The Addon Junkie

But I totally told you so.

Bracelets have been hotfixed. Lovely charms no longer drop from kills obtained while in a vehicle.

Many of you trying to log in right now are seeing something like this:

While delays are our regular Tuesday morning fare, we seem to be getting pushed back quite a while today. My guess? They’re hotfixing the bracelet bugs and it’s giving them more trouble than they bargained for.

What are the bracelet bugs you ask? Well as I mentioned briefly in the post accompanying my last video, while some of us were legitimately grinding for fun, profit, and lovely charms there were others who would saddle up their argent steeds or hop into one of the siege tanks of Ulduar and cheat their butts off. See, you don’t actually loot the charms, they just show up in your inventory when you successfully kill something. The effect still triggers if you’re on a vehicle and so some people have been plowing legions of skeletons beneath their hooves or mercilessly slaughtering armies of Ulduar’s dwarves. A quick test I performed last night shows that the exploit will produce in ten minutes time the same number of charms it took my fiancee and myself an hour and a half to grind last night. I haven’t heard anything official regarding whether Blizzard actually considers this an “exploit” in the bannable sense, but in one forum post, Marlan from the Silver Hand server sums it up more concisely than I ever could: “As a general rule, if your conscience is nagging you that something might be bad enough to write a forum post on it, you may want to consider not doing that thing just to err on the side of caution.”

Today’s video is about one of the newest holiday additions to the World of Warcraft: the Lovely Charm Bracelet. The Lovely Charm Bracelet is available during the “Love is in the Air” holiday. They are obtained by completion of a quest chain in SW or Org which rewards you with a kit that allows collection of lovely charms. 10 charms make a bracelet and the bracelets can be traded for love tokens or used to complete quests. There are more efficient ways to get charms than this, people have discovered that killing dwarves with siege tanks in ulduar or running over skeletons while doing the argent tournament dailies, for example, award stacks of these quickly. The purpose of this video is not to show the *fastest* way to net yourself stacks of charms, but the most profitable. Besides, I see a hotfix incoming for the various exploitable methods and don’t feel like getting banned over a video

The farming spot mentioned in the video is in western Icecrown, just north of Corp’Rethar. Anyone who has completed the Argent Tournament daily quest “A Valiant’s Field Training” should be familiar with the Converted Heroes. If not, just click the link for the quest and WoWHead will guide you to the right place. Video after the break.
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