What to wear, what to wear...?

One of the things that's hard to get a handle on in wow is understanding what cloths your characters were, which pointy things you hit people with and what stats are most important to you. this is actually just a introduction to this topic. I will be doing a series of articles sporadically going through each class till we've covered them all. Keep a eye on twitter, to kept in the know on when the new articles are posted.
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison
@MorisonWOW 

Help I need somebody!

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we just have to ask for help. As I mentioned on the blog last week, frost mages get a pet, and that's awesome. It's less awesome however when they stop helping you and you can't get them to start again. I know what your thinking..."You have your pet set to passive, switch it to assist and your done". Well, I tried that.. In fact, I tried a few different things. If you run into problems with your pet there's a few things you can try. Log out and log back in. This can fix a number of different issues. If you don't want to log out you can click open the chat window and enter the "/reload" command. This will reload the user interface and will serve the same purpose as logging out and logging back in. If these options fail you may wish to check your addons. At this

point your going to want to log out, open curse client and log in to that. Check to see if you have any addons that need to be updated as a out dated addon can effect your game play in unexpected ways. If you don't want to go through all this you can go to your character select screen and click on your addons button. This will open a window showing all your addons and whether or not they're active or out of date. You can then make sure the "load out of date addons" box is not checked, then log back into the game. If the problem is still not fixed, it's time to call for help. If you find yourself in a situation in the game where there's

something wrong and you have exhausted all your options on how to fix it your self (and at this point we have) it's time to put in a ticket to Blizzard. Click on the "game menu" button and then click the help button. At the bottom of the left bar you'll see a "Open a ticket" button. Before you click the button though you should read through all the FAQs that are available to make sure that your issue isn't listed there and can't be solved without further wait or issues (ours however isn't there. I've checked). So now we click file a ticket. A second menu will pop up including two other options, our is at the bottom still. At this point your going to want to type in as

much information as you have on the situation with out rambling. Remember specifics help to locate the problem. After you click submit it's time to play the waiting game. With there being somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000,000 players in the Worlds of WarCraft it can take a while for a game master to help you. In my case, it was two days. Eventually when you log on to whatever character you filed the ticket with you will have a notice in the upper right hand corner of the screen saying you have a response. When you click on it you will see your ticket as well as the Game Master's response. If they need more information give it to
them. If not and they've solved you problem you can just close the window. In my case, it was a simple matter of me having accidently right clicked one of my pets abilities which allows you to dictate when they use their attacks but turns of their auto attack.

Make sure to watch where your clicking your mouse and don't be too proud to ask for help.   
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison

Can I keep him?

One of the really cool things about frost Mages (no pun intended) is that they have a pet to help you DPS. Mages aren't the only ones with pest of course. You also have Hunters and Warlocks of all specs, as well as Unholy Death Knights. There are a few simple rules to remember if your just starting out with one of these classes or specs.

1) Make sure your pet is summoned.
If your not used to having a pet you may forget to summon them all together before a fight and this will obviously have a negative effect on your DPS.







2) Make sure your pet is set in the right stance.
All pets have three stances; passive, defensive and assist. Having your pet in passive stance will make it nothing more then a giant vanity pet. It will follow you and do nothing else. In defensive stance your pet will only attack enemies that attack you or your pet. This is a good stance if your trying to avoid pulling agro. Assist is the stance that you will most frequently find yourself using. In assist stance your pet will assist you, but it wont start any fights you aren't looking to get yourself into. Being in the wrong stance can reek havoc on your game play or that of any group your in. Few things in this game are more humiliating then making it all the way through a dungeon only to realize that your pet was on passive the whole time and now your DPS is in the toilet ( for the record I've never done this, but I have gone through a dungeon without my pet helping at all, but more on that later).

3) Just like no means no. Stay means stay. If you use the move to command on your pet, they will not move from where you send them until you hit the follow button or they're dead. So don't forget your pet, or you'll find yourself running into fights solo.





4) Your pet has it's own abilities and spell book worthy of your attention. Your pet will have it's very own action bar and powerful spells that will help you dish out a world of hurt. Depending on which one of these pet welding bad asses your playing these spells could be a big part of your rotation, utility abilities or major cool downs. Ignore these at your own parole.

5) Pet abilities can not be placed on your action bars. Don't be greedy. You have your own abilities for your action bars, pet abilities are separate. These belong to your pet and they will only work on their action bar. Just go ahead and key bind the abilities that you need.

There is far more to the use of pets then these simple intro rules, but these pointers will get you started going in the right direction. Pets can be a lot of fun, they look awesome, and can really increase your DPS. Just don't /hump leg anyone and it should be smooth sailing from here.

Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison