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There's two main addon sites: Curse as you mentioned, and WoW-Interface. I'm not sure if there's really much difference between the two; both seem to host most of the same AddOns written by the same people. As far as AddOn Managers, I never used them myself -- I just download and install the AddOns manually.

I can give a few AddOn suggestions:

1). TitanPanel is still a good information broker AddOn. For awhile it wasn't being updated, but then someone took it over and it is now updated regularly.
2). Armory is awesome if you play lots of different characters.
3). _NPCScan and _NPCScan.Overlay is awesome if you want to see/kill rare monsters in Wrath/Cataclysm and especially Pandaria.
4). Archaeology Helper is no longer updated (it is still on 4.3) but yet it still works -- you won't find a better Archaeology AddOn. There's several YouTube videos that describe how to use it if you can't figure it out, it takes a lot of guesswork out of understanding the theodolite readings in-game.
5). GoGoMount is an awesome "Press This to Mount Random Mount" AddOn. Very customizable and works for 99% of all situations/places you can find yourself in.
6). You might want to consider the AddOn named SlashTreasure -- there are lots of lootable items in Pandaria that can be looted once every character. Many of these are grey items that vendor for 90-110g and give 190-710k XP when looted. You don't want to miss these!
7). Recount if you like to do dungeons/raids and keep track of yours/your group mates' damage/healing output.
8). Deadly Boss Mods for Dungeons/Raids

To name a few to get you started.

Conversely, just because your brother found it easy to gear up a warrior doesn't mean that other warriors had it easy. Your brother had the benefit of the gold necessary to level BS and craft an epic weapon (I recall BS being terribly expensive to level in BC, and mining being difficult without upgraded flying). He also had the benefit of being in a raiding guild that would bring alts to old content. We're pretty much comparing a best-case scenario with a worst-case scenario. Most people had it somewhere in-between. When my friends and guild were locked-out of the daily or off-line, I know I got groups a lot faster with my warlock than I did with my druid (unless I was tanking). If we dig back far enough in the class forum, we'll find most of us old druids complaining about not getting to DPS heroics because, for most of BC, the rule for pugs was tank, heal, bring CC, or be the fat kid with glasses that no one wants on their team.

I guess that explains why I was always the mage with the high aggro and the big stack of bandaids.

the only harvest mod ive seen is "Gatherer" It gathers nodes from your guild as well as your other toon on your account.. also what that node yielded and how much and how long ago was your last visit :) There may be others out there but this one works for what i want to do in game :)

If you will be leveling together I'd advise against having the exact same gathering professions. If one of you picks Mining + Herbalism imo it would be better if the other one has Skinning and maybe Tailoring. The cloth drops you will get when playing as a duo should suffice for that.

If you decide to get enchanting, it is a very good idea to pick up tailoring with that.

Tailoring is the only profession that gathers AND produces at the same time, and cloth is fairly easy to get across all the tiers, except maybe Embersilk (and even then, if you can wait until you're 85+, you can go to Tol Barad for lots of it) and maybe Windwool.

It is very easy to level Enchanting and save your money rather than DEing all of your quest rewards.

As for gathering professions, you might want to watch the XP -- tiers/areas you get a _lot_ of XP from gathering herbs and ore. Said XP is only earned by the person performing the craft. This means that the person with the gathering profession will out-level the person without the profession.

If one of you has herbalism and the other has mining, the Herbalist will easily out-level the miner, as you find far more herbs than you do ore until Pandaria and Pre-85, you get a LOT of XP by herbing. It took a monk of mine ~1h to get from 79 + 10% to 80 just by doing herbalism in Sholazar Basin. I had about 50% rested at the time and I did not have any Enlightenment. I will admit, though, I killed 1 rare, and did 1 quest (the stone coffer). The rest was solely by herbs and the occasional aggro mob kill.

Edited, Dec 26th 2012 7:03pm by Lyrailis