Glider is intended for people who want to quickly level up an alternate character or glide through the last few levels to 60. Best priest just quit your guild, but got no good recruits? Want to find out if you should have picked a mage instead of a warlock, but don't want to spend all that hard the game time again? Want to get some rogue-riffic revenge on those guys sneaking up on you in Battlegrounds? Those are the problems that the Glider solves.

Using Glider with an alternate character is particularly effective, because you can supply the character with the money needed for the food/water/supplies that Glider will most definitely use up.

You can register Glider and instantly get a product key for $25, payable via PayPal. Once you have a product key, it will work with all future versions of Glider to support new patches of the game and new features that are added to Glider itself. Glider checks for updates on startup and notifies you when a new version is available for download.

Note that the product key is used during the startup process for Glider to request memory locations of game information. If you share your product key and we receive too many requests from it, it will be locked out.

Optionally, you can upgrade to Glider Elite to get extra features, such as background operation and additional protection from game detection software. Glider Elite is a subscription service for $5 per month and can also be purchased in 3-month or 6-month blocks without subscription at a discount.

All that information is a "profile", which you can load and save (and share). You start up Glider, load the profile, and it runs through the area, clearing it out again and again. The actual mechanics for pulling and combat are specific to each class, so check the help file for your class.

It's also very handy for gaining reputation, as it can kill for hours and hours. It may true that you have to kill over a thousand Winterfall Furbolgs to get exalted with the Timbermaw. It's also true that Glider can do it for you.

If Glider is attacked by another player, it will try to fight back, but it's not what most people would consider a very good PvPer.

Glider will also automatically harvest mines, herbs, and chests for you. You can specify a limit of how many yards you're willing to walk to such items and Glider will go get them when it finds them, if you have the appropriate gathering skill. You can also tell Glider to pick up anything, which will let it gather quest items such as rocket car parts, wildkin feathers, etc.

Automatic resurrection can be controlled by specifying a maximum number of times to resurrect, which helps prevent you from being camped or resurrecting too many times in the middle of a pack of monsters. It can also be disabled completely, if necessary.

For buffs, it always keeps the most appropriate class-specific buffs going, re-casting them as necessary.

It also has a "farm shards" mode for warlocks, which is handy for topping off your shards. When gliding in "farm shards" mode, it will collect as many shards as you tell it during configuration. Once it has that many, it will automatically use your hearthstone and log off.

When setting up an area to glide, make sure you pick one where all the monsters are 2-6 levels below you to ensure it can handle them. Keep an eye on while it's playing and if you see it doing something stupid, then change your setup to disable it. There are plenty of options in general configuration and class-specific setup you can use to keep Glider on task.

Most importantly, be sure to read the "Tips" section in the help file for a lot more information.

Note: if you find yourself dying because other players are coming along and killing you, there's not much you can do about that. Watch it and fight back or find a quiet place to glide or switch to a non-PvP server. Rogues and druids in cat form survive much better on PvP servers because they stealth while patrolling and can be configured to wait for enemy players to leave the area before attacking monsters.

• Windows 95, 98, SE, or ME.
• 64-bit versions of Windows XP or Windows Vista
• Macs

You can also download the framework directly from Windows Update in the "Custom Install" section.

Also, Glider checks the version of World of Warcraft you have during startup to determine memory locations of the data it needs to extract. If it's not confident it can work with your version of the game, a popup will appear and you will be notified that it is incompatible. Typically, this is right after a patch, before we've made the corresponding updates in our central database so that Glider can get the data it needs.

For basic chat in the game, you can enter it while gliding. Because Glider uses the keyboard to control your movement and skills, your keys are actually captured by Glider first. When you press Enter to send your message, Glider queues until it is out of combat, then sends it all at once. To chat, tap Control twice and then press Enter while gliding. Glider's title bar will change to a cursor and you can enter your text there. Hit Escape to abort or Enter to send the message. In addition, Glider includes two other features to help chat:

1) Glider includes a semi-automatic "1-Kill" mode that goes through its combat progression on the monster you have currently targeted in the game, then stops. Not only is this good for testing your class setup, but you can use it as a relaxing way to grind while chatting in between kills. Since it is semi-automatic, 1-Kill doesn't loot or skin, so do that yourself.

2) If you have a second computer or laptop handy, you can cause Glider to send messages. If it sees a file named chat.txt in its folder, it will open it and send the contents of the file as keystrokes, then delete it. So you can simply use regular Microsoft networking and notepad to save that file from another computer when you want to chat. The file is checked at the end of each kill when gliding.

• Background gliding, allowing you to use your PC for other things while gliding.
• WardenNet integration from InnerSpace, providing instant reaction to detection updates.
• Instant plug-in classes and class customization for combat behavior.

Note: Glider Elite is still in development as of Mar 7, 2007 and is not available for purchase. All finished Elite are available to regular Glider users in the meantime - enjoy!

We recognize the value of the $25-and-done Glider and will keep it fresh and updated.

Someone suggested we sell it, so...

And, no, you can't get the source. Handing out the source effectively puts us out of business, as far as $25/copy goes. If you want the source bad enough that you think you can talk us into that risk, make an offer via email.

For engaging in PvP, we think it's lame for a computer to fight a person. If you're looking for a way to automate killing real people, Counter-Strike is out there and there are already a ton of tools that you can work with/compete against.

If you don't find that stuff to be fun, Glider is cheap. For $25, you get all classes, excellent documentation, a polished user-interface, and instant usability. How much is your time worth?