What is best before cataclysm?
Gearing up my main char lvl 80 draenei mage (on the server ghostlands if
anyone wanne check him)
he is not in the highest gear.

On one of the servers I play on, a normal scan takes about 15 minutes.
Presumably it'll take a similar amount of time on the other server as well.
There's also a fast scan option, which I presume is a lot faster. When
do I use either option, and how often should I scan?

Here's an idea: Blizzard should set up one or more "Classic" realms,
and offer a pay-for service to restore your Level 60 character (or
maybe an entire account) from a backup taken before the 2.0 patch was
applied. How awesome would that be? Of course I don't know if such a

Does anyone know of any useful add-ons for the admin side of arranging
raids? I am a RL in my guild and keeping tracking of all the alts and specs
can get confusing once your guild gets past it's sixth member.
I don't mean add-ons like Omen or DBM - is there an add-on that helps ...

Background: My SO was one of two RLs in our guild. He didn't get along
with the other RL (who filled his raids with non-guildies first) and
further had an argument with our GM over the weekend. To make a long
story short, upon logging in on Tuesday, we discovered we had been

My main (Vamoose, Misha-US) recently switched into an ICC raiding
guild. I've been saving my Frost Emblems for some time; my plan has
been to get the Ashen Verdict vendor T10 items once I had enough for
the head and shoulder pieces (the LightSworn Garb 2-item bonus for the

Seems that a vulnerability with the implementation of the authenticators has
popped up.  It would be a good idea for everyone with an authenticator to do
a search for the file "emcor.dll" on their PC.
Info here -

Hi all...
Just have a quick question as to how often the info on wow-heroes is
refreshed.  I have made changes to my character, but the info it's
showing seems to be a few days old.   Does the site refresh once a week

Just logged into WoW for the second time after installing Win 7 at the
weekend.  It said there was data available for the next patch  - is
there?  Was there an update in the last few days or is it due this week?
 I'm not getting any download.

(Yeah I know this isn't WoW but hey, group's title is *warcraft* not
"wow" ;-))
Been trying Warcraft 3 the past couple of weeks, to see the pre-WoW
story, and loving it; it's my first RTS so still got a lot to learn