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Advice on gear for a 86 priest - pve and pvp
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Post by
Wiking
Hi
I have recently returned to WOW (again) :)
Could you please give me some advice how to improve pvp and pve gear :) ? I have full honor, and about 1000 gold - but what should i buy?
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/ravencrest/Nicator/advanced
Thanks.
Post by
Nooska
The only piece of gear I would advice you picked up right now would be new trinkets from the adventuring gear vendors in JF or V4W.
Post by
Wiking
Sorry but what is JF and V4W ? :)
Post by
AnrDaemon
Jade forest, Valley of Four Winds.
@Nooska, you're not in chat, and not late anywhere. Take your time to write full names of items and locations.
Post by
Nooska
I use acronyms for zones that are commonly accepted. Yes some people won't know them and they ask and learn something new, there is only gain in that.
When I use them ha snothing to do with the format, it has to do with shorthand and acronyms being a common practise for long names and titles. I also use BM, SV, MM for the hunter specs, and acronyms for shots and abilities, whether I'm on forum or in chat or whether I'm in a hurry or not.
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1000947
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Post by
AnrDaemon
I use acronyms for zones that are commonly accepted. Yes some people won't know them and they ask and learn something new, there is only gain in that.
When I use them ha snothing to do with the format, it has to do with shorthand and acronyms being a common practise for long names and titles. I also use BM, SV, MM for the hunter specs, and acronyms for shots and abilities, whether I'm on forum or in chat or whether I'm in a hurry or not.
A common bad practice, that needs to be ridiculed and purged away. Do your readers a honor, put some effort in your writings to make them actually readable.
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221451
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Post by
Nooska
I use acronyms for zones that are commonly accepted. Yes some people won't know them and they ask and learn something new, there is only gain in that.
When I use them ha snothing to do with the format, it has to do with shorthand and acronyms being a common practise for long names and titles. I also use BM, SV, MM for the hunter specs, and acronyms for shots and abilities, whether I'm on forum or in chat or whether I'm in a hurry or not.
A common bad practice, that needs to be ridiculed and purged away. Do your readers a honor, put some effort in your writings to make them actually readable.
No, a common good practice that needs to be encouraged. When you try to comunicate something, it is a lot more understandable with (unambigous) acronyms (in the context) because it is more easily recognisable in text - there is a reason abbreviations and accronyms exist, because the human brain can process them better than the full words.
Which also means that using abbreviations and acronyms is not only doing my readers the honor of making my writings readable, it is also doing my readers the distinction of treating them as equals, rather than children.
In any guide you should explain non-obvious acronyms, but answering a question based on a level 85+ character you can reasonably assume that they either know the acronyms, or will need to be told what they are very soon anyway to even follow in the course of regular discussion - thus the earlier they get to know them, the more they can get out of discussions and listings elsewhere.
Post by
AnrDaemon
I can tell you many stories, that counter your argument for clarity, because my country had a freak for abbreviating everything since 1917, and it didn't helped even a single bit.
In short: You're wrong. Abbreviations always confuse people, and only acceptable in live chat, when every participant have equal knowledge of the subject.
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221451
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Post by
Nooska
I can tell you many stories, that counter your argument for clarity, because my country had a freak for abbreviating everything since 1917, and it didn't helped even a single bit.
In short: You're wrong. Abbreviations always confuse people, and only acceptable in live chat, when every participant have equal knowledge of the subject.
I'll echo TRE here, I could tell you many stories of acronyms and abbreviations being absolutely essential, but anecdotes are not data, if I can be bothered to prove my point I might dig up some of the linguistic studies on the phenomenon, but I'll just leave you with one area where life would be helll for normal people if we didn't have acronyms and abbreviations; plastics and everyday chemistry applications.
Post by
Paolo
In short: You're wrong. Abbreviations always confuse people, and only acceptable in live chat...
Language is always evolving. New words are added to dictionaries all the time. And not just words for things that didn't exist before ("blog", "iPod"), but new words for old things ("craft beer", "man cave"). English itself is the most hodge-podgey of languages, arrived at by hundreds of years of coordinated confusion.
In other words, we do this together. The rule is that there is no rule, as long as information is communicated. And if you don't understand something, you ask. It's not complicated, not mean-spirited.
Ah, what I wouldn't give for a Sinespe language rant about now. Cheers mate.
Post by
AnrDaemon
You don't like your own language so much, that you're going to argue to death on this matter?
Post by
PharaohFire
here is an acronym - GTFO (Get the freak out).
This isn't appropriate for the OP (original poster) questions... go make your own threads about language and I'll happily participate.
In regards to your query OP, though you are 90 now - no one mentioned "Ask Mr. Robot" or the "Find Upgrades" button on the Wowhead tools.
You can now import your character profile from the armory, and then look at your leisure for upgrades using the database that is Wowhead.
Hope it helps.
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