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New Premium Features

We've added several new features exclusively for our premium members to help you make the most out of your gameplay time. Here's a list of the new features as well as some others that have been there all along you may not have know about: 1. Character Item Upgrade Search. Every day you ask yourself where do I go next to get the coolest stuff. We know where. The upgrade search is an amazingly powerful tool that will let you find the best items your character can find to upgrade your existing equipment. With over a hundred different ways to twist the data, this lets you personally set the kinds of equipment you are looking for, as well as limit where you want to find it and then in one search pull up every item you need to find to make sure you are the best equipped character on your server. 2. Item Comparisons. We all want to know it. Is this the best rogue item ever? Now you will be able to tell. Just enter the template and hit compare and it will tell you exactly how that item compares to all other items in the game. 3. Mob Value Search. Sometimes you just want to farm for cash, but where to do it? We know. We parse out all of the pricing information on every item a mob drops and come up with an average value per kill for each mob. So why are you farming the 4sp per kill mobs when your buddy is farming 40 sp per kill mobs? Oh he's a premium member. I see. 4. Your Personal Forum. Does your guild need a place to chat? Do you like to publish stories, rants or editorials? Need a place for your friends to meet and post? Premium members get their own personal forum that uses the same software as our game forums. Use and enjoy it however you wish. 5. Posting Glory. If you post in the forums, you have to feel kind of naked without the avatar, title and smilies, and of course the forum search. Get them all with your premium membership. 6. Ad Free Browsing. Premium members browse the site free of any banner, tower or popup ads. Besides the obvious annoyance elimiation, the site actually runs significantly faster when you no longer have to pull images from ad company sites for every page load. 7. Bonus Features. All premium memberships come with a 12 month subscription to Computer Gaming World magazine, as well as a 10% discount on all MMORPG's at EBGames.com. You also get entered in our contests and drawings. If you are an existing premium member, I hope you enjoy the new features. If you are not yet a premium member, why not sign up now? It's cheap, gets you all these cool features, and keeps the site up and running. The price? How about less per month than a cup of that coffee you get every day on the way to work. Sleep in once a month and buy a membership instead. 3 Months = $9.99 ($3.33 a month) 6 Months = $17.99 ($2.99 a month) 12 Months = $29.99 ($2.50 a month) Interested? Sign up here for instant access.

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Instant access my butt
# Oct 09 2005 at 6:20 AM Rating: Decent
I signed up over 12 hours ago and paid for premium. Hmm...I still can't do a simple mob value search. I hope you figure it out SOON.
Premium Member
# Oct 07 2005 at 12:28 PM Rating: Decent
Look up about an inch and read.............
C'mon now !!!!!
question to all those more knowlegable than me
# Oct 06 2005 at 12:50 PM Rating: Decent
I have been looking all over this site but i cant figure it out......How do you become a premium member?
very slow upgrades to my profile
# Oct 05 2005 at 4:02 AM Rating: Decent
I use wowreader all the time, but my profile hasn't been updated in seemingly months. I've been lvl 60 for some weeks now, and it still sees me as lvl 52! That was some time ago, as you can imagine. I'm not sure why it's not working? My uploads work all the time..

I signed up for premium access but the item upgrader is kinda useless unless my profile can be updated regularly.
RE: very slow upgrades to my profile
# Oct 05 2005 at 1:53 PM Rating: Decent
have you entered your login info into the wowreader? When you reinstall it sometimes you ahve too as well (like if you deleted some of your WoW files). There should be a spot on the bottom of WoW reader that says:

Login: soandso; 18 profiles waiting

if you ahve logged in correctly
legal?
# Oct 04 2005 at 11:47 AM Rating: Decent
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i dont know if down loading wowreader is legal and if the mods on curse gaming are to i dont use any but there are alot of nice ones

Ireally want premuim but not if it means being band from WOW
RE: legal?
# Oct 04 2005 at 3:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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WoW Reader and 99% of the other mods made for the game are completely legal. Blizzard created the game with mod creations in mind and they are very happy so many useful add-ons have been created. They are taking the game to a new level and helping them create future additions based on some of the things they have seen made by others.

So fear not and DL WoWreader and become a premium member. It allows us as players build and give back to the best database(Allakhazams sites) and keep them on top which they have been for about a decade now.
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RE: legal?
# Oct 04 2005 at 3:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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In order for you to see those options I belive you need to start up the reader , play the characters for a minute or 2. Log out of the game upload the information and then come back to this site and click on your characters. Those characters you just played should now be shown and thus allowing you those new options .

Edited, Tue Oct 4 16:43:42 2005
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Access?
# Oct 04 2005 at 8:38 AM Rating: Default
Excuse the incredibly stupid question since I'm new to the site and just signed on for Premium access.
I see no tabs or how to access the two features that I am intrested in most which is the Character Item Upgrade Search and the Item Comparison.Ive checked through Weapons and Items sections and dont see how to access these features anywhere.
Can someone please enlighten me on these subjects...

Thanks
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RE: Access?
# Oct 04 2005 at 8:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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For the character upgrade search, you must first upload your character using wowreader. Then click on Your Characters in the index and you will see a link there next to the profile. The item comparison search is at the bottom of every item page.
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RE: Access?
# Oct 04 2005 at 7:39 PM Rating: Decent
Meaning that it's yet another cool feature that only your PC premium members get to use. Mac users are still being left out in the cold.

I'm starting to regret getting conned into paying for something that I can't fully use. Maybe you should tell people when they are about to sign up for premium access that a bunch of the cool features they were just told about can't be used on a mac.
RE: Access?
# Mar 30 2006 at 3:38 AM Rating: Decent
Yep.. definitely not worth payin for until I can atleast have my Characters listed... FFXI alla site includes free character status, and a do-it-yourself type of deal. If you arent going to allow us to update, atleast add that to maybe the premium features..
Suggestion
# Oct 03 2005 at 8:06 PM Rating: Decent
Just want to say that I love the item upgrader, I was just wondering if it would be possible to maybe add more than 3 things compare by. Eg: as a feral druid, I want to rate things based on Str, Agi, Stam, Atk Pwr, and Crit%, but I am limited to just having to do 3 at a time. I realize this might be hard on the db to look at all those things, but that would make it just that much better.
well...
# Oct 01 2005 at 10:13 PM Rating: Decent
yeah as a fire - spec dps mage what item has more int tham my current is truly not useful :p

the + spell dmg is in the extra-info section not the stats section, and that could be a problem in coding it in... but untill it does (AND crits) i cant really use the upgrader...
Item upgrader recommending worse items
# Oct 01 2005 at 12:17 AM Rating: Decent
My item upgrader is located at http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/itemcompare.html?binds=-1&stat1=0&sv1=&stat2=0&sv2=&stat3=0&sv3=&template=&s1=intellect&swt1=1&s2=stamina&swt2=1&s3=0&swt3=0&minlevel=&maxlevel=60&dmg_avg=&quality=-1&speed=0&effect=0&pid=429177&search=1

Two issues
1. I'd like to have my items have +frost and +all spell damage but that cannot seem to be factored in.
2. It doesn't restrict the items to my class (mage) and type (cloth). Apparantly Transcendence is an upgrade for my mage =(
3. It also doesn't filter my faction either (alliance)


Edited, Sat Oct 1 01:35:39 2005
More suggestions
# Oct 01 2005 at 12:19 AM Rating: Decent
It should also stop telling me to change my shirt! =)
RE: More suggestions
# Oct 02 2005 at 10:15 PM Rating: Excellent
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Fixed the shirt problem, working on +spell damage for you, spell effects are problematic to weight properly as the spell effects are stored strangely.

I'm not sure what I can do for you about horde/alliance filtering, but I'll see.
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RE: More suggestions
# Oct 04 2005 at 5:24 PM Rating: Decent
Thanks for the reply. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject. Your mileage may vary.

1. It may be impractical at this point to differentiate between "Eye of Ogrimmar and Songstone of Ironforge" and thus between the Grand Marshal vs whatever passes for Horde Grand Marshal.

2. I don't PvP I'd like to be able to disable PvP reward. Again, I don't believe there is a flag for this at this point. But there may be a way to filter out "Dropped items" vs "Bought items".

3. As most higher end items are class specific I imagine it may be easy (though not trivial) to implement filter by class.

4. Each item that has damage has a Mod Damage modifier. If you let us search by that it might be useful.

In all likelyhood, there are mages that prefer stam/int and others that prefer +damage. My take is that stam/int is great for AoE while +damage is great for MC and certain bosses. Thanks for letting us weigh our searches.

In addition, for those of us who can easily reach the upper bound, can you allow us to manually disable upper bound? From what I can tell the system filters out items that are > 2x your current points. Bugger that. =)

Edited, Tue Oct 4 18:33:23 2005
RE: More suggestions
# Oct 03 2005 at 8:36 AM Rating: Decent
Any idea when the problems I mentioned will be fixed?
Upgrader not giving some greens a score?!
# Sep 30 2005 at 10:49 PM Rating: Decent
When comparing my shoulders for an Upgrade, it gives my current item a score of 0. Instead of listing the item for what it is and comparing the armor/stats versus other items, it shows just "Mercurial Pauldrons ..." I have equipped Mercurial Pauldrons of Agility with +21 Agility on them.

I think there needs to be a ranking/scoring placed on these items as well. I know this green is "better" than many Blues that are around. Please advise.
RE: Upgrader not giving some greens a score?!
# Oct 01 2005 at 12:58 AM Rating: Decent
When you are viewing your Item Upgrader look under "sorting" you can manually configure the point system to grant the attributes and resistances weight. For example if you are a rogue you probably want the agi x2 and str x1 or whatever suits your fancy. There are premade templates that help.
RE: Upgrader not giving some greens a score?!
# Oct 01 2005 at 4:03 PM Rating: Decent
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When you are viewing your Item Upgrader look under "sorting" you can manually configure the point system to grant the attributes and resistances weight. For example if you are a rogue you probably want the agi x2 and str x1 or whatever suits your fancy. There are premade templates that help.


Yes, and I can assign values to rating the stats tailoring my searches, but that's NOT the problem. It does not show my Mercurial Pauldrons with any stats...defaulting it to a 0 score and showing essentially everything better than and including a score of 0. It does not reflect my "...of Agility" version which has 21 AGI.

P.S.- You've got to remove the default search showing every possible SHIRT you could wear since they all have a score of 0... It's driving me mad, and IE is still crashing frequently.
Upgrader page is crashing IE
# Sep 30 2005 at 10:29 PM Rating: Decent
Trying to view Upgrader page and I keep getting IE crashes and prompt to send error report.

Some loose coding in there?

Halp, I wanna see it!!!
RE: Upgrader page is crashing IE
# Oct 02 2005 at 10:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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which version of IE?
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RE: Upgrader page is crashing IE
# Oct 03 2005 at 2:12 AM Rating: Decent
Version 6.0.2900
I really want access to the features
# Sep 30 2005 at 5:40 PM Rating: Decent
I know you guys said that you "have been/will be" making a version of wowreader for Mac. Without it, some of the most valueable features of my membership are unusable.

Please hurry, because I love the site, but could love it even more! :)

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# Sep 30 2005 at 3:54 AM Rating: Decent
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The price? How about less per month than a cup of that coffee you get every day on the way to work. Sleep in once a month and buy a membership instead.

3 Months = $9.99 ($3.33 a month)
6 Months = $17.99 ($2.99 a month)
12 Months = $29.99 ($2.50 a month)

I don't know where those prices come from, but last time I checked, it didn't cost me $3.33 for a cup of coffee.
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# Sep 30 2005 at 10:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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# Oct 02 2005 at 3:08 AM Rating: Decent
Yes, and I can assign values to rating the stats tailoring my searches, but that's NOT the problem. It does not show my Mercurial Pauldrons with any stats...defaulting it to a 0 score and showing essentially everything better than and including a score of 0. It does not reflect my "...of Agility" version which has 21 AGI.

P.S.- You've got to remove the default search showing every possible SHIRT you could wear since they all have a score of 0... It's driving me mad, and IE is still crashing frequently.
RE: .
# Sep 30 2005 at 7:46 AM Rating: Decent
ok, so throw in a bagel ;)
RE: .
# Oct 05 2005 at 1:32 PM Rating: Decent
You can buy a cup of coffee every day for a month for less than $3.33? I can't make it myself for less than that.
Mob Values
# Sep 29 2005 at 11:15 PM Rating: Excellent
How are the mob values calculated? Rumbling exiles, level 36 mobs, are rated at 4+g.
RE: Mob Values
# Oct 04 2005 at 9:20 PM Rating: Decent
From what I understand, the value assigned to mobs is based upon the average 'sell to vendor' amount for all the grey, white and green items dropped by that mob, based apon the drop rate for each item.

I'm not too sure if the average money dropped by the mob in question is added to this total or not (mostly in relation to humanoid mobs) seeing as it's not generally shown in the drop table, and prob not easily recordable or not using wowreader.

If i'm wrong about this don't hesitate to correct me, as I'm only really guessing as to the meaning of the mob value.
So...
# Sep 29 2005 at 6:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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...how do I get to all this stuff? The items in the list aren't linked and I don't see links on the left either....
RE: So...
# Sep 29 2005 at 6:49 PM Rating: Excellent
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You need to use wowreader to upload your profile. ( http://wow.allakhazam.com/Wowreader.html ). Then just click on Your Characters in the index to the left and look for the link next to the character that says Item Upgrader.

The item comparison link is near the bottom of each item.

The Mob Value Search is listed to the left in the index under bestiary ( http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mobfarm.html )
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# Sep 29 2005 at 6:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'd be lost without premium.
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1. Character Item Upgrade Search. Every day you ask yourself where do I go next to get the coolest stuff. We know where. The upgrade search is an amazingly powerful tool that will let you find the best items your character can find to upgrade your existing equipment. With over a hundred different ways to twist the data, this lets you personally set the kinds of equipment you are looking for, as well as limit where you want to find it and then in one search pull up every item you need to find to make sure you are the best equipped character on your server.

Hate winning 4533 Nintendo DS's and 9000 laptops every visit, this gets rid of those adds.
Searching no longer blows out your brains.
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2. Item Comparisons. We all want to know it. Is this the best rogue item ever? Now you will be able to tell. Just enter the template and hit compare and it will tell you exactly how that item compares to all other items in the game.

This is a VERY spiffy feature, I just discovered it and it's very fun to compare items. (Milita Dagger is the best rogue weapon ever.)
3. Mob Value Search. Sometimes you just want to farm for cash, but where to do it? We know. We parse out all of the pricing information on every item a mob drops and come up with an average value per kill for each mob. So why are you farming the 4sp per kill mobs when your buddy is farming 40 sp per kill mobs? Oh he's a premium member. I see.
This is a nice feature, its nice to know the average moneys that mobs drop. They always drop like 10% less for me becuase I'm so unlucky.
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4. Your Personal Forum. Does your guild need a place to chat? Do you like to publish stories, rants or editorials? Need a place for your friends to meet and post? Premium members get their own personal forum that uses the same software as our game forums. Use and enjoy it however you wish.

You can talk to yourself in your own forum, that my journal is...
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5. Posting Glory. If you post in the forums, you have to feel kind of naked without the avatar, title and smilies, and of course the forum search. Get them all with your premium membership.

Ph34r my avatar.
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6. Ad Free Browsing. Premium members browse the site free of any banner, tower or popup ads. Besides the obvious annoyance elimiation, the site actually runs significantly faster when you no longer have to pull images from ad company sites for every page load.

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7. Bonus Features. All premium memberships come with a 12 month subscription to Computer Gaming World magazine, as well as a 10% discount on all MMORPG's at EBGames.com. You also get entered in our contests and drawings.

This is almost enough to justify getting premium.

Get premium.
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Thanks
# Sep 29 2005 at 2:57 PM Rating: Excellent
I like the item upgrade and comparison stuff....a big help not having to jump around the site trying to do that.

Thanks
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