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Another recording, just to play around some more.

Wanted to play around a bit with Xfire Video Recording. It does a pretty good job.

First… ArkInventory rules/pwns/is awesome etc. Aah… I just had to get that one out there, now on to the “rules” part

ArkInventory is a a bag replacement for World of Warcraft which gives you a massive amount of options to sort and order the contents of your bags and bank. The way ArkInventory does this is by splitting the bags into sections according to the users desire. For example have a section with all your tradeskill items, another for all your trash etc.

ArkInventory is plenty as is for most people just using categories. Using rules makes it even greater. With rules it is possible to specify multiple criteria for how the sections should handle items. Here ar my favorite rules.

Managed Equipment – This rule will create a section where all equipment, which is part of an equipment set (be that Outfitter or Blizzards own Equipment Manager):

Soulbound Equipment, unmanaged – This rule keeps track of all the gear that are no part of an equipment set:

Idols – I’m a druid so this is to keep all my collected idols nice and orderly:

Trinkets – This handles your trinkets:

Tabards – With Wrath of the Lich King tabards actually became useful. This rule will give you control of them:

Tradeskill Tools – Keep track of that Pick, Skinning Knife, Enchanting Rod etc.:

Spell Power and MP5 – This keeps track of all the items that have Spell Power or MP5. Similar approach can be used for other stats:

There’ll always be people in online games who will attempt all kinds of tricks to get easy money. The safest way is often to prey on those that aren’t looking close enough on the prices, because as the Game Masters say “All trades are final“. Here’s a good, albeit not very likely to get them anything, example:

I don’t even pity the people who fall for tricks like this, they should just wake up and look/read before pressing trade/buy etc. although I do think that the people trying to scam still should be punished somehow by the Game Masters, because World of Warcraft is really too poor a community that blacklisting a person would ever work.

So my guild have asked which World of Warcraft bosses each of us were done with, so they could plan accordingly in recards to who should be substitutes (due to not needing any gear) and what targets to go after. As a result I messed around with a little plugin called ItemStats JavaScript from WoWHead.

Originally made for EQDKP, the plugin have evolved to be a plugin for just about every online media such as BBs CMS and a few blogs (WordPress being one). After messing around with the finer details of the plugin and WordPress (it was not working well together), I'm now ready to start my "upgrades" list.. Read more...