Some suggestionsShaman specific: Totem Timers, Raid Totems (for assigning totems to multiple shaman in a group)Healer stuff: Vuh-Do (like Healbot, but better), SmartRes2Tradeskills: Gnomeworks (this is alpha, but it works pretty well, and it’s awesome :), L’il Sparky’s Workshop, Ackis Recipe ListBags: Arkinventory (I can’t seem to add links any more, but I get almost everything from Wow-Interface), BankStack, Broker-GarbageRaiding: DBM, Tidy Plates – Threat Plates, DocsUI Nameplates (I’ve used Tidy Plates, and like it, but I’m checking Docs out. I like the setup better, but the jury’s still out), Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text, Skada (both DPS and Threat meters in one addon), Atlas, AtlasLootUnit Frames/Action Bars: nUI+ (version 6 is currently in development, and will be more awesome even than version 5.07.08, which is what I’m currently using), OPieMap/Questing: Carbonite, WowPro, Lightheaded, Loremaster and Everyquest when they get updated for CataAuctions: Auctioneer is the godfather of all these, of course. I’m currently testing Auctionator.Other: NPCScan and NPCScan_Overlay (for tracking those rare mobs), Addon Control Panel, AI-Art (not exactly an addon, art to modify the look of your UI, files go in the Interface folder directly rather than the Addon folder), Altoholic, Collectinator, BugSack, Chocolate Bar, Factionizer, Fishing Buddy, Outfitter, Overachiever, Pawn, Postal, Travel AgentMy top five: nUI+, Carbonite, Totem Timers, Vuh-Do, Gnomeworks.

I like Mapster, but it’s moreI like Mapster, but it’s more basic than Cartographer was, which works well to me.

MapHi, WBSo decided to give this guide a go, looks promising.After deleting Carbonite, I see that I need a new map addon. Cartographer is over a year old now, no new version, so you might want to remove that from your addon list.Does anyone have a replacement for the main map? 

Suggestions please!Hey folks.As you can se im back!Working on an update of the guide as you can see, but:I need suggestions! Mainly for the Class section.I could easily go on Curse and look for the most downlaoded, but really, whats the point doing that..I want YOUR addons, and YOUR answer to why others should use it! A last note: Im sure you noticed that this guide is pretty damn big! If you are walking around with the time to do like a whole section of the guide, send me a PM, and we’ll work it out!It sure takes time to do this alone!

Just finished a roughJust finished a rough cleaning session.

Pictures are removed, and actually.. I kinda like it without! What’d ya say? Personally im more a fan of linking to screenshots. Would that be better?

My english skills improved by.. A lot.. So the text will be getting its revision aswell.

WoW-Pro will be getting extra focus when i have the time. thats a promise ;).

ToC is on my top 5 list aswell!

Hey Hurjo!

If you ever doHey Hurjo!

If you ever do get around to updating this, I do have two requests.

1 – add a Table of Contents please! It would be nice to easily jump from section to section.

2 – talk about our site’s addon in the questing section 🙂

Glad to see that you stopped back in, though, even if you don’t update anything – I like seeing old users come back around once in a while! 🙂

Thanks to all! Revised version is soon to come!I really appreciate your corrections and add-ins! Make this whole project easier.

I would have loved to update this before and more frequently, but i just didnt have the time..

With the revised version coming up, now is the time for you to come with all your great addon suggestions!

I have recently gone mad in gold making, and with all the gold guides on the site, ill direct alot of focus on my favourite addons 😛

If anyone wants to help me writing, please pm me. This sure is alot of work to do..

//Jon

Hmmm, I’m going to have toHmmm, I’m going to have to check Lunarshpere out…

Great Work! Suggestion though…You sure have done your research, Although with bagnon I find it works great to also add Jpack. Its a very simple light weight UI downloaded from curse.com… The purposes of Jpack is to sort your inventory for you. You said you liked arkinventory because you could sort your inventory and that bagnon didnt alow you to do that.. Well with Jpack you can. Its very simple to do as well. Once downloaded and in game simply type the command /jp and it automatically puts all your potions together, your cloth together your blue, green and purpple armor together, your white armor together, your misc. items together, and it even puts your greys at the top of the bag for easy spotting and selling.

I love Jpack and probably would be compleetly lost with out it. It also sorts your bank, and deposits items in your bank if you choose to do so. Say for instance you have 3 swift thistle in your bank and 10 in your bag… If you want to stock all your swift thistle in your bank all you need simply do is type /jp deposit and all the duplicate item stacks in your bag will be stacked over into your bank.

Lastly on a side note, I noticed your missing a few more UI’s from your list.. Ones i could not live with out.. Main one being Carbonite the map addon that totally beats out other maps and it has a radar for enimies on PVP servers and it has a quest tracker and a minimap button frame.

Another would be Auctioneer, and finally Lunarsphere. Lunar Sphere acts like bartender in that it is a bar mod but it alows you to open 12 sphere buttons that surround a main sphere. Each button including the main sphere alows a right, center, and left click to have effect. The effect can be a spell, a trinket, a bag toggle, to apply something like a poision to main and off hand, to eat or drink a food or drink, to use a health or mana potion, to toggle your pet action bar, and many other preset options. These buttons are COMPLETELY customizable in that you can choose skins and actions as well. You can also in port your own .tga files if you have them. (I imported the hello kitty skins from minimap button frame into mine and it works great! the how to is on lunarsphere.com) Also each of the 12 spheres surrounding the main sphere can act as a menu button opening up a customisable 12 sphere menu. Say you only want to use 2 of the menu buttons, not to worry the other 10 will disappear once you have hit the stop editing buttons button, and it will only show the ones that have actions attached to them. Also aside from that each button is avalable to detach itself from the main sphere and be locked into where ever on your map you wish to place it. Finally the main sphere has many options as well… For instance you can desplay in the center of the main sphere an item count, combo points, or cool down, and the two rings surrounding the main sphere can show players health and mana. There is also a built in auto response for RPers that is customizable. Lunar sphere also works as a vendor junker, meaning it will sell your greys, repair your equipment, and restock reagents if you choose it to. It is highly worth getting and best of all it doesnt take that much FPS or CPU at all. Its in fact very low on the list. In my opinion all of those addons should have been added to your list as well because i would rate them all with a 5 star!

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Titan Panel is an addon which creates one or two bars at the top/bottom, where different tools can be displayed. An example is the experience tool. It can display your exp per hour/level rate and much more.

Fu_Bar
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Abolutely NO clue why some of the tags are shown. I cant find any tags missing.
Can someone check it? Its shown like this without spaces
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If i had included the Screenshot in here it would blow the screen. Fu_Bar is the small bar with icons at the bottom!
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Looks like you missed a close bracket on the Titan Panel wow.curse download. Easy fix. The error is bold and underlined on the second row for easy location.

Nice guideNice, guide! I found a couple typos, and I also wanted to throw out a couple of suggestions.
Typos
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[*]Under [i]Why do we want to change the UI?[/i] – [b]confetable[/b] with it if [b]y ou[/b] are leveling. Should be “comfortable” and “you”?
[*]Under “Miscellaneous” it looks like you’re missing the closing bracket for the /url for [b]Titan Panel[/b]. That’s causing the issue with FuBar linking to Titan Panel.
[*]Also, it seems the closing tag for the FuBar pic is missing entirely.
[*]In the same section, it looks like you’ve got an open bold tag for kgPanel.
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I’ll PM you with the code I get when I “View Source” this page. When I try and link it in here it makes things go too wide. I hope it helps.

Otherwise, a lot of great info! Now, for my suggestions
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[*]Under “Buff Management”, Natur’s Enemy Cast Bar. Looks a lot like Buffbars, but it tracks the duration and cooldowns of spells you’ve cast, as well as those cast by people in your party or the mobs you are fighting. Take some configuring to make it friendly, but overall pretty nice. It also has a minor added feature of popping up a warning whenever the activities of a hostile rogue are detected nearby 🙂
[*]Under combat, “Control Freak”. This puts a single button that you can put anywhere on your screen that will cast your CC spell at a specified target withouth having to select it. It also shows how long is left, and warns when it breaks and lets you know if the target is taking damage. Great for mages, but pretty much anyone with CC abilities could make use of it.
[*]Norganna’s entire suite of addons. This includes Auctioneer, Gatherer, Enchantrix, and some others. Most people I know use this one.
[*]Under Guides, link to Jame’s :). Best one I know of
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I hope that helps. Shoot me a message if you want screenshots of any of them.

DBM Range CheckerCan be easily enabled by typing /range.

The manual toggle is in the menu – /dbm menu

CorrectionThanks for that little ccorrection! My english isnt that good yet, but still trying to improve it.

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Looks like a real niceLooks like a real nice guide, ran out of time to read through it all but it’s sparked me off wanting to redo my UI again!

One little correction is in the Sexymap section

Sexymap is a minimap addon providing a lot features:

* Move your minimap wherever you want
* Change the zone text for each zone
* If you have some sort of gathering addon, you can view the nodes on the map
* Very easy to customize with different build in skins

The last line should say built and not build.

Thanks for the guide, ill be sure to use it when re doing mine!

Anti…

Indeed, especially at GruulIndeed, especially at Gruul

Just realizedIt could be that the feature was not added to the Kel’thuzad portion of DBM yet. I know DBM has the feature. They’ve used it in the mods before during Burning Crusade.

DBM range feaure?Thanks for the feedback!

I might look closer at the configure menu for DBM…

Also youre right about Titan and Fu_Bar. Its really easy to get lost in the jungle of additions.

Ill check baggins too.

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Great!Excellent guide, I really found it helpful (and this is from someone who spends half his time toying around and testing different mods). As someone who has written guild guides to UI modification you’ve done a great job covering the basic forms of mods and providing excellent examples.

A couple suggestions, though:

First, you may want to take a look at Baggins for your bag mods. I’ve switched around with and toyed with all the mods you’ve listed before and Baggins stands out from the rest in its fusion of simplicity and configurability.

Second, when you speak about BigWigs and DeadlyBossMods you mention that DBM does not have the range finder feature that BigWigs does. It actually does have it, but it is not a default setting within the mod. It’s been a while since I last used it, but it should be able to be turned on somewhere within its interface.

Last, you may want to cover some of the nicer additions to titan bar and FuBar. There are a lot of people who don’t understand how useful those mods can be when applied appropriately.

Class SectionA Class Section has also been in my head, but mainly i only use druid and deatk knight addons, so a little help from your side could be great

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Great guide

Dunno ifGreat guide 🙂

Dunno if you’re planning a section for class addons, but that’d be really good too, I think.

If you don’t have a shammy, I’d be happy to recommend a few things 🙂

Also, yeah, a Table of Contents would be really useful, and make the guide much more useable, so good luck witt that =D]

Great work

ScreenshotsIf you need screenshots of any mods I suggest, send me a PM and I’ll help you out.

James

Faction RepAnother mod I like is Factionizer (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/factionizer.aspx). Not sure where to put this in your guide, but I thought I’d point it out also.

James

That’s a very good guideThat’s a very good guide Hurjo. Thumbs up!

Nice one

CheersNice one 🙂

Cheers

AddonsHavent heard of your listed Quest addons but ill check em out.

About gatherer its indeed a really good addon. Im gonna include a profession section very very soon.

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Thanks for the link correction!
Im known with the missing tags.
Somewhere it doesnt look like there is any mistakes, but ill read closer when i have the time.

Also a Table of Content is quite in need for this guide, so thats coming too

Fantastic guide, brilliantFantastic guide, brilliant idea.

Couple of quick things; the Fubar link takes you to Titan Panel instead. (link in the guide is http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/titan-panel.aspx)

Also there are just a couple of points where you haven’t quite got the code correct (things like missing out the end ] )

Fantastic first guide, keep it up 🙂

Cheers

BagsI started with BankItems and switched to ArkInventory. What I like about them (having 10 characters) is the ability to mouse over an item, or click on an item in chat and the tooltip tells me how many total I have and which characters have them. It’s MUCH easier than logging in and out of each character trying to find who has a needed item to craft something. Both also have the ability to see what gear each of your characters are wearing also. Not sure if Bagnon has that functionality or not.

Another Quest addon that I use is UberQuest (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8471-UberQuestRebornAgain2.4FanUpdate.html). It says it’s for 2.4, but it’s actually 3.0.4 and will work in 3.0.8. I’m a little fearful of what will happen to a lot of mods when 3.1 drops. I also had tomQuest2 (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info12619-tomQuest2.html) for a while (an LDB mod) but I couldn’t get it to auto track quests the way that UberQuest does. Both of these have LightHeaded support. In conjunction with TomTom, this is sweet.

Gatherer is another mod that I really like. It does the same as the part of Cartographer that tracks herbs and ores (but doesn’t track motes extracted with a Zapthrottle…At least not yet). What I like about it is if anyone in your guild finds an herb or ore and you’re on, you find it too.

Great guide that showed me a couple of other mods that I didn’t know about.

Thanks!!!

James

No personallyNo personally i think pictures are perfect because if they were smaller then it would be harder to see everything in them.

PicturesThanks.

Again its my first guide and all tips and tricks are welcome.

Also, do you think the pictures is too big?
Some of them had smaller/bigger size and i used photoshop to resize. That means that some pictures are bad quality.

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PicturesIf you don’t want to list the pictures in your guide just go to your file attachments and uncheck the list box.