favorite addons / UI / modsFollow

I've been wanting to make this post for a while. I want to know what your favorite addons are and why, if you wish to say. I want to list my favorites.

First, for those who do not know, an addon is a tiny program that someone made that works in conjunction with World of Warcraft to make game play easier. They are legal and acceptable. There are MANY of them. It is best to be picky and use only a few because they can really clutter up your screen if you download them willy nilly. Load one at a time to get used to what it does.

And, what no one told me but I wish had, every time there is a patch it takes a few days for your addon to be revised so you may get errors all over your screen. You have to disable your addon, erase it from computer memory, and reload it if you still want it when it's inventor upgrades it. {{Or as I learn later on in future posts you can download WoWMatrix that does all that for you. -comment added 8/15/08}}*

I have windows vista so downloading an addon goes like this for me: I click it at it's host site (curse.com usually), it saves to a temp folder, it asks me if I want to open it, I say yes, a BROWSE button shows (don't let your computer choose where to put it, it must go in a certain folder), I choose the folder following this pattern: computer>OS>WorldofWarcraft>Interface>AddOns.

[Make sure that when you downloaded WoW the game you did not put in in the Programs file but in your computer main file or some things will not work right].


Favorites Addons / UI / mods:

Ackis Recipe List - Tells you what recipies you're missing.
NotesUNeed - You can type up a note in game in case you're senile like me.
Auctioneer - When you mouse over an item it will tell you its worth.
QuestHelper - Name says it all.
Gatherer - Shows you where you gathered in the past so you can get it again when it respawns.
Cartographer - THIS ADDON IS TO DIE FOR! I LOVE THIS ADDON!!! Its a floating map telling lvls of areas.
BankItems - Shows you what is in your bank no matter where you are in Azaroth. I often accidently put a quest item in my bank. It is nice to be able to check at the questgiver if that is what I did. NOTE that I had to open my bank account to activate this addon; so visit your bank right after downloading it.



Class Related:
Shaman: I LOVE THIS MOD! Totemus. I would group totems on my action bar with an empty slot between but ran out of room. Shamans have too much to keep track of. This mod is Shaman action bars. And your totems are in their elemental catagories, yippee!

Edited, Aug 1st 2008 4:16pm by Jemcrystal

Edited, Aug 15th 2008 11:49am by Jemcrystal

Thanks Warriorownage. Nice I got at least one reply to this post. IDK why only one though. I cannot image existing without mods. One would think it would be a hotter topic.

from curse.com i got Necrosis for my warlock - and i love it.

it puts everything my Warlock has in a more usable format, think flower with petals, click on the spell petal and all the spells appear, click on the demon petal and all demons appear - click the one you want and it calls it up, theres one to call up your mount, another to create and activate the soul stone, etc... i have at the center my shard count, but that can be modified

but be warned it talks to you, scared me to death the first time, i was home alone....... :)


quote from curse.com:

Given the months/years of play time and the number of players, i would have to say that every question abour WoW has been asked and answered on one board or another. But asking a person to read over 1000 pages in this forum alone is ridiculous. Yes some people are too lazy to do research even when there is a stickie, but some questions need repeating. Maybe you are suggesting that all forums be locked since we have already talked about everything., but I think that would be stupid.

As far as the OP Advanced Trade Skill Window (haven't learned to link yet, sorry) is the best. It tracks all your materials in your bags, bank and alts. You can search recipes that use a specific material and sort them based on difficulty for lvling






Edited, Jul 12th 2008 9:53pm by Planetman

Don't forget the AddOn of AddOn's: AUCTIONEER. Also Bartender3 for my action bars, cryolysis for my mage, even if the spelling is whacked.

Advanced TradeSkill Window
DoubleWide (doubles the size of your quest log)
LightHeaded (Adds info from WoWHead to your quest log)
Necrosis

among the ones said, i like to use (as of yesterday before the update):

Bongos3: Lets you arrange action buttons as you wish. And you can set up key combos as you like.

Improved Camera: because it is sometimes nice to be able to back the camera even farther back.

Titan Panel: because I can just glance at the info it tells me.


as you see i am way to lazy to link the add-ons. The way I see it, if you know where to get add-ons then you also know how to type the add-ons name in the SEARCH ADD-ON search most add-on sites have.

Thanks for a great thread. I'm new to WoW and new to the forums. I just recently got interested in these UI mods and this saved me a whole lot of trouble tring to figure out what mods to get and where to get em at.