Official Wrath Talent Calculators Online
Just a quick heads-up, Blizzard has put official talent calculators for Wrath up for playing. Here’s the EU version, and here the US one. The latter has a nice landing page, too.[...]
Blizzard Authenticator Warning: Only One Per Account
Just a quick heads-up here. I’ve now read on four separate sites that some people are ordering more than one Blizzard Authenticator for themselves, eg. if they play on a desktop computer and a laptop.
It doesn’t work that way, I’m afraid.
Why the Optional Blizzard Authenticator will Become Quite Mandatory
Blizzard announced a new tool in the arsenal of measures to combat account theft, their authenticator. In short, you buy the authenticator for a small sum of money, tie it to one or more Blizzard game accounts, and from then on, whenever you want to log in, you will be prompted to type in not just your username and password, but also a short authentication code.
Daostrasz on Tweaking your Graphics in WoW
Daostrasz has an excellent post out here for people not making full use of a good gfx card and plenty of RAM, explaining how you can improve the eye-candy value in the game.
Safely Changing your WoW Password
In the wake of another round of account hacking - Emeritus blogging tank HonorsHammer is one of the latest prominent victims - let me restate one important element of my advice regarding account security.
Quick Notes
Just 1-2 quick things:
The Quest for Precise Damage Metering: Almost There
Numbers, numbers, numbers. That’s all Damage Meter addons are about. Getting those as close to what your server knows you have dealt is the big challenge, and the Eldorado promised by patch 2.4 is getting closer by the day.
Damage Meters in Patch 2.4, One Week Later
This is just a very short round-up of where the different damage meters are today in terms of parch 2.4 compatibility, not an in-depth benchmark.
Speaking of Item Tooltips, a Look at WoWDigger
Over the current wowdb popularity, I neglected to look at the other non-Affinity wow item database, wowdigger. And they also happen to offer item tooltip syndication, and apparently do even up the ante in terms of provided functionality.
Guild Forums, First Look at phpBB3
The guild website I’m hosting hasn’t had a proper template refresh for over a year now, and revamping that one is next on my todo list. I am running it under the phpBB Plus package based on phpBB2. In the meantime, phpBB3 has been released, and it has a couple of very interesting features making it worth sandboxing for a while.
Damage Meters Benchmarking: Recount Maintainer Feedback
Elsia, the current maintainer of the benchmarked Recount, took the time to post extensive feedback both on general accuracy considerations and on the pet damage discrepancies
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