Well, it was Tuesday Patch Day, and all the cool kids hopped on WoW to see their Rogues with empty talent trees, cross-realm battlegrouds filled with so many issues they were shut down after 12 hours, and world PvP so mismatched that the Horde may never return to the Eastern Plaguelands. Oh yeah, and half of their addons were broken too.

On a positive note, after updating the addons and making a minor surgical alteration to one, the game now runs faster, smoother, and with significantly less client-lag than before. You know, Orgrimmar, Alterac Valley, fighting Nef… things that are seriously taxing on the RAM. Anyway… here’s a list of addons I use:

• Atlas v1.8.1
  Maps with bosses and objectives for all instances.
• CT Mod
  Set of powerful raid-assisting mods.
• Decursive v1.9.8
  Automatically displays targets with curses, poisons, diseases, etc. for fast cleansing.
• EquipCompare v2.9.7
  Side-by-side comparison of that drop vs. what you already have equip’ed.

The following addons have not been updated to support v1.12, but seem to work anyway:

• Ace v1.3.1
  A transparent addon function library and assistant. (I only use it for GuildAds’ dependency.)
• Auctioneer v3.6.1
  Keeps track of auction-house pricing (the Economy) and displays in item tooltips.
• Gatherer v2.2.3
  Records and displays locations of ore and herbs on your minimap for future gathering.
• GuildAds v2.00b (rev 123)
  Displays items people have or want, as well as all crafted items and enchantments anyone in the guild (with the addon) can make.
  Note: Requires Ace.
• Titan v2.19.1
  UI bars containing customizable information: XP, honor, gold, inventory, ammo management, system performance, damagemeters, map coordinates, etc.
  Note: Titan seems to be no longer supported, with its last update on 6/22/06, though that may be too soon to say. Titan contains a nasty memory leak, and making the modifications mentioned in the thread at the bottom of that page helped significantly.

I use a select few other addons, on a character-by-character basis, such as DamageMeters, CritLine, UBotD, and GathererShare. I have not included these, and the few others as they tend to be minor mods that rarely have issues with updates. I’ll try to create a real Addons guide for the guild, including everyone else’s contributions.

Lastly, and slightly off-topic, I have tiled and stacked chat windows, and the little speech-balloon button attached to the primary General window is getting drawn in strange places upon login, but only with characters that use Gatherer/GathererShare…