Red Thunder Clan

They stealth-buffed fishing in 5.0.4, but most people don't know it.  I found out by accident today, when I added the fishing icon to an action bar on an alt spec that didn't have it yet.

If you click the fishing icon in your action bar and don't get the channeling bar for "casting" fishing, then you've still got the old fishing skill on your bar.  Drag the fishing icon from the profession tab of you spellbook to you action bar to get the new one.

The new fishing skill gives you back your channeling bar, which you may or may not care about, but it also lets you fish without swapping out your weapon for a fishing pole.  You'll auto-equip a crappy twig pole and have an effective fishing skill of 1, but you'll keep your weapon ready in case you're attacked.  Since you only need a fishing skill of 1 to fish from pools, I'm going to be using the new button a LOT as my alts go through Northrend to try to snag me a turtle mount.  :)

Trash in MoP is going to drop Motes of Harmony, ten Motes of Harmony will combine into a Spirit of Harmony, and Spirit of Harmony is going to be the new Chaos Orb:  crafters will need them for the better recipes, they'll initially be bind-on-pickup, but they'll probably be tradeable in a later patch.

DON'T VENDOR YOUR SPIRITS OF HARMONY!

Just keep combining your motes and saving stacks of SoH, and you'll be ready to make a bundle off of them on the AH once they're tradeable.  Alternatively, you can hand them to a guild crafter and get some of that better gear made for yourself.

Hoarders: Buried Alive in Azeroth. :o

And for those of you who will be continuing your adventures into the Mists of Pandaria, I have one crucial piece of advice:

Empty your bags!

You are going to need tons of bag space.  If you can afford it, get the biggest bags possible.  Throw out stuff you keep kidding yourself you'll use later but then never do.  Make a bank alt and shove stuff their way.  Have a clearance sale.

The amount of things you'll end up carrying around during your stint in Pandaria is staggering, particularly if you decide to raise your cooking level and/or tend to your own farm (well worth it, considering you don't just farm herbs/vegetables but also plants that grant other items).  You'll want to hang onto every cooking ingredient you pick up in your travels (raw ingredients drop infrequently from mobs), and there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 different types of foodstuffs you'll be carrying around at various points (or dumping into your bank at every opportunity).

As much as I'm loving testing this expansion, this is the one thing that's been frustrating for me throughout.  I'm constantly having to destroy/pass up non-quest drops for lack of space!

Packrats beware!

Blue post here:  http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6308782635

This will implement the new talent & specialization system, the new glyph system and new glyphs, and the new "I no longer have to buy new spells from the trainer when I'm levelling alts" system.  It may or may not implement account-wide companion pets and mounts, scenarios, and the new pokémon system.

I'm pretty stoked.  :D

Annnnd back to the original point of the thread:

According to MMOChampion there is a 6GB pre-release download on the launcher now for live.  Cannot wait for it.  Great expansion (for me, at least).

Good Eve Everyone
Looking to get ahold of ULtimus.  THis is a little blue frog from long ago in a land of clasic EQ. Gannbur Stillwaters, I still hold the leader for KoSB guild and I am looking to bring back the LoSB guild title to the land. Any help would be great. I am looking for an officer or better anyone that still holds and active EQ account that cood tag a toon. Thank you all so much

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Again sorry for spamming the board, just not sure if any of you come on here much any more

Good Eve Everyone
Looking to get ahold of ULtimus.  THis is a little blue frog from long ago in a land of clasic EQ. Gannbur Stillwaters, I still hold the leader for KoSB guild and I am looking to bring back the LoSB guild title to the land. Any help would be great. I am looking for an officer or better anyone that still holds and active EQ account that cood tag a toon. Thank you all so much

[email protected]

ribbit ....ribbit...ribbit

Sorry for kinda spamming the board, It has been so long not sure if many of you come here anymore.

Good Eve Everyone
Looking to get ahold of ULtimus.  THis is a little blue frog from long ago in a land of clasic EQ. Gannbur Stillwaters, I still hold the leader for KoSB guild and I am looking to bring back the LoSB guild title to the land. Any help would be great. I am looking for an officer or better anyone that still holds and active EQ account that cood tag a toon. Thank you all so much

[email protected]

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So, I'm reading some information about the Tillers and their starting quests, and darned if it doesn't sound a LOT like Rune Factory (the Harvest Moon spin-off where you actually crafted weapons and armor and headed into dungeons to go kill stuff).  I LOVED Rune Factory.  I'm really stoked about this.  It appears that you can't get started on Tillers faction until you're 90, though, so my Pandaren and Monk alts are just going to have to wait while Herbert pushes on to the new level cap.  :D

Plants vs Zombies?  Pokémon?  Rune Factory?  What else are they planning?  Are they going to port ALL of my favorite games into WoW?  Sweet!  :D