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Just learned this today.

Right Click the little General tab on the Chat window.

Click on Join New Channel.

Click on Join New Channel.

Type in name of Channel, for instance "LookingForGroup - Orgrimmar".

It will be assigned to the end of your current list of channels.  /5 or /6 probably.

Thought it was useful.

I used to do this on a few chars but it can majorly mess up your channels if you log still connected (or zone into an instance or take a boat I think as well) so I stopped bothering. It is handy to know though.

I have used this on occasion, and so far, the only annoying problem i have had is getting stuck in a limbo "general" channel.

Seems to happen when, for example, I am in Winterspring, and remotely join the Orgrimmar "general" channel, and then fly to orgrimmar.  When i get to orgrimmar, I now have 2 Orgrimmar - general channels going, and it causes the ui to crap out.  One of them becomes "general" (with no zone name attached), and is damn near impossible to leave.  /leave channel # does nothing, /leave general does nothing.  It seems to be treated  as a private, custom chat channel, and the only effective way I have ever found to get out of it (without deleting settings stuff in the WDB or WTF folders) is to wait till it assigns someone as channel moderator and then ask them to boot or ban you from the channel.

I have the same problem as SurfD with my rogue (only character I did the /join trick on), only a bit worse; I can't even see or talk in normal channels, I have to manually /leave general /join general every time I log or zone. It seems to have crapped out during the 1.6 patch transition.. and there's no way in hell I'm deleting my WDB / WTF directories for this crap. Besides, I don't play my rogue anyway. :p


-- Z.

I think you can just delte chatcache.wdb to clean this up.

When you get stuck in dead channels, just go to the chat cache for your character in the WTF folder.  You'll see the names of the dead channels in the list, and you can just delete them.  This way your other chat settings stay stable.

SurfD, is thier any command to use to find the channel moderator?  This exact same thing happend to me before, i only solved the problem when i got a new computer and had to reinstall the game.

Type in /chatinfo <channel #>  The guy with the * next to his name is the channel owner. Anyone with an @ (I think.. might be a different symbol, but they're marked) is a moderator.  Either one can kick you from the channel.

Good to know that.  I never did manage to figure out how to quickly determine who was the channel moderator, I usually just waited till I read "player x has left channel, player y is now moderator" in the chat window and sent a whisper to Player Y askin for a boot.

What's the command to kick someone from a channel?

I saw yesterday that there is some UI mod that supposedly manages your channels and autologs you out of out-of-zone channels when entering that zone/logging out so you don't end up with those dead channels.  It requires Chronos, Earth, Sea and Sky iirc, and I have baaaaad memories of Sky from my late Cosmos days.  It is supposedly OK now.  I'd rather just manually delete two words from my WTF file when it gets WTFd up.

I think every MMO should have a WTF folder.  They can store messages from the Devs there, or patch notes, or maybe reasoning behind design changes.  It'd at least be fitting, that way.

Alkiera

I've always wondered why it was called the "WTF" folder.  I always wound-up chalking it up to Blizzard's usual twisted humor.

Hmm. Sky used to be the most buggy PoS mod library in WoW. It's the main reason I dropped Cosmos. It ever get fixed? I am in a private channel with some friends and Sky managed to lose that channel on a regular basis. So ya, I'd be hesitant about using any mob that required Sky too. heh.