A set of addons

[Spirithawke]

Map replacement: Carbonite, Atlas, Atlasloot. TomTom

I've been having pretty good luck just using Carbonite's TomTom emulation, but i haven't used TomTom by itself in a long time, is there anything much that it does on it's own that Carbonite can't also do?

Hmm...I have never tried the TomTom emulation feature of Carbonite. I started using TomTom a long time before I started paying for Carbonite. I liked it and it's little movable window, so just never quit using it.

[DrChaos]

Sychosys: could you post a screen shot of your layout... I even googled looking for ayouts that people are willing to share. thx

[alcattle]

Hmm...I have never tried the TomTom emulation feature of Carbonite. I started using TomTom a long time before I started paying for Carbonite. I liked it and it's little movable window, so just never quit using it.[/font]

Nice part about carbonite's arrow is you control what it is pointing at, can change it at any time. QH's arrow points at closest thing, and TomTom's kind works in the middle of those.

If we knew all the things Carbonite does, I think we can run with Jambe and Carbonite until we raid.

[Sychosys]

[quote='DrChaos',index.php?page=Thread&postID=21997 9#post219979]Sychosys: could you post a screen shot of your layout... I even googled looking for ayouts that people are willing to share. thx [/quote][url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=RGalleryImageWrapper&itemID=618&typ e=page']This[/url] is pretty close to what it looks like now.. kinda sorta maybe, hehe. Since I could not get the party frames to display things as I wanted I went back to some of the easier to set up unit frames. When comparing PB and XPerl XPerl just flowed better so I have stuck with them for now. I pretty much have all the info near the center of my screen because that is where I am looking most of the time.. Too many times some sneaky SOB of a mob would take out one of my guys with out me knowing it cause the party frame was too far to the right. And while I would rather keep the bottom of my screen clear (I play on a PVP server so the bottom of the screen is where people like to attack me from: Behind) the top of the screen is just too far away, hehe. Makes my neck crane to look at it The RAM has shipped and its on its way and should be here tomorrow or I will be upset since I sent it to where I work... and I dont want to come into work on the weekend just to get it

I hope it doesnt take all weekend but when I am done I will post a final screen shot.. I will also try and surmise the most popular options in my Original Post of what people are using for what.

[Sychosys]

If we knew all the things Carbonite does, I think we can run with Jambe and Carbonite until we raid.

Yeah I guess if we took enough time to learn some of the mods we would probably have an OMG moment... But honestly i spent Sunday and almost this entire week's play time so far working on the stupid layouts of my screens! hehe, I want to play! I am wasting RaF time. I thought a better interface layout woudl save me time but I didnt think it would take up this much time... stupid party unit frames! GraH!!

[Sychosys]

Well, turns out 8GB of ram is a bit overkill, Loaded everything up and ran around AH for a little bit, not too far from the town, and I peaked out at around 3.5GB of ram at most with the current setup I have. It is nice, i have to say, to be running pretty much at peaked FPS (45 main 15 slavex4) pretty much all the time. It takes a few moments for the average FPS to peak when I swap windows but you can already see its nice and smooth and its just the count that is balancing out. Will be finishing my setup this weekend and smushing some more addons into the slaves for when I swap windows for them to once again be identical. Ill post a screenie after the forums swap tomorrow, no use in doing it now

[Lash]

Multibox
* Jamba

Bars
* Bartender4
* ButtonFacade - for purty buttons!

Map
* Carbonite
* Sexymap - I don't use most of this, but it works for removing annoying addon buttons from the map

Quest
* Carbonite
* Lightheaded
* Tomtom - needed for Tourguide and Lightheaded
* Tourguide - only during RAF leveling

Bag
* ArkInventory - one bag with stuff autosorted is well worth the setup time

Frames
* Pitbull 4 - it is still in active development, but works well for 5 man groups

Other
* Bindpad - slowly moving away from this and using more of ISBoxer. When I first started boxing this helped me reduce the clutter of buttons on the screen.
* Recount - used to help me tweak my dps sequences
* Align - helps to setup multiple toons with the same widget positioning
* ISBoxer - you need Innerspace for this
* Postal - makes using the mailbox not painful
* Omen - only for testing new dps sequences or when I'm not the tank
* Titan

I agree that carbonite can be annoying with some of the stuff like the social window, but you can turn it off in the options.

I have lot of other random addons with several of them being class specific, the above are the major ones and now that I see how few it is...perhaps I should trim it down a bit. I have 8 GB of ram and running 3 copies still doesn't use all of it...I just don't like having to update them..h.eh.

At some point, I want to take the time to setup SatrinaBuffFrame so that I just see the buffs that my guys can cast.

[MarkHR]

!swatter - error messages ansd it comes with auctioneer
auctioneer - NOT the auctioneer suite just the smaller download from the auctioneer website for the auction posting singles/multiples part
badboy - antispam
badboy_ccleaner - random rubbish removal from chat like multi line macro spam, etc.
badboy_levels - prevents whispers from characters below a user defined level
bagnon - one bag addon
bartender4 - bars addon, does what it says on the tin
beql - bayi's extended quest log, similar to doublewide no longer necessary thanks to blizzard's new quest log
capping - BG timers and maps
compass - onscreen compass bar
cursorcastbar - puts a ring (or rings) around the pointer to show anything from GCD (what I use it for) to castbars
dhud3 - hud, does what it says on the tin, seems much easier to use than others I've tried
doom_cooldownpulse - cooldowns in the centre of the screen, awesome addon
gathermate - multiboxing gatherer essential tool, reminds you to keep checking gatherer alts minimaps
gathermate_data - database of nodes for above
goingprice - ESSENTIAL pricing addon
goingprice_allakhazam - database of prices from the allkhazam website in a tool tip that makes auctioneering and choosing highest value quest rewards for vendoring so much easier
graphpaper - for the anal retentive to get everything lined up just right
jamba - multiboxing ESSENTIAL
learningaid - shows new spells in a box on screen and also scans for missing spells makes training so much easier
lightheaded - ESSENTIAL comments from wowhead about quests
lm chat - small and simple chat addon for those who like prat3.0 but don't want need all the functions
mappy - ESSENTIAL map addon that just works and well too, also is scaleable but, unlike some other minimap addons, doesn't scale the buttons (thankfully)
preformavenabler - ESSENTIAL for getting the multibox group into the same BG at the same time
questhelper - makes questing easier and the new updates have improved it a bit
shadowedunitframes - very easy to use uf addon that just works with almost no setup time
shieldsup - armor/shield buff warning
tidyplates - smaller, square, more easily clickable and visible name plates
titan - very useful panel addon
titan spec - dualspec display/switcher for titan panel
totemtimers - essential for shamans
tweakwow - ESSENTIAL for adjusting game settings above or below the options available through the standard ui
vanaskos - kos/friendly lists and enemy/friendly activity warning

addons I've used that I liked either don't currently need, can't find or aren't updated anymore
skillet
tradetabs
shockandawe
doublewide
deadlybossmods
recount
omen
cavedefenders
cattleprod

edit: senile old fart - removed atsw (el major suckage)

edit2: 3.2 quest log is now doublewide (at last)

[Sychosys]

Multibox
* Jamba

Bars
* Dominos

Map
* Cartographer 3.0
* Sexymap

Quest
* Quest Helper
* Tourguide

Bag
* OneBag
* OneBank

Frames
* StUF (Stuf Unit Frames)

Other
* Recount
* Auctioneer
* Gatherer

And here is the screen shot.. Thanks all for the help in recomendations and usages. Ill be sure to find some more nifty things to use over time but wanted to let ya all know what I ended up with.

[thepete]

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.

You can actually do this with Bartender4, but you kind of have to edit the lua source code a bit.

They have an option that you can enable (per bar) called "Auto Assist Target" (I think, I am at work now so cannot check the exact option name).

So basically it would be similar to adding [target=targettarget] before each spell on the action bar. However, if you want it to behave like whacking [target=focustarget] before all your spells do the following,

Find "StateBar.lua" (the one directly in the base Bartender4 directory), make a backup of it incase things go wrong.
Open it in whatever text editor you like.
Replace all occurances of "targettarget" with "focustarget" (there is a total of 4 of them to replace).
Reload WoW, enable Auto Assist on the bar you want this to work on and its all set.

I tried this awhile back, seemed to work fine back then, I apologise if it doesn't now though!

I also opened a ticket on wowace to try get this implemented officially in the addon, no reply as of yet though.