Addons and you: Streamlined, revised, and how-to!

  Here we are once again, time to update our addon page.  This year, thanks to Wray, we will also supply you with a how-to for installing these addons.  Very easy to follow video's and then our basic recommendations.  This post will be updated with more addons so be sure to check back frequently!

 

Our first Video explains how to install addon's manually.

Our second shows how to use the curse client to install addons.

GTFO is an addon that essentially gives you an audible sound if you are standing in bad stuff.  It is extremely helpful and I give it my highest possible recommendation.  It works well for those with PC's that are not graphically intensive, even still I still recommend it even if you happen to have a blazing fast PC. it's that helpful.


Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) is an add-on that lets you know when an attack by a boss is coming.  very helpful as it gives you a countdown and audible warning of the incoming attack.  it will even tell you when to run away!  you can't get any better than that.


Skada is a damage/healing meter.  You may have heard of Recount, well Skada is the basic same thing, except that it uses less memory. 

Healium or even Vuhdo (For advanced usage)  These are healing addons, for healers.   they show your healing spells for what is needed at the time.  highly recommended for anyone that wants to heal.  Now some people will suggest Healbot so I'll put it up here, however it seems Healium and Vuhdo are better suited for healing, but use whatever is comfortable to you.

 Carbonite is used to back up your PC files to a server for later...wait wrong Carbonite!!!  This Carbonite is a map and quest tracking addon.   The map feature will go from your standard map to a more google maps type terrain map.

Bartender  is a bar changer on your UI that lets you move and place bars wherever you please.  I use it to stack my 3 main bars on top of each other instead of next to each other, makes it easier to get to abilities for me.

Wray's Edit:

This is Wray's little edit of some of the addons I recommend.

Mapster is a nice world map replacement. Makes is easier to look at the world map while still traveling. 

TomTom adds some coordinates in game plus an arrow when you die to help you find your corpse easier.

Lightheaded is a great questing  addon. It adds a popout tabe to your quest log that will display comments from wowhead. so it's wowhead in your game... And if you have tomtom (posted above) you can simply click on any coords listed in the comments and they will be added to your map and a arrow should show up.

QuestHelperLite is a good questing addon. It's not as good as the original QuestHelper but it's still good. This will add a nice arrow in-game that will point you in the right direction to quest objectives.

Bitten's SpellFlash is a great way to boost your DPS if you aren't quite sure if your rotation is correct. You'll need to also download each one of the plugins for the class you play. What it does is it will flash the action bar button that you should be using next, it uses info from some of the top theroy crafting sites to maximize the rotation for the highest possible dps.