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Right now the hackers are doing brute force hacking of battlenet and email accounts. So good luck to you.
** Official WoW Catalysm Alpha/Beta Thread **
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Right now the hackers are doing brute force hacking of battlenet and email accounts. So good luck to you.
As insane as Blizzard can seem to be i somehow doubt they don't use basic brute force protection on their account system. A casual browse at the offical forum and the amount of "is this a fake email" posts are enough to confirm that most "hacking" is simply people falling for phising mails.
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The guy I spoke to at Blizzard did mention there'd been a rise of account hacks and email compromises, not all of whom they were sure were down to the individuals.
He specifically noted they'd seen a massive rise in hacks through hotmail recently, since they'd done a big ban wave on gold farmers.
Guess they're getting more desperate, as it stands though the computers I use are clean (or so say Kaspersky, Avira and a few others I regularly use) and I haven't done anything dodgy.
Thats a large part of the reason I believe the secondary hack I've faced was based on the first one in some way, possibly they had more data, somehow, than I'd been lead to believe.
If you don't have an authenticator for WoW these days you're just asking for trouble. You can have all the security and locked down PCs then find your account still comprimised.
Happened to me even though I had all the Windows/Nod32 security updates, software firewall, firewall on router, didn't reply to e-mails etc and still my account was hacked. Only found out after an e-mail from Blizzard saying I'd been suspended for dodgy activity.
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Sounds very similar to what happened to me Afraser. The first hack kicked off whilst I was away from the account for almost a year, had basically quit. Only found out because friends told me, and got the account back out of sheer principle really.
This time round again I reckon they've either got a lucky guess, or had more info than I thought they did, so there's been a round of secret question changes, and new passwords.
Added an authenticator too just to make sure.
Its a real shame a game can cause these things
This time round again I reckon they've either got a lucky guess, or had more info than I thought they did, so there's been a round of secret question changes, and new passwords.
Added an authenticator too just to make sure.
Its a real shame a game can cause these things
Bring on Cata now 
LK HC 10 down last night, such an epic fight, really wish we could do 25man, but lack of paladin healers are stopping us. We had 23%/17%/13% wipes then last try killed. Was really really good. epic kill epic nerd screams as finally we had after 4weeks managed to get everyone online for a 10man. And thats all 10mans done for me. Still need 2 achis for my 10man drake if i cba, but i got the 25man one so prob not.
Time to farm mounts for Cata now.
LK HC 10 down last night, such an epic fight, really wish we could do 25man, but lack of paladin healers are stopping us. We had 23%/17%/13% wipes then last try killed. Was really really good. epic kill
epic nerd screams as finally we had after 4weeks managed to get everyone online for a 10man. And thats all 10mans done for me. Still need 2 achis for my 10man drake if i cba, but i got the 25man one so prob not. Time to farm mounts for Cata now.
Leveling up my Rogue that I used in vanilla for Cataclysm and I'm soon to hit 80, but had a few questions:
1. It's my understanding that Dual Talent Specialization is getting it's cost slashed to 100g in Cataclysm, that correct?
2. Is there any need for me to buy Cold Weather Flying? Just if it's not used for the new Cataclysm 80 - 85 zones or any flying around the old world then I'll just not bothering buying it.
3. Any big discounts or changes to the 5,000 gold level 300 flying cost in Cataclysm? (other than reputation based discounts down to 4,000).
Had a check around and 3 seems to be a "no" and I'm still not sure on 2 and pretty sure it's a yes on 1 but just asking to make sure.
1. It's my understanding that Dual Talent Specialization is getting it's cost slashed to 100g in Cataclysm, that correct?
2. Is there any need for me to buy Cold Weather Flying? Just if it's not used for the new Cataclysm 80 - 85 zones or any flying around the old world then I'll just not bothering buying it.
3. Any big discounts or changes to the 5,000 gold level 300 flying cost in Cataclysm? (other than reputation based discounts down to 4,000).
Had a check around and 3 seems to be a "no" and I'm still not sure on 2 and pretty sure it's a yes on 1 but just asking to make sure.
1. i think mmo-champion confirmed this a few weeks ago
2. i guess if u spend time in northrend then yes otherwise probs not
3. for an extra 30% flying speed i can't see the interest for me but i hope there is a way to reduce the price
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no worgen mount
they are the mount
wouldnt surprise me if you just got the normal horse type mounts as you can change to human form cant you out of combat?
He means that they literally have no mount. Instead Worgen are getting a spell which makes them run on all fours called 'Running Wild' that has the same bonuses and limitations of a mount.
Worgen will also be allowed to ride all the usual faction/rep/droppable mounts available to any Alliance race, subject to the usual limitations (Rep etc.).
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aye i understood him lol 
but i was just saying that if the worgens are still able to change to human form (i dont know if theyve kept that in though) then they may give them horses to ride aswell as this sort of travel form too
but i was just saying that if the worgens are still able to change to human form (i dont know if theyve kept that in though) then they may give them horses to ride aswell as this sort of travel form too
My brother got in, a guy that started playing before me and dinged 70 right before the wrath expansion arrived. In the mean time i'd cleared all of the tbc raid content upto felmyst (no priests dammit!)
He hasnt played more than a week in the last year and has barely even tried heroic 5mans, so yeah.. i hear yah
He hasnt played more than a week in the last year and has barely even tried heroic 5mans, so yeah.. i hear yah
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Like the old Plainstriding the Tauren used to have? Hmm, they took that out for a reason.
The worgens 'mount' is nothing like plainsrunning. This ones a cast, plainsrunning was auto after 10 seconds and crazy to balance.
