I’ve been using a IE addon called IE7Pro for some time. It’s a neat little program that streamlines a lot of IE functions. It even adds a few! One of my favorite options is the real time spell check. Hopefully you’ve seen an improvement on my spelling as of late. If I do misspell something, its because I was too lazy to correct it.
Hope it helps you!
KK
The first step is to decide on an addon to get.
Some good places to look are World of War [dot] Net and Curse Gaming.
I will assume that my astute readers will now have the addon saved to their hard drive. Open it, using either Winzip, the built-in ZIP extractor from Windows, WinRAR, or whatever you Macintosh people use to open ZIP or RAR files.
From here, open up the Folder where World of Warcraft is installed. Then go to the Interface folder, and the Addons.
You’ll notice that each Addon has its own folder. This is how it differentiates addons.
Now load up WoW and go to the Character Selection screen.
Look in the bottom right of the screen. There’s a button that says “Addons”. Click it. Yes. It’s okay. No, I know you’re not normally supposed to click big red buttons but this one’s ok. I’ll wait.
Done taht? Good. This is a list of all the addons, WoW recognizes.
Ok. I’ve boxed in red the important things here. The first thing to notice is the “Configure Addons for:” option. This will let you set Addons for every character, or just one character. If you wnat to set addons for two characters, you’ll have to configure them individually. Second is the “load out of date addons.” This involves addons that have not been updated since the last patch. By default they’re turned off. You can check to see if they work or not by using this feature. The last thing to notice is the checkbox to the left of the addon. This is whether or not it’s turned on. Check box means on, no check box means off. And the buttons at the bottom let you enable or disable every addon listed at once.
Now just load up your character and play with your addon assisting you.
For suggestions on addons, you can filter to the Addons options through the Category navigation.
This is something new I want to start doing: World of Warcraft addon reviews.
In my looking for addons for myself, intelligible reviews from people as to how well it does what it says it’s going to do would’ve been nice. so I will start doing that for my friends (that’s you guys) as often as I feel like it.
Today’s addon is called StatusBars.
This nifty little addon is a must-have for rogues, and really damn nice for other classes.
It takes the space right above your action bars in the lower-center of the screen and uses it to place status bars fairly close together. The bars you see, in order from top down, are Your Health, Your Mana/Energy/Rage, Combo Points on the target (in large, red buttons that are obvious), the Enemy’s Health, and the Enemy’s Mana.
It doesn’t do anything horribly revolutionary with the bars, aside from health bars change color depending on the percentage of health you have left. 100% - 75% is Green, 75% - 50% is yellow (which is slightly annoying for classes with Energy), and 50% - 0% is flashing orange.
The bars are fairly unobtrusive, and disappear when not needed. When you have no enemy targetted, the enemy bar disappears. And when you’re out of combat and at 100% health/mana, your bars disappear.
For my gripes about it, I think the health bar starts flashing a bit too soon. And I wouldn’t mind if the font used for the numbers and percentages was in a slightly more contrasting color. But those aren’t too bad. The largest gripe is that the secondary nature if it is fairly obvious. It is not an integrated part of the WoW client, and thus it takes longer to get its information. (i.e., you get Energy from the timers, your bars display it, and then after a moment, the StatusBar displays it). Sometimes this time-difference can mean the world to a Rogue, as a lot of survival tends to be using skills as soon as you have the energy for it.
But all-in-all, I think StatusBars is a wonderful addition to any addon library.