Release notes for FactionFriend

Switches WoW’s builtin reputation watch bar automatically and helps keep track of faction turnin items.

FactionFriend 2.0.5

Sunday, March 25th, 2007
  • FactionFriend now indicates more clearly when your potential reputation gain from turnins is enough to reach a new standing (e.g. Friendly vs. Honored):
    • The tooltip when mousing over the bar gains an extra line showing what your new standing would be after all turnins.
    • The “empty” part of the bar is partially shaded with the color for that standing instead of being completely transparent. (For example, if you have enough turnins to move from Hated to Hostile, the “empty” part of the bar will be semi-transparent red; but if you have enough to move all the way to Neutral, that part of the bar will be semi-transparent yellow.)
  • Updated our database for tracking faction turnins:
    • Added two more Burning Crusade turnins: [Coilfang Armaments] for Cenarion Expedition and [Pair of Ivory Tusks] for The Consortium.
    • Fixed quantity on [Wastewander Water Pouch] turnin for Gadgetzan.
    • Added or corrected min/max standing requirements for several turnins.
    • Aldor and Scryer turnins available at Friendly and above will also increase your Sha’tar reputation (until Honored) — we now indicate this when watching Sha’tar reputation.
  • Fixed an error when using the reputation watch bar right-click menu to switch watched factions.
  • Fixed an error when mousing over the reputation bar (“bad argument #3 to string.format”) if the WoW client doesn’t have cached info about an item. Such items will now show in the “available turnins” tooltip as “Unknown Item” with an ID number. (This case is very uncommon; you must have items in your inventory or bank for them to show up in this tooltip, and the WoW client caches info for all items in your inventory and bank when you view them.)
  • Fixed an issue where the marker “tick” on the reputation bar (for available rep from turnins) wouldn’t show when your current standing is Unfriendly or below.
  • Fixed an issue with use of gender-appropriate standing names in WoW client localizations for which the difference is noticeable.

FactionFriend 2.0.4

Saturday, February 17th, 2007
  • Right-clicking the reputation watch bar now shows a menu allowing you to quickly switch which faction it shows. (Based on AnduinLothar’s ReputationMenu.) TIP: Marking a faction as “Inactive” in the reputation pane will hide it in this menu.
  • FactionFriend now identifies known faction turnin items in their tooltips. (This can be turned off in the Options window; type /ff or use the aforementioned new menu to bring it up.)
  • Added [Uncatalogued Species] turnin for Cenarion Expedition (Burning Crusade).
  • The Wildhammer Clan faction was removed in WoW patch 2.0.3, so we no longer track it.
  • Updated German localization.

FactionFriend 2.0.3

Monday, January 15th, 2007
  • Updated for compatibility with WoW Patch 2.0.3 and the Burning Crusade release.
  • More updates following Patch 2.0 changes:
    • Added Water Pouches turnin for Gadgetzan faction, Troll Necklaces for Wildhammer Clan, and Morrowgrain for Darnassus and Thunder Bluff, as these turnins are now worth a constant (and increased in 2.0) amount of reputation regardless of player level.
    • Increased value of AQ War Effort Commendation turnins for the racial factions.
  • Added Arakkoa Feathers turnin for Lower City faction (Burning Crusade).
  • Added/fixed availability limits for some Burning Crusade faction turnins (e.g. turnin only available until Honored).
  • Added zone faction switch for Ghostlands/Tranquilien (Burning Crusade, Horde only).
  • Fixed an issue where more turnins than you can actually make would be reported if the same item is used for multiple quests for the same faction.

FactionFriend 2.0.2

Thursday, December 28th, 2006
  • Fixed an issue where the mouseover highlight on the reputation bar marker (for available turnins) would be extra-bright and not go away when it should. (It now glows the color of the bar instead, like the rested XP bar marker does.)
  • Updated data on several turnins to reflect reputation gain increases in WoW Patch 2.0. (Includes Runecloth turnins for the racial factions and some turnins for Timbermaw Hold and Cenarion Circle.)
  • Burning Crusade content: added turnins for The Aldor and The Scryers, and another turnin for The Consortium (Oshu’gun Crystal Fragments).

FactionFriend 2.0.1

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
  • We now use new APIs from WoW 2.0 to track faction turnin items in your inventory and bank — this should fix cases where we’d mis-report the quantity you have of an item when opening and closing the bank.
  • WoW Patch 2.0.1 increased the reputation gain from some item turnins; FactionFriend’s estimation of them has been updated to match. (If you see any other cases where you’re gaining more reputation from a repeatable turnin than FactionFriend estimates, please let us know!)
  • Added another turnin for The Consortium faction (in the Burning Crusade beta): Zaxxis Insignia x 10 for 250 reputation.
  • Added a German localization (complete for pre-expansion content) by Alirion of Dun Morogh (EU).

FactionFriend 2.0

Monday, December 4th, 2006
  • Updated for compatibility with WoW 2.0 (and the Burning Crusade Closed Beta).
  • Added preliminary data on Burning Crusade repeatabable item turnins. Any additional information you can provide (on what items can be repeatably turned in for which factions, how many are needed, and any restrictions on reputation level for the turnin to be available) would be most welcome!

FactionFriend 11200.1

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Initial public release (see FactionFriend main page for details).