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    Fix custom gear & weapons for ArcEmu 3.3+

    IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ENTRY ID AND A DISPLAY ID, YOU NEED TO GET MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE SQL STRUCTURE BEFORE READING THIS.

    As of patch 3.3 Blizz implemented a dbc check to make sure the weapon is equipped correctly. This broke a lot of people's custom weapons because abilities that require melee weapons, or like backstab needs daggers, shield slam requires shields, etc. won't work. Armor & weapons can still be equipped, but you have to do it manually instead of right-clicking the item from your bag.

    So to make it equip on right-click & make sure the game knows what type of weapon it is, you must use a valid entry id. Most people just replace low-level gear & steal the item ID from it. But that means you will be missing items from your DB! So you need to use an EntryID that is in the dbc's, but not in your database.

    deep6ixed posted some unused weapon IDs here.

    I made a complete listing that includes all items from the DBC because I am far too lazy/don't have the time to parse the unused id's. So it's up to you to find an unused Entry ID. The most accurate way of accomplishing this is to compare it with your item database. The lazy way is to check on wowhead (http://www.wowhead.com/item=XXX --- Replace XXX with the entry id) until you get one that says "This item doesn't exist or is not yet in the database." But be careful because some databases have some incorrect entry ids, and they may conflict. But if Wowhead says it doesn't exist & your db has it in there already, as something else that you didn't put there, that generally means your database sucks.

    Now once you have your entry id, you can make your items however you want to make them, WoW-V is fine too, just use the unused entry id you just found, and it will equip on right-click from your bags & weapons will now work with abilities & spells correctly.

    ONE NOTE: The display IDS found in my chart is only used for the icon the item has while in your bag. When buying from vendors, or after you equip the items, the icons should match the displayid you gave to them item when you created it.

    Hope this helps a few people, especially those not familiar to working with the DBCs.

    Fix custom gear & weapons for ArcEmu 3.3+
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    If you plan on making a completely custom realm then you can fix the bug by redoing existing weapons, delete your cache, and hoobly doo You got weapons working like retail :P

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    Originally Posted by Emillozdk View Post
    If you plan on making a completely custom realm then you can fix the bug by redoing existing weapons, delete your cache, and hoobly doo You got weapons working like retail :P
    But if you'd rather not butcher other items out of your DB, this is the best route & I just thought I would explain how it was done.

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    Is this problem only with weapons specifically or armor too?

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    Long Story Short; They made it so you HAVE to use a blizz item ID or a unused blizz item ID in the DBC's for item's .. weapons to work. If you don't you'll get a message saying "You need to equip a weapon" or somthin like that. Not sure if it happends to armor as well.

    Just use a blizz item ID and not a custom one, edit exsisting gear, etc.
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    Originally Posted by Talrain View Post
    Is this problem only with weapons specifically or armor too?
    Armor can be used just fine, it just won't equip when right-clicking from your bags, you have to manually drop it into the equip slot.
    Using unused DBC entryids allows right-click equipping & you won't have a ? icon on the items when they're in your bags.
    So it's quite trivial doing it with armor.

    Weapons & shields however REQUIRE a blizz defined entryid to be used with special abilities. There are no special abilities that require a certain armor piece as far as I know...

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    would gray items be usefull to since there rarely used.

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