My Rare Finder – Also just Rare Finder, I picked this one up one night when we were out hunting rares as a group. This is all stuff I could look up on the web, so not indispensable, but still very nice to have. It also gives a readout in each zone of available pets, which ones I have left to catch, the quality break down of those pets in my collection, and where any uncaught pets might be found in the zone. It lets me know in a battle if any of the pets I am facing would be an upgrade over what I have already caught, including if I do not yet have a given pet. Pet Tracker – I may have mentioned this in passing last week as well, this fills addon in a few more of the blanks when it comes to pet battles. I am not sure I could really be serious about pet battles in any way without running this addon. PetBattle Teams – Suggested by several people and mentioned in my post last week about pet battles, this really helps to overcome the limitations of the pet battle interface. Not absolutely indispensable, but I would want to try and run five garrisons without it. Master Plan – Makes garrison missions more manageable, lets you assign the optimum followers on your team to a given mission, lets you complete all outstanding missions with a single click. Several people in our weekly group run this, including Earl who runs the sound through his speakers and Skype through his headset, so I can hear when he is standing in the fire during a fight. Probably less necessary when ranged, but still nice. Very helpful as a melee DPS player where your view of the world is often restricted when standing next to a giant boss. It basically plays audio alerts when you are standing in the fire, ooze, or other zone of impact so you know to get out. GTFO – I picked this up when I did the LFR’s in Pandaria to ensure that I wouldn’t be “that guy” standing in the fire or what not. There are other options in this category, but I have stuck with this one out of habit as much as anything else. They are:Īuctioneer – This is my market tracking addon of choice, and probably my one absolutely essential addon. I have added and remove some, but the really useful ones persist. Over the years since then, my addon count has crept up slowly. In addition, I limited the potential pool of addons to those supported by Curse, since they make updating easy. I think at one point I only ran Auctioneer, because knowing the market value of things is too useful, and one damage meter or another, just to keep myself aware of how I was doing. I cut my addon count down to the bare minimum. By that point Blizzard had improved the game enough, often by incorporating the functionality of some popular addons directly into the game (to the annoyance of some) that I did not feel like I needed as many addons. Somebody who was enthusiastic addon developer one day was likely just to walk away from their projects the moment they stopped playing WoW.Īddons became a pain, which wasn’t helped when Blizzard made it clear that you couldn’t charge for addons or solicit donations for them in-game.Īround the time of that big quest tracker addon I changed my tune on the whole addon thing. Finally, long term support for addons has always been a bit dodgy. There was the usual nightmare of patch day when everybody needed to update their addons, whether or not they broke due to some change. Some of them were buggy or leaked memory or conflicted with other addons. (screen shot of the Ultimate Raid & Leveling UI pack)Īnd then the reality of addons began to hit.
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