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[Joseph B]

Got bored, tried logging into my account, and wouldn't you know it- My authenticators battery died... I've only had it for 3 1/2 months, how is this possible? O.o

[Lexcyn]

Got bored, tried logging into my account, and wouldn't you know it- My authenticators battery died... I've only had it for 3 1/2 months, how is this possible? O.o

That is strange ... I've had mine for over a year and it's still going strong.

[Joseph B]

That is strange ... I've had mine for over a year and it's still going strong.

Exactly, my bro has one that he has had since they release them... Still works perfectly fine. Maybe I got a botched one?

I've seen horror stories of people spending weeks trying to get them off accounts, I don't even know if I want to go through with that to sit in Dalaran to stare at my pretty gear >_>

[Minifig]

Few generic pet peeves:

- Outline chat if you can't read it remove the huge black box.

I'd just gotten out of a random when I took that, so the bar hadn't faded, the chat is black because the sun glares in my eye when I play during the mornings, so it's black so it doesn't have a glare.

[DrunkenBeard]

Guys is this legit ? :whistle:

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:08:01 -0700

Subject: World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm Beta Test Invitation

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And if so, can an email header be forged ?

EDIT : after checking the official board it appears to be legit, but I can't see the Cata account in my Battle.net, it says to wait 24h in the mail, does it take a long time ?

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

Guys is this legit ? :whistle:

And if so, can an email header be forged ?

No the [email protected] isn't a blizzard email I dont think and its usually just added to your account so see if it is in your battle.net account.

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

Not a pain at all. Unfortunately I'm unsure if the skinner.lua file I've uploaded will indeed give you my Skinner profile / setup. Try extracting the included file to this directory once you've installed the Skinner addon.

As far as the font goes, it's called Emblem, but I forgot where I grabbed it from originally so I've also uploaded it for you. To replace the fonts in WoW, download Malsumis Font Changer and follow the instructions, and use the Emblem font to replace WoW's default fonts. It's pretty easy.

emblem_and_skinner.zip

You didnt include any textures so I got

When I logged in.

[DrunkenBeard]

No the [email protected] isn't a blizzard email I dont think and its usually just added to your account so see if it is in your battle.net account.

Well if I'm to trust the official boards it's actually a legit blizzard email (in addition, the header shows that the mail came from blizzard servers) but still nothing in Battle.net, I made a post in the official boards for confirmation. Not getting my hopes too high thou :laugh:

[neudera]

You didnt include any textures so I got

When I logged in.

Can you post a picture of a window such a character, talents, or the spellbook? As far as not including any textures, I don't use any. My modified Skinner settings rely on nothing but colors / transparency settings.

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

Can you post a picture of a window such a character, talents, or the spellbook? As far as not including any textures, I don't use any. My modified Skinner settings rely on nothing but colors / transparency settings.

I got it working, was me being an idiot xP, I didnt change profile xD!.

I decided to change my UI arround a bit. Going to change the Unit Frames to oUF Nivea, Move my Action Bars arround a bit as well as some other things.

This is just what I did before the server shutdown.

[Prosidius]

Yay!!! :woot:

[I am Redbeard]

Evn, what unit frames / dps meter are you using?

[PixilEyes]

Yay!!! :woot:

EPIC!

I'll never get that. Not easy at all.

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

Congrats on Shadowmourne.

[Minifig]

Sigh. I wish I could get a beta key...

[the evn show]

Evn, what unit frames / dps meter are you using?

Unit frames are Stuf, I stripped it down to the most minimal configuration i could tolerate.

The Damage meter would be skada, I use it as a threat meter and almost always have the damage/healing meters unloaded. I like it for the threat, fails, and death modules.

Gratz on your orange weapon. I've started collecting shards on my DK, I might be the only person in the game that is getting one without actually wanting it.

[vip]

New DK Bloodboil Animation looks kinda nice lol

[Alladaskill17]

New DK Bloodboil Animation looks kinda nice lol

Far more noticeable now, the 'AOE' now has an 'E'

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

I changed my UI around a bit, is there anything else I should change. You can see the changes by comparing it to an older screenshot i posted earlier.

[I am Redbeard]

I changed my UI around a bit, is there anything else I should change. You can see the changes by comparing it to an older screenshot i posted earlier.

What's the bag addon / frame alter-er?

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

What's the bag addon / frame alter-er?

Frame alter-er?

And no point having a bag addon tbh.

[Sethos]

Am I the only one sticking to default UI? It's not the classiest piece but it works, never breaks during updates and doesn't require a ton of work / maintenance. :)

[the evn show]

Am I the only one sticking to default UI? It's not the classiest piece but it works, never breaks during updates and doesn't require a ton of work / maintenance. :)

The default UI is not very effective when it comes to communicating the information you need to know vs the stuff that is nice to know and the stuff that is completely

irrelevant. Just look at the buff frames: You probably don't care about 'chill of the throne' at all, and you can't really do anything about weakened soul. You probably care

a lot about debuffs like Legion Flame. The stock UI treats all of these debuffs as equally important and doesn't treat them any different from useless information like

the buff from deviate fish. Delaying your ability to respond to changes increases the chance your performance will negatively impact people around you.

The stock UI makes things like the ability to use Runestrike as important the cooldown on Icebound Fortitude or the ability to summon a ghoul.

You also need information about external events.

Is it safe to cast spells on Sindy hard-mode if you have 3 stacks of instability and you're 30 yards away from everyone? You need some way to know

the cooldown on her grip ability to know if you'll risk blowing-up the raid. The difference that knowledge can make is > 200k damage.

Knowing when your target is using (ie: shield wall) is useful for planning your cooldowns. You're probably not going to want to waste a blessing of protection

on a shadow priest with agro but has popped dispersion, you probably would want to use it on a rogue that has agro and hasn't vanished. A good set of raid

frames helps make sorting out this information much easier. You also need to know if you a boss is targeting you because you've pulled agro or if it's just using

a RSTS ability: the stock UI isn't very helpful here an waiting to find out isn't something you always have the ability to do.

Many fights require positioning yourself carefully: ie: running around on Saurfang is less than ideal. Being able to see how far away a mob is, and how quickly

it's moving out of range is useful for planning casts. If a mob is 30 yards away, at 20% health, and moving at standard running speed then you're not going to

want to cast a fireball at it because it'll be out of range before the cast completes. You'll proably scorch/fireblast instead. Even the best players have a hard time

guessing the difference between 25 yards and 30-yards in the middle of combat. A good unit frame will give you this information.

Knowing what you have threat on is more important than knowing that you have threat. On Lich King have I over DPS'd a raging spirit and it's going to

wipe the raid, or have I just got some healing agro on vile spirits and I can safely ignore the agro warning. You'll want a good multi-target and single-target

threat meter to manage your agro. I like Tidyplates + Skada for this but there are alternatives to suit any playstyle.

Even "simple" things are annoying with the default UI. "Hey check out this youtube video for how we should do <X>" is annoying without copy/paste.

May god have mercy on anybody trying to play a paladin in a raid without PalyPower, or any healing class without something like Grid. The default UI completely

inadequate for them.

[Lord Nite]

Acutally, I know quite a few people that don't use Grid or Healbot for healing, and they are quite good at it. They use macros to extend the "basic" functionality of the standard UI.

I, myself, didn't use Pally Power for a while because I didn't want the clutter on my screen.

Was I able to function in a raid? Definitely.

Does it make it easier using PallyPower? yes, but I still am not too fond of the clutter.

The point is, the standard UI was put there for a reason. It is designed to give the basic information needed to do what you want. They gave it the option to be extended for a reason. If you want more information, simply install an addon that gives that information to you. But to say that it is completely useless is a stretch.

[the evn show]

Acutally, I know quite a few people that don't use Grid or Healbot for healing, and they are quite good at it. They use macros to extend the "basic" functionality of the standard UI.

I'm sure you can do it, especially now that the game is a huge joke, but on any challenging content I think it's far less than optimal.

For a simple example: how does a group coordinate external cooldowns on your shambling horror tanks using stock raid frames?

I imagine you could do it on vent or with /s but the lag introduced means you could have say half-a-second where your tank has 2 enraged shambling and no cooldowns. Given that these mobs can one-shot a tank with full best-in-slot gear and the 30% ICC buff it's not good strategy to hope you get lucky.

The point is, the standard UI was put there for a reason. It is designed to give the basic information needed to do what you want. They gave it the option to be extended for a reason. If you want more information, simply install an addon that gives that information to you. But to say that it is completely useless is a stretch.

Nobody said it was useless, but I have argued it's less than ideal. There is simply no substitute for information about the environment and the stock UI provides much less than what is made available by various addons. Prioritizing information is also very important and the stock UI offers almost no functionality to filter out 'noise' or to highlight 'signal' which makes decision making more error prone. The stock UI also presents useful information in ways that are difficult or impossible to interpret in combat.

I tried to offer examples where the stock UI is deficient and how addons can address those shortcomings and allow players to make more informed decisions (and hopefully perform better as a result).