A set of addons

[Ughmahedhurtz]

• Auctionator (auction addon; sooooo easy to use, and doesn't fall prey to the problems Auctioneer does)

Would you be willing to go more into detail the advantages of Auctionator? I've never heard of it... What problems does Auctioneer fall to? I have never seen any myself, but I'd rather not live in ignorance, and bliss *is* overrated.

Well, the primary reason to use Auctioneer is so you can track pricing and have a mostly automatic sell setup, so it doesn't take you half an hour to put up an inventory full of stuff. The problem with Auctioneer is that it is easy to spoof it with invalid prices so that it becomes almost useless for pricing things. Example: retards put up 10 auctions of Wool Cloth for 99g each. This skews the numbers so badly that you end up having to put in the numbers manually, defeating the purpose of the addon.

With Auctionator, what it does is shows you the current prices for items that are on the AH and, if none exist, shows you the price you used the last time you listed it. Then you can just click the price point you want to list it at and BAM, click the auction button and you're done. This is especially good as the prices may run very differently on weekends versus mid-week sales. Also, if an item is sold out this week and people want it badly, the price today may be 3-5x what it was last week, which makes the Auctioneer historical pricing data useless again. Auctionator shows you what the current items are listed at, so you can undercut them by a few silver very easily.

Auctionator also includes a "mass auction" functionality. Let's say you have 10 stacks of health potions. Click the "Multiple Auctions" button, put in 10 stacks of 5, and it'll auto-list all 10 at whatever your selected price is. It will also let you split a stack. I.e.: have a stack of 10 Righteous Orbs? Click "Multiple Auctions", put in 10 stacks of 1, and it'll split them into singles and list all 10. Really easy and fast.

Also, since Auctionator doesn't store thousands of auction histories, it doesn't take up much memory at all.

I suppose I should caveat this by saying I haven't used Auctioneer since the first two weeks the 3.0 patch compatible version was out, so they may have changed things a lot since then.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Wow, alot of people use pitbul unit frames. Ive tried to set it up several times and always end up failing at it. I would like to use it because its awesome but cant find a good writeup on even the basic setup of it. Oh, and I cant find the global "make all the bars smaller" button. maybe ill take the 20 hours and try it again tonight

You know you can just import someone else's config, right? Find someone's setup you like and have them send it to you.

[Solon]

Auctioneer has the mass auction stuff too, and I haven't seen mine fooled yet, maybe I have a long enough history? Gonna try the auctionator I think.

Wow, alot of people use pitbul unit frames. Ive tried to set it up several times and always end up failing at it. I would like to use it because its awesome but cant find a good writeup on even the basic setup of it. Oh, and I cant find the global "make all the bars smaller" button. maybe ill take the 20 hours and try it again tonight

/pitbull
open directories: pitbull, All Units, other, size. Slide the slider marked scale. Simple :wacko: Took me a while to find it too.

[heffner]

I have a lot of addons. I need to go through and figure out what I truly need some day.

Boxer Assistant: Jamba

Bar Replacement: Bartender4

Map Replacement: Cartographer, Mappy

Bag Replacement: ArkInventory

Quest Assist: Questhelper, Lightheaded

Party Frames: X-Perl

Other: SmartBuff, Fubar, Quartz, Skillet, TipTac, Clique, Grid, Mobinfo, Monkeybuddy/quest, Elkbuffbars, Auctioneer, Recount......

[Sychosys]

Alright, I spent almost 2 hours trying to set up X-Perl, now Ill go try Pitbull4 since so many of ya mentioned it

edit: Ok, I am sold. It has almost all the same features as X-Perl (I only say almost cause I dont know them all) plus additional layout information, along with the ability to save Unit Layouts individually with its In-Game Editor. So yeah, I am sold

edit2: Bah, I swear people make these mods one step away from awesome. I finally got the setup I -almost- wanted!! Two by Two with the focus in the middle and its target, next step would be to branch off the target and focus of each party member in a further fanning (one kind above and below the other to each side).. but .. WHile I can finally move around where the buffs are tagged, I can only set ALL of the party members to the same location.. Does anyone know why this restriction on group unit frames exists? Are the designers of these mods unable to break them or just unwilling?? hehe Think Outside the box !!! Sheesh!

edit3: Woot! Stuf Unit Frames, I can finally set up just about everything, A little more complicated cause everything is so touchable but that is what I needed.

[Sychosys]

Holy CRAP, No wonder you guys all say y ou need such high ram counts, Its either Cartographer3.0 or Tomtom (the only two addons I tried adding in last round) that is causing wow to completely peek out RAM usage.. I mean just, WOW.. Holy. Brought my system to its knees just trying to do all the memory paging required.. Sooo to that end I have ordered 8GB of ram.. but Jesus that is insane those two addons together are such massive memory sinks

[Solon]

I run a limited number of addons on my slaves, and a ton on my main. RAM hasn't really ever been a problem as long as no addons get leaky. Going to 8gig has definitely sped up my 5 box city travels though. Thinking I might try for much higher RAM count next year. I always run 5x questhelper and 5x tomtom without trouble.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

TomTom has nothing to do with it, IMO. It's just a widget that draws a single waypoint arrow. I'm looking at mine and it's at 233kb for TomTom. Cartographer, now, has a TON of memory depending on whether you're showing both herbs/mining nodes, and how clean your node point database is.

[Sychosys]

It turned out to be a combination of things, like the fact that I was starting to set up all the addons one at a time and disabling the others. The end result is the same though and 8GB of ram (max my mobo could support) will be here on Friday. Until that time I just use the simplified interface I was before (Auctioneer on main only, gatherer across the board (Dont ask me why) Quest Helper and Quest Guru and finishing it off with Tour Guide).

In all honesty it looked like Auctioneer, Cartographer and X-Perl are the main offenders. Tomtom really did not do much of anything, hehe. It is fairly amusing that the Macbook Pro can 5box better than my desktop though when the wrong addons are selected

edit: I modified Quest Helper to turn off the display on the alt displays and show it on the main display. They still communicate to each other but only the main screen actually does any pathing tracking/navigation or the like. Since I some times swap windows excessively I just broke out the Toggle command into a Show/Hide, as mentioned before on the forums.

In the latest version of quest helper (release 7/28/09) ya go to about line 72 or so in help.lua and should find the first function, the toggle, right there. All I did was cut and paste it twice more and make it set it to one or the other instead, as seen below

function QuestHelper:ToggleHide()
  QuestHelper_Pref.hide = not QuestHelper_Pref.hide
  
  -- Desaturate the button texture if QuestHelper is disabled.
  if self.MapButton then
	-- This should always be true, but just in case...
	self.MapButton:GetNormalTexture():SetDesaturated(QuestHelper_Pref.hide)
  end
  
  if QuestHelper_Pref.hide then
	if QuestHelper_Pref.track then
  	self:HideTracker()
	end
	
	self.map_overlay:Hide()
	self:TextOut("QuestHelper is now |cffff0000hidden|r.")
  else
	if QuestHelper_Pref.track then
  	self:ShowTracker()
	end
	
	self.map_overlay:Show()
	self.minimap_marker:Show()
	self:TextOut("QuestHelper is now |cff00ff00shown|r.")

	QH_Timeslice_Bonus(20)    	-- Let the corutine do some overtime...
  end
end

function QuestHelper:SetHide()
	QuestHelper_Pref.hide = true
  
	-- Desaturate the button texture if QuestHelper is disabled.
	if self.MapButton then
		-- This should always be true, but just in case...
		self.MapButton:GetNormalTexture():SetDesaturated(QuestHelper_Pref.hide)
	end
  
	if QuestHelper_Pref.track then
  	self:HideTracker()
	end
	
	self.map_overlay:Hide()
	self:TextOut("QuestHelper is now |cffff0000hidden|r.")
end

function QuestHelper:SetShow()
  QuestHelper_Pref.hide = false
  
	-- Desaturate the button texture if QuestHelper is disabled.
	if self.MapButton then
		-- This should always be true, but just in case...
		self.MapButton:GetNormalTexture():SetDesaturated(QuestHelper_Pref.hide)
	end
  
	if QuestHelper_Pref.track then
		self:ShowTracker()
	end
	
	self.map_overlay:Show()
	self.minimap_marker:Show()
	self:TextOut("QuestHelper is now |cff00ff00shown|r.")

	QH_Timeslice_Bonus(20)    	-- Let the corutine do some overtime...
end

Then towards the bottom of the file you will see the command list and such, I once again just cut and paste the toggle command's entry and made two more, show and hide

	{"TOGGLE",
"Toggles QuestHelper's modifications to the minimap and world map.",
  	{}, QuestHelper.ToggleHide, QuestHelper},

	{"HIDE",
 	"Hides QuestHelper's modifications to the minimap and world map, and pauses routing calculations.",
  	{}, QuestHelper.SetHide, QuestHelper},

	{"SHOW",
 	"Shows QuestHelper's modifications to the minimap and world map, and runs routing calculations.",
  	{}, QuestHelper.SetShow, QuestHelper},

I have to do this every time they update it and I wuld like it to work a bit better or what not, but it works, and gets rid of 4x the route processing.

[zanthor]

Boxer Assistant: Jamba

Bar Replacement: Macaroon - however I could do everything I do with the default bars, in fact if I could move them on the screen for solo play in raids I would use default bars.

Map Replacement: Carbonite - Every single thing you listed you don't like about carbonite I've turned off. I also use Sexymap for the SexyHud which is just... well, sexy for mining/herbing/anything with a node.

Bag Replacement: Bagnon cuz it rocks.

Quest Assist: Carbonite

Party Frames: OpenRDX however I'm considering changing to Grid/Clique for reasons that don't affect multiboxing. In fact the ONLY reason I'm staying with OpenRDX right now is because it's so awesome for syncing between 5 characters (or 25 or 50 or 100 or hoever many.)

Other: SmartBuff