Addons Sawyer Likes
Purposely not including essential addons everyone already knows
Also not including links. This description should be enough to decide if you want to pursue the addon through your addon manager of choice.
Ability Team Tracker: Tracks team ability cooldowns
Already Known?: Highlights recipes/learnables with a color if you already learned it. Example use: Warlock looking through tomes for his pet to find ones he hasn’t learned
Attune: Tracks your attunement journey in a flow chart for attune required raids, and shares the information with other guildies. Allows you to survey others to see their
progress
AutoGear: Uses some low precision stat weights to automatically select and equip gear for you. Highly recommend you DON’T use this for important gear decisions. The best use for this in my case is early level when I can’t be bothered manually equipping whites that have 2 extra armor. If you leave quest selection on, this addon WILL piss you off eventually, so shut that off
BadBoy: Great chat filter, has several plugins you can download separately
Better Fishing: Allows you to use the new Soft Targeting accessibility feature to auto-click the fishing bobber. I haven’t tested this, but I’ve seen it in action and it’s pretty legit. You can fish with a single key bind. I’ve heard the bobber can go out of range
BoE labels in Bags: This might surprise you, but it adds BoE labels over items in your bags
Capping Battleground Timers: A better-than-DBM option for showing Battleground timing information
Clam Pulp: It opens the annoying clams and other container objects you get in the game automatically
Classic Castbars: Keeps the cast bars in their classic state while allowing you to make customizations. Adds cast bars for all base unit frames (target frame will be redundant in SOD)
ClassicBestiary: Puts enemy abilities in their tooltip. Pressing Ctrl expands the ability to show the description. Will be inaccurate for SOD changes initially, and might stay inaccurate if the author doesn’t upgrade it
ClassicHealPrediction: Extends a translucent green bar over the missing health of a person who is being healed. The length of the bar is based on the estimated heal that will be landing
ClassicSpellActivations: Lights up spell activation overlay for reactive abilities in classic. Example: Overpower, Revenge, etc
Clear: If you type /clear, your currently active chat window will be cleared. So if you’re flirting with egirls and your wife walks in, you can quickly type /clear to hide it
ColorPickerPlus: If you’re as crazy as I am about having things exact, this lets you select colors through more precise means such as RGB, HSV, and hex entry codes. It also allows exact alpha percentage entry
Craft Info Anywhere: When you encounter an item that is crafted, you can see the materials required to create it directly in the tooltip. When you encounter a trade good, you can see the items it helps craft directly in the tooltip
Daily To Do Continued: It’s a to do list
Diminish DR Tracker: Gives you a reasonable way to track all DR categories in PVP. Provides options for self, target, nameplate
Doom_CooldownPulse: When an ability comes off cooldown, this creates a quick “pulse” of the icon in the middle of your screen. It can be moved
DropTheCheapestThing: The icon on your minimap shows the cheapest thing in your bag. If you shift click that icon, it deletes that thing. As with all addons that delete things, be careful. There are safety features
Enhanced Raid Frames: Improves the base UI raid frames
FiveSecondRule: Shows the 5 second cooldown since last cast before base regeneration kicks in, and then shows the 2 second tick there after
Floating Combat Text Fix: The absolute goat addon. When floating combat text turns itself off like it always does, this addon turns it back on
Garbage Desaturation in Bags: Grey item icons in your bags are now strongly desaturated so everything else stands out
GatherNotify: Modifies mouse over tooltips with the level required to pick an herb or mine a node. Adds current level to the “Requires” error message. When you reach the level required to pick a certain node, it tells you you can pick a new flower/ore. Sometimes fails to work but I like it
GTFO: Tells you to GTFO of things on the ground that are hurting you
Improved Loot Frame: Dynamically changes the size of the loot window based on the number of items being looted. No more scroll pages in your loot window
LogoutSkips: Creates boundaries on the world map that attempt to show you where you will spawn if you do a log out skip. It also has another option for death skips. Inaccuracies at zone boundaries
LootArchive: Archives all the loot that has been distributed
LootRollMover: Allows you to move the base UI loot roll window
Ludwig: In game browsable item database. Atlas is more robust but this is nice and clean
M6: Adds a lot of additional macro conditionals and extended macro features to the game. There are cavaets, fair warning
Molinari: Allows you to use a mod+click to disenchant items. I have mine set to alt+click
Myslot: Takes your current macros, keybinds, and action bar skill positions and turns them into a string that can be imported/exported to other characters. Player can control which options to capture
OmniBar: Allows you to track cooldowns of your target or other entities. Useful in PVP
Quest Icon Desaturation: At quest givers, this will desaturate (turn grey) the icons for quests that you have not yet completed
Select: This addon adds the /select macro command you can use instead of /use or /cast to use an item or spell among a list. Right-clicking your macro from the bars will pop out a menu where you can change the item or spell to use. Has a smart system to find abilities or bag items based on type or partial name match
Skill Info+: Adds color, based on skill, to mining or herbalism nodes on the minimap. Changes skill up information to include, for example: “Your skill in herbalism has increased to 147 / 225” (applies to all skill up types including weapon skills). Herbalism nodes on the minimap show their required level (barely works)
SlashIn: Provides the /in command for delayed execution. Provides /int to throttle actions for macros you like to spam. Example: /int I've Kicked %T will avoid you spamming that message 5 times per kick. Others: /in 1.5 /emote rocks, /in 12 /equip Scryers Tabard. Tons of limitations
Tracking Switcher X: Automatically switches tracking between Herb/Mining at the interval you set, default 2 seconds
TradeFill: After setting up, it will automatically fill the trade window with item of your choice. Probably water. Has options to ignore non-guildies/etc
TruePath: Adds a dotted line that grows out from your world map arrow to show where you would end up if you ran a straight line. I’m a lazy piece of garbage so I point this at my target location, press autorun, and then just strafe left/right to avoid anything on my way. Don’t use this in hardcore unless you like dying. The options are green sliders on the bottom left of your world map
What’s That For?: Unless your game knowledge is at neet levels, there are probably some items out in the world that you don’t know the purpose of. This lets you press shift and it’ll tell you what it’s used for. May need some option changes if you use Craft Info Anywhere, but I don’t remember
What’s Training?: Adds a fifth tab to your spell book where you can see what skills are upcoming, so you don’t have to visit a trainer to see
whoa BlueShamans: Makes shaman player names blue instead of pink
Can’t wait to play with y’all in SOD.