Product Description

Get crafty! Veteran WoW player and creator of the most popular World of Warcraft add–on (Atlas) Dan Gilbert guides you through making your stay in the world of Azeroth more exciting. Whether you’re human, dwarf, elf, or orc, you’ll feast on numerous unique hacks such as combat, artwork and model, map, interface, loot, chat, raid, PvP, and more. You’ll also learn to create and use skins and themes, write your own macros, create add–ons, and work with frames and XML so that you can improve your experience with the hottest online game on the planet—planet Earth, that is.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #220826 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 370 pages

From the Back Cover
Hack your way to the top.

World of Warcraft is your world. You are fearless. You are in command. And when you can command these awesome addons, macros, and customizations, you′ll savor the heady brew of victory. From the masters who gave us Atlas and PerfectRaid/Clique, you′ll learn how to gain an advantage in combat, write spell–casting macros, work with frames and XML, develop Lua scripts that work with the WoW API, and more.

Yeah, they′re legal. But don′t let that hold you back.

Addons, Macros and more.

Learn the secrets that unlock hidden treasures!

1. Evaluate your performance in battle with combat statistics.

2. Add instance maps and make notes on the World Map.

3. Rearrange everything onscreen and monitor your vitals with an HUD.

4. Make gold "playing " the Auction House.

5. Have whispers open in their own window like an IM client.

6. Overhaul your interface with pre–packaged compilations.

7. Create two fully functional addons from start to finish.

About the Author
Dan Gilbert is the creator and developer of the Atlas addon for World of Warcraft. He also maintains atlasmod.com and the forums there, and encourages you to stop by and say hi.When he actually has time to play WoW, you can find him on the Jaedenar server as Razark (his Shaman) or Nine (his Mage). Dan also sometimes works as a web developer, a graphic artist, and a cinematographer. He designs T–shirts at threadless.com, where his designs “I Heart Color” and “Release” have been printed.
Dan recently graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA where he studied film production. For his thesis project (or Div III) he created a film called The Nightingale Princess with his co–conspirators, Christopher Dreisbach and Owen Granich–Young. The three of them have websites at thenightingaleprincess.com and ocdproductions.net. So far the movie hasn’t gotten into any festivals, but Dan has his fingers crossed. He currently lives in Northampton, MA. In his spare time, he enjoys sleeping.

Jim Whitehead has been an active member of the UI community since December 2004. He initially became an active developer on WatchDog unit frames, and eventually created PerfectRaid and Clique, and spearheaded the creation of the Dongle addon framework.When he’s not developing addons for World of Warcraft, he can be found playing the game with one of his many characters on the Stormrage server.
Jim is a graduate of Syracuse (NY) University, holding an MSc in computer science. Although he has been a resident of cubicle–land for the past few years, he will soon retreat to the halls of academia to pursue his PhD in computer science. He lives in Syracuse, where he spends a disproportionate amount of his life’s savings on keeping his house warm.

Customer Reviews

Hacking World of Warcraft
This is not a book about hacking World of Warcraft accounts, its a book that shows you to make User Interface changes, AddOns, which are perfectly legal, to enhance your game play to suit your style. There is nothing illegal about any aspect of this book, so ignore the reviews which contain lines such as 'you have been warned' etc., if you want to make a custom UI, then take a look at this book, it shows you how to do it!

Not about Hacking
For those of you that are mistaken, this book is not about hacking or cheating. It is about tips for world of warcraft and guides on how to make addons/macros. This has nothing to do with cheating. The authors wrote the popular addons like Atlas, Clique and PerfectRaid. Is using those addons cheating?

The truth about this book
This book is intended to allow you to customize your in game UI (user interface) as supported by Blizzard. It is not about using malicious code or third party software to change the game system. The word Hack has many meanings most of which were around along time before the use the earlier reviews are familiar with. The book is basically how to cope with world of warcraft and make use of all the information that the standard UI does not show us.
Blizzard do not ban people for using pure addons. Please read the book before posting negative reviews.