I’m new to 3rd party addons. I have Hekili and Healbot.
At what point should I reload or reinstall them to pick up fixes for the new Season?
Are these things announced anywhere?
I know Hekili will show up on this addon manager, not sure about the other as I don’t use it. But this is how I keep almost all my addons up to date. Check every few days, or if you get a notification in-game about an addon.
CurseForge also has their own, if you prefer to go that way.
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Do you have an addon manager? I think there are a few out there and I use curse forge I just open it and it checks for updates to your addons. Alternatively you can check the add on manually where you downloaded it for to see if it updated but that could get really tedious if you have a lot of them.
You shouldn’t have to reinstall anything unless your addon breaks somehow. At the start of a major path you probably will have a few that are broken in that case keep checking for updates, usually if it’s actively being worked on an update that fixes it will be out usually in a day or two.
Definitely just use an addon manager (I use WoWUp like the first comment linked, but it’s not different than Curseforge unless you use ElvUI, in which case definitely use WoWUp).
It makes it clear when addon updates are available, what game version the addons are updated to, and it’s just a button click.
Manually managing addons isn’t hard but it’s not convenient at all.
Most popular addons are updated more or less the day of a new patch because they’re being worked on while the patch is in PTR. The ones that aren’t ready usually have a beta option that works with the patch (though I personally usually wait those out, as it won’t be long).
Between patches, you can usually get away without updating, but most addons where it will matter will start throwing popups at you in-game if your addon is out of date (so you can go fix it - assuming its functioning at all. But if it’s not, then you also know you need to update, I assume).
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Ok thanks, I’ll give these suggestions a try.