World of Warcraft recommended addons – 12

2008-03-27

ancient outdated notes

World of Warcraft recommended addons >

Still stripping things down and starting somewhat fresh.

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NOTE: I have these characters:

  • Gnome, Warlock (affliction-dps), Engineering (mid), Jewelcrafting (mid)
  • Draenei, Shaman (restoration-healer), Skinning (375), Leatherworking (Dragonscale, 375)
  • (low level) Blood Elf, Paladin (protection-tank), Enchanting (low), Jewelcrafting (low)
  • (low level) Elf, Druid (feral-dps), Herbalism (low), Alchemy (low)

  • (low level) Human, Mage (frost), Enchanter (low), Tailor (low)

So this list will be maintained according to those needs. Make suggestions if you wish, but I cannot keep any other combination of race-class-profession up-to-date since I can’t really properly continuously-test those other AddOns.

Chatter ∞

All the bugs are being ironed out and I’m still choosing better variations of some AddOns. I still have to get rid of the whole Cosmos package and just list individual AddOns.

This page is still pretty ugly. I’m still working out some way to tidy it up.

I need to write instructions for configuring most of these AddOns still, but it’s getting better.

Installing these addons from scratch ∞

These steps will start you from scratch, as though you had a completely new installation of WoW.

If you want to guarantee that you have the same stuff that I do, this is the easiest way to go.

If you’re more of a power user, of course you’d completely bypass these steps. =)

Backing up your Warcraft settings ∞

First, exit the game. Unlike Linux, Windows cannot work with files that are already in use.

Back up these three folders:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache

  1. Make a ‘backups’ folder somewhere
  2. Make a new folder within it with today’s date (like 2008-01-15)

  3. Move those three folders inside

Restoring Warcraft’s default settings ∞

Now that those three folders have been removed, they have to be recreated by the game.

For most people you would simply launch WoW. For Vista, make sure you run the game as an administrator for this one time.

  1. Confirm that you see the introduction movie.
  2. Exit the game

  3. Confirm that the Interface, WTF and Cache folders have been re-created.

Basic game setup ∞

Launch WoW, and you’ll notice that it has optimized its video settings automatically. Don’t be alarmed. =)

Press escape to get your options menu. Check ‘video’ and ‘interface’ (and inside of interface is an ‘advanced’ tab at the top) Update your various settings.

Basic program installation ∞

WARNING

DO NOT INSTALL PROGRAMS FROM SOURCES YOU DO NOT TRUST!

Ace – Install WowAceUpdater

[[[Cosmos]] – Install The Cosmos Patcher: [http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=patcher&f=Cosmos_Win.zip]

[http://www.curse.com/client/] Curse.com client

Curse is bugged and gives Failed to create named pipe which means some features will not work. and has to be exited before you can install anything. Let the “install via curse client” button launch the curse client for itself.

Many people started using alternate VoIP “voice chat” software before Warcraft came out with its own in-game version. For example, I use Ventrilo when raiding.

Ace addons ∞

Ace is the preferred packager of choice because if it’s ease of installation and maintenance.

Unfortunately, Ace doesn’t have a feature to let you import a list of AddOns for it to install, so you’re going doing that part manually. It’s still better in the long run for easily updating them all.

Note that curse.com has https://web.archive.org/web/20090706084846/http://aceaddons.curse.com:80/ but it can be safely ignored.

Ace – Essential: Used frequently and fundamental to gameplay ∞

Significant functionality improvements, Knowledgebase, Automation, etc.

The list:

!BugGrabber
Avion
AvionDefaultMedia
BigBrother
BigWigs
BigWigs_* (lots of them)
BugSack
BulkMail2
BulkMail2Inbox
eeShards
ForceEnchant
LittleWigs
Niagara
Omen
Prat
Quartz
Recap
SellOMatic
Waterfall-1.0

More detailed info:

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

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/BigBrother BigBrother] /bb — Checks buffs in raids, and alerts on CC-breaking.

  • (Ace) [http://www.wowwiki.com/BigWigs BigWigs] ([http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=1762.0 forum thread]) /bw — Raid AddOn

    • /bw menu minimapattach

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

  • [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.

  • 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

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

    • /eeshards maxshards 28

  • [http://wowace.com/wiki/ForceEnchant ForceEnchant] /forceenchant — Stops the enchant “are you sure” prompting nonsense. Good for levelling your enchant. Would be better to be able to queue a repeated action like leatherworking has with the better tradeskill window thing, but oh well.

    • /forceenchant replace

  • LittleWigs — A BigWigs extension that gives 5-man instance help.

  • Niagara niagara — For configuring Ace addons that don’t have a GUI.

  • [http://wowace.com/wiki/Omen Omen] /omen config — A threat meter.

    • Note: This might be obsoleted a future patch which will introduce a threat meter. Hence the combat log changes in 2.4.

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Prat Prat], /prat waterfall — chat-related stuff

    • in /prat waterfall use the ‘all modules’ to turn a module on. Yes, it’s sad.

    • for some reason, waterfall vanished. My chat colouring stopped working.

  • [http://wowace.com/wiki/Quartz Quartz] /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.

    • You have to set some kind of global cooldown spell. I never did figure out what the heck that should be..

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Recap Recap] /recap — Damage Meter

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=6770 SellOMatic] /som — Nice and simple seller, with automation.

    • /som detail on
    • /som uselist on
    • /som autosell on
    • /som additem [Light Feather]
    • /som additem [Shiny Fish Scales]

    • /som additem [Fish Oil]

      • You’ll have to carry the item and link it in..

  • Waterfall-1.0 — GUI configuration of other AddOns.

Ace – Important: Convenience, or otherwise really useful/cool ∞

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

The list:

BanzaiAlert
BuyCrap
Cartographer
Cartographer_* (almost)
ClearFont2
CombatDND
ErrorMonster
Fizzle
MBB
MrPlow
Nauticus
RicoMiniMap
SpamSentry
Talented
Talented_Data

More detailed info:

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/4968/ BanzaiAlert] /banzai — Flashes the screen and tells you in chat what is onto you. Also flashes the screen when you’re low on health.

    • /banzai onlyingroup (Off)
    • /banzai lost (On)

    • /banzai sound none (no sound)

      • bugged? it keeps turning back on! So I deleted AddOns/BanzaiAlert/sounds/*

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/BuyCrap BuyCrap] /buycrap — automatically buy stuff. You have to have the item in your inv, from what I can tell. I’ve tried using the link directly but maybe I’m doing it wrong?

    • /buycrap item [link to item] #

  • Cartographer and its companion addons.

    • {{orange|It paints pink circles overtop of more useful icons, hiding them.}} To repair this, overwrite AddOns\Cartographer\Cartographer_Notes\Artwork\TrackCircle.tga with a transparent .tga file (I got one from [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9496/ Cartographer Complete]’s NoTrackIconPtch v3.3). Problems: You have to do this every time you update Cartographer. The circles are gone, but your other more useful icon is still overwritten. ([http://jira.wowace.com/browse/CART-396 bug report])

  • [http://www.clearfont.co.uk/ ClearFont2] [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/ClearFont2] — For nicer fonts

  • CombatDND /combatdnd (but there are no options) — Sets the DND flag when in combat.

    • Strangely, this addon is also a backup as a combat notifier, but since I already have banzai I wish I could squelch the text this spits out. =(

  • [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.

  • Fizzle /fizzle — Show your durability within your character panel.

    • /fizzle showfull (off)

  • MBB — Minimap Button Bar (Ace version) removes all buttons and combines them into one. Let’s me hide the buttons which I cannot otherwise disable.

  • (Ace) MrPlow

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

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

    • 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.

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

  • SpamSentry /spamsentry — Blocks spammers and assists in reporting spammers and RP naming violations.

    • /spamsentry rp add

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Talented Talented] (also Talented_Data) — A replacement for the talents window. In particular, it lets you save talent templates for easy respeccing.

    • I don’t install Talented_Loader because I hate accidentally hitting ‘n’ and having my system lag out as it loads Talented. =/

Useful, but can live without ∞

Cute/Fun stuff.

ACP
QuestAnnouncer

  • [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. =(

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/ManaMeter2 ManaMeter2] — reports mana usage after each fight.

  • QuestAnnouncer /qa — Informs your other party members of your quest status. Seems very nice.

Cosmos addons ∞

Since the Cosmos updater is completely hopeless, I found the AddOns I like and the ones which aren’t available through curse I’ll download directly.

NOTE: These addons are incorrectly packaged and will create their own Interface/AddOns folder.

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=BetterKeyBinding.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=BetterKeyBinding BetterKeyBinding]

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=DurabilityStatus.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=DurabilityStatus] [http://www.wowwiki.com/DurabilityStatus Durability Status] /durstatus — Durability status and repair-helper.

    • /durstatus window off

    • semi-replaced by fizzle

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=EquipCompare.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=EquipCompare EquipCompare] — When over an equippable item, display another tooltip of your worn item for easy comparison.

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=PartyCastingBars.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=PartyCastingBars PartyCastingBars]

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  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=ChatThrottleLib.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=ChatThrottleLib ChatThrottleLib]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Chronos.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Chronos Chronos]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Earth.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Earth Earth]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=FireTree.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=FireTree FireTree]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Khaos.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Khaos Khaos]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Portfolio.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Portfolio Portfolio]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Satellite.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Satellite Satellite]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Sea.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Sea Sea]
  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Telepathy.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Telepathy Telepathy]

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=Telepathy-Versions.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Telepathy-Versions Telepathy-Versions]

disabled for now:

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=UnitFrameTweaks.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=UnitFrameTweaks UnitFrameTweaks]

  • ([http://www.cosmosui.org/download.php?t=addons&f=UnitFrameBuffs.zip d]) [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=UnitFrameBuffs UnitFrameBuffs]

Curse-installable AddOns ∞

The curse.com AddOn updater ∞

Some other addons mysteriously appeared in the list. I didn’t select any externals or dependencies to get added.. odd.

Note: Direct download is possible like: psyn://services.curse.com/client/install.xml?id=NUMBER but I cannot paste these links here, because they won’t be recognized by MediaWiki.

Bugged: The errors are gone, but you may have to uninstall within curse then delete the folder then reinstall in order for things to work normally again.

If curse is not available, it’ll screw up in all kinds of ways, like pretending to install and then doing nothing.. then when curse is backup it’ll continue to think it’s installed and won’t update it.

It seems to be inept at knowing when there is an update, and refuses to update an app even when I can see by the website that it’s been updated.

Curse – Essential: Used frequently and fundamental to gameplay ∞

Significant functionality improvements, Knowledgebase, Automation, etc.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/2389/ Advanced Trade Skill Window] — 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.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/366/] [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=Archaeologist] [http://www.wowwiki.com/Archaeologist Archaeologist]

    • To configure, press escape and go into the Khaos configure. Then select Archaeologist. These options do hang your system for a little while, so be patient:
    1. Values on the bars

    2. All Prefixes off

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/1770/ AutoBuff (Emerald)] /autobuff or /ab

    • Cannot buff both weapons.
    • Cannot hide the square button. It must me moved to the bottom-right.
    • Doesn’t support buff timers for individual buffs.
    • often must be enabled/disabled repeatedly to recognize the need to rebuff one or more buffs
    • For it to work with Righteous Fury, de-select all the other buffs. Its default is busted.

    • I delete FuBar_AutoBuffFu

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8980/ Auto Combat Log] — Combat logging

    • WowWebStats is used by the guild for parsing the data.

  • Baud Bag

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/9651/ CCFocus] /ccf options — For crowd-controlling.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/7923/ CCBreakWarner] — This AddOn alerts you when a mob you have CC’d (crowd controlled) breaks free, as long as you use a focus target macro to cast your CC spell. You will see a text warning and hear a sound effect whenever a CC spell you can cast fades off of your focus target.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/5681/ FocusFrame] — Shows another frame for your “focus” target.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5098/ ImprovedCamera] — Increases limit of the Max Camera Distance slider in Interface Options to the very maximum possible (from 30 to 50).

    • Essential for kiting and such.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7731/ LiteAssist] — 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.
    • requires the titan panel, which curse will remind you about. I use the regular titan panel and not the fan’s update.
    • I delete LiteAssistFu

    • I delete TitanLiteAssist

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/4116/ MapNotes] /mapnotes — 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.

    • {{orange|Really annoying commandline options}}

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/1349/ MobInfo-2 (includes MobHealth)] — For all kinds of mouseover goodness.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/1715/] [http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=NotesUNeed NotesUNeed] /nun and /nun -help

    • /nun -micro

    • {{orange|Unfortunately it doesn’t entirely replace Cosmos’ supposedly-outdated SocialMods’ “Social Notes” AddOn.}}

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9924/ QuestHelper] /qh — Helps you walk less when planning quests by lining them up for you. Works with Cartographer to give waypoints. Very slick.

    • /qh ftime (disabled)
    • To help out: On startup or reloadui, check if questhelper notes new quests. Then email qhaddon at gmail.com C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT_NAME\SavedVariables\QuestHelper.lua
    • {{orange|This adds a duplicate flight timer.}}

    • /qh cartwp (toggle twice to get it to work properly. (Bug)

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8454/ Tattle] /tattle — Rats out people that break crowd control. — /tattle [|say|self|party|raid]

    • /tattle self

    • Not working for 2.4 because of combat log changes. Parserlib has to be updated.

  • (Shaman) [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5809/ TotemManager] / Chaman2 /chaman2 — A simple automatically-updated button bar. It makes life more simple. It also does totem timers!

    • For earth shield: F=focus, T=Target, A=Assist (target of target)

Curse – Important: Convenience, or otherwise really useful/cool ∞

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

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/10061/ Armory]/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.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/354/ Atlas] — Instance maps.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7774/ Ogri’Lazy] /relic — My brain can’t handle this semi-delayed and nearly-Simon-Says game, and I don’t want to waste any more paper.

    • /relic keyset syskeys to use 1-2-4-5 numberpad keys. It’s still INSANE but it’s better than trying to reach the RYGB keys.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/4784/] Outfitter — For equipment sets and auto-swapping. It even suggests kits for certain purposes (like dps vs healing). Does automatic trinket-cycling, but it doesn’t seem to work the way I expect since unequipping some trinkets on cooldown will disable their power. Even understands when the bank is open and will withdraw/deposit intelligently. Spec-fucking-tacular. Can even auto-equip based on certain actions like skinning or fishing.

    • configuration: Set up a few suits. Enable hotkeys for them. Then go into your hotkey manager (in Khaos Configure) and assign keys. I reassigned control-1 through 0 for suits 1-10 so I can manually swap suits with hotkeys. When using hotkeys it does say what you’re swapping to. Then go check out the main Outfitter topic for more details and some scripts I use.
    • /outfitter sound off

    • to disable that ugly/useless icon bar, open your character, then click the outfitter icon at its top-right, then go to the options tab and un-check “show outfit bar”. There is no slash command. =/

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8214/] Pawn /pawn ([http://pawnmod.trenchrats.com/index.php unofficial forum)] — For generating unified value numbers to rank an item.

    • (local backup[doesn’t exist]) See the readme file included with Pawn for more information on getting the most out of it.

    • C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/Pawn/Readme.htm

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9943/ StopInvites] /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.

    • /stopinvites duel
    • /stopinvites guild

    • /stopinvites display

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/8709/ TipTac] /tiptac — lets me lift up the bottom-right tooltip and put it next to the mouse! it also shows buffs and other handy things *right there*.

    • bug: non-unit tooltip doesn’t show a mining deposit if it’s set to smart layout

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

    • [_] Ignore arrow keys while typing messages.

Curse – Useful, but can live without ∞

Cute/Fun stuff.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/638/ FlightMap] /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. =/ Check your Quartz settings and set flight to ‘deplete’.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9793/ MapNotesForAtlas] — Allows MapNotes (Fan’s Update) notes in Atlas.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/10606/ MapNotesIconLib] — Provides a much larger set of Icons to use for MapNotes (Fan’s Update).

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/7266/ QuickMapNotes] /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] /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.

Other AddOns ∞

Not Ace, and not manageable by curse.com’s updater.

  • [http://forums.curse.com/details/23753/] Cladhaire (Jim Hair) explicitly does not post his AddOns to curse.com!

Other – Essential: Used frequently and fundamental to gameplay ∞

Significant functionality improvements, Knowledgebase, Automation, etc.

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5108-Clique.html Clique] r93 /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://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/1958/ GroupCalendar] [http://wobbleworks.com/groupcalendar/manual/] /calendar (UI) and /calendar help — A simple group calendar.

    • don’t use the curse updater on this one, just download the latest stable v3 version.
    • Cannot set up recurring events and assume recurring subscriptions for standing events.
    • [http://www.mediocrityinmotion.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22 forum for the “to web” thing]

    • /calendar 12h

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html] LightHeaded LightHeaded-r219 /lh — Quest helper.

    • /lh sound

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7032-TomTom.html] TomTom /tomtom TomTom-r125 — 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.

    • /tomtom and then disable map-related stuff, as coordinates and mouse coordinates are already done.

Other – Important: Convenience, or otherwise really useful/cool ∞

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

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6887-DoubleWide.html DoubleWide] 0.6-20400 — Widens the quest logs so you can see more.

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

Other – Useful, but can live without ∞

Cute/Fun stuff.

Updating these addons ∞

It’s a good idea to back up your Cache, Interface and WTF folders before running an update.

Ace AddOns
  1. Run the WowAceUpdater

  2. 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 AddOns
  1. Run the Cosmos patcher
  2. 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.

  3. Click ‘Continue Update‘. Wait for a long long time, again. When that’s done, click ‘Exit‘.

Other AddOns
  1. Visit the AddOn’s page to learn if there is a new version
  2. Download the new version
  3. Unzip it in a temporary place
  4. Look at the list of folders you’ve created. In your AddOns folder, delete any matching folder names. You will not be deleting the preferences for the AddOn, don’t worry.

  5. Move the folder into your AddOns folder.

To do ∞

  • macros for seducing.

  • disable the minimap zoom buttons permanently..

  • find something that does healthstone-monitoring so I can know when to make more and who to give them to.

  • A better-managed friends list

  • A better history of grouping

  • automatically abandon quests you fail

    • and report it in the chat window..

  • when you abandon a quest, it should say it in the chat log.

  • look for an addon that watches someone else’s mana or the MTs health so I know when I should start healing.

  • CombatDND — I wish I could squelch the text this spits out. =(

  • [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 ∞

  • [http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4673-PerfectRaid.html PerfectRaid] /praid — Another of Cladhaire’s nice addons. It’s beta right now but would be worth checking out once it stabilizes.

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9706/ CombatAlert] might be good for CC breaking notification..

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5379/ Link Wrangler] — For showing multiple item tooltips at once.

  • [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Aloft Aloft] — nameplate customization

  • PitBull – cknight’s unit frames replacement

  • Routes — Routes for mining and herbalism, etc. =)

    • I haven’t really figured out how to use this.

  • (Ace) MagicMarker — helps with raid target icons.

  • (Ace) [http://www.wowace.com/wiki/IHML IHML] for swapping out macros for boss fights and such. Might be handy.

  • (Ace) Mobnotes ([http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=10360.msg164907 thread]) — notes to mob tooltips, would be very handy to list some useful facts like CC-immune and such.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/6054/ LootHog (Codeus)] — manage loot roles.

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/5694/ WindfuryTally] — Display windfury damage.

    • also check out Damn Windfury

  • [http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/9080/ OnScreen] — Disable some things when in combat

    • The author uses it the way I would — disable the minimap in combat, and then show Omen there.

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

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

  • (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.

Unsure

  • (Ace) Omnibus — some kind of notepad thing.

  • [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://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/1404/ Posessions] — Helps find equipment on multiple characters.

    • Doesn’t support guild banks (yet?)

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

    • need to be made flexible to remove other stuff like /rude.

  • [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. Unfortunately, the author doesn’t allow customization so I’d have to hack the source to modify things. Not hard, but annoying enough that I might never do this.

spam-protection:

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

    • backup?: (Ace) IgnoreMore

less importnat

  • [http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5648/ AuraMap] – shows auras on the minimap.. I think.

  • [http://wuu.vagabonds.info/ WUU] ([http://wuu.vagabonds.info/wuuki/ wiki]) — (Wow UI Updater) might be cool..

    • not updated recently enough for my liking. Otherwise it would be amazing.

Configuration ∞

Hotkeys ∞

Use Cosmos’ ‘better key bindings’:

  1. Click the Minimap Button Bag (MBB) minimap icon: Warcraft-Minimap_Button_Bag-icon.jpg
  2. Click the Cosmos button: Warcraft-cosmos--minimap-icon

  3. Select Better Key Bindings: Warcraft-cosmos-key_bindings.jpg

(this list is not complete)

todo: where are these settings stored? I could just post that..

Normal (white)

Interface Panel Options

  • Open All Bags: B

  • Toggle Keyring: Alt-F3

Raid Targeting

  • I use F9 to F12 and shift-F9 to shift-F12.

Addons (blue)

Baud Bag

  • Toggle Bank: Shift-B

Bongo Bar Visibility

  • Toggle the MenuBar: Alt-F1

  • Toggle the BagBar: Alt-F2

Better Key Bindings

  • ?: Ctrl-Alt-`

Addons ∞

Each AddOn has configuration notes written with it.

Troubleshooting ∞

See Wow addons/r12 troubleshooting[doesn’t exist]

If in doubt, restore your Cache, Interface and WTF folders.

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