WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com prods@weblogsinc.com (Weblogs, Inc. Producers) (Weblogs, Inc. Web Support) en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. View our terms of service here: http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[WoW 2.2 Mac client in-game video capture]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/07/13/wow-2-2-mac-client-in-game-video-capture/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/07/13/wow-2-2-mac-client-in-game-video-capture/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/07/13/wow-2-2-mac-client-in-game-video-capture/#comments

It really seems like Blizzard is taking leaps and strides in their efforts to support some of the fun things we've been doing outside of the game and putting them actually *in* the game.

When I read the patch notes and saw that the Mac client was getting in-game video recording, I immediately started my PTR client download. I was not to be disappointed.

With the new "Mac Options", I can choose the resolution to record at (600x400 in this case), the framerate, and the compression. I left these as defaults, but chose to turn off the UI, cursor, and sound.

Click through for a little more about the process for making the video, or just watch the video above to get an impression of what in-game recording is like.

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]]> 2.2iMoviein-game videoIn-gameVideoingame videoIngameVideoMacMac clientMacClientPTRvideoVideo CaptureVideoCapturewarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[It came from the Blog: Forums!]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/11/it-came-from-the-blog-forums/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/11/it-came-from-the-blog-forums/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/11/it-came-from-the-blog-forums/#comments

What's that you say? You can't have a guild without forums? Well, we must agree with you, as we've gone and set up WoW Insider's very own guild with a set of forums for you, the guild membership. You'll find the forums at our very creatively named guild website - www.itcamefromtheblog.com (genius, isn't it?)

While registration isn't required to post, we do encourage it. Try registering with your character's name, jumping into the conversation, or starting one up. As always, please keep it family friendly, as we have members of all ages and persuasions in the guild.

WoW Insider staff will make an appearance when we can, but we're really focused on blogging here to bring you the latest news, information and commentary as it relates to the World of Warcraft!

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]]> blogfamily friendlyFamilyFriendlyforumsguildguild forumsGuildForumsit came from the blogItCameFromTheBlog (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:15:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[CTProfiles is shutting down]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/ctprofiles-is-shutting-down/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/ctprofiles-is-shutting-down/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/ctprofiles-is-shutting-down/#comments
WoW Insider reader Rakuen sent us a tip about a posting on the CTProfiles forums from the beginning of the month. It seems that even before this Tuesday's change to the Armory, the writing was on the wall for CTProfiles. In fact, if you try to go to the main site, you're redirected to the forum with this posting.

From the post:

It has finally got to the point where it's simply too much work to 'fix' things. With several offers of help, only a few minor things were ever completed, and leaving Cide as the only coder was just not enough to get out from the overwhelming load. We're not happy to see things not working, but it just isn't feasible to attempt to fix them.

We still feel there is a very viable use for a custom profiling site, even with the armory out. The armory can't help you compare your crafted set to tier4 or 5, nor your arena gear vs. misc. pieces. We've started a very early stage of development for a CTProfiles2.0 project, which is essentially a complete recode, however we won't be releasing it any time soon. Our focus is going to be shifted back to CTMod, and we'll be working on a new unannounced mod that's been in the works for a few weeks, CT_RaidAssist2.0, some fixes and updates to older mods, and we'll continue to go from there. As for development of the CTP2 site, I won't even set an estimate of when we'd be starting work on it again.

So, what's your take on CTProfiles shutting down? Did you ever get a chance to use this site? What will you miss, and what are you looking forward to seeing the CT team do next?

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]]> armoryctctmodctprofilesprofileRakuenwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:32:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Not quite a set - Typhoon]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/not-quite-a-set-typhoon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/not-quite-a-set-typhoon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/not-quite-a-set-typhoon/#comments We've looked at a couple of the Tier 2 look-a-like sets in the past (the Green Wrath and Purple Judgement sets for those keeping score at home) and I felt it was time to continue. Maybe it's just me, but I really like when my armor set LOOKS complete. My shammy is currently striding about Shattrath in his Tidefury set, and I've had quite a few nice comments on the character's overall look.

So, if you're as strangely obsessed with completing a look as I am, I hope you'll find these articles on non-set sets appealing. If you prefer gear with the best stats over looks, you may not be getting that here.

This time around, I'm looking at a Shaman healing set, which happens to mimic the look of the Ten Storms tier 2 set. The graphics really don't do it justice, as you'll actually get little bolts of lightning playing around the shoulders and head when you put this gear on. As everything in the set has a slightly nautical naming convention, and the colors give off a deep-sea kinda vibe, I am now dubbing this set "Typhoon". Feel free to spread that around, folks.

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]]> Deep CurrentsDeepCurrentsFathomheartHarnessOceansongPrimal SurgePrimalSurgeSea WolfSeaWolfShamanStillwaterTen StormsTenStormsTidesTier 2Tier2typhoonwarcraftWavefuryworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:02:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Patch Notes: 2.1.1]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/patch-notes-2-1-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/patch-notes-2-1-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/05/patch-notes-2-1-1/#comments Not *quite* as short as last time, but 2.1.1 is not a major patch by anyone's reckoning (unless, you know, you're all about "The Fel and the Furious"). Clocking in at 1.84MB on the PC and 3.45 MB on the Mac, here's what you'll be getting:

World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.1

Bugs
  • Players will now be able to properly destory the infernals in the quest, "The Fel and the Furious"
  • Gladiator's Plate Legguards: Fixed a graphical display error.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some systems to see terrain holes appear in the distance.
  • Stackable items retrieved from mail will no longer automatically stack in your inventory. This has been disabled pending a future patch fix.
  • Players will no longer see the flickering terrain issues that were introduced with 2.1.0 when the LOD system is enabled.
[Thanks to Kompost for the tip!]

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]]> 2.1.1bugfixbugsflickeringflickering terrainFlickeringTerrainGladiator's Plate LegguardsGladiator'sPlateLegguardsKompostpatchpatch notesPatchNotesThe Fel and the FuriousTheFelAndTheFurioustuesdayworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:20:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI: Chronnick]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/reader-ui-chronnick/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/reader-ui-chronnick/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/reader-ui-chronnick/#comments Finally! A UI that some of you may have been waiting for - I know I was. It's frequent commenter Chronnick and his UI! I'll get out of the way and let Chronnick explain:

Here it is!

After a month of delays due to nitpicking every single element of the UI, I hereby humbly present my interface. My focus here was to leave as much of the world visible as possible, while still showing a ton of information, and not using a ton of memory or cpu time. So I've thrown it all towards the bottom of the screen and made it as pretty as possible using Skinner and Clearfont. Clearfont anti-aliases all my fonts, and Skinner gives me a pretty, uniform background on all my windows.

I'm still working on making Damage Meters and KTM a little less ugly and I think there is a way to do that with Skinner, but that's still a work in progress.

For the unit frames I've got ag_UnitFrames using the ABF skin that i modified a bit for to hide the background of the target's caster bar. My buffs are shown using Buffalo, which allows me to place them to the right of my health/mana bars the same way my party member's buffs are shown. But by using Buffalo instead of agUnitFrames' own buff display, i can right-click my buffs to remove them.

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]]> addonschronnickinterfacemodsreader uiReaderUiwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:01:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How much WoW is too much WoW?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/how-much-wow-is-too-much-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/how-much-wow-is-too-much-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/04/how-much-wow-is-too-much-wow/#comments Today has a new podcast from the folks over at Taverncast, and it has my guild a-buzz with talk of WoW Addiction.

We're a casual raiding guild, 3 nights a week, 4 hours a night. Sure, that's 12 hours of commitment a week, but still a low number compared to other raiding guilds. That would be well and fine, but a large number of our members play a lot outside of raiding hours - farming mats, doing daily quests, getting reputation, etc.

So when the Taverncast After Hours #3 came up today, with the gang discussing gaming addiction, and one member going so far as to undertake a little experiment a la Morgan Spurlock, it really got us thinking - are we playing too much WoW?

Some of the things on their list (about an hour in) of questions to ask yourself, I have had to say yes to at one time or another. How about you?

So, go take some time out to listen (while you're playing WoW, of course) and then come back and let us know how much WoW you play each week, and what you think is a reasonable amount of time to commit to the game. Is 15 hours in a row of ANY activity too much? (listen to the whole podcast to get that one)

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]]> addictionhourstavern castTavernCastwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace: Wulf Knight]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/03/reader-wowspace-wulf-knight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/03/reader-wowspace-wulf-knight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/06/03/reader-wowspace-wulf-knight/#comments This edition of WoWspace comes with actual photos of an actual person!! This is a first for us, as the rest of you have been showing off your rigs, but not your mugs (the non-coffee kind). This is a really great setup, which I'd love to mimic myself, but I'm pretty sure I'd get complaints taking my TV out of the living room and putting it into the office.

My name is Wulf Knight, I'm 31 and living in Madison WI.

My main is Felixia, a level 70 main-tanking furball in the progressive raiding guild of Persistence on Uldum (of which I am also a founder and occifer).

I suppose one of the more unique features of my WoW environment is that fact that what you see is it's natural state... I can't stand clutter.

As you can see, my computer is my entire entertainment centre... We have the Logitech Z-5500s to which the XBOX 360, PS2, primary monitor and PC are running through, all via optical (Impact Acoustics A/V Selector FTW!).

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]]> big-screeng15logitechn52nostromoreader wowspaceReaderWowspacewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwulf knightWulfKnight (Paul Sherrard) Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:51:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Patch 2.1.0.6729 - shortest patchnotes ever]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/30/wow-patch-2-1-0-6729-shortest-patchnotes-ever/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/30/wow-patch-2-1-0-6729-shortest-patchnotes-ever/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/30/wow-patch-2-1-0-6729-shortest-patchnotes-ever/#comments I'm pretty sure that this sentence is actually longer than the patch notes. I'm also thinking that the image for this entry is going to take up more space than the text. And to top it all off, for once you're not going to have to click through to read the full details for this odd, out-of-place Wednesday morning patch.

In fact, this is practically a non-entry, and merely here as a service to let you know that when you get home today you'll have a 1.75mb download for the following:

Bugs
  • Fixed a crash in the client.
Yep, that's it. Go back to your day, enjoy work or whatever you're doing and brace yourself for this momentous and huge Wednesday patch.

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]]> 2.1.0.6729patchwarcraftWednesdayworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 30 May 2007 09:41:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Breakfast Topic: Desert island mod]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/17/breakfast-topic-desert-island-mod/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/17/breakfast-topic-desert-island-mod/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/17/breakfast-topic-desert-island-mod/#comments

A few days ago, 1up was asking readers about their "desert island game". You know the scenario, you've probably done this with friends before. It's usually books or CD's or movies, but 1up's article got me to thinking.

Let's say you're stuck in a desert island, you have a gaming laptop powerful enough to play WoW well, and have rigged up solar power and wireless internet. Unfortunately, for the sake of our conversation, your internet and power only work to get your laptop playing WoW, no other outside communication, and you inexplicably forget to ask your guildies to send a rescue plane to your island. Oh, and your account is free.

Hmm, come to think of it, why would anyone WANT to leave this situation?? Great weather, we'll pretend there's ample food, and all the WoW you can handle! It's like a little gamer's paradise there, just hanging out, getting tanned, swimming with little Nemos in the nearby offshore coral reef, finding new and interesting ways to cook fish in coconut milk. Wait, where was I?

Oh yeah, so you're on this island, with your WoW laptop and all that goodness, but you can only bring 1 addon/mod with you (no compilations). What would your addon/mod be, and why?

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]]> 1upaddondesertdesert islandDesertIslandislandmodwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 17 May 2007 07:45:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[AddOn Spotlight: WoW UI Updater]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/10/addon-spotlight-wow-ui-updater/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/10/addon-spotlight-wow-ui-updater/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/10/addon-spotlight-wow-ui-updater/#comments

Here's something I've been looking for for a long time! It's not an addon itself, but it does make the management and upkeep of your addons a lot simpler.

Cairnehoof of Dethecus (US) sent this in to Mike, who kindly sent it my way:

I read your article on wowinsider (big fan btw) about the addon issue in the upcoming patch. I have come across an great application for windows that updates your addons from all the popular sites. Maybe you could share it on the site. I know many people would love it. It's alot better than the one offered on ui.worldofwar.net because it not just download from one site. It is maintained on sourceforge.net and does not contain any malicious code. (I scanned with 3 different anti-virus programs and a anti-spyware one) heres the link if you want to take a look: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wuu

So, armed with that information, I set off to explore WUU.

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]]> Aceaddon managementAddOn SpotlightAddonManagementAddOnsAddonSpotlightCosmosCurse GamingCurseGamingGoogleCodemanagement softwareManagementSoftwareuiupdate addonsupdate modsUpdateAddonsUpdateModswarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowWoW InterfaceWoW UI UpdaterWoWAceWowInterfaceWowUiUpdaterWUU (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 10 May 2007 19:25:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI: Sewell]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-ui-sewell/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-ui-sewell/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-ui-sewell/#comments While I was hoping to see a submission from Chronnick, based on last week's comments, that has yet to come. Instead, we get a very nice treat indeed. You want video? You want pictures? You want to be able to download the UI you see here? Then look no further than Sewell's UI, kindly submitted here for your enjoyment:

My UI has been tweaked to perfection over the course of a couple months. I love the clean design and functional layout.

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]]> reader uiReaderUiscreenshotssewellSewell's UISewell'sUiuiui of the weekUiOfTheWeekvideowarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 07 May 2007 21:32:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace: Skyghene]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-wowspace-skyghene/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-wowspace-skyghene/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/reader-wowspace-skyghene/#comments Maybe it's just me, but I read Skyghene as rhyming with Hygene, and so I get a little extra chuckle when checking out this week's Reader WoWspace. I mean, it's totally cool and all to take some snapshots of your space as it exists in its regular state, unlike the cleaned and polished spaces we sometimes see here, and I'm so digging the microwave, but.. well.. maybe it's the paper towel roll that just sends me over the top and makes me laugh. I love it, and now I really want a mini fridge and a microwave in my home office.

Hi, my name is Skyghene im a 65 undead rogue on Magtheridon and this is my WoWspace:

- Desk
- Custom built computer
- Fridge under the desk for those endurance sessions
- Microwave beside computer for really intense endurance sessions
- brown sugar cinnamon poptarts to keep me going
- Logitech g15 keyboard
- My desk as it slowly bends downward from all the weight on it
- Razer copperhead mouse
- alot of empty cups
- old plates
- my cell phone
- an old video camera
- old packs of guitar strings
- some old usb cables

Short and sweet from Skyghene, but the photos really make up for the lack of long monologue, don't they? What's the coolest non-computer item in your WoWspace? Do you have something better than a microwave or a bar fridge? Let us know here, and send in YOUR space, including photos, a list of elements, and what about it makes it special to you, and we'll feature it here in the upcoming weeks. Submit yours to "readerwowspace at gmail dot com" today!

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]]> fridgeg15magtheridonmicrowavepoptartsreader wowspaceReaderWowspaceskyghenewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwowspacewowspace of the weekWowspaceOfTheWeek (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 07 May 2007 16:12:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BBC reports on upcoming WoW competition]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/bbc-reports-on-upcoming-wow-competition/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/bbc-reports-on-upcoming-wow-competition/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/07/bbc-reports-on-upcoming-wow-competition/#comments Slashdot is linking this morning to an article that BBC has posted today which gathers views from several game developers as they talk about what comes next when you have a behemoth such as the World of Warcraft dominating the MMO-verse. While somewhat light on new perspectives, it's just further showing that developers really do have to account for WoW when considering their existing and future software offerings.

Though the article talks with people behind Star Wars Galaxies, Lord of the Rings Online, and the upcoming Age of Conan, I find that Slashdot commenter JanusFury sums it up best with, "Instead of complaining about the lack of a strong competitor to WoW, how about making one?"

What's on your MMO horizon as a WoW-killer? Does anything coming up, or existing on the market now, have a powerful enough hook to pull you away from the World of Warcraft? Obviously, if you look at the included image, you know what I'm waiting for.

[via Slashdot]

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]]> age of conanAgeOfConanBBClord of the rings onlineLordOfTheRingsOnlinelotroSlashdotstar wars galaxiesStarWarsGalaxiesswgwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraft (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 07 May 2007 13:02:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Breakfast Topic: How big is your guild?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/06/breakfast-topic-how-big-is-your-guild/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/06/breakfast-topic-how-big-is-your-guild/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/06/breakfast-topic-how-big-is-your-guild/#comments

I've seen guilds with 1 member, I've been in guilds with 500 members, and yet I've never found a guild that can be everything to everybody. I'm sure even those guys with their 1-man guilds get a bit lonely from time to time. So what is it that makes a guild too big, too small, or just right for your average player?

Would you prefer to be a member of a small, tightly-knit guild or a sprawling mass of people so huge that everyone on your server knows your guild, if not you? What does the size of a guild's membership say to you as a member or prospective member? Does size matter, and if it does, which is better - erring on the smaller side of numbers, or a population enough to start a small city?

How big is your guild, and is it the right size for you? Why? If not, then what are you looking for from a guild, and how does the size of the guild play into your perception and comfort-level with that guild?

Lots of questions, let's hear your answers!

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]]> breakfast topicBreakfastTopicguildguild sizeGuildSizemembershipsizewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Sun, 06 May 2007 08:13:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Breakfast topic: Can I have your stuff?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/04/breakfast-topic-can-i-have-your-stuff/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/04/breakfast-topic-can-i-have-your-stuff/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/04/breakfast-topic-can-i-have-your-stuff/#comments Let's face it, one day we're all going to stop playing World of Warcraft. Sure, maybe that day is later for some of us than others (the phrase "pry it out of my cold, dead hands" comes to mind), but whether it's to a new game, a new relationship, or any of a multitude of reasons, our time with WoW will come to a close.

What I'm curious about is what you all plan on doing when you go. Will you give away all your hard earned loot, or maybe even your account? Will you make a video of removing all your gear and deleting your toon? Will you just let it expire and sit on a shelf somewhere?

I've seen people in my guild leave the game before, but more often than not they come back to it after a few months. I've never actually known anyone to do anything shocking, or give away large sums of gold. Well, there was that one guildie near the end of beta who gave me 20g, but that doesn't count.

Share your personal vision of what you want to happen when you leave WoW, and any stories you may have of people who've left the game and what they did, in the comments below.

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]]> breakfast topicBreakfastTopiccan i have your stuffCanIHaveYourStuffcold dead handsColdDeadHandshttp://www.wowinsider.com/category/breakfast-topics/quit the gameQuitTheGamequittingstop playingStopPlayingstuffwarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Fri, 04 May 2007 08:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Lord British likes WoW]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/03/lord-british-likes-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/03/lord-british-likes-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/03/lord-british-likes-wow/#comments Well, okay, maybe he doesn't *like* it like it, but Richard Garriott (aka Lord British) certainly appreciates the existence of the World of Warcraft. In an article I came across over at the WoW Vault on IGN, the creator of the Ultima series, and the Ultima Online MMO, discusses his feelings on the juggernaut that is WoW.

The article quotes an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, where Garriott states, "We commonly get the question, is World of Warcraft a big competitor that might hurt our sales? It really turns out to be quite the opposite." He then goes on to comment that MMO players typically will only play a game or two at a time, but then move on after a year.

I've been happily playing WoW since February of 2004, so I'm into my third year of the game, and nothing else has caught my eye in the MMO market. There are a couple of games on the horizon, but of the folks I'm playing WoW with, the majority have been around from the get-go. Are we just crotchety old-timers who won't admit that the average player only sticks around for a year?

Is what Lord British says true? Did any of you ditch other MMO's to come to WoW, or have you ditched WoW for other MMO's after playing for a year?

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]]> Games IndustryGamesIndustryGamesIndustry.bizIGNlord britishLordBritishrichard garriottRichardGarriottUltimaUltima OnlineUltimaOnlinewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowWoW VaultWowVault (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 03 May 2007 16:20:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: Omegi]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/01/reader-ui-of-the-week-omegi/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/01/reader-ui-of-the-week-omegi/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/05/01/reader-ui-of-the-week-omegi/#comments This week, Omegi, a member of <J E T T> on Kalecgos horde-side sends in his fairly minimal UI. It gets me to thinking, and I hope it'll get you to thinking too. Here's what's on my mind - what's more efficient: well-placed buttons with easy visual clues, or an array of keybindings that you commit to memory? Omegi has a set of keybindings which are great, and I'm digging the large buttons for infrequently used items/skills.

Here is the UI I have grown to love over the career of my mage.

Here is a list of mods and key bindings.

My mod list:
CT Raid Assist: Only for the group bars to show buffs. A raid leader must know his class officers are buffing up their members properly.
Bongos: This allowed me to move buttons around and make them smaller or larger. It also allows me to color the square for range notification and allows easy hover and click key bindings.
Cryolosys Revived: A mage must have. Otherwise you have 2 bars of useless buffs
Natures Enemy Cast bar: Shows enemy and friendly cast and cool down timers. I know when a soulstone is available or when someones polymorph timer is up.
Deadly Boss Mods: Better than CT Boss mods by a long shot.
Easy Combat log: It's color coded crap for idiots like me.
Titan Panel: duh?
Improved Camera2 : extends the range you can zoom out.
EZdismount: click a spell while mounted and you dismount for the fast attack.
Trinket Menu: better trinket management.
Xperl Unit Frames: Better group frames
Smart Debuff: Every debuff class must have it.

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]]> addonskeybindingsmodsomegiuivideowarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Tue, 01 May 2007 19:46:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: Patrick and Kyle]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/29/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-patrick-and-kyle/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/29/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-patrick-and-kyle/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/29/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-patrick-and-kyle/#comments This week, on a very special episode of Reader WoWspace... Two men, brought together by fate share a destiny they never thought was possible. This summer, from the producer of The Odd Couple, and the director of The Crying Game comes an experience you'll never forget - Patrick and Kyle's WoWspace!

Okay, maybe not earthshaking, but I do find it interesting that it's a shared space. Do any of you share your WoWspace with another? If so, send it in! Here are the details:

Patrick and Kyle's WowSpace from Southern Wisconsin.

Characters from Left to Right
Gorgas - Level 70 Warlock (Skywall PvE)
Rebourn - Level 14 Warlock (Arthas PvP)
Budenhagen - Level 70 Rogue (Arathor PvE)

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]]> imagephotoreader wowspaceReaderWowspacesetupwarcraftwowwowspace (Paul Sherrard) Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: Silph]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/23/reader-ui-of-the-week-silph/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/23/reader-ui-of-the-week-silph/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/23/reader-ui-of-the-week-silph/#comments Another great and simple UI this week, but I still want to see your outlandish (get it?) designs and crazy UI schemes. Do you have something you think no one else has been able to show us yet? Send it to readerui at gmail dot com.

Silph writes:

Function over form. I follow that rule in my design work, and did so with this UI. Basically everything is suited to my needs, all while being simple and as minimal as possible.

To begin with there are two chat frames, the on the left shows guild, part and raid chat while the one on the right shows everything else from trade to a tabbed combat log. Above the each chat frame there are a collection of buttons. The left ones have macros of my Outfitter gear sets (Tanking, DPS, FR, AR etc etc) along with profession buttons (Enchanting, smelting, cooking etc).

The right ones on the other hands are my trade macros. Each button advertises in trade an enchant I can do. The macros will spam something along the lines of: "Enchanting Savagry (70 AP) on 2H weapon I'll wave my rod and make you glow(C)" but I digress.

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]]> addonsmodsreader uiReaderUisilphuiui of the weekUiOfTheWeek (Paul Sherrard) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:22:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[From Rock Journalist to WoW Addict]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/from-rock-journalist-to-wow-addict/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/from-rock-journalist-to-wow-addict/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/from-rock-journalist-to-wow-addict/#comments At the end of March, the Times issued an 8-page supplement along with a demo of World of Warcraft. Aside from getting me wondering how many Londoners are now trying out the game, it brought along a fantastic article by Caitlin Moran. You'll want to read the article to understand the image accompanying this posting.

In "My life as a bearded dwarf", we're given a humorous and insightful view into what can drag a mild-mannered reporter and mother of two into the world's biggest online game. Okay, maybe mild-mannered is pushing it. This is the same Caitlin Moran who started off into the world of music journalism at 16, wished an entire band dead in an album review, and who's spent time hanging out with Robbie Williams and writing on how cocaine has been responsible for some great albums. Yes, I owe my knowledge of these facts to the mighty Wikipedia.

While her choice of character names (Scottbaio) leaves much to be desired, I'm left wondering how long it'll be before I actually see a Thrusthammer Orcbash on a realm near me.

How did you get into World of Warcraft? When was it that you realized that you had been entirely sucked in, and the 20 minutes you THOUGHT you were going to spend turned into 2 or 3 hours?

Thanks a million to Dave for the submission!

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]]> caitlin moranCaitlinMoranlondonscott baioScottBaiotimeswarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:27:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Using World of Warcraft to teach English]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/using-world-of-warcraft-to-teach-english/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/using-world-of-warcraft-to-teach-english/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/using-world-of-warcraft-to-teach-english/#comments There's a story on Gamasutra today about using games, specifically WoW, as a way of exposing Asian youth to English. As an author of English-language textbooks for students in Japan and Taiwan, this particularly caught my attention. I'll let you go read the article to understand what's been done, but I'd like to share some thoughts here on the subject.

First and foremost, I think that using a game like WoW to teach casual, conversational English is a fantastic idea. With in-game chat, as well as Teamspeak/Ventrilo, you can really expose non-native speakers to the language in all its forms. Granted, you're not going to learn high-level business English, but you are going to be able to come away with a grasp of the language and some of its conversational nuances.

I also firmly believe that language is not as severe a barrier in WoW as it may be in other games. I know that many of us have come across a member of the opposite faction, and have been able to communicate through emotes or movements, or even through how we interact with the mobs in the situation. With less of a barrier to communication from the get-go, there's less of an intimidation factor involved for someone who wants to get something across.

However, through my experience, I've definitely seen some roadblocks to using WoW as an educational tool. I think it may be less prevalent on the European servers (please let me know if this is so, or I have a misperception), but on the North American servers I've played on, there seems to be a solid amount of intolerance for people who can't perfectly communicate in English.

A lot of this may stem from gold farmers who don't speak the language, but there are also French and Spanish speaking players on these realms who may have had to endure a certain amount of ridicule before finding acceptance in a given guild.

My question to the WoW Insider community is this - if you were aware that your server was being used for cross-cultural and cross-lingual training, would you accept this and would you put forth the time and energy to help non-English speakers be a part of your guild or your party and learn the language?

If not, why not?

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]]> Chinesecross-culturalcross-lingualenglishFrenchSpanishteaching englishTeachingEnglishwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:55:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: March 29 - April 4]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-29-april-4/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-29-april-4/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-29-april-4/#comments This week's entry is a doozy. It is big in all ways that a WoWspace can be big. Lots of write-up, giant images, and 2 screens that just look huge. I never thought my 2x 20" screens would look small. How wrong was I...

Hey, wowspaces moderation folk! Long time reader, first time submitter...although, i guess everyone is a first time submitter. anyways! Here is my wowspace, with a little description of it all.

Let's start out with the monitors first, my pride and joy :P those are 2 24" dell widescreens, each running at 1920x1280 resolution. the laptop is a 13" black macbook. All three of these screens are connected to the same keyboard and mouse, which navigates across all three screens through a virtual KVM program called Synergy. This is nice, since it lets me run processive intensive apps on the mac, while my desktop can be dedicated to running WoW.

So, what about the desktop specs you say?

Athlon 64 4200+ processor
2gb of DDR2 533mhz ram
geforce 6800 ultra card, 512mb video memory
7200RPM, 300GB hard drive.

The laptop is a 1.8ghz intel core duo macbook, 1gb of ram - it does the job when im out of the house :)

Both systems are connected to a Creative Gigaworks G500 sound system.

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]]> lightninghoofmoonmasterreader wowspaceReaderWowspacewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwowspace (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:32:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Green Wrath = Envy?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/green-wrath-envy/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/green-wrath-envy/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/green-wrath-envy/#comments Yesterday, we explored the Purple Judgement non-set, so it only seems fair that we continue our exploration of re-skinned Tier 2 goodness, as not all of you play paladins (why not?) at the present time.

Today we take a look at the reskinned level 70 version of the warrior's Cylon Wrath set. I was always impressed with the look of this set, with the bladed shoulders, and the mohawk-blade helm. I'm not sure which I like more, the original purple, or this new green version.

How do you warriors feel that your sets (and non-sets) are focused on tanking rather than on arms or fury builds? Can you live without a good-looking coherent set of armor pieces?

If you are looking to tank, here are the non-set pieces that visually form a green Wrath set (which I like to call "Envy") and where you'll find them:

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]]> envygreen wrathGreenWrathsetwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwrath (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:54:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: March 15 - 30]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-15-30/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-15-30/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-15-30/#comments This edition's UI is, in my opinion, pretty good looking. It's clean and it looks like all the mods have been tweaked in their settings to look as though they belong to a coherent whole.

Zodak of Dark Iron provides an explanation of his UI is as quick and clean as the setup itself:

My UI goal is to simply display everything necessary in a straightfoward manner. Minimalism with the most pertinent information shown as possible without creating clutter. I've also focused a lot on maximizing my widescreen display.

The mods we can see include:

  • FuBar
  • EEpanels
  • SWstats
  • agUnitFrames
  • Bartender3
  • Prat
  • Squeenix
  • SimpleCombatLog
  • Buffalo

What do you think of Zodak's setup? What I want to see from you in submissions for the next edition are some really WACKY UI setups. Let's see how outrageous you can get! Maybe we can put together a cavalcade of the weird, the cluttered, the unusable!

Show us what you got by submitting to: readerui@gmail.com

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]]> addonsmodsreader ui of the weekReaderUiOfTheWeekUIwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:28:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Not quite a set: Purple Judgement]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/not-quite-a-set-purple-judgement/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/not-quite-a-set-purple-judgement/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/04/04/not-quite-a-set-purple-judgement/#comments I really wanted to call this article "The Peculiar Purple Paladin of Porcupine Peak", but aside from being fairly non-descriptive, I was afraid the reference would be lost. Instead, I decided to just state exactly what we're looking at over on the right.

I hope we can all agree that the Paladin Tier 2 Judgement set is a solidly designed set of gear, which really breathed some life and energy into the Paladin class, stylistically speaking. As a paladin myself, it became my whole world. It was the single reason I played with my online dress-up doll, err.. paladin. When I had finally achieved the set, I felt satisfied and complete. Then the Burning Crusade came. Try as I might to not do it, I've had to put several pieces of judgement into storage as I'm leveling from 60 to 70. My poor little pally now looks like a hodgepodge of pieces from a bargain bin.

Luckily for those of us who plan to take our (forced?) places in a raid group upon hitting 70, there's a bit of a black light at the end of the tunnel.

While "Purple Judgement" isn't a fully realized set, with bonuses and a name, it is a grouping of very viable healing gear for the level 70 paladin. If you're keen on maintaining that Judgement look, and you're okay with being a healer at level 70, you'll want to seek out the following pieces, from helm to boot:

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]]> judgementpaladinpurplepurple judgementPurpleJudgementwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:14:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: March 21 - 28]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/31/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-21-28/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/31/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-21-28/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/31/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-21-28/#comments This week on Reader WoWspace, Thijz writes:

I took three pictures of my setup. I took them with my mobile phone (my mom stole the camera) so they're not very high quality.

On the first one you can see this:

Top shelf: (left to right)
- Some random books and CD's, as well as a Princess Mononoke DVD
- My printer (HP Deskjet D2360) nothing special
- Center speaker of my Logitech X530 5.1 speakerset
- A picture of my cat
- WoW and BC boxes, as some sort of tribute :P
- Behind those are some boxes from my motherboard, mouse etc, in which I keep driver-CD's and instruction books

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]]> reader wowspacereader wowspace of the weekReaderWowspaceReaderWowspaceOfTheWeekwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwowspace (Paul Sherrard) Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:47:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Insider Guide to Paladin Tanking]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/27/wow-insider-guide-to-paladin-tanking/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/27/wow-insider-guide-to-paladin-tanking/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/27/wow-insider-guide-to-paladin-tanking/#comments With the many changes already made to the paladin class in WoW 2.0, and the new paladin tanking itemization that's been promised for 2.10, we felt it was about time that paladin tanking was given a thorough looking over. With great help from master mathematician Ananke, we've been able to put together the first in what's sure to be a long list of WoW Insider Guides.

With your protection tree firmly in hand, you can take a look at how Seal of Righteousness compares to taunt, how your Consecration can act as a great aggro builder across multiple mobs, and how you can tank *and* dish out the damage. Complete with graphs and an explanation of each of a paladin's primary tanking skills and spells, we're sure you'll find this guide helpful whether you're a paladin tank, or just grouping with one.

Click on the read link to see how a paladin can stack up to a Warrior, WoW's traditional tanking class, and look at the numbers behind the essential paladin tanking skills.

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]]> guidepaladinpaladin tankingPaladinTankingtankingwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwow insider guideWowInsiderGuide (Paul Sherrard) Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:31:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: March 7 - 20]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-7-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-7-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-march-7-20/#comments This week, Ben sends in some interesting images, and writes:

I've been tempted to send in a shot of my workspace for a few weeks now after seeing the WoWSpaces of the week, and now I guess I've gotten around to it.

So here 'goes, from left-ish to right:

- my Logitech X-230 speakers
- a note from my mom congratulating me on the arrival of my new PC
- a newspaper clipping about DST changes
- under that, a greeting card and some weird round orange post-its
- my television remote
- cream soda x2 (awwww yeah)
- a J!NX bumper sticker (yep, it's stuck on right on there)
- a page from an old Nintendo Power magazine about Ken from Street Fighter II
- partially under that, my DS charger

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]]> dellg15logitechnetgearpcreader wowspaceReaderWowspacespacesystemwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwowspace (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Blizzard posts Burning Crusade attunement tree]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/blizzard-posts-burning-crusade-attunement-tree/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/blizzard-posts-burning-crusade-attunement-tree/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/blizzard-posts-burning-crusade-attunement-tree/#comments While we've certainly seen some excellent player-created guides to instance attunement in The Burning Crusade, sometimes it's just good to know there's also an official source.

So it was with great glee that I opened up my email this morning to find that *other* World of Warcraft Insider (you know, the email Bliz sends you that you never read) with mention of this fabulous interactive attunement guide.

While I don't know about you (and I hope you'll tell me), I know that a guide like this helps me figure out what I'm headed to do next on my path of content conquering. I honestly had no clue it would be this involved as I was leveling up, but thankfully the faction grind hasn't really felt like a grind at all. In fact, after leveling to 70 on a new shaman, and seeing most of the new instances, I'm now only missing revered with a couple of factions.

So, does a guide like this from Blizzard help, or are you more inclined to use the player-generated guides?

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]]> attunementburning crusadeBurningCrusadeinstanceinstance attunementInstanceAttunementkarazhanwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:33:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[What's your favorite 5-person group?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/16/whats-your-favorite-5-person-group/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/16/whats-your-favorite-5-person-group/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/16/whats-your-favorite-5-person-group/#comments With so much 5-person content in Outland, I've been having a lot of discussion with my guildies as to the "perfect" group makeup. With 9 classes, there are tons of options available to anyone starting a group.

Tanks: Warrior, Bear Druid, or Paladin. Maybe a Warlock if you have an insane warlock in your guild (I'm looking at you, Turinok!)

Healers: Priests, Resto Shammies, Healadins, Druids. I'm personally a big fan of having as much healing as possible in a group. Fewer wipes = shorter runs = happier Paulie.

DPS: Pretty much everybody else.

I'm going to share with you what I think is my favorite 5-person group for the normal Outland instances. This group likely wouldn't work in Heroic instances, and it's been long enough that I've been out of Azeroth that I couldn't attest to the effectivesness of the group in the "old world." I look forward to your comments on it, and your comments about your own groups.

  • Tank: Paladin
  • Healer: Paladin
  • DPS: Mage
  • DPS: Enhancement Shaman
  • DPS: Elemental Shaman

Strengths: Only 1 true squishy in the group, and 4 potential healers surrounding her. 2 blessings, 8 totems, arcane brilliance for more mana for everyone. As I play an alliance shaman, I still come off as shiny, new, and exotic to my guildies. With spell damage and crit buffs from me (the elementalist), and windfury and Strength of Earth from the enhancement shaman, there are benefits for everyone. With Blessing of Wisdom and Mana totems, mana regen is doing just fine.

Weaknesses: No rogue to pick locks on chests, no Priest for stamina buffs. I'll count on you lot to tell me further weaknesses.

What's your favorite 5-person group? Is your group best for Azeroth, Outland, or even Outland Heroic instances?

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]]> 5-man5-member5-persongroupwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:12:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: March 1 - 15]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/15/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-1-15/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/15/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-1-15/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/15/reader-ui-of-the-week-march-1-15/#comments Yes, technically this is Reader UI of the Two Weeks. I apologize, but I think I'm making up for it with a pretty swank UI for you all to comment on.

Hello, this is Selece of Deathwing and this is my UI. It's made from my handpicked stuff, mainly off of the WoWAce mods. Excuse the low damage screenshot, new installation of TopScoreFu.

It's meant to be as functional as possible, with as little clutter as possible.

Buffs are shown in the top right, debuffs in the top left. A quickbar of situational stuff sits at the bottom left and the pet bar sits in the bottom right. Unitframes are handled by AGUF and sit direct center middle for easy watching while looking for BigWigs/raidwarning to yell at me. ToT/pet frames sit below my frame and my target's frame. Focus frame appears on the far bottom right when in use, as well as ToT of the focus. Bags are handled by Baggins which makes for easy sorting/finding of any particular item - everything is sorted into catagories. Damage is tracked by SimpleCombatLog (not shown, currently on chat tab) with the assistance of SCT/SCTD. Party/raid frames are provided by the lovely Grid.

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]]> addonsreader uiReaderUiuiwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:51:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: Feb 28 - March 6]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/09/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-feb-28-march-6/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/09/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-feb-28-march-6/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/09/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-feb-28-march-6/#comments This week's WoWspace setup is brought to us by Kerri, who you may better know as Lysaara of Nox Invictus. I'm not sure which server she's on, but I'm loving the WoWSpace.

Hmmm.. Lets see. I took this a couple weeks ago to show a friend my new monitor, thought I'd send it in...

Left-to-rightish:
  • lumpy funky lightbulb for behind the monitors to reduce eye-strain on endless Scholo runs
  • 60Gb iPod (because iTunes can be a resource hog!)
  • diet Coke
  • Nostromo for, as the marketing on its package advertised, "Faster Frags!"
  • 2x3GHz Dual-Core MacPro under the desk
    • 4Gb RAM
    • ATI Radeon x1900
  • gamepad for MAME breaks
  • Sennheisser HD-570 headphones
  • USB Vent headset
  • 23" 16:9 ViewSonic - this is my main display (I took this photo right after the last patch, so I don't have my UI up..)
  • 21" 4:3 Dell - with Yahoo IM, Ventrillo, webBrowser with thottbot, wowwiki, and guild website open
  • Microsoft "Natural Touch" keyboard - I'm a programmer in as my day job, need to avoid that RSI..)
  • various junk under the monitors
  • John Vanderslice, Blackalicious, Joanna Newsome (!), and a couple Phish albums
  • deodorant (hey, a girl's gotta smell nice even though she's raiding..)
  • "power shelf" to the right of the monitors... I have no idea what else to call this, but I ninja'd it from a former employer, and its got switches for all the lights in my room
  • Ott-Lite full-spectrum lamp.. this helps with eye-strain and with Seasonal Depression (I saw the sun here in Seattle last November, as I recall...)
  • Vitamin C - gotta stay healthy and sharp!
  • a pair of Altec Lansing surround sound speakers... normally these live directly behind the monitors, but I'm in the middle of rewiring
  • the rear channels for watching DVDs
  • Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 - BEST mouse I've ever owned,sadly discontinued. I may get the new 5.0 wireless one at some point, but only once this one dies. It has 2 thumb-buttons that I have mapped to keystrokes in-game. Combined with the Nostromo, I only use my keyboard for chat
As always, keep sending in your WoWspace entries, with a nice description (the more thorough, the more chance of being posted), and a few photos (2 or 3 is best).

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]]> lysaaranox invictusNoxInvictusreader wowspace of the weekReaderWowspaceOfTheWeekwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowwowspace (Paul Sherrard) Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Armory + Signature Generator = AWESOME!]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/06/armory-signature-generator-awesome/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/06/armory-signature-generator-awesome/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/06/armory-signature-generator-awesome/#comments

Now that everyone you know is looking at your stats in the Armory anyway, isn't it time you showed off your character in whatever online forum you happen to take part in? From guild forums to public bulletin boards, there's always room for a fun, graphical signature. Just look at mine, above. It has my mean Draenei face, some lightning bolts, and even my awesomely hardcore (ha ha ha ha ha) stats.

Head on over to http://jebus.geek.nz/WoW/armory/ to get your very own signature image, which you can download to your desktop, then upload to your favorite forum hangout. You can get it in PvP and PvE flavors, in a variety of colors and backgrounds.

It's not perfect, as Skew was complaining to me earlier that the Shaman tag doesn't show stats meaningful to enhancement shammies. Any other stats it's not showing that you'd like to see?

What are you using as a signature in the forums now, and do you see a little tool like this to be as handy as I found it?

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]]> forumgeneratorsigsignaturewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Moviewatch: Druid Epic Flight Form]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/wow-moviewatch-druid-epic-flight-form/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/wow-moviewatch-druid-epic-flight-form/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/wow-moviewatch-druid-epic-flight-form/#comments Dementia Myndflame are at it again. Myndflame, for those not in the know, are the folks behind Zinwrath, Illegal Danish, and the upcoming Illegal Danish: Escape From Orgrimmar. They've put out some of the funniest WoW Machinima that I've seen yet, and continue the tradition with this quick spoof ad for what the upcoming Druid epic flight form might be like. We all know that Bliz should nerf druids, and this little video just takes it to the next step.

Thanks to Clint Hackleman, Dementia Myndflame's Lead Producer, for the submission!

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]]> dementia myndflameDementiaMyndflamedruidsepic flight formEpicFlightFormflight formFlightFormmyndflamewarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:48:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: February 21 - 27]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-21-27/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-21-27/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/04/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-21-27/#comments This week's submission is chock-full of AddOn goodness. Let's dive right in, shall we?

Hello :) I'm Cassandra (or Cassey for short) and this is the ui I use to play wow with.

Character: Felyna (Darkspear US)
Screensize: 1280x1024 (windowed play: 1252x1002) 19" LCD
Theme: I wanted a nice, clean UI that gave me access to information and basically everything I need.
Addons: I use a lot of addons, so here we go... Format: Main addon (Similar/Joint Addons), [ ]used on other characters, not felyna

Ace (Ace2, AceGUI)Adapt
AllPlayed
ArcHUD2
[Auctioneer (Beancounter, BtmScan, Informant)]
Bartender3
Capping
Cartographer (Fishing, [Herbalism], [Mining], [Opening], Stats, Teasure)
Natur Enemy CastBar (Debuffs, Options, PvEModule, PvPModule)
CensusPlus

(Complete list continues after the jump)

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]]> addonsreader ui of the weekReaderUiOfTheWeekscreenshotswarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:37:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: February 21 to 27]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/01/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-21-to-27/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/01/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-21-to-27/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/03/01/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-21-to-27/#comments Short and sweet this week. Okay, maybe the space is more grotty than sweet, but I'll let submitter Charlie explain:

You guys seem to be featuring really neat and nice set-ups, so I thought I'd show you what most WoW player's desks look like! In order from left to right: Latest Newsweek, bottle of water, Bourne Supremacy, LOTR The Two Towers (Extended), a Hotpocket, an old Canon AE-1 (for when I do shoot film), Klipsch speakers (eh, they're ok, field is a little narrow), Apple 20" Cinema Display, iPod Mini (it's there, trust me), 90+ year old negatives from my grandmother that I need to take into work to restore (brown envelope), BC mouse pad, USB multi-card reader I ninja'd from work, RAZR, Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 with 2GB of RAM, ATi Radeon 9600 with 128MB of DDR (eh, need to upgrade), old Joystick from when I used to play flight sims all night long, and my Ventrilo headset.

Remember to send your submissions in to our Reader WoWspace address, along with a couple of good photos of your space.

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]]> Applebourne supremacyBourneSupremacyhotpocketipodklipschnewsweekradeonrazrReader WoWspace of the WeekReaderWowspaceOfTheWeekwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraft (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader UI of the Week: February 14 - 20]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/22/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-14-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/22/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-14-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/22/reader-ui-of-the-week-february-14-20/#comments This week, Krool (of the guild Heartless, on Daggerspine US)shows off his pre-TBC UI, so think of this as one of those flashbacks you may see in LOST or Jericho or whatever show is doing flashbacks this week. I remember using Charcoal's unit frames and fonts way back, but could never develop an appreciation for, or understanding of, Discord Unit Frames. I'm really digging the borders around the UI elements, separating them from the rest of the screen. Is there any way to do something like this without Discord?

Anyway, I digress, and here's Krool to tell you about his UI:

Here's a screenshot of my UI. Unfortunately Charcoal isn't working any more and I'm so sad. It was my favorite bar auto-configurator of all time. As far as basic action bar, player and target bar geometry flexibility, Charcoal pwned everyting else I've ever seen. Crash said he's working on it, but it's going to take some time. But having said that, the screenshot enclosed is my UI the way I like it best of all at any time since the original beta when I started playing.

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]]> autobarbenecastcharcoalclearfontct mailmodct raidCtMailmodCtRaiddaggerspinedamage metersdamagemetersdruid barDruidBarkroolmazzlemazzleuireader uireader ui of the weekReaderUiReaderUiOfTheWeekuiwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:05:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Reader WoWspace of the Week: February 14 - 20]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-14-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-14-20/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/reader-wowspace-of-the-week-february-14-20/#comments It's Wednesday night, so you know what that means!! No, not LOST.. sheesh.. It's time for Reader WoWspace of the Week, the lengthily-titled spotlight on YOU and YOUR SYSTEM!

This week it's back to a very clean setup, with a nice graphical twist at the end. I'll let the submitter explain:

I saw your article yesterday on Reader WoWspace and it reminded me of the glorious days of the site Spymac which used to ave a similar feature for Mac users.

It was enough to inspire me to dust off the digital camera and take a couple shots of the 3 places that I play most of my Warcraft at these days. The first is in my office which features a 30" Apple Cinema display being driven by a Dual G5 PowerMac (not shown). Next it on the desk is a 15" MacBookPro. Picture #2 is being driven by a 17" PowerBook on the previous generation 23" Cinema display and the last one (and perhaps the most comfortable!) is the 15" MacBookPro in ye 'olde comfortable chair (you gotta love WiFi).

What can I say, this game drives you to do some strange things and hence my motivation for sending in these pics. In 2006, I setup a little guild website called horderising.com which has turned into a collection of videos / comics / pictures about WoW that highly the creativity of the community. It's just something I did for fun and I thank wow.com for also highlighting the best in the wow community.

Take care,

Jeff
Denver, CO
Tauren Druid (currently lvl 61) on Proudmoore

I'm just a big fan of the clean setup, but the real kicker is here. Take a look at the back of his MacBook Pro! Imagine taking this puppy to meetings with clients - those in the know will fear you and respect you simply because you're showing off the might of the Horde. It just gives me a good laugh. I wonder what non-WoW players think of it. Have any of you customized your rigs with WoW art or designs?

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]]> Reader WoWSpace of the WeekReaderWowspaceOfTheWeekwarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwowWowSpace (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[What John August learned from WoW]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/what-john-august-learned-from-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/what-john-august-learned-from-wow/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2007/02/21/what-john-august-learned-from-wow/#comments Some of you may be asking, "Who's John August?" Well, I also asked myself that when I came across his article. Turns out I already knew a lot of his work, and you might too. John's written a bunch of movies, including Go, Charlie's Angels (and its sequel Full Throttle), Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Corpse Bride, and has actually written and directed his first film with The Nines, which garnered some great reviews at the Sundance film festival.

Okay, before this becomes a Cinematical entry, let's get back to what this post is actually about. John, like many struggling (or not so struggling) writers (please take that giant hunter's mark off my head now, thank you), has a lot of free time on his hands while scheming up ideas for scripts and stories. For a while, John chose to spend a good portion of his free time in the World of Warcraft.

What stands out about his article, "Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft", is that he's taken what he learned in-game and applied it to his now WoW-free life. I found it amusing and also semi-educational, if not a bit GTD in inspiration. So go hop over and take a read, then come add to his list. What life-lessons have you learned from the World of Warcraft?

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]]> john augustJohnAugustLearnedReal LifeRealLifeSeven ThingsSevenThingswarcraftworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraftwow (Paul Sherrard) Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:29:00 EST WoW Insider