First off, I would like to share my newest little creation named HammerTime.  It’s a nice little simple addon for those fury warriors out there who, like me, keep missing that darned instant slam buff.  Well, not any longer! If, like me, a bright visual aid is more noticeable than a little icon/bar in the corner of your screen.  Check this out:

The addon is totally click-through, so it wont get in the way.  It’s also simple to configure; (/ht unlock to unlock and /ht lock to lock) once unlocked you can move and scale the message to your liking!

You can check HammerTime out for yourself by downloading it at WoW Interface.

So, on to YKTarget, no huge changes here.  Just the fact that someone was kind enough to let me know that all party members can now mark targets, so the addon will now show even if you are not the leader.  I have also added Isle of Conquest to the list of battlegrounds (I know, a bit slow on that one).  As per normal you can download YKTarget at WoW Interface

Were you tempted to try Aion ? I was! I loaded up my pre-order special edition and was all ready to rock when the headstart gave way.  I did manage to get on when it opened up, but today I get to see the horror that others have been talking about.  I got home around 7pm-ish to be welcomed with the following after logging in…

Now I’m a reasonably patient guy, but where do you draw the line!? 7pm + 5 hours = zzZ zzZ.  Some of us do actually need to work in order to pay for our gaming habits, and starting off a gaming session at midnight isn’t quite the best time of the day for most people.

I can only hope that this is just a teething problem.  Quoting from NCSoft “Total server limits will be increased once we see that server populations balance out.” I hope that limit is in the 1000’s as my queue isn’t the largest I’ve seen kicking around fan sites today.

Some people have shown their disgust on the official forums mentioning cancelling already.  As extreme as this may seem, I too can see the reasoning for giving it the boot, especially if I can only play from midnight onwards.  Time can only tell.

Do you have long wait times ?  How do you pass the time ?

(Btw, the other fubar NCSoft/Steam had was that I didn’t have time to go out and pre-order the Collector’s Edition from a store, so I thought of getting it online through Steam.  Turns out, they can’t even give out the proper codes/extra online goodies till after the game has launched.  Headstart my arse…)

Just a lil note to let people out there that we have updated YKTarget.

Not a huge update, just some bug fixes and making sure everything is all good for patch 3.2.

As usual you can download from the YKTarget page or over at WoW Interface.

Enjoy!

To keep today from being entirely barren of blogs (hey, it’s the Yeti’s b-day tomorrow, we’re entitled to being lazy and spending the free time together), here’s a Disturbing Realization Of The Day!

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Alright, so Final Fantasy XIV was announced, and it’s another MMO.  Me and the Yeti have been looking for a different escape from WoW, and this could be just the ticket we were looking for.  I mean, hey… we met on FFXI, and we’ve had our fond share of memories about that game, but there’s no denying that in order for us to really want to give it a good go, there’s a couple of things we’re looking forward to in terms of changes.

If you haven’t seen it already, this is the E3 trailer they ended up showing.  I still believe it’s basically FFXI-2.  The hume looks the same, but they tossed in both an elvaan and a galka on the side (although it’s strangely a tail-less galka).  Not to mention the trailer does say “…you must join hands… once again.”  That just screams ‘sequel’ in itself.

So allow me to indulge in some old FFXI memories and what I hope to see changed with the upcoming XIV.

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All right, so lately we’ve been getting a lot of sun here in the UK.  It’s a rarity, so when it happens, we jump at every chance to soak up as much of it as possible.  I know, it sounds like another excuse for not keeping up with the blog, but hey, at least I had one ready!

So, lately, I’ve actually been into questing the ole’ cow and getting myself playing a bit more often than I normally would.  Granted, this playing streak may not last much longer, but only time can tell.  Till then, here’s a bit of a look into what mischief I’ve been getting into lately.

I’ve been questing myself up, doing the daily grinding, and happened to come across a few fun moments with mounts.  I thought I’d share some with you, especially if you haven’t come across these quests yet. 

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I haven’t been in to Wintergrasp since patch day, but last night I had gotten the bits I had wanted to do (mainly a rep grind) out the way and thought, what the hell, let’s go do some Wintergrasp.  I turned up to the portal 15 minutes early and saw nobody else was there! No shouts going out at all.  So I waited more, still nothing, 5 minutes to go and still nothing!  Eventually the portal opens and all on my lonesome I head on in.

Right off the bat I had 20 tenacity.  After about 5 minutes we actually had a group going which topped out at 5 members… thats right it wasn’t even big enough to warrant turning into a raid!

Despite it being 5 vs 40+ (no idea on actual count, but there was plenty of em) I did manage to get 2 weekly quests done but it was an obvious loss.

My only hope is that this doesn’t turn into a more common trend.  One of the best PvP options in the game has become nothing more than a barren wasteland! Please say it ain’t so Blizzard!

How’s Wintergrasp running on your server? Is it barren or is it still going on as normal ? Let us know!

Doing my daily scan over the interwebs today, I read the article over at WoW Insider which gaves tips on making gold by mining Saronite and either selling in bar or ore form.  Which got me to thinking maybe I should spill how I make my gold.

Now I know most of you out there are looking for the “how do I make mega amounts of gold like now!” guide but the truth is, there is no such thing! Effort in = reward.  No matter which way you spin it, it’s going to take time and effort on your part.

Still here? That means you’ve gotten over the shock of not maxing your gold out right away.

Ok, the first thing is, you need to be patient.  If the area of the market your trying to make money from is saturated, you need to hold off selling right now and just stockpile.  Move on to another area or just keep stashing it away.

For now we can assume we are talking about Saronite.  The price of ore/bars will always fluctuate, theres nothing we can do about that.  The trick is, to find the right time to sell, just like the stock market.  If the current market is flooded we can sell at a somewhat loss or, if we hold off, we can hit our margin when there is not so much on sale.

If your target market is flooded and isn’t looking like any change we can always look to our friends.  In this case as we are talking about Saronite, find your jewelcrafting friend and get them to prospect it for you.  You have then shifted from one market to another.  Again if that market is flooded, get the gems made in to socketable gems, once again shifting to another market.

The main tip I can give is to not rush into selling.  Keep a careful eye on your market and if your not happy with the current price of your stuff, then hold off.

Dont neglect your dailies either! They may not be massive amounts of gold, but just by simply doing the fishing, cooking and 2-3 other dailies, those will land you in the area of 50gold.  Keep that up every day and you will be netting 350 a week! (1000g+ a month) See how something little can add up ?

Last piece of advice I can give is, pretty much everything is of value to someone out there!  Random greens can easily net you double the vendor price!  Even I get a little lazy to run to the AH which is why I have my rogue stationed at Undercity ready to sell and collect my profits.

If you’ve got the character space, make that spare character and use it as an AH mule.  Send things over to him/her as they will be permanently parked in the AH.

I know it may not seem like a big deal, but for me it is!  It’s previous incarnation “NYAN Raid Target” didn’t reach that many downloads over just a week and yet YKTarget seems to be completely different and receiving quite a warm welcome over at WoW Interface hitting 200 downloads!

On a side note, the tiny program Addon Versions is seeing a few downloads which is totally more than I expected.  It just shows alot of people out there are still totally into manual updates of addons! (Like the Kitn)

Thanks to all those who gave it a go and comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Look out for the upcoming version with skins coming soon!

All right, so at the moment, my little cow is on a mad fishing grind, still hoping to get lucky and nab a sea turtle.  I’m still way under leveled, but I’m optimistic (or just too lazy to admit defeat) that I’ll nab that turtle soon.

Anyhoo, I was told of a contest going on for Warcraftpets about making some ad banners for some tasty prizes.  I won’t show what I’ve tried to make till after the contest, but I’m crossing my fingers since the pets are drool worthy for me.

So yes, here’s this contest and since I needed some pictures to use, I decided to look towards the WoW Model Viewer.  I had played with a similar program back in the days when I made FFIX signatures for folks in forums (I’ll have to post those up one day).

Now.. with WoW accounts, I know it’s scary to start poking around with programs that access files and whatnot, but I’ll put trust that the WoW Wiki would not try to steer me astray and make me lose my account to thugs and thieves.  I looked up the viewer through their page, so if you’re brave enough to try it, here’s the link.

Anyhoo, I was looking through there for some piccys when I happened across some very interesting fishing bobbers.  You know the plain original one is quite all right and functional, but if these bobbers I happened to find were ever released for players, I’d suspect it’d make fishing slightly more bearable.  With different bobbers, you could at least have a better chance of not being confused as to which was yours (especially in Dalaran fountain).  I hope to look forward to them in future patches.

Hit the jump and check those cuties out!

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