Add ons, make your game life easier

Add-ons

What is a an Add-on?
It's a specially written script for World of Warcraft which only runs inside World of Warcraft. You dont need to start it yourself outside WoW, you place it in your wow-game-folder\Interface\Addons and the game uses them. In the character selection screen there will be an option to enable and disable certain add ons on a character. It enhances and mostly improves your gaming experience by automating certain actions, ginving your more information about fights, enemies, the auction house or armor in the game.
It is not illegal to run Add ons, they are solely scripts to be run inside warcraft. There also programs which are run outside warcraft to automate your gameplay, these are called 'bots' and are illegal. If you get caught with a 'bot' you get banned. When you play with Add-ons, changes are the next patch Blizzard implemented the Add-on in their game, making the extra Add-on obsolete

Where do you obtain Add-ons.
Add-ons are FREE, never pay for them.

Download them here:
Curse
INCgamers
WOWInterface

PLease note the following:
Add ons are pieces of script which are run inside the game. There for they are rarred in a .rar fil or zipped in a .zip file when you download them. Add ons NEVER come in an executable .exe file.
NEVER install add ons using an .exe file, because that will largely increase the risk of getting virusses or trojans installed. Make sure you have antivirus software and you will be good if the add on consist of .lua files.

Add ons can be used for different reasons:

You want another screen layout, because blizzards standard hasn't got enough buttons for you to bash.
- Bartender
- Dominos

Or you want other Unitframes (that's what they call the Player and Party windows)
- X-Perl
- Healbot

Some Add ons do both:
- TukUI

Other Add ons help you while fighting
- Castbar
- Deadly Boss Mods (only Vanilla, TBC and WoTLK)
- Deadly Boss Mods Cataclysm

Or give information about your health, threat, mana or action points
- Recount
- Omen Threat Meter
- Ice-HUD

Also add-ons to help you in the Auction House:
- Auctioneer

Or with your gathering professions
- Gatherer

A chatting add on
- Prat
- Bad boy Auto report spam

* Damnii contriubuted: Prat & Badboy

Do you know more / other / better Add ons? Please post them below, I'll add them to the topicstart

DoTimer

Decursive

Bagnon

Ackis Recipe List

QuestHubber

WIM

RobBossMods


What is RBM?
With Cataclysm new heroic instances came and we all know the dificulty is now much harder than it was on wotlk. Many people are forced to go 5 man heros with random groups. The problem: Some of the randoms might not know what the boss mechanics is. In Addition, it might be he is to afraid of asking because he might be kicked. To solve that you can use RBM. RBM explains the boss mechanics of the boss in front of you.

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