Another New Achievement: Old Man Barlowned

Today Latura completed all the Outland Fishing Daily Quests which are given by “Old Man Barlo” the final one entailed running off to Stormwind and fishing in the canals until a “Baby Crocolisk” is found. Delightful.

Mules a Plenty

Throughout the World of Warcraft you will find and discover many areas which have “Pack Mules” these areas include “Westfall Brigade Encampment” in “Grizzly Hills”, located in “Northrend”, and on the “Azuremyst Isle”.

Another New Achievement

Today Latura managed to gain the “Master of Arms” Achievement while hunting “Highland Mustangs”.



This now means she now has successfully trained three weapon skills up to 400 which is the maximum.
The three chosen weapons of Latura’s choice are “Guns” “Bow” and “Polearms” all three are basic requirements of any good and upcoming Hunter.

Mammoths do not fit

While visiting “Stormwind” today to put some valuable items into the auction house I discovered a mammoth and rider stuck in the door of “Stormwind Auction House”.
Its not a bug or anything but I found it somewhat amusing! I hope you will see the amusement in this too!

Mayor Quimby

t has come to my attention that there are quite a lot of Simpsons references throughout the game, its not a bad thing as many players watch the Television series and its mutual ground, as I am sure Blizzard claim “Fair Use”, if anything is said because of it.
The latest reference to the game is not related to my character Latura but a Death Knight who I am training up to become an auction monkey, the latest quest for her is:

Nowhere To Run And Nowhere To Hide: Mayor Quimby Slain.

An Act of Goodwill

Today I have been trying to help new players to World of Warcraft by giving them a 6 slot bag.
So far I have given these gifts to the following players:

• Aspelis
• Dipson
• BadWarrior
• Hoomin
• Evathediva
• Sharalyn
• Solariel
• Soulrip
• FrozenCheese
• Styninator
• Shootyou
• Phyborg
• BlueLagoon
• Fearthecurse
• Immadruid
• Jollytea
• Sapora
• Tommyg
• Adelais
• Coldfrostgir
• Eurax
• Nassut
• Quibus
• Samuraijoe
• Veged
• Arcehx
• Cybernetic
• Tialler

“You don’t know me but I passed you in Goldshire which is just outside of Stormwind City.  I know how hard it is when first starting up in this game.
As an act of goodwill and a friendly gesture I have given you a 6 slot bag to allow you to carry more items if you so wish.
I wish you all the greatest of luck on world of warcraft and to make this clear, I wish for nothing in return.
Kind regards
Latura the Explorer (Level 80)”

In return I have received the following responses: Just shows how far a little goodwill goes even on a game!

The Coin Master

For several weeks now I have been trying to collect all the Gold, Silver and Copper coins which can be fished from the Dalaran Fountain.
Today I was fishing for no less than 4 hours straight and finally collected the final eluding gold coin know as “Archimonde’s Gold Coin”. Now I have the following awards including “A Penny for your thoughts”, “Silver in the City” and “There’s gold in that there fountain”. As I have all three coin awards Latura was also awarded with “The Coin Master” and was awarded a “Titanium Seal of Dalaran”.



 

“Internal Mail Database Error” Bug in World of Warcraft

For a while now I have been experiencing an issue with World of Warcraft. My Character puts a lot of items in the auction house and if they expire its a good time to see whether or not its worthwhile to put them into the auction house again, or simply delete them.
While attempting to delete a message which contained an expired auction house item I am always presented with “Internal Mail Database Error”.
I contacted a GM on World of Warcraft about this and they told me to do the following:

1. Disable all Addons
2. Go to the login screen and click “Options”, then “Reset User Options”.

I then restarted the game and again the issue still persisted, so I replied informing that this did not work.
I was shortly contacted via /whisper by a GM who informed me that it was a fail-safe feature on the game gone wrong, and to delete three folders from my program files / blizzard game directory. For safety I saved a backup of these files on my desktop,  I did this and allowed the game to re-create the folders, and restarted the game… the problem still persisted and has not been fixed.
Hopefully they are now aware of this issue, and they might consider fixing this in their next update to the game.

Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

Latura was granted another wish by “Mr. Pinchy” and was granted a Guardian known as “Benevolent Mr. Pinchy” which is a huge “Mr. Pinchy” it looks awesome along side with the “Magical Crawdad” companion.

Favourite Quote of the day

There comes a time when you just read something while in game and laugh!
If you wish to know “Willy” is my turtle pet!

Donkey Kong tribute in World of Warcraft

Well I am sure other people have seen the irony of the “Hardknuckle Foreger” and the “Hardknuckle Charger” which are gorillas located in “Sholazar Basin”. The “Hardknuckle Charger” is the black gorilla, and the “Hardknuckle Foreger” are the more gentle white gorillas.

These Gorilla MOBS usually drop “Hefty Barrel”… isn't that what Donkey Kong drops?

The Donkey Kong with Barrel image is from PocketMedia and full credit goes to that website for the Donkey Kong image. Please check it out!

The other two are screenshots taken by myself from “World of Warcraft” with my character “Latura”.

Shrimpin’ Aint Easy

Today “Old Man Barlo” has decided to give Latura the Explorer a brand new daily outland fishing quest, this one is known as “Shrimpin’ Aint Easy”. As normal the reward of this quest is a “Bag of fishing treasures.”

The basis of this quest is to fish in “Zangarmarsh” lakes to catch “Bloated Barbed Gill Trout” then open them up to get “Giant Freshwater Shrimp”. Sounds easy? Lets find out!

I chose the co-ordinates 74.89, 82.99, which is at “Umbrafen Lake” its quite a good fishing location as its a small island and the MOBS nearby cant actually reach you there.
The MOBS in this area are mainly “Mire Hydra”


Just so you know you don't need to fish in fishing pools to capture “Bloated Barbed Gill Trout, you can fish anywhere in the great lakes of “Zangarmarsh”.


Fishing attempt 1: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 2: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout 
Fishing attempt 3: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 4: Spotted Feltail
Fishing attempt 5: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 6: Spotted Feltail
Fishing attempt 7: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 8: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 9: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 10: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 11: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout
Fishing attempt 12: Bloated Barbed Gill Trout



Each Bloated Barbed Gill Trout found contained “Giant Freshwater Shrimp” and “Partially Digested Weeds”.  You hand the quest back into “Old Man Barlo” and in return he gives “Bag of Fishing Treasures”.

On this occasion this “Bag of Fishing Treasures” contained:

• Razor Sharp Fillet Knife
• 6 Gold, 90 Silver, 83 Copper
• 2x Elixir of Water Walking

Mysterious Egg: Its no Yolk!

Today my quest for becoming "Revered" with "The Oracles" who are located in "Rainspeaker Canopy" which is in the middle of "Sholazar Basin" has been completed. While completing the second of three daily "Oracle" quests the status of "Revered" was achieved. You can purchase this item from "Geen" one of "The Oracles".

 

This allowed my character Latura to purchase what is known as the "Mysterious Unhatched Egg", in 7 days time this egg will hatch and hopefully contain something really special.

What is the Mysterious Egg?

The item which I am about to inform about is called the "Mysterious Egg" this is not the same as the "Mysterious Egg" which has no use at all. Once "Revered" with "The Oracles" you can purchase the "Mysterious Egg" for no less than 2 Gold 55 Silver. 

I believe that you can only own one of these items at once and once purchased they will take 7 real-time days to hatch. Once hatched you will either be left with "Aged Yolk" on your face or be blessed with one of the following 4 companions:

• Cobra Hatchling

• Tickbird Hatchling

• White Tickbird Hatchling

• Proto-Drake Whelp.

• Reins of the Green proto-drake

Or you may be extremely fortunate and lucky and be awarded with the following mount:

If you need to find out how to gain reputation to become revered with "The Oracles" please read on below.

"The Oracles" are a native reptile type of MOB who are at constant war with another tribe called the "Frenzyheart Tribe". They look a lot like larger and more intelligent Murlocs, these are found in the gatherers dream area known as Sholazar Basin, mainly in the "Rainspeaker Canopy" It is well known that they collect and love "Shinies" also known as "Shiny Things" or "Treasures".

How to gain reputation with "The Oracles"

You can gain reputation with "The Oracles" by starting the "Just Following Orders" quest which involves helping injured "Oracles". If you become friendly with "The Oracles" enemy "Frenzyheart Tribe" then you will become the enemy of "The Oracles" choose your fractions wisely, you need to gain "The Oracles" trust if you want anything good from them!

How to become friendly with "The Oracles".

If you become friendly with the "Frenzyheart Tribe" then you will have to do a group quest which will involve killing a level 77 MOB known as Artruis the Heartless and its recommended to have no less than a group of 3 players to complete this quest, before "The Oracles" will consider you as a friend. Choose your friends wisely!

Song of Wind and Water

I have decided to write a note on the daily quest which is offered by "The Oracles" who are located in "Rainspeaker Canopy", "Sholazar Basin". Simply because it gives you the ability of becoming both a "Water Elemental" and a "Storm Elemental".

As a Night Elf Hunter the opportunity to become any create other than a Night Elf are few and far between, so I have included some screen shots below of Latura as both Elemental's.

The Taste Test: Magic Eater of Dalaran Underbelly

While fishing in "The Underbelly" which is acutally the sewer system of "Dalaran", I managed to fish up 6 "Magic Eaters". Curious as to what they are Latura my character attempted to eat one and the strangest thing happened!

As you can see from the screen-shot above Latura was transformed into a really tiny Basalisk! So for the rest of today I will be trying to fish for the "Giant Sewer Rat" and while doing so I will be collecting "Magic Eater" and seeing what they do! When you get changed into another form its called "Wild Magic" and you are unable to cast or attack for 50 seconds while in changed form.

Taste test #1: Miniature Basilisk

Taste test #2: Giant Cockroach (Well Fed)
Taste test #3: Miniature Basilisk

Taste test #4: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

Taste test #5: Miniature Basilisk

Taste test #6: Giant Cockroach

Taste test #7: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

Taste test #8: Miniature Basilisk

Taste test #9: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

Taste test #10: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

Taste test #11: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #12: Miniature Basilisk
Taste test #13: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

Taste test #14: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #15: Giant Cockroach
Taste test #16: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #17: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #18: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #19: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)
Taste test #20: Nothing Happened (Well Fed)

In the future I will add more to this when I taste test further "Magic Eaters".

Taste test #20: Fire whisp?

Felblood Fillet Daily Quest

Today while on the Daily fishing quest I discovered "Old Man Barlo" has given me a new fishing quest which I have never done before. This quest involves finding a "Monstorous Felblood Snapper" which he informs can be found in "Hellfire Peninsula" and in the "Shadowmoon Valley". As Hellfire Peninsula was closest I chose that location to attempt capture of the "Monstorous Felblood Snapper".

After arriving in the "Hellfire Peninsula" I quickly realised that I had no clue where to consider fishing as I had never fished in this area before.  And so after flying round and looking at the map I discovered an area called "Pools of Aggonar" after a little investigation I discovered this was in fact pools of water in which you could fish.

This area is closely guarded by "Blistering Rot" and their little gang of "Blistering Oozling", throw in a few "Terrorfiend" and the occasional "Fel Reaver" and its a whole lotta agro to fish, unless you are level 80 that is.

While fishing in this area I caught the following:
1# Barbed Gill Trout
2# Felblood Snapper
3# Felblood Snapper
4# Felblood Snapper
5# Felblood Snapper
6# Barbed Gill Trout
7# Felblood Snapper
8# Felblood Snapper
9# Felblood Snapper
10# Monstorous Felblood Snapper

Flying back to Terokkar Forest I handed in the quest back to "Old Man Barlo" and in return as normal he gave me "Fishing bag of Treasures".
This time it contained:

• Sharpended Fish Hook x4
• Razor Sharp Fillet Knife
• 7 Gold, 37 Silver, 46 Copper

Mr. Pinchy has been caught!

Today while fishing in "Terokkar Forest", in "Lake Ere'Noru" Latura was very lucky and managed to finally capture the elusive "Mr. Pinchy" as suspected he is a lobster and his description is as follows:

Mr. Pinchy:
Use: Speak with Mr. Pinchy and be granted a Wish! Maybe something good... maybe something bad... Mr. Pinchy does not know! (2 Days Cool down)

I actually caught this Mr.Pinchy on the south westerly shore of "Lake Ere' Noru" shown on the map below.
The co-ordinates of this capture was at 58.68, 61.08.

When I right clicked on Mr. Pinchy I was rewarded with the "Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box" Award, and I was given "Magical Crawdad Box".

The "Magical Crawdad box" is a soulbound item which cannot be sold in the auction house and teaches you how to summon this companion! Excellent!

Latura's Favourite Six Daily Quests

The following quests Latura completes on a daily basis

• Dalaran Cooking Daily (The Cooking Trainer inside Dalaran Alliance Inn)
• Dalaran Fishing Daily (Marcia Chase, Dalaran Fountain)
• 3x The Oracle Dailies (located at Sholazar Basin, Northrend) 
• Old Man Barlo Fishing Daily (located at Terokkar Forest, Outland)

The Dalaran Cooking Daily is being completed because I want to get lots of recipe from the Dalaran Cook, so I can cook the fish which I find and maximum out my cooking skill.)

The Dalaran Fishing Daily with Marcia Chase I do simply because I would very much like the "Jeweled Fishing Pole" which is sometimes given away in her "Fishing bag of treasures" when you complete her quest.

I do the three daily Oracle quests because I would very much like the "Mysterious Unhatched Egg" as you can hatch mounts and companions (if you are lucky)

I have started doing the "Old Man Barlow" daily fishing quest as he also gives a "Fishing bag of treasures" although I don't believe that the fishing pole is a part of that one.

First Aid ~ Manual: Heavy Frostweave Bandage

Today I was working on building up Latura's "First Aid", she completed all the trainings and ranks given by the highest First Aid Trainer, then I realised she would not reach 450 skill in First Aid with the simple learnings from the first aid trainer alone.

After researching a little into it I became aware that Latura would require a "Manual: Heavy Frostweave Bandage" to get full "First Aid". I found that "Venture Co. Excavator" and "Venture Co. Ruffian" do sometimes drop this item who are around level 75, and so are no challenge for my character and her pet Turtle "Willy". These mobs are located in the "Sholazar Basin" around the west side of "The Suntouched Pillar" as shown in the screen shot below.

Just so you know I picked up this manual on the fourth kill while farming this item.
The MOB which dropped it was a "Venture Co. Excavator".

I have also heard that many people have great success in finding this manual in Zul'Drak but I do not particularly like that area and find Sholazar Basin much more rewarding as there are plenty of Mining nodes about to pick up on the way. I hope this helps you find your Manual.

Its the simplest things in life which make us laugh!

While in Dalaran building Latura's First Aid skills I noticed four Horde players walking through Dalaran on their bird mounts (unsure of the name of these mounts) It was very amusing and made quite a few players laugh! Keep on coming!

Old Man Barlo's Daily Fishing Quest

Recently Latura has been trying to get a "Jewel Encrusted Fishing Rod" which can be obtained through the "Marcia Chase" fishing daily quest located by the fountain in "Dalaran City". Latura today discovered another daily fishing quest located in Terokkar forest (the same area where Mr. Pinchy is supposed to roam), which is given by a NPC called "Old Man Barlo".

Screenshot showing "Old Man Barlo"

"Old Man Barlo" is located on "Silmyl Lake" and is fishing on the south east shore which is the side of the lake closest to "Shattrath City". On this occasion he gave Latura the quest "Bait Bandits"

Screenshot showing the location of "Old Man Barlo"

"Bait bandits" is a quest where you has to find a "Blackfin Darter" fish, the quest giver "Old Man Barlo" tells you that you wont catch one in the lakes as the fish need fast flowing water so instead fish for this in rivers close to Shattrath City.

Latura found the closest river which was in a MOB area called "Tuurem" however she found a safe spot and after 4 fishing attempts (this does not need to be in Fishing Pools) she caught the elusive "Blackfin Darter".
The co-ordinates for the location for which she found this fish was 53.06 27.93.

Latura returned to "Old Man Barlo" and gave him the "Blackfin Darter" fish. As a reward he gave her a "Bag of fishing treasures". This bag contained three things:

1. Elixir of water walking x2
2. Giant Sharks Tooth
3. 7gold, 38 silver and 29 copper.

Latura was disappointed that she still had not received the elusive "Jewel Encrusted Fishing Rod" but hope was not lost there is always tomorrow!

Taking the form of Soo-holu (large panther)

Every day Latura completes the three daily quests that are offered by "The Oracles" who are the tribe of "intelligent Murlocs" located in "Sholazar Basin". While performing the "Will of the Titans" quest Latura the Explorer was miraculously transformed into the panther form of "Soo-holu" who appears to be a protector to the Titans and of "The Oracles". 

While in "Soo-Holu" form it is your task to kill 50 "Frenzyheart Attackers" using three strong attacks it doesn't take her long to finish them off due to the sheer strength of "Soo-holu".

All in all this is a pretty cool Daily quest offered by "The Oracles" and Latura the explorer is now half way to being "Revered" with "The Oracles".

How to import MobInfo2 database into MobInfo3

Right this seems to be some unwritten law or something as I cant find a helpful resource which actually tells you how to import MobInfo2 data into MobInfo3, so here we go.

You will need MobInfo3 Addon and MobInfo3 Database which can be downloaded from
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/SearchResults.aspx?q=MobInfo3

Save the two downloads at the location of your game folder if you dont use Curse Addon Client.
Example: C://Program Files/Blizzard/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/MobInfo3

Right assuming you have the two addons saved in the correct place:

Step 1: Exit World of Warcraft if you have it open.

Step 2: Right click on MI2_Import.lua and open it with NotePad

Step 3: In notepad click on "Edit" then "Replace"

Step 4: In the "Find What" box write "MI2"

Step 5: In the "Replace With" box write "MI3"

Step 6: Click the "Replace All" button.

(if unsure of steps 3, 4 and 5 see screenshot below) 

Step 7: Save and close the file

Step 8: Rename the file from "MI2_Import.lua" to "MI3_Import.lua"

Step 9: Click off the file so its no longer highighted and shows "MI3_Import.lua"

Step 10: Load World of Warcraft and load your character

Step 11: Open MobInfo (by writing /MI3)

Step 12:  Click on "Database" tab

Step 13: Click on "Start the Import"

Step 14: DONE!

I hope this helps, any problems please feel free to comment!

MobInfo3 Fix

If  like me you use the very useful MobInfo3 to help you with your gathering and farming of specific items,  you may have also experienced the error which no longer allows this to work. I have looked into it and discovered that the owner of the add-on is no-longer updating it so you will have to fix it yourself.


If you get the following error:
Message: ..\AddOns\MobInfo3\MobInfo3.lua line 2139:
attempt to call global 'GetDifficultyColor' (a nil value)

The Nine Step Fix

Step 1: Close World of Warcraft 

Step 2: Go to the location of where you installed World of Warcraft

Example: C:/Program Files/Blizzard/World of Warcraft 

Step 3: From there open the following folders "Interface > AddOns > MobInfo3"

Step 4: Right click on MobInfo3.lua and open with Notepad.

Step 5: Click on "Edit" then select "Find"

Step 6: In the "Find What" box type "GetDifficultyColor" 

Step 7: Delete "GetDifficultyColor" and replace it with "GetQuestDifficultyColor"

 (You might have to manually search through the code as notepad does not always recognise large words such as GetDifficultyColor, you may have to simply search for "GetDifficulty" or "Get" to make it work and remember to start with your cursor at the top of the document and search "down" the page.)

Step 8: Save the page

Step 9: Load World of Warcraft as normal and it will work.