Choo-Choo Coming Through!

One of the things that I have found really separates WoW from EQ1 is the code that doesn't let people train mob's. In EQ, somebody could run by with mob's and the next thing you know that train that was chasing them all decided to stop and start giving you and your party some love instead. Why? Because you happened to be along their travel path.

If you want to train somebody in WoW intentionally, you really have to work at it a bit. I'm not going to get into detailing how to do it, but I will say this much. Apparently the way mob's ignore players when they run past them in WoW doesn't hold true for when a train of mob's runs past another mob of a different faction.

To fill you in on where I'm going with this, I was doing some quests last night and as I rolled up on my yellow ? guy I saw there were some mob's in tow. No problem, I'll just run past him and it shouldn't be long before I drop their aggro. Well my quest turn in had now become a Save the ? Guy, as he was getting quite the beat down. So Firecracker and I run over and proceed to lend a hand in killing off the mob's I had dumped onto him. But alas, there were too many and before long he was dead.

So I hang around and eventually he respawns. Just as I finish up that quest I see somebody asking in the General channel if anybody needs to kill the giant spider in Netherweb Ridge. Hell yea, I sure needed that so off I go to meet up with him. Now, the PUG consists of me (64 Hunter) + another 64 Hunter and a 66 Warrior. The mob was a 65 Elite. I was actually feeling pretty good about the fight until the Warrior says:

I wonder what this guy hits for.

OK, now I'm worried. I ask my buddy who's a 70 Pally if he would come heal for us and it wasn't long before we put that spider face down, ass up. I would have been much more willing to just go ahead and give the kill a try without a healer if it wasn't the last quest I needed to hit level 65.

For whatever reason the Armory is still showing me as 64 with some gear that I dumped yesterday in favor of a couple of drops and quest rewards. Not sure what's up with that. Level 66, I'm coming for *You!* next! (doing my best Apollo Creed impersonation there)