Yup, it’s the “Minimap Coords” module of Cartographer.
If you just want map coordinates below your portrait, I recommend MapCoords as an addon. It’s tiny and that’s all it does.
SexyMap also has a coordinates box, as well as allowing other modifications to the minimap (like button fading).
Yes, that was always my mental fanwank of it. My WAG is that the designers probably just thought it looked cool.
Add me as another person endorsing MapCoords. I’ve been using it for years–it’s lightweight and excellent.
My own way of rationalizing it is that Teldrassil was planted/grown on an island off the coast of Kalimdor which already had caves and at least one Night Elf city (which was/became Darnassus) located on it. When the Druids grew it, it magically incorporated the caves and ancient Night Elf structures on the island onto the top of the new world tree without damaging them. This then could also explain the vines growing everything, given that the city could have been in place for years before Teldrassil grew onto the scene. As for no mining nodes despite having actual stone, well, maybe the magic of Teldrassil prevents the natural process which allows mining nodes to “grow”.
That’s my WAG at any rate.
So a few weeks ago (around page 40 probably) there was talk about how much DPS a fresh 80 should be able to do. I just hit 80 today and did heroic Culling of Stratholme. I did nothing but quest from 70 - 80 and had a combination of group quest blues and the full pvp-oriented Frostsavage set. No gems or no enchants except 69 SP on my staff. The party had 2 DKs, a priest, and a mage. I managed to do 2200 DPS on Mal’Ganis.
So 1500 shouldn’t be an issue.
Howdy. I just started posting here on The Dope and wanted to drop in and say I’m a WoW player and would like to join in the conversation. I might add that currently I’m a disheartened WoW player with horrible latency and dc issues and it’s making the game very very VERY frustrating to play. Frustrating to unplayable at times so I’m trying to get technical help from the WoW Forums at the moment.
Anywho, I still enjoy talking about the game and just wanted to say hi and happy monster killing!
Hello laleda, and welcome to the friendliest and most helpful WoW thread on the entire internet.
As has been proved by me, here you can ask the stoopidest question and still get a very polite answer.
If there’s anything me and my toon (Wolkenlaufre in Alextrazca) can do for you, find us, and let’s group up.
Again, hey!
(I’m kinda like a Wal-Mart greeter here, btw!:))
Long story short, it didn’t sell in SW’s AH, so I put it (as well as scraps) into Wollkie’s (2 l’s - my AH mule) bank to use later when I start levelling him up.
Thanks
Q
Hi Quasi! Thank you for the welcome! I actually have a couple of characters on Alexstrasza. That was my first ever server when I started playing. If I see you online I will be sure to say hello! And also offer help if you need anything, although my toons on Alex aren’t very high level so probably not much help. :dubious: Highest one is a level 24 mage named Twosheds. 
Again, thanks for the welcome!
I’ve been hacked!
It’s not as bad as it sounds though.
I played early Saturday morning, then logged out for most of the day. That night I tried to log in to play some more, and my password didn’t work. I tried several times. Uh-oh, I thought. I went to the WoW website and was able to reset my password.
When I checked my email for the confirmation, I found an email that had been sent by blizzard around 2pm that said my account had been temporarily suspended for two hours due to spamming/gold selling in chat. After a few hours, I should be able to log in. Fearing the worst, I followed the link in the confirmation that I had just been sent to reset my battlenet password and log in - fearing the worst.
One by one I logged into all my high-level toons and bank alt – nothing was missing. All my gear and gold was in place. I checked the guild vault log and I hadn’t made any withdrawals. But as I started playing, I noticed a few things:
– autoloot had been turned off
– the loot window was set to appear at my mouse location
– my camera settings were changed
– many of my display settings (nameplates, threat warnings, etc) were changed
– some of my chat settings were changed (guild member notice, for example)
The only thing I can figure is maybe Blizzard recognized the hack right away, suspended the account, and restored my toons while I was suspended but changed some settings back to whatever the default is. Or I got a hacker with a strange sense of humor. Or there was a glitch in the Matrix.
Anyway, off to order an authenticator…
That’s really weird. It generally takes them about 1-2 weeks to investigate and restore from a hack, so I’m thinking you got hacked, and the hacker was idiotic enough to start spamming before stripping you clean and got the temp ban before any damage could be done.
ETA: And shame on you for not already having an authenticator!
I got me the bestest friends inna whole wide world right here!
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Yeah, I know. I was trying to hold out until I upgraded my phone, so I could get the mobile authenticator, but who knows when that will happen. The device is on its way now. I’m a little worried about one of my kids walking off with the authenticator, so I’ll have to find a good place on our computer desk to hide it from them.
Also: it took twelve regular PoS runs, but Tyrranus finally dropped his damn shield for the first time yesterday. I was worried the whole run about the other pally or the shammy rolling against me, but in the end I was the only one who Needed it. /woot!
The jousting thing–where i could not beat the Valiants–was definitely a function of latency. I’m in a hotel for the next couple days at a convention. Got wifi here, with much better latency. Went up to the Tournament Grounds last night, and smoked the jousters. Too bad I won’t get to whatever the next level is before going home.
Got a new evil plan for that, though. Gonna try switching to my secondary frost spec, with perma-pet. See if the pet can attack the jouster too…might help.
Pets go away when you mount up, sadly.
Welcome to the SDMB and welcome to the most active series of threads on the board. 
Good luck getting the technical issues sorted out–if you don’t mind working from two fronts, you might have some luck reposting here what you’re putting in the technical forums. Could be one of us has run into the same issues.
How bizarre. Grats on not getting slammed hard, though.
It’s perfectly reasonable not to have one if you’re otherwise cautious. Unless I’m given a pressing reason to get one (i.e., I get hacked), I’m holding off until I can attach a minimum of two to one account. I don’t want to set myself up so that one token getting broken or lost means I’m fucked.
Woo! Congrats.
Like **Tom Scud **said, that won’t work. Your best bet would probably be to find a buddy to take turns jousting with–you stay on the ground and DPS the ones he’s fighting, then he does the same for you. The bigger the group, the faster it will go.
News from my adventures on Argent Dawn, my RP server:
I was offered an officer position, and after considering it for a few days went ahead and accepted the offer. So now my characters in the guild all hold the title of “Duke” 
Our guild has a “family-friendly” policy, which primarily means keeping guild chat “G-rated”, partly because some guild members have young children. We’ve got a couple members who don’t seem to be grasping this concept, and keep “accidentally” using profanity in gchat. And at least one of them seems to think the rule is pretty funny (as in he swears, and then follows it up with a mocking, “OOPS! Forgot we’re not supposed to cuss in here! LOL”). I pointed out in the Officer channel that, while it’s fairly easy to slip and use profanity while speaking, it’s kind of hard to accidentally type profanity. So we came up with a disciplinary procedure: we promoted everybody who was at the second-lowest rank up one level, and then removed the ability to talk in gchat from that second rank. Then we renamed that rank “Time Out” (my idea!). So from now on, if somebody misbehaves in gchat, they get a couple warnings, and if they keep it up they get their rank changed to “Time Out” for an hour or so, and thereby lose the ability to talk in gchat for the duration. (We chose the second rank because we want new members — who are automatically placed at the first, lowest rank — to be able to talk in gchat as soon as they join.) If they keep it up after a few “time outs”, they get /gkicked.
One particular member, who is the worst offender with the “accidental” profanity, also happens to be one of those people who just Never. Shuts. Up. It’s like, “Dude, we don’t need a constant running update on every step of every quest you’re doing!” I had to put him on my ignore list the other night because he was turning my chat window into a solid wall of green text with his name in front of every line. Something else to talk to him about, I guess. He keeps complaining that nobody’s congratulating him when he “dings” or gets an achievement; well, sorry dude, you’re filling the chat window with so much chatter that your “dings” and achievements are getting lost in the clutter.
The Horde on Argent Dawn seemed to be really bored this weekend:
On Saturday, our guild leader wanted to hit Maraudon; he’d found some shoulders he wanted for his RP armor, and they were a reward for a quest that required entering Mara. So I volunteered to come along, as did another officer. Our guild leader is a level 60 paladin (he doesn’t have the spare cash ATM for TBC and Wrath), my hunter is level 56, and the other officer coming with us was a level 40 paladin. We decided to meet up in Ratchet. The 40 paladin didn’t have the Ratchet FP, or, naturally, the Desolace FP, but he had Menethil Harbor and had been to Theramore, so I met him in Theramore and then led him up the coast to Ratchet, where we met up with the boss. I mentioned that, as long as we were riding all the way to Desolace, we may as well stop at Stonetalon Peak so the lvl 40 pally could get that FP as well. And so we set out.
As we were leaving Ratchet, we encountered a pair of level 80 (I assume) Hordies, who happened to be PvP flagged. Guessing that they would think we were on our way to attack the Crossroads, we made a point giving Crossroads a wide berth to demonstrate our non-hostile intent. Nevertheless, these Hordies continued to tail us. In fact, they “chased” us all the way from Ratchet, across the breadth of the Barrens, and all the way through Stonetalon Mountains until we got to Stonetalon Peak. Where, being a bit faster than us, they raced ahead and slaughtered the flightmaster. And then proceeded to camp the flightmaster. sigh We outwitted them, though. We had our level 40 park his mount right on the spot where the flightmaster would respawn, and he was able to click him the instant he reappeared, before the Hordies could kill him again. From there we made our way to Desolace without further incident.
Then yesterday, I swear the Horde was making lame-o attacks all over the place. A group of four of them was camping the Darnassus auction house, killing the auctioneers over and over. Later, Auberdine got attacked (they even killed Gubber Blump!) And still later, Exodar was attacked, though I never did spot those Hordies.
All in all, these Hordies were just doing a bunch of cheap griefing.
Oo, and the other day my human mage did the mage quest to get her special robe, the Astral Knot Blouse. That’s one good-looking outfit there. Unfortunately, I found something superior (stat-wise) on the AH a mere one level later, and then one more level later she was able to wear the Robe of Power she’d crafted for herself. But she’s keeping the Astral Knot Blouse for RP purposes, since it looks so darned good.
Actually, I’d say it’s about comparable, *when you’re using an instant chat *(like gchat) versus something that generally takes longer and gets edited before it’s posted (like a forum post or an email). If you don’t see the difference, you’re probably somebody who doesn’t swear that often (versus someone like me, who swears all the fucking time).