If you have arrived at this page, you are serious about taking total control over your WoW interface. At this point, you and I both can admit we are nuts, and that we are willing to spend a few hours setting up our game in such detail, because we are that addicted to the game in the first place. This ought to be fun.
I will separate my addons into a few categories below for convenience sake, but before we get there I want to point out a couple of things that might make life easier from the jump. Many of these addons have varied font options as well as bar style. For example ZPerl and Quartz both use a color filling bar. You can make these styled differently, or the same, but there are like 30 to choose from. I, for time saving and personal preference sake found the style of bar I liked, and went with it on every relevant addon.
The same principle applies for font. I tried to use the same font in all my addons across the board. It can get very busy if you have many different fonts in each addon you use. This would be the first thing I keep in mind before setting out to become an interface customization king.
The first list is CLASSIC SPECIFIC ADDONS. I'm listing these first because many other addons will be dependent on you have these, and having them UP TO DATE. This is critical. Use Twitch app. Only one addon I have is not available there, and it will keep the rest up to date as the dev's make changes.
CLASSIC SPECIFIC ADDONS:
CLASSIC CASTBARS -This one is pretty straightforward. It gives you a castbar on the target frame, and below the name plates of your target. It's very hard to interrupt on time without this. It's very very combat valuable with a small caveat - it's not always accurate.
CLASSIC LFG - This one is pretty crappy so far, but it depends on more people downloading and use it to become effective. But whatever, go ahead and keep spamming /4.
REAL MOB HEALTH - Cannot skip this one. This keeps a database of every mob you see and tracks it's health based on the numbers it took for you to kill it in combat logs. It sometimes take's 1 or 2 tries to get a read, but then it stores it for future use. ZPerl actually picks this up and floods the data into it's frames, so it will help you greatly.
COMBAT IMPROVEMENT:
DEADLY BOSS MODS - This is a must for raids. No setup needed. It will tell you when your being a dumb-ass, and if you are a dumb-ass all the time (me) it will tell you generally what to do in the fight. This is because dumb-asses didn't read about the boss first.
DECURSIVE - IGNORED FOR ROGUES, WARRIORS, WARLOCKS, and HUNTERS. This gives you a fully customizable section of mini unit frames. These are in addition to your existing raid frames - they just show up as tiny squares. These squares allow you to remove bad shit on your friends with one click. VERY VERY NICE.
HEALBOT - HEALERS ONLY. This addon gives you a unitframe alternative that's all about healing. The frames themselves have the ability to "one click heal" everyone in your raid party. You set up which heal you want with left click, then alt left click, then shift left click etc. Once you get the hang of it, this makes for massively more efficient healing.
OMNI CC - Adds cooldown texts to items, skills, and consumables on your action bars.
MIK's SCROLLING BATTLE TEXT (this is not available through twitch find it here) - This is not completely ported to classic yet, but the dev is working on it. You get a more detailed, and movable, and customizable scrolling battle text that cleans up your damage and heal text.
QUARTZ - Castbar modifier that makes your large castbar much more modifiable and specific. It will help you chain casts faster together, which results in more DPS.
THREAT PLATES CLASSIC - This is a modification of the old TidyPlates. This is currently the best known way to I.D. Threat on a target. The nameplates change color based on threat so you know when to keep calm and auto attack.
WEAPON SWING TIMER - this one takes a bit of understanding but it helps you identify when you can move to avoid an auto from a mob, or when you can move and not lose an auto with your ranged weapons. Valuable on every class.
THE INTERFACE:
BAGNON - Probably the most important. Combines all your bags into one moveable window, has quick sorting functions, and allows you to remember what's in your bank, and alt inventories wherever you are. Super, super helpful.
BARTENDER 4 - This allows you to adjust the size, position, and placement of all of your action and menu bars. You will notice in my screen shots that some things are even eliminated. This one takes a moderate amount of setup. Here are a few quick setup tips:
- Make every bar the same size settings and the just move them around with bar snapping. It makes it very quick and efficient.
- Disable the Blizzard Art Bar, and the Bag Bar. You can open your bags with a hotkey, or with the bag button on Titan Panel.
- Use SOME padding. This will help when moving things around on your bars, but also keep your action bars locked.
BiS TRACKER - Under development but will have a cool function when it's all done. It shows BiS items for every phase for every class.
CLASSIC THREATMETER - This is currently in but may come out. It's ok if you have a single target and have been on it for a bit like a boss. For this reason, I currently use it, but for all over the place fights it has almost not value.
DETAILS! - A more comprehensive version of Recount, recapping everything you would like to know about the math of your fight.
GATHERMATE 2 - This gives you some cool icons about anything that can be gathered on your map and minimap. Very useful for just about every class, and any profession including fishing.
PAWN - Allows you to created weighted values of how important certain stats are to your class and spec so that you can compare items. Also will highlight a new item in green and show you an Upgrade % when it is better than your current item based on the values you told it. (Requires a bit of math, and a general understanding of basic theory crafting)
PRAT 3.0 - This gives you TOTAL control over your chat window.
QUESTIE - This has 4 main functions. One is replacing your quest log with a better more custom one, 2 is adding quest icons to your map and minimap, 3 is showing you quests that you could pick up and what level they are from anywhere just by hovering an icon. 4, is making you not uninstall the game because I can't find this fucking quest item for an hour.
SEXYMAP - Total minimap replacement and customization. There are lots of cool skins, scaling and sizing and moving functions. As you can see from my screenshots I go with a very slim approach, but this one with a little bit of time and make something you love according to preference.
SILVERDRAGON - This gives you a pop up box for Rare spawns and allows you to quickly target them. Never miss a rare again, instead get ganked by the alliance when you have burned the rare down to 5% hp.
TITANPANEL CLASSIC - These are the two bars across the bottom of my screen. I've set them up to deliver me a ton of visual information very quickly. I also turned off all my minimap buttons, and
have placed all my addon quick menu's on my titan bar. Here are some noteworthy extra plugins:
- TitanPanel Classic Guild - gives you info about the guild you are in at a glance like # of players online(SHOUTOUT to CHOOFERS UNITED)
- TitanPanel Classic Mail - gives you a mail tracker that you can hover to discover your auction mail, like what sold or what expired
- TitanSkills - probably my favorite, gives you a skill bar you can hover on titan that shows you your current skill level for every trainable skill.
WiM - Wow instant messenger. Turns your whispers into chat boxes.
THE AUCTIONEER SUITE - all of these are on twitch as "auctioneer" but it includes all of the following.
AUCTIONEER - Allows you to keep track of tons of information through auction house scans. Stores data from the auction house so you have a sense of what's going on in your realm's economy.
SEARCH UI - this uses your stored up data to search the AH for things you want.
BEANCOUNTER - a log of your financial gains and losses.
ENCHANTRIX - everything that you can possibly identify to make the most of disenchanting.
INFORMANT - Adds a window below your tooltips when you hover that let's you know vendor price, market price, and other information. It also recommends you to Vendor/DE/ or AUCTION an item in your bag.
AUTOMAGIC - Will allow you to automatically sell gray items, and a list of items you can update as you see fit whenever you visit a vendor.
QUALITY OF LIFE:
ALL THE THINGS - It tells you all the things, but for classic.
ATLAS & ATLAS LOOT - Gives you dungeon maps and loot lists for bosses.
BADBOY - Spam filter.
FASTER LOOTING - removes the awkard autoloot delay.
I will work to keep this updated and make changes as needed!
