Forum FAQ: VERY IMPORTANT! There are some forum rules that apply to the General Discussion Forum.
If you are new to the Allakhazam 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 sell gold for profit, you are not welcome here. Please see the following snippet from the World of Warcraft EULA below. As an official fansite, Allakhazam does not condone, support nor allow the business of RMT in any fashion on the site and will remove any and all such behavior it finds, up to and including permanent banning from the site.
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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There is a gil/gold/plat/ seller, leveling service, other real money transfer, general nuisance spammer, or flaming on the forums, what is your policy and who do I contact?
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.
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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"i cant speel ore use grammer but i still post can u tell me y my posts r ingored?"
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 maintenance time, and the servers are supposed to be down. If you still feel like bitching and moaning, post in the Tuesday is Maintenance 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 Allakhazam 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 Blizzard 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 Blizzard here isn't going to solve your problem. If you want to rant at Blizzard 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 down rated to oblivion. So calm down and post something that might actually help people instead of ranting.
"I've been banned from the official forums and I want to bring my drama here"
Just go away.
"I'm posting this even though there is an existing thread on the subject"
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.
What do I need to do to get an avatar or that neat signature block?
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:
To Implement The Signature Block:
For more detail on installing WoWreader and linking your wowsig, see Mazra's WoWreader Guide.
Can you explain the Allakhazam Rating system to me?
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:
Rate ups are gained by putting up generally useful posts. In order to rate a post, you have to have a minimum rating of Scholar. Rate downs 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. |
Q: What are the karma ratings? | ||||
Excellent = 5.0 | Good = 4.0 | Decent = 3.0 | Default = 2.0 | Awful = 1.0 |
Can you shed some light on the private server issue? Why is it considered bad?
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/private server.
Can you give me some examples of unacceptable behavior on this forum?
There are a number of things that will get you flamed, derided, down-rated, laughed at, etc. The following is not a comprehensive list:
What is the difference between a newb and a noob (often spelled n00b)?
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 is meant as an offensive term towards someone who is not necessarily 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.
Is this the proper place to advertise my guild?
Not really. Where you need to go is the realm forums or the guild recruitment forum on the Official website.
I'm a student/researcher/newsman and I have a survey...
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.
Post Titles: "Question" or "???" or "I have a problem" are not acceptable.
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 Allakhazam 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 many 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 in order to either grief them or draw out opposing higher level enemy players. 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, that incessantly annoying stun-lock and high DPS seem to be the reasons that rogues are favored. Warlocks come in a close second due to the massive dots, dps, pets and fear spells.
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 (occasionally) difficult trip to/from the Tauren starting area from/to the starting area of the other Horde races until you get the flight points at Thunderbluff, Camp Taurajo and The Crossroads.
"Can someone tell me how to make gold?"
Read the sticky on the Trade Skills forum.
WonderousTremor has created an excellent Guide on the topic: Making Money in WoW - Some suggestions.
"I'm on a PvP server and I got ganked!"
It's what you signed up for. Ganking and camping are not against the rules, even if they piss you off. Read the official PvP Policy. If this is a problem for you, maybe you might want to create a new character on a PvE server instead.
Blizz does have a paid character transfer service. If ganking and corpse camping really bother you that much, 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 Account Management page. You might want to read the Character Transfer F.A.Q. before you swap servers.
I've reached Level 80 and don't know what to do"
Thanks to FenrirSulis for the following answer: updated May 16th, 2009.
There is more than ever to do at 80. Some options:
Can you tell me how to be a good master looter?
Sure. There is a thread on the subject. ML Etiquette 101
There are lots of acronyms used in the game. What do they all mean?
Jordster created a guide to the acronyms. World of Warcraft Acronym and Shortform List. If you like full explanations of terms, you can look them up in the Allakhazam wikibase.
I see coordinates show up on some posts. How do I get coordinates to display in my game?
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 Allakhazam 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 Allakhazam guilds are on Anatheron (U.S) - The Fifth Star (Alliance), and on Chromaggus (EU) - Read the FAQ (Horde).
"I'd like to find a guide for add-ons. What are some good ones?"
A Guide for Addons, by webbstock. The guide also contains a good list of add-ons and add-on sites.
"Can you tell me how to level to 70 as fast as possible?"
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.
"I deleted my toon. What do I need to do to get it back?"
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 Allakhazam. Go to this link for all the new macro information.[3]
"Are there any rules on how to behave when I'm playing?"
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.
"Where should I quest/grind at my level?"
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.
Bigger better explanations of each faction:
Also from WoW-Wiki, the following advice, if you make a wrong choice[4]:
Switching to Scryers
Switching to Aldor
"I'm getting a new computer. Will I be able to play WoW on it?"
Technology
"Will WoW run on my current computer (I have 256M RAM)?"
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.
What do I need to do to give a friend a free trial version of WoW?
What do I need to do to keep from being banned from the game?
First of all, you have to realize that there are things that Blizz considers unacceptable.
Will your account get banned if caught power leveling?
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.
If I get a trial account, will I be able to do everything?
The following restrictions are placed on all trial accounts:
I suspect someone of using a Bot program. What should I do?
In Blizzard's own words:
...Many account closures come as the direct result of tips reported to our GMs in game or emailed to our Hacks Team by legitimate World of Warcraft players. If you suspect that a World of Warcraft player is using an illegal third-party program to farm gold or items, or is otherwise violating our Terms of Use, please report the suspected infraction via one of the means listed above. All reports will be investigated, and those that prove false will not result in corrective action...
Can I upgrade to The Burning Crusade online?
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: