Guild Structure

As many of you know, we’ve changed the structure of our guild to remove our endless ‘vanity’ ranks. Take a look here for the details.
A big thank you to everyone (even Gloom) who took part in the discussion about this on Mumble.

If you find errors in your rank or settings, please let me know and I’ll fix them.

You can find this list by going up to the top menu there, it’s under the ‘guild’ heading.

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10km Manchester Great Run

From the forum post you might have seen that Rob (Capacitance) is taking part in the Manchester Great Run.

Go to http://www.runningsponsorme.org/robertsapsford and give a little money to charity if you can afford to!

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Level 12


A big thank you to all those who have helped the guild attain this new level!

The perk this time around is: Mr. Popularity. If you use this with the account-bound guild tabard Renowned Guild Tabard you will gain more rep with your guild standing (so you can use that mobile bank if needed!). Note that this works for all rep gains, not just the guild ones. If you wear a different tabard and enter an 85 dungeon you’ll get more rep for that faction.

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Patch 4.3.2 released today!

This is the alleged last content patch before the new expansion.

This patch also seems to contain a ‘clean-up’ application – it might take a while for this to finish.

4.3.2 contains the following:

 

Classes: General

  • Vengeance is no longer triggered by receiving damage from other players.

Druids

  • The Tier 13 Balance Druid 4-piece bonus now also increases the damage of Starsurge by 10%, in addition to its current effect.

Hunters

  • Aspect of the Hawk now grants roughly 35% more attack power.
  • Deterrence now also reduces damage taken by 30% while active.
  • Black Arrow now ticks every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, as opposed to every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The total damage dealt by the ability is unchanged.
  • Lock and Load no longer benefits Arcane Shot, nor is it consumed by Arcane Shot.

Mages

  • Fireball damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.
  • Pyroblast initial damage has been reduced by roughly 6%. Damage over time is unchanged.

Paladins

  • Holy Radiance now costs 40% of base mana, up from 35%.

Priests

  • Mass Dispel should again prefer dispelling targets that have magic effects that can be dispelled.

Rogues

  • Adrenaline Rush no longer triggers a global cooldown.

Dungeons & Raids

  • You can now form same-faction raids with Real ID friends, allowing you to enter Raid Finder in groups larger than 5, run older normal or heroic raids, or participate in Battlegrounds. You will not yet be able to run normal or heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm raids of Real ID friends.
  • Several typo fixes and clarified descriptions have been added to the Dungeon Journal entries for Dragon Soul.
  • Players can no longer win multiple copies of the same item on a single Raid Finder boss kill. For example, a player who chooses Need on two set piece tokens or two weapons and wins the first, will not be eligible for the second on that particular boss.

Baradin Hold

  • The roaming Eyes of Occu’thar have been replaced by hateful creatures who serve Alizabal.

Dragon Soul

Yor’sahj the Unsleeping

  • The Shaman spell Unleash Life now properly only triggers Deep Corruption on its target. Previously, this affected both the caster and the target.

Warmaster Blackhorn

  • The visual warning for Twilight Elites’ Blade Rush should be easier to see.

Spine of Deathwing

  • Burning Tendons health has been reduced by 15% in 10- and 25-player Heroic mode. This change eases the burst damage requirement to complete the encounter, which should allow players to make use of more varied raid compositions.

Madness of Deathwing

  • The Priest spell Leap of Faith is no longer usable while under the effect of Carrying Winds.

Items

  • Vial of Shadows damage (Lightning Strike) has been reduced to approximately one-third of previous damage. However, it will now trigger approximately 3 times as often. This is intended to keep overall DPS the same while reducing burst damage, especially in PvP.
  • Maw of the Dragonlord can now have its effect triggered by healing from Holy Word: Sanctuary.

User Interface

  • Fixed a bug that caused the Mature Language Filter to reset on exit.
  • A notice is now displayed 15 minutes prior to the player being disconnected by parental controls.

Remember to re-enable the out of date add-ons!

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Mumble Error

Today I had an error. It was “a referral was returned from the server” when trying to start mumble up.

From Mumble:

Due to an expiring certificate no Mumble 1.2.2 or newer released before today (15.01.2012) will work on the Windows Platform after 15 January 2012 11:36:47 GMT. If such an outdated Mumble is launched after that date the error message “A referral was returned by the server” will be displayed by Windows and Mumble will not start.

Go to this page and update mumble (only if you’re on Vista/Win7, as XP users are ok for once, because windows updated their root certificates).

I used the binary rather than going to palaver of uninstalling-re-installing mumble.

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