AddonGurus present WoW Addons

This is the first in a continuing series of weekly news updates on some of the popular World of Warcraft addons out there. Many addons are updated with bug fixes and new features almost daily and it can be hard to keep up to date on what’s going on, so I’ll try to be your knight in shining armor and compile a list of the hightlights for you. Head on in for the first edition.

QuestHelper

In the last couple of weeks this addon has seen some improvements.  QuestHelper has now got a world map button for enabling or disabling the addon and the ability to right click the button to get a menu where you can set some of the commonly used slash commands. There’s a new slash command added ‘/qh perf’ to set the performance factor of the addon. A lower setting will increase your game performance, and a higher setting will increase your addons performance. Several language translations have been added: Danish, German, Korean, Spanish and Turkish. Some small and some drastic changes have been done to try and improve the general performance, but what exactly has been done is not mentioned. The issue with route changing repeatedly should also be fixed now.

QuestHelper is currently in version 0.46.1 and Nasher is reported to have joined the team. For the initial review and a download link, see http://wow.addongurus.com/questhelper-speeding-up-the-work/

Natur EnemyCastBar

A final release for 2.4.0 version is not out yet, as not all bugs are ironed out it seems. A beta version that should work fairly well with 2.4.0 is in place though, and the latest changes reported are as follows: A lot of the code in the main API files have been cleaned up and files have been combined that didn’t need to be separated. The addon has been evaluated on one of the recent PTR versions to make it more efficient and changes will be progressive. You can read my review of this addon and find a downloadlink at http://wow.addongurus.com/natur-enemycastbar-timers-galore/

Deady Boss Mods

DBM has gotten some improvements for the M’uru fight and will now show timers and warnings for: Enrage, Void Sentinels, Humanoids, Darkness, Dark Fiends, Phase 2 and Black Holes. Despite 2.4.2 patch notes saying that Void Reavers arcane orbs are supposed to show in the combat log, it doesn’t seem like they do, so still no warnings for those.

Recount

Info on development is fairly scarce, but looking at the changelog tells us that there have been fixes and improvements to the death log and improvements to the layout for all detail views. Spell count has been added to upper detail view also. That’s it for Recount currently.

Gatherer

This is an addon I haven’t reviewed for you yet, but I will shortly. The latest news on Gatherer is that it’s been updated to support the new zone added in 2.4 and the HUD has been split from the main addon and into a plugin addon. There’s also a new option available for filtering nodes based on your professions and what you are currently tracking.

That wraps up news for this week, but I’ll be back with more news next week.

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