Clean-Up Crews

Clean-Up Crews

Now that things are running again, sort of, the testing begins. Kind of a what still works and what doesn't. All addons were removed.

One small win for Tiphaine and company was that the "mount" button still works. When Tiphaine (or any other flyable mount) clicks on that button (zero key) her mount responds. So that feature didn't get lost. Hopefully there will be more signs of life. The combat bar or whatever it's called (Bar One?) kept the spells on the bar. The order of use is different, though, and that will have to be re-learned. I'm used to a 3x4 box with 12 buttons. The buttons all still work but without Dominos I don't know what buttons go with what spell. Will take some tinkering.

Tiphaine flew to her Class Hall. She still had her 630 million AP. She used a large part of that getting her initial Soul Forge filled out. She also added another 945M from a different quest. Small successes. Now she's going home to Dalaran. She is short an artifact (she hasn't earned her third trait, yet) but she'll have to find the quest for that. At least everything seems to be functioning in the new "normal."

Update: She is doing great now with her artifact traits. She now has her Iron trait and had enough AP to go from 50 to 54 including the Concordance. Keya could tell her all about it, but Tiphaine said no, she wanted to figure it out herself. She's done a fine job so far.

A "Just thought you should know category:" Tiphaine learned recently that the maximum artifact power one can acquire is: 865 trillion. That means that every weapon trait has been unlocked. Tiphaine isn't holding her breath.

So far no addons have been tested. Java decided to use the Postal addon as the guinea pig because of it's simplicity. Done. Postal is working.

The next nightmare. The Auction House. One look at the naked Warcraft Auction House has Java in tears. Java has been using the base level Auction House for the past couple of days. It is workable but there is no comparison with the addon, Auctioneer. The original Norgana Auctioneer (which I remember fondly) was a standalone. Now it seems to have been swallowed up by CurseForge. I looked at the Curseforge version and it "looks" like what I'm used to, but . . . is it? There are several versions floating around. By carefully culling out the wannabe's, the version Curseforge has most closely matches what I remember of the addon. The original owner of the addon, Norgana, also still has a hand in it.

Java let out a long sigh of relief when Auctioneer was added to the addons - and it is working!

Note that the addon Dominos has not been loaded. According to Blizzard, a Dominos glitch was the source of the original failure. The glitch is rare, but under the right circumstances it could happen again, I was told. Dominos says there is no such glitch. Sigh. There are many issues listed by players using Dominos, but not a one has seen the specific failure that seems to have crashed me.

I can do without them. Right now it's awkward. It will take time for each player to get used to the standard bars and which buttons to push. Years of muscle memory has to be re-learned. Combat will be particularly critical, of course.

I expect that there will be a lot more dying while figuring things out.