What have you learned about the game recently?

[Chou]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That is super weird. Just to clarify, as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say?

Thank you so much for trying to help me with this, it's been bothering me.

as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? - Right, it doesn't show up or move the cursor or anything. No matter how many time I press it nothing happens.

Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? - I'm using the key to the left of the Enter key and to the right of the semicolon|Shift Colon key on my keyboard. This keyboard has it as ' and Shift is ".

When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? - No, it did nothing when I tried that.

Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? - Not yet, but I will now based on your questions.

Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say? - I don't remember changing a binding to use this key, but perhaps I messed that up somehow, this is probably it.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Sorn]

Originally Posted by Chou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thank you so much for trying to help me with this, it's been bothering me.

as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? - Right, it doesn't show up or move the cursor or anything. No matter how many time I press it nothing happens.

Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? - I'm using the key to the left of the Enter key and to the right of the semicolon|Shift Colon key on my keyboard. This keyboard has it as ' and Shift is ".

When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? - No, it did nothing when I tried that.

Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? - Not yet, but I will now based on your questions.

Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say? - I don't remember changing a binding to use this key, but perhaps I messed that up somehow, this is probably it.

Thanks so much for your help!

You're welcome. Yeah, check to see if it's just a hardware issue with the keyboard itself. For the binding bit, if you can find one entry that uses ', it'll show you if it's bound to a second command by changing the color of ' to red. If that's the case, you'll have to hunt down the second command.

Hopefully it's one of those two issues so you can once again type with proper punctuation while playing. If not...might be an OS or keyboard driver issue, or background programs running that are stealing your apostrophe for their own evil purposes. That would take some digging on your part.

[Pyrocat]

Most of these I've known for a while but I think they're relatively unknown tidbits that might be useful for newer players. Except for /pet feign, that one I learned recently.

Originally Posted by Lisset [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, some of the abreviations are horrid like Howling Stones is charasis, Gorge of King Xorbb is beholder, etc.

Charasis is actually the original name for the city, it's not some weird abbreviation.

/who all corpse
will list out the corpses you have and what zones they are in. It may only work if you're in the zone of the corpse(s) though.

/who all count
will list the current number of logged in players

typing /pet feign twice quickly (or just make a macro) will make your pet perform it's death animation but is otherwise the same as /pet sit. Useful for when the tank in your group doesn't understand that he's trying to attack a charmed pet.

/rtarget will autotarget the last person to send you a tell. Incredibly useful when playing a buff class.

Ctrl+clicking a stacked item will only remove 1 item from the stack. This also works for ctrl+clicking the buy button on a merchant selling a stack of items.

Giving a charmed pet an offhand only item (like a torch) will make it dual wield. Useful for charm classes that don't want to carry around a ton of weapons just to make their pets dual wield. Giving a charmed pet -MR gear will increase charm duration. Giving a charmed pet a 2 handed weapon and an offhand only item will force the pet to use the 2 handed weapon and dual wield (useful if you want to give your pet a 2 handed weapon that procs but also want the DPS from dual wielding).

Most high end players know this but instaclickies ala Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring will reset your global spell cooldown, enabling you to cast spells quicker. The spell effect from the instaclick doesn't even need to take effect to reset the cooldown timer, so for example using jboots when you already have SoW will not overwrite SoW but it will reset your global spell cooldown, as long as you are outdoors. This is incredibly useful for shamans who want to quickly buff a player with a variety of buffs, or to quickly cannibalize down. By memorizing Canni 2 and Canni 3 they are able to cast Canni 2, click their instaclick, cast Canni 3, click their instaclick, and repeat.

[Chou]

I would really like to start compiling this stuff into the OP, but the edit button is gone.

Is there a way I could do that?

[portbitch69]

Originally Posted by Pyrocat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

typing /pet feign twice quickly (or just make a macro) will make your pet perform it's death animation but is otherwise the same as /pet sit. Useful for when the tank in your group doesn't understand that he's trying to attack a charmed pet.

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It interrupts pet spell cast too
Do dis 2 stahp stoopid pet from cast dispell.

[burkemi5]

I learned recently thst /whot will do a /who command on your target. Useful for joining be groups and you wanna know what classes and levels you're with.

[wiseguy3k]

Originally Posted by burkemi5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I learned recently thst /whot will do a /who command on your target. Useful for joining be groups and you wanna know what classes and levels you're with.

omg this! Thank you!

[Shodo]

I learned that buying out an item from a vendor with a full stock will show other items that have been sold to them when you refresh the buy/sell window. I also learned that this is a great way to waste a buttload of money looking for runes. I also found some ~100p lowbie gear for 5p though, so I guess it was a wash.

[Voland]

Originally Posted by Shodo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I learned that buying out an item from a vendor with a full stock will show other items that have been sold to them when you refresh the buy/sell window.

I thought merchants here don't overflow, since we have a modern merchant interface
(as opposed to the old 2-column one with no item counts/prices).

[Crecentia]

Today I learned to never trust run speed after a patch without checking the forums first. I died a brutal, violent death in T.D. Got a good laugh out of raptors keeping up with me and getting stunned and wrecked.