World of Warcraft recommended addons – 9

2007-12-31

ancient outdated notes

World of Warcraft recommended addons >

The last stable set of AddOns.

NOTE: I have two characters which I frequent:

  • Gnome, Warlock, Engineering, Jewelcrafting

  • Draenei, Shaman, Skinning (375), Leatherworking

So this list will be maintained according to those needs. If you wish to recommend something else, please do though. I can maintain separate lists for other combinations of AddOns. I cannot, however, keep any other combination of race-class-profession up-to-date since I can’t really properly continuously-test those other AddOns.

I’ve been fiddling around with AddOns without updating this document, so it’s time to start a new revision and wipe things clean and start over. I’ll be doing that eventually, but right now I’m just manually reconfiguring things.

Chatter ∞

All the bugs are being ironed out and I’m still choosing better variations of some AddOns.

Addons I am using ∞

Ace was updated using the WowAceUpdater on 2008-08-13 evening.

: To update: Run the WowAceUpdater and press F10. Give it some time and it’ll refresh itself. It won’t tell you when it’s done. When it says ‘Ready...‘ at the bottom, then you can exit it.

Cosmos was updated on 2008-08-08 afternoon.

: To update: Run the Cosmos patcher and click ‘Patch Cosmos‘. Wait for a long long time. When it’s done a popup will appear which displays the list of AddOns which can be updated. Click ‘Continue Update‘. Wait for a long long time, again. When that’s done, click ‘Exit‘.

Everything else was re-checked by hand on 2008-08-08 morning.

Essential: Used frequently and fundamental to gameplay ∞

Significant functionality improvements, Knowledgebase, Automation, etc.

  • [http://www.cosmosui.org/] Cosmos — various AddOns, see the main Cosmos topic for more details.

  • Unit Frames Replacements:

    • {{ace}} StellarBars /stellarbars — Instead of a complete replacement this is a modification to the standard Unit Frames. Does out of range colouring and the display of XP.

    • ALSO: Cosmos has a nice UnitFrames replacement, and check out Archaeologist for all kinds of good features. Currently bugged for XP display but that’s minor. Also has PartyCastingBars to see what your party is casting.

      • Issues with my pet’s debuffs appearing twice. Probably a configuration thing.
    • backup?: {{ace}} [http://wow.aspide.it/ AlarTTFrame] /ATT gui — Shows your target of target in a nice way. But it’s a bit of a duplication and I can’t remember how to turn off the mini TOT that I have. I won’t use it because it has a big space-wasting notifier of the class/race of the person targetted. Fooey.
    • backup?: {{ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/StellarUF StellarUF] /stellaruf — UnitFrames replacement. Too small, too odd. Doesn’t display the voice chat stuff. Handles the flight timer nicely. It just seems awkward to me, and using it messed me up so often so I stopped using it. It does a nice cooldown timer.

    • Obsoleted by StellarBars: {{Ace}} [http://wow.aspide.it/modules/AlarMods/AlarArtRemover.html AlarArtRemover] /aar gui — Removes the nonessential art.

  • Cooldown Timer

    • {{Ace}} Quartz is nice for cooldown bars. I’m using it now. It uses the cooldown timer from whatever flight helper to display a flight cooldown.
    • backup?: {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=6207.0 Hourglass]

    • backup?: [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5338-CandyDice.html CandyDice]

  • {{ace}} (Warlock) [http://wowace.com/wiki/EeShards eeShards] — A very nice and simple AddOn to manage shards.

    • backup: {{Ace}} [http://files.wowace.com/ShardStatus/ ShardStatus]

      • It could be more simple, and it doesn’t need a UI really, but it’s nice enough.

  • {{ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/BulkMail2 BulkMail2] /bm autosend edit (or /bulkmail) — facilitate the mailing of multiple items to one or more recipients.

  • {{ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/BulkMail2Inbox BulkMail2Inbox] /bmi gui — facilitate the management of your inbox, specifically providing functions to aid in the handling of multiple items in ones inbox

    • Oh. My. God.

  • {{ace}} BugSack /bugsack — Grabs those stupid popup errors and throws them in a sack for later review.

    • [http://wowacereview.wordpress.com/addons/misc/bugsack/ a review of BugSack]

    • Also install !BugGrabber

  • {{ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/Avion Avion] and AvionDefaultMedia — Visual event notification. Awesome.

  • {{Ace}} [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=6770 SellOMatic] /som — Nice and simple seller. Doesn’t actually tell you when you have stuff to sell, it just shows the sell button.

    • backup: [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=3809 AutoprofitX] — Sell off your junk items. This one gives you a notification when there’s something to sell.
    • backup: {{Ace}} AceProfit — makes it easy to sell junk items to vendors, based on AutoProfit. FuBar plugin available.

    • backup: {{Ace}} SellJunk

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5108-Clique.html Clique] r92 /clique (use the new spellbook tab) — Allows you to easily assign key-click combinations to click on a UnitFrame to cast an assigned spell at them without losing focus. Very useful for healing and curing.

  • [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=2092 Advanced Trade Skill Window] 13/11/2007 069-1194989826 — Replacement tradeskill window to help automate item manufacture. Stop worrying about what requirements need to be made to make what. It also understands what’s on your alts too.

    • backup?: {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/Skillet Skillet]

    • backup?: {{Ace}} [http://wowinterface.com/downloads/info6407-StitchUI.html StitchUI]

  • Baud Bag 1.296

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html LightHeaded] r177 /lh — Quest helper.

    • /lh sound
    • to update: download the new one, unzip it in that directory. Then for every directory that appears go to your AddOns folder and delete the matching folder. Then move the newly-unpacked folders over.

    • Supports/recommends DoubleWide. I can’t believe I did questing the old way. This helps remind me where the heck stuff actually is. Clickable stuff to give you waypoints and everything. It ought to suggest waypoints in an easier way though. Some kind of summary of all waypoints suggested in all comments.

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7032-TomTom.html] TomTom r69 — Map helper.

    • Simple waypoints. I think that it can’t be replaced because it’s needed by LightHeaded, but it seems to work ok in concert with Cartographer. At any rate, I do use the two together so that I can click coord links and make waypoints and marks. I end up doing /noway to remove waypoints and I’m left with simple waypoint dots and not the big overhead arrow.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/4116/ MapNotes] v4.12.20300 — For adding notes to your map.

    • The only additional enhancement I could think of would be PROPER maps and not just notes over the default garbage ones.

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4259-AutoBuffEmerald.html AutoBuff] /autobuff 20100-3 {{red|Cannot buff both weapons.}} {{orange|Cannot hide the square button. It must me moved to the bottom-right.}} {{red|Doesn’t support buff timers for individual buffs.}}

    • backup?: {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/SimpleSelfRebuff SimpleSelfRebuff] /ssr menu — doesn’t have a per-buff recast timing setting. {{orange|Recasts while I’m a Ghost Wolf. Doesn’t allow a separate rebuff timer per buff.}} {{red|Doesn’t work in combat. Disables the scroll wheel if it buffs my off-hand. Doesn’t support buff timers for individual buffs}}

    • backup: [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4584-SmartBuff.html SmartBuff] 2.3a — WAY too overwhelming to actually use. {{red|Doesn’t support buff timers for individual buffs}}

  • {{Ace}} Chaman2 /chaman2 — A simple automatically-updated button bar. It makes life more simple. It also does totem timers!

    • backup?: GotWood

      • Tacky wood paneling with the timers which apparently cannot be removed. Sigh.

    • backup: Yata

      • Seems to share some code with WFtotem.
      • As of 2007-11-27 I could see no way to disable its button bar feature and only use the totem timers.

    • backup: WFtotem /wftotem — Totem timers.

      • Seems to share some code with Yata.
      • /wftotem x -900 ; /wftotem y -200 — this can show it, but actually casting a totem does nothing.
    • backup?: [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6521-TotemTimers.html Totem Timers] just displays text and not actual bars with timers.
    • backup?: https://web.archive.org/web/20090829010358/http://wowui.incgamers.com:80/?p=mod&m=4086
    • backup?: [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=4230 TotemAid v2]

    • backup?: [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5017/ TotemTracker]

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/7731/ LiteAssist] 1.8 — Helps you fight your target’s target (ToT). This largely removes the need for UIFrames which do ToT. Set up your primary person and a hotkey to fight whatever they’re fighting.

    • Set it up with hotkeys: F to assist, shift-F to learn your target, ctrl-F to learn your mouseover target.

  • [http://www.wimaddon.com/] [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3921/ Wow Instant Messenger (WowIM/WIM)] 2.2.28 /wim — Groups whispers together. Also allows URL copying.

    • backup: {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/Cellular Cellular] — Groups whispers together. URL copying. Basic spam protection. Simple philosophies. Doesn’t properly tab all whispers from all parties though.

    • backup: [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5119/ URL Copy (fan update)] 1-3-20000

      • Out of date, force-load works.

    • backup?: {{Ace}} ChainLink

Important: Convenience, or otherwise really useful/cool ∞

Removing excess features/spam/annoyances, additional information, beautification, etc.

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/Omen Omen] — A threat meter.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9943/ StopInvites] 1.1 /stopinvites — A simple addon that stops level 1 spammers in starting zones from inviting you to a group. Also has options to ignore group, guild, and duel invites. Uses Ace, configure with the /stopinvites command or through the ace addon manager if you have it.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/10061/ Armory] v2.4.6 /ar — Lets you view the character details of any of your characters while logged in as any other. Doesn’t modify your mouseover to let you easily compare with the selected alt’s worn equipment.

    • backup: Cosmos’ CharactersViewer — This one modifies the mouseover to let you compare with what your alt has. But it doesn’t show socketed items.

  • {{Ace}} Cartographer and its companion addons.

    • {{orange|I don’t know how to hide it’s over-generic minimap icon}}
    • {{orange|It paints pink circles overtop of more useful icons, hiding them.}}

    • backup?: [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/354/ Atlas] — Instance Maps

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6887-DoubleWide.html DoubleWide] 0.6-20300 — Widens the quest logs so you can see more.

    • Man I hate the original tiny quest window. This is such a blessing.

  • {{Ace}} [http://files.wowace.com/cat-map.html Nauticus] — Shows the arrival and departure times of boats.

  • {{Ace}} [http://www.clearfont.co.uk/ ClearFont2] — For nicer fonts

  • (Ace) MrPlow

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/ErrorMonster ErrorMonster] /errormonster — Removes the stupid/nonessential error messages. So far, I’ve added these:

    • /errormonster add You are too far away!
    • /errormonster add Out of range.
    • /errormonster add That object is busy.
    • /errormonster add You don't have permission to loot that corpse.
    • /errormonster add Can't attack while mounted.

    • /errormonster add You are busy and can't use the taxi service now.

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/Quartz Quartz] — Casting bar

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowuibeta.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=3216 Detached Minimap Buttons] 0942-1195613999 /dmbs — Lets you relocate the minimap buttons anywhere you want.

    • It works, but I just want to fold them all into a menu. =( I also don’t know how to find buttons when they go missing. =/
    • To hide Cosmos’ obsolete Khaos Configure minimap button, control and left click it. I think it’s shoved under the minimap. =)

    • one day this can be obsoleted by [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8805/ Bongos Skinned Map]

  • {{Ace}} [http://files.wowace.com/RicoMiniMap/] [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5686-RicoMiniMap.html RicoMiniMap]

    • Better than SimpleMiniMap because I can add QuickMapNotes to the minimap, and also it displays the MapNotes icons. Worse than SimpleMiniMap because the border is heavier and the compasspoints are displayed.
    • backup: {{Ace}} [http://files.wowace.com/simpleMinimap/] SimpleMiniMap — Various mods to the minimap. Removes the clutter. Shows pings on the minimap. Cannot right-click to perform regular interaction on the minimap, which is annoying.

    • one day this can be obsoleted by [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8805/ Bongos Skinned Map]

Useful, but can live without ∞

Cute/Fun stuff.

  • {{ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/ACP ACP] (Ace Control Panel) — adds the “Addons” button to the game’s main menu. It allows you to manage your addons in-game.

    • But it doesn’t have a search/filter feature. =(

  • {{Ace}} QuestAnnouncer /qa — Informs your other party members of your quest status. Seems very nice. I’m not sure how to remove the minimap icon. =(

    • backup: [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5437/ Quest Announce] 2.0 — Nice and simple.

      • The maintainer isn’t the original author I don’t think, and he doesn’t speak English (German native speaker) so speak simply!

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/638/ FlightMap] v2.2-1 /flightmap — Flight timer and path helper. Also shows some stellar icons on the mini and world maps. Just awesome.

    • The flight bar should count DOWN, not up. =/ If using Quartz (with Cosmos), check its settings and set flight to ‘deplete’.
    • backup?: {{Ace}} FuBar_ToFu

    • backup?: {{Ace}} InFlight and InFlight_Load

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7266/ QuickMapNotes] version ‘qmn’ /qmn — For easily adding notes using MapNotes.

    • out of date! Works when forced. Does not work on the minimap with SimpleMiniMap, which is actually annoying.

    • Not actually quick. It should work with something like /qmn 10.1,10.2 this is my text then pressing tab in the fields, pressing enter to save the note

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/1990/ Eloquence] Beta 0.97b /elo — This is good for its ability to expand acronyms.

    • Also has some general chat-channel customization. There seems to be a lot of overlap with chat adddons.

Known bugs with the AddOns I use ∞

as of 2007-11-16

experience-related: attempt to concatenate field ‘prefix’ (a nil value) ∞

As of 2007-11-30 the error is silently trapped but XP doesn’t change, so this hasn’t been fixed. =(

This should be fixed by WoW 2.3.2 [http://www.cosmosui.org/showthread.php?postid=65590]

symptoms:

  • hovering the mouse over the experience/reputation bars gives an error
  • the XP/reputation value will never change

  • gives an error after every fight

The error is:

Error: attempt to concatenate field ‘prefix’ (a nil value)
File: Interface\FrameXML\TextStatusBar.lua
Line: 64
Count: 1

Workaround: disable this feature in the Archaeologist AddOn:

  1. escape, and visit Khaos Configure
  2. Under Frames, choose Archaeologist
  3. Scroll down this stupid-huge list of options. Find “Experience & Reputation Bars”

  4. Remove all checkboxes from this section.

Relevant Threads:

I’d need to get a replacement for this Cosmos component, which I should probably do anyways..

In the end, I just removed the entire XP bar and play without it. On mouseover I have a vague guess at things.. I learn how many kills of a mob I’d need to level. =)

To do ∞

  • Remove the Khaos Configure minimap icon (from Cosmos) — I have NO idea how.

  • Add back the mouseover delay when hovering over stuff.

  • NotesUNeed could replace SocialNotes.

    • Or it would, if I could figure out how to properly maintain quest notes. Check/ask for help.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8805/ Bongos Skinned Map] might be cool if I could figure out how to make it work..

To research:

  • MetaMap

    • But it’s not being updated properly by the original author.
    • obsoletes MapNotes, maybe. I can’t figure out how to import mapnotes.
    • obsoletes FlightMap, maybe.

    • Has a fair waypoint arrow.

Addons to check out ∞

the rest of this thread.. check it all out: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/?topicId=28542895&sid=1&pageNo=4 [ 1 ]

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8709/ TipTac] would let me lift up the bottom-right tooltip and put it next to the mouse!

  • {{ace}} sct (Scrolling Combat Text) and its companion AddOns

  • {{ace}} ClosetGnome, ClosetGnome_Fishing, ClosetGnome_Zone – requires: ItemBonusLib — For automatic eq swapping.. could be essential.

    • {{orange|Uh, not actually checked out properly, yet.}}
    • backup: Wardrobe2 — another wardrobe helper thing.
    • backup: [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/4784/ Outfitter]

    • backup: [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6818-ItemRack2.1.html ItemRack]

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/4190/ Stackpack] — Inventory auto-stacker.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/3011/ Decursive] is a dispel helper.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/6660/ Whisper Enhanced] splits whispers into their own tab. Plays a sound when you receive a whisper.

    • Broken, and needs to be updated/improved somewhat, but it would be AWESOME and nearly essential if updated and maintained.

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/AckisRecipeList AckisRecipeList] — An addon which will scan your trade skill recipes and print out a list of which recipes you are currently missing. It will work for all tradeskills including Rogue Poisons and Hunter Beast Training.

  • {{Ace}} ManaMeter2 — reports mana usage after each fight.

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowace.com/wiki/MobMitigation MobMitigation] — Calculates and displays enemy spell and melee damage mitigation.

Unsure

  • {{Ace}} FreeRefills — Automatically purchase certain things when at a shop.

  • {{Ace}} Necronomicon2 — Warlock addon of some kind.

  • {{Ace}} Omnibus — some kind of notepad thing.

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4535 Cirk’s Chatmanager]

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/2984/ Forecast] shows incoming spells on targets, but only if everyone uses this extension.

  • [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=4639 ProfessionsBook] — For buying recipes on auction and knowing which of your alts has it or can learn it.

  • [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=3969 GemList] — lets people whisper you to learn what gems you have on you.

  • {{Ace}} [http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=4149 GemHelper]

  • {{Ace}} JewelTips

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9924/ QuestHelper] — Helps you walk less when planning quests by lining them up for you.

    • Not quite ready, but definitely one to keep an eye on.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3538/ PetEmote]

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7237/ Burning Muffin Emotes] — Adds more emotes.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7652/ Polite Whisper] would be good for searching for more party members, but only if I never used its canned responses.

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6443-Possessions2.0.2Updated.html Posessions] — Helps find equipment on multiple characters.

    • Doesn’t support guild banks (yet?)

might be obsoleted by some of my other addon choices:
  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/7705/ BugMeNot] — Named after an existing product, but perhaps this could be useful for auto-declining dual requests.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/6648/ WRUGS Anti-Spam] — Whisper whitelisting.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3198/ Elephant] — Logs chats and automatically re-displays them upon login.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9282/ SpitFilter] — Filters out /spit

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3154/ Spam Guard Plus] — Unlimited ignores, awesome spam filtering.

    • If this one fails, check out Ace’s IgnoreMore.

Troubleshooting ∞

See also World of Warcraft troubleshooting

More recently-experienced items are at the top of this list.

invisible mobs ∞

This seems to be a game issue. Mobs will stay where they are and won’t animate. Engaging them is a bad idea because they will move to your location in reality but not visibly. Skinning might break. You have to physically be at the invisible body but interact with the fixed visible one. It sucks.

Restarting solves this.

I think it’s a game issue because it happened to me and then another player I was grouped with. We don’t use the same AddOns, although he did use some so perhaps we were using the same bugged AddOn?

(old) occasional hanging ∞

Whenever I get near an aggro mob, even if it doesn’t aggro against me, or when I enter into combat, there is a nasty lag on the interface. It’s so bad that it’ll ‘stick’ to my mouse, as though I had been holding and dragging the right mouse button.

So this means I have to disable a bunch of addons to figure out what’s going on.

I think maybe this problem happens when I simply *select* something new..

  • not Avion (ace)s
  • not DamageMeters (cosmos)

  • .. maybe some kind of combat statistics thing?

What I did to solve this was to go through ALL of my AddOns and manually disabled anything I didn’t like the look of. Something was acting up alright..

chaman’s tooltips are wrong ∞

Hovering the mouse overtop of the multitude of totem icons will sometimes display the wrong things.

No worries.. restart the game to fix it. Usually.

While playing, nothing appears overtop characters/mobs (names, HPs, ? or !) ∞

I don’t know what triggers this, but I think it’s some misbehaving AddOn which I’ve had for a long time now.

If/when this happens, restart the game. You may have to use ‘v’ (or is it control-v?) to reset things properly again.

Frequent error messages ∞

A possible solution:

Log into the game – hit Esc – hit Interface – under the Display section, uncheck the “Display Lua errors” box.

This doesn’t seem to work. You might have to resort to disabling the offending AddOn, or disabling some of its features, if you can guess what AddOn is causing the trouble.

A workaround:

Use [http://wowacereview.wordpress.com/addons/misc/bugsack/ BugSack] to trap and hide errors. Remember to configure this addon to stfu with that stupid sound it plays.

Remember that this just hides your errors so .. your addons might explode or do other truly awful things.

(old) Multi-casting makes lighting bolts disappear ∞

My visual glitch with the Shaman:

  1. At maximum instant spell range (20 yards)
  2. Send a lightning bolt, and as soon as possible,

  3. press ‘t’ to begin combat, and immediately send an instant spell

It would have to be reproduced again, all addons nuked and then re-tested. Ugh.

I may never be able to reproduce this since I’m using new spells and such.

Footnotes


  1. was https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/?topicId=28542895&sid=1&pageNo=4 [ ↩ ]
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