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• 5.3 Patch PTR Patch Notes
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• PvP Changes for 5.3
• We discuss the new game Hearthstone

The Community Speaks

• We answer the weekly community topic
• Comments and feedback from listeners

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• Who are the bosses of Throne of Thunder (Part 2)?

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• Oondasta gets his respawn rate increased
• Secrets of the Empire drops
• Flight path auto discovery was merely a bug

From the Forum

• Is LFR fun for you?

The Community Speaks

• We answer the weekly community topic
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• Who are the bosses of Throne of Thunder?

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Naturally, the only add-ons that matter are add-ons for warlocks. Here are three that you may find useful:

WarlockReminder reminds you of missing warlock buffs and procs, and shows your cooldowns. Included are combat reminders, such as Drain Soul or Molten Core. WarlockReminder creates 4 frames to track your buffs, combat procs, cooldowns and custom buffs.

BadPet detects hunter and warlock pets who are taunting (growl, taunt, thunderstomp or suffering) in instances and raids, and also helps hunters and warlocks prevent their pets from taunting in the first place.

It can be configured to report each pet once per combat period or each time the pet taunts. Reports can be kept private, sent as a whisper to the pet’s owner, or reported to party or raid chat.

Drainsouler is a ‘channeling spell’-tracking addon for Affliction Warlocks, DrainSouler shows all the important data you need to know about Drain Life, Drain Soul, Harvest Life, and Malefic Grasp.

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• We discuss new features in 5.2
• Developer interviews for 5.2

For or Against?

• Flying Mounts: A parasite on the game or the best thing ever?

The Community Speaks

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This week we’re going to look at IceHUD. I am very fond of this heads-up display because of the name, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with me. What is a heads-up display, you ask? It is, in this case, a method of moving the most important data items to the center of your playing screen without obscuring the action of your toon or of the enemy. IceHUD does this very well, showing you player and target health and mana bars, casting bars, pet health and mana bars, and much more in a graphical way so that you need never look away from the fight to find out if you have enough chi for that blackout kick, or if you should interrupt the boss’s cast.

IceHUD has lots of different bar shapes and patterns so you can make it look like you want it to look, and class-specific modules for rogues, druids, paladins, warlocks, etcetera.

You can find IceHUD on Curse.

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Weekly Blues & News

• BlizzCon 2013 Slow Jam
• 5.0 Raids Cross Realm
• Solo Scenario Loot Grab
• Rare Mob Sharing

For or Against?

• Should the LFR loot system stay or go?

The Community Speaks

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We are having a special this week on MogIt. MogIt is an add-on that provides you with an in-game catalog of transmogrification items, to help you build your own sets.

You can find MogIt on Curse. There are also links there to plug-ins which will expand your MogIt collection with sets, mounts, mini-pets, hunter pets, and armor-kinis, for the adventurer who wants to show a little more skin.

This segment was inspired by Kevin of the Darkmoon Herald podcast. Hey Kevin!

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Do you use trinkets? Are you able to see the cooldowns on them instantly? Do you have keybinds to use them whenever you need to? Can you swap them out quickly and easily?

If the answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to any of the others is no, then you want TrinketMenu. TrinketMenu puts an extra two-slot keybar on your screen (which can be hidden) and, in addition to making trinket swapping quick and easy, it gives you two extra keybinds so you can use your trinkets without macros or fumbling with the character sheet. I’ve been using it for years, and I’m not sure how I could do without it. Some of the functions don’t seem to work automatically any more, but the most important ones – keybind and visual display – still do, and that’s enough to justify it for me.

Now, this is an unusual add-on in that you CAN’T get it from Curse, and it doesn’t seem to be maintained; however, it is still available from WoWinterface. Please see the WoWphiles blog for a direct link.

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Weekly Blues & News

• We get to keep our valor
• Big Sale on World of Warcraft and all Expansions
• Prepping for Patch 5.2
• Is the patch coming too soon?
• PvE and PvP dailies in 5.2

The Community Speaks

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Have you ever wished you could make notes on the maps in World of Warcraft? Want to stick a pin where that rare spawn was sighted, and remember the name and level? Or make specific locations a little more obvious? Now you can.

HandyNotes is an add-on that lets you add notes on your maps, either by right-clicking the map, entering a chat command to place the note at your current location, or using a chat command with coordinates. Plug-ins are also available to add notes that others have created, such as locating the Lunar Festival elders, or unvisited candy buckets for Hallow’s End.

You can download HandyNotes from Curse. There’s also a link on the WoWphiles blog that will search Curse for HandyNotes plugins.

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Weekly Blues & News

• More Expected Changes in WoW Patch 5.2
• Duncan Jones to Direct the World of Warcraft Movie
• We kill off Sean Bean on the show
• Discuss some Tweets from Ghostcrawler

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“Screenshot or it didn’t happen!” Who hasn’t heard that? Well, now you can make sure you can shut those skeptics

up, with screenshots of your proudest moments in WoW, take automagically by Achievement Screenshotter 2

This add-on will automatically capture screenshots of important events in the life of your toons: Achievements, BG

ends, LFG dungeon ends, level-ups, rep milestones, and boss kills in dungeons, raids, and heroics.

You can get Achievement Screenshotter 2 at Curse.

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Weekly Blues & News

• Upcoming PvP Changes
• Ion Hazzikostas talks item level
• Ghostcrawler Tweets
• Article about Open Tagging of Mobs from GameSpy

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OmniCC is an addon that adds text to items, spell and abilities that are on cooldown to indicate when they will be ready to use. In other words: it turns all the standard analogue cooldowns into digital ones.

Anything should work with OmniCC, from the action bars to the inventory, from the standard interface to your favorite add-on. This add-on will let you see at a glance which cooldown will be ready next, making it much simpler to fine-tune your rotation.

OmniCC can be downloaded from Curse.

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Weekly Blues & News

• New Live Support Chat Feature
• Reputation in Patch 5.2
• LFR Loot System
• Linear Endgame Progression
• How to make Reforging better
• Challenge Mode Feedback

It Came From the Forums

• The 3 Month Wall

The Community Speaks

• Emails from listeners

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This time we have an add-on especially for Monks. MonkTimers shows Cooldowns and Buffs for all Monk specializations in a sort of heads-up display above your action bars.

Timers are divided between short, rotational spells and longer cooldowns. Brewmasters get the Stagger debuff displayed as a bar. Chi and Energy/Mana are combined in one bar.

This is an excellent way for a Monk to keep his cooldowns right in front of him at all times!

MonkTimers can be downloaded from Curse.

This may be the only segment I have time for this week due to the demands of my paying job. Sorry, folks, but I need to pay for that bamboo and cat hair my Internet Service Provider strung out to my house so I can stay connected!

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• WoW Patch 5.2 Notes and discussion

It Came From the Forums

• WoW Jokes
• Complaints about LFR

The Community Speaks

• Voicemail: Do we prefer Ventrilo or Mumble?

LoreDucation

• Discussing the attributes of Horde Warchief candidates

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What we’re actually looking for is a mod to notify members of your party or raid when you are out of control. No, not when you lose your mind; when your toon is stunned, mind-controlled, asleep, or otherwise not under control of the player behind the keyboard. This can be very important if you’e the healer, and absolutely critical if you’re the tank.

Well, we didn’t find that, exactly, but we did find a couple that are close. Perhaps there’s a mod developer out there who can start with these ideas and add a few lines to make them perfect.

Control Lost notifies you whenever you lose control of your character, such as when you are stunned, mind-controlled, and so forth, by printing a notification on-screen and a distinctive sound.

LoseControl makes it easy to see the duration of crowd control spells by displaying them in a dedicated icon onscreen. Displays the duration of all CC spells and abilities on your player, pet, target, focus, party, and arena enemy frames. The most important buffs/debuffs are displayed first. LoseControl’s ccons can be moved, resized, and made transparent. There is also an options fix.

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While researching this segment, I also found around three and a half pages of add-ons created by Skulhamr (that’s S-K-U-L-H-A-M-R) that add or modify in-game sound events. Click the name on the WoWphiles.com article to see them for yourself!

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This is the first segment to be recorded for 2013, and I thought I’d make it longer than usual, and list the add-ons that I consider essential.

For everyone, I recommend ArkInventory, AutoProfitX2, and BankStack. These three add-ons will help you keep your bags and bank organized, and turn junk items into a little jingle in your pockets. If your toon uses the Auction House to either buy or sell, you should also grab AuctionLite. For buyers, don’t forget AuctionLite: Improved Search.

For your trade skills, you’ll want Advanced Trade Skill Window. If you dig, you also want Archeology Helper. Archy is also worth having on your dig sites.

When leveling a toon, Carbonite can make finding your quest objectives much easier, and it provides a lot of other benefits as well.

For PvP, you absolutely must have Healers Have To Die. In addition to making it easier to target enemy healers, it will warn you when friendly healers are under attack.

Speaking of healers, if you are one, you will want Healbot Continued.

Toons with crowd control abilities need ControlFreak.

And for running scenarios, instances and especially raids, you need GTFO, Deadly Boss Mods, and Omen threat Meter.

And finally, for the sake of your sanity, you should have Infinite Ignore, which is outdated but perfectly functional; DuelResponse; BugGrabber, and BugSack.

There are many other add-ons that are useful, of course, but these (or similar add-ons that perform the same functions) are indispensable to me.

Most of them are available from Curse, and all of them are linked on the WoWphiles Web site.

Now get out there and find the Sha of Happiness!

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We start the show this week talking about what we’ve been doing to keep busy during our holiday break.

Weekly Blues & News

• WoW Patch 5.2 Notes and discussion

It Came From the Forums

• Some of the most popular character names in WoW

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• Reviews of the show
• Ask Fujimaro

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• Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
• Lodin’s Hunter Talk

Do you have more than one mount, or more than one companion pet? RandomCompanion is an add-on that will let you choose a random mount or vanity pet at the press of a button. When mounting, RandomCompanion will automatically choose the best type of mount based on your location. You can also force the use of a ground mount in a flyable zone, or a mount that takes passengers.

Companion pets can be weighted to be chosen more or less often, or disabled altogether. RandomCompanion also has commands to dismiss your pet automatically when you are stealthed and flagged for PvP, or in a raid.

You can download RandomCompanion from Curse.

Here is a short and easy macro to summon a random mount and pet.

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/rc mount
/rc pet

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Let’s look at some essential pet battle tools. This segment was suggested by Leogetz of Terenas.

PetTracker is a tool designed to help all kinds of trainers in their pet tracking and battling duties. Currently, it:

• Displays the locations of all pets on the world map.
• Tracks your progress of catching pets in your current zone.
• Shows the rarity of pets in battle and warns you of upgrades.
• Displays all your enemies’ and allies’ abilities as you fight.
• Suggests which is the most appropriate pet for your current enemy.

PetJournalEnhanced helps to filter and organize your battle pets.

• Sort Pets by level, alphabetical, pet type, rarity, pet specialization, ascending or descending.
• Sorting works with filtering properly.
• Filter by current zone.
• Shows each pet’s specialization in the pet journal list as an icon showing their highest stat. Now you know at a glance if your pet is tanky, speedy, or powerful.
• Pet names are colored by their rarity.
• Shows each pet’s rarity in its border in the pet journal list for non-wild pets.
• shows the rarity of non-wild pets in the pet card.
• Filter by quality, specialization, tradable, can battle and by Zone.

PetTracker and PetJournalEnhanced may be downloaded from Curse.

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Weekly Blues & News

• The WoW Holiday Dessert and Art Contest is here.
• We break down the nuggets of information from the various developer interviews

It Came From the Forums

• Will there ever be a WoW2?

The Community Speaks

• Emails & Tweets from listeners
• Reviews of the show
• Ask Fujimaro

Strategy

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If you’ve been following this segment for a few months, you know that back in early September of 2012, I gave up on a timely update of Carbonite to support WoW 5. Well, we’re taking another look at Carbonite now, a bit more than 90 days later.

I’ve been using the most-recent version of Carbonite found on Curse for about a week now, with possibly sixteen hours of play time, and I have to say it seems to be doing well the things it always did. So, for those of you who have been struggling to manage with various substitutes, it looks like Carbonite is back.

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Weekly Blues & News
The Cinder Kitten pet is released to the pet store; We talk about more changes to the game in patch 5.1; Does WoW need a new graphics engine?

The Community Speaks
Dillon has Fujimaro inside his head; Lodin talks Titan Tech; Phillip is going to kick Fuji off the side of a hill; Fujimaro answers your questions.

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This time we’re looking at an addon which was recommended by Louis, aka Chaos5061. The add-on is Auto Questing Tools.

Auto Questing Tools, or AQT, will automatically accept quests; if you are below level 90, it accepts quests that grant experience, and for level 90 it simply accepts all quests. When you turn in quests, AQT will automatically complete the dialogue with the quest-giver. If you also have Quest Reward installed and you hold down the ALT key when you turn in, you’ll automatically choose the reward item with the best vendor sell price.

AQT will also attempt to share new quests with your party members.

You can download both AQT and Quest Reward from Curse.

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If you play WoW in groups – even groups as small as two players, or yourself and a combat pet – you should be tracking your threat. Tanks want high threat, to keep mobs from attacking the healers. DPS And healers want low threat, to keep mobs attacking the tank. We are blessed with a large number of functioning threat meters; a simple search on Curse will show you:

• Omen Threat Meter
• Tidy Plates: Threat Plates
• Simple Threat Meter
• DiamondThreatMeter

As well as plug-ins for Recount, Fubar, and Grid to add threat status.

Of them all, I find Tidy Plates: Threat Plates to be the most interesting, with an innovative approach that may even help unclutter your combat display. As always, the ultimate choice is up to you.

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Ever wonder what your Damage Per Second (DPS) adds up to? There are probably dozens of add-ons just waiting to tell you!

Skada Damage Meter is meant for the minmaxer who wants to know everything in detail. It’s highly modular, so you only use the bits you actually want.
Recount is the “traditional” DPS meter, keeping track of damage and heals for everyone in your group. Both Skada and Recount are very popular.
TinyDPS is a lightweight damage and healing meter. If you aren’t the raid leader, it may be all you need.
Show my DPS allows you to see only your own DPS. Excellent if you’re beating on the training dummies to fine-tune your rotation.
BxDPS is another lightweight meter, with the output nothing but a short summary in your chat window. This is probably the ultimate in simplification.

There are quite a few other options on both Curse and Wowinterface.com. Try several and see what meets your particular style of play.

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Weekly Blues & News
Patch 5.1 is here; what will become of Heroes of Warcraft; Mike Morhaime talks eSports and more.

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Do you use macros in your WoW play time? If you don’t, you might want to consider it; there are ways to automate many routine actions, both in and out of combat. And if you do, you should take a look at Macro Toolkit.

Macro Toolkit provides tools to greatly ease writing macros; too many tools to list here. Check out the add-on’s Web page for the full list.

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This is a special time of the year, when all the races of Azeroth stuff themselves into a coma, hunt down and sometimes rescue missing reindeer, snatch elves from their toymaking for personal amusement, and help the Goblins corner the market on cheap, unhealthy snacks.

But wait, there’s more! What about those special holiday dungeons? Wouldn’t you like to be able to participate in them using LFD, and not worry about accidentally queuing for Black Temple instead?

That’s why you need the add-on, “Jolly Holiday.” This mod will automatically select any holiday dungeons that might be available upon logging in, if you haven’t run it for that day. It’s still up to you to try to awaken from your food coma long enough to change toons, if the one you just logged in has already done the holi-daily. (Groans now permitted).

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Weekly Blues & News
WoW’s 8th Anniversary; study about player loyalty; interview with Ion Hazzikostas; speculating the release of patch 5.1

It Came From the Forums
What’s the most depressing zone?

The Community Speaks
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Do you use the Auction House? Ever? If you do, and you’re not using an add-on to make the AH easy to use, consider AuctionLite. AuctionLite makes buying and selling at the AH easy, helps you get the best prices for your items, shows vendor, auction, and disenchant prices, and lets you buy out multiple listings at one time.

Ever wonder how players get the gold to buy that Super Duper Magic Mount, or even cover their own repairs? I promise you they are using an AH add-on. You should, too.

You can download AuctionLite from Curse.

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Today we’re looking at Valor Point Cap Progress. This add-on keeps track of your Valor Point Cap progress on your characters, and your characters’ Valor Points and Justice Points totals so you know if they are about to reach the Hard Cap.

Optionally, it can add your VP/JP/Progress details to your character stats sheet, so you no longer need to switch to the Currency sheet to see VP/JP.

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Weekly Blues & News
WoW player elected to state senate; Blizzard gets sued; Are dungeons too easy; more info about the Brawler’s Guild

It Came From the Forums
When are the Draenei going to get some love?

The Community Speaks
Jason needs to stop enabling the sick Panda; what is the question to life, the universe and everything?

Tips and Strategies
Efficiently and effectively using cooldowns.

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This time I want to tell you about another sound-oriented add-on, the Super-Duper Sound Pack Engine. This add-on acts as a framework for SDSP sound packs, which add sounds to various activites within the game. There is also a Template pack to make it simple to add your own sounds. I am currently using the Super Mario World, of Warcraft pack. There are also sound packs already for you to download for Super Mario Brothers, and My Little Pony.

All of them can be downloaded from Curse.

Super-Duper Sound Pack Engine

Super Mario World, of Warcraft (SDSP)

MarioFX (SDSP)

Template (SDSP)

My little Pony Warcraft is magic (SDSP)

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This segment is about an add-on that serves no real function, BUT it provides a great deal of satisfaction whenever your toon levels up. Well, actually, if you’e paying attention, it also tells you what new abilities you’ve gained, if any.

The add-on is CoolLevelUp and you can download it from Curse.

Also, if you take a look at the Wowphiles.com Web site, you’ll find an Easter egg.

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Weekly Blues & News
Zarhym responds to players wanting Normal and LFR raids on one lockout; Ghostcrawler talks PvP

It Came From the Forums
What would the world be like if Dranosh Saurfang was still alive?

The Community Speaks
Just one email this week plus new questions for “Ask Fujimaro”

Tips and Strategies
Shado-Pan Monastery Walkthrough

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Today I bring you Deadly Boss Mods. If you are planning to raid, you need Deadly Boss Mods. If you have never raided before, Deadly Boss Mods (also known as DBM) will help you to look a little less like a noob.

DBM will help you know when to take action in boss fights, to keep you and your fellow raiders alive. If you use LFR, you should be using DBM.

You’ll find Deadly Boss Mods on Curse.

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This segment is about an unusual add-on; one that you may use once and then uninstall, and still continue to benefit ffrom what it does.

AttackNearestEnemy creates a macro the first time you log onto a toon. The macro is tuned (no pun intended) to the character class of that toon, and placed in the macro section for that specific character. Once that has been done for each toon, you could uninstall the add-on, and continue to use the macro.

What does the macro do? Ah, that is the beauty of this add-on. The AttackNearestEnemy macro will dismount you, regardless of your setting in Blizzard’s options, clear your target (so that you aren’t targeting someone out of range, or dead), target the nearest enemy, and start the attack. For Hunters, the attack is NOT started, as that would immediately aggro the mob, but Hunter’s Mark is cast instead.

Once the macro has been created, you’re free to edit it as you like; and then, of course, you’ll want to bind it to a hot key or mouse button. There’s a chat command to erase and re-write the macro, should you manage to fudge it up beyond all recognition.

You’ll want to check out the add-on’s Web page for all the details.

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You’ll notice a strange disruption around the 51 minute mark of the show this week. You can blame Sandy for knocking my power out. We’d also like to send our thoughts out to everyone who has been hit by this storm and we hope you’re all staying safe.

Weekly Blues & News
Korean players get separate raid lockouts and upgraded 25 player loot; don’t expect your alts to fly before level 90; updated raid schedule and more.

It Came From the Forums
We break down one player’s suggestions for improving dailies.

The Community Speaks
Not much this week but we introduce a new segment called “Ask Fujimaro”

Tips and Strategies
Mogu’shan Palace Walkthrough

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This segment is for those “resource users;” if your toon uses chi, mana, combo points, etcetera, or if you drive vehicles that use resources, Hear Kitty is for you. That’s H-E-A-R Kitty. This add-on plays a sound to let you know what’s happening with resources so you don’t have to glance away from your target.

Hear Kitty works for Druids, Rogues, Shaman, Priests, Hunters, Death Knights, Warlocks, Monks, and some vehicles. Not all Talent specs have resources, so you want to check the add-on’s Web Page to see if you are covered.

There are also downloadable sound packs, to let you change the sounds you hear. With a little experimentation, and an audio editor that saves OGG files, you could create your own, too.

Hear Kitty can be downloaded from Curse.

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Mages, Monks, Shaman, Priests, Paladins… Decursive supports all classes with cleansing abilities and configures itself automatically, it works straight out of the box, no configuration is required.

Decursive is an add-on that places a small bar on your play window which, when your ability is active, allows you to quickly remove debuffs from members of your party or raid group.

As of this segment’s recording date, Decursive was updated to support WoW 5.0.5

Be sure to check out the add-on’s Web page at Curse for full details.

Decursive can be downloaded from Curse.

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What about Bunny Hunter? Ever been grinding for the Hyacinth Macaw and wanted to know just how unlucky you are? Bunny Hunter tracks how many times you’ve looted mobs that drop rare pets and mounts, how long you’ve spent farming and shows you the chance that you should have gotten your pet by now. The addon works by watching you *loot* mobs, so if someone else in your party or raid loots the mob, it wont be tracked.

See the add-on’s Web page at curse for a list of supported and unsupported pets and mounts.

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Weekly Blues & News
New Windsteed mount coming soon, new faction gryphons and wyverns, new Warcraft fiction coming soon, and much more.

It Came From the Forums
The Great Ninja Looting Debate. Need and Greed on offspec items.

The Community Speaks
Icesnake tells whiners to get off his lawn, we look at more hints of an Alliance and Horde team-up, Fujimaro has fans and we get some iTunes love.

Tips and Strategies
Stormstout Brewery Walkthrough

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You know Blizzard gave us an Ignore list in WoW. If you’ve played much at all, you also know that 100 names isn’t nearly enough; you could easily fill that up in a single day.

That’s why Infinite Ignore was written. Infinite Ignore gives you almost limitless capacity to ignore other players. However, it seems that it was last updated in February of 2010; but it’s still working. It’s available on Wowinterface.com

If you don’t want to install Infinite Ignore manually, another option is IgnoreMore, which you can dowwnload from Curse. It was updated in December of 2011; and since the ignore function in WoW hasn’t changed, it still works, too.

Either way, you should read the Web page for the addon you choose, so you’ll know how to use it.

Special note for Modem and other interested parties: GUI v3.0 for MoP is still in beta. I promise I’ll review it when it’s in “release” mode. Until then, anyone who wants to try it out should search curse for “GUI Beta” (or follow the link on the Wowphiles Web site).

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Special shout-out this week to Pandaria’s most interesting beer: Hoz Equis

Weekly Blues
Pet Battle price decrease, using /loot in dungeons, Patch 5.1 PTR notes, Patch 5.1 scenarios

It Came From the Forums
Is the LFR tuned too easy for players?

The Community Speaks
Valor gear for non-raiders, leveling a monk.

Tips and Strategies
Temple of the Jade Serpent Walkthrough

Loreducation
Who is pulling the strings of the Horde and Alliance in Pandaria?

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This time I have a simple health and mana management tool for you. Buffet is an addon that will simplify your choices for healing and mana restoration.

To make Buffet work, you must create two macros, named AutoHP and AutoMP; they should be empty. Be sure to create them in the “all characters” section of your macro interface; you’ll be using them (or at least AutoHP) on all your toons. You’ll want to put one or both of them on your hot bar for fast access.

Once that’s done, Buffet will edit those macros on the fly. Buffet detects when you are in combat and offers potions and stones, and out of combat food and mana-replenishing beverages. Shift-clicking on AutoHP will present you with bandages. Buffet is also smart enough to detect equal-strength items in your inventory, and choose the smaller stack, to assist with invenory management in a small way. Lastly, conjured items will be chosen before permanent ones.

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So you’re out leveling up in Pandaria, and trying to travel in the most efficient way possible so your game time will maximize your experience gains. Suddenly, a Wild Inventory Full message appears! Yes, even though you’ve filled all your bag slots with Super High Capacity bags, every single slot is full and you can’t pick up another item. Now what do you do?

Well, you could run to the nearest vendor and sell your grey items, but that is going to use up some of your precious leveling time. Or you could hearth back to wherever you’ve set as your home; but again, there goes some leveling time.

Enter Trashcan. This addon will let you simply click a button and destroy (or sell) all your grey items at once. It also has configuration abilities so that you can exclude or include other items. When it’s first installed, Trashcan is disabled, so you won’t accidentally destroy items; the add-on’s Web page at Curse explains how to enable it, and describes the configuration options.

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Today we’re going to look at Spellflash. Spellflash an add-on which, combined with a number of modules for various classes and situations, can improve your DPS and survivability. There are a couple of different different families of Spellflash; most notably, the original, by BigRedBrent, with several modules for various classes, and a family oriented around Bitten’s Library. Both families of modules depend on the basic Spellflash add-on.

Spellflash will highlight the spell you should cast next to achieve maximum DPS, maximum survivability, or most efficient healing, depending on your class. This is done by a very noticeable flashing effect on your hotbar. Naturally, if the preferred spell is not on the hotbar, you’re not going to see the flashing effect.

I personally tend to rely on Bitten’s Spellflash family. They seem to be updated more frequently. There doesn’t seem to be a Monk module from the BigRedBrent family. You should try both and see which you prefer, unless, of course, you play a monk exclusively.

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