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18:31 / 30.06.06

Today I bought a magazine containing a DVD with addons, and wanted to show you some examples, about the usefulness of addons. So far, I had only used auctioneer, but these new ones are quite practical.

Titan Panel

It shows you some useful info, for example, your location with coordinates, how much gold you have, when you will get to your next level if you keep on fighting like that, how damaged your armour is and how much room there is still left in your pockets.

All in One Inventory

with the command /aioi toggle, this addon shows you your whole inventory, as if it´s one big bag!

Atlas

This and the next picture are the same program. Atlas can show you the flying routes and, even better, maps of every battleground and instance, along with useful descriptions.

You can find addons like these on curse-gaming.com.

19:11 / 30.06.06

I'm somewhat interestedi n add-ons... but I'm on a Mac. I think Kobe is too, but is anyone else on World of MacCraft?

19:13 / 01.07.06

I am.

But, Cass, most add-ons and mods do work across both PC and Mac platforms. That I'm aware of, anyway. You just have to put them in the World of Warcraft/ Interface/ Addons folder.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

11:31 / 02.07.06

Anyone seen this before?

It's well worth a look-at, even if you've never played WoW before.

Tickled me, anyway...

18:30 / 12.07.06

Haha, this video is funny.

Wow gnomes with green hair and blue dress reenacting the beloved Lemmings game and raiding Undercity.

Clicking that link will also provide you with more gnomy goodness.

00:13 / 14.07.06

Quick question - a friend who's just got the game has started as a night elf on the other continent. How long will before a night elf can get over to Ironforge? What level wil that be? Is there a quick way of doing it?

In a quieter period tonight, I tried to swim to the Elves! I paddled all the way from the coast near sentinel hill, down to booty bay (discovering the lost tribes and other islands on the way) got on the ship, but found it too difficult to swim North of Ogrimar on the other side - I've seen the Kraken I tells yer! Had to use my hearthstone in the end as the monsters were too powerful.

01:19 / 14.07.06

send hir a gold, and ask her to spam the general channel for a portal to IF. A high level Mage should be around to help hir out.

07:54 / 14.07.06

You can reach IF quite fast. My nightelf was in IF at lv 15. Take the ship from Darkshore to Menethil and walk from there.

12:36 / 14.07.06

You gotta know what you're doing to get to 15 fast, and even then, the Wetlands journey is dangerous around Dun Algaz. If ze is desperate to level with you in your areas, either you make the trip to hir and bodyguard hir way back, or use the gold.

15's a good number to think about moving from Teldrassil/Darkshore.

13:31 / 14.07.06

I've frequently taken level 2 characters from Ironforge to Darkshore and vice versa. Seriously, at least a dozen times. Just because I like to mix things up.

It's not nearly as bad a trip as most people make out. You may die once or twice crossing the Wetlands, but that's not much of a burden, especially since repairing your items is quite cheap at the lower levels.

Kiltartan Cross

15:40 / 14.07.06

I found the Ironforge -> Menethil -> Darkshore trek difficult as a novice Rogue, but as Vince says: if you're prepared to die a couple of times, you'll get there. It makes me wonder how life pans out in Azeroth:

"Well, guvnor, I'm off to the seaside. It's nice to get a holiday, and I reckon I'll only be torn limb from limb by crocolisks once or twice if I'm not careful, and as for those orc pansies in the tunnel, huh! axe through the spine? Don't make me laugh, I've had worse from a baby kobold..."

08:45 / 17.07.06

Ta guys. My attempts to swim around the entire of both continents and thereby put David Walliams to shame ended in failiure. Too many high level sea beasties. Guess my friend will just have to level up and make his way over...

11:50 / 21.07.06

I had a very long and not really fruitful or effective discussion with another player this afternoon and want to ask your opinion about what happened here.

What started it:
I, a lv 19 gnome warlock, was running along some Loch Modan hills, when I saw this lv 15 hunter fight a lv 14-16 bear-monster. While running, I shot some fireballs with my wand at the bear and told my imp-pet to do the same, thus almost instantly killing the already wounded bear. The hunter himself just stood there (as I was told later, I had assumed he was shooting at the bear monster), while his bear-pet was fighting it.

The whole incident lasted less than five seconds.

Now the hunter-player whispered me, and we had this long discussion, where he wanted me to understand why he did not want my help and I explained to him, that it was no bother for me and could he please explain to me, why it was bothering him.

Here is the second part of the discussion, the first part (we talked for about an hour!) was already gone, when I thought of posting it here and scrolled back for saving the discussion):

I still don´t know, what his problem was. Was he pulling my leg or trying to have some weird roleplaying (notice his name is ominous)? Is he simply not able to explain to me, that he does not want any help at all?

I have never before in my two WoW months encountered anything like it.
First: someone not wanting help and seemingly being offended and
Second: most players talk in abbreviations (fth, dnt hlp mew plz lil gnme, y sck, afk, etc), and he had all the time in the world to not get his point across.

Was I at fault? Did I have a blind spot? Somehow, the discussion reminded me of Barbelith, where we sometimes also talk for a long time in circles and don´t seem to find a common ground.

What is your opinion about all this?

12:03 / 21.07.06

Yeah, I rarely get involved in other people's fights unless they really look like they need it. It is hard to know what people are doing sometimes. For example, this hunter might have been trying to learn a new move from their pet, so that they can teach it to another pet.

12:11 / 21.07.06

He might have. But for the whole hour of our discussion, he didn´t give me one good reason, why I should not help. He obviously did not want me to, but so what? Do you ask sneezing strangers on the street, if you are allowed to say bless you or not? Because that´s what it was, a passing gesture of me, I was gone again in a heartbeat.

I asked him, where is the harm, in me shooting at the monster, while running past it, and he never explained to me why I should have refrained from it.

It was really strange, I still chew over, why this so attracts my attention.

14:17 / 21.07.06

Still, if I ever recieve help, I ALWAYS say thank you, and then if I was trying to do something, say gather a soul stone, and wasn't able to because the mob died too quick when i recieved the help... I will say thank you, and then explain the soul stone situation clearly.

It may be the language and dialect problems in my reading of the situation, but this Ominous character was NOT clear about his intentions. He's just pushing his shit on you. It's not clear what he was doing, or why he was doing, and resistant to explaining it clearly. I say help others and don't let this incident bother you.

You were a nice guy with good intentions, but maybe you should have stayed away from him after say 5 minutes of discussion. An HOUR? Wow.

14:56 / 21.07.06

Dude, I wouldn't beat yourself up about it. There's so many helpful and nice people on WOW, in my experience, that when you get a bit of a nob head, you end up thinking its you that's in the wrong. I try and help whenever I can with animals and stuff. Its not like there aren't enough bears about that he can't try again nearby or elsewhere.

You were well intentioned, so like Cass says, he should still thank you, even if it stuffed up his plans.

17:04 / 21.07.06

Thank you two for the feedback!
I sometimes have blind spots, where only later I underestand what I didn´t see then.

But here, I really was at a loss. And I kept on discussing with him, because I couldn´t make sense of it at all and it made me vaguely curious. The only time ever I experienced something even a bit like this, was a couple of meters further up the hill, again in Loch Modan, where I was asked to join "a group" and with me it was a group of two then. And all the time we were playing, the one who had invited me never once answered any of my questions or remarks.

Since then I never accept a group invitation when the person does not talk to me beforehand. And such invitations happen all the time. Strange.

17:43 / 21.07.06

Uh yeah. When I willingly offer to help someone with a quest, and they request to group with me, I ask what quest he or she intends to do. If they refuse to answer that request, I bail IMMEDIATELY. If they think I'm being an ass, screw THEM. They chose not to be talkative or polite. It's their loss.

Honestly. If you can't be bothered to talk or respond, play ALONE.

18:17 / 21.07.06

The rumors are true.

This totally throws off my system of alts. Luckily, I barely play Horde anymore.

19:31 / 21.07.06

Haha, will there be anyone not picking Shaman for their Dråëñéî and Paladin for their bloodgirls? This just screams monoculture for the two new races, all the big guilds and the small groups will shout for exactly that class/people combinations.

19:49 / 21.07.06

Eh, you're right. My reroll has done exactly that...

Ah well... I'm commited.

Kiltartan Cross

21:37 / 21.07.06

Haha, will there be anyone not picking Shaman for their Dråëñéî and Paladin for their bloodgirls?

Paladin bloodboys?

22:21 / 21.07.06

There might be some people who´ll play male bloodelves. I don´t know, if I even start them, I am so sick of elves! I had to travel from Stormwind to ugly Teldrassil, only to get my elf hunter pet quests, that´s mobbing...

16:44 / 22.07.06

Ohje, what are these:

More madness here.

04:37 / 27.07.06

Mist; I was talking to a friend of mine that plays a hunter, and he explained to me what that person's problem might have been.

He (the hunter) may have been just letting his pet beat the crap out of the npc, and then was going to fire off the last couple shots at it. The thing about hunters is that Blizzard made it so that they have to fire off at least one shot at a target to recieve exp or loot from it so that they can't just put their pet on aggressive and let it loose in a lower area for experience-farming. So, by finishing it off for him before (presumably) he fired those shots kept him from getting exp or loot for the kill.

I'm not justifying what he said by any means, he certainly could've been less rude about the matter.

08:09 / 27.07.06

Like you say, there's still no excuse for being rude. And if you're spewing over exp of a frickin bear, maybe you should stop playing.

I had my first ninja flip-out argument with an idiot last night - He was a hunter too. Probably spent too long in the forest alone.

We did the ogre elite mission in Loch Modan (How tough are they, incidentally?) with a friend who's a level 15 hunter. When this guy tagged along, we noticed he was lvl 23, so we pointed out we were newbs but would he like to join us - we invited him. Half way through a battle (admittedly after a couple of dubious pulls that saw us getting killed), he just fucked off and left us in it whispering to us that we sucked. Now that might or might not be true (He wasn't exactly brilliant himself), but the rudeness and the heat made my eyes bulge, and we ended up in a 30 minute slanging match.

It really soured the evening unil I went online with Halo to vent some frustration and in my first game got called a 'gay British prick' over and over again by my own team mates whilst they dropped grenades on me from above. Made me realise how much a better atmospere WoW has than alot of online games.

08:36 / 27.07.06

Now that you mention it, there was a hunter incident before. Europa, Starstruck, Stoat and me wandered through the Deadmines with two other people, and I may have been a bit too courageous that day, charging at those evil pixies (Europa after being killed again: I´m a bit angry with you now, Mist), but the only one voicing his displeasure by saying "You 5|_|ck, newbz, huntr ftw!§" and all of a sudden leaving was this hunter, and we all agreed, he was overreacting. Since then We did manage to complete the Deadmines (and my rogue has been coming along really well since then, too)!

I made some screenshots recently (mostly of all those funky gnomes and lots of cool pets like a siamese kitten, a mini yeti, a pet piglet (Dr. Wackel) and a mini diablo, that I will post in the main wow thread later. The pets are something I like much more than most of the other features. I even did some research how to get some of the special ones, you can´t just buy in a shop (one of the last boss mobs in the Dmines for example drops the siam cat 1 out of 8 times).

09:44 / 27.07.06

Those orcs were a pain for me personally when I was still in that area, supa. I remember them having an insanely quick hit rate.

The unfortunate thing is that, if it wasn't for rude bastards and / or idiots, WoW would vanish. I don't know if you guys are plagued with the same thing, but ever since Blizz made the "brilliant" decision to make the LookingForGroup channel worldwide, the very mention of Chuck Norris makes me want to devour my own face.

As far as "You are teh noob!" players, I run into a fair amount of them on WoW and Halo. I've vowed to never be in one of the hardcore endgame raiding guilds for WoW,even if I'm given the chance because they're usually populated with people that take the game way too damn seriously.

Ooh, Mist, you're right, the pets are indeed awesome. At one point I had wanted to try and collect every one of them, but I just didn't have the bag space in my bank; still don't, really. I did, however, manage to get my worg pup the other day from the rare pets dealer in Burning Steppes. Very cool. =)

10:27 / 27.07.06

Those orcs were a pain for me personally when I was still in that area, supa. I remember them having an insanely quick hit rate.

Yeah and tough. Even a full combo finishing move with the best daggers money can buy doesn't seem to do much. And being a rogue means a couple of hits and I'm pretty much flattened.

The unfortunate thing is that, if it wasn't for rude bastards and / or idiots, WoW would vanish.

Can't say what it's like at higher levels, but up to now I've been struck by how friendly and willing to help higher level players have been to us lower types.

I put it down to points raised earlier: that the game is not testosterone fuelled hacking and killing like, say, Halo.

It also requires a dedication to it that is not required in alot of throw away online games.

Furthermore, it requires and actively encourages group and social gaming, so it pays to be nice.

I can see that this might change a bit further up the ladder, which is a shame.

Ooh, Mist, you're right, the pets are indeed awesome

I still cherish my mechanical squirrel Starstruck made me. It rocks. well, climbs walls and stuff.

11:47 / 27.07.06

Ooh, Mist, you're right, the pets are indeed awesome. At one point I had wanted to try and collect every one of them, but I just didn't have the bag space in my bank; still don't, really.

You know how to get all the "bank" space you will ever need?

Get a twink and send the stuff you can´t put into the bank to your twink. Whatever you send stays in the letter box for 31 days, after that, just send it back to your main character. You can "bank" 100 items for 30 silver this way!

17:03 / 28.07.06

Something I really love about playing this game, are the various ways you can buff yourself up.

Here I have nine different buffs.
The first three are rogue buffs (move faster 60% + another added 20% fighting faster, and evasion from being hit).
The next three are potions from my alchemist twink, giving about 15+ on strength, health and agility each.
The cheese is buff food, thanks to my cooking skill, adding another +8 on health.
And the last two are my poisoned blades (oh yeees...).

17:58 / 28.07.06

Are you sure you need all that just to fight a turtle?

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

20:15 / 28.07.06

I'm pretty sure he was going for an elite turlte. Hinterlands, yes?

21:03 / 28.07.06

Elite?

Pf.

Where's the dragon surrounding the profile? Huh? Huh?

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