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AUF 3.02

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Minor update to Arena Unit Frames available:

* Trinket status indicator and alerts now factor in Will of the Forsaken use
* New alerts: Will of the Forsaken Used, Will of the Forsaken Available

AddOns updated for 3.3

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No major updates. Arena Unit Frames and Market Watcher got a new option. Some localization updates to Preform.

If anybody encounters problems, let me know.

Arena Unit Frames 3

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Arena Unit Frames version 3 is now available. It has everything version 2 had, plus a lot more. Check out the addon page for details and screenshots.

Most notably, the addon has some recorded speech that will play on certain events, such as "polymorph on warrior" "hungering cold on partner" "druid is drinking" etc. I wanted to reduce the amount of chatter my partners and I had to speak when an addon could do it for us.

I built a sort of framework for alerts, so adding more will be quite easy. If anybody has any good ideas for more alerts, let me know. Also, if there are any ways of determining a player's spec (via buffs or max hp/mana values) that I missed, let me know.

AddOns updated for 3.2

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Every addon is updated for 3.2 except Tweaks, and the only thing broken with Tweaks is the Show Quest Levels option. There seems to be a strange quirk with the new quest log code that is proving obnoxious to figure out so I sort of gave up on it, opting to work on the new Arena Unit Frames instead. (which should be posted soon) Tweaks isn't popular anyway and is a rather dated addon so I doubt anybody will miss it.

Sorry, I Just Have to Brag

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214,748 gold, 36 silver, and 46 copper is the gold limit in WoW. After that point any money you receive will not raise the value. The reason why the achievement statistics are negative is because of a common programming error. In the language Warcraft is written in, if you don't account for numbers getting too large for the size of the variable, then it will wrap around to the other extreme.

I did not borrow or buy any gold, and I did it in 10 weeks spending roughly 45 minutes a day on it. I did not exploit either -- I merely used a certain tradeskill and wrote an addon to assist in my auction posting. (Market Watcher)

I wonder if a guide explaining how I make 3k a day is worth anything to anyone :P

Warcraft and Latency

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Every now and then I become aware of certain things that the majority of the playerbase is unaware of yet would be extremely valuable knowledge to have for many players. Since I'm paying $120 a year for this site, I may as well make use of it and share some of this knowledge I stumble upon. This time I will discuss latency.

Does Blizzard Play World of Warcraft?

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Does Blizzard play their own game? (or at least PvP in it?) Lets examine the evidence, shall we?


Exhibit A: Wintergrasp

There is a bug with the zone that has one of the factions on some servers starting off with having both the sunken ring and broken temple workshops without said faction needing to capture them when this faction is attacking. Worse still, this faction achieves rank 2 in only two or three kills instead of the 15 that is supposed to be required. This means the Alliance on my server get a dozen siege tanks 90 seconds into every match. Wintergrasp on my server is the equivalent of Warsong Gulch starting off every game favoring the Alliance 2-0 when the gates open. This bug has been in the game since WotLK retail.

Market Watcher 2.0

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A major update to Market Watcher is now available.

Feature list:

  • A quick sell panel for starting auctions, crafting items, and canceling auctions
  • A filters feature that allows you to narrow down the query results even further
  • Right clicking category names will now scan the category
  • A cancel undercut button, which will cancel every one of your displayed undercut auctions

More AddOn Updates

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Preform AV Enabler, HKC, and BG Healer have updates.

Preform will now make use of the queue from anywhere functionality included in the 3.1 patch, and has received some minor bug fixes. Automate is much more functional now that players do not need a battlemaster window open, although it was even more impressive when there were many dozens of AVs going at once with near insta-queues. A new option allows raid members to not allow raid leaders to force them into BGs.

AddOns Updated for 3.1

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All of my addons have updated tocs for WoW 3.1. The less popular addons did not get a version bump, however, so don't let that confuse you.

Market Watcher got a few additions/fixes as well:

  • Items with saved scans are now indicated
  • Fixed the "stacks only" history option
  • Fixed a minor graph display error