Addons for the World of Warcraft

update: Wrath of the Lich King broke a lot of addons, but their developers are quickly updating them. If you see one you like that isn't marked as ready for WotLK then send the developer a note or browse around on Curse's addons forums.

World of Warcraft addons can, and most likely will, be one of the most game enhancing tools you will ever find. There are a ton of different possible combinations of WoW mods and WoW addons that can improve your Warcraft gaming experience in an amazing number of ways.

WoW addons include everything from the simplest and easiest modifications to the more complicated changing of the total UI (user interface.)

Given how important addons are to any World of Warcraft player's experience, we are lucky enough to have an equally great number of websites ready to provide us with the necessary modifications easily and at no cost.

It is nice to know how many mod-makers and editors are out there constantly improving and making it easier to access certain features, or adding in completely new ones. Some of them have a donate button if you feel their efforts are worth a little more than just a "thanks."

Now, some people prefer to remain somewhat mod free, and even if you are one of them, I still recommend at least getting a few of the better mods or addons. You will never look back once you have experienced how much better your gaming experience can be once you dump the default user interface.

So, let's start by visiting a few of the better interface/addon/modification websites we can find.

The addon/mod/interface website source that I believe to be the best, is curse-gaming, a huge easily accessible website with practically every single addon you could find on the internet.

Obviously, I'll leave it up to you to determine what addon or mod suits you best, but first let me suggest some of my favorites. It can't hurt to pick up the best of the more basic addons first, before finding class and/or zone centered addons.

My number one choice, Titan Panel, is one of the best addons out there. Get this first and enjoy the new bars of information available to you. Titan Panel's experience and money trackers are quite nice.

My second choice is the Atlas mod. This lovely little addon gives you an in-game tool allowing you to look at a variety of dungeon, city, and zone maps displaying all the routes of travel. It also shows all the bosses within an entire dungeon. It's quite obvious why I love this one, now isn't it?

Note: Any new WoW patch, such as 2.4, will disable, and might break, your addons. If they break then you have to wait for the developer of the addon to update the darn thing.

Otherwise, when you log into your character screen click the Addons button in the lower left corner of your screen. Then check the Load out of date AddOns box at the top right of the AddOns screen. Hit "Okay" and then load your character. If they're not broken by the patch then everything should load and work for you.

The third WoW AddOn that I recommend is Gatherer. This is one of the most useful mods out there for anyone contemplating taking up a gathering profession. This handy little tool tracks the location of herbs, minerals, and any other gatherable resources, and places a permanent marker on your map.

This allows you to eventually have a detailed location map of every single resource node within an entire zone.

Finally, you are left with a variety of more customized and specific feature-centered modifications. Take a while to pick and choose the best of the best; you will never regret the time lost versus what you gain.

I expect curse-gaming.com has all you will need, but If you would like to find a few other mod sites use a search engine of your choice or check out Warcraft-mods.com.

One more AddOn you need to check out is the Map Notes Addon. Why? It allows you to place a marker at your position on the map and write comments. Did it take a lot of effort to find a spot? Mark it. Gold vein? Mark it. Rare NPC? You get the idea. And you can add comments to the marks.

The Map Notes addon is one of the things that makes the better leveling guides so incredibly useful. You buy the guide and you get the Map Notes addon with every single quest in the guide already marked.

Since every quest is linked to a map note you can set your waypoint and go straight to it, which saves a lot of time.

In addition, the iDemise guides have put their entire 1-70 leveling guide into the Map Notes system. You follow their guide, leveling from from 1-70, step by step, entirely within their in-game map notes system. No need to switch back and forth from the game to some web page. You can read more about it here.

Good luck addon seekers! Armed with your trusty addons, mods, and new UI you are better equipped to assault the mobs and begin stockpiling your gold.

Article author, Dante Valentino, has been playing WoW since it first launched and now has multiple level 70 characters.

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