Forum FAQ: VERY IMPORTANT! There are some forum rules that apply to the General Discussion Forum.
If you are new to the Alla forums, click here, then read through the entire post.
Every player needs to read "The unwritten (until now) rules of Warcraft." (and yes, I'm aware that it's already in section II, #17) It's important enough to get mentioned twice.)
Gold selling is evil. If you are a gold seller, be prepared to be downrated, flamed, and reported. The place to report Gold sellers so that the posters can be banned is in the Feedback Forum. Alternatively, you can email the senior forum admin or any of the other admins on the site here.
Terms of use | 8. Ownership/Selling of the Account or Virtual Items.Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of Accounts. You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void. Blizzard owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Program. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, including the virtual goods or currency appearing or originating in the Game, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service. Blizzard does not recognize any virtual property transfers executed outside of the Game or the purported sale, gift or trade in the "real world" of anything related to the Game. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the Game |
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A: For spammers of all types, contact an admin either in the Feedback Forum, by e-mailing one of them (use the About this Site link,) or PM them from the message board and they will get to it as soon as they can. As for flaming, Allakhazam is a lenient moderation site. For death threats etc, please use the Feedback Forum as well. |
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Gold buying is evil. It is against the Terms of Service and Terms of Use that was agreed to when the game was loaded. If you make a post asking where to purchase gold, be prepared for flames. People here may tell you where to go, but it won't be a URL. Here is the official word on buying gold: The negative impact of buying gold
If you post this, be prepared for flames. It's spelled rogue.
rogue n. 1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. 2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp. 3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant. |
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rouge n. 1. A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips. 2. A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass. Most people consider a rouge to be over-powdered. |
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If you don't want to be ignored, please use proper English. This includes capitalization, punctuation, and not using abbreviations or "1337 speak". The same holds for in-game - you can't and won't be taken seriously without knowing how to write. If you are unsure of your spelling, there is online help available at Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com also provides a thesaurus, so you can try using different words in your sentences. The best reference for sentence construction that I've found is on Wikipedia.
People care about grammar, spelling, and punctuation. When your English is sloppy, then you come across as sloppy. If you use leet, you come across as juvenile. When you use swear words, you come across as a moron. It's up to you to decide how you want to present yourself.
a. Check your calendar. If it's Tuesday, then it's maintenence time, and the servers are supposed to be down. If you still feel like bitching and moaning, post in the Tuesday is Maintenence Thread.
Euro Maintenance:
The euro maintenance is at 0300 CEST to 0700 or 0800 CEST on Wednesdays.
At patchdays it goes on until 1100 CEST.
EDIT: Premium Members, go here to download the patch once Alla posts it.
compgenius wrote:
Every Tuesday I log in to check the forums and catch up on whats going on while I am stuck at work. Sadly I stop shortly after lunch because its always the same thing over and over....
OMFG!!! THEY EXTENDED MAINTENANCE AGAIN!!! OMG WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?????!?!?!?!?!??!
I almost dread reading posts on Tuesdays. Why do people find it necessary to come here and complain? Its Tuesday, I have been playing since January...EVERY Tuesday there has been maintenance. Its not some new magical thing that blizzard thought up to piss off the WoW community.
b. Sometimes servers go out for other reasons. If it's a global effect, other posters are aware of the problem and you aren't providing any new information. You can check realm status at the official site here.
c. Ranting at Blizz isn't going to help the servers get back to normal any faster. If you want to rant at Blizz someplace where they actually look, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/ post in the O-forums.
a. Ranting at Blizz here isn't going to solve your problem. If you want to rant at Blizz someplace where they actually look, post in the O-forums.
b. If you are posting here to get sympathy or much needed attention, you won't get much. Most posters here don't want to hear rants, so chances are that you will get downrated to oblivion. So calm down and post something that might actually help people instead of ranting.
Just go away.
Don't. Post in the existing thread. This might require actually reading threads, though, and that might be beyond your cranial capacity.
You're posting on a World of Warcraft forum. If you expect any answer other than "WoW > (other game)", you are deluding yourself. If you post the same question on a board dedicated to the other game, you can expect "(other game) > WoW". If you post a defense of the other game, expect flames. Some people may consider you to be a troll for posting questions like this on the main WoW forum. If you want to compare games, consider posting in the multi-game forum.
Let me start this off by saying that Allakhazam does not recognize the use of image blocks ([img] and [/img]). It used to be allowed, but was removed due to the large amount of abuse. Live with it. The only pictures allowed are avatars (which can be no larger than 120x120 pixels and must be uploaded), and the Allakhazam signature block.
First, you need to get premium service. You can sign up for premium service on the main page or from the Site FAQ.
To put up an avatar:
For more detail on installing WoWreader and linking your wowsig, see Mazra's WoWreader Guide.
First off, there are various ranks for posters. Those are Norate, Unrated, Sub-Default, Default, Scholar, Sage, and Guru. Ranks are gained by being rated up, and lost by being rated down. A poster's average rating can be viewed by clicking on the poster's name.
Posts themselves have ratings, which are then attached to the poster. The ratings are:
Rateups are gained by putting up generally useful posts. In order to rate a post, you have to have a minimum rating of Scholar. Ratedowns are gained for various reasons, but certainly because someone did not like what was posted. If a post is rated down often enough, it becomes sub-default and disappears (as long as you are using the default filter). Norate are banned or otherwise unwanted posters for various reasons. Unrated means you have managed to annoy the entire community to the point that they have all rated you to oblivion, sub-default means you should either suck less, stop whining about karma or post better.
Perhaps it's better explained in this quote from the Site FAQ:
Q: I see posters rated as Scholar, Sage and Guru. What's up with that and how do I get a title?
A: That is part of the Karma system. Your Karma rating is determined by averaging every rating your posts have received from the users of the site. The rating comes from posts made under your registered name on any of the rated forums for any game covered by allakhazam.com, but does not include posts on user journals. You must have at least 15 posts before you receive a Karma rating. Then any future post you make will start out at your Karma level. Anonymous posts start at a rating of 2. Titles are assigned to your posts according to the following scale:
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Karma below 3 = user. | Karma between 3.01 and 3.65 | Karma between 3.66 and 4.34 | Karma between 4.35 and 5 | Administrators |
Default. Posts are in orange. Cannot rate | Scholar. Posts are in light blue. Can rate other users. | Sage. Posts are in green. Can rate other users. | Guru. Posts are in red. Can rate other users. | Administrators posts are in maroon. Best not to test the rate ability of an admin. |
Sure - from "Terms of Use"
4. Limitations on Your Use of the Service.
A. Only Blizzard or its licensees have the right to host the Game. You may not host or provide matchmaking services for the Game, or intercept, emulate or redirect the proprietary communication protocols used by Blizzard in connection with the Program, regardless of the method used to do so. Such prohibited methods may include, but are not limited to, protocol emulation, reverse engineering, modifying the Program, adding unauthorized components to the Program, or using a packet sniffer while the Program is running.
There are several reasons for people wanting to use a pirate server.
There are a number of things that will get you flamed, derided, down-rated, laughed at, etc. The following is not a comprehensive list:
from the Urban Dictionary: newb
A term used to describe a inexperienced gamer/person/etc. Unlike a noob, a newb is someone who actually wants to get better.
and
noob
Noob is meant as an offensive term towards someone who is not nessicarily new, and quite often is directed at someone that is |somewhat| experienced but at the same time stupid/disruptive and/or totally incapable of learning.
A noob is almost always someone who thinks they're cool but obviously aren't. Also used in 1337speak. See also: n00b, nub, ch00b, n00bo, n00blet.
Newb is not meant to be offensive. newb merely states that the person in question is new to the game/board/ For further explanation, look at this link.
Not really. Where you need to go is the realm forums or the guild recruitment forum on the Official website.
Wordaen's Words:
If you want to post some survey, it is generally considered polite to notify the specific site admins before you do as a courtesy and make sure they do not have a problem with it. Given that we get at least 5 of you posting "research surveys" each week, we are prone to nuke them since they tend to irritate our user base when they just show up out of nowhere.
And it's really not a good idea to post it yet again after one has already been nuked.
Before you take your survey, you might want to check to see if the survey has already been performed. Nick Yee from Stanford has performed a large number of Surveys on MMOs as an extension of his personal and academic interests. His studies can be found at The Daedelus Project: The Psychology of MMORPGs.
If this is the title to your post, then you have shown yourself to be unacquainted with netiquette. You need to look at the title of your post as a headline. A very short summary of the content within. A stupid title demands stupid answers. You can become the object of ridicule. Everyone on the Alla boards will be pointing at you and laughing.
Give people a clue about the post. Instead of "Question" - use "Video Card Question" or "(Name of quest) Question". Instead of "I have a problem", use "Blizz not accepting prepaid cards?" or "My CPU is smoking". "???" is just plain stupid.
The races and classes in the game are well balanced. If you make a post asking "What is the best race?" or "What is the best class?". be prepared for flames. There is no uber-class/race. Visit the class forums and read the stickies there. Do your homework instead of asking others to do it for you. In the end, class/race is an individual choice. Pick one you think you will enjoy playing and try it out. In fact, pick several and try them all out. One account can have 50 characters, up to 10 characters on a server, and on a Normal server, you can have both Horde and Alliance (but only one or the other on a PvP server). You should also look over idiggory's Post Beginner's Info.
A better question would be: "what player is most wanted?"
Class doesn't matter as long as you are good at what you do.
First of all, you have to realize that "PvP" covers different ways of playing the game. You can be on a PvP server, you can participate in Battlegrounds, you can be part of an Arena Team, or you might be participating in "real-world PvP", where the objective is to attack the opposing faction's towns or cities. The term "PvP" covers all of them, although the objectives are different for each type.
After looking over many, many threads on the subject, the consensus seems to center around rogues as the best PvP class. Rogues have many advantages. Stealth, stun-lock, and high DPS seem to be the reasons that rogues are favored. Warlocks come in a close second.
After looking over many, many threads on the subject, the consensus seems to center around Hunter as being the best class for fast leveling. High DPS, coupled with a pet that can tank seem to be the main reasons behind this.
Almost any two classes can get together and duo successfully. By spreading damage across 2 people, there is less downtime. Almost every combination has been put forth as "best", but it's really just another choice. Choose classes that both of you are comfortable with. However, you really need to choose your race carefully if you choose to play within the Horde faction. If you decide to play on the Horde side, any mix of Orc, Troll, Blood Elf, and Undead is fine, but if one person chooses Tauren, so should the other, because it's a long and difficult trip to/from the Tauren starting area from/to the starting area of the other Horde races.
Read the sticky on the Trade Skills forum. WonderousTremor has created an excellent Guide on the topic: Making Money in WoW- Some suggestions.
It's what you signed up for. Ganking and camping are not against the rules. Read the official PvP Policy. If this is a problem for you, create a new character on a PvE server.
Blizz does have a paid character transfer service. If ganking and corpse camping really bother you, move your toon to a PvE server. It will cost you $25, so make certain that you feel that moving off is the right decision. You can change servers from Blizz's [3]Account Management[4] page. You might want to read the Character Transfer FAQ before you swap servers.
Thanks to FenrirSulis for the following answer: updated Apr 30, 2008. There is more than ever to do at 70. Some options:
1. Flying - At 70 you can buy a flying mount and riding ability (900g in total). If you don't have enough money, a few days of questing/grinding should do it. Flying also helps in gathering skills, and is just plain fun. You can also save money for the riding ability needed for your epic flyer (5200g in total). If this sounds impossible, check out the Daily Quest section below.
2. Daily quests - With the next expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) coming up, many people have decided to focus on saving up money rather than rushing to finish all the Burning Crusade content. Blizzard has opened up a ton of quests that you can do daily (until 2am server time), with an average of 10-11g as reward, or a 68-70 level green item. These quests are relatively quick, fun and can be done easily solo or in a pair, and it’s a great way to save money for your regular and epic flyer, good gear, or for a rainy day (translation: WotLK). You even have a chance to get Badges of Justice as a reward. You can do a maximum of 25 quests daily – that’s about 250g, not including all the drops you get while finishing the quests! Suddenly that epic flyer doesn’t sound so expensive, does it?[1]
3. Regular Questing - There are so many quests in Outland that it's almost certain you haven't finished all of them. Travel to Netherstorm or Shadowmoon Valley if you haven't already and collect some new quests. A lot of these quests are quite fun, and they give good rewards - either in gear or gold.
4. Running instances - The level 70, 5-man dungeons are:
Sure. There is a thread on the subject. [5]ML Etiquette 101[6]
Jordster created a guide to the acronyms. [7]World of Warcraft Acronym and Shortform List[8]. If you like full explanations of terms, you can [9]look them up[10] in the Alla wikibase.
The stock game does not display map coordinates. You need to use an add-on in order to display them. Many different coordinate addons can be found at curse-gaming:
Additionally many full-blown interfaces like Titan Panel, have the feature built in.
from SoiFon and xNocturnalSunx (among others):
Tagteam Tomtom and lightheaded. Clicky coords that show up on your map.
or, you can create a macro:
From SquigglyLine:
Create a macro using this script (just copy & paste it):
/script px,py=GetPlayerMapPosition("player")
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("[ %s ] %i , %i",GetZoneText(),px*100,py*100));
You click on the macro and it will give you your coordinates in the chat pane. Now you can use all those quest tips where they only give you coordinates for the mob/item you are looking for.
Unless you are looking for an Alla guild, you'll probably find one faster by posting on your realm forum. Or, you can see what guilds are recruiting on the Official Guild recruitment forum. If you play on European servers, the links are EU Realm Forums and EU Guild Recruitment Forum, respectively. The Alla guilds are on Anatheron (U.S) - The Fifth Star (Alliance), and on Chromaggus (EU) - Read the FAQ (Horde).
A Guide for Addons, by webbstock. The guide also contains a good list of add-ons and add-on sites.
Use Allakhazam:
Per Dadanox!
To level fast, use Allakhazam to the fullest. You can look up quests and find user comments on the quest, as well as maps. You can look up quests by level, to see the areas you should be trying out. Questing is the way to go as a lower level. As you get higher, you can do some appropriately leveled dungeons, and do some grinding to keep things interesting. Since you will be soon traveling to towns, ask the guards where the profession trainers are. Pick up mining or herbalism, and add to that skinning. Learn where the auction house is to sell the mats you gather. That way you will always have a some spare cash for training or a few goodies. You can always drop a profession and move into another later if you like. Lastly, always stop at an inn or town before logging off. You will see zzz in your picture border, showing that you are resting. This way you will gain double xp next time you play, because you will be rested.
Additionally, there are levelling guides for both Horde and Alliance found here as well:
Vyodar has created a thread with some excellent suggestions for leveling as fast as possible: How to: Get to 70
For Horde:
A.) Sure, you have friends at higher levels, but attempting to catch up to them means that you'll miss a lot of fun along the way. Not only that, but if they use the same leveling guide you decide upon, you'll never catch up to them.
B.) Sure, you want to get to end-game content. But that's not all that's in the game. Getting there is half the fun.
C.) Sure, you want to get to level 70 so you can melt the faces of opponents 30 or more levels below you. That just means that you need another outlet for your aggressions. Have you ever thought of pulling the wings off flies as a hobby?
D.) Sure, you want to get there so you can say "ZOMG!! I 1 teh game!". Well, Bucko, I hate to break it to you, but you don't "win" when you hit the cap. There is no end to the game. Blizzard has been very good about opening new content for high levels and there is nothing out there that says they'll stop.
Log in and use an alt character on the same realm (create one, if you have to), and start up a GM ticket. A GM can restore your deleted toon in a timely fashion. If you removed his equipment prior to deletion, don't count on getting it back.
Why, yes there is! RPZip has created an excellent one for us here on Alla. Go to this link for all the new macro information.[3]
Funny you should ask. Until recently, the rules were unwritten. Shamibell (after a good deal of research) placed them into a post. Read, enjoy, and follow these guidelines: The unwritten (until now) rules of Warcraft.
Use the Zones by Level Table to determine what zone you should be in.
You can search for the best mobs at your level by Using the Mob Value Search, or you can Search Quests for those around your level.
You're the one that has to make that decision, but you can make it an informed decision by looking at the article in WoW-Wiki that compares the rewards for each faction.
Also from WoW-Wiki, the following advice, if you make a wrong choice[4]:
Switching to Scryers
Switching to Aldor
The least expensive computer upgrade is more RAM. Do yourself a favor and get a gig or more. You'll find that lag is reduced considerably, and that there is less wear and tear on your hard drive.
First of all, you have to realize that there are things that Blizz considers unacceptable.
If, by "power leveling", you mean getting a service to level your toon, the answer is yes. When you give your account information to anyone else (and that includes anyone you pay to level a character), you are compromising your account. Compromising your account is against the Terms of use. See #2, above.
The following restrictions are placed on all trial accounts:
In Blizzard's own words:
Source: www.worldofwarcraft.com
...You can now buy account-upgrade keys and download the game client for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade directly through the account-management section of www.worldofwarcraft.com. The direct online upgrade method is the most convenient way to upgrade to The Burning Crusade and join the millions of players who are already adventuring beyond the Dark Portal...
All you need to do is: