A better set of addons and mods?

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

I'm sure this has been done to death, but I wonder if you guys would
comment on my choices:

Cosmos
Titan Panel
Auctioneer Advanced
Gatherer
Fishing Buddy EBA
AutoGrats
Autoding
LightHeaded
DoubleWide
TomTom

But I can't get map waypoints working in TomTom (conflict with Cosmos?)
and there's a lot of duplication. I took a look at CTMod but couldn't
fathom it.

What do you guys suggest given I want the following the most:

- a map with accurate co-ordinates that remembers where questgivers and
important places are between characters.

- the ability to create my own waypoints in an easy fashion.

- the ability to see friends and guildies on the map and mini-map.

- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

- empty bag slots shown for each bag.

- better tooltips and info for mobs, items, players, NPCs, etc.

- tracking of resource nodes.

- fishing autocast and records of catches.

- something to make my job as a healer easier (a favourite spec).

I don't care if it's one cohesive package or multiple mods. So long as
they play nice together I don't care. I'd love to hear what the top
players are using and would appreciate hearing about mods outside of my
above expectations. I'm sure I've not even begun to think of all the
possibilities :-)

TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet

P.S. I'm on a Mac so no .exe's please. Only zipped files I can install
manually.

[evankimori]

Ok I'll give up my list of addons to see if it'll help. I personally
never get UI clashes and crashes unless I download a bleeding edge
addon update and it breaks and fixes at the same time :P

Any addon listed with an indent is part of the previous one i.e. needs
it to work.

TitanPanel - Many addons, many widgets, all useful. :D
-Recount - DPS meter and recounts of deaths, CC breaks etc etc etc.
Everything but the kitchen sink.

Mobinfo - Great addon with updated database for health of mobs,
bosses, NPC's, their functions and abilities,
-Mobhealth including drops, role and class. EVERY
VENDOR IS A PALADIN! :P

Deadly Boss Mods - Timers for BG's, flag/node caps and boss abilities.
Nearly invaluable but useless when you know a fight by heart.

Cartographer - Map mod. Full map reveal. Integrates well with Gatherer
and CTMod and can memorize locations of NPC's if you set it to. VERY
useful for waypoints as well. Can be setup to show friends, guildies
and party members on main/minimap if you wish.

CTMod - Full package. I have ViewPoint and Mapmod off though because
Mapmod doesn't play nice with Cartographer or Atlas with the co-
ordinate addon. MapNotes is included for functionality.

AtlasLoot - Just this alone since Cartographer > Atlas. More
functionality plus FogLight widget = <3

PallyPower - Nuff said. Controls Pally Greater blessings for groups
and raids.

Grid - Easier healing group/raid addon ever. My guild swears by this.
I use it sparingly since I don't really heal any more but it's
workable.

FishingBuddy - Well you know this one. Not really a big fan of it
since I still like to do things manually in terms of Fishing but it's
great. www.elsangling.com is the Bible on all things Fishing
profession.

SpamMeNot - Well yeah. No more OMG BUY GOLD/PLZ RUN ME/PLZ BOOST
whispers.

If you don't use these, I wonder how you make money :P

Gatherer - Best database on all gatherable nodes in game. From Barrels
Of Milk to Kingsblood and Fel Lotus: add this addon plus the database
from www.gathereraddon.com and you've got gas.

Enchantrix - adds percentage based gather counts of possible
disenchants from items and even adds a Trade Barker function for
announcing what enchants you have.

Auctioneer

Omen - Threat meter.

OneBigBag - turns all your bags into a ginormous one. Bit overwhelming
if you work with a small monitor but for packrats like me: gold. :D

www.wowace.com has an installable package for Mac as well I believe if
you wish to get constant UI mod updates.

Otherwise, check out WoWMatrix. I now SWEAR by this addon because it
keeps everything in check, downloads updates and even tracks UI bug
errors for you!

[Cellulitis]

Post by evankimori
Ok I'll give up my list of addons to see if it'll help. I personally
never get UI clashes and crashes unless I download a bleeding edge
addon update and it breaks and fixes at the same time :P

I am not going to post the list of addons as it reaches 287 at the moment.

Notable ones are lightheaded, aloft, auctioneer advanced, gatherer,
cartographer and nquest.

Post by evankimori
Otherwise, check out WoWMatrix. I now SWEAR by this addon because it
keeps everything in check, downloads updates and even tracks UI bug
errors for you!

I have only just found this and it is bloody marvellous. MacAceUpdater
and WoWAceUpdater only update the ace addons. WoWMatix updates all the
others. There are some that haven't found their way onto the list yet,
but they do get added from time to time.

Using the Mazzle Interface, I do get a lot of errors after each patch.
WoWMatrix has slowed these down to a couple that are caused by mods
that have been rewritten for the mazzle installation, namely tinytip
and framexml.

[Urbin]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
I'm sure this has been done to death, but I wonder if you guys would

Personally, wherever possible, I'm using Ace based addons, as they are
(reputedly) more memory efficient and - for me the main reason - easily
updated using WowAceUpdater.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Cosmos

Don't know in detail what it all contains.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Titan Panel

Fubar

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Auctioneer Advanced

I use Auctioneer Classic but that is a matter of taste

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Gatherer

Cartographer and its plugins

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Fishing Buddy EBA

Haven't used fishing buddy since 2.0 - I just can't get it working and by
now, I can live without it

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
AutoGrats
Autoding

No idead what those two do in detail though I can guess by their names.
Don't use anything like it, so I can't make suggestions

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
LightHeaded
DoubleWide

I use those, too.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
TomTom

Cartographer covers most of it, I'm not using TomTom as I don't really need
the related feature in LightHeaded to click on coords to add waypoints.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
But I can't get map waypoints working in TomTom (conflict with Cosmos?)
and there's a lot of duplication. I took a look at CTMod but couldn't
fathom it.
- a map with accurate co-ordinates that remembers where questgivers and
important places are between characters.

Cartographer does this and much more.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- the ability to create my own waypoints in an easy fashion.

I'm not sure if it is a cartographer plugin or if I have a special waypoint
addon but I can do /way <x,y> and /noway

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- the ability to see friends and guildies on the map and mini-map.

Cartographer does this with the proper plugin (at least on the map, not sure
about minimap)

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

I use FastQuest and DoubleWide.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- empty bag slots shown for each bag.

There is a Fubar plugin to show total free slots, I have no need to see it
for each bag and don't know if there is an addon that does it

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- better tooltips and info for mobs, items, players, NPCs, etc.

MobInfo2

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- tracking of resource nodes.

Cartographer does this with the proper plugins

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- fishing autocast and records of catches.

I have no need for this anymore. I cust using a key binding and am not
really interested in recording my catches.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- something to make my job as a healer easier (a favourite spec).

I don't heal so I'm not that experienced but from what I hear a combination
of Grid and Clique seems to be what most serious healers use.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
I don't care if it's one cohesive package or multiple mods. So long as
they play nice together I don't care. I'd love to hear what the top
players are using and would appreciate hearing about mods outside of my
above expectations. I'm sure I've not even begun to think of all the
possibilities :-)

All addons I listed above work nicely on my machine (I'm using roughly 180+
of them).

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
P.S. I'm on a Mac so no .exe's please. Only zipped files I can install
manually.

I'm not sure whether there is a Mac-version of WoWAceUpdater or something
similar, but that is one of the nice things about Ace addons, the tool
checks my versions against those on their website (or even SVN repository?)
and lets me update them with one key press.

I'm sure there are Mac users who can answer this.

Cheers
Urbin

[Carl Warnell]

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure whether there is a Mac-version of WoWAceUpdater or something
similar, but that is one of the nice things about Ace addons, the tool
checks my versions against those on their website (or even SVN repository?)
and lets me update them with one key press.
I'm sure there are Mac users who can answer this.
Cheers
Urbin

WowMatrix seems to work fine as an addon updater for the Mac. There's a
Win version too.

[Urbin]

Post by Carl Warnell

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure whether there is a Mac-version of WoWAceUpdater or something
similar, but that is one of the nice things about Ace addons, the tool
checks my versions against those on their website (or even SVN repository?)
and lets me update them with one key press.
I'm sure there are Mac users who can answer this.

WowMatrix seems to work fine as an addon updater for the Mac. There's a
Win version too.

I had a quick look at it but it did not seem to work so I threw it out again
without investing a lot of time to get it running, as 80% of my addons are
covered by WowAceUpdater anyway.

But thanks for the information.

Cheers
Urbin

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Post by Urbin

Post by Carl Warnell

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure whether there is a Mac-version of WoWAceUpdater or
something similar, but that is one of the nice things about Ace
addons, the tool checks my versions against those on their website (or
even SVN repository?) and lets me update them with one key press.
I'm sure there are Mac users who can answer this.

WowMatrix seems to work fine as an addon updater for the Mac. There's a
Win version too.

I had a quick look at it but it did not seem to work so I threw it out again
without investing a lot of time to get it running, as 80% of my addons are
covered by WowAceUpdater anyway.
But thanks for the information.
Cheers
Urbin

What went wrong with it, if I may ask?

[Urbin]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet

Post by Urbin

Post by Carl Warnell

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure whether there is a Mac-version of WoWAceUpdater or
something similar, but that is one of the nice things about Ace
addons, the tool checks my versions against those on their website (or
even SVN repository?) and lets me update them with one key press.
I'm sure there are Mac users who can answer this.

WowMatrix seems to work fine as an addon updater for the Mac. There's a
Win version too.

I had a quick look at it but it did not seem to work so I threw it out again
without investing a lot of time to get it running, as 80% of my addons are
covered by WowAceUpdater anyway.
But thanks for the information.

What went wrong with it, if I may ask?

It did not update my addons and the config options were too un-intuitive for
me to bother making it work :-)

Cheers
Urbin

[Shammy]

U> It did not update my addons and the config options were too
U> un-intuitive for me to bother making it work :-)

I installed wowmartix last night first time, I didnt have to set up anything
not even 1 thing. I installed it, it immediatly saw all my addons and I just
pressed update all and I can say it did a great job, I never had my addons
so updated ^^ (I use wowaceupdater for most).

I remembered your post when I installed it cause you said it was hard to
setup, I wonder where your problem was?

[Urbin]

Post by Shammy
U> It did not update my addons and the config options were too
U> un-intuitive for me to bother making it work :-)
I installed wowmartix last night first time, I didnt have to set up anything
not even 1 thing. I installed it, it immediatly saw all my addons and I just
pressed update all and I can say it did a great job, I never had my addons
so updated ^^ (I use wowaceupdater for most).
I remembered your post when I installed it cause you said it was hard to
setup, I wonder where your problem was?

Hm, your feedback (and that of others who seemed surprised at my
difficulties) convinced me that I need to take another look at it :-)

Cheers
Urbin

[Urbin]

Post by Urbin

Post by Shammy
U> It did not update my addons and the config options were too
U> un-intuitive for me to bother making it work :-)
I installed wowmartix last night first time, I didnt have to set up anything
not even 1 thing. I installed it, it immediatly saw all my addons and I just
pressed update all and I can say it did a great job, I never had my addons
so updated ^^ (I use wowaceupdater for most).
I remembered your post when I installed it cause you said it was hard to
setup, I wonder where your problem was?

Hm, your feedback (and that of others who seemed surprised at my
difficulties) convinced me that I need to take another look at it :-)

Well, I went back tonight and downloaded the latest version of WoWMatrix and
got it to run instantly. No clue what went wrong last time.

I've set all the Ace addons to ignore as I somehow "trust" the WowAceUpdater
more, as it seems to show more consistent version numbers for the Ace
addons.

There is only one tiny flaw, I would like to see from which source it
updates the addons but I have not found a way to display that info.

Other than that, it looks neat, I'll see how it holds up.

Cheers
Urbin

[steve.kaye]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
I'm sure this has been done to death, but I wonder if you guys would
Cosmos

I really wouldn't use any addon packages like Cosmos anymore. Chances
are that you have lots of features that you don't even use and you
could get a much lighter solution by turning it off and seeing what
you are missing and get individual addons to do that. A lot of people
like packages too but it's up to you.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
But I can't get map waypoints working in TomTom (conflict with Cosmos?)
and there's a lot of duplication. I took a look at CTMod but couldn't
fathom it.
- a map with accurate co-ordinates that remembers where questgivers and
important places are between characters.
- the ability to create my own waypoints in an easy fashion.
- the ability to see friends and guildies on the map and mini-map.
- tracking of resource nodes.

All of these are covered by Cartographer and it's modules.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

QuestHelper tells you where you need to go to do the quests in your
log. It comes with a database of quests and adds to it if you do a
quest that it doesn't know about.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- something to make my job as a healer easier (a favourite spec).

Either Grid and Clique or Healbot are good healing addons. I use Grid
and Clique myself.

Cartographer + it's modules and Grid + it's modules are available at
www.wowace.com/files. You'll need to Google for Clique and
QuestHelper.

steve.kaye

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Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

QuestHelper tells you where you need to go to do the quests in your
log. It comes with a database of quests and adds to it if you do a
quest that it doesn't know about.

I use Tomtom with Lightheaded which is linked to wowhead, is QuestHelper
better?

[Urbin]

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Post by steve.kaye

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

QuestHelper tells you where you need to go to do the quests in your
log. It comes with a database of quests and adds to it if you do a
quest that it doesn't know about.

I use Tomtom with Lightheaded which is linked to wowhead, is QuestHelper
better?

QuestHelper doesn't come with the comments as LightHeaded does. So it does
not contain comments and suggestions of players.

What it does contain, is locations for a lot of the quests in the game, so
it can tell you where to go for a quest. It also calculates the most
efficient order in which to do and hand in quests, so you can minimise the
time lost in travelling.

Cheers
Urbin

[Nick Vargish]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Cosmos

I never used the Cosmos package, but I used to use CT_Mod stuff. I've
since replaced all the functionality I cared about with smaller
individual add-ons.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Titan Panel

I use FuBar instead of TitanPanel. I used to use Titan, but Fubar is
nicer in many ways.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Auctioneer Advanced
Gatherer
Fishing Buddy EBA

I'm using those three with no problems.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
AutoGrats
Autoding

Argh, I hate that kind of thing. If you can't be bothered to type it
yourself, why should I be bothered with typing messages to you?

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
LightHeaded
DoubleWide
TomTom

I'm not using DoubleWide, but LightHeaded and TomTom are working fine
with Cartographer.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a map with accurate co-ordinates that remembers where questgivers and
important places are between characters.
- the ability to create my own waypoints in an easy fashion.

Cartographer has the above functions.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- the ability to see friends and guildies on the map and mini-map.

I used to have something that did this, but I must have deleted it
along the way at some point.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?

LightHeaded includes comments from WoWhead, is that not what you
wanted?

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- better tooltips and info for mobs, items, players, NPCs, etc.

EnhancedTooltip comes with Auctioneer, and lets various mods add
information to the extended tooltip. For example, Altoholic tells you
how many of a given item your alts have, when you mouse hover over the
item.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- tracking of resource nodes.

Gatherer does this for me.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- fishing autocast and records of catches.

FishingBuddy does this.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- something to make my job as a healer easier (a favourite spec).

I use PitBull unit frames. For raid unit frames you can make them
quite small. I used to use Grid, but found managing two different unit
frame mods kind of a hassle (and Grid doesn't show enough info in
5-mans for my taste -- I like to know what the other party members are
casting, for example).

I use an Ace mod called Click2Cast to set up click binds for various
healing spells... Ctr-Click on a unit frame casts Renew, Shift-Click
casts Flash Heal, Shift-Ctr-Click does Greater heal, etc. This lets me
cast heals and cleanses on team mates with a single "chord", making me
a more responsive healer than I could be using a select-keypress
sequence.

The downside to Click2Cast is the fairly primitive interface for
setting up the bindings. Clique has a *much* nicer interface that is
elegantly linked into the spellbook interface. The reason I use
Click2Cast instead is because C2C is an Ace addon, and uses fewer
system resources than Clique.

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
P.S. I'm on a Mac so no .exe's please. Only zipped files I can install
manually.

I play on both a Mac and a Windows/Linux box. I use a program called
WUU (WoW UI Updater) from http://wuu.vagabonds.info/menu.php to keep
my addons up-to-date. It's written in Python, and runs on both Win and
Mac platforms.

If you're curious about my loadout, I keep a text file of my addons at
http://nick.vargish.org/wow/wow-addons.txt

Nick

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Nick Vargish <nav+***@bandersnatch.org> wrote:
[snip]

Post by Nick Vargish
I play on both a Mac and a Windows/Linux box. I use a program called
WUU (WoW UI Updater) from http://wuu.vagabonds.info/menu.php to keep
my addons up-to-date. It's written in Python, and runs on both Win and
Mac platforms.
If you're curious about my loadout, I keep a text file of my addons at
http://nick.vargish.org/wow/wow-addons.txt
Nick

Hey, very help response there - thank you Nick :-)

[Nick Vargish]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
Hey, very help response there - thank you Nick :-)

Happy to make WoW even more enjoyable...

NB, I've started using WoWmatrix for automated mod updates both on
WinXP and Mac OS X... It's just more polished than WUU, levelling
guide adds aside. :-)

Nick

[Majestick]

I am looking for a mod that places your health and mana bars to either
side of you character, like a HUD. I have seen it before and I never
knew what it was called. I also wanted to get the mod that changes you
combat text to an almost 60's batman show. When you miss you get a
swish or something like that. Any ideas?

also, does anyone here have any exoeriance with the curse client? Is
it worth it?

[steve.kaye]

Post by Majestick
I am looking for a mod that places your health and mana bars to either
side of you character, like a HUD. I have seen it before and I never
knew what it was called.

IceHUD, MetaHUD, AceHUD, DHUD. There are many versions. I use IceHUD
myself.

Post by Majestick
I also wanted to get the mod that changes you
combat text to an almost 60's batman show. When you miss you get a
swish or something like that. Any ideas?

Don't know about that one. Although I'm sure I've seen it.

steve.kaye

[Marco Dieckhoff]

Post by Majestick
I am looking for a mod that places your health and mana bars to either
side of you character, like a HUD. I have seen it before and I never
knew what it was called.

IceHUD?

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Post by Majestick
I also wanted to get the mod that changes you
combat text to an almost 60's batman show. When you miss you get a
swish or something like that. Any ideas?

Scrolling Combat Text?

Loading Image...

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Post by Majestick
also, does anyone here have any exoeriance with the curse client? Is
it worth it?

I tried it, but as I mostly use Ace Addons, i'm well with the WoW
Ace Updater.

I'll just have to update Auctioneer and Clique (my only
non-ace-Addons - at least I hope so ;)) manually from time
to time.

[Urbin]

Post by Marco Dieckhoff

Post by Majestick
I also wanted to get the mod that changes you
combat text to an almost 60's batman show. When you miss you get a
swish or something like that. Any ideas?

Scrolling Combat Text?
http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw5648.jpg
http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/69381/SCT2_qjpreviewth.jpg

I'm not sure if that's what he meant. I recall seeing an addon once that put
in comic like "bang" graphics when you crit etc. The OP might look for this.
Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

Cheers
Urbin

[Matt]

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure if that's what he meant. I recall seeing an addon once that put
in comic like "bang" graphics when you crit etc. The OP might look for this.
Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

Comix?

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http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8305/

--
Regards
Matt

[Urbin]

Post by Matt

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure if that's what he meant. I recall seeing an addon once that put
in comic like "bang" graphics when you crit etc. The OP might look for this.
Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

Comix?
http://media.curse.com/adjust_images/resize/750x500/25/770.jpg
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8305/

Exactly, that's the one I had stumbled across. Don't know if it is what the
OP has been looking for, but still...

Cheers
Urbin

[pv+ (PV)]

Post by Urbin
I'm not sure if that's what he meant. I recall seeing an addon once that put
in comic like "bang" graphics when you crit etc. The OP might look for this.
Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

The late, lamented critman. I don't think it works anymore. *

[Urbin]

Post by Nick Vargish
If you're curious about my loadout, I keep a text file of my addons at
http://nick.vargish.org/wow/wow-addons.txt

Well, here's mine:

Fitzwidget
----------
GFW_FeedOMatic Helps feed the hunter's pet
GFW_Gemologist Show what gems can drop from what mines
GFW_HuntersHelper Knows about beast abilities and taming
GFW_Linkerator Create links while typing in chat
GFW_ReagentCost Tells you about cost of crafting professions

Urbin's addons (my own)
-----------------------
DeathCount Count number of deaths on each level
Factionizer Tells you how to improve reputation
GuildGreet Manages mains and alts and helps you greet them
UrbinRange Range frame
UrbinTargetTarget Target of Target frame in Blizzard style
FuBar_UrbinAlarm Alarm clock plugin with alarm sound

Ace
---
Ace2
Babble-2.2
BanzaiLib
CandyBar
Cartographer Mapping addon
Cartographer_Fishing Track fishing pools
Cartographer_Herbalism Track herbs
Cartographer_Icons
Cartographer_Mailboxes Track mailboxes
Cartographer_Mining Track mining nodes
Cartographer_Noteshare Share notes with guild mates
Cartographer_Quests Track quest givers
Cartographer_Routes
Cartographer_Stats
Cartographer_Trainers Track trainers
Cartographer_Treasure Track chests
Cartographer_Vendors Track vendors
Chronometer Show spell durations
ClosetGnome Gear switching
CompostLib
Cosplay Add "undress" button to dressing frame
CrayonLib
Deformat
DelMapa Remove minimap zoom buttons, use mouse wheel
DeuceCommander
DewdropLib
DrDamage Show damage stats on action buttons
FuBar Status and information bars
FuBar_AddOnsFu
FuBar_AmmoFu Ammo/Soulshard count
FuBar_BagFu Bag space indication
FuBar_ClockFu Current time
FuBar_DurabilityFu Durability display
FuBar_ExperienceFu XP tracking
FuBar_FarmerFu Tracking items being farmed
FuBar_GarbageFu Track grey items, auto sell them, drop them
FuBar_LocationFu Zone information
FuBar_LootTypeFu Looting mode display
FuBar_MoneyFu Money display
FuBar_PerformanceFu fps, latency, memory display
FuBar_PetInFu Pet information
FuBar_QuestsFu Quest tracking
FuBar_RestFu Rest XP of all chars
FuBar_SpeedFu Run/riding speed
FuBar_TopScoreFu Highest dmg and crit tracking
FuBar_TradeCDFu Tracking crafting professions cooldown
FuBar_TrainerFu Let's you know when new skills can be trained
GemHelper Search for gems by stats, colour, rarity
GratuityLib
Incubator Respawn tracker
JostleLib
MBB Collects minimap buttons in one button
MendWatch Track PoM
Metrognome
Omen Threat meter
oRA2 Raiding information
PaintChipsLib
ProximityLib
Quixote
RatingBuster Add detail info to spell tooltips
RosterLib
sct, sctd Scrolling combat text
SendSelf Auto fill of alt names in mailbox
Sheppard Track CCed mobs
Skillet Crafting interface
SpellBinder Binding spells without using action buttons
sRaidFrames Raid frames
SurfaceLib
TabletLib
Talented Talent point interface supporting profiles
Threat-2.0
TouristLib
WhoDrop Loot database
WitchHunt Show enemy spells being cast
XLoot, XLootMonitor Tracking loot

Other
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aggro Play sound on gaining aggro
Altoholic Track alt information
AuctioneerClassic Auction house package
AuctionFilterPlus Filtering at the AH
Beastmaster Managing your pet
BLASCProfiler Profiling char data
CensusPlus Profiling realm population
ClassIcons Showing class icons on portraits
Clique Click casting
CorpseInfo Show info on corpses
CT_MailMod Mailbox improvements
DBM Deadly Boss Mods
DoubleWide Quest log enhancement
DruidBar Track mana when shape shifted
EquipCompare Compare items to what you wear
Examiner Imroved inspection UI
FastQuest_Classic Quest log enhancement
FGTradeLacker List missing recipes
FlightMap Show flight path info in map
GatherSage Show what can drop from gathering nodes
GemWatch Show gems and their colours in equipment
GrimoireKeeper Improved demon trainer interface
ImprovedBuffTimers Improved buff timer display
ItemLevel Add item level to item tooltips
LightHeaded Quest comment database from Wowhead
LootCounter Loot count plugin for sct
LootHog Tracks the group's rolls
MinimapRange Show attack range on minimap
MobInfo2 Track mob health, drops etc
NoDuel Decline duels
Ogri'Lazy Tracks Ogri'la "Senso" game
Possessions Track alt's inventories
QuestHelper Suggest order of questing
RecipeBook Track known recipes across alts
Restock Automatically buy at vendors
SmartBuff Easy buffing
SmartDebuff Easy cleansing
TargetCheck Who targets my target
TrinityBars2 Bar mod
TWFocus Focus frame
VendorBags Open all bags at vendors, AH, bank

Cheers
Urbin

[Trooper]

In article <***@stinky.trash.net>, ***@invalid.invalid
says...

Post by Urbin
Urbin's addons (my own)
-----------------------
DeathCount Count number of deaths on each level

I'd be quite interested in this if you have it uploaded anywhere? I
love random facts and figures :)

I'd also like an addon that tracks how long you spent on each level, how
much of each level was spent in a rested state etc... It would be nice
if there was some way to automatically filter out time now spent
questing, but I can't think of a good way to do that.

Don't suppose you fancy writing one or know of one that already does
this? :)

T.

[Urbin]

Post by Trooper
says...

Post by Urbin
Urbin's addons (my own)
-----------------------
DeathCount Count number of deaths on each level

I'd be quite interested in this if you have it uploaded anywhere? I
love random facts and figures :)

You can find it by searching for its name on Curse, alternatively you can
get it from http://www.ursbeeli.ch/m_addons.shtml

Post by Trooper
I'd also like an addon that tracks how long you spent on each level, how
much of each level was spent in a rested state etc... It would be nice
if there was some way to automatically filter out time now spent
questing, but I can't think of a good way to do that.

I don't know how you would decide whether you're questing or not, so at
least that information would be hard to determine.

Post by Trooper
Don't suppose you fancy writing one or know of one that already does
this? :)

No and no, I'm sorry ;-)

Cheers
Urbin

[steve.kaye]

 If you're curious about my loadout, I keep a text file of my addons at
 http://nick.vargish.org/wow/wow-addons.txt

Ace
---
ClosetGnome             Gear switching

I had to ditch this addon due to a few annoying features.

1. You couldn't update a set once you got rid of an item in it. You
need to update the set before you sell an item otherwise you'd have to
delete and re-create the set. Unfortunately, enchanting, gemming and
adding armour patches all count as losing an item and getting a new
one. Very annoying.

2. The mount addon remembered the set that you wore before you
mounted up and then reapplied that set when you unmounted. I like to
put default trinkets in my sets and then change them with trinketmenu
as I decide another would be better. My default trinkets would always
be equiped when I dismounted. Less annoying but an irritation all the
same.

FuBar_LocationFu Zone information

Does this work properly for you? Recently, the option to put it in
the bar (rather than as a minimap button) is not present so I have to
hover over it to see what sub zone I'm in.

FuBar_PetInFu           Pet information

I might have to look into that one for my hunter. I assume that it
gives pet hapiness as something to tell you about. I have Pitbull
which changes the colour of the pet health bar according to happiness
but I'm colourblind and the colour difference between happy green and
content yellow is not enough for me to be sure which it is currently
so I feed him too much. (he's getting a bit fat :P)

MBB                     Collects minimap buttons in one button

This looks interesting - I hate minimap buttons. :)

Talented                Talent point interface supporting profiles

This addon is fantastice in my opinion. It had one flaw in that it
wouldn't load the Talented_Data whenever a new patch came out even
though that patch might not have affected any talents. Then I
discovered the option to turn this off and it became almost perfect.

WitchHunt               Show enemy spells being cast

I'm thinking about dropping this addon now. It's almost useless in
BGs because the range is too large. I can be at a node in AB and
WitchHunt is scrolling messages by and I can see that I'm completely
alone. :( It's getting so that I ignore those messages so I may as
well not have them as a distraction.

MinimapRange            Show attack range on minimap

:)

steve.kaye

[Urbin]

Post by steve.kaye

ClosetGnome =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Gear switching

I had to ditch this addon due to a few annoying features.
1. You couldn't update a set once you got rid of an item in it. You
need to update the set before you sell an item otherwise you'd have to
delete and re-create the set. Unfortunately, enchanting, gemming and
adding armour patches all count as losing an item and getting a new
one. Very annoying.

I have also observed, that enchanting and gemming an item confuses
ClosetGnome. However, I just shift-click the set to edit it, drag the item
from my inventory to the bags and then equip it again, save the set and
prest, it's all working again.

Post by steve.kaye
2. The mount addon remembered the set that you wore before you
mounted up and then reapplied that set when you unmounted. I like to
put default trinkets in my sets and then change them with trinketmenu
as I decide another would be better. My default trinkets would always
be equiped when I dismounted. Less annoying but an irritation all the
same.

I've long ago decided that two normal trinkets plus the riding one is enough
hassle for me, so I don't have any need to switch around trinkets after
dismounting.

However, you can define a "mount" set an a "dismount" set. What if you
define your "dismount" set to include all slots *except* the trinket slots.
This way, when dismounting, ClosetGnome would not touch any of your trinkets
and you could leave this job to TrinketMenu...

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_LocationFu Zone information

Does this work properly for you? Recently, the option to put it in
the bar (rather than as a minimap button) is not present so I have to
hover over it to see what sub zone I'm in.

I haven't noticed any problems.

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_PetInFu =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Pet information

I might have to look into that one for my hunter. I assume that it
gives pet hapiness as something to tell you about. I have Pitbull
which changes the colour of the pet health bar according to happiness
but I'm colourblind and the colour difference between happy green and
content yellow is not enough for me to be sure which it is currently
so I feed him too much. (he's getting a bit fat :P)

Yes, it does show loyalty and happiness, but as far as I know you can't show
it on Fubar, it's only visible in the tooltip when you hover over the
"PetInfo" slot on the bar. I guess that would be ok for you to check whether
it's happy or content but you would need to consciously check for it.

Post by steve.kaye

MBB =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Collects minimap buttons in on=

e button
This looks interesting - I hate minimap buttons. :)

Same here, apart from the tracking button and the mail icon, my minimap is
totally button free :-)

Post by steve.kaye

WitchHunt =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Show enemy spells being cast

I'm thinking about dropping this addon now. It's almost useless in
BGs because the range is too large. I can be at a node in AB and
WitchHunt is scrolling messages by and I can see that I'm completely
alone. :( It's getting so that I ignore those messages so I may as
well not have them as a distraction.

I had similar problems after the last patch. My first trip was to the isle
of quel'das and WitchHunt covered my screen with all the buffs and debuffs
of everyone close to me. I have now set it to only consider my target and to
only work during combat. Now it's quite useful, again.

Post by steve.kaye

MinimapRange =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Show attack range on minimap

:)

Parental pride? ;-)

Cheers
Urbin

[steve.kaye]

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye

ClosetGnome =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Gear switching

I had to ditch this addon due to a few annoying features.
1. You couldn't update a set once you got rid of an item in it. You
need to update the set before you sell an item otherwise you'd have to
delete and re-create the set. Unfortunately, enchanting, gemming and
adding armour patches all count as losing an item and getting a new
one. Very annoying.

I have also observed, that enchanting and gemming an item confuses
ClosetGnome. However, I just shift-click the set to edit it, drag the item
from my inventory to the bags and then equip it again, save the set and
prest, it's all working again.

Maybe it's fixed now then because that definately didn't work when I
decided to change addons.

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye
2. The mount addon remembered the set that you wore before you
mounted up and then reapplied that set when you unmounted. I like to
put default trinkets in my sets and then change them with trinketmenu
as I decide another would be better. My default trinkets would always
be equiped when I dismounted. Less annoying but an irritation all the
same.

I've long ago decided that two normal trinkets plus the riding one is enough
hassle for me, so I don't have any need to switch around trinkets after
dismounting.

I have lots of trinkets :) I love the trinket queue feature of
trinket menu along with a macro to always try to use the top trinket
on my main attack button. My rogue has three +AP on use trinkets that
cycle round at the end of each fight.

Post by Urbin
However, you can define a "mount" set an a "dismount" set. What if you
define your "dismount" set to include all slots *except* the trinket slots.
This way, when dismounting, ClosetGnome would not touch any of your trinkets
and you could leave this job to TrinketMenu...

I don't have a class that has only one set. At the very least I have
a normal set and a pvp set. My priest has pvp, healing and dps and my
druid has pvp (feral), pvp (healer), dps, healing and two tanking sets
(and is short on bag and bank space :P).

It doesn't matter though as I really like Outfitter now that I've
switched to it.

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_LocationFu Zone information

Does this work properly for you? Recently, the option to put it in
the bar (rather than as a minimap button) is not present so I have to
hover over it to see what sub zone I'm in.

I haven't noticed any problems.

I'll debug it then to see what the problem is.

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye

MBB =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Collects minimap buttons in on=

e button
This looks interesting - I hate minimap buttons. :)

Same here, apart from the tracking button and the mail icon, my minimap is
totally button free :-)

Mine has the tracking button, mail, swstats and locationfu (see
previous problem). SWStats and LocationFu bug me. I keep meaning to
look for an option to remove the swstats button and to debug
LocationFu to see what the problem is.

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye

WitchHunt =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Show enemy spells being cast

I'm thinking about dropping this addon now. It's almost useless in
BGs because the range is too large. I can be at a node in AB and
WitchHunt is scrolling messages by and I can see that I'm completely
alone. :( It's getting so that I ignore those messages so I may as
well not have them as a distraction.

I had similar problems after the last patch. My first trip was to the isle
of quel'das and WitchHunt covered my screen with all the buffs and debuffs
of everyone close to me. I have now set it to only consider my target and to
only work during combat. Now it's quite useful, again.

Yeah, but if I only set it to work on my target in combat then
IceHUD's casting bar is good enough for me.

Post by Urbin

Post by steve.kaye

MinimapRange Show attack range on minimap

:)

Parental pride? ;-)

I'm surprised to find someone that uses it really. I only did the one
release plus bug fixes and it was because someone made the mod
suggestion on the wowace forums and I thought that it would be
interesting to do.

I never use it myself although I've thought that it would be useful in
those raid encounters that need you to keep a certain distance from
other players. I'd find it easier to read than DBM which just tells
me who to move away from - I don't know how far away they are from me
and which direction I need to move to go further away (I do know how
much health they have though :P)

I've thought about updating it to detect inside/outside better based
on suggestions on the forum and some people suggested adding multiple
circles which I could also do.

steve.kaye

[Urbin]

Post by steve.kaye

Post by Urbin

MinimapRange Show attack range on minimap

:)

Parental pride? ;-)

I'm surprised to find someone that uses it really.

Hehe, I tried it when you mentioned it here quite some time ago. It's not
something I use a lot but every once in a while it's useful, especially with
my hunter to see how far away certain tracking dots are.

And as it is slim and unobtrusive, I just kept it for those occasions.

Post by steve.kaye
I've thought about updating it to detect inside/outside better based
on suggestions on the forum and some people suggested adding multiple
circles which I could also do.

While the inside/outside thing would be nice, I'm not sure I would want
multiple circles, as I'm afraid it might be "too much" information in a
small space...

Cheers
Urbin

[Miikka]

Post by steve.kaye

ClosetGnome             Gear switching

I had to ditch this addon due to a few annoying features.
1. You couldn't update a set once you got rid of an item in it. You
need to update the set before you sell an item otherwise you'd have to
delete and re-create the set. Unfortunately, enchanting, gemming and
adding armour patches all count as losing an item and getting a new
one. Very annoying.

Hmm. I can. :) If you got a rid of an item from a set, I usually just
doubleclick on the set and it asks to update/add it. If you don't change
the name it'll just update the set. Now the item slot in question is
circled with a yellow color to indicate a missing item, just add a new
piece to it and right click it back to green (or red if you don't want
anything in it.) This is somewhat confusing way of updating compared to
Outfitter or ItemRack though, but still works when you get used to it.

And for counting differently gemmed and enchanted item a different piece
it's actually very good feature. Occasionally for example I have 2 same
pieces, one gemmed for dps and one for tanking for example and it's
good that it can differentiate between them.

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_LocationFu Zone information

Does this work properly for you? Recently, the option to put it in
the bar (rather than as a minimap button) is not present so I have to
hover over it to see what sub zone I'm in.

Hmm, strange. All the FuBar addons should be able to be set to the
bar. I'm mostly using Ace addons nowadays, and the only 2 things on
my minimap are Trinity's config button and the Blizzard default tracking
button.

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_PetInFu           Pet information

Hmm, if there's a difference between PetInFu and PetInfoFu, then I
don't know about that one. I've used PetInfoFu and with it you can
see in it's tooltip everything you would really need to know about
your pet and for the FuBar part it can show for example your pet's
happiness level in numbers and I think for example the experience
level and gain if you want.

[Vahn]

Post by Miikka

FuBar_PetInFu Pet information

Hmm, if there's a difference between PetInFu and PetInfoFu, then I
don't know about that one. I've used PetInfoFu and with it you can
see in it's tooltip everything you would really need to know about
your pet and for the FuBar part it can show for example your pet's
happiness level in numbers and I think for example the experience
level and gain if you want.

From what I've seen, no... no difference. Unless I'm missing some
minor detail other than the name.

[steve.kaye]

Post by Miikka

Post by steve.kaye

ClosetGnome             Gear switching

I had to ditch this addon due to a few annoying features.
1. You couldn't update a set once you got rid of an item in it.  You
need to update the set before you sell an item otherwise you'd have to
delete and re-create the set.  Unfortunately, enchanting, gemming and
adding armour patches all count as losing an item and getting a new
one.  Very annoying.

Hmm. I can. :) If you got a rid of an item from a set, I usually just
doubleclick on the set and it asks to update/add it. If you don't change
the name it'll just update the set. Now the item slot in question is
circled with a yellow color to indicate a missing item, just add a new
piece to it and right click it back to green (or red if you don't want
anything in it.) This is somewhat confusing way of updating compared to
Outfitter or ItemRack though, but still works when you get used to it.

Maybe that's a recent feature then. It certainly didn't do that when
I used it. I'm using Outfitter now and I much prefer it's UI so I'll
stick with that.

Post by Miikka
And for counting differently gemmed and enchanted item a different piece
it's actually very good feature. Occasionally for example I have 2 same
pieces, one gemmed for dps and one for tanking for example and it's
good that it can differentiate between them.

I can see how it would be a good feature and the only reason why I
didn't like it was because of the bug I mentioned. I've yet to have
more than one of the an item gemmed differently so I wouldn't know if
that works on Outfitter but I have had one item multiple times with
only one being soulbound and it didn't try to equip a non-soulbound
item.

Post by Miikka

Post by steve.kaye

FuBar_LocationFu        Zone information

Does this work properly for you?  Recently, the option to put it in
the bar (rather than as a minimap button) is not present so I have to
hover over it to see what sub zone I'm in.

Hmm, strange. All the FuBar addons should be able to be set to the
bar. I'm mostly using Ace addons nowadays, and the only 2 things on
my minimap are Trinity's config button and the Blizzard default tracking
button.

Yeah, I know. It used to work but now doesn't. I wonder if it is a
bug in Fubar as I've looked in LocationFu and I can't find any code to
do that part (as I'd expect - I'd expect it to be in the Fubar bit of
code). There is also a bug with Omen where it won't go in the bar
either - that also used to work. I might just look for all lua files
in my WTF folder and delete them. Most of them are information addons
anyway and won't take much re-configuration to fix.

It's annoying that LocationFu isn't working for me as it's almost
useless as a minimap button.

steve.kaye

[steve.kaye]

Post by Miikka
Hmm, strange. All the FuBar addons should be able to be set to the
bar. I'm mostly using Ace addons nowadays, and the only 2 things on
my minimap are Trinity's config button and the Blizzard default tracking
button.

Yeah, I know.  It used to work but now doesn't.  I wonder if it is a
bug in Fubar as I've looked in LocationFu and I can't find any code to
do that part (as I'd expect - I'd expect it to be in the Fubar bit of
code).  There is also a bug with Omen where it won't go in the bar
either - that also used to work.  I might just look for all lua files
in my WTF folder and delete them.  Most of them are information addons
anyway and won't take much re-configuration to fix.

Turns out to be user error. When FuBar 2 came out they named it
FuBar2 you needed a mod to pretend to be FuBar so that addons that
plugged into FuBar would work with it. I still had that mod but when
they released FuBar 3 they named the folder FuBar but I didn't get it
because I already had a FuBar folder.

So, the short story is that I had Fubar 2 when I needed FuBar 3 for
three of my addons.

steve.kaye

[Catriona R]

Post by Urbin
Factionizer Tells you how to improve reputation

Out of interest, did you manage to fix the taint issues on that addon? I
loved it but had to stop using it some time back because my warlock never
got a petbar in BGs :-/

[Urbin]

Post by Catriona R

Post by Urbin
Factionizer Tells you how to improve reputation

Out of interest, did you manage to fix the taint issues on that addon? I
loved it but had to stop using it some time back because my warlock never
got a petbar in BGs :-/

As I have never had a taint issue with it, I don't really have much luck
fixing it. Why don't you try the latest version and let me know here, if
it's fixed or not. Maybe, with some direct discussion (we can take that to
e-mail) I'll be able to fix it with your help.

Cheers
Urbin

[Catriona R]

Post by Urbin

Post by Catriona R

Post by Urbin
Factionizer Tells you how to improve reputation

Out of interest, did you manage to fix the taint issues on that addon? I
loved it but had to stop using it some time back because my warlock never
got a petbar in BGs :-/

As I have never had a taint issue with it, I don't really have much luck
fixing it. Why don't you try the latest version and let me know here, if
it's fixed or not. Maybe, with some direct discussion (we can take that to
e-mail) I'll be able to fix it with your help.

Will give that a shot soon, still trying to diagnose a persistent
intermittent addon problem I've had ever since 2.4, so I'm keeping to a
bare minimum of mods now, but if I ever get confident that I've fixed that
issue I'll test Factioniser again :-)

[Vahn]

Post by Jamie Kahn Genet
- a map with accurate co-ordinates that remembers where questgivers and
important places are between characters.
- the ability to see friends and guildies on the map and mini-map.
- a better quest log than blizzard's. I'd kill for one with built-in
Thottbot browsing! Does that exist at all?
- empty bag slots shown for each bag.
- better tooltips and info for mobs, items, players, NPCs, etc.

1) Cartographer, and it's multitude of additional addons
[cartographer_guild for guild tracking, haven't looked for friends -
although, guildies will have to have the addon installed as well]

2) Lightheaded [might need the alliance/horde data folders to view the
WoWhead comments, not exactly thotbott... but I prefer wowhead as of
recent] or Uberquest [very nice, customizable quest tracking display]
Unfortunately you can't use them both at once. I've just recently
swapped to Lightheaded and resorted to using the default blizzard
quest tracking system [simpleminimap lets me move it where I want it]

3) Onebag

4) TinyTip + Informant