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[Olemus]

It isnt maintanence day for the EU, and usually we have to wait an extra week after it goes live in the US

[Wilhelmus]

[Ran Sagy]

So a day's delay. Somewhat annoying and unfair, But oh well.

[DrCheese]

It isnt maintanence day for the EU, and usually we have to wait an extra week after it goes live in the US

Extra week? You mean extra day.

[Olemus]

Extra week? You mean extra day.

Thats what I meant, its been a rough day :p

[Slane]

It says 740mb fo rme also. But I'm stuck at 96%, let see how long it takes to do 4%.

[Eric Veteran]

:yes: to not getting dismounted riding across a stream anymore...

:yes: to BG queuing from anywhere...

[Ran Sagy]

Hell yeah. The riding thing is a precious, precious gift.

Well, and the free respec that comes with the patch, I've been meaning to have one anyway.

[gigapixels Veteran]

Has anybody tried logging in? I know the realms are still supposed to be down, but I thought I'd try anyway, and I'm getting this error: "Unable to validate game version."

I wonder if the authentication servers are down as well.

[Ran Sagy]

Probably so, Check the site to see realm status.

[Prosidius]

Ah yes another patch day. I'll be honest, I dont look forward to new content patches for a slew of reasons but mostly because of the new raid instances that typically come with them. Why?

Cause for one I enjoy the raid one day a week thing and going back to 4 will be hard at first.

New gear, having to see the RNG fail to drop that last big upgrade you need from Yogg, after farming him for 2 months. I also enjoy having full BiS and not have to worry about getting upgrades.

Sitting out. My Guild is a top 100-200 guild. We got immortal, server first Heroic; Glory of the raider. Naturally theres going to be competition for raid spots. I dont want to have to sit out while the guild is trying to kill Flame Levithan or Hodir or any of the Ulduar bosses, especially on first kills. Thats really nerve wrecking. I remember the guilds first 3D Sarth 10 kill, I wasnt in it and it killed me inside. Ulduar is going to be the same way.

But yes I very much look forward to everything else 3.1 offers including:

Dual Specs - I spec prot for raiding so this is going to be huge. This is going to change the game in ways no one thought. No longer will I have to go into BG's and do minimal damage(funny enough I did 2nd most damage in an AB I did last week as prot). Daily quests will be an ease rather than a chore now.

BG que from anywhere - For when I am sitting outside Ulduar I can click one button to go a damage dealing spec and que from the bg, then if I ever get called in I can leave the bg and be right outside Ulduar.

Argent Tournament - Wont lie, I hate the current Wrath dailies so these I hope will be a lot better.

[cltiso]

I cant check any WOW sites from work. Can someone tell me if the servers are up ?

example Nazgrel

[Prosidius]

maintenance is extended for another 2 hours to 1PM PDT.

[Ran Sagy]

All US realms are down according to the Blizzard page, for the patch maintenance. All EU realms are currently up until their patch maintenance tonight.

[betadan]

Has anybody tried logging in? I know the realms are still supposed to be down, but I thought I'd try anyway, and I'm getting this error: "Unable to validate game version."

I wonder if the authentication servers are down as well.

Are you running Windows 7 by any chance? it's happening on my 2 systems with Win7 , but not on my guild-mates that run XP and Vista.

[Slane]

Are you running Windows 7 by any chance? it's happening on my 2 systems with Win7 , but not on my guild-mates that run XP and Vista.

Nope, I got Vista and same error.

[Ran Sagy]

Haven't had any issues with WoW and Windows 7 here. As said, It's likely to be the maintenance.

[Sethos]

How much does it cost to unlock dual specs?

[Slane]

Dual specs is 1k gold. Can be purchased at level 40. It's really cheap and 1k is a bargain for what it provides you.

Anyways just logged, no servers up but not getting the validate error.

[Sethos]

Level 40, you sure?

"Nethaera: Who will be able to use it?

Ghostcrawler: Players who have reached the maximum level will be able to set up dual specs.

Nethaera: Why do players need to be max level in order to do this?

Ghostcrawler: We didn?t want to burden lower-level players with extra complexity as they?re working to level up and learn their class. But if the feature proves popular we might consider expanding it. "

But thanks for the answer, it's a decent price.

[perochan]

downloading patch now and it is taking forever...

anyone knows a mirror patch site where i can download the patch without going through battle.net?

[(Spork)]

Curse and WoWInterface working together to help protect our authors and other site-users

Recently Curse and WoWInterface got together to come up with a solution for an ongoing problem. The problem in question is WowMatrix. The reasons they are a problem are many:

* WowMatrix violates author copyright and intellectual property rights:

o They redistribute addons without authors' permissions;

o When they first started they would scrape the legimate sites for addons then upload them to their own site in addition to deep-linking from the sites;

o They edited authors' files to remove donation requests and links to their home sites, etc.; and

o They have failed on many occasions to honour authors' requests to remove addons from their application;

* In a lot of cases the files served to users have been many versions out of date. This leads to authors having users complain about bugs, bugs that were fixed days or weeks ago in versions that are available on the legitimate sites, causing problems for both the authors and for the end-users;

* Until the community raised a hue and cry, WowMatrix didn't even supply the authors' names as to who wrote the addon, let alone provide a link to where the addon was legitimately hosted;

* WowMatrix leeches from the legitimate hosting sites without permission, let alone compensation. Originally, they scraped our sites so they could upload addons to their own site without permission, in addition to deeplinking from our sites. They have finally stopped hosting the addons on their own site, but they still deeplink from our sites, using our resources to run their program. Curse and WoWInterface use a lot of bandwidth every month which costs a lot of money. The way we pay our bills is through site ads, which are directly dependent on users viewing them, and premium memberships. WowMatrix bypasses our download pages, and, as a result, people are not viewing the ads. Of course, this means the ads aren't generating any revenue to pay for the bandwidth. At the rate they were going, if they were allowed to continue using our resources without any compensation, they were going to drive us right out of business. Not only are they stealing our bandwidth and preventing us from being able to recoup that loss, they also have their own ads all over their site and application. They are directly profiting from the stolen bandwidth; and

* Due to the massive resource drains they put on our sites, we have all experienced heightened loads and weaker performance, especially on patch days. During those days they download so much from our sites that sometimes we have a hard time keeping up to the demands; thus causing legitimate users to experience problems accessing our sites. That's just flat out unacceptable.

For months now, both sites and multiple authors have been trying to come up with solutions to the problems caused by WowMatrix. However, WowMatrix just keeps ignoring authors' requests to remove their addons from their application, working around the protections we have put in place, and proving repeatedly that they have no intention of ever becoming responsible, legitimate members of the community. Instead, they choose to continue to leech off the community. Well we, Curse and WowInterface, have gotten together and between us we believe we may have found a solution to prevent them from pulling authors' addons from our sites to redistribute without permission and stealing our bandwidth any longer. Unfortunately we cannot release details on the solution, so as to keep it viable.

"Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah, get to the important question: What does this mean for me, your sites' user?" For the majority of users it should be completely transparent, you should not notice any difference whatsoever, other than improved site responsiveness during patch days. We hope that we will be able to revert the changes made to our sites eventually, if WowMatrix ever stops violating authors' copyright and ceases stealing our bandwidth and other resources.

If you were previously using WowMatrix to keep your addons updated, please use our official updaters (Curse, WoWInterface). You may also mark addons as favorites on both WoWInterface and Curse in order to be alerted when they are updated.

Kaelten

Administrator, Curse & WowAce

Cairenn

Administrator, WoWInterface

i can say im shocked a bit !

to do this on the release id 3.1 is just .... PWN !

but since wowinterface ui manager is BORKED thats a fail !

and curses client is EPIC FAIL !

downloading patch now and it is taking forever...

anyone knows a mirror patch site where i can download the patch without going through battle.net?

set your ports and it will fly

google will set you free

lots of sites hosting the 3.1 download

[Slane]

Level 40, you sure?

Players level 40 and higher will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature.

From patch notes on WoR. Trying to acces the WoW website but not having any luck.

Nethaera: Who will be able to use it?

Ghostcrawler: Players who have reached level 40 will be able to set up dual specs.

Nethaera: Why do players need to be level 40 in order to do this?

Ghostcrawler: We didn’t want to burden lower-level players with extra complexity as they’re working to level up and learn their class. But if the feature proves popular we might consider expanding it.

Source: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/dualspec.html

Edited April 14, 2009 by Slane

[Ran Sagy]

Yeah, It was maximum level in the early PTR 3.1 builds, But they changed it.

[Dance.]

Google WoWWiki patch mirrors. Anyone have an ETA on servers comign back up :) ?