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| Pallanen |
Dual Spec.: Arms/Protection Guild: Club de Jolie Filles Profession #1: Grand Master Blacksmith/Weaponsmith/Master Swordsmith 450/450 Profession #2: Mining 450/450
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| Sairalinde |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 275/375 Profession #2: Skinning 450/450
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| Jaelle |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Alchemy 290/300 Profession #2: Herbalism 291/300
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| Merenwen |
Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Enchanting 352/375 Profession #2: Tailoring 350/375
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| Miriel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Mining 316/375 Profession #2: Engineering 100/150
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| Earanel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 67/75 Profession #2: Skinning 133/150
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| Granuaile |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Blacksmith 300/300 Profession #2: Mining 289/300
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| Horde |
Rubacuori |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Herbalism 111/150 Profession #2: Alchemy 93/150
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| Ki'Leanna |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Mining 450/450 Profession #2: Enchanting 340/375
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| When Good Mods Go Bad |
| Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
For the past 2 nights I have tried to take Pallanen to Qel’Danas and run her through the dailies there. I say that I have tried because I have yet to complete even one daily quest. Truthfully, I haven’t even begun the first one. The reason is this, I tried my first add-on or mod or whatever you choose to call the programs used to enhance WoW and it keeps locking up the game.
As I have stated many time, I do not trust mods and add-ons. I hear horror stories about hackers using them to hack your account. I don’t know how they do it but that fear has kept me from adding anything to the game. But last week I caved and downloaded Questhelper. It works for all my girls but Pallanen. *sigh
I think it’s some kind of minor irony or something that I finally broke down and downloaded a game mod and it keeps me from playing my favorite character.
But really, I can play Pally I just can’t use Questhelper while playing her.
I started using because of Ki’Leana. I wanted her to level quickly. Plus, I have never done the Horde quests outside the Ghostlands so I got lost a lot. It helped tremendously. I really like it a lot. I tried it with all my girls and it works well. Then I got Pallanen out of bed and took her to Qel’Danas and that’s when I ran into trouble.
Two nights ago I got to Qul’Danas and started out to do the quests around the lake. When I got out there the game just locked up. Then it kicked me off completely. I didn’t think too much about it since that had happened before. So I logged in again and went toward one of those daggerspine guys but when I moved the game locked again. Once again I was kicked and had to log back in. This time sucked thought because while the game had locked on my screen, the bad guys had been attacking Pally. Yep, you guessed it, I had ti ghost walk back to her body.
I rezzed her and ate some food and got prepared to fight. I charged toward a bad guy only to have the game lock mid-charge. naturally you know the story. Kicked, relogged, rezzed, ate food, ready again. But this time I didn’t move. I realized this was more serious. I asked in Guild chat if anyone else was getting kicked off. Two others in the Guild said yes. Oddly, they were both Warriors. So I decided that I should just try to get out of Qel’Danas and see if it was just that realm. But when I tried to move at all, the game locked. I ended up logging back in 3 more times before I gave up. The last time I was just trying to write to a GM.
So I logged onto Ki’Leana and submitted a ticket to a GM. I did a few quests while I waited and then the Gm came on. We chatted about the issues and then he/she asked me to log onto Pallanen again. I did and found myself in Elwynn Forest. The GM had to move her to get her “unstuck”. I ran her around Stormwind for a while to see if she was OK and everything seemed good. The GM said she had been stuck but he fixed the problem. I was happy.
By now it was late so I went to bed. The whole ordeal spanned a couple hours so I was done for the evening. The next night I started out finishing up a quest and AH trip with Aerynel, and then decided to try the dailies again with Pallanen. I got to Qel’Danas and mounted up. Everything seemed OK until I got into the lake area near the daggerspine guys. Then the game locked up again. Once again I had to log on and once again, every time I moved the game locked up. Worse, on the 2nd log in, the area was all respawned and Pallanen was attacked just as the game locked. So I decided to test omething out. I went ahead and rezzed at the Spirit Healer and managed to ride to the Flight Path. I grabbed a flight to the nearest place, which was in the Ghostlands. But when Pally was passing over that darn Lake, the game locked up again.
This time however, I saw red writing pop up in chat that said “Questhelper: quest tracking has crashed and burned”. LOL I believe that is very close to the exact wording. I’m not sure if that had been happening with every crash or not. Maybe I had just missed it before. But now I had seen it and realized that maybe the Questhelper was screwing up Pallanen.
I logged back on again and was very happy to find that Pallanen was still flying. Usually you get zapped back to the start of the flight when that happens. But Pallanen made it to the Ghostlands without further incident. I checked out the map and saw that Questhelper was going nuts. I had 24 quests on Pally’s log and the program was trying to show the best way to do them in order and al that stuff it does. For some reason it never occurred to me that the add-on would be causing the problem. I ran Pallanen all over the Ghostlands for 10 minutes trying to get it to send me that crash and burn warning again. But it never locked up again. For whatever reason, it only crashes in Qel’Danas. At lease that’s the only place so far.
So with the mystery solved I decided to have some fun. So I rode around the little Blood Elves homeland for a while. I danced and flirted with some who danced and flirted with me. I laughed at the ones who sent me rude gestures. I laughed at the guards who did Pallanen almost no damage when they attacked. At one point I was on Sunstrider Isle and a 65 guard was attacking me. The little level 2 Paladin who was hugging Pallanen and dancing with her just laughed and laughed that the guard kept hitting Pally but she was just taking it and not getting hurt. That was fun. I stayed there for a while to let the cool down on my hearthstone recover. Then it was time for bed.
It seems that I can’t use Questhelper in Qel’Danas. It gets confused and takes up too much memory and crshes the game there. So fae it hasn’t done it with Pallanen or any other characters. I hope it works in Outlands in general and most importantly when Pallanen needs to get to level 80. If it doesn’t, it’s no biggie. But it sure would be helpful during that grueling time. |
posted by Jen @ 4:32 PM  |
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Name: Jen
Home: Pennsylvania, United States
About Me: I started playing WoW after my best friend bugged me to play. I soon learned that I really liked it. Now 2 years later I still play and have 20 characters. LOL I am no gaming expert. I am no WoW expert. A lot of the terms and "how to do's" elude me still. But I love to play. All you will find here are the adventures of Pallanen and her sisters. I love them all and they really kick butt. So stay tuned and maybe we can learn stuff from each other that we never knew. xoxo
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good post :)