A couple weeks ago I started working on an application to work on my WinAPI skills, which is turning out to be quite a large and ambitious project. It is called JbWarc, an advanced World of Warcraft calculator designed to tweak your endgame character as well as pre-endgame characters.

I found the need for such an application when I used to play awhile back. Trying to calculate what my warriors HP with multiple buffs and other modifiers was quite difficult with a simple calculator.

A big feature I wish to include that you rarely find is melee “damage potential”. Total damage effectiveness is calculated after many different variables are included, such as +weapon skill, +hit, attack power, gear, chance of avoidance, chance of glancing, defense, weapon dps, talents/racial talents, buffs, from both player and mob.

However, there are still many technical hurdles I must overcome to put it all together. To get it working, I still have to implement:

• Loading the entire spell database and parse all the buff/debuffs and enchants
• Putting together a complete item database from other available online databases
• Implementing a system that handles item&spell buffs+debuffs correctly

These are just a handful, but the most important at the moment.

If you would like to help contribute to the project, or if you have any suggestions, please send me an email.

Broadcatch Fixer is a small web app I put together based off of RSSAtellite, which fixes torrent RSS feeds from popular BitTorrent trackers. Some of these BitTorrent trackers do not supply direct links to their .torrent files via RSS, this utility corrects that issue and enables your Broadcatching program to retrieve them properly.

I’m still working on adding more trackers, if you have any suggestions you can comment or email me.

You can learn more about it here.

I have released a new version of my WDBtoCSV program, with some bug fixes and a linux binary. You can get it here.

Changelog:

Version 1.2 - August 4, 2006

* Added: Linux binary
* Added: doallwdb.bat which converts all known wdb files into csv
* Removed: ‘press any key to continue’, allowing batch jobs
* Fixed: Bitmask bugs
* Fixed: Bugs when parsing certain line feeds
* Fixed: Giving incorrect readout of parsed records
* Updated: Field definitions

Welcome to version 2 of Jb55.com! The old stylesheet is most likely still in your cache if you have been here before, if so, press ctrl+f5 to do a fresh reload.

If you see any problems, please email me or post a comment so that I can fix it asap.

I just finished fixing up most of the bugs and the converter is ready for release. It converts all WDB files, including wowcache.wdb, into comma-delimited CSVs; and has the latest definitions from hackwow.com. I also included a feature that automatically detects changes in some cache files, allowing it to automatically adjust fieldsizes incase of an update. On some of the other cache files, however, it disguises the number of fields that they possess; so if a change is made, the program will most likely need an update.

I have also included the source so that you can edit field definitions if you wish.
EDIT: I fixed some errors that were crashing when converting questcache.wdb.

Download WDB to CSB Converter
Screenshot (png ~100kb)

I took some time away from my wowdb program to put a quick WDB to CSV converter together. It’s about 60% done and I expect to be finished sometime next week. When I’m done you should be able to convert every WDB except for the wowcache.wdb, which seems to be comprised of 4-bytes records that are either encrypted or useless at the moment.

Unlike the DBC to CSV converter already available, the WDB to CSV converter will have its own definition file so that it doesn’t have to guess each field type. This will result in more accurate field readings, but the downside is the definitions will have to be updated if a new field is added. I’m working on creating an external definition file that the user can edit, but it probably won’t be in the first release.

Back to work!

I have put together a quick reskin for World of Warcraft that converts the Teir 2 warrior set into the Tier 3 Warrior set. I do have to give out a disclaimer though, Modifying WoW game files is against Blizzard’s terms of service, so don’t get angry with me if you get a slap on the wrist and get banned for 3 days. As far as I know this type of modification is undetectable by Warden (Blizzards cheat detection application), so you probably won’t get caught. I have been using this modification for a couple of weeks now with no problems.

EDIT: Due to the changes in the latest patch, loading directly from the directory no longer works. This breaks this mod, and many others. The only other way to get this working again is by modifying the MPQ file, which they probably have checksums on now. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Installation:

1. Download the zip file and extract its contents to: World of Warcraft\Data.
2. You’re done! Open WoW, changes should be viewable on the character select screen. Enjoy.

Here’s a preview:

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