Warcraft Experience

To accommodate for the growth of the European World of Warcraft community, we will open five new realms tomorrow, Wednesday January 25th. These realms are “fresh” realms and will be opened without migration at this time.

The English realms that will be opened on Wednesday are Scarshield Legion (RP PvP) and Xavius (PvP).

It is being proposed that some of the AQ War Efforts raffles are illegal?!? With the gates of AQ requiring a tremendous amount of farming and resources, many guilds have found creative alternatives to collecting the funds needed to open the gates on their server. A raffling system has become a very popular method to give people incentive to participate in the opening of the gates but one person has been contacted by a GM that this sort of system is illegal, simply because the /random command is involved. Tigole has gotten word and spread it to the appropriate parties who will be looking into this further, hopefully something will be done and people’s hard work and dedication for a legitimate cause will not be in vain! For more information on what’s happening, click here.

On the official WoW site, Caydiem explains why everyone will received a 24 hour credit on their account.

As many realms were inaccessible throughout the day due to network and authentication issues, we will be applying a 24-hour credit to all active accounts. The credit should be processed within one week, and we’ll notify you ahead of time if we foresee any delay with that. We regret any trouble you may have experienced during and after maintenance today; our server team is currently working on resolving the last of the maintenance-related issues at this time. Thank you for your patience as we worked through these issues. We’ll keep you up to date if any other developments arise.

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They will be opening character transfers for the 12 realms listed below today, Thursday, January 26 at 3:00 AM. Characters on these realms will be able to transfer to a new PvP realm, Mug’thol. This round of transfers will be open Monday through Friday from 3:00 AM to 3:00 PM PST until Wednesday, February 1 at 3:00 PM PST. Please be aware that until the transfer window is closed, standard character creation will be unavailable for Mug’thol. They do want to emphasize that Mug’thol is a standard Player vs. Player (PvP) realm type, and players transferring from an RP or PvE realm type will not have an opportunity to transfer back once the transfer has been made.

Archimonde
Zul’jin
Bloodhoof
Khadgar
Mannoroth
Warsong
Bleeding Hollow
Skullcrusher
Argent Dawn
Azgalor
Burning Blade
Burning Legion

Character transfers are available Monday thru Friday from 3AM to 3PM. If you’re interested in transferring your characters from the realms listed above to the new PvP realm, click here.

This version of CT_RaidAssist fixes some problems and adds code improvements, but it will not fully resolve the lock-up freeze issue some players have been experiencing. That problem has been identified as a bug within the game itself, and the CT_Mod team are awaiting Blizzard to fix it.

To download and learn more about the newest version, click here.

I am one of the few people not experiencing lock-ups using any of the recent versions, but do have the lag issues. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. I’m downloading the latest v1.503 to see how it goes and will let you guys know.

This movie showcases the first opening of the Ahn’Qiraj gates on the Medivh WoW server on January 23rd, 2005. The entire land of Azeroth is effected, and changes/mobs can be seen all over the world when the event occurs. Download the movie for free from Filenuts.com at http://www.filenuts.com/884.html

The following encounters will be slightly toned down:

Arlokk (Panther Boss)
Thekal (Tiger Boss)
Mar’li (Spider Boss)

The Hakkar encounter will become more difficult. It’s not currently working as intended.

Also, we have reduced the number of creatures in the zone significantly. In addition, we have increased the amount of reputation awarded for killing creatures in the zone. Gaining reputation should be much easier.

These changes will go live in the near future. I don’t have an exact ETA for you at this time.

For more information, click here.

TenTonHammer has a new guide that looks at the profession of Alchemy. It comes complete with a full listing of Alchemy recipes showing what you need to make them from and what they do.

Being an Alchemist allows you to create powerful potions that will help you and your friends in the World of Warcraft. From the common healing and mana potions to the high end flasks available only to alchemist masters there is always something useful to create. Alchemy also allows you to transmute many items from one thing to another, this includes iron to gold and elemental essences form one type to another.

You can check out the complete guide here.