Relatively recently (late Wrath). Up to when they made it possible to track multiple things at once, certainly. I had an addon that would toggle between Find Herbs and Find Minerals on my farming DK. It was originally designed for Hunters, and included the various Hunter tracking types in its options. The toggling between the tracking could be turned on or off based on a variety of circumstances, included mounted/unmounted, indoors/outdoors, resting/not resting. I’m not 100% sure that you’d be able to use it to wipe all types of tracking while resting, but it’s certainly worth a look. I don’t remember the exact name of it, 'cause I can’t get to anything useful from here (in this case, Facebook or Curse), but it involved the word “Tracking” or “Tracker,” or possibly some other variation on the word “Track.”
Believe me, I’m entirely aware (and supportive of) the general restrictions on automation. However, there are a variety of things that the game does still support that are in no way “the game making decisions for you.”
Oh. :smack: Yeah, that would do it. Work with them to help them put out DPS that isn’t quite so abyssmal, then?
A quick look on curse doesn’t reveal anything promising for turning off your tracking types automatically. All of the tracking addons i found are pre 4.0, and in 4.0 tracking was changed from a spell API to a tracking-specific API so those old ones probably won’t work.
Let’s be cautious reminiscing about addons we used to use. I used to be able to not stand in the bright orange zone glowing on the ground in raids because the VR addon plus its raid triggers used to tell me on-screen where the fire was about to be, so I didn’t have to stand in it. But Blizz decided that was too much automation, so AVR died. :mad:
That said, switching tracking modes around doesn’t seem too obnoxious. Certainly, it would seem reasonable to engage or disengage them on the basis of current subzone name.
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More to the point, that particulartalent went away with 4.0. There’s no dps benefit to any tracking any more, at least not baseline or talented. (Or if there is, I’ve somehow managed to miss it, and I’m a damn hound for every DPS improvement I can get. Up until now, MM damage output has been embarrassingly anemic, and if I’ve left some trick in the bag this whole time I’ll be totally pissed.)
Tracking is tactically and strategically useful, but it shouldn’t matter for actual combat play, so an addon to help manage it should be ok. In a rational world, anyway.
And they publicly stated that they were breaking it. When an existing functionality is broken, that’s something that’s discussed. A lot. The relevant bit is that my addon was working within the past expansion and there’s nothing publicly announced since then that I recall that would have broken it.
Anyway!
Mister Rik, the addon I used was called Tracking Plus. You may want to play around with its features to see if it can turn your tracking on and off automatically, however… I think I found something that’s even more exactly what you’re looking for: TrackingGroups. Relevant bit there being the version note, “Added feature to change tracking whenever you enter a city, dungeon, pvp, or are outside.” Bingo!
Moral of the story? If you’re not aware if there’s an addon with a certain functionality, maybe you should spend two seconds searching Curse before you flatly declare that it can’t exist.
Silvermoon city, take portal to Undercity (it’s in the throne room area in northern Silvermoon, inside a building), go outside undercity to the right-hand zeppelin tower and take zeppeling to Org.
Is this a bug or a feature? I’m starting out with Archaeology and you know how it highlights parts of the map for you? That doesn’t always work for me. The first time I logged on tonight, it was working, but then I got logged out, and when I went back in, the highlighting was gone. I restarted the game client and highlighting is still gone, even in places where I had it earlier. No zones are showing up as having dig sites.
rachelellogram, in our H SFK run that I mentioned, the tank and I were able to pull Springvale to the courtyard successfully. Leap of Faith and Body and Soul shield seemed to work well for keeping the tank well ahead of Springvale. (Tank taunted while I waited at the end of the hall. Then I used Leap of Faith the instant he got into range, and bubbled him for the additional speed boost)
Leap of Faith is such fun. Except when the gripped DPS turns around and runs right *back *off the platform… :smack:
That said, I just checked the patch notes and I don’t see anything about Springvale leashing now…?
I don 't have anything against Oriental folks, okay?
I just don’t like this type of shoulder armor. I prefer it to* mold * to the shoulder, not stick up from it.
And sorry, but we’re medieval German.
There wasn’t any other type of armor available to her, so please don’t mecker.
As long as it protects though, right?
She’s still in mail right now, so it will change when she goes plate, I know. I just don’t like that particular style of armor, and I’m not meaning to hurt anyone’s feelings, okay?
More commonly in the same ones which dismount me if I’m on a flying mount: that is, the ones to/from Northrend. kushiel, sometimes it gets flaky when I switch zones, for me. Usually getting all the way out to continent-map (at which point you should see the four spades marking the continent’s four current digs) and then in to wherever the spades are usually fixes it.
One of my guildmates got out his old warrior for a baby-run and was complaining about the flashing icons… I, OTOH, wish my warrior got more middle-of-the-screen indication that something’s ready (yeah yeah, I’m setting up Bartender for her); I can play the hunter based on muscle memory, the mage on flashing stuff and the warlock on a combo of both, but not the warrior. There’s no pleasing everybody.
My guild was able to down Halfus & Valiona+Theralion last night. Overall, a really fun night of raiding. Bastion of Twilight seems to be tuned perfectly for a guild like mine that is somewhere in between casual and serious… by that i mean we have our share of wipes, but with some practice and determination we were able to get the bosses down
The only bummer was that the dragons dropped the tank trinket and i lost the roll 23-21. Meh… being a druid i’m more excited about the staff from the Halfus anyway (hopefully it drops soon and a hunter doesn’t ninja it from me lol).
He doesn’t leash, but he does throw a big fat DoT on anyone who tries to pull him out of his room (ticks for about 20k a second, no idea how long). Maybe he’s done that for a while, I don’t run heroics often enough to have a good idea of it.
Add the first boss of BRD to the list of ones who leash now. You can’t skip most of the trash in his room anymore: as soon as he casts his chains special ability, he ports back to the center of the room. What a pain in the ass. Such a retarded mechanic–it’s not game-breaking to skip trash.
Oh, and did everybody hear that they stealth-stripped “the Exalted” title from everybody who’d previously earned it and re-assigned it to the new “50 exalted reputations” achievement? There’s a *major *fucking ball-drop on Blizzard’s part, IMO, for several reasons. One, they did it completely without warning. Two, they did it in direct conflict with their established precedents for how achievement titles work. “Loremaster” and “the Explorer” were both updated for Cata, but people who’d earned them under the previous requirements were grandfathered in to their titles. Other achievements that were much more challenging in Wrath, like Light of Dawn and Bane of the Lich King, still grant their title when people complete them now.
Also! Two-piece Tier 11. Not that thrilling a bonus, but better than nothing. Of course, now that both of us Prot Warrs in the guild have our gloves, $5 says that they start dropping every week in BH.
Sorry, you pretty much flat-out stated, in an IMO offensive way, that someone was ignorant about a basic aspect of the game, when in fact you were the one who was mistaken. I tend to take that fairly personally.
Something similar happens to me. If you’re having the same problem instead of a related one, the important thing to note is that the highlights don’t completely disappear, just part of the colored overlay. The shading on the dig site goes very light grey instead of orangy-red. The general “shovel” markers that you can see from the world map (versus the zone map) don’t disappear, however. The TomTom arrow that you get from Archy also still works perfectly–TBQH I don’t even look at my map to find digsites anymore, so I’d actually forgotten that the display was sometimes bugged.
Holy bubbles were never as good as Disc bubbles (nor should they be) but they weren’t completely useless before Cata. Casting it on a tank about to pull didn’t mean using it instead of another spell and it provided minor damage mitigation. It was pretty useful for soloing too, since it mitigated damage and prevented spell disruption from melee attacks.
I hadn’t healed much with my priest since Cata dropped and the difference to Shield was quite extreme. Naturally it wasn’t a huge deal for a Holy since it’s not one of our major tools like Disc, but it was still annoying.
I wouldn’t take Phedre’s job, but Kushiel’s? Rod and weal doesn’t sound so bad! Kusheth is also an awesome territory.
Somehow I got the stupid idea in my head that fishing would be fun, but I needed a better pole, so I decided to go for Nat’s. By the time I got the 4 required quest fish I was sick of fishing. :o Also I was selling some stuff in Stormwind and forgot that I still had the fishing pole equipped, so I accidentally sold my daggers and could only Buyback one. Noticed that I couldn’t find my skill points for weapons, I assume Blizzard’s thrown that out? I haven’t tried to skill up in so long, I’ve used daggers forever. I might grab the next half-decent weapon a quest gives me, because I’m too embarrassed to hop into a random with one dagger.
If the dagger was particularly good, you could open up a GM ticket to have it restored. Otherwise, if it was just a leveling one, I’d pick up a cheap standby from the AH.
Noticed that I couldn’t find my skill points for weapons, I assume Blizzard’s thrown that out? I haven’t tried to skill up in so long, I’ve used daggers forever. I might grab the next half-decent weapon a quest gives me, because I’m too embarrassed to hop into a random with one dagger.