Pro Tip of the Day - world of warcraft http://protipoftheday.com/taxonomy/term/54/0 en Pro tip: Decoding some secret messages in World of Warcraft http://protipoftheday.com/node/396 <p>Back when I used to play World of Warcraft I ran through a dungeon called Gnomeregan. In it, I got all these cards with lots of ones and zeroes on them. Ones and zeroes that looked like they might have been encoded secret messages.</p> <p>So I went to my favorite <a href="http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php">Binary to ASCII converter</a> and fed it the codes. Here's what I discovered:</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_ascii_white.jpg" /></div> <p>White punch card: "Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G"</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_ascii_yellow.jpg" /></div> <p>Yellow punch card: "If you can read this, you're standing too close"</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_ascii_blue.jpg" /></div> <p>Blue punch card: "The gnome king wears night elf underwear"</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_ascii_red.jpg" /></div> <p>Red punch card: "Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!"</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_ascii_prismatic.jpg" /></div> <p>Prismatic punch card: "Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup."</p> <p>These messages add a whole new insight into the fallen Gnome city.</p> easter eggs pc pro tip world of warcraft Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:10:23 +0000 Will 396 at http://protipoftheday.com Pro tip: Give a Westfall chicken to your Horde buddies http://protipoftheday.com/node/41 <p>This tip is a little bit complicated to pull off, but the rewards are... well, the reward is a chicken. A kind of rare chicken that can normally only be gotten by the Alliance characters on your server.</p> <p>First, find a chicken. Any chicken will do. Then, target the chicken and do the '/chicken' emote in front of it. If you're lucky, the chicken will briefly turn into a quest-giver and give you a quest. If not, then you have to try again. It's kind of rare, so you might be there for a while.</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_chicken1.jpg" /></div> <p>Then you need to work your way to Westfall, along with one of your Horde buddies. Just make sure that you have some way to communicate outside the game, since you can't really talk to each other in game. </p> <p>Then, work your way to Farmer Saldean and buy the Special Chicken Feed.</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_chicken2.jpg" /></div> <p>Then find any chicken you like and do the emote '/cheer' at it. Give it the feed and:</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_chicken3.jpg" /></div> <p>Out pops an egg. Once the egg is spawned, anyone can pick it up, even someone who hasn't done the quest, <em>including</em> people on the other side of the war. </p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/wow_chicken4.jpg" /></div> <p>Have fun with your chicken.</p> <p>Thanks, DakotaS96, for help with getting the screenshots!</p> mac pc pro tip world of warcraft Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000 Will 41 at http://protipoftheday.com