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- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: Friends and Family Alpha
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Welcome to the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Friends and
Family Alpha. The list below contains information on the current
available content available for testing and general information.
This information is subject to change.
General
- The continent of Northrend is now available! To travel there, visit
one of four transportation masters in either Orgrimmar, Undercity,
Theramore,or Menethil Harbor.
- Transportation between Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra can be found
at the Tuskarr villages in those zones.
- NPC Transportation Locations
Horde:
Undercity to Vengeance Landing (Howling Fjord)
Orgrimmar to Warsong Hold (Borean Tundra)
Alliance:
Menethil Harbor to Valgarde (Holwing Fjord)
Theramore Valiance Keep (Borean Tundra)
World Environment Zones
- The following zones are available for testing: Howling Fjord, Borean
Tundra, Dragonblight, and Grizzly Hills
Dungeons
- The following dungeons are available for testing:
Howling Fjord: Utgarde Keep (70-72)
Howling Fjord: Utgarde Pinnacle (80)
Borean Tundra: The Nexus (70-72)
Grizzly Hills: Drak’Tharon Keep (74-76)
Classes
- All Classes are available for play. Spells and talents will be
available for testing past 70 for the following classes: Druid, Mage,
Priest, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior
- The Death Knight Hero class is now available for play.
Creating a new Death Knight will start you at level 55 in Eastern
Plaguelands.
No starting quests are implemented though Death Knight abilities will
be available for testing.
Several Death Knight talents, although they will appear on the talent
pane, are not yet implemented.
Professions
- The following tradeskills are available to train up to 450: First
Aid, Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning.
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more info:
thanks Goatjuh
Posted by 'eth0' ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ])
Okay my turn here, did a bit of research so bear with me and let's see if this can get us anywhere (or not).
Here is what we KNOW that has been confirmed at 99%:
There were leaked infos regarding a patch as can show us Google's way of ass-caching webpages:
Click on this link, it's safe, look at the URL it's Google.com, it's nowhere near a keylogger:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
You will get only ONE result that returns that a file patch named WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-patch.exe DOES exist and upgrades WotLK from the build 8303 to 8334 for the enGB (European) region.
Now if you take a second to think about it and if you're used to know the naming schemes Blizzard has been using for nearly 3 years now; we can safely assume that if an enGB patch DOES exist as confirmed above, there MUST be it's enUS counterpart.
It really is simple logic, simple as that.
Okay, now onto next part, if you're familiar with the way Blizzard distributes it's patch files, you'd know they're always distributing patch files via peer to peer and that if a patch file named -patch.exe DOES exist as show above, there should be another proper -downloader.exe file to download the afformentionned patch, you're still following me there, right?
So the best guess would be that files named WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe & WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-downloader.exe are respective downloaders for the patches WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-patch.exe & WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-patch.exe right?
Okay, now onto the next and more interesting part, shall we?
What we know that is CONFIRMED at 100% is that the URL [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] exists and if you point your browser to it you will most likely get a HTTP 403 error saying you're NOT authorized to view/list/display the contents of what's on that website.
Now this is the hardest part, assuming the WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe DOES exist and is available for download on the official website, all we have to do is find the correct directory structure/pathing for the file:
That's where the tricky part goes on:
If you attempt to do a [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] you will also get a HTTP 403 error, denied.
From this point, speculations could go wild and you could always do a random guess of smart/obvious keywords such as:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Unfortunately all these will return the same HTTP 403 error as the base URL with the exception of one keyword (directory):
If you try the following link you will instead get a different type of error...
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /alphaff/WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe on this server.
What does it exactly means? does it means I have guessed the RIGHT location for the file but then I'm not authorized to download the file?
Not sure, but I could tell you the speculations could go on and on and on.
Not sure if anyone familiar with Blizzard schemes of directory/tree structuring can get anything out of this but in case you do, feel free to post a reply here with any interesting findings you may do...
from wof: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] virus scan: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Barbershop info thanks to gurlaus over at emupedia:
I was able to extract this from the barberstyle dbc:
Draenei Male Hair Style 1Draenei Male Hair Style 2Draenei Male Hair Style 3Draenei Male Hair Style 4Draenei Male Hair Style 5Draenei Male Hair Style 6Draenei Male Hair Style 7Draenei Male Hair Style 8Draenei Male Hair Style 9Draenei Male Hair Color 1Draenei Male Hair Color 2Draenei Male Hair Color 3Draenei Male Hair Color 4Draenei Male Hair Color 5Draenei Male Hair Color 6Draenei Male Hair Color 7Draenei Male Facial Style 1Draenei Male Facial Style 2Draenei Male Facial Style 3Draenei Male Facial Style 4Draenei Male Facial Style 5Draenei Male Facial Style 6Draenei Male Facial Style 7Draenei Male Facial Style 8
It reveals we can change haircolor and facial hair too.
Patch list (keep an eye of these they might upload the 3.0.1 patch onto there)
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rumours that F&F start tomorrow so keep checking beta.worldofwarcraft.com and the us.version.worldofwarcraft.com/update/
Credit to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] for this from worldofraids:
THESE FILES ARE ONLY LISTED.
There are a lot of Magnataur-related entries, some Snobold (Snow + Kobold?) references, a statue of Varian Wrynn in Borean Tundra, Riplash Ruins stuff, Iron Dwarf things, Scarlet Onslaught objects, Old Stratholme places, etc..
Death Knight buttons for Blood Presence, Class Icon, Death Strike, Frost Presence, Plague Strike, and Unholy Presence.
Vrykul character models and creature models for: Arthas Lich King, Arthas Undead, Clockwork Gnome, Dire Furbolg, Northrend Dragon, Flying Nerubian, Frost Nymph, Geist, Iceberg, Jormungar Larva, Jormungar, Lion Seal, Mage Hunter, Magnataur, Northrend Mountain Giant, Nerubian Priest, Nerubian Spiderling, Northrend Flesh Giant, Northrend Frost Wurm, Northrend Ghoul, Northrend Giant, Northrend Ice Giant, Northrend Nightbane, Northrend Penguin, Oracle, Proto Dragon, Scourge Crystals, Revenant Fire, Sea Vrykul, Undead Nerubian Beast, Valkier, Yeti, and SaberWorg. There's also sound files for a "SuperZombie" creature.
Okay, back to texture uploads...
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Generic leather Tuskarr clothes. Includes various tattoos which display on their stomachs and arms.
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A variety of envrionment effects and textures, including an aurora sky effect and Zul'drak clouds, a couple bits from the Wrath Gate that leads to Icecrown Glacier, some Ulduar textures which appear to be used for a globe or hologram of Azeroth, a few things from Crystalsong Forest and the Dragonblight, the Frost Lotus texture, and some other assorted textures.
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Icons, the Northrend Map textures, and the loading screen for Azjol-Nerub's "Upper City".
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Some NPC textures, including some new Brewfest NPCs and NPCs for the previously mentioned "Pirate Holiday". There are also some Argent Dawn guys, including a Blood Elf.
And that's about it. I have about 15 more NPC textures to upload, but I don't have time to do them right now. Anyway, enjoy!
we all know this. its been in the contrib section for about 7 hours now.
key word there - "Contrib" suprisingly theres more leechers / non contributors than there are contributors, so dont flame a good informative post for the rest of us
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05-17-2008
Posted by 'eth0' ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ])
Okay my turn here, did a bit of research so bear with me and let's see if this can get us anywhere (or not).
Here is what we KNOW that has been confirmed at 99%:
There were leaked infos regarding a patch as can show us Google's way of ass-caching webpages:
Click on this link, it's safe, look at the URL it's Google.com, it's nowhere near a keylogger:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
You will get only ONE result that returns that a file patch named WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-patch.exe DOES exist and upgrades WotLK from the build 8303 to 8334 for the enGB (European) region.
Now if you take a second to think about it and if you're used to know the naming schemes Blizzard has been using for nearly 3 years now; we can safely assume that if an enGB patch DOES exist as confirmed above, there MUST be it's enUS counterpart.
It really is simple logic, simple as that.
Okay, now onto next part, if you're familiar with the way Blizzard distributes it's patch files, you'd know they're always distributing patch files via peer to peer and that if a patch file named -patch.exe DOES exist as show above, there should be another proper -downloader.exe file to download the afformentionned patch, you're still following me there, right?
So the best guess would be that files named WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe & WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-downloader.exe are respective downloaders for the patches WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-patch.exe & WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enGB-patch.exe right?
Okay, now onto the next and more interesting part, shall we?
What we know that is CONFIRMED at 100% is that the URL [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] exists and if you point your browser to it you will most likely get a HTTP 403 error saying you're NOT authorized to view/list/display the contents of what's on that website.
Now this is the hardest part, assuming the WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe DOES exist and is available for download on the official website, all we have to do is find the correct directory structure/pathing for the file:
That's where the tricky part goes on:
If you attempt to do a [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] you will also get a HTTP 403 error, denied.
From this point, speculations could go wild and you could always do a random guess of smart/obvious keywords such as:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Unfortunately all these will return the same HTTP 403 error as the base URL with the exception of one keyword (directory):
If you try the following link you will instead get a different type of error...
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /alphaff/WoW-3.0.1.8303-to-3.0.1.8334-enUS-downloader.exe on this server.
What does it exactly means? does it means I have guessed the RIGHT location for the file but then I'm not authorized to download the file?
Not sure, but I could tell you the speculations could go on and on and on.
Not sure if anyone familiar with Blizzard schemes of directory/tree structuring can get anything out of this but in case you do, feel free to post a reply here with any interesting findings you may do...