which addons and why? need to cut down my Addons folder

[zoneblitz61]

Bartender4 or Macaroon (new trinity bars)?

Quest Helper or Carbonite? (Or suggestions on better mods)


I currently use trinity bars, but have heard a lot of good things about bartender, and I like how you can set up bartender bars to auto assist the focus when you cast. Also, I currently have quest helper and carbonite both, but carbonite is apparently trial unless you pay for the full version, and quest helper doesn't really seem to have features that aren't offered with tomtom and carbonite. I really just want to replace monkeyquest and I like having the icons and waypoints on the main map. Help would be appreciated, and any suggestions to addons I didn't list here.

[lacitpo]

If you are in the market for actionbars, check out Infnibar. Pretty good ace action bars I've recently switched to.

[Hachoo]

Never used carbonite before but I would never ever use a quest helper mod while multiboxing (if 5 wows on the same PC) as they are all super resource hogs and some are known to have memory leaks.

I'd rather just leave firefox open/minimized on thottbot.com and open it as necessary (which is what I do while questing).

Also if you're not using X-Perl or another unitframes like that, you really should get it! I just installed x-perl a few days ago and don't know how I lived or PvPed without it! Makes it MUCH easier to tell if your guys are in range, what buffs/debuffs they have, their cast bars, their target-targets, etc.

[Solon]

I run 5 questhelpers with Tomtom and I have no resource or memory problems. I also use bartender3 and modality and love them, but afraid of WotLK's effects on em. I have one client with MobMap on it rather than bother with thottbot or any other webpage. Get all that info without leaving WoW interface. Pitbull is my unitframes of choice atm.

[elsegundo]

i have questhelper on main. monkey quest helps to see the alt's quests progression, but if the quests are identical, then i dont think its necessary. EQL (extended quest log) to see better.

button mods on my main and slave. why? sometimes i just need to mouse over on my slave to press a key that's not hotkeyed. making the key 3x bigger on the slaves makes it pretty easy to click on from its PiP size.

unit frames only on my main.

as for the choices between different mods that do the same thing, i cant really say. i only use certain ones and do not have much knowledge of every competing addon out there.

[Fleecy]

I currently use Bartender and Carbonite. I'll probably change from Bartender to another mod in the next couple of week. But I've been using Carbonite since its release and its been an amazing mod, I have the paid edition, I'm not sure whats available in the free edition. But Carbonite has saved me hour upon hours of quest frustration, I'd be lost without it.

I use a mod call Backseat Quester to see the progress of my groups quests.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I used to use quest helper but dropped it because it consumed so much memory.

I'm using carbonite now and couldn't be happier. It has more features than quest helper and is a minimal drain on resources. I run it on all 10 accounts with zero issues. :)

[Aethon]

I really want to switch around my UI and try some of these things, but I wasn't going to bother until after the patch, just in case it breaks everything.

Do you guys think that anything working after the 3.0.x patch will continue to work when we install WotLK?Or will that break everything again?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I really want to switch around my UI and try some of these things, but I wasn't going to bother until after the patch, just in case it breaks everything.

Do you guys think that anything working after the 3.0.x patch will continue to work when we install WotLK?Or will that break everything again?http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8202271194&sid=1

I'd guess, judging by that list, that every single addon will need to be revamped.

[ChaoticMonk]

Questhelper was recently fixed so it no longer uses ~70mb but instead sits around the ~20mb mark. You can always turn off some of its features (eg. marching ants) to cut down on mem usuage.

For bars I was using bongos2 until I found out that it wasn't being supported anymore so I switched to Trinity bars..kinda of a big learning curve but I got everything set up the way I want it...only to find out it isnt being supported anymore lol.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Questhelper was recently fixed so it no longer uses ~70mb but instead sits around the ~20mb mark. You can always turn off some of its features (eg. marching ants) to cut down on mem usuage.I hope this won't come across as cheerleading, but I did all the things that reduce memory usage with QuestHelper and it still only got it down to ~20MB. Carbonite gives me much more usable questing data (such as shading the areas in the zone where a particular quest mob or item can be found instead of a single dot waypoint) and it sits at an average of about 6MB, plus I don't need TomTom and LightHeaded, which saves me a lot more memory. All told, I'm exceedingly pleased after switching to Carbonite about a month ago.

Note that I use the free Carbonite Quest addon, not the for-pay version.

[zoneblitz61]

Questhelper was recently fixed so it no longer uses ~70mb but instead sits around the ~20mb mark. You can always turn off some of its features (eg. marching ants) to cut down on mem usuage.I hope this won't come across as cheerleading, but I did all the things that reduce memory usage with QuestHelper and it still only got it down to ~20MB. Carbonite gives me much more usable questing data (such as shading the areas in the zone where a particular quest mob or item can be found instead of a single dot waypoint) and it sits at an average of about 6MB, plus I don't need TomTom and LightHeaded, which saves me a lot more memory. All told, I'm exceedingly pleased after switching to Carbonite about a month ago.

Note that I use the free Carbonite Quest addon, not the for-pay version.

thanks man, thats just the info i was looking for to make my decision. Think I'll stick with carbonite. And thanks to everyone else for the helpful info.

[Fef]

I use Dominos for actions bars, Jamba for multi-boxing specifics, and QuestHelper on all five accounts (all on one machine).

I might give Carbonite a try seen the positive comments on this thread. I never had any issue with QuestHelper, though. Nothing noticeable at least.

[Fef]

Carbonite gives me much more usable questing data (such as shading the areas in the zone where a particular quest mob or item can be found instead of a single dot waypoint) and it sits at an average of about 6MB, plus I don't need TomTom and LightHeaded, which saves me a lot more memory. All told, I'm exceedingly pleased after switching to Carbonite about a month ago.

Note that I use the free Carbonite Quest addon, not the for-pay version.

I installed it about an hour ago, and I could not agree more. Excellent addon, way better than QuestHelper.

[puppychow]

Every addon that works in 3.0 should work great in WOTLK, there is little changing (especially API wise) between 3.0 and WOTLK. Maybe they will put in some more bug fixes that break something between now and WOTLK launch, but it should be minor stuff.

I personally am now running without any problems, using Bartender4, Pitbull, Chinchilla (requires you to copy some files from older install, the libs folder), Autobar (dont have ButtonFacade enabled), Elkano's Buffbar, Fubar, RatingBuster, Recount, Omen, DBM, YATA, UberQuest, Proximo, Mapster, GoGoMount, and probably a few others. I also have TomTom, Lightheaded, and InstanceMaps only on my "driver" since he picks up and drives all the questing I do. Did spend over an hour yesterday updating mods and had to disable a bunch until more updates came out today.

[twobztwop]

I try to keep a pretty clean UI, but I always end up using a ton of addons after awhile. So with the big patches it's a good time to clean out the interface/addons directory and after yesterdays patch I removed everything and started fresh -- except for Bindpad (which worked fine and carried over my settings with the update, whew). It's kind of nostalgic playing with the standard UI.

So far I've added Macroon and all I need now is Carbonite Quest, maybe an all in one bag mod, and Jamba (hope it gets updated soon, its kind of turned into a mod I can't do without). After that? Pitbull (horrible torture to set up), perhaps some cooldown timers, a cast bar like quartz, scrolling combat text, clearfont, proximo... um yeah, so much for keeping it lean.