Carbonite, GTFO of my Dalaran!

• WoW disconnects
• Lagaran
• Freeze frame boss fights

Sound familiar?

• Uninstall Lagonite!
• Ignore Lagonite users!

Only a few days ago I was musing that WoW disconnects had gotten smarter. There is no real evidence of this, but a couple of things that the comments highlighted were:

1. Since 3.2.2 disconnects have become more frequent, and
2. Thanks to Lethal’s link there are many ways to improve your play experience, including shafting mods with large messaging requirements.

Driving solution to disconnects

My disconnecting stopped once I did a manual update of my net and video drivers (via windows update and vendor website), so that’s a great 1st place to start.

My lag and frame rates got marginally better, but not enough, so I also followed one of the recommendations on the linked forum and installed Fubar_AddonSpamFu, just because I am curious by nature.

Carbonite, GTFO of my Dalaran, Boss fight, Battleground and Server!

Sure enough, one of the 1st offending message spammers I noticed was GearScore. You can shove that in your recycle bin too you elitist emblem lovers!

But the out-and-out “I will adversely effect your game play experience” mod was Carbonite.

Don’t get me wrong, I have used, promoted and even loved Carbonite in the past. Until they went premium, until now…

I’m sure the creators of Carbonite are good folks and they have developed an otherwise excellent mod that I would continue to recommend, under other circumstances, but something has to change.

To think I originally changed to Carbonite because it had a lower footprint than the mod I was using at the time. Our own TreeHuggerDave was pimping it’s gatherer abilities to me only the other day.

I’m using (why does my iPhone spell checker want to correct “using” with Jong?) Quest Helper these days, which you can see is a bit spammy, but only a fraction of Carbonite.

Healbot is also a bit spammy, but I dare say you would prefer my heals to my Carbonite messages, especially mid boss fight. (yes I realize I have 2 versions of LibHeal installed, I didn’t, but I do now. That Guild positions mod is going too!).

Rise up and strike down your spammy foes!

• You like Gold selling Spam?
• You like “Join our Guild, we haz tabard” spam?
• You like anal [pyroblast] spam?

No?

Then why would you put up with Dalaran crippling, Boss fight wiping addon spam?

You wouldn’t?

Good, here’s what to do…

1. Install Fubar_AddonSpamFu and identify the enemies of your play experience.
2. Disable your own Carbonite (if you have it)
3. Post a link to this post in your guild forum (here’s a short one: http://tinyurl.com/yhdcja8 )
4. Whisper your best mates, your guild leader, perfect strangers (just not the Horde) and tell them that you are putting them on /ignore until they too uninstall Carbonite (and GearScore and any other “relatively worthless” addon).
5. Tell Carbonite (and the other spammy mod) creators to reduce the spam, especially if you are paying for a reduced game experience.

I thought mods weren’t allowed to adversely effect our in-game experience.

Blizzard told us they wouldn’t let this happen, I thought they meant in the sense of game play experience, not only we will prevent mod makers from making money.

Blizzard, install Fubar_SpamFu, you can get it here… and strike these addons down with your [Mighty Man Hammer of Anal Jong].

But I can’t live without Carbonite/GearScore/[insert mod of annoyance here]!

Grow up and play the game!

If you MUST use addons (hey, I must, so I’m OK with you needing to), then pick some better ones.

Need to /flex your epeen and exclude appropriately geared players from starting content because the aren’t Triumph Emblem equipped?

Use PugChecker!

Need an arrow to tell you where the 10 Tauren tails are for that quest, use QuestHelper, TomTom (it’s already in Cartographer) etc, or god forbid, look it up on WoWhead

Need a map full of Gatherer nodes (TreeHuggerDave tells me Carbonite Routes now takes the gathering out of gathering… but), use, I don’t know, maybe use Gatherer?

Yes I know Gatherer gets a mention in the forum’s post, but you need to realize I was running Gatherer in those screenshots and it doesn’t even make the Spam-o-meter scoreboard).

Carbonite, GTFO of my Dalaran, Boss fight, Battleground and Server!

A little bit of /silly

Ok, on a majorly lighter note, I need to finish this with a laugh.

Syrana hightlighted a WoW oriented video that she saw (and I missed on WoW.com) the other day. Just on the off chance you aren’t a Lock loving Syrana follower, here it is.

The (unofficial) Unreleased Cataclysm Trailer:

Gnomer and Out!

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