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In depth look at some of the most popular addons for World of Warcraft

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Entries Tagged as 'Combat'

Visualheal - Make healing efficient

June 4th, 2008 2 Comments

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There are some healing aids out there that will give you a clue about who is healing who and for how much. I know X-Perl has a plugin like that, and there might be others as well. I’ve yet to find a very simple one though which does the job as well as this [...]

Tags: Combat · Raids

BeneCaster updates

April 29th, 2008 1 Comment

The latest news on the useful addon BeneCaster is that Phlay, the developer, is waiting on the next patch (2.4.2) to be released before he’ll push an update. He is currently focusing on the raid button problem, but other bugs will be looked closer at when the patch arrives, hopefully next week.

Tags: Action bars · Combat

Omen - Updated for 2.4 patch

March 26th, 2008 No Comments

As with a ton of other addons, one of the most used ones, namely Omen, has been updated for the 2.4 patch. One of the hot new features thanks to the improvements to the combat log is that it can track several mobs with the same name. Omen also comes with some new features. Read [...]

Tags: Combat · Raids

sRaidFrames and BeneCaster - Blog-o-rama

March 5th, 2008 1 Comment

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I’ve decided to go a bit crazy today and post about two addons in one article. Reason is that these addons go hand in hand, just like beer and football. sRaidFrames gives you replacement frames (windows) showing your fellow raid members with a lot of improvements over Blizzard’s default ones and BeneCaster gives you [...]

Tags: Combat

Natur EnemyCastBar - Timers galore

February 19th, 2008 1 Comment

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It took a while, but Blizzard finally added an enemy cast bar to the game. This was all good, but in reality, I find the built in cast bar to be somewhat lacking. This should come as no surprise, but there are way better cast bars implemented by the addon community available. Let’s have [...]

Tags: Combat

Omen - Controlling your threat

February 7th, 2008 5 Comments

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When in groups players have different roles. Usually you have someone tanking, healing and DPSing. Omen is an addon for World of Warcraft that displays how much threat a player has against a single opponent. In raids this is a must have addon as tanks are the ones who are supposed to be hit [...]

Tags: Combat

Recount - Just another damagemeter?

February 5th, 2008 1 Comment

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I’ve tried several damagemeters in my time. Swstats, DamageMeters, Recap and probably a few more I’ve forgotten about. Lately, I’ve replaced them all with an addon called Recount. It has mostly the same functions as the others, but I find the presentation of information to be superb.

Tags: Combat