Horde speaking common?

Kevok

I was waiting outside the SM instances for the rest of my group to come when a load of alliance lvl 50+ came out of one of the instances. Standing near me was a level 60 troll warrior. The alliance guys started saying in common and then to my surprise the troll replied to them, in common. Can't remember the guys name now and I forgot to take a screenshot. But I did ask him and he didn't respond.

He didn't just know some of the common language for instance I think everyone knows that bur=lol because in the text window it said <name>:[common].

Is it possible for Horde players to learn common or was he using a hack of some sort?

quozl

Was he perhaps using the orb of deception trinket?
http://thottbot.com/?i=5384

Changes a players model to one of the opposite faction.
Was the player red to you? You sure he really was the opposite faction?

Quozl

Kevok

I'm positive, he asked me for a stamina buff. Plus I whispered him to ask him how he did it.

Kiith

i've seen horde saying stuff that i understand, but its only one or two words like noob, or ****. they must know what symbols translate into letters in alliance talk.

Dustaz

Are yousure he wasnt just typing in "[common]' and then some random letters?

I assume you couldnt understand it, so how do you know they understood it?:)

koneko

Sounds likely, you can just type [common] and then some random words (and ones you've seen before). People do it sometimes in Tarren Mill
Horde guy: [common] bur eynes alliance suck lolol

I'm not aware of any ways of hacking this. You used to be able to get around it in a way, when you could use letters and numbers and people spoke in 1337, but they changed that in one of the patches recently so you can't do that anymore.

quarryman

noob question here: what is common?

actually while i'm highlighting my reluctance to go search can someone direct me to a good wow forum? the official one seems crap. I wanna be able to do a search on a part i'm stuck or a game issue and get it quickly through a forum.

I've discovered thottbot. its good but not complete and relates more to quests and items etc.

koneko

http://wow.allakhazam.com

Common is main Alliance language, Orcish the main Horde one. Alliance can't understand Orcish, and the Horde can't understand Common.

(But to complicate things more, my char for instance is Undead. She speaks gutterspeak, and Orcish. Orcish is what is used for all Horde to communicate, but in my emotes options I can change to Gutterspeak and then the Orcs won't understand what I'm saying).

quarryman

so when you use the chat it will appear as normal for your faction but scrambled for the other? and vice-versa?

Jim

I enjoy talking to fellow undead in gutterspeak about the state of orc hygiene.

Dustaz

koneko wrote:

I'm not aware of any ways of hacking this. You used to be able to get around it in a way, when you could use letters and numbers and people spoke in 1337, but they changed that in one of the patches recently so you can't do that anymore.

Not only that, but you used to be able to simply remove a file in the game folder that removed the language barrier, so you could converse freely with someone else who had removed the same file. Thats been fixed tho afaik.

quarryman

koneko wrote:

http://wow.allakhazam.com

can't search without paying. boo!

Jim

Eh....yea you can.

koneko

Dustaz wrote:

Not only that, but you used to be able to simply remove a file in the game folder that removed the language barrier, so you could converse freely with someone else who had removed the same file. Thats been fixed tho afaik.

It has, that was based on using 1337-speak aswell afaik, it would just translate it on either side.

quarryman, I see a search box on the left hand side...?

quarryman

sorry i meant the forum search.

this is what i get

http://wow.allakhazam.com/fsearch.html?q=stormwind&base=forum21&avg=1&b_m=6&b_d=3&b_y=2005&a_m=3&a_d=3&a_y=2005&o=sc

TheDoc

There are many websites that translate common,gutterspeakand orcish, go search for them.

There are set phrases that can be typed in horde that translate into alliance chat.

BKtje

'm positive, he asked me for a stamina buff. Plus I whispered him to ask him how he did it.

You cant whisper the opposite faction so i assume it was that orb or something similar.