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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

New AddOn - Market Watcher

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It's been awhile since I've posted or updated anything, and the reason why has just been put up. I spent the last three months working on my largest addon to date: Market Watcher.

Market Watcher is an auction house scanning addon. But what makes my addon unique is that it saves multiple scans instead of just the last. Saving multiple scans allows the addon to do things such as display price history graphs and deduce which auctions have been bought out.

Honor Kills Counter 3.24

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A minor update to HKC is now available. The new features are:

  • Vehicle kills are now displayed correctly when messages are on.
  • Score values will now be recorded for the Strand of the Ancients battleground. The number indicates the amount of time in seconds the round lasted.

How to Not Suck at Wintergrasp

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Lake Wintergrasp is one of Lich King's better features, and as such I've been playing a lot of it. At the time of this writing I have accumulated nearly 300 Wintergrap marks on my characters combined, despite the bug that caused marks to not be rewarded. It still amazes me how many people do not know what the hell they are doing in this battleground, so I've decided to write a brief guide showing some tricks and how not to suck in general. Black Dragonflight Horde, feel free to read and link this to your buddies.

Wrath of the Lich King

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It's been nearly a full month since the latest expansion to the world's largest single player game went live, and I'm going to take a break from leveling my third and fourth level 80s to comment. Well, not so much comment on it as rant about it.

Preform Update

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Support for the new Strand of the Ancients battleground added.

HKC update

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Fixed the honor gained issue.

Warsong Gulch will now be saved under "Warsong Lumber Mill" because Blizzard up and decided to change the GetZoneText() string for the zone for no apparent reason. The Eye of the Storm level 70 bracket now saves under "61-70" due to an error in a Blizzard API function incorrectly reporting the level range of the bracket. If only it were actually possible to communicate these API errors to Blizzard somehow, because god knows they don't read their own bug forum.