What is the #1 addon you are missing most right now.
 

Mine is healbot or clique or some sort of click casting healing mod =X

Use mouseover macros and test the new party frames :)

Comix, but i might be a little biased

I think i just cried a little bit. But i think that may be a option eh.

I never understood that. You could have macros to do that much more easily!

1) if exists focus and pressed CTRL cast Regrowth on focus
2) if exists mouseover cast Regrowth on mouseover
3) if exists target cast Regrowth on target
4) else cast Regrowth on player

This is so much functionality in just one simple macro.

I agree. Click to cast healing isn't as fast or as functional as a macro that can do much more than that, without having to click things. Sounds better when you can just hover and heal to me :P

all-in-one bags, how underrated are thee :(

I'm not in the beta yet but I'll definitely miss recount which has always been the first addon to copy to PTRs/betas.

Does /combatlog work properly and if it does, is it the same syntax as in WotLK?
Otherwise I may have to write a parser :(

Autoselling junk, lol

Maybe I'm weird, but FuBar is the one I've missed the most. An all in one bag mod is a close second though.

Any chat addon that would let you 'sticky' the chat....

Really get tired of typing /1 /2......

Speaking of which, is anyone having trouble with the channels? Last night I would be chatting away just fine in gen or trade, but then I would suddenly start getting "Not in Trade" or "Not in General". /Join trade and /Join General didn't do anything.

Missing auto quest completion soo much.

Not in beta yet, but Grid for healer, rest is overrated. Haven't seen new party frames, but blizzard usually fails at this point, so I expect it to be ****.
Recap, Auctioneer, ItemRack and many other simple mods are the tools which make tasks easier, but not mandatory.

Edit: Looking at new party frames screenshots - they surely remind Grid, but I'd still expect most features like buff/debuff tracking to be lacking.

Missing nUI big time. But not played much to have it affect game play but after all this time wow isn't wow without nUI rofl.

This, <3 idQuestAutomation

What is faster is a matter of play style. If you think of it this way: Your in a highly mobile fight. You press a macro while having to hover the mouse over a target. It means you don't have your hands on the keys to move. Since the mouse is already over the target of your heal you can just click it and still have the ability to move more quickly since your hands are over the keys already.

Short version 2 hands that could do the job of one. And a simple modifier key gives it nearly the same functionality of a macro while keeping your hands on movement keys (all hail the pinky!).

And I'm sure from experience there are counter arguments in the opposite direction. I can say I've tried both ways and i just ended up being faster with click casting. Its merely preference.

On topic:

I would have to say action bars because i hate having my skills spread out the way the default one does it. Combat switching is pretty handy too.

OpenRDX without a shadow of a doubt.

TipTac #2
QuestHelper #0

All.In.One.Bags. Arkinventory in my case. I am miserable without it.

Junk auto-sell is up there, for sure. And I'd love any tool-tip mod.


HOWEVER

I, like most here I would imagine, play with such a heavily modded ui that I lose touch with what the default can do. So I'm looking at this as an opportunity to get a sense for what addons I may be able to live without in the long-term.

But really, all in one bags, for the love of God. Even my baby Worgen only has two bags, and HE'S miserable.

Not in the beta yet (Friday?) but I know I will be hating life without Dominos and Autobar.

Yeah, but there are a couple of things about the default UI that I just absolutely hate enough that if I couldn't get around them I wouldn't play the game. The big one is the default bar and the almost as big one is having access to class-specific spells/auras/stances in a pop-up menu button (the autobar class bar).

It's fine in the betas to be mucking about with the default UI, but I can't be productive with the default UI.

That, on the other hand, I've never seen the appeal of. I LIKE having separate bags. It's how I organize stuff. unequipped equipment in bag 5, quest items in bag 4, junk in the backpack and bag 2, misc overflow in bag 3. Normally I only open the backpack and maybe bag 2.

Fo9r a bar and All-In-One bags look in the McRun thread - I think Cogwheel wrote the whole macro-addon system to work in the alpha...

/run and /script is banned too, so no.

This last patch disabled the /run, /script, and /dump commands. Again, they would like you to test THEIR addons first. :p

Ah... not in the beta (mebbe if they offer - not really a dev in any way so I figure it's more important for those that can be helpful to get in there). Thanx for the info!

lets make some addons via "/run"
:D:D
lol /run not working ^(

The only thing i need to play default is BindPad.... And MoveAnything :P

Combuctor.

And OPie. So much more stuff I have to cram onto bars now. >.<

Cartographer
There no other map mod like it...sigh. I had to use 3 differant ones to get anything like it :mad:

So far, I'm not missing anything except for /run :P

Yea there was no bug report about it so I made one in game as well as in the bug report forum,

Which is all very fine and well - but when you've replaced most of Blizz's interface with custom work, you put yourself in a "you don't know what you don't know" situation. That's my point. Not that it's good to use the default, but that it's good to get back in touch with the default every once in a while, to see if there are addons you're using that you CAN do without. It's not practical to do so on raid night, but beta's a nice opportunity.


All-in-ones will do that for you, automatically, except you can have more than five-subgroups. However, it's not for everyone, and it lacks the solid feeling of "this is in this bag". I'm like that with Windows 7 - libraries bug me, I want to work in a folder-based world.

Click casting
 

I have to agree on that - I also miss Clique/Click2Cast a whole lot. Using macros for now, but it's just not the same :(
While the new development group frames already provide a Grid-like display (even with buffs and debuffs on them, though in a weird space), they are quite buggy - not showing party pets, having oneself seperated (and unmovable >.<).
On the other hand, default party frames show party pets - but they don't seem to be mouseover enabled, so those macros don't work.

Second in list would be junk selling and all in one bags.

They have that this is the first pass on the new party/raid frames. They will be movable, and you will be able to change them to display horz. also.

Default unitframes suck so much, other than that everything is fine.
tho for proper damage in dungeons i'll need timers, but that is mostly unitframes fault again.

Dominos -- hands down the thing I'm missing most. The standard layout for action buttons makes me feel like I'm in a straight-jacket.

I am missing mostly Quartz, and a DoT/Cooldown timer.

ActionBarSaver. The mobs in Deepholm have piles of hp, and I kept respeccing trying to find a better soloing build; redoing keybinds is a real chore without this mod.

I also miss Quartz just because I spend so much time staring at it.

tbag without a doubt.

for dungeons, recount would be nice... i am having really different numbers from live and would like to investigate where its coming from, if its my cast times that are different, is my dps really lower... i dont feel like doing a combat log parser :)

Oh absolutely. And I do that myself at times by disabling everything but Dominos and running around on a lowbie 70-79 toon. But even then, I can't use blizzards own bars for more than a few minutes. I won't be able to do instances in the beta until they enable addons, for example. I can level a worgen though, the starting levels don't need a bar manager.

And when I am testing my own addon, I load ONLY that addon. Then I load my full set. If it works fine in both cases, I'm ready to upload.

oUF. I simply can't play with my unitframes in the top left of the screen and all this horrible artwork around it.

Second would be rActionbarstyler. Clean up that shiz.

Third is probably aBags. </3 I miss my pretty bags. :p

Oh and fourth is alleymap... Fullscreen map is too big and small map is too small. :(

You may be comparing apples to oranges. ;)


Really, though, I don't understand how Recount makes it into this thread.

I dunno, I use the non-DPS portions of recount very heavily to try and figure out what happened with a fight that went bad. The deaths tab is almost always useful, and depending on the fight, the dispels, damage done by target breakdown, and other tabs can be very helpful.

OmniCC, tullaRange, FluidFrames.
(or functional equivalents)

The End :p

I have a whole bunch of convenience addons that I would "like"
(including some of mine) but those 3 are essential.

I think a lot of people don't really get that Wow 4.0 is really WoW 2, the sequel to WoW, and that the entire game is changing. The mechanics are different. Skills are different. The basic formulas are different.

You cannot compare Cataclysm DPS to live as it's a completely meaningless comparison. It's like comparing Doom III to Unreal.

WoW 4, check. we old-timers already went through this already, twice... already. with both Burning Crusade and WotLK, philosophy/theorycraft/balance/API/everything changed fairly broadly (at least, it all seemed pretty big at the time). this will be the third iteration of that process. sounds even bigger this time around, though (Blizzard seems intent on some major "simplification", rather than adding chrome... which is probably good).

has anyone tried Aloft yet? is it even minimally functional? i am pending a WoWI developer key (would be wonderful if i ended up with one).

i have already seen the post here in the WoWI forums on the new nameplate console variables (trying to figure out how to rationalize Blizzard dynamically resizing nameplates based on threat with what Aloft already does... if Blizzard continues to treat addon control of nameplate frame size as a "protected" operation, i will probably have to disable nameplate frame resizing/padding, at least as a user option).

Addons are still disabled, and probably will be for a while longer - there are parts of the default UI that aren't even finished, let alone implemented (no Guild UI, for example). The nameplate changes aren't complete yet either.

A consequence of the guild control being disabled is that you cannot /gquit at this time. So, think twice before joining a beta guild.

guild ui is going to be ready in the next build, i heard

I thought all of the slash commands worked still?

Being an "old-timer" I have to say the phrase "WoW 2.0" for WoW 4.0 is apt, it really is that bigger change. Previous expansions have been just that "expansions" adding new spells here and there, adding a couple of talents, new zones etc. Whereas Cataclysm is different it definately feels like Blizz have gone back to basics seen what worked, what didn't and then reformed the game, the biggest testiment to WoW 2.0 is the complete reworking of Ogrimmar.

Autobuff, many might not remember this one, but back in vanilla wow it was awesome!

(i just realized this was for cata beta, oops :o )

You do not get an error if you type /gquit - but you do not leave your current guild either. Same for /run, etc. No error message as would be shown for an unknown slash command, but no action either.

I can get along without most of my addons; even Bartender isn't as big of a loss as it could be. But I'm finding that, on my DK at least, I cannot stand not having an alternate Rune display mod (Mine is Rune Pack).

Also, so much macro functionality has been temporarily removed, it's hard to adjust.

Does no one play a healer? I'd be at so lost without grid.

I do, but I didn't use grid until after I'd downed most or all of Naxx 10 in Wrath, so I'm find with just the party interface (which is kinda grid-like anyway now).

I got so used to grid as a healer that I feel uncomfortable without it when I dps :P

Though I've heard that the new raid frames have "grid like" functionality - though I can't really comment as I'm not currently in the beta.

#1 Addon needed
 

Battleground alerter

I'm a tank, I have no other char that is worth talking about.

I need centralized simple unitframes, a debufftracker, OMNICC (OMG how I miss that one...), simple actionbars, simple chat, simple player buffs, simple minimap

Rest is obligatory.

I miss Bartender4... the default action bars so too spread out for me.


Oh and OmniCC and InlineAura for CDs and Procs.