Your Questions About World Of Warcraft Addons

dknol answers:

What addons are you running? What are you seeing in-game?

As far as I know, unless you have an addon specifically labeled for Wrath, Beta, or 3.0 compatibility, your addons will be broken.

When I logged in, none of my addons appeared.

If I were you, and wanted to clear my interface, I would not clear my wtf folder, but delete it altogether. A new wtf folder will be populated the next time you log in. Your interface will be completely reset– hotkeys will need to be rebound, video and UI setting will all be reset to default.

You should also make sure that you have no addons selected when you are at your Character Selection Screen, using the addons button in the lower-left corner of your screen.

3.0 majorly overhauled the default UI, and you may be seeing some of those changes and thinking it’s your addons messing up. Check to make sure you are running vanilla, and then go to curse, wowace, or your favorite addon site to get compatible and up-to-date addons.

dknol answers:

Check where you have the game installed. With the new patch, the default installation of the game changed destinations.

What I mean is, you probably have the game installed in:
C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft

But the patch, for some people, reinstalled the game to:
C:/Users/Public/Games/World of Warcraft

Essentially creating two WoW games on your hardrive. You probably added your new addons to the first orginal Addon folder, but the game is running from the second destination.

Try checking to see if this is the case and see if the game is now installed in the second location. If it is, put the addons into the new Addon folder in the Users/Public/Games/World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons folder.

I hope this answer helps. Let us know!

dknol answers:

1. Download addon of choice
2. Open in an Zip Folder (should be default)
3. Click extract all files and folders
4. Go to My computer>Local Disk>Program Files> World of warcraft (or whereever you saved it) interface>addons and extract it into there

dknol answers:

I use Recount, it’s a all in one damage meter. It tells you how much damage you’ve done/recieved and I think it includes heals.

You can use OmmniCC for countdowns, it display’s numbers on your hotkey icons showing how much time the ability has left.

dknol answers:

Alright, you should FOR SURE get Quest Helper. It will show you the location of all your quests, where to go, how to do them, etc. It makes it quite easy for leveling.

Atlas Loot will come in handy as you go, since it will let you check what gear drops from what boss in what instance (makes it good for setting up what gear you want to get at level 80).

Auctioneer is a very handy addon. It is a program that scans the auctionhall (when you initiate the scan) and will compile data on all the items in it. This makes it simple to buy low, sell high, and to easily determine how much you should post items for.

Sell All is a really helpful addon. What it does is it adds an extra tab to the merchants window that will automatically (when clicked) sell all the grey items in your bag.

Postal is a pretty handy addon. It is a mail addon that makes your mail system much more efficient. What it does is allow you to (1) open and windraw all the items from your mailbox at once (2) keep a ‘phone book’ for your mail, so you can just open it and click the name of the person you want to send the mail to.

TomTom is a coordinates addon. It will tell you your x and y location. This comes in handy for when people tell you where to go via coordinates.

There is also Atlas, which gives you detailed instance maps.

There is also Recount (previously known as DamageMeter). What this does is every time your in a group it records the data on damage, dps, healing done, etc and will show you. This is useful to see how well you are doing damage wise.

Thats it for the addons that I run/ran, not including the mage-specific ones and the raid addons.