my new wow ui
my old ui pre patch 4.0.1 -
my new ui after the 4.0.1 release -
the addons i am currently using
MikScrollingBattleText – this provides a nice customizable hud for your damage, heals, etc.
deadly boss mods – a must have for raid encounters.
bartender4 – a gui enhancer. i have been using this for several months. a much lighter add-on than some of the other ones.
gatherer – great for any of the gathering skills. marks and keeps track of any herb, mining, treasure node you encounter.
recount – an awesome dps meter.
xperl unitFrames – a ui changer. raid frames, party frames, etc.
headless horseman glitch workaround
you will need to create two macros, for “turn off tooltips” and “turn on tooltips”. the tooltip from the cogs is what causes a lag spike or a potential seize in the instance.
turn off tooltips
/script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide);
turn on tooltips
/script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);
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wow addons
these are the ones i am currently using. they have all been updated for the cataclysm release.
MikScrollingBattleText – this provides a nice customizable hud for your damage, heals, etc.
deadly boss mods – a must have for raid encounters.
bartender4 – a gui enhancer. i have been using this for several months. a much lighter add-on than some of the other ones.
gatherer – great for any of the gathering skills. marks and keeps track of any herb, mining, treasure node you encounter.
recount – an awesome dps meter.
patch 4.0.1 issues
** update 7:38pm 10/16/2010 **
got it working. i ended up having my younger brother come over and i copied his entire wow directory over to my netbook. it worked flawlessly. now i am in the process of pushing the working 4.0 copy of wow to the server so i can download it to my slack box and still have a viable copy.
it may have worked if i wanted to wait the 16 hours it was telling me it would take to download. however, the downloader kept constantly informing me of a firewall in place. which was definitely not the case. i had all the ports open on the untangle router, the untangle firewall, windows firewall exceptions in place as well. hell, i even went into my ddwrt router and setup port forwarding on that as well. even when i shut off the firewall on untangle, shut off the av on untangle and had the ports wide open to the pc, the blizzard downloader still told me i was behind a firewall. thats when i gave up and called my brother.
** end update **
** update 12:40pm 10/16/2010 **
still absolutely no progress. i even deleted wow entirely, removed all instances in the registry, removed all the temp files, hell even the icons. i then downloaded the actual installer from battle.net. it failed at 20%. it fails at 20% every time i try to install the game. both on windows xp and on slackware.
as usual the wow forums are borderline useless. the wine forums have yet to yield anything i can use either.
** end update **
** update 8:35am 10/16/2010 **
i downloaded the patch in its entirety last night. i tried to install it on a 3.3.5 copy of wow that i had on my vm. still now luck. i get a fatal error and wine crashes and it produces the same error as before
i saw here at the wine bug forums that a new ~/.wine would fix the problem. that still didnt work.
i have now removed wine-1.1.42 and built from source wine-1.3.0. i even removed the ~/.wine and have had no success in installing the new patch.
even in windows the patch fails to install. i am copying the entire wow directory from my slack install with the new patch over to my windows xp machine and am going to see how that pans out.
if all else fails i will have my older or younger brother bring one of their pcs over to my place and i will copy their currently working version of wow (which, they both used my 3.3.5 copy from my server to install on)
** end update **
** update 7:49am **
nothing has worked so far. when i ran the
repair.exe it halted and told me it was unable to repair wow and i had to reinstall. this happened on both my slackware box and my xp box. so i deleted wow entirely on both machines and now i am copying my working backup of my vm server to both machines. i will post more if i get anything to work.
once again, thank you blizzard. 12,000,000 * $15.00 = $180,000,000. with this kind of money monthly you would think the patch and update process would be smooth as hell. but no. every single patch results in some kind of issue. (as you can see they brag about 12 million players here)
** end update **
** update 7:35am **
https://us.battle.net/account/downloads/WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enUS-Installer.exe
failed as well. i am going to try a couple different options in wine as well. i saw on the ubuntu forums that some people had to upgrade wine in order to get the new patch to work. i refuse to change my version of wine again. i already had to regress my kernel and version of wine and i have no interest in doing so again.
** end update ***
here is what i have tried so far.
downloaded the patch via wine in slackware. attempted to install the patch and it failed. i ran the repair via wine and then ran the installer again and still no luck.
downloaded the patch via windows xp. attempted to install the patch and it too failed. i ran the repair and then ran the installer again. still nothing.
i have even tried installing the patch inside of windows 7. still epic fail. (thank you blizzard for not even attempting to release a stable patch).
now i have gone over to https://us.battle.net/account/downloads/WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enUS-Installer.exe
to download the patch installer. hope this works.
one would think that with the $15 per account and the 12 million users, blizzard would be producing flawless patches with guaranteed streaming downloads. but no. we are stuck with the p2p downloads at a whopping 250-350kbps. pure awesome.
patch 4.0.1 issues in wine
i downloaded the patch overnight last night. the download went flawlessly. the downloader checks the patch with no errors and begins the installation then gets to about 2% and fails with the following error.
in the past i have had to download the patch on my windows machine and then copy it over to my slack box. this time i tried to copy the patch i downloaded on my slack box over to windows and the patch still failed to install.
here is the error.
windows xp port range
add a range of ports to the windows firewall (change the words start and end to your corresponding ports)
open up the command line and enter the following:
for /L %i in (start,1,end) do netsh firewall add portopening TCP %i "Port-range %i"
for example: (using wow’s port range as an example)
for /L %i in (6881,1,6999) do netsh firewall add portopening TCP %i "Port-range %i"
cataclysm release date
i saw this on the launcher the other day. the new patch is being released and implemented 10/12/2010 at 12:00am est. the patch is a total of 4.68g. expect some major changes to class talent trees and currency changes for the honor and emblem turn ins. however, they will not be implementing the new skill archaeology or the zone changes to azeroth.
cataclysm currency changes
here’s some information on how each of the currencies will be converted in the next content patch. keep in mind these values may change, and they can get a bit math heavy. just know that our intent is to appropriately value each mark and provide a conversion we feel is fair.
the following items are immediately converted to gold:
- emblem of heroism = 5.5 gold each
- emblem of valor = 5.5 gold each
- emblem of conquest = 5.5 gold each
- badge of justice = 1.833 gold each
your new honor points total will be the sum of the following amounts:
- old honor * 0.024
- old arena points * 0.85
- battleground mark of honor * 2.976
- wintergrasp mark of honor * 19.08
- stone keeper shard * 1.6
- venture coin * 3
- spirit shard * 1
your justice points total will be equal to (emblems of triumph + emblems of frost ) * 11.58
again, the softcap for both honor and justice conversions is 4000 points. this means that if a character converts to above 4,000 points, it will not be possible for them to earn more until they fall below the 4,000 cap.
a hardcap will be implemented in a following patch before cataclysm’s release. at that time, any excess points above 4,000 will be converted as follows:
- honor points above 4,000 are converted to gold at a rate of 35 silver per point of honor.
- justice points above 4,000 are converted to gold at a rate of 47.5 silver per point of justice.
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face your manga
here is a neat site that you can make a manga image of yourself. its a very neat application.