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I was reading WoWInsider today and an article popped right out at me. And it made me think (I know! Shocked me too.). Where's all the spam gone?

Can this be true? We will actually be logged in for more than five minutes without being whispered about gold for sale for only $69.99? What ever will we do? How will we go on? I may miss this as much as my add ons!

FYI - we now have most of the addons running. Now, I haven't actually played for longer than 20 minutes, just to check the mail and the add ons, so the true test will come on my day off.

Yay, patch day

Patch day will from now on be henceforth known as "Add ons? What add ons?" day. When we were finally able to log into our server last night (Scott was just a tad irritated with all the rolling restarts that finally stopped about 10:30 pm last night - just in time for me to come home and log in), we went in with the knowledge that our add ons would not work. But we had no idea how much we had come to rely on them. Yes, we got a hint when BC came out, but it was so much fun playing a blood elf that we were able to overlook it until the next fu versions came out.

Do you have any idea how irritating it is to actually have to exit out of auctioneer to check your level of enchanting to figure out if it really is worth 8 gold to to buy the Enchant Bracer: Greater Stamina? And how frustrating it is when you know you have scored a record crit fireball and there is no way to record it? Or even to know at a glance how many of your friends or guildmates are online?

Sigh. So before I do any logging in today I will be perusing the various websites to get all my precious bling back.

Before I go, I thought I would like to Big Red Kitty's take on the patch - quite funny, IMHO.

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Edited to add:

I realized it was remiss of me to talk about downloading our add ons but not listing which we use. The various sites we use:

Cosmos - 2.1.0 is up and good to go.
RPG Outfitter - we use Character Profiler and Guild profiler. The 2.1.0 patch is up and running
WowAce.com's Files - (WoW 2.0 only) - this is the One-Stop-Shop location for AL the AddOns, with a very simple interface and a great download speed. And unlike WoWinterface.com & Curse-Gaming.com it is not laggy at all.
WoW Interface Add Ons - this site is extremely busy as of today and having download issues. There isn't a lot available as of yet. This is the site that hosts FuBar, which apparently hasn't been updated yet.
I have found a FuBar 2.1.0 on Curse gaming. This is just Fubar, but the site has the other Fu-additions. Go nuts. I sure am.

Scott's note:
I use files.wowace.com almost exclusively now. WoWinterface.com & Curse-Gaming.com are always so damn laggy. Curse-gaming is so bad that I frequently time-out when waiting for the download dialogue. WowInterface.com does have a large amount of info, and is sometimes worth the wait to get hard to find or rare AddOns, but I use a limited list now, and all I want is to get the latest build for the AddOns I have. Hence, I go to files.wowace.com for that.