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Happy Birthday to my lovely wife. Perhaps this will be the day that she doesn't cringe upon reading this column.

Remember, remember the 5th of December. For it was the day that Blizzard revamped World of Warcraft, rendering every user interface add-on (U.I.) useless. The crying and gnashing of teeth will be unprecendented. The U.I. has been nerfed. I can hear the wailing already. Ironically the patch is titled "Before The Storm"

A long long time ago...
I can still remember
How that U.I. used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could heal those miscreants
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while

But December made me shiver
With every patch that they'd deliver
Bad news on the Burning Steppes
I couldn't take one more step

I can't remember if I cried
When I read about the changes, tried
But something touched me deep inside
The day the U.I. died.

So bye-bye, my favourite U.I.
Drove my browser to the db,
But the db was dry
And them fanbois was drinkin whiskey and rye
Singin, this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

Apologies, yet again, to Don McLean.

Decursive may be the add-on that most people will miss as it acted as a one-button heal, cure, choosing the appropriate spell for each situation. The player simply had to choose the target, fire and forget.

Don't forget to check our U.I. database for the latest updates and our WoW community for the lastest reactions to this change.

Which mods will you miss the most? If your favourite already ported over to the new standards?Do tell, either in the comments section of the blog or in our forums!

Exclusive TenTonHammer.com Content!

12.05.2006

• Dungeons and Dragons Online: Final Exams
  "With final exams looming in the next week at the local university, Ralsu seeks a way to evaluate the scope of DDO @ Ten Ton Hammer through the use of Google Existentialism."
• EverQuest 2: Quellious Deity Quest Line
  "With the introduction of Echoes of Faydwer, we now have deities to worship! Just pick a God, and prove your loyalty. Sounds easy, eh? Not as easy as you would think, which is where I come in. To kick off our deity quest guides, we have my own personal God of choice, Quellious!"
• Gods and Heroes: Graphics, Gameplay, Loot, Quests
  "Community Manager Deodatus is gone, and the community will be sad, but everyone wishes him well in his future endeavors. Kiara and RadarX take a look at the role of a Community Manager, and how this will impact Gods and Heroes."
• Lord of the Rings Online: You Must Be This Tall To Play This Game
  " When we look at some of the basic similarities of the display of violence in MMO design, what we find is that most of the violence that's portrayed are very little more than blood drop icons, a generic reddish (or some alien color) mist that emerges from the victim or other sanitized visual representation of damage and injury. When I impale an orc, there are times I want to see the sword coming out the back, when I take a hammer and flatten a troll's head, I want to hear the bones break. "
• Warhammer Online: Empire Bright Wizard & Chaos Magus
  "It seems in the recent updates we missed linking to the imagery and basic thoughts on the other Empire & Chaos careers that we have seen; the Chaos Magus & Empire Bright Wizard. So without further delays you should check them out!"
• Warhammer Online: Gallery Update
  "Today our Gallery has been re-organized into various different sections to make it even easier to browse! Along with this update you can now keep tabs on your favorite factions and locations as new images come in and respective folders within the gallery are updated."
• World of Warcraft: Hacking Guilds, Corrupted Cheaters, Wrathful Blizzard
  "The latest topic of the week discusses the rather taboo subject of hacking, cheating, and defying the wrathful Blizzard. Don't get me wrong, there is no supporting of that here, but we are discussing the consequences, reaction, and much more related to the dastardly crimes against Azeroth!"
• World of Warcraft: First Look At Escape From Durnholde Keep
  "Over the last week I have had a chance to further expand our First Look series of articles focusing on the Instances in the Burning Crusade. This time I look at the first instance in the Caverns of Time: Thrall's Escape from Durnholde Keep"
• World of Warcraft: Before The Storm
  "Today is patch day! Hurray! Today Blizzard releases patch 2.0 - Before the Storm, that introduces many of the changes that we thought we would not see until the Burning Crusade is launched next year. What are the most important changes and how will they affect you? Find out here."
• World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Portal Updated
  "Looking for how today's patch affects you? How about what some of the new expansion zones look like? Need a run down of the Honor changes? Good news, all of these questions are answered with our new Burning Crusade portal! Find everything you need or want to know about the upcoming patch and the expansion at our updated portal!"
• World of Warcraft: Updated U.I. Mods For Today's Patch
  " Our U.I. Repository has been updated with 2.0 complaint mods that will work with Patch 2.0 (today's patch)! We have all of the essentials mirrored here on our speedy servers for you convience. From CTMod to bag mods to bar mods to well, plenty of other things are available for download right now. So while waiting on that patch to finish download, please browse through our database of U.I. Mods and grab yourself some updated mods! "

Hot Content

• World of Warcraft: Updated U.I. Mods For Today's Patch
• World of Warcraft: Before The Storm
• Dark And Light Holiday Giveaway
• EverQuest 2: Interview With Steve Kramer
• Pirates Of The Burning Sea: Screenshots
• World of Warcraft: Gallery - Thrall's Escape From Durnholde Keep
• World of Warcraft: User Interface Changes

Real World News - You Can't Make This Up

• Flame-Resistant Goat [Thanks John]
  Three little pigs engineering limited fired.
• Gingerbread Tie Fighter
  Red 5 is gone! Cinnamon 5 you have the ball.
• Zombie Chickens
  "Send more cops!"
• Robots More Efficient When In Swarms
  All hail our hive-mind robotic overlords!

Vin Diesel Fact: The fictional story of superman reversing the spin of the Earth to turn back time is loosely based on when Vin Diesel actually did it.

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