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    Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Blue posters are fairly silent these days, hopefully it won't be long before we see a couple of announcements, keep in mind that a new minor patch is on the way and we will probably hear about it very soon.

    Addon Review - Altoholic
    Today I'll highlight an addon I've been using a lot lately: Altoholic. Basically, this is the ultimate tool for anyone who spends too much time logging in and out of the game to check if something is or isn't on an alt. It lists pretty much every info you could need about your characters and you will never have to go through all the chars on your account to find who is exalted with the Ebon Hold, or who has 300 Stone Keeper shards in his stash.


    Features
    • Languages supported: enUS, frFR, deDE, esES, ruRU, zhCN & zhTW.
    HTML Code:
    <ul>[*]Account-wide data summary:
<ul>[*]Characters' talents: Full talent trees & glyphs are supported for both specializations.
[*]Money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grandtotals for the account.
[*]Bag usage: see at a glance which characters should get bigger bags (bag size, free slots and types included)
[*]Characters' skills: skill summary on one screen, namely the 2 main professions + the 3 secondary skills as well as riding. I may add more if there's demand.
[*]Reputations: a list of all the reputations of the current realm's characters. You can see at a glance if all your alts are at least honored with Honor Hold if you want to get the new 2.4 blue PVP set. Suggestions on how to grind reputations will be available soon.
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    • View containers (bags, bank, keyring) of all alts, on all realms.
    • Guild banks : You have 10 alts in 10 different guilds on the same server, all of them with access to a guild bank ? Not a problem, you can see them all here.
    • E-mail: allows you to see which alts have mail without having to reconnect them. The addon will tell you when mail is about to expire on a character. Threshold configurable (up to 15 days). Multiple realm support as well. Mails sent to a known alt (one you've logged on at least once) will be visible in the addon without having to reconnect it.
    • Equipment: See the equipment of the current realm's alts in one screen. Very useful when purchasing stuff for your alts at the AH. Multiple realms supported. Right-clicking any equipment piece will allow you to find an upgrade, this feature is similar to the official wow armory feature, and is quite performant, even though it doesn't match the accuracy of the official one.
    • Search: the most important feature of the addon, it uses an AH-like frame to display search results. You can either search bags on the current realm, on all realms, or a loot table. The loot table is a table based on AtlasLoot, but which contains only item id's, and therefore keeps memory usage minimal.
    • The Search menu allows you to find items based on their name (even partial), level, type or rarity, almost like at the AH. It is also possible to search known recipes.
    • Quest Log: See the quest logs of all your alts, as well as an indication of which alts are on a specific quest. Clicking on a quest link in the chat log will tell you which alts are on that quest.
    • Suggestions: Currently, only profession leveling suggestions are available when mousing over your current level in a specific profession. Suggestions are based on the leveling guides posted on the official US forums (credit goes to their respective authors). The addon also suggests you where to quest/grind xp depending on your character level. Suggestions were also added for the most recent factions. More to come later.
    • Auction house: You can see which auctions/bids you've placed with an alt without being logged in or being at the AH.
    • Professions: You can browse all known recipes in a thotbot like frame (see screenshot).
    • Mounts & Pets of all your alts.
    • Achievements are tracked for all you alts (see screenshot).
    • Guild Members: a list of your connected guildmates, along with their alts (if they're using Altoholic too), and their average item level. Clicking their AiL will also allow you to "remotely" inspect their equipment.
    • Guild Skills: a list of altoholic users in your guild, along with their alts and direct profession links. All professions are available in one click.
    • Guild Bank tabs: a list of altoholic users and the time at which they last visited the guild bank. If you haven't visited the guild bank for a few days, you can remotely update your local data without going to a capital city.





    Blue posts
    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
    Big Love Rocket Droprate
    The drop rate for this mount is indeed lower than 1-2% and that is intentional. We are okay with the number it is at right now and will continue to see how things for this event. (Source)

    Sticking with the same role
    I'm not entirely sure what the goal of this thread was, but World of Warcraft is a game with a variety of play styles that are there for players to play and experience as they see fit. Just because you started out as a healer (or whatever else) doesn't mean you need to stay that way forever. It is hard to really argue that doing the same exact thing for 5+ years won't be taxing in some way.

    I know some people who love healing and in the situations where they end up DPSing (like when dropping down to two healers in a raid or something) they complain a bit that they don't have as much impact on the raid. There are also the healer types that have nothing but healing specs since they want the responsibility of taking care of the raid and don't want to put that in someone else's hands (these people also tend to get especially irritated when these other healers are causing problems that they wouldn't have done themselves). Then some others may end up being "forced" to heal a fair amount to help out the group and any good guild I've been with tries to prevent the situation where that one person ends up carrying the load week in and week out with no end in sight.

    What I'm getting at here is just to remind players that if you aren't in the mood to do something anymore, try out something else. Whether that's Battlegrounds or a hunter or changing to that other spec you haven't had a chance to try out yet, give it a try and see how it goes. You may find a new style to play for the next few years or you may end up being good buddies again with your original play style. (Source)

    New Wallpaper: For the Horde!
    Blizzard has just added a new wallpaper to the World of Warcraft Wallpaper Gallery featuring some sporty scenes of snowboarding in the Storm Peaks. Take a moment to check out this snowboarding orc in action!



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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    always like your addon reviews

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Our party leader must have read this blue when he asked me last night if I was dps on my lock ;D

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    I have been using Altoholic for a couple of months now, and have gotten about half of my guilds to start using it. I have nothing but good things to say about this addon. ;D

    Best part is that if you have multiple accounts (like I do) that you can enable a sharing feature and see all the same info on both accounts from either one. This really helps cut down on the swapping back and forth and login spam.

    Great review!

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    im glad that the love rocket's so low drop rate tbh, better than everyone having it like Brewfest Kodo's / Rams.

    and no, i dont have one myself, im just saying ^^
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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Altoholic is amazing if you have a lot of alts (such as myself), a must have

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    I downloaded Altoholic not too long ago just so I could see my overall total playtime.

    >.>

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    LOVE this add-on been using it for a while, funny except for the names the overview looks like mine, my time played is right around yours, except I have more gold :P lol
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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Goulashia
    I downloaded Altoholic not too long ago just so I could see my overall total playtime.

    >.>
    omg I don't think I want to

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Gerti
    omg I don't think I want to
    yeah to this day I have only let 1 of my friends know my total time played, only because his nearly as high as mine
    Quote Originally Posted by Bahumut5
    /bitchslap
    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille View Post
    Fuck you, I was working.

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Boubouille
    you will never have to go through all the chars on your account to find who is exalted with the Ebon Hold,
    You cant be exalted with Ebon Hold as this is Death Knight's starting necropolis! The faction is Knights of the Ebon Blade :P

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    I thought your hunter was packed out with Really good gear

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Boubouille, you're showing off with all your gold, you know that?

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    I use Altoholic for a few months now and it's great!

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    I can't see if this addon supports it or if any other addon does, but I need something to track multiple character craft cooldowns, e.g. titansteel, transmute, cloth, northrend alchemy lab, etc etc. on same and different servers.

    Hate to login 1 hour before cd runs out. :-)

    Anyone knows which addon can do this?

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Flashbomba
    I can't see if this addon supports it or if any other addon does, but I need something to track multiple character craft cooldowns, e.g. titansteel, transmute, cloth, northrend alchemy lab, etc etc. on same and different servers.

    Hate to login 1 hour before cd runs out. :-)

    Anyone knows which addon can do this?
    Armory (similar sort of idea to this one) and tcg's Tradeskills can both do this.

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    well i think altoholic is a nice addon bun well you dont need it?!
    get arkinventory and you have the same stuff whit an also included bagaddon
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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by SkodLife
    Boubouille, you're showing off with all your gold, you know that?

    What's the big deal? Everyone is wealthy these days

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Faffin
    Armory (similar sort of idea to this one) and tcg's Tradeskills can both do this.
    Cheers - will try that out later today.

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    Re: Altoholic, Blue posts, For The Horde Wallpaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Flashbomba
    I can't see if this addon supports it or if any other addon does, but I need something to track multiple character craft cooldowns, e.g. titansteel, transmute, cloth, northrend alchemy lab, etc etc. on same and different servers.

    Hate to login 1 hour before cd runs out. :-)

    Anyone knows which addon can do this?
    Altoholic alerts tradeskill cooldowns too. Well, it does it for me. I can track my Warrior's transmutes, my Mage's cloth, and my Paladin's titansteel.

    How exactly do you people make money though? I have every profession, except Inscription, at max level, and I'm hovering at 11k gold. :-\

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