Character Transfers

Different from what you're used to seeing.

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Character-Transfer Service
Another feature of the Web site we'll be implementing is fee-based character transfers. This is a feature that's been very frequently requested and one which we want to provide for players as soon as we can. We'll offer character transfers from one realm to another, as well as allow players to move characters from one account to another. While we want to offer this service as a convenience, we also want to prevent its use for exploitive reasons, so there will be a time restriction to limit the frequency that a character can be moved.

Am wanting to have a introdutionary fun time

Haupty is of a warrior of the Troll persuasion. He is want to have the happy tanking time. Is good for the bezerker stance still controll aggro, or will the groups not give of their inviting?

Non Engrish translation:

Hey there, I'm a friend of Todd's who's just joining up, yoroshiku, ne? I'm going to be making a character in the next few days, I was going to make a troll warrior and try to stay out of defensive stance, controlling aggro by generating more rage and using mocking blow, sunder armor, pummel, ect. more often. If I were to do that would I be welcome in groups? Or would you guys not want to group with me because you prefer the use a shield and get hit in the face type warriors? I'd hate to level him and find out no body likes me.

-www.engrish.com

Funny Posts

I found this one on Thottbot in the comments for the Mighty Intellect enchant.

WTF
WHATS UP WHIT THE multiple comments here stick to 1 and dont repet the same shit 2-5 times in a row i se this more and more !! who ever runes T both should impment a "cold down" on postin messages here to lets say 1 message every 30 sec or so and if there is exact the same post over and over again make the DELETEBLE for everyoen so that ex I or someone elsa kan delte thos dubble tripple messages from t bot fix this shit starts get fucked up as the fucked up wow servers that has problems all the time !!

You, me and Scholomance

Tonight at 7:30.

Rrrrr

It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. So get to it.

You know where "Rrrr" comes from? Well, check it out: "it had something to do with Treasure Island... it was Robert Newton in the 1950 movie version. A short bio of Newton is here"

1.7 Patch is Here!

I'm hosting it privately for a few days to give y'all access to a faster download. It will be removed after a few days time.

Link

A few patch notes that I found interesting:

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"You can now no longer avoid Onyxia's confuse effect by jumping or
moving erratically."
Does this mean moving forward/backward will no longer keep you from running through the lava?

"The Effects of Flasks will now persist through death."
Woot! Now Alchemy is usefull in PvP!

"Using /random will now send the text to your party or raid wherever
they are instead of the local area around the player that used
/random."
Finally!

"If you omit the rank of a spell in /cast or CastSpellByName(), it
will use the highest rank of the spell which you know."
Nice. Simplifies macro writing.

"A new inn has been added to the Grom'gol Base Camp in Stranglethorn
Vale at the base of the zeppelin tower."
Finally!

"The debuff limit has been increased to 16 (from 8 ). In addition, the
client will now display all 16 debuffs."

"When an attribute increasing effect (e.g. Arcane Intellect) is
refreshed on a target, it will no longer reset the target's health or
mana and then increase the total."

"Pets now switch to a new target if possible when their current target
is polymorphed."
Excellent.

"Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin will now be level-banded as follows:
20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60."
Been waiting for this for a while.

"Losers of Warsong Gulch are now given a "Ribbon of Sacrifice" which
they may turn in to Captain Shatterspear or Sentinel Farsong for a
faction reward."
Even loosers get prizes.

" In the Battlegrounds, you will now automatically be resurrected by
Spirit Healers unless you choose to decline."

this tuesday

we have been asked by wifi to assist w/ the warlords command quest which i think takes us to LBRS... joe and i will help him.. he has asked me if gavin or scott, or anyone else wanted to join us.

if you know what the quests are call i'd like to know so i can pick up any pre quests needed.

(also something i thought was cool, wifi sent thumb a second piece in the set, that he found in scholo)

Thanks Thumbs, Jekyll, & Fabled!

Thumbs tanked for an otherwise all Fabled group yesterday just far enough into Scholo for Jekyll and I to kill Kirtonos. Big payoffs for only 30 minutes worth of work all around. Jekyll and I both got our Major Mana Potion and Water to Air Transmute recipies, and Thumbs got Boots of Valor off of Kirtonos! Grats Thumbs!

PvP in WSG

Last night I joined about 6 other Fabled for PvP in WSG, and what a great time it was! Folks were organized, and that makes such a huge difference. I played about 20 rounds, and we only lost one.

I think I'm coming to understand why Alliance hates Shaman. It's for a lot of the same reasons we hate Palladins, only we can put out a little dps, too. "Just.. just fucking DIE damnit!!!"

Teehee.

There were a number of cases where they'd have 4 ganged up on me, and I could hold out long enough for our flag runner to get a safe lead on them. They really shouldn't be letting themselves get so distracted.

Trying to get more.

In about 2 weeks or so, 2 of my old friends should be comming to wow... (horde) of course... I'm trying to bring them into Hyjal. So, If you see some new faces on (engrish or TOC) give them a hearty hello

If You Can't Beat Them Fair...

Tired of going to the AH to sell your crafting items, trying desperately to save for your epic mount, only to discover said item is selling below your cost? No worries! Just buy up all those items from the AH to create an artificial supply shortage, and resell them at the price you think is fair!

Just remember what Snoop said...

"Fuck 'em."

Tat's BIG day

So... Scholo runs anyone?

I'd really like to collect the necrophile raiment.

What sets, if any, are everyone else working on?

Thursday run take 1

Okay, we will run DM tonight if (my father doesn't steal computer) at 8 pm
Joe and scott gave me a thumbs up on tuesday (along with tit?) Gavin - i got confirmation on phone yesterday

We could do DM, or, Scott suggested someplace else if we were running for tank/warrior gear.

Joe you up? anyone else?

Weird...

...there's only one warlock in the top 20 pvp standings. I'm shocked. Shocked!

Umm, search for Tittlywink, btw. I want him back in our guild! :-)

UPDATE: Tat and Mar are on the list, too! Rock. Tat (927th), how do you feel about your brother (574th) kicking your ass in the standings?

Undead logic (take 2)

In case you missed my discussion of the meaning of the term "undead." Here's penny arcades take...

Add-On Variable Data and the 1.7 patch

Stolen from the WoW forums and reposted here because those forum articles have a way of disappearing...

Users of AddOns with saved settings should know the following important information for how to upgrade to 1.7 without losing their settings.

The information presented below has already been posted in other threads; however, the information in those threads is buried among a bunch of other AddOn developer gobblty-!@!$. It is re-presented here in the hopes that AddOn *users* read it before they lose all their settings.

The following procedure is recommended for upgrading to 1.7:
1. Download the 1.7 WoW client patch.
2. Run the patcher.
3. (Optional) If you already have any newer versions of your AddOns available, go ahead and install them. If not, just go to step 4.
4. Run WoW.
5. When WoW tells you some of your AddOns are out of date and asks you if you'd like to load them anyway, say "Load Anyway".
6. Enable ALL of the AddOns whose variables you want to migrate to 1.7.
7. Make sure that version checking is disabled.
8. Load up your character.
9. Log out.

You should do all the above steps right away. Do not load up a character without your AddOns being enabled. If you do the above 9 steps, that should cause your saved variables to be migrated from the old 1.6 format to the new 1.7 format without losing data. After that, you can safely load up your character without all of your AddOns enabled until you get a chance to download the newer versions of the AddOns.

If you have more than one account, you need to do the above steps for at least one character on each account. You do not have to do it more than once for each account: all other characters info on the same account will be migrated at the same time.

Developers: please correct me if I've gotten anything wrong.

Users: please spread the word to all your friends so they don't have to come here next week asking where all their settings went (and so they don't get mad at you for not warning them about it when they find out all *your* settings are fine :-).

(This post has been edited to capture additional information from below. Thanks to those posters.)