Cool Tools for Us Fools

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Some cool tools to enhance your gaming life:

Antiarc’s WoW Armory Tools – My World of Warcraft guild is absolutely nuts for the sig generator, and more recently, we’re using the site’s Heroic Key Listing generator to apply peer pressure to the slothful among us. FCS, after four months, everyone should have their damn keys done, OR, be prepared to PUG it.

Here’s a sample of the sig generator output using one of my devoted fan’s characters:

Spoiler info is pretty hard to come by for Lord of the Rings Online at the moment, so Middle Earth Headquarters’ dynamic map is a must-use for those of us with shorter attention spans. I’ll spend SOME time exploring, but I don’t have all day to skip through meadows picking up twigs, hoping to run across the Black Fire Chest.

You’ll need to temporarily disable any browser no-script addons to enjoy MEHQ’s full ajaxy-java (whatever it is) goodness. If that’s too risky, there’s always the /advice channel, but I like to save /advice for charitable solicitations on behalf of the Buy Foton a Horse fund.

7 thoughts on “Cool Tools for Us Fools”

  1. That guy has some pretty ASS gear if you ask me. Especially since he is a combat rogue. A mixture of blues and greens will throw you into the 400agi, or at least 25% crit range by 65.

    Also, very pretty sig.

  2. I saw a guild using them on their forums when I was gonna apply, LOL. Saw one guy with it, thought it was cool, then saw another… thought they might’ve had one guy making them for everyone on the forum 😛

    I have NO heroic keys, and proud (as a healer, this really isnt a bad thing as I have a hard time saying no to anything) . I fucking hate pugs (despite the anti-no syndrome) and am fucking hating starting over with a new guild every bloody 3-4 weeks.

    Speaking of finding things in LOTRO, does anyone know where the friggin vole nests are? I find voles all over the place where they say to look but no ‘nests’ to ‘close’. I forget what area it was…

  3. You mean the shrew burrows, gemma? Yeah, that drove us nuts too. Turns out when they see “east of delving fields” they mean just barely east of the town of delving fields, when the map is still telling you that you’re *in* delving fields. Something like that, anyway. Unfortunately, while someone gave us directions involving “near letter X of the word FOO on your map,” I no longer remember them. 🙁

  5. AJAX is the work of the devil 😀

    Seriously it makes browsing from work a real ball ache for those with low powered laptops or thin clients, just makes me grind to a hault looking at those overly complicated unwarrented uses of AJAX … It’s like nuclear weapons, use only where needed and use as little as possible!

    Talking of crawling to a hault, isn’t it time that Blizard give access to the direct XML pages? Instead of having to pagescrape the data. It tends to put about 3x the load on the webserver than direct xml feed, go ask Scott I’m sure he can point them in the right direction.

  6. Voles, shrews, I’m english it’s all the same to me :p
    Thanks Heather I might give it another go, sounds like they arent with all those bears/ boars/ the next village where I ended up then..

  7. Aye, AJAX is teh devil. Thats why the Dynamic Map doesn’t use any. It does use Javascript because it cannot be done in any other way (but Flash or similar things that are just as dangerous).
    There is a bit of AJAX in the Location-Search (The vote-buttons) but the rest is plain HTML/Javascript.

    However I will add AJAX to the Dynamic Map too. When there will be images and comments for each location that is the way to go because AJAX allows me to only load those data the client requests and not all images/comment/associated data for each location of the current map. I don’t use any AJAX where it does not make sense, but there are good uses for it.

    Oh and the shrew burrows are here: http://www.mehq.net/dynmap/index.php?locId=957 😉

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