• World of Warcraft

    Mists of Pandaria Beta Launches! 

    by
    Relican
    Published on 03-22-2012 03:16 AM
    1. Categories:
    2. World of Warcraft,
    3. WoW Emulation,
    4. WoW Model Editing,
    5. WoW Exploits,
    6. WoW Leaks

    The Mist of Pandaria beta testing phase has officially begun. Blizzard is inviting players in waves so be sure to check your email! The beta finally launching is great, as this opens up tons of new options for World of Warcraft exploits, exploration, model editing, and general chat, and once again we can expect to start seeing lots of fun and exciting content from World of Warcraft, whether it be from a general shake up in the World of Warcraft, or from exploits and such.
    Hopefully this means we can expect an official launch date on Mists of Pandaria as well. With the recent announcement of Diablo 3 launching on May 15th 2012, it's likely that we'll start hearing news of the Mists of Pandaria launch date soon as well.


    credit, Blizzard screenshot of the day

    Be sure to continue frequenting the OwnedCore forums for leaks, exploits and the like, as well as checking for news regarding Mists of Pandaria, Diablo 3, and many other games!

    Also, stay tuned for the OwnedCore Monthly Roundup on Sunday, March 25th, where I will be highlighting popular threads and summarizing them!

    Until next time,
    Relican
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    Pocket Gnome Lead Developer Interview - OwnedCore Exclusive 

    by
    Relican
    Published on 03-17-2012 11:38 AM
    1. Categories:
    2. World of Warcraft

    Recently I got the opportunity to chat with Tanaris4, the lead developer behind Pocket Gnome.
    More information about Tanaris4 and Pocket Gnome can be found at the bottom of this interview, or by following links in the article.


    What exactly is your affiliation with Pocket Gnome?
    Lead Developer
    What made you decide to develop a WoW bot, and how did you get started with it?
    I actually didn't decide to, it kind of fell into my lap. The previous developer decided to open source the software and move on to other things in his life, so I offered to take over development + releases. Pocket Gnome was the first bot I ever used, I didn't even play wow when Glider was around.
    What's been your biggest challenge in developing the bot thus far?
    I'd say the largest was learning a new programming language (I didn't know Objective-C), and then just learning how wow works (huge props to those on OwnedCore that had patience for me in the memory editing section, I learned everything I know from them).
    So you are basically self-taught in the language and figured it out with the help of our forums?
    This book was a god send:
    Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
    Read the first 100 pages, then I was ready to go and anything related to offsets, reverse engineering, etc... - all learned from a couple IDA books that were recommended by the OwnedCore guys and their posts/contributions.
    Can you give me a brief history of where Pocket Gnome has been, and where it's going?
    Great question, I believe it was started sometime in 2008/2009 (not by myself), And it has always existed as just a helpful toolkit, which is what I'd like to have it continue to be; It's not meant to be a one-click get me to level 85 and walk away, however, in the future that may be different.
    So you're planning some major revamps for Pocket Gnome then?
    The next major launch will include navigational meshes, similar to HonorBuddy, which will open the door to a lot of other uses.
    Do you find yourself able to manually play World of Warcraft anymore given all of the internal workings that you know about it now?
    Absolutely, although I will say there was about a 6 month period where League of Legends dominated a lot of my time (wish they had a mac client!!) but I've been playing the 4.3 content quite often lately, I love the random raid finder. Since the lawsuit began, it has added a lot more stress to my personal life, unfortunately. Before that process started in November, it wasn't much stress at all.
    How much time do you have to invest into working on keeping PocketGnome running, and how has that affected your personal life?
    I would say I invest around 10-20 hours per week that are dedicated to Pocket Gnome (I have a day job, so I can't really dedicate much more). I have a very understanding girlfriend that allows me dedicate a few of my nights a week to working on PG, and the majority of time lately has been on the future version of Pocket Gnome, which will include pathfinding.
    I see. So the lawsuit has really put a damper on things, then?
    Yes, absolutely.
    When you were younger is this something you envisioned yourself ever doing as a "career"? If not, what did you see yourself doing?
    I don't see it as a career, I wish it could be. For me, working on Pocket Gnome is just fun, and I enjoy the thought that other people are able to do other things with their lives (have a family, go out with friends, maybe add another hobby) instead of grinding levels or mobs for items/XP. I have been a developer since I started with Visual Basic (don't laugh) when I was around 11. Even though my day job wasn't directly related to development, I've always thoroughly enjoyed writing software. I would love to eventually run my own company (preferably software, or something technology related) that could enable others to pursue careers in development.
    You seem very enthusiastic with Pocket Gnome, but what other people have helped you out the most in your work with Pocket Gnome?
    Too many to name, and many unnamed I hate to say. Honestly the quote by Newton is so fitting for me, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
    Without the ownedcore community, and their patience, I would never have learned what I know today to continue to improve and build on Pocket Gnome. Without the original Pocket Gnome developer, my interest or even awareness of such a great software solution would never have existed. Without my forum moderators and business partner, I wouldn't have the time to actually work on the software (as I'd probably be answering forum posts all day), nor the money to make investments in software and other developers, and of course various articles/posts randomly found via Google, there isn't much on reverse engineering for OS X. Quite jealous of the windows devs at times.
    If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
    To grant wishes. Strange, maybe, but it could help fix a lot of the world's problems.
    What is your creative process on new features for Pocket Gnome?
    It isn't much of a process really, but all stems from user requests. All improvements come from bug reports and the suggestions forum on our site.
    Fair enough. What is your setting of choice while programming?
    My home office for sure (in my basement): http://dump.tanaris4.com/desk.jpeg
    But I also do enjoy just sitting at my dining room table from time to time (better light)
    Note: that is the cleanest my desk has ever been
    Being a mac only client, and to my knowledge the most well-developed, if not the only bot available for mac users, how do you feel about the community that has developed around Pocket Gnome?
    I love them, they are seriously amazing. *Without them I would have no motivation or drive to continue working on it, and I can only compare it to one other community I used to run (wc3mods.net, war3ft.com) - warcraft mod for counter-strike. Very different userbase, although still gamers nonetheless.
    Do you have any advice for potential or aspiring developers?
    Pursue your passions, always.
    If you could say one thing to potential PocketGnome customers, what would you tell them?
    We've put a lot of time and effort into creating a well-rounded product, and are continually improving to adapt to everyone's needs. You won't regret your purchase!
    Alright, and just to clear this one up for all the PocketGnome users out there, is it lrn2 or l2?
    Most definitely L2, I'm not sure what Phillis was ever thinking

    OwnedCore user Questions
    The following are questions OwnedCore members sent in for me to ask.

    How do you think future versions of Pocket Gnome will measure up to competitors such as Bossland bots, or even private bots?
    We're always going to try to create the best software solution for our users, and as we see requests for features we may not have, we will definitely look into adding them. This is mainly why we're working so hard to add navigational meshes (something that Honorbuddy has had for quite some time) to the next major release, and unfortunately I haven't used windows bots very much :/ My first exposure to the botting community was Pocket Gnome. I'm very rarely on windows, and I literally know nothing of private bots. I didn't even play WoW when Glider was around.
    Do you plan on adding the ability to quest bot in future releases?
    Absolutely, it's already in our beta build for 2.0. *You can see it in action here: Pocket Gnome 2.0 Questing Preview - YouTube
    Also, it is actually possible to quest today, with the current release. Phillis created a questing route for alliance and horde for Tol Barad dailies, it's just not as fluid as it could be with navigational meshes
    Currently, given your knowledge of the way bots work with the World of Warcraft client. Would you say that a ban for botting is high risk low risk or no risk?
    That's definitely a loaded question with not one answer. At any given time, botting could be very high risk, if Blizzard decides to implement server side detection heuristics. but I would say currently it's medium risk, depending on the particular bot you are using. Some developers don't bother to understand warden and how their users could be instantly banned, as the recent "ban wave" demonstrates from a particular windows bot. And risk is always defined by the user's actions. If they are botting for 48 hours straight, obviously they will get a ban.
    To your knowledge, is Blizzard using any new methods to detect players botting or is it still the same as it has been for multiple expansions?
    I don't have any reason to believe it is any different. I think they would be smart to implement some better detection methods, although it seems they would rather fight everyone in court rather than hire an experienced anti-bot developer. Seems they don't actually have the desire to ban all the botters, because then they lose revenue.
    Do you fear Blizzard?
    No, I don't fear them. I think they are bullies. Although I do respect them for creating a great game. And other games as well, I'm very much looking forward to play past Act 1 in Diablo 3, and I grew up on Diablo 2, and selling Windforces (a unique and very rare bow dropped in Diablo 2, comparable to a legendary in WoW) on ebay helped me through college quite a bit
    Do you prefer pie or cake?
    Not a huge fan of cake, I always asked for cookie cakes on birthdays. And I love Cheesecake (although don't have it often).
    Why "Pocket Gnome"?
    I inherited the project, so I didn't name it :/
    Do you plan to release more bots for other mmorpg's?
    I would love to, but I doubt I'll have the time, or the expertise to reverse engineer other games. And it pretty much needs to be a game on OS X, which there are very few.


    Pocket Gnome - Mac WoW Bot

    For more info on Tanaris4, you can find him on the Pocket Gnome forums, visit his OwnedCore profile, and check out his blog!

    Have a great weekend, OwnedCore, and don't forget to check back next week for the "March Monthly Roundup"!
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    OwnedCore Monthly Roundup - February 

    by
    Relican
    Published on 02-24-2012 03:51 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. World of Warcraft,
    3. WoW Exploits

    Welcome to our first installment of our monthly roundup series. Here, a News Correspondent will be highlighting and discussing the threads on OwnedCore that they find to be the most important, best reads, etc.
    In this edition we will be talking about the World of Warcraft Section!

    To start off, we would like to mention the OwnedCore Starcraft 2 Tournament. Make sure you continue reading OwnedCore News for future updates on the tournament!
    More information on the tournament can be found Here and rewards and dates for the tournament can be found Here.

    Speaking of winning things, OwnedCore contributor Clovian hosted a contest to give away a Heart of the Aspects Mount! While the due-date for the contest has ended and we are all waiting to hear who the lucky winner is, it is great to see members contributing more!
    To read more about what the contest entailed, be sure to check out his thread Here

    For those of you who enjoy visual exploits or exploring in fun forms, member Gmex posted a method in which one is able to use many archaeology transformation items to stay in a shapeshift form. To read more about how you can pull this off, be sure to check out his thread Here

    On the note of exploits, Leniox and friends are back with a new exploit that allowed the user to turn invisible and invincible by a buggy quest. Be sure to look for more threads from Imperious-- Who knows, maybe their methods could spark an idea in your mind to help you come up with a unique exploit unlike anything seen before! To see how this was achieved, be sure to check out their thread Here

    In the Guides section, elite user Confucius posted a guide archiving the best add-ons for World of Warcraft in a very descriptive and easy to read guide. If you're having trouble finding good add-ons check out his thread Here

    Contributor phantom325 and member Synrithh also posted great guides, phantom325's showing how and where to get every mount, while Synrithh posted a thread about obtaining every companion pet! Don't get down if you can't think of anything to contribute-- Look around, there are guides that have not yet been written! Their threads can here found at the following links:
    Here for phantom325's guide
    and
    Here for Synrithh's companion guide

    In the World of Warcraft Exploration section, WizardTrokair posted a wonderful guide to help starters begin their exploring journeys, where he details many items and skills that are useful for exploring. Be sure to check out his post (Which is now a sticky!) Here

    Be sure to keep an eye out for more monthly roundups. We will soon be covering more sections than just World of Warcraft!

    -Relican

    Bots and How They Affect You 

    by
    Relican
    Published on 02-08-2012 02:55 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. World of Warcraft

    If you're unfamiliar with what a bot is in World of Warcraft, you should take a moment in game to observe players and their actions. Bots can do a wide variety of things, including gathering herbs and ore, participating in Battle Grounds, and even running instances. Many realm's economies are reliant on the players that choose to bot, and it's very likely, in fact almost guaranteed, that at some point in time every World of Warcraft player who's purchased any end-game material such as herbs or ore, has in fact made a transaction with a bot that collected the items.

    With the recent closure of the popular World of Warcraft Pirox Bot on January 25th, the effect that bots have in the World of Warcraft are becoming more and more evident. Before the bot officially closed, prices of many materials began rising. Now that one of the major bots on the market is no longer operational, it's very obvious that, although many players may hate botters, the bots certainly help maintain an economy with reasonable prices, and a well-stocked supply of materials to craft with.

    While Blizzard continues the legal battles against bots by filing lawsuits on two more popular World of Warcraft bots, HonorBuddy and PocketGnome, one can only wonder what will happen to the economies maintained on the World of Warcraft servers; It's already easy to see that, even with these two bots still operating, there is more demand than supply on many realms, and if PocketGnome and HonorBuddy are ordered to shut down, the results could prove to be truly devastating, especially on highly populated realms. Imagine having to pay 400g for a flask, or 1500g for each Inferno Ruby.

    Bots are becoming more and more intelligent and as a result it is becoming increasingly harder to spot a botter in a Battle Ground; even as the bots currently stand, it's not unlikely for a bot to out-perform many other players in the Battle Ground. While many players find it unfair that a person (who is likely tabbed out, sleeping, or even at work) is obtaining the same amount of honor that an actual player is working hard for, the benefits of botting are endless, and many people are simply tired of battling in the same Warsong Gulch they have been playing for roughly 7 years, or do not want to go through the agony of earning the honor needed on a secondary character (or alt, as World of Warcraft players call them), or they simply don't have the time to do these things on their own.

    A quick YouTube search can prove that Battle Ground bots can indeed be manipulated to take them off of the "Route" that they are running on, but a question few people ask tends to be "Is `controlling` a botting character worth doing?" By ensuring that a bot runs off track and gets stuck, you're also wasting valuable time to contribute to your Battle Ground group, and the bot will eventually find itself back on track, be it through many bots anti-stuck features, or by another player killing them.

    Players may report bots in an attempt to reduce the amount of bots running around, but many popular bots are undetectable by Blizzard, and it can be hard to prove that someone is a bot, and even harder for Blizzard Game Masters to determine whether they are worthy of a ban, or just a completely antisocial player; While being reported is the usual reason behind someone being banned for botting, many bots have aided you in combat in a Battle Ground, beat you to a mining node, or simply flown over-head while you were questing without you ever even noticing that a human isn't actually playing that character.

    Love them or hate them, bots play a heavy role in keeping the World of Warcraft market stable and stocked, and can sometimes prove to actually be more help than a nuisance in PVP. They keep your prices low, and create a steady flow of items every end-game player constantly needs.

    Happy botting ,
    -    Relican
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