Knights Of Sparta

Hi,

As Koldphire already mentioned in his Links post, there are various addons you can download for WoW. So lets take a short look on the basic ones you might need.

WARNING!
Always keep in mind that addons are made NOT by blizzard so always download addons from trusted sites as wow.curse.com etc. . Good rule to follow is also, that the addon should be just ziped or rared so you can extract it and just click and drag to the addons folder.
Never use addons that are installed with an .exe file


Ok and now just take a quick look on the more usefull ones:

Titan panel - this one is extremely good. It looks like two additional bars at the top and bottom of your screen and provides information on your screen about your internet performance, amount of ammo, free bag spots (there are like 10 basic functions really, but it is not needed to point this out). There are also lots of other addons to titan itself that you can download and make the amount of information provided even bigger.

Atlas and Atlas Loot Enhanced - Atlas is an addon that shows you ingame maps of instances. You can find locationd of bosses as well as quest item locations. Atlas Loot En. is an upgrade for atlas and includes information about boss drops directly ingame.

Omen Threatmeter - this is the alfa and omega that everyone has to have. Omen shows you directly on scree the amount of group members aggro.

I guess that these are really the basics. In addition I use a few more that I find very important:

Scrolling combat text and Scrolling combat text damage - with these addons you can see floating text over your character whenever you do dmg or heal or what ever. So it really helps your in game orientation.

Bagnon - shows all your bags in just one tab, so you dont need to open them all one by one.

MonkeyQuest - shows your quest in different movable tab, that I find more accessible.

MobInfo2 - Provides information about mobs including number of hit points.

Ok I guess thats all I can think of for now. Yeah and sorry for my "not the best" english

If we start raiding then all will have to have DBM (Deadly boss mods) and Omen as basic 'must have' mods.

I suspect once I show Jugger how oRA2 works he'll insist on that as well

Yeah DBM is a good idea, maybe also GroupCalendar, but I am not sure if that will be needed since we have web calendar.

Addons can be a real pain to keep up to date if your downloading from curse (or similar), unzipping and dragging into you WoW add ons folder each time.

I recommend installing WoW Matrix - which manages all your downloads for you. Much quicker and easier. For more info about WoW Matrix see A Guide to Addons

Grid / DBM / Decursive / Benecast / Auctioneer / Gatherer & CTMOD (core) for bars and other usuful stuff.

Curse have an auto client that deals with checking and updating mods, no need to ever unzip and plonk into inteface dir again.

Regards

Carme

I'm looking for a range add-on that just gives a number plate that accurately tells the range in yards to the selected target. If anyone knows of one or finds one could you let me know. I've found a few that either tell "0-9", "9-28", "28-100" or just say "Melee", "in range" and "out of range". I Already KNOW that from my abilities.These are totally useless for such things as getting 20yds from Loken and no more.

I'll add one to the wish list . . .

I'm looking for an add on which makes the display of buffs and debuffs customizeable. For example I'd like certain procs to display separate from the rest of the buffs so I know when they are 'up', because at the moment, in an instance, I can have so many buffs on me I can't immediately see if the proc is there or not.

Anyone got any ideas?

{deleted post} Tree wrote:

I'm looking for a range add-on that just gives a number plate that accurately tells the range in yards to the selected target. If anyone knows of one or finds one could you let me know. I've found a few that either tell "0-9", "9-28", "28-100" or just say "Melee", "in range" and "out of range". I Already KNOW that from my abilities.These are totally useless for such things as getting 20yds from Loken and no more.

Blizzard have specifically blocked this functionality; add-ons have to use the same methods you do, looking at which of your abilities are available.

Hi Juggs,

The addon you are looking for is called PowerAuras. You add in the name of the proc including (Ensure case) and decide where on the screen to have a message or picture/symbol pop up. I use it to let me know when clearcasting or surge of light has proced so I can use them to get out of the 5 second rule. You can setup anything to be notified by pic/sound/text and where it pops up on your screen.

Regards

Carme

Excellent Thanks

{deleted post} Tamsk wrote:

Blizzard have specifically blocked this functionality; add-ons have to use the same methods you do, looking at which of your abilities are available.

Damn

I would recommend Healbot for any new healers. I don't use most of the snazzy features, but since getting it my healing has improved quite a bit.

I always found keeping track of people's health a problem using the portraits. Having a simply box with group's the heal bars is so much better. At a glance you can also tell if somone has a debuff you can cleanse or if they are out of healing range.

Healbot is very nice for healing (funny that!) but another quite useful tool is Grid (and its addon modules). This is highly configurable and aims to fit as much information as it can in a small area but without it being hard to read. It is especially usefull for debuffs but can also be used for healing (but does not have a lot of the dedicated features of mods like Healbot). Once things are set up it can be very useful for small group to full 40 man raids.

Other mods I have found useful on some characters include:

Align : gives you a simple grid on screen to .... well make things line up !
ClassTimer : Highly configurable buff/defuf timing etc bars
CowTip : Tooltip mod that adds usefull info to the... tooltip
DoTimer : Another configurable timer - why two? Well I prefer one for some classes and the other for others - try them, play!
OmniCC : This is a cooldown counter - quite usefull as it can display info on buttons
Parrot : Scrolling combat text. Yes there is something like this built in but try it and see
RatingBuster : Breaks down an items stats to show their benefit to you eg +20 Str (40 AP)
Talented : Lets you create talent templates in game and then apply the whole template in one go.

There are a few more but these are what I would consider a core set. All should be available on curse but another place I sometimes look for things is on www.wowinterface.com.

Lastly I often like to take a look at mods to see what a particular one adds (or subtracts from a game) but like most things in life the mileage you get from an individual mod varies with play style so there is no one size fits all !!

Above all have fun

My absolute most useful Hunter add-on, ever, is mega-complex and adaptable (not):

ViperNotify

All it does is go 'ping!' when you're in Aspect of the Viper and your mana is full and displays a message onscreen. (That you can change, that's the 'adaptable' part', mine says "Turn off Viper, Twonk!")

This add-on has improved my overall dungeon/raid DPS dramatically

If anyone has any good ideas for addons that you can't seem to find let me know.

An example is a interrupt rotation addon that I made for our Kel'Thuzad attempts (testing it tomorrow with Zeilyn). Should make life easier on that part. Will let you know if it's a hit (Zeilyn is my test-bunny)

A couple of addons I use constantly

1. junkitem. So much quicker to go to a vendor and click a button to sell all greys than go through each bag trying to locate them. You can also add filters to that list to keep specific greys or delete specific white or better items too

2.Questhelper. This helps you to find where those pesky quest items are and maps out a route completion based on where you currently are on the map. You can adjust priorities of quests via the waypoint on the map window as well. ONe of the best things about it is when questing in a group with others using Questhelper it will set a course to complete everyone's quest and show the level of completion for you party members.

3.BankItems Scrolling over an item shows me how many I have and on which toon. So much easier than loggin through all the toons to find you don't have any at all.

4.Professionbook Allows me to access the professions of all my toons to check for recipes

5.AckisRecipeList My favourite of all profession addons. Not only does it allow me to access my alts professions it also allows me to scan professions to see what recipes are missing, where to train for them, what quest to do to get them, who to kill for it to drop. Definitely a great one for profession junkies like me