A set of addons

[Sychosys]

I am hooked, there is no going back to single boxing after all this. However it has become fairly apparent that I need to rethink my set of addons to better suit this new style of play. Things like party layout never mattered cause I soloed the game about 90% of the time. So, what I am looking for here is a set of up to date addons that I should use or consider using. Since this is opening up a flood gate of OMFG I am going to just list category sections and get recomendations within each of them. Please let me know

Multibox Assistants
I dont think there is much need for debate here. Its Jamba. Get it love it and roll with it. (Even if some of the automatedness of it worries me at times)

Bar Replacement
I have used quite a few of these starting with Discord Action Bars, then Bongos and now Dominos. However, I am tired of having to write #showtooltip /cast [target=focustarget] Name Of Spell for every ability I get. I have seen addons like Macaroon mentioned that you can set [target=focustarget] as something the bar or button will always do so all I have to do is drag my attack spells to that bar. Since I have to do these setups for 5 characters every time this is annoying as hell. With Dominos I just create a default profile, cut/paste the lua data file to the other WTF folders and the Poof, I have a basis. But to my knowledge you can not have the extra macro added into the actions. Macaroon's interface is ungodly.. I do not care what anyone says click this go here hover there scroll this click on that this button alters that state this check box opens that menu WTF... If the creator of this mod is on these forums than I am sorry but Jesus this was a horror. Bartender isnt much better. The descriptions of everything make no sense. I suppose I should have seen the 150 pages of response to its announcement as a warning. Please give me another option or try to explain away the horrors of these bars, hehe.

Map Replacement
This is pretty much Carbonite but I would like it to work nicely. If someone has a setup they like and doesnt mind posting config steps Id like it. The other post I have on here has some good info on how to set up this mod nicely but I could use some more. Also is there any word of making it nicer with handling group quest tracking?

Bag Replacement
I like OneBag and OneBank, they work well but as I read they muck up with Carbonite a bit.

Quest Assistance
QuestHelper, Carbonite, QuestGuru, Tour Guide, Lightheaded.. What else? QH looks to be getting some nice revamp work on it but they have pretty much ignored my request for a /qh show and /qh hide to be added as a part of the mod so I have to rewrite the lua file every time I update it. Carbonite puts the quest stuff on its big mini map and I really liked that. I loved Quest Guru's ability to track all quests done BUT!!! I found out that Jamba screws with it!! My main shows 250 some odd quests done, my slaves show 14!! I can almost guarentee that those 14 are ones I messed up the windows on and had to complete manually
Party Layout. If I use Carbonite for the up above listings I am pretty sure that QuestGuru and QuestHelper need to go away.

Party/Player Frames
Oi, I forgot about this. Whats a good layout like the one Mosg used in his boosting video so I can see all the info more explicitly? I have found that I can not just go to curse and see which addons they have had most downloaded all the times where multiboxing is considered

Just to harp on Carbonite a bit more (Please note that why I am ragging on this addon so much is cause it seems so useful but just has some very annoying properties with it). Please someone tell me there is a way to change or turn off some of the parts of it. It has a pals list and a punks list, nice, but does it also have to have embed the other social displays within it? Now when I want to see who is online it takes up my entire screen with that background just to show me the normal wow box inside of it.. WTF?

Anywho,I am looking for which action bar mod to go with in priority. I spend almost an hour as is setting up a set of characters, Id like to avoid that and make changing a play style not require this.

[Solon]

Boxer Assistant: Jamba, absolutely

Bar Replacement: I have yet to see the need. I liked Bartender 3, nothing else was better than Blizzard's IMO.

Map Replacement: Other than Atlas for instances, none. Carbonite doesn't do enough to justify having it with QH, and can't replace it.

Bag Replacement: EngBags (Takes a little setup but is extremely powerful, sorts inventory for you!)

Quest Assist: Questhelper, TomTom, Tourguide, AutoItemStartQuest, (opens that quest pickup right away so you know to get one on your alts!), MobMap, Overachiever

Party Frames: Pitbull

Others: TitanBar (great info, gets buttons off your mini map), VanasKoS (track who ganked you so you can get revenge when you are less than 10 levels under them), SuperDuperMacro (macro share and longer macros), Smartbuff (set one hotkey and spam to get your toons to cast all thier buffs!), Pawn (set your scales to help you pick your gear [lot of setup]), GFW_FeedOMatic (feed your pets with one hotkey!), BadBoy (auto report spam on goldsellers), AGT (Goblin therapist for those annoying whisperers), Auctioneer (duh!), Enchantrix (help with the D/E of crap you make with your other toons), Recount (damage meter, can tell who isn't keeping up or if someone isn't doing anything lol), OpenAll (opens all your mail with one click)

[Jafula]

I like this game.

Boxer Assistant: Jamba

Bar Replacement: None, use default UI.

Map Replacement: Cartographer 2

Bag Replacement: ArkInventory

Quest Assist: MobMap

Party Frames: X-Perl

Other: SmartBuff

[Khatovar]

Mulitibox - Jamba

Bar - Dominos. It does all I need it to do, easy rebinding, easy resizing. As far as Macros, just save your whole "#showtooltip /cast [target=focustarget] ..." in notepad and copy paste it to WoW as needed. I even write out entire macro sets in Notepad to copy/paste, especially if I run more than 1 of the same class. Makes for easy changes and works as a backup.

Map - I use Cartographer + Chinchilla + Gathermate. Oh, and SilverDragon for raretracking.

Bags - Um, MoveAnything. All I need from my bags {and most everything else interface-related} is that they not be frickin' huge and taking up my whole screen. Everything else I can keep track of on my own.

Questing - nQuestLog + Lightheaded. nQuestlog gives me easy quest status tracking with audible updates, chat-to-party updates and the mouseover. The version at Curse is old, but the one at WoWAce works just fine. Lightheaded gives me all the wowhead info I could possibly want and clicky coords for a waypoint for my quests.

Frames - Pitbull. <3

Other - FuBar to get the crap off my mini-map, Yatba for buff/debuff tracking, BindPad for happier macros, Decursive for taking pictures at the zoo...er, DBM and Omen because people have a seizure if you don't run both at all times, Prat {no, not you, the chat mod}, Party Ability Bars for cooldown tracking.

[Jubber]

Multibox - Jamba

Bars - Bar4

Map - Carbonite

Quest - Carbonite

Bag - bagnon

Frames - Pitbull

Other - SuperduperMacro - For large macros. Make 1 macro for your main then, hit receive on your alt and send on your main and there you go.. Only ever have to write your macro's once. Basically an easy way to copy paste.

[Sychosys]

Bar - Dominos. It does all I need it to do, easy rebinding, easy resizing. As far as Macros, just save your whole "#showtooltip /cast [target=focustarget] ..." in notepad and copy paste it to WoW as needed. I even write out entire macro sets in Notepad to copy/paste, especially if I run more than 1 of the same class. Makes for easy changes and works as a backup.

That is what I am doing now, writing them in notepad and then doing a nice cut/paste five times over, for every class, hehe. Then when I get a new ability I have to do it again.. Some times I can get keyclone to just let me write the macros all at once, but if I do something wrong, a simple click or what not, its a pain cleaning it up again and again. I really think Dominos is the way I will go though.

BindPad for happier macros

Maybe this is worth checking out.. Or maybe its time to make a macro notepad in WoW. When all is said and done Ill try and update my original post to give a list of options and such along with groupings of what people have found to work well together.

[Sychosys]

Other - SuperduperMacro - For large macros. Make 1 macro for your main then, hit receive on your alt and send on your main and there you go.. Only ever have to write your macro's once. Basically an easy way to copy paste.

Oooo Thanks!

[Sychosys]

edit: A Link
Alright, there is a screen shot of the level .. 5 or 6 druids, I forget which (They leveled up a bit as I was testing the layout out). I like this layout, not entirely semetrical by any means but so far its working. I am however having a few issues with X-Perl. For my target window I found a checkbox that lets me put the buffs of the target above or below. Is there a similar option for the Party windows? As above would be preferable.. I may just be missing it.. I am not sure.

Anywho, Comments welcome I was trying for a Party 1 Party 2 Main Party 3 Party 4 layout with XPerl but this was the best I could do since they appear to have to be grouped together in either a line or a column and no other combination.

[Fef]

Boxer Assistant: Jamba. Is there anything else ?

Bar Replacement: Dominos. Nice and simple.

Map Replacement: Default.

Bag Replacement: Default.

Quest Assist: QuestHelper, that's it. I like doing quest, so I actually read the quest text (at least the first time I do a quest), that and QuestHelper make quests easy enough.

Party Frames: Default, plus a really tiny addon that shows if/what my alts are casting. I don't remember the name, will look it up when at home.

Other: VanasKOS, obviously.

[Tonyx]

Multibox Assistants: Jamba

Bar Replacement: Macaroon. It's like heaven for us macro lovers. Need a bit of time to learn, though.

Map Replacement: Mapster

Bag Replacement: Tbag. I like they way it sorts things.

Quest Assistance: Questhelper, lightheaded.

Party/Player Frames: Pitbull, what else?

Other addons: Chinchilla, DoTimer, Mik's Scrolling Battle Text, Docking Station + a lot of LDB plugins, Prat, Quartz, Recount.