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Here's a weird one. I'm asking for add on advice.

Anyone know any great Shaman add ons?

Depends on what you want to do (Elemental, Enhancement, or Resto), but one of my favorite for every spec is ShieldsUp. I also use TotemTimers, but that's more of a personal preference thing. Blizzard's new Totem bar is great, but I wanted something with slightly different functionality and that fit into my custom UI.

Past that, I use Power Auras?with some custom rules for Enhancement (lot of CDs and I'd rather keep my eyes on the middle of the screen). Clique is nice for Resto, but it's not necessary (I use it to bind Chain Heal to my right click only on Grid's frames for those CH spam fights like Blood Queen). Elemental is three or four buttons, so not much you need there. :p

Addon searching:

Looking for an addon that I had before, but can't remember the name. It was like Shared media but it had an interface that you could change everything in-game. I can't seem to fine it anywhere. Unless of course I dl'd an old version of shared media that doesn't do that, but new one does. Anyone have an idea I'm talking about? I thought it was here, I learned the name of it, but after a brief search nothing came up.

Addon searching:

Looking for an addon that I had before, but can't remember the name. It was like Shared media but it had an interface that you could change everything in-game. I can't seem to fine it anywhere. Unless of course I dl'd an old version of shared media that doesn't do that, but new one does. Anyone have an idea I'm talking about? I thought it was here, I learned the name of it, but after a brief search nothing came up.

I don't suppose you're thinking of 'skinner'?

I don't suppose you're thinking of 'skinner'?

No. This one had like font options in a drop-down menu for every aspect of the font. I could change the Character screen font, the quest window, the talent book, achievements, etc. all from the interface the add-on had in-game. I also could choose the bar for each and every add-on. So I could set it up and it would change all of 'em to 'Minimialist' or 'Banto Bar' etc.

Skinner kinda of does what I need but not quite.

unrelated: I checked my spam box and apparently I've had a beta invite for 3 weeks.

eh make sure its real haha. I've had a few "beta invites" too in my spam and upon inspection they were sent from "@hotmail.com" and the @blizzard.com/@battle.net were just spoofed. most spam systems are able to distinguish this and mark it correctly.

I just received a Cataclysm Beta invitation email. It looks pretty real and the links all lead to official blizzard sites, I even look up the email address and header and people claim it's real. In the Email it says;

"1. Get the Installer: Log in to your Battle.net account. In your list of games, click the “Manage Game” button under the Cataclysm beta image to download the installer; you’ll also be able to copy a character to the beta-test realms through the same page. Please note that your Battle.net account should be flagged for beta access within roughly 24 hours upon receipt of this email."

And people claim to have been granted Beta access later that day.

I'm still a bit unsure, it doesn't look too convincing ( Is a bit plain? ) but it wasn't caught by the spam filter like the 200.000 other Cataclysm invitations I get. It's pretty long, detailed and isn't filled with typos and none of the links are phishing URLs.

Can someone in the Beta or with more knowledge shed some light on this, show me how the real invitation email looks, what address it should be from etc. ?

I just received a Cataclysm Beta invitation email. It looks pretty real and the links all lead to official blizzard sites, I even look up the email address and header and people claim it's real. In the Email it says;

"1. Get the Installer: Log in to your Battle.net account. In your list of games, click the ?Manage Game? button under the Cataclysm beta image to download the installer; you?ll also be able to copy a character to the beta-test realms through the same page. Please note that your Battle.net account should be flagged for beta access within roughly 24 hours upon receipt of this email."

And people claim to have been granted Beta access later that day.

I'm still a bit unsure, it doesn't look too convincing ( Is a bit plain? ) but it wasn't caught by the spam filter like the 200.000 other Cataclysm invitations I get. It's pretty long, detailed and isn't filled with typos and none of the links are phishing URLs.

Can someone in the Beta or with more knowledge shed some light on this, show me how the real invitation email looks, what address it should be from etc. ?

No idea, just log into your battle.net account and see.

Still isn't there, as the email states, can take up to 24h - So I'm just trying to make sure I'm not getting excited about a scam mail.

The people on the WoW forums say they generally get the tag on the bnet account first then get the e-mail later... I wouldn't respond/click on anything - if you're invited it will be on your battle.net account.

The people on the WoW forums say they generally get the tag on the bnet account first then get the e-mail later... I wouldn't respond/click on anything - if you're invited it will be on your battle.net account.

Just an example;

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/general/299376-europe-cataclysm-beta.html#post1910096

Everywhere else, they say the [email protected] address is the real one, plus many of the people who claim to have gotten in posted a

snippet of their Email and it reads exactly like mine.

So either it's a very good scam or I did in fact get an invite.

None of the URLs are phishing URLs either, they are all legit.

This is confusing :rofl:

EDIT: Now I need to use US Battle.net instead of the EU portal to check my WoW account management, odd.

EDIT2: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816847763&postId=138154960340&sid=1 <-- A Green added that to the official FAQ and that's what my Email looks like, exactly http://dl.dropbox.com/u/473845/Cataclysm.png - So I guess I'm in?

Relying on the content of a mail posted to a forum seems like a bad choice given that hackers could just as easily imitate it.

I had a warcraft beta icon in my battlenet settings, but the invitation was sent weeks ago so there could have been some delay that I didn't notice.

Just check tomorrow and see if anything worthwhile is in there.

I need a screenshot for this later but:

[R][Culligan] 5000g buy-in winner takes all. PST me.
...
[some tells happen]
...
[R][Culligan] me, samara, ryan, erik, chef, jesse, liana, jenn,  Renegado , Yowowza , manada, plur,  Beanothedark, Excade, Malgah 
[R][Culligan] okay - go
Culligan rolls 100 (1-100)

Started making up for last weeks epic losses in drunken-alt ICC25.

(edit: in case it's not clear: culligan is my crumby alt mage).

I need a screenshot for this later but:

[R][Culligan] 5000g buy-in winner takes all. PST me.
...
[some tells happen]
...
[R][Culligan] me, samara, ryan, erik, chef, jesse, liana, jenn,  Renegado , Yowowza , manada, plur,  Beanothedark, Excade, Malgah 
[R][Culligan] okay - go
Culligan rolls 100 (1-100)

Started making up for last weeks epic losses in drunken-alt ICC25.

(edit: in case it's not clear: culligan is my crumby alt mage).

Holy ****, that's a cool 70,000g for nothing. :laugh: Good work. (Y)

Hi guys, I used to play WoW, and I sucked at it... But now, I'm thirstin' for another MMORPG, figured this was the way to go. A friend of mine seems to have a stockpile of free weeks, twenty free weeks, to be exact, and he offered them all to me. I was wondering if I'd have to make a new account each time, or what. If you guys know of any problems with my plan to use all 20 weeks on a single account, please tell me. Thanks.

I need a screenshot for this later but:

[R][Culligan] 5000g buy-in winner takes all. PST me.
...
[some tells happen]
...
[R][Culligan] me, samara, ryan, erik, chef, jesse, liana, jenn,  Renegado , Yowowza , manada, plur,  Beanothedark, Excade, Malgah 
[R][Culligan] okay - go
Culligan rolls 100 (1-100)

Started making up for last weeks epic losses in drunken-alt ICC25.

(edit: in case it's not clear: culligan is my crumby alt mage).

Aside from the magic you pull off at accumulating gold, I have a slight rant at you:

Why are you saying "PST me" ? It translates as "please send tell me", which sounds incredibly bad, and from the little I know about you, is the exact opposite of you.

What happened to "whisper me" ?

I realize that this is pretty stupid of me but I just wanted to get it out of me :p

Why are you saying "PST me" ? It translates as "please send tell me", which sounds incredibly bad, and from the little I know about you, is the exact opposite of you.

I think that's fairly standard nomenclature in the game in the same way that "jimmy taunt x" doesn't necessary mean you want jimmy to actually cast taunt; Hand of Righteousness or Dark Command are valid actions too. PST is the general form of the action "message this person".

I suppose you could make a reasonable argument that PST is similar to USA being an an acronym for "United States of America" where the minor word "of" is dropped. In that case PST could stand for "Please Send a Tell to" where the minor words "a" and "to" have been dropped.

What happened to "whisper me" ?

A bottle of jager and half a bottle of gin happened. It's not called drunken alt icc for nothing.

Apparently, the Beta invites sent out yesterday didn't update the accounts they were sent to - Several people still haven't received Beta access despite getting the invite, including me.

So now we had to go through community reps and gamemasters, they should be looking into it now. Had hoped my Sunday would be used for gaming Cataclysm :( Hopefully it'll be sorted

by tonight but I won't get my hopes up.

Apparently, the Beta invites sent out yesterday didn't update the accounts they were sent to - Several people still haven't received Beta access despite getting the invite, including me.

So now we had to go through community reps and gamemasters, they should be looking into it now. Had hoped my Sunday would be used for gaming Cataclysm :( Hopefully it'll be sorted

by tonight but I won't get my hopes up.

Transfer to the PVE server - we can make a guild and such.

The mechanics in the new 5-mans are about as difficult as karazhan which means that most pugs are incapable of doing them after 2 years of being handed free loot.

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