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Thank you for that tip, Criminy. *smiles*

I got my blood elf to Booty Bay, put an item in AH for her, logged elf back on and got the message that one can't bid/purchase from themselves. That must have changed since I was following directions I found on how to transfer items between factions. Oh well.

While I was researching the mobs that drop the raptor hatchling, I came across posts about Lil'Timmy and the white kitten pet found in SW, so now I'm hanging there for a bit to see if he spawns. Several hours at least in game thus far - accomplished nothing in the way of exp but traveling around is helping familiarize myself with more areas.

Self transferring through the neutral AH has never worked, you need at least 2 separate accounts, either both yours or a friend you trust to either list or buy the stuff and both better be standing at the AH ready to buy at the time they are posted.
You might be able to mail some BoA (bind on account) gear cross faction but you won't get any of that until you get someone to 80 or 85 anyway.

Well, I can understand their confusion because Zul'Gurub used to be a raid. When the Cataclysm happened, ZG was shut down, and then in patch 4.1 it was released as a heroic, redesigned.

Also, there are regular raids and heroic raids. Heroic raids aren't any different other than difficulty level. But most of the time when someone says heroic, they mean the 5-man heroic unless they specifically say heroic raid.

Well for a long time you couldn't have horde and alliance characters on the same server on the same account (was that really a PVP server only restriction?) so to even consider a level 1 that would have come from your second account as per the first restriction.

I only started playing after BC so ability to do things prior to that I can't comment on with a leg to stand on ;)
Thanks Mazra for clearing that up

Edited, Jan 19th 2012 9:54pm by Gwenorgan

Terminology can be confusing.

Instance: an area that is unique to each group that enters it, meaning that while everyone sees the same things in Zul'HowindahelldoesIsaythis, each group is in their own version of it and there is no competition or cooperation in downing the mobs. Some areas, such as those for battle grounds, are also instanced.

Dungeon: often used to refer to 5 man instances.

Raid: 10 and 25 man instances. Although there are multiple groups, they are put together as a "raid" which has the same general function as a "group" in a 5 man instance; you all goes in, you all sees and kills the same stuff, you all have to be in the same instance at the same time. Because of their larger scale, raids may be outdoors more often than "dungeons" but that might just be my perception.

Heroic: a dungeon or raid with the difficulty and rewards turned up.

Phased: A part of the regular map that can seem different to players at different stages of the game. Unlike an instance, you can have two people wandering around in the same area but unable to interact because they are at different points in the game. For example, if there is a quest line that requires you to do something to open up a particular sequence of events, it may be phased so that only players in the same stage of the quests can interact.

So, a heroic raid would be more than one group (organized under a broader grouping as a raid) with the difficulty set higher than the same thing on "normal".

That was priceless!! I find myself saying that in my mind a lot in game and REALLY glad I never have to pronounce these names out loud.

Thank you for taking the time to list the various terminologies; even though I've been playing an MMORPG for years I never got into raiding - maybe went on a few "milder" ones back in the day.