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Key items and tabards out of the bags soon, says Tigole Tigole has gotten over his little weekend rampage on the forums and gotten back to business: he’s got two tidbits about a popular subject among most players: making more bag space available. First up is tabards — he says that there are no plans to move tabards from the bags to the UI (as with the pet and mount changes), but that players shouldn’t worry too much, because Blizzard is making it easier for players to get lost and destroyed tabards back if necessary. Since the Championing mechanic means we won’t have to wait till Exalted to get tabards, there’ll be a tabard vendor in Dalaran that’ll have most of the tabards you need at a relatively cheap price. And “keys” that aren’t keys are also mentioned — by this, we mean things like the Scepter of Celebras or the Mallet of Zul’Farrak; attunement items, in other words. Tigole says there’s a plan for these also (another “keychain” tab, maybe?), but that we won’t see it in time for the expansion. Good news on both ends for people short on bag space, even if we have to wait a while.

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Arcane Brilliance: How long will my gear last me?   Each week, Arcane Brilliance emerges from the sewers beneath Dalaran, weary from dueling (and winning!) over and over in the Circle of Wills, to deliver to you a column about Mages. What’s that you say? What good are sewers in a floating city? Where does all the sewage go? Does the city drift over the countryside, forever trailing a series of sewage waterfalls? Ah, but you forget: Dalaran is a city of Mages! Even our poo is magical. After reading our own Adam Holisky’s excellent post on upgrading tanking shields in Wrath, I decided I wanted to know how long my Mage’s gear would last in the frozen north. It’s a fair question, and I suspect a common concern. We’ve worked hard for our shiny epics–either by raiding like crazy or grinding for honor or Arena points, and often a bit of both–and the thought of leaving them behind in one of the expansion’s first zones for some green quality item that drops off a random mob is a little bit depressing. We want to feel–in these last months before Wrath arrives–as if our efforts have not been in vain. If we’re still

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Addon Spotlight: Mac Dual-boxing 2 Macros Here is where you start laying the foundation for the slave’s interaction with the master. I spent time writing macros that enabled the slave to assist the master. Each combat and healing ability I use regularly on my slave (a Balance Druid) has an associated macro to assist the focus target. (Which I designate at the beginning of gameplay as my master.) Here are a couple of examples of macros I am using. /assist focus /startattack I use this when I don’t really need much help and want to regen mana via /target focus /cast Regrowth One of the healing spells cast on the master /target Self /cast Regrowth Slave heals himself   /follow focus Used to facilitate both toons moving together /assist focus /cast Starfire A basic macro to cast a variety of offensive spells (Starfire in this case) /drink /eat /dance A few basic administrative-type abilities plus the Moonkin dance for laughs. (Note that these three are different macros.) Once you’ve written macros to correspond to the abilities and/or actions for your slave, you’ll want to lay them out in the slave’s UI and bind them to bindings not used by your

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