WoW Reviews & Guides

Pally Power is an add-on that provides an interactive and easy to use interface that allows you to control assignments of blessings for yourself and, if you are a party leader or an assistant, for other paladins in your group or raid. You don’t need to be a paladin to control raid/party blessings.

Supports Game Version: 3.3.5

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Jan’alai, the Amani lord of dragonhawks, is the third animal boss within Zul’Aman. He holds Kraz captive in a cage near his platform, awaiting his sacrifice if the raid cannot rescue him before the timer runs out. Defeating Jan’alai with time remaining does not add any additional time but still allows the raid to free Kraz. He will, in turn, reward the raid with access to a small share of gold and unlock Kraz’s Package which will contain an epic ring.

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Welcome to the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test! Patch notes listed here are not comprehensive and will be changed throughout the testing process.

General

• The Alliance starting experience for worgen is available. Venture through the cursed lands of Gilneas to discover your true path! Currently the female worgen character is not available for testing.
• The Horde starting experience for goblins is available. Beginning on the Isle of Kezan in a goblin paradise, players will face a treacherous road ahead!
• The level cap for all characters is 83.
• Players may use our Character Copy feature for copying existing characters to beta realms, or may choose from high-level pre-made template characters.

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Purpose

The Auctioneer Suite is a compilation of add-ons based on the Auctioneer core, that provide a number of enhancements and options.

Suite Contents

The add-ons below can be installed independently of Auctioneer via WoW’s AddOns screen; however, all of them except SlideBar require Stubby to be installed as well.

Add-ons

• !Swatter – is a debugging library that provides enhanced debugging information to help developers when you report bugs.
• BeanCounter – tracks the items you purchase, list, and sell; viewed on the BeanCounter tab of the Auction House (AH) interface
• Enchantrix – provides disenchant information in the item tooltip.
• Enchantrix-Barker – allows you to advertise your enchants in Trade chat.
• Informant – provides vendor price, availability, profession, quest, and usage information in the tooltip.
• SlideBar – creates an expandable bar that slides out from the edge of your screen, containing links to the configuration dialogs for our add-on components.
• Stubby – is a stub loader which allows load-on-demand add-ons to define the conditions upon which they will load.

• Auc-Advanced – The core library of the Auctioneer system.

Modules

The items below are considered by us to be Modules (though some can be selected in WoW’s AddOns screen), and require Auc-Advanced to function properly.

• Auc-ScanData – load-on-demand data store for Auctioneer’s scan data.

Auctioneer Statistics

Enabling one of the statistics module (under Configure, Stat Modules) listed below allows it to begin collecting data on each subsequent scan. Each module stores data separately, so enabling one will not allow it access to another module’s stored data. Disabling a module will immediately prevent its data from being included in the Market Price calculation, but it does NOT delete the data, so you can simply re-enable it to re-include its data (though these data will, of course, be outdated if you’ve performed scans with the module disabled).

Each module can be configured to display multiple values in the tooltip, or none at all. But if a module has no data for an item, nothing will appear in the tooltip for that module, regardless of the display settings. Changing the Show… and Display… settings will not affect whether the module’s data are included in Market Price; only Enable… does. Note that all your Stat Modules settings are saved per Profile.

There is no way to display a module in the tooltip and NOT have its data included in Market Price.

Market Price (in the tooltip) is a confidence-weighted average of the values provided by these modules that you have enabled. Each module has its own weakness, so Market Price is a good choice to offset any fluctuations due to those weaknesses.

• Auc-Stat-Classic – Deprecated in WoW Patch 3.0. Imported some of Auctioneer Classic stats into Auctioneer.
• Auc-Stat-Histogram – provides a median listed price (and IQR) for every item ever seen; no data are ever discarded. An item being listed at a price does not mean it sold for that price.
• Auc-Stat-Purchased – tries to provide prices of items sold by anyone via the the inference of items disappearing before they were set to expire. Accuracy is directly related to scanning frequency.
• Auc-Stat-Sales – provides prices of items sold by you. Displays data from BeanCounter on actual purchase and sale prices. Is installed with BeanCounter, not separately.
• Auc-Stat-Simple – provides a simplified average of listed data, providing 3-, 7-, and 14-day moving averages.
• Auc-Stat-StdDev – provides a normalized average of the last 100 listed price points for an item: finds the average, excludes those that are too high or low, and then averages the remaining prices.
• Auc-Stat-WOWEcon – Uses the WOWEcon add-on’s data (if separately installed) to provide the price to other Auctioneer modules.
• Auc-Stat-iLevel – provides a normalized average (see StdDev above) of listed price for all items of the same rarity, type, and iLevel (e.g., all green, level-10, two-handed maces). Useful for pricing random “of the …” items.

Install Instructions:

AuctioneerSuite-5.8.4723.zip download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

Bagnon is an addon that merges all of your bags into three frames: One for your inventory, one for your bank, and one for your keyring. Beyond the basic all-in-one inventory functionality, Bagnon also provides the following features:

• Items can be colored based on quality
• Quest items can be highlighted
• Text searching (see syntax below)
• Offline viewing of inventory information from your other characters (via Bagnon_Forever or Bagnon_Armory)
• Databroker plugin support. Both the inventory and bank frames allow you to display a databroker plugin in the bottom left corner. I find this works well with things like Currency Tracker

• Bagnon – Provides single window displays for your inventory, bank, and keyring
• Bagnon_Config – Provides a means of configuring said frames
• Bagnon_Forever – Enables the ability to view your character’s bank, or items from any other character on the same server, from anywhere. (You need to log onto each character at least once for this to work).
• Bagnon_Tooltips – When hovering over an item, this tells you who has an item, and where.

Slash Commands:

• All commands can start with either /bagnon or /bgn
• /bagnon keys – Toggles the keyring frame
• /bagnon bags – Toggles the inventory frame
• /bagnon bank – Toggles the bank frame
• /bagnon config – Displays the main options menu

Search Syntax:

• Bagnon 2.0 uses the same search syntax as Combuctor.
• Typing a search without any modifiers will perform a “smart” search. For example, typing “armor” will find all items of type “armor” as well as any items containing the word “armor”.
• To find an item by name, simply type the items name. Typing “silk” will find all items that have “silk” in their name.
• To find an item by type, subtype, or equip location, type t:<search>. “t:weapon” will find all weapons. “t:main” will find all main hand items.
• To find an item by quality, type q:<quality>. “q:epic” will find all epic items. You can also use a quality number. “q:0″ will find all grey items.
• To find an item by name, type n:<name>. “n:muffins” will find all items with names containing “muffins”.
• To find items in an equipment set, type s:<equipmentSet>. “s:fire” will find all items in equipment sets you have with names that start with “fire”.
• Searches can be negated using the ! operator. “!q:epic” will find all items that are NOT epic.
• A union of two searches can be performed using the | operator. Typing “q:epic|t:weapon” will find all items that are either epic OR weapons.
• An intersection of two searches can be performed using the & operator. Typing “q:epic&t:weapon” will find all items that are epic AND weapons
• The following search keywords are also supported:
  • boe – Bind on equip items.
  • quest – Items with “quest item” in their tooltips.
  • bop – Bind on pickup items.
  • boa – Bind on account items.
  • bou – Bind on use items

Install Instructions:

Bagnon 2.13.2b download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

Questhelper tells you how to finish your quests in the easiest, fastest manner. It includes a database of quests, monsters, and items, telling you the exact location of that dang Perfect Satyr Horn you can’t find. It also computes the fastest path to complete all your quests – and gain experience – as quickly as possible.

Well, let’s be honest here, I haven’t updated this in months.

I’m polishing off a few of my outstanding obligations, like the Contributions that people have been sending in. For one thing, QuestHelper now has a fully functional config page. As for the tracker . . . well, I haven’t done anything with the tracker. What do you guys want done? If you contributed money for the Tracker improvements, send me an email at the same address you sent money to. Let me know what you want! I owe you guys a few days of work – sorry for slacking.

Besides that, I’m basically done with QuestHelper. My current plan is to keep it working up until Cataclysm. It will probably stop working in Cataclysm unless someone else decides to take it on.

However, it’s now GPL-licensed. Want to improve it? Be my guest! It is yours!

Install Instructions:

QuestHelper-1.4.0 download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.

Features

• Support for all Action Bars and all related bars
  

  - 10 Action Bars
  - Stance Bar
  - Pet Bar
  - Bag Bar
  - Micro Menu
  - XP/Reputation Bar

• All Bars are fully customizable (Scale, Alpha, Fade-Out settings, …)
• Very flexible and customizable Show/Hide driver based on Macro Conditions
• Additional Layout and Paging settings for Action Bars
  

  - Page all bars based on Stance or Modifier
  - Possess Bar support
  - Custom State driver support with Macro Conditions

• Options to hide specific elements of the buttons (Macro Text, HotKey, more could be added on demand)
• StickyFrames support
• ButtonFacade support!
• Easy Hotkey Binding using KeyBound

Planned Features

• Implementation of the Alignment Menu
• Options to control the hiding of the default blizzard artwork (you might still want that to be displayed..)

Install Instructions:

Bartender4-4.4.2 download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

Omen is a threat meter.

Basically, enemies in WoW decide who to attack by deciding who is the most threatening based on the abilities you use. What Omen does is provide accurate values of your group’s relative threat level on individual enemies, so that you can see when you’re in danger of pulling aggro (or, if you’re next on the snack list if your tank bites it). This info is usually only critical in raids, where only tanks can survive aggro, but it’s useful for any multi-player situation.

FAQ

How is Omen3 different from Omen2?

Omen3 relies completely on the Blizzard threat API and threat events. It does not attempt to calculate or extrapolate threat unlike Omen2.

Omen2 used what we called the Threat-2.0 library. This library was responsible for monitoring the combat log, spellcasting, buffs, debuffs, stances, talents and gear modifiers for calculating each individuals threat. Threat was calculated based on what was known or approximated from observed behaviors. Many abilities such as knockbacks were just assumed (to be a 50% threat reduction) as they were mostly impossible to confirm.

The Threat-2.0 library also included addon communication to broadcast your threat to the rest of the raid as long as they were also using Threat-2.0. This data was then used to provide a raid wide display of threat information.

Since patch 3.0.2, Omen no longer does any of these things and the need for a threat library is no longer necessary. Omen3 uses Blizzard’s new in-built threat monitor to obtain exact values of every members threat. This means Omen3 has no need for synchronisation of data, combat log parsing or guessing, resulting in a significant increase in performance with regards to network traffic, CPU time and memory used. The implementation of boss modules for specific threat events (such as Nightbane wiping threat on landing) are also no longer necessary.

Further benefits of this new implementation include the addition of NPC threat on a mob (eg, Human Kalecgos). However, there are some drawbacks; frequency of updates are much slower, threat details cannot be obtained unless somebody in your party/raid are targetting the mob and it is also not possible to obtain threat from a mob you are not in direct combat with.

How do I get rid of the 2 vertical gray lines down the middle?

Lock your Omen. Locking Omen will prevent it from being moved or resized, as well as prevent the columns from being resized. If you haven’t realized it, the 2 vertical gray lines are column resizing handles.

How do I make Omen3 look like Omen2?

Change both the Background Texture and Border Texture to Blizzard Tooltip, change the Background Color to black (by dragging the luminance bar to the bottom), and the Border Color to blue.

Why does no threat data show on a mob when I target it even though it is in combat?

The Blizzard threat API does not return threat data on any mob you are not in direct combat with. We suspect this is an effort on Blizzard’s part to save network traffic.

Is there ANY way around this Blizzard limitation? Not being able to see my pet’s threat before I attack has set me back to guessing.

There is no way around this limitation short of us doing the guessing for you (which is exactly how Omen2 did it).

The goal of Omen3 is to provide accurate threat data, we no longer intend to guess for you and in the process lower your FPS. Have some confidence in your pet/tank, or just wait 2 seconds before attacking and use a low damage spell such as Ice Lance so that you can get initial threat readings.

Can we get AoE mode back?

Again, this is not really possible without guessing threat values. Blizzard’s threat API only allows us to query for threat data on units that somebody in the raid is targeting. This means that if there are 20 mobs and only 6 of them are targeted by the raid, there is no way to obtain accurate threat data on the other 14.

This is also extremely complicated to guess particularly for healing and buffing (threat gets divided by the number of mobs you are in combat with) because mobs that are under crowd control effects (sheep, banish, sap, etc) do not have their threat table modified and addons cannot reliably tell how many mobs you are in combat with. Omen2′s guess was almost always wrong.

The tooltips on unit mouseover shows a threat % that does not match the threat % reported by Omen3. Why?

Blizzard’s threat percentage is scaled to between 0% and 100%, so that you will always pull aggro at 100%. Omen reports the raw unscaled values which has pulling aggro percentages at 110% while in melee range and 130% otherwise.

By universal agreement, the primary target of a mob is called the tank and is defined to be at 100% threat.

Does Omen3 sync or parse the combat log?

No. Omen3 does not attempt to sync or parse the combat log. Currently there are no intentions to do so.

The threat updates are slow…

Omen3 updates the threat values you see as often as Blizzard updates the threat values to us.

In fact, Blizzard updates them about once per second, which is much faster than what Omen2 used to sync updates. In Omen2, you only transmitted your threat to the rest of the raid once every 3 seconds (or 1.5s if you were a tank).

Install Instructions:

Omen-v3.0.9 download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

BigWigs is a boss alert mod. It consists of many individual “boss modules”, mini addons that are designed to trigger alert messages and timer bars for one specific raid boss each. Modules are activated when you target or mouseover a Boss, or if any other BigWigs use in your raid does. In most cases only one module will be running at any given time.

Plugins

• Messages: Can be moved, re-coloured & locked.
• Bars: Can be moved, skinned to different textures(SharedMedia compatible), resized & also have an ‘emphasis’ feature to flash when they are about to expire.
• RaidIcon: Target painting (put an icon over a player that has been singled out by the boss).
• RaidWarn: Sending alerts to RaidWarning, tells & chat.
• BossBlock: Suppress “spam” sent by other player’s bossmods.
• Comm: Syncing via the addon channel (so that the player don’t have to be in combat range to trigger a message)
• Target Monitor: For enabling boss modules when you see them, instead of having them constantly enabled.
• Sound: Plays various sounds on different events(SharedMedia compatible).
• FuBar/Minimap: Button for easy access to the configuration menu, resetting running modules, and seeing what modules are active.

Extras

• Tranq: For keep track of hunters Tranq cooldowns, vital for some bosses.
• Proximity: For displaying players within a certain range on certain boss encounters.
• Test: Test your bars and warnings, and move them around.
• CustomBar: For ‘PizzaTimers’, create your own custom bars.
• Version: A query for not only the core BigWigs version, but also the instance version numbers.
• Flash’N'Shake: Shake and/or Flash the screen blue when something important happens that directly affects you, such as a debuff. (Off by default)

The creation

BigWigs is a boss timer and warning mod. Tekkub, the original BigWigs1 for Ace1 author, was inspired to write this after his very first raid run. He was horrified by the massive amount of spam his raid leader was creating with his boss mod. He was getting messages all over the place for things he didn’t care about (Hunters can’t dispel a curse or interrupt a heal). He also found that the “60 seconds until painful doom” timer messages were such a waste. Why not use a nice simple timerbar to show this?

The aim

BigWigs aims to be as efficient as possible (creating a lower memory per second footprint and using a lower amount of CPU than any other boss mod), as effectively as possible. When modules are written every aspect of the encounter is revised. Is syncing required? Is target scanning required? What events are really to be warned for. It also aims to have the latest boss modules out asap, that means that not long after the first few attempts of a brand new boss, it usually has a working boss mod.

Unique Features

Bigwigs has an ‘Emphasis’ feature that allows certain bars to be more prominent than others, so your attention is in the right place. SharedMedia support allows you to customize the look of your bars and choose different sounds for warnings. BigWigs can identify when you have wiped on a boss and reset the bars and timers automatically. It loads only the boss logic you need for the boss you’re currently facing, rather load up the logic for the whole instance.

Install Instructions:

BigWigs-r7428 download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

HealBot allows for 60 key mouse combinations to cast any beneficial spells.
HealBot allows for 60 key mouse combinations to cast on disabled bars.
Any usable item can be added to all combos.
Any existing macro can be added to all combos.
Target, Focus and Assist can be added to all combos
HealBot can track and display who has aggro
HealBot can be used for decursive functions
HealBot can be used for monitoring buffs and buffing
HealBots appearance can be configured and preferred appearances can be saved as skins.
HealBot can show party/tanks/checked targets/extras in a raid, extras can be filtered and sorted.
HealBots in party/raid will sync incoming heals with other healers.
HealBot has a built in res monitor and is compatible with CTRA (CTRA not required)
HealBot has a SmartCast out of combat option, this will cast a spell in the following order..

1. res
2. decurse
3. buff
4. heal
5. user setting

Slash Commands:
/hb h – display help
/hb o – toggles options
/hb d – Reset options to default
/hb ui – Reload UI
/hb ri – Reset HealBot
/hb t – Toggle Healbot between disabled and enabled
/hb skin <skinName> – Switch Skins
/hb tr <Role> – Allows setting which role has highest priority for SubSorts ‘TANK’, ‘HEALER’ or ‘DPS’

Installing and Updating

1. Completely log off WoW
2. Copy the folders into your WoW Addons folder.
3. Logon to WoW on your main Healer.
4. As a priority you should open the options and configure spells, cures and buffs.

Updating Troubles

1. Completely log off WoW
2. Run the .BAT file in the Healbot addon folder, this clears old saved Healbot settings from your WTF folder.
3. Logon to WoW on your main Healer.
4. As a priority you should open the options and configure spells, cures and buffs.

The download contains the following folders

• Healbot = This is the main addon
• FuBar_HBskinFu = This is a plugin for the fuBar addon, FuBar_HBskinFu is an optional plugin for people who use fuBar.
• TitanHealBot = This is a plugin for the Titan bar addon, TitanHealBot is an optional plugin for people who use Titan.

HealBot WebSite

Up to date information and main site: http://healbot.alturl.com/

Please post feedback and bug reports to http://healbot.alturl.com

Available on the site:

* Interactive FAQ
* Forum
* Wiki
* Polls
* Downloads
* Videos

Before reporting bugs
Make sure you have the latest version and have set the Defaults.
Report bugs here: http://healbot.alturl.com/

Before asking questions
1. Make sure you have read the FAQ’s and Quick Guide below.
2. Check the latest FAQs here: http://healbot.alturl.com/

Titan Bar users Plugin for HealBot is included in the HealBot distribution.
Fubar users Plugin for HealBot is available here

Performance related issues.
To identify CPU usage of all your addons.
1: Open Options and on the general tab enable “Use CPU Profiler”
2: Go to a BG or similar, allow the profiler to run for at least 10mins.
3: Open Options and click the Info button, it will show CPU/MEM/Comms usage for all addons.

Note: Using the CPU Profiler is CPU intensive, you might experience a drop in fps. Be sure to turn it off when done.

Install Instructions:

HealBot_3.3.3.4 download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.