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Must Have
These are required for our raiders, and also useful for anyone running instances, etc.
- Omen
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.
- Deadly Boss Mods
- Deadly Boss Mods 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. Instance modules will be loaded and enabled when you enter the corresponding instance. In most cases only one module will be running at any given time.
- Decursive
- Decursive is a cleansing mod intended to render affliction removal easy, effective and fun for all the classes having this ability.
Recommendations
A few of the more popular addons available.
- Auctioneer
- From purchasing to posting, the Auctioneer Suite provides time-tested tools to allow you more time to actually play your characters or play the market. As you will soon discover, it is much more than a simple "Auctioning AddOn", the Auctioneer Suite also shows in-depth information for all game items, such as those used in quests or recipes, and much, much more.
- WIM (WoW Instant Messenger)
- WIM is a World of Warcraft addon which brings an instant messenger feel to communication in game.
- Dominos
- The main action bar, as you know, is that thing at the bottom of the screen that acts as your main interface for accessing your inventory, opening a few panels, making your pet do things, and of course using spells and ability.
What Dominos does is take that interface, split it up into a series of customizable "bars" (a bar for your bags, one for your pet, an experience bar, etc), and add a few more features, like access to all 120 action buttons. - PitBull Unit Frames 4.0
- PitBull is a Unit Frames addon that provides maximal customization. This version is currently still in beta but very stable nonetheless.
- Recount
- Recount is a graphical damage meter.
- SatrinaBuffFrame
- A replacement for the UI buff frame. If you can imagine it, you can probably make SBF look like that.
Look for more addons
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Information
Links to some of the best WoW information sites
- Wowhead - all the information you need on quests, items, achievements, etc.
- WoWWiki - great place for looking up answers to questions like "what´s my hit cap?"
- TankSpot - if you've never done a fight or even if you have TS offers great videos on what to expect and how to survive it.
- Elitist Jerks - Some great guides that will answer the basic questions about your class as well as some serious number crunching to back it up.
- WoW.com - Easiest way to keep up with the latest WoW news.
- MMO-Champion - These guys keep us informed about the latest changes, from blues to data mining PTR files to see what might be coming.
- World of Warcraft Community Site - The official home of World of Warcraft.