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10-16-12, 02:03 AM   #3
Belechannas
A Warpwood Thunder Caller
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 86
Yes, I had 3 Elder Charms on my currency page at the time. I had never looted that boss before, or been inside any LFR instance, ever, so being locked out was not the issue either.

I do appreciate any explanation of what is supposed to happen.

This is what did happen:

1) The boss died.

2) At that exact moment, I got an "Instance Complete" pop-up center screen, very much like the one when you complete a heroic dungeon, but maybe a bit bigger (since it showed the icon for the loot bag). It said I had won a Mogu Riches (or something) loot bag, and that I had received Valor points. There was nothing to click on that pop-up, and it faded out after 5-10 seconds.

3) As it was the first time I had run the MV LFR, I also got an Achievement pop-up at the same time, which faded out together with the "Instance Complete" pop-up after a few seconds.

4) I immediately started looking for something on the screen that would allow me to use the Elder Charm, because I was told something would pop up. But there just wasn't anything there. I looked all over the screen, which was clear at the time, apart from the nUI HUD.

I joined the group while the last boss fight was just starting. But I was in the zone, healing people, taking damage, etc, for 5 minutes or more. And obviously it recognized that I participated. The LFR interface says I looted the boss.

The only reason I suspect nUI is that (as far as I understand) it takes control over all the Blizzard UI elements, and there was the issue of the ExtraActionButton not being displayed for a long time, which could plausibly be a similar issue.

On the other hand, LFR is widely used, and nobody else seems to have reported any problem with nUI (or any other addon, for that matter) blocking the use of Elder Charms. So I am really puzzled.

Since I had only looted one boss, I tried disabling all addons except the bare minimum (nUI + VuhDo) that I need to function in a raid and re-queueing, hoping to eliminate most of my addons as a possible cause, but I never got a full group before it got too late and the player population dwindled. So I'll have to try again.

I also opened a ticket, but I doubt anything will come of that (Blizz will say they're sorry and/or blame my addons).

When you say "it's a yellowish box that appears somewhere around the minimap", do you mean the nUI minimap (which is at the bottom center of the screen, between the unit frame areas)? I find it nearly impossible to believe I could have missed something there; my attention was focused just to either side of that area of the screen (I rezzed somebody who was dead, using Vuhdo in the nUI info panel just to the right, and was looking carefully through my chat window, which is just to the left).