwind? Is that
>required?

I believe so, at least on beta with a template 90 I couldn't go to
Pandaria without doing that quest - portal wasn't open. The template
characters had flying though, so I kinda assumed boosted would too...

In article <m6e0v5$chf$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
 "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum> wrote:

> I bet any apple laptop can do it.  Which model do you have in mind?

Still deciding between MacBook Air and Pro. Will definitely get 8 gigs 
of RAM and hope for the dual core i7 chip but might settle for the i5. 
The little I have read of WoW on these machines is that the graphics 
card is what limits performance if you are grouping for anything. Most 
of those reviews were pre WoD xpac though.

The MacBook Airs are listed as having and Intel HD Graphics 5000. The 
MacBook Pros are listed as having an INtel Iris Graphics.

This will just to do some basic Wow play when away from home or Wow 
"Housekeeping" stuff (Garrison, fishing, etc) while n the living room 
instead of the office. Sounds like I should be ok no matter what I get.


Brian

In article <slrnm8kecg.12qk.g.kreme@amelia.local>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> > (2) I used my instant 90 to level a low level alliance. I am  Horde on 
> > all my high level characters. I was hoping to level him a bit in 
> > Pandaria, especially Timeless, before moving him along to WoD. Do I need 
> > flying to get to Pandaria on Alliance? I know I did on Horde. It will be 
> > awhile before I can afford flying. Seems a bit silly to instant level to 
> > 90 but have everything else about the toon be as it was at lvl 15.
> 
> You do not need flying in Pandaria on either faction. In fact, if you
> level in Pandaria you cannot fly. You cannot fly at all in WoD, so I
> don't see any reason to pay for flying. There is also no reason to try
> to gear up in Pandaria at level 90.


I never saw a starter quest for Pandaria like they used to have so Blizz 
seems to agree that Pandaria is not to be encouraged. I am a bit burned 
out on WoD as until you get to Gorgrond or Talabor, the quest line is 
rigid. I have 7 toons on Horde with Garrisons (trying to get all my 
toons with crafting professions up and running and I am also a little 
tired of keeping up with garrison gathering, work orders and missions 
for that many. My "main" is halfway to 99 so I will push him to 100 to 
have a bit more variety.

All that said I am in no hurry to get my instant level Alliance 90 into 
the same grind. It turns out Blizz eliminated the starter quests for 
Pandaria. I found the balloon in Stormwind and under it was an active 
portal and once in Pandaria I had all the flight points.

To get my skills and flying I did have to do the WoD starter quest line. 
At different stages I would be rewarded with more abilities and talents.

The process was completely unintuitive though for someone experienced 
like me. I guess if you were just starting you would figure out to go 
through the dark portal and do WoD.



Brian

In article <ceut31...@mid.individual.net>,
 Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> His question was about getting there though - if you need to do the
> intro quest to unlock the place, then you need to be able to fly in
> order to reach the airship... but as I said in my post, it's really
> cheap to get that level of flying, and frankly I'd expect it to be
> given anyway on a boosted character (I haven't boosted one yet but it
> seems an odd thing to leave out!)


See my later post. Starter quests for Pandaria no longer needed. The 
portal to the starter zone is there and active and you arrive with all 
the flight points.


Brian