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How about a thread to talk about our favorite addons?

I have Naurah to thank for turning me on to a site called curse.com . They have just about every wow addon I could think of, and they have a very nice client software that you can download and install so that when you then find an addon you want all you have to do is click on a button that says "install via curse client" and it installs the whole thing for you. No unzipping. No looking in your wow folders for your addon folder to cut and paste. It's great.

Addons I use are:
recount-a fantastic program that has meters for all kinds of stats. damage, healing, etc. You can also find out which abilities do the most damage for you, how much overkill or overhealing you have going on, etc. You can report the damage meters in raid, party, guild chat, which is always popular. Great add on over all.

Omen- an addon that keeps track of the aggro for everyone in your party or raid group that also has this addon. EXTREMELY helpful in terms of knowing when to back off so you don't have big bad boss barreling down on your clothie butt. lol

Auctioneer- tracks auctions and makes auctioning very easy, as you can automatically list your auctions at 5% below average so they sell quickly. In addition, whenever you mouse over any item that's been sold in the auction house recently you will get a readout of average buyout price and other nifty stats so you always have an idea of what things are worth. Groovy.

Healbot - fantastic little program that allows you to track the healing needs of everyone in your party or raid group and heal with very simple mouse clicks, etc. Love it. Bricco's a big fan, too.

Cartographer - sweet program that 1) fills in all the maps in the game for you; 2) gives you access to coordinates; 3) shows quest givers and items like herbs and ore on the zone maps. love this one, too.

Atlas loot - Allows you to look up every boss in the game and what their drops are, as well as percentage of frequency.

I'm also going to install lightheaded soon to try it out, and deadly boss, but I haven't used them personally yet so I can't really review them.

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Thought I would throw up the links for the addons that I use. If they are already there I'm not seeing them as I read this. Not sure if something's wrong on my end though.
DeadlyBossMods - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/4940/
Omen - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/9101/
X-Perl UnitFrames - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/3416/
We are not as of 3/7/08 requiring any mods for raiding but I would highly suggest that you get yourself Omen and DBM; healbot for sure if you're a healer. That may or may not change this weekend, but I would say that if your not using Omen or a threat meter of comparable status at this point then you are severely gimping the raid and you will never be able to maximize your dps w/o wiping yourself and most likely the rest of us. X-perl UnitFrames is really cool because it changes your unitframes around in a raid and there are 3d Models in the portrait frame which can be disabled but I think are pretty sweet. For the most part its just nice because it will display the entire raid's unitframe as well as debuffs. There are a bunch more options which I dont personally use. Listra has started using the Group Calendar addon for planning our raid roster so here is that.
http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1958/
Oh and here is the link for the curse client in case it isnt actually linked in syll's post.
http://www.curse.com/client/
As with all downloads; be careful what all you make yourself available to by clicking or you will end up like Daylin... JK

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can i get a link to the calender-so im sure to get the same one-thanks yall

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Alright well it seems to me that i linked it in the last post but here it is again.
http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1958/
Also here's some instructions as I for one had trouble figuring the dam thing out. From what Listra said when you install it to get it up and synchronized with what she has been posting in there you will:
1: Join a separate channel listra has set up; /join guildchat. There apparently is not a password currently.
2: Click on your clock to open up options
3: Click on the Settings Tab
4: Set it to Manual
5: Under shared data channel type guildchat; again there is no password.
6: Click the connect button or w/e and give it 5 min to synchronize.

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ok thanx MC ima try puttin it on and runnin with it

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Here's another add-on that Ive just started using recently
Quest Helper
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9924/

It shows you where your quests are and the order that will give you the fastest way in which to complete.
It uses the quests in your log and places them on your world map with "marching ants" running between each one in the best order.
You can click on the world map quest icon and set its priority if you disagrre with this order, as well. ;)

It has helped in conjunction with a random search on
http://thottbot.com/ to clarify the more vague quests.

~Manti

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I added Bongos2 the other day and it's an awesome tool for rearranging your action bars. I have 8 of them up on my screen now, but you can shrink them down and locate them wherever you want, so it actually is nowhere near as obnoxious as it might sound. I love it. I LOVE IT. =) I don't have the link cause I'm lazy but you can search for Bongos2 at http://curse.com. You'll find it.

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Managed to squeeze that out of Curse inbetween it's bouts of...confusion. Great addon! Thanks!

I tried to get Arkinventory and AllinOne. The first one apparentlylets you have certain types of items go to a specific area in your bag and other cool things. The other one I've had before: open your bag and PRESTO CHANGEO, not 5 bags (is it 5?) but 1 very large 60-something (depending on how many slots you have total between all your bags) slot bag. Makes it much nicer to find and organize things. For instance I put potions and food all in one bag, but sometimes I need just one more space. With this you have all the spaces at once and you can have things organized in a grid...fashion. Thing. Whatever.

Anyway, curse is being dumb, so I no get my bags. 

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So for some reason I couldn't find the link to create a new thread so I'll post this here.
http://wowwebstats.com/np4ghwvuuq54y?m
Apparently there's a cool addon that records raid data that can afterwards be uploaded to this website and then linked to yoru guild forums so everyone can view the ...post game carnage report at a later date. I think it's nifty.
Notice I'm one of the few healers that didn't whip out a wand and accumlate out-damage. Fuckers. Givin me shit for wanding. Also notice I was the most efficient healer of the tied second-place group. Put that in mana biscuit and smoke it.
Boooo, booo on this raiding guild.
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