WoW Addons & Mods

Uploading a few of the more popular addons here because not everyone likes digging through addon sites trying to find their favorite mods. I will update these links/downloads with each major patch that renders each “outdated”. I will also offer a link to Curse and WoWinterface as well for each mod.

Popular addon sites: Curse Gaming, WoWInterface

Bartender 4

JOB Download Link for 4.2
WoWInterface Link for 4.2
Curse Gaming Link for 4.2

Bartender is an action-bars addon. It allows custom positioning of everything from the pet bars, xp bar, sizing of your action bar buttons, transparency, you name it. It’s extremely customizable and fairly lightweight.

Deadly Boss Mods

JOB Download Link for 4.2
WoWInterface Link for 4.2
Curse Gaming Link for 4.2

Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) is a must-have for people wanting to raid. Raids are designed around people knowing where to stand and what phase of a fight you’re in among lots of other variables. Unless you’ve done certain fights time and time again you might not be familiar with when to move, when to turn around, when to cast certain spells. DBM helps by putting timers up on your screen showing when the next enrage is, when the next phase is, when the boss is going to do something that you might need to prepare for.

Recount

JOB Download Link for 4.2
Curse Gaming Link for 4.2

Recount isn’t a must but it will help you see how everyone in your group is doing on damage and healing. It will also give you a breakdown of your spells and abilities to show you what your most damaging spells are, what your best healing spells are, and what you can do to improve your dps or healing.

Gatherer + WoWhead DB

JOB Gatherer Link for 4.2
JOB Gatherer.lua – 19k+ nodes
Gatherer Website Download Link for 4.2
WoWInterface WoWhead DB Link for 4.2 (currently says “out of date” and we’re having trouble getting it to work. Download our Gatherer.lua file instead.)

Gatherer is a mod that shows the possible locations for nodes of things like Herbs and Ores for gathering professions on your large map and minimap. By default it only shows nodes that you’ve collected from so you can path around the areas that you’ve found herbs or ores. We’ve been having issues with the WoWhead DB so we’ve included our own Gatherer.lua file that has over 19,000 nodes in it. The latest version is from 5/20/2011. Simply drop it in your WTF/Account/Accountname/SavedVariables folder and replace your Gatherer.lua file with ours.

Simulationcraft

Download link for Simulationcraft (Google Code)

Simulationcraft is a program for Windows, Linux, and Mac that allows you to test out dps encounters. It’s really aimed at min/max players, but it can also give your average player a good idea of what their DPS should be. You can import characters from Battle.net. allows raid/party creation of arbitrary size, generating detailed charts and reports for both individual and raid performance. For Windows there’s no installation required. Simply unzip the archive and run Simulationcraft.exe. Here’s the official documentation and a starters guide.