Archive for August, 2008
August 23, 2008 at 10:30 am · Filed under General
This section is meant to help you understand how certain information is changed on accounts.
E-mail/Phone Number: There are two ways to have this changed. One is right through the account management page on www.worldofwarcraft.com, and the other is by calling blizzard.
1. Account management, for this to work, you need to have access to the e-mail currently on the account. For instance, if I wanted to change the e-mail from joebob@hotmail.com to n3wi3@awesome.com, I would need to have access to joebob@hotmail.com. When you change it though the account, it sends an e-mail to the original e-mail account with a confirmation link that you click to change it
2. Say you don’t know the original e-mail or phone number, now you have to call blizzard. Dial it up, 1-800-59-BLIZZARD, and have the secret question and full name on the account ready. Tell the people you quit a job and moved a long time ago, but never changed the phone number or e-mail. First thing they will ask for is the name, tell them, then they will ask for the secret question, and occasionally for a high level character on the account, just to verify you have been using it and you know the names. As long as you have this information, 99% of the time they will change it over the phone for you.
Name: The only way to change a name on an account is with a legitimate government ID or notarized letter sent to blizzard that confirms both the original name, and the name it will be changed to. There is no other way to change this.
Address: Very simple, just change contact into in account management, and make it whatever you want, this is the easiest thing to change.
Secret Question: Very rarely this will be changed. With a legitimate transfer of ownership on an account (You are allowed under very strict circumstances), and with a notarized letter/ID, they will change the secret question along with the name. Again, this isn’t something that happens all the time.
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August 20, 2008 at 11:16 pm · Filed under General
So, you went to log on this morning and found your account’s password to have been changed, the person you just bought an account from stole it back. Here are some general tips to help in this kind of situation.
1) Assess the damage, how did your trade go down? Was the e-mail changed to yours? Do you know the phone number and secret question on the account? If you know both of these, you can get the account back. Simply go to http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/loginsupport/password.html and you will need the account name, phone number, secret question, and e-mail attached to the account. Easy, you just recovered your account.
2) If the e-mail was not changed to yours, this presents some problems. If you know the secret question/answer, and know the last name on the account, you have to call blizzard. The number is 1-800-59-BLIZZARD. Basically your job here is to act as the original owner of the account, since you know the name, and have the secret question/answer to the account, 95% of the time they will change the e-mail to yours. If they inquire as to the phone number, tell them you moved, say that is an old disconnected line that never got changed and you’ve forgotten what it was. Say the e-mail was a work e-mail from a long time ago and it also never got changed. Several times this has worked for me over the phone, they are pretty nice about it.
3) If you don’t know the last name, don’t have the e-mail, don’t know the sq/a or the phone number, and just have the account name, you’re pretty screwed. You rushed the trade/sale most likely, and the account is technically still the sellers. Next time make sure to get all pertinent information transferred to you on the account.
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August 5, 2008 at 7:47 pm · Filed under General
With the new Recruit-A-Friend program you can earn an exclusive Zhevra mount, receive a FREE month of game time, and gain access to other exciting in-game benefits. From the moment your friend creates a character and starts playing you’ll both earn triple the experience when grouped together and have the ability to summon one another from anywhere in the world. Also, for every two levels of experience your friend earns, they can grant one level of experience to one of your lower-level characters.
More info here.
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August 3, 2008 at 9:35 pm · Filed under General
I found the coolest looking UI today! Check these pics out.
Some information:
“Intro
I am a huge fan of the Diablo-series and since Diablo III was announced lately I am in Diablo fever again.
I am doing the interface stuff for quite some time now and the first thing when I saw the gameplay trailer that came into my mind was: “I want that interface!” … But I had to do it myself, so I did.” My interface runs at ~1MB memory usage without Blizzard stuff (~700KB without MSBT). I tweaked alot of stuff in my interface and probably every addon used was changed to my liking.
Actionbar-Textures
I made different action bar textures, for 10, 12, 20 and 24 buttons. Get some image viewer (http://www.irfanview.com/) and look inside the rTextures folder to find out how they look. If you found one that you like go into rFader\rfader.lua and search for “d3_bar”.
Addons
- AzCastBar (old version but I like it)
- BaudGear (gear swapping addon)
- Bongos2 (no ACE so I took them)
- Diablo3Orbs (the ORBS!)
- Ihasnoscope (”What the heck!” Bob Ross)
- LynLocation (Where am I)
- LynStats (fps, mem and clock)
- MikScrollingBattleText (What a misguided monster)
- OmniCC (So much numbers)
- pChat (I dont like to chat)
- pTags (Tiny bars above your head)
- rBuff (Player Buff Icons)
- rFader (Does the IC/OOC fading and puts some graphics on screen)
- rFilter2 (my buff/debuff filter mod)
- rMinimap (Map of super coolness)
- rTextures (The holy grail)
- rUnits (Old and dusty but still working)
- TipTac (tooltip)
Installation
- Save your Interface, WTF and your Fonts folder (if your have them)
- Copy all 3 folders into your World of Warcraft folder
- Go into the WTF folder and change the folder-names of the specific folders (YOURACC,YOURSERVER,YOURCHAR) to match your account.
- Start World of Warcraft (if you had it open while copying, restart it now to load the textures)
- Activate the checkbox to load older addons in the ingame Addon-list
- Set UI-Scale to nothing for the first setup
- After login type /bongos and load the profile: Rothar-Eredar. This will make the buttons appear where they should be.
- Setup your Keybindings with Bongos.
- Type /acb and click on the “edit-mode” checkbox. Now move the castbars whereever you want them to be.
FAQ
1.) I have icons with numbers in the middle of the screen, I don’t want them, how can I deactivate them?
- Its rFilter 2, just deactivate it or configure it by editing the rFilter2/rFilter2.lua
2.) How can I move the unitframes?
- rUnits can only be set-up by lua-editing. To change the positions of the unitframes you have to edit the layout.lua under rUnits. Go to the bottom of the file and look for the String “SetPoint”. Check http://www.wowwiki.com/API_Region_SetPoint for further information on how to move stuff with lua.
Tips and Hints
- MSBT is optional if you like the blizzard battle text better, don’t activate MSBT in the addon list
- type /console reloadui to reload your interface after you changed (and saved) sth. in a lua-file”
Download
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August 1, 2008 at 11:51 am · Filed under General
Shacknews reported that according to Mike Morhaime (Blizzard Entertainment’s CEO), Wrath of the Lich King will be released between October and December 2008.
“We have said that it will be coming out this year,” Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime revealed in a conference call today. “I can tell you it’s not coming in the July to September quarter.”
As for the Wrath of the Lich King beta, Morhaime noted that “testing is going very well.” During the call, Morhaime also mentioned that 40% of the World of Warcraft subscribers that left for Age of Conan have since returned.
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