Conditional Macros

Slowly the dust settles down caused by many broken mods, etc. after the last patch. Especially caster classes had to adjust. While some swear on Grid and Clique, others make use of the recent macro changes from the patch. It is now possible to create conditional macros. If you want to read up at wowwiki about it: 2.0 Macro Guide

Now it is possible to create a macro that eg. looks like:

/cast [target=mouseover] Cure Disease

If you are a caster and want to read up more about it, go here.

These conditional macros can also be used to eg. apply poisons (and other things) to weapons. You could create a macro like this:

/use [button:LeftButton] Crippling Poison;
/use [button:LeftButton] 16;
/use [button:RightButton] Crippling Poison;
/use [button:RightButton] 17;

Which would apply Crippling Poison on a weapon depending on right or left click. More about it, go here.

Sidenote: Should you use Bongos, like i do, those macros won't work as Tuller needs to adjust the code to enable the new functionality. So in the meantime you'd need to use a mod like PoisonPouch (works for all weapon buffs, not only poisons).
EDIT: Seems like it's not Bongos but a flaw in the lua, which will be fixed with an upcoming patch: Upcoming 2.0.2 UI Changes

Bad news for the warriors using Lifegiving Gem: In the recent beta server push it was nerfed. Now it will only apply 1500hp (heal/max) and not scale with your HP anymore.

As a final note, i updated my addon list to the right. All working mods have had their links updated. Mods i did not test or could not find an update for are in italic. Should you encounter a problem with a mod i mark as working, you'll be able to fix it yourself:

1. You'll need to adjust the .toc file for

## Interface: 20000

2. If you encounter an error like "attempt to index a table value", you'll need to go through the lua code and change

for x,y in z do
into
for x,y in pairs(z) do

as this was a change how to use tables in the new 2.0 lua.

I also added two new mods to my ever growing addon-pool:

Rating Buster
Will change your tooltip and give you additional info on the new combat rating. It will eg. display like "increase your crit rating by 14 (1.00%)". This will make it easier to compare items. In addition the mod also shows the real item level if you want.

AutoProfit
While the name is a bit misleading, this tiny mod adds an extra button to your vendor windows and you can sell all junk items with one mouseclick. To add/remove grey & white items is very easy.

click-click-click... Tonk

Yesterday i joined Impact for a raid into BWL. A nice bunch of people, i very much enjoyed the time. Nearly forgot to add that lucky me could snatch the Head of the Broodlord Lashlayer during the raid. Not sure if the rewards will be of much use in TBC, but i want to experience the nice scripted questlines... and heh, in TBC they will yield XP as well. =)
As was being expected after the recent patch, it turned into a stress test for updated mods and configurations. Personally i had to realize that with my new actionbar mod Bongos, there were no real cooldowns on my skills. Sometimes a skill would grey out (that's why i did not realize before) but in 95% of the time i could not distinguish if the skill was available. It was an interesting experience to go through BWL and just go after my "feeling" for when and which skill to use. For this mess, it went ok i think. *chuckles* This happened as i did download the mod with a direct link, while the main sites were down, and the author does not have a proper readme.txt included. He also offers OmniCC which fixes the problem and also adds a visible cooldown on eg. items i have in my bank - really nice.

One thing that stroke immediately as highly annoying was the "click-bug" that was introduced with the new patch. Basicly while in a raid you'll hear a clicking-noise every time someone joins/leaves the raid channel... drives you insane fast! To fix it either use the following macro or search the mod-sites for a tiny addon against it.. i saw 3-4 different ones.

/script if not _clickfixed then __xps=PlaySound; function PlaySound(snd) if (snd~="igCharacterInfoTab") then __xps(snd); end end _clickfixed=1; end

During the last days i also saw the first Hippogryph Hatchling. It's one of the special rewards from the WoW TCG. Looks quite funny. I also heard that with the last patch the idle animation from the Zergling was improved... have to look out for it.

I started to update my addon list on the right and clean it up or change broken links. As some of the addon websites still have trouble, it might take a few days until it's complete, but most links are updated already.

Apparently there is a gold dupe bug that surfaced first on the Mannoroth server. Blizzard tried to contain the damage and deleted a ton of posts and suspended many players. Rumours say a GM showed up on the bridge to AH and perma silenced and sleep every player who was talking about it. I'm not sure how exaggerated those reports are, but seems Blizzard did not handle it with the sensitive but the huge Ogre-Hammer. Although they did not set back the affected servers, which seems odd. Some more info on the EJ Forums.

A last tip for our engineers: Since the patch there is a new schematic for a Steam Tonk Controller available at the Darkmoon Fair. It will cost you 40 tickets. The controller itself is rather cheap to produce, has 50 charges and more important is BoE so you can hand it out to friends as well. From what i hear you can summon the tonks everywhere but in the large cities. So yes, also in raid instances. ;)

The madness from within...

...appears on major patchdays, like this week. Longer maintenance, servers up, servers down... emergency maintenance until midnight. yay! Not that it would matter, as basicly no one is playing with the Blizzard standard UI, the addon websites are getting hammered and are more offline then reachable.

I was able to snatch most updates for the mods i use. A few, like eg. Gatherer & Auctioneer, will be delayed for around one or two weeks - as announced by the authors. One thing i can't live with tho, is the unknown ETA for the new version of DAB. Therefore i switched my barmod. First I tried Bartender 3, but i got errors with it as i don't use FuBar, odd.. but i was not up to fiddle around with it too much and just commenting out the FuBar stuff did not help. Then i tried Bongos, which i like... easy to setup, nice to configure. Only thing that does not work properly yet is the stance-page-switching. It's not possible to use the config tab for that option properly and the mod says it will use (for a warrior) pages 6,7,8 for the stance switching, but in reality it uses 7,8,9 for it. So if you should use it, that's why you keep messing up your bars. ;)

Should you still struggle to find updates for your mods, maybe the following links can help you:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=53986209&sid=1
http://www.discordmods.com/cgi-bin/showmessage.pl?forum=general&msgnum=1137
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=52828590&sid=1
http://www.wowace.com/files/ (works even when mainpage is down)

If i find the time during the next days, I'll play around a bit more with the new talents and stuff. Right now I'm busy to set up my UI and configure my new mods.

In the meantime you can start reading about the macro changes: Macros Library 2.0 by Class. I'm sure in the WoW forum you'll find ample posts as well.

I appologize in advance should i not answer to comments quickly atm, but i made the "mistake" to port my blog over to the new beta blogger, which is still very buggy if you don't use eg. IE as a browser. And it's not possible to change it back. *sigh* Talking about comments, please always post your char name or similar (choose other) and not Anonymous. Much nicer to see whom you're talking to.