zerohour

Alright guys, I'm full of suggestions. You don't have to take them, but these are some add-ons that I feel I cannot live without, and why I use them. If you have questions about them or want to know how to install add-ons, just send me a message in-game.

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ClassTimer ---> This is the only addon I think I would cry if I could not use. Even though I'm a death knight, and therefor use this add-on to manage my diseases, it's helpful for nearly every class and requires extremely little setup. I use this add-on instead of other disease managers because I love the way it looks, it's easy to move the timer around, and it works for my other classes. What it does, is every time I cast a disease on the target, it displays a bar that depletes as I run out of time left on the disease. When I'm play on my druid and I cast a heal over time on a target, it also displays a countdown bar that depletes as the hot disapears. It's very easy to use. You don't really need to do anything, but when you get it, you SHOULD move the bars around. Defaultly, the bars that display cool downs for your character, and for your target, and for your focus, are inconvienently placed on top of each other. Very easy to fix if you time /classtimer, open up the edit window, and unlock the bars then move them to where you want them. I love this add-on. Click for image of how it works for a rogue. It's seriously awesome.

Combuctor ---> Combuctor is a bag add-on. There are many different bag addons, which combine all your bags into one convenient window, you may use a different one or perhaps you don't use one at all. Combuctor is my favorite, by far. It's small, you can customize the size and shape (to an extent) and it has a small "search bar" feature on the top of your bags. However, my favorite thing about combuctor is the search features it has. If you go to the site and look at one of the pictures, you can see that it has some pretty interesting features. On the bottom of the bag window are colors representing item rarity. The first color, the default, represents all the items in your bags. If you click on the gray circle, it will only display items of gray rarity. The green circle will display all your greens, the purples will display your purples, etc etc. It makes searching for an item (When you don't feel like using the name search) very easy! On the right, there are more search features. You can choose to have your bags only display your equiptment, your quest items, your profession items, etc etc. You may not like combuctor, but it is by far one of my favorite add-ons.

Chatter ---> Not quite as necessary as Combuctor, the Chatter addon makes my life super easy. First off, it has a million customizing features. I've only used the default settings and maybe changed the fonts. All Chatter does is allow you to customize your chat window. There isn't anything inherently wrong with the default Blizzard chat frame except for the fact that you cannot make it under a certain size. With the way I play, the smallest size chat window is too large and is very bulky. I personally operate wow with TWO chat windows. One on the bottom left for groups, raids, guild and whisper chat. The chat window on the right has item rolls, trade chat, and other things like that. I call that window spam. Obviously, that setup may not be useful for you, but if you ever find yourself frustrated with the default blizz chat frames, try chatter. It's a very small addon. Another thing chatter does that I like is it colors peoples names. For instance, my name is RED because I'm a DK. Everytime Goons types something in guild chat, his name is GREEN for hunter. Imrac's name, when he types in guild chat, is YELLOW for rogue (his text is still green to show guild chat). This add-on wont change your game or make you a better player, but I like it.

Bartender ---> Bartender is extremely customizable and I do not recomend it for everybody. If your happy with the default blizzard frames, don't mess with a good things. I was not happy. I wanted to be able to press more buttons, and I didn't want my bars to take up my entire screen. Since I'm using Combuctor, there was no use for their to be a window showing all my bags in the lower right hand corner of the screen. I didn't need the micro-menu that you push a button and bring up your characters spell book. (Just press P!) However, Bartender can be customized to not only look extremely nice, but it can be extremely functional. It's a bar add-on that allows you to customize it and place the bars (Where you put your spells) anywhere on the screen. I love it.

Recount ---> Because you need to know your dps.

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The Class Timer sounds interesting think i'm going to give it a go see what it's like