In just over a week, the Honourbound channel password will be changing. This is your second warning about the upcoming change.

Date of Change: January 1st, 2008
Time of Change: 02:00 Game Time

Due to the nature of Blizzard's chat channels, it's important that everyone updates the password in their GEM client around the same time. Your guild's Honourbound representative or your guild leader should be handing you out the new one a few days before and helping you change the information in your GEM client.

Updating your GEM client is fairly straightforward:

1. Click on your GEM icon around your minimap or type "/gem toggle" to bring up GEM.
2. Once GEM is opened, click the "Options" tab near the bottom of the window to bring up the program's options.
3. In the channel list at the top of the "Options" screen, double-click on the entry for "honourbound". The channel name, password, alias, and slash command should now be in fields you can edit (see picture)
4. Change the current password (BANANA in the picture) to the new password.
5. Optionally, add/update your alias and slash command. The alias is what's printed to the left of messages coming from the channel, like "Guild:" appears before messages from your guild. The slash command is a shortcut to send information to the channel. In the picture, I use "a", so to send a message to the Honourbound channel, I type "/a This is a message on the Honourbound channel". Using a slash command allows you to embed clickable links in your messages, which using /1, /5 (or whatever your Honourbound channel number is) doesn't.
6. When you're ready, click the "Update" button to accept the changes. You're sorted.
   

As everyone needs to change their password around the same time, please update the password just before logging off before January 1st at 02:00 Game Time. If you're away during that period and didn't update before you went, in most cases you will be prompted for the new password when you return and try to join with the old password.

You should also be running a version of GEM higher than 2.26. That is, you should be using at least GEM 2.27 or GEM 2.28.

This is advance warning #2 that the GEM Honourbound password will be changing.