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

[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.