Addons Galore

Because I can’t simply leave well enough alone, I’ve found myself constantly adding to my User Interface (UI) since my last post. First, here is a screenshot of my UI. ((Out of party, I know)) There is actually a hidden second bar at the top (which I forgot to label as Chocolate Bar) where I keep the broker plugins for things like all of Auctioneer, Gatherer, IceHud, Pitbull. Things that are for configuration menus but don’t give me actual information. Deadly Boss Mods has for some odd reason stopped showing up on Broker and went back to my minimap and I’m not sure why. EDIT: I figured out why. When DBM last updated I deleted all the DMB folders, and forgot that the LDB addon was separate.

Here is the full list of Addons I am currently running. Feel free to ask questions about them. I might go into further detail about specific addons later.

• WoWHead Client – Because I feel like contributing to the site.
• Addon Control Panel – Not sure if I’m going to keep this.
• Ara Broker Guild Friends – Simple and easy to use.
• Ara Broker Tradeskills – Best broker professions addon I’ve found.
• Archy – Can’t do Archeology without it.
• ArkInventory – Can’t play WoW without this. Inventory replacement addon. I could probably do an entire article just on this. Also comes with a bunch of broker plugins: Currency, Money, Bags, Item Tracker, Mounts, and Pets (maybe a few others). You can also hotkey summoning mounts/pets.
• Atlas – Useful at times, but not sure if I’m going to keep it. Might turn it off unless I go into an instance.
• Auctioneer Advanced – Use it too much.
• Auditor – Best addon I’ve found to keep track of your expenses.
• Broker Portals – Works good for easy access to thinks like Hearthstone and other teleport functions.
• Chocolate Bar – LibDataBroker display addon.
• Deadly Boss Mods – If you do instances or raids this is almost mandatory.
• DoTimer – Highly customizable to monitor your DoTs and HoTs, as well as cooldowns and buffs.
• Factionizer – Expands your reputation pane, includes telling you what dailies you can do and how long it will take you to get your rep up. Still being updated for Cata changes though.
• Fishing Buddy – Adds click to fish, easy swapping to fishing gear and more.
• Fishing Buddy Broker – LDB plugin for Fishing Buddy to keep your minimap clean.
• Fishing Buddy Outfit Display Frame – (optional) Adds an outfit frame to tell it what your fishing gear is. You can use the default Equp Manager or Outfitter instead. I prefer this.
• Gatherer – Tracks gathering nodes for miners and herbalist, as well as other things.
• Gryphons Remover – Simple addon to remove the gryphon artwork. If you have an action bar mod this probably isn’t needed.
• IceHUD – Adds player, target, and pet health/mana bars in the center of the screen around your avatar.  Added this because I kept not noticing when I was dying in instances. Might remove it once I tweek Pitbull some more.
• Magic Runes – For my Death Knight. Better Rune, Runic Power, and disease tracking.
• Move Anything – So I could move the Tol Barad timer and breath/fatigue bars. Litterally allows you to move any of the default Blizzard UI elements around.
• Omen Threat Meter – Monitors the threat of you and your party. Tanks know when to step things up, DPS knows when to tone down so not to pull aggro.
• PitBull v4 – Total Unit Frame replacement. Highly customizable, but does take a bit to really get it to look how you want. Sadly right now the ‘configuration’ modes are broke so if you’re not picky like me it could be very frustrating. If you want your frames to look a certain way, THIS is the addon to do it. Simple workaround is to actually be in a party/raid to tweek those frames (suggest getting pet classes to help you or you won’t get party pet frames to work right).
• Postal – Adds functionality to your mailbox like mass open, easy delete, addressbook, auto fill (better than Blizz’s dropdown box), etc.
• Prat v3 – Chat addon. Adds a TON of features like shortening channel names, coloring RealID names, Alt/Main linking, etc.
• ShuckIt – Broker plugin that shows when you have a ‘container’ to loot and adds a macro for easy opening.
• Skillet – Tradeskill frame replacement. Adds more room, a queue, shopping list, and more.
• Tidy Plates – Changes the ‘name plates’ you can get to appear over the heads of mobs/players.
• TipTac – Tooltip customization addon.
• TomTom – Waypoint addon. I only needed this to help me find all the Lunar Festival elders. Might keep it for Archeology but other than that don’t really have a need for it anymore.
• Volumizer – Broker plugin that adds easy access volume control.
• WhisperWhisper – Broker plugin that shows you who last whispered you, and keeps a record of incoming/outgoing conversations. Preserves across sessions and characters. Also works with RealID. Very basic. If you’re looking for more powerful whisper display I suggest WIM.

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