The Glade 4.0

Looking for some recommendations for WoW add-ons.

Not looking for anything raid centric. Primarily just general utility, action bar optimization, pet utilities and aspects (for hunters), perhaps for professions as well. DPS would be interesting but not a primary purpose. Good mapping utility would be nice too. Oh, and fishing.. fishing is important. :p

Anyone using the curse client to keep add-ons updated? Pro/Cons? I'm always a bit hesitant to install stuff like this unless its a trusted thing.

I have used Curse Client for a year with no problems at all.

My list:
ArkInventory - If I had to list a can't-live-without mod, this would be it. Makes inventory management so much easier than the terrible default.
Bartender4 - for your actionbars
Auctioneer - for selling/buying
Cartographer - Map mod, so it doesn't take up the whole screen
Atlasloot - lets you look up loot drops for any instance at any time, saves you from alt-tabbing.

Xperl unit frames
Dhud
Mik Scrolling Battle Text

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Lenas,

Which version of Cartographer are you using?

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addo ... apher.aspx

I'm not a big fan of the 3.0 iteration.

Oh, and use Recount for dps, healing, death, friendly fire, etc. meters all rolled into 1

Whats the one that sells all your grey crap automatically?

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Deadly Boss Mods is good for raiding

All the others I use have been mentioned.

When levelling up a new toon, Questhelper+Cartographer are golden.

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I use cartographer, but with nothing enabled other than fog removal+ resizability.

I also use:

Titanpanel w/professions and currency
Lil' Sparky's Workshop (godsend if you do a lot of crafting- lets you see current AH prices for mats and finished products if you have Auctioneer/Auctionlite).
Advanced Tradeskill Window
Enchantrix
MKScrolling Battle Text
Dominos
Deadly Boss Mods
ZomgBuffs
Auctionlite
Recount
Omen
Ratingsbuster

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When I was still playing, I had to have:

X-Perl Unit Frames
CTMOD
Recount
Deadly Boss Mods (it's sad that it's practically necessary... I feel it's dumbed-down the game somewhat)
ShockAndAwe (for enhancement shaman)

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, Blizzard has started to assume in it's design that everyone has this mod, so it's almost impossible to run without it on most encounters.

I'm a mod fiend, I use a truly insane number of mods (and curse client free to update them)

I play an 80 mage.

For Raiding:
Deadly Boss Mods (as someone mentioned before, you basically cannot raid without them at this point)
Grid+Clique for Decursing, Buffing, and Raid UI (with Grid Mana Bars)
Omen Threat Meter
Recount for DPS info
LootHog for loot (I am master looter)
Headcount for attendance/Loot distribution records

For Mage UI:
ArkInventory for everything Inventory Related (If you have alts, search is a godsend)
Perl Classic Unit Frames
Quartz for Castbars
Bartender 4
OmniCC for universal Cooldowns
Cartographer 2.5
Elkano's BuffBars
FuBar for info (DBMFu,DurabilityFu,MoneyFu,OutfitterFu,PerformanceFu,RecountFu)
IceHud for circular character display around character (health/information)
OPie for radial Alt+* menus, this is an Awesome addon to reduce your onscreen buttons
Outfitter for Character Equipment
Prat 3.0 for Chat Frames
Ratingbuster for Equipment Information
Scorchio! 2 for mage-specific cooldowns and effects
SexyMap for badass looking minimap
Hit Assist - puts item hit information right in your tooltip for %hit on raid bosses
MikScrollingBattleText - Displays all incidental text with movable frames

General Other Stuff:
Ampere to load/unload addons in-game without logging
Atlasloot enhanced for all item drops
Daily Quest Viewer - See what the daily quests are without running to the quest giver
Healbot Continued - for when i'm on a healing alt

Peggle and Bejeweled - for when pulls are taking forever or the leader is looking for a replacement

Oh yeah. Omen. Don't leave home without it.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Pff Omen.

The healers'll keep you up. Blow your wad man. Big Numbers > *

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Holy shitsnacks!

Wow, OPie looks amazing- I'll have to check it out.

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I love those types of players. Because they're the ones who can't stand it when I rub my "numbers" in their face (which I go out of my way to do with people like that), and they're never even close because being dead = no DPS.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

It's pretty rare that you'll pull aggro as a dps if the tank is decent in the slightest. In the time it took me to stealth to the mob on pull, the tank would generally get enough aggro that I wouldn't ever have to worry about pulling.

It's nice to have for a just-in-case situation, but it nowhere near necessary.

I play with very good tanks and I still have to watch Omen at times. It's hard for them to keep threat when you're dropping 7k dps.

I quit playing about a month ago. Was starting to top 5.5k+, with some naxx and ulduar gear mixed. The tanks for the most part did outgear me a bit, but the only fight I ever really had issues with were ones that favored me in the first place, such as patchwerk.

Everyone should be running Omen if they're raiding, whether they're in danger of pulling aggro or not, but for the vast majority of players I'd say it's just nice to have. Of course, from my pugging experience, if you can top 4k you're in the top 10% of players horde side on my server. Maybe even top 5%.

Btw, I'm a healer

hehe

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Holy shitsnacks!

carbonite, and Miks scrolling combat

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And when the mobs have that nasty habit of dropping aggro.

OMG I love OPie!

Took a while to set up and configure, but I was able to cut out 2 of my action bars, the ones that had things I didn't use all that often on them. All my potions, buffs, etc.

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Yeah that OPie looks very cool I will have to add that myself. I hate bar clutter. Miks scrolling combat looks like a winner too.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

I also like CtMod for some small customization features like chat scrolling, tooltip replacement, etc.