WoW!

[xaandria]

I recently had a request to share my User Interface. While I was in ICC10, I snapped a few screenies...only these two really seem to work very well, so I'll post 'em.

If you don't like WoW, well, um, carry on?

Comments

[iris_of_ether]

If you hadn't mentioned you were using Power Auras, I would have told you about its Awesomeness. (Related story! I remembered that Shadowed Unit Frames didn't default to showing combo points on either of my 2 applicable alts. The rogue was fixed awhile ago, but the druid got fixed on Monday. There are now a set of 5 little cat paw prints that 'walk' up my screen as an indicator.) :3

[xaandria]

And, for the love of all that is holy, if there is one mod that you should be sure to download (especially if you level any alts, even a little), download CoolLevelUp. Don't look too much into what it does before you do that. You'll know.

Will it do me any good if I have no alts and only prance about on my 80? Or should I wait until Cat drops and Jer and I level our druid team?

[iris_of_ether]

If nothing else, go make a level 1, take the 10 minutes it'll take to get to level 2, then start laughing. Or headdesking. Or facepalming. Or maybe all three.

...I don't know why I love this stupid mod so much. It was really dumb, but now I love it and I don't know why.

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(So, Nico heard about it in a forum thread on WoW mods and installed it on a whim, just to see. Then, after a good amount of o_O, he installed it on my machine without telling me. We then, after I got home from work, went to go level some alts...)

"Hey Nico, I'm like maybe one kill away from leveling now."
"Sweet, I'm still a half a level."
*one kill*
"...WHAT THE!? WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS? WHAT DID YOU DO."

[iris_of_ether]

...and just to stop being purposely obtuse, the mod basically takes the standard BVORN noise & graphic of leveling up and...upgrades it. A little bit.

It is retarded and AWESOME. I basically just burst out laughing now whenever I level. It's like a running joke.

Also

[iris_of_ether]

Do you guys have authenticators?

Re: Also

[xaandria]

I have both the keychain authenticator and the authenticator for my iPhone (iPhone is main, keychain is redundant). Jeremy doesn't see the point since he's paranoid about everything he does on the internet and never gives info away, and he figures "if a hacker gets my account, I'm SOL for a few days until I get my stuff back. If I lose my authenticator or it stops working, I have to be on the phone for hours with Blizz proving I am who I say I am."

Even having our guild leader hacked and our guild bank cleaned out didn't change his mind. Sigh.

Hrmm

[iris_of_ether]

I'll list some data here, and he can choose to either take it or leave it:

* Wowwiki, maybe a month ago, had a banner ad in the rotation that automatically virused your machine (via a Flash exploit) if you viewed it. If you had a Flash or Ad Blocker, great. Many people don't. And these jerks keep finding new ways to slip around people's defenses.

* If you are hacked, they do not hit you immediately. Sometimes they wait (for awhile, even!) until they need the gold for a sale, and then, BAM, you are hacked. This actually relates to my next bullet point....

* Nico got hacked. We later traced it to a virus/keylogger/thingie, and that was traced to something he did months prior. Problem was, none of the virus scanners or software he uses to be paranoid (and it's like 2-3 programs) were updated to be even capable of detecting it until well after he had been hacked

Re: Hrmm

[xaandria]

I've tried telling him these things. He maintains that it's not worth his trouble for mere game data, and I've given up by this point. I think the only thing that will make him use one is if it becomes required by either our guild or Cataclysm, and even then I get the feeling he'd rather /gquit or quit the game before he did so.