Arena Season 3 is now out and available! You can also buy arena seasion one from honor points....it will cost about 65k honor to get the full set and about 80k honor to get the set with 1 wep
Patch notes
2.3.2
General
/timetest is a command that can be run to provide information on game performance. /timetest 0 turns the command off. When the command is issued, the next time a player uses a flight master to travel, certain statistics will be measured and displayed at the end of that flight. All weather effects and spawns are shut down during the test.
Quest givers with blue question marks no longer show up on the minimap.
NPC's whom you have completed a quest for will display a question mark on mouseover rather than an exclamation point.
The bank controls for the guildmaster level of a guild is now grayed out. A guildmaster always has full access to a guild bank and this cannot be changed.
A "Withdraw-Repair Only" button has been added to the guild bank controls. If this is set for a guild rank, then that rank cannot actually withdraw funds from the guild bank, but they can still use that daily amount of money for repairs.
You will now automatically stand up when attacked, even if the attack doesn’t land.
Druids
Ravage (All Ranks) - Damage changed from 350% to 385%
Hunters
Arcane Shot: Ranks 1-5 will once again deal bonus damage based on attack power.
Aspect of the Viper - Mana regeneration changed from 50% of the total intellect to 55%.
Freezing Trap is no longer limited to one target at a time.
Pet leveling speed has been increased.
Mages
Cold Snap (Frost) cooldown reduced. It is now in the Ice Block position in the talent tree. This ability will no longer reset the cooldown on Fire Ward.
Conjure Mana Gem (Rank 6 - Emerald) now restores 1800 to 3000 mana and has three charges. The new Mana Emerald is an upgrade of the Rank 5, not a new rank. Changed from 1136 - 1364 mana to 1800 - 3000 mana.
Ice Block (Frost) is now available on the trainer to all mages at level 30.
Icy Veins (NEW Frost Talent) decreases casting time of all spells by 20% and increases the chance your chilling effects will freeze the target by 25%. Lasts 20 sec. 3 min cooldown. It is now in the Cold Snap position in the talent tree.
Paladins
Crusader Strike (Retribution) now causes 110% of weapon damage and no longer gains any bonus from spell damage and refreshes all Judgements on target.
Righteous Fury: This spell will no longer cost twice the listed mana to cast.
Sanctified Judgements (Retribution) now returns 80% of the Seal's mana cost, increased from 50%.
Rogues
Cheat Death: When multiple attacks land simultaenously, all those resolved after the attack which triggered Cheat Death will now have their damage reduced by 90% as intended. However, the combat log will still report them doing full damage.
Hemorrhage: Rank 4 of this ability no longer has its charges consumed by non-physical attacks and spells.
Ambush (All Ranks) - Damage changed from 250% to 275%
Shaman
Earth Shield (Restoration) mana cost reduced.
Lightning Shield mana cost reduced.
Water Shield now restores mana periodically regardless of how many charges remain. Duration increased to 10 minutes.
Water Shield
New Version - The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water, granting 50 mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, 200 mana is restored to the caster. This expends one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time. Old Version - The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, 200 mana is restored to the caster. This expends one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. When the spell expires, each remaining globe will activate and grant 200 mana to the caster. Lasts 1 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Improved Water Shield - Now gives 2 Mana / 5 sec along with the 27 mana bonus each time it triggers.
Lightning Shield (Rank 1) - Mana changed 45 from to 25
Lightning Shield (Rank 2) - Mana changed 80 from to 60
Lightning Shield (Rank 3) - Mana changed 125 from to 100
Lightning Shield (Rank 4) - Mana changed 180 from to 150
Lightning Shield (Rank 5) - Mana changed 240 from to 200
Lightning Shield (Rank 6) - Mana changed 305 from to 250
Lightning Shield (Rank 7) - Mana changed 370 from to 275
Lightning Shield (Rank 8 ) - Mana changed 430 from to 325
Lightning Shield (Rank 9) - Mana changed 490 from to 400
Earth Shield (Rank 1) - Mana Changed 600 from to 300
Earth Shield (Rank 2) - Mana Changed 745 from to 375
Earth Shield (Rank 3) - Mana Changed 900 from to 450
Warlock
The health cost taken from the Warlock after using Health Funnel will now remain consistent between uses.
Warrior
Defiance (Protection) weapon expertise will now work in all stances. This was a bug that has been fixed.
Warriors no longer lose rage when using a macro to enter a stance they’re already in.
Professions
Alchemy
Transmute: Mithril to Truesilver cooldown has been lowered from 47 Hours to 23 Hours.
Cooking
Goldthorn Tea was erroneously unlearned by most players who had learned the recipe. The recipe has been re-enabled and can be learned again from Henry Stern in Razorfen Downs at no cost.
Enchanting
Enchant Shield - Resilience now requires a Runed Fel Iron Rod instead of a Runed Adamantite Rod.
Leatherworking
Increased the range of leatherworking drums to 40 yards. Drums of Panic remains unchanged at 8 yards.
Items
Amani Charm of the Witch Doctor: Tooltip typo corrected.
Hearthstone: The cast time on this item is no longer affected by spell haste.
Icy Chill Enchant: The triggered effect from this enchantment will now cause a melee slow and movement snare as intended.
Idol of the Unseen Moon: This item now has a 30 second cooldown on being triggered.
Idol of Terror: The triggered agility buff from this item no longer overwrites other agility buffs.
The Netherscale Ammo Pouch is no longer a Unique item.
The Knothide Quiver is no longer unique.
Dungeons and Raids
Heroic Coilfang Resevoir - Steamvaults
Mekgineer Steamrigger's Main Chambers Access Panel is no longer interactable until Mekgineer Steamrigger has been killed.
Tempest Keep - The Eye
The number of Blood Elves guarding Prince Kael'Thas' room has been reduced.
Zul’Aman
The Amani'shi Warrior's Charge ability now has a minimum range.
The melee haste provided by Halazzi's Frenzy has been reduced to 100%.
Dragonhawks in Zul'Aman can now be skinned. This doesn't include dragonhawks that do not have loot.
Quests
Blade's Edge Mountains: Players accepting the bombing run quests in Blade's Edge Plateaus will no longer cause other players in the region to stand up.
User Interface
There is now an option to turn off the screen edge damage flash when you have a fullscreen UI up.
You can sell stacks by dropping them on the merchant window again.
Ready check (/readycheck) will now display a visual display of each party/raid member's status next to their name. This will display in the Party UI, the Raid UI and the Raid pullout UI. A player will get a check mark if they are ready, a question mark if they have not replied and a red X if they are not ready or are afk.
You can now see raid members on the minimap as dark blue dots in addition to party members which still display as light blue dots.
You can now shift click names while the petition window is open to paste them into the petition.
Fixed various problems with /castsequence getting stuck.
/cast will toggle spells again unless the name is prefixed with an exclamation mark, e.g. /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot
Bug Fixes
Fixed “Spell/Ability is not ready yet” message when clicking quickly at the beginning of a cast.
Fixed a server disconnect when moving the mouse over recipes in the guild bank.
Gnomish Universal Remote will now work properly with the Fel Cannon.
Disconnecting a USB HeadSet will no longer cause problems with the Voice Chat dropdown menus.
Clockwork Rocket Bots will no longer attack each other in Shattrath City.
Channel changes will now appear properly in the chat log after zoning in or out of instances.
Unplugging headphones/speakers then plugging them back in while in WoW no longer disables all sound in WoW
If the original owner of a custom channel gives leadership away their options menu will no longer show that they have moderation privileges.
The first custom created guild ranking will now properly show up in the Guild Control pane drop down menu.
Control-clicking on inventory items that teach recipes will now properly display you wearing the item made by the recipe in the dressing room UI.
Fixed an issue that was not allowing all charges of a Field Repair Bot to be used.
2.4.0
Sunwell Isle
The Sunwell Isle will be, according to Blizzard, "a cool 'public' area featuring brand new daily quests" shipping in Patch 2.4.[1]
Sunwell Plateau
5-Man Instance (with Heroic)
25-Man Raid (Kil'jaeden is confirmed to be a boss)
The instance will be level 70.
Instance is designed in same style as Silvermoon.
UI Additions
Various improvements will be made to the combat log.[2]
Daily wow Exploits:
AV Tower Exploit Posted by: Trinity7
As you all know there are towers in AV. In these towers, at the top, are flags used to capture the tower. What you don't know is that these walls are not solid. You can attack people through the walls. What I getting at is that if you stand on one side of the hut on the top of the tower and a horde/ally rival is inside a melee character can attack them. While you cannot do any special moves like MS or sinister strike you can produce white damage still. I did this just now on an Ally and he just stood there taking the beating probably wondering wtf was going on. I'll add a screen shot when i can.
-Computer news:
Vista sucks?
… or so that seems to be the general consensus among many of the reviewers out there. The latest buzz is in regards to CNet UK’s Top Ten Terrible Tech Products, where they place Windows Vista at number 10. Is it deserving of such a pitiful ranking?
Personally, I don’t think it is. My experience with Vista has been rather good, but I strongly believe that every operating system has its own benefits:
* Windows XP - It’s small in size and requires little in terms of system requirements. It’s also been out for over six years and has two Service Packs under its belt, which attributes to the wide compatibility and stability it has to offer.
* Windows Vista - Whether you want to believe it or not, Vista utilizes system resources better than any other version of Windows. If you constantly monitor the memory usage in Vista you’ll quickly see that it eats up a lot of your RAM, but that’s because it wants to use it! It’s not that it requires 2GB of RAM to run, but it will use as much as it can to increase the performance of the system. One of the ways it uses your memory is to preload the most used applications so that they launch almost instantaneously. If another application needs the memory, however, Vista will release what it can to meet the needs of the application.
* OS X Leopard - I’ve never had much hands-on experience with Mac’s, but I know one of the reasons that people love them is that they work without needing a lot of configuration. A large reason why things just work is that the selection of hardware is limited in comparison to what’s available for PC’s. The near idiot-proof technology does come at the expense of your pocketbook though.
And guess what, Vista’s reception is no different than XP! Six months after XP was released here’s what CNet had to say in 2002:
Microsoft’s latest operating system just turned six months old, and most would say that it’s neither a failure nor a raging success. While XP promised the latest and greatest multimedia, security, and ease-of-use features available, many users have not yet upgraded, fearing the hefty system requirements and potential compatibility disasters inherent in a major OS upgrade.
If you replace the instance of “XP” in that article with “Vista” you would essentially sum up what people are saying about Vista right now. Kinda funny, huh?
There are over 88 million people already running Vista (as of October 2007), which is double what XP had in the same time frame. Microsoft has also said that there are tens of millions of corporate volume licenses out there that have not been included in the 88 million users mentioned above. It’s estimated that 13% of businesses have already adopted Vista, which is quite good considering many enterprises will wait until Vista SP1 is released next year.
XP Service pack 3.0 almost out...but you can get it now bu doing a simple hack get a 10% performance increase
This time around a “hack” has been exposed that will let existing Windows XP users download and install a Release Candidate of Service Pack 3 (SP3) via Windows Update. If this sounds familiar to you it’s probably because a similar hack was already leaked back in October for Vista SP1.
Early reports are estimating that XP SP3 has roughly a 10% performance increase over XP SP2, which is a rather large difference. That’s definitely good news for XP users, and might end up pushing more users to make the upgrade
So what do you have to do? Not much actually. Just copy some text into Notepad, save and run the file, and then check for updates in XP. Running the file will modify the registry a bit, but it won’t screw up your system. I did get around to trying it out, and it worked flawlessly:
1. Copy and paste the following code into Notepad:
@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /f 2> NUL
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /v RCPreview /t REG_SZ /d 1c667073-b87f-4f52-a479-98c85711d869 /f
echo XPSP3 registry key has been set. Please check for updates in Windows Update.
pause
2. Save the file as XPSP3.cmd (it’s important to include the extension).
3. Run the file that you saved in Step 2 by double-clicking on it. Restart your computer and check for new Windows Updates.
4. Windows XP SP3 should be found, and it is a 337MB download so give it some time to download and apply the updates. When all is said and done your version of Windows XP should be: Windows XP Build 2600.xpsp.071030-1537: Service Pack 3, v.3244
Enjoy the better performance and stability! You can hold off until next year if you want to download XP SP3 when it is officially released.
-Faster Than Ever Application Launcher
Application launchers are such time savers that we’ve made it our quest to cover all of the best ones. There’s another one that I thought would appeal to many of you because of the small memory footprint (under 4MB) and the extremely simple interface. It’s called Faster Than Ever, or FTE for short.
There are two different interfaces for FTE, both of which can be seen to the right. The one on the top is the classic appearance that lists out all of your shortcuts, and filters them as you type. The other interface, pictured at the bottom, is considered to be the “cool” one. It’s more like some of the other application launchers out there, and doesn’t show any list. The downside to this one is that you need to remember a good portion of the shortcuts name in order to retrieve it.
One of the things that makes FTE different than the other application launchers is that it only lists and searches the shortcuts you’ve specified. It doesn’t automatically bring in programs from the Start Menu, but it has a powerful shortcut manager that makes adding shortcuts a breeze.
–Create & Manage A Shortcuts–
FTE thrives off of user-created shortcuts, and for that reason I’m extremely appreciative that the interface for managing shortcuts is so nice. There are several different types of shortcuts that can be created, and this can be done simply by dragging and dropping shortcuts onto the FTE title (next to the little drop-down arrow and “X” pictured above). The supported types of shortcuts are:
Programs - Create shortcuts for programs and games.
Files - Create shortcuts for files that you need to access most often.
Folders - Create shortcuts for folders that you use most often.
Websites - Create shortcuts for your favorite websites. You can even choose which browser the website is opened in.
Control Panel - Create shortcuts for different areas in the Control Panel.
MultiShortcut - Open multiple shortcuts at once.
Other - Open anything the Run Dialog can open.
You can also specify different types of highlighting for shortcuts you use the most, which makes it easier to distinguish them in the list.
Download: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
-Extend the life of.......
–Extend the life of your iPod–
One of the easiest things that you can do to extend the life of your iPod is to buy a protective hard rubber case because iPods are so small and easy to drop. Sure it may not break the first time it tumbles to the ground, but it’s possible. Another suggestion is to simply run down your battery about once a month before you recharge it - this will help the battery last as long as possible.
–Extend the life of your Cell Phone–
Like iPods, it’s not a bad idea to let your battery drain completely a couple times a week. Some of you are probably used to just putting your phone on the charger every night, even if the phone isn’t in need of charging. Letting the battery drain a few times will allow the battery to work more efficiently. A protective case or cover for your cell phone isn’t a bad idea either. How many of you drop your phones on a regular basis?
–Extend the life of your Flat-Screen TV–
Did you know that the average life-span of a flat-screen TV is ten years? One of the best things you can do for your TV is to keep your hands off of it! According to a TV salesman at Best Buy, putting your fingers on the screen can cause some of the pixels to burnout which of course, isn’t good. Another suggestion is to just use a soft cloth to clean the TV and avoid using glass cleaner or other spray cleaners.
–Extend the life of your DVD Player–
This may come as a surprise, but the average life of a DVD player is only about four to five years which really isn’t very long. If you want to get as many years as possible out of your DVD player, make sure that it’s got room to breath. Shoving it in the smallest compartment or slot on your TV stand doesn’t help … keep it cool! If you decide to move it from one room to another to use, be sure that you turn it off before you unplug it or move it. The less it moves, the better, so try to keep it in just one room.
-Daily download:
Thunder bird 2.0
Download: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features, such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search.
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive e-mail experience. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides the most effective tools for detecting junk mail. Our tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail. View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your messages.
Weekly WoW download: Cosmos UI
Since World of Warcraft Beta, Cosmos has been a collection of AddOns utilizing centralized function libraries and an easy to use configuration interface to limit the need for using slash commands to configure your AddOns. Many of the AddOns contained within the Cosmos compilation make use of the Khaos configuration menu or other graphical interface which control every aspect of configuring your AddOns. Khaos can also load and unload any AddOn which has been installed whether they make use of the Khaos menu system or not. Most of the Cosmos Addons enhance the functionality of your game interface, very few addons change the look of your interface.
Download: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] windows and mac
Last edited by Zore.; 11-27-2007 at 07:28 PM.
Reason: Updating
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srry but this is just copying and pasting like hollywood said and its hard to read, and you didn't even add color to make it a litttle bit easier to read and understand
