Outfitter

Let me start by saying “Thank you!” to Tonkah for the tip regarding the “freeze on training” bug. Disabling the Wowhead Looter add-on fixed it for me. However, it didn’t work for a friend who runs Fubar; possibly that’s difference that matters.

This week we’re going to talk about an add-on that may seem redundant; in patch 3.1.2, Blizzard introduced the equipment manager. The equipment manager “can… be used to just swap…

Keeping Up With Everybody

By this time you probably have a slew of add-ons helping you level up, keep your bags organized, make a killing at the Auction House, and make a fast getaway when your latest AH victim realizes that wool cloth really isn’t worth 35 gold a stack. You’d probably like an easy way to keep all those add-ons up-to-date, wouldn’t you? I knew you would.

Other than manually checking every add-on…

EasySerum

EasySerum is an add-on to help you do the daily quest Troll Patrol: The Alchemist’s Apprentice in Zul’Drak which gives Argent Crusade reputation and is one-quarter of the lead-in quest. It is a great quest for leveling as well, because there’s no risk of dying. EasySerum has been tested by yours truly and works perfectly under patch 3.3.3

Although Carbonite does have a built-in helper for this quest, EasySerum does it…

Segment 13: RankWatch

Are you dual-specced? Have you recently leveled? Do you raid? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may find RankWatch to be a useful add-on.

RankWatch will monitor the spells cast by you and other members of your party or raid and warn you (or them) if you or they are using a downranked spell. It will also tell you what new spells you can train each time…

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Infinite Ignore
Tired of watching all the spam in trade chats, but your ignore list is full? This is for you then. Infinite Ignore is exactly that, an ignore list that has no limit.

Features
+ No cap on the number of people ignored.
+ Hooks directly into ignore/unignore commands
+ Ability to import your existing list from WoW
+…

Segment #11: Free Refills
Last week on WoWphiles, Jason mentioned Anea’s blog post entitled “I am not your heal bitch” in which Anea justly complained about players not preparing for random dungeon crawls by stocking up on food beforehand.

There’s no excuse for it. Seriously. Even if you can’t cook, you can buy food items from vendors in every city, town, and 1-shack settlement all over Azeroth, Outland, and Northrend, and you don’t…

Segment Number 10: Advanced Trade Skill Window

Guest voice by Victoria Tietjens

Advanced Trade Skill Window (which I herinafter refer to as “ATSW”) is a complete replacement for Blizzards tradeskill window with more overview and special functions.

This replacement, which works for all tradeskills, including enchanting, provides you with:

- a better overview
ATSW is bigger than the standard window, resulting in a much better overview over the thousands of items you…

Icesnake’s Add-on Emporium, Segment #9: AuctionLite

This week we’re going to look at an add-on that will help you dominate the economy on your Realm. AuctionLite is the add-on for the day traders of World of Warcraft. While not as comprehensive as the bettter-known Auctioneer, AuctionLite has a lot of functions that make working the Auction House a lot less of a chore.

AuctionLite adds some new tabs to your Auction House interface. Instead…

Welcome to Icesnake’s Add-on Emporium, Segment Number 8.

Guest voice by Rakeleer Frostfyre

Continuing in our not-necessarily-for-raiding vein, this week I’ll tell you about not one, but two add-ons: AchievementSnap and DingRecorder.

I’m sure that everyone has heard the old “screenshot or it didn’t happen” taunt. Some people won’t go look up the facts on the Armory, but you can post a screenshot on Flicker and they’re perfectly happy to accept that as proof.…

Path To Nowhere.

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Cataclysm Features Update
We recently got word from Blizzard about some of the features of Cataclysm being changed and/or removed. We discuss.

Cataclysm Raids
We bring in Evinrue to discuss Cataclysm raids and bosses and the lore surrounding them. We start off with the new Caverns of Time: War of the Ancients raid.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
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Welcome to Icesnake’s Add-on Emporium! This is Segment Number 7, and I’m going to depart from the must-have raiding add-ons to introduce you to a small, utilitarian add-on called DeclineDuel.

DeclineDuel, or “DD,” does exactly what the name tells you: When someone challenges you to a duel, DD will decline it. If you’re the kind of player who prefers to limit her dueling to specific places or times, then you’ll want to have DD…

This week we’re going to look at a mod that does for Death Knights what Mage Fever does for Mages; that is, help you to optimize your spell rotation while in combat.

According to the author’s description, Loracks DK Optimizer will help you to optimize health regen, DPS, and threat. I know from my own use of it that my DPS has at least doubled, and my health at the end of each melee…

Guest voice by Ensoph Frostfyre.

Mage Fever is a proc and buff notification addon for mages. It was designed to be simple, light on memory, completely stand alone, and easy to use. Developed by a mage for a mage, it is specifically tailored to help make the most of a mage’s damage output and manage their spell rotation. Mage Fever is an addon that is extremely flexible and fit for any mage. Mage Fever…

This week we’re going to take a look at a simple yet powerful aid for healers, called Grid. I will also mention a few enhancements to Grid, and a link to a tutorial on how to get the most out of Grid.

Grid is an essential tool for healers. Anyone who has been in a raid knows that, many times, there is way too much going on during a fight to look at the…

Those of you listening to the audio segment will probably notice my voice is rough and more nasal than usual; sorry, I’m just starting to get over a sinus infection. Here’s the text for those who wonder what I actually said.

Decursive is a mod which makes affliction removal easy, effective and fun for all the classes having this ability.

It’s easy to use. Decursive configures itself automatically for your character class. It works…

Ooh, Cataclysm Talent Trees

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Cataclysm Talent Trees
MMO-Champion has links up to Cataclysm talent trees for Priest, Druid, Rogue, Shaman. They are up over at their new site Wowtal.com

How To Make Fishing More Interesting
Our listener Kurg brought up the idea about how to make fishing more interesting: let’s discuss.

Pay More Get Less?
We discuss a…

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When you are finally sent to Browman Mill after working so hard to get out of the DK starting area, you will find you have about 5 minutes to kill before the battle starts. Use that time to ride around and explore; you can get 815 experience points for each area you discover. You will also discover you simply aren’t allowed to stray far from Light’s Hope Chapel.

This post comes to us courtesy of our listener Kurg from the Kargath server. He has some ideas on how to make fishing more interesting.

I have noticed a big question lately has been: how can blizzard make fishing more interesting? One suggestion might be to make fishing more in depth like a crafting profession. For example, fishing lures could be created by recipes. A player could make certain lures with recipes and those…

Can You Spare Ten Silver?

The Gathering
The WoWphiles official guild for friends and fans has been created. It’s called The Gathering and it’s on the Lightbringer server. Get your level 1 alts ready.

News
BlizzCon tickets are selling out and Gnome and Troll quest lines not going live 3.3.5

PvP Class Balance
Blizzard again tackles the topic of how to balance classes in PvP

Stefon the Travel Correspondent
We are joined…

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