#0 - Nov. 12, 2007, 3:52 a.m.
The 2.4 version of this thread has been released! See http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5469238267
Patch 2.3.3 is live! Don't forget to check "Load out of date addons" before you first log in!
IMPORTANT: Off-topic or entirely redundant posts are liable to get deleted. It is however in everyone's best interest to not post them in the first place - We'd rather slouken could spend his time coding us cool things than moderating this thread!
GET UPDATES TO YOUR MODS.
Table of Contents:
- So, the servers are up and your addons are broken?
- Why shouldn't I use TOC-autoupdater programs? (or: Should I check "Load Out-of-Date"?)
- What mods have been updated?
- What mods need to be updated?
- /castsequence problems?
- Want to stop automatically dropping out of forms/stealth/shadowform?
- What are the /stopcasting changes mentioned in the patch notes?
- Polymorph issues?
- What's this ! command?
- Having issues updating your addons?
- Why does Blizzard break addons every patch?
- Curious about what this patch did for addons?
- Other Questions?
So, the servers are up and your addons are broken?
Don't panic! Just download updates to your mods. Here are direct links to the "latest updates" pages of the big three addon sites:
WoWInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/latest.php
Curse: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/updated/
WoWAce: http://www.wowace.com/wiki/WowAceUpdater and http://files.wowace.com
CT Mod: http://ctmod.net
Auctioneer: http://auctioneeraddon.com
Why shouldn't I use TOC-autoupdater programs? (or: Should I check "Load Out-of-Date"?)
There's a "Load Out-of-Date Addons" checkbox. Use it. Using a TOC autoupdater achieves a similar result but at the cost of not knowing which addons you haven't actually updated. The resident blue agrees. See http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=104567058&pageNo=4#79
What mods have been updated?
Check Cairenn's handy thread at: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2856201835&sid=1
What mods need to be updated?
Check for updates to ALL of your mods. This just a list of popular mods I've heard about that need an update and is not by any means all-inclusive.
- Auction House mods
- Auctioneer: updated (but not 100% fixed yet)! http://auctioneeraddon.com/dl
- Cartographer: fixed? http://files.wowace.com/Cartographer/Cartographer.zip
- Cowtip: fixed! http://files.wowace.com/CowTip/CowTip.zip
- Mail mods
- Minimap mods
- simpleMinimap: fixed! http://files.wowace.com/simpleMinimap/simpleMinimap.zip
- AutoBar (no news) http://files.wowace.com/AutoBar/AutoBar.zip
- ElkBuffBars: fixed! http://files.wowace.com/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.zip
- Unitframe mods
- CT_Unitframes: see the website: http://ctmod.net
- X-Perl: fixed! http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5248-X-PerlUnitFrames.html
/castsequence problems?
All of the /castsequence problems should have been fixed in the 2.3.3 patch. Please report in the /castsequence sticky if you are still having issues.
Want to stop automatically dropping out of forms/stealth/shadowform?
/console autoUnshift 0 This command only needs to be run once. You can re-enable this functionality by changing the "0" to a "1"
What are the /stopcasting changes mentioned in the patch notes?
Courtesy of Slouken @ http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2856200919#10
Q u o t e:
In 2.3 you don't need /stopcasting, you can always try to cast before the end of your current cast. This gets the cast to the server sooner so it's more likely that your casts will go back to back.
A couple things to note:
- The global cooldown is client side, and you can never cast more often than the global cooldown (when it's triggered)
- This doesn't reduce your cast time. If you send your cast too early, it'll still fail because another spell is in progress.
- Careful timing is always better than spamming. Prior to 2.3, you were always penalized by your latency when casting. Now you're only penalized if you cast too early. :) People who used to use /stopcasting are familiar with this, but now the penalty is simply a round trip from the server instead of canceling your previous spell.
Basically, it's no longer necessary to use /stopcasting unless you're using an emergency interrupt, like /stopcasting
/cast Ice Block So, if you were originally using a regular AP+POM+Pyro macro, you can reduce it to /use 13
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Pyroblast It should also no longer be necessary to use Quartz macros like /stopcasting
/cast Fireball as a simple /cast Fireball should act the same way.
