With today's beta patch, Blizzard has enabled the usage of addons in the Cataclysm beta. So this is a reminder that when you have your addon ready for beta testing in the expansion, upload it to our Cataclysm Beta download category and then be sure to check back in our Cataclysm Beta forum for possible feedback.
Also, if you are an author and haven't already done so, be sure to check and see if you are eligible to sign up for our beta key give-away.
WoWInterface is proud to announce that we are offering Cataclysm™ Beta Invites to all our active, registered AddOn authors!
Who loves ya baby? Okay, maybe love is too uncomfortable a word. Who takes care of ya baby? We do! Another massive Beta key give-away for AddOn authors, this time for the upcoming expansion Cataclysm™!
This is not a contest! Whether using US or EU client, if you are an AddOn author that hosts with us and you have been keeping your AddOns current, you are eligible for a key!
Once they have been enabled and you get the chance to get your AddOn ready for beta testing in the expansion, upload it to our Cataclysm Beta download category and then be sure to check back in our Cataclysm Beta forum for possible feedback.
Rules:
You must have an active World of Warcraft account.
You must be an addon author with one or more files on the site that are current to 3.3.x (Plugins/Patches, Compilations & "Hello world" or its equivalent do not count).
One key per author. Blizzard will check to make sure you aren't getting multiple keys, so don't try to scam.
Your WoWInterface account must be registered to a valid email address.
Do not upload addons that are not your own. Anyone caught uploading someone else's work will be banned from the site. All AddOns submitted are manually checked.
Blizzard and WoWInterface reserve the right to deny anyone a key.
Must have a WoWInterface account registered before 7/12/2010. *New
Read post explaining the decision to add this requirement.
Your Beta Key will be shown under your tracking number on the sign up confirmation page as we receive keys from Blizzard so please check back often! We will post news on our community page regarding what range of tracking ID's have been assigned keys. You will not be contacted when your key is assigned.
You may have noticed that some changes have been made to the forums. We have been meaning to do some Spring Cleaning for some time now, and we finally started working on it over the weekend. The forum list has been rearranged, some have had their names and descriptions changed, some have been merged together, and new ones have even been added! We are still in the process of moving existing threads, if applicable.
What does this mean for you? Well, for starters, you may have to look closer at the forums before creating a new topic. The forum you are looking for may have moved or changed names. For example, the "Interface Help" forum is now named "AddOn Help/Support" and is located a little further down the page.
There also may be a new forum that better suits your question! We realize that many people in our community enjoy using these forums for more than just talk about AddOns. Some of our new forums include "Tech Chat", "Macro Help", and there is an entire new section devoted to other WoW subjects such as Quests and Raids.
So have a look through our new forums! See what's new, see what's changed, and start posting!
Just a note for everyone, now that the NDA has been lifted, we are able to open up a download category for Cataclysm Beta-ready Addons and accompanying forum for discussion.
Authors, feel free to start uploading your Cataclysm beta addons for testing. Everyone else, feel free to start downloading them, to help make sure they are ready to go when it goes live.
UPDATE: Authors can now gain access to the Cataclysm Beta! Click Here for more information.
IRVINE, Calif. – June 30, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the closed beta test for Cataclysm™, its highly anticipated new expansion for World of Warcraft®, has begun. The company has started issuing invitations to participate in the testing process to a wide range of players from around the world who signed up via their Battle.net® accounts. While enjoying an early look at the game, beta testers will provide valuable feedback to help Blizzard Entertainment find bugs, address balance issues, and polish the new content.
"Our focus with Cataclysm has been to build on the knowledge we've gained through the previous expansions to deliver the best, most compelling World of Warcraft content for our players to date," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Gathering focused feedback during the beta test will go a long way in helping us reach that goal when we launch Cataclysm later this year."
Cataclysm is the third expansion for World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the world. The first two expansions, The Burning Crusade®and Wrath of the Lich King®, each shattered PC game sales records upon their release. In Cataclysm, the face of Azeroth will be forever altered by the return of the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing. Players will explore once-familiar areas of the world that have now been reshaped by the devastation and filled with new adventures. In an effort to survive the planet-shattering cataclysm, two new playable races -- worgen and goblins -- will join the struggle between the Alliance and the Horde. As players journey to the new level cap of 85, they'll discover newly revealed locations, acquire new levels of power, and come face to face with Deathwing in a battle to determine the fate of the world.
For more information on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, please visit the official website at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm. To set up a Battle.net account and sign up for a chance to participate in the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test, please visit the official Battle.net website at http://www.battle.net.
I know we are all WoW players here but every one can use a new laptop or gaming mouse. So I wanted to let people know of a contest our friends at ZAM in part with Aion are running.
A brand new Dell MX11 gaming laptop and 7 Razer Naga mice are going to be given away to some lucky gamers. Follow the link below to enter and for more details...
We're starting by capping the number of Inspects that can be sent in a 10-second time frame. It'll likely be 5 Inspects, but that could change in either direction.
Keep in mind that this change is intended to help those using addons which are sending a lot of these requests from lagging or disconnecting. If you're not actually using such addons, and therefore not sending a large number of queries to our database, the change won't affect you either way. You're not lagging or disconnecting because someone else in a raid or major city is unknowingly spamming such requests.
A post by Zarhym, providing some explanation of their reasoning:
It's important to understand that this wasn't really the fault of addon authors. This needed to be fixed because we were allowing something we really shouldn't have. Many addons pull Inspect data when mousing over characters and there was nothing on our end to throttle the rate at which that data could be pulled. So if you're standing in Dalaran with one of these mods and slide your mouse across the screen and over several characters within a very small amount of time, your client is spamming the database with Inspect queries. We're correcting that issue on our end.
After the next set of rolling restarts, Blizzard will be implementing server-side throttling of inspection requests from addons. This may cause any addon that uses player inspection to not function properly after the restarts.
This throttle is being activated in order to reduce server load from some addons that use the inspection system. Currently any addon can request inspection data from the server as often as they want, and this problem seems to have gotten worse with the new patch.
Most addons will continue to function properly, however keep this in mind as you play with your addons. If you are an addon developer, you may want to restructure your addon so that it no longer expects an event reply for an inspection request. With most throttled API calls, a throttled request will simply disappear into the void with no response.
UPDATE: It appears that the rolling restarts may be delayed until the next maintenance window, but the next set of restarts should activate the throttle mechanism.
For ages the red dragonflight and its noble matriarch, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, have dedicated themselves to preserving all life on Azeroth. Recently, the very heart of this virtuous dragonflight has come under threat.
An eerie silence has settled over the Ruby Sanctum, the red dragonflight's sacred lair within the Chamber of the Aspects. This troubling development has led to fears that the sanctum, home to Azeroth's largest clutch of red dragon eggs, has been breached by an unknown, sinister force. If these claims are true and immediate action is not taken, the benevolent red dragonflight might be crippled forever.
Real ID: A New Way to Connect With Your Friends on Battle.net
One of our goals for the new Battle.net is to create the framework for an online gaming experience that is even more accessible, more engaging, and more entertaining than the previous Battle.net. The newly released Real ID feature, available to World of Warcraft players as part of patch 3.3.5, is an integral part of this effort, providing you with advanced ways for forming and maintaining meaningful relationships with your friends on the service.
Real ID is a completely voluntary and optional level of identity that keeps players connected across all of Battle.net. When you and a friend mutually agree to become Real ID friends, you'll have access to a number of additional features that will enrich your social gaming experience in new and exciting ways. Go here for more details.
General
The Ruby Sanctum, an all-new 10- and 25-player raid dungeon featuring normal and Heroic difficulties, has been added! Players will find the dungeon entrance below Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight. Please note due to the way this patch is being applied in all regions, this dungeon will not immediately be available in North America. Stay tuned to our General Discussion forum for an official announcement on the opening of the Ruby Sanctum.
The functionality of the Vote Kick feature in the Dungeon Finder will now behave differently according to a player's history with the system. Players using the Dungeon Finder who rarely vote to kick players from a group, or rarely abandon groups before a dungeon is complete, will find that the Vote Kick option will have no cooldown. For players who frequently abandon groups or vote to kick other players, the Vote Kick option will be kept on a cooldown. This functionality will adjust itself as a player's behavior while using the Dungeon Finder changes.
User Interface
Chat Frame
Players can now right-click on any chat type (Whisper, Trade, General, Party, Raid, etc.) and choose to move conversation types into separate windows. This will move that chat type to a separate tab in the Chat frame which can be undocked and moved anywhere on the screen.
Using the Move to Whisper Window option on a Whisper will place the conversation with that player in a separate tab.
Any time a conversation with another player is put into its own tab, the tab will glow when a new message is received.
Hovering over the Chat Frame and using the mouse wheel will allow players to scroll through chat text.
Players can select Classic Mode under Interface Options to keep the Chat Frame functionality closer to what it was prior to patch 3.3.5.
The Simple Chat User Interface option has been removed.
Friends List
A new icon has been added to the top left of the Chat Frame which will open up the Friends list.
In addition to its current functionality, the Friends List will now allow players to add Battle.net accounts (Real ID). Players will have to confirm that they are friends in order for a Real ID to be added. Once Real ID friends, players can communicate cross-game, cross-faction and cross-realm.
A new Pending tab has been added where players can accept or decline a Real ID friend request, or select the Report Spam or Block Communications buttons.
Players can now select from three statuses which will be visible to their friends: Available, Away and Busy.
A Broadcast window has been added to the top of the frame. Players can use this to broadcast a message to all of their Real ID friends online. This message will also be displayed under the broadcaster's Real ID information in each friend's list.
For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.
Long delay in news I know, I have been very busy outside of WoW recently, I am however in the beta, and now that we have word that mods should be enabled again there soon I will work to make sure the mods that are still relevant (not EasyShards or SimpleViperWarning, although EasyShards might be redesigned) are working normally there.
I am going to test around to see the best way to release them for people that are in the beta to help test and find bugs if any, I am kind of adverse to creating another "mod" listing for the mods in the beta section as that's two places to keep track of instead of one. I currently am thinking of simply uploading the Beta compatible versions in the "Beta" section of the main mod, as the big "download" button will be for the live version.
As a last resort I could always simply host them on my webserver, but I'd prefer not to.
MyBuffz has been updated to version 2.0! With this new version comes the addition of slash commands.
Users are now able to turn on or off tracking of each individual buff as well as set the addon to only track buffs while in combat or show when resting. Flask tracking has also been added along with a low ammo warning for hunters!
Welcome to my portal... here you can find most actual versions of my addons, ask questions regarding them and post your bug reports, suggestions or other comments. Enjoy your stay!
New addon for extremely lazy people, Lazy Honor. It's purpose is to display your honor and arena points on the battlegrounds tab of the PvP frame.
In other news, I haven't forgot about my todo list for nDemonic. Along with possibly a rewrite, I've actually completed some of the todo list. I'll have it updated here in a few days after I fully test it.
Speaking of testing, if you got 0.0.1 of Lazy Honor, get the new version. The initial version was a rewrite of a fully working version but using different update methods and I didn't fully test the rewrite so when you log in, your honor and arena points would display as 0. It's fixed in 0.0.2.
I am now a father! I've kind of been down and out for the past few weeks, but my beautiful daughter Melody is nearing a month old now. If anyone cares (which they won't, I'm sure) there are pictures on Picasa Web.
I've still got some addon things I've been wanting to do. If you actually had anything you're waiting for in any of my addons, please remind me! (Use the feature request tool -- it looks neat!) Hopefully I'll get some more work done here shortly.
Author Credit is given on a simple basis. We credit the person who sends the mod in, and says "I wrote this" if you see your work here, and its credited to someone else contact us first using the link at the bottom of the site. Please remember more than one person can make the same mod.
With today's beta patch, Blizzard has enabled the usage of addons in the Cataclysm beta. So this is a reminder that when you have your addon ready for beta testing in the expansion, upload it to our 
WoWInterface is proud to announce that we are offering Cataclysm™ Beta Invites to all our active, registered AddOn authors!
I know we are all WoW players here but every one can use a new laptop or gaming mouse. So I wanted to let people know of a contest our friends at ZAM in part with Aion are running.
