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Old 11/16/07, 10:30 AM   #451
Krieger_Ho
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I read about the Bongos - Addon causing fps drops because of the Cooldown animation in the buttons of action bars. (since 2.3). Anyone using it?

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I´am sorry if anyone posted this before. Though i´am new here i do not know the hole forum in every sentence. I Only thought the info could be useful for the persons complaining with fps drops.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:01 AM   #452
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Originally Posted by Krieger_Ho View Post
I read about the Bongos - Addon causing fps drops because of the Cooldown animation in the buttons of action bars. (since 2.3). Anyone using it?
The potential problem and a fix was given already:

As for the FPS issues you are reporting in Hyjal, I noticed a similar drop in performance myself. Right after 2.3 I decided to switch to Bongos2...after reading a few posts in the Tech Support forum and comments on Bongos itself (on Curse), I read that its new debuff/buff highlight feature was causing the extreme FPS lag. Sure enough, I turned it off, and was able to raid as usual last night. A few of my guildmates reported a similar problem, but as all of us who mentioned it were using Bongos2, we concluded fairly quickly that it was the new feature. :P However, the creator posted a new release (1.9.3) a few hours later--he says he's optimized the debuff/buff shading and it shouldn't cause problems any longer. Of course, if you're NOT using Bongos, feel free to disregard this.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:02 AM   #453
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Has anybody yet seen the plans for the new weapon chain? Neither wowhead nor thottbot list a drop which makes me a bit sceptical about its implementation.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:06 AM   #454
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Originally Posted by Krieger_Ho View Post
I read about the Bongos - Addon causing fps drops because of the Cooldown animation in the buttons of action bars. (since 2.3). Anyone using it?
This is mentioned at the top of the first post in this thread in the "Frequently Asked Questions" section for a reason, you know.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:09 AM   #455
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Originally Posted by Caligula View Post
I can confirm this. I believe the new requirement is 30% health (maybe more) but definitely up from the 20% it was before.
40% actually. Being a prot warrior makes it fairly simple to knock him down to just 37% or so before roping him.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:10 AM   #456
Krieger_Ho
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Originally Posted by Mem View Post
Has anybody yet seen the plans for the new weapon chain? Neither wowhead nor thottbot list a drop which makes me a bit sceptical about its implementation.
@Mem
I saw it on a famous german server. Here is the link.
Adamantitwaffenkette - buffed.de - Das Portal für Online-Spiele

They quote it a world random drop with a very low percentage. It was dropped by:
Wrathwalker 67-68 Schattenmondtal 0.0
Black Blood of Draenor 70 Schattenmondtal 0.0

I´am using the german client. To my mind "Schattenmondtal" translates to Dark Moon Valley (not quite sure).

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Old 11/16/07, 11:19 AM   #457
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Using [Preserved Holly] on a flying mount works now. Flying Reindeer looks awesomely awesome.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:21 AM   #458
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Originally Posted by Krieger_Ho View Post
I´am using the german client. To my mind "Schattenmondtal" translates to Dark Moon Valley (not quite sure).
Shadowmoon Valley, often abbreviated SMV.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:22 AM   #459
Tarmin
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Shadow Moon Valley is the translation.
The drop rates given by buffed.de are most likely skewed due to the item being introduced just a few days ago but the NPCs dropping it being in the game for much longer. Anyway, as the patch notes state, it's a world drop.

On a different note: Has anybody else experienced extremely large "target circles" (the ones on the ground of your target) being extremely large for male tauren and male undeads? I don't have a screenshot right now but I will edit one in, when I get home.

Edit: Doh, beaten by Cadfael.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:47 AM   #460
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Its a relatively small change but when one dismounts a flying mount above the ground while still going forward, the character will continue forward for a brief second and display the swimming animation until the game decides to drop you to the ground.

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Old 11/16/07, 11:53 AM   #461
Gauss
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Originally Posted by Baros_Medivh View Post
Its a relatively small change but when one dismounts a flying mount above the ground while still going forward, the character will continue forward for a brief second and display the swimming animation until the game decides to drop you to the ground.
This has been happening on my orc shaman since last patch. I don't recall it on my mage, however.

Originally Posted by Tarmin View Post
On a different note: Has anybody else experienced extremely large "target circles" (the ones on the ground of your target) being extremely large for male tauren and male undeads? I don't have a screenshot right now but I will edit one in, when I get home.
Yes. It used to just happen with gnomes for me but now it's for all races.

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Old 11/16/07, 12:06 PM   #462
Lookit
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I had the schematic for the new repair bot drop last night in BEM off one of the analyzers (as in the patch notes) but to my disappointment it is BoP.

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Old 11/16/07, 12:10 PM   #463
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Originally Posted by Mem View Post
Has anybody yet seen the plans for the new weapon chain? Neither wowhead nor thottbot list a drop which makes me a bit sceptical about its implementation.
Dropped for us in Black Temple last night from the trash leading to Gurtogg.

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Old 11/16/07, 12:12 PM   #464
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Druids in flight form can once again gather herbs. However you must be on the ground to do it where melee mobs can actually path to you, otherwise you'll get a "you are flying" error message. It's convenient without being exploitable like the old gathering was (back in 2.1 I think)

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Old 11/16/07, 12:29 PM   #465
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A few trivial things:

- Fiora Longears has moved from the Theramore Inn to the Auberdine pier.

- Warden Iolol in Telaar has had his name changed to Moi'bff Jill, but the signboard next to him still calls him Iolol.

- Pets--Warlock or Hunter--don't seem to want to charge an unaggro'd stationary target if it's not possible to get behind it where it stands. Aggroing the mob, even if it doesn't move, will cause the pet to charge.

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Old 11/16/07, 12:54 PM   #466
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The Life-step belt has been removed from the heroic badge vendor. It's apparently on one of the bosses in ZA. I'm not sure if it's a standard drop or a timed event only drop, confirmation from someone would be lovely. (I know this is in the ZA thread, however it is a change. There is one report from it dropping from the timed bear chest. The druid forums have spoken with GM's about it but I don't have any further information. Just passing it along.)

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Old 11/16/07, 12:55 PM   #467
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Originally Posted by Calencia View Post
- Warden Iolol in Telaar has had his name changed to Moi'bff Jill, but the signboard next to him still calls him Iolol.
Ah, memes.

YouTube - Cingular Commercial - 'bff Jill'
http://www.wowarmory.com/search.xml?...rchType=guilds

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Old 11/16/07, 1:09 PM   #468
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Originally Posted by rochan View Post
Hyjal FPS is low because the dead corpses are staying cached in your system, thus your FPS decreasing as it goes on. This may have something to do with the new video settings (e.g. Ground Clutter Density). That is, the corpses are disappearing graphically but are still being drawn by the game.

You can fix this by reloading, either reloadui or alt+f4 and open a new client.
Hmm interesting.

I can confirm significant framerate problems. There seem to be two separate issues - one is the previously mentioned Bongos issue, which seems easily fixed.

However, there is a second issue that affected *everyone* in our raid regardless of which mods were installed - and is more consistent with the quoted post above.

The issue is only in Hyjal and only in the Alliance camp. The framerate problems go away when you hit the horde camp. Every single raider in our group reported zoning in with around 60-100fps, and then as soon as the first wave hit, fps dropped to around 20, after the second wave around 10, and from there on out 3fps was around average. Fixing the issue required relogging, but as soon as another wave spawned FPS was back to 3. The only way to get relatively normal FPS was to play with no (zero) UI mods installed. And even then fps was approx 10.

It definitely seemed linked to the number of corpses on the ground, but I have no explanation for why it went away when we moved on to the horde camp.

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Old 11/16/07, 2:33 PM   #469
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Just wanted to confirm that on my server, anyway, as of this morning (11 PST, Friday) the [Life-Step Belt] has been taken off the heroic badge vendor, and (if I remember the slots correctly) been replaced by [Starfire Waistband].

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Old 11/16/07, 2:35 PM   #470
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Originally Posted by Lord BEEF View Post
Druids in flight form can once again gather herbs. However you must be on the ground to do it where melee mobs can actually path to you, otherwise you'll get a "you are flying" error message. It's convenient without being exploitable like the old gathering was (back in 2.1 I think)
Ehh I find it takes 2-3 tries to actually get all the way onto the ground, and I may as well just shift.

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Old 11/16/07, 2:40 PM   #471
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Originally Posted by oldmandennis View Post
Ehh I find it takes 2-3 tries to actually get all the way onto the ground, and I may as well just shift.
Hold down the "X" key and you will get all the way to the ground. If you're already on the ground and hit it, you'll actually land, your feet touching the ground and your wings folded. (That's flight form's "sit" animation.)

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Old 11/16/07, 2:42 PM   #472
Uldreth
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That would be extremely unfortunate if the Life-step Belt was removed. It's the same iLvl as the Zaetar belt and I've never, ever seen that silly thing drop.

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Old 11/16/07, 2:47 PM   #473
Lookit
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I have had trouble CTRL-clicking gear in 2.3. When I CTRL-click something in chat, it won't open the dressing room window. If I CTRL-click it 5 or 6 times, sometimes it will eventually open normally, but often it won't. Has anyone else experienced this? There were changes to its functionality regarding viewing recipes, so perhaps this is related.

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Old 11/16/07, 3:02 PM   #474
Niallest
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Did i miss something in a previous patch, or is it new that i can now place motes of life and primal life into my herb bag?

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Old 11/16/07, 3:05 PM   #475
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Originally Posted by Uldreth View Post
That would be extremely unfortunate if the Life-step Belt was removed. It's the same iLvl as the Zaetar belt and I've never, ever seen that silly thing drop.
It appears quite overbudget. 6 mp5 more than Girdle of Zaetar, same iLvl and only very little stats less. And I guess they don't want 2 drop locations, makes sense to get rid of the easiest way to get it.

I'm really wondering why we aren't getting any hotfix topics anymore. It's really obvious that there's loads of stuff being hotfixed and I greatly dislike silent hotfixes.

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