Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=75216#pos t75216
I've made it a point to make sure I can play 100% without any addons / mods / etc. Plain vanilla WoW. Addons are nice fro sure, but I don't want to be dependant on any of them, because there is no telling when Blizzard will randomly break them.
I think that's wise. My addons are either cosmetic(Pitbull/Bartender), informational(recount/omen), or convenience oriented (QuestHelper, Auctioneer).

It was Auctioneer that hosed me once. I don't recall the exact details, but after pulling an update, I could hardly move arounrd... totally hosed my framerate. It wasn't a fault of wow-matrix... I would have been just as hosed had done a hand-picked install of that auctioneer update. The tough part was trying to figure out what the problem was. Since then I've only had auctioneer activated on my mules.

None of my addons are mission critical and I can turn them off with little problem. Probably my biggest dependency right now is is bartender. If I turn it off, I have to adjust my keyboard assignments from bartender bars to blizzard bars, and that's a bit of a drag.