Three Cool Add ons I Found

Well, in my travels I have found a couple good add ons that I wanted to tell you about. But first ! I have to tell you about a really cool program that my friend Michael told me about that updates your add ons all by itself.....well, most of them. Some add ons are not supported by the program, but very few that I have found. It is called Wow Matrix and you can find it at wowmatrix.com. All you have to do it download it and it runs. No configuring, no complicated set up, you don't even have to tell it where your add ons are....it finds the folder itself. Now that is what I call service ! Simply click on the Update All button and off it goes, finding all the updates for your add ons and installing them for you. It even shows you what mods it cannot update for you, so you can do it manually. Why can't everything be this easy ?

The first mod I ran across was also recommended by Michael (affectionately known as the ModKing)and it is called WoW Instant Messanger. If you have been frustrated by trying to find your whispers in a sea of channel chats, or if you have been embarrassed by sending the wrong whisper to the wrong person ("I think you are so sexy" to your Guild Master, instead of your boyfriend)then this is definitely a mod you will want to have. It gives you your whispers in totally separate, movable boxes, so you can easily find them and respond to them. It also sounds a tone to let you know you have a new message. This mod also has no configuring, just toss it in your folder and it just works......always a plus in my book ! WIM is available on the Curse Gaming site.

The second mod I wanted to tell you about is called Auctionator. Now, this add on is no Auctioneer, but it does allow you to place auctions up quickly and easily. You simply hold down the alt key and click on the item in your bag. It will bring up a window (also can be brought up by clicking the Auctionator tab at the bottom of your screen) and it puts your item in a window and at the top shows the price that the mod recommends you sell it at, which is determined by the prices of like items that are in the AH right now. (you can tell it by how much you want to undercut your competition, in the options) It even lists the items that are up for auction, at that time, and the prices they are being sold for, noting which of them are yours and which are others. If you don't agree with their recommendations, then you can type in your own price for bid and buyout. It it pretty handy dandy, the only complaint I have is that it does not hold the prices that you post your auctions at from session to session. Such as, say you are selling Scorpid Surprise Recipes. If you type in your bid and buyout prices, it will hold that price if you want to sell more than one, but if you go to sell them the next day, you have to type in the price again. Ah well, nothing is perfect. Auctionator also does not have a database to suggest prices or a scanning function. It is more or less just a small price comparer for those of us that sell the same items consistantly, and need to know what the competition is selling them for that day. It's pretty handy, but I will still be looking for another AH add on to do what Auctioneer no longer does, simply or easily. Auctionator can be found on the Curse Gaming site.

Hope springs eternal :)

Jade

Patch Woes

I have been playing WoW a long time and I have lived through many a patch, but this has got to be the worst one yet. All the sudden, the major add on groups that I use have decided they are not going to update......leaving me high and dry. The two most notably screwing me are Cosmos and Auctioneer.

Cosmos was a large package of mods that I have used practically since Thrall was in diapers. It did a large variety of things and was only one download, instead of having to update them all separately. When I read they were no longer going to update the package I was totally bumming. /sigh

But the most crushing for me, the AH Queen, was Norganna's decision not to update Auctioneer classic. When she came out with Auctioneer Advanced, a few years ago, I tried it and I found it to me WAY too complicated with WAY too many features that I find to be useless for my needs. It is hard to understand and even harder to use, so when she came back with Auctioneer Classic, I breathed a sigh of relief that I would have my easy to use, perfect AH companion mod back. Imagine my horror when I read on her site a few days ago that she is not going to update it for 3.0. I tried to take it like a trooper, and decided to give Auctioneer Advanced another go, thinking maybe she had simplified it in the intervening time. I was distressed to find, upon checking it out that it is just as horrible as ever as to being hard to understand, hard to use, and bogged down with a bunch of features that are either unintelligible, or useless to me. No more simple add on that just suggested a price, and held the prices you wanted to sell at. /sigh

I have found the current mod crisis to be worse that what we went through in Burning Crusade, by far. I keep updating the mods I still have with their replacements, that they say are fixed and working for 3.0, but I still am having tons of problems. My chat log is full of gibberish, and no chat shows up at all. Weird error messages with garbled warnings that make no sense. Mailbox mods that won't show up at all. And a mod that supposedly lets you move around your frames....that doesn't.

I am pretty much at my wits end about all this, so I am going to set it aside for a few days and hope that the programmers get their act together, and in the mean time, look for some new mods to replace the ones from Cosmos.

If any of you have some suggestions.....please let me know !

Jade