I talked to Greg Street at the hotel right next to the convention. I personally asked him if they plan on removing weapon skill and he said that they will in cataclysm. I have not failed you forumers.
The only thing I could think of as I read this was "damn I better get some skills up for those soon-to-be-feats-of-strength then"
Oh noes, my account haes b3en stoled. Some days ago, I read my email in the morning and saw my WoW password had been changed at 3 AM, and my account was frozen for illegal activity at about 4:30 AM. I appealed it and I think I was finally reimbursed today, but I'm scared to log in, in case I have some trojan keylogger or something.
I consider myself a relatively smart and informed gamer, so I have no idea how chinafarmers got my password. I've never been tricked into "signing in" to a phishing site, I'm surely not stupid enough to tell anyone in-game what my password is... I've never shared it with anyone, IRL or in-game. I have an up to date antivirus and run spyware checks occasionally. I don't visit shady websites, etc.
Anyway, anyone else have their account broken into, and have any idea how the bad guys got their password? Addons have no way of doing that, right? Their scripts aren't even read until you're in the game, right? I did download Magelo at one point, and it made me very nervous to have something running in the background while I was logging in to the game... but I scoured the internet about it and virus scanned the thing and it seems like a legit program no one has complained about... no suspicions of keylogging...
I wonder what % of gold sold by gold "farmers" is farmed gold, and what % is stolen...
By chance do you have a merged battle.net account, and is the email address you use to log in known anywhere else?
The gold farmers aren't above brute forcing a password if they have a login.
Actually, it seems the majority of account hacks have been bruteforce and using emails. Especially if you have a blog, or are in a guild that shows your email address in it's forum. Or even if your email address is shown on this forum...
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The internet, the wow forums, and even the wow info pages are completely contradictory
Some say that's been gone since pre-TBC, others say just the tooltip was removed but the effect remains
The int skill bonus was officially removed pre-BC according to patch notes, but there's pretty much incontrovertible test evidence that it's still in. It's not working as intended, since patch notes said it was out, but blizzard obviously doesn't care, because it hasn't been fixed in two expansions.
I can 100% confirm that int still affects weapon skillups. My ret pally happens to have a lot of decent holy gear so after 32 minutes of trying to get my 2H axe skill from 335 to 400, I suddenly remembered that int used to be a factor.
So after switching to my holy gear and gaining something like 800 int, it took me 12 min and 55 seconds to go from 0 1H mace skill to 400 and ~18 minutes to go from 0 polearm to 400. On average it was around 3 minutes to get from 399 to 400. Needless to say, I got all my skills on both my priest and paladin at 400... because of my OCD... it flares up real bad sometimes.
Purely coincidental. INT does nothing for skill-ups
I talked to Greg Street at the hotel right next to the convention. I personally asked him if they plan on removing weapon skill and he said that they will in cataclysm. I have not failed you forumers.
I'm putting a note in your profile to permanently ban you if it isn't.
Here's hoping!
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The internet, the wow forums, and even the wow info pages are completely contradictory
Some say that's been gone since pre-TBC, others say just the tooltip was removed but the effect remains
The int skill bonus was officially removed pre-BC according to patch notes, but there's pretty much incontrovertible test evidence that it's still in. It's not working as intended, since patch notes said it was out, but blizzard obviously doesn't care, because it hasn't been fixed in two expansions.
I can 100% confirm that int still affects weapon skillups. My ret pally happens to have a lot of decent holy gear so after 32 minutes of trying to get my 2H axe skill from 335 to 400, I suddenly remembered that int used to be a factor.
So after switching to my holy gear and gaining something like 800 int, it took me 12 min and 55 seconds to go from 0 1H mace skill to 400 and ~18 minutes to go from 0 polearm to 400. On average it was around 3 minutes to get from 399 to 400. Needless to say, I got all my skills on both my priest and paladin at 400... because of my OCD... it flares up real bad sometimes.
Purely coincidental. INT does nothing for skill-ups
I talked to Greg Street at the hotel right next to the convention. I personally asked him if they plan on removing weapon skill and he said that they will in cataclysm. I have not failed you forumers.
I'm putting a note in your profile to permanently ban you if it isn't.
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Got my Paladin alt to 80 today and began the gearing process. Being in tank spec and the best gear I can get and barely edging 30% dodge+parry and 20k health and BARELY still being crittable is disconcerting as hell, I'd forgotten how it is to be on the bottom of the level cap foodchain.
It's a short buff that is barely noticeable, and it's not like the item is required for any taxing achievement. It's a common item found in treat bags that isn't useful nor fun.
What I am saying is that getting the toothpick is how every druid feels during Hallow's End. So glad they still haven't bothered to unfuck that change.
Could be worse, you could be getting some argent dawn paladin themed Chick tracts. Or a copper. I mean, we all got far worse things than toothbrushes when we went trick or treating.
Dentist in my neighborhood gave out little plastic replicas of rotting teeth one year.
After tricking or treating a ton last year on most of my characters I cannot bring myself to do it now
but then I really want to do something since it's my day off
ODST and playing mass effect again are taking a lot of my time
Oh noes, my account haes b3en stoled. Some days ago, I read my email in the morning and saw my WoW password had been changed at 3 AM, and my account was frozen for illegal activity at about 4:30 AM. I appealed it and I think I was finally reimbursed today, but I'm scared to log in, in case I have some trojan keylogger or something.
I consider myself a relatively smart and informed gamer, so I have no idea how chinafarmers got my password. I've never been tricked into "signing in" to a phishing site, I'm surely not stupid enough to tell anyone in-game what my password is... I've never shared it with anyone, IRL or in-game. I have an up to date antivirus and run spyware checks occasionally. I don't visit shady websites, etc.
Anyway, anyone else have their account broken into, and have any idea how the bad guys got their password? Addons have no way of doing that, right? Their scripts aren't even read until you're in the game, right? I did download Magelo at one point, and it made me very nervous to have something running in the background while I was logging in to the game... but I scoured the internet about it and virus scanned the thing and it seems like a legit program no one has complained about... no suspicions of keylogging...
I wonder what % of gold sold by gold "farmers" is farmed gold, and what % is stolen...
Addons don't have access to anything of that sort. But if you're running an outside executable, open source or not, that hasn't been investigated by multiple experts, you're going to run the risk that the executable is malware. I don't know how popular Magelo actually is, but I wouldn't use its executable unless it was either open source or very popular (meaning it's probably been disassembled and investigated by at least a couple of healthily paranoid people).
Personally I use Wowhead's executable (which is not only closed source but also doesn't even publish a changelog), but I wouldn't if Wowhead was anything less than the most popular WoW database site.
You also might want to change your password regularly if you suspect that they got it via brute force. Maybe read up on how to create a great password. Or at least, when you change it, change it to something that comes before your current one in lexicographical order.
In Undercity I keep forgetting to dismount before talking to the Innkeeper and end up being immune to a Treat, and then get off and get a Trick instead. Dammit.
Toothpick was pretty cool actually. Just to randomly use in the middle of a raid in like Feb or March and get the achievement with.
I could be wrong, but don't the toothpicks have the "Requires Hallow's End" thing in the tooltip? Most holiday items just disappear at the end of the holiday now.
Toothpick was pretty cool actually. Just to randomly use in the middle of a raid in like Feb or March and get the achievement with.
I could be wrong, but don't the toothpicks have the "Requires Hallow's End" thing in the tooltip? Most holiday items just disappear at the end of the holiday now.
Maybe it does now, didn't when I used it last year, though.
Toothpick was pretty cool actually. Just to randomly use in the middle of a raid in like Feb or March and get the achievement with.
I could be wrong, but don't the toothpicks have the "Requires Hallow's End" thing in the tooltip? Most holiday items just disappear at the end of the holiday now.
Maybe it does now, didn't when I used it last year, though.
I actually checked, the toothpicks are one of the few items that doesn't have it, they'll stick around all year.
The requires holiday thing is new, first I noticed it was Brewfest, and there was a blue post about the change back during brewfest. I also noticed my coins from the elders disappeared from my bank at some point in the last few months, so I guess those have it now, too.
The requires holiday thing is new, first I noticed it was Brewfest, and there was a blue post about the change back during brewfest. I also noticed my coins from the elders disappeared from my bank at some point in the last few months, so I guess those have it now, too.
Huh? I still have 70 coins of ancestry in my bank.
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I'm sure some of it's just because I suck, but I really, really hate the two VoA fights I did tonight. Koralon is annoying because I had the hardest damn time actually seeing the fire that I was having to avoid. Archavon is annoying because he moves around so damn much.
Also annoying--people who come for one boss and abandon the raid. Fun times, that.
Biggest thing about the fire on koralon: Avoid the the center of the room, since the fire blends in with the transparent glass.
Although, if you play melee, uh...have fun dealing with melee clumping I guess?
Yeah, I actually considered not Consecrating to try and see the fire better, but obviously losing some DPS on that fight is A Bad Thing (TM) because of the soft enrage.
DBM solves that by posting a giant message with GET OUT OF FIRE STUPID! blue text in the center of your screen. I've only had one death on my mage, though I think it was from the aoe and then fire...or fire then aoe.
Could be that I was one of those dpsers...what with being too busy staring at recount and trying to win in omen.
Though that brings up another irratation. In pug 25man ony, we fail a few times, I get blamed for being terribad and having the lowest gearscore. I pull up recount and show that I had done more Damage done overall and dps than 5 or 6 other dps dudes. Its not great, but I was still pulling my weight. Has gearscore suddenly replaced recount on epeen measurmeant?
I'm still trying to adjust to dps mode of 'zomg big numbers' from 'did the raid survive? Boss dead?'.
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Concerning hackers etc; There really is no reason not to have an Authenticator or Authenticator Program on a compatible phone/iphone/ipod touch. It's even goddamn free on iPod/iPhone.
Biggest thing about the fire on koralon: Avoid the the center of the room, since the fire blends in with the transparent glass.
Although, if you play melee, uh...have fun dealing with melee clumping I guess?
^^That. Also, I'll move if I even suspect there's fire under me. Yes I'm a little jumpy and 80% of the time there's not but it's saved me a couple times. Sure I don't do 5k dps but I'm ALIVE the ENTIRE fight.
The last achieve I had to do was G.N.E.R.D. Rage. Got it last night in a BG. It was a great feeling to murder someone, knowing they got to see the Achievement Spam for both the rage and the title achievement.
I imagine that feels a lot like someone murdering you, and then taking a second to thank you for being such a wonderful victim.
Has gearscore suddenly replaced recount on epeen measurmeant?
Seems like it, which is utterly retarded. I've got a friend who's trying to gear up his freshly 80 DK in heroics. I'm healing him on my paladin and so far we've had no troubles. He's defense capped and has about 30k health fully buffed, which is more than comfortable for heroics.
The problem is we can't even get people to stick around to run a normal Trial of the Champion when they see his gearscore, and so we have to mill through about three or four DPS before we find one that's not a prick. Ugh. This is definitely a Hate.
DPS being picky? That's funny, because its so easy to replace dps.
I can't wait until the cross server lfg thing is in place, should mean more peeps to run stuff with at ungodly hours. Though I'm sure this opens up the possibility into running into MORE shitty/terribad people.
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"Now!"
They have snipers on skis.
Skis!
edit: thus concludes everything I know about Finland.
Indeed we do.
I better hope my info was right then....
Yeah. Fucking swedes, giving Scandinavians a bad rep with all their badmouthing.
By chance do you have a merged battle.net account, and is the email address you use to log in known anywhere else?
The gold farmers aren't above brute forcing a password if they have a login.
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I'm off to change that setting now.
I'm putting a note in your profile to permanently ban you if it isn't.
Here's hoping!
Oh, Munkus.
Got my Paladin alt to 80 today and began the gearing process. Being in tank spec and the best gear I can get and barely edging 30% dodge+parry and 20k health and BARELY still being crittable is disconcerting as hell, I'd forgotten how it is to be on the bottom of the level cap foodchain.
It's a short buff that is barely noticeable, and it's not like the item is required for any taxing achievement. It's a common item found in treat bags that isn't useful nor fun.
What I am saying is that getting the toothpick is how every druid feels during Hallow's End. So glad they still haven't bothered to unfuck that change.
but then I really want to do something since it's my day off
ODST and playing mass effect again are taking a lot of my time
Addons don't have access to anything of that sort. But if you're running an outside executable, open source or not, that hasn't been investigated by multiple experts, you're going to run the risk that the executable is malware. I don't know how popular Magelo actually is, but I wouldn't use its executable unless it was either open source or very popular (meaning it's probably been disassembled and investigated by at least a couple of healthily paranoid people).
Personally I use Wowhead's executable (which is not only closed source but also doesn't even publish a changelog), but I wouldn't if Wowhead was anything less than the most popular WoW database site.
You also might want to change your password regularly if you suspect that they got it via brute force. Maybe read up on how to create a great password. Or at least, when you change it, change it to something that comes before your current one in lexicographical order.
I have been getting tricked far more than treated this year, its a bit annoying.
I could be wrong, but don't the toothpicks have the "Requires Hallow's End" thing in the tooltip? Most holiday items just disappear at the end of the holiday now.
Maybe it does now, didn't when I used it last year, though.
I actually checked, the toothpicks are one of the few items that doesn't have it, they'll stick around all year.
The requires holiday thing is new, first I noticed it was Brewfest, and there was a blue post about the change back during brewfest. I also noticed my coins from the elders disappeared from my bank at some point in the last few months, so I guess those have it now, too.
Huh? I still have 70 coins of ancestry in my bank.
Also annoying--people who come for one boss and abandon the raid. Fun times, that.
Although, if you play melee, uh...have fun dealing with melee clumping I guess?
Yeah, I actually considered not Consecrating to try and see the fire better, but obviously losing some DPS on that fight is A Bad Thing (TM) because of the soft enrage.
Could be that I was one of those dpsers...what with being too busy staring at recount and trying to win in omen.
Though that brings up another irratation. In pug 25man ony, we fail a few times, I get blamed for being terribad and having the lowest gearscore. I pull up recount and show that I had done more Damage done overall and dps than 5 or 6 other dps dudes. Its not great, but I was still pulling my weight. Has gearscore suddenly replaced recount on epeen measurmeant?
I'm still trying to adjust to dps mode of 'zomg big numbers' from 'did the raid survive? Boss dead?'.
Here's a fun juxtaposition to make you happy now:
^^That. Also, I'll move if I even suspect there's fire under me. Yes I'm a little jumpy and 80% of the time there's not but it's saved me a couple times. Sure I don't do 5k dps but I'm ALIVE the ENTIRE fight.
I imagine that feels a lot like someone murdering you, and then taking a second to thank you for being such a wonderful victim.
Seems like it, which is utterly retarded. I've got a friend who's trying to gear up his freshly 80 DK in heroics. I'm healing him on my paladin and so far we've had no troubles. He's defense capped and has about 30k health fully buffed, which is more than comfortable for heroics.
The problem is we can't even get people to stick around to run a normal Trial of the Champion when they see his gearscore, and so we have to mill through about three or four DPS before we find one that's not a prick. Ugh. This is definitely a Hate.
I can't wait until the cross server lfg thing is in place, should mean more peeps to run stuff with at ungodly hours. Though I'm sure this opens up the possibility into running into MORE shitty/terribad people.