Best addons?

Not The Real Scarecrow

Hi guys, have only been playing wow for about a fortnight and have just discovered all the add ons.Got the cartographer and quest guide ones and was just wondering out of all the rest which ones would be most commonly used and make for a better game play experience.
If there is already a similar thread, then I apologise in advance.
Would love to hear though from all the players here, don't know any one else that plays wow, so would be nice to get some advice from veteran gamers.
Cheers guys.

Kenny_D

Titan Panel is handy. Atlas Loot too. Auctioneer if you're gonna be using the AH

Funky

what class do you play? alot of class specific ones

my favourites:
ItemRack
Proximo
Afflicted
XPerl unit frames

am i the only one who uses no addons except omen ...?

Kiith

bluewolf wrote: »

am i the only one who uses no addons except omen ...?

Probably :rolleyes:

Berns

I've got:
Atlas - Shows maps of instances & bosses within
Auctioneer - Scans AH & helps you price your sales
Questhelper - Shows you were to goto to get most quests finished and turn them in.

Anti

I use the following

Omen - Great for raidsand instances as it monitors your aggro in a handy chart.
Recount - For instances and raids, will give you alot of statistics about dps, healing. And its handy to put that mage in his place who reackons he puts out 2000 dps by himself.
Titan panel - Very andy little app that shows me how much ammo i have, whats my mana and health regen. how many bag slots and all that type of stuff.
Quest helper - Small app that speeds up the leveling process and stops you alt tabbing to wow head or another site.
X-perl - Updates the frames on screen with something more modern looking, also allows you to put them where you want
CT Raid assist - Lets you know when a boss is about to pull off a certain ability

There are loads more on www.curse.com

Nevyn

There are addons ?

Where do these stand legally re the T&C ?

goodlad

Thaedydal wrote: »

There are addons ?

Where do these stand legally re the T&C ?

You gotta be takin the piss? :eek: lol!

Addons are fine as long you dont go using a BOT addon to grind for you while your afk.
Sure most of the nice changed blizz add are nicked from addons. Like the raid screen having a range finder from last patch.. There are a good few other things...

Just take a loot at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/addons/

Personally i dont use many addons. For raids i use:
BigWigs
Recount
Omen
Pallypower.

And i also use itemrack. I just couldnt be without that. For people who dont know it, you just setup gear sets in the mod then with 1 click u swap out gear

Nevyn

No I am not just recently bought the game and while some of the old skills from EQ are serving met here is still a learning curve about other things, addons being one of them.

Anti

their fine to use, they dont change the game in anyway. All they do is add information. There are some bold addons though, like the ones used for pvp honor grinding.

Dr_Teeth

I'm pretty minimal with addons, right now I just use Grid to help me heal in raids, and Closet Gnome to switch sets of gear easily.

Thaedydal

Thaedydal wrote: »

No I am not just recently bought the game and while some of the old skills from EQ are serving met here is still a learning curve about other things, addons being one of them.

welcome to the dark side
no, addons are definitely thumbs up and ok

dont bother too much with them though until you're 60+ except omen

kiith wrote:

Probably :rolleyes:

Why the rolleyes?

nicryan

I use fairly minimal addons but as has been said...omen is a must.

I currently use (and this is seen as not many by guildies):

Omen
Titan Panel
Spam Sentry
Quick loot
Countdown timer thingie (not sure its actual name)
atlas loot
decursive
chatscroll
dailies
deadly boss mod
equip compare
group calendar
void reaver alarm (although its buggered till next mini patch cause VR doesn't target people when firing the blue thingies atm)
Monitor status
Solarian Alarm

now that I write out the list it does seem like quite a few...but its still not all that many compared to most people I'd group with.


Nic

Orion

I've Recount, Omen, Atlas, AtlasLoot, Cartographer, Bongos, Fubar (and lots of fubar plugins), MobHealth, DeadlyBossMods (for raiding) and UberQuest.

Have a couple of other class specific ones but the ones above are general use.

Orion

goodlad wrote: »

And i also use itemrack. I just couldnt be without that. For people who dont know it, you just setup gear sets in the mod then with 1 click u swap out gear

I used to use Outfitter for that back in pre-TBC days. Was handy for swapping in all FR gear in Molten Core quickly.

tungsten

Ive recently updated my addons from wowace and my lightheaded has gone berserk...rather than have the questhelping information/comments under my quest title it displays strange code in my chat window...

Anyone know whats going on?

copeyhagen

yeh, delete it and install questhelper..job done.

Dustaz

I Switched all my addons to ace2 a good while back and never looked back. I really cannot stress enough how easy this makes patch days. Just open Wowace updater, update and done. All your addons are updated.

The main addons i use are:

Itemrack
Fubar
Xperl UF
Grid
Bartender
Omen
Ora
Bigwigs
proximo


actually i have a ton more, i should just screenshot my interface folder

Dcully

Im using this ui and addon pack http://www.bellum-potentiae.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3674

Its the best ive come across.
Included are:

Bartender3
BigWigs
Buffalo
ClassTimer
CooldownCount
cyCircled_Vol
DogTag
EditingUI
eePanels2
EnhancedColourPicker
ErrorMonster
FuBar
gdFont
Gladiator
ItemRack
MobHealth
Niagara
Omen
OneBag
oRa2
PitBull
Prat
Quartz
Recount
SCT
SharedMedia
simpleMinimap
Skinner
TinyTip

Inquitus

Best addon I ever found was one that used your ping / lag to calculate when you should cast your next spell to maximise dps.

It coloured in the end of the existing spell cast bar red, showing when to cast the next spell to hit the server when the current finished, effectively taking the lag out of your dps. Obviously it's not for button bashers, but for controlled raiders it could boost dps by 5-10%.

Now I havent played for 12 months so feck knows if this is still the case

Inq

Drakar

Thats covered by Quartz

Evac101

My favourite ones have to be (in no particular order)

ArcHUD2 - nicely configurable and easy to customise to your own preference

Lightheaded/Doublewide - Quest helper addons - doublewide adds a second panel on the left of the default that displays the quest text for whatever quest you select from the list, Lightheaded gives all the comments from wowhead in a third panel, reducing the need to go browse them on der interweb.

Omen - because knowing your threat is good. Knowing the the others guys threat in PvE is useful too :P

Titan panel - with all the addons for this you can pretty much display whatever information you like at the top and bottom of your screen

Equipcompare - does what it says on the tin

AtlasLoot Enhanced - database of all of the instance and rep items in the game.

Pallypower - a must for raiding paladins tbh

Quartz - includes cast times and swing timers so useful to both casters and melee/hunters.

Grid + Clique - very nice combo of mods for healing/raid supervision.

Decursive - if you can cleanse or decurse this makes it simpler.

Hrm - that's all I can think of atm.

rainbow kirby

Recount is funny for proving to nab DPS'ers that I did in fact out-DPS them while tanking

Ivan

Hah, yeah. This one time in Shattered Halls normal, I outdps'd a 4/5 T4 hunter named Tufftie. I laughed quite hard

jayteecork

I'm just back playing WOW right now.
So I want to add extra action bars as I rolled a mage.

It's Titan Panel I need right?

Then where do I put the files?
In the Add on part of the WOW program files folder?

matthew26

As a mage, I use Quartz. It helps a lot.

Anti

jayteecork wrote: »

I'm just back playing WOW right now.
So I want to add extra action bars as I rolled a mage.

It's Titan Panel I need right?

Then where do I put the files?
In the Add on part of the WOW program files folder?

In the interface sub folder of the wow dir.

Mixie

IHML lets you add a single macro to your actionbars and the addon switches out the function of this macro from its own internal (infinite?)macro list; e.g. you have the bombing quest in skettis it'll switch to a macro to throw bombs, you're on Vash in ssc and it switches to a toss the core macro, etc.

Very handy and as of yet I haven't needed to add any custom macro to it - it has had one for every boss, quest, whatever I've needed. Lazymode ftw.

jayteecork

Found out that you can add extra action bars from the standard Blizzard interface.

Only have Auctioneer installed now.
Man I love that baby. Making a killing off it. Level 19 and 70 gold, plus a ton of auctions up right now, and a couple of blues in my kit. Rings, necklaces. When I leveled my rogue to 60 a few years ago I didn't get my first necklace till level 30 or something.

Bear in mind I started afresh with no alt to send me gold.
A self-made elf one might say.

Drakar

I took a lvl 1 to like 140g using auctioneer just by selling his starter equipment and using the cash to buy and sell stuff. Auctioneer totally ftw.

Anti

Never used auctioneer untill the other day, ****ing amazing little addon. Im making so much more then i ever was before.

jayteecork

120G with maybe 150G worth of auctions posted.

Level 23.
To be honest I'm spending a lot more time buying and selling than leveling up.

Blazher

I use 310 addons,


You can never have to much information.

Ivan

I think you've just proved that yes, yes you can have too much info Especially since alot of that is redundant, being already displayed by the standard Blizzard UI.

Orion

the MCPfu isn't a permanent display. I use Fubar and Omen myself. I do like the buttonbars - what mod is that?

rainbow kirby

Think it's CyCircled, but not sure.

displeaser

Blazher wrote: »

I use 310 addons

That must be a complete nightmare for updating...

I'm nearly fully ace compliant, most addons from ACE so WAU makes updating them a breeze. Only 2 I use that are not ace based, Auctioneer and DBM (which I only use for pre-tbc raids)

Grid
Clique
AG_Unitframes
Omen
Bigwigs
Decursive
Bongos
Recount
Quartz
SCT
RatingBuster
Bankitems
Closetgnome
Fubar
Cartographer
Atlasloot
ndragit
Auctioneer
DBM

displeaser

Macros42 wrote: »

the MCPfu isn't a permanent display. I use Fubar and Omen myself. I do like the buttonbars - what mod is that?

Bartender with CyCircled most probably.

Blazher

displeaser wrote: »

Bartender with CyCircled most probably.

Yes that what i use,

What you cant see in the Screenshot is, I have abother 4 bars that are on Fade! . I have the fubar on fade as well. So when im playing i have a better field of view, It helps BIG time in SWP

displeaser

use bongos myself and have most bars set to fade, only a crappy small screen so very little display real-estate to work with and as I'm a circle of lol priest, 25 health bars staring in my face most of the time.

jayteecork

Up to 220G with 80 items in the AH and after just buying this for 60G for my lvl 29 mage:
http://thottbot.com/i7728

copeyhagen

yeh use bongos myself,xperl,omen,titanpanel,questhelper,cart, and couple others.

displeaser

best profit with auctioneer is when your aware of the prices, scans in the short term dont do that, you need lots of scans over a decent period of time and awareness of general market prices, people can play with the results hence controlling your market price. Knowing the prices yourself is best. If your not confident with all item (trade, weapon, armour, recipe etc) then just stick with trade items, easy profit there in a short space of time guarenteed, with little risk. And scans pick up the average prices very quickly. And dont forget the neutral AH as well, massive cross faction profits to be made, recipies and rarer items especially.

For example, on the burning steppes server. Primal Nethers are selling for around 56-60+ on the alliance AH. On the neutral AH they are 44ish. 12 gold profit per nether sold. Lets say you sell for 52 on the alliance side, your pretty much guaranteed people will buy them and your making 8 gold per transaction. Recipes and pets have given me some nice profits from the neutral AH.

Gummy Panda

Drakar wrote: »

I took a lvl 1 to like 140g using auctioneer just by selling his starter equipment and using the cash to buy and sell stuff. Auctioneer totally ftw.

Explain to me how you do this?

I have auctioneer installed and it has about 2 weeks of scans. I'm sitting on 50g from quests and am lv40 so no mount.

jayteecork

displeaser wrote: »

best profit with auctioneer is when your aware of the prices, scans in the short term dont do that, you need lots of scans over a decent period of time and awareness of general market prices, people can play with the results hence controlling your market price. Knowing the prices yourself is best. If your not confident with all item (trade, weapon, armour, recipe etc) then just stick with trade items, easy profit there in a short space of time guarenteed, with little risk. And scans pick up the average prices very quickly. And dont forget the neutral AH as well, massive cross faction profits to be made, recipies and rarer items especially.

For example, on the burning steppes server. Primal Nethers are selling for around 56-60+ on the alliance AH. On the neutral AH they are 44ish. 12 gold profit per nether sold. Lets say you sell for 52 on the alliance side, your pretty much guaranteed people will buy them and your making 8 gold per transaction. Recipes and pets have given me some nice profits from the neutral AH.

I've been stung a few times but I'm making some amazing money over Auctioneer.
For example: I just bought this for 60s
http://thottbot.com/i10413

Have 220G, I'm totally geared and have maybe 300G worth of stuff in the AH. Not bad for a 31 Mage with no alt feeding him.

I have noticed people f ucking around with prices just to spite people who use Auctioneer. But yeah, you do need a knowledge of the market and I think I have it.

I played a rogue to 60 18 months ago and used Auctioneer back then too.
It's gotten a lot better too.(the auctioneer program)

displeaser

not sure how long you have Auctioneer for but best to do scans once a day for a few weeks (get tea or whatever), this will give you a good price database to work with. After that I like to do it Wednesday,fri and Sat (fri/sat are best days for selling as all the weekend raiders are on, Wed is good as a lot of people will repost auctions after the server downtime). You need to scan at least once a week after you get a good DB to make sure you keep up with market trends. Trade goods are safest profit makers.

Keep an eye on the neutral AH as well as I said, some great cross faction bargains.

Not The Real Scarecrow

Where would be the best place to do the auctions?I've been hanging around bootybay for the last few days doing quests and stuff but I find the auction house fairly useless, just don't seem to be many people using it.I find the house in Ogrimar to be the best at the mo followed by Under city.What are other peoples experiences?

jayteecork

Meatwad wrote: »

Where would be the best place to do the auctions?I've been hanging around bootybay for the last few days doing quests and stuff but I find the auction house fairly useless, just don't seem to be many people using it.I find the house in Ogrimar to be the best at the mo followed by Under city.What are other peoples experiences?

There's no distinction between the Auction Houses in the Undercity and Orgrimmar they're all linked up.

displeaser

Meatwad wrote: »

Where would be the best place to do the auctions?I've been hanging around bootybay for the last few days doing quests and stuff but I find the auction house fairly useless, just don't seem to be many people using it.I find the house in Ogrimar to be the best at the mo followed by Under city.What are other peoples experiences?

The AH in booty bay and Gadgetzan are the neutral auction houses, IE, they can be used by people from both the horde and the alliance. The Ogrimar/undercity are just for hordies (just like the stormwind and ironforge for alliance). There is a higher AH "tax" on the neutral auction houses and also partly out of the way so the specific faction auction houses will always get more traffic.

Most people leveling create a bank character to send stuff to, helps speed up the leveling process (i have an alt guild banker so i can use the guild bank facility for my bank character). These are normally level one and will normally be found in capital cities siting beside a postbox near the AH. I would personally never consider moving my alt from stormwind to booty bay as A) would take too long, would be asking to be ganked, C) not worth it in the long run.

Keep an eye on the neutral AH from time to time, some nice profit to be made there.

EDIT: All faction specific auction houses are the same, ie have the exact same things at the exact same prices. Same with the neutral auction houses (ie booty bay and Gadgetzan are the exact same just in different places)

Not The Real Scarecrow

cheers for clearing that up for me guys.REally after getting into auctioneer now.At first didn't see what the fuss was about as wasn't really making money on it.But after a few days and getting the swing of it I have made about 50gold with very little work.Needed it badly too, just couldn't save the money for a mount but thanks to the advice on here it looks like I should have my first mount in a day or so.