Steve's Blog

NEW YORK--A security hole in Adobe Systems' software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com's video streaming service.

The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience.

"It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly," said Bruce Schneier, a security expert who is also the chief security technology officer at British Telecom.

The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers.

The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players.

"Adobe is committed to the security of all of our products, from our players to our server software. Adobe invests a considerable amount of ongoing effort to help protect users from potential vulnerabilities," it said in a statement.

Adobe said it issued a security bulletin earlier this month about how best to protect online content and called on its customers to couple its software security with a feature that verifies the validity of its video player.

An Amazon spokesman said content on the company's Video On Demand service, which offers as many as 40,000 movies and TV shows on its Web site, cannot be pirated using video stream catching software.

However, in tests by Reuters, at least one program to record online video, the Replay Media Catcher from Applian Technologies, recorded movies from Amazon and other sites that use Adobe's encryption technology together with its video player verification.

"Adobe's (stream) is not really encrypted," said Applian CEO Bill Dettering. "One of the downfalls with how they have architected the software is that people can capture the streams. I fully expect them to do something more robust in the near future."

How it works
The free demo version of Replay Media Catcher allows anyone to watch 75 percent of anything recorded and 100 percent of YouTube videos. For $39, a user can watch everything recorded.

One Web site -- www.tvadfree.com -- explains step-by-step how to use the video stream catching software.

Amazon.com's Adobe-powered Video On Demand service allows viewers to watch the first two minutes of a movie or TV show for free. It charges up to $3.99 to rent a movie for 24 hours and up to $14.99 to download a movie permanently.

Amazon starts to stream the entire movie during the free preview -- even though it pauses the video on the Web browser after the first two minutes -- so that users can start watching the rest of the video right away once they pay.

"It's the traditional trade-off, convenience on the one hand and security on the other," said Ray Valdes, analyst at research group Gartner.

However, even if a user doesn't pay, the stream still sends the movie to the video catching software, but not the browser.

Amazon's Video On Demand is the Web retailer's answer to declining sales of packaged movies and TV shows and the growth in demand for digital content that can be viewed and stored on the Internet.

Unlike Amazon, videos from Hulu.com, NBC.com and CBS.com (ZDNet is owned by CBS) are already free although the TV programs are interrupted by commercials. However, the stream catching software separates the commercials and the program into two separate folders, so people can keep the programs without the advertising.

Hulu.com, a video Web site owned by News Corp's Fox network and General Electric Co's NBC Universal, was the big networks' answer to YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site where many users began uploading TV shows and other content owned by media companies.

The networks scrambled to post videos on their own sites in a bid to capture another stream of advertising revenue from a growing audience, but they have struggled with how best to show commercials which fund the programing when played on the Web.

YouTube, which started the online video boom before being bought by Google Inc for $1.65 billion in November 2006, has also struggled to cash in on its popularity even though its user base continues to mushroom.

Destroying business models
One possible solution would be to protect the video with a digital rights management (DRM) system. A Seattle-based company called Widevine Technologies has a DRM system that can encrypt online videos using Flash.

"The fundamental problem here is that Adobe's lack of technology is not allowing the business models to be preserved," said Widevine Chief Executive Brian Baker.

The lack of content protection, according to Baker, threatens all the business models used today to fund video on the Web.

Apple Inc, which sells movies and television shows at its online iTunes store, uses its own DRM technology called FairPlay, but it only works for video bought on iTunes.

Forrester analyst James McQuivey said he doesn't believe the video stream catching technology will entirely derail the advertising-supported business model used by the networks for online video.

"It's too complicated for most users," said McQuivey, noting that file-sharing services like BitTorrent already exist but only a small percentage of people use them.

"People want something easy to find and easy to use."

Story Copyright © 2008 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

Get paid up to £1000 a month to drive your own car! If you
already own a car, you can still participate in the program.
These companies will PAY YOU MONEY TO DRIVE your own
car.

Why are they doing this?

Well they're going to place an advert on the car you drive with their
company logo or advertisement. That's it!! You can drive the car as
you normally do.

Just think a company could spend £10,000 a month for a small
billboard on the side of the road somewhere, or they could pay you
£100 to £1000 a month so that you drive the same road, plus go to
the shops, pick the children from school, drive to the concert, to
church, to dance practice, to the football match, visit family and
friends and a hundred other places during the month. Not to
mention that the novelty of this new form of advertising will catch
thousands of more eyes than a stale hoarding at the side of the
road.

The problem is that purchasing an entire fleet of cars for an
advertising campaign can be overly expensive, so this simple
solution was developed. Instead of purchasing their own cars,
companies will sometimes "rent" space on individual private cars.
In return for letting a company "wrap" your car with their
advertisement, they will pay you a monthly fee. The fees can be as
high as ?1000 a month for a full car wrap and lesser amounts for a
partial car wrap or a simple advertisement.

FREE CAR?

Another option for some companies is to offer in place of car wraps
a free or subsidised car with the advertisements already on it. Your
only costs are fuel and insurance meaning that you are getting
transportation at a fraction of the cost of owning your own car.

Who Qualifies?

You must be 18 years or older, have a valid drivers license, and
completely fill out an application. Some of the companies listed
below request a credit check but not all of them.

You must be a permanent resident of The United Kingdom, The
United States or Canada.

The selection depends upon considerations such as your driving
record, driving habits, location, etc. Most companies require a
minimum driving mileage and a clean driving record (no points
within the past 12 months).

Download the list
http://savefile.com/projects/808693218

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_171713

Download the Real Meals cookbook (PDF, 17112K)

The 'Real Meals Simple Cooking Made Easy' cookbook containing 32 classic recipes and sauces and endorsed by top chef Phil Vickery, was chosen after the public was asked to nominate the basic dishes every child should learn how to cook.

Gary Glitter announced from his cell today that after he has
served his time he and his family will be jetting off to Florida, USA to start
afresh...
He Said "As soon as I get out, I am going to Tampa with the kids"

Q. What sparkles like a diamond and is small enough to fit in a
schoolgirl's ring?
A. Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter and his girlfriend are in Blockbuster to hire a video
for the evening. Mr. Glitter's girlfriend asks him what he wants to watch.
he says
"How about we get Aladdin ?". His girlfriend says........
"Can't we just get a video, you're in enough trouble already."

Gary Glitter was on a ship with 100 boy scouts and 100 girl guides
when it hit an iceberg and started to sink. The captain announced "We're
sinking!
Everyone abandon ship!"
Gary Glitter asked, "What about the children?"
The captain replied, "Fuck the children!"
Gary Glitter looked around eagerly and said "Do we have time?"

What's the difference between greyhound racing and Gary Glitter?
The greyhounds wait for the hare.

What is the worst thing about being Gary Glitter?
You have to go to bed before 7.00

How do you know when it is bedtime at the Glitter residence?
When the big hand touches the small hand

Have you heard about Gary Glitter's New Book?
It's called, "The In's and Out's of Child Rearing

A young boy and Gary Glitter are out at night, walking towards the
forest.
The boy says, "It's dark! I don't like it! I'm scared!"
Gary Glitter says, "You're scared! I've got to walk back out of
here on my own!"

Gary Glitter is sitting in his living room surfing the internet on
his laptop. All of a sudden, the door of the apartment whips open and
his girlfriend storms through.
She screams, "You fucking asshole!" and she heads into the bedroom.
Stunned, Gary flips off the computer and walks toward the bedroom,
wondering, "Now what have I done?"
Inside the bedroom he finds the girl furiously packing a suitcase.
He asks her what's up. She responds with a hiss, "My therapist
says that I
should leave you and that you're a paedophile!"
Gary responds, "Wow, you're pretty smart for an 8 year old."

Have you heard? Gary Glitter has pulled out of Children In Need...

Too lazy to find someone to ghetto hearth you? Tired of noobs not just accepting the invites? Make this macro and you can start a ghetto hearth countdown almost instantly, without having to wait for an accept. (What is a ghetto hearth answered at the bottom)

The macro is simply:
/invite X
/promote X
/script LeaveParty()

Where x is the person you've chosen to use for this, pick someone at random, it doesn't matter. (this may or may not work on grouped people like the /roll macro, probably not though)

The invite message will stay on the other person's screen but they wont join a group if they click accept and you'll still get ghetto hearthed if they hit decline.

A ghetto hearth is when you enter an instance with your hearthstone on or off cooldown and leave a group in which you are not the leader, the instance automatically ports you back to your hearth location which can be extremely useful for going back between cities like Stormwind or Orgrimmar and shattrath multiple times.

Many people have found vendors that sell items - but they only have a "Limited Stock" of 1 - and get restocked every hour or whatever the duration is...

These items can often be very valuable on the AH to resell! One that comes to mind is the "Gnomish Cloaking Device" that has just 1 stock - you can buy from the vendor at about 20 - 25s and resell on the AH for around 16 - 18G!!

HOWEVER... wouldn't it be AWESOME if you could buy as many as you like!!

I will show you how...

STEP 1

Find the vendor you are after - obvious SURE but use websites to find what item you are after and what NPC sells it!!

Then buy the first stock of the item you want to buy.

STEP 2

Go into your Reputation tab and select "At War" with the vendor faction.

Then... simply kill the vendor!

You will find that these sorts of vendors respawn very fast - sometimes IMMEDIATELY!

STEP 3

Return to your Reputation tab and de-select "At War" with the vendor faction.

Open the vendor up and you will find the "LIMITED STOCK" item, RESTOCKED!

STEP 4

Buy stock and repeat

-----

Using this method you could buy loads of the limited items and resell them for profit on the AH!

ENJOY and GOOD LUCK

Blizzard have released some free wallpapers and ringtones for your mobile phone get them now
http://mobile.blizzard.com/us-en

If you enjoy WoW you will enjoy the videos this guy Beastreality makes , visit and subscribe to his youtube site
http://www.youtube.com/user/BeastrealityVideos

Location : Netherstorm. Go south-West to Manaforge B'naar

Objective: There are plenty of bloodelves from level 68-70 to kill.

Recommended level: 70, but anywhere from 67-70 is alright. (70 is best as you can kill them the fastest. Yes, common sense)

How it works: Well killing the blood elves clearly but, they die very easily. They drop roughly 10 silver per kill. Plenty of netherweave cloth and scryer reputation items (Sunfury signets and Arcane Tomes). Also greens and greys drop for to vendor, but its still a great money maker! I've been doing this on my warrior recently and it's great. After about 1 hours farming, i got 5 arcane tomes, 100 sunfury signets, many stacks of netherweave cloth, and about 25G worth from the silver. Also the greys and greens add up so i got about 70G all in all from the vendor and silver. And selling The arcane tomes and sunfury signets and netherweave, all-together i got about 250g.

Shaman:

The shaman is an extremely effective twink in this bracket, they have frost shock, earthbind and the fastest form of travel (except dash and sprint) for this level, ghost wolf.

I have seen people say that shamans aren't that good in melee without windfury, but this isn't true, they do lack the awesome burst damage of wf but rockbiter gives a solid, consistent boost to dps, so it gets the job done.

Talent Builds:

Imp Ghost Wolf is a must, in WSG movement is everything and having 1 sec ghost wolf allows you to make the shift to GW without losing too much ground on your target.
Because Imp GW is so important i find there are only really 2 build options;

0/20/0:

5/5 Shield Proficiency
2/5 Ancestral Healing
2/2 Improved Ghost Wolf
1/1 Two-Handed Axes and Maces
5/5 Thundering Strikes
5/5 Flurry

This gives you a lot of melee power, plain and simple. 1v1 youre basically unbeatable with this build.

0/15/5

5/5 Shield Proficiency
2/5 Ancestral Healing
2/2 Improved Ghost Wolf
1/1 Two-Handed Axes and Maces
5/5 Thundering Strikes

5/5 Improved Healing Wave

A little less powerful 1v1 but the fast HW is great for healing FCs.

I find that the shocks arent powerful enough yet to warrant putting the points in elemental, but thats a matter of opinion. The option to go full resto is there, but that involves missing out on imp GW, which i don't find worth it.

Equipment:

Head: Enduring Cap [+150mana]
Neck: River Pride Choker
Shoulders: Watchmens Pauldrons
Back: Tigerstrike Mantle (Battle Healers Cloak) [+5 resists]
Chest: Cutthroats Vest of the Eagle / Raptor Hunter Tunic [+100hp]
Wrists: Barbaric Bracers (Emissary Cuffs of the Eagle) [+9 sta]
Hands: Brawler Gloves [+15agi]
Waist: Moss Cinch
Legs: Infiltrators Pants of the Eagle / Triprunner Dungarees [+100hp]
Feet: Harbinger Boots [+speed]
Main Hand: Dreamslayer [+22int]
Off Hand: Vile Protector [+7sta]
Ring: Seal of Sylvanus
Ring: Plains Ring (Legionnaires / Advisors Ring)
Two Hand: Corpsemaker / Cobalt Crusher [Crusader/Lifestealing/+25agf]

- If you can manage to get Emissary Cuffs they are the way to go, but they're extremely difficult to get.
- You have the choice of going for the Triprunner Dungarees if you want a heap of +agi with some +str and +sta, but i rather more +sta and +int.
- The Raptor Hunter Tunic has big +sta but no +int, you can choose between that and the Cutthroats vest.

Hunter:

One of the best classes in this bracket, and they twink very nicely. They have cheetah aspect, frost trap, concussive shot, wingclip and track humanoids.. all VERY useful abilities in WSG.

Talent Builds:

Most of the best hunters i know are survival spec'd, it gives you the ability cope with most of the situations in WSG and come out on top, marksmanship is also a valid option, especially for Night Elves, however beast mastery is a lacking at such low lvls.

0/20/0

5/5 Improved Concussive Shot
1/5 Efficiency
5/5 Lethal Shots
1/1 Aimed Shot
3/3 Hawk Eye
5/5 Mortal Shots

Where you put the spare 1 point (efficiency) is up to you, but i find that you get most out of a little efficiency. This build is best suited to Night Elves, as shadowmeld -> aimed shot is fantastic.

0/0/20

3/3 Humanoid Slaying
2/5 Deflection
5/5 Entrapment/Wingclip
1/2 Trap efficiency
1/1 Deterrence
5/5 Survivalist
3/3 Surefooted

This build is just in my opinion on how i would play my hunter, with a lot of +sta youre VERY hard to kill, which is a big advantage in WSG.

There are LOTS of different options you can take even with only 20 points to spend, so really its up to you, these are only two builds that I would recommend.

Q u o t e:

Rufust:
Marksmanship
5/5 Improved Concussive Shot

Survival
5/5 Deflection
5/5 Improved wing clip
2/2 Savage Strikes
1/1 Deterrence
2/2 Trap Efficiency

This is built to slow/stop flag runners and to give you as many survival options as possible. With deterrence turned on I can prolong my life in melee and mortal strikes allows me to do some pretty good damage with my Corpsemaker 2 hand.
The only thing I would change is the 2 points in trap efficiency. I may move that to Survivalist or Improved Aspect of the Hawk.

Q u o t e:
Killed:
Improved Aspect of the Hawk-5
Endurance Training-5
Bestial Swiftness-1
Unleashed Fury-5
Ferocity-4

Equipment:

Head: Enduring Cap [+100hp/+8agi]
Neck: River Pride Choker (WSG Necklace)
Shoulders: Watchmens Pauldrons / Forest Tracker Epaulets / Mantle of Thieves
Back: Tigerstrike Mantle [+5resists/70arm]
Chest: Raptor Hunter Tunic [+100hp/+4stats]
Wrists: Barbaric Bracers (Emissary Cuffs of Agility / the Monkey) [+9 sta]
Hands: Wolfclaw Gloves [+15agi]
Waist: Ghostwalker Belt of Agility/the Monkey / Deviate Scale Belt
Legs: Triprunner Dungarees / Panther Hunter Leggings [+100hp/+8agi]
Feet: Harbinger Boots [+7sta/agi]
Main Hand: The Butcher/Zealot Blade [Lifestealing/+15agi]
Off Hand: Zealot Blade [+15agi]
Range: Ironweaver / Master Hunter's Rifle [+5/+7range dmg]
Ring: Seal of Sylvanus / Plains Ring
Ring: Basalt Ring of Monkey / agility (WSG Ring)
Two Hand: Corpsemaker [Lifestealing/+25agi]

- Same deal with the Emissary Cuffs as before, if you can get them, do.
- The Panther Hunter leggings have more +sta but -agi, so they should be considered.
- For the weapon you have quite a healthy choice, either Corpsemaker on its own or dual Zealot Blades, or The Butcher and a Zealot Blade.
- The enchants all depend on your build/play style, the ones you have are basically up to you.
- If you are REALLY keen on +agi you can go for a bunch of AH lvl 29 greens instead of watchmen pauldrons, enduring cap, harbinger boots and plains ring, but i would advise against it.
- Note that this is the one of the only classes i wouldn't get +speed to boots for, simply because cheetah aspect works indoors.

Rogues:

They are the most common twink class in 20-29 BG, they are the class that gets the most out of twinking.
Due to there being an agi to lvl ratio that determines crit and dodge% they get INSANE numbers, it is possible to have 45% dodge chance BEFORE evasion.
Despite not having kidney shot or blind yet they are still extremely effective; kidney shot, vanish, sprint and crippling poison are all VERY useful in WSG.

Talent Builds:

0/8/12:

2/2 Improved Sinister Strike
3/3 Improved Gouge
3/3 Improved Backstab

5/5 Master of Deception
5/5 Oppurtunity
2/3 Improved Ambush

Dagger ambush/backstab spec.

16/4/0:

5/5 Malic
2/3 Improved Eviscerate
3/3 Ruthlessness
1/1 Relentless Strike
5/5 Lethality

2/2 Improved Sinister Strike
2/3 Improved Gouge

Swords crit/spam SS spec.

0/20/0:

2/2 Improved Sinister Strike
3/3 Improved Gouge
5/5 Precision
5/5 Deflection
1/1 Riposte
4/5 Dual Wield Specialization

Swords combat spec.

0/20/0:

2/2 Improved Sinister Strike
3/3 Improved Gouge
1/5 Precision
5/5 Deflection
1/1 Riposte
5/5 Dagger Specialization

Dagger combat spec.

Equipment:

Head: Pathfinder Hat of Agility / the Monkey [+100hp/+8agi]
Neck: River Pride Choker (WSG necklace)
Shoulders: Watchmens Pauldrons / Forest Tracker Epaulets / Mantle of Thieves
Back: Tigerstrike Mantle [+5resists/70arm/+dodge/+stealth]
Chest: Raptor Hunter Tunic [+100hp/+4stats]
Wrists: Barbaric Bracers (Emissary Cuffs of Agility / the Monkey) [+9 sta]
Hands: Wolfclaw Gloves [+15agi]
Waist: Ghostwalker Belt of Agility / the Monkey
Legs: Triprunner Dungarees / Panther Hunter Leggings [+100hp/+8agi]
Feet: Harbinger Boots / Warsong Boots [+speed]
Main Hand: The Butcher / Zealot Blade / Toxic Revenger / Claw of the Shadowmancer[Lifestealing/+15agi]
Off Hand: Zealot Blade / Outlaw Sabre / Torturing Poker / Vendetta (WSG swords / WSG Daggers) [+15agi]
Ranged: Nightstalker Bow [+2dmg]
Ring: Seal of Sylvanus / Plains Ring
Ring: Basalt Ring of Monkey / agility (WSG Ring)

- Basically the same options as with the hunter; you can go all out +agi or you can have a balanced mix between +agi and +sta. I personally recommend you make sure you have plenty of +sta, because although its nice to deal large amounts of dmg, surviving is (funnily enough) rather important.
- For your weapons you have a nice selection depending on whether your a sword, dagger/sword or dagger rogue. Torturing poker has the best dps for dagger and Zealot Blade has best dps for sword, The Butcher is a main hand weapon and has +agi so a butcher/zealot is good for sword rogues, outlaw blade needs consideration too however(for horde).
- For the weapon enchants i would advise lifestealing on main hand and +agi on off, but its up to you, get dual +agi or +dmg or even crusader if you like.
- Again, Emissary cuffs if you can.

Warrior:

Warriors dont quite get as much out of twinking as rogues due to there being no str to lvl ratio.
At lvl 29 they dont have intercept which is only a little concern, they have hamstring and charge, both great for stopping enemy FCs, and with huge hp and armor they are great group FCs.

Talent Build:

In my opinion you can go one of two ways with a warrior build; you can go fury/prot for piercing howl (or go full fury for dual spec if you want to do that), or you can go arms/fury.

15/5/0

3/3 Improved Rend
5/5 Deflection
2/2 Improved Charge
3/3 Deep Wounds
2/2 Improved Overpower

5/5 Cruelty

This is basically a rogue (and to a lesser extent hunter) killing build, and seeing as there are so many rogues (and hunters) in 20-29bg it is very effective and useful to your team, a human warrior with this build is even more effective.

0/11/9

5/5 Cruelty
5/5 Unbridled Wrath
1/1 Piercing Howl

5/5 Shield Specialization
4/5 Iron Will

This is fantastic for being a FC, but i don't like it personally because i don't really like Unbridled Wrath. still piercing howl is almost worth it.

Equipment:

Head: Frostreaver Crown [+100hp]
Neck: River Pride Choker
Shoulders: Thick Scale Shoulderpads of the Bear / Stamina
Back: Tigerstrike Mantle [+5 resists]
Chest: Avengers Armor / Fire Hardened Hauberk [+100hp]
Wrists: Pugilist Bracers [+9sta]
Hands: Grubbis Paws [+7str/+15agi]
Waist: Girdle of Golem Strength
Legs: Dual Reinforced Leggins [+100hp]
Feet: Caverndeep Trudgers [+speed]
Main Hand: Dreamslayer [Crusader]
Off Hand: Vile Protector / Marbled Buckler [+7sta]
Ranged: Nightstalker Bow [+2dmg]
Ring: Seal of Sylvanus / Basalt ring of the Bear / Stamina
Ring: Plains Ring (WSG ring)
Two Hand: Corpsemaker / Cobalt Crusher [Crusader/+25agi]

-If you go for the fury/prot spec use Vile Protector and Dreamslayer, if you go arms/fury use Corpsemaker or Cobalt Crusher.
-For the rings, get the seal of sylvanus if your horde, if not get the basalt ring until you hit honored with the sentinels.

Druids:

Druids are extremely useful in WSG, as everyone no doubt knows. The key to twinking a druid is making sure they have as much stamina as possible while still leaving them with enough mana to heal.
I think that druids have been hit hardest by changing the brackets from 21-30, losing travel form AND NS is just insane.. but they are still fantastic FCs and healers.

Talent Builds:

Although you CAN go full resto, feline swiftness is far, FAR to useful to miss out on, in my opinion. I would strongly advise to stay away from balance except for one point in natures grasp if you like.

1/13/6

5/5 Ferocity
2/2 Improved Bash
3/5 Thick Hide/Feral Instinct
2/2 Feline Swiftness
1/1 Feral Charge

5/5 Furor
1/5 Natures Focus

1/1 Natures Grasp

The lack of 5/5 natures focus is annoying but the speed of feline swiftness and the snaring/interruption of feral charge is worth sacrificing it.
Depending on how you play, you can skip feral charge and/or natures grasp to put more points in natures focus.
Whether you choose thick hide or feral instinct is a matter of personal choice, i would advise thick hide so your that bit tougher while in bear. You can even skip imp bash and put 5 points in either if you want, though after snaring an enemy FC with feral charge, i like the extra second of bash to be able to shift and root them.

0/0/20

5/5 Improved Mark of the Wild
5/5 Natures Focus
5/5 Improved Healing Touch
1/1 Insect Swarm
3/3 Improved Rejuvenation
1/5 Tranquil Spirit

This one is for healers, it will make you more popular, but without NS I find this to be a waste.

Equipment:

Head: Enduring Cap [+100hp]
Neck: River Pride Choker
Shoulders: Watchmens Pauldrons
Back: Tigerstrike Mantle (Battle Healers Cloak) [+5 resists]
Chest: Cutthroats Vest of the Eagle / Raptor Hunter Tunic [+100hp]
Wrists: Barbaric Bracers (Emissary Cuffs of the Eagle) [+9 sta]
Hands: Brawler Gloves [+7str/+15agi]
Waist: Moss Cinch
Legs: Infiltrators Pants of the Eagle [+100hp]
Feet: Harbinger Boots [+7sta]
Ring: Seal of Sylvanus / Basalt Ring of the Eagle
Ring: Plains Ring (WSG Ring)
Two Hand: Rod of the Sleepwalker (WSG Staff) [+22int] / Manual Crowd Pummeler [+25agi]

- Basically the same as the Shaman set, gives you alot of +sta and still a decent mana pool.
- The Raptor Hunter Tunic has more +sta than the cutthroats vest, so thats up to you.
- Again, Emissary Cuffs if you can.
- If you choose a resto druid you might want to go for some more +int gear instead of the heavy +sta gear here.

Mages:

Casters get the least out of twinking, but still getting a large amount of +int and some decent +sta on a mage can make them very, very nasty.
Mages have frost nova, sheep and blink at this lvl which gives them good mobility and snaring abilities.

Talent Builds:

You can get away with any of the three trees, all are good for their different reasons, frost is the most suited to WSG though. It seems to be best to put all your points in the one tree but if anyone has a good combo then please let me know.

20/0/0

5/5 Improved Arcane Missiles
5/5 Arcane Concentration
2/5 Wand Specialization
1/1 Evocation
5/5 Improved Arcane Explosion
2/2 Improved Counterspell

Basically this gives you imp ae and imp cs.. both very useful.

0/20/0

5/5 Improved Fireball
5/5 Impact
1/1 Pyroblast
5/5 Ignite
2/2 Flame Throwing
2/3 Burning Soul

You can swap the points around if you use Flamestrike or Fire Blast a lot, but this build gives you pyroblast. Makes you a great DD and with +spell power it would be ok.

Q u o t e:
Note: with the mage spec, having Pyroblast at level 29 in WSG is a waste because, unless you are hiding on the roof there are not many times at all that you can get off a 6 second cast spell before its interupted or out of range

0/0/20

4/5 Improved Frost Bolt
5/5 Permafrost
3/3 Winters Chill
2/2 Improved Frost Nova
3/3 Improved Blizzard
1/1 Cold Snap
2/2 Arctic Reach

This is definitely my favourite build for WSG, gives you MUCH better snaring abilities, you can move a point from imp blizz or imp frost nova over to imp frost bolt if you use that more.

Equipment:

Head: Elders Hat of the Eagle / Spellpower Goggles Extreme [+8int]
Neck: Basalt Necklace of the Eagle
Shoulders: Berylline Pads
Back: Knights Cloak of the Eagle [+70arm]
Chest: Beguiler Robes [+100hp]
Wrists: Stoneridge Bracers [+9sta]
Hands: Hotshot Pilots Gloves [+mana regen]
Waist: Belt of Arugal / Warsong Sash
Legs: Elders Pants of the Eagle [+8int]
Feet: Acidic Walkers / Nightsky Boots[+speed]
Range: Starfaller
Ring: Deep Fathom Ring (WSG ring)
Ring: Plains Ring
Two Hand: Rod of the Sleepwalker (WSG staff) [+22int/+30spellpower]

- Pretty basic, all relatively easy to get your hands on, gives you alot of +int and +sta.
- Go for the Warsong Sash if horde.
- Measles has got me thinking that; if you feel you had enough +int and +sta from the blues you could benefit greatly from some +fire/frost/arcane (depending on your spec) legs, necklace, cloak and possibly even ring.

Priests:

Twinked priests are nice but to me, a little disappointing, For my builds they need as much mana as possible, but also need a decent +sta.

Measles full shadow and high stamina build gives the priest alot more survivability and power 1v1

Talent Builds:

With 1.10 there is now basically only one build for priests that i would consider, pre 1.10 the lack of imp pw:s made a HUGE difference, now that the weakened soul effect is 15 seconds without talents, the necessity to put the 8 points into discipline is gone.

0/2/18:

2/2 Healing Focus

5/5 Blackout
2/2 Improved Shadow Word: Pain
3/5 Shadow Focus
2/2 Improved Psyhcic Scream
2/5 Improved Mind Blast
1/1 Mindflay
3/3 Shadow Reach

Basically gives you everything you could want for pvp as a priest at 29. If you like spirit tap, you could shift points around the recieve that, i personally dont like it in pvp as it encourages you to KB hunt.

I would advise you DO get healing focus.. for 2 points it is insanely good, and even if your shadow spec'd.. you will still have to heal at the very least yourself.

Equipment:

Head: Spellpower Goggles Extreme [+150 mana]
Neck: Basalt Necklace of the Eagle
Shoulders: Berylline Pads
Back: Knights Cloak of the Eagle (WSG cloak)[+70arm]
Chest: Beguiler Robes / Mechbuilders Overalls [+100hp]
Wrists: Glowing Magical Bracers [+24healing power/+9sta]
Hands: Hotshot Pilots Gloves / Stoneridge Bracers [+mana regen/+9sta/+20 shadow dmg]
Waist: Belt of Arugal / Warsong Sash
Legs: Elders Pants of the Eagle [+150mana]
Feet: Acidic Walkers [+speed]
Main Hand: Death Speakers Sceptre [+30 spell power]
Off Hand: Omega Orb / Orb of Mistmantle
Range: Starfaller
Ring: Deepfathom Ring (WSG Ring)
Ring: Plains Ring
Two Hand: Rod of the Sleepwalker (WSG staff) [+22int]

- you can pick and choose between the various +spell power gear and int to what suits you best.

Paladins:

Paladins Twink rather nicely, strong armor and a lot of hp works well with them. They have their blessings, most notably blessing of freedom, so they are great at escorting and not bad at flag carrying themselves.

Talent Build:

I haven't ever rolled a pally an since they have just been updated i wont try to comment on their talent build just yet.

Equpiment:

Head: Frostreaver Crown [+150mana]
Neck: River Pride Choker
Shoulders: Thick Scale Shoulderpads of the Eagle
Back:
Chest: Avengers Armor [+4stats]
Wrists: Pugilist Bracers [+9sta]
Hands: Grubbis Paws [+7str]
Waist: Girdle of Golem Strength
Legs: Phalanx Leggings of the Eagle[+150mana]
Feet: Caverndeep Trudgers [+speed]
Main Hand: Dreamslayer [Crusader/+22int/Icey]
Off Hand: Marbled Buckler [+7sta]
Range: Tigerstrike Mantle [+5 resists]
Ring: Basalt ring of the Eagle (Protectors ring)
Ring: Plains Ring
Two Hand: Corpsemaker/Cobalt Crusher [Crusader/+22int/Icey]

Warlock:

Not a hugely powerful class in this bracket, yet when twinked and played well they can be surprisingly powerful. No fellhound or Hellfire holds them back only a little. Fear is a fantastic way of stopping a runaway flag and seduce is CC, and CC is always useful in pvp.

Talent Builds:

I've never played a warlock, but there seems to be plenty of options, none that seem to me to be especially good for WSG, I could be wrong so let me know if i am.

0/9/11

4/5 Demonic Embrace

5/5 Improved Shadow Bolt
5/5 Aftermath
5/5 Devastation
1/1 Shadow Burn

This looked like quite a nice build, gives some effects that can snare and improved crit%, as well as adds a good deal of hp.

Clueless_noob:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
-----------------------------------------------------
5/15/0

5/5 Demonic Embrace
3/3 Improved Imp
4/5 Fel Intellect
3/3 Improved Succubus

5/5 Improved Corruption

I liked the look of this because it improves your imp and lengthens seduce, as well as getting imp corruption.

Supression-5
Imp Curroption-5
Amplify Curse-1
Cataclysm-5
Bane-4

Equipment:

Head: Elders Hat of the Eagle / Spellpower Goggles Extreme [+8int/+100hp]
Neck: Basalt Necklace of the Eagle
Shoulders: Berylline Pads
Back: Knights Cloak of the Eagle [+70arm]
Chest: Beguiler Robes / Mechbuilders Overalls[+100hp]
Wrists: Stoneridge Bracers [+9sta]
Hands: Hotshot Pilots Gloves [+mana regen]
Waist: Belt of Arugal / Warsong Sash
Legs: Elders Pants of the Eagle [+8int/+100hp]
Feet: Acidic Walkers / Nightsky Boots [+speed]
Range: Starfaller
Ring: Plains Ring
Ring: Deep Fathom Ring (WSG ring)
Two Hand: Rod of the Sleepwalker (WSG staff) [+22int/+30spellpower]

BRITAIN, the largest island in the archipelago just north of France; the island of Britain contains three countries:

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and WALES.

ENGLAND is one of the countries of Britain.

SCOTLAND is one of the countries of Britain.

WALES is one of the countries of Britain.

NORTHERN IRELAND is a jurisdiction having approximately the same status as England, Scotland, and Wales, but on a different island.

The UNITED KINGDOM is the union of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including whatever islands are also included in those countries. The full name of the United Kingdom is THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. The United Kingdom itself is a country. Thus it is a country that is made up of four countries. A country made of countries might seem a paradox, yet the countries that make up the UK, especially England, Scotland, and Wales, do not think of themselves as anything less; Scotland has its own Parliament and banknotes, Wales has its own language and National Assembly, all three have national identities going back more than a thousand years, and the Encyclopedia Britannica calls them countries (next item). Perhaps more to the point, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, and NORTHERN IRELAND are listed in the USPS Index of Countries and Localities. (According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term UNITED KINGDOM was first used in 1801 and, until 1921, included Ireland.)

At the moment you can’t level inscription past 300. So revisit this guide and check if that changed

-----------------------

You mil 5 herbs to 2 - 3 pigments*.
Each herb tier gives different pigments:

Alabaster Pigment: Bloodthistle / Peacebloom / Silverleaf / Earthroot / Mageroyal
Dusky Pigment: Briarthorn / Swiftthistle / Bruiseweed / Stranglekelp
Golden Pigment: Wild Steelbloom / Grave Moss / Kingsblood / Liferoot
Emerald Pigment: Fadeleaf / Goldthorn / Khadgar's Whiskers / Wintersbite
Violet Pigment: Firebloom / Purple Lotus / Arthas' Tears / Sungrass / Blindweed / Ghost Mushroom / Gromsblood
Silvery Pigment: Golden Sansam / Dreamfoil / Mountain Silversage / Plaguebloom / Icecap

To level Inscription to 300 you’ll need the following ammount of herbs:
(This list if for the worst case scenario where you would get every time 2 pigments from milling. You should need less materials.)

10 stacks of Alabaster-giving herbs (eg. 200x Peacbloom)
5 stacks of Dusky-giving herbs (eg. 100x Brianthorn)
5 stacks of Golden-giving herbs (eg. 100x Kingsblood)
6 stacks of Emerald-giving herbs (eg. 120x Goldthorn)
12 stacks of Violet-giving herbs (eg. 240x Blindweed)
19 stacks of Silvery-giving herbs (eg. 380x Dreamfoil)

In total you’ll need the following materials:

33 x Silverleaf
20 Silver Ink
81 Alabaster Pigment
39 Dusky Pigment
35 Golden Pigment
41 Emerald Pigment
95 Violet Pigment
150 Silvery Pigment
208 Light Parchment
76 Common Parchment
95 Heavy Parchment

-----------------

Inscription 0 - 125

2-30 - 33 x Silver Ink (1 x Silverleaf)
30-40 - 10 x Scroll of Intellect (2 x Silver Ink, 1 x Light Parchment)
40-50 - 10 x Moonglow Ink (1 x Alabaster Pigment)
50-75 - 60 x Scroll of Recall (1 x Moonglow Ink, 1 x Light Parchment)
75-85 - 11 x Bleached Vellum (1 x Moonglow Ink, 1 x Light Parchment)
85-100 - 17 x Glyph of Swipe (1 x Midnight Ink, 1 x Light Parchment)
100-120 - 22 x Treated Vallum (1 x Midnight Ink, 5 x Light Parchment)
120-125 - 6 x Glyph of Entangling Roots (1 x Lion's Ink, 1 x Common Parchment)

-----------------

Inscription 125 - 225

125-150 - 29 x Glyph of Healing Touch (1 x Lion's Ink, 1 x Common Parchment)
150-165 - 23 x Jadefire Ink (1 x Emerald Pigment)
165-175 - 12 x Glyph of Moonfire (1 x Jadefire Ink, 1 x Common Parchment)
175-200 - 29 x Glyph of Insect Swarm (1 x Jadefire Ink, 1 x Common Parchment)
200-210 - 10 x Celestial Ink (1 x Violet Pigment)
210-225 - 20 x Glyph of Rebirth (1 x Celestial Ink, 1 x Heavy Parchment)

-------------------

Inscription 225 - 300

225-250 - 25 x Glyph of Rip (3 x Celestial Ink, 1 x Heavy Parchment)
250-275 - 25 x Glyph of Starfire (3 x Shimmering Ink, 1 x Heavy Parchment)
275-300 - 25 x Glyph of Shred (3 x Shimmering Ink, 1 x Heavy Parchment)

------------------------

Inscription 300 - 375

The path to 375 is not implemented yet.

Credit for this guide goes out to http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Guide/Inscription

Here are some nice phrases for you to use while doing BG's to annoy the other faction!

Horde to alliance communication:

101 101 = Zug Zug

UO UO = HA HA

27 11 11 = mu ha ha

D F Z = L A G

U G U = L O L

As As As = Ha Ha Ha

aw = no

d e d = l o l

Making your own phrase using the below chart only works if you put a space between each letter.

Orcish: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Common: g g o l o a o o l n l n a o l n g n n l l l a n o g

(Alliance to Horde)

h i = y o

ss ee oo p = Me love u

D a p Ee bb = You Lose

b ppp = evil

zz fff = never

Fff d Ss pp = Very Mean

Ss B ppp = Me Evil

D a p aa B ppp = Youre Evil

D a p aa Ss pp = Youre Mean

Making your own phrase using the below chart only works if you put a space between each letter.
Common: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Orcish: o e o y y e o y o e o o o o y u e y y y y y y y o e

The open-source browser, called Chrome, first appeared on an unofficial Google blog in the form of a comic book. "As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit 'send' a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome," the company said in the official announcement that appeared late Tuesday afternoon after the Internet began buzzing about the comic-book site. The blog posting was by Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director.

The browser window is "streamlined and simple," they said, describing in words what can be seen visually at the unofficial blog, Google Blogoscoped. "To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the Web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go," the blog posting said.

Chrome will run Web applications "much better," they wrote, with tabs kept in an isolated "sandbox," which will prevent "one tab from crashing into another and provide improved protection from rogue sites." Better speed and responsiveness are also part of Chrome, which features "a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of Web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers."

Components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox are part of the open-source Chrome, they said.