There are some addons to World of Warcraft that I just don’t want to live without anymore. For a casual gamer, they make life easier, more bearable, less tedious.
1. Curse
It isn’t really an addon, but Curse.com‘s download client makes it easy to find, install and update addons. It’s indispensible, and it’s FREE!
2. EasyMail
Really, who want to spend their time multi-clicking their way through tons of in game mail to pick up gold and expired auctions? Easymail solves the tedium, and does it, get this, EASILY. Love it.
3. Auctionator
Just like EasyMail, Auctionator simplfies the tedium of administrative stuff. This time, the auction house posting, buying, selling, etc… Auctioneer may be better known, and in some ways more powerful, but I find that Auctionator does more than 80% of what I want with less than 20% of Auctioneer’s learning curve.
4. Deadly Boss Mods
I don’t have time to learn the boss fights from scratch. DBM helps me by keeping track of major boss mechanics, warning me, and generally guiding me through the encounters. It won’t play for you, but it sure helps avoid those “WTH just happened?” moments.
5. GTFO
As a casual player I just don’t have the same level of situational awareness that frequent raiders have. GTFO sounds a really obnoxious buzzer when you stand in the fire. Even after so many years, I still do it sometimes.
6. Elvui
Elvui makes my GUI look the way I want it to. Mostly really clean, with plenty of customization available. I can move stuff around, like making my cast bars into three rows of 12, so they sort of match a keyboard. This layout seems much more intuitive and less cluttered to me. Anything that makes it easier for me to play, reduces my time spent in unproductive play. It helps me lay out my various toons in the same conceptual way, too. That way I don’t accidentally hit TimeWarp on my mage instead of Blink after I’ve been playing my pally for a while.
I use Elvui, recount, DBM, TSM, Easymail, GTFO, and others…
There are literally thousands of other addons. Many are great. I use a lot of addons that I haven’t mentioned here. This set, though, is the set I’d grab first if I had to do a clean slate install.
What are your must have addons?