TooManyAddons!!!

Yes, it's true, I do indeed have too many, but that is not the point. The point is that there is an addon out there called TooManyAddons. Now, I will let you in on a little secret. This addon is one of my new favorites, simply because of what it allows me to do.
 
TMA allows me to make profiles of different addons I want to load. Thus I don't have to load every addon I would use in every situation. I personally have a profile set up where I have every addon I use to make gold (auctioneer, KTQ, Quick auctions and many others) and a profile for my Mage in PVP and one for my mage in raiding.

This creation of profiles is great not only because they exist, but because they are easily swappable. Say you just got invited to a raid, but your UI is set up for PVP. Not to worry, just return to the main menu (default: escape) click on the new button that says addons. Then, select your raiding profile, hit reloadui, and BAM! you are ready to go. This is just the beginning of the potential of this addon.

Download TMA Here

The Arena Player's Must Have Addons

So this past week I have been doing a large amount of PVP on my mage, in particular arenas. So I thought I would go through what I see as the must haves for arenas. One of the biggest parts of PVP addons is the importance of the presentation of information in a quick, easy to recognize format which will make your reaction time better. I thought I would compile a list of addons which I see as doing this. This is in no way shape or form all encompassing, it is just my personal recommendations.

Hooray!

Well I am officially home for the summer, I have a good six weeks off, and I am already beginning to prepare a lot of posts for the future. I hope you all like learning about addons, because they are coming I promise!

One More Week!

So last week was death, it started with my power chord for my laptop dying on me and me having to buy a new one bleh!

And then class was not fun at all. I am an engineering student and I am taking summer classes, I have one more week and then I get to head home for a month or so. This next week probably won't have a post, but I hope to do 2-3 a week after that, I haven't forgotten you all I promise!

Val

Curse Gaming's Addon Packs

So sometime in the recent past, Curse introduced the easily posted addon packages. Now addon compilations have been a staple since as long as I have been downloading addons, but never have I seen them as easily and neatly created. Curse has dozens of pages of addon compilations I encourage you to go check them out. you can see them here. In addition if you have a great compilation of addons you think the community may enjoy you can create your own pack in a few short steps.

What is your opinion of Curse's introduction of this new and easy to use tool? I personally think it is great for getting ideas on how to set up your UI, but it does cause a large amount of items to have to sift through.

Hooray

So today I finally fixed my skillet issue. I had spent hours toggling addons and looking through forums. I had logged in and out countless times, deleted my wtf folders for skillet. And then today I finally tried something which for some reason I had never thought of, I copied the wtf for skillet from one of my working characters over to my mage's savedvariables folder. And guess what, it works!!! finally haha

Simple is often better!

Today I wanted to spotlight an addon which I have been using for a while. It is so simple that you wouldn't think  it would be so valuable. The addon digits created by Satrina, places a scaling and movable number showing your health and mana/focus/rage. You can show the number as either a percentage or an exact number.

Digits although old, still is very functional and is in fact currently undergoing a rewrite which will, according to Satrina, "allow you to make as many digits displays as you want for whatever units you want."

You can find digits at wowinterface.com here.

Hope you all find this helpful!
Val