Comments on: Addons: Little Helpers

By: mowss

mowss — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:18:40 +0000

lol @ pError … I don’t have enough mana but if I keep mashing buttons I’m pretty sure magic happens … eventually. The speed at which it happens scales inversely with panic.

By: Lykofos

Lykofos — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:46:56 +0000

Surfed via a link from WoWInsider. To those who mentioned WoWMatrix, I have a bit a newsflash for you (though likely you don’t care): Both the AddOns authors and the UI sites that host their Addon files HATE WoWMatrix. Seriously, AddOn authors have request that WoWMatrix remove their AddOns from the download list yet WM typically has not complied. In addition WM eats bandwidth from the UI sites (such as Curse, WoWInterface and UI.WorldofWar), bandwidth costs money. While other updaters also use bandwidth from the UI sites, the WM client constantally pings the UI sites. One UI site has compared WM’s pinging to a DDoS attack, that is how much bandwidth WM is using.

In regards to viruses coming from Curse, that was not an issue on Curse’s part, rather it was a banner ad from Curse’s ad provider. All of the UI sites have had this issue and have taken issue with their ad providers. Nor are the UI sites the only ones with these issues.

In regards to many of the Addon listed in this blog posting, I have used many of them and they get my vote. These AddOns do what they say the will do and nothing more. They don’t use much in the way of RAM (not that big of an issue unless you are using a marginal system) nor do they use much in way of CPU (a much bigger issue especially in when you are the middle of a 25 man Naxx AoE-fest or a Wintergrasp zerg). These all use the KISS principle which is a big plus in my book.

By: Gizmo

Gizmo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:20:53 +0000

From Past Experience, WowMatrix is amazing, and Curse gives you viruses.

By: Pchalic

Pchalic — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:11:50 +0000

and add a few add on’s that let you change your add on’s in game as well. if you can find the time.

By: drug

drug — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:46:08 +0000

I will do a post about resources for addons, this will include addon managers as well as all the importan sites to get addons/ideas/help.

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By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:31:11 +0000

Hey these looks pretty good, just grabbed a couple of them. Just thought you might want to also mention the critically important addon managers. I use WowMatrix, but I think Curse.com also has one.